I was looking at this image of the moon this morning:
and I started asking myself these questions
Do I believe this image is real? Yes
Does this section of it actually look like a big rock ball? Yes, though that is just my perception
If you shine a light on a ball from the side while in darkness, would one side be really light gradually fading into darkness like in this picture? Yes (bottom left to top right)
If you put 3d features on that ball would you see shadows of mountains going from left to right and can we see that here? Yes
If you had craters on that ball, would the left side be dark and in shadow while the right side would be brighter catching the light? Yes
Is that the same effect as we see here? Yes
If you drew circles all over that ball, would those close to what we see as the edge from our viewing angle look elliptical while those more towards the middle appear circular? Yes
Do the craters in this image show the same behavior? Yes
If you slam a heavy object into something solid but loose to some degree like sand, soil, flour etc, does it give circular crater patters that match these? Yes
Does this look anything like the sun? No, but the sun is really bright, perhaps too bright to see the features we can see here
Ok how can we see activity on the sun? We could look at 'The Sun Now' and 'Sunspots' at
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Is this real of faked data, how can we tell? Real, the sunspots image is a 99.x% white light filter image and you can buy special filtering foil for about £25 to make filters for telescopes, binoculars or just the naked eye, I have done this and the sunspots NASA claim always match 100% (though today is a particularly bland day sunspot wise and it is cloudy here today, but other days have matched)
What about 'The Sun Now', is this real? These use various filters like hydrogen-alpha to really peer into the surface of the sun showing only certain wavelengths. Large storms on this image match sunspots, but HA solar telescopes are really expensive, about (£4k) and beyond my spending. However many people have them and taken similar images from home, this 'crowd sourcing' from the general public has never spotted any issues.
So we can trust the data, do features on the sun with most of the blinding glare filtered out ever match features such as these on the moon? No
Does light hitting a parabolic curve/dome split into two, giving a primary and secondary reflection? No
Does a circle of light hitting a parabolic dome ever present a reflection elsewhere on the dome that is a different shape, e.g. a circle to a crescent? No
Does a circle of light hitting a parabolic dome ever present a reflection elsewhere where the other reflection shows completely different features? No
Does a circle reflecting off anything ever give two reflections where one is a completely different image? No, though this could be achieved with white light hitting a prism in such a way to split the light and the second is passed through a translucent image e.g. a projector slide and produce a different image elsewhere.
Is it likely that a floating prism and projector slide is up there somewhere doing this? No
Is it then likely that the moon is a secondary reflection of the sun or some sort of hologram projected into space from earth? No, what a mental question
Does the moon behave exactly like a solid cratered object would in space? Yes, and we can simulate this on earth to check, see above
So if the moon was a fake projection/hologram has it been faked in the exact way to behave like a ball of rock? Yes
Could the only reason for this be that it was designed to fool us if faked? Probably, but could be a coincidence
Is the most likely explanation that the moon is real and it is crazy to even ask this question? Yes
If it were otherwise and was a fake, would this fact need a coverup involving millions of people spread over a long long time? Yes
Is believing so many are out to get you a sure sign of paranoia? Yes
Do those who believe otherwise really need some help? Absolutely yes
My exercise in critical thinking this morning after looking at a single lunar image. Feel free to poke holes in my thought process.
Are you confirming that you have not done an experiment and you have just looked into the distance, rubbed your chin and said flat?
You answered my question with a question of your own and I think given the great details myself and many others have gone through to explain experiments, maths and physics, you should really answer this one with a yes or no. And if no, expand on how you really measured the lack of curve. If you whole argument lies on 'water level', I think after 321 pages, how we measure water level really is key to this who many months long thread.