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

Tariffs on neutronium are out of this world though.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago

What about one tablespoon of material from a neutron star?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago

He forgot packaging, gotta protect the ultra dense substance from bumps and scuffs

[–] [email protected] 86 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Wait until I fill that box with quark-gluon plasma.

[–] [email protected] 117 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Imagine shipping this tiny little box and it weighs 60 pounds. Poor mailman.

[–] [email protected] 79 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Last package of the da... Yo wtf?!?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

It's the 32 KG mop all over again

Note: Above video is marketing for an exercise plan, but it's also funny to watch occasionally when he has new episodes. As far as I know, the weights are real, but they're always loaded funny in the videos. Max plates visually for the weight the dudes are lifting

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Osmium isn't the densest substance known to humans it's just the densest element

[–] [email protected] 9 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

What is the densest substance we can fill the box with?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago

Your mom (geez guys, did I really have to do that?)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

A black hole.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

you can balloon the box out a ways to get more volume

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago

Hmm, that might make it feasible to do with something that you can actually buy in large quantities, like tungsten! Would still probably cost four or five figures though.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

The surface area of the box is about 135 inches. If this surface area were spread over a sphere, it would have a diameter of about 6.5 inches and a volume of nearly 150 cubic inches (nearly twice the volume of the uninflated box!). 150 cubic inches of osmium weighs about 120lbs.

So, indeed you could exceed the weight limit of the box by ballooning it out and filling it with something that's at least 7/12ths as dense as osmium (or a little more dense than lead).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The demon core's theme just started playing for some reason

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

What about a piece of neutron star in those dimensions? Would it still be lighter than 70 lbs?

[–] [email protected] 61 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Good news, after obtaining a piece of neutron star in those dimensions, you wouldn't need to worry about it anymore.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

The common popsci factoid tells us that a teaspoon of a neutron star weights as much as Mount Everest, so maybe.

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 13 hours ago

at a typical temperature and pressure, sure.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

Could you create a device that would compress some substance to the extent it would reach this weight or is that impossible?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 12 hours ago

Good news, it's 20-30 years away!

[–] [email protected] 50 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Such devices exist, namely stars. Neutron stars are theorized to have neutronium at their core, essentially a soup of neutrons so densely packed that nothing else fits between them - in order words, the densest theoretical material (osmium is the densest material found on Earth).

[–] [email protected] 15 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (3 children)

I guess I forgot to say it needs to fit in the package lol. I know it’s possible in extreme environments but can you create such an environment in this package is the question.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Just toss a few teaspoons of black hole in there.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Just have the package delivered to the black hole and watch usps get it there rain or snow

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago

Where the fuck did USPS get those super-powerful electromagnets from and how do they know to use them to manipulate impossibly heavy packages!?!

The alien USPS mail sorter from the movie Men in Black II.
No idea, man. I just saw that thing in the company warehouse and started pressing buttons

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I believe that would be some form of fusion

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 13 hours ago

A very large no.

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