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Kijo Rikki
Powder and Ball Alchemists Union The Predictables
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Posted - 2013.07.05 17:11:00 -
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There is a player-made solution to this problem: Whilst in space, rotate your camera angle around your ship while in line of sight of the local star. Be sure to use small movements as to mimic closely an Earth-like 24 hour cycle.
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Kijo Rikki
Powder and Ball Alchemists Union The Predictables
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Posted - 2013.07.05 18:34:00 -
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You know what I find fascinating? I always think of stars as these immense nuclear furnaces. I mean, they are, but when I hear facts like our sun burns through 600 million tons of hydrogen every second, I think ....wow.
Then, I hear that translated to: The sun consume the mass of the Earth (in hydrogen) in about 70,000 years. And I think, gee, that sounds alot smaller than I was thinking. An object nearly a 3 million miles in diameter and essentially all the nuclear activity is occurring in an area far smaller than the Earth. |
Kijo Rikki
Powder and Ball Alchemists Union The Predictables
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Posted - 2013.07.05 20:15:00 -
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I am assuming their blood boils same as humans, only it shoots out of their fangs like steam from a teapot. |
Kijo Rikki
Powder and Ball Alchemists Union The Predictables
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Posted - 2013.07.05 20:29:00 -
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RubyPorto wrote: Except that it's not "consuming" all of that mass. It's converting the vast, vast majority of that mass into Helium and other elements.
What's more interesting is the amount of mass it's converting into energy.
About 4x10^9 kg/s is converted to energy and released according to Einstein's famous equation of Mass-Energy Equivalence.
That means that every 1.5x10^15 seconds, (47.5 million years) the Sun releases 1 Earth Mass as Energy.
Which means that, since the Earth was formed, 4.5 Billion years ago, the Sun has converted the mass of 95 Earths into Energy.
Yes, I did not mean to imply the sun actually consumes it, I was aware it was converted to helium. Those are some really interesting facts and further adds to my mystification as to how little is going on inside comparatively speaking (to the size of the sun).
On the subject of conversion, another thing that kinda confuses me is all the converted helium should sink to the center of the sun, forcing the hydrogen to fuse in a sphere outside of the center, and as I understand it, helium fusion wont occur until the hydrogen supply is nearly out and the sun enters its red giant phase. I always wondered how the force of gravity and the force of fusion worked when the helium at the center shouldn't be involved in the process. Or does a significant amount of helium have to be created before it can sink past the fusing hydrogen at the center?
Abrazzar wrote: And then you translate cosmic sized into human scale and realize Earth is 1.3 cm in diameter while the sun is 150m away and 1.5m in diameter while every human on earth easily fits into a tiny ball of 0.001mm diameter.
I'm aware of just how immense the sun is compared to Earth (a million times in volume, I believe), I just meant relative ot the size of the sun it is interesting how comparatively small the fusion core is. Nevertheless, I always love mind-blowing facts like this, thanks! |
Kijo Rikki
Powder and Ball Alchemists Union The Predictables
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Posted - 2013.07.05 20:42:00 -
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Jonah Gravenstein wrote:Kijo Rikki wrote:I am assuming their blood boils same as humans, only it shoots out of their fangs like steam from a teapot. Coffee exiting through my nose is an unpleasant experience, you owe me a keyboard.
How much isk is that where you live? |
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