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PushoverMediaCritic I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out. from the Italy of America Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out.
#48651: Dec 20th 2016 at 5:53:16 PM

So, diamond is the hardest material on Earth, and obsidian is the sharpest material on Earth... what's the strongest material on Earth?

IAmNotCreativeEnough himitsu keisatsu from asa kara ban made omae o miru Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
himitsu keisatsu
#48652: Dec 20th 2016 at 6:25:51 PM

Diamond is not the hardest material on Earth, tho. Mostly because humanity looked at that and said "I can do better, God", and then we went and did. Yeah, it's hard as balls to actually do something with the carbon microtube thingies, but they're deffo harder to break than diamonds.

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LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#48653: Dec 20th 2016 at 6:28:36 PM

Diamond is the hardest naturally occurring substance on Earth and I think the 4th hardest over all. Brittle as hell, though. In general, the harder something is the less toughness it has, and vice versa.

PushoverMediaCritic I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out. from the Italy of America Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out.
#48654: Dec 20th 2016 at 6:31:53 PM

I was actually already aware of both of the above. Good way of putting it though.

IAmNotCreativeEnough himitsu keisatsu from asa kara ban made omae o miru Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
himitsu keisatsu
#48655: Dec 20th 2016 at 6:38:05 PM

Diamond might be tough... but scientists looked at it and went "fuck that, we can make it tougher", 'cuz Wikipedia says we can make synthetic diamonds that are actually stronger than the real thing.

Whoever says that humanity sucks... is right, but humans are also fucking awesome and we should respect the ones among us who are bringing up our overall rating.

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Ssj3Gojira Arashi Shigehito from The Event Horizon Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
Arashi Shigehito
#48656: Dec 20th 2016 at 8:06:03 PM

Still, the hardest material in our universe is the matter that makes up the core of a neutron star, which is something we'll never surpass, due to its hardness/toughness being a factor of the insane density, and by consequence mass, it possesses. Even a bit of it the size of a sugar cube could break through a table...and possibly the floor under said table.

Let's see if you can get past my Beelzemon. Mephiles, WARP SHINKA!
MightyMatilda Mr. Clueless from New Jersey, USA Since: Jan, 2015
Mr. Clueless
#48657: Dec 20th 2016 at 8:10:30 PM

Incidentally, I just learned that the Viz translation calls katchin "clangite". It's the little things like that which make me prefer the manga translation.

De Romanīs, lingua Latina gloriosa non fuī.
PushoverMediaCritic I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out. from the Italy of America Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out.
#48658: Dec 20th 2016 at 8:10:41 PM

[up][up]Just wait for when we can mass-produce Neutron Stars made of pure titanium.

edited 20th Dec '16 8:11:23 PM by PushoverMediaCritic

Ssj3Gojira Arashi Shigehito from The Event Horizon Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
Arashi Shigehito
#48659: Dec 20th 2016 at 8:13:17 PM

Dude, the weight of those at that size would tear through any buildings we could make. The only way we could get something that hard is if we made something just as dense.

That or put a naked Rukia and Ichigo on Saiga's lap.

Let's see if you can get past my Beelzemon. Mephiles, WARP SHINKA!
PushoverMediaCritic I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out. from the Italy of America Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out.
#48660: Dec 20th 2016 at 8:15:37 PM

Well yeah, what do you think the factories will be made of, duh.

Eriorguez Since: Jun, 2009
#48661: Dec 20th 2016 at 8:46:04 PM

Neutron stars are pretty much giant atomic nuclei. The mass of an atom is in its nucleus. And the way we usually visualize atoms, with electrons dancing around a nucleus over half the diameter of the whole atom, is quite wrong.

     Long explanation, science teacher in formation over here. 
This is the distance between the Earth and its Moon. Slighty above 300,000 km, so, at light speed, it would take about a second to go from one to the other. A light-second.

Now, the Sun. The Sun is quite big, about 600,000 km from its surface to its center, so, the distance between Earth and Moon would be the equivalent of getting halfway into the Sun's depths. 4 light seconds of diameter. The Sun is also far away for our standards, 150 million km away, or, going by light speed, about 8 light-minutes away. This distance is known as an astronomic unit (AU).

Now, remember Pluto? The ex-planet we got high resolution pictures of last year, and the probe that took them was one launched in 2006, back when Pluto was a planet? Well, Pluto's orbit is 40 AU away from the Sun; over 5 light-hours away. Or, in a image set to scale where our Moon is a pixel, it'd take 17 minutes of scrolling to get from the Sun to Pluto.

And why am I going into that abstraction? Well, now, back to atoms: If the nucleus of a hydrogen atom (that's it, a proton) was the size of the Sun, how far away would the electron be?

It'd be 11 times further away than Pluto is to the Sun. 440 AU. Over 2 light-days.

And now, another 2 concepts: The mass of an atom resides in its nucleus, and density is mass/volume. Volume is measured in cubic units, so it increases exponentially.

Neutron stars are made out of pretty much atom nuclei, without the electrons. They have the mass of the atoms it was made out of, but almost none of the volume. So, their density just feels illogical.

Neutron stars are not matter in the usual sense. They lack chemistry, as chemistry is pretty much how atoms and their peculiar electron configurations interact with each other. Neutron stars are physics. There are no elemental properties, there is just density. Anything more dense and it collapses spacetime causing an event horizon.

PushoverMediaCritic I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out. from the Italy of America Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
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#48662: Dec 20th 2016 at 9:17:28 PM

I knew the thing about how nuclei are WAY smaller than the volume of the atom itself, though I wasn't clear on exactly what neutron stars' mass comprised of. Humanity's still going to reach a point where we're mass-producing them, mark my words.

MightyMatilda Mr. Clueless from New Jersey, USA Since: Jan, 2015
Mr. Clueless
#48663: Dec 20th 2016 at 9:22:04 PM

What's the proper comment to make when you feel a thread is going way, waaaaaaaaay off-topic? I mean, hypothetically.

De Romanīs, lingua Latina gloriosa non fuī.
HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#48664: Dec 20th 2016 at 10:15:26 PM

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I believe it would be, and I quote:

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH ALL OF YOU!?

....Of course, I may be a little off.

One Strip! One Strip!
alekos23 Since: Mar, 2013
#48665: Dec 20th 2016 at 10:18:48 PM

Universe is cool.Much cooler than Dragon Ball. tongue

unnoun Since: Jan, 2012
#48666: Dec 21st 2016 at 10:09:42 AM

I mean, the thing with diamond is that while it's tough, it also has planes of weakness.

You can't cut a diamond easily, but if you hit it with a hammer it'll break into smaller pieces.

Like. "Hardness" refers to something's resistance to scratching. The ability to cut something.

That's slightly different than. I mean. Call it "toughness". Resistance to breaking/smashing. Diamonds are slightly brittle.

Bolded1 Fate, guide me from behind you!!!!!!!! Since: Mar, 2015
Fate, guide me
#48667: Dec 21st 2016 at 11:26:01 AM

We all know that Diamond is Unbreakable anyway.

Also, to get back on track, Manga Black really sucks. I know that the manga is rushing, but he's far less memorable than his anime counterpart.

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Zelenal The Cat Knows Where It's At from Purrgatory Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
The Cat Knows Where It's At
#48668: Dec 21st 2016 at 11:46:02 AM

Diamond is Unbreakable yet Star Platinum can punch through teeth as hard as diamonds.

Truly, Diamond is not Crash.

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SonOfSharknado Love is Love is Love Since: Oct, 2013 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Love is Love is Love
#48669: Dec 21st 2016 at 2:38:33 PM

BREAKDOWN, BREAKDOWN

My various fanfics.
IAmNotCreativeEnough himitsu keisatsu from asa kara ban made omae o miru Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
himitsu keisatsu
#48670: Dec 21st 2016 at 2:53:39 PM

USELESS USELESS USELESS

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PushoverMediaCritic I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out. from the Italy of America Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out.
#48671: Dec 21st 2016 at 5:26:27 PM

Any theories as to why Monaka isn't on the U7 team?

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#48672: Dec 21st 2016 at 5:27:59 PM

Because he can't actually do anything!

One Strip! One Strip!
Shlugo_the_great King of Burgers from Far Far Away (On A Trope Odyssey) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
King of Burgers
#48673: Dec 21st 2016 at 5:32:17 PM

Beerus ain't gonna bring him and make a fool of himself in front of the multiverse.

IAmNotCreativeEnough himitsu keisatsu from asa kara ban made omae o miru Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
himitsu keisatsu
#48674: Dec 21st 2016 at 5:33:54 PM

That's what he's got Goku for.

himitsu keisatsu seifu chokuzoku kokka hoanbu na no da himitsu keisatsu yami ni magireru supai katsudou torishimari
LordVatek Not really a lord of anything Since: Sep, 2014
Not really a lord of anything
#48675: Dec 21st 2016 at 5:33:55 PM

Although that does raise the question of how Beerus will explain his absence to Goku.

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