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Is that "most of the world's population" in the same sense as "Mohammed is the most common name?"
Well, is it?
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Re: July 8 99% of the world’s population in sunlight simultaneously?
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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
Well, I clearly live in Norway having given that example. It was a joke about the current weather situation in North (but not extreme North) as it is one of the more timid Summers in recent years.
(Sweden here). In those times of climate change, I find having a timid summer reassuring. I know this isn't rational at all, but it gives me a tiny bit of hope.
Re: July 8 99% of the world’s population in sunlight simultaneously?
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Depends where you draw the line. The 5 boroughs alone is about 8M, but the broader metropolitan area is something like 20. (And even beyond that it's still pretty densely populated compared to most places.)
The broader metropolitan is not usually what people consider as NYC. New York state maybe
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The article points out that it will be astronomical twilight, which most people aren't able to notice visually: > This is especially true for those who reside on the outermost edge of the twilight zones, within the darkest twilight phase called astronomical twilight. Here, the Sun is 12-18 degrees below the horizon. At that angle, the indirect sunlight becomes so thin that it is usually indiscernible to the naked eye…
In the interest of cranking up the pedant-o-matic machine: (1) If astronomical twilight and other indirect sunlight counts, then moonlight counts doubly so! (2) If indirect and thus spatially separated sunlight counts, then temporally removed sunlight, in the form of airglow, should count as well!
(3) Starlink will also become a factor or heck, any of the planets visable in the sky as well.
Given that, the caviet of direct and indirect sunlight is a huge factor not quantified.
Re: July 8 99% of the world’s population in sunlight simultaneously?
#105Seems 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.
Probably more related to the fact that if you look at the globe from above the Pacific, you see mostly water: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Globe_-_Pacific_Ocea...
Handy to know if ever challanged to draw a picture of earth as seen from space.
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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
Yep, that's the one. Ballpark 7% of the Earth's surface, or 15% of the land-surface area (guesstimate based on the whole circle being about 22% of the land surface area—but much of the circle is over water). Over 50% of the population.
One of the claims of the circle was that over half of it was water. So then your guesstimate can be lowered to less than 11% of land surface area.
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London has long benefitted from its position allowing its working day overlapping everywhere from the US West coast to Japan, even if barely at those extremes. Most of the world's population lies between UTC-5 and UTC+5 I believe.
Most of the world's population lives inside the Valeriepieris circle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeriepieris_circle which is covered by the time zones UTC+5 through UTC+8. So if you want to be as close as possible to as many people as possible, somewhere in Myanmar would be a better choice than London. Of course the calculus changes if you also consider how much money each of these people has access to.
It's probably one reason why Singapore is a popular location for multinationals to have an office.
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
Most of the world's population lives inside the Valeriepieris circle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeriepieris_circle which is covered by the time zones UTC+5 through UTC+8. So if you want to be as close as possible to as many people as possible, somewhere in Myanmar would be a better choice than London. Of course the calculus changes if you also consider how much money each of these people has access to.
Most means "almost all". Your link says about 50%.
Looks like most people disagree. ;)
Re: July 8 99% of the world’s population in sunlight simultaneously?
#109A proxy for: the Pacific Ocean is really big.
Re: July 8 99% of the world’s population in sunlight simultaneously?
#110Wow, 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?
Seconding the UK. I live in Edinburgh (Scotland) and I can meet with people from west coast US as far as China with very minor adjustments to my working day. I have natural half day overlaps with east coast US, and most of my day overlaps with major outsourcing locations (except the phillipines, but can be managed with a 1 hour adjustment)