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- "never" technically - "...heating due to gravitational contraction will also lead to hydrogen fusion in a shell just outside the core, where unfused hydroge
by perihelions 3y ago
- "never"
technically
- "...heating due to gravitational contraction will also lead to hydrogen fusion in a shell just outside the core, where unfused hydrogen remains, contributing to the increased luminosity, which will eventually reach more than 1,000 times its present luminosity...[135]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun#Life_phases https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun#Life_phases
1.3 megawatts per square meter! An entire nuclear power plant on your roof, provided the weather allows, provided weather still exists. The future is bright.
- peteradio 3y agoAbout as useful as citing heat death when refuting climate change being caused by humans.
- idiotsecant 3y agoFutures so bright, I gotta wear 7.3 km thick ablative lead shielding!
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- ketralnis 3y agolike every "well technically" you should read it is "not really"
- avmich 3y agoOh, you're on HN! How many technical advancements started with "technically" looking not too realistic at the moment?
- mr_toad 3y agoChances are that the expansion of the sun will have stripped away the weather, along with the roof, the house, and any of the lighter elements of the Earth’s surface.