If the sun wouldn't exist...

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* No one would be criticized of having a fake tan, because that'd be the only option.

* You could see owls and bats anytime.

* People would stop complaining about having to work during the sunny hours of the day.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 10:36 (nineteen years ago)

* they would die

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 10:40 (nineteen years ago)

*they'd run out of food in a matter of weeks

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 10:40 (nineteen years ago)

People would read the Daily Star instead.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 10:41 (nineteen years ago)

*Oh yes, also there wouldn't be an earth because the gravitational influence of the sun wouldn't be there to cause the solar system to exist in the first place

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 10:41 (nineteen years ago)

*they'd run out of food in a matter of weeks

I think there would be some scary hurtling through space, earthquakes, tidal waves, volcanic explosions and all round freezing to death long before anyone thought about making the tea.

― ONIMO has fallen into changing screen name HELL (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 10:43 (nineteen years ago)

I like that the original Q says "wouldn't" rather than "didn't" - like the sun could just refuse to exist.

― ONIMO has fallen into changing screen name HELL (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 10:44 (nineteen years ago)

"Should the sun refuse to shine... I would still be lovin' yoooouuuu..."

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 10:45 (nineteen years ago)

Ignoring all the impeding death issues

*permament SAD
*Spanish holidays are only worth it for the cheap booze (oh wait...)
*more shagging, probably
*move to decimal clock system

― ONIMO has fallen into changing screen name HELL (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 10:46 (nineteen years ago)

Garry Bushell would have had to get a proper job.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 10:48 (nineteen years ago)

- Humans would become pale cannibal creatures like the underground-dwelling Morlocks in H.G. Wells' Time Machine.
- We would probably stay awake for much longer periods, and sleep less.
- We would not be able to be environmentally-friendly and use solar power.

― salexandra (salexander), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 11:08 (nineteen years ago)

Well, on a plus side...

*No more worrying about global warming!

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 11:09 (nineteen years ago)

http://img.clubic.com/photo/00070490.jpg

― James Herbert Dip (noodle vague), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 11:09 (nineteen years ago)

Labour would have won the 1992 election.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 11:11 (nineteen years ago)

Tinted glasses just make you look stupid.

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 11:11 (nineteen years ago)

You hate Stevie Wonder.

― James Herbert Dip (noodle vague), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 11:12 (nineteen years ago)

I keep thinking of The Little Train that Could when looking at the thread title, like the sun sure has a lot of willpower and self-esteem. The Little Sun that Wouldn't.

― salexandra (salexander), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 11:16 (nineteen years ago)

Georges Bataille to thread.

― James Herbert Dip (noodle vague), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 11:16 (nineteen years ago)

Snooty pizza joints have to make do with regular old dried tomatoes.

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 11:18 (nineteen years ago)

What was that thread by the guy who was terrified of gravity just.. stopping?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 11:25 (nineteen years ago)

what happens if gravity just.. let go

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 11:41 (nineteen years ago)

cool we'd get to see stars all the time

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

er.. for both thread questions

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 11:44 (nineteen years ago)

tinted glasses always make you look stupid.

― teh_kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 11:52 (nineteen years ago)

oh i thought that post was in reply to the post above

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 12:10 (nineteen years ago)

the solar system (this particuar one anyway) would have never formed and there would be no earth, planets, etc.

but on a positive note, there would be no parrotheads.

― latebloomer: Veteran of the Mai Tai Massacre (latebloomer), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

the ant population would flurish!

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

I like the idea of a churlish, truculent sun.

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 12:41 (nineteen years ago)

did the earth churn out from the sun somehow then?

xxxpost

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

The earth (and indeed the entire solar system) coalesced from interstellar dust and debris attracted by the gravitational field of the sun as it formed. Or something like that.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 12:44 (nineteen years ago)

that doesn't make sense.. wouldn't the dust just get sucked into the sun?

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

* Vampires would be killed by exposure to cabbage.

* Yearly vacations could be spread equally around the year instead of everyone wanting to have them in July. (Applies only to countries in the North.)

* You couldn't see the moon, so it would take more time for scientists to discover what causes the tide and menstruation.

* Goths would wear extremely bright orange and yellow.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

Centrifugial force, Ken - same thing that stops the earth from ending up in the sun now.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

If frosh astronomy serves me well to make a solar system you start with a cloud of interstellar dust, which is sort of drifting randomly around aimlessly, then starts to rotate because of some weird property of motion and gravity that means big indistinct clouds of stuff tend to rotate. This causes it to elongate into a spiralling disc, gathering most of its mass toward the center, but smaller masses appear, too, and have enough rotational intertia to maintain a stable orbit. When the big central mass gets dense enough, a self-propogating fusion reaction ignites the star. Sometimes - often, even - you get more than one mass big and heavy enough to ignite, and those are binary systems.

Hooray for science classes for non-science majors!

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

oh actually we wouldn't see the stars would we? coz of no reflection from the sun.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

ok i'm talking crap aren't i, they *are* other suns. silly me. ho hum.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

It's the moon and the other planets that we wouldn't be able to see.

― Going Through The Motions (kate), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

The lack of sun might play funny buggers with the moon's orbit so you might well see it, just before it crashes through your living room window.

― ONIMO has fallen into changing screen name HELL (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

would we have no more clouds, or rain?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

Some of you aren't taking this thread seriously.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

The Endor Holocaust is the theorized devastation of the forest moon of Endor which happened after the second Death Star was destroyed (in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi) by the impact of falling debris. It has not been established to have occurred in any canon sources, but has been proposed as fanon by some fans as a scientifically inevitable consequence of the events portrayed.[1][2]

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

(xpost)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

If the sun wouldn't exist
I dont mind, I dont mind
If the mountains fell in the sea
Let it be, it aint me

― polar bear flashback episode (nickalicious), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

"fanon" omg

― ONIMO has fallen into changing screen name HELL (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.granta.com/shop/product-file/18/fran318/product.jpg

"The Wretched of Endor"

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

Whereupon the protagonist realizes that he will never ever be accepted as equal among the Rebels because of his pudgy, hairy body and his squeaky Ewok voice betraying his origin.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

"I would still be lovin' yoooouuuu..."

Teh Boom is OTM.

― hearditonthexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

But everyone who has a fake tan should be criticised.

― Treblekicker (treblekicker), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

Who Loves the Sun?

― S- (sgh), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 01:27 (nineteen years ago)

we would develop huge gollum eyes to see in the dark, and lamps would become strange antiquities.

― Maria (Maria), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 01:30 (nineteen years ago)

IT MAKES PLANTS GROW

― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 01:31 (nineteen years ago)

no skin cancer

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 01:34 (nineteen years ago)

lighted jewelry and reflective clothing fashion norms

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 01:35 (nineteen years ago)

torch-bearing headgear

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 01:36 (nineteen years ago)

what if the sun refused to shine
what if the clouds refused to rain
what if the wind refused to blow
what if the sea refused to wave
what if the world refused to turn
what if the stars would hesitate
what if, what is isn't true
what are you going to do
what if, what is isn't you
does that mean you've got to lose
digging for a feel of something new
what if the silence let you dream
what if the air could let you breathe
what if the words would bring you here
what if the sound could bring you peace
what if, what is isn't true
what are you going to do
digging for the feel of something new
what if, what is isn't you
what are you going to do
it came from your thoughts
you dreams, and visions
ripped up from your weeks, and indecision
what if the sun refused to shine
what if the clouds refused to rain
what if the world refused to turn
what if the clocks would hesitate
what if, what is isn't true
what are you going to do
what if, what is isn't you
does that mean you've got to lose
digging for the feel of something new
does that mean you've got to choose
the feel of something new
does that mean you've got to lose
the thoughts you cannot lose
what are you going to do

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 25 October 2006 01:55 (nineteen years ago)

*Big rush on winter clothing
*Massive discounts on summer clothing

― The Real Esteban Buttez (EstieButtez1), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 02:17 (nineteen years ago)

ABRAXAS 666

― Portable Dorkness (Dick Butkus), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 02:19 (nineteen years ago)

Abraxas

Element/sin : Sun

Shape : a fat-bellied character with the head of a king, a dragon's tail, and serpents instead of legs. He also carries a whip in his hand. He is often featured with the head of a cock.

― Portable Dorkness (Dick Butkus), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 02:20 (nineteen years ago)

http://conclaveobscurum.ru/ipsum/Abraxas.jpg

head of a cock, ladies and gentlemen

― Portable Dorkness (Dick Butkus), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 02:21 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.shared-visions.com/music/reviews/abraxas-s.jpg

― Portable Dorkness (Dick Butkus), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 02:23 (nineteen years ago)

the little smiling lizard who is currently lying draped across a rock in our garden would be cold and slow and glum.

― estela (estela), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 02:25 (nineteen years ago)

as would i.

― Maria (Maria), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 02:53 (nineteen years ago)

It's be like pompeii again...after 7 minutes its rays would stop hitting earth===INSTANT FROZONE! I recommend thinking of a cool pose the moment you hear the news. When space archaelogists defreeze you, your cool pose will ensure you're the most exciting specimen around.

― Abbott (Abbott), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 03:53 (nineteen years ago)

unless that pose became a trend somewhere inbetween then they'd be all sarcastic "wow! is it 2035, already?"

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 11:32 (nineteen years ago)

People froze in Pompeii?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

* No one would have any reason to go on a vacation to Ibiza, and therefore we might just as well a music genre called "Ålandic".

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:43 (eighteen years ago)

i heard the voiceover guy on wheel of fortune pronounce it "ibeeza" a couple of days ago.

― sunny successor, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 17:58 (eighteen years ago)

Because nothing happens in Ibiza unless the sun is out.

― Kerm, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 18:11 (eighteen years ago)

*Oh yes, also there wouldn't be an earth because the gravitational influence of the sun wouldn't be there to cause the solar system to exist in the first place

-- Going Through The Motions (kate), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 11:41 (11 months ago) Bookmark Link

No. There are probably planets without stars.

― caek, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 18:14 (eighteen years ago)

those planets probably have horrible pop music

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 18:17 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.daviddarling.info/images/BlackCloud.jpg

^^^ A+++ on this subject, would read again.

― caek, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 18:20 (eighteen years ago)

http://dreamers.com/libroscf/mirasol02.jpg

― caek, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 18:21 (eighteen years ago)

xxpost, no SFJ though, so it's not all bad.

― caek, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 18:21 (eighteen years ago)

six years pass...

We'd miss out on some mesmerizing science porn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFT7ATLQQx8

― panic disorder pixie (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 8 July 2014 20:42 (eleven years ago)

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