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minus-squarejlow (he/him)@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoThis sounds like a job for https://what-if.xkcd.com/ Is there enough obsidian on this planet? Would its weight crush the earth’s crust? How would we construct it?
minus-squareScrappy@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoConstructing it is easy, just get a couple hundredthousand buckets of water and lava and bob’s your uncle
minus-squareChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-21 month agoWell, the chapter 54: Snowball in Randall’s book What If? 2 contains the following, semi-related graphic: (Maximum diameters of spheres of various materials before collapsing under their weight)
minus-squareLostXOR@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoI think the answers are yes, somewhat (in addition to collapsing under its own weight), and probably impossible.
This sounds like a job for https://what-if.xkcd.com/
Is there enough obsidian on this planet? Would its weight crush the earth’s crust? How would we construct it?
Constructing it is easy, just get a couple hundredthousand buckets of water and lava and bob’s your uncle
Well, the chapter 54: Snowball in Randall’s book What If? 2 contains the following, semi-related graphic:
(Maximum diameters of spheres of various materials before collapsing under their weight)
I think the answers are yes, somewhat (in addition to collapsing under its own weight), and probably impossible.