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[–] [email protected] 69 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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] 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 65 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

near enough to a star, yes, but most space isn't that close to a star

[–] nieceandtows 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

yeah? Where is the light coming from?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If you have to ask,you arent ready to know

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

why are you citing yourself

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

You damn kids and your technical correctness. :shakes fist a unrelated cloud:

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago

We make fun of the moths but they are our brothers

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago

That's called life.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

If only I could be so grossly incandescent.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The only God I can get behind

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

This message approved by George Carlin

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This feels like cosmic horror for some reason.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Starlight is always shining down everywhere in the universe.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

So night is just really weak day

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

At night I can see shit.

Weak ass starlight.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (3 children)

We know the speed of light; but what is the speed of shadow?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

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

[–] sus 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This radio adaptation of Nightfall may interest you. X minus one https://youtu.be/B-2CABQUfFQ

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Is this an oil painting of Wendigoon?