146. The Moon orbits around the Earth every 25 hours

"The ball-Earth model claims the Moon orbits around the Earth once every 28 days, yet it is plain for anyone to see that the Moon orbits around the Earth every single day! The Moon’s orbit is slightly slower than the Sun’s, but follows the Sun’s same path from Tropic to Tropic, solstice to solstice, making a full circle over the Earth in just under 25 hours." 


Doesn’t understand frame of reference

Yes it is possible to approximate the motions of the Sun and the Moon with both orbiting the Earth using the timings that Dubay uses.  Ptolemy figured this out 2000 years ago, but even he knew that for the motions to be properly explained the Earth had to be a sphere rather than flat.

Just because Dubay/s vague propositions sort of work does not prove anything.  Make precise predictions with a flat Earth model regarding the exact position in the sky of celestial bodies and then measure what you actually observe and check that they both agree exactly, then we can all take you seriously.

You will find that flat earthers never measure their observations accurately because if they did they would find that they were completely unable to predict the positions of the Sun and the Moon from anywhere on earth using their model.

Until they can it is all just hot air.

Science can of course predict the positions of the Sun and the Moon in the sky as far in advance that you want.

Here is a site that calculates the Moon's position for any date/time/location

https://www.timeanddate.com/moon/

You may also be confused about how the 25 hour orbit can approximate to Science's 28 day figure.  This is because the perceived 25 hour orbit of the Moon is actually the Earths rotation.  If the Moon was stationary, the Moon would appear to orbit once every 24 hours because the Earth rotates every 24 hours.  However the Moon is also moving  (orbiting the Earth), so by the time the Earth has rotated 24 hours the Moon has moved on.  It takes a further hour for the rotation of the Earth to catch up to the Moon's new location.  I.e. the Moon appears to be orbiting the Earth every 25 hours.



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