“What if the entire Earth was instantaneously replaced with an equal volume of closely packed, but uncompressed blueberries?” … The result is not entirely dissimilar to a small ocean-world exoplanet. …
Blueberry earth will turn into a roaring ocean of boiling jam, with the geysers of released air and steam likely ejecting at least a few berries into orbit. …
To a person standing on the surface of the Earth when it turns into blueberries, the first effect would be a drastic reduction of gravity. Standing on the blueberries might be possible in theory, except that almost immediately they begin to compress rapidly and air starts erupting everywhere. The effect is basically the worst earthquake ever, and it keeps on going until everything has fallen 715 km. While this is going on everything heats up drastically until the entire environment is boiling jam and steam. The end result is a world that has a steam atmosphere covering an ocean of jam on top of warm blueberry granita.
Anders Sandberg ⬩ Blueberry Earth
added November 24, 2023 ⬩ random excerpt