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Re:4.6B Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment by lordofgibbons on Thursday July 10, 2025 @04:59AM (#44518876)
All fossil fuels also come from the sun!
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Re:4.6B Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment by Sharlin on Thursday July 10, 2025 @07:19AM (#44519730)
I wonder if there are some minimal fossil hydrocarbon deposits somewhere that originate from chemosynthesis-only microbe populations.
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Re:4.6B Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment by vrx-meta on Thursday July 10, 2025 @05:33AM (#44519066)
The nuclear fuels are also probably from the Sun. Pretty much everything is the Sun.
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Re:4.6B Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment by isolli on Thursday July 10, 2025 @05:39AM (#44519102)
Hm, no, don't the heavy elements used for nuclear fission come from a previous generation of stars?
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Re:4.6B Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment by ses1984 on Thursday July 10, 2025 @05:36AM (#44519086)
They came from some other suns, technically.
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