I believe we have Ronald Reagan to thank for cancelling our efforts from the 70s.

A ronna-Reagan is 10^27 Reagans.

One ronna-reagan is approximately 4% of the sun's mass: https://www.google.com/search?q=%28185+pounds%29+*+10%5E27+%...

At least if I have that right. A single Reagan's mass is from: https://www.celebheights.com/s/Ronald-Reagan-1750.html

Or, if you prefer, our sun as about 25 ronna-Reagans.

weird question for anyone with the relevant knowledge, would 25 ronna-Reagans in one place behave differently than our sun? I know that mass would be mostly oxygen, but at that scale does it matter?

You should ask Randall Munroe! :)

http://what-if.xkcd.com

He did something pretty close early on: https://what-if.xkcd.com/4/

Are you asking in terms of gravitation or as a star?

By mass, the sun is 71% Hydrogen and 27.1% Helium, the last 1.9% or so being heavier elements (much of that being oxygen.

I’m no expert, but I suspect a mass of 25 ronna-Reagans would not make a very good star. I imagine it might collapse into a dense Oxygen and Carbon rich sphere, and in that environment various chemical reactions might turn it into some other kind of material.

But maybe I’m way off.

And 1 ronna-mcdonald's is over 9.9e37 served!

Correct. If you compare the attitudes between Carter and Reagan - the difference is incredibly stark.

Say what you will about his impact in office - but I genuinely believe Carters' loss to Reagan is one of the defining moments of the country.

Landslide loss in electoral votes - modest loss of popular vote. In my opinion - largely because Carter angered his own party by taking relatively sane and nuanced stances on complex issues, with a very forward looking attitude. (TLDR - he was undermining the American Military-Indutrial complex, which is great for the American people, but bad for business)

Regardless of his impact in politics - Carter is one of the few presidents I find it very hard to not respect, even if for nothing but his efforts after his presidency.

Reagan deserves to rot in hell. What a trash pit of a man. He did basically entire the opposite of Carter - Cut non-military spending, increased military spending, undermined the EPA, led directly to the S&L crisis with cuts to regulation on finance, tried to enforce an anti-abortion federal law, tried to overturn desegregation laws, started the war on drugs, on and on and on.

The man should go down as literally one of the worst things to ever happen to the US (so far - the same group is angling to get back into power today in the republican party).

Raegan was a complete walking disgrace. But the media was very kind to him, if you don't investigate carefully what he was doing you'll believe that he was a great president. The only explanation I see is that he was fantastic for the war industry and gave everything the very rich were expecting in terms of fiscal policy.