Upcoming Solar Eclipse in USA
« on: April 25, 2017, 09:09:49 PM »
New to this idea, and I must say, I am still skeptical.  My question, as the subject line eludes to, is how does flat earth explain eclipses, both solar and lunar?  Something is obviously blocking the light during these times and in a clearly defined path that seems to support a round/spherical earth.  The upcoming August 21st eclipse shows an eclipse path that would be very erratic based on Flat Earth sun movements.  In addition to that question, how does one explain the moon phases? Every 28 days the moon goes through the phase of new moon to full and back to new.  Obviously nothing is blocking the moon during the full moon, but what about the other 25 days of the cycle (approximately)?

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Re: Upcoming Solar Eclipse in USA
« Reply #1 on: April 26, 2017, 06:48:20 PM »
Apparently, some "dark object", blocks the light from both the sun and moon on their respective eclipses, wich only appears during eclipses, for the rest of the time, it remains "invisible" [makes wavy gestures with fingers]

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« Reply #2 on: April 27, 2017, 03:43:21 AM »
Apparently, some "dark object", blocks the light from both the sun and moon on their respective eclipses, wich only appears during eclipses, for the rest of the time, it remains "invisible" [makes wavy gestures with fingers]

How visible would a celestial object orbiting around the sun and always in the daytime be?

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« Reply #3 on: April 27, 2017, 07:46:06 AM »
Apparently, some "dark object", blocks the light from both the sun and moon on their respective eclipses, wich only appears during eclipses, for the rest of the time, it remains "invisible" [makes wavy gestures with fingers]

How visible would a celestial object orbiting around the sun and always in the daytime be?
How trustworthy is the claim of the existence of a shadow object, following your logics, if this mysterious shadow object is always in the daytime and have never been observed?

Planets are observable during daytime, it's just really difficult. Iridium flares is a thing as well.
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« Reply #4 on: April 27, 2017, 12:03:41 PM »
Apparently, some "dark object", blocks the light from both the sun and moon on their respective eclipses, wich only appears during eclipses, for the rest of the time, it remains "invisible" [makes wavy gestures with fingers]

How visible would a celestial object orbiting around the sun and always in the daytime be?

As visible as to create a theory around it. How convenient of it to only appear during eclipses and remain invisble the rest of the time, isn't it?

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Re: Upcoming Solar Eclipse in USA
« Reply #5 on: April 27, 2017, 04:32:45 PM »
The moon disappears when it is near the sun, just like any other planet or celestial body. I don't find anything convenient about it. There is a massive area of the sky near the sun which we know nothing about.

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« Reply #6 on: April 27, 2017, 04:37:48 PM »
Been warned not to reply when I have nothing to say, so I'm out of this one. Wow.

Good luck, simba.
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Re: Upcoming Solar Eclipse in USA
« Reply #7 on: April 27, 2017, 06:43:07 PM »
If the "dark object" also causes the lunar eclipses, then why does it not block out the stars in the sky surrounding the moon as it moves into position in front of the moon?

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« Reply #8 on: April 27, 2017, 06:50:03 PM »
The moon disappears when it is near the sun, just like any other planet or celestial body. I don't find anything convenient about it. There is a massive area of the sky near the sun which we know nothing about.

But we have seen the moon, planets and other celestial bodies when they are out of the reach of the sun's brightness.

What you're implying here is that this "shadow object" always remains invisible, shrouded in the sun's light, and only interacts during a lunar eclipses?  ???

May i ask: In locations where the Sun is out during a lunar eclipse, why haven't it been reports of this object infront of the sun? How huge is this object to be able to cast a shadow that covers the moon from such lenghts? Why haven't people being able to see it during a solar eclipse (When the sunlight is quite muted)? Why keep the existence of this celestial body a secret?

Based on the wiki, there're plenty of assumptions made (wich are yet to be demostrated) in order to came up with this hipotesis to be regarded as a solid explanation to Lunar eclipses.

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« Reply #9 on: April 27, 2017, 06:52:13 PM »
If the "dark object" also causes the lunar eclipses, then why does it not block out the stars in the sky surrounding the moon as it moves into position in front of the moon?

Apparently, this object only orbits the sun, shrouded in the sun's light in order to remain invisble to laymen eyes.

Is funny that this object is still a secret since we have in our power infrared telescopes that are able to take termal images of the celestial bodies.
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« Reply #10 on: April 27, 2017, 11:36:32 PM »
If the "dark object" also causes the lunar eclipses, then why does it not block out the stars in the sky surrounding the moon as it moves into position in front of the moon?

Apparently, this object only orbits the sun, shrouded in the sun's light in order to remain invisble to laymen eyes.

Is funny that this object is still a secret since we have in our power infrared telescopes that are able to take termal images of the celestial bodies.

Infrared observatories are only able to capture a very small section of the sky at a time when a picture is taken. Infrared telescopes don't see a large part of the sky. They are dishes which look at tiny sections of the sky, or are large deeply recessed observatory sized optical telescopes. And observatory telescopes don't "zoom out". It's like looking at the sky with a drinking straw. They are unreliable to catch something if you do not know where and when it will be.

This infrared sky map, for instance, was taken by stitching thousands of squares of sky together over a long period of time.

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« Reply #11 on: April 28, 2017, 12:39:09 AM »
If the "dark object" also causes the lunar eclipses, then why does it not block out the stars in the sky surrounding the moon as it moves into position in front of the moon?

Apparently, this object only orbits the sun, shrouded in the sun's light in order to remain invisble to laymen eyes.

Is funny that this object is still a secret since we have in our power infrared telescopes that are able to take termal images of the celestial bodies.

Infrared observatories are only able to capture a very small section of the sky at a time when a picture is taken. Infrared telescopes don't see a large part of the sky. They are dishes which look at tiny sections of the sky, or are large deeply recessed observatory sized optical telescopes. And observatory telescopes don't "zoom out". It's like looking at the sky with a drinking straw. They are unreliable to catch something if you do not know where and when it will be.

This infrared sky map, for instance, was taken by stitching thousands of squares of sky together over a long period of time.
Yea.  Do you really believe that multiple  observatories that operate for years and do entire  surveys just keep missing objects that are large enough to block out the sun and moon?   

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« Reply #12 on: April 28, 2017, 03:53:54 AM »
If the "dark object" also causes the lunar eclipses, then why does it not block out the stars in the sky surrounding the moon as it moves into position in front of the moon?

Apparently, this object only orbits the sun, shrouded in the sun's light in order to remain invisble to laymen eyes.

Is funny that this object is still a secret since we have in our power infrared telescopes that are able to take termal images of the celestial bodies.

Infrared observatories are only able to capture a very small section of the sky at a time when a picture is taken. Infrared telescopes don't see a large part of the sky. They are dishes which look at tiny sections of the sky, or are large deeply recessed observatory sized optical telescopes. And observatory telescopes don't "zoom out". It's like looking at the sky with a drinking straw. They are unreliable to catch something if you do not know where and when it will be.

This infrared sky map, for instance, was taken by stitching thousands of squares of sky together over a long period of time.
Yea.  Do you really believe that multiple  observatories that operate for years and do entire  surveys just keep missing objects that are large enough to block out the sun and moon?

Both the sun and moon have an angular size of 0.5 degrees. Not very big. Take a straw and spin around in circles outside and randomly point it in the sky and look through it and tell me what chances you think you have of looking at the sun or the moon.

Considering some of these observatories, a stirring straw may even be a more appropriate analogy.

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« Reply #13 on: April 28, 2017, 05:03:09 AM »
Tom, a sky survey isn't random.  They are methodically done over many years, with many observations of the entire visible sky, and at mutiple times through out the year.  That is how they detect the proper and paralax motion of celestial​ objects.  Sky surveys are incredibly rigorous.  An object with an angular diameter of .5° is absolutely massive.  Sky surveys are detecting movements smaller than .0003 degrees.  Every object get cataloged and measured for motion over many years.  An oject of .5° to go undetected by any form of imaging is rediculous.  We also monitor the sun and the surrounding area daily with multiple imaging scemes.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proper_motion#/media/File%3A61_Cygni_Proper_Motion.gif
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« Reply #14 on: April 28, 2017, 12:01:26 PM »
If the "dark object" also causes the lunar eclipses, then why does it not block out the stars in the sky surrounding the moon as it moves into position in front of the moon?

Apparently, this object only orbits the sun, shrouded in the sun's light in order to remain invisble to laymen eyes.

Is funny that this object is still a secret since we have in our power infrared telescopes that are able to take termal images of the celestial bodies.

Infrared observatories are only able to capture a very small section of the sky at a time when a picture is taken. Infrared telescopes don't see a large part of the sky. They are dishes which look at tiny sections of the sky, or are large deeply recessed observatory sized optical telescopes. And observatory telescopes don't "zoom out". It's like looking at the sky with a drinking straw. They are unreliable to catch something if you do not know where and when it will be.

This infrared sky map, for instance, was taken by stitching thousands of squares of sky together over a long period of time.

Wait, why should an infrared telescope take a picture of the entire sky in order to see this object?  ??? That sounds utterly convoluted

I mean, if the objective is to find this "shadow object", as i see it, all you need to do is be in the oposite side from where the lunar eclipse is taking place (the antipode if you wish) in order to get a glimpse of this object with the telescope and just focus on the area around the sun. It doesn't sounds that hard.

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« Reply #15 on: April 28, 2017, 01:35:36 PM »
Well I think I have heard enough.  There is little evidence that the earth is flat.  FET makes some good cases where people would naturally question why the earth doesn't "seem" to curve, most notably the Bedford Level Experiment.  That being said the spherical thinkers out there have a reasonable explanation for the Bedford level Experiment (the same solution FET uses for why the sun appears to "dip" below the horizon) and FET has a very "magical" solution to eclipses.  "We can't see it and we can't prove anything about it, but trust us, it's there because its the only way to make our believe work" is no way to hold onto a belief.  I thought the earth was round, had a discussion with a FET person and at the end of it I had a lot of questions.  Round Earth answers more questions than FET does.

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« Reply #16 on: April 28, 2017, 01:44:18 PM »
And as a side note.  Tom is claiming this "dark object" is the cause for a solar eclipse.  Absolutely nobody from FET has an explanation for the path the solar eclipse will take.  There is no logical reason using FET celestial movement that can explain why the sun will be in a total solar eclipse from Washington State all the way down to where I live in Nashville, TN in the weird parabolic curve that it will take.  That is unless the earth is round and the "parabolic" path shown on paper is much straighter when plotted on a round globe.

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« Reply #17 on: April 28, 2017, 03:29:11 PM »
If the "dark object" also causes the lunar eclipses, then why does it not block out the stars in the sky surrounding the moon as it moves into position in front of the moon?

Apparently, this object only orbits the sun, shrouded in the sun's light in order to remain invisble to laymen eyes.

Is funny that this object is still a secret since we have in our power infrared telescopes that are able to take termal images of the celestial bodies.

So a lunar eclipse happens when the shadow object is lined up between the sun and the moon as described in the wiki. That would seem to make it pretty easy to know where to look for it in the sky during a lunar eclipse...just look along a line from the sun to the moon. So that would not require a survey of the entire sky, but a very small portion of it.

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« Reply #18 on: April 28, 2017, 03:51:00 PM »
If the "dark object" also causes the lunar eclipses, then why does it not block out the stars in the sky surrounding the moon as it moves into position in front of the moon?

Apparently, this object only orbits the sun, shrouded in the sun's light in order to remain invisble to laymen eyes.

Is funny that this object is still a secret since we have in our power infrared telescopes that are able to take termal images of the celestial bodies.

So a lunar eclipse happens when the shadow object is lined up between the sun and the moon as described in the wiki. That would seem to make it pretty easy to know where to look for it in the sky during a lunar eclipse...just look along a line from the sun to the moon. So that would not require a survey of the entire sky, but a very small portion of it.

Exactly!! That's what i told Mr. Bishop on my reply! http://forum.tfes.org/index.php?topic=6121.msg115683#msg115683

Why survey the whole sky if we're only looking for an specific object wich location we can somehow predict as "around the sun"?

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« Reply #19 on: April 28, 2017, 05:05:03 PM »
Tom, a sky survey isn't random.  They are methodically done over many years, with many observations of the entire visible sky, and at mutiple times through out the year.  That is how they detect the proper and paralax motion of celestial​ objects.  Sky surveys are incredibly rigorous.  An object with an angular diameter of .5° is absolutely massive.  Sky surveys are detecting movements smaller than .0003 degrees.  Every object get cataloged and measured for motion over many years.  An oject of .5° to go undetected by any form of imaging is rediculous.  We also monitor the sun and the surrounding area daily with multiple imaging scemes.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proper_motion#/media/File%3A61_Cygni_Proper_Motion.gif

Infrared observatories are only capable of capturing a small amount of sky at a time. No matter how methodological you study the sky with a stirring straw, you are probably going to miss the sun and moon if you start scanning the sky from the eastern horizon and snake your way, with 2 or 3 second picture intervals, all the way across to the western horizon. They are moving bodies and your progression is very slow.

If the "dark object" also causes the lunar eclipses, then why does it not block out the stars in the sky surrounding the moon as it moves into position in front of the moon?

Apparently, this object only orbits the sun, shrouded in the sun's light in order to remain invisble to laymen eyes.

Is funny that this object is still a secret since we have in our power infrared telescopes that are able to take termal images of the celestial bodies.

So a lunar eclipse happens when the shadow object is lined up between the sun and the moon as described in the wiki. That would seem to make it pretty easy to know where to look for it in the sky during a lunar eclipse...just look along a line from the sun to the moon. So that would not require a survey of the entire sky, but a very small portion of it.

Perhaps, but it still seems like a big portion of sky. Unfortunately we do not know any infrared astronomers who would be willing to put this hypothesis to the test.
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