> Norway > Sunlight pick one
In summer you can only pick both options.
July 8 99% of the world’s population in sunlight simultaneously?
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#12Australia has less than 1% of the world population? Edit: yep, around 0.3%
Yes. 7 billion people => 7000 Million. 1% of that, 70 Million. Population of australia, 25.7 Million people. So not only less than 1%, less than 0.5%
Holy crap, Australia has approximately the same population as New York City. That's nearly an order of magnitude less than I would have guessed. I had no idea!
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#13Wow, what a fun statistic! Even if it's pushing the common definition of "sunlight" quite a bit.
Also makes me wonder what fraction of the world population is awake at a given time, and what that fraction looks like plotted against 24 hours of the day.
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#14Wow, what a fun statistic! Even if it's pushing the common definition of "sunlight" quite a bit. Also makes me wonder what fraction of the world population is awake at a given time, and what that fraction looks like plotted against 24 hours of the day.
A practical issue- if you have a world-distributed workforce or an international news agency, what's the best geographical location for the headquarters?
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#15Seems related to the fact that you can draw a surprisingly-small circle over part of Asia and have more people inside the circle, than out. Human geography is very uneven.
I believe you are referring to the Valeriepieris circle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeriepieris_circle#/media/Fi...
Re: July 8 99% of the world’s population in sunlight simultaneously?
#16Seems related to the fact that you can draw a surprisingly-small circle over part of Asia and have more people inside the circle, than out. Human geography is very uneven.
Lots of things on Earth are unevenly distributed. Mineral deposits, water, fertile land, mild climates…
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#17> Norway > Sunlight pick one
Norway is very sunny in summer. You can see the midnight sun in the north but even in the south it’s enough light to be outside all the time around June.
In the extreme north it’s worse: “ In Svalbard, Norway, the northernmost inhabited region of Europe, there is no sunset from approximately 19 April to 23 August.”
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes. 7 billion people => 7000 Million. 1% of that, 70 Million. Population of australia, 25.7 Million people. So not only less than 1%, less than 0.5%
Holy crap, Australia has approximately the same population as New York City. That's nearly an order of magnitude less than I would have guessed. I had no idea!
I'm pretty sure NYC has a population of like 7 or 8 million, about a third of Australias.
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#19Wow, what a fun statistic! Even if it's pushing the common definition of "sunlight" quite a bit. Also makes me wonder what fraction of the world population is awake at a given time, and what that fraction looks like plotted against 24 hours of the day.
A practical issue- if you have a world-distributed workforce or an international news agency, what's the best geographical location for the headquarters?
Are we channeling through internet cabling or magical straight lines?
Re: July 8 99% of the world’s population in sunlight simultaneously?
#20Wow, what a fun statistic! Even if it's pushing the common definition of "sunlight" quite a bit. Also makes me wonder what fraction of the world population is awake at a given time, and what that fraction looks like plotted against 24 hours of the day.
A practical issue- if you have a world-distributed workforce or an international news agency, what's the best geographical location for the headquarters?
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