why can't everyone just get on one side of the planet and jump at the same time to slow it down

This went from scary to “uh-huh” to “did they really just forget that tectonic plates exist?” to Space: 1999 with the rocket idea.

Went from "OH NOOO THE WORLD IS ENDING!" to "oh no, someone forgot their science lessons!"

I don’t know how fast this rogue planet is, but 2 weeks past Jupiter’s orbit (3.5 AU) and 7 weeks past Pluto’s orbit (30AU) , that’s tens of times faster than any of the space probes we have sent, and also implying that Earth have substantially sped up in this process instead of being slowed by sun’s gravity . For reference, the New Horizon probe took 11 years to reach Pluto’s orbit, and it is one of the fastest things we’ve launched. With an ejection speed well over 400km/s, anything less than fusion power have no hope of bringing earth back.

I love how the final plan is just “why dont we take the planet, and push it somewhere else”

Gotta appreciate how honest the space force in this scenario. No avoiding public outrage or mass panic, they even admit failure.

"schools will remain open"

Imagine that we as a human species have to scavenge outside the solar system because this actually happened. With spaceships. What space race would have to be unleashed for this to occur.

It's literally the end of the world and yet there is apparently still "regularly scheduled programming" to be preempted by emergency alerts. Glad to know we've got our priorities straight.

Fun fact- there is a bunker, somewhere in Europe, that is actually preparing for this type of scenario. The bunker is run by scientists and is located deep inside a mountain and contains hundreds of plants and foods in the event that something like this happens.

"May God have mercy on us all."

The solar schizophrenia is an interesting phenomenon. All creatures, even humans have evolved their entire existence with the sun. So to have our sun gone would drive some people mad since it's such a basic and primal need - it would be interesting to see what the side effects would be.

It really doesn't matter what it is. The moment you see an emergency alert with the US space force logo, you know something very bad is about to happen

“Dude, Benson is so gonna fire us!”

There was a book along this scenario - "A Pail of Air"

Love how the message of this story is never underestimate the governments ability to make a bad situation even worse

The only problem I have with this is that the oceans wouldn’t freeze like that. They’d freeze over sure, but the water underneath would be insulated by the ice. It wouldn’t add weight, let alone enough to affect tectonic activity

This used to scare the sh*t out of me as a kid. Good work

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"Pets are allowed as long as they aren't experiencing solar schizophrenia"