Inescapable galactic fireworld
Friday, April 20, 2007 » thought
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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.
Comments (2)
April 22, 2007, 2:03 PM
ToonHippie »
Firstly, I would agree that the sun is disappointingly easy on it's prisoners, however, if you assume that being in the sun would vaporize you every .04 seconds (being very generous), that would result in approximately 23.66 billion deaths or 23,660 megadeaths over the coarse of those 15 years. It would actually take you well over 23 billion lifetimes to escape.
Secondly, assuming the prisoner is human, he then has a space walk of 93 million miles back to Earth. It would take another 3,185 years to get home without oxygen and with your blood boiling the entire way.
Thirdly, since you are getting you facts from Da 'Pedia, why not bust in there and change the size of the sun to fit your torture fantasy needs.