to the sun!

yesterday BC & I were in the car discussing the sun & what would happen if you were to travel to it. as some of you may know, BC has been writing a book called Journey to the Sun, describing his own trip to the sun as an 11 yr old boy. so, as you can imagine, the sun comes up quite often in conversation.

now, if you were to actually travel right to the sun, it's hard to say how close you could actually get before you'd be burnt to a crisp. or vaporized. or whatever would happen. BC says that all the oxygen & water in your body would immediately be, I don't know, sucked out, used up, something like that. it would be so immediate that it would be hard to know what was actually happening.

his idea is that you could get a suit that would shield you from the sun. I say that we already have one. it's a suit made of 93 million miles, which then means that we're already on the sun. what is it like to be on the sun, you say? right now, it's kind of mild. you need a light jacket and maybe a hat.