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It would be a lot of fun if someone competent with physics explained how celestial bodies would behave if they were made of meat. That'd be a fun Youtube video

It would be a lot of fun if someone competent with physics explained how celestial bodies would behave if they were made of meat. That'd be a fun Youtube video imo.

s1artibartfast 4y ago
I think that if there were a ball of meat the size of a star, it would collapse into an actual star, although smaller and more dense. I would really be interested to know what Steller atomic composition most closely matches that of a sausage.
- Someone 4y ago
  Maybe not that much smaller? The density of meat is close to 1gm/cm³, that of the sun about 1.41gm/cm³, but the sun is relatively small for a star and larger stars are less dense. I’m neither an astrophysicist nor a food expert, but sausages have lots of carbon and contain a reasonable amount of water and thus, oxygen, so I don’t see young stars match them chemically. Maybe, some really old ones will, fairly short befor they run out of stuff to fuse. If you limit things to a star’s atmosphere, you may have better luck (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_star https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_star)
  - coldcode 4y ago
    With the pressure coming from the inside of the star from burning fuel, I think this meat-star would implode since it is just meat. Unless of course sausages under pressure emit energy. How much sausage would it take to start a thermonuclear process?
    - ReptileMan 4y ago
      Depends. If it is proper spicy - think Balkans, Mexico or Thailand... probably less than you think.
    - kadoban 4y ago
      What exactly happens would probably depend on what type of star it would turn into, give the elemental makeup of meat. I'm assuming that pressure would cause temperatures in the middle to rise high enough to break everything down to its constituent elements, and then some sort of fusion would start, eventually breaking down the entire thing. I bet it would be a _very_ messy process, as things explode and implode, burn and outgas. Eventually things would probably settle into a fairly unremarkable star, except with very odd proportions of various elements.
- benj111 4y ago
  Sausage != Meat. (Might be for chorizo but I'm from the UK)
  - coldtea 4y ago
    You silly sausage...
- MonkeyMalarky 4y ago
  So what your saying is that it would cook itself as it collapses and somewhere in the process there'd be a point where the sausage is perfectly toasted?
  - GravitasFailure 4y ago
    Well, the water in it would first heat and turn to steam as the Chorizo collapses in on itself, which would eventually result in a steam explosion and a Chorizo Mass Ejection. That might disrupt the cooking process a bit, but you may also get some perfectly-cooked Chorizo launched your way.
    - s1artibartfast 4y ago
      I don't think a steam explosion would be enough for a mass meat ejection. Stars regularly undergo fusion and that isn't enough for mass ejection unless it it becomes a runaway process in the case of Stellar death
      - GravitasFailure 4y ago
        The steam explosion is based off two assumptions: You're starting with cold sausage that heats up as it coalesces into the star, and that the steam gets trapped by the solid mass of sausage above it. Stars normally coalesce out of hydrogen that doesn't need to go through as drastic of a change as a sausage would when transforming into fusing plasma. My assumptions are probably at least partially incorrect because my field of expertise is really ribs and brisket.
  - rasterdog 4y ago
    https://what-if.xkcd.com/28/ https://what-if.xkcd.com/28/
- lomaprietasolo 4y ago
  Randall Munroe covered this in his Mole of Moles thought experiment. "What would happen if you were to gather a mole (unit of measurement) of moles (the small furry critter) in one place?" https://what-if.xkcd.com/4/ https://what-if.xkcd.com/4/
AlgorithmicTime 4y ago
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diputsmonro 4y ago
Looks like today is your lucky day! https://youtu.be/ZP7K9SycELA https://youtu.be/ZP7K9SycELA
- heywoodlh 4y ago
  This was great, thanks for the share -- got a bunch of laughs out of me.

It would be a lot of fun if someone competent with physics explained how celestial bodies would behave if they were made of meat. That'd be a fun Youtube video imo.

s1artibartfast 4y ago

I think that if there were a ball of meat the size of a star, it would collapse into an actual star, although smaller and more dense. I would really be interested to know what Steller atomic composition most closely matches that of a sausage.

Someone 4y ago
Maybe not that much smaller? The density of meat is close to 1gm/cm³, that of the sun about 1.41gm/cm³, but the sun is relatively small for a star and larger stars are less dense. I’m neither an astrophysicist nor a food expert, but sausages have lots of carbon and contain a reasonable amount of water and thus, oxygen, so I don’t see young stars match them chemically. Maybe, some really old ones will, fairly short befor they run out of stuff to fuse. If you limit things to a star’s atmosphere, you may have better luck (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_star https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_star)
- coldcode 4y ago
  With the pressure coming from the inside of the star from burning fuel, I think this meat-star would implode since it is just meat. Unless of course sausages under pressure emit energy. How much sausage would it take to start a thermonuclear process?
  - ReptileMan 4y ago
    Depends. If it is proper spicy - think Balkans, Mexico or Thailand... probably less than you think.
  - kadoban 4y ago
    What exactly happens would probably depend on what type of star it would turn into, give the elemental makeup of meat. I'm assuming that pressure would cause temperatures in the middle to rise high enough to break everything down to its constituent elements, and then some sort of fusion would start, eventually breaking down the entire thing. I bet it would be a _very_ messy process, as things explode and implode, burn and outgas. Eventually things would probably settle into a fairly unremarkable star, except with very odd proportions of various elements.
benj111 4y ago
Sausage != Meat. (Might be for chorizo but I'm from the UK)
- coldtea 4y ago
  You silly sausage...
MonkeyMalarky 4y ago
So what your saying is that it would cook itself as it collapses and somewhere in the process there'd be a point where the sausage is perfectly toasted?
- GravitasFailure 4y ago
  Well, the water in it would first heat and turn to steam as the Chorizo collapses in on itself, which would eventually result in a steam explosion and a Chorizo Mass Ejection. That might disrupt the cooking process a bit, but you may also get some perfectly-cooked Chorizo launched your way.
  - s1artibartfast 4y ago
    I don't think a steam explosion would be enough for a mass meat ejection. Stars regularly undergo fusion and that isn't enough for mass ejection unless it it becomes a runaway process in the case of Stellar death
    - GravitasFailure 4y ago
      The steam explosion is based off two assumptions: You're starting with cold sausage that heats up as it coalesces into the star, and that the steam gets trapped by the solid mass of sausage above it. Stars normally coalesce out of hydrogen that doesn't need to go through as drastic of a change as a sausage would when transforming into fusing plasma. My assumptions are probably at least partially incorrect because my field of expertise is really ribs and brisket.
- rasterdog 4y ago
  https://what-if.xkcd.com/28/ https://what-if.xkcd.com/28/
lomaprietasolo 4y ago
Randall Munroe covered this in his Mole of Moles thought experiment. "What would happen if you were to gather a mole (unit of measurement) of moles (the small furry critter) in one place?" https://what-if.xkcd.com/4/ https://what-if.xkcd.com/4/

AlgorithmicTime 4y ago

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diputsmonro 4y ago

Looks like today is your lucky day! https://youtu.be/ZP7K9SycELA https://youtu.be/ZP7K9SycELA

heywoodlh 4y ago
This was great, thanks for the share -- got a bunch of laughs out of me.