• humanspiral@lemmy.ca
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    8 hours ago

    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.

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      7 hours ago

      I was forced to calculate the black body temperature and radiation for the Earth, back in college by hand.

      I decided for fun to zero out the sun from the equation to see what would happen.

      My math came out to about -32°C average surface temperature.

      Earth would become an ice planet.

      I think you’d uh, need a bit more than a sweater in those conditions 😅

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        7 hours ago

        It’s sweaters all the way down. You have time to order from China shipped by boat before -32C happens. You’re just being a “save the sun” hippy climate alarmist /s. Energy company shareholders would benefit from high demand, so saving the sun is just selfish of you :P

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          7 hours ago

          I’m just imagining you shuffling out wearing six layers of different colored sweaters on the frozen tundra surface, lmao

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            2 hours ago

            I still like Bill Cosby. Fortunate that my mom always thought I should like sweaters and gifted me some.

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        6 hours ago

        So.

        The Antarctic. Roughly. Everywhere. Including the equator cuz that’s not a thing anymore.

        Are there any places that would be “warm” for any reason if you recall?

        Like, I assume the oceans would survive until the core stops and the planet truly dies?

    • teije9@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      7 hours 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.