Comment on what would happen if a rogue, earth-size planet ran straight into the sun? anything interesting?

altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• edgemaster72@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You can’t fool me with that label of “diameter”, I know that’s actually a trench with an exhaust port that if successfully fired into will cause a cascading failure

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• Deestan@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ah, but at what speed?

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  • ShepherdPie@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The speed of love.

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    • altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Skyscrapers are winking

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  • teft@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Now I’m imagining the type of event that could cause a planet to move at such a significant percent of c that you could disrupt the sun with it. I don’t think we’re gonna get a planet moving that fast. I think we’d be limited to stellar core remnants to get that kick in velocity.

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    • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      As it is, our entire solar system is orbiting at 514,000mph or about 1/1300th the speed of light relative to the center of the galaxy. And the Milky Way Galaxy is moving at about 1.3 million mph through the universe.

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    • Cryophilia@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      All I can think of is aliens. I can’t think of anything in nature that could get a planet moving that fast.

      Now a much more dense object like a mini black hole? That’s a more interesting question.

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    • frezik@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Could it go fast enough that it doesn’t have enough time to absorb significant amounts of heat and pops out the other side basically intact?

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    • Deestan@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      We are going to collide with the Andromeda galaxy maybe 1 billion years before the sun fizzles out. Something there with opposite galactic orbit from us could smack into our sun at over 700 km/s.

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• spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Okay so I forgot how big the sun is and had that absentminded mental picture moment of “oh it would make a big bang as something 3/4s the size of the sun would hit it”…

  This picture was a very helpful reminder of just how out to lunch that thought was. Don’t trust your absent thoughts, folks 😅

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  • djsaskdja@reddthat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The more I learn about the sun, the more I realize those ancient civilizations who worshipped it got it right. Look at that thing it’s fucking huge, scary, and it’s like right there.

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    • netvor@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No, they were just superstitious, they did not know how huge the sun was.

      But we know now so ALL HAIL THE SUN GOD!!!

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    • dev_null@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iUo1WgIjQ0

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• oxideseven@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What’s this picture from lol? Why label the line diameter and not actually have the value?!

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