Tariffs on neutronium are out of this world though.
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What about dark matter? One pound of it weighs over 10000 pounds.
Doesn't matter. You won't see it til it too late.
What about one tablespoon of material from a neutron star?
He forgot packaging, gotta protect the ultra dense substance from bumps and scuffs
Imagine shipping this tiny little box and it weighs 60 pounds. Poor mailman.
Last package of the da... Yo wtf?!?
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
Osmium isn't the densest substance known to humans it's just the densest element
What is the densest substance we can fill the box with?
Your mom (geez guys, did I really have to do that?)
A black hole.
you can balloon the box out a ways to get more volume
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.
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).
What about a piece of neutron star in those dimensions? Would it still be lighter than 70 lbs?
Good news, after obtaining a piece of neutron star in those dimensions, you wouldn't need to worry about it anymore.
The common popsci factoid tells us that a teaspoon of a neutron star weights as much as Mount Everest, so maybe.
at a typical temperature and pressure, sure.
Could you create a device that would compress some substance to the extent it would reach this weight or is that impossible?
Good news, it's 20-30 years away!
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).
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.
Just toss a few teaspoons of black hole in there.
Just have the package delivered to the black hole and watch usps get it there rain or snow
Where the fuck did USPS get those super-powerful electromagnets from and how do they know to use them to manipulate impossibly heavy packages!?!
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No idea, man. I just saw that thing in the company warehouse and started pressing buttons
I believe that would be some form of fusion
So yes, for a moment
But also no
A very large no.