”Well they’re not supposed to be ‘extreme.’ Ferris Wheels are for all the parents waiting on their kids and sick people trying to relax their stomachs so they don’t puke funnel cake all over the pavement.” “Never thought they were as extreme as roller coasters, so I wasn’t interested.” Can’t believe you’ve never been on one before today.” ”… another one!” Robin said, and I laughed and agreed and we rushed to the back of the line. There’s pain in her voice that she does her fruitless best to conceal. But I’m fading fast, and that heat is coming right on back as I do. Then he looks to another colleague – the blonde woman – and he shakes his head, slowly.īut she continues running tests, running diagnostics, placing a soft hand on my arm in case I’m awake enough to appreciate the comfort. One of the paramedics is looking me over. There is a flurry of activity around me, and there are voices, too, and blinding lights, and a cooling down of that monstrous heat. She smiled at that and punched me in the shoulder, just light enough not to sting. Whoever gets the most points by closing time buys drinks.” Which it wouldn’t, because the sun isn’t massive enough to collapse into a black hole.” ”What you said would only be true if the black hole in question happened to have the same mass as the sun. ”IF the black hole had the same mass as the sun.” Earth’s orbit would remain entirely unaffected.” I mean everything would get dark and cold, but we wouldn’t fall in. ”Nope! The answer is – drumroll please – nothing. If you replaced the sun with a black hole, what would happen?” Nice to meet you.” There was an awkward pause before I said, “Alright, I got one for you. I’m Robin, by the way.” She extended her hand, and I shook it. Then they exhaust their fuel and collapse under their own weight, and they blow off their outer layers and pretty much shower the galaxy with all these random elements, some of which are eventually used to create life.” They start off fusing hydrogen to helium, and then they keep going on and on, fusing heavier and heavier elements until they’re fusing the heaviest stuff. Stars are just fusion factories held together by their own gravity. “I just watched a documentary about it last night. Isn’t it awesome?” She stepped up beside me and moved her arm across the diagram as she spoke.
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