Uploaded December 2020 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago
Another video from the Channel “God’s Flat Earth”, where comments are always disabled. Their recent video titled “The Sun and the Moon are of the SAME SIZE! The Earth is NOT a Globe”. Not this again.
Well, it is complicated to explain; but lets try anyway.
Each planet has its own unique system of natural satellites that exist in stable orbits around it. Some moons, like Saturn’s Phoebe or Neptune’s Triton, are captured objects that were once comets, asteroids, or Kuiper belt objects. Others, like Jupiter’s Ganymede or Uranus’s Titania, formed from an accretion disk at the same time the planets of the Solar System formed. But our moon likely formed from an ancient, giant impact.
There is a striking coincidence when it comes to our natural satellite: a unique situation among our solar system’s eight planets and 166 known moons. With our moon: the sun is about 400 times as wide as the moon, but it is also 400 times further away. This means that from Earth, the Moon and the Sun appear to be roughly the same size in the sky.
So, what are the odds that an Earth-like planet to have a Moon that’s approximately the same angular size as the Sun as seen from that same planet?
UPDATE (16 hours after Premier): The only time I didn't do my own calculation may be coming back to bite me. All sources have been listed on this video since day one; at one part, I talked about Sun's apparent size change of about 4.2%; I had a horrible dream last night that it was wrong, and I should be calculating it myself to confirm. If that is the case, I will be posting another video with correction.
Original video:
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youtube.com/watch?v=cLrSWqe8GWA
Resources:
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nationalgeographic.com/news/2016/12/moon-illusion-explained-horizon-size-supermoon-space-science
newscientist.com/article/2174764-the-sun-shrinks-and-grows-again-by-2-kilometres-every-11-years
forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2020/08/14/ask-ethan-why-are-the-moon-and-sun-the-same-size-in-earths-sky/?sh=29c39ba73fb8
astronomy.com/magazine/ask-astro/2000/10/why-is-the-moon-exactly-the-same-apparent-size-from-earth-as-the-sun-surely-this-cannot-be-just-coincidence-the-odds-against-such-a-perfect-match-are-enormous
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Table of contents
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0:00 - Introduction
0:39 - Original clip
2:35 - Chariot in Book of Enoch?
2:53 - Complicated: Moon and Sun's angular degree
4:30 - Unique situation among our solar system
5:12 - Other moons in our solar system
5:42 - How moons are formed
7:48 - What are the odds?
9:05 - Three different types of solar eclipse
10:26 - Our Solar System
11:45 - Differential forces
12:53 - Current thought on Moon
14:10 - Happy coincidence
14:58 - Deck of cards and Poker hand
16:11 - Unified Field Theory
Another video from the Channel “God’s Flat Earth”, where comments are always disabled. Their recent video titled “The Sun and the Moon are of the SAME SIZE! The Earth is NOT a Globe”. Not this again.
Well, it is complicated to explain; but lets try anyway.
Each planet has its own unique system of natural satellites that exist in stable orbits around it. Some moons, like Saturn’s Phoebe or Neptune’s Triton, are captured objects that were once comets, asteroids, or Kuiper belt objects. Others, like Jupiter’s Ganymede or Uranus’s Titania, formed from an accretion disk at the same time the planets of the Solar System formed. But our moon likely formed from an ancient, giant impact.
There is a striking coincidence when it comes to our natural satellite: a unique situation among our solar system’s eight planets and 166 known moons. With our moon: the sun is about 400 times as wide as the moon, but it is also 400 times further away. This means that from Earth, the Moon and the Sun appear to be roughly the same size in the sky.
So, what are the odds that an Earth-like planet to have a Moon that’s approximately the same angular size as the Sun as seen from that same planet?
UPDATE (16 hours after Premier): The only time I didn't do my own calculation may be coming back to bite me. All sources have been listed on this video since day one; at one part, I talked about Sun's apparent size change of about 4.2%; I had a horrible dream last night that it was wrong, and I should be calculating it myself to confirm. If that is the case, I will be posting another video with correction.
Original video:
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youtube.com/watch?v=cLrSWqe8GWA
Resources:
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nationalgeographic.com/news/2016/12/moon-illusion-explained-horizon-size-supermoon-space-science
newscientist.com/article/2174764-the-sun-shrinks-and-grows-again-by-2-kilometres-every-11-years
forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2020/08/14/ask-ethan-why-are-the-moon-and-sun-the-same-size-in-earths-sky/?sh=29c39ba73fb8
astronomy.com/magazine/ask-astro/2000/10/why-is-the-moon-exactly-the-same-apparent-size-from-earth-as-the-sun-surely-this-cannot-be-just-coincidence-the-odds-against-such-a-perfect-match-are-enormous
=============================
Table of contents
=============================
0:00 - Introduction
0:39 - Original clip
2:35 - Chariot in Book of Enoch?
2:53 - Complicated: Moon and Sun's angular degree
4:30 - Unique situation among our solar system
5:12 - Other moons in our solar system
5:42 - How moons are formed
7:48 - What are the odds?
9:05 - Three different types of solar eclipse
10:26 - Our Solar System
11:45 - Differential forces
12:53 - Current thought on Moon
14:10 - Happy coincidence
14:58 - Deck of cards and Poker hand
16:11 - Unified Field Theory
