| "Do you think if you shot a mass of hydrogen at the sun, it would explode?" "If you scrunched it down into about the size of a pea--" "It would reach critical mass by the time it hit, and--" "But it would probably burn your skin off to pick it up to put it in the apparatus to get it there." "Which raises another question, what would we shoot it out of to get it moving fast enough to bring about critical mass outside the atmosphere." "We could always have a space station..." "You're forgetting Newton's law... the space station would be sucked back into the earth's atmosphere with the force of the combustion--" "Well, we'd all die anyway... in the explosion." "What if it only reached to Mars and we were alive after the 8 minutes it takes the light to get here from the sun--?" "We'd be sucked into the wormhole created by the sun's implosion..." "That would be cool... but wouldn't we freeze before then?" "Not with our constant switch to electricity and deplition of the natural--" "The earth would split apart without the gravitational pull of the sun." "Techtonic plates would stretch apart..." "It'd be cool anyway." "yeah." "Can you imagine what that would look like?" |
| An Excerpt from A Lunchtable Conversation By: Shawna O'Neil, Gwenne Mutchler, and James Londo |
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