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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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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.