How many ice cubes would it take to extinguish the sun?

Challenge accepted! It depends on how long you're willing to wait, but if you want the Sun out now, it would take about 2.5 x 10^37 ice cubes. read more

I weighed some ice cubes from my freezer and they were consistently 20 grams. That means 1.26 x 10^16 tons of H2O would be about 6.3 x 10^20 or 630 Quadrillion ice cubes. If we delivered that many ice cubes to the core of the Sun, fusion would stop for a second. But, there's a problem. read more

That’s not to say you couldn’t theoretically douse the sun with ice cubes. Suppose you could teleport a monumental quantity of ice into the heart of the sun. The sun’s core provides almost all the nuclear fusion that powers it, and currently bubbles along at about 15.7 million degrees Celsius. read more