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Flat Earth Theory / Appearance of the moon face
« on: February 14, 2020, 02:34:37 AM »
Hi,
First time poster here, so go easy on me...
I have a friend who is a strident Flat Earther, and we have had many debates around this.
The one point that we are completely unable to get past is whether the moon is local. My point is that of the moon were local, then we would see different faces of it.
As an example, the moon in its orbit, passes pretty much directly over Manaus, in central Brazil. It is visible on Bogota around 2000 miles to the west, and Salvador, 2000 miles to the east of Manaus. Now if the moon is 3000 miles up, as the wiki states, then the view from the two locations should be different, but it's not. This borne out by a Google search, which shows that every single photo of the moon shoes the same hemisphere, only rotated.
He has been unable to explain this, I was going that someone here could?
First time poster here, so go easy on me...
I have a friend who is a strident Flat Earther, and we have had many debates around this.
The one point that we are completely unable to get past is whether the moon is local. My point is that of the moon were local, then we would see different faces of it.
As an example, the moon in its orbit, passes pretty much directly over Manaus, in central Brazil. It is visible on Bogota around 2000 miles to the west, and Salvador, 2000 miles to the east of Manaus. Now if the moon is 3000 miles up, as the wiki states, then the view from the two locations should be different, but it's not. This borne out by a Google search, which shows that every single photo of the moon shoes the same hemisphere, only rotated.
He has been unable to explain this, I was going that someone here could?