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Old 07-06-2013, 05:03 PM
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If sun instantly "switched off" and you happened to be looking at it about 8 minutes later, say through your solar telescope, I'd expect you'd see a tiny black dot, at the centre of the solar hemisphere facing the earth, which quickly expands to the limb, due the size of the sun and time it takes light to travel a solar radius.

Global warming will no longer be a problem after that

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