Posts by pricesm@mstdn.ca
 (DIR) Post #ASArhuJ5xNuVovTqT2 by pricesm@mstdn.ca
       2023-01-30T16:30:12Z
       
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       @john Are we compressing the current mass of the earth to tennis ball size, or is it a tennis ball earth with the average density of the earth?  Either way, I think that it wouldn’t be very squishy … but the first case would be fairly dangerous to be close to!
       
 (DIR) Post #ASAuZvdbQPJ5UexZFg by pricesm@mstdn.ca
       2023-01-30T17:02:31Z
       
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       @john Hmmm, that’s a bit tougher for me to wrap my head around.  If I was large enough for the current earth to be the size of a tennis ball, I think I’d collapse under gravitational forces and become a star or gas giant?!?  If I could somehow stay that size, not sure how anything would feel … I’m a geologist not an astrobiologist.  Nice mental exercise though!