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Old 24-March-2004, 05:43 PM
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Originally Posted by ToSeek
My thought was that if the blocks were made up of some sort of material that could undergo fusion you'd likely end up with a small star. But I daresay the computations to demonstrate that are pretty complicated.
This is the crux of my question. Under extreme heat and pressure, would the chemical makeup of the blocks hold up? Let's say that the blocks are made of ice. That's a bit of oxygen, and twice as much hydrogen. Isn't there star potential there?

So what if I wanted to turn the blocks into a star -- what should the blocks consist of?