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that's a big rock [Tue, 11-Mar-2008 4:39 PM]
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[music |Nine Inch Nails -- 24 Ghosts III]

"Left: All the water in the world (1.4087 billion cubic kilometres of it) including sea water, ice, lakes, rivers, ground water, clouds, etc. Right: All the air in the atmosphere (5140 trillion tonnes of it) gathered into a ball at sea-level density. Shown on the same scale as the Earth."

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[User Picture]From: [info]perligata
Tue, 11-Mar-2008 11:58 PM (UTC)

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Oh come on. You are regressing!

But I demand to see a pair of hands ripping apart the ozone layer, goatse-style, as an accompaniment.
[User Picture]From: [info]jwz
Wed, 12-Mar-2008 12:18 AM (UTC)

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[User Picture]From: [info]intoner
Wed, 12-Mar-2008 12:19 AM (UTC)

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lol
[User Picture]From: [info]perligata
Wed, 12-Mar-2008 12:24 AM (UTC)

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I love how you remembered the wedding ring detail! A+.
[User Picture]From: [info]jwz
Wed, 12-Mar-2008 12:25 AM (UTC)

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[User Picture]From: [info]keimel
Wed, 12-Mar-2008 12:09 AM (UTC)

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And yet the world is 70% covered in water.
[User Picture]From: [info]gytterberg
Wed, 12-Mar-2008 12:29 AM (UTC)

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Funny that Greenland and Iceland are still white on the left Earth.

"Sea level density" is pretty contrived in this context... it'd be interesting if somebody smarter than me figured out what that much water would look like deposited in a single place in space. Would it just be a giant drop which would deform and gradually splash away? Would it have enough gravity to maintain some kind of spherical shape?
[User Picture]From: [info]gytterberg
Wed, 12-Mar-2008 12:30 AM (UTC)

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mass, not gravity, obviously.
[User Picture]From: [info]artkiver
Wed, 12-Mar-2008 9:15 PM (UTC)

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Behold a 2 minute fan made trailer of a 15 minute dramatic simulation from Invader Zim, the wettening:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=qumXhhnQ7MA
[User Picture]From: [info]leopanthera
Wed, 12-Mar-2008 12:35 AM (UTC)

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Would it have enough gravity to maintain some kind of spherical shape?

Yes. Even if it didn't, surface tension would hold it together.
[User Picture]From: [info]gytterberg
Wed, 12-Mar-2008 12:50 AM (UTC)

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It would stick together as a sphere if undisturbed from surface tension, but I guess I was thinking about swimming in it... or whatever. I imagine that the escape velocity would be pretty low.
[User Picture]From: [info]wikkit42
Wed, 12-Mar-2008 2:57 AM (UTC)

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At the surface, a 1lb weight on Earth would weigh 0.02lb. 150lb here, 3lb there.
[User Picture]From: [info]wikkit42
Wed, 12-Mar-2008 2:40 AM (UTC)

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No. If it was exposed to vacuum (as it would be if deposited in some place in space) it would boil until its temperature went low enough to freeze. It would not have enough gravity to hold an atmosphere.

It would make a very clean comet. How long it would last would depend on how far it was from a star.
[User Picture]From: [info]mackys
Wed, 12-Mar-2008 2:41 AM (UTC)

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deform and gradually splash away

That which did not vaporize instantly from being in hard vacuum would quickly freeze into an giant icy comet.
[User Picture]From: [info]psymbiotic
Wed, 12-Mar-2008 12:36 AM (UTC)

Ghosts

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Just out of curiosity, what do you think of the new NIN album(s)?

Egan
[User Picture]From: [info]mister_borogove
Wed, 12-Mar-2008 12:46 AM (UTC)

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jwz thinks it doesn't suck and I'm in agreement.
[User Picture]From: [info]psymbiotic
Wed, 12-Mar-2008 6:29 PM (UTC)

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Yup, I'm really liking it as well.

Egan
[User Picture]From: [info]grlfridae
Thu, 13-Mar-2008 12:36 AM (UTC)

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i also like it
[User Picture]From: [info]lnghnds
Wed, 12-Mar-2008 1:38 AM (UTC)

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Everywhere l look, something reminds me of her.
[User Picture]From: [info]ranotops
Wed, 12-Mar-2008 3:46 AM (UTC)

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the only thing i could think of was planetary boobies....*face-palm*
[User Picture]From: [info]xkcd
Wed, 12-Mar-2008 1:55 PM (UTC)

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<3
[User Picture]From: [info]lindseykuper
Wed, 12-Mar-2008 9:26 PM (UTC)

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Why measure water by volume and air by weight, I wonder?
[User Picture]From: [info]littlejenny123
Wed, 12-Mar-2008 10:08 PM (UTC)

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Nice. Very motherly ;-).

*yoink*
[User Picture]From: [info]fatalfury
Thu, 13-Mar-2008 12:38 AM (UTC)

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boobies