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[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

But not by much longer. People on the other side of the world or connected to satellites monitoring sunspots would notice pretty much immediately after the light ceases to reach the earth and would tell everyone else over the internet

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And even if you're not connected at the moment, the moon will go dark.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Good one! If the moon wasn't visible at the time and you were just sitting outside say at midnight, I wonder if you would notice anything different.

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

It would turn pitch black. So dark the stars far away would be the brightest when compared to everything else. It would be scary.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

According to astronomers the sun doesn't have a measurable effect on the night sky when it's more than 18 degrees below the horizon. So I doubt naked-eye observers would notice.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Certainly not with all the light pollution.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

yeah but everybody else would be sleeping so it would still take longer

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Most of us sleep at night and don't check our info-hose feeds until we wake up.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What's sleep?

looks at time that says 23:27

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Sleep is for people who don't know how to write code!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Only if you believe in magic box or “radio”

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

No dude, it's only a difference of 1.3 seconds, faster then the Internet unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

the other side of the world wouldn't notice there suddenly being no light anymore if there wasn't light in the first place.

they would notice that the moon disappeared though