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tl;dr You need a camera and either a long lens or a telescope that'll hook to it to see how parallax lets you view the moon from different angles.

So, the moon always shows one face to Earth. Round Earthers believe it's because, despite the moon being a sphere, it's "tidally locked" to Earth and stuck in that position. Sounds suspicious, eh?

Well, Round Earthers also believe we are also on a big sphere, and that sphere is constantly turning. If that's true, we're also shifting in position in relation to the moon. If the moon was a sphere you'd be looking at it from different angles, wouldn't you?

Well, turns out you can. If you can take good quality photos of the moon at dawn and dusk you'll see the moon from different angles. If you take a number of different photos over night and string them together you'll be able to see the angular change. With a good view (you'll need a 1000mm equivalent lens or better) the 3D motion is apparent enough to demonstrate both that the moon is a sphere and that you're moving in relation to the moon.

tl;dr You need a camera and either a long lens or a telescope that'll hook to it to see how parallax lets you view the moon from different angles. So, the moon always shows one face to Earth. Round Earthers believe it's because, despite the moon being a sphere, it's "tidally locked" to Earth and stuck in that position. Sounds suspicious, eh? Well, Round Earthers also believe we are also on a big sphere, and that sphere is constantly turning. If that's true, we're also shifting in position in relation to the moon. If the moon was a sphere you'd be looking at it from different angles, wouldn't you? Well, turns out you can. If you can take good quality photos of the moon at dawn and dusk you'll see the moon from different angles. If you take a number of different photos over night and string them together you'll be able to see the angular change. With a good view (you'll need a 1000mm equivalent lens or better) the 3D motion is apparent enough to demonstrate both that the moon is a sphere and that you're moving in relation to the moon.

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It's kinda funny this even has to be discussed.

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Yes, it's a great strategy to discredit conspiracy that comes to fruition.

As I talked shit about how the media is in on the vax grift to a vaxxed friend, he likened me to a flat earther.

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thats an odhominem NPC response. after getting one of those you have confirmed you are dealing with a braindead programmable zombie

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That is ironic, isn't it?

The vaxxies are very similar to the FE people - believing statements about reality which can be easily discarded, if you're willing to actually ask.

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[–] [deleted] • 3 pts

It's part of Clown World.

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Or just part of being an idiot falling for trolling 101... Every single time...

Earth is flat btw AND the vimana can fly... https://youtu.be/zpKIj4-bmt0?t=90

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I had to search for what vimana were, which reminds me of a saying about how neurotics build castles in the sky, but psychotics live in them.

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LMFAO! Quebec mongrel still retards hard! HONK HONK!

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I actually find it rather interesting. The fact is, so much of what we learn isn't science so much as scientism.

When you never travel very far from home, the world looks rather flat. You're relying on a bunch of other people telling you these interesting things and showing you interesting pictures and relying on what they give you. It's not quite true that if you aren't using the scientific method you aren't practicing science, but it's rather important.

Right now there are a bunch of people telling us global climate change is a real thing and that everyone (except the chosen elites) has to change their behavior to lessen or prevent it. It's in many ways analogous to the way we believe Earth isn't flat. I'm not really skeptical about Earth but I can see how skepticism isn't entirely unjustified.

Which makes is really great when you can do an experiment, in your own backyard, with a reasonable level of equipment, to verify these ideas. Now... How would you do this to verify global climate change?

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You dirty climate denier, you and everyone else need to send me carbon credits to make up for all the damage you've done. I expect 6million carbon credits in my account before tomorrow.

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is it ? we have been lied to about literally everything but we shouldn't at least question this as well?... it would be insane not to question this instead of just believing all they say about our world and the space around us, which is from the same lying mouths that has lied to us about everything else. we should never rip on people for questioning abosolutely everything.. in fact it should be our duty given all that we have been lied to about.

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we have been lied to about literally everything

So you think the earth, moon and sun are all flat, lol... I guess smooth brains all think alike.

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no i think what our ancestral mythology says about our world is true.. Norse and Hindu in particular.

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Flat earth shit is a gay jewish forum sliding tactic end of story; debate unnecessary.

Fun experiment though, OP.

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we are lied to about our history, our biology, science is a coordinated effort to push nothing but lies, the medical industry is lies, our gov is a lie, they lie to get us into wars, they lie about who we should believe is the good guys and bad guys...... so ya lets believe them about space and our earth.. sure why not.

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Crazy how many here will only go 'so far' Sandy Hook is a hoax but everything we've been told about space is true lol.

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exactly.. no one here should be criticized for questioning the establishment on anything.. i believe the jews are attacking this platform, trying to divide us.

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Well that would be the better hypothesis but I don't know, some of these people here just seem duped and refuse to even consider that we've been lied to on such a massive scale.

It's understandable to an extent, I mean it really shook me when I found out the truth.

Easier to fool the people than convince them that they've been fooled (as I'm sure you know).

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The thing that really cracks me up is flat earthers disagree amongst themselves about how to go about their flat earthedness. Everything from the air is too dense to see far, the birds are fake, pilots are in on it, to the moon is a hologram. But they'll never call eachother out for such absurdities. They're just happy to have 1 friend in the cult of victimhood, even if they must stand alongside the totally irrational to get there.

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Yea the pilots are in on it, but not because they want to.

If they don't go along. They get bird strikes. Birds aren't real. Pilots know it but they have to go along with that too. They show them the video right after they get their license.

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Am I missing his proof here? Or is he just dismissing flat earthers as crazy conspiracy nuts as per usual?

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Clearly the moon is flat and it's just rounded at the edges. /s

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You forgot about the hologram moon they project on the dome

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Very poor cgi skills you have here

Even a fucking ape could come up with better than that...

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So you don't like things abstracted to the essentials?

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Hm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGfY7EDMv60&t=885s

That's not even things abstracted to the essential sorry

First of all, it's a jpg, that's a very poor choice for a precision graphic with 4 colors, gif or png8 would have been much more suited to begin with, and ancient... Possible connection with ancient aliens... Proof: Shit up there, is 75,3 kB.... This https://pic8.co/sh/tN6eHF.png is 19,3 kB...

Conclusion: I win, and you lose...

Forever

Checkmate faggot, checkmate!

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Looking at the graphic, I see Earth on the left, moon on the right. Two vintage points are shown on Earth, with two blue lines each showing the edges of what can be seen through the telescopes. These lines hit the moon, showing the edges of what will be visible. Comparing the two, it shows how from each you'll see a little more of one edge, and less of the other.

It gets the job done, and probably took little effort. The great thing about interactive forums like this is that anyone can improve on things, like you did by saving 56 kilobytes. Back in the modem days that would have saved a second of download time. Multiplied by 100 viewers, that would be over a minute of saved time.

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LOL "precision graphic". I threw that together in 10 minutes in a 30 year old paint program, just to illustrate the concept. It's not even to scale.

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Proving that you can view the moon from different angles doesn't prove anything about the shape of the earth.

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Sure it does. You just don't understand the idea laid forth. That's okay. You're retarded. That's also okay.

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Viewing the moon from multiple points merely proves that the shape of the earth is such that it contains multiple points, and at different times no less. This tells us nothing about whether the earth is flat or curved. The experiment would make good controlled opposition because it proves as much about the shape of the earth as does me being a retard. I am, but so what? Like the experiment it tells us nothing interesting about the shape of the earth.

Edit: I read the OP's post again and even found the logical flaw (A -> B) -> (B -> A). This is obviously false yet that's the logic presented. If earth is round then lunar libation does not imply that lunar libation means the earth is round. Why can't you people get something that even a retard has little trouble with?

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You can perform this same magic with a ceiling fan by walking to opposite sides of the room. Says nothing about where you are standing. Globe earth science is for retards.

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Thank you for that. I needed a good laugh...

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Sounds suspicious, eh?

No. Not even slightly. The moon rotates a a rate equal to it's revolution around the Earth so it's 'tide locked'. The forces of gravity then also cause a wobble. None of this is that difficult to understand. This was stuff that I understood when I was like 10.

If the Earth were flat and the Moon spherical then the movement of the Moon would cause the same 'bottom' of the Moon to be seen everywhere but a different 'side' of the moon as it moved.

If the Moon were also flat the movement of the moon would be extremely odd for us to be able to see the same face at all points.

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Not quite. The moons orbit is slightly elliptical, so it appears to move among the stars faster when it's nearer to the earth at some times than other times, and slower when it's farther at times. So sometimes the moons relatively steady rotation gets ahead of the revolution at times, and lags behind other times.

Also, OP's image is indeed correct as far as it goes, but what's involved in libration can be seen from one place over the course of a month.

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I thought it would be helpful to show what this looks like

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So, there's more than one kind of libration. This is showing the moon actually swinging in its orbit. It's not perfectly tidally locked and oscillates. To see this you'd need to look at a time exposure over an entire month. The effect I posted can be observed over the course of a single night.

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Why are we still discussing fiat earth? Oh wait… we forgot men were men and women were women only.
Instead of going to the moon or mars, we are revisiting already established shit.

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"We cannot go to the moon because that is 60 year old tech and has been destroyed. It is too costly to recreate it."

This was the explanation from some NASA guy...

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Yeah and I know that NASA guy but doesn't believe me.

Saw him, Gene Kranz, just a few days ago again, for the fifth time.

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"We cannot go to Antarctica and see the ice wall or edge for ourselves because of the international treaty banning private expeditions there. They will send military ships to intercept you."

This was the explanation of some FE guy...

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Well if you believe in it (or don't) then why don't you get a group together, secure funding, and make the trip?

There was a guy a few years back who did that very thing, but he died before the voyage got underway. Too bad...

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If they kicked the diversity hires out they probably could build it.

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granting the less equipped info instantly to shut down 'muh flat urf' is a good thing. Moron repellant. The people in question would not be helping any space missions anyway.

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