How much energy to destroy a Star compared to a planet?

[Ryanmahaffe]

So a friend and I were talking about certain characters and I mentioned one was star level, and he proceeded to tell me how star level makes no sense and he sees stars as "glass cannons" and whatever.

So I was curious as even after looking it up myself and showing him the results (proceeded to still say it made no sense) if anyone here can put in relatively simple terms the difference in energy output required to destroy a star vs a planet.

 

[StekFence]

So a friend and I were talking about certain characters and I mentioned one was star level, and he proceeded to tell me how star level makes no sense and he sees stars as "glass cannons" and whatever.

So I was curious as even after looking it up myself and showing him the results (proceeded to still say it made no sense) if anyone here can put in relatively simple terms the difference in energy output required to destroy a star vs a planet.

Well basically. Let’s look at it without math. A star is on average a whole lot bigger than a planet. A star has more gravity than one. Therefore, in order to explode the mass of a star to the degree that its pieces escape its own gravity, you will need a lot more force than to do the same with a planet.

 

[DarkDragonMedeus]

Stars can go Nova from attacks that are much less than star level; however, it would still be intact. But destroying a star to the point where it simply doesn't regenerating still requires bypassing the GBE.

 

[StekFence]

6.9e+37 joules is the highest value for destroying the largest planets. A small stars lowest value is 3.1e+40. So basically, destroying the smallest of small stars is around 400 times harder than destroying the biggest planets. According to the ap chart anyway

 

[Ryanmahaffe]

6.9e+37 joules is the highest value for destroying the largest planets. A small stars lowest value is 3.1e+40. So basically, destroying the smallest of small stars is around 400 times harder than destroying the biggest planets. According to the ap chart anyway

Yeah see thias is mostly what I found, but they didnt go for it
"Yah, but they are pretty much just including density/gravity there, a physical planet had molecular bonds that makes it harder to break apart, might as well say it's harder to seperate 10 pounds of water over 1 pound of diamond, which is obviously not true"
response I got.

 

[StekFence]

Yah, but they are pretty much just including density/gravity there, a physical planet had molecular bonds that makes it harder to break apart, might as well say it's harder to seperate 10 pounds of water over 1 pound of diamond, which is obviously not true"

of course gravity is considered. If you hit a planet hard enough to drill through it, it would just collapse even further instead of explode. You would just make the planet smaller. You can’t destroy something if you can overcome the gravity holding it together