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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The moon would disappear though, so you'd notice by looking at the sky if it wasn't obstructed by clouds.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Only if the moon is on your side of the planet at the time and not already eclipsed by earth's shadow.

We are however very connected. That shit would be global news immediately.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Well they're not entirely wrong... I mean I turn off my notifications when I go to sleep.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

unless you're sleeping - 8 minutes and maybe 30 seconds to start seeing posts online, 10 minutes to start getting news about it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I don't know about you, but if I start seeing headlines about the Sun vanishing, I'm assuming it's a hoax and going back to bed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

then wait until the 10min mark then! Would be rather odd if all news sources in unison decided to pull a prank like that

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Maybe if ony one or two places are reporting on it. If all the major 'reputable' news sources are reporting it; there's a pretty good chance there's something to it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, but I'm not vetting the sources on that at 1am.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

dw other people will, and the sun vanishing would cause mass panic and with it all laws & morality would go to go to hell. So unless you live off the grid you're not going to get any sleep that eternal night :)

from then you'd probably have a few days to say goodbye to your friends and family, the Earth would rapidly start cooling and humanity would be lucky to have 0.0001% of people survive the first year

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Iceland would have the highest chance. You have to find places that have geothermal or nuclear power and access to pod farming equipment.

So unless you live off the grid you’re not going to get any sleep that eternal night :)

You underestimate my ability to turn off notifications on my phone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

yea realistically nuclear power would be one of the few things to keep humanity going in that doomed world. There's definitely a couple of bunkers set up to sustain life no matter the situation outside, but aside from the rich and a couple top scientists to think for them everyone else on the planet will die, honestly best course of action would be just commiting suicide with all your loved ones whilst there's still some wood to burn for warmth.

I don't mean the notifications on your phone I mean the screaming, shouting, and arson outside 😭

I suspect the first hour (though that might be generous) would be grave silent, then all hell would break loose. Nobody will have anything to lose

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don’t mean the notifications on your phone I mean the screaming, shouting, and arson outside

I don't live that close to people. There's an in between zone between being an urbanite and being offgrid.

Also, I don't believe that people would turn blood thirsty within hours. That's hollywood drivel and hollywood is run by sociopaths.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

there's definitely going to be some bloodthirst within hours. There's already people that say there's nothing stopping them from murdering others aside from the threat of punishment. At the very least there'll be a steep spike in murders as people go out to commit revenge killings, be they justified or not - they would happen for certain. The preppers would certainly use their arsenal to "defend" their stashes. To-be mass murderers would do their thing. Many people will opt to go out with a bang. Sociopaths will get their last hit of pleasure. Just chaos in general. All instincts unleashed. No need to think about consequences, instant gratification now for everybody.

Hollywood exaggerates things of course, but imagine all laws got abolished and consequences of your actions didn't matter. It might be few that take that chance, but it'll certainly be enough to raise hell

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I'm more interested in how long before we freeze to death.

How long will the earth's atmosphere hold onto its heat?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I'm more interested in how long before we freeze to death.

Kurzegesagt did a great video on this thought experiment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLZJlf5rHVs&t=1

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The classic sci-fi short story A Pail of Air touches on this.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51461

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

It goes to 9 minutes from 8, since every single communication gadget will yell out that the sun has disappeared as reports come in from the other side of the earth.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Depending on the lunar cycle, the night time side would notice the moon become dim.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Doubt anyone would notice the moon getting dim when the fucking sun disappears in the same second.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (2 children)

~~dim~~

Disappear

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well technically there'd be earth glow so it wouldn't be totally dark.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Earthshine from where? That's still reflected sunlight! Maybe a tiny amount of cityshine, but the light pollution from those same cities will far outshine that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Like you said, artificial lighting. Technically you'd get some IR from the planet itself which could get converted to visible light but definitely not nearly enough to be noticeable. You'd also probably get about 3 seconds of real reflected sunlight before that also goes away.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Ok yeah you’d definitely want any story to have the sun disappear take place at night, with a full moon, possibly a large harvest moon for ambiance. The moon disappears and within minutes you’re bombarded with calls…

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