• tal@lemmy.today
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    10 days ago

    https://www.amazon.com/White-Corrugated-Paper-Sheet-Pack/dp/B08D2GT19P

    A 10 pack of “20 x 30 x 0.16 inches;” cardboard weighs “6.4 Pounds”.

    10x30x10 is 6,000 square inches, or ~3.87 square meters. 6.4 lbs is 2.9 kg. So figure ~0.75 kg per square meter of corrugated cardboard.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun

    Its diameter is about 1,391,400 km (864,600 mi), 109 times that of Earth.

    Area is r² times pi.

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    (%i1) float((1391400*1000/2)^2*%pi);
    (%o1)                        1.520526100532553E18
    

    So that’s a mass of about 1.5 x 10¹⁸ kg for the cardboard cutout.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth

    Mass: 5.972168×10²⁴ kg

    Earth has about four million times as much mass, so the Sun cutout would have about a quarter-millionth Earth’s gravitational pull.

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      10 days ago

      Soooo that cardboard cutout has about the weight of Phobos, a moon of Mars…

      And since it’s as big as the sun, wouldn’t the moon break through it?