A question for flat-earth understanding.
How are eclipses of the moon explained on a flat Earth?
A lunar eclipse happens when the sun passes behind the Earth causing the shadow of the Earth to cover the moon.
Don't both the sun and moon have to stay above a flat Earth?
On a flat-Earth the sun never passes under the round flat Earth to cause the wonder.
So, there must be an explanation as this is something flat-Earthers must have covered.
Depends on how the circuits of the two line up really. Globe earth theory, claiming that it's due to the earth being between the sun and the moon, cannot really explain selenelions. Some posit another dark body up there that will occasionally occlude either the moon or the sun.
Also, one theory holds that the moon gives off its own light and that the moon is not a solid object, but more of an electrical or plasma phenomenon. Professional astronomers have recorded observations where stars can be seen through the "darkened" part of the moon. Strangely, also, moonlight actually has a measurable cooling effect. In that case, lunar eclipses are not really a "shadow" from anything.
I also find preposterous the explanation for why the same face of the moon is always seen from earth. If the difference between the moon's rate of rotation and rate of revolution around the earth were even a half second off, we'd notice the face of the moon changing over times. Not to mention that modern science claims that the moon is slipping a bit farther away every year, and so the rotation speed of the moon would also have to adjust to match that.
For all these reasons, I don't buy modern science's explanation of the moon.
Moon tide theory is also provably nonsense, i.e. the notion that the moon causes tides. Even Newton, who invented the theory, wasn't really satisfied with it.
Globers like to point out every place where FE doesn't have complete answers, but ignore how the globe theory has lots of problems that can't be answered either.
So one thing that Globers like to argue is, "Look, the shadown/darkness on the moon follows a curved line. Therefore, the object casting the shadow must also be curved/round." Problem is that it's not true. Experiments demonstrate that the shadow of a spherical object when cast onto another spherical object ... actually produces a straight line, and not a curved line (due to their BOTH being spherical).
For all that modern science claim that x, y, z are provable fact, the more we realize that they're full of it, and that these are nothing more than theories, and there's a lot of data out there to falsify their theories. It's possible that some aspects of the FE model can be falsified, but the way science works is that you refine your model and test it out, to see if it explains all observable phenomena. But the same thing holds of the globe. When mountains that should be hidden beneath 45 MILES of curvature have been photographed from 700 miles away (by non-Flat Earthers), there's a real problem, and refraction just can't cut it as an explanation.
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