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BurmesePenguin
03/12/23 6:44:33 PM
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It's estimated to have lost half of a 10th of a percent of its mass in that period.

Wtf, space is insane.
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TheGreatEscape
03/12/23 6:51:42 PM
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The sun isn't "burning" its mass in the sense that it's losing it, it's turning hydrogen into helium. The lost mass probably comes from coronal mass ejection

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Damn_Underscore
03/12/23 6:54:08 PM
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still did a better job than boogie

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Trumble
03/12/23 6:55:04 PM
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TheGreatEscape posted...
The sun isn't "burning" its mass in the sense that it's losing it, it's turning hydrogen into helium. The lost mass probably comes from coronal mass ejection
Partly that, but also, nuclear reactions such as fusing hydrogen into helium do result in a slight difference in mass between the input and output products. The difference is given off as other forms of energy as per e=mc^2. The general rule is that mass is lost (and thus, energy produced) by reactions that bring the nuclei closer to the Iron-56 isotope, and the opposite when moving away from it.

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ANort175
03/12/23 6:56:47 PM
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Damn straight, I like my sun how I like my pizza, E X T R A T H I C C.

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Pikachuchupika
03/12/23 6:59:33 PM
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Just think about all of the things it has seen in those 4.5 billion years.
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BurmesePenguin
03/12/23 7:00:52 PM
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It doesnt have eyes and if it did everything would probably be too far away to see.
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Crimsoness
03/12/23 7:03:29 PM
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BurmesePenguin posted...
It doesnt have eyes
As far as you know

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Pikachuchupika
03/12/23 7:17:43 PM
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BurmesePenguin posted...
It doesnt have eyes and if it did everything would probably be too far away to see.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/7/4/AAU4UlAAERYe.jpg
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DrizztLink
03/12/23 7:18:35 PM
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BurmesePenguin posted...
It doesnt have eyes and if it did everything would probably be too far away to see.
If the sun has no eyes then how does the sunspot?

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VampireCoyote
03/12/23 7:19:35 PM
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BurmesePenguin posted...
It doesnt have eyes and if it did everything would probably be too far away to see.

you dont know that it doesnt have eyes or sensory organs, you cant even look at it

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BurmesePenguin
03/13/23 1:46:49 AM
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VampireCoyote posted...
you dont know that it doesnt have eyes or sensory organs, you cant even look at it
This is a highly preposterous notion.
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Questionmarktarius
03/13/23 1:53:52 AM
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Trumble posted...
The general rule is that mass is lost (and thus, energy produced) by reactions that bring the nuclei closer to the Iron-56 isotope, and the opposite when moving away from it.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/8/8/AAEhCpAAERdY.png
Nickel-62 is tighter, but iron-56 is stupendously more common.
...and then there's lithium, which has an odd place largely due to the very high binding energy of an alpha particle.
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Panthera
03/13/23 1:58:39 AM
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That is not true because the Sun, along with the rest of the universe, was created seven hundred years ago by a guy named William who was trying to invent zippers but ended up with life instead.

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BurmesePenguin
03/13/23 1:59:07 AM
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William Wallace?
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