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Lots wrong with these posts, but I think the quickest and easiest to point out is the picture of a model eclipse experiment with model moon, flashlight and model globe. So... the moon is only 2 lunar diameters distant from the earth? So much for intellectual honesty.

OK, that picture isn't the best, but I've seen models done to scale, and the result was that the entirety of North America (where it was pointed during the demonstration) was covered in darkness.

But the elephant in the room here is that scientific establishment realize there's a problem with the shadow being this narrow, and that's why they've released those pictures that depict the sun as being several times larger than the earth, and then draw the rays pointing inward.  You talk about the FE memes being wrong, but this is utterly ridiculous.  In point of fact, the two are the same size from the perspective of the earth (given the distances involved).  So if the scale of the FE picture is wrong, how about the scale on that stupid picture (posted by NASA)?  Also, it's well known (and the math proves it) that the sun's rays are effectively parallel by the time they reach earth (and also the moon) ... deviating from one end of earth to the other by a tiny fraction of a degree.  So why do they post that stupid picture and come up with the absurd explanation that the sun's rays point inward from the edges of the sun?  Please explain.  On top of that, if the sun's rays come in at an angle, that would invalidate Eratosthenes experiment, which assumed as a premise that the sun was very large and very far away, so that the sun's rays were effectively parallel by the time they reached earth.

This is on NASA's website ... and is a complete joke.  No, the sun is not 5-10 times bigger (from the perspective of earth) than the moon so that it's rays come in at an angle.  And you talk about the FE pictures being not to scale?  This is to the point of being laughable.