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Re: How do Flat Earthers explain an Eclipse
« Reply #100 on: February 17, 2018, 02:43:52 PM »
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In fact, the ONLY time we get a lunar eclipse is when the sun is on one side of the earth and the moon is on the opposite side.
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I know, for flat-earthers, that's heresy.
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But it's only "heresy" in their fantasy Modernism dreamland.
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Re: How do Flat Earthers explain an Eclipse
« Reply #101 on: February 17, 2018, 03:27:22 PM »
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Your fake model is the problem. The sun and moon are not always on the same side of the earth.
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That's just reality.
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If you're stuck in a "flat-earth" model obviously you won't be capable of understanding the diagram.
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The earth isn't casting a shadow "on top of the moon."
Earth is casting a shadow on the visible face of the moon. (On its side not its top.)
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There is a visible face, which always faces the earth, and the far side of the moon which is never visible from earth.
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That is, in our times it isn't visible. There may come a time when the far side gradually becomes more visible from earth.
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But that could be many thousands of years in the future -- if the world lasts that long.
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My fake model?  No, I used a NASA video.  The shadow spreads downward from the TOP of the moon.  That proves earth is not the cause of the shadow.  You're proven wrong.


Re: How do Flat Earthers explain an Eclipse
« Reply #102 on: February 17, 2018, 05:24:38 PM »
My fake model?  No, I used a NASA video.  The shadow spreads downward from the TOP of the moon.  That proves earth is not the cause of the shadow.  You're proven wrong.
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You know I'm talking about your fake flat-earth model. 
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I just showed you the diagram that explains why the shadow starts on the TOP of the moon.
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So long as you're stuck on flat-earthism you won't understand eclipses. Period.
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Re: How do Flat Earthers explain an Eclipse
« Reply #103 on: February 17, 2018, 05:41:57 PM »
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Another aspect of the video you posted which you (in your die-hard flat-earthism mindset) will never comprehend is due to them having used several locations for taking videos of the eclipse. The locations were not close to each other, one on the east coast, another on the west coast and one in between. They switched from one to another to avoid cloud cover conditions but they didn't bother to identify where the shots were taken from.
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You, who claim the moon mysteriously "rolls like a wheel" across the sky, fail to realize that it's your head that's doing the rolling because you turn your head in a different plane than the one the moon is moving in.
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The shots of the moon in your video from different locations will necessarily show the earth's shadow looking differently when cast upon a globe moon viewed at different angles of UP and DOWN. What is level in Florida is about 20 degrees sloped in California, due to the earth's curvature.
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There are many, many ways we can see the effects of the earth's curvature all around us, every day, and this is one more example.
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When the earth's shadow begins to come down from "the TOP" of the moon (actually it's from the left top corner, not the TOP and straight down) as seen from the east coast of the USA, at the same time viewed from the west coast the shadow appears to be coming from the left side of the moon because 3,000 miles of earth's curvature gives the moon appearing to have rotated about 20 degrees counterclockwise (which you mistake for "rolling like a wheel"), but that's due entirely to the curvature of the earth and the moon's curving orbit around the earth.
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Re: How do Flat Earthers explain an Eclipse
« Reply #104 on: February 17, 2018, 05:56:15 PM »
There are many things about the moon that bother me, particularly how the moon could rotate so perfectly in sync with its rotation that we have only ever seen the one face of it.  Even if it were just a few minutes off per day, the face we see would slowly change over time.  I don't buy this whole "tidal locking" explanation.