???

[Andy McK]

On QI.

"Whats the blackest thing in our solar system?"

[ronin]

That was not the question.

[Parus major]

The answer to that question is a priest's socks that he's bought from a priests shop.

[Andymac79]

someone explain whats going on here pls....

[Charon]

The clouds overhead.

[Damo636]

[Telrad]

Proteus

[perrin6]

on Qi, Friday the question was 'what's the largest black body in the solar system?'

[Andymac79]

Proteus

Was he black?

[JamesF]

on Qi, Friday the question was 'what's the largest black body in the solar system?'

And I think the answer (the Sun) played fairly fast and loose with what a black body is supposed to be.

James

[Andy McK]

K guys, It's Saturday nite, I may have had some Scottish medicine

But the definition was every thing else in the solar system reflects light

The sun does not, still love that prog tho

nite all

[Ptarmigan]

As Perrin6 said ^

Some of the answers were :

RichH "Oprah Winfrey", for which he was tuttutted by StephenF !

AlanD : "Black hole", for which he recieved a -10 hoot penalty and was chastised by Stephen that if there was a black hole nearby we would all be in trouble. **

CleverClogs Stephen then offered the "correct" answer as the Sun on the basis that the sun is the only object that does not reflect anything.

Not quite true, as JamesF ^.

Way back last century I remember radar reflection tests to detect Venus and the Sun.

The only refs I have found so far are

Solar radar

and

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=solar+radar+stanford&source=web&cd=12&ved=0CCQQFjABOAo&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.space.irfu.se%2Fseminars%2F20051108_khotyaintsev.pdf&ei=w4XRTrTeBI64hAfuyN3EAw&usg=AFQjCNGH7k-GOqlDuKegE1L_urVFC-67MQ&sig2=iS-aQVJnw3P5xeX1xJjDOw

** However I think I remember reading that some bigbang models predict many mini blackholes which may be common, wooo scary ! So Alan may have been correct after all.

[x6gas]

OK, so the sun is a real "blackbody radiator" IIRC (long time since I studied this stuff) but I believe that the definition that "every thing else in the solar system reflects light" therefore the sun is a blackbody must surely be wrong!?