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Calling Astro...Please come in and explain how this works???..It's freaking me out.....
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The light source being far away is irrelevant. The fact that the object causing the shadow, the moon, is close is what matters. Face the fact, I just proved that for an eclipse where the shadow travels along the equator the shadow will travel from East to West. And I'm sure the same can be proven for all other eclipses. But if it isn't true for all other eclipses, then at least for many others it should be true for. But all recorded eclipses from what I am aware of are west to east. We got some trouble in paradise folks.
Quoting: leader I wrote it weird. It doesn't matter that much that the sun is as far as it is. It still relevant that the light is coming from the sun as it determines the angle of the shadow. The facts I have wrote here together with the video showing example of the shadow's travel on the surface should be enough for you to understand why the eclipse goes from West to East. You are just saying shit without proving anything. Give a proof of what you are trying saying, or don't say it at all. You say a flaw in my proof is that I didn't take into account the sun is far away, and then when I call dog shit on that, you say oh wait, the sun being far away actually doesn't matter bwahaha. My proof, together with the fact that no one is yet to point to a flaw in it, should be enough for you to start entertaining the possibility that the video the OP originally posted might in fact be truth. So unless you have a coherent proof of what you are trying to say, stfu because you are a waste of my time. I've been trying to be nice to you and tried to explain this in many different ways. It's basic math and probably all of the other people reading this thread have gotten it by now. If the Moon goes by the Sun in two hours when viewed on a single point on Earth that should be enough of an evidence to you that because of the distances between the Earth, the Moon and the Sun it's impossible for the rotation to be faster than how fast the shadow of the Moon is traveling on the surface of the Earth. I'll give one more. Here's a picture in scale of the Moon and the Earth: [ link to upload.wikimedia.org (secure)] Now picture the Sun way to the right and how the Moon just barely covers it when viewed from a single point on the Earth. Now picture the Moon traveling its diameter or better yet two in up or down direction. You can draw lines in your mind from the far right and see The Sun isn't covered anymore by any point on Earth. So if it only takes a few hours for the shadow to move across Earth's surface it's faster than the rotation. You should be able to figure this out. *You can draw lines in your mind from the far right and see The Sun isn't covered at all by the Moon when viewed from any point on Earth.
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