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Disclaimer: The questions below were raised by an article that's most definitely pseudoscience. The questions themselves have nothing to do with what makes it "pseudo", though, so don't let that put you off, please. :)
Quoting from [crackpot link removed by mentor] (I'd advise you only to read it in full if you feel that your eye-rolling musculature is in need of a proper workout...)- Firstly, is this true at all? (Many of the other "facts" are misrepresentations or outright lies.)[T]he Moon mirrors the movement of the Sun in the sky by rising and setting at the same point on the horizon as the Sun does at opposite solstices. For example, this means the Moon rises at midwinter at the same place the Sun does at midsummer. There is no logical reason why the Moon mimics the Sun in this way and it is only meaningful to a human standing on the Earth.
- If it is true, is this a significant datum, or simply a natural (though not immediately obvious) result of the fundamental dynamics of the Sun-Earth-Moon system and the perspective from which we observe it?
- If it is significant, is it genuinely "peculiar", as the author would have use believe, or is there a ready explanation for it?
- If it is "peculiar"...
Well, I'll halt my train of thought there for now, and continue it at a later point, in the unlikely event that the answers to the preceding questions all turn out to be "yes".
TIA! :)
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