Is it possible to blow up the sun?

Question

Is it possible to blow up the sun?

Answer 1

Oh yeah. I've thought about this for a long time. We could launch a rocket with a whole bunch of dynamite straight into the middle of the sun and BAM! Out go the lights!

Uh...no really we can't do that...  

Answer 2

I suppose it would be possible, but I dont think there would be enough explosives on earth to actually do anything to the sun.

Answer 3

yes. anything is possible,

Answer 4

Trust me, we could not come up with such explosives here on earth to even THINK about bombing the Sun.

Answer 5

no are you stupid. anything that gets close would burn to ashes

Answer 6

Nope.

All the nuclear material on earth, put together to make the biggest possible bomb, and exploded anywhere in/on the sun, wouldn't hardly make a dent. The sun is already a nuclear fusion bomb on a huge scale.  All that energy is what keeps Earth going, and us and everything on it alive, and that's just the tiny portion of it that gets to the Earth.

  

The sun can't even really blow up itself.  Some stars can, in a supernova,  but this one is too small to produce a supernova. Even if it were large enough that wouldn't happen for a long, long, long time.  

Answer 7

no, not really. because if we or ANYTHING get near the sun, we/it would burn up and die/be destroyed.

Answer 8

no.cause won't we all burn.

Answer 9

Right now, humans do not have this capability.

Of course, it is only a matter of time before we (or some other intelligence in the universe) manage to invent a technology that could do it.

It would be the most horrific war crime, though. If you destroy a star, then you destroy the star's solar system, and all life and civilization on all the planets in that solar system.

Of course, it's also possible that the sun, or any star, could blow up as part of some unanticipated process. I wouldn't like to be the guy that accidentally blew up the sun, would you?

Answer 10

of course not, you would need unthinkable amounts of nuclear power and they we would get caught up in the resulting explosion and die in horrible pain.

Answer 11

I think you are suicidal :)

Answer 12

not smart. plunge us into an ice age. and its too big. would melt away anything we send to it

Answer 13

The sun is fueled by nuclear fusion. Because of the sun't mass, hydrogen atoms in the center of the sun fuse to become helium atoms, releasing huge amounts of energy. It is the mass of the sun which gives it sufficient gravity to sustain its shape under these circumstances. It is also the primary factor which gives the sun sufficient pressure to both create and sustain this fusion. Since nuclear fusion is the highest yielding known way of releasing energy, it would not be possible to "blow up" the sun. The sun is basically a giant explosion itself.

Answer 14

h**l no its not. the sun is too big too hot and anything that would come even remotely close to it would disintegrate.

I often think the sun is God.

Answer 15

yes..however you need a huge amount of radioactive elements such as uranium..in the nagasaki and hiroshima incident before, only grams of radioactive elements were used, yet they caused so much destruction..  

Answer 16

My hunch is no! I personally think that a God is looking out for us, because the way the solar system works. The sun is in a perfect distance to the earth. If it was any closer it would burn us up, it is was a little bit further away we would freeze to death. Plus the way the earth turns we get sun enough times on each part of the planet, so there can be life.

So my conclusion - No it is not possible to blow up the sun,

1) because I don't think God will allow it.

2) I think the sun is to warm and to big for us to be able to blow it up. 3) Any attemnt will burn up the weapons spaceships or people getting to close it it.

Answer 17

Yes, it is possible.

In fact the sun is currently in the process of "blowing up", into the red giant.

Answer 18

yes if a black hole was near it or if the mass is so strong that the sun explode from its own mass

Answer 19

This is off of wikianswers, and I agree with this statement.

With current technology, I don't think so. The sun is very large and is a continous atomic reaction. So attacking it with current military nuclear weapons would not inflict any "damage" to the Sun. It might even feed the fire, so to speak.

Answer 20

Not with the technology we have now. Lets just say we could send a rocket from the earth to the sun, with enough force to actually destroy it (even though you can fit a ridiculous amount of earth's in the size of the sun), when it gets there, what is it going to destroy? The sun is already a burning pile of gas. How do you explode burning gas?? Maybe you could send a rocket full of water balloons?

Answer 21

No, but I really wish there was.

I HATE the sun.