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Last Wolf
Umbra Wing
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Posted - 2008.10.19 20:08:00 -
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Edited by: Last Wolf on 19/10/2008 20:09:29
Edited by: Last Wolf on 19/10/2008 20:08:51
Ok so I'm bored and thought of this hypothetical question.
If the sun suddenly exploded without warning (read: we had no time to prepare for it in advance to somehow live longer) what would kill us first?
1) The loss of light, and therefore oxygen produced by plants/those-things-in-the-water-I-can-never-remember-the-name-of.
2) The loss of heat.
3) The loss of gravity throwing the earth's spin/rotation/orbit out of whack, which also would effect its magnetic field AFAIK
4) The explosion.
5) Something else, explain.
Yes I'm bored, and I'm procrastinating doing my programming homework (Merge Sort.. blah)
Also, what would it be possible for the earth to be "picked-up" by another large gravity well (IE: Jupiter)... and orbit it as a moon? I know we'd all be long dead by then but I'm curious.
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ReaperOfSly
Gallente
Zetsubou Corp
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Posted - 2008.10.19 20:10:00 -
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The Earth would be obliterated by the blast 8 minutes after the sun explodes. I'd hazard a guess that that would be what kills us first.
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Saint Lazarus
Spiorad ag fanaiocht
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Posted - 2008.10.19 20:16:00 -
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Originally by: ReaperOfSly
The Earth would be obliterated by the blast 8 minutes after the sun explodes. I'd hazard a guess that that would be what kills us first.
No way I think the mass panic would kill us all with the realization we're all ****ed in 8 minutes.
Mass suicidal drunken sexual 7 and a half minute orgy....
sounds like a nice way to go
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ReaperOfSly
Gallente
Zetsubou Corp
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Posted - 2008.10.19 20:21:00 -
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Originally by: Saint Lazarus
Originally by: ReaperOfSly
The Earth would be obliterated by the blast 8 minutes after the sun explodes. I'd hazard a guess that that would be what kills us first.
No way I think the mass panic would kill us all with the realization we're all ****ed in 8 minutes.
Mass suicidal drunken sexual 7 and a half minute orgy....
sounds like a nice way to go
Except we wouldn't know about it until a few seconds before the blast wave hits. Actually we would probably be vaporised by the gamma burst that leads the blast wave by a few seconds. We wouldn't even survive to see the blast wave hit.
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Last Wolf
Umbra Wing
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Posted - 2008.10.19 20:23:00 -
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Ok, Lets assume the initial blast didn't kill us.
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Originally by: Liang Nuren
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ReaperOfSly
Gallente
Zetsubou Corp
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Posted - 2008.10.19 20:25:00 -
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Originally by: Last Wolf
Ok, Lets assume the initial blast didn't kill us.
But that's silly. It would.
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Saint Lazarus
Spiorad ag fanaiocht
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Posted - 2008.10.19 20:31:00 -
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Originally by: ReaperOfSly
Originally by: Saint Lazarus
Originally by: ReaperOfSly
The Earth would be obliterated by the blast 8 minutes after the sun explodes. I'd hazard a guess that that would be what kills us first.
No way I think the mass panic would kill us all with the realization we're all ****ed in 8 minutes.
Mass suicidal drunken sexual 7 and a half minute orgy....
sounds like a nice way to go
Except we wouldn't know about it until a few seconds before the blast wave hits. Actually we would probably be vaporised by the gamma burst that leads the blast wave by a few seconds. We wouldn't even survive to see the blast wave hit.
I'd know man...I'd know, I have a 6th sense for them astronomically things
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Jana Clant
New Dawn Corp
New Eden Research
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Posted - 2008.10.19 20:33:00 -
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Originally by: Last Wolf
Ok, Lets assume the initial blast didn't kill us.
If you want us to assume that, why did you put it as option 4?
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Baldour Ngarr
Interwarp Plexus
Controlled Chaos
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Posted - 2008.10.19 20:35:00 -
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Originally by: Last Wolf
Ok, Lets assume the initial blast didn't kill us.
Then a more interesting hypothetical question might be "what happens to the Earth if the Sun suddenly disappears?"
We wouldn't know until 8 minutes afterwards, when the radiation from the Sun stops arriving. Life could probably survive on Earth for a week or two before everything froze solid.
I don't think the magnetic field going haywire would matter, because there'd be no Sun-radiation from which we'd need that field to protect us. Cosmic rays would get through, but they wouldn't have enough time to give everyone cancer before we all froze to death.
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Prof Patpending
Bodgit and Scarper Industrial
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Posted - 2008.10.19 20:45:00 -
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Originally by: Saint Lazarus
No way I think the mass panic would kill us all with the realization we're all ****ed in 8 minutes.
Holy crap in a bucket someone didn't listen to their school phyisics teacher.
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goodby4u
Valor Inc.
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Posted - 2008.10.19 20:49:00 -
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If you dont want an explosion say implodes.
If the sun imploded into nothing tomarrow the first thing to kill us would be the cold, the temperature would drop into death within a day, though you could setup life in the ocean for a day or two just to live longer but that will kill us first.
Next would either be lack of food or us crashing into random stuff outside orbit, depending on where we were in orbit.
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Last Wolf
Umbra Wing
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Posted - 2008.10.19 21:03:00 -
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also, I just thought of something. The actual explosion (Meaning the fiery ball of death and whatnot) wouldn't actually travel at the speed of light would it?
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Saint Lazarus
Spiorad ag fanaiocht
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Posted - 2008.10.19 21:03:00 -
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Originally by: Prof Patpending
Originally by: Saint Lazarus
No way I think the mass panic would kill us all with the realization we're all ****ed in 8 minutes.
Holy crap in a bucket someone didn't listen to their school phyisics teacher.
Either would you if you seen how hot she was, it was distracting to say the least
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Epegi Givo
Amarr
Vengeance Imperium
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Posted - 2008.10.19 21:13:00 -
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probably the loss of heat. we would all freeze to death
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ReaperOfSly
Gallente
Zetsubou Corp
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Posted - 2008.10.19 21:13:00 -
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Originally by: Last Wolf
also, I just thought of something. The actual explosion (Meaning the fiery ball of death and whatnot) wouldn't actually travel at the speed of light would it?
No, but very very close. Hence the physical blast wave trailing a few seconds behind the gamma burst.
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Zyck
KDS Navy
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Posted - 2008.10.19 22:59:00 -
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If we assume the sun simply dissapeared so there was no earth-shattering (literally) explosion:
- The solar system would fall apart. Literally. With no sun to keep everything in line every object in the system would simply speed off in a straight line tangent to wherever it is in it's orbit at the time.
- The world would be covered in total pitch blackness, except whatever light we get from distant stars.
- Plants would die from no food (no sunlight), which would lead to the death of herbivores. From there the carnivores, and us, will shortly follow.
- Given some time for the earth to bleed off its heat, we'd freeze to death if we hadn't starved yet. The oceans would freeze up sooner or later as well and we'd end up being a giant ball of ice and rock flying outward in some random direction through the galaxy.
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Benco97
Gallente
The Star League
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Posted - 2008.10.19 23:06:00 -
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I can say this, I'd be really rather annoyed, it'd put a crimp on my entire day.
Is there some sort of official complaints line I can make a note of in the event of this ever happening?
Originally by: P'uck
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Dr Slaughter
Minmatar
Rabies Inc.
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Posted - 2008.10.20 00:11:00 -
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Originally by: ReaperOfSly
Originally by: Last Wolf
also, I just thought of something. The actual explosion (Meaning the fiery ball of death and whatnot) wouldn't actually travel at the speed of light would it?
No, but very very close. Hence the physical blast wave trailing a few seconds behind the gamma burst.
Hopefully where I was living, at that exact moment, would be in solar eclipse by the moon (nice large blast shield), then at least I might have long enough to come up with something witty to say before I died.
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Lord Zoran
House of Tempers
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Posted - 2008.10.20 00:11:00 -
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suncream would be pointless.........
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Kaeten
Hybrid Syndicate
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Posted - 2008.10.20 00:34:00 -
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okok guys just say this instead.
the sun just disapierd all of a sudden like a *pop*.
gogo discuss
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Ryan Scouse'UK
omen.
Triumvirate.
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Posted - 2008.10.20 00:40:00 -
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Kaeten
Hybrid Syndicate
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Posted - 2008.10.20 00:42:00 -
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Originally by: Ryan Scouse'UK
I prob get a girl really drunk & try all the things am not allowed before the day is over.
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Chaos Incarnate
Faceless Logistics
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Posted - 2008.10.20 01:14:00 -
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Originally by: ReaperOfSly
The Earth would be obliterated by the blast 8 minutes after the sun explodes. I'd hazard a guess that that would be what kills us first.
Just to further go along with this, we'd actually only know about it 8 minutes after it happened (sun explodes, light takes 8min to reach us).
If the blast wave traveled at anything near the speed of light (which it probably wouldn't, but run with me here), we'd have a precious few seconds to stare upward and go "wtf just happened to the su-" before we all exploded
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Akita T
Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
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Posted - 2008.10.20 01:47:00 -
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It would very much depend on exactly how and why it exploded (or was destroyed/changed/whatever).
If it's a nova-type explosion, duuh, guess what kills you first
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sg3s
Battlestars
GoonSwarm
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Posted - 2008.10.20 04:14:00 -
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We will never know what hit us first... But my guess would be the radiation waves that will melt your brain etc...
At least if it exploded instantly without any indication, and I know that will never happen.
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Xen Gin
Universal Mining Inc
Forged Dominion
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Posted - 2008.10.20 06:54:00 -
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Originally by: Last Wolf
What if the sun exploded?
Who'd care! It's orgy time!
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IR Scoutar
Caldari
State War Academy
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Posted - 2008.10.20 07:45:00 -
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the world would be a better place soon after 
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Meiyang Lee
Gallente
Azteca Transportation Unlimited
Gunboat Diplomacy
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Posted - 2008.10.20 08:04:00 -
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We'd notice the sun went poof after 8 minutes (earth is roughly 8 light-minutes from the sun), then we'd have a couple of hours while the blastwave catches up (plasma has mass, so it's moving sublight for the most part), then the earth would probably be blown to bits in the shockwave. Would be an interesting few hours though, wonder what would happen. (Aside from the obvious end-of-the-world panic)
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Carniflex
Caldari
StarHunt
Fallout Project
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Posted - 2008.10.20 09:26:00 -
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If sun would just dissappear then I doubt that everything would be frozen solid in few days afterwards. Ofc higher lifeforms would be wiped out relatively fast, say within month or two at max. However life in deeper parts of oceans might survive for decade or two and it would take several centuries for all oceans to freeze solid (except in few parts where volcanism keeps water liquid for a while longer). Getting rid of all life would take millions of years, assuming we do not smash into something first.
Or who knows, perhaps jupiter would swallow other gas giants or get some of the mass from the sun to actually get big enough to be brown dwarf and earth might end up orbiting it and some other form of life might rise from few surviving bacterias on Earth.
It would be way too fast for humans to do anything about it. With few decades to prepare some would propably be capable of digging themselves in into some bunkers with nice nuclear reactors to keep em warm, but I doubt that even that would save humanity for more than few centuries.
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Voltain
BEER Inc.
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Posted - 2008.10.20 10:22:00 -
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Looking out of my office window while at the same time reading this thread made me realise this:
The UK would be fine without our 1 day a year of sunshine. In fact the girl who sits opposite me looks like she might have evolved to live underground near a heat source. Pale skin, big gnawing teeth, anorexic looking and practically blind with a heightened sense of smell.
I think I see whiskers too, but I don't want to get close enough to confirm.
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