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    Neutron Star Crusts Are 10 Billion Times Stronger Than Steel

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    Image of Falsoman Falsoman
    05/07/09

    In reply to Neutron Star Crusts Are 10 Billion Times Stronger Than Steel
    Tipical neutron star shit. They say they want to spun after, but they'll always end up crushing you.
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    05/07/09

    In reply to Neutron Star Crusts Are 10 Billion Times Stronger Than Steel
    This is by far the best most useless factoid I've ever heard!
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    Image of TheWerewolf - Sotto voce TheWerewolf - Sotto voce
    05/07/09

    In reply to Neutron Star Crusts Are 10 Billion Times Stronger Than Steel
    I love the teaspoon quote because if you had a teaspoon of neutronium - it would explode out almost instantly into a planet sized mass of neutrons that would rapidly decay into a huge cloud of hydrogen, deuterium, tritrium and antineutrinos.
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    Image of airfeed airfeed
    05/07/09

    @TheWerewolf: So what you're saying is that we'll die if we were to hold said teaspoon?
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    Image of alowishus wants to run a Saab Sonett III at LeMons alowishus wants to run a Saab Sonett III at LeMons
    05/07/09

    @airfeed: No, he's saying that you only need, like, a quarter teaspoon of the stuff to get a wicked fluffy cake.
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    Image of Technogen Technogen
    05/07/09

    @alowishus: mmmm Neutron cake.
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    05/07/09

    @Technogen: That'd be quite a cake. It should have the most deliciously soft inner layer covered with the most impenetrable icing. Someone make one already!
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    Image of dtemp dtemp
    05/07/09

    @TheWerewolf: Dude, 100 million tons isn't that much. At the density of water (1kg per L), it would be a cube of water 450 meters on each side.


    Also note that the biggest nuke ever detonated happened to be equivalent to 100 megatons of TNT. So imagine all that TNT blowing up.

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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    05/07/09

    @dtemp: It's all relative. A cube of water 450 meters on each side is a huuuuuuuuuuuge amount of water 91,125 liters... Not to mention the fact that that much is compressed teaspoon size.


    Go back to the cosmic egg, Galactus.

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    Image of vladdybear vladdybear
    05/07/09

    In reply to Neutron Star Crusts Are 10 Billion Times Stronger Than Steel
    WOW, that's insane. Our sun would explode next to it.
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    Image of okenny :) ...building bridges (to hide under) okenny :) ...building bridges (to hide under)
    05/07/09

    @vladdybear: ...or at least develop a deep sense of inadequacy :(
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    Image of henrybear henrybear
    05/07/09

    In reply to Neutron Star Crusts Are 10 Billion Times Stronger Than Steel
    So adamantium has nothing on this Neutron Star Crust.


    incredibly density... incredible density?

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    Image of Ken_Darrow Ken_Darrow
    05/07/09

    @henrybear: Adamantium is jelly compared to this. Sagan talked about it on his series regarding the material density. In fact the first Superman movie with C Reeves companion novel tried to explain that Supes race was a super extreme freak of nature/genetics/evolution. Their planet was close to this density so their molecular structure was densly pack like a neutron star material. It's why he's indestructable. If he allows it he can stand still and his weight would just sink him straight to the earth core. Through sheer mental powers he can control his mass and defy gravity.
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    Image of Nathan Cline Nathan Cline
    05/07/09

    @Ken_Darrow: but then when superman flew around, wouldn't he alter the earth's orbit as it tried to "fall" towards him?
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    05/07/09

    @Nathan Cline: "Through sheer mental powers he can control his mass and defy gravity. "


    Just to make sure...

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    Image of frigg frigg
    05/07/09

    @Nathan Cline: not just the Earth - if he were that "massive," all objects around him would also fall towards him, captured by his gravity.
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