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What would happen to the earth if the sun dies?

Posted by tarius007 • 12/12/07 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: astronomy, sun, sun's life

One time i was reading a book. Its all about the life of the star, how the stars come to an end and how the stars are born.

Now what if the time comes that our only star (the sun) that give life to the earth dies?

What would happen to the earth? Just try to imagine living without a light!

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12/12/07

monkeytale

Um, the outlook wouldn't be pretty. Earth would cease to exist.

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12/12/07

lamenews

we would send bruce willis and ben affleck up into space to reignite the sun

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  ThriftShopRomantic
  
  Can we just send Ben Afleck up to space anyway? PLEASE?
12/12/07

Xight

We'd be burnt to a crisp from the supernova.

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  lamenews
  
  no she just said dies not super nova,
  
  but if you mean the scientific factual answer of what is going to happen yes we burn,
  
  there was a tv special on this: our sun is not big enough to supernova, it will eventually (millions of years) expand into a red giant, engulfing mercury, venus and possibly earth, then it will cool contract become a white dwarf, if the earth was not engulfed it will now be frozen
  
  that the cold hard truth
12/13/07

witewood

Earth will be burnt up before the Sun dies I always was led to believe. Both will happen eventually.

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12/13/07

suburbqueen

It would get real cold real quick

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12/13/07

mikeny07

Earth would be too cold to live on. The Sun will die soon enough though. It is half way through its life span.

So unless God returns or some aliens out there care about us, nothing will be left here one day.

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12/13/07

kimmylyn

I better get my snow boots on.

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12/13/07

mikeny07

The Sun has been around 4.5 billion years already. We only got about another 500-700 million years left here before we are all gone.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_sun

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12/13/07

rippinkitten

This is a real cheery discussion!

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12/13/07

techfun

Ummm ignoring the temperature thing, pretty much ALL life on this planet, at its base, depends on specific wavelengths of light for the process of photosynthesis on which all food production (even mushrooms since they need food) eventually depends. The earth would not have to die to break that system. Just a major change in the type of light and energy our sun puts out would eliminate the viability of life here. So much of life as we know it depends on small delicate things. Look into what would happen if too many domestic and wild bee colonies were to die off and you won't even think about long term problems like the sun anymore.

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12/13/07

exinco

even BC not exist!

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12/13/07

mikeny07

I wonder if by 700 million years though the government will release all the hidden UFO files they kept from us.

My hunch tells me they will still be keeping it a secret and making people think they are idiots for believing in it.

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12/13/07

mtchick

It would become like our moon, I think.

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12/13/07

antibarbie

The earth would be fine. It's just a big rock after all... It's everything living on it that would be going bye bye.

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12/13/07

globalgirl

We'd freeze and quiver and cease to exist.

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