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Science saves lives (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I love how this implies that sunlight only hurts vampires if they know that sunlight is supposed to hurt them

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

What if vampires' non-reaction to mirrors is why reflected sunlight does not bother them?

If we can figure out the magic wavelength, we could take out vampires with flashlights.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Love that this suggests that for vampires, it's all in their head

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Loony Toons logic. You won’t fall until you realize you should be falling.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

So true

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Love that this suggests that for vampires, it's all in their head

That’s what Terry Pratchett’s Carpe Jugulum tells us. With sufficient exposure and willpower vampires (or “vampyres” as this more modern variety calls themselves) can become immune to sunlight and holy symbols!

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago

Literally Charles McGill

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

However, it doesn't reflect everything. Maybe it's a particular part of sunlight that impacts vampires, one that gets absorbed by the Moon's surface.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I wanted to see for myself and it looks like the spectra of the sun and moon are fairly similar:

Moon: https://olino.org/blog/us/articles/2015/10/05/spectrum-of-moon-light/comment-page-1/

Sun: https://seos-project.eu/earthspectra/images/Solar-spectrum_th.png

Looks pretty similar I gotta say

That being said, the intensity is of course much lower of the light reflected from the moon.