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Yeah, planets are puddles.

It's also easy to forget the brown-dwarf-hot body inside the Moon (and the star-hot one beneath our feet). Thanks to the rock insulators between us and them, and our universal heat sink. A disassembled Moon exposing mantle material... even with T^4 blackbody energy scaling, a bolide rain a year later very won't be a problem for humans. Comparing lunar mantle with Sun, say 6x cooler, 390x closer, and say <10x angular smaller - 390^2 beats 6^4, leaving what, a new 100x "Sun"?

parent mncharity 2 years ago

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