Wouldn't it just get gradually cooler?

(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Wed 20 Apr 2011, 13:47, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

I don't think so, it'd simply go from hot to cold.

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 13:51, Reply)

Hmmm,
I can't see that happening. If the sun turned off, there would be a gradual twilight. But I'm not a scientist.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Wed 20 Apr 2011, 13:53, Reply)

It would get instantly dark.
The temperature would feel like it had dropped a big chunk instantly, like going from bright sunshine to shade, and then the rest of the heat would radiate away down to a baseline supported by decaying thorium in the earth's crust and the fuck-off amount of molten rock and metal inside the planet.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 13:56, Reply)

How long would it be before we all died?

(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Wed 20 Apr 2011, 13:58, Reply)

Not a clue.
People would be able to survive though, we have the technology. I remember reading a short story when I was a kid about people having to go out and fill buckets with frozen oxygen off the ground to replenish their air supply.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:03, Reply)

we'd only survive if we had
warning, though, surely
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:04, Reply)

I would have thought those with access to self-contained nuclear-powered bunkers would last a while,
even with minimal warning.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:06, Reply)

Andy Mcnab would survive it.
He'd slot the bastard.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:07, Reply)

so pack a jumper
just in case
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 13:58, Reply)

Bollocks.
The atmosphere, earth's surface and seas hold a fuckload of heat energy. Unless you mean, like, sunlight on your face, in which case yes.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 13:54, Reply)

Yes, that's what I mean, sorry.

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 20 Apr 2011, 14:19, Reply)