• @ThrowawaySobriquet
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    687 months ago

    The sun be crazy. Like, it’s more or less a self-sustaining explosion that’s so far away the energy of it takes almost ten minutes to cross the void to us, but is still so powerful it can burn and blind you if you’re exposed to it for too long. And the effects are only that minor because our magnetosphere blocks most of the solar wind. That wind is coming at us at almost a million miles per hour

    • @Blue_Morpho
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      247 months ago

      That wind is coming at us at almost a million miles per hour

      To be fair, it’s only a few scattered atoms. The astronauts on the moon didn’t have to fight through a hurricane.

      • @[email protected]
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        7 months ago

        It would be kind of interesting (and probably terrifying) if it acted more like our wind tho

  • @Sam_Bass
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    267 months ago

    Its actually daytime in space all the time. The only reason it looks dark is due to nothing reflecting the light.

  • FiveMacs
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    247 months ago

    Freezing is also the natural state. Heat is pumped in via the same giant fireball.

    • @[email protected]
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      7 months ago

      Miasma

      noun

      1 noxious exhalations from putrescent organic matter; poisonous effluvia or germs polluting the atmosphere.

      2 a dangerous, foreboding, or deathlike influence or atmosphere.

  • @einlander
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    177 months ago

    Yet society forces you to live under the huge burning ball of cancer generating plasma that defies the natural natural order of the universe. -signed a night owl

    • NoSpiritAnimal
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      137 months ago

      It’s a true statement of the vast and uncaring void that surrounds us.

      • @[email protected]
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        26 months ago

        don’t worry tho, the caring people from your surrounding will stand between you and the void :)

  • @SanndyTheManndy
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    127 months ago

    Starlight is always shining down everywhere in the universe.

    • @confluence
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      127 months ago

      So night is just really weak day

    • @ladicius
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      27 months ago

      At night I can see shit.

      Weak ass starlight.

  • Destide
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    107 months ago

    Born young enough to see the sun but not late enough for thermal death

    • @KrankyKong
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      107 months ago

      He’s pretty fast, iirc. At least he was in that one sonic game.

    • @[email protected]
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      7 months ago

      a shadow is just a silhouette cast on a surface, so it can move much faster than light. An object moving near the speed of light in front of a small light source that casts a shadow on a very large, very distant object could appear to move billions of times faster than light (though you would need an extremely bright light source for the shadow to be noticeable to the naked eye)

      there’s really no upper limit, just how far you’re willing to stretch the definition of “shadow” and “movement”

      • Illecors
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        16 months ago

        I’ve been pondering about responding to you. Since I can’t see this as some sort of irony - here goes.

        I’m sorry, but you’re wrong. The shadow in your example would be bound by the speed of light, because the photons from the source of light are also bound by it.

        A shadow is just a lack of photons on a surface surrounded by other photons.

  • @aeronmelon
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    67 months ago

    O R B S A Y S T O I L A N D S W E A T !

  • @vallode
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    57 months ago

    The opposite of this realization is the plot of Nightfall by Isaac Asimov, now it makes me interested in a story about some kind of people realising that there is sunlight out there. I’m sure someone has made a story about this.

      • @vallode
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        16 months ago

        Eternally grateful for people uploading and storing things like this, as well as to you for sharing it with me!