Our Seemingly Nearby Moon

[Radrook]

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Astronomer Fred Hoyle pointed out, that driving at a constant 60 mph it would take us six months to get to our Moon. Like having to drive ten times around the Earth. Certainly not as near as it seems to be when we view it from Earth. But even its present distance will gradually increase over time because it increases by 1.5 inches per year which is 15 inches in ten years. That might not seem like much but over the course of centuries it adds up.

For example: that’s 150 inches in 100 years or 12.5 feet more distant each 100 years.

Which is 125 feet more distant in a thousand years.

Which is 1,250 feet more distant in ten thousand years.

Which is 12,500 feet farther in One hundred Thousand years

Which is 125,000 feet farther from Earth in one million years.

The moon's orbit around Earth is elliptical. At perigee — its closest approach — the moon comes as close as 225,623 miles (363,104 kilometers). At apogee — the farthest away it gets — the moon is 252,088 miles (405,696 km) from Earth. On average, the distance from Earth to the moon is about 238,855 miles (384,400 km). However, the moon is moving away from Earth at a rate of about 1.5 inches (4 cm) per year.

How Far is the Moon?

BTW
The difference between the moon being farthest and nearest to Earth due to its elliptical orbit is 13,233 miles or approx a little more than for times the distance from the USA East Coast to its West coast.

 

[JD16]

Difference in moon size,

 

[All_In]

I don't know what's been going on with the moon. A sign of the times I guess. We have seen things recently we haven't before, like the big moon.

 

[Radrook]

Difference in moon size,

Seems like that is showing what they call a super moon!
Supermoon - Wikipedia

A supermoon is the coincidence of a full moon or a new moon with the closest approach the Moon makes to the Earth on its elliptical orbit, resulting in the largest apparent size of the lunar disk as seen from Earth.[3] The technical name is the perigee-syzygy of the Earth–Moon–Sun system.

 

[JD16]

Seems like that is showing what they call a super moon!
Supermoon - Wikipedia

From the supermoon article

 

[Radrook]

From the supermoon article

Those 13,233 miles closer make quite a difference. Up to 14% in diameter larger and 30% brighter. Good time to turn our telescopes on it.

Supermoon - Wikipedia

 

[I'm_Sorry]

Moon is within the firmament just like Genesis says on the 4th day of creation

 

[Radrook]

Moon is within the firmament just like Genesis says on the 4th day of creation

So you believe it is a mere reflection on the dome or below the dome? The reason is that I have read about flat Earth documentaries referring to the celestial lights as mere reflections. Do all Flat Earthers agree on this? Your comment seems to contradict that view.

 

[lesliedellow]

Astronomer Fred Hoyle pointed out, that driving at a constant 60 mph it would take us six months to get to our Moon. Like having to drive ten times around the Earth. Certainly not as near as it seems to be when we view it from Earth. But even its present distance will gradually increase over time because it increases by 1.5 inches per year which is 15 inches in ten years. That might not seem like much but over the course of centuries it adds up.

For example: that’s 150 inches in 100 years or 12.5 feet more distant each 100 years.

Which is 125 feet more distant in a thousand years.

Which is 1,250 feet more distant in ten thousand years.

Which is 12,500 feet farther in One hundred Thousand years

Which is 125,000 feet farther from Earth in one million years.

That is still only 24 miles. No big deal when you are talking about a quarter of a million miles.

 

[I'm_Sorry]

So you believe it is a mere reflection on the dome or below the dome? The reason is that I have read about flat Earth documentaries referring to the celestial lights as mere reflections. Do all Flat Earthers agree on this? Your comment seems to contradict that view.

I stand by the bible.

 

[Gene2memE]

Moon is within the firmament just like Genesis says on the 4th day of creation

So, does the firmament get closer and further away? And, if it does, why is it called a firmament?

Also, if it does wobble, why does it do it in synchronisation with the tides?

 

[lesliedellow]

Moon is within the firmament just like Genesis says on the 4th day of creation

You had better hope your jet doesn't crash into it, the next time you are going on holiday.

 

[I'm_Sorry]

You had better hope your jet doesn't crash into it, the next time you are going on holiday.

Yeah because jets fly over the south pole ROLLSEYES

 

[Gene2memE]

Look at the biblical translation.

Look into the flat earth geocentric model.

No, I'd like you to respond to the question I asked.

Given that we know the moon moves closer and further away from us (we can test this, with radar, laser and even binocular/diopter range finders), does the firmament move closer and further away from the observer?

 

[HenryM]

Our Seemingly Nearby Moon

Our actually not very far moon.

 

[HenryM]

How come with all those big telescopes and observatories on Earth, best pictures of Moon from Earth come from hand held cameras, made by regular citizens?

And does that look like a picture of an object quarter of a million miles away?

Maybe Google should buy some of those hand held cameras, their Google Earth pics would be beyond amazing.

 

[JD16]

Let me ask, is there a mirror on the moon for laser bounce back?

Lunar Laser Ranging experiment - Wikipedia

List of retroreflectors on the Moon - Wikipedia

 

[JD16]

 

[Radrook]

Our actually not very far moon.

How far from Earth exactly do flat Earthers believe it to be?

 

[HenryM]

A complete mis-understanding of what atheism is, and where the burden of proof lies...

Burden of proof actually lies on atheism, since it is much less probable that something came out of nothing by accident than that it's consciously created. Since you believe you came from amoeba, which is order of magnitude below in consciousness than us, you probably can accept that an order of magnitude consciousness above us could exist and do the creating. (By the way, even if you, for example, have a software that produces random number when activated, a programmer would have to program that software to do that "random" thing. To have it exist just by accident is beyond imagination.)