• Windows97 [any, any]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      enclosed fusion reactors are famous for being able to replace having a sun in the sky

      • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Just build it higher up and enclose it with glass??? Like I don't get it it's not that hard???????

    • supersaiyan [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      what type of person would destroy basically free energy even if you could somehow destroy the sun?

      • p_sharikov [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        The sun is powered by gravity, so no. I guess you could maybe try to speed up its natural death by dumping a bunch of elements heavier than hydrogen into it, but I doubt there's enough matter in the entire solar system to do that. Idk, I'm not a star guy.

      • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Not saying it's really feasible, but iron poisoning would do it. Just chuck enough iron (read: a few Jupiter-sized masses of iron. This is the bit that's unfeasible) into a main sequence star and you've basically shoved a control rod into a nuclear reactor, except instead of just quietly shutting down it either slows fusion enough to trigger a red giant expansion or just shuts the star's fusion off entirely, resulting in a nova.

        Actually both of these possibilities would also nuke earth in the process, so, uh, teleport it into a black hole?

    • SoyViking [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      This is literally capeshit supervillain stuff. Do these people also think Dr. Evil is a real person?