Do you believe that a couple of hundred cellphones can be seen from space?

[Daniela1982]

Think of them all lighting up at once. One doesn't put out much light, but together they are a force to contend with.

The room was dark and scary, and then. . . !

[Static_In_The_Attic]

I’m going to say maybe.

As for me I want to get to the bottom of this bucket of clams & congratulations because you lit a fuse in my brain department & although the wheel is turning & the hampers is dead you got my wheel turning on this one.

Luminosity is the key word.

We’ll go with the minimum on this one & say 40 lumens.

10,600 divided by 40 lumens is 265

265 is our magic number.

In theory if 265 people turned on flashlights on their phones it could be done. However weather conditions & light pollution could have a negative impact on that. With that said conditions would have to be perfect & all the people would have to be in a dark area away from light pollution to start off with.

I’m leaning towards yes.

[GuyAnswersGirls123]

Completely scienced the answer! Very impressive. 🙇‍♂️🤝

[Static_In_The_Attic]

@GuyAnswersGirls123 I would love to test the theory & although it sounds like it may work there are more factors & unknown factors that could play a part in it as well. It would be cool if a stadium filled with people helped me out with a little science project.

[Daniela1982]

Put the challenge on Tik Tok, you may get enough interested and show up to see if you can. Getting them all together at night, with good and clear sky, and having access to satellite footage of your tiny speck of ground would be the real challenge.

[Static_In_The_Attic]

This sounds like a coast to coast challenge & do it when late at night when a lot of planes aren’t in the air & conditions are right or somewhat right. Set a date, set a time & light up the states or world.

[Likes2drive]

If there was no other light source around for miles then yeah it probably could otherwise it would get drowned out by all the more powerful city lights

[andreasderjuengere]

Well well well: looking up there from down here I can see thousands of cellphone lights.
So the other way round it must be the same.
At night, at least.

[Massageman]

With no competing light, it would seem possible to me.

[exitseven]

no. it is not bright enough.

[CubaPirate]

Maybe just Maybe