Which would be worse? the temperature increasing every day or getting colder?

Lets say the earth began getting closer and closer to the sun every day, and each day it got warmer and warmer. It eventually passes 110 degrees and it will only continue to increase and increase more as the earth gets closer to the sun.

There is no more darkness, even at midnight the sun is shining bright as ever. Eventually electronics start shorting out due to the immense heat, cars overheat more frequently, and it wont end it will only increase.Water is scarce and is only being turned on for an hour a day

It will eventually get the point where simply touching your windowsill will burn your hand. Or would you rather it get further away from the sun? where the sun never rises anymore and its always dark outside, its freezing cold and -10 degrees with it only decreasing more and more.

Which would be more unbearable?

There was a Twilight Zone episode like this.

There was a Twilight Zone episode like this.

metroidprime55

Thats what I based it on 8)

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There was a Twilight Zone episode like this.

FrenchDynasty

Thats what I based it on 8)

Ah, another Twilight Zone fan.

The cold. Because then we could live underground and live off the heat that the core gives off.

ways to think of it

You can put on more clothes to get warm but not take off clothes to get cool

You can also redirect the heat to somewhere else(air conditioning anybody) but you can't make heat out of nothing

We have an earth that gives off heat

We can basically make electricity if it's so hot so it's actually better

well based on the fact taht when you're going to die from freezing i hear you get really warm and just fall asleep. that's better than losing control of your body due to dehyrdation.

I'm not bothered. I live in the UK so the climate is average. It's usally cold in the winter and mild/warm in the summer. It never gets too hot or too cold.

HOW DO U KNOW UR NOT DREAMING?

it could be happening right now as we speak

Colder, I hate the heat.

I prefer heat over cold, however the temperature dropping every day would lead to less problems than rising everyday IMO

How 'bout a bullet to the head?

cold is worse

i rather it get colder. you can always put on more warm clothes to get warmer. if it keep getting hot and hot you can be naked and still you wont be cooled

so how does getting closer to the sun stop the earths rotation?

anyway, i think i'd go with the cold.

so how does getting closer to the sun stop the earths rotation?

anyway, i think i'd go with the cold.

Dr_Manfattan

It's a tough choice either way. If it's too cold machines have hard times running. Not to mention the mountains of snow that would cover the planet. Water would freeze. lots of animals would freeze without anywhere warm to hide.

If it's hot. Dehydration, engines overheating. Water will have to be rationed. Plantlife would die due to lack of rain. Though you WILL be able to fry up an egg on the sidewalk!

For the sake of answering, though, I'll choose cold. It's easier to warm up than cool down.

Colder would be better, heat would destroy all the human race has done. Cold would freeze everything and one day an intellegent race may discover us and have something to dig up.

Every day getting hotter would be worse.

I'd rather live in the ice age than deal with the heat.

Either way we'd be dead eventually.

Rising. At the end of the day, wearing more clothes is better than dieing in the blazing heat.

I'd rather prefer it to be hot. I've had it with the cold...I hate it.

Either way it would force us to go into outer space and live out there.

Hot temperatures cause a lot of problems, aside from the obvious discomfort, crops would be unable to grow and the water levels will most likely lower (assuming the polar ice caps dont' melt and flood everywhere) resulting in a decerase in water supply and energy for areas that rely on hydroelectricity.

On the otherhand a cold temperature causes similar problems as hot temperature, but at least we can plant crops in greenhouses and the ice can be melted for water.

So yes I'd prefer cold to hot.

It would be much better if the temperature increased every day because heat is energy. Once the heat became unbearable for humans we could cover the earth with devices that harness the ambient heat and use that energy to cool to inhabited sections of the earth. energy is better than no energy fools!

I'd prefer the cold, since 110F is absolutely unbearable to me, but -10F is just fine. But why would either scenario entail permanent sunlight or darkness...?Dark__Link

Cold. You can only take off so many clothes.mrmusicman247

Increasing, it's easy to get warm when its cold, it's quite hard to get cool when outside, example:

Really cold: I'm running around like mad man, and I'm hot and sweaty. :P

Really hot: I'm standing in the shade, and I'm hot and sweaty, I'm running like a mad man, and I'm hot and sweaty, there is no solution other than to stand near a cooler for an hour.

Great topic, TC

110 and -10 degrees?

We're talking about Fahrenheit or Celsius here?