Friday, April 20, 2007 »
About a year ago I talked at length about the sun and other stars. I meant to make a neat little trilogy out of it with a post with one of my favorite observations about the sun, but I just never got around to it and forgot. So here we go!!
The sun is HUGE. According to Wikipedia it is like 860,000 miles across. So imagine you somehow ended up in the center of the sun. You'd be like, GOD, I really don't want to be here1. So you start walking out. Assuming the average sun-prisoner can walk at around 5 MPH for 16 hours a day (I'm being generous). It will stiill take almost 15 years of walking just to get out!! Imagine if you had to escape from two suns back-to-back!
~Afterword~
When I first thought about this last year, I guessed that it would take more than one lifetime to walk out of the sun, so I was surprised that it would be relatively easy to do. I am so disappointed in you, sun!
1 Because it is like nuclear bombs hitting you in the face constantly.