• Contravariant@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      You also shouldn’t ask how it manages to light only half of an otherwise flat earth I suppose.

      Best explanation I saw involved light curving. At which point you’re just working with a spherical earth in a weird coordinate system.

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        Explanations for lunar and solar eclipses get silly too. Mercury and Venus passing in front of the sun is just ignored as it wouldn’t fit between the Earth and the sun.