What If The Sun Was To Go Out?

MadSci Network ^ | February 24, 1997 | Joseph Spitale, Grad student Planetary Science/Applied Math, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory

[Interesting Times]

I am not a physicist, but it's my uneducated opinion that the sun can't just "go out". I mean, it's a nuclear reaction, right? What would it take to stop the fusion process?

That's a very good point, and we appreciate the additional rigor you have brought to the discussion. The question should therefore be re-phrased as "What if the sun went away?"

[ClearBlueSky]

Hey, wait! If the cute guy on the Tauntaun comes with it, I'll take that vacation!

[FreedomCalls]

Women and minorities to suffer most.

You are prescient. This is the headline from an AP news story today December 15th:

Women more at risk from climate change: Canadian at UN conference

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - Severe weather caused by global warming can pose greater physical danger to women than men, a Canadian attending a UN conference on climate change said Friday.

"For instance, often women don't know how to swim, so in a flood situation that can lead to a higher instance of death or injury," Angie Daze, a program manager with a Canadian group called Reducing Vulnerability to Climate Change, said.

Plans for international co-operation to fight global warming beyond the end of the Kyoto Protocol dominated the United Nations conference on climate change.

[PoorMuttly]

What makes the elephant charge his tusk...what makes the muskrat guard his musk...who put the hot in Hottentot, wha'da they got that I ain't got....

COURAGE !