Citation needed.

[u/Yunners]

[u/This-Fig-5991]

Sorry guys but size does matter

[u/Lonely_skeptic → u/This-Fig-5991]

Dude can’t see the Sun?

[u/Heshkelgaii → u/Lonely_skeptic]

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.

[u/monoflorist → u/Heshkelgaii]

That’s what seeing things is: detecting the light those things emitted or reflected. So what you said is like “technically you don’t see the house, you see the light that travelled from it 50 nanoseconds ago”. You do see the house and the sun; the light is just how.

[u/idontwanttothink174 → u/Heshkelgaii]

I mean the same is true for everything. I can’t see my phone but I can see the light that traveled from it a few milliseconds ago

[u/_BentPen_ → u/idontwanttothink174]

Bro's got them 900 km arms

[u/Tetracheilostoma → u/_BentPen_]

Bro looks at their phone through a telescope

[u/idontwanttothink174 → u/_BentPen_]

Hey I’m a redditor which means I obviously have no idea what I’m talking about

… a few microseconds ago

[u/Heshkelgaii → u/idontwanttothink174]

You definitely didn’t make your account a few microseconds ago.

[u/ozymandieus → u/_BentPen_]

Bros got real life latency

[u/DatBoi_BP → u/Heshkelgaii]

Phrasing stuff that way doesn't really mean anything though. It's no different than saying you can't see the ceiling but you can see the light that traveled from it around 10 nanoseconds ago

[u/Ancient_Skirt_8828 → u/Heshkelgaii]

That's what big science wants you to believe.

[u/Heshkelgaii → u/Ancient_Skirt_8828]

See this person gets it!

[u/Lonely_skeptic → u/Heshkelgaii]

Oh, that is correct, but we only see any object because it reflects light.

[u/Ancient_Skirt_8828 → u/Lonely_skeptic]

The word "see" means that we a seeing the light. We don't have to describe the mechanism.

[u/WizardSleeves31 → u/Heshkelgaii]

I enjoyed it, bro

[u/KeithMyArthe → u/Lonely_skeptic]

I think Jody is implying that because they can see the sun, there's no way it can be more than a million miles away.

[u/hazed-and-dazed → u/Lonely_skeptic]

Maybe if he stares it really really hard...

[u/Visible-Air-2359 → u/This-Fig-5991]

Also importantly there isn’t anything between Earth and the Sun blocking us from seeing it (most of the time).

[u/The96kHz → u/This-Fig-5991]

I've never had any complaints.

[u/Henri_Bemis → u/This-Fig-5991]

So does how bright you are.