Flerfspective


Flerfspective is a term for the butchered mess that flerfs make out of linear perspective when using it to explain:
- sunset
- hull down ships
- why we can't see China from directly over America
- a variety of other phenomena
Vanishing Point Issue
A key misunderstanding is that flerfs think the vanishing point lies at a finite distance from the observer, when it's actually infinite.
The elevation angle of Rowbotham's sun would decrease as it moves away horizontally, but an elevation of 0° is the infinitesimal limit of this series.
In other words: the sun could recede horizontally forever, but could still never actually reach 0° elevation.
Rhetoric
Despite extravagant, ongoing efforts among globers to explain the above issue, to date apparently no flerf has ever comprehended it (except ex-flerfs).
When confronted on it, flerfs generally become chaos gremlins and rebut with statements like:
- "The atmosphere magnifies things."
- "Using an orthographic diagram to explain perspective is a category error."
- "Math is a language, and can be used to lie just like any other language."
- "We see in hyperbolic geometry, not Euclidean."
- ... and many similar piles of nonsense.
For this reason, the "flerfspective" concept is a rich source of word salad.