If The Sun Goes Out, Tough Times Await

Elsewhere from that same website:
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-06/why-sex-creatures-future-bad-idea?cmpid=obinsite
...which seems to be a compelling scientific explanation for why it's a bad idea to hook up with your ex-girlfriend!

 

If we had a space elevator how many drummers would it take to screw in a lightbulb turn the sun back on?

 

Why dont we just send a rocket to reignite the sun?

 

my problem here is that the Sun is not a lightbulb; it 'going out' most certainly coincides with a huge change in mass, which would release the centripetal force of gravity into centrifugal force. I.E. we get flung


Edit: to myself:
Oops, read the whole post, butthole

 

When photosynthesis stops, losing the bottom tier of the food chain will be the least of our worries. Plants resupply the atmospheric oxygen...

 

yeah ....

 

These guys probably wouldn't mind...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD8ETouCWAo

 

I'm pretty sure current oxygen levels would last is 1000 yesrs

 

http://youtu.be/rltpH6ck2Kc

 

Actually the bulk of earths oxygen if from Diatoms

Good news ish, except that theyre fragile against temperature change

 

funny that you had posted this yesterday. My 8 year old son had actually asked that same question a few days ago. I had tasked him with finding out by doing some research on my laptop. He actually nailed it!

 

None, obviously. We'd have to start with a lunar elevator starting here and going to one of the Sun's LaGrange points. Plus, you'd have to put the space elevator on a drum stool so we could spin the drummer enough to drill into the sun.

 

This reminds me of the stuff ice nine from Cat's Cradle.