Every wonder what it would take to blow up our solar system?
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007So how much water would it take to put the sun out? Apparently, the center of the Sun is eight billion degrees. So we won’t be broadcasting from there next week!
So water won’t put out the sun due to some reason. I don’t know what but maybe the hydrogen in it. The folks at Yahoo Answers tried to tackle this question.
Well, John W. Weiss, Grad Student in Planetary Science, decided to figure out how big of an explosion it would take to destroy our star system. John starts off by saying, “The answer depends on whether you have a smart device which beams its energy at its targets reasonably carefully or if it is a simple explosion, which will waste a lot of energy since most of it will miss the planets altogether and coast off into space.” Surprise the person asking the question didn’t know that. Moof!
Bottom line, he comes up with the total needed energy to 5.50×1031tons of TNT. If this interests you, then I suggest you read his mini-story. No doubt you will connect with his love for Star Trek.









