Blueberry Earth or “what if the entire Earth was replaced with blueberries?“ (2018)

I love this, I wish we had better tools to figure out what happens chemically to the blueberry mush on geological timescales.<p>Also..:<p>&gt; One might wonder if this kind of exploration is worthwhile. I believe it is: this is both a pedagogical and amusing way of applying standard planetary science modelling to a system. Given how exotic exoplanets have turned out, the physics of blueberry earth is actually fairly normal compared to much that is out there.<p>Woe is me. Born too late to sail the uncharted oceans, born too early to explore blueberry earth.

There is room for a followup paper on experiments to detect blueberry exoplanets; if only to put an upper bound on the probability of planets spontaneously turning to jam, which fruit they consist of, and if they are spread across the universe.<p>It could also open up new physics, since it would mean that the law of conservation of mass is displaced by a jarring mass of conserve.

HN top story:<p>&gt; Blueberry Earth or “what if the entire Earth was replaced with blueberries?“<p>HN story number 2:<p>&gt; John Locke’s recipe for Pancakes<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=30132612" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=30132612</a>

The next question is &quot;How do we achieve this noble goal?&quot;

Bonus points for being on top of (topping?) a story about pancakes.

Anders Sandberg, the author, was heavily involved with the orionsarm.com project (hard science-fiction worldbuilding). It was a big, big influence on my youth in the early 2000&#x27;s, at the age of 17, while I went through a deep exploration of futurism and what could be possible in my lifetime.<p>This is where I learned of things like Dyson Spheres, which, sure enough, referenced one &quot;Dyson Sphere FAQ&quot; written by Sandberg himself.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;orionsarm.com&#x2F;eg-article&#x2F;4845fbe091a18" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;orionsarm.com&#x2F;eg-article&#x2F;4845fbe091a18</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aleph.se&#x2F;Nada&#x2F;dysonFAQ.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aleph.se&#x2F;Nada&#x2F;dysonFAQ.html</a>

Reminds me just a bit of the old XKCD &quot;What If&quot; question, &quot;What if you gathered a mole (unit of measurement) of moles (small furry critter) in one place?&quot; <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>

Reminds me of &quot;Carl Sagan&#x27;s Cosmos: The Meat Planet&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=ZP7K9SycELA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=ZP7K9SycELA</a>

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American or European blueberries?

Everyone would eventually turn blue and there would be less race pressure and conflict.

&gt; Unfortunately [Physics Stackexchange] tends to frown on fun what-if questions like this, so it was in my opinion prematurely closed while I was working out the answer. So here it is, with some extra extensions and corrections.<p>Raspberries for the Stack Overflow mods. But thanks to this paper we can find our thrill on blueberry hill.