The Disturbing Fate of a Planet Made of Blueberries

At the risk of being the you-must-be-fun-at-parties guy - why would a planet &quot;made of blueberries&quot; be comprised of any air at all to begin with? :)<p><i>&quot;Releasing the air that had separated each berry from its neighbors&quot;</i> - the question, at least the way it&#x27;s phrased here, doesn&#x27;t say anything about any air. Made of blueberries means made of blueberries, period.

Seems the original question on Stackexchange has been removed :(

I really hope I live long enough to see scaled-up spectroscopy of exoplanets [1]. (I don&#x27;t have enough optimism for hope for actual imaging.) It&#x27;ll be fascinating to get a sense of the true range of world-types out there and see how often planets end up developing life.<p>(Picking up oxygen would be a high-confidence indicator of the presence of life, since oxygen reacts with <i>everything</i> and so can maintain a stable fraction of a planet&#x27;s atmosphere only by continual replenishment, the only known mechanism for which is biological.)<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC4156723&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC4156723&#x2F;</a>

Would all of the air at the core of the sphere necessarily escape into the atmosphere, or could it stay trapped and solidify?

Aw, I thought the thought experiment would be the ecological damage to Earth if all crops were replaced by blueberries.

This sounds like a lost level from Jazz Jackrabbit or Zool.

Blueberry Planet would not be a nice place to live, but it would be the most delicious planet ever. Until somebody accumulated an earth&#x27;s mass worth of chocolate, that is.

if it does not have enough mass, it will lose its atmosphere quickly. I wonder what the minimum mass and surface gravity to have a viable atmosphere is

<i>Sandberg says he would visit the jammy planet he imagined—“With protective gear. And probably a supply of ice cream.”</i><p>Urp. Given &quot;a roaring ocean of boiling jam&quot;, the surface doesn&#x27;t sound likely to be very appetizing!

Reminds me of xkcd&#x27;s &quot;What If?&quot; series.

I, for one, worry about spoiledge. Awful waste of food! Jk<p>Excellent Saturday morning read.

Reminds me of Randall Munroe&#x27;s Mole of Moles thought experiment:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;what-if.xkcd.com&#x2F;4&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;what-if.xkcd.com&#x2F;4&#x2F;</a>