Phobos is just not very aesthetically constructed.

You can't fool me, those are just the cookie monster's eyes

Since our moon is moving away from us we’ll have these sorts of eclipses in the future. The fact that we’re living at a time when they’re the same apparent size is pretty amazing.

I read somewhere that this phenomenon is so unlikely that if we ever need to represent our planet in an intergalactic context, the solar eclipse would be a good candidate for a symbol to put on a flag [citation needed]

Because the moon is moving away very slowly there will be a last total solar eclipse at some point. We're lucky to have such good ones currently

EDIT: Also I tested and this burger is the same size as a Canadian one dollar coin.

You mean a Loonie.

SMH.

I had lots of cars the size of burgers though, when I was a little child

I think the vast majority of promoters online were trolls, and the vast majority of followers were morons

They moved on to qanon. That's not even a joke.

You haven't heard as much from them because they are being drowned out by MAGAs. Though, TBF, the overlap between flat earthers and MAGAs is pretty large.

There's actually a trip to Antarctica to see the midnight sun funded by globe earthers planned soon. Many flat earthers were invited, but most have chickened out and the rest are hedging their positions with "24 hour sun doesn't mean anything, even if we see it, it doesn't matter".

A friend of mine got into flat earth. He didn't care about proofs or anything like that. As far as I could tell, he was in it for the community.

All the hype was subsumed by people following cults that actually have an impact on our daily lives.

I was curious about this too. From random web searching (Syfy.com), the sun is 200,000 times brighter than the moon in the visible light region of the electromagnetic spectrum.

It's a happy coincidence that we get to experience both total and annular solar eclipses. It wasn't always so, and it won't always be so. There was a first annular eclipse, and there will be a final total eclipse.

There’s a fascinating documentary, Behind the Curve. It talks about how, for a lot of these people, it began with the thrill of having some secret knowledge that others don’t, and then found they had a community and felt included for the first time in their lives (for some of them). That sense of community is really important to humans, so now, just like religion, there is more binding people to the movement than just the hidden knowledge.

(If I’m remembering correctly. I may be conflating it, it’s been a while since I watched it.)

A burger for Americans

Theta = 1/2 human fov

r = radius of sun

We're dealing with a class of people who genuinely think Sesame Street is a commie psyop