when the sun dies would dropping nuclear bombs keep the earth warm enough for survival for a while?

Question

when the sun dies, and it gets cold would dropping a couple nuclear bombs somewhere keep the planet warm enough for humans for a while

Answer 1

In about five billion years the Sun will swell into a red giant, a a few billion years after THAT will shrink into a white dwarf. But long before that - in about a billion years - solar output will be about 10% higher than it is today and the Earth will be largely uninhabitable. So the sun isn't going to "die" in the sense that we're going to be lacking in solar energy any time soon.

Answer 2

Both the sun and nukes give out radiation the only difference is that the atmosphere protects us from the suns radiation, at least mostly. If you were to drop nukes INSIDE the planet then there would not be anything to protect us from the radiation. Also the sun is positioned exactly where we do not burn up if its too close and we dont freeze if it is even an inch further, so if you where to drop maybe two nukes in the desert ,depending on what kind of nukes, could incinerate anything and everything in its path. and im not sure you would want that. so it would not be very wise.
just to be clear, the sun cannot die

Answer 3

Andreu,

The sun will not run out of hydrogen for nuclear fusion for another 4-10 billion years. But as a hypothetical question, the question is moot because the human race will be extinct by then. I doubt that we can make it to the next million years. All species ( yes that includes humans) eventually become extinct.

Answer 4

You must be super bored to be posting such a ridiculous question like this (that doesn't say much for me though) Anyways, maybe but what good would that be when the nuclear radiation will eventually kill us all if we do that so we either need to find a different source of survival or we should just accept death.

Answer 5

No.
No amount of nukes would make the slightest bit of difference.
The energy output would be infinitesimal compared to the size of the Sun.

Answer 6

No. The heat would immediately escape out of our atmosphere that night.

Nuclear power however could keeps us alive for hundreds of years as long as we stay inside.

Answer 7

that is worldwide warming then, would not it. finally the sunlight will escalate and consume the Earth. this might ensue after the sunlight completes burning hydrogen and burns all helium.

Answer 8

Your thinking is a little flawed on this one. Sun dies, we die.

Answer 9

No, not even close. The absence of sunlight would plunge us into the range of outer space temerature

Answer 10

uhhh if we dropped some nukes ,, how many do you think would survive??? and then if some do? do you think they will still have the limbs to walk out to see???