Mind candy: Amazing to think the sun will continue to burn for billions of years when you find out that the sun burns 600 MILLION TONS of hydrogen EVERY SECOND. That’s one huge gas tank.
Technically it uses fusion (ultra-high heat and immense pressure) to convert the hydrogen to helium at 598 million tons per second. The missing 2 million tons is the amount that was converted to energy like heat and light.
Sorry to be pedantic but the sun has 4.5 billion more years as a main sequence star before it expands into a red giant. 4.5 billion. It’s barely middle aged. Go ahead and make those long-term investments.
Enter.Name.Here over 3 years ago
Mind candy: Amazing to think the sun will continue to burn for billions of years when you find out that the sun burns 600 MILLION TONS of hydrogen EVERY SECOND. That’s one huge gas tank.
Technically it uses fusion (ultra-high heat and immense pressure) to convert the hydrogen to helium at 598 million tons per second. The missing 2 million tons is the amount that was converted to energy like heat and light.
Mind: “YUM!”
Ed The Red Premium Member over 3 years ago
Sorry to be pedantic but the sun has 4.5 billion more years as a main sequence star before it expands into a red giant. 4.5 billion. It’s barely middle aged. Go ahead and make those long-term investments.
Mr. JRB over 3 years ago
Yeah, time’s a-wastin’
Elder Lee Fox over 3 years ago
Life! Soak it up while you can.
Nuke Road Warrior over 3 years ago
That’s only like 150 million in dog years.
KEA over 3 years ago
more like 14.5 billion… but good attitude
cuzinron47 over 3 years ago
So someone has aspirations of living for a billion years?
capral over 3 years ago
Actually, the projected burnout will be in about 4.5 to 5 billion years. But earth will become uninhabitable before that happens.
raybarb44 over 3 years ago
Nothing to lose except us mortal men along with our canine companions can get skin cancer……
poimen over 3 years ago
Well skin color is still changed.It looks like this yesterday but not the day before or any other days I check several