22 Jan 2020 10:23:57
When we can see Moon and clouds in the sky, only the few clouds nearest to the Moon are lit up by the Moon.
You certainly got me thinking with that line Ed033. Even though I've seen that thousands of times, I never thought about it in that way.
Are there any videos you know of that explore this phenomenon?
{Ed033's Note - Difficult to find videos on this. Has Southern Monkey come across any?
Another thing with the Moon is that with a full moon, if the Moon was a sphere and lit up by the Sun, then there would have to be a hotspot (reflected sunlight) observed on the Moon, which we don't see. This is why they add a hotspot to the Photoshopped Blue Marble - to simulate Sunlight reflecting off the Globe.
So it's likely that the Moon is luminescent, giving off it's own light.
With the Moon being much closer than 325,000 miles away (maybe hundreds of miles away at most?), it should be easy to get there if it was a rock (petrified flora or fauna see hangman1128 yt channel) floating in space.
We have to ask ourselves, what's up with the Moon as it has been portrayed to us by the mainstream.
22 Jan 2020 16:15:46
Ok, the moon is bright as it is reflecting the Sun's light but as we all know, it is nothing like sunlight, it is a lot fainter, that’s why it doesn’t light up the whole sky. But in a similar vein, on a sunny day you can look into the distance and see dark clouds.
You can find an argument in everything.
{Ed033's Note - This is why there should be definitive answers, but there aren't in my opinion and other people's as well.
22 Jan 2020 20:54:56
To me, the clouds immediately around the Moon appear extremely bright, but the clouds not too far away appear extremely dark. If the Moon was 325,000 miles away, we wouldn't see such a contrast. In fact the clouds immediately around the Moon wouldn't be that bright.
But it's all subjective and we probably can't devise an experiment, because all the World can't agree on the Moon's luminosity or agree on the fall off of luminosity the further away from the clouds the Moon is, can't agree on the size of the Moon and can't agree on how far away the Moon is from the clouds. Also there are different clouds at different heights from the Earth.
22 Jan 2020 21:15:54
I haven't seen any conspiracy-type videos on this at all that I can remember. I am however aware of some visual effects of light interacting with particles either larger or smaller than the wavelength of the light called "Mie" and "Rayleigh" scattering. I think its "Mie scattering" that has an explanation. This doesn't really fit this site though. But I will add, it doesn't mean the Moon is where we are told it is. And the distance we are told is measure using mirrors put on the Moon by astronauts from the apollo missions who travelled through the Van Allen belts even though we still don't have the tech to take a human past 350 miles of low Earth orbit. If only we had the tech from back then.
{Ed033's Note - Bizarre how NASA have lost the knowledge of how they allegedly got to the Moon in the early 1970s.
22 Jan 2020 22:06:24
It boggles the mind that original data from arguably the most amazing achievement the human race has ever accomplished, has been erased from history. Either lost of written over. You would imagine it being under lock and key somewhere safe. Maybe Mr Kubrick had it stashed somewhere?
{Ed033's Note - Or maybe it was all a hoax and then it would make perfect sense.
22 Jan 2020 22:29:10
You heretic, you. It's in all the textbooks I remember from school, so it must be true! :)