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, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

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)