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AnonTechie [soylentnews.org] writes:

FRASER CAIN [universetoday.com] speculates on the possibility of terraforming our SUN. Since, the SUN does not have any terra [wiktionary.org], should it called something else ?

In the list of crazy hypothetical ideas, terraforming the Sun has to be one of the top 10. So just how would someone go about doing terraforming our sun, a star, if they wanted to try?

In our series on terraforming other worlds. We’ve covered Mars, Venus, the Moon and Jupiter. Even though I solved the problem of how to terraform Jupiter (you’re welcome, science), you wanted to take things to the next level and you demanded I sort out how to terraform the Sun. Seriously? The Sun. Fine… here we go.

Let's see what we've got to work with here. It's a massive ball of plasma, containing 333,000 times more mass than the Earth. It's about 74% hydrogen and 25% helium with a few other trace elements. There's no solid surface to stand on it, so we need to fix that.

[Video]: https://www.patreon.com/posts/could-we-sun-3317473? [patreon.com]

[Also Covered By]: Phys.org [phys.org]

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