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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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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.