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Our sun is special

Is it?

  • Yay

    Votes: 19 24.7%
  • Nay

    Votes: 58 75.3%

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Antimony

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Interesting how we would be able to adapt to our Earth with no atmosphere and boiled->evaporated oceans.

2% is 1,860,000 miles.

That is closer...but how about farther away?

But of course. Without it there would not be life on Earth. We are as yet to see another solar system which harbours a planet as our own. It could be argued that it is the whole of our solar system which is unique but it would not detract from our sun being special.

We can't exactly travel all around the universe. I think the circumstances are quite perfect and special, however I do not believe that its composition/way it will die/etc is anything extrordinary.
 

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Nu! (Nono, it's Ni)
Why? Because objectively, there is NO
reason to believe that's it's different from the yea
how many other yellow stars out there.
 

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As far as we know, most of the stars are not being worshipped as a god. Ours is/was. Wouldn't that make it special?
 

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"Just that," said the fox. "To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you, I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world . . ."

-Saint-Exupéry​
I know an INFJ who loved that book so much he had a poorly-drawn fox tattooed on his arm.

It looks more like an anteater...
 

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Well, we use our word "sun" to describe stars which have similar attributes. So in our conception, our "sun" is the model for every sun there is.

Even if it stands out by its mediocrity, I'd say that still makes it somehow special ;)
 

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I was watching a (crappy) made for TV movie named SUPERNOVA the other day... and got into a discussion with my BF about it since I was explaining the sun's too tiny to nova, let alone supernova. He was like wth the sun is huuuuuuuuuuge!

Sooooo

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That shut him up pretty fast XD

Same thing goes for the sun being "unique".

It's semi rare, but not that rare, there's lots of stars out there similar in size, density, and heat output as the sun.

Consider it this way...

Our sun is one star in a solar system. There are billions of stars in the milky way. There are billions of galaxies as well. The sun itself isn't particularly special, honestly, moreso the fact that our planet just HAPPENS to be at 'just that right distance' from it for its' properties to support liquid water is moderately rare, astrologically speaking.

Of course, even by those standards, the calculation which factors in everything still estimates roughly 3million inhabited planets in the milky way alone, so go figure.

This's with factoring out having the right type of star/sun, the right distance, the right planet type, the right conditions for water to form, the removal of planets that won't actually create life despite the ideal conditions, and those that are too young to support such yet.

So yeah, we're looking at like 0.000001% of planets in the galaxy and still comes out that high.

Why are we special again?

Even if we assume religious overtones of christianity's "god made us!", he still made the angels first on another world before us, so we're not even special there.
 

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I was watching a (crappy) made for TV movie named SUPERNOVA the other day... and got into a discussion with my BF about it since I was explaining the sun's too tiny to nova, let alone supernova. He was like wth the sun is huuuuuuuuuuge!

Sooooo

pic1_antares_betelgeuse_aldebaran_regel.jpeg

To be fair, some of those are red supergiants
But that doesn't detract from the idea of our sun being small :cheese:

Rigel is really cool... I don't remember a thing about blue supergiants from astro :\
 

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As far as we know, most of the stars are not being worshipped as a god. Ours is/was. Wouldn't that make it special?

Nope, not as far as its physical attributes go.

That is a fine example of people thinking it is special because we revolve around it.

Well, we use our word "sun" to describe stars which have similar attributes. So in our conception, our "sun" is the model for every sun there is.

Even if it stands out by its mediocrity, I'd say that still makes it somehow special ;)

I thought it was really, really average?

Anyway, it is a model because it is is so close to us, and we and our ancestors have only been staring at it for the last 37 million years.
 

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Our sun is special 'cause it's ours. And we are special, and so is our sun.
 

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Our sun isn't really spectacular when you compare it to other celestial bodies. We're just anthro-centric creatures and want to feel special so we give it special significance. It's special only in the sense that we fall within the goldilocks region of it for life to exist.
 

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Alleluia!

The Sun was our God for Millennia. We worshipped the Sun. We worshipped the Sun, the bringer of light after hiding in the dark overnight and avoiding the dark predators, our God showed their shinning face to us in the warm sunshine.

And Jesus, as you probably notice, has a halo behind His head. The halo is the halo of the Sun. So Jesus is the latest reincarnation of the Sun God.

So we still worship the Sun, the bringer of life and light. And every day the Sun dies, just like Jesus. And just like Jesus is resurrected the next morning. Alleluia!
 

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Interesting how we would be able to adapt to our Earth with no atmosphere and boiled->evaporated oceans.

2% is 1,860,000 miles.

That is closer...but how about farther away?

It's an absolute value he's using, doesn't matter closer or further away.

By the way, the eccentricity of the Earth's orbit is around 1.7%; which means, annually, our distance changes by about 3.4% - I'm still breathing and taking hot showers...
 

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The sun, more than most tangible objects, is worthy of worship and human sacrifice, but I don't believe it to be particularly mighty on any cosmic scale.
 

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from the omniscient point of view of a dominant Ne thinker, our sun is NOT special. that's like saying one normally shaped, sized, produced, and configured sphere of hot gas out of a trillion, at least, is special.

but on the other hand, it is ours like someone said...so in that respect, I guess it can be considered special.
 

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Given such a small number (a trillion) and such variance though, it would not be a stretch to say that given the precise composition, such a star is unique. It is, however, relatively insignificant in comparison to some of the more spectacular stars.
 

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In terms of size, what it is made of, etc

I was recently (try a couple minutes ago) in a debate on whether or not it is. Someone is having that fantasy that it is something special...when it isn't. I don't really know how to prove it isn't haha

It really is not special at all; the only stars less special are K-class and M-class stars (each being more common by an order of magnitude in that order.) In fact, in terms of 'friendliness' or life, K's are better than G's (though G's are obviously good enough, hehehe.) Still, G's aren't exactly common, but they are not uncommon either, and the stick around for a reasonable amount of time, thus being semi-easy to find.
 
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