[fsi.scsi]

yup, one sugar cube of "neutronium" would weigh approximately 100 million tons.

one (perhaps dumb, slightly pedagogical, but bothersome) question: Since the only place you would find "neutronium" would be in the core of neutron stars, and since the material is kept super-packed by the conservation of angular momentum (L = L' from big star --> neutron star), wouldn't any amount of neutronium disintegrate if it were removed from the star?

i.e. a sugar cube of neutronium isn't spinning any longer, so angular momentum is no longer conserved, plus there's nothing to stop the neutrons from undergoing beta decay.  So you would end up holding 100 million tons of "protium."

Or does the strong nuclear force counteract that possibility?  blah either way, what i've described is hardly a practical scenario. 

[ChronoReverse]

I'm more concerned about the amount of energy it would take to remove said sugar cube of neutronium.  It would take some seriously cataclysmic force to do that O_o

[ssmit132]

Somewhere I heard that a Marshmallows moving at 99.99999% of the speed of light would have a yeild of 12 Castle Bravo scale explosions.

*tries to find a good enough railgun to fire Marshmallows at Sathanas Juggernaughts* lol

[Mars]

12 Hydrogen bombs isn't nearly enough to take down a Sathanas, otherwise Helios's would actually scratch it.

[Agent_Koopa]

Somewhere I heard that a Marshmallows moving at 99.99999% of the speed of light would have a yeild of 12 Castle Bravo scale explosions.

*tries to find a good enough railgun to fire Marshmallows at Sathanas Juggernaughts* lol

At which point you could fire practically anything and blow up the Sathanas. Oh, and the amount of energy you would need to power that railgun would be probably more than the planet uses in a day. (lol more unchecked math)

[fsi.scsi]

<!--- scares off anti-math types

E=mc²

Assuming a mass of 0.25kg for the marshmallow, and c approximately equal to 3.0 x 10^8 m/s: E = (0.25 kg)(3E8 m/s) = 74948114.5 J of energy

Also assuming that close to 100% of the liberated energy gets schlooped into the railgun (which fires a round approximately every 5 seconds):

P = W/t = 74948114.5 J/5s

-->

Power = 14989622.9 watts. 

Energy (not power, lol) in an average H-bomb (20 Mt): 8.368 x 10^16 J.

There, a waste of five minutes

[Black Wolf]

Assuming a mass of 0.25kg for the marshmallow

That's a big friggen marshmallow.

[aldo_14]

Assuming a mass of 0.25kg for the marshmallow

That's a big friggen marshmallow.

Ah, so that was the Shivans plan - they expected to use the supernova to melt railgun-propelled giant marshmallows, only to have to jump away and go to the shops when none came.

[fsi.scsi]

Nah, the Capella supernova was just a gigantic s'more making party.