• Question: How close can we get to the sun b4 we FRAZZZEL?

    Asked by lemonsqueeze99 to Indi, Jarv, John, Ken, Vicky on 13 Mar 2012.
    • Photo: Jarvist Moore Frost

      Jarvist Moore Frost answered on 12 Mar 2012:

      Depends how much insulation you were wearing 🙂
      In particular, if you had a space blanket / mirror facing the sun, and then had some kind of head pump with a radiator facing back towards space (which is only 3 Kelvin), you would be able to get really, scarily, close.

    • Photo: John Prytherch

      John Prytherch answered on 12 Mar 2012:

      And we are lucky that we have an atmosphere on Earth to protect us by absorbing some of the radiation coming from the sun, otherwise our skin would frazzle (sunburn!) very quickly when we went outside.

      Though if we didn’t have an atmosphere, we would have more to worry about than sunburn.

    • Photo: Vicky Young

      Vicky Young answered on 12 Mar 2012:

      I don;t think you could ever turn into a frazzel but they are the best crisps!

      (Also what they said above)

    • Photo: Indi Ghangrekar

      Indi Ghangrekar answered on 12 Mar 2012:

      I don’t fancy finding out!

    • Photo: Ken Dutton-Regester

      Ken Dutton-Regester answered on 13 Mar 2012:

      Live in Australia! That’s as close as you need to get in order to fry in minutes.

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