JollyOrc
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That's Australia. We don't go there.
Mar 12, 2025 11:22 AM
JollyOrc
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That's Australia. We don't go there.
thisistheusernamethatneverendss
F**** Oceania Dat
Mickstah
As an Australian, call it winters night?
JustATemp123
We should call it the "Fuck you in particular, Australia" day
Zetor
That's beyond our borders. You must never go there.
JadeNB1729
All these worlds are yours except Australia. Attempt no landing there.
strakkykkarts
Antiantipodean day
chinesemario
It'd be funny if it was on ANZAC day
LongCommentChainAppreciator
Eat shit Down Under day
LongCommentChainAppreciator
wait
weave
5 days early for aphelion, when the sun is farthest from the earth
MagmaCarta
Brought to you by Day Man (ahhhhh!)
Neanderthalersutopiaphilandrousanteatersotherbrother
Fighter of the Night Man (aaaaah)
Legendary episode
springer57
Champion of the Sun
Anonsbedroom
They should should close my firm down that day
badgesweedontneednostinkingbadges
Interesting that it's 2-1/2 weeks after the summer solstice. One would expect it to be closer.
tetondons
It's like internet memes aren't a good source for science. The Earth is in the exact same alignment 2-1/2 weeks before the solstice as well.
badgesweedontneednostinkingbadges
I call them turn-around days. Dec. 11th is the day the sun sets earliest, and Jan. 6 or 7 is the latest sunrise, while the actual solstice is Dec. 21st. A similar offset to earliest sunrise and latest sunset occurs around the summer solstice.
tetondons
Yeah, but those things don't apply here. This is when the most amount of sunlight falls on the most number of people. If it happened x days before the solstice, it would happen x days after. The phenomenon you're referring to would also mean the time of day that this would happen would be earlier on one side of the solstice, and later on the other.
TresusIbor
Australia is basically Mordor...
skooterLaughin
Fuck. That makes me an ork.
JadeNB1729
One does not simply walk into Australia.
Kittensandyarns
• Huge spiders ✅️
• Creatures that want to kill you ✅️
• Scorching heat at the centre ✅️
• Lots of fire ✅️
• Large monolith ✅️
I think you're right. But who is the evil lord who wants everyone to bow to his power?
mastikator
• War with birds and loses ✅️
• Knifey spoony ✅️
spittytrinkles
Murdoch.
ElbowDeepInAHeadlessHorseman
Hmmm, since there's so much sunlight visible, maybe it could be called Sunday?
FalconKeeperScallywag
July 8th is my birthday so I vote Steve Day
LordHosk
ALL HAIL STEVEN! THE LIGHT BRINGER!
skooterLaughin
I, also, vote Steve's Day.
majorPUFFEN2
So my birthday is gonna be a bright , bright sunshiny day
Frothington
Ooh, Tasmania & New Zealand on a world map. Gratz guys.
cousteau
Glad to finally see them not being left in the dark! No wait
ClessAurion
The SURELY won't complain now for getting left out now or something... right?
geotard
One day we will cut the rope that holds Tasmania, and place bets on where it will float to.
DJOldguy
Literally, I never saw a map of Australia with Tasmania on it before I went to Aust. I mentioned that and one wag told me that it was a floating island, floated between Aust and New Zealand which is why they don't put it on maps. Tectonic movement he said, and it was only the laugh he got from other Aussies that wrecked the punchline.
Quixus
Isn't that the norm? I cant remember ever seeing a world map missing the two.
AllTheKitties
It's a whole thing...
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapsWithoutN">utNZ/">https://www.reddit.com/r/MapsWithoutNZ/
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapsWithoutTasmania
Quixus
TIL
Kiares
Huh never noticed that before.
KiwiGameDev
ITS VERY COMMON
AgamemnonsMemes
Found the kiwi
busterfixxitt
You mean 'Solaristide'? I thought everyone already celebrated that.
witheredspoon
I suppose there is a 99% of world is in darkness day too.
Thorketil
/gallery/bGUKC2N/comment/2448392567
irrational1618
Well, at least New Zealand is on the map and wasn't kept in the dark.
UprootedGrunt
It should be noted that "experiencing daylight" means *any* light at all reaching the ground through diffraction. To those outer bands of shadow, it would still be pretty dark (California, for example, would just be beginning to lighten up, at 4:15 AM).
AmyBethMegJo
It counts!
mrputter
Agreed. That second-darkest band refers to "astronomical twilight" - here's a quick and dirty example pulled from the web depicting what that refers to:
Kittenman15
And New Zealand dude. We're on that map .. sometimes
KiwiGameDev
Sometimes friend, sometimes
grumblepug
Fuck Australia Day. We do all the fun Summer things Australians can’t because they’re asleep and it’s their winter. It’s more a celebration of Australia than a condemnation.
SalmonTheWise
Shouldn't it be Fark Straya D'y or something?
Morg729
And that's why Australia is the place where the sun don't shine
dghughes
I should have known I wouldn't be the first to suggest this lmao
naught101
As an Australian, sounds good. Fuck you cunts too.
turokmaktor
There you go again, leaving New Zealand out in the caption. I am offended.
KiwiGameDev
As you should be! We ride at dawn!…. When everyone else is asleep
TiredGoodnight
It's my fuckin birthday, which is perfect as I'm a Goth in Australia.. Wo o.
paynoattentiontousernames
Seems like a good place to send prisoners.
TehGuard
To the shadow realm?
C141Clay
PerthAussieMike
*cough* not just to Australia... https://gizmodo.com/britain-sent-thousands-of-its-convicts-to-america-not-1707458418
WienerBeener
Legend has it, they're still locked up to this day.
casualgenderquestion2718
Oh god don’t even say it, the next conspiracy theory in the pipe will be “mass incarceration isn’t real the numbers are inflated with dead prisoners”
supervillin
"Look, we've got people that have been incarcerated for 150 years, and they're still receiving Social Security..."
ZAPZAPMOTHAFUCKA
Not just Britain either. France gave convicts a pardon and passeage to New Orleans under the condition that they marry a prostitute and settle down.
Drakhma
Australia be like:
LooseEelBall
Sunday
WolfClickQueen
What day is Sunday on this year? It's such a great question. Do it!
Br1337
This comment deserves more likes
Sanzanna
That's the 8th of june sadly
LeSethX
Name a day after the Sun? Sounds to pagan to catch on
SoniqueTui
But it's a tuesday
JohnEdwa
Wednesday for the vast majority of the world population. Only something like 15% live west of UTC.
ImNotActuallyEvilAfterAll
The most sunnest day
mikeatike
Its always Sunday somewhere.
CmdrBash
"International Sunday"
DrLOAC
Even the demons don’t go to Australia in Doom Eternal.
randomwalrus
It is a very very very long and boring/tedious flight. Even demons know that flights that long count as time travel, and are illegal.
TommyCreo
Mick Gordon, the composer of the soundtrack, is Australian. Coincidence? I think not!
FallingStar7669
Hell: "Everything here wants to kill you." Australia: "Same. Ain't it a beauty?" Hell: "..." *backs away slowly*
Mikeiller
https://imgur.com/ypobuAz
3Davideo
Damn they REALLY committed to Greenland
MrRobSteel
I mean they tried. The Emus got them.
umbrellamaker
last I checked the cassuaries were already there
lospaturno
Doom guy: "This is a sword"
Dundee: "That's not a swoard. This' a swoard" *produces large knife*
kaoticone
A portal shimmered in the humid air above Brisbane’s streets, crackling with energy as a hulking demon stepped through. It stretched its wings, threw back its head, and howled at the darkening sky—only to slap its neck with a snarl. It pulled its claw back, eyeing the squashed mosquito in disgust. A low growl rumbled in its chest. From the shadowed bushes, something growled back. The demon tensed, but before it could react, a voice echoed through the humid night.
“Ain’t she a beaut!”
Chronomechanist
Go there? I figured they were FROM there. Demons are terrifying creatures that desperately want to kill you. Certainly sounds Australian...
OnlyOneArman
"Go there? We just escaped!"
DigiT00l
Surprised they avoid some high population densities
Kittynomnoms
I kinda feel like the demons are less tactical and more just "hell portals erupt around the planet until demons kill everything"
mastikator
Is there a corollary date where ONLY Australia gets sunlight?
StinySmuggler
Not really. The only reason daylight gets enough coverage to reach 99% is because it is including twilight (sun below horizon but getting some light), so a good bit more of the globe is lit than unlit.
RufusPimperton
The corollary date would bathe antarctica in sunlight
ConfederacyOfDunces
Will 6 months later is December 8. I wonder if that actually happens, though.
mastikator
I imagine you just switch the light and dark areas on the map and you'd get an accurate picture. The earth tilts and faces opposite.
mrputter
You might think so, except: no. It doesn't work like that. Because of the way the light from the Sun interacts with ("bends around") the curvature of the Earth, there will always be more light across the planet than dark. So the opposite time of year (Jan 8 @ 23:15 UTC) still has quite a few non-Australian places experiencing daylight:
JadeNB1729
New conspiracy theory: December 8 doesn't happen.
mrputter
*cough* 𝘑𝘢𝘯𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘺 8, not December.
But anyway: no it doesn't really work like that. Because of the way light from the Sun interacts with the curvature of the Earth, there will always be more light than dark. So the opposite time of year (Jan 8 @ 23:15 UTC) still has quite a few non-Australian places experiencing daylight:
ConfederacyOfDunces
I read the original post as June but it's July. Good catch.
ConfederacyOfDunces
What tool are you using?
mrputter
timeanddate.com, as it says in the screenshot 😁
LordHosk
To get the most people in darkness you want to go earlier, where it hits china and indonisia, you are still only going to get like 75%ish though without the Americas but if you get Eurasia and Africa you get a good chunk of the worlds population.
mrputter
Yep, 100% agreed.
(I was actually playing around with it, trying different dates and totaling up the population figures... but the amount of work involved in adding up the various countries' states/provinces across multiple dates was exploding rapidly, and I eventually threw in the towel. I might still do it for my own curiosity and make a separate post, but that will probably take a day or two. You're absolutely right, though. 👍)
mrputter
Sorry: trying different dates 𝘢𝘯𝘥 times of day, attempting to find a sweet spot.
Half my problem is I was just doing it manually, on a spreadsheet. If I end up doing it properly I'll throw it into a database so I can just do data entry once and use SQL to do the math. I'll probably also copy/paste/georeference the screenshots into a GIS program (e.g.: with PostGIS for the DB) so I don't have to squint at the images to figure out which regions are included by eyesight.
J3lek
Day Day
cousteau
What about 8th January?
lostlittletimeonthis
Sun day ? Oh wait
upvoteFLUFFYthings
beemarr
I second this.
0xBADA55
I Tertius
micuu
I am Groot
EdgarSheckler
I want to break free
HandoB4Javert
The dark place
ImmaCatImmaSexyCat
Godammit, Moon Moon!
Poppypoppoppop
Day²
SeeMyVests
jbrightmans
July 8th
JadeNB1729
It was the day of days, it was the day of days.
MiHaleEsSuHale
a Ah Ah, fighter of the night night
kimst
The Day
ravenous52
I mean it's accurate
wisher1977
Looks like Australia is being kept in the dark on this event...
dragonsnot
On Day day we day drink and nap nap
bewareofgoose
Let it be known! And so it was written. Saving this in my calendar to repost on Day Day
Gabiscuiti
youreathing
"That crazy bitch out there ageeaain!"
MaybeTechishPerson
Why y'all just standing there looking and shit, DO SOMETHING
MrSilverDragon
Ok, that made me giggle. +1 for you.
Affray
Donoiw
RufusPimperton
Fighter of the Night Day
FrankensteinsMonstersSweatyBallBag
I came to type this exact sentence. Mad but proud +1
imminentloudness
oooaaaahaaaaa
TurkishMassageOwl
Champion of the Sun!
MiHaleEsSuHale
Hes a master of karate and friendship for every one.
Darjanator
What about night night? *yaaaaaaaaaawn*
Polymathena
Underrated +1
somethingstupidandclever
Champion of the sun
TheMostKink
Master of Australia
somethingstupidandclever
And friendship!
solutionorppt
For everyone!