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Written by Mallory's Musings & Mischief on 2025-01-28 at 03:19

So sunlight is supposed to kill vampires, right? Makes them burst into flames or turn to ash or whatever.

Is it specifically sunlight as in light from The Sun, or is it any light at a specific intensity? Is it only a single wavelength of light that's the issue, or a particular spectrum? Is there a threshold, or is it cumulative exposure? Can they go outside on a really dark and overcast day, or is that still too much sunlight?

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Written by Mallory's Musings & Mischief on 2025-01-28 at 03:22

If it is specifically light from The Sun, why doesn't moonlight cause issues since it's just reflected sunlight? Is it our Sun or any star? Like, could vampires live just fine in Alpha Centauri? How come starlight doesn't hurt them at night? That's also light from a star. Does diffraction or refraction of the light make any difference? What about radio light from the sun? Gamma rays? Neutrinos?

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Written by Mallory's Musings & Mischief on 2025-01-28 at 03:26

I'm starting to suspect that this vampire business might be bullshit

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Written by GayDeceiver on 2025-01-28 at 03:23

@malcircuit it’s the type of light and the specific radiation generated by our yellow sun. That’s why you can use lights that simulate sunshine to kill them.

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Written by Dandelion on 2025-01-28 at 03:58

@malcircuit have you considered what would happen if Superman and a vampire had a baby?

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Written by mr_daemon on 2025-01-28 at 04:00

@malcircuit what if it is simply as long as they Believe the light to be from the sun? This requires a double blind study immediately.

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Written by Eleanor on 2025-01-28 at 03:35

@malcircuit by a complete fluke of physics, their bodies absorb blackbody radiation according to the Rayleigh-Jeans law rather than Planck's quantized law, thus they absorb unbounded energy from uv frequencies, but only when the radiation distribution is specifically the blackbody spectrum of our sun.

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Written by Athena L.M. on 2025-01-28 at 03:37

@malcircuit Maybe it's specifically G-type or G2V starlight above some level of intensity; so they can't tolerate Sol or Alpha Centauri A (also G2V), but they could live in the Sirius system.

Perhaps it's down to the ultraviolet, but then modern windows would probably be sufficient protection, or maybe even just sunblock lotion.

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Written by Michael Miller :blobrdm: 🦆 on 2025-01-28 at 03:25

@malcircuit this is necessarily pedantic!

my spouse refuses to watch anymore vampire movies with me because I can’t stop myself from pointing out all the inconsistencies within each vampiric universe (which, of course, each have their own unique rules)

My hunch on this is it must be largely unscattered light directly from our sun, though I have no actual idea, and I wish you luck on your journey

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