The Sundial That Works 24 Hours A Day 

Dude you issued a correction to a 5 year old video. What a bro.

"Half-way home on the mile-walk back to our hotel"...so only ten minutes away?

Woaj

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Jesse G Indeed. I went to France for the first time a couple weeks ago and I was so baffled by the sun setting at close to 10:30pm-11pm where I am used to around 8pm.

ehhorvath13 It's extreme in mid Europe - in winter, it's dark outside at around 6 pm, the sun comes up at 7:30-8:30 am. In summer, the sun's up until 10-30 pm and comes out at about 5 o'clock in the morning.

GeFlixes "extreme" you were just listening about a place in which the sun doesn't go down for _3 months_

666Tomato666 ... in which this very fact is not the only extreme. Everything about this place is extreme.

GeFlixes It's dark by 5PM in the UK in winter.

@Disent Design but do they set their clocks based on the sun dial? (I know they probably don't but can you imagine if they did??)

DewMan001 technically it is super accurate so maybe

@@pineapplepie4929 it was a joke

@@DewMan001 they don't. But still, they have internet in Longyearbyen. You can just sync your clocks using that.

@@gtPacheko oh... Fair enough 🤷‍♀️

+Erlend Sandvoll So what happens the weeks there is no moon?

They use the clock on their phones

Erlend Sandvoll cool like literally cool but also just cool

Erlend Sandvoll wow, I always wanted to visit Svalbard, what is it like to live there?

That's amazing!

Does that disappoint you

Im disappointed that i wasnt dissapointed

I'm _disappointed_ that none of you are _disappointed_ about not being _disappointed._

You are disappointed that you’re not disappointed? I think that’s a variation on the liars paradox

Nice pic

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A 6 month long day

Lmbo

a longyear in fact

nice one

I visited Nome, Alaska in the summer one year, and the sun stayed up well past midnight. Even if it went below the horizon, it was never really completely dark. I ended up staying up very late and waking up super late too. The jet lag when coming back was awful. I couldn't go to sleep right away at night for a couple of days.

Visiting a disco in Helsinki (Finland), walking out at about 3:30AM to find light levels like it's in the afternoon makes you wonder: "How much did I drink in there?"

Holobrine it is also a moondial

Pair it with a sundial at the south pole and it'd work all year.

I have a broken clock. It can give me the time with a precision even greater than that of an atomic clock... but only twice a day.

Boi that was used in the wrong context but still I commend you.

OMG, I had JUST watched another person react to that video about an hour ago, and quoted that line out loud alongside it; what are the odds?!

Could you make a religion out of this?

I just did a bad thing

"AHH," said the pope.

Weber588 o-o I was born and raised in Alaska (no longer live there though), and lived far enough north that we'd have the entire sun 24 hours a day, no sun 24 hours a day depending on the time of year. Your body and mind just kind of accepts it as normal for the most part, you get tired and sleep just like normal. Though I think the lack of sun is more of an issue, not sure about for other countries, but in the US Alaska has one of the highest suicide rates (it and Wyoming are generally the #1/#2) and it's been largely associated with lack of sun in the winter from what I remember reading.

Yuoree Sweden also has one of the highest suicide rates... Some pople think it's the darkness

Yuoree The Scandinavian countries also have relative high suicide rates. Also alcohol abuse is relatively common!

***** Well, there are plenty of reasons why suicide is more common in some regions of the world than others, other than the lack of sunlight. Also wich country actually has the highest suicide rate is an information wich is next to impossible to obtain. Diffenrent sources will tell you very different things here.

Petah Schwetah That's a myth, Sweden does not have a particular high suicide rate. It's below the US, France, Finland, Belgium and Austria to name but few. The thing about the darkness is an guess trying to explain a myth. People seem to be equally miserable in every climate, once they're used to it.

seigeengine I'm european

Hello :)

Chrnan6710 I used to, he kinda upset me in an email.

***** Look at the video of the town the Army took over, I wrote to him about a personal family issue that happened because of that event and he didn't even bother replying to the email.

Why ya talkin' to yourself, Larry buddy?

+ I'm Very Angry It's Not Butter I guess they deleted their comments, or their comments got flagged. Sadly we'll never know what he is talking about.

JustOneAsbesto I think he meant solstice

Chrnan6710 Oh! I'm sorry!

+Chrnan6710 shhhh

yeah he meant solstice, equinox would be 12hrs day 12hrs night

Emil Carr Thanks for the clarification.

jesusnthedaisychain me too, since I was like 6 years old I used to point to that place on the map and say "let's go there" 😂😂 that place always fascinated me... Who knows? Maybe I lived a previous life there 😂

+merc340sr I am Norwegian, so almost never-ending days in the summer, and almost never-ending nights in the winter is just part of our reality. You simply get used to it. In fact, the few times i have been to a country closer to the equator, (Florida being as far down south as i have been) seeing dark nights and bright days within the span of only 24 hours seems almost unnatural, knowing full well that i am really the "weird one".

+merc340sr It works fine, but your body gets a bit funny. Some people sleep more in summer than they would do normally since your body is completely confused about it being day or night

Both sleep disorders (during Summer) and seasonally affected mood disorders (during Winter) are more common here. I'm one of those who can't sleep if it's light, so I have to have thick blackout curtains in my bedroom and/or a sleep mask.

Sam Otten Exactly my reaction. Haha

:P I think he meant summer solstice.

Sam Otten It was midnight, after all-- he does look exhausted.

he has horrible luck

Aren't we all

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LReBe7 ikr, I've been wanting to go there since I was like 6 years old... I would look at the map, point to Svalbard and say "can we go there?" 😂😂 I still wish to go there... Idk, there is something special about it... Maybe I've lived a past life there 😂😂☺

Fredrik Høisæther Rasch but I know there is a university in Svalbard too (UNIS), am I wrong?

I suppose you haven't seen any of the Toms in the Yogscast, then.

Wizzerzak I've been wondering that, too, does he have a real job with a wonderful vacation benefit and a stipend for red t-shirts?

xheppelin i always wanted to go there, what is it like?

They assume sundown in mecca

Sapphire Crook Apparently there are still no clear-cut rules for this in 2015: www.ibtimes.co.uk/ramadan-2015-muslims-arctic-circle-24-hour-daylight-seek-new-rules-fasting-1505957 Which I find intriguing since the problem must have come up decades ago. I mean even with something like 23h of daylight you're not going to have a particularly fun time.

Nilguiri Didn't expect to see such an interesting discussion on the matter. Good job comment section. You did good today. :)

Some Muslims assume the daylight hours of Mecca, others of the closest Muslim country to where they are.

AndroZeus Is there an official list of "Muslim countries"?

Don't worry, there is also 3 months of solid night.