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LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoWherever you live on the Earth’s surface starts cooling every time the sun goes down, and gets warmed up again the next day. It wouldn’t cool any faster if the sun went away, it would just keep cooling at the same rate until the surface eventually froze.
burgersc12@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Yeah, but that’s with petawatts being blasted on the other side of the earth, wouldn’t the loss of that make the whole system cool down faster, including the side the sun doesn’t touch? I’m thinking it’d be like having food on a hot plate, bottom is very hot, the top is less hot. But if you take the food off the plate the whole thing rapidly goes to room temp. I honestly have no idea, just conjecture tbh.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The only way to get the right answer would involve doing math and knowing enough climatology and geology to do the right math, so I dunno.
burgersc12@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Someone posted a link above, claims it’d take about a week to hit 0°C
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Cool, I will take a look. Intuitively that seems about right to me. I was just saying the world definitely wouldn’t freeze overnight.