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Re:The Uncanny Sight of Waves Breaking on a Star by londons_explore on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @07:23AM (#37221169)
I wouldn't recommend trying to vacuum fire... But if you were to do it, you would find you ended up with flames going all the way up your vacuum hose and into the dust collector.

So from that perspective, fire is very much vacuumable.

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Re:The Uncanny Sight of Waves Breaking on a Star by sph on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @07:26AM (#37221196)
Fair enough, because it didn't have time to cool down yet.

But at astronomical scales, even if vacuum is a good insulator, the glowing plasma would somewhat cool down before it reaches the other star, I imagine.

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