In what way is this unilluminated?
You tell me. You're the one who says the astronauts can't see that part, only the sunlit part. Not only that, but they can see stars on the covered spot. Are city lights at night not real? Is that part of the conspiracy too? Now, think carefully now: you seem to advocate that there is no conspiracy.
Plus, night and day are both semicircles, separated by the diameter, or a line of They landed on the moon and observed the illuminated portion of the Earth in all its majesty. Duh.
In my opinion, not very majestic, but that's me. Also, they didn't see the unilluminated portion of the Earth? Why not? We RE'ers can.
Just the sort of counter I would expect from an advocate of the absurd ellipsoid earth theory.
You mean oblate spheroid? Oblate meaning wider at the equator (prolate would be wider at the poles) due to Earth's spinning (oh hey, there's another distortion on your map), and spheroid meaning almost a sphere. Ellipsoid is just nonsense. That's, like, an oval sphere.
The slight bulge at the equator causes the earth to be reffered to as an ellipsoid, or, mor appropriately, a geoid. Now, I use ellipsoid and you exress concern, other RE people say round, and sphere, and yet you havent corrected them. In studies of science and the earth one will come across the term ellipsoid. I know you are still in the angry noob phase and havent calmed down long enough to do any serious research. Just relax a little, maybe you can ascertain some valum from your parents medicine cabinet.