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• rockerface@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  A bit - probably weeks to months. For the second question - 8 minutes for the Earth, since gravity propagates at the speed of light

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  • davidgro@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • burgersc12@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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      • Klear@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I wouldn’t sling us into deep space because we are in deep space and will continue to be in deep space.

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  • sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    A bit - probably weeks to months.

    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

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    • ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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      • sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I honestly think you’re forgetting the atmosphere and like, physical ground under our feet.

        no im not, you’re forgetting that the sun exists

        Max-Min temps (F) yesterday across 3 different continents:
        Lucknow 82-53
        Mandalay 90-67
        Kisangani 91-76
        Porto Velho 85-77

        Temps drop by 22 F at night (avg) around the equator. Most tropical land reaches freezing in 1.5 days if the sun vanishes. Forget temperate.

        Best case scenario is Tropical rainforest since water holds heat. Middle of Amazon gets “only” an 8 F (4.4 C) drop in 12 hours, so 3.3 days to reach freezing.

        Keep in mind that these drops include the “wind down” sun time of evening, which means that these times are slightly slower than the real times, since the sun would vanish suddenly instead of gradually setting

        Also keep in mind that these temp drops occur right now, in reality meatspace, despite “the atmosphere and like, physical ground under our feet”. (both of these exist)

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      • burgersc12@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        And the sun doesn’t generally blink out of existence. Think about how much energy is on the other side of the earth, it’s not like the two sides of earth are separate they are one huge interconnected energy system. What happens on one side affects the other

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    • burgersc12@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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      • sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        there’s something about people who use lots of words that makes them particularly…yea

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