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Talk:Hollow Moon
Selenology[edit]
So how stable would a hollow moon be - more or less stable than Flat Earth? Anna Livia (talk) 00:12, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
- Not very; methinks that, after thousands of years of getting dented by meteor impacts, it would succumb to its own gravity (which is evidently strong enough to create tides here on Earth and keep our axis of inclination stable so we have four seasons) and collapse into a pile of rubble that would become molten from the resultant gravitational pressure. --Goatspeed. Watch meCircularR
asoningSee what I've been messing around with 01:34, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
- So 'roughly comparable and not very likely in either case.'
- With rocky bodies in space small enough to be whatever shape they want - what is the largest size a hollow worldlet could be? Assuming 'de-iced comets' and 'agglutinating asteroids' (being actual approximations of Menger sponges) as the source. Anna Livia (talk) 13:57, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
Death Star[edit]
The Death Star was not hollow (see here) despite all those internal corridors, chasms, etc. Even Lucas, or rather whoever wrote that, got things better than those cranks. --Panzerfaust (talk) 12:41, 13 December 2020 (UTC)