Do you think the sun serves a useful purpose?

[Randomguy]

?

 

[Ralphie]

Yes. It is snot perfect though, causing skin cancer and premature aging of everything its darn uv rays come in contact with!  Can’t we filter that shit oot?  Oh yeah , thankfully ozone does some of that for us. But can we turn up the gain?  I guess we did with getting rid of flourocarbons. Fricken chemical engineers and chemists!  But beer helps atone for their sins. 

[Randomguy]

It makes cool days seem warmer, sure, but I think it could be doing more.  It should be more pleasant, and better at straightening up. 

[Ralphie]

Nuclear fusion, baby!  It is quite amazing, really.  Where does all the helium go?

Oh, I guess it is trapped in the core and it eventually helps turn the sun into a red giant. 

[Randomguy]

I saw a movie on Netflix where an outpost on the moon was mining it and sending it back to earth. 

[Ralphie]

2 minutes ago, Randomguy said:

I saw a movie on Netflix where an outpost on the moon was mining it and sending it back to earth. 

In my googling, I learned that the sun has minerals like gold. I sure hope some greedy bastards don’t break it trying to mine the gold!

[Wilbur]

Vitamin D production, so yes. 

[Randomguy]

7 minutes ago, wilbur said:

Vitamin D production, so yes. 

Ok, that is nice but if we didn’t have the sun for that, then we would get our vitamins elsewhere.

I think we should blow up the sun and take care of global warming.  

[Indy]

No, I'm convinced my son serves no useful purpose.

[bikeman564™]

57 minutes ago, RalphWaldoMooseworth said:

getting rid of flourocarbons.

R744

[maddmaxx]

It makes a good complement to night and without it our lives would take a darker turn.

[Dottleshead]

No Sun was bought out by Oracle years ago.

[Page Turner]

...without sunlight, there is no moonlight. Without moonlight, there is no romance.

 

[12string]

I do find the sun quite useful.  Except at night, then it's useless.  We should try to fix that.  I mean, we figured how to make the internet work 24/7.

[Wilbur]

2 hours ago, Randomguy said:

Ok, that is nice but if we didn’t have the sun for that, then we would get our vitamins elsewhere.

I think we should blow up the sun and take care of global warming.  

Then there would be no use for beaches or bikini's. I am vetoing your suggestion.   There would also be no need for sun dresses.  This too would be bad.  Clearly, you need to think this through. 

[Ralphie]

2 hours ago, bikeman564™ said:

R744

Oops, I forgot the chloro part!

[bikeman564™]

Just now, RalphWaldoMooseworth said:

Oops, I forgot the chloro part!

R744 is CO2, natural refrigerant.

[MickinMD]

Considering we have life and energy because of the Sun, I'm happy being a parasite of it.

[JerrySTL]

Without the Sun, it would be very difficult to find Uranus.

Sorry. It had to be done.

[Ralphie]

4 hours ago, bikeman564™ said:

R744 is CO2, natural refrigerant.

Remember when they used ammonia for refrigerant?  Of course not, that was the 20s or so. Strike that question!

[Chris...]

Back in the day page 3 was the best. I hear it’s not so great these days

[Ralphie]

Since today is nice and breezy, I was just thinking how wind power is just a small fragment of its energy. 

[maddmaxx]

Sunlight is a really great thing in boardrooms and in Washington.

[bikeman564™]

31 minutes ago, RalphWaldoMooseworth said:

Remember when they used ammonia for refrigerant?  Of course not, that was the 20s or so. Strike that question!

It's still used, R717. I developed two valves for a R717 system aboot 7 years ago. My local ice rink uses an ammonia refrigeration system.