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Imagine a cuboid planet with a thick atmosphere orbiting a star similar to our Sun. … How can they determine that the planet is a cuboid? The dimension is 1024 cubic kilometers and for some unknown reasons the cuboid planet is formed and has remained that way ever since. …

Say that you have a cuboid "planet" that can retain its shape. Can it have a cubical iron core (as opposed to the spherical one described in this question) and generate a magnetic field? …

Say that you have a planet that, instead of being spheroid, is cuboid. How would such a planet form? … Wouldn't the gravity pull the matter toward the corners toward the center, causing the planet to revert to a sphere? …

(To be clear with the nomenclature, nothing with a longest-axis of 17 km is a "planet", it's just a large asteroid. The threshold for "planet" according to the IAU is a 2000 km diameter.) … Aside from that, the continued existence of a cuboid planet is impossible (assuming gravity and matter work the way they do in our universe) as detailed in this answer: The problem is that objects …

I'm just assuming this planet exists as an earth-sized thing. According to Google the atmosphere is 480km thick, with most of that atmosphere located between 0 and 16km of the surface. … The farther you go on the cuboid area the more angle you get compared to the center of the earth. …

If you want enough land to feed everyone with crops and such, you need a planet, but if you just want enough to feed people, you'll want stacked farms. … You can make your spaceship a cuboid, with a surface area of 50 by 50 for 2500 square miles. You just need fifty layers to contain everyone. …

The most efficient design for a skyscraper, in terms of using all the available space, is a big tall cuboid. … Drag Reduction (got ninja'd by @tom on this one) You're right that friction isn't really a concern in space, but I'm assuming that at some point, your interstellar ship will want to land on a planet …

The length of the cuboid is the maximum of D, W, and H. The volume of the cuboid is D*W*H. Suppose an average man is two feet wide, one foot deep, and six feet high. … You could reduce gravity on your planet, so larger everything can happen. (This is maybe a cop-out, because then your people would be larger too, so your giants wouldn't be as giant.) …

Shipping containers are cuboid for many reasons. … For it's length, width, and height a spheroid has ~47.6% less internal volume than a cuboid. …

The Square-Cube Law favors smaller ships for landing on a planet where it must survive the hazards of descending through an atmosphere at supersonic speeds. … The big difference between a space shuttle and your cargo ship is that you will want a more rectangular, body to accommodate cuboid shaped cargo loads instead of the cylindrical cargo loads that the space …

Given a cuboid shape, as you described, we have 1 cubic lightyear of space to deal with. Or $9,460,528,400,000,000m^3$. The sun operates at $3.8 * 10^{26}$ watts. … Obviously, a light year is too far away to visually see details by looking with an optical telescope, but we can take scientific readings on the past state of our planet. …

In naval cultures, it is more likely to be defined in relation to the circumference of the planet, e.g. 1 nautical mile = 1 equatorial minute of arc. … You can either have three length values for a cuboid or two for a cylinder: height and either radius, diameter or circumference of the base. π is probably assumed to equal 3+1/7. …

A cuboid of air 3000km long has more like 3675 tonnes of air in it. …