• friend_of_satan@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      That would be a beautiful, terrifying sight. You could gaze up at the most amazing view of the stars as the whole world froze to death.

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        2 months ago

        I wonder if you had the opportunity to do so leisurely.

        A suddenly vanishing sun would also mean a spectularly high energy gravity wave hitting the earth. You might be dead before even realizing that anything is off…

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      2 months ago

      There is a really great short story by Larry Niven based on a similar premise:

      “Inconstant Moon”

      There is also an “Outer Limits” episode based on this. I watched that before knowing the short story and it is one of only 2 or three OL episodes that I still have an active memory of…