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[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 days ago (5 children)

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.

[–] TaTTe 45 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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 :)

[–] A_Very_Big_Fan 23 points 3 days ago (1 children)

worry

I, for one, welcome the inexplicable annihilation of the sun

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

Yeah! Fuck you, Ra! I got sunburned on Lake Powell!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

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

[–] chiliedogg 4 points 3 days ago

The ocean would revolt.

[–] danc4498 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I wonder how long till everyone was dead. And what would be the last living species.

[–] Machinist 3 points 3 days ago

My guess is that bacteria down in the crust near thermal vents would live the longest. Thousnands of years if they are able to follow the heat down.

Figure bunkered people might make it a few months depending on their power source and ability to withstand dropping pressure. Not sure how long it would take for the atmosphere to freeze. Government bunker that is vacuum proof with a reactor might make it a decade.

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

Cool writing prompt: Elusive Dawn

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

The first measurable thing that would happen is that we would stop orbiting the sun, since (counter to what my 12-year-old ufo-believing self thought) gravity also travels at the speed of light.