The Last Post Wins!!!!!

[Through the Living Wrath he/him]

Do you have a problem with that?

[Vyzkel He/Him]

Y’all, technically speaking, Earth could be slowly expanding while keeping it’s density, meaning that Earth would have a slightly weaker gravitational force than what we expected.

[Immortal Platypus]

9 hours ago, Drehy said:

I…was that an entire page spent debating the laws of reality?

probably

[Bird Furious she/her/un/important]

1 hour ago, Vyzkel said:

Y’all, technically speaking, Earth could be slowly expanding while keeping it’s density, meaning that Earth would have a slightly weaker gravitational force than what we expected.

Nerd.

Edited November 18, 2024 by The Halcyon Girl

[Through the living jeff he/him(straight)]

1 hour ago, Vyzkel said:

Y’all, technically speaking, Earth could be slowly expanding while keeping it’s density, meaning that Earth would have a slightly weaker gravitational force than what we expected.

Hey wouldn’t that mean that eventually earth could float?

Edited November 18, 2024 by DaveSouls

[Through The Living Glass She/They]

1 hour ago, Vyzkel said:

Y’all, technically speaking, Earth could be slowly expanding while keeping it’s density, meaning that Earth would have a slightly weaker gravitational force than what we expected.

Cool.

It's already stretched slightly at the equator, so geometrically it's not a perfect sphere.

[Vyzkel He/Him]

15 minutes ago, The Halcyon Girl said:

Nerd.

Nuh uh, that’s @Edema Rue(though she’s gone)

7 minutes ago, DaveSouls said:

Hey wouldn’t that mean that eventually earth could float?

…isn’t it already floating?

1 minute ago, Through The Living Glass said:

Cool.

It's already stretched slightly at the equator, so geometrically it's not a perfect sphere.

What if it stretched in the Prime Meridian too?

[Through The Living Glass She/They]

1 minute ago, Vyzkel said:

What if it stretched in the Prime Meridian too?

That would be . . . odd. And worrying.

[Through the living jeff he/him(straight)]

2 minutes ago, Vyzkel said:

Nuh uh, that’s @Edema Rue(though she’s gone)

…isn’t it already floating?

What if it stretched in the Prime Meridian too?

No, like in water

[Bird Furious she/her/un/important]

I can’t follow this conversatuin

[Immortal Platypus]

21 minutes ago, Vyzkel said:

Nuh uh, that’s @Edema Rue(though she’s gone)

…isn’t it already floating?

What if it stretched in the Prime Meridian too?

still a nerd, even when she's gone

 

[Through The Living Glass She/They]

1 hour ago, DaveSouls said:

No, like in water

If the mass were the same, but density were low enough? Yes.

The Earth would float in water.

Edited November 18, 2024 by Through The Living Glass

[Through the living jeff he/him(straight)]

Just now, Through The Living Glass said:

If the mass were the same, but density were low enough, yes.

Thank you

It would just take a 

long long long long long long long long long long time

[Through The Living Glass She/They]

4 minutes ago, DaveSouls said:

Thank you

It would just take a 

long long long long long long long long long long time

Well it would float immediately. But that's simply not possible.

Edited November 18, 2024 by Through The Living Glass

[Through the living jeff he/him(straight)]

1 minute ago, Through The Living Glass said:

Well it would float immediately. But that's simply not possible.

Not if we teleport earth somewhere else

[Through The Living Glass She/They]

2 minutes ago, DaveSouls said:

Not if we teleport earth somewhere else

If there were an ocean big enough to hold the expanded, less dense Earth, it would just disintegrate under the extreme gravity anyway.

@The Bookwyrm!!

Theoretical science!!

join us

Edited November 18, 2024 by Through The Living Glass

[Through the living jeff he/him(straight)]

1 minute ago, Through The Living Glass said:

If there were an ocean big enough to hold the expanded, less dense Earth, it would just disintegrate under the extreme gravity anyway.

There is, but darn

 

[The Bookwyrm he/him]

Wait, what?

[Through The Living Glass She/They]

6 minutes ago, DaveSouls said:

There is, but darn

 

Is it liquid water though?

It could easily be ice, or even just ice particles.

Well, I wonder . . .

hang on

*research*

[The Bookwyrm he/him]

3 minutes ago, Through The Living Glass said:

Is it liquid water though?

It could easily be ice, or even just ice particles.

Well, I wonder . . .

hang on

*research*

Yeah, from my astronomy understanding, it's not going to be a ball of water. In a vaccuum it's going to be a gas, or a bunch of ice particles, or both.

EDIT: It's also probably going to me mixed with a ton of other stuff.

Honestly, there's water everywhere in space. It's a common molecule.

Edited November 18, 2024 by The Bookwyrm

[Through The Living Glass She/They]

Kay

That reservoir has somewhere around 194,040,000,000,000,000,000,000 cubic kilometers of water (1.9404e+23), WHICH IS A LOT.

But it's water vapor, apperantly, and it's circling a black hole.

So-

Still not possible, but at least it's not a giagantic glob of water floating in space.

If enough of it coalesced, wouldn't it generate it's own gravity?

[Through the living jeff he/him(straight)]

45 minutes ago, Through The Living Glass said:

Kay

That reservoir has somewhere around 194,040,000,000,000,000,000,000 cubic kilometers of water (1.9404e+23), WHICH IS A LOT.

But it's water vapor, apperantly, and it's circling a black hole.

So-

Still not possible, but at least it's not a giagantic glob of water floating in space.

If enough of it coalesced, wouldn't it generate it's own gravity?

I have no idea

[Through The Living Glass She/They]

3 minutes ago, DaveSouls said:

I have no idea

I've been thinking obsessively about this now.

I need to knowwww

[Through the living jeff he/him(straight)]

Just now, Through The Living Glass said:

I've been thinking obsessively about this now.

I need to knowwww

You know what if?

randall Monroe?

ill submit this

[Through The Living Glass She/They]

1 minute ago, DaveSouls said:

You know what if?

randall Monroe?

ill submit this

*gasp* YES PLEASE YOU SHOULD DO IT because i'm too tired to figure that out right now