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As I said, there are many. And they are all failures. There is no one singular model. There is plain flat Earth, there is infinite flat Earth, and I even encountered one which purely consists of sophistry (the guy never told me).
> Tell me, one of these "short comings" that you have found in "flat earthers" points?
Alright. For one I could see the Sun and Moon simultaneously multiple times. According to various FE models they circle each other on opposite sides.
Seeing the Sun for 24h+ straight in the Arctic. That should be impossible, yet it happens quite a lot. Even in northern parts of Norway there are places where it happens that it's dark all the time or (mildly) sunny. If the Sun would circle around above ground, that should be impossible.
The fact that the alleged sight distance is inconsistent. While on a mountain you can see very far (as in the image I linked), but when standing on the ground your sight range is surprisingly low. The simple explanation is the curvature of the planet, which is the reason you cannot see tall buildings you "should" be able to see if Earth were flat, but you can see very far if you are on a mountain. Also the curvature is well visible in the other image I linked which shows power poles across a see - the surface of the water is actually as flat as can be.
The fact that FE by baseline has magical properties as a premise, and also logical inconsistencies. The Sun and Moon are supposedly tiny and float around with no explanation whatsoever. Sight range is supposedly a thing, but the Sun and Moon are more far away than anything in vicinity, plus the magical "dome" that is there for no reason, serves no purpose except tricking us to think there are stars and planets, is even behind it and is supposedly even darker, yet it is seen. Oh and Earth is moving through space eternally and generating the illusion of gravitation at 9.81m/s, which doesn't work according to physics, even though FEs say there is no space... so what is it flying through? A big nothingness? Also called "space"?