Comments on: The Guild of Scientific Troubadours http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/04/the-guild-of-scientific-troubadours/ theatre & the human search. all original content public domain Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:42:35 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: speedbird http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/04/the-guild-of-scientific-troubadours/comment-page-1/#comment-105495 speedbird Wed, 07 May 2008 15:12:02 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/04/the-guild-of-scientific-troubadours/#comment-105495 Cool! Heck, I learnt my chemical elements from Tom Lehrer... Cool! Heck, I learnt my chemical elements from Tom Lehrer…

]]> By: Dale http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/04/the-guild-of-scientific-troubadours/comment-page-1/#comment-105383 Dale Sun, 04 May 2008 18:54:42 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/04/the-guild-of-scientific-troubadours/#comment-105383 there's a pretty awesome They Might Be Giants song along these lines: The sun is a mass of incandescent gas A gigantic nuclear furnace Where hydrogen is built into helium At a temperature of millions of degrees Yo ho, it's hot, the sun is not A place where we could live But here on Earth there'd be no life Without the light it gives We need its light We need its heat We need its energy Without the sun, without a doubt There'd be no you and me The sun is a mass of incandescent gas A gigantic nuclear furnace Where hydrogen is built into helium At a temperature of millions of degrees The sun is hot It is so hot that everything on it is a gas: iron, copper, aluminum, and many others. The sun is large If the sun were hollow, a million Earths could fit inside. And yet, the sun is only a middle-sized star. The sun is far away About 93 million miles away, and that's why it looks so small. And even when it's out of sight The sun shines night and day The sun gives heat The sun gives light The sunlight that we see The sunlight comes from our own sun's Atomic energy Scientists have found that the sun is a huge atom-smashing machine. The heat and light of the sun come from the nuclear reactions of hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, and helium. The sun is a mass of incandescent gas A gigantic nuclear furnace Where hydrogen is built into helium At a temperature of millions of degrees there’s a pretty awesome They Might Be Giants song along these lines:

The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
Where hydrogen is built into helium
At a temperature of millions of degrees

Yo ho, it’s hot, the sun is not
A place where we could live
But here on Earth there’d be no life
Without the light it gives

We need its light
We need its heat
We need its energy
Without the sun, without a doubt
There’d be no you and me

The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
Where hydrogen is built into helium
At a temperature of millions of degrees

The sun is hot

It is so hot that everything on it is a gas: iron, copper, aluminum, and many others.

The sun is large

If the sun were hollow, a million Earths could fit inside. And yet, the sun is only a middle-sized star.

The sun is far away

About 93 million miles away, and that’s why it looks so small.

And even when it’s out of sight
The sun shines night and day

The sun gives heat
The sun gives light
The sunlight that we see
The sunlight comes from our own sun’s
Atomic energy

Scientists have found that the sun is a huge atom-smashing machine. The heat and light of the sun come from the nuclear reactions of hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, and helium.

The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
Where hydrogen is built into helium
At a temperature of millions of degrees

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