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[-] [email protected] 35 points 11 months ago

This sounds like a job for https://what-if.xkcd.com/

Is there enough obsidian on this planet? Would its weight crush the earth's crust? How would we construct it?

[-] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago

Constructing it is easy, just get a couple hundredthousand buckets of water and lava and bob's your uncle

[-] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Well, the chapter 54: Snowball in Randall's book What If? 2 contains the following, semi-related graphic:

(Maximum diameters of spheres of various materials before collapsing under their weight, which is about the same as the material's free-hanging length)

[-] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

I think the answers are yes, somewhat (in addition to collapsing under its own weight), and probably impossible.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yea I doubt that it would be that cheap. The price would skyrocket for such a demand. But the humm sounds great so, who am I to judge.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago
[-] [email protected] 34 points 11 months ago

Because of the wizards gathered around and pondering

[-] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

🧙‍♂️🤔 hmmmmmmmmmm…

[-] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

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