Why is the sun gone?
Think about it... if the sun is gone, wouldnt everything be frozen solid in a matter of hours... like negetive 400K frozen solid? Also, we heard a big explosion in the beginning... I wouldnt mind know what exploded, why there are no cars, street signs... etc.
I don't think the sun is really gone. If what the guy in the diner said is to be believed, the bright thing that hit the moon could have been an asteroid or something similar, and the debris ruined the earth and blotted out the moon.
And it was a poorly thought out plot. I still enjoyed it overall, though.
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Blotted out the sun. Not the moon.
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It's been a while since the event took place. Most likely, the townspeople are used to the drop in temperature. We could also assume it's nice and warm in the ship, so they simply felt cold when they came out. We see it's not freezing or anything. Maybe a light jacked would have sufficed.
shareMy hypothesis is that an asteroid hit the Moon, which fell apart in pieces. Some of the pieces fell down on Earth, thus burning in the atmosphere which depleted the oxygen (and made moon dust), while the rest of the pieces stayed in orbit making a ring of dust and rocks around the Earth thus lowering the temperature and blotting out most of the sun.
shareThe upper part of the earth's atmosphere is covered with moon dust and space debris, so it blocks out the sun kinda like a cloudy day except on a much larger scale.
shareBut how can you explain the bright light that comes from the hatch at the end of 400 days as pronounced by Walter? Is it still a simulation? A hallucination? Or maybe the moon get hit by an asteroid like you say? Well we can only guess...
shareZell claims it's because something bright hit the moon and shattered it to pieces. The resulting dust "fell" into Earths atmosphere, essentially causing a nuclear winter. Effectively blocking the sun.
The sun isn't "gone." It just can't be seen from the ground due to a thick cloud of dust.
like negetive 400K frozen solid?