If the sun will eventually run out of fuel and then die can we not in the future feed the sun some hydrogen, perhaps fling a jupiter or something into it to make it last indefinitely
2006-10-25 15:15:58 · 11 answers · asked by breastfed43 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
That won't happen for at least 5 billion years. I wouldn't worry about it. Who knows if humans will even still be around then.
2006-10-25 15:18:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I doubt that we'll find a way of rejuvinating the sun, or any star. If we're still here and capable of moving Jupiter, we could just go find a new planet. By then, we'll have found a good candidate for a new Earth. But all the stars will run down eventually. Asimov wrote a good short story on that called 'The Last Question'. You can find it online.
2006-10-25 15:19:16 · answer #2 · answered by eri 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, I don't think that a Jupiter would make much sense...
because Jupiter is so heavy. Why you might knock the Sun out of its position, and then where would we be, orbiting something that would now be wobbling around instead of being fixed in the center of our universe.
What you might need to feed the Sun would be something light weight and that burns pretty hot.
Remember that aluminum missle frigate the Brits lost down in in South America in that battle with the Argentinians over some small island of the coast? It was hit by an Exocet missle and burned like crazy. So Aluminum when hot enough will burn like crazy.
Therefore, if you are concerned about the Sun running out of fuel anytime soon, you might want to save up all your empty beer cans and shoot them to the sun in a rocket ship to add fuel to the big fire there.
As an alternative measure if that idea doesn't catch on,
you could make a huge crossbow and shoot aluminum bolts at the Sun. Now this would have to be a really big crossbow with a really strong string and great big cock mechanism. I think that the bolts have to be traveling at some 25,000 miles per hour to get away from the Earth's gravitational field so it might pay to install some small solid fuel rocket engines on the aluminum bolts to get them moving fast enough after the crossbow is fired. Each rocket engine might be about the size of a railroad liquid propane tank car, and you could have it drop off after it burned out of fuel so the Aliuminum bolt could fly faster.
The Sun is something like 93,000,000 miles away give or take some for the time of year. So a rough guess shows that 3,720 hours of flying time would be needed for each aluiminum bolt to reach the sun and feed its furnace of burning gases. That calculates out at 155 days give or take some. If my math was correct, and you need half a year or so for each aluminum bolt to reach the Sun and help out with the need for more fuel there...you had better plan on firing off maybe 100,000 aluminum bolts to make a reasonably significant contribution to the raging inferno there.
If you fired off one aluminum bolt at the Sun every ten minutes for the next two years you would exceed the 100,000 quantity by about 5,000. A little extra fuel for the Sun wouldn't hurt.
I cannot imagine how a scheme like this might impact our taxes, but I feel certain it would all be for a good cause.
As long as Halloburton does not supply the Aluminum, I don't think many would complain.
2006-10-25 15:48:52 · answer #3 · answered by zahbudar 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
No, the sun will not last forever. Do you ever see a picture of two galaxies colliding, all new suns will born. Don't fling the Jupiter, the moons of Jupiter might be a heaven for us someday when the sun will be slowly expanding.
2006-10-25 15:28:48 · answer #4 · answered by chanljkk 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jupitor and the other planets combined wouldn't add much time to the life of the sun, if any. In 5 billion years, humanity will be gone, or spread out through the stars. Either way, it won't be a big deal.
2006-10-25 15:23:17 · answer #5 · answered by Chance20_m 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the sun will eventually run our of fuel, we can ignite the Jupiter insted of transfering from Jupiter to sun.
2006-10-27 06:28:31 · answer #6 · answered by svs power 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first guy is right, it will take about 5 billion years to run out. By that time the human race will either destroy itself or figure out a way to travel long distances in space to other planets.
2006-10-25 15:23:08 · answer #7 · answered by crookmatt 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Been reading to many books we cannot feed the sun if it burnes out we die.
2006-10-25 15:21:17 · answer #8 · answered by Douglas R 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That's a good question. You're way ahead of your time.
There's just a slight problem...we'll have destroyed each other and/or the planet by then.
2006-10-25 15:24:43 · answer #9 · answered by The ~Muffin~ Man 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would be a lot easier just to move to another sun.
2006-10-26 00:50:48 · answer #10 · answered by Nomadd 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋