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In article <C0937v.FvM@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)  
writes:
> In article <PqVNwB6w165w@tradent.wimsey.bc.ca> lord@tradent.wimsey.bc.ca  
(Jason Cooper) writes:
> >> I don't know exactly how you will get the hydrogen to fuse in the ramjet.
> >> So far that problem remains unsolved here on Earth, except for fusion
> >> reactions catalyzed by atomic explosions.
> >
> >The H will be highly compressed by the pressures from the rest of the H 
> >coming in.  It'll be blocked where it stops by magnetic fields...
> 
> Not good enough, alas.  The pressure at the *center of the Sun* produces
> only the most sluggish hydrogen reaction -- one that will take billions
> of years to consume the Sun's hydrogen supply.

I understand that a pile of human bodies (still alive somehow) as
large as the sun would have about the same mass, but would produce
more heat!! 
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