What Happens If We Bring the Sun to Earth?
Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell・5 minutes read
Bringing samples from different layers of the Sun to Earth would result in various catastrophic outcomes, from high-pressure shockwaves to explosions equivalent to the force of the Sun, potentially leading to fatalities, destruction, and even the end of human civilization. The attempt to study Sun samples on Earth could have devastating consequences, triggering explosions, fires, and widespread devastation.
Insights
- Extracting a sample from the Sun's chromosphere on Earth would cause a high-pressure shockwave equivalent to 12 kilograms of TNT, potentially leading to fatalities and destruction due to Earth's atmospheric pressure.
- Bringing matter from the Sun's core to Earth could result in an explosion equivalent to the force of the Sun, potentially leading to the end of human civilization and triggering a small ice age that could temporarily mitigate human-caused climate change.
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Recent questions
What happens if we bring a sample of the Sun's chromosphere to Earth?
Immediate implosion due to Earth's atmospheric pressure, causing a high-pressure shockwave equivalent to 12 kilograms of TNT, potentially leading to fatalities and destruction.
What would happen if we extracted a sample from the Sun's photosphere?
Plasma would briefly glow a million times brighter than the Sun, causing fires before dissipating harmlessly as gas.
What are the consequences of attempting to bring matter from the Sun's radiative zone to Earth?
Catastrophic explosion comparable to a thermonuclear weapon, destroying the lab and the surrounding city instantly.
What would happen if we brought a sample from the Sun's core to Earth?
Explosion equivalent to the force of the Sun itself, causing widespread devastation and potentially leading to the end of human civilization.
How would bringing a sample from the Sun's core impact climate change?
Trigger a small ice age that could temporarily mitigate human-caused climate change.
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Sun Samples: Catastrophic Implosion, Explosions, Devastation
- Bringing a sample of the Sun's chromosphere to Earth would result in immediate implosion due to Earth's atmospheric pressure, causing a high-pressure shockwave equivalent to 12 kilograms of TNT, potentially leading to fatalities and destruction.
- Extracting a sample from the photosphere, the Sun's glowing surface, would create a plasma that, once cooled, would briefly glow with a brightness a million times that of the Sun, causing fires before dissipating harmlessly as gas.
- Attempting to bring matter from the Sun's radiative zone to Earth would lead to a catastrophic explosion comparable to a thermonuclear weapon, destroying the lab and the surrounding city instantly.
- Bringing a sample from the Sun's core, where nuclear fusion powers the star, would result in an explosion equivalent to the force of the Sun itself, causing widespread devastation, potentially leading to the end of human civilization and triggering a small ice age that could temporarily mitigate human-caused climate change.
