By 2020, we will have created an artificial star on Earth

[Alnitak]

Judging from the size diagram, I'm going to estimate it's 1:100th the size of the sun overall. Would we even feel it's warmth?

Mass and luminosity are more important than physical size, though size is a small component of luminosity. Luminosity is mostly related to temperature, which is dependent on the mass and evolution if it is a main sequence star.

Anyway, the Sun is 1000 times the mass of Jupiter, which would make for a pretty dim red star even if fusion could be initiated, and Jupiter is pretty far away, so the effect will be small. I don't have the equation for luminosity and its relationship with mass, evolution, temperature, etc., but even a few degrees will wreck the biosphere.

 

[borg69unimatrix]

Mass and luminosity are more important than physical size, though size is a small component of luminosity. Luminosity is mostly related to temperature, which is dependent on the mass and evolution if it is a main sequence star.

Anyway, the Sun is 1000 times the mass of Jupiter, which would make for a pretty dim red star even if fusion could be initiated, and Jupiter is pretty far away, so the effect will be small. I don't have the equation for luminosity and its relationship with mass, evolution, temperature, etc., but even a few degrees will wreck the biosphere.

I'm not too worried, as I think it would take 1,000 Vulcans in 100 starships, several Kryptonians, and the entire Green Lantern Core to actually ignite a gas giant into a full sun. What are the odds on THAT happening???

... or maybe just Kahn with a Genesis Device.

 

[xbuzzerx]

Although I've heard of the "Jupiter could be prodded along into star formation" theory before, I'm also vaguely uncertain what the benefit would be, especially vs. the risk. We should leave Jupiter alone because its outer atmosphere can easily be used as a future source for pure hydrogen to power fusion engines-- future gas station in the solar system.

 

[borg69unimatrix]

Although I've heard of the "Jupiter could be prodded along into star formation" theory before, I'm also vaguely uncertain what the benefit would be, especially vs. the risk. We should leave Jupiter alone because its outer atmosphere can easily be used as a future source for pure hydrogen to power fusion engines-- future gas station in the solar system.

Great Idea!!! We should start making the bumper stickers now!!

"Keep Jupiter Orange!"

 

[belamyi]

Mass and luminosity are more important than physical size, though size is a small component of luminosity. Luminosity is mostly related to temperature, which is dependent on the mass and evolution if it is a main sequence star.

Anyway, the Sun is 1000 times the mass of Jupiter, which would make for a pretty dim red star even if fusion could be initiated, and Jupiter is pretty far away, so the effect will be small. I don't have the equation for luminosity and its relationship with mass, evolution, temperature, etc., but even a few degrees will wreck the biosphere.

You are aware that the starved pussies are getting wet while they read you having written that, aren't you.

 

[cgymike]

Does that star have a self enclosed biosphere and can I order high grade dope from Uranus colony using my Google Goggles while being whisked around in my GoogleStarCraft and can I please get the Amazoid drone to deliver a Top Pot Donut too without the antimatter filling....I only have goxcoins though

Thanks!

 

[blackbeltninja]

^Can I just say it sounds really sexy when you make it all technical like that?

No, seriously.

-d-

I said the same thing to him in a different thread.

I want you to fuck me slow and deep with that big nerd cock of yours while you talk exactly. like. this.

Nerd cock! Nerd cock!!!!

I feel kinda bad now. JB was so earnest in sharing his knowledge and we've all just made it so sordid. Delightfully sordid, mind, but sordid nonetheless.

Borg, Buzzer, Ashy... you should be ashamed of yourselves!




















-d-

 

[xbuzzerx]

I feel kinda bad now. JB was so earnest in sharing his knowledge and we've all just made it so sordid. Delightfully sordid, mind, but sordid nonetheless.

Borg, Buzzer, Ashy... you should be ashamed of yourselves!

His own fault for talking dirty to us.

 

[Alnitak]

Although I've heard of the "Jupiter could be prodded along into star formation" theory before, I'm also vaguely uncertain what the benefit would be, especially vs. the risk.

It's a fun think piece but practically not possible.

We should leave Jupiter alone because its outer atmosphere can easily be used as a future source for pure hydrogen to power fusion engines-- future gas station in the solar system.

Jupiter would be a useful deuterium mine, but that isn't enough. As far as we know artificial fusion can only run on deuterium-tritium. Proton-proton fusion requires enormous pressures found in stars. Tritium must be bred from lithium found in rocky deposits.

 

[borg69unimatrix]

I feel kinda bad now. JB was so earnest in sharing his knowledge and we've all just made it so sordid. Delightfully sordid, mind, but sordid nonetheless.

Borg, Buzzer, Ashy... you should be ashamed of yourselves!



-d-

Resistance was Futile.

 

[borg69unimatrix]

Tritium must be bred from lithium found in rocky deposits.

Would Asteroids work ? How about Mars?

 

[Alnitak]

Would Asteroids work ? How about Mars?

I don't know that Mars geology has been extensively studied enough to discover ores of different elements. Since lighter elements are more abundant farther out, I could see asteroid mining.

 

[Willie Boy]

You mean a bomb, which is also a collection of facts and info, is not something that can get out of hand with destructive force?

A bomb is in no real way a collection of facts and info. It is an explosive device, intended to cause damage and/or harm people. If someone had an idea for a new bomb that idea might be just a collection of facts and info, but once they started building it.... Then its an instrument of violence.

 

[belamyi]

A bomb is in no real way a collection of facts and info. It is an explosive device, intended to cause damage and/or harm people. If someone had an idea for a new bomb that idea might be just a collection of facts and info, but once they started building it.... Then its an instrument of violence.

As much as the Bible is The Bible may not be "intended" to cause damage originally, but it is wielded as a weapon and, too often, DOES INTEND to do even more than just cause damage and harm people, because it is pretended to contain the whole power of a supreme god (and I am obviously not talking about porn or exotic dancing) to annihilate people.

But, actually, you DO need certain facts and info, gathered and articulated in the proper way, to end up building a bomb.

 

[Willie Boy]

Ah, but that has nothing to do with the Bible itself. That is idiocy from the uninformed. Any true Christian would easily point out that the Bible merely holds the word of God, not his power, and it it for each individual to accept or not. The Bible was never intended as a weapon to annihilate anyone, but as a guide to see one through life.

As for needing facts and info to build a bomb..... one also needs facts and info to build a house, a hospital, or even a simple medical device. Facts and info are not evil, they are just...... facts and info. What an individual does with them is up to the individual, and the act may have little to do with what the facts/info was originally gathered for.

The problem is not in the facts, but in the individual/group that twists those facts for evil. Such a simple concept, yet so impossible for many to understand..... why is that so?

 

[belamyi]

Ah, but that has nothing to do with the Bible itself. That is idiocy from the uninformed. Any true Christian would easily point out that the Bible merely holds the word of God, not his power, and it it for each individual to accept or not. The Bible was never intended as a weapon to annihilate anyone, but as a guide to see one through life.

As for needing facts and info to build a bomb..... one also needs facts and info to build a house, a hospital, or even a simple medical device. Facts and info are not evil, they are just...... facts and info. What an individual does with them is up to the individual, and the act may have little to do with what the facts/info was originally gathered for.

The problem is not in the facts, but in the individual/group that twists those facts for evil. Such a simple concept, yet so impossible for many to understand..... why is that so?

Bombs themselves are equally dependant on the idiocy of people to do harm to other people, but the destructive power is nonentheless always there. Willie Boy, you seem to be just discovering what the life and the world is all about...

 

[lambdaboy]

The day we are able to create man made Nuclear Fusion electricity will be close to free of charge. On top of that that is what powers the ships on Star Trek. And all of us will not be around but it will b wonderful.