Wouldn’t the planet rapidly start to cool? I think we’d be dead by morning
The moon also doesn’t emit it’s own light. It would take longer for the moon to “disappear” than it would for the sun but it wouldn’t be the whole night.
False; no sun = no morning!
So extremely cloudy mornings = no morning? lol just kidding!
I wonder how long it would take before you would feel it becoming colder
Forget colder, I kind of feel like we’re missing out on not hearing the sun thanks to space
I wonder if we would feel the sudden disappearance of the centripetal force of the sun’s gravity.
After 8 minutes
http://scienceprimer.com/lunar-and-solar-tides
Yes, the tidal effect of the sun would disappear, and that would probably make the oceans all fucky suddenly (after an 8 minutes lag).
And now for the segue into a shower thought - so the first thing night side would notice is the Moon disappearing (if it’s in the night sky), but after that, how long before effects begin to suggest something is seriously wrong on the day side. Something tells me it will be sooner than the morning.
I’d assume after 8 minutes the people on the day side would notice and all media would blow up, so hopefully you’d be asleep and wouldn’t have to worry :)
worry
I, for one, welcome the inexplicable annihilation of the sun
But all the solar panels will stop working so there will be no electricity. Batteries would run out and any other source of energy would be destroyed by people who started a cult worshipping the Sun hoping it would reappear
So no social media on the part of the Earth that would notice the disappearance of the sun. The other side wouldnt have any problems with electricity since they wouldnt have the Sun-worshipping cult
Cool writing prompt: Elusive Dawn
For further reading, see Galaxias by Stephen Baxter.
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