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Post by Pogue » Tue Apr 16, 2019 5:55 pm

I was smoking a joint the other day and started wondering if earth will ever become a star If it gets blown up by technology, fire, and nuclear reactions.

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Post by Animavore » Tue Apr 16, 2019 6:03 pm

No. Stars are nuclear fusion reactors. Hydrogen converted to helium under immerse gravitational pressure.

At the very worst it could become a Venus-like hellscape with a runaway greenhouse effect. Though that's probably unlikely.
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Post by Rum » Tue Apr 16, 2019 6:56 pm

I’m surprised a member of this particular forum didn’t know that. Perhaps the dope..

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Post by Svartalf » Tue Apr 16, 2019 7:07 pm

if we managed to make Saturn collide with Jupiter, do you think the critical mass would be reached to make the mix flash up?
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Post by Animavore » Tue Apr 16, 2019 8:28 pm

Svartalf wrote:
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if we managed to make Saturn collide with Jupiter, do you think the critical mass would be reached to make the mix flash up?
Doubt it. Even if you put all the planets together as well as the asteroids and comets the Sun is still 30 times that mass.
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Post by Svartalf » Tue Apr 16, 2019 8:35 pm

thanks for the data, I knew that Saturn and Jupiter style gas giants were stars to small to light up , I didn't know by what order of size.
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Post by Forty Two » Tue Apr 16, 2019 8:43 pm

Pogue wrote:
Tue Apr 16, 2019 5:55 pm
I was smoking a joint the other day and started wondering if earth will ever become a star If it gets blown up by technology, fire, and nuclear reactions.
No. It might become part of one, when the Sun expands into a red giant and eats us up.
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Post by pErvinalia » Wed Apr 17, 2019 12:36 am

Svartalf wrote:
Tue Apr 16, 2019 7:07 pm
if we managed to make Saturn collide with Jupiter, do you think the critical mass would be reached to make the mix flash up?
Saturn is about as far from Jupiter as Jupiter is from the Sun. Getting them close enough to collide would be quite a feat.
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Re: Stars

Post by Brian Peacock » Wed Apr 17, 2019 3:12 am

If Uranus tells Saturn that Jupiter has been sleeping with his wife then that could really blow up big time.

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