Do you know what was the darkest moment of the year all over the earth for 2022? An organization called EarthSky.org does. Their computers determined that on the night of December 6, 2022 maximum darkness, they called it “global darkness,” cast almost 9 out of 10 people in the world in darkness. At some point during that night Africa, Asia and most of Europe were dark. In fact, there was a precise point on that night in which 85.92% of the people in the world were in total darkness. (1)
That’s fascinating to think that such a large percentage of the Earth’s population could be in total darkness at a precise moment in time. Of course, they wouldn’t have known it. Most of them were asleep since most of that time was at night—blissfully unaware that a group of scientists were tracking their …