jr conlin's ink stained banana

The Sun, located 93,000,000 miles away is by far, the largest body in our solar system. In fact it contains about 98% of the mass of the solar system meaning that every planet, moon, asteroid, comet and floating bit of space dust lumped together next to the sun would be about the equivalent of you holding a baseball. It's nearly unimaginable energy comes from a constant, massive, nuclear fusion reaction so violent and powerful that it can take a single particle of light millions of years to escape the constant barrage at the center and reach the outer photosphere where it then moves out to the greater void. It is very likely that the light pouring down on your petunias was first created when trilobites were the most advanced creatures on the planet. When the staggering amounts of hydrogen currently in the sun are fused into higher density atoms, the sun will enter it's final "dying" stages and expand to a Red Giant cloud due in part to the higher energy states the larger atoms fusions require. This red giant phase will at the very least cause the Earth's atmosphere to be burned away, the oceans boiled off and all life on the planet to abruptly cease. In the most likely case, the Sun will expand to the point where it engulfs the orbit of the Earth causing our planet to plunge into the fusion and any and all traces of our home world will be removed in a relatively tiny burst of radioactivity.

Why am i bringing this up? Well, because Guillaume pointed out a movie i've apparently missed.

It's about a group of folks who need to go relight the Sun's pilot light.

Oh Dear, Sweet Edmund Becquerel, i wish i was making that up.

This, right here ladies and gentlemen, is why i don't go to the movies as much as i'd like.

i'd just keep laughing every time they brought up an urgent plot point.