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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.
This is solid science. 10/10 would smoke again.
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
Good question. The reason the sun is burning in space is because it is very spicy in space.
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).
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.
So it's all just a scam?
Because the sun is so full of hate that it literally cannot stop burning
It's only desire is to engulf the Earth and kill every living thing on it. One day the sun, one day...
Super Mario Bros. 3 proves this is true.
You got it the wrong way round
Space has no oxygen because the Sun burned it all.
I like this one because it's almost close to being true.
The sun is a government projection you idiots
I thought only the Republicans projected
The sun isn't space, it has plenty of oxygen.
Like rocket engines in space, the sun has its own oxidizer tank. Let's hope it won't run out anytime soon.
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.
It took a deep breath...
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.
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
Because the Telltubbies perform live human sacrifice at the Winter Solstice to summon a New Sun.
It's a GOD, stupid. It can do whatever it wants.
Well, first of all, through God, all things are possible, so jot that down
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It's just very angry
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.
Because it isn't burning, it's exploding like a very big big big stick of TNT that's going off veeeeeery slowly
There is oxygen in space, it's just a different type of oxygen that we can't see
You guys can see oxygen?
space contains all of the oxygen
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!
it must be the poop bear
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.
And who is adding more wood to it? Ancient Egyptians?
-.- they are dead. Read a book.
It's mormons now
The sun burns differently, it's burning generates the oxygen it needs to burn, its a perpetual motion machine
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.
Because there isn't enough water to put it out
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!
it's hot.
*the Illuminati "stay where you are"