12 mph
2,288 miles per hour
And now you are just spouting numbers, with no justification or source.
As a rough approximation, the velocity of the moon RELATIVE TO EARTH is easily calculated from the length of its orbital path (which I will approximate as a circle with a radius of 400 000 km), and its orbital period, which I will approximate as 28 days.
This gives us 3740 km/hr.
This is close to the 2288 miles per hour.
making it go from one end to another of Earth in 3 hours
Only if you want to pretend it is travelling in a straight line, passing directly through Earth, instead of orbiting around Earth (and even then I get 3.4 hours).
So I take it this is more delusional crap you want to try appealing to?
To ignore the fact that the moon is roughly 400 000 km away, orbiting Earth, and instead pretend it is just 6371 km away from the centre of Earth?
However, it is good to note that this is comparable to the duration of totality of a lunar eclipse, and the duration that a total solar eclipse is visible somewhere on Earth (i.e. from the time it starts to the time it ends).
So this is not the problem you are making it out to be.
Based on what "science" has told us, the Earth rotates at roughly 1000 mph. This means even if the Earth rotates against the moon, the moon gains two hours for every hour Earth moves. All of this is a convoluted mess
The only convoluted mess is the delusional BS you stoop to, which is likely a wilful misrepresentation of what science has told us.
What science actually has is that Earth rotates with a period of revolution of ~24 hours (closer to 23 hours 56 minutes), while the moon orbits with a period of roughly 28 days.
And for this there are actually 2 different orbital periods. The first is the sidereal orbital period. That is the time it takes to orbit Earth relative to the background stars and is 27.3 days.
The other is the synodic. This is the average time taken to orbit in a reference frame which keeps the sun and Earth in the same orientation, i.e. the average time between new moons, which is 29.5 days.
The vast majority of the apparent motion of the moon comes from Earth's rotation. This causes it to appear to move at roughly 15 degrees per hour.
The orbit is responsible for the changing phase and partly for it appearing at different times of day.
After all, a plane passes out of sight much sooner than a few hours. Yet the moon doesn't move like this, making it patent nonsense.
Yes, your delusion BS is patent nonsense.
A plane flies overhead at roughly 10 km. If it flies lower it is seen for an even shorter period. Meanwhile, the moon is roughly 400 000 km up.
Where did I get that from?
From more delusional BS which is in no way connected to reality, which ignores the range you should be able to see the moon at (see below) and pretending it is travelling along the surface at the equator.
So while people in New Zealand can see the moon, eighteen timezone hours from me, it hasn't gone anywhere in hours. I can still see it when I go to bed at night. This implies either we are able to see halfway across the Earth (invalidating curvature theory) or that there are two moons.
Why not say it in a more straight forward and honest manner. Them being ahead a day doesn't really matter. Being 18 hours ahead means they are 6 hours behind.
That is 1/4 of the way around Earth. But of course, that isn't anywhere near as impactful as your dishonest BS.
But again, you want to pretend the moon is sitting on Earth's surface. IT ISN'T.
So no, this in no way invalidates the fact that Earth is round.
And the fact that you have chosen to not even bother doing the simple math, just further demonstrates how deluded or dishonest you are.
Just like I did for the ISS, you can easily calculate just how large an area would see the moon.
This is trivial to do by drawing a simple picture, and doing the math:
Here instead of R+h, we just use the radius of the moon's orbit, 400 000 km. And we want to find out a.
And from the diagram we know that cos(a)=R/(R+h).
This gives us 89 degrees. Doubling that to get the range gives us 178 degrees.
That means if you are 89 degrees away from the sub-lunar point on this very real round Earth that you hate so much, you will still be able to see the centre of the moon.
If we also throw in the angular size of the moon (0.5 degrees), that puts us closer to 179 degrees. (more precisely it would be 178.67 degrees).
And if we throw in refraction near the horizon, which is 0.5 degrees on each side under standard conditions for an object like the sun or moon, that would bump us up to ~180 degrees.
So with the very real RE, roughly half of Earth should be able to see the moon at a given time. This also means you should be able to see it for roughly 12 hours, if it just say in the same position relative to Earth with Earth rotating below it.
This also means your calculation of how fast the moon is going is complete garbage.
I'll let you decide which one is more plausible
Well considering how you have entirely failed to provide any justification at all of how this could ever work for a FE, and instead focused on spouting pure delusional garbage to try and pretend there are problems with the RE model, all of which are easily seen to be pure garbage, and so you have failed to demonstrate any actual flaw with the RE model, it certainly seems like the RE model is more plausible.
With a non-rotating non-orbiting Earth, no such flaw exists.
What flaw? You are yet to provide any.
We know this from real science.
No, you don't.
You don't know it, and you aren't using science to reach that conclusion.
Instead you just spout delusional BS while ignoring the actual science.
Actual science which has demonstrated beyond any sane doubt that Earth is rotating about its axis and orbiting the sun.
We also know because the moon is tidally locked, that it cannot rotate (12 mph or otherwise). So something else is at work here. Either the moon is reflecting light from the sun at an asynchronous rate, or there is a third object in the sky that we cannot see, but which obstructs the moon.
And more delusional BS.
Unless you wish to claim the moon is magically fixed in position, it most certainly rotates.
A tidally locked body means its orbital period is equal to its rotational period.
That means the moon rotates at the same rate that it orbits (on average).
But it isn't its rotation that causes the phases, and nothing is obstructing the moon.
It is the orbit of the moon which causes phases, with a different angle at the moon for the separation of Earth and the sun.
When that angle is roughly 0 degrees we have a full moon, when it is roughly 180 degrees, we have a new moon, and when it is roughly 90 degrees we have a quarter moon.
Real science always takes observations, wherever they might lead
Which is why you hate it, as it leads to reality, that Earth is round, rotating on its axis and orbiting the sun; and you hate that.
Now care to try addressing the flaws with the FE model, rather than repeatedly lashing out at the RE model with your delusional BS?