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DetlefK

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5. The good thing about crazy theories is that nothing is too crazy.
Tue Aug 22, 2017, 11:41 AM
Aug 2017

One theory says that solar-eclipses are not the Moon moving in front of the Sun. Instead it's "Some-planet-from-Hindu-mythology-whose-name-I-forgot" moving in front of the Sun.

Whatever question you ask them, they will always have an answer because they are not limited to answers that are verifiable or make sense. Science has a mechanism to discard explanations from time to time. Pseudoscience and religion do not.

Examples:
- No, they wouldn't crash into each other, stupid. Everybody knows that the Moon and the Sun obviously can just pass through each other. The Sun is just a ball of gas! Duh!
- Lunar Phases are obviously the result of a disc hanging right in front the Moon that regularly changes from opaque to transparent and back.
- They saw very clearly with their own, unprotected eyes that it wasn't the Moon who moved in front of the Sun. Instead, the Sun temporarily dimmed and then went back to shining.

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