What if we started mining the sun?

how are you going to pick axe burning nuclear fire

i guess that the surface is not solid.

uhhh..we make the brown people do it ok, they can worry about the logistics

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blows up and then you stop making dumb threads

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Is "pretending" to be a retard funny?

Do not bulli
This is science actually, stay away if you don't have the smarts.

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It'd be like that movie, moon, but way hotter

kot

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LOL epic reference my /v/ro!

we'd regret it. the sun is gas and in order to mine something you need it to be solid. so we'd have to cool the sun down to the point that it either goes straight to solid form or becomes a liquid and then a solid. and then less than 2% of the sun is made up of valuable elements to mine, iron, carbon etc. - the sun is 70% hydrogen, 28% helium and 2% other elements. so mostly a fruitless endeavour. then consider how we'd have had to invent the technology to solidify the sun in the first place. the sun's surface is 5,600 celsius, and it's core is 15,000,000 celsius. creating this technology assuming (quite ridiculously) that it's possible would cost us many many years and obscene amounts of money both on research and parts and testing for the machinery. then if the project is a success and we solidify the sun we've got crap all to show for it because such a small percentage of it is valuable to mine so the whole project will have been an apocolyptically bad economic ass disaster. the sun is pretty damn big, having an area of 1.519686944x10to the 12th power kilometres, and weighing 1.989 × 10^30 kg. assuming that the valuable elements we could mine would total 2% (which is an optimistic assumption) then the useful elements have an area of 3.039373887x10 to the 10th power km and a weight of 3.978x 10 to the 28th power kg. so in fairness we'd get quite a lot of substance from the endeavour because the sun is giant. assuming that our objective in the first place wasn't for economic gain but rather for more resources then we'd have succeeded in this respect because we'd get a lot of resources. but as already stated, economic ass disaster. and also, and this factor is just a minor concern but ought to be mentioned, we - ahem - would no longer have a sun... you know that thing that kinda gives us life and allows our crops to live (photosynthesise), illuminates our planet and that we need. no photosynthesis means no trees giving off oxygen so we'll suffocate (commnt 2 long)

I like your hypothesis but you seem a bit negative. Don't worry about it so much, we won't mine the entire sun, we'll stop global warming if we mine the sun a bit .. 2 birds with one stone ok? I think it's a cause worth fighting for, al gore would be proud

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but how are we going to only mine it a bit? if we want it mined we need it solidified so we'd have to either
1. split a bit of it off from the main body and then work with that
or 2. solidify it all, split off the bit that we want to work with and then 'relight' the main body

Space is too cold

anyone got any ideas on how we'd accomplish either of these?

We have the technology to solidify just a bit of it, we just have to do some math on how big of a piece we need for optimal resource gathering / sun souveniers. Also how much we remove for optimal reversal of global warming. Also something to remember is the sun is going to die out eventually anyway ok? When humankind has learned to live without the sun we can mine the rest of it, and by having already claimed and mined a bit of it, we already have the knowhow to complete the rest of the task.

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blast mining

A guy on YouTube called issac arthur makes videos about this sort of thing, check it out if you're unironically autistic enough to write paragraphs here
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