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Author's bio line says they are a "flat mooner". Which gave me quite a chuckle.


What's the meaning? Like, they have a flat ass?


They're (jokingly) saying they believe the moon is flat. Like a flat earther, but the moon instead of the earth.


They believe the moon is a flat circle (not a sphere).


Which is perfectly ridiculous. It's obviously carrot-shaped!


Wait, are you saying that what we see is just the tip?


One half of carrot mooners believe it's the tip, the other half believe it's the butt. I'm a butt man myself


Who are you who are so wise in the ways of science?


It’s a truncated cone. It extends infinitely away from us but is aligned such our view is perfectly tangent with the sides, so it appears as only a circle to us.




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