I pointed out on the video where he showed his equipment that he used to take his pictures. My summary is not the point nor is my post that the type of equipment he used is real.
The person making the video not only explains his equipment he also clearly points out his location and elevation above sea level. He points out LA city scape and the mountains 120 miles from his location that should not be visible.
If I misidentified in some way the exact name of the equipment so what. I was close enough. He certainly was not using a conventional camera in order to cut through the haze of the low atmosphere in order to capture the mountains in the distance.
The point of the post is to see what's out there as proof of flat earth presented by others, not presented by me. Do I believe the video is accurate and that the one who made it is telling the truth is some thing that I want debated, not just believed. But for you any photo or video made in defense of flat earth is made by lunatics. That does not make for a good argument against FE. If you think his video is a lie, then prove it.
"I have over $2000 dollars worth of telescopes and astrophotography equipment." Just saying your equipment is bigger than his equipment does not mean his pictures are not legitimate.
--Dave
The point isn't the misidentification, per se. The misidentification is the evidence that YOU don't know enough to even express an opinion about whether that video is real.
And, my equipment being "bigger" than his is also not at all the point! The point is that I have spent my own money on the same sort of equipment that this dingbat claims to be using to see mountains across a flat Earth and so I know for a fact that HE IS LYING and that you do not know up from down about this stuff.
It's such an obvious fake it is literally laughable! FLIR (Forward Looking InfraRed) cameras are very common. I'm a home inspector and so I use one every single day of my life. They used to be really expensive but now you can pick one up for only a couple hundred bucks. You can rent one for something like twenty dollars a day. They are cheap and easy to obtain for anyone who wants one. So, what does that tell you about this YouTube dork who's acting as if he's the first one in the whole state of California to ever take an infrared camera outside?
Further, the liar making the video claims to have used the building in the foreground for scale. You have no excuse for having missed that glaring piece of obvious deception because we've been discussing angular size for MONTHS! You should have detected immediately that there was no need for the use of any buildings to scale the image with. The only reason such a building would have been useful is if there was something near the building and even then it wouldn't have had much, if anything, to do with angular size. To get the altitude of that supposed mountain, all you need to know is the distance to the peak and the angle above the horizon, which the liar making the video does not tell us (surprise, surprise)!
HOWEVER!!! As you so astutely pointed out, the idiot videographer does tell us where he supposedly is and which mountains he's supposedly seeing in his supposed IR camera set up and so we can do some math ourselves, which, if you were being even 1% as intellectually honest as you claim, you'd have done before even bothering to waste all of our time with this stupidity.
Distance from camera to Mt. San Jacinto: 117.25 miles
Elevation above sea level of Mt. San Jacinto's peak: 2.05189394 miles
The camera would have been approximately 140 ft above sea level (close enough to zero).
That means that ON A FLAT EARTH, using this moron's own data, Mt. San Jacinto, assuming you could see the entire mountain from base to peak, would have an angular size of....
wait for it....
1°
1° of angular size is about the width of your index finger at arm's length. Obviously far less than the looming size of that mountain in this video for idiots. The 14,000 foot mountains in Colorado aren't that high into the sky from as near by as Denver, for crying out loud!
Where's that drop the mic smilie when you need it?!
Clete
