The sun is going to run out

[mattyq]

Sounds like it's being headed up by this Guy.

 

 

Dave, Dave, you gotta see this, man!

Loved Denzil Dexter...him and 'It's all Black, mummy' were my favourite characters

[cloggypop]

[magicrat]

Is the sun broken yet?

Bit cloudy where I am and can't check

[Dougie Do'ins]

Is the sun broken yet?

Bit cloudy where I am and can't check

It's a bit tired. Seems there's always some cunt of a country always wanting to sap it's energy. No hiding place.

[Koptimus Prime]

Pffffft Nothing to worry about God will bang up a new sun if we all prayed in a Ned Flanders style.

[Spy Bee]

I hope that hydropower is not drinking all the water!

[cochyn]

Windmills draining the world of all the winds

 

 

They're actually acting like propellers, making the world spin faster as a result.

 

That's right: Wind farms are actually giving us LESS time to do things and making us all to age quicker.

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

The sun'll run out tomorrow. You can bet your bottom dollar. 

[Bobby Hundreds]

Is this a satirical story. Is it taking the piss. It can't be genuine.

[Jim MM]

It's the same reason battery hens are so fucked up, so many other batteries to compete with.

[celeryBADboy]

Common sense youd be fucking stupid to believe this How can they suck energy from the Sun?? They harvest its energy ffs.People dont half write some crap to get paid.

[Cardie]

Common sense youd be fucking stupid to believe this How can they suck energy from the Sun?? They harvest its energy ffs.People dont half write some crap to get paid.

 

Not always to get paid.

[celeryBADboy]

Someone mentioned this to me today cant belive people actualy believe this crap, He had a issues with this but had a huge Hummer outside his house fucking Hypocritical knob i called him a idiot believing this crap, Seriously some people are dumb as fuck.

[General Dryness]

Someone mentioned this to me today cant belive people actualy believe this crap, He had a issues with this but had a huge Hummer outside his house fucking Hypocritical knob i called him a idiot believing this crap, Seriously some people are dumb as fuck.

 

Whats your problem with that? I had a hummer in a bus shelter once, it was boss. Didn't fuck with the environment either, as the bird recycled it by swallowing.

[aws]

The future of solar is giant solar arrays. Acres of solar panels in desert areas and orbiting satellites beaming down power from space.

Hope nobody steals the Solex Agitator. Roger Moore is well past-it these days.

[Tyler Durden]

I remember going to visit a planetarium when I was about 9 and hearing that the sun would one day go out. Scare me shitless for weeks after that.

Was there really once a planetarium at Alton Towers or have I made that bit up?

Was the planetarium Camelot? That rings a bell I think

[celeryBADboy]

There was a Planetarium at Alton Towers

[Strontium]

Come again?

 

Collect solar energy in space. Beam it down to Earth.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-based_solar_power

[stringvest]

Whats your problem with that? I had a hummer in a bus shelter once, it was boss. Didn't fuck with the environment either, as the bird recycled it by swallowing.

 

thought that was called a Bill and Ben?

[Section_31]

They should just put a solar panel on Rhianna's forehead.

[stringvest]

They should just put a solar panel on Rhianna's forehead.

 

Her, and Ant and Dec could keep the planet's baths filled with warm water and its fridges filled with cold beer.

[General Dryness]

thought that was called a Bill and Ben?

 

Well she certainly went gobble obble obble.

[I Am The One Who Knocks]

The Sun, like all normal stars, is a huge ball of incandescent gas, big enough to engulf well over a million globes with the volume of the Earth. It's surface is at a temperature of 5600 degress celsius, while the core, where the energy is being produced, reaches around 15 million degrees celcius. We cannot look far into the Sun, but we can examine it's constitution. We can develop mathematical models that seem to fit the observations and so have confidence in our estimation of the core temperature. It contains a great deal of hydrogen, approximately 70 percent of it's mass. It is this hydrogen that is used as 'fuel'.

 

A hydrogen atom, the simplest of all, has a single proton as it's nucleus and one orbiting electron. Inside the Sun the heat is so intense that the electron is stripped away from it's nucleus, leaving the atom incomplete. The atom is said to be 'ionized'. At the Sun's core, where the pressure as well as the temperature is so extreme, these nuclei are moving at such enormous speed that when they collide, nuclear reactions are able to take place. Nuclei of hydrogen are combining to build up nuclei of the second lightest element, helium. Admittedly this takes place in a rather roundabout way, but in the end four hydrogen nuclei combine to make up one nucleus of helium. There are also by-products; as well as the light we receive from the Sun, there are strange particles called neutrinos, of which more anon. In the process of helium building, a little mass is lost and a lot of energy is released. It is this released energy that keeps the Sun shining and the loss in mass in our Sun is equal to four million tonnes every second. The Sun is much less massive now than when you started to read this paragraph. The supply of hydrogen fuel cannot last indefinitely but there is no immediate cause for alarm. The Sun was born around 5 billion years ago and as yet is no more than middle aged by stellar standards. 

 

So in the Sun at least it is the loss of mass in the conversion of four hydrogen nuclei into a lighter single helium nucleus that provides the energy that powers the Sun. The most famous equation in the world (E=mc2) tells us that mass (m) is equivalent to energy (E). The converting factor (c2), equal to the speed of light squared, is large, so that a tiny amount of mass loss produces a vast amount of energy. The Sun loses some four million tonnes of matter every second!

[setreal]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp8y4YX1AVg

[Dr Arthur De Sabre]

The Sun, like all normal stars, is a huge ball of incandescent gas, big enough to engulf well over a million globes with the volume of the Earth. It's surface is at a temperature of 5600 degress celsius, while the core, where the energy is being produced, reaches around 15 million degrees celcius. We cannot look far into the Sun, but we can examine it's constitution. We can develop mathematical models that seem to fit the observations and so have confidence in our estimation of the core temperature. It contains a great deal of hydrogen, approximately 70 percent of it's mass. It is this hydrogen that is used as 'fuel'.

 

A hydrogen atom, the simplest of all, has a single proton as it's nucleus and one orbiting electron. Inside the Sun the heat is so intense that the electron is stripped away from it's nucleus, leaving the atom incomplete. The atom is said to be 'ionized'. At the Sun's core, where the pressure as well as the temperature is so extreme, these nuclei are moving at such enormous speed that when they collide, nuclear reactions are able to take place. Nuclei of hydrogen are combining to build up nuclei of the second lightest element, helium. Admittedly this takes place in a rather roundabout way, but in the end four hydrogen nuclei combine to make up one nucleus of helium. There are also by-products; as well as the light we receive from the Sun, there are strange particles called neutrinos, of which more anon. In the process of helium building, a little mass is lost and a lot of energy is released. It is this released energy that keeps the Sun shining and the loss in mass in our Sun is equal to four million tonnes every second. The Sun is much less massive now than when you started to read this paragraph. The supply of hydrogen fuel cannot last indefinitely but there is no immediate cause for alarm. The Sun was born around 5 billion years ago and as yet is no more than middle aged by stellar standards.

 

So in the Sun at least it is the loss of mass in the conversion of four hydrogen nuclei into a lighter single helium nucleus that provides the energy that powers the Sun. The most famous equation in the world (E=mc2) tells us that mass (m) is equivalent to energy (E). The converting factor (c2), equal to the speed of light squared, is large, so that a tiny amount of mass loss produces a vast amount of energy. The Sun loses some four million tonnes of matter every second!

E=MC tunes,young Chesney, never heard of MC2 he sounds a bit shite.