Big if true. Maybe as much as 330,000 the mass of the earth.

The number of times I've had to explain to adults that the sun is a star is way more than it should be. It never stops being so disappointing too that even the most basic shit, not this exclusively, is just something so many people don't know, think about, have any interest in and don't ever read more than the sparse title about that thing in the news (those titles and articles often being partly of fully false).

Idk anything about stars or solar systems, but when my house gets too hot I just close the curtains and it helps everything cool down. Maybe we can close earth's curtains and will fix it?

They should try to extinguish it... with water..

Why would libs put it there in the first place?

I knew it!

SHUT UP ABOUT THE SUN!

Reminds me of when Beatrix von Storch, politician from the far-right German party AfD, once suggested suing the sun for damages done by climate change in an interview.

Link: https://youtu.be/IV8UzT_9bXg (englisch subs available)

Why is Saturn bigger than the sun?

Can everyone not focus on the Sun? -Dotard 47

Yeah it’s a funny joke, but this kind of shit actually works on people to an alarming degree.

I think it’s an extension of dunning-kruger, essentially. These dummies love “knowing” something that all those smug educated people that study it for a living somehow do not know. It’s something I see in my more conservative relatives too, the need to put others down to establish your legitimacy.

Even decades ago I remember hearing in conservative media the revelations that water vapor was a greenhouse gas, or that methane was, or that the sun goes through cycles, or that the earth’s orbit isn’t perfectly circular. Every single time it was discussed with the wonder of that brain exploding in space dude meme. Just flinging that confusion and doubt in all directions, knowing that each piece will probably be the thing that convinces part of the audience.