• Deconceptualist
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    11 months ago

    It’s more like a ball of nonstop nuclear lightning than anything we’ve personally ever experienced as “fire”, if that helps.

  • @letsgo@lemm.ee
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    3211 months ago

    People think the speed of light is fast, but darkness is faster. Wherever light goes, it finds darkness got there first.

    -source not sure, Pratchett probably? If not him then Adams.

  • @Siethron@lemmy.world
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    2811 months ago

    Light permeates most of the universe (everywhere that’s not a black hole) You can see light from just about anywhere.

    • merde alors
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      2311 months ago

      “Daytime is also atmosphere on Earth though. If you were on the moon in broad daylight the sky would still be dark.”

      source 👇

    • littleblue✨
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      11 months ago

      And yet, you can not see light in far more places. In fact, 99.9999999%… of all atoms across the whole of reality are, at any given moment, not connected to or part of an entity capable of sight.

      Light is the aberration.

  • kubica
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    2711 months ago

    Each day is like a very slow “weeeeee” seeing the sun pass.

  • @Underwaterbob@lemm.ee
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    1811 months ago

    “Night” and “day” were really only ever intended to be used on a planet. They kinda lose meaning in space.

  • @Gork@lemm.ee
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    1811 months ago

    Isn’t it weird to people that black holes exist? They’re holes in the fabric of reality itself. Stuff just goes in and is lost forever.

  • @WhereGrapesMayRule@lemmy.world
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    1111 months ago

    You merely adopted the dark. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn’t see the light until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but blinding!

  • @GBU_28@lemm.ee
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    911 months ago

    Speaking of, fire (the way we are familiar with it) only really happens on earth.

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        311 months ago

        Oxygen, and some ongoing process to generate complex molecules to be oxidized - you need something to reduce the things that have already been burnt back into new molecules that can burn, otherwise you run out of stuff pretty quickly

      • @HopFlop@discuss.tchncs.de
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        311 months ago

        Thats irrelevant because darkness ≠ night. Night and day are both defined based on local observations (between sunset and sunrise).

        :D

        • littleblue✨
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          111 months ago

          Inaccurate. For example, a location on the perpetually-dark side of an object is shrouded in “night”, whereas the opposite side is always “daytime”. The argument there is simply: does day/night depend on axial rotation of said object, or does it include the personal transit of a viewer across the boundary and thus cause the rising/setting of the dominant light source by that alone?

          Regardless, darkness is the default state of the known universe.

    • littleblue✨
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      211 months ago

      Both a statement and a question, and multiples of each, depending on where the missing punctuation goes.

  • @query@lemmy.world
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    -211 months ago

    Or you could say night is the anomaly, because most places in the universe are stars.

    Nighttime is absence. You could say most of the universe is absence, but most matter is stars.