The Day the Sun Went Down
Part III
by
Susan E. Eskdale
(Age: 38)
copyright 06-17-2001
Age Rating: 7 to 17
Life was once again about to change. The headlines in the newspaper were not taken seriously, people did not know that the sun was truly about to go out. People took the presence of the sun for granted and did not seem to realise or care that the sun was itself just a star and like all stars would eventually die just as thousands of other stars before had perished.
The first problem that the world’s populations would face would be the extreme heat that would be caused by the burning up of the sun. With a depleted ozone layer, the sun was already hot enough, but when the sun approached the end of its days there would be heat so hot as to threaten to melt the metal used in high-rise buildings and even glass.
If technology could beat the race against time, there might be some hope that the cars, buildings and roadways would still be operable. Assuming they survived the actual destruction of the sun, what would be waiting would not be any more positive than the immeasurable heat experienced when the sun was extinguished.
The absence of the sun would cause definite problems even for a technologically advanced society. There would be issues surrounding crops, livestock and flora all around the world. One by one each of nature’s food chains would become extinct leaving another to adapt to a new life or to perish as its predecessor did.
The earth would cool to such a degree the sustainability of life may well be jeopardised. The change from extreme heat to extreme cold would cause the earth’s crust to crack, buckle and shift resulting in further damages to an already devastated landscape.
Without the warming rays of the sun it seemed inconceivable that the world would be able to survive much past a matter of days. Shelby had to figure out how she was going to make people understand that the sun going out was no April fool’s day joke.
How can you make people see what they don’t want to see, she thought to herself. It took years for people to believe that global warming would affect their lives and it would be no different with this concept, with the exception that the time was running out and there was no room for thinking about it for decades before accepting it as reality.
People have a way of taking things for granted, she thought quietly as she pulled into her driveway. It was seven o’clock and the sun was still beating down upon the dried earth. The sun didn’t lose its heat until well into the night, it was all part of the combined affects of global warming and the sun nearing its explosion and imminent death.
Shelby knew the answers would not come in her waking state; dreams were likely to provide the only answers.
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Very good! I'm really interest din this story, even though it'd take quite awhile for the sun to burn out... More like 3000s than 2000s. Seems like I've been your first comment in a while...a long while. This kinda reminds me of Xenosaga, in that story the humans desert earth and adapt to living in space and locate new places for life to continue. Even though, all that accrues a thousand years before the events of Xenosaga. The idea is very vivid and I agree with how your best ideas come from dreams. I'd make a longer comment, but I want to read more before I need to sing off! Good work, keep writing!
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