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  • TwistyLex@discuss.tchncs.detoScience Memes@mander.xyzOxygen
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    3 months ago

    This is an often misunderstood aspect of the sun. The sun doesn’t need to pull oxygen into itself to burn. It just does a bit of fusion magic!

    When a star is dense enough it starts to fuse Helium together through a process called the “triple alpha process”; which results in Carbon! From there it’s pretty direct for the star to fuse one more Helium to the Carbon via stellar nucleosynthesis to create Oxygen!

    So you see, the Sun doesn’t need to draw Oxygen from space. It just makes its own!







  • You do realize that lots of people have friends that perform parenting roles with their kids, right? E.g. Couples who are friends that each babysit for each other.
    The event of the friendship ending has the same psychological effect on the children as having a poly partner leave the relationship.

    A lot of these imagined “harms” and weird situations are regular events that people already experience. It’s the defamiliarization of seeing it in a setting that you perceive as weird that makes it seem harmful and/or weird.