raingwc Posted April 26, 2013 Report Share Posted April 26, 2013 Hey everyone! The first one to answer correctly the following question will receive $50,000 of ingame monies. (I will not give the money to a VIP, or a veteran without VIP status. So please only new people answer the question!) Question is as follows: What , if anything, would happen if our Sun was to be suddenly replaced by a frozen star? Good luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 26, 2013 Report Share Posted April 26, 2013 We wouldn't have time to notice, we would all be dead Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 26, 2013 Report Share Posted April 26, 2013 Day 1, satellites will fail Panic, looting, killings - plenty of people revisiting churches, synagogues or whatever. Day 2, diesel and all fuels will freeze. Burst pipes - water, gas overhead power lines will fail - ice accumulation. Winds will drop or stop completely as there is now no difference in temperature. Oceans/seas will begin to freeze and the levels will drop as ice is accumulated around the polar regions. Day 3. All surface water would have frozen. Most people frozen dead in their homes. Day 4. Nobody can venture outside. All non nuclear power stations have now ceased working. Day 5. Nuclear power stations cease working as electrical systems mal function. Day 6. Seas frozen. Ice sheets everywhere. Day 7. Total nothingness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raingwc Posted April 26, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 26, 2013 Awesome answers waiting for more! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KellyM5 Posted April 26, 2013 Report Share Posted April 26, 2013 We wouldn't have time to notice, we would all be dead If I remember correctly it takes roughly 6-9 minutes for the suns heat to reach us. So we'd have a few minutes to see wtf is going on before we we all died. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verbalkint Posted April 26, 2013 Report Share Posted April 26, 2013 Cold beer before we die... fast. Could be worse. In RL there is not always a Will Smith or Ben Affleck to save our asses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 26, 2013 Report Share Posted April 26, 2013 If I remember correctly it takes roughly 6-9 minutes for the suns heat to reach us. So we'd have a few minutes to see wtf is going on before we we all died. That's not enough time for anybody to figure out something like that has happened to the sun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fbwellman Posted April 26, 2013 Report Share Posted April 26, 2013 I'm gunna say we'd literally all die as soon as it happens. No photosynthesis for plants so no breathing for us. And it'd be reallllllllllllllllllllllllyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy cold Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thb Posted April 26, 2013 Report Share Posted April 26, 2013 after a couple of minutes we'd see absolutely nothing anymore, everything would be dark and after a couple of days the whole planet will be covered with ice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 26, 2013 Report Share Posted April 26, 2013 is somethign wrong with me if i get really scared thinking about the possibility of the sun not working correctly and how fragile the whole system is? i get truly anxious and scared... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raingwc Posted April 27, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 27, 2013 A hint, What is another name for a frozen star? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KellyM5 Posted April 27, 2013 Report Share Posted April 27, 2013 A hint, What is another name for a frozen star? Black hole Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 27, 2013 Report Share Posted April 27, 2013 Just a quick note for anyone who is actually anxious about this coming to pass, it is impossible for the sun to actually collapse and become a black hole. It would have to grow up to four times it's current size to be viable, and if the sun was four times bigger than it currently is, we'd have entirely different problems altogether. Not to mention the process takes billions of years, so. With that said, if this did happen hypothetically, nothing would happen to Earth itself. It would continue along in it's orbit, the exact same way it does now. Life on earth, on the other hand, would freeze to death in about five minutes, before we even really realised what happened, because it takes eight minutes for the light of the sun to reach us. We wouldn't even actually see the sun blot out before we died. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raingwc Posted April 27, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 27, 2013 We have a winner! Firus, although you're already VIP, so no monies for you. Lets see if we have a non vip newbie who even answered anything. Congrats czwtb, you are now the proud owner of $50,000 ingame monies. I did this mainly so that more new people browse the forums. They need it, they just dont know it yet. Cheers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thb Posted April 27, 2013 Report Share Posted April 27, 2013 I won http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=anXKnXVm-Kc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 28, 2013 Report Share Posted April 28, 2013 If only I had joined the game 2 days sooner... Reading this topic made me remember this movie: http://www.impawards.com/2004/posters/day_after_tomorrow_ver4.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 28, 2013 Report Share Posted April 28, 2013 http://www.impawards.com/2004/posters/day_after_tomorrow_ver4.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 3, 2013 Report Share Posted May 3, 2013 Earth would fly off and smash into anything in it's path since the gravity from the sun keeps the earth in place. I know it was just a question for fun but stars don't just "go away" lol, it would be a long and painful process that would cause the extinction of mankind. Temperatures would increase and burn holes in the atmosphere if the sun started to burn out, we would have no protection from enormous amounts of radiation. Nothing lasts forever, I just hope im not around when the sun or earth croaks lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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