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Full Sun - Half Moon?
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 (September 25, 2013 at 3:50 pm)Jiggerj Wrote: Today at 10 a.m. the sun was full in the sky. I could see the whole thing. In the west the moon was at 2:00 in the sky. Nothing was between them, yet the moon was only at half moon. Anyone know why? ![[Image: aliens_zps16982ddb.png]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=i1233.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fff392%2Fefitton%2FUnclassified%2520Crap%2Faliens_zps16982ddb.png)
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
 
Granted, but the Sun-Earth Moon triangle isn't static. Things get complicated when one of those points is orbiting another in such a way as to cause its apparent position as seen from the third point to be above or below the second.
If the system formed a stable planar triangle, we would get solar and lunar eclipses every alternate fortnight. The "How many Earths?" piece has an excellent illustration of this, in the slide about Kepler only being able to detect planets via the luminosity method when the planet passes in front of its star. If its orbit is outside the plane of this line of sight, this method won't see the planet.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
(September 26, 2013 at 9:39 am)pocaracas Wrote: 3 points always make a plane I thought two wings, a fuselage, and a tail make a plane?
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
RE: Full Sun - Half Moon?
September 26, 2013 at 11:33 am
(This post was last modified: September 26, 2013 at 11:38 am by pocaracas.)
(September 26, 2013 at 10:14 am)Doubting Thomas Wrote:(September 26, 2013 at 9:39 am)pocaracas Wrote: 3 points always make a plane It's a plane! Not a plane! (September 26, 2013 at 10:07 am)Stimbo Wrote: Granted, but the Sun-Earth Moon triangle isn't static. Things get complicated when one of those points is orbiting another in such a way as to cause its apparent position as seen from the third point to be above or below the second. There you go talking about orbital planes... I know the two orbits are not co-planar, but at any moment, the system sun - earth (surface, where the person can see something) - moon always forms a triangle (always changing) on a non-static plane.
Indeed. I think we've gone way beyond the original point of clarifying how eclipses work, don't you?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
Hey, this is my thread and everyone is getting all them frugals or frubals or whatever the hell they are. I want some! lol
Seriously, I'm glad you guys are having fun in this thread. I didn't expect it to go past two replies.
There is an ALLLL-knowing, ALLLL-powerful, inVISible being who is everywhere, who created the WHOLE universe, who lives in another dimension called heaven, who is perfect in every way, who was never born and will never die, and who watches you every minute of every day (even when you're squeezing one out on the toilet). There are also unicorns, leprechauns, Santa Claus, an Easter Bunny, and a giant purple people eater.
JUST BELIEVE IT!
Oh, you'd be surprised how long we can keep these things going. There's threads on here going back centuries.
Sort of.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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