Re:French scientist's photo of ‘distant star’ was chorizo
by coldcode on Friday August 05, 2022 @12:15PM
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With the pressure coming from the inside of the star from burning fuel, I think this meat-star would implode since it is just meat. Unless of course sausages under pressure emit energy. How much sausage would it take to start a thermonuclear process?
Re:French scientist's photo of ‘distant star’ was chorizo
by kadoban on Friday August 05, 2022 @02:13PM
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What exactly happens would probably depend on what type of star it would turn into, give the elemental makeup of meat.
I'm assuming that pressure would cause temperatures in the middle to rise high enough to break everything down to its constituent elements, and then some sort of fusion would start, eventually breaking down the entire thing.
I bet it would be a _very_ messy process, as things explode and implode, burn and outgas. Eventually things would probably settle into a fairly unremarkable star, except with very odd proportions of various elements.
Re:French scientist's photo of ‘distant star’ was chorizo
by ReptileMan on Friday August 05, 2022 @01:08PM
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Depends. If it is proper spicy - think Balkans, Mexico or Thailand... probably less than you think.
I’m neither an astrophysicist nor a food expert, but sausages have lots of carbon and contain a reasonable amount of water and thus, oxygen, so I don’t see young stars match them chemically. Maybe, some really old ones will, fairly short befor they run out of stuff to fuse.
If you limit things to a star’s atmosphere, you may have better luck (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_star)