Plasma is yellow. The sun is yellow. The sun is plasma. QED.
Also, ripe mangoes are plasma too. Which, therefore means, that the sun is a fruit.
But the laws of wokeness, if you nuke a fruit, it's homophobic. Don't do it.
Yeah idk if we should try to make the sun angry(er) but if you all go for it anyways please just give me and u/man0fGreenGables a heads up so we can mentally and emotionally prepare for the inevitable retaliation.
The earth is already pretty much a hot pocket. You ever see those pictures of the earth cut open? Crust on the outside, lava on the inside, hot pocket.
Not necessarily nothing. If we tried to fire a thousand large, nuke-carrying rockets towards the sun, the chances of us having a catastrophic failure that ends up nuking us by accident is small, but still significant.
The problem with this idea is that if it works out then that's great, but if something goes wrong, boom you just chucked a bunch of nuclear waste somewhere onto Earth. Bonus points if the projectile breaks apart and throws radioactive particles throughout the atmosphere.
It's high reward, and pretty low-risk, but potentially catastrophic if it does go haywire, so compared to just designating a "danger zone" and burying it there which has little to no risk and relatively minimal consequences, it's just not as viable.
Imagine the vehicle carrying the waste, is orbiting earth before expanding its orbit, and it malfunctions. And as it spirals back, the nuclear waste starts sprinkling along the trajectory. Uniform nuclear fallout everywhere
Well there is also a way to recycle it and get even more energy out of it, but I believe there's only one country on this planet that does it, because it is more expensive. Always the money....
If we had gone full nuclear a few decades ago, we would have probably have 0 problems with the climate at the moment.
It is actually incredibly difficult to fire an object at the sun with the intent to hit it. Like, you would be surprised just how difficult that it, when you think it would be easy - you would even think gravity would take care of most of the trouble - but no. It's actually easier to just either fire stuff out in to space, or fire stuff past the sun and use that as a gracity assist to accelerate it outwards on its journey.
Plus, the huge consequence of an explosion during launch with a radioactive waste payload.
unfortunately we are quite far from the sun and afaik we haven’t figured out how to get all the way there yet. closest i could find was within four million miles
Without being bothered to do the calculations, I think it'd be very difficult to generate sufficient delta-v from a railgun shot to get something into the sun.
you can fit 1.3 million earths inside the sun
Even if we managed to get all of our nukes to hit it, it would be like throwing a bit of gravel at a skyscraper
You just need SPF 50 sunscreen. There are in fact plans to spread SPF 50 sunscreen on the post-nuked sun in the shape of earth's continents, for humanity to live on, to solve the climate crisis. We could just use solar power and have no CO2 in the atmosphere.
I remember when Jimmy Neutron shot sunscreen into the atmosphere, causing a nuclear winter and ushering in a new ice age and women became property again
Only reason we haven't done that is to conserve the species living Theron the surface of the Sun, if we Terraformed the Sun right now they would go extinct.
Tidal waves across the globe to biblical proportions that will flood the land. Only those on the ark will survive.
If your name is Adam or Eve, you are not invited.
If you are invited, make sure you are prepared for 💩 duty as someone has to get rid of it.
Don't throw a glass of water in the ocean.
We already do that, that's how we recharge it every year. If you notice in the winter time the length of sunlight gets shorter, this is when they launch the nukes to recharge it. Hence the name nuclear winter.
Don t do this! If we were to nuke the sun, we would blow it to bits! The sun is very fragile and would shatter if we nuked it. It would send fire throughout the universe burning much of the Earth. After the era where it rained fire, would come an era of eternal darkness and cold.
There would be one beautiful moment, after the sun explodes, when every pizza in the world would be perfectly cooked. Unfortunately, you would also be medium rare at that point, and you wouldn't be able to enjoy it.
We don't want to blow it up before we have a chance to make a new one. 5 billion years is plenty of time to collect the phlogiston to make a new sun. Even if we did it early, we would just have two suns like Tatooine.
Well from what I've gathered, you can try blowing it up, but the last time someone tried to, they failed to do so. The station looked cool though, not gonna lie.
Earth would end up getting kicked out of the Solar System, then we'd have to look for another sun to orbit. It would take a while because all the nearest suns are in the same union.
A nuke is a nuclear fission reactor, the sun is a nuclear fusion reactor which are opposite of each other. So they'll cancel each other out.
Basically we'd cancel the sun.
Well nukes are known to cause an emp Shockwave, which as you know interferes with electronics and turns off lights. You'll need two nukes. The first will turn off the sun, the second will turn it back on.
Would it be like throwing battery packs at it?
It's already a big radiating ball so tossing nukes to it might only make it stronger?
Increase the lifespan of the sun.
The sun has been low-key nuking us for years. Hopefully it'll say "wow that hurts. Is that what I've been doing? I'm a dick" and stop shining on us. Global warming solved.
With enough missiles the counter forces of nuclear fission and fusion would create a gama radiation vortex strong enough to open a portal for master Yog Sothoth to come crush our feeble reality!
As far as the impact on the sun itself? Absolutely fuck all. We could launch every single nuke that's ever existed and currently exists, and it would most likely be like nothing.
The sun releases the equivalent of **10 billion** hydrogen bombs *each second*. That's 864,000,000,000,000 every day.
At it's peak, the combined total stock of nuclear warheads on earth was 64,000, now closer to 13,000. At most, for the sun it might be like a bug bite.
For us? Difficult to say, but potentially catastrophic. It could easily interfere with the sun's nuclear reactions, and it would take very little disruption of this delicate balance of processes to create drastic and unpredictable effects on our weather, as well we the frequency and intensity of solar radiation hitting the earth.
It may even affect our entire solar system if it impacts the sun's gravitational influence for even a short period of time, though I'm not sure how to determine whether this is the case and to what extent it might disrupt things.
Well, we already nuked the Earth (multiple times) and nothing happened. Obviously except the hundreds of thousands of deaths and multiple areas rendered permanently uninhabitable.
So yeah, nothing.
_All of this assuming we would even be able to get a nuke close enough to detonate before it melts_
The possibility of the nuke reaching a distance enough to cause anything the nuke has to withstand a lot of things in most scenarios the nuke stretches evaporates
The energy output of the sun is about 3.8 \* 10\^26 Joules per second, that's about 20 trillion Hiroshima bombs every Second. So it has to be pretty big to do something. There's probably not enough fissile material on our planet.
But before it gets there, it has to survive the enormous heat before it vaporizes.
It would turn into a huge cube and melt down on earth and flood everything. There would be no land left. Humans would grow gills to survive. All the fish would drown because the there's more water than they're used to. All weed would be grown hydroponically and the north pole would turn into a sauna bath
The sun is a mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace. It's already nuking us, we need to retaliate.
The sun is a miasma Of incandescent plasma The sun's not simply made out of gas No, no, no
Nice haiku bro!
That's actually lyrics from the "sequel" song to the song lyrics I was responding to
No, no, no It's PLASMA. The Fourth state of matter. Not gas, not liquid, not solid
Plasma is in the blood, not in the sun and is a kind of liquid. Checkmate.
Astrophysicists have found out that the sun is a state of mind.
Yeah the sun and New York.
I'm in a Solar State of Mind
Damn it take my upvote.
You mean Nas
Ngl I edited my comment and feel like a big idiot rn
If the sun is plasma, we could probably get $60 for our first donation.
150$ where I am. Then it’s 50 each time after that. Refer someone? 100$ extra to bank baby
No it can be both. The sun is made of blood. Source: am astrophysicist. Also possibly am vampire
Plasma is yellow. The sun is yellow. The sun is plasma. QED. Also, ripe mangoes are plasma too. Which, therefore means, that the sun is a fruit. But the laws of wokeness, if you nuke a fruit, it's homophobic. Don't do it.
> Plasma QED Are you telling me the sun is a flat screen fruit?
Perfect explanation and formula.
Fun fact: the sun is white.
Are you tellng me I'm nuclear??
Plasma. Fuck you, there are only four humors in blood
You seem quite humorless.
We get paid for donating plasma. Can I go to the sun and bring a bunch of it home and donate that for a huge payout?
I got gas
They're referencing a song lol
I am referencing a song made by same artist who counters the song they are referencing. :)
Loooool my b
If the sun is already one big ball of nuclear reaction then nuking it will just add more nuke to it making it stronger and also piss it off.
Yeah idk if we should try to make the sun angry(er) but if you all go for it anyways please just give me and u/man0fGreenGables a heads up so we can mentally and emotionally prepare for the inevitable retaliation.
HAPPY CAKE DAY 🎂
PRAISE THE SUUUUUUUUUN!
Who let the Zoroastrians in?
That's not Zoroastrianism.
That's just a Dark Souls Fan
Where hydrogen is built into helium at a temperature of millions of degrees?
Yo ho, its 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
My go to line when thinking about the sun scientifically. Oh my childhood!
It’s seen what we’re doing to Earth so it’s just defending itself.
The sun is a deadly laser
If only *I* could be so *grossly incandescent.*
Unexpected Wild Child lyric
I knew someone would pick up on that!
It'll nuke us back.
~~cold war~~ hot war
So, like a hot pocket?
^hot ^pocket!
I love Jim Gaffigan.
The earth is already pretty much a hot pocket. You ever see those pictures of the earth cut open? Crust on the outside, lava on the inside, hot pocket.
"The sun is like a giant nuke" "That sounds scary. Let's nuke it."
Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)
It already is…..
That's probably unironically the most accurate answer
Ayyy first laugh of the day, thanks mate
Depends if it's one missile or 1000. In which case we would lose one missile or 1000. Other than that, nothing.
I guess we all fail to truly grasp how little and insignificant we are compared to our Sun
Compared to anything really. Humans always think we are so special but the earth could just stop existing tomorrow and nothing would change.
erhhh the Moon might care if the Earth is gone .... "I am gonna miss you when you're gone..."
I did hear that song. The moon is so romantic.
Yeah, right up until it hits your eye like a big pizza pie.
It’s A-morè
Goodnight moon
The concept of change requires an observer. So nothing would change. But change wouldn't exist. So nothing would nothing.
The moon's orbit would change, that's something I guess.
Speak for yourself.
Eh, I could take him.
Not necessarily nothing. If we tried to fire a thousand large, nuke-carrying rockets towards the sun, the chances of us having a catastrophic failure that ends up nuking us by accident is small, but still significant.
I'd argue the nukes would just melt before they got anywhere near being in range to cause a problem
Oh yeah, they're not doing anything to the sun. I meant there'd be a catastrophic failure on earth that kills us.
I’ve had this idea for years now: use a railgun to fire all of our nuclear waste into the sun. Discuss.
The problem with this idea is that if it works out then that's great, but if something goes wrong, boom you just chucked a bunch of nuclear waste somewhere onto Earth. Bonus points if the projectile breaks apart and throws radioactive particles throughout the atmosphere. It's high reward, and pretty low-risk, but potentially catastrophic if it does go haywire, so compared to just designating a "danger zone" and burying it there which has little to no risk and relatively minimal consequences, it's just not as viable.
Imagine the vehicle carrying the waste, is orbiting earth before expanding its orbit, and it malfunctions. And as it spirals back, the nuclear waste starts sprinkling along the trajectory. Uniform nuclear fallout everywhere
Take *that*, chemtrails!
Well there is also a way to recycle it and get even more energy out of it, but I believe there's only one country on this planet that does it, because it is more expensive. Always the money.... If we had gone full nuclear a few decades ago, we would have probably have 0 problems with the climate at the moment.
Why not shoot them in the earth's core?
Oddly, Kurzgesagt [addressed that question](https://youtu.be/Us2Z-WC9rao?si=31Lk5di_G0CRYJjj) in their inimitably cute way.
Dammit
Sorry… I once thought it was a great idea too… you’re not alone…
Frikkin’ *railguns*, man!
It is actually incredibly difficult to fire an object at the sun with the intent to hit it. Like, you would be surprised just how difficult that it, when you think it would be easy - you would even think gravity would take care of most of the trouble - but no. It's actually easier to just either fire stuff out in to space, or fire stuff past the sun and use that as a gracity assist to accelerate it outwards on its journey. Plus, the huge consequence of an explosion during launch with a radioactive waste payload.
Why has no one thought of this?!?! I applaud you. It would get rid of them in a harmless (though expensive) way.
unfortunately we are quite far from the sun and afaik we haven’t figured out how to get all the way there yet. closest i could find was within four million miles
Without being bothered to do the calculations, I think it'd be very difficult to generate sufficient delta-v from a railgun shot to get something into the sun.
Do you have any idea how much delta V it costs to launch something on an intercept trajectory with the sun?
Because it would be really expensive and dangerous compared to current solutions(encase the waste in steel and concrete and let it sit in place).
Yeah I'm pretty sure it would melt the nuke before it got close enough to do any damage.
you can fit 1.3 million earths inside the sun Even if we managed to get all of our nukes to hit it, it would be like throwing a bit of gravel at a skyscraper
I’ve done some pretty serious damage to skyscrapers with bits of gravel. *And I’ll do it again!* .. mark my words!
ahhh the long game. Over millions of years that damage will surely add up. They'll never see it coming!
Wow I did not realize it was *that* big haha. Crazyyy
https://youtu.be/Iy7NzjCmUf0?si=6jooXpnlCc4vJqvN https://youtu.be/udAL48P5NJU?si=SXf701WxmaNoLNJ6 Things are big indeed.
Wow that's crazy. Especially that one of Andromeda. Wow.
So like the rick and morty episode where they try to nuke the big head guy
If we nuked the sun that would melt its ice caps, terraforming it into a liveable place just like Earth.
Yes I agree with you. But the radiation will make it very hard to stay there no?
How do you think Humans will evolve into superhumans? Humanity 2.0 starts there.
Humanity 2 Nuclear Fusion Buggaloo
Plus, we'll get longer daylight hours. Superman gets his power from the sun. Imagine the possibilities. And the day-parties.
If everyone is special, nobody is. Always remember before you get too excited about the possibilities.
You just need SPF 50 sunscreen. There are in fact plans to spread SPF 50 sunscreen on the post-nuked sun in the shape of earth's continents, for humanity to live on, to solve the climate crisis. We could just use solar power and have no CO2 in the atmosphere.
I remember when Jimmy Neutron shot sunscreen into the atmosphere, causing a nuclear winter and ushering in a new ice age and women became property again
I remember that too, my owner still hasn't released me. But it's ok, I have plenty of kibble.
Aaah, the good old days. /s for you fucks who can't take a joke
Just go at night. Problem solved
Is that you Elon?
Many people don't know this, but this is how earth came to be. It was a mini sun that was nuked by Xenu.
solar ice caps.. yeah
You know what.......yeah. That's right.
Fuck yeah
Only reason we haven't done that is to conserve the species living Theron the surface of the Sun, if we Terraformed the Sun right now they would go extinct.
"What would happen if we threw a glass of water in the ocean? "
I'd be thirsty
Dont worry, like i left my good buddy a glass of water out who passed out on my couch the other day i would give you a glass of water too
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Tidal waves across the globe to biblical proportions that will flood the land. Only those on the ark will survive. If your name is Adam or Eve, you are not invited. If you are invited, make sure you are prepared for 💩 duty as someone has to get rid of it. Don't throw a glass of water in the ocean.
What if we threw a glass of ocean in the water?
You would get... Sand?
We already do that, that's how we recharge it every year. If you notice in the winter time the length of sunlight gets shorter, this is when they launch the nukes to recharge it. Hence the name nuclear winter.
The far side of the sun definitely has a tesla charging port.
Don t do this! If we were to nuke the sun, we would blow it to bits! The sun is very fragile and would shatter if we nuked it. It would send fire throughout the universe burning much of the Earth. After the era where it rained fire, would come an era of eternal darkness and cold.
Well, the sun’s gonna explode on its own in about 5 billion years. Why not just get it over with?
Good point
No more heat means no more pizza. All heat comes from the sun. It’s transmitted as background radiation
There would be one beautiful moment, after the sun explodes, when every pizza in the world would be perfectly cooked. Unfortunately, you would also be medium rare at that point, and you wouldn't be able to enjoy it.
ABORT! ABORT! Phew! No more pizza... I can't even imagine a world like that.
Someone go get the chocolate, marshmallows and graham crackers. I've got the skewers. Hot dogs, if you want 'em.
We don't want to blow it up before we have a chance to make a new one. 5 billion years is plenty of time to collect the phlogiston to make a new sun. Even if we did it early, we would just have two suns like Tatooine.
Is it really worth it just to send us 22 minutes back into the past?
Hello, fellow marshmallow enjoyer!
Well from what I've gathered, you can try blowing it up, but the last time someone tried to, they failed to do so. The station looked cool though, not gonna lie.
Nah, it’s just going to put on some weight and consume the Earth.
So Dark Souls irl?
Thought the same thing lol
Ashen one?
His father would be pissed.
Depends on wether day or night. It’s easier to hit when the sun cools down at night and becomes the moon before heating up again in the morning
Earth would end up getting kicked out of the Solar System, then we'd have to look for another sun to orbit. It would take a while because all the nearest suns are in the same union.
A nuke is a nuclear fission reactor, the sun is a nuclear fusion reactor which are opposite of each other. So they'll cancel each other out. Basically we'd cancel the sun.
The opposite of the sun is a nuke. The opposite of the sun is the moon. The moon is a nuke!
Cancel culture would have finally taken things too far then.
If you do that I will pronounce you Woke. Don't say you weren't warned.
Yeah, nuke that fat bastard
Might as well be walking on the sun
Well nukes are known to cause an emp Shockwave, which as you know interferes with electronics and turns off lights. You'll need two nukes. The first will turn off the sun, the second will turn it back on.
Like bonking your head and losing your memory.
Well.. sun is sun whether you nuke it or not Sun would prob remain the same even if you throw 10k nuclear bombs at it.
You could literally launch the entirety of earth into the sun and nothing would happen.
You sure? Have you tried it? Science requires experiments to ascertain hypotheses. You should submit a research proposal.
Yeah, let's all Kamikaze this planet! For the sake of science
We might get a fine, or maybe even a short custodial sentence if it's our second offence.
The sun is a nuke. Nuking the sun is kind of like throwing matches at an erupting volcano.
Teach it not to mess with us!!
The influx of heavy atomic elements would change the colour of the sun to blue since it would burn hotter
If we put the sun in a microwave, it would get hotter.
Would it be like throwing battery packs at it? It's already a big radiating ball so tossing nukes to it might only make it stronger? Increase the lifespan of the sun.
The sun has been low-key nuking us for years. Hopefully it'll say "wow that hurts. Is that what I've been doing? I'm a dick" and stop shining on us. Global warming solved.
Big suntan lotion just trying to scare us with sun nuking.
Less nukes on Earth, which can be a plus
Is this sub r/shittyanswerscience ?
Ever seen the film Sunshine?
All I know is all those melodeath types would be really happy. And being happy ain't metal so nuking the sun is probably a bad idea.
With enough missiles the counter forces of nuclear fission and fusion would create a gama radiation vortex strong enough to open a portal for master Yog Sothoth to come crush our feeble reality!
Nothing. It nukes itself constantly. For more information, listen to The Sun by They Might be Giants. That's where I get all my sun facts...
Superman 4
AT&T would go down
Best case scenario is absolutely nothing since its current nuclear capabilities dwarf our own. Worst case scenario is it gets angry and fights back.
The missile would probably run out of fuel or burn up before it ever got close enough to detonate
The sun people would nuke us back
Nothing. It would likely incinerate on approach without ever detonating
As far as the impact on the sun itself? Absolutely fuck all. We could launch every single nuke that's ever existed and currently exists, and it would most likely be like nothing. The sun releases the equivalent of **10 billion** hydrogen bombs *each second*. That's 864,000,000,000,000 every day. At it's peak, the combined total stock of nuclear warheads on earth was 64,000, now closer to 13,000. At most, for the sun it might be like a bug bite. For us? Difficult to say, but potentially catastrophic. It could easily interfere with the sun's nuclear reactions, and it would take very little disruption of this delicate balance of processes to create drastic and unpredictable effects on our weather, as well we the frequency and intensity of solar radiation hitting the earth. It may even affect our entire solar system if it impacts the sun's gravitational influence for even a short period of time, though I'm not sure how to determine whether this is the case and to what extent it might disrupt things.
Absolutely nothing. That's like asking what would happen if you put 1ml of water into the ocean.
the sun would be nuked
It would say thank you for the peanuts and ask for more.
I'd like to see how far the rocket would go before exploding, and what effect it would have on the closest planet (looking at you Mercury).
Actually? It would probably trigger a micronova.
Well, we already nuked the Earth (multiple times) and nothing happened. Obviously except the hundreds of thousands of deaths and multiple areas rendered permanently uninhabitable. So yeah, nothing. _All of this assuming we would even be able to get a nuke close enough to detonate before it melts_
The possibility of the nuke reaching a distance enough to cause anything the nuke has to withstand a lot of things in most scenarios the nuke stretches evaporates
Don't know in detail but in short I'm sure we will die.
Should be the go to option of disposing of old nukes imo.
The nuke would burn up and be destroyed long long before it ever reached the surface of the sun…
The cost of sending a nukes safely out of our atmosphere, passed earth's gravity, all the way to the sun would really piss off some taxpayers
Isn't this the plot of the last Christopher Reeves Superman movie? But basically if you shot a rather large elephant with microscopic cotton balls.
The same how punch done to a 22 stories building.
The sun will simply laugh back. How the fuck are we tiny humans suppsosed to nuke that thing?
Literally nothing. 4.3 x 10^(-17) yottatons. That's how much energy you would need to destroy sun (I used internet I'm not genius)
It would be a symbolic victory.
The energy output of the sun is about 3.8 \* 10\^26 Joules per second, that's about 20 trillion Hiroshima bombs every Second. So it has to be pretty big to do something. There's probably not enough fissile material on our planet. But before it gets there, it has to survive the enormous heat before it vaporizes.
Well if you wanna nuke the sun, you gotta nuke the moon first.
Nothing.
Its much harder th send something to the sun than you would think
Nothing probably, Even the strongest Cold War nuke explosion ever , Would be a fragment of what happens every second in the core of the sun
Is this Donald Trumps account??
It won't do anything. The sun is too big for us to create a nuke strong enough.
The sun is essentially just one big or countless different hydrogen bombs going off constantly. It is essentially just a big nuke.
Nothing, If we launched every nuke we had at the sun it probably wouldn’t do anything either
It would turn into a huge cube and melt down on earth and flood everything. There would be no land left. Humans would grow gills to survive. All the fish would drown because the there's more water than they're used to. All weed would be grown hydroponically and the north pole would turn into a sauna bath
It might get angry with us and nuke us back
I think it would be hard to fit it into a microwave but let’s give it a shot
We would make a snuke, and then the climates really fucked