#Neutronium

[arcadebroke]

Colourway: Neutronium!

[drhoz]

A friend of mine was wondering whether a hollow cylinder of Neutronium 2000km across and 10000km long, but 1cm thick, would noticeably disrupt the orbits of the Solar System. It took a few goes because the numbers involved were a bit much for my calculator, but since the cylinder would end up weighing 125 times more than the Sun, YES, people are going to notice. Probably when Jupiter starts doing cartwheels across the sky.

The accountants on the project are not going to be pleased - imagine the transport costs for materiel. 

[ailurinae]

PBS Space Time has an episode that talks a bunch about nuclear pasta, at least a couple of the forms

my hungry ass could never work at astrophysics

[sw5w]

[ Beeps ]

STAR WARS EPISODE I: The Phantom Menace 01:59:02

[rlyehtaxidermist]

long ago: "i should make a nomifactory/GTCE addon that adds the missing chemical elements because I am mad that i can't have the whole periodic table in my minced raft :^)"

the present: "okay. a good endgame use of germanium would be to make funny battletech reference and allow p2p jump drive teleportation. but germanium itself obviously won't do that so we need to find a way to fuck it up real bad into the realm of science fiction. can i plausibly make up a synthesis of hexaastatohexagermabenzene?"

[garden-ghoul]

last night we were too tired to think about writing so instead we went on astrophysics wikipedia to attempt to decode what electron-degenerate and neutron-degenerate matter is. cozy in my bed shouting about neutronium.

[astaryuu]

Ngl (as seen in my previous shitpost) I assumed a neutron would be a lil blob kitten

But this is fun too cuz SO FUCKIGN BRIGHT

have yuo thought abt making a neutronium element cat its a theoretical element but like i thought it would be cool

Neutronium

legends say they're incredibly cuddly, even compared to Neodymium.

[arolesbianism]

Thinks abt oni pmd au oh so hard. When you get a second chance at a relationship only to re experience drifting apart from them all over again

[foone]

modded minecraft is only 10% walking around a block world building things and fighting creeprs

the other 90% is opening 30 tabs to wikis and reddit threads on how to get a neutron collector in avarita to generate neutronium ingots so you can build a projecte transmutation tablet

[tanadrin]

reading about speculative biology on the orion's arm site always makes me feel good about being made of ordinary matter. like sure, most of the universe is pretty inhospitable to us, but it's not so inhospitable that literally all of the matter that makes up our everyday environment would explode or dissolve if exposed to space. if you're made of neutronium or magnetic field lines or w/e, not only can you not exist outside your native environment (true of us also), but you can't even build anything that could exist outside your native environment. anything you could make a space probe out of (if you could even launch it from your gravity well somehow) would abruptly cease to exist if it actually reached space. you'd have to build some kind of rube goldberg chain of machines to even reach orbit. whereas we, lucky apes that we are, only have to put a capsule on a rocket and chuck it into space. the vacuum is only 1 atmosphere more pressure than we live at every day--practically a sunny summer day compared to trying to exist on the surface of a neutron star!

the little magnetic monopole guys are slightly more fortunate in this regard, but they still can accidentally create black holes by slight overcrowding, which seems very less than ideal. somebody needs to come up with some kind of very diaphanous organism that can only exist in a near-vacuum. though i suspect such a creature would have to be so large that it would barely hold together in the first place.

[kassil]

This is just another time where I go "Oh, it's Caves of Qud, got it."

dragongirl with scales of cinnabar and weeping orpiment is denning in the sunken valley of the cursed forest and the trees are shedding their leaves months early. the ground is sour and uncomfortably soft and damp. poisonous mushrooms are sprouting everywhere. centipedegirls in colors you didnt think your eyes could perceive are chilling in every damp corner. every few minutes you find another sludgy carcass of something unidentifiable. incredibly caustic slimegirls are accreting from the stagnated essence of this place and etching their phone numbers in your metal armor.

[mysticstronomy]

HOW DOES A NEUTRON STAR FORM??

Blog#390

Saturday, April 6th, 2024.

Welcome back,

When a massive star explodes as a supernova at the end of its life, its core can collapse into a tiny and superdense object with not much more than our sun’s mass. These small, incredibly dense cores of exploded stars are neutron stars. They’re among the most bizarre objects in the universe.

A typical neutron star has about 1.4 times our sun’s mass. And they can range up to about two solar masses.

Now consider that our sun has over 100 times Earth’s diameter. In a neutron star, all that mass is squeezed into a sphere that’s only about 12-25 miles (20-40 km) across, or about the size of an earthly city.

So perhaps you can see that neutron stars are very, very dense! A tablespoon of a neutron star material would weigh more than 1 billion U.S. tons (900 billion kg). That’s more than the weight of Mount Everest, Earth’s highest mountain.

Throughout much of their lives, stars maintain a delicate balancing act. Gravity tries to compress the star while the star’s internal pressure exerts an outward push. And nuclear fusion at the star’s core causes the outer pressure. In fact, this fusion burning is the process by which stars shine.

In a supernova explosion, gravity suddenly and catastrophically gets the upper hand in the war it has been waging with the star’s internal pressure for millions or billions of years.

With its nuclear fuel exhausted and the outward pressure removed, gravity suddenly compresses the star inward. A shock wave travels to the core and rebounds, blowing the star apart. This whole process takes perhaps a couple of seconds.

But gravity’s victory is not yet complete. With most of the star blown into space, the core remains, which may only be twice our sun’s mass. Gravity continues to compress it, to a point where the atoms become so compacted and so close together that electrons are violently thrust into their parent nuclei, combining with the protons to form neutrons.

Thus the neutron star gets its name from its composition. What gravity has created is a superdense, neutron-rich material – called neutronium – in a city-sized sphere. The exact internal structure of this sphere is the subject of much debate. Current thinking is that the star possesses a thin crust of iron, perhaps a mile or so thick. Under that, the composition is largely neutrons, taking various forms the further down in the neutron star they are located.

Originally published on https://earthsky.org/

COMING UP!!

(Wednesday, April 10th, 2024)

"WHY IS VOYAGER 1 SENDING GIBBERISH??"

[flippyspoon]

NOTE: Lil SNW Spirk drabble.

Spock was just about to dig into a steaming bowl of plomeek soup when Lieutenant Kirk of the Farragut sat down across from him, grinning in his friendly manner.

Spock blinked at him and said, "May I help you, Lieutenant?"

"Don't let me interrupt your dinner-"

"Thank-"

"Only I was wondering if you could give me the basics on how that ion storm disrupted our ops systems? I'm sure it's something I'm going to see again."

Spock started to speak, frowned, and said, "Have you never encountered an ion storm?"

"Well, yes. But I could use a better understanding of how they work."

Spock forgot about his dinner and fixed Jim Kirk with a wary gaze.

"Lieutenant, this is the sixth question you've asked me today concerning a subject about which I'm sure you are already knowledgable. You have already asked me about diplomatic relations with Andoria-"

"Your thoughts on it were invaluable!"

"And about experiments in the use of neutronium-"

"Well, yes, I've read about that. But I thought a science officer like yourself might have new insights."

"Lieutenant, is there a reason you continually ask me questions to which you already possess answers? Are you testing my knowledge?"

"Not at all, Mr. Spock! I ...suppose I just enjoy listening to Vulcans explain things to me."

Spock raised an eyebrow, perking up slightly. "Do you know many Vulcans?"

"No," Kirk said, resting his chin on his hands. "You're the only one."

"I...do not understand."

"I'm sure you'll figure it out," Kirk said. "You're the best mind in the fleet after all."

[podcastjam]

2024 Podcast Jam Projects & Teams

Here's all the teams that will be creating pilots for the event this year!!!! Thank you so much to everyone participating, we're SO excited to hear about your projects over the coming month. 4 days until scriptwriting starts, and until then, happy jamming!

SPACE SPECKS Rawlyx loakes quillsandpaper seallbringer6132 smallsies

The Ichorous Rot falloutcoy fluxoid gooboogy chazzo0319 moookar4733

Hello? Are you there? Chronolojay T3chie FungiFungius strawberrytommy

Valdivan's Finest Astralphire Goateggz Kjsmithi Masterofcoordination Rabidxracoon Strilondes

World Fuse kkomaism beardwolfe elischwarz ilaalexei leahstar neutroniums

The Finder's Keeper GiveMeYourLemon Maddie.vo DeumEnki

Schrodinger's Pledge hannahaimee17 collidiasrex chiaroscuro671 wildwolfy spiraleyed devotedwretch

Eart(h) FM am4937 cyanosiis enbyfatale fiveleafclover lotsadeer sirdarkcross timberfins

Gavin's Window wayfaring_weathervane madd413 franb. Sable_Cable Madtelier

Garden of Baffling Beasts cawcawmarmalade prinx_e_umlaut w3vilgrows

Working Tidal itslouisw. wesmarin geeky_fandom codyvm jenahb totcocoa

Hamuel Burger and the American Dream hotchocolate2197 bulkhs mississpissi

Match Team sblr rosiefinch cosmicgranola some_enby eclipsedskye humanfryingpan

Individual Projects Filohazard just_alex smolgremlin.

[sufficientlylargen]

That's why the bag is so heavy, it's the neutronium in cat poop.

Astrophysicists say neutron degenerate matter is superdense but have they ever lifted a trash bag full of used cat litter

[rlyehtaxidermist]

i think we should add neutronium to the periodic table just so the chemists have to argue about which column it goes into