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by pizza 3064 days ago
Google seems to think that Earth is Gliese 412

Gliese 412 is a pair of stars that share a common proper motion through space and are thought to form a binary star system. The pair have an angular separation of 31.4″ at a position angle of 126.1°.[12] They are located 15.8 light years distant from the Sun in the constellation Ursa Major. Both components are relatively dim red dwarf stars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliese_412

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It's still cloudy here in Austria, I'll count the number of suns later when the clouds are gone.
I in the UK and I can't believe people still fall for the "sun" hoax. I don't know anyone who's ever seen it.
Lived in Seattle. We had a nice day of summer once.
Wait, what about the whole sum... ohhhhh, right, clouds. Clouds. Always clouds.

No summer ever.

Clouds always.

Just looked outside in Seattle. I can confirm there is no sun.
No clouds over here in 'Straya. Bit of a scorcher though. Don't let 'em fool you - my mate Bazza reckons he counted four suns once. He loves a good yarn but he's dinky-di and I don't reckon he's taking the piss. I've never had the balls to count the suns me-self - Bazza's built like a brick shit-house but he was right up shit-creek when he done it. Came good after a week or so though. Reckon I'd cark it well before the ambos had time to come get me.
Not so cloudy in Burgenland, I only see one. But I don't have a telescope with a sun filter to scientifically prove it.
I got confused at your mention of "Burgenland" together with your nick, which led me to find out that "Burgenland" and "Burgenlandkreis" (Burgenland county) are two different counties in two different countries:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgenlandkreis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgenland

Well that's new to me too. Thanks for the links!
Isn't the earth flat in burgenland?
No, it's an ellipse with infinite radius.
I rather think it's a decimal error. The distance to the sun is 15.813 μly away from earth.

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/List_of_brightest_stars#/Main_ta...