What would the human experience be of the Earth suddenly leaving the sun's orbit?

The entire earth would be below freezing in a month or two (it's hard to calculate exactly. The oceans are a tremendous heat reservoir). Probably the only life left after a year would be around geothermal vents.

The earth isn't in the sun's orbit. Other way around, smart guy.

First there would be massive earthquakes and some tidal waves.

The weather would begin changing drastically. Days would get dimmer and nights would become longer.

Within a year the temperature would drop 20-30 degrees.

Within 5 years earth would become an ice world. All sea life would die, most plant and animal life would die.

Only a few humans would survive by using geothermal and nuclear energy in massive greenhouses for food.

From there who knows but humanity would survive. The earth would not.

Do you think I'd still be home alone on Friday nights?

Yikes!! wrote:

Do you think I'd still be home alone on Friday nights?

lol jerk

Jesurs wrote:

First there would be massive earthquakes and some tidal waves.

The weather would begin changing drastically. Days would get dimmer and nights would become longer.

Within a year the temperature would drop 20-30 degrees.

Within 5 years earth would become an ice world. All sea life would die, most plant and animal life would die.

Only a few humans would survive by using geothermal and nuclear energy in massive greenhouses for food.

From there who knows but humanity would survive. The earth would not.

The nights would not become longer. The earth would continue to rotate once every 24 hours and the nights would be 12 hours long (on average).

Assuming that the earth simply followed a straight line trajectory at its current velocity the temperatures would plunge by hundreds of degrees fahrenheit in a year. It would be an ice ball within six months.

Humans would be extinct within the first year.

The earth would continue on its merry way.

Let's say the earth left the orbit in 1,000 years. At this point, the earth would be so hot from global warming, it would take much longer for earth to become an iceball, yes?

crouton wrote:

Let's say the earth left the orbit in 1,000 years. At this point, the earth would be so hot from global warming, it would take much longer for earth to become an iceball, yes?

I imagine that it would depend on if someone forgot to turn off the AC.

The gravitational effect of the moon causes considerable internal heat within the earth's crust. If the moon comes with us its gravity alone would provide a source of heat, though you may have to tunnel down to it.

Assuming nothing catastrophic happened to the earth, we would still continue rotating at 24 hours per day. If we leave the solar system we would have perpetual night.

We should be able to find water, heat, and power (heat) underground. Food would be the tricky issue. Given a couple of decades of planning/preparation a survivable environment could be constructed underground for a small community.

"What would the human experience be of the Earth suddenly leaving the sun's orbit?"

Given what this would mean in terms of deformation of the planet, (essentially) all structures' being destroyed, etc., I'd guess that all humans would be dead within about a minute. I could be wrong.

student debt would still not be forgiven in bankruptcy.

Student debt should not be forgiven for any reason. Nor should mortgage obligations.

what if earth's orbit is decaying into the sun?

Actually, the earth does not rotate once every 24 hours even today.

That won't happen because a planet always speeds up as it gets closer to a center point that it orbits, thereby utilizing centripetal force to propel it further away from the sun.