I mean, what's really going on up there and why hasn't it burned out yet? What fuel is burning and where does it come from?
I mean, what's really going on up there and why hasn't it burned out yet? What fuel is burning and where does it come from?
they actually buy their oil from opec
Where does it come from? - God made it.
What fuel is burning? - The souls of the damned.
Why hasn't it burned out yet? - Plenty of souls to burn.
A solar eclipse occurs when the big tanker is filling up the sun. You will notice a large temperature drop as the sun tries to conserve fuel due to the price of oil. Sure going to be dark and cold around here when it burns out.
The moon could be a sufficient substitute for the sun. We just need to find a way to tweak the moonbeams a little bit, make them more efficient.
I heard that the Dummycrats are going to sue the Sun and break up the illegal monopoly it has in our solar system.
Current Events wrote:
I heard that the Dummycrats are going to sue the Sun and break up the illegal monopoly it has in our solar system.
They'll wish they could once they find out it's the cause of global warming.
Climate change.
Whatever.
magic
Fusion. Hydrogen --> helium.
Scientists Linnell and Flansbaugh have the best explanation:
The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
Where hydrogen is built into helium
At a temperature of millions of degrees
Yo ho, it's hot, the sun is not
A place where we could live
But here on Earth there'd be no life
Without the light it gives
We need its light
We need its heat
We need its energy
Without the sun, without a doubt
There'd be no you and me
The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
Where hydrogen is built into helium
At a temperature of millions of degrees
The sun is hot
It is so hot that everything on it is a gas: iron, copper, aluminum, and many others.
The sun is large
If the sun were hollow, a million Earths could fit inside. And yet, the sun is only a middle-sized star.
The sun is far away
About 93 million miles away, and that's why it looks so small.
And even when it's out of sight
The sun shines night and day
The sun gives heat
The sun gives light
The sunlight that we see
The sunlight comes from our own sun's
Atomic energy
Scientists have found that the sun is a huge atom-smashing machine. The heat and light of the sun come from the nuclear reactions of hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, and helium.*
The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
Where hydrogen is built into helium
At a temperature of millions of degrees
Notes
*Live versions of this song are improvised extensively. Some variants on this section:
Scientists have found that the sun is a huge atom-smashing machine. The heat and light of the sun are caused by the nuclear reaction between hydrogen, nitrogen, carbon, and helium.
Scientists have found that the sun is a huge atom-smashing machine. The heat and light from the sun come from the nuclear reaction between oxygen, hydrogen, helium, and hydrogen.
You know, Frank, scientists have found that the sun is a huge atom-smashing machine. The heat and light from the sun are caused by the nuclear reaction between hydrogen and you, Frank O'Toole.
Scientists have found that the sun is a huge atom-smashing machine. The heat and light from the sun come from the nuclear reaction between hydrogen, nitrogen, helium, carbon, boron, chloron, fluoron, moron, and estrogen.
Thanks for that thread killer. I asked for SIMPLE terms!
sunburned wrote:
Thanks for that thread killer. I asked for SIMPLE terms!
It is simple. If you have never had the pleasure of They Might Be Giants you don't know what you are missing.
Elementary school teachers often use their songs in lessons. "Mammal" and "Istanbul" along with the aforementioned song about the sun are a few examples. Expand your musical horizons.
Are you smarter than a 5th grader?
Monotony wrote:
Are you smarter than a 5th grader?
Yes I am, but apparently you are not if you're listening to that stuff. Time to grow up.
Nuclear fusion
Hydrogen being fused into helium at tremendous temperature and pressure.
It is still going because there is a shit ton of hydrogen there. It would go faster if there were enough mass for it to all squeeze in on itself harder (supernova). Lucky for us it doesn't.
That is an extremely dumbed down version. Which you evidently need.
godbillions (really big number!) of hydrogen atoms in a cloud floating in space collapsed to create the sun about 4.5 billions of years ago.
the gravitational pressure at the middle of all that hydrogen started a nuclear reaction. E=MC^2 says a lot of heat and light is produced, while burning 4 million tons of matter every second, converting hydrogen into helium.
so, simply, it's a huge nuclear explosion, with so much fuel that it will take 10 billion years or more to burn through it all in current form, so far away we get to watch and benefit. the reason it doesn't explode, per se, is that the sphere is so large that the outside layers are pressing inward with more gravitational force than the explosion is pushing outward (given that it is all gas and the energy does escape).
yea the sun is just an enormous mass of hydrogen and helium. By enormous I mean bigger than anything you can comprehend.
The sun's diameter is 100x than that of the earth
it's surface area is 10,000x greater
it's volume is 1,000,000x greater
The Earth is inhabitable for about another 1/2 billion years before the temperature of the sun increases too much and the water on Earth's surface evaporates.
The sun is just a massive nuclear fusion reaction. Combining hydrogen atoms to make helium, which creates an enormous amount of energy. When you have something that massive, the amount of energy released is ridiculous.
malmo wrote:
Here, I think that this covers everything you need to know.
Dear Helmut,
Zucken hier Helmut, zeez ball ist zee Vurld, unt zeez Flashenlightengerbobbinmachiner ist zee Sun. Du kanz zee zat zee Vurld ist ont tilt, zo ven zee Vurld goze roundz zee Sun, zee rayz from zee Flashenlightengerbobbinmachiner eez zumtimez unt direktz untopz ofz zee Kenya, unt zumtimez eez nicht untopz ofz zee Kenya. March unt Zeptemberz hast zee Sun unt direktz untopz ofz zee Kenya, zo ven deez eez zee case, eez zehr heiss unt Humidzschlangerhotzengedrippenz unt eez nicht zehr gut timez vor zee Grassenhillerspielerchampionshippenzeevurlder.
Regardz,
Herr malmo
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I don't have time to figure out what the hell that says, as clever as you may assume it to be.
Anyway, what is the source of all the hydrogen that is converted to helium via fusion?
sunburned wrote:
Anyway, what is the source of all the hydrogen that is converted to helium via fusion?
hydrogen makes up about 75% of the matter in the universe, mostly tied up in stars or clouds (that may become stars).
where the matter in the universe came from is tougher to answer. the big bang will need to be a sufficient answer.
he Earth is inhabitable for about another 1/2 billion years before the temperature of the sun increases too much and the water on Earth's surface evaporates.
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Does this mean that the Sun is gradually emmitting more solar energy to the earth?
If all the water is evaporated at 500million years, what will the earths temp be at 250 million yrs. Close to the boiling temp of water?
If the Sun begins to emit more solar energy cuz the exterior mass lessens wont that result in a collapse very quickly?
Just asking
