H bomb the sun

If we sent a thermonuclear missile into the sun, assuming we could get it there without melting, and detonated it, could we send the sun nova? It sounds like we need to experiment...

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It would be like dropping a match into a volcano to try and make it erupt.

 

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It would be like dropping a marble into the ocean and expecting a tsunami.

 

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The sun is an H-bomb that is continuously detonating.

 

Spot on, Wagner.

 

The 'blast' is in the interior, and 'muffled' by a blanket of hydrogen, which slowly conveys the released energy to the surface, where it radiates away to our happy smiling faces.

 

But the sun's hydrogen supply won't last forever. Let's make a donation...

 

A drop in the bucket.

Spit in the ocean.

Etc.