TwistyLex
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- Comment on Oxygen 1 month ago:
This is an often misunderstood aspect of the sun. The sun doesn’t need to pull oxygen into itself to burn. It just does a bit of fusion magic!
When a star is dense enough it starts to fuse Helium together through a process called the “triple alpha process”; which results in Carbon! From there it’s pretty direct for the star to fuse one more Helium to the Carbon via stellar nucleosynthesis to create Oxygen!
So you see, the Sun doesn’t need to draw Oxygen from space. It just makes its own!
- Comment on Server maintenance August 30/31 2 months ago:
You guys are doing a great job, and we all appreciate the hard work you put into this!
- Comment on xkcd #2915: Eclipse Clouds 7 months ago:
It was pretty clear during the annular last year. Drove down to Lynndyl and had a great view.