• hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 months ago

    Moon would “disappear” when it no longer reflected Sun’s light.

    It would also start getting very cold fast

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      7 months ago

      It would probably take more than a day for the cold to be so intense that you can’t possibly explain with some normal local phenomenon.

    • tate@lemmy.sdf.org
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      7 months ago

      The moon might be on the daylight side, so we wouldn’t necessarily observe that.

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      7 months ago

      Any visible planet or asteroid would. So some stars would also appear to blink out, but those would take longer to blink out. So the moon would go after 8 minutes, Jupiter would take 43 minutes to stop receiving light, and another 35-52 minutes to disappear for earth depending on orbital locations.

      Presumably we would get something on radio/tv/internet from the side facing the sun once they realized it, that of course being only if they hadn’t already been eradicated by a horrific shockwave caused by whatever event caused the sun to vanish before they had a chance to report what they saw, because supernovae tend to travel at very close to the speed of light, so there wouldn’t be much time for them to react.

      And if this is a supernova, you might just have time to grok what happened before the planet was obliterated under your feet from the shockwave.

      So I guess… chances are we would just barely understand what happened before we were gone.

      • 𝓔𝓶𝓶𝓲𝓮@lemm.ee
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        6 months ago

        It’s kind of odd that it doesn’t matter for a single human whether they die from sudden car accident or get obliterated by supernova. Both events feel equal

      • WolfLink@sh.itjust.works
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        6 months ago

        It wouldn’t really be faster than normal nighttime cooling. However, that cooling would continue instead of having the sun to start warming stuff up in the morning.