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> especially as they often tend to approach during the daytime when visibility is low due to the Sun's glare. I would really like to sit down with the journali
by unanswered 5y ago
> especially as they often tend to approach during the daytime when visibility is low due to the Sun's glare.
I would really like to sit down with the journalist and find out how they think night and day works. This sentence fragment displays potentially multiple shocking misconceptions.
- kqr 5y agoIsn't it true that you see space better at night due to lack of sun, though?
- unanswered 5y agoThat is a true statement... which doesn't matter one jot when talking about objects coming from the direction of the sun.
- kqr 5y agoSure it does: things coming from the direction of the sun are occluded by our dear planet at night! So we have to see them at day.
- acheron 5y agoNobody goes to journalism school because they were good at science (or math).
- s1artibartfast 5y agoAn object coming from the direction of the sun will be perpetually on the day side of the Earth, despite the Earths daily rotation around its axis.
- unanswered 5y agoYes, that is one problem: > as they often tend to approach during the daytime I mean, yes this is technically true, as things which must by definition be approaching the daytime side of the earth "often tend" to approach that way. But the phrasing indicates the article author is not aware of this relationship. The other problem is that "during the daytime" is a meaningless concept when referring to the whole earth.