Cool video about this:
Cool video about this:
WhatIf? wrote:
As always, xkcd has you covered:
http://what-if.xkcd.com/49/
OK, that is a cool website!
I don't know how it would play out but it would all be done in 8 minutes.
The interior of the earth is surprisingly hot (more than 1000 degrees). And the interaction with the moon's gravity also is a source of some heat, as well as other sources of fuel like radioactives. A subterranean culture could exist for a long time, but I'm don't think forever.
yogibear wrote:
The interior of the earth is surprisingly hot (more than 1000 degrees). And the interaction with the moon's gravity also is a source of some heat, as well as other sources of fuel like radioactives. A subterranean culture could exist for a long time, but I'm don't think forever.
Neither of those things provide much heat to the surface. What would a subterranean culture eat?
No Way wrote:
yogibear wrote:The interior of the earth is surprisingly hot (more than 1000 degrees). And the interaction with the moon's gravity also is a source of some heat, as well as other sources of fuel like radioactives. A subterranean culture could exist for a long time, but I'm don't think forever.
Neither of those things provide much heat to the surface. What would a subterranean culture eat?
Geothermal heat is extremely valuable to certain bacteria/archaea. Coupled with inorganic nutrients, these microorganisms would live on if the sun gave out.
Look at Pluto -- it is not very warm there and we would be getting less electromagnetic energy than Pluto does now. Not too long for gases in the atmosphere to liquify but you would be dead by then. Also, the earth would go off in a straight line tangent to the orbit wherever it was in its orbit, but that is almost beside the point. We would have a pretty good first 8 minutes, but beyond that...
word. wrote:
Cool video about this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rltpH6ck2Kc
Most of the vsauce videos are amazing.
The idea of the speed of gravity in that one blew my mind.
cant get much slower than dead wrote:
WhatIf? wrote:As always, xkcd has you covered:
http://what-if.xkcd.com/49/Are there any downsides to this scenario?
We would all freeze and die.
In other words, it wouldn't effect most of your 5k times.
affect
it wouldn't be impacting us at all if it disappeared. :)
The sun vanishes every night. If it comes up again in the morning there's no real issue.
The only significant change is that we would be able to beat up Superman.
Jesus would come. His light shines brighter than the SUN. Amen.
Candice Camerones Tebows wrote:
Jesus would come. His light shines brighter than the SUN. Amen.
Jesus Saves!
Disaster! wrote:
- How long could humans survive? 100 years? Indefinitely?
No one would survive more than a few days. Pluto, at it's coldest, gets to minus 369 degrees Fahrenheit. I would suspect that the earth would get that cold pretty quick. You think you're going to produce enough heat to keep life sustained through minus 369? The minute you walked outside you'd freeze to death almost instantly. Bacteria would probably survive and a few bugs, but almost everything else would die within a few days. I mean, life exists almost solely on the fact that we're perfectly distanced from the sun.
People in the general vicinity of Miley Cyrus would be fine because she's really hot.
Vsauce has a video on Youtube about this (I didn't follow any of the links, it might have already been posted.)
Basically, we could save underground on Nuclear energy for billions of years.
Probably gridlock in Congress trying to decide whether to keep daylight saving time or not.
I'd eat Kate Upton
bacon factor wrote:
The majority of the world would turn cannibal. Countries with hydroelectric/wind power could grow limited crops with man-made light.