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To: Boogieman
Meh, they won’t accept any explanations that are given to them, they just start saying that any evidence they can’t explain is a hoax created by NASA. We even see that on this thread

The do accept genuine answers, at least some of them do but they don't always answer the questions, they pretend the other guys are just stupid and ignore them or claim facts are facts because they say so.

Why does the earth appear to be the same relative size from the moon as the moon does from earth?
Since the moon always present the same face to the earth sort of like a ball on a string why would the earth appear any where except directly over head from near the center of the moon face?

Regale me.

134 posted on 06/21/2019 4:03:10 PM PDT by itsahoot (Welcome to the New USA where Islam is a religion of peace and Christianity is a mental disorder.)
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To: itsahoot

“Why does the earth appear to be the same relative size from the moon as the moon does from earth?”

Where did you get that idea?

“Since the moon always present the same face to the earth sort of like a ball on a string why would the earth appear any where except directly over head from near the center of the moon face?”

Well, the moon wobbles a bit, so the earth appears overhead but it does move around a little. All the pictures of “earthrises”, however, are taken from lunar orbiters, not from the lunar surface. It’s the motion of the spacecraft travelling around the moon that makes the earth appear to rise, not the relative motion of the earth and moon.


145 posted on 06/24/2019 8:15:47 AM PDT by Boogieman
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