The Sun.
Oh how I love the sun.
I could revel in the sun all day ever day.
But have you ever heard of the term too much of a good thing?
Because when it comes to the sun, you can absolutely have too much.
Anddd… no, it isn’t pretty !
Hello and welcome back to Life’s Biggest Questions, the channel that looks to answer
all manner of queries bright and beautiful, all questions big and small.
I am your host Rebecca Felgate and today I am asking What if the Sun Never Set.
Before we get into this video, I want to hear from you.
Are you a day time person or a nighttime person?
Are you summer or winter?
Let a gal know.
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OKAY THE SUN.
Our glorious star that keeps us alive and kicking on earth.
The thing is though, we kind of have the whole light, dark, sun, night, warm, cold thing
figured out.
It is a fine balance.
The earth rotates on its axis – spinning at nearly 1000 miles per hour at its equator.
It completes its revolve every 24 hours, allowing for day and night in different parts of the
globe as they turn away to greet the sun.
Our life on planet earth is unequivocally tied up in this movement.
The ebb is as important as the flow.
But what if it was all sunshine all the time?
It sounds good… and maybe for a few weeks we would all be loving it.
Initially our moods would likely be lifted from all the increased sunshine.
Social media would be exploding with images of us all basking.
And bask we likely would….
Although I imagine there would be an increase in sun lotion sales as we need more SPF to
keep those harmful rays from burning us.
What happens when all the sun lotion runs out?
Can we keep up with demand?
After the high of the first few days we humans, we creatures of habit, would start to get
pretty stressed.
Much sunlight would mess with our sleep patterns, which would mean cranky people.
Sleep deprived people.
Tired people make mistakes and accidents would start to happen.
There would be a rush on black out blinds to help us get through the night, but even
if we could sleep in the dark, psychologically we would kinda be sent insane by it never
being dark?
What would happen to nighttime activities?
Would we toss out lightbulbs forever?
Are we retiring fireworks?
What would happen to cosy nights in snuggled up watching a movie, or drinking a hearty
melot by the fire.
The bougie hygee dream is dead and it is sun sun sun all the way.
Spare a though for the animals of the world, though.
They can’t buy blackout blinds and don’t have the apposable thumbs for eye masks.
Poor blighters will be stuck in perpetual light and animal life will start to react
badly… many will simply die from the upheaval.
I guess long story short, we all die anyway.
Without nighttime to help cool the land, global temperatures will rise to over 100 degrees
Celsius… which will eventually mean that lakes evaporate, with drought making food
production neigh on impossible, we will barely have enough water to drink for ourselves let
alone give to livestock – do you know that to produce one pound of beef, you need 1,799
gallons of water?
We’ll be tired, we’ll be hungry, we’ll be thirsty, we’ll be hot.
Oddly, there would also be floods.
With the sun always beating down on the polar ice caps, honeys are melting.
But the problem is, they will melt into the ocean and we don’t yet have enough power
to convert ocean water into drinking water, so while our drinking water supply will diminish,
our non drinkable water will increase.. for a bit anyway, eventually the sun will start
to evaporate the ocean too, which would be devastating for marine life.
So… wait though.
We live on a globe.
A spinny globe.
You know what doesn’t spin?
Our mate the moon… which means it has a dark side.
If the sun was always shining…if the sun never set… it must mean there would be a
dark side of the earth, part of the earth always in darkness… well.. maybe not always
as I am assuming we would still orbit the sun.
The issue would then be the sun never set for 6 months, then never rose for another
six… but if this was the case it would mean that the earth had stopped spinning on its
axis, which would be a YUGE problem.
Again, long story short – we would all keep spinning at the moment the earth stopped,
which would mean that people, buildings, trees, cars, animals would all be launches into an
unsurvivable spin.
The earths rotation controls gravity, which we would lose if it stopped… which…
fun happy floaty smash… either in brilliant sunshine or total darkness depending on where
you were.
We actually did a whole video about what would happen if the earth stopped spinning so I’ll
leave a link for that in the description box if you want to know more about that particular
aspect of the drama.
So… if the sun never set, well the implications of that would be pretty catastrophic, not
least for the lack of UV light discos.
Disco….
Really Rebecca… you show your age.
But okay, let’s get a bit more conceptual here.
Back in the day, they used to say the sun never set on the British Empire… because
their global colonization was so awful and expansive that there was perpetually part
of their territory that always saw sunshine….buuuuttt fast forward a couple hundred years, we realize
that colonization is a terrible idea and that chasing a land of endless sun is a bad idea
on a sociopolitical level too.
ONE last thought – there are parts of the world that do ENJOY perpetual sunshine, for
a few months a year, including North Norway, North Alaska – places in North of the Arctic
Circle and South of the Antarctic Circle.
Why….axial tilt!
Buuut the offset is that there are months in the winter where the sun doesn’t rise…
and we’re back to ebb and flow… its part of nature… and it’s best not to be messed
with.
So that was that!
What did you think to this question and answer?
Also don’t forget to let me know if you are a day person or a night person.
Comments from What if We Built a Skyscraper with 10 billion floors
I liked this comment from Thderfish294: What if we built a skyscraper with 10 billion flaws!??!?!?
Ha…well every imperfection is a sign of beauty…right…or something?!
Isabella Sinodinos said: Umm... did anybody notice the person talking was REBECCA FELGATE
FROM AMAZING TOP 10?
… Hiya Bez!
Yes!
I get around this old thing they call Youtube!
I cannot be contained by a Top 10 Format!
Numberjack Fiutro said: Once you get to more than about 40,000 floors, you might as well
be building a planet!? - well quite.
We may as well make What if we built the death star.
Actually… that is a great idea!