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As a scientist with college degree in Astronomy, minor in Physics and Mathematics, I was appalled to find folks telling outright falsities and presenting bad science to bolster suspicion of our known accepted reality - that the Earth is a beautiful blue globe.

This blog clearly shows scientific proofs that debunk everything that flat Earth proponents claim.  Here we also expose the comments those YouTube video channels delete, because they don't want you to see them.

The Earth is not flat.  That claim is a conspiracy theory perpetrated by ignorant people who have ulterior personal motives and agendas.

The Earth is a beautiful blue spheroid globe spinning on an axis 23.5° once each day, and orbiting the Sun every 365.25 days.

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Does Moon Light make things colder, as some flat Earth advocates claim?


Dear Readers,

The simple answer is NO.  

Measuring the infrared (heat energy) of the Moon with a REFLECTING telescope (which has a mirror) is necessary in order to answer this question correctly.

The light from the Moon needs to be completely isolated from all ground sources of heat (people, plants, grass, trees, etc.) in order to get a true observational measurement of the Moon's infrared light.  Flat Earth advocates have not done that in any of their testing.  

So...

a) with the telescope point it at the Moon and measure the IR temperature - Astronomy Live got 66.2 degrees
b) with the telescope point it away from the Moon (but still skyward) and measure the IR temperature - Astronomy Live got 44.0 degrees

So Astronomy Live  (see link below) found that Moon light is 22.2 degrees (66.2 – 44.0) WARMER than no Moon light.

Result = IR temperature is higher when pointed at the Moon, so its light has a warming effect on whatever it falls on.

And that makes sense since light has energy.  When it shines on an object, that object will heat up.  

The problem with all those flat Earth video claims is that they don't understand what it is they are really measuring (atmospheric temperature shade/non-shade, infrared from surrounding plant life, metal pan reflectivity heat/cooling properties, use of cheap inaccurate IR thermometers, etc.).

Surrounding nearby living and non-living things give off IR infrared radiation, and that interferes and makes ground based measurements of Moon light (out in the open) not possible.  

In the video Astronomy Lives also shows the high temperature of a nearby bush, and discusses how that interferes with any true IR measurement of the Moons light. 

Here is an infrared night time picture.  As you can see, EVERYTHING shines in IR because it has heat.  THEREFORE, it is not possible to measure Moon light temperture on the ground (in the open), since heat from all surrounding sources also get into the measurement.
 

 
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Infrared radiation is sometimes called thermal radiation, because warm or hot objects emit infrared. For example, the heat you feel at a distance from an element on an electric stove is infrared or thermal radiation.

Infrared light is heat, the same as the heat your body gives off. 

All people, places, and things give off Infrared light in an amount proportional to their temperature. 

Thermal IR occupies the largest part of the infrared spectrum.   It has wavelengths ranging from 3 microns to over 30 microns.

Here is an IR image of a boy holding a ball.  Notice that the ball (blue) is colder than the boy (yellow, red and green), yet the ball still give off heat.


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 Here is a B&W landscape photo in IR light.  Notice that EVERYTHING gives off IR.


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Please watch the following video by YouTube channel "Astronomy Live"

Does Moonlight make things colder?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgqqmydSzsA


Discussion at - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7ipUKERU0tzYFxALJBli4A/discussion

kind regards, JonahTheScientist



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Here is a sophisticated 4-sensor moon light temperature experiment:

Recommended viewing:
Cold Moon Light Experimental Proof THAT IT DOESN'T WORK, by WheresWa11y.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx3PBOxg9Iw

Result = "the moon light has absolutely no temperature altering effects on an object"


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Telescope pointed at the Moon..


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Telescope pointed away from the Moon (but still at the sky)..

 

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Update: April 2, 2021


Experience the Apollo 11, 13 and 17 missions in real time.
For those that say these events never happened, listen to the hundreds of hours of space-to-ground audio, see the pictures, video & voice from the surface during the walks, mission details - so please stop your DENIALS since you are just embarrassing yourself.

Apollo in Real Time


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Apollo 11

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Included real-time elements:

  • All mission control film footage
  • All TV transmissions and onboard film footage
  • 2,000 photographs
  • 11,000 hours of Mission Control audio
  • 240 hours of space-to-ground audio
  • All onboard recorder audio
  • 15,000 searchable utterances
  • Post-mission commentary
  • Astromaterials sample data


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Apollo 13

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Included real-time elements:

  • All mission control film footage
  • All on-board television and film footage
  • All Mission Control audio (7,200 hours)
  • 144 hours of space-to-ground audio
  • All on-board recorder audio
  • Press conferences as they happened
  • 600+ photographs
  • 12,900 searchable utterances
  • Post-mission commentary
  • Onboard view reconstructed using Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter data


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Apollo 17


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Included real-time elements:

  • All mission control film footage
  • All on-board television and film footage
  • 302 hours of space-to-ground audio
  • All on-board recorder audio
  • 3,600+ photographs
  • 35,800 searchable utterances
  • Landing area reconstruction using Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter data


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Other info...

Official NASA Apollo photo archives at...
Apollo Lunar Landing Missions:

Apollo 11 - Landed on Moon 20 July 1969, Sea of Tranquility, Returned to Earth 24 July 1969

Apollo 12 - Landed on Moon 19 November 1969, Ocean of Storms, Returned to Earth 24 November 1969

Apollo 14 - Landed on Moon 5 February 1971, Fra Mauro, Returned to Earth 9 February 1971

Apollo 15 - Landed on Moon 30 July 1971, Hadley Rille, Returned to Earth 7 August 1971

Apollo 17 - Landed on Moon 11 December 1972, Taurus-Littrow, Returned to Earth 19 December 1972

Apollo 11 Image Library
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/images11.html

Apollo 12 Image Library
https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a12/images12.html

Apollo 14 Image Library
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a14/images14.html

Apollo 15 Map and Image Library
https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a15/images15.html

Apollo 16 Map and Image Library
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a16/images16.html

Apollo 17 Image Library
http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a17/images17.html

 

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