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Jasin
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Nightfall

Post by Jasin » Tue Apr 09, 2024 10:35 pm

Here's a pretty normal news-crossover to the Total Eclipse 'live' in America as we see everything go dark and the reaction of the crowd gathered and the people talking to the reporter there.
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/mi ... f5aee&ei=9

Which always brings to mind Isaac Asimov's NIGHTFALL (considered the best Sci-Fi story of all time)... when a world of eternal light by 6 suns, suddenly experiences 'night' for the first time in its 'recorded history' at the time. Of how society and civilisation experiences that which our own cultures felt when the Eclipse blocked out the light.
https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/r ... ORM=VRDGAR

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Re: Nightfall

Post by Jasin » Tue Apr 09, 2024 11:21 pm

Here's a very early 1940's Nicola Tesla Radio Wave program of Asimov's 'very short' story Nightfall.
https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/r ... ajaxhist=0

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Re: Nightfall

Post by Bobby » Wed Apr 10, 2024 12:59 pm

Jasin wrote:
Tue Apr 09, 2024 11:21 pm
Here's a very early 1940's Nicola Tesla Radio Wave program of Asimov's 'very short' story Nightfall.
https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/r ... ajaxhist=0


There's a reason we live on a planet with one Sun - one star.
It has given us stable conditions for 4.5 billion years for life to develop.
6 Suns would cause chaos in our orbit and possibly swallow up the Earth or eject it far away.
Even 2 Suns - a binary system would be no good.

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Re: Nightfall

Post by Jasin » Wed Apr 10, 2024 1:53 pm

Yes indeed. Anton describes the 3-Body Problem of Tri-Star systems (as taken from the popular 3-Body Problem Sci-Fi and now movie Series) and how chaotic and short term they are.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1dscMWALNc

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