medusa-and-cyanide:

hedgehog-moss:

I started with asking an innocent question

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The answers were unanimously “no” but the explanations were a bit puzzling

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That sounded made up so I doggedly persevered

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I understand that there is conceivably one.

The answers offered several admissible distinctions:

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I knew that!

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I did not know that

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the more explanations I read, the less I understood the sun as a concept

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???

eventually, my unflinching investigation of the sun brought me to this page and it was like, this is not what I asked but finally an answer that makes sense:

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I know this is a joke but I am a plasma physicist so I would like to answer the original question: you cannot get a tan in front of a fireplace because a fireplace does not give off enough UV radiation. (It may give off Some, but very little)

Also, I guess we wouldn’t say the sun is made of fire because it is made of plasma instead, which is gas that got so hot that its electrons separated from its nuclei. The fire in a fireplace is not ionized enough (too few electrons have separated from their nuclei) to be considered a plasma. The sun also gets its energy from a nuclear reaction (fusion!) rather than the chemical reaction that is happening in a fireplace.

So, basically, the sun is too hot to be fire c:

(via mossywizard)

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