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To: RaceBannon
Saturn is nowhere near as large, or massive, as the sun. Saturn is 95 times the mass of the Earth. The sun is 333,000 times the mass of the Earth.

Enormous pressure leads to enormous temperature. If, instead of hydrogen, you got a billion billion billion tons of bananas and hung it in space, it would create just as much pressure, and therefore just as high a temperature.

This statement is deceptive. If you packed all those bananas together in space, their mass would create a gravitational field that would compress them. This causes heat. You'd get the same heat that exists at the center of the Sun. The difference is that there is enough heat to cause the hydrogen in the sun to fuse into helium. The lack of free hydrogen in the bananas means that they would make a very large mess, but very little nuclear fusion. The banana fire would quickly burn itself out.

22 posted on 11/12/2009 8:50:47 AM PST by sig226 (Bring back Jimmy Carter!)
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To: sig226

Calculate how much hydrogen is in the bananas, allow for loss of hydrogen during the ‘destruction of the banana as it reverts to basic unit construction, then look at how little hydrogen would be left to ‘light up like a star’. I seriously doubt that the mass of bananas named would yield sufficient unit hydrogen to light up star fusion.


24 posted on 11/12/2009 8:54:36 AM PST by MHGinTN (Obots, believing they cannot be deceived, it is impossible to convince them when they are deceived.)
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To: sig226
The banana fire would quickly burn itself out.

And stink like the Dickens in the process.

26 posted on 11/12/2009 8:57:44 AM PST by Cyber Liberty (Ram "Health Care Reform" down our throats in '09, and we'll ram it up your @ss in '10.)
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To: sig226

Buit if the links I found are accurate about Saturn’s core temperature, and since Saturn is assumed to be mostly gaseous, the core temperature , if around 7000°C would igniote the gaseous atmosphere and melt all liquid or ice into gas, ignote them...

Saturn should be on fire if this is true about the core temperature.

Same with jupiter. AND Uranus and Neptune


32 posted on 11/12/2009 9:17:52 AM PST by RaceBannon (OBAMA'S HEALTH CARE IS SHOVEL READY...FOR SENIORS!!:: NObama. Not my president.)
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To: sig226

Buit if the links I found are accurate about Saturn’s core temperature, and since Saturn is assumed to be mostly gaseous, the core temperature , if around 7000°C would ignite the gaseous atmosphere and melt all liquid or ice into gas, ignote them...

Saturn should be on fire if this is true about the core temperature.

Same with jupiter. AND Uranus and Neptune


33 posted on 11/12/2009 9:18:13 AM PST by RaceBannon (OBAMA'S HEALTH CARE IS SHOVEL READY...FOR SENIORS!!:: NObama. Not my president.)
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