Re: The Vela: The Complete Season 1 by Yoon Ha Lee, Becky Chambers, Rivers Solomon, S. L. Huang

On 08/06/2024 17.52, Peter Fairbrother wrote:

On 08/06/2024 14:32, Robert Carnegie wrote:

If there /is/ a way to consume the Sun in, oh,
a hundred years, for profit, then it'll happen.

 Or, dump rubbish into it so the surface cools down. But then of course the inside gets hotter ... not quite a nova by my back-of-an-envelope calculations, more a bloop, but big enough to thoroughly sterilise any planets.

How much rubbish did it take to make a measurable effect on the Sun's surface temperature? And was the rubbish more like iron or more like chicken bones?
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