Greetings Flat Earthers,
I'm an old (casual) member who just discovered the FES' recent website remodelling, and was delighted to come back and join up once again.
Anyway, I wanted to come here to discuss some ideas I've been considering for a rather long time regarding the reasons behind the various celestial body's luminosity. Anyone who's ever truly looked at the sun and the moon will tell you that they're roughly the same size-- and, quite obviously, flat. This congruency leads me to postulate that they are not only similar, they are twin entities-- at different stages of existance. The sun, for instance, still glows hotly, while the moon's radiance is considerably weaker.
Now, for my argument I'm going to use the asumption that the light emitted by these entities is due to bioluminesent lunar and solar crustaceans or bacteria (which is, to be honest, the only logical conclusion-- the proof can be found in nature today. What, for instance, looks more alien, more obviously from outer space, than a prawn? How else can you explain the obvious interrelation between crustacean spawning and the full moon? And, finally, why would such creatures need rigid exoskeletons unless they've had to exist in zero gravity-- furthermore, such structures could possibly help them survive entering our atmosphere!). Given the facts at our disposal, we can surmise (or rather, hypothesize-- we must remain, after all, firm men of science) that the sun and the moon are not in fact bodies in and of themselves, but rather isolated pockets of stellar life-- solid masses of bioluminescent organisms, perhaps threaded through with predators. This explains the literally blinding radiance of the sun-- the sheer quantity of glowing organic matter boggles the mind. Surely it can only be made of these lunar shrimps-- any solid mass beneath would show as a silhouette.
The moon, on the other hand, is, I believe, an extinct colony. The faint, wan light we see is, in my opinion, the faintly glowing corpses of a dead shrimp empire, a bounteous culture now dead. And, perhaps, rather than THEM migrating over the surface of the moon, it is instead a separate kind of organism, one which is unable to glow (perhaps the organism that killed the shrimps in the first place) traversing the corpses of the stellar crustaceans and blotting out the pallid light.
Or-- perhaps more interestingly-- it is possible that the shrimps are indeed still migrating... despite being dead. Indeed, undead shrimps traversing the surface of the moon is not so outlandish a notion as it sounds-- "terrestrial" crustaceans are able to flip around for some time after dying.
These are my theories-- I believe you will agree that they're all quite plausible.