Pickles by Brian Crane for October 08, 2021

Survival of the fittest, Earl?

Actually, if the sun went nova, it would first expand to engulf the Earth and other inner planets.

It takes more than 8 minutes to get cold at night. It would get dark in 8 minutes but take longer to get very very cold.

Earl hasn’t figured it out: He wouldn’t know to do that until the light went out. By the way, if the moon is visible near full, it will shine for another second or so as the last light first passes the earth then bounces back.

PS: It’s more probable that the Sun will get much brighter, not dimmer.

You’d have about 8.3 minutes to notice that the sun had gone out – (that everything in the sky would turn dark). If the sun continued to be out, the coat would not matter (for very long at all).

It would take 8 minutes before you knew the sun went out.

so earl is one of those friends: “I don’t have to outrun the bear, I just have to outrun you!”

With friends like you, Earl, who needs enemies.

I do not think that a coat would help.

Good grief! Isn’t this world cold enough without the sun going out?

That would not be nice Earl .

A question to ponder: If the sun were to blink out of existence and the Earth was no longer gravitationally bound wouldn’t it take longer than 8 minutes for the last photon to reach the Earth?

It’ll be Mad Max all over again!

If the sun went out it would take approximately 8 minutes for the light to stop arriving to the Earth, but a while longer for the Earth to cool !

Forget it Earl, in a short while even that coat would not be enough!

We wouldn’t know the sun had gone out until 8 minutes after it happened

Without the sun, the earth would go speeding through space in a straight (more or less) line. Would it stop orbiting immediately (gravity is instant) or eight minutes later (gravity moves at the speed of light)?

Not really. It would get very dark, but the thermal mass of the planet and atmosphere would make for a slow decrease on the order of days.

I dunno Earl, the coat just isn’t your style.

Lol! Only Earl would come up with that statement…

Did he overlook the resulting darkness?

‘’Hey, who switched off the light?’’

I don’t think a COAT is gonna make much difference.

There’s some “news” outlets that would say it’s fake news.

It wouldn’t be any colder than it is at about 8 pm at first, then would slowly cool down.

Kind of a dark strip today. The sun is shining on Tulsa. TGIF. Have a great day, everyone.

Yes, but there would be “breaking news” announcements on the Internet for a week. :)

Sure but someone would have to phone to let you know the sun was going out in 8 minutes.

But the moonlight would keep going on for a couple seconds longer!

If the sun goes out, life on Earth will cease to exist!

8.3 minutes to be exact. I was discussing that with my 8th grade science students yesterday as we were talking about the properties of light.

In the beginning there was the light. I’m pretty sure that come the dark, it will be the end.

If the sun did go out, it would make all those solar enthusiast look stupid.

How much CO2 can we pump into the atmosphere in that event, to slow the cooldown with the greenhouse effect? (Ans.: Not enough.)

Not that you would know it was going to happen until the light didn’t reach you.

Just think, some of the galaxies we see may have few living stars left, died billions of years back.

Funny, I deed…

Gee, if the sun went out I guess I’d have to read my comics by moonlight.

That’s what I remember during the last eclipse.

Doncha love science study class..

If possible, we could dump as much “super greenhouse gases” into the atmosphere to help hold in the heat of the planet. Burn all the oil and coal we could in the meantime to stay warm and provide heat and light.

There was a Twilight Zone episode about this happening, an old black and white one.

“See, I told you Global Warming was a hoax…”

I think we’d have more trouble than it just getting colder.

Well, most of only need 6 minutes at the most.