• silasmariner@programming.dev
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    3 days ago

    Well the sun will move horizontal to the horizon near the Arctic circle during summer. So… I mean, still Alaska

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      3 days ago

      I’m from just about the arctic circle and it doesn’t really look like that. I think.

      Maybe if you go above the polar circle

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        3 days ago

        Yes, you’d have to be above the Arctic circle. Search “midnight sun timelapse” images, and you’ll find lots of examples. It is not actually a straight line, but moving on a curve. At this level of zoom, the curve is not apparent

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        Yeah idk, I think it’d happen near the solstice at ‘night’ when sun doesn’t really set but yeah I guess it’d never be perfectly horizontal and I don’t live in the Arctic circle myself so have never seen it. Maybe it’s all a big hoax, who can say