Can't we just blow up the sun?
Most problems are easily and harmlessly solved with explosives.
( Invisible Wizard - 10th Level Nerf-herder, Fri 29 Nov 2024, 10:57, archived)

If we blew up the sun everything would be absolutely fine and unchanged on Earth
for about 8 minutes, anyway.
( Aardvark and so at last, I understood, Fri 29 Nov 2024, 11:11, archived)

Unless you blew up the sun with sufficient energy to completely disperse it in space,
I think it would rapidly reform, because there's still a whole stellar mass in roughly the same space at the same time, blowing it up is just making it a lot less dense, briefly. Its centre of mass would still be in the same place...

It would be pretty angry for the next few billion years or so but subterranean microbes would probably survive and life would begin again.
( brb Learn Ukrainian and prepare for a referendum, Fri 29 Nov 2024, 19:35, archived)