• Question: Is it possible that the Earth will slowly die without the Sun?

    Asked by to Kate, Kieren, Nicola, Rowena, Roy on 14 Mar 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Rowena Fletcher-Wood answered on 14 Mar 2014:


      Without the sun we would have no photosynthesis so no plants for food or making oxygen to breathe so we would die out. We would have no fuel for power and the earth would eventually become a dead rock!

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      Kieren Bradley answered on 14 Mar 2014:


      I think we would very quickly die from the lack of energy that comes from the sun, I imagine the temperature drop would probably do the damage quite fast. The other issue is that the sun is what we orbit around, if it suddenly vanished we would suddenly be flung in whatever direction we happened to be going, probably causing enormous earthquakes and tsunamis, plus sending us hurtling towards an asteroid belt.

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      Kate Nicholson answered on 14 Mar 2014:


      The earth would die very quickly without the sun. It would cool very quickly, and as Keiran says the weather would also stop. Without the sun’s energy our planet would freeze and become another dead space rock.

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