Question about the moon according to FES
« on: May 08, 2020, 06:03:51 PM »
How does the flat earth theory describe the same face of the moon being visible from all places on earth at any given time? The globe theory has a simple explanation, tidal locking, but how can it be explained if the earth is flat?

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Re: Question about the moon according to FES
« Reply #1 on: May 08, 2020, 06:08:14 PM »
How does the flat earth theory describe the same face of the moon being visible from all places on earth at any given time? The globe theory has a simple explanation, tidal locking, but how can it be explained if the earth is flat?

To share some of my own experiences, I’ve been to both the northern and Southern Hemispheres. And I saw a “different moon” in Australia than I see on the west coast US.

So I’m not sure that seeing the same face of the moon is accurate.

Just my experience, and I didn’t take any pictures, so I don’t have any visual evidence to support this claim. So I understand if you choose not to believe me :)
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Re: Question about the moon according to FES
« Reply #2 on: May 08, 2020, 06:54:27 PM »
How does the flat earth theory describe the same face of the moon being visible from all places on earth at any given time? The globe theory has a simple explanation, tidal locking, but how can it be explained if the earth is flat?

To share some of my own experiences, I’ve been to both the northern and Southern Hemispheres. And I saw a “different moon” in Australia than I see on the west coast US.

So I’m not sure that seeing the same face of the moon is accurate.

Just my experience, and I didn’t take any pictures, so I don’t have any visual evidence to support this claim. So I understand if you choose not to believe me :)

You see a rotated moon due to "up" being a different direction when looking at the moon, but should still see the same features.  Same moon, same face, but upside down.

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Re: Question about the moon according to FES
« Reply #3 on: May 08, 2020, 07:04:29 PM »
How does the flat earth theory describe the same face of the moon being visible from all places on earth at any given time? The globe theory has a simple explanation, tidal locking, but how can it be explained if the earth is flat?

To share some of my own experiences, I’ve been to both the northern and Southern Hemispheres. And I saw a “different moon” in Australia than I see on the west coast US.

So I’m not sure that seeing the same face of the moon is accurate.

Just my experience, and I didn’t take any pictures, so I don’t have any visual evidence to support this claim. So I understand if you choose not to believe me :)

You see a rotated moon due to "up" being a different direction when looking at the moon, but should still see the same features.  Same moon, same face, but upside down.

That could be!

I admittedly didn’t consider that and didn’t have it in mind when I was looking. I just remember that it looked different.

An opportunity wasted!
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Re: Question about the moon according to FES
« Reply #4 on: May 09, 2020, 06:53:09 PM »
Yeah, you see it a different way up in Australia, you don't see a different face of the moon.
But yes, the fact that we all see the same face and same phase of the moon is an issue for FE when we'd clearly be looking at the moon from very different angles.
There are attempts to explain it in the Wiki, I think by EA?
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