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Can we harvest it?
by arrty88 8y ago
Can we harvest it?
- tgtweak 8y ago> 40 trillion trillion trillion packs of butter Toxic butter.
- sjs382 8y ago> 40 trillion trillion trillion packs of butter I have a new favorite unit of volume.
- majewsky 8y agofrom the measuring-area-in-football-fields dept.
- deadmetheny 8y agohttp://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=nutrition+in+one+cubic+parsec+of+butter http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=nutrition+in+one+cubic+...
- psalminen 8y agoThe butter must flow.
- Double_a_92 8y agoWhy are people here always downvoting jokes? I mean especially jokes. You could say something racist or otherwise bigoted and it would still be slightly better than jokes. And also it's almost impossible to get upvotes. Why are we so toxic on here?
- steve_adams_86 8y agoProbably something to do with being greasy and full of carbon.
- Veen 8y agoToxic means poisonous. How is preferring to avoid Reddit's plague of puns and repeated identical jokes poisonous? Toxic does not mean "anything that I don't like".
- Double_a_92 8y agoToxic referred to not upvoting any comments or being positive in other ways. My "best" comment where lots of people agreed has 9 likes... Usually I end up with -1 or -2, even on normal serious comments. Meh...
- smt88 8y agoJokes don't contribute to the discussion. They're generally considered noise rather than signal here. HN's official policy is that it isn't reddit and doesn't want to be reddit. In my opinion, intolerance of jokes is the entire distinction between the two. There's also the issue that jokes are often misunderstood and end up causing even more wasted text.
- Double_a_92 8y agoActually they do. Worrying about if your comment is "serious" and good enough is what is blocking discussion. I'd rather not comment at all when comments on here seem to mostly displease other people.
- krapp 8y ago>HN's official policy is that it isn't reddit and doesn't want to be reddit. That's its culture, there's no "official policy" along those lines. In fact, the guidelines used to warn people not to claim that Hacker News was turning into Reddit, calling it a "common semi-noob illusion."
- mkl 8y agoIt's incredibly thinly spread out, so I doubt it. Yes, there's a lot of it, but space is almost unimaginably big. Places where carbon is concentrated like some planets, comets, etc. would be much more economically viable, and we're sitting on a planet with far more of this type of stuff than we need already.
- onemoresoop 8y agoYes, but we can't carry this stuff (or much of it) with us on orbits or space, but if we collect and process it it may open some doors to space exploration.
- mkl 8y agoThen mine comets or dip into appropriate planetary atmospheres. The material in the article is way too spread out.
- onemoresoop 8y agoTrue, but it may at least fuel our imaginations for the time being.
- neilsimp1 8y agoIs it useful?
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- sliken 8y agoThere's approximately 1 atom per cubic cm in space. Of those there's 10,000 hydrogen for each greasy carbon atom. So sure you could harvest the volume of the earth in deep space and get 21 kg worth.
- juliangoldsmith 8y ago>There's approximately 1 atom per cubic cm in space. How do you figure? I'd think gravity would cause it to clump up, and draw it toward massive bodies.
- maze-le 8y agoThe Article talks about interstellar space, aside from some occasional planemos, there are no substantial gravity wells outside of solar systems. It would probably move along according to the local standard of rest (~flow of material) in the galaxy. And this material would also probably not get trapped inside solar systems to a large degree, because as the article notes, the solar wind has a greater infuence on it than gravity.
- sliken 8y agoYes, gravity is a factor. But stars, planets, and galaxies have already formed. Within the solar system is higher, within the arms of galaxies is higher than without. There are also web like structures between galaxies that have higher densities.
- rtkwe 8y agoProbably, though it's still going to be very sparse and thinly spread.