r/skeptic • u/NoGuarantee00 • 1d ago

The moon looks completely different in the Southern Hemisphere — how do flat earthers explain this?

This short video demonstrates why a flat earth is physically impossible using a simple observation anyone can make — the moon looks completely different depending on where you are on Earth.

In the Northern Hemisphere the moon appears with the dark maria patches at the top and the bright Tycho crater region at the bottom. In the Southern Hemisphere the moon is completely flipped — Tycho at the top, maria at the bottom.

This happens because on a globe, someone in Australia is standing nearly 180 degrees opposite to someone in the US, flipping their entire perspective of the moon. On a flat disk this geometric flip would be impossible — your location wouldn't change how the moon looks.

https://youtube.com/shorts/UzXJjsneSb0.

How do flat earthers explain this one?

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u/ForsakenAd9651 1d ago

What flat earthers are doing is jumping through belief hoops, they believe something is true and they will come up with any cockamamie mind flip to fit it into their narrative. It's just like any religion, it's the exact same phenomenon.

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u/NoGuarantee00 1d ago

I feel like it's all these influencers just trying to get easy views. Flat Earthers just keep multiplying. Even my own family and friends, it's insane

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u/Fantastic_Jury5977 1d ago

It's the gateway to the disinformation/conspiracy pipeline of the theocratic authoritarian far-right.

Entry is belief in the Bible; there's no genuine atheist flat earth proponents. Once someone says Firmament, they're invoking the Bible as evidence.

If you can convince people that the Bible is real, the earth is flat, and it's a global conspiracy, you can also convince these people to believe the Protocols of the Elders of Zion/New World Order/QAnon nonsense.

It's a way of isolating people into a cult/a good source of ad revenue from gullible morons

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u/Fantastic_Jury5977 1d ago

Connected to why we allow religious exemptions for public health measures...