Flight speed: How fast to notice rapid night/day change?

On Jun 22, 9:16 pm, Nobody wrote:
Radium wrote:
This type of fear can only occur if you and everyone around you
notices the decrease in light. If you know that you're the only one
seeing the decrease in light, its not all that scary because you know
you are just hallucinating.

Especially if you are in a closed environment such as an elevator, with
10 people in it, and while all is quiet for a minute or two after the
lights have dimmed, suddently, and without warning, one of the occupants
starts to grunt like an angry gorilla causing all ladies to start to
shout in a rage of fear that has crawled up their spine.

Then, after all has quieted down, some prankster shouts "there is a
mouse in the elevator" and then all females jump on the males to keep
their feet off the ground as they shout , being terrorised by the
thought of a mouse near them.

Compare this to scary events in daylight. For instance, in the
documentary "Snakes on a Plane", the passengers did not initially react
to the snakes crawling up their legs or into their purses. They felt
secure because the cabin was well lighted. After a while, they did act
terrorised a bit, but only because the director told them to.

LOL. All that still has absolutely nothing to do with humans [and
perhaps other mammals] getting a sensation of extreme extreme fear if
the midday sky were to suddenly dim due to an anomaly within the sun
itself.

Even a total solar eclipse is not that scary because the problem is
not within the sun itself.

If the cause of celestial darkness is a result of the sun decreasing
its light intensity, then it's scary. What could be scarier? If the
sun goes dark, chances are it will still like that.

BTW, there are certain things that are scarier during the day that
night. E.g. out-of-control yellow flames on an airplane on a sunny,
mostly clear sky with scattered yellowish-white "high" clouds. This
situation would be scariest if it happened during midday.

Orangish-yellow flames are always scary but especially in the above
scenario.

In addition, the flames can melt the synthetic leather present on the
plane's emergency doors. This synthetic leather is a sound-proof
material designed to keep those onboard safe from the deafening sounds
of the engine. Once this leather melts, it loses it sound-proofing,
letting in dangerously-loud sounds into the plane. These sounds are
definitely well above 140 dB [threshold of pain]. All onboard are
certain to suddenly and completely lose their hearing. Hence the loud
sounds will not be perceived as audio but as pain.

Radium wrote:
We instinctively fear any sudden dimming of light.

"We" do?

How would you feel if you are standing out in the sun at midday and,
within a matter of minutes, the sun began to smoothly yet rapidly lose
its intensity, then dimming to blackness after 10 minutes?

Intrigued!

miguel
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