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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

Posted on 12/11/2004 11:15:46 AM PST by SamAdams76

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To: .45MAN

But the sun already is an extreeeemly large explosion! That's the point! One doesn't stop an explosion, one waits for it to exhaust its materials. The sun's going to take a while to do that.


21 posted on 12/11/2004 11:24:27 AM PST by JenB (I will not turn into a snake. It doesn't help.)
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To: SamAdams76
"I am not a grad student of Planetary Science ... "

Nor I, but there are some things that are evident to all.

I suspect the good professor is on the dole from a public grant of some kind.

As far as caring about "other" life forms dying off? I care about as much as I do of the possible life forms that have come and gone since the universe began.




Is it cold in here, or is it me?

22 posted on 12/11/2004 11:25:34 AM PST by G.Mason (The replies by this poster are meant for self amusement only. Use at your own discretion.)
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To: SamAdams76

What if the sun WERE to go out??


23 posted on 12/11/2004 11:26:11 AM PST by agrarianlady
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To: SamAdams76

Paul McCartney would write a new song, "There Goes the Sun".


24 posted on 12/11/2004 11:26:42 AM PST by Ken H
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To: BullDog108
While they're at it: "What happens if it starts raining green M&Ms tomorrow?"

Dancing in the streets. Until someone slipped and broke something and then the mass suing of Mars Corporation would begin.

25 posted on 12/11/2004 11:26:52 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum europe vincendarum (Happy Hanukkah!))
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To: granite

Of course.. The sun is republican. It's not subsidized and no one has to pay for it....


26 posted on 12/11/2004 11:27:05 AM PST by .45MAN ("God bless America and George W. Bush")
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To: Sloth
The Tox Uthat would do it.

So would a sunkiller bomb.

Inshai Compact.
Historians' name for an interstellar government that was in power some 5000 years ago, a federation of approximately 36 hominid and non-hominid cultures. The Compact fell when a world of the Orion Congeries allegedly placed a sunkiller bomb into Sigma 1014 Orionis, homestar of Inshai. ("Spock's World" [Pocket TOS HC #1]).

27 posted on 12/11/2004 11:27:20 AM PST by asgardshill ("We march by day and read Xenophon by night.")
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To: SamAdams76

Women and minorities to suffer most.


28 posted on 12/11/2004 11:28:08 AM PST by Nick Danger (Want some wood?)
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To: JenB

I mean extreeeeeeeeemly large Like solar system large.....


29 posted on 12/11/2004 11:28:35 AM PST by .45MAN ("God bless America and George W. Bush")
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To: KamperKen

It's Bush's fault!


30 posted on 12/11/2004 11:29:31 AM PST by SittinYonder (Tancredo and I wanna know what you believe)
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To: SamAdams76

I'd give up on atkins and eat a oatmeal cookie !


31 posted on 12/11/2004 11:30:07 AM PST by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet. ©)
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To: SamAdams76

"Now, there is another energy source which is significant - geothermal heat"

Let us prepare to invade Iceland.


32 posted on 12/11/2004 11:30:35 AM PST by Rebelbase (Who is General Chat?)
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To: SamAdams76

having the sun go out still would not be enough to stop the Ohio recount.


33 posted on 12/11/2004 11:32:14 AM PST by Semper Paratus
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To: SamAdams76

If we could seek shelter inside a domed city, it might be interesting to watch the outside world freeze to zero kelvin. But then if the Sun were to go out, would it be a neutron star or a black hole, or would its mass just vanish?


34 posted on 12/11/2004 11:32:25 AM PST by eagle11
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To: SamAdams76

NUCLEAR ENERGY BUMP!


35 posted on 12/11/2004 11:35:13 AM PST by montag813
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To: SamAdams76

If it freezes, we could all keep warm by just having sex all day like in that episode of "Taxi".


36 posted on 12/11/2004 11:35:59 AM PST by montag813
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To: Ken H

LOL. But isn't _Here Comes The Sun_ a John Lennon song?!?


37 posted on 12/11/2004 11:36:19 AM PST by RatSlayer
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To: 4mycountry; asgardshill; Cloud William; Frank_Discussion; Monkey Face; Rastus; raybbr; Rebelbase; ..


Bye bye! :)


38 posted on 12/11/2004 11:38:05 AM PST by Tealc (Mail me if you want on or off my Jaffa, Kree! ping list)
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To: JenB
can't just "go out".

There was some cafeteria speculation a couple years ago that the sun has already gone out. It is dark inside and the surface is glowing from residual heat. Won't be long until we notice, maybe a few thousand years.

39 posted on 12/11/2004 11:39:19 AM PST by RightWhale (Destroy the dark; restore the light)
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To: SamAdams76

From my understanding, the sun will expand beyond the orbit of Mars and then shrink. Forget about blankets. Invest in fire retardant longjohns.

APf


40 posted on 12/11/2004 11:41:21 AM PST by APFel (Humanity has a poor track record of predicting its own future.)
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