Blueberry Earth or “what if the entire Earth was replaced with blueberries?“ (2018)
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Also..:
> One might wonder if this kind of exploration is worthwhile. I believe it is: this is both a pedagogical and amusing way of applying standard planetary science modelling to a system. Given how exotic exoplanets have turned out, the physics of blueberry earth is actually fairly normal compared to much that is out there.
Woe is me. Born too late to sail the uncharted oceans, born too early to explore blueberry earth.
An often repeated fact is 'we know more about the surface of the moon than the bottom of the ocean'
You can pretty much still have the experience of exploring uncharted seas.
It could also open up new physics, since it would mean that the law of conservation of mass is displaced by a jarring mass of conserve.
> Blueberry Earth or “what if the entire Earth was replaced with blueberries?“
HN story number 2:
> John Locke’s recipe for Pancakes
This is where I learned of things like Dyson Spheres, which, sure enough, referenced one "Dyson Sphere FAQ" written by Sandberg himself.
"a cubic mile happens to be almost exactly 4/3 π cubic kilometers, so a sphere with a radius of X kilometers has the same volume as a cube that’s X miles on each side."
Raspberries for the Stack Overflow mods. But thanks to this paper we can find our thrill on blueberry hill.
Blueberries are super, but they aren't super-druper.
Don't get me started on Peanuts. They grow underground. How does this put them in the same category as tree-nuts? it doesn't! They're technically a legume, yet in their protein they display the same anaphylaxis risk as tree nuts, if not worse: if you're allergic to peanuts you are much more likely to be allergic to tree nuts than legumes (this isn't FODMAP btw)