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rockerface@lemm.ee 1 day agoAtmosphere would hold the heat for a bit, the real issues will begin with food shortages because the crops won’t grow
Comment on Gottem. :)
rockerface@lemm.ee 1 day agoAtmosphere would hold the heat for a bit, the real issues will begin with food shortages because the crops won’t grow
bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Yeah but how long is a bit? Also, without the gravity center of our solar system, how long would it take for all the planets to start drifting off into the void?
rockerface@lemm.ee 1 day ago
A bit - probably weeks to months. For the second question - 8 minutes for the Earth, since gravity propagates at the speed of light
davidgro@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Expanding a little on the last part, Earth’s orbital velocity is about 29.8 km/s so that’s the speed at which we would suddenly be leaving the former location of the solar system in a direction that depends on what time of year it happened. Regardless of direction though, the escape velocity of the Milky Way around where we are is about 544 km/s so there’s no way we’d be leaving the galaxy. On the other hand the plane of the galaxy is only about 6 degrees off from the galactic center at the moment, so if this happened at the right time of year (don’t know when that is) we could launch somewhat towards the core. We would not however get very close to it because the sun’s own orbital velocity is about 230 km/s so we’d still be in close to the same galactic orbit overall, just potentially a bit more eccentric.
burgersc12@mander.xyz 1 day ago
Do you think Jupiter would take over as our center of the solar system? Hopefully it doesn’t sling us into deep space or another planet
sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net 1 day ago
no? more like 24 hours, and only in tropical places. It goes from 85 to 55 in 12 hours right now in reality world
you’d have 24 hours to
ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 17 hours ago
I honestly think you’re forgetting the atmosphere and like, physical ground under our feet. It doesn’t generally drop to 0C overnight unless it’s already pretty close to 0C because of the heat trapped in the atmosphere and emanating from the earth’s core. It’s going to be more like a week for most places.
burgersc12@mander.xyz 16 hours ago
The irony of a guy with PHD in his username not understanding that the Sun blasts the Earth with an absolutely unreal amount of energy