It was fantastic! I trust no one on here, who saw it, now believes that the Moon is translucent.

Anyone else get this eery feeling like we were in some weird, scary movie?  The lighting was just so odd. It was dusk, but it wasn't.  It was as if the sun was setting in the distance, and yet it didn't.

We saw the red dot in that same spot and wondered what it was.

Did y'all see the large outer ring form in the sky as the eclipse progressed?

We saw the red areas too! It was amazing! Great pictures!

Yes, not sure what that was, but we were able to zoom in on it.  I would initially have thought solar flares, but the triangular thing retained its exact shape and size for almost the entire time of totality (about 2.5 minutes here where I'm at).  I would think that it would have changed in size/shape at least slightly during that period of time.

Well ...

We Flat Earthers don't believe it's the moon that causes eclipses, or not in the way that it's generally explained.

Ok, but what other solid object of that magnitude could possibly, totally, block out the Sun?

Not so fast. It could be that the Moon is not causing the eclipse or something else is afoot, such as the moonlight and sunlight somehow cancel each other out, akin to polarisation.

I'm not committed to the Moon being translucent either way, but it could even be transparent sometimes but not always.

Anyway, at the very least we're in the same boat with the globers who can't explain selenelions.

I’m not sure if I should believe you or my lying eyes…..


Seriously though, Isn’t the most Biblical, logical, simple, sensible, and time honored explanation is that the Sun is eclipsed by the Moon?

I’m not sure if I should believe you or my lying eyes…..

Seriously though, Isn’t the most Biblical, logical, simple, sensible, and time honored explanation is that the Sun is eclipsed by the Moon?

You keep talking about your "lying eyes", but you're injecting more into it than what the eyes actually see.  What our eyes see are a circular-shaped darkening of the sun's surface.  You're injecting your preconceptions into HOW it's working and what's causing it, which goes way beyond the phenomena actually reported by your "eyes".  You can claim that it's the only explanation that makes sense (as you do), but that has nothing to do with just what's reported by your eyes.  You are reading all kinds of things into the raw experience on top of what's actually seen.  I actually kept looking for the moon throughout the morning to determine whether I could see it approaching the sun, but couldn't make out even the slightest hint of it.  I would expect that earth shine (which is believed to be 5x greater than moon shine) should have illuminated the moon enough to at least fairly make it out.

As for your claim that it's Biblical, nowhere in the Bible can there be found any explanation for what happens during an eclipse.

Various ancient people (including those who could predict eclipses) posited that there was a third dark body that causes eclipses.  Others held that the moon was actually a projection from beneath the surface of the earth caused by something they called a "dark sun" or "black sun".  Nor was this just some unsophisticated mumbo-jumbo, but they had reasons for believing these things that made sense.

I have still yet to see a valid explanation for why the vast majority of eclipses move from West to East, when the heliocentric globe model would have them moving from East to West.  I've dun around everywhere looking for computer models or something that would illustrate the angles involved, but found nothing ... just a few NASA cartoons showing the eclipse from the perspective of earth and trying to explain it as you would to a 5-year-old.

If you have such a model that illustrates the eclipse with a view that shows the sun, moon, and earth, I'd be happy to look at it.

Also, as I mentioned above, the shadow of the eclipse is way to narrow, and NASA's illustration of why is 100% unsatisfactory, since the sun's rays would be nearly 100% parallel by the time they got to the moon/earth, resulting in no such angles (and the explanation would also invalidate the highly-vaunted Eratosthenes "proof" of globe).

I flipped what I photographed during the eclipse upside down here and put it next to the Artemis "mission" logo.



You can even see that red swirl on the left image in the image from today's eclipse.

I’m not sure if I should believe you or my lying eyes…..


Seriously though, Isn’t the most Biblical, logical, simple, sensible, and time honored explanation is that the Sun is eclipsed by the Moon?

It could just be that the Moon isn't transparent and problem solved.