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bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 1 day agoYeah 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?
Comment on Gottem. :)
bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 1 day agoYeah 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 21 hours 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
Klear@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I wouldn’t sling us into deep space because we are in deep space and will continue to be in deep space.
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 14 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 12 hours 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
burgersc12@mander.xyz 13 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