>>18336042>The eccentricity of the Moon's orbit is 0.055, so it's not perfectly circular at all.So the speed changes what, 0.001 % ?
How does that help you, if the Moon started going 2x the speed it would mean it's 180 km in diameter. It would need to speed up 500 times, are you saying it does ?
>But this is all besides the point, the video doesn't even calculate anything, it starts with the assumption that the moon is at 0 distance to the observer. Doesn't it bother you that the distance to the Moon never enters the calculation? Intercept theorem?Say you have a train 1 mile long. From the time the front of the train enters the tunnel to the time its rear enters it the train has crossed a mile. It absolutely doesn't matter where are you looking at it from.
>This is middle-school level stuff over where I live.Even worse, it's the most common horse sense and you've failed it.
