What Happens If We Pour ALL Earth's Water on the Sun

[Music] is it possible to put out the Sun for example what would happen if we poured all of the Earth's oceans on it or even more water well let's find out the universe is a Place full of mysteries since ancient times scientists have been arguing about how space works but none of us has ever doubted the existence of one thing the Sun ah the center of our solar system it's big bright and Immortal nah not really actually the sun is just an ordinary star it consists of 75 hydrogen a little helium and a pinch of other heavy elements gravity holds it all together but in around 5 billion years the life cycle of the sun will come to an end the hydrogen inside it will run out our star will begin to grow gradually and you can't even imagine just how big it will become and then it will start eating all the nearby planets that's when we'll regret being so close to it after eating us all the star will remain a red giant for another billion years or so and then sooner or later it will begin to shrink and fade turning into a white dwarf in the end nothing will remain of it but a bright and colorful planetary nebula but don't get scared right now the sun is in the middle of its life cycle it was born about 4.5 billion years ago and about the same amount of time remains fortunately we were born during the star's best and most stable period in other words there's no reason to worry so let's find one how about speeding up the sun's life cycle with the help of water we'll try to collect all the water on Earth and pour it onto the sun first we'll need a bucket no not this one we'll need a really really big bucket the one that can contain around 326 million cubic miles of water it will be equal in size to the distance from Washington to Chicago or if we can only find ordinary buckets there should be around 70 quintillion of them this is a number with 18 zeros okay imagine that we magically got that many buckets it's time to put out the sun we splash the star with all this water and nothing seriously oh just look at this the sun has probably felt sorry for us and produced one little solar flare it turns out that all water on Earth is actually just a pathetic drop for the sun people often underestimate how much bigger the Sun really is than our planet in reality it can fit more than one million three thousand Earths so yes the sun won't go out or even get colder it won't even notice that we've done something but let's not give up we really want the sun to go out for some reason what happens if we pour just enough water on it and how much is this enough remember our quintillions of buckets well we actually need about 370 octillions of them this number has 27 zeros it's hard to even imagine so let's just say that it's a lot of water now let's Splash it all over the sun again wow just look at the steam but the sun hasn't gone out again on the contrary it said Thank you and suddenly became much bigger and brighter what's happening you see the sun isn't actually a campfire inside bonfire's candle Flames there's a chemical combustion when we pour water on the fire the water absorbs the heat of the flame and cools it to such an extent that it can no longer maintain the burning reaction it also blocks the fire's access to oxygen water basically stops the chemical process but the burning of the sun isn't the same reaction even though we say it burns it's not entirely true what happens there is called nuclear fusion it's one of the most violent and craziest reactions in the universe there are many layers of hydrogen going deep into the sun if you take four hydrogen atoms and RAM them together you're left with an atom of helium when we talk about the Sun the process is a little more complicated when the star tries to carry out that Fusion positive protons repel each other it takes a lot of force and energy to somehow squeeze them together fortunately there's a magical force in space it's gravity the sun takes up 99.8 percent of all the mass of the solar system pretty heavy right and all this mass is what holds the sun together with the help of an incredible gravitational force so gravity takes quadrillions of these little hydrogen atoms and pushes them together every second of every day and when they Collide they release some energy so unlike fire the sun doesn't need oxygen to live it needs hydrogen and we all know that water is H2O it consists of hydrogen and oxygen so this is literally fuel for the Sun it's like trying to put out a fire with gasoline more importantly the extra mass added by water will make the sun heavier now gravity says thank you for your help and then it starts to collide protons with each other even faster and thanks to this the synthesis speeds up great we've made the sun incredibly strong and now it has eaten us along with other nearby planets and if we keep adding water the sun will sooner or later collapse in on itself it will blow off its outer layers and become a black hole awesome now it will pull inside absolutely everything around good job guys let's press rewind because clearly our water experiment was a mistake one small solar flare sounds much better alright we're back to our usual calm Sun but it seems like there's something that we've forgotten well apparently water was critically important for life on Earth who would have thought now there's a huge amount of unmoving fish and other Marine creatures lying around where the oceans used to be poor things as for deep sea creatures they simply didn't withstand such a sharp change in pressure algae and corals have also dried up wait a minute weren't they responsible for producing 50 to 80 percent of the world's oxygen oops it's time to put on some oxygen masks and how are things on dry land I mean now everything is just land but you get the point wow this whole place is lit and I mean it literally if there are no oceans then there are no clouds or rain now there are forest fires everywhere poor animals have to escape and leave their homes oh my and it's not like they'll be able to find a new home because all plants of course will dry up quickly there will be literally no place for living left on the planet so now earth looks like a giant desert great but people have been living in deserts for thousands of years right maybe they'll know what to do they won't after all people in the desert also need to drink so now there's total chaos everywhere and survivors fight for the last drops of water if there are any survivors at all in fact no matter how much they fight for resources their fate is sealed the ocean absorbs a huge amount of CO2 and the heat coming from the Sun they also distribute this heat throughout the planet making it Pleasant to live on but once they're gone the temperatures will quickly jump to 250 degrees Fahrenheit and above but even if we forget about the high temperatures now we have no clouds and they helped us too by not letting through solar radiation so we're also under the direct impact of the sun's race Our Last Hope is icebergs now that everything is terribly hot they've melted and maybe they'll be the Last Hope For Humanity but that cool solar flare was definitely worth it silly humans that's it for today so hey if you pacified your curiosity then give the video a like and share it with your friends or if you want more just click on these videos and stay on the bright side

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Length: 8min 32sec (512 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 06 2023