Timeline for How can I prevent a cube world from going spherical
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| Nov 10, 2016 at 16:22 | vote | accept | TrEs-2b | ||
| Nov 10, 2016 at 1:12 | comment | added | Youstay Igo | @TrEs-2b: That's the value for a rocky cube. If you build a cube with mammalian bone material, it would support a much larger volume, since bone is 5 times as strong as steel, for the same mass. Also, the suggested magnetic repulsion will help somewhat with creating slightly larger cube. | |
| Nov 9, 2016 at 23:26 | comment | added | TrEs-2b | but a cube with a volume of 282743 km would only be 65.6 km across! | |
| Nov 9, 2016 at 23:20 | vote | accept | TrEs-2b | ||
| Nov 9, 2016 at 23:27 | |||||
| Nov 8, 2016 at 13:55 | comment | added | Feyre | Eh, yeah, good point. Still, it would impair any potential civilisation enormously beyond renaissance-age level technology. | |
| Nov 8, 2016 at 13:43 | comment | added | Youstay Igo | @Feyre: No. It would only hinder the use of ferromagnetic metals, not all metals indiscriminately. | |
| Nov 8, 2016 at 11:45 | comment | added | Feyre | Magnetism is a terrible idea, it would make it impossible to use anything metal. | |
| Nov 7, 2016 at 21:26 | history | answered | Youstay Igo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |