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Blueberry Earth or “what if the entire Earth was replaced with blueberries?“ (2018)
- tamaharbor 5y agoEveryone would eventually turn blue and there would be less race pressure and conflict.
- dudeinjapan 5y agoThe next question is "How do we achieve this noble goal?"
- stirfish 5y agoThink global, act local. Replace everything on your desk with blueberries.
- bryanrasmussen 5y agoTried that, kids ate the desk.
- cwillu 5y agoThey are what they eat. Onward!
- cookie_monsta 5y agoHowever we achieve this, Web3 will definitely be part of the solution.
- labster 5y ago> Unfortunately [Physics Stackexchange] tends to frown on fun what-if questions like this, so it was in my opinion prematurely closed while I was working out the answer. So here it is, with some extra extensions and corrections. Raspberries for the Stack Overflow mods. But thanks to this paper we can find our thrill on blueberry hill.
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- dudeinjapan 5y agoRaspberries > blueberries. Discuss.
- ggm 5y agoRaspberries are drupes, aggregates of drupes. Drupes include the coconut. The coconut is larger than the blueberry. Coffee is also a drupe. Blueberries are super, but they aren't super-druper.
- dudeinjapan 5y agoRaspberries, coconuts, and coffee... I never realized how much I love drupes.
- ggm 5y agoMe neither. I think this is one of those botany linnean sub-categories which make little sense when you look at a raspberry and a coconut. Don't get me started on Peanuts. They grow underground. How does this put them in the same category as tree-nuts? it doesn't! They're technically a legume, yet in their protein they display the same anaphylaxis risk as tree nuts, if not worse: if you're allergic to peanuts you are much more likely to be allergic to tree nuts than legumes (this isn't FODMAP btw)
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- CobrastanJorji 5y agoReminds me just a bit of the old XKCD "What If" question, "What if you gathered a mole (unit of measurement) of moles (small furry critter) in one place?" https://what-if.xkcd.com/4/ https://what-if.xkcd.com/4/
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- blowski 5y agoIf HN purported to be a newspaper discussing current affairs, this might indeed be concerning. But it isn't. In fact, the guidelines specifically say: > If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic. So my question for you is if you're so concerned about Russia and Ukraine, why are you looking at Hacker News?
- randmeerkat 5y ago
- 123pie123 5y agoas the parent asks, why are you on here typing then?
- randmeerkat 5y ago
- lovich 5y agoAre you?
- TeaVMFan 5y agoBonus points for being on top of (topping?) a story about pancakes.
- PostThisTooFast 5y ago
- isoprophlex 5y agoI love this, I wish we had better tools to figure out what happens chemically to the blueberry mush on geological timescales. Also..: > One might wonder if this kind of exploration is worthwhile. I believe it is: this is both a pedagogical and amusing way of applying standard planetary science modelling to a system. Given how exotic exoplanets have turned out, the physics of blueberry earth is actually fairly normal compared to much that is out there. Woe is me. Born too late to sail the uncharted oceans, born too early to explore blueberry earth.
- Terry_Roll 5y agoWell there would be a lot of benzoic acid to start with.
- Stevvo 5y agoThere are plenty of areas where the charts are woefully inaccurate, not updated since they were originally charted by the empires 150+ years ago. An often repeated fact is 'we know more about the surface of the moon than the bottom of the ocean' You can pretty much still have the experience of exploring uncharted seas.
- CephalopodMD 5y agoReminds me of "Carl Sagan's Cosmos: The Meat Planet" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP7K9SycELA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP7K9SycELA
- wolfram74 5y agoor the Mole of Moles https://what-if.xkcd.com/4/ https://what-if.xkcd.com/4/
- dr_dshiv 5y agoOoh, a nice muggle "coincidence": "a cubic mile happens to be almost exactly 4/3 π cubic kilometers, so a sphere with a radius of X kilometers has the same volume as a cube that’s X miles on each side."
- Findecanor 5y agoAmerican or European blueberries?
- mkl 5y agoThey specify Vaccinium corymbosum, so American: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccinium_corymbosum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccinium_corymbosum
- dools 5y agoIf anyone here has kids and likes what if questions check out the what if world podcast and if able support them on patreon
- tome 5y agoHN top story: > Blueberry Earth or “what if the entire Earth was replaced with blueberries?“ HN story number 2: > John Locke’s recipe for Pancakes https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30132612 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30132612
- invalidusernam3 5y agoAppropriate reading for a Sunday morning
- CPLX 5y agoLet’s get this one going: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.02802.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.02802.pdf
- frosted-flakes 5y ago> Experimental and computational comparison of freeze–thaw induced pressure generation in red and sugar maple
- celdon25 5y agoAnders Sandberg, the author, was heavily involved with the orionsarm.com project (hard science-fiction worldbuilding). It was a big, big influence on my youth in the early 2000's, at the age of 17, while I went through a deep exploration of futurism and what could be possible in my lifetime. This is where I learned of things like Dyson Spheres, which, sure enough, referenced one "Dyson Sphere FAQ" written by Sandberg himself. https://orionsarm.com/eg-article/4845fbe091a18 https://orionsarm.com/eg-article/4845fbe091a18 http://www.aleph.se/Nada/dysonFAQ.html http://www.aleph.se/Nada/dysonFAQ.html
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- bazzargh 5y agoThere is room for a followup paper on experiments to detect blueberry exoplanets; if only to put an upper bound on the probability of planets spontaneously turning to jam, which fruit they consist of, and if they are spread across the universe. It could also open up new physics, since it would mean that the law of conservation of mass is displaced by a jarring mass of conserve.