Can i eat the sun? Can i eat the moon?

Question

If i focus on the suns rays hard enough will it cure me of my hunger and thirst? Can humans survive from solar meditation?

If there is no sun can i meditate on the moon? If I focus hard enough can the energy rays from the moons surface convert into food and liquid? Can humans survive from lunar meditation?

Overall, with the combined practices of lunar and solar meditation is it possible for the human race to survive and maintain a similar well-being to that of a person who consumes regular earth bound food and liquids?

It is quite obvious that the moon does not produce it's own light. I'm pretty sure we covered that in about Grade 2. I was asking if the energy from the moon could be converted into food and liquid that humans are able to safely consume and survive off of, not the light. Furthermore, there are many body parts that scientists have not yet figured out a basic function for (i.e, the tonsils) could these body parts evidently be the key to human photosythesis and lunar meditation?

I'm sorry Elva that I did not specify the question enough for your puny brain to comprehend. Of course i meant in reality, your sarcasm is not appreciated.

Answer 1

I am afraid that it is not tenable.

The physical body requires about one pound of cooked food per day for basic metabolism.
Assuming that sun's energy can be converted into mass (By physical or metaphysical means), E = m*c^2 still applies. One will have to get a huge lot of energy to generate this mass of food out of solar radiation alone.

Of course one can get spiritual sustenance by the suggested meditation.

Answer 2

The purpose of tonsils has been figured out. Just because we (well most of us) can live without them does not mean that we don't understand what they can do. Same thing for Eustachian tubes and appendix and for many other parts that many (non-medical) people claim have no use or may have esoteric uses.

The human skin and the retina in the eyes are able to create minute quantities of chemicals when the sun hits them. Even though these chemicals are needed, they are far from sufficient to provide the energy we need to stay alive.

Also, the quantity of light needed to create the skin reaction (e.g., vitamin D) can also cause sunburn if exposure is extended, which then diminishes your ability to create more over the next few days (i.e., you can't overexpose and hope to accumulate more vitamin because you'll diminish your ability to get more).

The quantity of light we get from the Full Moon is 1/63,000 that of the Sun. Even less at other phases (and zero at New Moon, of course). At least, no risk of sunburn; however not enough to trigger the skin response.

However, enough to affect retinal production; and that is not necessarily good.

One problem, once it gets dark, our eyes also produce another chemical which, it was thought a decade ago, helped prevent some kinds of cancer. SO, the more light you leave on at night (including night lights) the higher probability of having cancer.

But the study is weak because the quantity of light to which we are exposed is also related to our living environment (e.g., more lights in cities than in the country) and the real cause could be something other than the lights but related to it (e.g., car exhaust -- more lights and more cars go together).

The sun will do nothing to help your thirst. In fact, once your skin start to heat, your body will need more water to counter the effect. Once you have a sunburn, it will need even more water. A lot more.

Meditation and thoughts cannot change things as we are not equipped with the proper photo-receptors to use the Sun's energy directly. Plants have chlorophyll. We don't.

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The best I can do is to invite you to eat moon-cakes at the Mid-Autumn Moon festival (Chinese tradition).

Answer 3

You are not a plant; you are a human being. Plants are designed to use the energy from the Sun to live. You, as a human, are not able to do that. So my answer is no.
Further, the moon now becomes a moot point in view of what I stated above. That is because the moon does not shine with its own light but rather reflects the light of the sun.

Answer 4

No, because our bodies cannot by itself convert sun's energy into chemical energy that fuels our bodies; we're not plants. If you focus on the suns rays long enough you will die of radiation. The moon is not the source of any energy but rather reflected light rays originated from the sun.

Answer 5

Yes.

Solar ovens have generated temperatures over 3000 degrees F.

If you were in the oven, and focused the light from the Sun, and heated it to that temperature I guarantee that you would not suffer from either hunger or thirst because you would be burned to ashes in a short period of time. (This is the tongue in cheek answer.)

Real answer starts now.

To do this you would have to modify your DNA to produce chlorophyll so that your body could process CO2 to manfacture the sugars that you need to survive.

Since this is not possible with the current state of recombinant DNA technology, the actual answer is no.

Answer 6

Sure, why not? You didn't specify. So you can eat it in your dreams and do all those complicated processes of conversion you listed. Although...in reality, it would be pretty hard to get to the Sun and Moon or even convert them into food!

but my answer is still YES =P

Answer 7

Wow. If you're a plant. Moonlight can be bright enough for plants to not "go to sleep" at night. i.e. rest from their daytime chemical processes..

Answer 8

You need to lay off the weed or the peyote or whatever and eat some steak or pork or something. Have a beer, too. Watch the game. Do something that seems like it might be normal.

Answer 9

"If the moon were made of spare ribs...would ya eat it?"

sorry...couldn't resist throwing an SNL quote in there..

Answer 10

no only cookie monster can eat the moon*