#Also I'm confused - Cosmodrome EDZ Europa and Nessus still have the sun so did they just not implement it in the game

[hell-yeah-destiny]

So. Sun's out huh. Time to overthink this.

Had a conversation with my dad, an astrophysicist and lots of thoughts on my own.

First of all, if the sun was gone just like that everything that was circling it would just continue on it's path so our solar system pretty much would go nyoom in every direction. Fun.

That obvs didn't happen so it's gravity is still there... sort of? Imagine sun's out but it's mass is still there. Some effects that come to mind? (Edit: ok, the sun is only gone in the last city. It's there everywhere else, I'm just an idiot. Still interesting to think abou the effects of it beeing gone everywhere)

Yeah so it would be dark. BUT unlike we see in the game the moon wouldn't shine anymore. Unless the hive's green light is bright enough. Creepy.

Temperature drops. Like it does in the night but there's no point at which it would warm up again because guess what, no days. (Oh boy, my sleep rythm would be even more broke than it already is). So it would get ever colder - how fast though? Depends on how cloudy it is because clouds keep the warmth in. This is why cloudy nights are usually warmer than starry nights. So let's assume that temperature drops an average of 10°C during one night, that would make 20°C per day although I doubt that it would be linear, just to have some numbers to play with though. That would go on for a few days, maybe 3 - 4 when it comes closer to the lowest it would get. Remember earths core is very hot? Yeah that would balance it out at some point. Also it will take a while for all that water to cool down and there will be some clouds which brings me to the next point:

Clouds. Yes at first but when it get's cold enough all that will come down and no water will be left in the air. No more clouds when it's too cold. And that means it will cool down faster. Great, you better have a solar light wielding friend or electricity bills are going to look funny. Even more so than they already will.

More electricity needed. Y'know. It's dark all the time now and people need light although we'd get used to it beeing dark in general like we do in the night anyway. That means max. pupil extension plus heightened production for the cones in our eyes that let us see in darker environments. Your awoken or exo friend's eyes are gonna be blinding.

No wind! Wind exists because our atmosphere get's warmed up and cools down. Without sun there's only cooling down. No circulation.

Atmosphere collapses. Yeay. The stuff we breathe is more than just oxygen (that would kill us) and all those different types of gas freeze at different temperatures. So it would separate the gasses during the cooling process and at some point the mixture would not be good for people to breathe. And that is ignoring the fact that breathing super cold air is generally a bad idea.

Which brings me to another fun point. So. Stuff get's cold = it get's smaller. Most extreme would be gas. Remember that there's a hecking lot of gas on Jupiter and Saturn? Yeah they'd shrink to a size comparable to earth. Jupiter. Earth. That's... a lot. Mass would be the same though so it shouldn't affect Jupiters moons to a messurable degree.

With the only light source beeing our Milky way and stars I wondered whether Europa would be a bit brighter due to bright surfaces reflecting more light. It wouldn't do much though because there's not that much to reflect. There is no atmospheric shimmer (except if it now has an atmopshere due to the traveler but that would do funny things due to it beeing really damn cold already) and no zodiacal light in general (interplanetary dust that the sun shines at. Would there be a sun that shone at it.) so it really is just the night sky reflecting off of snow and ice so if someone wants to calculate that, please go ahead and let me know.

I'm not even going to start on the effect on plant life and the general biological effects. Like humans need sunlight to produce stuff like Vitamin D. Plants need light. That kinda stuff.

I did not take the traveler into account for this. Does it keep the temperature at level? The plants growing? Humans healthy? Does it change energy levels of it's surroundings or how exactly does it terraform planets? Does it do nothing?

So these are my thoughts on that. Where was I going with this? Nowhere, it is what it started out as; a journey into my insanity.

#overthinking #destiny 2 #season of the splicer #effects of switching to dark mode for real #sun #I don't know what to tag this with #I already overanalised the two trees from Tolkiens Silmarillion and I'm back at my bullshit #What do y'all think? #Also I'm confused - Cosmodrome EDZ Europa and Nessus still have the sun so did they just not implement it in the game #like they kept the moon bright Or is tge sun only out on earth? The last city? #The little shimmers on the tower that show that it's a vex simulation are only on the tower and HELM but nowhere else #Is that because implementing it everywhere would have been too difficult? Could be. #long post #my posts