In 2022, a claim circulated on social media asserting that, on July 8, only 1 percent of the world’s population would be located where it was nighttime. Sounds a little far-fetched, right? It turns out the rumor is true.
days that feature the 99 percent magic. Common sense dictates that, if one of the dates is 17 daysBut, according to EarthSky, there are actuallythat surround the summer solstice and meet the 99 percent criterion. Between May 18 and July 17, there are a couple of minutes each day when 99 percent of Earth’s population is on the sunny side, so to speak. The timing just fluctuates about the 11:00 Universal time slot.
One might surmise that the solstice would spread sunlight to the greatest number of people, but that actually happens July 8. By then, a bit of the Northern Hemisphere’s sunlight has been trimmed away and nudged into the northern fringes of the Southern Hemisphere, resulting in a net gain in people on the sunny side. More people live just south of the equator than near the North Pole, so it turns out that’s the ideal date for maximizing the simultaneously sunlit population.
Suffice to say, sometimes boggling statistics aren’t magic — they’re just often overlooked. And, as daylight dawns on the Eastern Seaboard on Saturday, people glancing skyward can know that, for an instant, nearly the entire world is experiencing something together.
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