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Flat Earth Investigations / Re: RE Lunar Phases With Extreme Perspective Changes
« on: July 08, 2020, 06:22:42 PM »I don't see how it would be possible to know how perpendicular your string is to the Moon without some sort of perspective clues.
Consider a green cone perpendicular to the camera:
When putting up a string against it, it cuts through it horizontally.
Now we stand at another non-perpendicular position:
The string still cuts straight through. The only way we know that we are not perpendicular is by the perspective changes apparent in the 3D cone and scene. Otherwise it looks like the string cuts straight through the overall shape of the cone. With the Moon, however, we can't see such changes and visual clues (due to FE-EA theory/RE long distance theory).
Here is a better experiment. The next time you see the Moon Tilt Illusion, turn to look at the Moon so that it is in the center of your vision. Take a string and hold it out arms length, as far from your head as you can, against the Moon, keeping the Moon in the center of your vision. You will see the string shoot off into space:
While it might be possible to carefully position your string and camera in such a way that the Moon seems to connect to the Sun, simply holding the string as far as you can away from yourself, while keeping the Moon in the center, will show that the string shoots off into space.
The trouble with your explanation is that you are trying to make a string perpendicular to the cone on two planes. This would require perspective from both planes. We only get to perceive the sun and moon on one plane because the objects are so far away.
Because I can only perceive the sun and moon in a single plane, making the string perpendicular on that plane is all that matters.
We are currently in a waning moon phase, so I should be able to test this out in the next couple days.