Sun breaks free
February 12, 2023 at 10:20 pm
(This post was last modified: February 12, 2023 at 10:22 pm by Kitan Etos.)
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Sun breaks free
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When they say “part of the sun breaks free”, they insinuates something far, far more dramatic than it is. Parts of the sun is breaking free all the time, and get ejected as solar wind. In fact the sun loses about a million ton’s worth of material each second.
That sounds like a lot, but it isn’t. Over the life of the sun up to now, the sun may have lost a total of just a few earth mass of material. But the sun has 300,000 earth mass’s worth of material to lose. 
Yes, well, it does seem like we are due for an extinction level smiting.
<insert profound quote here>
 
Solar mass ejections.
The sun must be listening to too much Freddie Mercury.
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental.
Wasn't there some similar hypothesis believed to have created planets that was taken seriously up until just a few decades ago? I remember reading an older book where they explained that planets get created when something disturbs the star which then ejects matter that forms into planets, and that was a reason why the planets are supposedly very rare to occur.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
 (February 13, 2023 at 10:01 am)brewer Wrote: The sun must be listening to too much Freddie Mercury. ‘Too much Freddie Mercury’ makes no sense to me. Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
(February 13, 2023 at 2:50 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(February 13, 2023 at 10:01 am)brewer Wrote: The sun must be listening to too much Freddie Mercury. You don't get the 'dad' planetary joke???
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental.
(February 13, 2023 at 2:38 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Wasn't there some similar hypothesis believed to have created planets that was taken seriously up until just a few decades ago? I remember reading an older book where they explained that planets get created when something disturbs the star which then ejects matter that forms into planets, and that was a reason why the planets are supposedly very rare to occur. I think you are referring to the tidal hypothesis, It supposed another star passed so close to the sun that they they almost touched, each coming within the Roche radius of the other. The tidal interaction drew material off from each star which then coalesced to form the planets, That is event so unlikely it probably happened just a handful of times across the entire milky way in the last 11 billion years. |
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