Dear Regner,
The point I was making, or rather Neville was, is that for its distance and
size it should be invisible. So what do you do when you measure something in
one way and the measure it in another way and get completely different
answers?
Jack
----- Original Message -----
From: "Regner Trampedach" <art@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <geocentrism@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> That we can't resolve something does NOT mean that it is invisible.
> It just means that you can't distinguish it from a point. Grab your
> binoculars and you can resolve Mars into planetary disk.
> You can't resolve the lights of an airplane high in the sky, but you
> sure can still see them.
> As far as Mars goes, you can directly measure the distance to Mars
> using parallax - not the yearly one around the Earth's orbit - which I
> know you all dispute - but an instantaneous one from opposite (or nearly
> so) sides of Earth. Add the angular diameter observed with a telescope
> at that same time, and you can also find it's absolute diameter. Violá!
>
> Regards,
>
> Regner
