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I'd love to see an /r/TheyDidTheMath on the energy required to CT scan the entire Earth all the way thru. I assume you'd have to vaporize the planet.
by ClassyJacket 2y ago
I'd love to see an /r/TheyDidTheMath on the energy required to CT scan the entire Earth all the way thru. I assume you'd have to vaporize the planet.
- flir 2y agoYou could do secants rather than diameters. Just image the surface layers. Although even just the 5km or so to the horizon sounds like a scary amount of energy. How about neutrino imaging? (I thought I was joking, but... https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-018-0319-1 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-018-0319-1)