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When does the mega sunspot or whatever hafta fire a large mass ejection at us, and how strong would it have to be, to cook most of humanity?
To cook our power grid, small enough to be surprisingly common: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_solar_storms
When does the mega sunspot or whatever hafta fire a large mass ejection at us, and how strong would it have to be, to cook most of humanity?
It would be like you stepping outside and shooting a bullet in a random direction a few times a day, with Earth being a golf ball miles away.
The golf ball would be destroyed by a bullet. But your odds of hitting it are very low.
Of course, over time the odds become an inevitability.
Seems 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... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeriepieris_circle
> 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.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_sun
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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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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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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 tend to think of Australia as pretty similar (if literally polar opposite) to Canada. Similar population and standard of living on a similarly large but largely inhospitable landmass.
When does the mega sunspot or whatever hafta fire a large mass ejection at us, and how strong would it have to be, to cook most of humanity?
The sun fires multiple ejections a day big enough to cook us. They just all miss. It would be like you stepping outside and shooting a bullet in a random direction a few times a day, with Earth being a golf ball miles away. The golf ball would be destroyed by a bullet. But your odds of hitting it are very low. Of course, over time the odds become an inevitability.
Seems 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…
Wow, 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.
Some quick guesses:
- the most people are awake at around 14:00 UTC. That's 23:00 in Japan (the easternmost big population, at UTC+9 - sorry eastern Australia!) and 6:00 PST/7:00 PDT; most people who would be sleeping are in the Pacific.
- the most people are asleep at about 22:00 UTC - that's 23:00/00:00 in Western Europe (depending on the season) and 06:00 in China, so you get those two big population centers (and India in between them) sleeping.