If our planet stopped getting light from the sun, how lon would it take us to all die?

Question

i.e. eternal eclipse or the sun would shut down (figuresly speaking)

Answer 1

Not very long at all, I think. A matter of days, if not hours. Space is EXTREEEEEEEMLY cold, and soon that would sap the remaining heat out of the planet, atmosphere or no.

Answer 2

Without the energy from the sun, Earth would freeze into a solid ball of ice fairly quickly I'd imagine. But we'd probably be dead long before then ....

Although actually when our sun dies it will expand first before collapsing into a white or brown dwarf star. So the planet will burn to a crisp first. Hopefully humans will have left Earth far behind by then (we have about 5 billion years to figure it out).

Answer 3

Darkness would happen in 8 seconds. Cooling would begin immediately. Suicide would take the first people, or heart attacks. After that, the last would go in a few days.

Answer 4

We were never truly alive. Oh woe is us, that we could not see that we were forsaken when jesus said, 'Let them eat cake." Because now we're all overweight and ugly.

Answer 5

As this in science! It is not a philosophical question.

Answer 6

bad luck! unfortunately, all of us will die much before that!

Answer 7

instantly...