How hot is the sun?

In many places, Arizona in my experience, it is possible to cook an egg on the sidewalk in the summer in a matter of minutes. We are 92,955,820.5 miles, or 1 Astronomical unit, away from the sun (on average). So using simple mathematics the surface of the sun is hot enough to cook almost 93 million eggs in just a manner of minutes.

The simple mathematics employed above neglects the fact that the sun is a point source of radiating energy. This means that the the intensity decreases with the square of distance. So, we can either square the number of eggs, or take the square root of the time required.

So, if it takes 4 minutes in Arizona, it would only take 2 minutes to cook all 93 million eggs at the surface of the sun. The other choice would be to use a bigger egg, like an ostrich egg. Then it would still take all 4 minutes.

What causes earthquakes?

In the news lately there have been many accounts of the epidemic of obese people. Earthquakes are a result of events causing many of these people to fall at once. One classic example of this was the October 17, 1989 San Francisco earthquake. This occurred just prior to the world series as all the fatties were sitting down for the game.

After shocks are then caused by the repeated collapsing of these people as they run away, get out of breath, and fall.

Other reported causes include government conspiracies, angering the gods, and tectonic plates.