Lunar Eclipse coming

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stankann

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Lunar Eclipse coming
« on: November 05, 2021, 07:32:58 AM »
NASA is predicting that the longest lunar eclipse of the century will occur on Nov 19th.  They predict the eclipse will last 3 hours 28 minutes and 23 seconds.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/longest-lunar-eclipse-century-happen-114800970.html
The predictions of eclipses are based on the RE model.  If such a precise prediction comes to pass accurately, which can be so easily checked by looking at the eclipse and looking at your watch, does that not definitively confirm the RE model? 
If not can someone from the FE community predict the eclipse using the FE model?  And please tell me how you did it.  By the way, NASA also predicted the next 179 eclipses over the next 80 years.  Can a proponent of the FE dare to make such a prediction?

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Bullwinkle

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Re: Lunar Eclipse coming
« Reply #1 on: November 05, 2021, 09:34:35 AM »
NASA is predicting that the longest lunar eclipse of the century will occur on Nov 19th.

So, Nov 19th, cloud cover. Understood.   ;D

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Re: Lunar Eclipse coming
« Reply #2 on: November 15, 2021, 03:33:19 PM »
Going by the weather forecast in this part of the world for the next few days I'd say you got that about right!  You should be a weatherman.

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Re: Lunar Eclipse coming
« Reply #3 on: November 16, 2021, 05:31:43 AM »
NASA is predicting that the longest lunar eclipse of the century will occur on Nov 19th.  They predict the eclipse will last 3 hours 28 minutes and 23 seconds.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/longest-lunar-eclipse-century-happen-114800970.html
The predictions of eclipses are based on the RE model.  If such a precise prediction comes to pass accurately, which can be so easily checked by looking at the eclipse and looking at your watch, does that not definitively confirm the RE model? 
If not can someone from the FE community predict the eclipse using the FE model?  And please tell me how you did it.  By the way, NASA also predicted the next 179 eclipses over the next 80 years.  Can a proponent of the FE dare to make such a prediction?
Don't the zetetics have to invent some sort of shadow object that stops the moon being fully illuminated when both the sun and the moon are circling above their flat earth?

It'd be nice to see some actual evidence for that. Or, being zetetic actually see the shadow object.
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JackBlack

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Re: Lunar Eclipse coming
« Reply #4 on: November 16, 2021, 12:02:05 PM »
Don't the zetetics have to invent some sort of shadow object that stops the moon being fully illuminated when both the sun and the moon are circling above their flat earth?

It'd be nice to see some actual evidence for that. Or, being zetetic actually see the shadow object.
I thought they went with something more like:
The moon is clearly illuminating Earth to some extent at night, so it must be giving off its own light.
Some weird thing makes it turn red on occasion, but we don't know and don't want to speculate.

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Re: Lunar Eclipse coming
« Reply #5 on: November 16, 2021, 12:22:06 PM »
It must be even harder to explain selenehelion, as for me that is the strongest visual proof of a spherical earth.
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Re: Lunar Eclipse coming
« Reply #6 on: November 16, 2021, 01:07:57 PM »
It must be even harder to explain selenehelion, as for me that is the strongest visual proof of a spherical earth.
They claim selenhelion eclipses are proof against a RE, claiming that if Earth was blocking the light of the sun from reaching the moon to cause the eclipse, then you shouldn't be able to see both at once, as that shows there is a path that goes from the sun to the moon without Earth blocking the view.
Of course, for this they ignore that you are above Earth with the horizon slightly below you (especially as this typically occurs from a high mountain), and ignores refraction which also explains why the moon is red during an eclipse, with the light illuminating the moon travelling through Earth's atmosphere and scattering away the blue light.