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Post by rubl on Apr 10, 2024 7:22:12 GMT 7
You might be right BUT only if the Sun were to be 4 times the distance from Earth to the Moon. In non-flat-Earth space the Moon is on average 384.400 km away. The Sun about 150.000.000 km. I got confused between diameter and distance, after a 14 hour shift. Well they both start with D. with rott absent for the moment may I use the opportunity to say that in your sentence those two words both start with a d?  |
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Post by rott on Apr 10, 2024 7:37:56 GMT 7
Pedantic tw person.
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Post by oldie on Apr 10, 2024 7:44:30 GMT 7
I got confused between diameter and distance, after a 14 hour shift. Well they both start with D. with rott absent for the moment may I use the opportunity to say that in your sentence those two words both start with a d? Your forgot the inverted commas. |
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Post by chiangmai on Apr 10, 2024 7:49:01 GMT 7
with rott absent for the moment may I use the opportunity to say that in your sentence those two words both start with a d? Your forgot the inverted commas. with "rott" absent for the moment may I use the opportunity to say that in your sentence those two words both start with a d? Happy now! |
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Post by rubl on Apr 10, 2024 10:56:03 GMT 7
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Post by rubl on Apr 10, 2024 13:16:10 GMT 7
On FaceBook I just stumbled over this question. No, not by our illustrious flat-earther.  "Why does the moon so closely match the size of the sun from our vantage? Wouldn’t it more likely be either larger or smaller in perspective than same? Lucky coincidence, or cost saving celestial design?" |
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Post by oldie on Apr 10, 2024 15:46:50 GMT 7
On FaceBook I just stumbled over this question. No, not by our illustrious flat-earther. "Why does the moon so closely match the size of the sun from our vantage? Wouldn’t it more likely be either larger or smaller in perspective than same? Lucky coincidence, or cost saving celestial design?" Because the sun is (almost) exactly 400 times larger and 400 times further away. But why does a moon a couple of thousand miles across cast a shadow a hundred miles wide? |
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Post by rubl on Apr 10, 2024 17:01:24 GMT 7
On FaceBook I just stumbled over this question. No, not by our illustrious flat-earther. "Why does the moon so closely match the size of the sun from our vantage? Wouldn’t it more likely be either larger or smaller in perspective than same? Lucky coincidence, or cost saving celestial design?" Because the sun is (almost) exactly 400 times larger and 400 times further away. But why does a moon a couple of thousand miles across cast a shadow a hundred miles wide? With the Moon's diameter of 3474 km and the Sun a bit larger why does Australia have so many snakes and spiders? Is it really coincidence or is there a dark secret behind it? Why didn't the Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon mention them? |
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Post by oldie on Apr 10, 2024 18:28:30 GMT 7
I just watched some videos about all this stuff and it's because God stuck the stars, sun and moon on a giant dome and now they swing around and block each other out occasionally.
Very interesting.
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Post by rott on Apr 10, 2024 20:38:03 GMT 7
Can't see that.
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Post by oldie on Apr 10, 2024 21:31:38 GMT 7
It's definitely true. The great astrologers Moses and Enoch wrote about it.
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Post by rott on Apr 11, 2024 18:20:08 GMT 7
Well you're an engineer so I suppose you would understand how he did it, I bet even wotsisname the mod lad (Yorkshire git) doesn't know.
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Post by oldie on Apr 11, 2024 18:41:54 GMT 7
I've actually got no idea how a ball a few thousand miles wide doesn't cast a shadow a few thousand miles wide, unless it's another conspiracy theory.
Maybe the moon really is 100 miles across and a thousand miles away?
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Post by oldie on Apr 11, 2024 18:55:55 GMT 7
And if Bezos blue origin flight lasts 15 minutes and it passes the Karmin line and the earth is spinning at 1000 miles an hour, why doesn't it land 250 miles away?
So the Earth really is flat, the moon is 100 miles wide, and we've been lied to all our lives.
I knew it.
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Post by oldie on Apr 11, 2024 19:13:52 GMT 7
And if Bezos blue origin flight lasts 15 minutes and it passes the Karmin line and the earth is spinning at 1000 miles an hour, why doesn't it land 250 miles away? So the Earth really is flat, the moon is 100 miles wide, and we've been lied to all our lives. I knew it. Anyway, to answer my own question. Here's a simplified version. Blue origin lands back in the same spot (well 3 km away) is because of a thing called gravity. And the light from the sun is actually a wedge, according to my pencil sketch.  |
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