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[–] [email protected] 41 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

don't fuck me up like this

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 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.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] merde 23 points 10 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 👇

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not exactly. Comes out scrambled as Hawking radiation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Mega (or just big boii) quantum encryption devices

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Of course, but none known.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

We are like inverse cockroaches.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's even in the Bible. Checkmate atheists.

[–] merde 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

care to elaborate?

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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 1 points 10 months ago
[–] Ladrius 6 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Wait.... whhhhaa?

Oh!