Maybe to could try to answer a question that I've already posted on this thread, seeing as how you claim to know so much about the subject of the moon.
The moon rises in the east and sets in the west, right? So how is it that the shadow which is cast by the moon in the upcoming eclipse goes from west to east? It's takes one hour and 33 minutes to cross the U.S., from Oregon to South Carolina. This should be an easy one for you to explain, so I'll wait for your response.
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Looky there -- you only had to wait 2-1/2 hours!
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The things I've posted about the moon are right there in front of your face if you bother to look. The sun is moving faster and it passes up the moon in the sky. Simple.
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During a total solar eclipse (one of which I have already seen in person) the sun's course across the sky is FASTER than the moon's course across the sky. NASA doesn't explain it that way in those words because their paradigm and premise is heliocentrism, even while JPL and Mission Control for all the space flights presumes a stationary earth.
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NASA doesn't want to have too many people asking how the sun can move across the sky if the earth is moving around the sun.
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The shadow of the moon crossing the USA on August 21st will take as long as it takes the sun to pass up the moon in the sky. The sun does this same thing every time we have a new moon, but the moon is very hard to find, usually, due to the overbearing brightness of the sun's light.
You can see the new moon being passed up by the sun every month, but you need to know where to look and you have to use special equipment to see the moon and prevent the sun from causing blindness.
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Of course, about half the time the sun is on the other side of the earth when it passes by the moon. That's what is going on when there is an eclipse of the sun on the other side of the planet, such as in Asia: then people in America won't be able to see the sun pass by the moon.
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In case you were unaware, Galileo Galilei spent the last years of his life not only under house arrest, but blind, because he had foolishly looked at the sun through a telescope without using eye protection.
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Unfortunately, there will be perhaps hundreds of people who will suffer permanent eye and retina damage this month from failing to protect their eyes while trying to view the eclipse. The vast majority of America will not be in the umbra of totality, but will see some portion of the bright sun unobstructed by the moon. Anyone who tries to look at the partially obscured sun without sufficient eye protection risks going permanently BLIND. So don't do it.
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