The idea of the sun just winking out like a light bulb is a bit silly, so I'm going to think of it as knowing a planet killer asteroid is headed our way instead, and there's nothing we can do to stop it.
I'd spend the rest of my time with family and loved ones, and hide from the looters and other crazy people outside.
Because, you know, any time there's a disaster, people go stupid for some reason.
I'd first repent like hell, just in case the Earth was destroyed. If the earth was not destroyed, I'd be able to survive due to the lamp and water in my closet...
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Say "well ****" and tell people what I really think of them. In the minute I have left, I would get some Ice cream.
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After 10:30 PST, my IQ drops to around that of a shovel, please disregard anything I say after aforementioned time, it will likely not make any sense, and is best ignored.
I'd prepare for a long, cold last portion of my life.
The earth would obviously cool down fast with no sun but there would still be life until we froze to death.
Dial up that old Stargate collecting dust in my basement and get the **** off that planet.
Seriously though, I'd probably listen to song and sit on the front porch with a glass of wine, (for the hell of it) And reflect on how much I lived in life. All while gazing at the stars from our doomed world, The closest we will ever get to those magnificent gems in the dark.
An entire planet of life silently entering the void. If such a calamity does happen, I hope there are extraterrestrials out there watching over this little blue ball for us. (It could happen. :tongue.gif:)
It would take months, even years for no sunlight to directly affect us.
It would kill the plants first, and with that many animals would die out from lack of food, and with those animals carnivorous animals would die out as well and so on. Our crops would completely be ruined and we'd have to fund new ways to grow food in farms. There would be food shortages, and with that wars.
We'd most likely die from starvation/famine and killing each other before actually dying from lack of exposure to direct sunlight.
As pointed out above, you're wrong.
The time required for humanity to die if the sun ceased to either A. exist, or B. put out no light, basically turn into a black dwarf, what happens after even a white dwarf star "dies", is at the very most a week.
Temperatures on the earth would drop low so fast that all the water on the planet will freeze over in less than a few days.
Maybe the Marianas trench would be still water.
Humanity cannot live in temperatures at which Dry Ice is condensed from the carbon dioxide in the air. At -76 F. Give or take.
The surface of the Earth on both sides, would rapidly reach as close to absolute zero as space itself is.
Though, I'm not entirely certain if it would be rapid or not. But it will soon reach the temp that even Oxygen freezes at.
Hydrogen would condense into it's solid forum, without needing the extreme pressures required to make metallic Hydrogen, which allows for Deutrilium (sp?) and Tritium fabrication, for nuclear weapons.
Speaking of nukes, even if we launched all the nukes we have, detonating them to increase the heat, all of them combined won't give us that much warmth for long.
In real life, the sun would come within a KM of devouring the earth when it is about to burn out. I think the OP meant if the sun were to just cease all nuclear reactions inside it for some reason. Inverted Heliocide.
We wouldnt die. We have lights, power, and fuel. Out food would be grown under sun lamps though. It would mutch darker all the time though. Most forests would die (No sunlight for photosynthisis, forcing us to excavate parts of the mantle for space and build massive oxygen replicators.
The surface would become baren and lifeless, like the moon (except with air and small groups of life wandering through it) over the next century.
I'd spend the rest of my time with family and loved ones, and hide from the looters and other crazy people outside.
Because, you know, any time there's a disaster, people go stupid for some reason.
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I've said too much...
Me? I am going go out not giving a damn.
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Then who would care because we would freeze death anyway.
Then as most people are dead, grab a pit-bike and go as fast as I can. :biggrin.gif:
Scary.
Damn you forum only allowing two lines in the signature.
- Thank you slimes.
The earth would obviously cool down fast with no sun but there would still be life until we froze to death.
Seriously though, I'd probably listen to song and sit on the front porch with a glass of wine, (for the hell of it) And reflect on how much I lived in life. All while gazing at the stars from our doomed world, The closest we will ever get to those magnificent gems in the dark.
An entire planet of life silently entering the void. If such a calamity does happen, I hope there are extraterrestrials out there watching over this little blue ball for us. (It could happen. :tongue.gif:)
The most important goal of life.
As pointed out above, you're wrong.
The time required for humanity to die if the sun ceased to either A. exist, or B. put out no light, basically turn into a black dwarf, what happens after even a white dwarf star "dies", is at the very most a week.
Temperatures on the earth would drop low so fast that all the water on the planet will freeze over in less than a few days.
Maybe the Marianas trench would be still water.
Humanity cannot live in temperatures at which Dry Ice is condensed from the carbon dioxide in the air. At -76 F. Give or take.
The surface of the Earth on both sides, would rapidly reach as close to absolute zero as space itself is.
Though, I'm not entirely certain if it would be rapid or not. But it will soon reach the temp that even Oxygen freezes at.
Hydrogen would condense into it's solid forum, without needing the extreme pressures required to make metallic Hydrogen, which allows for Deutrilium (sp?) and Tritium fabrication, for nuclear weapons.
Speaking of nukes, even if we launched all the nukes we have, detonating them to increase the heat, all of them combined won't give us that much warmth for long.
It's not a 'poof'
We wouldnt die. We have lights, power, and fuel. Out food would be grown under sun lamps though. It would mutch darker all the time though. Most forests would die (No sunlight for photosynthisis, forcing us to excavate parts of the mantle for space and build massive oxygen replicators.
The surface would become baren and lifeless, like the moon (except with air and small groups of life wandering through it) over the next century.
You heard that, green and red.