Will the real moon please stand up?

[prodromos]

Your reality is my reality

Clearly not, or you would be Christian.

 

[JohnEmmett]

Clearly not, or you would be Christian.

I am Christian

 

[prodromos]

I am Christian

Why does your profile say Buďdhist?

 

[JohnEmmett]

Why does your profile say Buďdhist?

while the afterlife and heaven is nice… there is a higher goal

long term…

 

[prodromos]

while the afterlife and heaven is nice… there is a higher goal


long term…

Good luck with that. Mix a little bit of falsehood with the truth and you no longer have truth.

 

[JohnEmmett]

Good luck with that. Mix a little bit of falsehood with the truth and you no longer have truth.

what falsehood?

 

[prodromos]

what falsehood?

Nirvana

 

[JohnEmmett]

Nirvana

God tells us he is the Alpha and Omega

 

[Tom 1]

Image from the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite around 761,000 miles from the lunar surface.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddar...nasa-camera-shows-moon-crossing-face-of-earth

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Image from the Chang'e 5-T1 craft around 8,000 miles from the lunar surface.
Chinese Chang'e Craft Loops the Moon

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Which are we supposed to believe?

Your own description tells you that one image was taken close to the moon. What is it you don’t understand? If you Look at your hand next to something much bigger on the horizon, which looks bigger? If you lined up your hand with the same building and had a photo taken from a long way back with a telephoto lens, how would it look then? This is so basic I don’t understand where you get a question from. Aren’t these kinds of things covered in your basic schooling over there?

 

[prodromos]

God tells us he is the Alpha and Omega

Meaning He is eternal.

 

[JohnEmmett]

Meaning He is eternal.

K

 

[FrumiousBandersnatch]

Matthew 7

Matthew didn't use a smiley...

 

[FrumiousBandersnatch]

Your own description tells you that one image was taken close to the moon. What is it you don’t understand? If you Look at your hand next to something much bigger on the horizon, which looks bigger? If you lined up your hand with the same building and had a photo taken from a long way back with a telephoto lens, how would it look then? This is so basic I don’t understand where you get a question from. Aren’t these kinds of things covered in your basic schooling over there?

I wouldn't rule out trolling - it's hard to believe someone doesn't understand close things look bigger than far away things.

 

[Tom 1]

I wouldn't rule out trolling - it's hard to believe someone doesn't understand close things look bigger than far away things.

That would be an ecumenical matter.

 

[prodromos]

Image from the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite around 761,000 miles from the lunar surface.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddar...nasa-camera-shows-moon-crossing-face-of-earth

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Image from the Chang'e 5-T1 craft around 8,000 miles from the lunar surface.
Chinese Chang'e Craft Loops the Moon

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Which are we supposed to believe?

First picture, the camera is very far from both the earth and the moon using a zoom lense. Because their relative distances from the camera are similar, the size of the moon relative to the earth is pretty closer to reality.
The second picture is taken with a wide angle lense from much closer to the moon. Because it is a wide angle shot, the earth appears much smaller even though it is much closer to the camera than the previous image, but the moon appears larger because it is much, much closer to the camera.

 

[Sheila Davis]

Image from the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite around 761,000 miles from the lunar surface.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddar...nasa-camera-shows-moon-crossing-face-of-earth

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Image from the Chang'e 5-T1 craft around 8,000 miles from the lunar surface.
Chinese Chang'e Craft Loops the Moon

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Which are we supposed to believe?

Both _ to me it seems like it's the angle of the camera and how much magnification was used.