@vicgrinberg Thanks Dr. Grinberg. Enjoy your vacation.

@vicgrinberg Ahh, I see, so statistically impossible. I remember reading some sci-fi about a generation ship decelerating into the solar system and poisoning the Sun with their reaction mass. " People of Earth we come in peace! Oops, snuffed out your star. Peace out."

@vicgrinberg So what happens to all the "metals" that fall into a star? "Metals" being anything heavier than H and He. That stuff, at least some of it, makes its way down to the core. Until the core gets hot and pressurized enough to fuse that stuff, it's just a drag on fusion. Could a star be poisoned enough to choke out the fusion process altogether?