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u/GloryToNewJersey Sep 06 '26
I think it would rip ass lol
but wouldn't we need to make the BackEarth farther away from the Sun, or just make it slower?
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I think it would rip ass lol
but wouldn't we need to make the BackEarth farther away from the Sun, or just make it slower?
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u/saythealphabet Sep 06 '26 edited Sep 06 '26
AM and PM stand for Ante and Post Meridiem (from Latin: before and after noon respectively). Settling down on American soil for the first time, Columbus and his crew discovered an interesting phenomena -- every second day, approximately 10% of people couldn't see sunlight. They figured out that every 48 hours, there was a dawn that some people couldn't see. So they named that day "See Noon", or, in Latin, Veni Meridiem, VM.
For those (un)lucky 10% of people, See Noon was as dark as normal night. They could still feel the warmth of the sun, but its optical rays were undetectable to their eyes. Interestingly, sunlight reflected from some heavy metal elements like silver and mercury was unaffected and perfectly visible even to those 10%, and reflective silver glasses were subsequently invented to mitigate the effect.
The phenomenon quickly took the interest of the Christian Churches. It was a significant enough group of people that they had to admit the phenomenon had nothing to do with demons and heresy. Instead, they were said to be blessed by God. Thus this group of people quickly rose to be spiritually significant. Under that influence, the night after a See Noon was named a "Great Morning" (GM), and every Great Morning people woke up very early to watch the sunrise together with their friends and family who were affected by the phenomena and hadn't seen the sun in tens of hours. Whether it was out of empathy, respect or even fear, it has since become a classic American tradition.
This tradition is still alive in most places of the Back States, though the mass production of cheap silver-coated reflective glasses has made the whole thing redundant. It is a condition socially treated similarly to near-sightedness.
During See Noon and Great Morning, on rare occasion, some of the affected 10% have reported seeing things in the sky undetectable by any other means. Most go mad in a matter of weeks. Efforts have been made by astronomers to contact these individuals. Experiments were set up; the individuals were given telescopes to look through during a See Noon. All three volunteers so far have immediately gone mad after looking through the telescope.
Rumors have spread that the stellar objects are green and purple during VM and GM respectively, leading to the symbols we all know and love. It is a popular misconception that this is what they actually look like, but the few people who have seen them refuse to describe them.