To: yarddog
It is a current coincidence. Due to gravitational tidal forces coupled with the conservation of angular momentum, the Moon is receding slowly from the Earth. The physics of this can be verified by bouncing and measuring lasers off the mirrors left on the Moon.
So, earlier, the Moon was LARGER than the Sun in the sky, and in the future, the Moon will be SMALLER than the Sun in the sky.
17 posted on
06/05/2014 1:36:55 PM PDT by
Rebel_Ace
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To: Rebel_Ace
...the Moon is receding slowly from the Earth.
Can you blame it?
To: Rebel_Ace
That makes it one more coincidence then.
31 posted on
06/05/2014 1:50:39 PM PDT by
yarddog
(Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
To: Rebel_Ace
So, earlier, the Moon was LARGER than the Sun in the sky, and in the future, the Moon will be SMALLER than the Sun in the sky. And some day, eons into the future, the earth will lose its grip on the moon and it will fly free.
48 posted on
06/05/2014 2:16:32 PM PDT by
MeganC
(Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.)
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