I have tried avoiding reddit as much as possible. I only browse a few subs that are highly specific with their RSS feeds, so I avoid the slop that is the rest of that site
And the sun doesn't generally blink out of existence. Think about how much energy is on the other side of the earth, it's not like the two sides of earth are separate they are one huge interconnected energy system. What happens on one side impacts the other, and the core doesn't provide enough energy and the atmosphere is leaking heat constantly
The irony of the guy replying to you with PHD in his username not understanding that the Sun blasts the Earth with an absolutely unreal amount of energy
Yeah, but that's with petawatts being blasted on the other side of the earth every second, wouldn't the loss of that make the whole system cool down faster, including the side the sun doesn't touch? I'm thinking it'd be like having food on a hot plate, bottom is very hot, the top is less hot. But if you take the food off the plate the whole thing rapidly goes to room temp. I honestly have no idea, just conjecture tbh.
Not sure how quick exactly, but the earth doesn't provide enough heat, not even close. Kurzgesagt has a video on a similar subject, without the trillions 1.7e17 Watts showering the earth every second we'd get awfully cold awfully quick. They are talking about slowly moving away from the sun, but they conclude it would get real icy
Dude.. Are you trying to be overly pedantic? I am talking about our system as a whole sans sun