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My colleagues call me a supervillain for trying to destroy the cosmos, but this kind of imaginative thinking isn't so far from what scientists do, says space reporter Leah Crane
Extinguishing the Sun wouldn't be easy - and as we see here, throwing a load of water on it will only make things much worse.
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