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[–] [email protected] 1 points 30 minutes ago

He said "physically" which is wrong because Neutronium. What he possibly meant was "practically" in which Osmium would be the only element you can practically fit in the box since it isn't possible to synthesize neutroniun at that amount or handle that much safely.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 36 minutes ago

USPS GOAT. Fuck privatización.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

8 5/8" x 5 3/8" x 1 5/8"

Don't write yourself off yet, learn metric.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 46 minutes ago

For most of the rest of the world, that's about 219 mm × 137 mm × 41,3 mm

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

It's only in your head you feel left out or looked down on...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago

just try your best, try everything you can

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

at least 2 sci-fi franchised used "neutronium as a ex machina armor: sg1 and ST(exclusive to select advanced race who can use and make the "armor"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

What about a ' shrodingers 71 pounds ' cat.'

[–] [email protected] 2 points 42 minutes ago

If it was dead before you put it in the box, it's still dead.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Apparently neither of you are aware of how dense I am. ;)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

But do you fit into that box? 🤔

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Nothing one of those fancy new blenders couldn't handle.

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

I have mixed feelings about this.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

If you stuffed that box with neutronium then:

  1. Funny event: it's so dense the Earth itself is basically a thin gas in comparison and it immediately falls through the floor, the ground, and the mantle to oscillate around in the core.

  2. Funny other event: It's so massive it dominates gravity nearby and everything within a couple of meters gets turned into Cool Physics from aggregating onto an incompressible box really fast and hard. Maybe the nearby atmosphere ignites from being compressed into plasma against the box.

  3. Real physics step in and the neutronium immediately decompresses and the mass equivalent of an inland ocean in neutrons and angry high-energy high-mass decay products sterilizes everything through to the horizon with a gamma ray burst, also triggering massive seismic events from the blast as well as killing everything on Earth since the atmosphere is now radioactive and a lot thinner

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Ugh... does this mean I have to go all the way down to post office to get my package again?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago

Part two turning things into cool physics made me giggle IRL, good job

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago
  1. Sweet
  2. Also sweet
  3. Yikes okay don't try that then. Though I am tempted to observe the cool physics...
[–] [email protected] 43 points 5 hours ago

It’s because all the packages have the same domestic weight limit.

Seems silly, but makes sense in the context.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 hours ago

Tariffs on neutronium are out of this world though.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

What about dark matter? One pound of it weighs over 10000 pounds.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

Do we have a source for this or are you just joking?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

It’s what happens when all the gravitons and graviolis get mixed up

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago

It's true. One kilogram of dark matter weighs as much as ten thousand kilograms of feathers.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Doesn't matter. You won't see it til it too late.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

What about one tablespoon of material from a neutron star?

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