Message from @RogueReflector
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The moon casts a shadow at least as big as the moon on earth right
Let’s not go down that road yet
Not the umbra
Let’s say 50 miles apart can they both be in totality then ?
Totality is about 70 miles wide
Ya for a small instant
Ok 70 miles do it
K
Then what
Do ur angles
K, they would get slightly different angles
Pretty small, so not a good separation
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The sun and moon are the same apparent size I don’t understand how measuring both from earth gets u different numbers to where it’s 92 million miles farther
During a total solar eclipse the moon is slightly larger than the sun, that's why totality is like 2 minutes long
Or maybe more
Ok that tiny bit bigger equals 02 million extra miles ?
92 million ?
system is flawed? just say gravity lmao
Ok why don’t u explain to me why the angle doesn’t work with the sun again u said cause the suns too far away ?
Right, when you try this method on the sun, it appears to be so far away compared to the base of any two oberver leg
But we r doing this to get the distance we don’t know it’s too far away yet
And the angles can't be measured accurately enough
We don’t know anything about the sun we are in a field with our theodolite
We try it and find that the distance is large, and we don't know it precisely, with that method
How’s it differ from the moon angles
Right, but this method can tell you it's too far for the method to give a good value
Because the angles we get when we do this on the moon are laregly different
When observers are far apart
So we measure the angles to the moon everything works fine then we do it with the sun and what ?
Sorry I’m not understanding
What goes wrong when we measure the angles to the sun
We barely see any angle change from one location to the next
I assume the "Truther" role means you are a flat earther?
Kinda like if your looking at a mountain far away, and walk 3 ft to the right, it's still in front of you
Why does it work with the moon then
the earth is a malteser