RE: SPACE: Anti-Nuke Group Demands Sun Be Turned Off

From: Damien Broderick (thespike@earthlink.net)
Date: Tue Jan 21 2003 - 17:49:09 MST


Alfio Puglisi says:

> I'm on dictionary.com checking
> even find 2 different meanings for "drat". Unbelievable.

Dang!

> if you turned off nuclear fusion today, the Sun would keep shining
> for thousands of years, while high-energy photons slowly crawl outside

Excellent point. In fact, I recall that the mean time to the surface for a
photon from the core is not just thousands of years, but a *million* years.
[!!]

Damien Broderick



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