TheMightyOzaru wrote:So let me get this strait, if Cell were to make the sun go Supernova it would destroy the solar system?
To be honest, I'm not sure. Our Sun's too small to actually go supernova, so there's no math that could work out the effects. Generally, though, even if the stellar-matter flying through space didn't reach all the way to the edge of the solar system for whatever reason, the gamma rays definitely would, and they'd shred gas planets like Jupiter right down to their cores. At that point, I suppose it depends on our definition of destroyed. Just how destroyed does it have to be?
That's if Cell somehow triggered a normal supernova, of course. It might be better to look at it in the same way as blowing up a planet: you just need enough energy to send the star's matter flying away in every direction at whatever speed suits your fancy. For something of the Sun's mass and radius, about 11.4 decillion megatons would be enough to make it pop like Alderaan did in Star Wars. With more energy you could make the debris go even faster. Since even this amount is far more than necessary for the star's matter to reach escape velocity from itself, it would easily clear the solar system; however, the damage would be lessened the farther it went.
Personally, I think even if some planets farther out sort of survived the event, I'd still be happy to call such a solar system destroyed. It certainly wouldn't be a solar system anymore--just a mess of shattered planets, bald cores, and stray planets with nothing left to orbit.
It depends on which part of the supernova you're talking about. The gamma rays would be dangerous even farther than ten light years away. A supernova ten light years away from us would very likely wipe out all life on Earth, at least.
As for where I got that idea, Death Battle. Did they get another calculation wrong because they seem to be very good at doing that.
Okay. I might have to have another look at it and try to figure out how they came up with that.
