Ok, first and foremost.. and very seriously... this is not a flat earth related topic... Not for me. So please leave the whole FE out of this or start your own thread.
This is about a phenomenon that, quite honestly, I have questioned since I was very young. However, I put it aside as life went on.
Now, I have heard others speak of it and it has raised some very simple yet important questions..
How on earth does the moon look the way it does if it is reflecting the sun?
Let's look at the phases, shall we?
First, look at the "Waxing Crescent". Pictured above is not the last one before a new moon. There are several more before the moon is not illuminated.
Still, when I go to work, it is dark... yet there is the sliver of a moon in the sky.
Ask yourself, if the moon must always be fully illuminated, by the sun, there must always be a full moon to some area of space. Earth just cannot see it... So, therefore, when the moon is but a sliver, the rest of the moon, facing away from me, must still be fully illuminated.
So, where would the sun have to be to fully illuminate the surface of the moon "except" the tiny sliver I can see.
The sun would have to be opposite me. It should be in the sky, on the opposite side of me than the dark side that I see... Yet, the sun is not even up yet.
This is about a phenomenon that, quite honestly, I have questioned since I was very young. However, I put it aside as life went on.
Now, I have heard others speak of it and it has raised some very simple yet important questions..
How on earth does the moon look the way it does if it is reflecting the sun?
Let's look at the phases, shall we?
First, look at the "Waxing Crescent". Pictured above is not the last one before a new moon. There are several more before the moon is not illuminated.
Still, when I go to work, it is dark... yet there is the sliver of a moon in the sky.
Ask yourself, if the moon must always be fully illuminated, by the sun, there must always be a full moon to some area of space. Earth just cannot see it... So, therefore, when the moon is but a sliver, the rest of the moon, facing away from me, must still be fully illuminated.
So, where would the sun have to be to fully illuminate the surface of the moon "except" the tiny sliver I can see.
The sun would have to be opposite me. It should be in the sky, on the opposite side of me than the dark side that I see... Yet, the sun is not even up yet.