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[Lord Dakoth]

We need to mine the sun.

The sun is burning hydrogen. Not the same thing as magma.

[Time Kitten]

Sure, the top is, but once we mine through the layers of that and helium, we can get to the core of the sun hot plasmic iron.  I'm sure that's enough to work with star adamant.

[Phantom]

Before the space FPS gets you, or the Spontaneous Combustion.

[Tradanbattlan]

It is a little known fact, the sun is actually made of frozen boiling leather.

[Lord Dakoth]

It is a little known fact, the sun is actually made of frozen boiling leather.

Yes, and at the very core is a bin filled with !!Lignite!!

[Strant]

Fun Facts About the Sun.

The Sun is not made of burning hydrogen.  Burning is a reaction that releases heat (exothermic) when a fuel combines with an oxidant (usually oxygen).  There is very little oxygen on the sun (less than 1%), though still a huge amount compared to the amount on earth.  So there is not enough oxygen to burn all the hydrogen up.  Even if there was, the Sun would have burned out a long time ago.

What happens instead is nuclear fusion.  Nuclear fusion is what happens in a nuclear fusion bomb (not like the ones dropped on Japan, those we nuclear fission).  In this case, at the center of the Sun, there is immense heat and pressure (13,000,000 degrees Kelvin, 340 billion times Earth's Air pressure).  This forces the hydrogen molecules together into helium and turns a tiny percentage of their mass into energy.  This energy then goes out to the surface and eventually reaches the earth.  Astronomers call this process "Hydrogen Burning" (facepalm).  But it doesn't happen at the surface anyway.

So the hydrogen isn't glowing because it's !!hydrogen!!,  It's glowing because the hydrogen is so hot.  The know how metal glows when you heat it?  It's the exact same thing.

The Sun fuses 4.4 Billion Kilograms of Hydrogen per second.  There is enough hydrogen to last 80 Billion years.  However, due to various circumstances, the sun will become a red giant in a mere 5 billion years.

It takes 8 minutes for light to go from the surface of the sun to the earth.  It takes 10,000 to 170,000 years for light to reach the surface of the sun from the core.

The Sun contains 99.85% of the mass of our solar system.  A tiny percentage of it, 00.16% is made of iron.  This if more iron (by mass) than the combined masses of all the non-gaseous astronomical bodies in the Solar System(Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars,Pluto, The Asteroids, The Comets, and all the Moons and Satellites) combined.  So the sun not only has more iron that those planets, it has more iron than we have anything at all.

That being said.  I'm pretty sure we can get past the hydrogen the same way we get past aquifers.  Now where did I put those wooden screwpumps?

[Rijjka]

New bloat then. Some one go suggest it.

Allowing the sun to be mined!

All in favour of a new Tower of Babel?

[kilakan]

AYE!!

[Hummingbird]

Aye!

And let's have hydrogen-fueled forges now, too.

[Tradanbattlan]

And flame-retardant retards.

[Rakonas]

I propose that we construct an adamantine airship, fueled through the atom smashing of pitchblende, and fill it with elves to be shot into the center of the sun. For our posterity!

[Lord Dakoth]

I propose that as it's leaving, we beam all of our tribbles kittens onto it.

[Tradanbattlan]

I am starting to think of the consequences of drilling a hole into the sun.

But hey, thinking of consequences isn't very dwarflike, now is it?

[Lord Dakoth]

Consequences? What consequen-OH GAWD IT BURNS

[roger123275]

Except the ones that stop you from falling off of the edge of the world.

No, we have the Circumfence.