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[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago (2 children)

An ice ball the size of Jupiter dotted with small little flat earths would have a surface gravity of at least 19m/s², about double the measured gravity of Earth. The real value would likely be higher, as surface ice compresses the ice below it.

Otherwise a very based theory, can't think of anything else wrong with it

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

I would like to throw in the possibility, that the ball could accelerate downwards relative to the habitable part.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

so you're saying the theory remains undisproven? woa... O_o

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Unless science got the gravitational constant wrong due to assuming the earth is small.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

The gravitational constant is famously hard to measure, so I can get behind this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Could use more elephants and turtles