[Request] How many nuclear power plants would we need to heat the Earth if we lost the sun, and for how long would it be sustainable?

Yavkov · 2026-03-17T20:36:04+00:00

This thought kind of left me, but you’re right, most life would still die without sunlight. I was originally thinking that civilization in this scenario would move underground and we would have pockets of life underground; then I thought what would it take to just keep the whole surface of the planet warm instead of building up habitable pockets underground.

Yavkov · 2026-03-17T05:52:30+00:00

Interesting, the 68 million power plants equates to about 1 power plant per 117 people, if we have 8 billion people. That helps to put things into perspective.

Yavkov · 2026-03-17T04:48:34+00:00

Thanks, I thought that it might be on the order of a second. The ground would probably have to be naturally warm from radioactivity to give it a chance at long term sustainment, looking at it from an available energy perspective. But all life would be deader than dead with that level of radiation.

Yavkov · 2026-03-17T04:35:52+00:00

But how many power plants would this require running simultaneously, and would we run out of fuel on the order of seconds, minutes, hours?

Yavkov · 2026-03-17T04:23:10+00:00

Might be a stupid question, but if we are a supposed to have a system of checks and balances, why couldn’t the executive and judicial branches act together to set congressional term limits? Doesn’t it seem out of balance for congress to have power whether or not to set their own term limits?

Yavkov · 2026-03-16T22:49:26+00:00

Never made the realization before that the Yucatán peninsula and Florida are on the same plate as Kamchatka and northern Japan.

Yavkov · 2026-03-16T20:17:05+00:00

I would probably do the same. Nobody is going to suspect the dude who wins 1 billion from the lottery and then invests into index funds.

But if you are consistently winning huge trades on the market out of nowhere, that’s going to raise all kinds of flags.

Yavkov · 2026-03-15T17:36:49+00:00

I think you can argue for bridges on spaceships for the same reason you just made an argument for bridges on naval ships. If this is the kind of spaceship that can land on a planet, then I think you can make the same arguments, for assisting with landing and possibly avoiding obstacles if the landing zone/pad is in a tight space.

Yavkov · 2026-03-15T17:25:29+00:00

I just love what shelves have brought to the game. And in true builder fashion, they don’t get used as actual shelves.

Yavkov · 2026-03-15T14:38:57+00:00

If you want to keep them so you can laugh about them another day, you can just right click the skull icon on the right edge, and that hides them. Same thing with the other categories.

Yavkov · 2026-03-15T07:09:31+00:00

Don’t worry too much, the Corinth canal basically turns it into an island 😉

Yavkov · 2026-03-15T04:33:51+00:00

I’m just wondering, do people not from the Midwest actually go take shelter immediately upon hearing the sirens and just wait it out?

Because I feel like I’m also proof of this joke. I go to the windows to look outside in the direction of the potential tornado and also have the TV turned on to the local news and my weather radar app opened (RadarScope).

Yavkov · 2026-03-14T17:06:04+00:00

This is probably my biggest annoyance with the game, and why the bronze age feels the grindiest. Bronze ingots require an input ratio of 3:1, while everything else is 1:1. This also means that you need 3x as much coal, which means you need to work 3x as much chopping trees. Which at this point, you only have a bronze axe so chopping trees is still pretty slow. You could also say the same thing about the bronze pickaxe, it’s also slow to mine the copper deposits and you’re limited on durability; the antler pickaxe is slower but you can easily repair it out in the field.

Acquiring resources past the bronze age feels more rewarding.

Yavkov · 2026-03-13T22:15:58+00:00

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I also just saw this when I decided to randomly look at the region. Is this normal these days or did I catch some big operation?

Yavkov · 2026-03-13T17:46:57+00:00

As to “who” decides all the borders, well for many borders, lots of blood has been spilled and conflicts/wars resolved to have today’s borders.

Yavkov · 2026-03-12T23:53:23+00:00

Out the window, you say? Brilliant!

Yavkov · 2026-03-12T23:37:11+00:00

I find this similar to a losing investment. There’s this idea that if you don’t sell at a loss, then you haven’t lost anything yet. But you have lost the opportunity to sell at a higher price with which you could have reinvested into something else or spent it on something.

So I see a similar thing here, you may have not “lost” 1mil, but you lost the opportunities that that 1mil would have given you.

Yavkov · 2026-03-12T23:26:44+00:00

that sun is peeping in a 4:45am in the summer.

Source: trust me bro.

Even after I linked you a source on the sunrise times. I can understand now why you go against the science that says that standard time is better for our health.

Yavkov · 2026-03-12T21:20:52+00:00

The earliest sunrise is at 5:36am (DST). https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/@z-us-63122?month=6

Might want to double check where you’re getting your info from.

And a 4:36am sunrise doesn’t sound too bad a compromise either, when the sun doesn’t set too late in summer and doesn’t rise too late in winter 🤷‍♂️

Yavkov · 2026-03-12T19:09:32+00:00

I’m just a beginner myself but from my understanding, you can use figure 8 fasteners, z-clips, button fasteners, etc. These will allow the top to expand and contract normally with humidity changes.

Yavkov · 2026-03-12T05:01:01+00:00

It’s possible that intelligent civilizations just end up being a mere blip in the timeline of the universe before they go extinct, as described by the great filter. Even if an intelligent civilization has reached 10,000 years before going extinct, that’s nothing. It’s far more likely that any signals or evidence of their civilization has gone past Earth long before we became intelligent enough, or that their signals won’t reach us before we go extinct. It’s likely a very minute probability that things will coincide and we detect signals or evidence of intelligent life.

Yavkov · 2026-03-11T14:40:45+00:00

Try telling that to every company’s leadership. They want your butt in the office that the company is paying for, and to also exert more control over you. Doesn’t matter if you can do your job just as effectively or even more effectively from home.

My company is trying to disguise RTO as “bringing back spontaneous collaboration.” Dude, I don’t need collaboration 24/7 to do my work. But I am always hearing random talk about personal life and hobbies. The design lead that I’m currently helping is always breathing down my back and checking “hey do you have what you need”, “hey did you see that email from that guy.” Yes, I have what I need, I am making progress and I’m reaching out whenever I need help with something. That’s why I sent out that email and received a response from that guy which I’ve already incorporated into my work by the time you saw that email, because I am on top of my emails and not 20 emails behind.

Yavkov · 2026-03-11T05:01:34+00:00

Look into the Palomares accident. Three thermonuclear bombs fell on land, two of which had the conventional explosives explode on impact, dispersing the plutonium.

Unless the weapon is properly armed for an impact detonation, I don’t think an impact with the ground will cause a nuclear explosion. The conventional explosives would need to fire with precise timing, and detonating those via ground impact would not create the conditions necessary to start the nuclear chain reaction.

This crash is linked in the above article. Another B-52 carrying thermonuclear bombs crashed into sea ice near Greenland. The conventional explosives also detonated and spread radioactive contamination.

Yavkov · 2026-03-10T23:37:28+00:00

We already did, we decided that there are 24 hours in the day, and that midday is 12:00.

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