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To: LeGrande; mrjesse
What does a solar eclipse have to do with the apparent vs the actual position of the sun?

Bury your head deeply in the sand and maybe eclipses will go away. Remember, you can always fall back on invicible ignorance. Even now, its comforting shores are beckoning. But was it Philip K. Dick who said that reality is the thing that doesn't go away when you stop believing in it? Wake up! Look at the pictures. Apparent position of the Sun, actual position of the Sun, apparent position of the moon, and actual position of the moon, all in the same place. And a straight line through the real Sun, the real moon, and the observer on Earth. Dramatic, no? Much like a stake driven through an undead vampire, it rids the world of this 2.1 degree solar lag theory of yours.

558 posted on 07/10/2008 8:04:56 AM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Darwinism!)
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode
Wake up! Look at the pictures. Apparent position of the Sun, actual position of the Sun, apparent position of the moon, and actual position of the moon, all in the same place. And a straight line through the real Sun, the real moon, and the observer on Earth. Dramatic, no?

Tell you what, I will let you go on believing that when you look into the sky that everything is exactly where you see it. There is no need for you to understand that light actually takes time to get from the celestial objects to your eyes and that everything is in constant motion.

560 posted on 07/10/2008 8:39:08 AM PDT by LeGrande
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