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Science saves lives (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 106 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Love that this suggests that for vampires, it's all in their head

[–] [email protected] 75 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Loony Toons logic. You won’t fall until you realize you should be falling.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

So true

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Love that this suggests that for vampires, it's all in their head

That’s what Terry Pratchett’s Carpe Jugulum tells us. With sufficient exposure and willpower vampires (or “vampyres” as this more modern variety calls themselves) can become immune to sunlight and holy symbols!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Out of those 41 books, that one's a fav.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Man, they’re all a fav. I’m finishing up a full read-through, and until The Embuggerance every book seemed better than the one before it. Even after The Embuggerance they’re still excellent.

GNU Terry Pratchett

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Also a plot point of an older also amazing book (spoiler alert?)

!Richard Mattheson's I Am Legend. Not even close to the same as the movie!<

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Literally Charles McGill

[–] [email protected] 64 points 3 months ago (2 children)

However, it doesn't reflect everything. Maybe it's a particular part of sunlight that impacts vampires, one that gets absorbed by the Moon's surface.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I wanted to see for myself and it looks like the spectra of the sun and moon are fairly similar:

Moon: https://olino.org/blog/us/articles/2015/10/05/spectrum-of-moon-light/comment-page-1/

Sun: https://seos-project.eu/earthspectra/images/Solar-spectrum_th.png

Looks pretty similar I gotta say

That being said, the intensity is of course much lower of the light reflected from the moon.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

"Similar" is not identical. I'm assuming that slight difference is technically where the vampire-harming properties lie (lore-wise).

Kind of like how Duncan MacDougall published a study that human souls have weight, as he recorded someone losing 21 grams at the moment of their death. Not very significant at all, but perhaps humanity lies in the subtleties...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Vampire hunters with IR blasters!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Would an older TV remote suffice? At least for very small vampires?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

almost literally the plot of JJBA

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Didn't Blade have some sort of UV gun in one of the movies?

[–] [email protected] 53 points 3 months ago (3 children)

What if vampires' non-reaction to mirrors is why reflected sunlight does not bother them?

If we can figure out the magic wavelength, we could take out vampires with flashlights.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago

Reminds me of the part in Bloodlines where you (a vampire) are captured and they run a series of tests, including shining UV rays on you (it doesn't do anything).

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Seemed to work out for Blade.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

I hear the Speedwagon Foundation uses intense UV.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is funny, but I think stereotypical vampire lore still stands. I think it's only direct sunlight that is an issue. If a vampire stands in a room with an open window, but off to the side, they're generally considered fine. If light reflected off a wall is ok then why is the moon not?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, sunlight on clouded days doesn't hurt us either.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Hush, mate! You trying to blow our cover‽

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I love how this implies that sunlight only hurts vampires if they know that sunlight is supposed to hurt them

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's Loony Toons physics.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

The BBC series Dracula really explores this trope in a really interesting way. Worth a watch without spoilering anything.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (2 children)

My theory is that vampires can only handle sunlight in small doses, not when the sun is directly shining on the Earth.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago

Huh... turns out I'm a vampire.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

i love the idea of london being infested by vampires since it's almost always overcast, and vampires going on holiday to the nordics in the winter

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

Science: The poison is in the dose.

Language: It’s a good joke, I love it!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

Why are nights cooler if reflected sunlight is just sunlight?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

But mirrored light does not affect vampires?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

We learned it like this at school:

Light beam bounces once or more, suck that victim dry, senor
Light beam bounces none or less, seek the curtains now, princess

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Werewolf school didn't teach me shit....i mean they did teach me how to shit to properly mark my territory, but didn't use any fancy poems or nothing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

well now i want to see a fantasy school where they have werewolf choirs and barbershop quartettes

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

At least they let you guys outside. Imagine being told you need "sleeping lessons" where they lock you in a box all day

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

also, from what I can find, it looks like the moon only reflects 1-3% of UV light back

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Did this really happen?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Everyone is saying it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Nerds saving lives, one vampire factoid at a time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

count Dracula wasn't destroyed by sunlight, he just had weaker magical powers. during the day he could only change form at dawn, noon, and dusk, although he maintained that power throughout the entire night.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

But he's the OV (Original Vamp). According to Supernatural logic, the Alpha monster is immune or isn't affected as badly by weaknesses as converted monsters.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

He wasn't, but Count Orlok from Nosferatu (1922) was

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I always head-canon that sunlight reflected off of moon rocks has some property that makes it not dangerous for vampires, sucks out the hamon or something.