2725: "Sunspot Cycle"

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2725: "Sunspot Cycle"

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Title text: Who can forget the early 2010s memes? 'You know you're a 90s kid if you remember the feeling of warm sunlight on your face.' 'Only 90s kids remember the dawn.'

Some teenagers in the early 2010s, too young to have clear memories of the sun, start spreading the idea that the sun is just a myth and their parents are idiots for believing in it. "If there was a big ball like that in the sky, we'd be able to see it!"
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Re: 2725: "Sunspot Cycle"

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Aren't sunspots still thousands of degrees? So the "dark" sun would still be visible?
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That's your problem with this? :P
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Re: 2725: "Sunspot Cycle"

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The sun being a legend reminds me a bit of that Asimov story set on a planet with five suns, which experiences night only once every couple thousand years.
ratammer wrote: Thu Jan 19, 2023 9:43 pm That's your problem with this? :P
Amusingly enough I also looked up how hot and bright sunspots actually are after seeing the comic
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A single isolated sunspot would be brighter than the Moon
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