Why Does the Sun Light up the Earth but Leaves Space

[posthuman]

ever heard of Mt. Rainier?



i can readily accept that you don't know how light works - but you do know how shadows work, right?

 

[posthuman]

the following is not my writing; it is reposted from this source:

https://www.metabunk.org/explained-why-clouds-appear-behind-the-sun-and-moon.t7084/





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Sometimes clouds appear to be behind the sun or the moon in photos and videos, like the example above (source). This confuses people, as the sun is 93 million miles away, so it's impossible for clouds to be behind it. Some people take this as evidence that reality is an illusion, or the Earth is flat. But what's really going on here?

Basically the sun is really really bright. So bright that in most photos and videos it just appears as something at the maximum brightness the camera can handle, so just appears as flat white. If there's something in front of it that's transparent enough to let though a lot of the sunlight, then that bit will be less bright, but still higher than the maximum brightness the camera can handle. So the camera will still see it as the same as the rest of the sun, bright white. This creates the illusion that partially transparent objects go behind the sun.

The upper cloud that goes "behind" the sun is transparent, so the sun shines through it.

The middle and lower clouds are less transparent, so they partially block the sunlight enough to fall below the maximum brightness the camera can handle, hence they are visible, and seem to go in front (which is what all the clouds are really doing)

In the above image, the power lines are not transparent. But because they are out of focus, that has the same effect (thin out of focus objects are effectively transparent blurs)

Here is a simulation of this I just did, a work light behind a sheet of cardboard, and a hole covered in paper representing the sun. The old negatives represent clouds, and the antenna represents power lines, etc.

Firstly with the "sun" off.

Now with the "sun" on. The exact same exposure is used in both shots.

The "clouds" (partially transparent film strips) look like they go behind the sun.

Zoomed in, the cloud still goes "behind" the sun. The antenna also seems to go behind (although less so, almost looking like it's piercing the sun.

Then with thicker clouds, they are now in front of the sun.

The antenna will appear in front of the sun if it's in focus. This is because, unlike the clouds, it is totally opaque - light cannot go through it, only "around" it, which happens when it's out of focus.

Here's a really simple version of the experiment that anyone can do, you need:

• A darkish room
• A single sheet of white paper
• Three inches or so of Scotch "magic finish" tape, or similar thin semi-transparent non-shiny material
• A bright light
• Some dark background

Put the tape on the side of the paper, so it's half on, and half off. View it against the dark background. Notice the tape is highly visible against the dark background.

Put the light behind the paper. Notice the tape over the paper vanishes, but is still highly visible over the dark background. It appears like it is going behind the paper

This is not a camera effect. This is exactly how it looked to my eyes.
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[posthuman]

there you go, Del.

your claim about clouds behind the sun & moon answered & rejected in detail with pictorial examples just in case words are hard.

you can thank this guy:



who authored the original post that i tracked down for you and put above.

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now answer my question. that's fair, right?
you've been lurking in this thread for at least 4 hours. giving my question for you some serious thought, i hope . . ?

 

[mcubed]

You know the question was not about light but why the sun did not light up "space" well the sun is only just a star in our little galaxy. and only a small star, yellow dwarf. Of course it does not light up space! G-d never said light stop so there just keeps being universe after universe... But how cool (all pun intended) that this small, yet vast star lights us keeps us perfect temp for life and has enough vitamin E to sustain us!!!! I mean who can beat vitamine E how cool or hot is or light or shadows or what ever is that....

 

[posthuman]

I have nothing new to say.
The world is so terribly big, it keeps spinning and shaking
loose all my constants and making
me see that the sun has been burning
too long to have not shed its light in every direction.

All I know is
that beautiful in me is You...
beautiful in me is You.

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- My Epic, "Author"
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wide is the way that leads to destruction -- as all that blackness
narrow is the gate that leads to life -- as the great light which rules the day

 

[posthuman]

how . . . ?

 

[Zmouth]

Here is one of many pictures of clouds behind the sun.

Here is one of many pictures of clouds behind the moon.

LOL, you're serious too aren't you....

 

[IamWhoIam]

LOL, you're serious too aren't you....

Yea I think he is lol, I don't think he gets looking at 2D images in that looking at them doesn't actually create a 3D perspective of the real thing.

 

[maxwel]

if you take a ball and a flashlight and go out in a dark empty field at night and then turn on the flashlight and shine it on the ball, the only thing that will light up is the ball. Everything else remains black because theres nothing there to reflect the light (unless there is a mist in the air which will light up the beam of the flashlight, but there is no mist in space).

It sounds like you spend a lot of time alone at night in big empty fields playing ball by yourself.

That makes my heart hurt for you.

We all like you... we're going to pray that God sends you a friend to play ball with.



Don't be sad... even when nobody will play with you... Jesus still loves you.