[Science Thursday] Star Crust is Ten Billion Times Stronger Than Steel
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Fascinating 
Fascinating
It makes my gilly wibble it does.
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Imagine an object the size of a pea weighing the same as the entire Earth. A similar perspective.
How much stronger is that than diamond then? And can we use it to build spaceships?
somehow, i'm guessing you know nothing about physics
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Not quite.
The Earth's weight (well, mass) is: 5,972,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
Give or take.
OP is, all in all, very fascinating - but could be BS as far as we're concerned. No proof is there. It's all simulated.
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I wouldn't go so far as to say its fascinating, why, because armed with this knowledge what are we going to do with it. Send someone to a neutron star's surface to collect samples and bring it back? I think not, do we have any type of capability to simulate the construction of such matter on earth, no, so knowing this information gives us, nothing whatsoever.
IT doesn't really take a genious to realise, the denser the matter the tougher it would become to break/penetrate, knowing a neutron star is incredibly dense its pretty obvious its stronger than anything we have hear or could possibly hope to create, knowing the exact maths/numbers behind it and knowing how much stronger it is than stuff we can use really doesn't help us at all.
IT doesn't really take a genious to realise, the denser the matter the tougher it would become to break/penetrate, knowing a neutron star is incredibly dense its pretty obvious its stronger than anything we have hear or could possibly hope to create, knowing the exact maths/numbers behind it and knowing how much stronger it is than stuff we can use really doesn't help us at all.
...which of course is again completely irrelevant because if we went anywhere near matter that dense we'd immediately be crushed to atoms by it's immense mavity well.
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How much stronger is that than diamond then? And can we use it to build spaceships?
yea lets go try get to...and then land on a neutron star...hmm lets think about that one for a second.
Why would we want to build spaceships with something that is incredibly dense? F=ma? And another thing, the neutron star is in space. Thus we need spaceships to get to it. So whats the point? Then you would need material stronger than the stuff on the neuron star to survive on it's surface which would make getting the stuff from the surface redundant.
I think that people should stop publishing crap like this under the name of science. All it achieves is people from the general public deciding science is easily understood. This is a cruel joke on the public and an insult to the scientists.
The comfort is that those who dedicate their lives to research have a tendency to completely ignore the world outside, and couldn't care less if the public think they understand things or not.
Tragedy occurs when funding relies on public opinion.
The comfort is that those who dedicate their lives to research have a tendency to completely ignore the world outside, and couldn't care less if the public think they understand things or not.
Tragedy occurs when funding relies on public opinion.
