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[PointyHairedJedi]

Originally Posted by mark726

Fact: It takes, on average, 6 million years for a photon from the center of the sun to make it to the surface...and then only 8 minutes to get to the Earth when it finally gets out.

The Sun, like most stars, isn't even slightly signposted, so the poor photons have no idea which way is'out'. It's one of the main reasons why the Sun ranks so low as a tourist destination, though the horribly fatal radiation levels probably have something to with that too.