• lime!
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    39 days ago

    i think you did the weight approximation in the wrong order, 1024 is a lot bigger than 6×1023. so you can probably double the final weight.

    • @[email protected]
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      29 days ago

      10^24 is a lot bigger than 6×10^23

      Well yeah it’s almost double, but I wrote the comment as a mental estimation of the order of magnitude, so it doesn’t change the substance of the discussion.

      I mean at the beginning I arbitrarily picked a number in that 10^40 to 10^44 range and that’s a factor of 1:10,000 rather than 1:2, lol.

      • lime!
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        19 days ago

        yeah yeah, cosmological approximations and all that, but there’s still a bit of difference between “planetoid” and “gas giant” :P

      • JackbyDev
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        29 days ago

        Slightly less than double, actually. (Doesn’t really change the meat of the argument or anything though.)