WHAT IF IT IS EARTH OR MOON!!!
Would The
Earth seem to be up in the Sky if we were on the moon??
The earth is a ball, and anyone looking out from the surface
of that ball gets the notion, of course, that he is in the center of all things,
and that they are hung in the sky on all sides of him. We see things up in the sky,
and not down in the sky, because earth interferes with our view. If the earth
were transparent, we should see the sun and sky, underneath our feet, just as
now we see them up in the sky.
This must be true not only of the earth but of any other
heavenly bodies. Up and down have no real meaning in them, but merely refer to
our point of view. The earth, seen from the moon would appear far larger than
the moon does to us, and correspondingly bright. There would be no mistaking
the difference between land and the ocean. Through telescopes the largest
buildings of a city would be made out. The greatest difference would be ,
perhaps, that an observer on the moon would so often find the details of the
earth hidden by clouds. As the moon has practically no atmosphere her face is
never clouded to our view; not even to very slight extent that mars or the moon
would wonder what it was like to live on a world so often covered with thick
clouds as ours is.
(Source:TBOK V7 4760)
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