Should Neutron Stars be Added to the Periodic Table?

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• SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This collapse generates a body of neutron-degenerate matter with a radius as small as 10 km, but a mass comparable to our Sun’s. As such, they are the densest known material outside of Twitter, at around 1017 kg/m3.

  For American readers unfamiliar with SI units, that means a pair of truck-nuts made of neutron star would weigh as much as ten million aircraft carriers.

  Is nothing sacred to the writers of this article?

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  • qprimed@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    nope, and I loved reading it! 11/10 for an enjoyable read.

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  • kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Ten million aircraft carriers would weigh about 590 trillion kg at the low end, so the truck nuts would have to be 580 billion m^3. I’m not sure even Texans use sets that size.

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    • notabot@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      From the article, that should be 10^17 kg/m^3, not 1017kg/m^3. No, I haven’t checked the conversion to aircraft carriers per trucknut, I’m going to take the original author’s word for it.

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• sndrtj@feddit.nl ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Oh this entire post is hilarious.

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• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The last twenty have half-lives shorter than Australian prime ministers, and are of equally limited utility to science.

  Shots fired.

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  • Sunshine@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Thanks instant run-off ranked choice!

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    • bitcrafter@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Huh. Could you explain?

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• SpicyLizards@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  To appropriately study this exciting new branch of astrochemistry the authors have formed a new research institute the Centre for Unstable Neutron Transient Structures (CUNTS). This new institute comprises of two research groups the Baryonic Investigation Group (aka BIG CUNTS) and the Baryonic And Dark Matter Focus (aka BADMF CUNTS). We’re very proud that the exceptional nature of this research group is already being recognised with Amnesty International awarding CUNTS the 2024 Most Inappropriate and Offensive Acronym Award. While pleased to receive international recognition we have not been able to identify any offensive acronym usage and have invited Amnesty International to come and view our Award of Registered Sociopaths Equity (ARSE).

  So good

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  • NotProLemmy@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    i love CUNTS Centre for Unstable Neutron Transient Structures

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• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  one of the things I find amusing is how scifi loves using neutronium armor.

  If you removed neutronium from the super-dense gravity of it’s star… it would go off like a neutron bomb. A very big, neutron bomb. a single teaspoon of the stuff would probably crack the earth open. a single gram of the stuff would be more powerful than any nuclear weapon ever developed.

  and people just love slapping that stuff onto the outside of their starships.

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  • Khanzarate@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Well thats what the artificial gravity is for.

    They also use it for walking and whatnot, of course, but that’s an add-on. The real purpose is so they can siphon off some neutron star stuff and hold it between them and an enemy without it exploding.

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    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      you know… I wouldn’t put it past starfleet to think that was a good idea.

      I mean, they don’t use surge protectors, they don’t use seatbelts, they don’t have handrailing. They don’t secure their cargos. and there are those times where the gravity gets conked out.

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• Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  We instead recommend that the existing IUPAC rules be extended, and that element 10^56 be called ununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununnunununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununununullium.

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• spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  As such, they are the densest known material outside of Twitter, at around 1017 kg/m3. For American readers unfamiliar with SI units, that means a pair of truck-nuts1 made of neutron star would weigh as much as ten million aircraft carriers.

  We thank the management of the Alien-Life Molestation Array (ALMA) for allowing us to piss around with their telescopes, while they were having lunch.

  I didn’t understand most of the middle but, but it was a funny read and goddamn are the writers on point.

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• Sir_Premiumhengst@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Lol, ligand interactions are mostly gravitational. Great read!

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