It literally wouldn't matter how big or small the moon was, or where it was located.
Hold up a penny in front of a light bulb. Hold it right by the bulb and it doesn't block all the light, hold it near your eye and you can blot out the entire light.
The moon is pretty close to the farthest point where the 'penny' can totally block out the 'light bulb' - a 5% farther orbit and there's no total solar eclipse anywhere on Earth, ever. Moon is about 400 times smaller and the sun is about 400 times farther away.
Of course that's just the way it is. It's not some space alien egg that's going to hatch into a portal to the hell dimension.
a 5% farther orbit and there's no total solar eclipse
5% further orbit and there's still an eclipse. ... Jupiter has 5 different (known) moons in position to create eclipses. ... Saturn has 7 known moons that eclipse .. Uranus has 12 moons that cause eclipses. ... eclipses are EXCEPTIONALLY common
Now write out your whole explanation again and explain how there are always total solar eclipses.
But you can't, because if you stuck to the argument you'd lose because of "basic physics" as you put it.
An object has to be large enough and close enough in order to create a shadow that totally blacks out the sun. The moon is very near that point that separates eclipses (which as you point out are common) from total eclipses.
Everything you say is easily provably false.
Actually it's only everything you falsely believe I said is provably false. Garbage in, garbage out.
Hold up a penny in front of a light bulb. Hold it right by the bulb and it doesn't block all the light, hold it near your eye and you can blot out the entire light.
The moon is pretty close to the farthest point where the 'penny' can totally block out the 'light bulb' - a 5% farther orbit and there's no total solar eclipse anywhere on Earth, ever. Moon is about 400 times smaller and the sun is about 400 times farther away.
Of course that's just the way it is. It's not some space alien egg that's going to hatch into a portal to the hell dimension.
Now write out your whole explanation again and explain how there are always total solar eclipses.
But you can't, because if you stuck to the argument you'd lose because of "basic physics" as you put it.
An object has to be large enough and close enough in order to create a shadow that totally blacks out the sun. The moon is very near that point that separates eclipses (which as you point out are common) from total eclipses.
Actually it's only everything you falsely believe I said is provably false. Garbage in, garbage out.