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What is the Moon

NASA's version of what is the moon

According to mainstream science-fiction, the moon is earth's only natural satellite, orbiting at an average distance of 384,400 km (238,900 mi). It always faces Earth with its near side (tidally locked to Earth). Its orbit results in the lunar month of 29.5 days matching the lunar day. Exerting gravitational force on Earth, it and to a lesser extent the Sun are the main drivers of the tides.

The Moon's mass is about one-sixth of Earth's; its density and surface gravity (at 0.1654 g) are rivaled among Solar System satellites only by Jupiter's moon Io. It is a satellite planet in geophysical terms and among all planetary-mass objects of the Solar System larger and more massive than all of its known dwarf planets. Its diameter is 3,474 km (2,159 mi), which is roughly one-quarter that of Earth or about the width of Australia, making it the largest and most massive satellite in the Solar System in relation to its parent planet and the fifth-largest Solar System satellite overall. The body of the Moon is differentiated and terrestrial, with no significant hydrosphere, atmosphere, or magnetic field. It formed 4.51 billion years ago, not long after Earth's formation, out of the debris from a giant impact between Earth and a hypothesized Mars-sized body called Theia.

Theia is one of the twelve Titans, the children of the earth goddess Gaia and the sky god Uranus. She is the Greek goddess of sight and vision, and by extension the goddess who endowed gold, silver and gems with their brilliance and intrinsic value. Her brother-consort is Hyperion, a Titan and god of the sun, and together they are the parents of Helios (the Sun), Selene (the Moon), and Eos (the Dawn). (and people think FE is some sort of religion 🤮)

The lunar surface is covered in impact craters and is marked, mostly on the near side of the Moon, by dark maria ("seas"), which are plains of cooled magma. These maria formed when large impacts on the far side of the Moon heated up low lying layers of its crust on the near side. The Moon is, beside when passing through Earth's shadow during a lunar eclipse, always illuminated by the Sun, but from Earth the visible illumination shifts during its orbit, producing the lunar phases. The Moon is the brightest celestial object in Earth's night sky. This is mainly due to its large angular diameter, while the reflectance of the lunar surface is comparable to that of asphalt. The apparent size is nearly the same as that of the Sun, allowing it to cover the Sun almost completely during a total solar eclipse. From Earth about 59% of the lunar surface is visible over time due to cyclical shifts in perspective (libration), making parts of the far side of the Moon visible.

On September 13, 1959 the Soviet Union's Luna 2 was the first human-made object to reach the Moon and any extraterrestrial body, and the first soft landing was achieved in 1966 by Luna 9. On July 20, 1969 the United States' Apollo 11 mission landed humans for the first time on the Moon, and any extraterrestrial body, at Mare Tranquillitatis with the lander Eagle. Five more crews were sent between then and 1972, each with two men landing on the surface. The longest stay was 75 hours by the Apollo 17 crew. Thereafter exploration of the Moon has continued robotically, with crewed missions being planned to return starting in the late 2020s. (which is all provably nonsense)

What is the moon really?

While we do not claim to know exactly what the moon is, there have been several theories on what the moon is. These theories stem from ancient cosmology as well as modern observations. We do not believe the assumed distance, nor it's assumed size; while some flat-earthers believe the Moon is about 50 km (31 miles) in diameter. Regardless of it's size and distance assumptions, the moon is certainly not a rock reflecting light from the sun

We do not believe NASA's moon landings were real. Not only does NASA's story conflict with our limited understanding of what the moon is, these so call missions are full of discrepancies or perhaps intentional lies. It is clear the moon landing was a staged hoax, filmed on a studio set. The moon landing was questioned since the original airing of the moon landing mission, and modernly it has become sort of a joke to actually believe the moon landings were real, it seems People aren't as gullible about technology and movie "magic" as they were in the 60's.

The Sun’s light is golden, warm, drying, preservative and antiseptic, while the Moon’s light is silver, cool, damp, putrefying and septic. The Sun’s rays decrease the combustion of a bonfire, while the Moon’s rays increase combustion. Plant and animal substances exposed to sunlight quickly dry, shrink, coagulate, and lose the tendency to decompose and putrify; grapes and other fruits become solid, partially candied and preserved like raisins, dates, and prunes; animal flesh coagulates, loses its volatile gaseous constituents, becomes firm, dry, and slow to decay. When exposed to moonlight, however, plant and animal substances tend to show symptoms of putrefaction and decay.

In direct sunlight a thermometer will read higher than another thermometer placed in the shade, but in full, direct moonlight a thermometer will read lower than another placed in the shade. If the Sun’s light is collected in a large lens and thrown to a focus point it can create significant heat, while the Moon’s light collected similarly creates no heat. In the "Lancet Medical Journal,” from March 14th, 1856, particulars are given of several experiments which proved the Moon's rays when concentrated can actually reduce the temperature upon a thermometer more than eight degrees.

So sunlight and moonlight clearly have altogether different properties, and furthermore the Moon itself cannot physically be both a spherical body and a reflector of the Sun’s light! Reflectors must be flat or concave for light rays to have any angle of incidence; If a reflector’s surface is convex then every ray of light points in a direct line with the radius perpendicular to the surface resulting in no reflection.

Many witnesses have said that, on a clear night, during a waxing or waning cycle; it is even possible to occasionally see stars and planets directly through the surface of the Moon!

-Thomas Winship, “Zetetic Cosmogeny”

“If the moon lifted up the water, it is evident that near the land, the water would be drawn away and low instead of high tide caused. Again, the velocity and path of the moon are uniform, and it follows that if she exerted any influence on the earth, that influence could only be a uniform influence. But the tides are not uniform. At Port Natal the rise and fall is about 6 feet, while at Beira, about 600 miles up the coast, the rise and fall is 26 feet. This effectually settles the matter that the moon has no influence on the tides. Tides are caused by the gentle and gradual rise and fall of the earth on the bosom of the mighty deep. In inland lakes, there are no tides; which also proves that the moon cannot attract either the earth or water to cause tides. But the fact that the basin of the lake is on the earth which rests on the waters of the deep shows that no tides are possible, as the waters of the lakes together with the earth rise and fall, and thus the tides at the coast are caused; while there are no tides on waters unconnected with the sea.”

“Even Isaac Newton himself confessed that the explanation of the Moon's action on the Tides was the least satisfactory part of his theory of Gravitation. This theory asserts that the larger object attracts the smaller, and the mass of the Moon being reckoned as only one-eighth of that of the Earth, it follows that, if, by the presumed force of Gravitation, the Earth revolves round the Sun, much more, for the same reason, should the Moon do so likewise, instead of which that willful orb still continues to go round our world. Tides vary greatly in height, owing chiefly to the different configurations of the adjoining lands. At Chepstow it rises to 60 feet, at Portishead to 50, while at Dublin Bay it is but 12, and at Wexford only 5 feet … That the Earth itself has a slight tremulous motion may be seen in the movement of the spirit-level, even when fixed as steadily as possible, and that the sea has a fluctuation may be witnessed by the oscillation of an anchored ship in the calmest day of summer. By what means the tides are so regularly affected is at present only conjectured; possibly it may be by atmospheric pressure on the waters of the Great Deep, and perhaps even the Moon itself, as suggested by the late Dr. Rowbotham, may influence the atmosphere, increasing or diminishing its barometric pressure, and indirectly the rise and fall of the Earth in the waters.” -David Wardlaw Scott, “Terra Firma” (259-260)

-Dr. Samuel Rowbotham, “Earth Not a Globe, 2nd Edition” (108-110)

“Bearing this fact in mind, that there exists a continual pressure of the atmosphere upon the Earth, and associating it with the fact that the Earth is a vast plane ‘stretched out upon the waters,’ and it will be seen that it must of necessity slightly fluctuate, or slowly rise and fall in the water. As by the action of the atmosphere the Earth is slowly depressed, the water moves towards the receding shore and produces the flood tide; and when by the reaction of the resisting oceanic medium the Earth gradually ascends the waters recede, and the ebb tide is produced. This is the general cause of tides. Whatever peculiarities are observable they may be traced to the reaction of channels, bays, headlands, and other local causes … That the Earth has a vibratory or tremulous motion, such as must necessarily belong to a floating and fluctuating structure, is abundantly proved by the experience of astronomers and surveyors. If a delicate spirit-level be firmly placed upon a rock or upon the most solid foundation which it is possible to construct, the very curious phenomenon will be observed of constant change in the position of the air-bubble. However carefully the ‘level’ may be adjusted, and the instrument protected from the atmosphere, the ‘bubble’ will not maintain its position many seconds together. A somewhat similar influence has been noticed in astronomical observatories, where instruments of the best construction and placed in the most approved positions cannot always be relied upon without occasional re-adjustment.”

An opaque, sphere like moon theory

An ardent FE supporter, and an ex-member of an astronomical society applied knowledge based on her personal observation with a telescope said:

I observe the moon through telescope and to me it seems as the most opaque object that eclipses almost anything that is on her path, including the Sun. Even the old school FE supporters, such as Parallax S.R. ( "Earth not a Globe" Section 9 the opening passage he states it explicitly) had no doubt that when comes to solar eclipse it is the moon that covers the sun (It is not so with the Lunar eclipse though). This is some great mystery for me. A couple of months ago there was an occultation of Mars by the moon which i manage to photograph decently. I personally observed the entire spectacle from Mars "kissing" the moon's limb from the one side, then disappeared completely for over an hour, and finally appeared on the other side of the limb continuing his path on the ecliptic line.
The Moon seems both a reflector and self-luminary, It reflects light from the Sun. The so called "craters", everybody can see that this "craters" have lit part but also they cast shadows. This shadows are changing every hour with accordance to the sun. This is a proof to me that the moon is a reflector.
The moon appears to be spherical through a telescope. She behaves as a sphere in almost every aspect of perspectives. I know that she appears differently with unaided eyes. It's not a flat disc. No.

A transparent, disc moon theory

Some say the moon is transparent. On a clear night, during a waxing or waning cycle, it is even possible to occasionally see stars and planets directly through the surface of the Moon!

On March 7th, 1794, four astronomers (3 in Norwich, 1 in London) wrote in “The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Astronomical Society” that they “saw a star in the dark part of the moon, which had not then attained the first quadrature; and from the representations which are given the star must have appeared very far advanced upon the disc.” Sir James South of the Royal Observatory in Kensington wrote in a letter to the Times newspaper April 7, 1848, that, "On the 15th of March, 1848, when the moon was seven and a half days old, I never saw her unillumined disc so beautifully.

On my first looking into the telescope a star of about the 7th magnitude was some minutes of a degree distant from the moon's dark limb, I saw that its occultation by the moon was inevitable … The star, instead of disappearing the moment the moon's edge came in contact with it, apparently glided on the moon's dark face, as if it had been seen through a transparent moon; or, as if a star were between me and the moon … I have seen a similar apparent projection several times … The cause of this phenomenon is involved in impenetrable mystery." In the monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society for June 8, 1860, Thomas Gaunt stated that the "Occultation of Jupiter by the moon, on the 24th of May, 1860, was seen with an achromatic of 3.3 inches aperture, 50 inches focus; the immersion with a power of 50, and the emersion with a power of 70. At the immersion I could not see the dark limb of the moon until the planet appeared to touch it, and then only to the extent of the diameter of the planet; but what I was most struck with was the appearance on the moon as it passed over the planet. It appeared as though the planet was a dark object, and glided on to the moon instead of behind it; and the appearance continued until the planet was hid, when I suddenly lost the dark limb of the moon altogether.” I have personally also seen stars through the edge of the waxing/waning Moon. It actually happens fairly often; if you are diligent and specifically observing for the phenomenon on starry nights you can occasionally see it even with the naked eye.
On a clear night, during a waxing or waning cycle, it is even possible to occasionally see stars and planets directly through the surface of the Moon!

-Dr. Samuel Rowbotham, “Zetetic Astronomy, Earth Not a Globe!” says: ^[1]

“During a partial solar eclipse the sun's outline has many times been seen through the body of the moon. But those who have been taught to believe that the moon is a solid opaque sphere, are ever ready with ‘explanations,’ often of the most inconsistent character, rather than acknowledge the simple fact of semi-transparency. Not only has this been proved by the visibility of the sun's outline through segments, and sometimes the very center of the moon, but often, at new moon, the outline of the whole, and even the several shades of light on the opposite and illuminated part have been distinctly seen. In other words we are often able to see through the dark side of the moon's body to light on the other side.” .

-J. Atkinson, “Earth Review Magazine” says:

“The moon is not a perfectly opaque body, but a crystallized substance, is shown from the fact that when a few hours old or even at quarter we can through the unilluminated portion see the light shining on the other side. Stars have also been observed through her surface!”

A Star occulting a crescent Moon has long been a popular symbol of Islam, was the symbol of the Ottoman Empire, it is found on the flags of Algeria, Azerbaijan, Libya, Malaysia, Mauritania, Pakistan, Singapore, Tunisia, Turkey, and in the Coat of Arms of countries from Croatia, to Germany, Ireland, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sweden, Ukraine and the United Kingdom. Its origins can be traced back thousands of years to ancient Hindu culture where it is found in the symbol for the word “Om,” the primary name for the almighty, representing the union of god Shiva and goddess Shakti. Why the symbol has carried such widespread historical significance is open to interpretation, but regardless of interpretation, the image of star(s) occulting the Moon has long been a prevalent and meaningful picture.

The moon is plazma theory

In a 1965 video interview, Professor Foster explains that the moon is plasma. ^[2]

In this video, Foster says the moon is not a piece of rock but it is a cosmic plasma phenomenon, and this fact will eventually be confirmed. If the moon is plasma, no man will ever land on it. The soft-landing attempts will all fail. That means the mass of the moon is less, far less, than is currently assumed. It's in a different state of energy and it has far less mass. That means there is no more explanation for the tides. If the moon for example, had only a thousandth part of its current mass then the tides would only be two inches high by the conventional theories instead of sometimes 14 feet; and that means if it is proof that the moon is plasma, then all gravitational theories are out, and the new concept of the cosmos and of its laws has to be evolved.

Dr. Foster explains how 11 years prior (1951) this theory was taking a risk, and he was considered a "lunatic", but now the evidence accumulated is already so much in his favor that he is not taking any risks anymore. On the contrary, there is scientific views expressed all over the world now that the moon seems to be of a quite different nature of what was assumed.

Prof. Foster explains that the ordinary every day tides have an explanation, even if the moon had almost no mass at all, because there are field effects. They're induced by a cosmic process which exists in the field of out solar system.

Once the moon is proven not to be a piece of rock but something of far less mass and the gravitation theories are out and discarded, then new concepts have to be involved which will show that the lawfulness of nature in the cosmos is identical to that in a hydrogen atom in atomic processes, and when this is understood and worked out in full, it will be found that the physical processes of the earth are quite different in geophysics to what is at present assumed.

The projected moon theory

There are many who theorize the sun, moon, and the stars are a "projection" that originate from the North pole region, in some sort of energy vortex or describe this area as the "tree of life".

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The moon map theory

There are many who theorize the moon is a "reflection" or a sort of a photograph of earth. Their method to this theory or observation requires some photo manipulation, including mirroring a picture of the moon and working with the contrast to amplify regions of the moon to make it appear as a map with continents. When lining up the continents to earths continents on a flat earth map, only about 25% of the moons surface matches, and some of the land masses seen on the moon map represent continents that sunk, such as Atlantis. It is theorized that the rest of the patches on the moon surface image represent land masses beyond the antarctic ice circle.