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Day is the anomaly (startrek.website)
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[-] Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 40 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 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 31 points 9 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.

[-] fogstormberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 9 months ago

don't fuck me up like this

[-] PixellatedDave@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Yeah it was Pratchett. Guess I will be re-reading that one next. I have just re-read all the Night Watch and Witches.

[-] kubica@kbin.social 26 points 9 months ago

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

[-] Siethron@lemmy.world 24 points 9 months ago

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

[-] merde@sh.itjust.works 23 points 9 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 👇

[-] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

For now. Eventually entropy will win and the darkness will be complete

[-] littlebluespark@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 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.

[-] Gork@lemm.ee 18 points 9 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.

[-] prole@sh.itjust.works 20 points 9 months ago

Not exactly. Comes out scrambled as Hawking radiation.

[-] portside@monyet.cc 3 points 9 months ago

Mega (or just big boii) quantum encryption devices

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

It is possible that every black hole is an entire universe, and we're inside of one right now.

https://www.discovery.com/science/Universe-Inside-Every-Black-Hole

[-] littlebluespark@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

Don't fuck them up like that.

[-] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 17 points 9 months ago

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

[-] WhereGrapesMayRule@lemmy.world 11 points 9 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!

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 2 points 9 months ago
[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 9 points 9 months ago

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

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

And any of the other infinite number of unknown planets with an atmosphere containing adequate oxygen.

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 8 points 9 months ago

Of course, but none known.

[-] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 3 points 9 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

[-] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

If there is no day where you are then there is no night either.

[-] littlebluespark@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago

False. Day is a causality. Darkness is the universal default state.

[-] HopFlop@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 9 months ago

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

:D

[-] littlebluespark@lemmy.world 1 points 9 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.

[-] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Darkness and night aren't the same thing

[-] littlebluespark@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

You are correct, and that was not the point I made. See above.

[-] Iapar@feddit.de 6 points 9 months ago

We are like inverse cockroaches.

[-] Jerkface@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Do you suppose cockroaches think of us as day-dwelling scum?

[-] littlebluespark@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

They don't think of us at all.

[-] Iapar@feddit.de 1 points 9 months ago

I suppose cockroaches think of us as something to exploit. So, yes.

[-] wellee@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago
[-] littlebluespark@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

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

[-] EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website 2 points 9 months ago

It's even in the Bible. Checkmate atheists.

[-] merde@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

care to elaborate?

i can't understand your way of thinking and i would like to do so

[-] Ladrius@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 months ago

The joke is "God said 'Let there be light.'" Ergo, darkness is the default.

[-] EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website 5 points 9 months ago

Was meant as a joke, but the Bible starts with “and God said let there be light” pretty early on.

It’s after creating the earth, so maybe not 100% accurate.

[-] merde@sh.itjust.works 0 points 9 months ago
[-] query@lemmy.world -1 points 9 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.

[-] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago

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

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