When you get a sunset over the ocean, why don't you get a great fizz as fire and water touch?

Answer 1

Well Neil, that's a dumass question.......

Answer 2

The sun is not fire, it is a nuclear reaction called fusion.

When it sets it does not touch anything. The Earth is simply rotating and the sun moves out of your view.

Answer 3

because when it touches the water it turns into a liquid and when it comes out it turns back into fire

it is a complexed process that is to do with chemestry no one quite knows how it happens it is one of the big unanserd questions of the science world

Einstien used to spend hours evry day trying to work it out

Answer 4

For the same reason that pirates almost never fall off the end of the ocean.

Answer 5

Because the sun is billions of kilometers away and does not touch the earth.

Answer 6

I would assume you are in elementary school and don't know any better.
The Sun only looks like it touches, its really 93million miles away from earth. If you did this for a joke, don't waste our time.

Answer 7

And there must be loads of suns under the horizon. One goes down every night.

Answer 8

The sun must cool off as it reaches the horizon,what else?

Answer 9

Because the sun is 93,000,000 miles away from the ocean.

Answer 10

Trust me, any water that touches the sun does indeed get vaporized. However, it's so far away that you just can't see it.

Answer 11

because when the part that the sun touches finally gets here, it has already cooled off.