I had once read that if the sun were reduced to the size of the head of a pin and placed on Earth, its heat would kill anyone within an eighty-mile radius. Unless Uncle John's Bathroom Reader isn't as reliable a source as one might believe, Yahoo must be tragically misinformed again...
Oh, so that's where you heard it, too?
Also, to the smartass who changed my CT, I didn't read the article (and, in the past, many articles like it) because I don't want to promote Yahoo's habit of having stupidly innacurate or vague teasers that force you to read the whole thing. Besides, it didn't seem all that interesting at the time.