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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (11 children)

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.

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

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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

That's boring.

Can we just have the reverse, like a "When Day Breaks" scenario? At least its fun.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The telephone: "Am I a joke to you?"

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The real question is if the earth becomes a rogue planet or if Jupiter captures most/all of the remaining solar system. Jupiter is technically a failed star, so could it finally get it's glowup from being the sun's understudy and keep us all together until we fall into the gravitational well of a new star?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

If the sun just disappears, I doubt even having another sun would keep everything from flying off to fuck knows where. Jupiter, by comparison, is beyond hope. The Barycenter is far from Jupiter.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Only two ways to find out. Time to fire up universe sandbox, cause I'm fresh out of the ability to delete the sun in the production environment.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

For further reading, see Galaxias by Stephen Baxter.

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