Could a megastructure like this exist, a "world eater?" If not, how could we create a "world eater" like structure...

Could a megastructure like this exist, a "world eater?" If not, how could we create a "world eater" like structure? Could there be a habitable part of this structure we could live on? Nomadicly travelling the universe gobbling up planets?

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there's no scale bar, so we can't really discuss much of anything.

It's large enough that its immense mass would try to shape it into a sphere, so you would probably need some magic scifi tech with nadions and inverse tachyon pulses to make it work

that round object is roughly the size of a black mans balls.

that phallic shaped object is slightly smaller than a black dick.

No reason why there couldn't be apart from the fact that as the mass raises too much in comparison to its structural strength, it would turn into a planet eventually (gravity would smash it inward into a sphere)

Well, in a distant future, probably but I'm wondering why would you create a giant artificial world eating planet. I doesn't produce energy and require a tremendous amount of ressources to function.

Space mega-structures are impossible.

They would be as fragile as a 1-micron thick layer of oil on turbulent water. Dyson spheres will never happen, neither will motherfucking world-eaters. Get out of your own ass for a second and realize that literally none of this will ever happen.

The problem is a lot of "engineers" watch Star Trek or read some Kurzweil post and think Moore's law means we'll have more transistors per square cm than the number of atoms, so we'll become nerd gods who can make the Death Star real.

I fucking hate when that happens.

As nice as mega-structures are, when they exceed a certain size they stop being able to exist as they get crushed under their own gravity and frailty. Goliath was killed by a FUCKING pebble.

Same problem in reverse, we can only make things so small before they cease to even work right, because of the uncertainty of quantum reality on that scale.

There can be "world eaters"
Just not a fucking huge mouth

You send a relativistic shot a few centuries before
It blows up the planet
Chunks scattered all over

Then you roll in and use the planet chunks as building materials

Giants and midgets have health problems, nature is telling us something

But why would you do that when asteroids already exist?

fun?

Asteroids don't collect heavy elements like uranium.
Earth has a bunch of those post-iron elements
Because a long long time ago in planet formation all the heaviest bitches fell in to our forming planetoid
All the smaller planetesimals just got shit like iron.

is that a fucking city slapped on top? it's a fucking ship, why would you make some fragile piece of shit housing when you have a huge interior.

also shit like this cannot support it's own structure, it's too massive. if it could it'd be extremely fragile and inefficient. not to mention the huge resource waste for what? making an extremely weak planet-like structure for not real reason? there is no situation in which this is an efficient and reasonable solution.

How would Galactus exist or function?

If I wanted a piece of shit housing with a huge interior I'd call your mom

What now, faggots?

ANSWER ME YOU NERDS

>is that a fucking city slapped on top? it's a fucking ship, why would you make some fragile piece of shit housing when you have a huge interior.
Rule of cool, the most important rule of fiction.

Magic.

No it will decrease the fps too much and we will all end up lagging.

>ROFL because a thumb-sized asteroid tore the thing to shreds
:^)

ACKSHUALLY
Earth has similar bulk composition to asteroids in our system (though relatively siderophile-enriched and lithophile-depleted due to the circumstances of the Moon's creation).

what terrestrial planets have that asteroids don't is planetary differentiation; since molten iron and molten silica are immiscible, the iron sinks to the center (taking with it all the heavy metals that dissolve readily in it) and leaving the silica (and stuff that dissolves in it) at the surface. if you were to crack a terrestrial planet open, you'd find the desirable siderophile elements already somewhat concentrated in the core, making them easier to process.

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user, there's a reason why objects that large are inevitably spheres. Once you get to a certain scale, gravity becomes too overwhelming to maintain a complex shape.

Because it would be fucking awesome.

>also shit like this cannot support it's own structure, it's too massive.

Is everybody in this thread confusing volume with mass?

Only if it were spinning just enough to prevent gravitational collapse. Basically, right at the Roche limit.

The dumbest motherfucker right here

Get out Basilisk

>build something with a molar mass of 1gram per trilion atoms.
>build it the right thickness so that it wont break easily but also won't weigh too much
>it collapses in on itself regardless because its bigger than fucking jupiter.

Seriously, only a brainlet would think something of that scale could maintain its shape and size.

For everyone,

What about something like a Halo ring? Typically around 10,000km in diameter. Is this too big as well?

If it moves, it'll break.

For

OP here. If a giant mouthed spacecraft wont work. What will? How would you reap the resources of an entire terra sized planet?

>terra sized planet
>terra
>sized
>planet

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>How would you reap the resources of an entire terra sized planet?
Well, you could try living on the surface of one.