Re: The Heavenly Match: A Cosmic Oddity

On Oct 24, 1:43 pm, sasam2 <f...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Some say that Stonhenge is a rough predictor of solar eclipses. The
idea seems to have merit, since the ancients regarded the event as
very dramatic indeed - a sign of disaster from heaven. A once in a
lifetime experience if you stand on one spot, though a fairly regular
occurrence on earth - at least once a year somewhere on the globe.

We now know the cause to be natural, although you may still get
goosebumps to witness the exact masking of the sun showing only it's
outer corona ring for a few minutes - the strange feeling associated
with a sudden temperature decline and weird lighting. No wonder you
get eclipse chasers hooked on this experience.

The eclipse is not always total, since the moon moves in an elliptical
path around the earth. Where the ratio of the sun to moon size is
roughly 400, the ratio of distances from earth of these two bodies
varies between appr. 370 - 420.

The fact remains that a one to one eclipse match occur very regularly
- that is - if you did not have the knowledge of modern science -
these two bodies would appear exactly the same size to an observer on
earth.

The oddity is not so much in this 1:1 match - how coincidental it may
however seem.

The oddity is more in the fact that this phenomenon occurs in full
view of a form of life which has sufficiently developed to have
consciousness. That is - to ask the question: Why should there be a
1:1 ratio in our observation of 2 totally distinct heavenly bodies?

Because life only exists where such observations are possible.
If you want proof, just consider eclipses seen from the moon.
The earth often eclipses the sun; but because the apparent
diameter of
the earth is four times greater than the diameter of the Sun,
life is impossible on the Moon. QED

Gotta go,
Cabbage

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