Ep 613 - Solar System Part 1 (feat. Nate Marshall)
60 min
•May 7, 202627 days agoSummary
Matt and Nate Marshall explore the sun's structure, nuclear fusion processes, and extreme physics in part one of a solar system deep dive. They discuss the sun's core temperature of 15 million degrees Celsius, the corona paradox, solar flares, and how fusion converts mass into the light that reaches Earth after 17,000 years of bouncing through the sun's interior.
Insights
- The sun's core undergoes 90 trillion nuclear explosions per second, yet remains in perfect equilibrium for 4.6 billion years through balanced gravitational and fusion forces
- Gamma rays produced by fusion are trapped and degraded over 17,000 years before reaching Earth as visible light, a natural filtering process that makes solar radiation survivable
- The corona paradox—where the sun's outer atmosphere is hotter than its surface—remains unsolved but may be explained by electromagnetic field reconnection generating micro-flares
- A solar flare event like the 1859 Carrington Event today would destroy global internet infrastructure and cause trillions in damage, yet such events occur cyclically every 11 years
- Female scientists have made significant discoveries about planetary systems, including Venus's cloud layer, yet remain underrepresented in popular science discourse
Trends
Renewed public interest in space science and solar system education among adult audiences seeking updated knowledge beyond childhood learningRecognition of women scientists' contributions to space research and astronomy as a counterpoint to male-dominated historical narrativesGrowing awareness of solar activity cycles and their potential effects on human cognition and behavior during high solar flare periodsPhilosophical questions about consciousness in celestial bodies and panpsychism gaining traction in popular science discussionsIncreased concern about infrastructure vulnerability to solar events as society becomes more dependent on internet and electrical systems
Topics
Nuclear fusion in stellar coresSolar flares and electromagnetic field dynamicsThe corona paradox and solar physics mysteriesGamma ray production and energy conversionSolar radiation and Earth's atmosphere protection11-year solar activity cyclesCarrington Event of 1859 and modern infrastructure riskParker Solar Probe mission findingsPlasma state of matter at extreme temperaturesCoulomb barrier and nuclear physicsEinstein's E=mc² and mass-energy conversionSolar wind and heliosphere boundariesEtymology of celestial body names in Greco-Roman mythologyFemale scientists in space researchConsciousness and panpsychism in celestial systems
Companies
Netflix
Mentioned as streaming giant competing in comedy space with Netflix Is a Joke festival
Amazon
Discussed as streaming giant lacking comedy-specific branding compared to competitors
Disney Plus
Featured in advertisement segment promoting original series and content availability
NASA
Launched Parker Solar Probe in 2018 to study sun's corona and verify fusion temperature models
Prize Picks
Sports betting platform sponsor offering NBA playoff picks and promotional sweepstakes
People
Nate Marshall
Featured guest co-hosting solar system discussion and providing research insights
Matt
Primary host leading solar system educational series and sharing personal research experience
Shane
Co-host absent from episode due to Netflix Is a Joke festival commitment
Sean
Contributed research methodology and etymology angle for planetary name origins
Julius Caesar
Claimed descent from Venus (horny god) in Roman mythology discussion
Quotes
"The sun freaks me out, bro. I'm not going to lie. The more I learned about it, I had a panic attack in my office researching about how the sun works."
Matt•~15 minutes
"One point three million Earths could fit inside the sun. It's fucking dude. It's massive."
Matt•~20 minutes
"The sun is a controlled explosion that gravity won't let escape and fusion won't let collapse in on itself."
Matt•~50 minutes
"Every time you stand in the sunlight, the light hitting you is 17,000 years old and has been stepped down from pure gamma."
Matt•~70 minutes
"If your brain produces consciousness, your brain is just a bunch of electrical sparks flying around in water and tissue. Why can't the sun, dude?"
Matt•~80 minutes
Full Transcript
Wow, wow, wow, Wes. Hey, what's up, everybody? We're here. This is a breaking episode. It's going to be a solo cast solo cast Astrak obviously have Nate here, but Shane's away. Netflix is a joke festival, which is that'll be fun. So it'll be pretty much wrapping up by the time you guys see this. However, I don't know. Maybe who will do one, too? I like when the streaming giants get silly in the comedy space. You know who? Huh? They start going to start battling. But yeah, they're all the streaming giants are battling. That's all they do is battle each other. I don't know. We're battling for stand-up rights now. Well, I guess who's doing those specials? Who does hilarious or who lose laughing now? Those are both terrible names. Who lose laughing now? You don't like who lose laughing now? I hate that. I hate who. I think the streaming giants are just on the next level with the branding. They might just be getting out. I'm a dumbass. They know what they're doing. They who lose laughing now. Dude, that's I saw that and I literally cracked up. I say these guys know, like none other. Wow. Also, Amazon does not have comedy specific branding. I'm I would like to propose to Amazon. Ah, Amazon. Hey, come on. Come on. Let me let me know. You guys think in the comments like subscribe. Yeah. So yeah, this week I was sitting here. I was going the hell should we talk about, man? You know, it's like the political stuff. No, the war, pretty much political stuff. No, I don't want to talk about that. Bombers, big bombers. Yeah, you know what I was like? You know what would be sick to actually get into at nobody? I haven't heard anyone talking about it at all. It's the solar system. You know what I'm saying? Can't beat space. It's the planets. Here's the thing. We learned about the planets when we were little boys. We learned last learned about the planets when we still had an extra plan. Let me get it. Let me get a camera. We still had an extra plan at the last time we learned about planets. We're talking you're talking Pluto. I'm talking Pluto. Yeah. So I haven't got I haven't got to Pluto yet. But I'm kind of I was I'm a little salty. We've nixed Pluto. It's like what what it was. It's not hurting anybody. Was that was that like a coalition of fat science teachers who are like, we don't feel like covering. Like why would they drop? I think it literally just didn't fit into the curriculum. They're like, we can't get this all the way through the year. We've got to knock one off. I mean, what a dick. That was definitely some Astra, whatever they're called. Astra, not an astrophysicist, but like just like a space. Yes, space scientists, whatever they're called. Definitely just being like, you know, technically, it doesn't count. It's just like, dude, what the fuck? It's it's a it's a big ball. They rotate around the sun. Let it be a planet. Yeah. What's what's your fucking problem? They do it's technically just like an XO. It's like, dude, it's a fucking planet. My my theory is Saturn's not a planet. What's your problem with the gas giants? It's a gas giant. You can't touch it. There's several gas giants. But is it I gave her Saturn's rings come from? I want to say your ages, but I was just me being. I was just me being if you're going to bring that attitude to the fucking solar system discussion, you're going to get ejected. Dude, Phil, when you like this makes me want to call the cops on you so. Excuse me. You can't do that. You can't sit there. Karen, Cam, excuse me. We'll see. Might I call the cops on eight by the end of the solar system? We'll see. All right. Are we was there at the wrecks and we're going or did you just give it inside out? It's not starting from the sun. Start from the sun. I almost I almost skipped the sun. That's the craziest part. I was I was going to do this. I was talking to Sean about it. I was a Sean. What do you think about this? And I was like, you know what, dude, I gotta I gotta cover. I'll start from the sun and move on. But I'm like, I got to cover the sun. That'd be crazy to do the solar system and not cover the sun. Cover the fucking thing it's named after. Can I tell you all a thing? I don't talk about much. The sun freaks me out, bro. I'm not going to lie. Yeah. I didn't know much about it. The more I learned about it, I'm not lying. I had a panic attack in my office. Yeah. Researching about how the sun works. And I got into like the nitty gritty of it. Yeah. I, for real, at one point, had to like stop and just like sit down and take some breaths because the sun. I mean, it gets it cuts you down to the base. The bare fundamentals to where you're like, what even what? OK, so this is where light comes from. And it's like, I hope I'm not jumping the gun. But the fact that it could like blow up at any time. Well, we'll see. Not like close. The sun has maintained equilibrium for four and a half billion years. And it's pretty much it will continue to maintain equilibrium. The problem solar flares. Oh, yeah. Solar flare. Love it. Scary. We'll get into solar flashes. No, no, no, no, no, no, you're eager. You're eager. Before you're disruptive. Now you're eager. We've gone a full dangerous minds arc in 30 seconds. This is amazing. But I will say this, it's like, here's why I wanted to do the solar system. Because like we learned about it as boys. But that was so long ago and so much stuff has come out about the planets. Like all the shit you learned about the planets. Planets, I'm not going to say is wrong, but a lot of new details have come out. So every the average adult is kicking around. And I'm not I'm not coming for people, but a total fucking ignoramus in terms of the solar system. People have like no one knows shit about how all these planets work, including myself. So, you know, I. Well, you know, while we were out here just kind of messing around in high school, drinking, college, people were. Yeah, a lot of girl scientists, too, by the way, were working hard. That kind of seems like girl science, actually. Yeah, it kind of did. It's it's dominated. There's a lot of guy scientists, obviously, but there's a ton. A lot of these discoveries are girl scientists. Astrology, then the solar system is like a clear, a path. Yeah, the horoscopes like you got to go all the way in. Yeah, you need to know what's up with the fucking cloud layer of Venus, which actually there was a discovery by girl scientist, big discovery by girl scientist. Oh, a great story like Monsters Inc. Stays with you forever. And Disney Plus is where you'll find your next great story. From the return of the award winning hit series, Rivals. Welcome to the naughtiest show on television to the unmissable crime drama, High Potential. Got a dead body. 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But I think you would be stripping the women's vote via girl logic, which is it's not fair. Yeah. Only a girl cares about it. It's not fair. That's girl logic as a guy. You can't be like, there's no fair. It's like, well, now I'm taking your vote, too, because you're being a girl. You're being if you want to keep that's the thing. It's just a vicious cycle. You can't be like, it's not fair. If you act like a girl, we also take your right to vote. I mean, it has to be across the board. Why? Why can't girls vote because they act like girls, but you're acting like a girl to take the vote? Also, it's when I see the debate, it's like, OK, you can make as clear, concise point about it. No one's it's like no one's ever going to do. It's not going to happen. Yeah. He's doing on that platform for real, for real. I mean, you could stand on it all. I'd never get pussy again. Like the. Yeah, well, the one guy that I've watched has his wife pilled on the no vote for women. She's fully with it. And it's like, dude, again, do your thing, live your life. I don't care. But let's be honest. It's never going to fucking happen. They're never going to do it. Is he a politician or is he like a he's like a debater? OK, he's a good debater, too. He's he's a very, very solid debater. Forget his name, but he. Yeah, I was watching the whole thing and like it's just one of those things where it's like it sounds sick, obviously, you're on your channel. You're like, you're the reason you're watching. You're like, you're going to fucking do it. We're going to take their photo with not in two. I mean, dude, it's it's just never going to fucking happen. It's like it's it's just it won't do no one, nobody, the country, no country can possibly withstand that amount of the nagging would be crazy, dude, like, let's be honest. The worst rates will go through the roof of 80s. If you're a dude who goes, I agree with this, you're done. You're not getting pussy. You're a lot of baby. Again, this guy's got his babe. She's on board. That is a fucking rarity. Yeah. Yeah. He's got the like the one percenter of babes. And no one babes or your babe might be like, yeah, I could see that. And then just like on a random Tuesday, be like, can't be if I can't fucking vote. You like soon as a period. You said it was fine. We watched the YouTube debate. We both agreed that guy was right. They're never going to go along with it. It's just one of those things where it's like, dude, like you can you're kind of chasing your tail. You can, you know, whatever. But that's and then after doing all this outer space research, I'm going, dude, women are dominating. We need some babes. We need these babes to fucking look and tell us about outer space. Again, I don't know if it's all of them, but a lot of these discoveries are from babes scientists while we've been just absolutely fucking around the entire time. We will if we take away the right to vote, they're going to stop focusing on science is going to try to get the right to vote back. We can't do it. I don't know. Could though. If we did take the vote, we could get there might be some humble babe action. I like almost like like reuniting right after a breakup. Yeah, yeah, yeah, could be best behavior. You have best. I do like the idea of women actor, right? I would just vote. I'd just tell me I'll vote however you want. I don't even care who you double votes. Tell me babe, I'll vote for everyone. I don't fucking care. And also to like this, the nuts and bolts of blocking the vote. I mean, it's like what the only option you'd have to physically hold that you'd have to literally physically hold them back. They would flood the voting booths. We would also have so many trans women like women. I just thought about that. Or we'd have to we'd have to go down that rabbit hole and it'd be a whole different thing because they would they would definitely spite trans. I know. We'd have to have no, you'd have to have the FBI female body inspector. That'd be the only way. But either way, I don't want to get mired down in politics. I want to talk outer space because it would be. Dude, I'm saying it'd be a sad sight if like, you know, you're there. They actually passed a law on this fucking handmaid and tell bullshit world. The only way you could stop women was by you'd have to have like a security force like scrappy do holding their heads while they. And that would pull me out. I'm trying to cast my vote for the Republic. I've seen women get scrappy, dude, just not. That would be that would fucking piss me off. Some of them good girl scientists that are fucking enlightening us about space. This episode is brought to you by Prize Picks. The regular seasons done in the NBA playoffs are here. 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And actually, this is Sean's idea in while we're doing the planets, we're going to do kind of a mini deep dive into why they have that name, what the name says about the planet doesn't actually match up with the physical characteristics, because like all of them are named after basically Greco Roman gods, except for Earth, except for Earth. Yeah, I'm talking a little bit. Except for Earth, weirdly enough. Why? Why did Earth get I mean, I guess probably because we're standing on it, you know, it doesn't get a cool God name. We may have already had it named, you know, we might have already been calling it Earth, just Earth, Earth, Earth. All you could name Earth after a God, really, because it was like, they know what the gods were supposed to be in the heavens. And yeah, whatever, unless you believe in like, so. OK, before we talk planets, let's talk sun. OK, and basic facts. This is the stuff I already knew before I researched. Sun is 93 million miles away from Earth. I know that one. That was I learned that from a Wu Tang song. From Triumph, it's literally in the song, which is kind of crazy. That's like some dude smoking sherm, the projects would have. Yeah, literally been teaching a primass white boy like myself about the solar system. Yeah, that's what happened. That's how I started my love for outer space. And now I've joined the lineage of great teachers because I've actually smoked sherm on accident before. So that's the only sherm mix. Well, how do you get it? Just PCP. OK, OK. It's just wet. Yeah, just I accidentally smoked sherm myself. So that's how I've just following a great lineage of teachers just smoking sherm once or twice. You look like. Horrible. Weird. Doring, it was sick. Yeah. I really literally flew up a staircase. It's awesome. I could breathe flames out of my mouth. But then I got like deeply paranoid that these babes are trying to poison me. Yeah, OK. I could have kissed them. Oh, I was too sure. I'm down. Yeah, that's that's the life of a fucking astronomer like myself. So OK, let's go size of the sun right off the bat. How big is the sun in relative terms? One point three million Earths could fit inside the sun. Yes, crazy. It's fucking dude. It's massive. If the sun if the sun were a hollow ball, you could fit every planet in the solar system inside of it and still have room like a lot of room. Right. Yeah, it's fucked up how big the sun is like just to get a glimpse. You see it every day. Yeah. You're just only to think about it. Oh, look, it's on 1.3 million Earths could fit inside the sun. How hot is the sun exactly? Depends on where you measure at the core. The sun is 15 million degrees Celsius. It's fucking hot as shit. So we'll get into exactly what that means, because you hear that. It's almost abstract. The surface of the sun is only air quotes about 5500 degrees Celsius. John, can we get some conversion? I like the surface. The surface of the sun, because there's a core. There's the inner core where like the, you know, we'll get into what's happening in there. And then there's like an actual body of the sun. OK, that's only 5500 degrees, which is like pretty low compared to the core. Kind of weird. My Google. How many degrees? 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit. What's the surface in Fahrenheit? If it's 15 million degrees Celsius, that's got to be, I don't know. Celsius throws me off because it's close to some points and super. 30 probably is. I think it's probably 30, 30 million degrees. 30 million degrees, dude. Let's we'll wait for the official numbers to come in. Here's the weird part. So the surface core is 15 million degrees. Surface is 5500 million, 5500 degrees Celsius. OK, so it's 27 million degrees Fahrenheit. You know, whatever. We'll stick to Celsius. That's what the fucking scientists. They love Libs, love Celsius, obviously. So the outer atmosphere. So there's there's a core of the sun. There's its surface. Then there's an outer atmosphere of the sun called the corona, which paradoxically reaches over one million degrees Celsius, which violates this hotter than the body of the sun, not hotter than the core. Yeah. But according to, I believe, the law of thermodynamics, it's supposed to get colder the further you move away from hot thing. The corona violates the law. Basic basic physics. People still don't know why. Yeah, that's pretty wild. And the corona, this is kind of a weird. It actually extends because it's like a you know, it's the core, there's the body. The corona is like the what you see when there's an eclipse. There's that like light around the moon. That's the corona. It goes on for millions of miles. And it's a million degrees for millions of miles. Dang. And then it actually peters out into the solar winds that basically go through the entire solar system. And then they stop after Pluto, for a planet formerly known as Pluto. So when we're getting heat hitting our planet, it's corona that's gotten here. Is that what kind of we'll get to that? OK, OK, OK, we'll get to that. Luckily, our atmosphere. But well, yeah, we'll get to that. It's not technically the corona, but the light coming out of the sun, which, you know, is kind of a bug out in of itself. But that's that's where interstellar space starts is when the sun's solar wind finally stops somewhere after Pluto. Yeah, the solar wind stops and you're in interstellar space properly, which, again, is kind of like weird to think about. So yeah, there's a thing called the corona paradox. We'll get into kind of theories into why that might be. But again, it's like it's it's completely wrong. It's 50 million degrees and it's like 5500 degrees. And then it goes to one million again outside away further from you. Like what the hell? So now I'm sure you thought about this. Like what would happen to you if you like just try to get towards the sun? Yeah. And in reality, you just burn up so fast. Yeah, but here's the thing we have because we like, you know, how do you think how do they know the sun's core is 15 million degrees? We can't get close enough to measure it. So they do a thing where they there's a couple of methods. I don't really understand them, but there's like ways you can look at light signatures and the certain colors coming off give you like, you know, this is how hot this is, this is how hot this is. There's also they like the neutrinos that bounce out of the sun, hit the ground and they somehow like collect those and measure those. But still, I'm like, I don't know. I'm taking it with a grain of salt. There's no way you can actually measure without the direct probe. NASA in 2018 launched the Parker Solar probe and they got within in 2024, about 6.1 million kilometers to the sun surface close. So they're in the corona. So they were able to theorize how hot it would be. And then they actually sent this probe into the corona that could verify like, OK, our models were correct. No, I'm assuming there was no camera, nothing, no pictures that I said. I don't think so. I think this thing was a I mean, it was basically a bullet. It traveled about 692,000 kilometers an hour, fastest any human made object has ever moved. So they just fuck it at carbon heat shield about four and a half inches thick that kept everything inside at room temperature, even as it like hit temperatures at like 1400 degrees Celsius. So now I'm going like, oh, that's why too, the corona is kind of thinned out. So like it is technically a million degrees, but the particles are I think are so thinned out that like it doesn't feel as hot. That's why they're able to get in there. So I don't know that. That's a little confusion, a little confusing. But it's still like the only thing my brain can even like to compare that to is like when humidity makes things feel hotter than it is. It's you don't you really feel pretty fucking dumb. Try to think about this shit. But it's like, you know, if you try to really comprehend how hot these temperatures are, there's there's nothing, you know, like molten metal is thousands of times cooler than the sun's coolest part, which is the surface. Yeah. So it's like it's almost abstract. So it's like in the way to think about this is like as you go up the temperature ladder, you don't just get more hot as you get to like, you know, things like 15 million degrees, it literally alters what the matter fundamentally is. So he changes literally when you go when you get to the sun's core, it turns into plasma, which is a whole different state of matter. Yeah, solid gas, liquid, plasma is just like a super particle. So everything just breaks down. Is that kind of a lesbian? I don't know. I'm going to video games. I'm going to video games. You got plasma guns all the time. So let's just. So again, like the whole idea of imagine yourself floating towards the sun, how close can you get before you're destroyed? I mean, in terms of in terms of pure radiation and heat, you're dead. Unprotected human tissue would be destroyed long, long, long before getting anywhere near the service, obviously, if you could even preserve yourself. Parker Solar probe, like we said, you got the closest for context, Mercury, which we'll get to the closest planet is still about 46 million kilometers from the sun at its nearest point. So it's like halfway between Earth and Mercury is like the halfway point between here and the sun. So yeah, with the general scientific like sense is that without shielding, you would not survive much closer than Mercury's orbit. So here's the scale for reference to temperature temperatures. Zero degrees Celsius water freezes. 100 degrees Celsius water boils. 1000 degrees Celsius lava molten rock. That's that's what lava is. 1500 degrees steel melts, 3500 degrees tungsten melts. This is the highest melting point of any metal. It's using light bulb filaments. Fifty five degrees cell, fifty five hundred degrees Celsius, the surface of the sun. And anything that exists as a solid or liquid is already just long gone. One point one to three million is the corona temperature. Fifteen million degrees is the core of the sun. She. Yeah, which is kind of nuts. And then here's so like we said, the surface of the sun is cooler than the area outside. The corona, which, you know, we already we already talked about that. But again, this is a big paradox. Science physicists are like they have no idea. They don't really know. However, the leading theory on the corona paradox, why the outside area of the sun is hotter than the body of the sun. Again, just including the core, which is just literally nuclear. They think that the massive heat shift around the corona is due to electromagnetic fields snapping together and like, you know, in tiny, tiny increments in each of the realignments generates heat and like micro flares. So it's similar to a big solar flare. Yeah. That originates on the sun's surface. But in the corona, they're thinking like this is happening on a tiny level, but just like billions of them every single second. So it turns into a big ass thing. Kind of. Yeah. So like it kind of collectively heats. It's more so like a electromagnetic heat than technically heat from the sun. But it is coming from the sun because the sun's core does generate electromagnetic or does like dictate the movement of electromagnetic lines. It's dude. Yeah. Electromagnetic shit is so, so fucking weird. So it's like, think of like, you know, we talked about solar flares, obviously. So solar flares, I think, originate because there's like, you know, the core is doing all of its crazy shit. It gets so hot that the electromagnetic fields get all like whacked out. So then like they're getting all whacked out coming from, you know, the core of the sun, they hit the sun's body. And as the sun's rotating, the electromagnetic lines just twirl together. Yeah. And they get so tense, like twirling rubber band together and eventually they just snap and just fire off like a massive thing of heat and energy. And the biggest solar storm that hit earth that we know of was the Carrington event, 1859. It was so strong that it set telegraph machines on fire. So those old Morse code lines were all we're all connected by copper wires. So the evidence is working on them and out of nowhere. Like people got like shocked. Yeah. Like some of them burst in flames. I think it was all over the. It just it just that energy got absorbed by those copper wiring connecting them all together. So that some of them burst into flames. Other operators were just like, ow, just got shocked. Did it hit the whole planet or whole planet? Because chunk of the. I think it hit the whole. I think it fucked up like the. I think it fucked up anywhere that had that. Yeah. OK, OK. Yeah. Also, the weird thing was the energy from the solar flare after they had unplugged some of the machines, like what the fuck's going on with these? And they were still powered. No plug in the energy from the solar flare flare actually powered the machines for a time being afterwards. They were just fucked. It was off. They were off, but they were off. They were all you couldn't turn them off. They had too much juice. Yeah. So. And the cool thing too was the the solar flare was so intense that the you know, like the Aurora Borealis, you could see like the poles. Yeah. You could see that in like Cuba. It just lit up the electric whatever that is, like hits the sky and bounces, colors bounce off of the atmosphere. And it just there was like an Aurora Borealis visible something like it visible all the way down to overlining to that chaos. Because Aurora Borealis is like one of my bucket list. See that in person. Things will be sick. Although the weirdest part was it was so bright that that it happened in the middle of the night. So people woke up in the middle of the night thinking it was daytime. So they kind of popped up like, oh, man, birds. It was birds even got tricked. Birds started singing like it was nighttime. They came out being like, what the fuck three in the morning? Why is it so bright? Yeah, it's completely fucked up. The weirdest thing is if such a solar flare happened today, it would destroy the infrastructure of the entire Internet. Trillion it would cause trillions of dollars in damage. The Internet would go down as far as I know. That's terrifying. Plus side search history. Destroyed. Destroyed. Everyone clean slate. That'd be so bad. We're talking if we get a big enough solar flare, it could destroy. Now would destroy the entire Internet, dude. Clean break. But what about my bookmarked favorites? Bro, you got to let them go. Got it. You could find them again. You'd have to recreate the recreate them. Yeah, that would be the real thing. Because they would be gone. They would exist in your heart and you would have to write them down like one of those ancient Greeks historians. Oh, who's the lady that's always getting like having sex in the shower with like wet makeup on her face? I don't know. Michaels. Gigiana Michaels. Yeah. Oh, you have to write about you have to sing her song. You make the lards. I would definitely this is a story. I miss Michael's. You had a Michael's in pinky with I'd sing to the heavens. Yeah, they'd have to live on through you. So. And this is this is why we're talking solar flares. That has to do with the leading theory on why the corona is so much hotter is like, you know, that that's how massive flare works of like just the twisting and breaking of electromagnetic fields when they reconnect. It like generates a ton of heat and energy that I think that's what powers a solar flare. But again, who knows? We don't know electromagnetic fields are they're actually a very, very spooky subject in and of themselves. They're they're I mean, the fields are non physical and like objects that somehow affect physical objects. Yeah, very, very spooky, man. Very spooky. So also, too. Just how big we talked a little bit about just how big the sun's corona is. So it's like, all right, the diameter of the sun's visible surface is about eight hundred sixty four thousand kilometers, which if you were to take a radius of that half the circle, yeah, guess how big it would be. Four hundred thirty two thousand kilometers. Anyway, pretty sick. The corona starting at the end of the sun's surface extends for, like we said, three to five million miles, raging at roughly a million degrees, which again, asterisk that because apparently they were able to probe it and it was only fourteen hundred, you know, only fourteen hundred degrees Celsius. So maybe that was like the outer outer reaches. I don't. Oh, yeah. You know what it probably was because they weren't even. Yeah, they had got to like the outer reaches of that. Maybe they're in solid because the corona of the sun that goes off the body extends for three point five million miles at a million degrees and then thins out into the solar wind that we talked extends all the way out to Pluto and beyond. So this the technically speaking, the whole solar system is located inside of the sun. Yeah. And I'm going to get pushed back and say, dude, that's the fuck you can't include fucking solar winds was like, amen. I didn't write the rules. Oh, the girl. Girl rules. Girl rules. Sorry, I didn't make them. Actually, you still have a. Now, if you really want to take away their vote, you can amend the solar winds. And no, it does not extend to all of the things. All right. So we covered the surface and the corona. I think pretty well. What about the core, the churning powerhouse of the sun? The core is where, yeah, I mean, dude, like the surface is cool and all the corona is pretty cool, you know, paradoxical, whatever. The core. I'm like, I've ever heard shit about the core. Bro, you I'm if you want to cover your ears, I don't blame it. It's freaky. You'll never look at the sun again. The same way. So the core makes up the innermost 25 percent of the sun's radius. So 25 percent of the sun's size is the radius, not obviously including solar winds and all that stuff. But don't let that for you. 25 percent of the sun is still enormous. The core alone is roughly twice the diameter of Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system. So it's massive. So you have this massive ball. It's 15 million degrees Celsius. And again, we've already established the corona is 1.3 million degrees. The core is five to 15 times hotter than that. And like we said, every step up the temperature ladder changes what matter fundamentally is. So once you get into the core, you're you're like you're just complete. You're you're beyond what any physical matter on earth is basically. You turn into plasma and the pressure. This is fucked up. You think about it. The pressure of the core, it's 250 billion times earth's atmospheric pressure. And pressure is not gravity. It doesn't mean you weigh like 250 billion times more. It's like if you were you know when you're underwater, when like submarines go thousands of feet and they get crushed. Yeah. Dude, like if you did like a couple hundred thousand times bigger, you're crushed. It's 250 billion times atmospheric pressure. It'd be like being like 10 billion feet underwater. Like it's unfathomable how much it grows. It's it's crushing. It's containing an explosion, which the core essentially is. Yeah. The core's explosion is equivalent to 90 trillion nuclear warheads going off every second. Already for four billion years slated for another roughly 4.5 billion years more. Well, every second, every second you look at the sun is 90 trillion nuclear warheads just go on. We're just looking at it like, damn, it's a pretty day out there. Dude, it's so it's insane. So OK, 20 to 250 billion times Earth's atmospheric pressure. And again, it's being crunched down by gravity. The sun contains three hundred thirty three thousand times the mass of Earth. And all of that mass is gravitationally attracted to its own center. I don't really know that's how gravity works. So if you have a big ball like Earth or the sun, all that gets like the weight. So you have like you're standing on France, all of France from the surface. Down to like all the shit underneath it is pressing on the core. And you have China that's also somehow pressing into the core as well. And every place is just crunching down on the core. So the core of the sun is just fucking massive amounts of gravity containing this never ending explosion that just kind of repowers itself over and over. So every layer of the sun is sitting top on the on top of the layer below it. I mean, it's the most extreme pile on ever just all the way down the core, like we say. And the temperature. So it's the temperature, by the way. So we're saying about like the, you know, fifteen hundred, fifteen million degrees changing what matter fundamentally is. It's from two things. It's from the temperature and it's from the pressure. Yeah. So the temperature gets the particles moving fast enough to overcome the repulsion because you have like say you have hydrogen, hydrogen nucleus, seems another hydrogen nucleus. So it's just sitting there like this. They're repelled like magnets. Like think about two magnets. You can't get them to touch each other. You're sitting there like, you know, I can't do it. So the heat gets the particles moving so fast that the electrons, since it's plasma, the electrons fall away. Now we have the soup. The electrons are just floating here and there. There's no order to any of these things. And the neutrons are just going like this. And then they get hot enough. They get fast enough and they get close enough to each other to overcome the repulsion. That's love. So like, dude, if you threw a magnet so fast, it is love. It's true love. It's like if you threw the magnet so fast, which I actually seen one of my boys do this one time, you throw the magnet fast enough, it would just go and would actually connect. However, the connection is nuclear. It's like particle fusion. So it's what powers nuclear bombs. Yeah. And the pressure. So it's like the temperature gets moving fast enough to overcome the repulsion. But then the pressure gets them close enough for the strong nuclear force to grab them together. So and this is the core is the only place in the solar system where both conditions are met at once, which is why fusion only happens in the center of stars and nowhere else. It really is when people do atomic bombs, that's hard. Sing the power of the stars. Yeah. That's crazy. It's the power of the stars. Yeah. And here. Yeah. So and the cool part is the same gravity. That's kind of bad ass. That's dude. We're just harnessing the power of stars on the planet. I don't mean to cut you off. It's cool. It's certainly it's terrifying. It's terrifying. It's really scary. We did kind of do that though. I know. I mean, shout out to us, obviously. But yeah, the same crushing gravity is what keeps the whole system stable. The fusion at the core and we'll get into exactly what fusion is, is nuclear fusion is constantly trying to blow the sun apart. So and again, like we said, 90 trillion nuclear bombs per second exploding. Gravity is just hugging around it. Just no brother just holding it all together. And these two forces, these two massive forces have been pretty much perfectly balanced for 4.6 billion years. Like we said, turns out we get another 5 billion in the bank. So we're chilling on the sun for 5 billion more years. The sun's a controlled explosion that gravity won't let escape and fusion won't let collapse in on itself. So the fusion also is pushing out against gravity, wanting to fucking crunch it all in. I wonder if it'll be like signs. I mean, obviously we won't be here for, you know, 400 billion years from now, what a sun like feel or look different. You know what I mean? Because we've lived it. We've experienced it for such a short period of time. We don't even. I don't know. Yeah. 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It's going to be a close one. So that's it. Chicago. And that is sorry. I should say the date for that. That is going to be May 16th, I believe. I don't know. So that may 16th, it's being microphones, being a piece of shit. So come on, come on. We'll get it. We'll get into fusion because again, we kind of touched on it, but how it happens is really cool. So like, you know, what actually happens to these, you know, molecules or like hydrogen particles at 15 million degrees. So again, at a few thousand degrees, molecules break apart into atoms at around 10,000 degrees Celsius. Atoms, this is when it becomes plasma. Atoms themselves start to break down. Like we said, electrons get stripped away because it's like, you have, remember the science thing of a nucleus, which is like a, I think a proton and a neutron. And then it's circled by electrons. And luckily hydrogen has no proton. No, hydrogen has no neutrons or something. So it's just a proton. That's why they have like the proton collider thing. That's what they're trying to replicate. They do hear of the Higgs-Bosin particle collider. No, they have these things on their ground and they're trying to get particle fusion. They try to shoot them at such speeds that they can overcome that natural resistance and actually collide. And it sounds scary as shit that is around with. It's just girls are out of control right now. This girl's got a mountain blows up. Oh my God. Yeah, it's actually pretty freaky. But at 10,000 degrees, 10,000 degrees Celsius, matter stops becoming matter in any recognizable sense that we know and becomes plasma, which we said is a soup of free electrons and bare atomic nuclei. It's like the nucleus not surrounded by their revolve, you know, the electrons that are spinning around it. Again, this is a fourth state of matter between solid, liquid and gas. So that's at 10,000 degrees Celsius. The core is 15 million degrees. So you're so far past plasma that the nuclei, the proton and neutron, in the case of hydrogen, just the proton, like we said, themselves are being slammed into each other, hard enough to fuse. And like we said, it's because the electrons are stripped away from the heat, leaving the protons, again, not being positively charged, which still repel each other like magnets. The repulsion between these protons is called the Coulomb barrier in case you're wondering. So that's the barrier that keeps protons from kind of slamming. But now, like we said, the heat has the protons going so fast, they overcome the repulsion. And so then as they do this, they just fucking boom, slam into each other. These are two hydrogen nuclei colliding and merging, transforming in a flash in a nuclear, you know, a miniature nuclear explosion. Yeah. Transforming to form helium in the process. So the you have a hydrogen, hydrogen, which by the way, two hydrogen, one hydrogen, I think is heavier than a helium. Okay. But when the two come together, which you would think, oh, the helium's going to be heavier, the helium's lighter than these two guys that just crashed together. So because the helium's is fundamentally lighter. And the loss of weight, right? So you have, say a hydrogen weighs one pound, they don't, but let's say for the second numbers, two hydrogen nucleuses weigh one pound each. They slam. Now they weigh like collectively, I don't know, whatever the fuck it is. They've lost 0.7% of the mass. It's smaller though. Yeah, they're, they're, they're lighter than those are. So you start off with two things weighing something they collide. You're left, you have the leftover. The helium's like the ash of a cigarette. It's like a leftover component of this reaction that had nuclear reaction. That tiny little bit of weight that's lost is then transferred into the energy that basically becomes light. So those particles colliding in the 15 million degrees. In the core. In the core is what generates the sun's light, but it's happening over and over and over and over and over and over just boom, every second. It's like blinding flashes of gamma rays, which you don't want to fucking. Yeah, I know you think you're tough, but you do not want to gamma ray at all. Put me on the gamma. You do not want to get it's, it's that, that little, the hydrogen nuclei. This is important. Colliding and merging, transforming to helium, which is like kind of the body of the sun. Yeah. Boom. White flash, but that just like infinitesimal part of the mass that's lost becomes a force that becomes a gamma ray, which is like a really weird to think like if you took a tiny bit of weight of this thing, single, you know, I don't know what it weighs probably fucking not even like 0.1 pounds. That would become a intense burst of light energy. This is what, you know, it's trying to think of how to explain this. So, so the fusion of two particles again, which is because of heat and pressure transmutes the hydrogen into helium. We already, we already said that and it loses that little bit of weight. That just becomes light, pure energy. And here's how I try to think of it. So it's like when the protons collide in nuclear fusion, they turn into helium, which we said is the byproduct of the reaction and the reaction is a massive explosion of energy relative to the size of the tiny bit of weight that was lost. So think of it this way, if you multiply something's mass, right? This is how I kind of figured it out. If you multiply something's mass by the speed of light and then multiply that number by the speed of light again, you'll see how much energy has been converted in the process. So this is just think like, you know, e for energy, m for mass, and let's do c for the speed of light and square that you get. I think it's like equals mc squared. Well, oh, dude, that's crazy. That's science theory. Actually, but that's what I had no idea. That's what equals mc squared is. It's just accounting for how much how much mass converts how much the tiniest amount of mass converts to like light energy, basically. OK. It's Einstein's theory of special relativity. It's crazy case of parallel thinking, honestly. But I just I was like, oh, yeah, that's how that works. So going back to the sun, you do sit there by yourself and just figuring it all out for the first time. Yeah, he just be like, I'm him. He's definitely him. Yeah, I think, though, there was a guy who figured out what is it, magnetism and electricity are part of the same thing. Yeah. And that came first, which was also like, what the fuck? Yeah. And I think that they say that's what kind of like helped Einstein be like, oh, OK, and he kind of piggybacked off that. He basically looped Ali Upe, Dyson. Was that that's not Tesla, right? No, no. I hear the guy's name. Me, the guy discovered electromagnetism. Another beast. That was a big one, dude. That was crazy to somehow be like, no, they're the same thing because it's like electricity and magnetism. You can't have one without the other. The one produces electricity and the other one produces magnetism. And there is a self-sustaining field. The thing that I've known is a little sidetrack, but like we're talking, you're talking this because we're talking about how beast these guys are. I've kind of I don't know if it is Instagram or the internet has. I always picture like smart dudes. Even see you doing it. I was just smart, dudes, dorks. And like now you're starting to see like sometimes like nerds are kind of just cool, you know, smart people. They used to be cool. Einstein was cool. Yeah. He's like, I see stuff that he seemed like he was kind of him back in the day. Like he wasn't. Well, you know what it was, though? Those early physicists and those type of guys, they would look at this outer space shit and be like they took almost like a religious perspective. They'd be like, God, God's mysteries are so tight. Now scientists are like cold and objective. And they're like, they talk like robots. Yeah, they lost all their swag. Let's see. They lost their swag when they stop being like, this is so beautiful, dude, how do I fit into this beautiful tapestry? Now they're like, well, the forces are impersonal and cold and dark. And they turn on the guy who who tracks to go back to the other shit. They go like, no, that's not what we do now. We can't write peer review papers on that. I know. How can you quantify that? So I do shut the fuck up, dude. That's why Einstein got pussy and you didn't. So. May one of Michael Faraday the hell? Huh? I think it's Ernest Mock. What? Did he? Maybe was. I don't know. What? Either way, we'll leave that like comment below. Figure that out. So going back to the sun, that is a good point. Why? Einstein was the man. I do think they just lost their respect for, you know, yeah, they took it. They stopped taking a poetic view towards nature. They just started being like, yeah, yeah, it's fucking a bunch of math. It's just math. Going back to the sun. So nuclear, nuclear fusion is constantly happening at the core. Hydrogen, nuclear, I slamming, fusing gamma burst. And this is what sunlight is. And then leftover helium body of the sun. So the sun, by the way, through fusion is converting four million tons of mass into energy, gamma rays every single second. And this isn't like burning a log. This is physically, you know, that's like you burn it and it's like it's light. This is physically converting mass into like traveling light beams. You know, a fire is just kind of like, oh, it's like a candle. It's kind of hovers. That's more of a chemical reaction. Yeah. This is fundamentally taking mass and going like flying out. So in gamma rays, too, by the way, here's a cool thing, too. The gamma rays don't just blast out of the reaction and hit us, because if they did, we'd be fucked like we would be gamma rays are in terms of energy rays like gamma x rays, all that shit. They're the king daddy of energy rays. They have no mass, no charge. It's just pure energy moving at the speed of light. So and you think, OK, what's the fuck's the big deal about that? So. OK, so let's just get into this thing first. The gamma ray, let's just say if it hit you, you're fucked. Like a gamma ray goes UV ray hits your skin and it gets trapped. You get a little sunburn, maybe. But your body is like, OK, let's kind of repair that. The gamma ray would go right through you. Like a hole in my body wouldn't be a hole, but it would pass through you. But it would sever anything it touched in terms of like your DNA cells. So it goes through you and just severs your DNA. So if you got hit with a full body dose of gamma, all your all your DNA strands would just be severed. It's like like that. So anything, right? Huh, you vape. That sounds like you vape. You don't vaporize. You're just you just be there. Like nothing happened. But all of a sudden you'd be like, oh, like your body, all your body's natural intelligence just goes offline and you become what's called a walking ghost and you just slowly die. Like you die in like two minutes. Damn, because your body, all your bodily processes are just like, what the fuck was that? They just stop work lines of DNA to shred. So that your DNA is what's telling all your cells what to do. Yeah, that just goes down. And then you go. I don't feel so good. Two minutes later, fucking toast. So that's what's happening in the sun's core. Now here's the cool part. You have those kind of weapons. The gamma would fuck do that would suck getting hit with gamma. So the core, you would think like, OK, so that light hits the core. The hydrogen, you know, or hydrogen hits each other, turns into gamma. The hydrogen turns into helium. That's like the energy process, the energy exchange or whatever. That gamma, those gamma rays produced by the particle fusion. It gets trapped in the sun's core. It just it can't get out. It goes bounces around. Guess how long it bounces around for? I guess a million years. 17000. OK. 17000. Shoot it went low for the record. Just go low next time. It's better. No, but so if those escaped, we'd be toast. Yeah, somehow. And the sun's already kind of nuts right now. But the gas, the energy it produces, it holds it inside of itself and just kind of it bounces around on a weird 10 to 17000 year journey inside of the core, where it slowly degraded into like lesser and lesser forms of energy, basically. So it's like gamma all the way to where it's like bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. Now it comes out as UV light. Soon as it escapes the core and hits the, you know, basically surface of the sun. Yeah, it takes eight seconds to get to earth. So it bounces around for, let's say, 17000 years and then it gets to the sun's surface and it's eight seconds hits you right in your fucking face. Get a little tan. As you V and you get a little tan, you know, white boys like me get a little crispy. So yeah, it's pretty it's pretty crazy, man. How it's like every every time you stand in the sunlight, the light hitting you 17000 years old. And has been stepped down. It kind of is set up for black people originally. So white people might be from Yakub. But it was it's kind of just like held in the sun and then shot out at like the perfect shit that we need for here for plants and people and, you know, all that other stuff. That's fire. Pretty beautiful. Yeah. Pretty beautiful. Pure gamma, dude. Don't want no parts of that. You don't want that, dude. You just you just don't you don't want anything. Literally, like we said, just malfunctions, everything gets you fucked up. But yeah, dude. And then like we said before, the sun, this is actually kind of cool, too. The sun somehow sun basically self regulates. So like we said before, the, you know, the outward pressure of a fusion is kind of trying to explode the sun just out into the into the solar system. But the size of the sun itself is kind of crunching it down in on itself. Yeah. So here's the thing. When fusion speeds up, the sun expands. So the sun, it's like, OK, the thing is starting to explode. But the sun expanding expands the core, too, which then naturally cools the core down. And so, like we said, the heat is what gets the particles moving faster. Yeah. So in the core expands, the particles slow down ever so slightly. So fusion slows down. So the sun contracts again because everything cools down. It's like breathing. It's literally self regulating. Yeah. So it's just it's expanding. It's been doing this every four billion years, keeping itself in perfect balance. Making the light just perfect for us. Pretty fucking wild. However, so it's doing this all the time. But then within that kind of like breathing kind of thing, every 11 years, it's on it's on a it's been on a cycle like this forever. Every 11 years, it has solar flares cycle. So we're in a period of high solar flares flares right now. So every 11, like we said, that's from just electromagnetic fields, just twisting, twisting, twisting and snapping. They go shoot out. So it's like you have there. It's always solar flair. And but every 11 years, it's like high solar flares. And then every 11 year, next 11 years, like low solar flares. OK, so we're in high times right now. We're in high solar. Long as it's supposed to longer than supposed to last. The high times. Like I don't know which where we're at in it, but you know, we're probably just say we're the middle. We got like five more years. OK, and apparently the flares do have. I should have researched this. I did not. But they do have like a measurable effect on like people's like thinking and stuff like that. So they can like they can get you. They might be why we're all a little crazy right now. We're in heavy, we're in heavy solar flare. Hopefully, you know, we're on time for it. I've said it before, I think 20 30 onwards going to be chill. That's my prediction now. And if I check solar flares right now and it lines up with that, I'm just going to run with that. So yeah, that's another mystery. It's like, OK, the sun is a self-regulating met. It's it's it has like rhythms and stuff that it does. And also, like we said, obviously, it's it's held a perfect balance for four point six billion years with like really no room to mess up. Like if it if it got like just a few degrees cooler or hotter. I mean, life on earth is fucking toast. So it's like it doesn't have a huge window of error. If the sun goes off just a little bit, we're fucked. We're cooked. So brings me to the next question. Is the sun conscious? I was for real, I was sitting here whole and then I was sitting here whole and then saying something about that, because I was literally I have that thought sometimes, whether or not like planets and like the solar system is a higher form of life that we just don't understand yet. I don't know. I mean, if life is exist on earth and grows out of earth, what the fuck is earth? That's what I'm saying. What's the sun, dude? I don't know. So, dude, here, my thing is that so if you if you if your brain produces consciousness, your brain is just a bunch of like electrical sparks flying around in like water and tissue. Why can't the sun, dude? You have electromagnetic fields. You have water. You have heat. I mean, the sun doesn't have water, but you know what I'm saying. There's there's like water on the planets. You have heat. You have electromagnetic fields. I mean, dude, why not, dude? I don't know. I don't know. So then the people there's people that say that consciousness, this is like the idealist or like panpsychics. They say that consciousness is like a field just like gravity or electromagnetism. It's just present and then we just, you know, pick up on it. Just like gravity crushes us. There's like a field for consciousness. You have the right stuff. You tap into the field. I could be the sun. The sun could be conscious. I don't know. However, I think regardless of how you feel about it, something like religious reverence is due for the sun. After I learned about it, I was like, we do to back the sun. God's to her at least just look at it and get stoked. I ever since I look at it, like, dude, I got into just how like the sun puts out these like whatever it is, radiation and our eyes are designed to actually see radiation. Like if our eyes weren't designed, we couldn't pick up on light. Basically, we have like light sensors in our eyes. And I just like I was here typing and I was like, wait, so do we see light or does light let us see? And I was just like getting all wrapped up on if we even see light in the first place. And I had I took a knee by my computer. I was like, dude, stop. Just chill. Go outside. It's fucked up. There's a it's a dumb. This is dumb as shit, but it's a cart in the show invincible. There's a whole scene where they go into this room and you can't see anything because of because because they there was actually you're talking about. They they it's like a certain they have a certain kind of light on in the room that our eyes aren't made really to be able to pick up on and then they had they like they like give him a needle that injects in the show to give me a needle that injects something that makes his eyes be able to see this new type of light. It's not what you're saying. No, exactly. Well, there's also a there's also a ton of yeah, like infrared wavelengths that we can't see. Yeah. So there could be shit like going on. And we just we'll never be able to see it. And it was bugging me out to you. But here's the thing, too. It's like, you know, people people back in the day would look up at the sun. This is this is, you know, the rest of the solar system. Look at the sun and all the planets and just be like, dude, these are gods. They like really, truly thought they're like, oh, shit. They'd be like just kicking around in the morning and they just see like Venus and like, oh, shit, there's the fucking horny God. Yeah. So there's my baby. There's my baby. Horny guys in the sky. So even that the term so we're going to get into kind of the try to get into the somewhat into the etymology of the planets. So the term sun. They you know, there's like stuff going back and forth being like, yeah, actually the sun in the English language has no connection to the gods. Like, you know, Mercury, Venus, all those are like easily traceable. So they're claiming the sun has no connection in the English language to the gods. But then I started doing a little digging and it's it actually it does actually. So it's like, so this the term sun in English can be traced back through the proto Indo European language family to a relation with the Norse deity soul, which is actually Latin for the sun. They did have a sun god in Rome. They actually became the official god of like it was some of the late Roman empires. It was like the it was called the undefeated sun. Yeah. It was a minor god in the Roman pantheon. And during the fall of Rome, some people were like, we call sun god is our god. Because actually, Julius Caesar called Venus the horny god to be. He claimed to be descended from the horny god, which is pretty sick. And everyone had to be like, yeah, dude, for sure. He's the horniest guy. So the the actual term sun in English, it can be traced back to the Norse deity soul also called also called sooner. So back then was a goddess, literally the sun itself, which would race across the sky being chased by a hungry wolf near the hungry wolf's name. Skull Skull and a race in the hungry wolf was trying to eat the sun, which is why they thought the sun went across. And at Ragnarok, the apocalypse, Skull would catch and eat soul. And during eclipses, it was thought that Skull got himself a little bite of her. But the chase continued. And actually, Sunday, believe it or not, is actually named after this ancient son, babe. Oh, so pretty sick, pretty sick. So that, you know, my friends and haters is the deal with the sun. Nobody crazy. I almost skipped over the sun. I almost skipped over the sun. But oh, man, just think all the nuclear fusion going on in there, the perfect balance of light being trapped, honed to perfection released. It's I just thought it was fucking sick. It hits us. It feels good when it feels fucking awesome. It powers your body. Do you get enough sun? You don't produce tests. That's why I fucking do ride my blanket a tank top all the time. So from the sun now, we move on to Mercury and, you know, Mercury is the actually, we'll slide to the patron. Let's slide to the page. Yeah, let's slide the page. We're at an hour. Oh, yeah, we're good. Guys, thank you for joining me for the series into the planets. But we have to slide to the patron. We have to be in places of labor. I probably promised you I wasn't planned. Just goddamn those, you know, what the hell? I've been doing this for a while. Exactly an hour on the sun. Who would have thought? Nate, thank you, Sean. Thank you. We're sliding to the patron. We're going to do Mercury and Venus. If you don't want to join, don't join. Whatever. I don't care. Watch new episodes of Matt and Shane Secret podcast on Spotify. Do it.