Could you put out the sun with water?
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Could you put out the sun with water?
The probable answer is “no.” The Sun involves a special type of fire that is able to “burn” water, and so it will just get hotter, and six times brighter. Water is 89\% oxygen BY MASS. And the Sun’s overall density is 1.4 times that of water.
How much mass would destroy the sun?
4 million tons (in this case, metric tons) is 4,000,000,000 kilograms. Each kilogram of mass converted to energy results in the equivalent of a 21.5 megaton nuclear explosion. So, every second, the sun is hitting itself with a 86,000,000,000 megaton bomb. That’s 86 Petatons.
What happens if you pour water on the Moon?
If you pour out water on the Moon, something special will happen. It won’t stay liquid water — it will break up into a fine ice dust. Because there’s no air pressure, it boils at room temperature, in other words, it evaporates right away, because there’s no pressure keeping the water inside itself.
Can you extinguish sun?
The sun is not a chemical fire which requires a fuel and an oxidant. It is a fusion reaction caused by the sun’s own enormous mass. Anything you sprayed at the sun to “extinguish” it would just make it more massive and fuel more fusion.
What if we extinguish the sun?
The pressure inside it would drop. The hydrogen couldn’t fuse together into helium. And that would shut the Sun down. With no Sun to give us warmth and light, the Earth would turn into a frozen world.
How much TNT do you need to destroy the Sun?
To completely vaporise the Sun you need to overcome something called its gravitational binding energy. To do that would require a lump of TNT larger than the Sun, roughly 6 x 1034 tons (60 billion, trillion, trillion tons!).
Did NASA find water on the moon?
In August 2018, NASA confirmed that M3 showed water ice is present on the surface at the Moon poles. Water was confirmed to be on the sunlit surface of the Moon by NASA on October 26, 2020.
Would water boil in space?
Water poured into space (outside of a spacecraft) would rapidly vaporize or boil away. In space, where there is no air, there is no air pressure. As air pressure drops, the temperature needed to boil water becomes lower. That’s why water boils much faster on a mountaintop than it does at sea level.
What would happen if the Sun extinguished?
With no sunlight, photosynthesis would stop, but that would only kill some of the plants—there are some larger trees that can survive for decades without it. Within a few days, however, the temperatures would begin to drop, and any humans left on the planet’s surface would die soon after.