00:00Right now, you cannot tell if the sun still exists.
00:03The light reaching your eyes left the sun 8 minutes ago.
00:06If the sun died at this exact moment, you would not know for another 8 minutes.
00:118 minutes later, midday goes black.
00:14Not gradually.
00:15Not like a sunset.
00:16One instant, full daylight.
00:19The next, total darkness.
00:21No warning.
00:22Every solar panel on Earth cuts out simultaneously.
00:25Blackouts spread across every sun-facing continent.
00:28Every GPS satellite runs on solar power.
00:32Within hours, they go dark.
00:34Navigation for ships, planes, and military systems fails simultaneously.
00:40Photosynthesis stops.
00:41Every plant on Earth loses its energy source in the same instant.
00:45The forests do not die today.
00:47But they will.
00:48Earth is held in orbit by the sun's gravity.
00:51Without the sun, that orbit ends.
00:54Earth flies off in a straight line into interstellar space.
00:57Not toward anything.
00:59Just away.
01:00The temperature drops.
01:02One degree per week at first.
01:05Then faster.
01:06Within a decade, the average temperature on Earth is 70 degrees below zero.
01:11But not everything dies.
01:13At the bottom of every ocean.
01:15The creatures living there need no sunlight.
01:17They do not notice.
01:18Nothing changes for them.
01:20Earth drifts through total darkness.
01:23The moon stays with us, still orbiting.
01:26A frozen world with no destination.
01:29Look outside right now.
01:30What you see left the sun eight minutes ago.
01:33It may already be gone.
01:35You cannot know.
01:36Not yet.
01:37What do you think?
01:38What do you think?