Our Day and Night World Map for July 8 at 11:15 UTC shows most of the world’s landmasses receiving sunlight.
Posted on 07/11/2022 4:34:15 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
A fascinating claim is circulating the internet: that there’s a moment each year when 99% of the world’s population gets sunlight. Is it true?
As July rolls around, our number crunchers thought it was worth fact-checking a July-related claim that has been making the rounds on the internet lately.
In the original post, Reddit user GiddySwine presents a still image of our Day and Night World Map, claiming that 99% of the world’s population is between dawn and dusk on July 8 at 11:15 UTC.
A more widely circulated version claims that 99% of the population gets daylight at that moment...
A brief look at our Day and Night World Map gives some initial support to the claims (see image above). Nearly all of the world’s most populated areas receive some sunlight at the time in question. Among them are North America, South America, Europe, Africa, and most of Asia.
Australia, New Zealand, parts of Southeast Asia, and Antarctica are the only larger landmasses on the night side of Earth...
Combining timeanddate’s Sun data with 2022 population data from the Center for International Earth Science Information Network at Columbia University, we found that it’s nighttime for just under 80 million people on July 8 at 11:15 UTC.
That leaves about 7.7 billion people—roughly 99% of us—on the side of the planet illuminated by the Sun.
Over 6.4 billion of them are in the daytime, while more than 1.2 billion people experience twilight.
(Excerpt) Read more at timeanddate.com ...
It'll be interesting to contrast with the January mirror image, when much more of the landmass of the Earth is in darkness at the same time.
Folks everywhere were celebrating my birthday.
Yup, I proposed a toast, but alas, it was only lightly buttered, no jam.
Propaganda from the “other half of the world - o- phobes” /s
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Probably a lot fewer would be in darkness because eastern China and the western US would be in twilight and thus considered lit.
lol
There is no other half of the world, really.
If your birthday was today... 7/11 you could get a free slurpee
Hey I hear hot water freezes faster than cold water!!
Hey I hear hot water freezes faster than cold water!!
It was raining here in Alabama on Friday morning.
Well, we’re not a big percentage of humans, either.
But I repeat myself
So only 1% of humanity lives in Australia???
1) The sun doesn’t change that much day to day, so what was true on 7/8 is probably still true today on 7/11. There’s probably a week or two window this is true.
2) This would happen 2x a year. 7/8 is 18 days past the solstice on 6/20, so this would also occur 18 days prior on 6/2 when the sun would be in at the same latitude.
But solar power on that January day will power the entire 1% of the earth’s population that is under the sun! Right?
Thank you, Mr. Wizard.
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