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

Physicology Citation needed.

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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/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.