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“They’re limiting the playtesters to type A3 V stars, so the games will all end before the Sun consumes the Earth.”
https://xkcd.com/2061/
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Image caption: “I don’t trust mantle/core geologists because I suspect that, if they ever get a chance to peel away the Earth’s crust, they’ll do it in a heartbeat.”
Image source: https://xkcd.com/2058/
As a mantle petrologist, you bet we would, and we have ways to do it. Bring in a big enough asteroid and you can study both the impact and the material uplifted at the center of the impact structure. Crash Mars into Earth and you can melt the entire planet and have a chance to watch the entire planet crystallize and maybe even form another moon.
Why won’t anyone fund me again?
-JBB
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“I live on a torn-bag-of-potato-chips-where-the-tear-is-rapidly-growing fault, which is terrifying.”
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