How much water would you need to extinguish the sun?

Question

Would it be possible to put the sun out and what would the effects be?

Answer 1

Water would even increase the pressure in the sun and cause more fusion processes to start and generate more energy. The water would split into hydrogen and oxygen, the hydrogen is the preferred fuel for the sun, the oxygen could fuse to nitrogen inside the sun (CNO-cycle).

For putting the reactions out, you would need to poison the sun with lots of elements heavier than iron.

Answer 2

You couldn't do it with water.

If you tried, you'd be adding both hydrogen and mass

to the star, and the sun would get brighter & hotter.

Answer 3

Yeah , Whats the rush for?

Are you trying to kill me

Answer 4

the sun isn't a chemical reaction, Water may make it more powerful, since Hydrogen is its main fuel supply

water being 2 Hydrogen atoms and a Oxygen atom

Answer 5

The Sun is so hot water would be vapourised before it landed.

Answer 6

Water H2O; would further strengthen the thermal activity there. Nor any other means given the size and source of thermal energy released.

Answer 7

How would we even get close enough to spray water on it! Plus, the water would evaporate before it even touched the sun! I would say its impossible!!!

Answer 8

Not enough water in our universe.

Answer 9

There Is practicly no chance of the sun being put out by water; It is far too powerfull.

The sun will eventually Burn out. But who knows? The universe is full of wonders...

Answer 10

It would be like pouring petrol (gasoline for our us friends) on a fire. The sun would consume all the hydrogen and fry us. That is assuming you could get water anywhere near the sun in the first place!

Answer 11

if you got your carbon body close enough to the sun with the water you would be fuel LOL

but idk if there is like ....SOMEWHERE out there a floating body of water or something

Answer 12

It would be impossible the temperature at the suns core is 15 million degrees celsius which would vaporize any thing that come within 20 million miles of it

Answer 13

Just wait a few billion years. The sun wont last forever.

Spray water at the sun lol?

Answer 14

firstly you would need a hose about 93 millions miles in length,then the sun would melt it!

Answer 15

I don't think you would be able to to extinguish the sun!

1. you wouldn't be able to get close enough to put water on it

2. there is not enough water in the universe

3. it's way too big so how are you going to carry something to hold all of the water that is big enough to actually make a difference.

4. Even if you had a chance to put water on the sun, nothing in the universe is big enough to hold enough water to actually do damage, so if you poured water on it, it wouldn't be any different.

5. Can you even get water to outerspace and even if you could, it wouldn't pour like it does on earth, if you tried to put it on the sun it would just float around in space doing nothing.

6. Nothing could get close enough to the sun and live to tell the tale.

Answer 16

The Sun is one gigantic and slow thermonuclear explosion. You can't put that out with water.

Answer 17

It is somehow silly to think about, the extinguishing of the Sun. The Sun is enormous (thousands of times bigger than the entire Earth), and it “burns” in totality.

But it doesn’t burn. At least, not like things burn here on Earth (like the burning of wood or coal in the presence of oxygen). Into the Sun the nuclear reaction of fusion takes place ;nuclei of the atoms of hydrogen and helium combine together to form larger elements, releasing enormous amounts of energy (and heat).

Answer 18

First, fire can be extinguish with water because this "smothers" the fire, by robbing it of the oxygen needed for combustion.  The Sun is not on fire, is is a huge fusion reactor it converts hydrogen into helium deep inside its' core.  No amount of water would put this out, in fact since water has hydrogen in it, you would be adding fuel to it.

It is so big that even if the above were not the case, putting all of the water from all of the earth's oceans, lakes etc., on it would be a little like spitting into an incinerator

Answer 19

water would acts as a fuel.

Answer 20

I've always been afraid some evil mastermind would do just that!....OMG!......I gotta get a man before it happens...

Answer 21

1000000000000000000000000000000000000000...

gallons would disperse the hydrogen far enough to stop fusion