It was fantastic! I trust no one on here, who saw it, now believes that the Moon is translucent.
Well ...
We Flat Earthers don't believe it's the moon that causes eclipses, or not in the way that it's generally explained.
I have still been unable to come up with an explanation for why (most) eclipses move from West to East, and I have Googled around looking for a good one. Some NASA expert said it was because the moon moves faster than the earth rotates. But that's demonstrably false, in the sense that absolute speed isn't what counts but the degree of arc covered. While the moon supposedly moves at an absolute speed of 2-3 times the speed of the earth's rotation, the earth is moving a little over 30 times faster in terms of the 360 degree arc it covers. In other words, the earth rotates 360 degrees 30 times before the moon completes a revolution. Otherwise, the moon would rise in the West, given its alleged counter-clockwise rotation (when viewed from above the north pole on a heliocentric globe model).
And the shadow of the moon is far too small given the dimensions and distances involved. NASA explains this with a diagram that shows the sun being like 5x larger than the moon and then showing how the edges of the sun cast the shadow fromt he size. But that's ridiculous, since at the distances involved, the sun and moon are roughtly the same size by the time they're seen from earth and it's well know that the sun's rays are effectively parallel (with a tiny fraction of a percent change in angle from end to end). In fact, the diagram and NASA explanation would invalidate the famous Eratosthenes experiment, since that too is based on the assumption that the sun is far enough away so that the light rays are roughly parallel by the time they get to earth.
Topic: Our Lady and the Solar Eclipse April 8th (Read 20195 times)