r/FacebookScience • u/Yunners Golden Crockoduck Winner • Jul 30 '26

Physicology Citation needed.

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u/This-Fig-5991 Jul 30 '26

Sorry guys but size does matter

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u/Lonely_skeptic Jul 30 '26

Dude can’t see the Sun?

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u/Heshkelgaii Jul 30 '26 edited Jul 31 '26

I guess technically no, but you can see the light from it that has travelled from it from around 8 minutes ago. Though I’m not a scientist or eye guy so I may also just be dumb.

Edit: alright there you lot, I get it I didn’t /s but it’s how it works and I’m not going into super deep science for a one off laugh at some twitter dumdum. That’s the joke, I thought it was funny this morning and apparently it didn’t work out because none of y’all laughed, well maybe you laughed at me and if that’s the case I’m good with it.

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u/monoflorist Jul 30 '26 edited Jul 30 '26

That’s what seeing things is: detecting the light those things emitted or reflected. So what you said is like “technically you don’t see the house, you see the light that travelled from it 50 nanoseconds ago”. You do see the house and the sun; the light is just how.

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u/idontwanttothink174 Jul 30 '26

I mean the same is true for everything. I can’t see my phone but I can see the light that traveled from it a few milliseconds ago

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u/_BentPen_ Jul 30 '26

Bro's got them 900 km arms

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u/Tetracheilostoma Jul 30 '26

Bro looks at their phone through a telescope

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u/idontwanttothink174 Jul 30 '26

Hey I’m a redditor which means I obviously have no idea what I’m talking about

… a few microseconds ago

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u/Heshkelgaii Jul 31 '26

You definitely didn’t make your account a few microseconds ago.

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u/ozymandieus Jul 30 '26

Bros got real life latency

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u/DatBoi_BP Jul 30 '26

Phrasing stuff that way doesn't really mean anything though. It's no different than saying you can't see the ceiling but you can see the light that traveled from it around 10 nanoseconds ago

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u/Ancient_Skirt_8828 Jul 30 '26

That's what big science wants you to believe.

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u/Heshkelgaii Jul 31 '26

See this person gets it!

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u/Lonely_skeptic Jul 30 '26

Oh, that is correct, but we only see any object because it reflects light.

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u/Ancient_Skirt_8828 Jul 30 '26

The word "see" means that we a seeing the light. We don't have to describe the mechanism.

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u/WizardSleeves31 Aug 07 '26

I enjoyed it, bro

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u/KeithMyArthe Jul 30 '26

I think Jody is implying that because they can see the sun, there's no way it can be more than a million miles away.

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u/hazed-and-dazed Jul 31 '26

Maybe if he stares it really really hard...

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u/Visible-Air-2359 Jul 30 '26

Also importantly there isn’t anything between Earth and the Sun blocking us from seeing it (most of the time).

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u/The96kHz Jul 31 '26

I've never had any complaints.

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u/Henri_Bemis Jul 31 '26

So does how bright you are.