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Re:German Space Center has constructed the world’s largest a... by pluma on Friday March 24, 2017 @10:27AM (#13949064)
Natural sunlight on Earth is finicky. They're not talking about the sun itself. They're just using "the sun" as a shorthand for the weather, the rotation of Earth and so on. Humans sometimes do that.
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Re:German Space Center has constructed the world’s largest a... by 31h on Friday March 24, 2017 @01:01PM (#13950363)
syn·ec·do·che səˈnekdəkē/ (noun)

a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa, as in Cleveland won by six runs (meaning “Cleveland's baseball team”).

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