Do we really need the sun?

[cyclohexane]

you must be kidding to even pose this question.

 

[Vich]

Originally posted by: Smartazz
The sun causes so many bad things like skin cancer, nasty sun burns and much more, it would be so much more benificial if we didn't have the sun, I mean come on. We are America and we could use other forms of light, who agrees with me on this one?





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AnandTech "Smartazz" Moderator

you are an idiot la la la la la

 

[Smartazz]

I'll answer the top 4 questions in order:
1. Sheepathon-18.
2. Mercanucarible-You would freeze to death before you have to worry about food.
3. Cyclohexane and Vich- Of course I'm joking, read my previous responses, I wanted to see if people actually thought we could live without the sun.

 

[SparkyJJO]

Originally posted by: Smartazz
The sun causes so many bad things like skin cancer, nasty sun burns and much more, it would be so much more benificial if we didn't have the sun, I mean come on. We are America and we could use other forms of light, who agrees with me on this one?

Yes true, but what is to keep the earth from freezing over due to lack of HEAT from the sun?

 

[Smartazz]

Originally posted by: SparkyJJO

Originally posted by: Smartazz
The sun causes so many bad things like skin cancer, nasty sun burns and much more, it would be so much more benificial if we didn't have the sun, I mean come on. We are America and we could use other forms of light, who agrees with me on this one?

Yes true, but what is to keep the earth from freezing over due to lack of HEAT from the sun?

IT WOULDN'T, WE WOULD DIE WITHIN HOURS!

 

[SparkyJJO]

Originally posted by: Smartazz

Originally posted by: SparkyJJO

Originally posted by: Smartazz
The sun causes so many bad things like skin cancer, nasty sun burns and much more, it would be so much more benificial if we didn't have the sun, I mean come on. We are America and we could use other forms of light, who agrees with me on this one?

Yes true, but what is to keep the earth from freezing over due to lack of HEAT from the sun?

IT WOULDN'T, WE WOULD DIE WITHIN HOURS!

yes it would, just we wouldn't be around to see it

 

[Smartazz]

Originally posted by: SparkyJJO

Originally posted by: Smartazz

Originally posted by: SparkyJJO

Originally posted by: Smartazz
The sun causes so many bad things like skin cancer, nasty sun burns and much more, it would be so much more benificial if we didn't have the sun, I mean come on. We are America and we could use other forms of light, who agrees with me on this one?

Yes true, but what is to keep the earth from freezing over due to lack of HEAT from the sun?

IT WOULDN'T, WE WOULD DIE WITHIN HOURS!

yes it would, just we wouldn't be around to see it

edit: I think.

Not if you were in a spacecraft watching it happen.

 

[SparkyJJO]

Originally posted by: Smartazz

Originally posted by: SparkyJJO

Originally posted by: Smartazz

Originally posted by: SparkyJJO

Originally posted by: Smartazz
The sun causes so many bad things like skin cancer, nasty sun burns and much more, it would be so much more benificial if we didn't have the sun, I mean come on. We are America and we could use other forms of light, who agrees with me on this one?

Yes true, but what is to keep the earth from freezing over due to lack of HEAT from the sun?

IT WOULDN'T, WE WOULD DIE WITHIN HOURS!

yes it would, just we wouldn't be around to see it

edit: I think.

Not if you were in a spacecraft watching it happen.

ohh first we die within hours, but now are in a spacecraft watching it.... so does that mean we watch it happen and then die within hours after it happens in shock that our home is now a frozen ice ball?

 

[BW86]

This might just be the worst poll ever.

 

[Smartazz]

Originally posted by: BW86
This might just be the worst poll ever.

Actually this post was inspired by someone I knew who told me the sun was not nessisary to our survival. I wonder, do some people seriously think we don't need the sun because there are still people dumb enough to think the earth is the center of the universe.

 

[linkgoron]

Originally posted by: Smartazz

Originally posted by: SparkyJJO

Originally posted by: Smartazz
The sun causes so many bad things like skin cancer, nasty sun burns and much more, it would be so much more benificial if we didn't have the sun, I mean come on. We are America and we could use other forms of light, who agrees with me on this one?

Yes true, but what is to keep the earth from freezing over due to lack of HEAT from the sun?

IT WOULDN'T, WE WOULD DIE WITHIN seconds!

FIXED.
Or maybe 8 minutes, I guess.

 

[mercanucaribe]

Would we really freeze within seconds? The dark side of the earth doesn't freeze during the 12 hours it's unlit, and I'm pretty sure any amount of heat conducted through the earth is irrelevant compared to the mantle and molten core temperatures. The space shuttle doesn't freeze instantly when it's out of the light of the sun either.

 

[Wag]

RA SMITES YOU!!!!

 

[Ricemarine]

Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
Would we really freeze within seconds? The dark side of the earth doesn't freeze during the 12 hours it's unlit, and I'm pretty sure any amount of heat conducted through the earth is irrelevant compared to the mantle and molten core temperatures. The space shuttle doesn't freeze instantly when it's out of the light of the sun either.

Ehh no...

The sun is pretty far, so the sun's light would still flash on us for a couple minutes/hours/days... Course by the time we know the sun dies out is when we're all freezing.

 

[Joemonkey]

Originally posted by: AcidBath
Assuming the sun was to just "go out" and not die in normal fashion, in which case the Earth would be roasted by a rapidly expanding sun before we even have to worry about being cold, and also assuming humans could survive, the earth would eventually cool to about 2.7 Kelvin (or about 270 degrees below zero). Being just a few degrees above absolute zero nothing would survive. The entire plant would freeze to the core. Our atmosphere would be gone. We would be unprotected from high amounts of solar radiation that would assail our plant. Of course oxygen would be a thing of the past. So while we can create "artificial sunlight" quite easily life would end without the real thing.
But if you insist it would be great without the sun just take a trip to northern Siberia during a six month night and let us know how it goes.

"We would be unprotected from high amounts of solar radiation that would assail our plant." really? without the sun we'd have solar radiation?

 

[Smartazz]

Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
Would we really freeze within seconds? The dark side of the earth doesn't freeze during the 12 hours it's unlit, and I'm pretty sure any amount of heat conducted through the earth is irrelevant compared to the mantle and molten core temperatures. The space shuttle doesn't freeze instantly when it's out of the light of the sun either.

That's a good point, but I think you can heat a small spacecraft with a heater, you can't heat the earth with a heater. The earth would hit around absolute zero temperatures.

 

[Rubycon]

The resident energy expert here (laughingly after reading this thread over my shoulder) tells me that if we could (theoretically) produce the equivalent energy output of the sun here on Earth that every single resource (fossil, nuclear, chemical) would be consumed entirely in less than a week. :shocked:

 

[DotheDamnTHing]

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[FoBoT]

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[mercanucaribe]

Originally posted by: MS Dawn
The resident energy expert here (laughingly after reading this thread over my shoulder) tells me that if we could (theoretically) produce the equivalent energy output of the sun here on Earth that every single resource (fossil, nuclear, chemical) would be consumed entirely in less than a week. :shocked:

I assume he means the energy that reaches the earth and is used by plants.

 

[Wag]

Blame it on The Moon?

 

[Cristatus]

Originally posted by: Smartazz
The sun causes so many bad things like skin cancer, nasty sun burns and much more, it would be so much more benificial if we didn't have the sun, I mean come on. We are America and we could use other forms of light, who agrees with me on this one?





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You might be america, but there are other countries in the world.

 

[clickynext]

...wow, I thought this forum had plateaued in the level of stupid questions, but apparently I was wrong.

 

[JulesMaximus]

OMG!!!2!!2!2!!2!!222!2! LET'S BAN THE SUN!!!3!!4!31!1#$$11133!!!!34$!

 

[Sentinel]

How is it unnecessary for survival? All living things need it to survive, living in the NE Midwest we get the sun few and far between in the winter.

Edit: spelling