Nuking the Sun, is it possible?

whos the dumb ass? wrote:

mr. dumass wrote:

If the asteroid was the size of Texas, how was one nuke capable of splitting it in half?

they drilled almost half way through the asteroid and then put the nuke in it. its a lot easier to break something apart if its already split halfway[/quote]

Wrong. They drilled ~800 feet. 800 feet is nowhere near the requisite distance to approach the "middle" of an asteroid the size of Texas.

u are assuming that the nuke wouldnt be pulled in by pluto or mercurys gravitational pull or some asteroid wondering aimlessly b/w here and the sun. theres no guarentee whatsoever it would ever make it all the way to the sun even if u could somehow make it resist the heat long enough.

Should I send the original post to Donald Trump to see if he thinks it is a good idea?

no but i always thought it would be interesting to try and "nuke" Jupiter, since it has all the makings of a failed star.....lots of hydrogen and helium. start off the chain reaction and we could have a mini sun

some runner wrote:

Gordon Freeman wrote:

And that other force would be the SUN's gravity...

Oh goddammit! The force of the sun's gravity is immaterial here. the missile, once free of the earth's gravity and on the right trajectory, would travel to where the sun is, even if the sun was not there or if the sun had no gravity. don't you get it? The missile would only require the amount of fuel necessary to get away from the earth in order to get the 93 millions miles away. it would not NEED the sun's gravity to help it there. The sun's gravity would only make it accelerate along its path.

Lolzorz hipster emocore nuke rocket escapes earth's gravity. "Thinks" it's free. Does not realize it's a pawn in the greater galactical regime. Drifting in our solar system, and our solar system, making an orbit of the Milky Way.

Get this idea to the Donald, stat.

This would be hard to with our dome we have on our flat earth preventing space exploration.

Danny Boyle created a documentary about this very subject called Sunshine. Weird stuff happens.

Truther 2016 wrote:

Get this idea to the Donald, stat.

To solve global warming?

I think it would help to make the nuke solar powered or some sht

I've read about the size of the sun and how far away it is so it would be hard to reach or blow up. I'm surprised how much closer the moon is and it is smaller then the world. It would be realistic and cool to fire the nukes at it and literally blow it up. It would look like the best fireworks display and the world could unite in peace knowing that it was our planet that done it and not to each other. Countries will feel safer that they got rid of there nukes and didn't use them to fight. There is literally no life on the moon so no harm would happen from blowing it up.

According to John Lear, the sun is cold, and there are people living there.

noname93` wrote:

According to John Lear, the sun is cold, and there are people living there.

The sun is pretty big. The nuclear fusion reactions occur deep inside the core and by the time they get to the 'surface' of the Sun things are pretty tame.

So, yeah, it's relatively cold at the surface. However, it's also almost empty space at that point, and so the property value may not be that great. (Then again, the element lead is also mostly empty space... but you know what I mean. Actually, empty space isn't that empty, it's really complicated stuff, according to quantum field theory... hrm, where was I again?)

You have a Trump level understanding of science.

Bigly?

Push a Black hole towards it , so it swallows up the sun and squishes to the size of a grain of sand .

Serena 5 wrote:

Push a Black hole towards it , so it swallows up the sun and squishes to the size of a grain of sand .

Serena..... you are a black hole.

Wut?

TrumpLevelScience wrote:

You have a Trump level understanding of science.

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