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What If You Had a Chunk of the Sun in Your Living Room?
Probably nothing good.
 
By Avery Thompson
Sep 7, 2017
 

Parts of it burn at more than a million degrees Fahrenheit—thank goodness it's so far away. But what if we could take a small piece of the sun and bring it to Earth? What would happen?

The Youtube channel Kurzgesagt set out to answer that question, examining the consequences of moving a few hundred cubic feet of sun into your living room:

http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/solar-system/news/a28097/what-happens-if-we-bring-the-sun-to-earth/
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What If You Had a Chunk of the Sun in Your Living Room?
Probably nothing good.
 
By Avery Thompson
Sep 7, 2017
 

Parts of it burn at more than a million degrees Fahrenheit—thank goodness it's so far away. But what if we could take a small piece of the sun and bring it to Earth? What would happen?

The Youtube channel Kurzgesagt set out to answer that question, examining the consequences of moving a few hundred cubic feet of sun into your living room:

http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/solar-system/news/a28097/what-happens-if-we-bring-the-sun-to-earth/


10'x10'x3'=a few hundred cubic feet, or 6.7' x 6.7' x 6.7' that would take up a big chuck of my living room.
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I'd have a hell of a tan?