it’s because light takes 8 minutes to get from the sun to us. and since gravity also travels at the speed of light our orbit would only change after 8 minutes.
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humanspiral@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I believe we’d still be warm for those 8 minutes. We have an 8 minute grace period before having to do anything, then enough time to add sweaters faster than earth cools.
teije9@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Naz@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I was forced to calculate the black body temperature and radiation for the Earth, back in college by hand.
I decided for fun to zero out the sun from the equation to see what would happen.
My math came out to about -32°C average surface temperature.
Earth would become an ice planet.
I think you’d uh, need a bit more than a sweater in those conditions 😅
meliaesc@lemmy.world 1 day ago
People live in those temperatures in places like remote Russia, right?
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
It’s sweaters all the way down. You have time to order from China shipped by boat before -32C happens. You’re just being a “save the sun” hippy climate alarmist /s
Naz@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I’m just imagining you shuffling out wearing six layers of different colored sweaters on the frozen tundra surface, lmao
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I still like Bill Cosby. Fortunate that my mom always thought I should like sweaters and gifted me some.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
We’re for the jobs the fossil fuels will provide.
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
So.
The Antarctic. Roughly. Everywhere. Including the equator cuz that’s not a thing anymore.
Are there any places that would be “warm” for any reason if you recall?
Like, I assume the oceans would survive until the core stops and the planet truly dies?
Naz@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_planet
Lel
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
… so yes, the oceans could remain warm enough to harbor life still.
spicehoarder@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Throw in a “rawr :3” while you’re at it