Originally Posted by
Foster Zygote
He's got loads of dumb videos. His latest is about the popular flat-earth claim that moonlight somehow sucks heat energy out of things; that it's a "cold light". He even does a poorly controlled experiment to "prove" it.
But that zooming in on the moon video has to be the crystal duh ascendancy. "Look how cool my camera is! I can make those distant trees look really close. Now watch me make the moon look really close! Ergo, the moon is really close!". I get the impression that he thinks that the farther away an object is, the less a zoom lens assembly can magnify it. As in, if it can magnify trees a mile away 50X, then it can only magnify something 240,000 miles away by maybe 2X. It's hard to tell just how spectacularly wrong he is because he never actually details his claim.
I think I ran across the one about moonlight taking heat out of things. My thought was that an object exposed to the open sky at night is going to be subject to more radiational cooling than something under cover, and the effect of moonlight (which would in theory have a slight warming effect) is negligible in practice. Of course it's entirely possible that the clown is just lying about it.