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[–] lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Well, first of all, through God, all things are possible, so jot that down

[–] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 1 points 3 days ago

Amun-Ra approves this message.

[–] luciole 26 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Trick question. The sun is in the sky (daytime) not in space (nighttime)! As we all know, the higher you are, the less there is oxygen. That is because the sun burns most of the oxygen in the sky. Fortunately plants produce oxygen in the daytime faster than the sun burns it. It's common sense really.

[–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 15 points 5 days ago

This is solid science. 10/10 would smoke again.

[–] Infynis@midwest.social 20 points 5 days ago

The sun is actually a sad FAILED star! SMALL! When you look at the stars I look at Big stars strong stars. The sun is Nothing! Crooked Mercury props it up! That's why Mercury lops so bad now. Sad. The other stars they want toake our sun into one of those shithole stars. BLACK HOLES!! Not me though I love the Sun ask anyone. No one can take care of the sun like me. We're practically the same color

[–] Corno@lemm.ee 17 points 4 days ago

Good question. The reason the sun is burning in space is because it is very spicy in space.

[–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 15 points 5 days ago

This is to blame on solar panels. Modern ones are very black, i.e. a serious lack of light, creating a photonic imbalance that forces light upwards, where gravitational clustering creates an illusion of a burning spherical object.
If you are in doubt about this, check old photos- there’s no picture of the sun before the invention of solar panels. Same goes for paintings, although really old ones have a sort of symbolic sun-like object, which may be caused by the solar panels on visiting aliens’ starships (ref. Von Dänicken, 1968).

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 15 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Duh, because of fusion of course.

Protons in the sun's core fuse until they form oxygen and carbon and those burn on the surface.

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 days ago

So it's all just a scam?

[–] GammaGames 14 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Because the sun is so full of hate that it literally cannot stop burning

[–] Blackout@fedia.io 7 points 5 days ago

It's only desire is to engulf the Earth and kill every living thing on it. One day the sun, one day...

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 days ago

Super Mario Bros. 3 proves this is true.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You got it the wrong way round

Space has no oxygen because the Sun burned it all.

[–] Kwakigra 1 points 4 days ago

I like this one because it's almost close to being true.

[–] Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's burning from the scorching hot insults we throw at it.

Here's my insult to feed the sun

Youre trying to be the center of attention, but really you're just a big ball of gas with a serious ego problem, and you don't see it because you're blinded by yourself.

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 7 points 4 days ago

The sun is actually just a giant mirror that makes small things look really big and the thing you see in the sky is just a really bright light bulb

[–] Malfeasant@lemm.ee 7 points 4 days ago

The sun isn't space, it has plenty of oxygen.

[–] Zementid@feddit.nl 7 points 4 days ago

It took a deep breath...

[–] ursakhiin 2 points 3 days ago

You are all mad! The sun is definitely getting oxygen! The giant space bellows hide just out of sight on the precisely opposite side of the sun from earth, so we've never been able to observe them.

Gringolth the oxidation wizard had been pumping them for millions of years. The biggest risk is that he dies before being replaced by an offspring!

[–] TwistyLex@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 days ago

This is an often misunderstood aspect of the sun. The sun doesn't need to pull oxygen into itself to burn. It just does a bit of fusion magic!

When a star is dense enough it starts to fuse Helium together through a process called the "triple alpha process"; which results in Carbon! From there it's pretty direct for the star to fuse one more Helium to the Carbon via stellar nucleosynthesis to create Oxygen!

So you see, the Sun doesn't need to draw Oxygen from space. It just makes its own!

[–] caboose2006@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

*the Illuminati "stay where you are"

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The sun is a government projection you idiots

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago

I thought only the Republicans projected

[–] Gobbel2000@programming.dev 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Like rocket engines in space, the sun has its own oxidizer tank. Let's hope it won't run out anytime soon.

[–] BurningRiver 5 points 5 days ago

I think it’s got about 3-4 billion years left in the tank, if I remember reading correctly. It won’t be humanity’s problem.

[–] CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 6 points 4 days ago

It's a GOD, stupid. It can do whatever it wants.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Because the Telltubbies perform live human sacrifice at the Winter Solstice to summon a New Sun.

[–] svnipni@lemy.lol 5 points 5 days ago

It's just very angry

Easy. Ever heard of solar gonorrhea?

[–] superkret@feddit.org 4 points 5 days ago

It's burning with hatred for earth. It wants to consume it, but it will take time to gather enough strength...
Time in which frustratingly, its flaming hate transformed earth into a unique, living planet, and lead to the most vile and disgusting creation in the entire universe, My Little Pony.

[–] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 3 points 5 days ago

space contains all of the oxygen

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 days ago

I remember reading once that if the sun was made of entirely wood .. it would take about 5,000 years to burn out.... which is roughly the same timeline and age given by the Christian Bible.

it must be the poop bear

[–] Blackout@fedia.io 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

And who is adding more wood to it? Ancient Egyptians?

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 days ago

-.- they are dead. Read a book.

It's mormons now

[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 3 points 4 days ago

Because it isn't burning, it's exploding like a very big big big stick of TNT that's going off veeeeeery slowly

[–] callyral@pawb.social 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

There is oxygen in space, it's just a different type of oxygen that we can't see

[–] hunting0809@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago

You guys can see oxygen?

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 2 points 4 days ago

Because there isn't enough water to put it out

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago

The sun burns differently, it's burning generates the oxygen it needs to burn, its a perpetual motion machine

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 2 points 5 days ago

they're actually was oxygen in space but they used it all as fuel for the stars and since then they've been converting them to electric.

secondary fun fact: burning all the oxygen in space as fuel has caused space to heat up and is what's leading to the imminent "heat death" of the universe.

[–] 10_0@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago

The hilaries are making it