What will you do with 24 hour daylight?

I will buy thicker curtains so I can simulate night at the appropriate hours and sleep well.

Well, this slightly resembles daylight and dark in Alaska. we slept two hours and welcomed another day out on the ocean, fishing for salmon.

24 hour fishing in Alaska is old hat. wish i were there right now and catching my limit.

it will be a brilliant pin point in the sky, but will not cast as much light on the earth as the sun because it is so distant. not that different from seeing the planets at sunset or sunrise. we won;t have 24 hour daylight.

I’m with @hawaii_jake on the thicker curtains. I can barely sleep in my room with east facing windows as it is.

I wonder if the extra light would aid in Vitamin D production.

It would be a good time to get one of our solar cell projects up and running.

I’m responsible for engineering and planning. Is there any chance we can narrow the expected date down to less than +/- 500,000 years? It is difficult to schedule manpower and equipment. Thanks.

@worriedguy you should have the manpower on call!

@zenvelo Good suggestion. I hope it does not occur on the night of the decimillenium. I’d have to pay overtime.

@hawaii_jake I’m all set up with that just so I can nap in the middle of the day when I feel like it.

@zenvelo There have been supernovas in the past that light the night sky very brightly but nothing like daylight. We know how brightly they lit the night, because it is recorded in history. However, they were tens or hundreds of thousands of light years away from earth. Betelgeuse is 640 light years from earth. It will look like day at night, not just a bright point of light.
http://www.suite101.com/content/the-crab-nebula-supernova-1054-ad-a23371
http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/news/721799-196/daily-twip--sn-1006-the-brightest.html

@worriedguy Date for what. The Betelgeuse supernova will happen late this year, not +/1 500,000 years. We know when it will happen by watching its expansion now that it has turned into a red giant. Nix the investment in solar panels for our won Sun’s supernova. It’s corona will expand past the orbit of the Earth while it goes through its red giant phase.

@ETpro From the article cited above: “Brad Carter, senior lecturer of physics at the University of southern Queensland in Australia, said the explosion could take place before the end of the year – or indeed at any point over the next million years.”
A 500,000 year uncertainty window makes it difficult to schedule the more expensive equipment.

Thanks for the tip on our own sun. I’ll have to make sure we get the nova temp (million degree) version instead of the usual mil spec range.

@worriedguy Thanks. I got snookered by the headline. I failed to notice that it was a Rupert Murdoch newspeak paper, not real news. After studying real news outlets, I see that the likely window is up to 100,000 years and that the brightness will not rival that of the sun, but be more like the full moon—bright for sure. It will be obvious enough when it happens that everyone who looks up into the night sky will notice it. But as usual, Fox News and News Corp exaggerated and deliberately conflated it with the 2012 end of days stuff from the Mayan calendar.

My apologies to you and to @zenvelo

does this also mean that we get an extra dose of radiation from the star? By the way it supposed to be bright enough to be seen during daylight hours. You really need to stop listening to Fox.

@Ron_C Yes, we will get some extra radiation, but not very much. To pose a serious threat to us, an supernova would need to be within 25 light years of earth. Betelgeuse is 640 light years away. The intensity of radiation decreases as the square of the distance to its source. The only cosmic event which would pose a danger to Earth from a distance as great as 640 light years is a Gamma Ray Burst. If our theory of what produces those is correct, there is nothing that could produce a gamma ray burst anywhere near that close to us.

I actually watch Fox News quite deliberately in order to keep track of the latest and greatest Big Lies the corporatocracy is floating out there in their effort to seize absolute power. But when I saw the article in the Australian newspaper I wasn’t originally aware that it was yet another of Rupert Murdoch’s many media properties. In this case, the exaggeration was meant to boost the tabloid sensationalism of the article and sell more papers, not undermine the legitimate political process. But you are right, it’s always well to check out the source of information you read, especially when it makes claims of something phenomenal about to happen.