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I, for one, worry about spoiledge. Awful waste of food! Jk

Excellent Saturday morning read.

Everything was replaced with blueberries, so there'd be no organisms to break things down. The sun would mostly dry things out probably, but eventually would start to change things.

Without specifying sterilized blueberries, I would assume that the surface of the blueberries contain the same flora and fauna that you find in nature.

But the heat would boil them, returning the planet to sterility.

Or alcohol would be made

Presumably life would eventually evolve.

There's nothing reproducing on blueberry planet so there's no evolution.

It is a boiling mass of organic compounds so maybe life would spontaneously form again. But the planet is mostly sugar so as soon as something evolved to metabolize that, it'd completely take over then starve to death. Possibly at a pre cellular stage - just a chemical reaction that turns sugar into whatever catalyst causes this reaction.

If the blueberry mass were interspersed with some additional sugar, it would cook into preserves.

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