Want to wade into the spooky surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.
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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this. Happy Halloween, everyone!)
I know you’re joking, but I ended up quickly skimming Wikipedia to determine the viability of this (assuming the metal heatsinks were copper, since copper’s great for handling heat). Far as I can tell:
The sun isn’t hot enough or big enough to fuse anything heavier than hydrogen, so the copper’s gonna be doing jack shit when it gets dumped into the core
Fusing elements heavier than iron loses you energy rather than gaining it, and copper’s a heavier element than iron (atomic number of 29, compared to iron’s 26), so the copper undergoing fusion is a bad thing
The conditions necessary for fusing copper into anything else only happen during a supernova (i.e. the star is literally exploding)
So, this idea’s fucked from the outset. Does make me wonder if dumping enough metal into a large enough star (e.g. a dyson sphere collapsing into a supermassive star) could kick off a supernova, but that’s a question for another day.
don’t forget you need a hell of a lot of delta-v to get an orbit that intersects with the sun…
just drop it through a hole in the floor of the floor of the dyson sphere
Indeed, people don’t seem to know (and it often slips my mind) just how hard it is to toss something in the sun.
there was a dude on LW who convinced himself that because Oort cloud comets move so slowly relative to the sun, it was really easy for them to start falling into it. Problem is you have the other term in the equation for angular momentum , a huge fucking average orbit.