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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

This is an often misunderstood aspect of the sun. The sun doesn't need to pull oxygen into itself to burn. It just does a bit of fusion magic!

When a star is dense enough it starts to fuse Helium together through a process called the "triple alpha process"; which results in Carbon! From there it's pretty direct for the star to fuse one more Helium to the Carbon via stellar nucleosynthesis to create Oxygen!

So you see, the Sun doesn't need to draw Oxygen from space. It just makes its own!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Because it isn't burning, it's exploding like a very big big big stick of TNT that's going off veeeeeery slowly

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

space contains all of the oxygen

[–] FinishingDutch 5 points 2 months ago

After it gets dark, they refill it with lighter fluid. Every morning they light it fresh with a big ‘ole Zippo.

[–] SidewaysHighways 4 points 2 months ago

Hello friend

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I remember reading once that if the sun was made of entirely wood .. it would take about 5,000 years to burn out.... which is roughly the same timeline and age given by the Christian Bible.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

they're actually was oxygen in space but they used it all as fuel for the stars and since then they've been converting them to electric.

secondary fun fact: burning all the oxygen in space as fuel has caused space to heat up and is what's leading to the imminent "heat death" of the universe.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

it must be the poop bear

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

The sun burns differently, it's burning generates the oxygen it needs to burn, its a perpetual motion machine

[–] Iheartcheese 3 points 2 months ago

it's flaming because of all the gay

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Because there isn't enough water to put it out

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There is oxygen in space, it's just a different type of oxygen that we can't see

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

You guys can see oxygen?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

*the Illuminati "stay where you are"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The sun can also use souls as a comburant. It's kept alight by the stores of sacrifices it's accumulated over time. But sacrifices aren't as common and the stocks are running down... Thankfully, there are some secret organisations handling this problem.

[–] Etterra 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Secret organizations? Well I guess that rules out Boeing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

No one said they did everything themselves, they don't mind outsourcing !

[–] Nuke_the_whales 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Am I the only one who can't watch his shows or movies because he's so unsettling and odd looking?

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