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    39 minutes ago

    Elon musk holding a piece of paper with his bank credentials and crypto wallet access keys written on it

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    It would not be Londo from Babylon 5. My husband had a life size cardboard of him when we first started dating, and it always scared me.

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        https://www.amazon.com/White-Corrugated-Paper-Sheet-Pack/dp/B08D2GT19P

        A 10 pack of “20 x 30 x 0.16 inches;” cardboard weighs “6.4 Pounds”.

        10x30x10 is 6,000 square inches, or ~3.87 square meters. 6.4 lbs is 2.9 kg. So figure ~0.75 kg per square meter of corrugated cardboard.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun

        Its diameter is about 1,391,400 km (864,600 mi), 109 times that of Earth.

        Area is r² times pi.

        $ maxima
        (%i1) float((1391400*1000/2)^2*%pi);
        (%o1)                        1.520526100532553E18
        

        So that’s an area of about 1.52×10¹⁸ m² and a mass of about 1.14×10¹⁸ kg for the cardboard cutout.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth

        Mass: 5.972168×10²⁴ kg

        Earth has about five million times as much mass, so the Sun cutout would have about a fifth of a millionth Earth’s gravitational pull.

        EDIT: In the grand spirit of what-if.xkcd.com I think it behooves us to take a humorously dark scientific look at this.

        A larger problem would be 1.14×10¹⁸ kg of cardboard suddenly falling onto Earth’s surface. Aside from any effects from it, like, directly impacting, you’ve just dumped 1.14×10¹⁸ kg of wood pulp onto Earth. Aside from any unpleasant effects from chemical additives, or blotting out the Sun’s light to plants and causing biological collapse, I imagine that there could be some other unpleasant effects:

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Earth

        The atmosphere has a mass of about 5.15×10¹⁸ kg,

        Earth’s atmosphere is mostly nitrogen and oxygen, and by volume about 20% oxygen, so we’ll back-of-the-napkin it and say that about 20% of the mass is oxygen. So about 1×10¹⁸ kg of oxygen, fairly close to the mass of the cardboard cutout.

        That cardboard is presumably flammable.

        So if this vast expanse of cardboard ignites — like, from heat produced by falling through Earth’s atmosphere, falling on any open flame in the world, or whatever, but seems like a pretty safe bet that something will touch it off — I’d assume that a considerable portion of Earth’s oxygen supply would be converted to water and carbon dioxide in the resulting combustion reaction. Even aside from the global wildfire itself, that seems like it’d be pretty bad news for humans.

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          Soooo that cardboard cutout has about the weight of Phobos, a moon of Mars…

          And since it’s as big as the sun, wouldn’t the moon break through it?

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        The Sun’s radius is ~696,000,000 meters, so the surface area of a perfectly circular cutout would be 1.5218e18 square meters. An article I found says that cardboard used for packing is about 0.35-0.4 kg per square meter, so taking an average of 0.375kg/m^2 gives a total of 5.7069e17kg. This is about the same mass as 40% of all water on Earth.

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      It’s pretty awesome. I like the racing stripes and spiderman stickers you have on the headboard

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    The Death Star. Not only would it be cool and intimidating, but I think it could be leveraged to reduce global warming by shading the world for about 12 minutes every day. (I attempted math to come up with 12 minutes. I wouldn’t trust that figure, but it’s all hypothetical anyway so the amount of time really doesn’t matter.)

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    Me, looking disappointed, set myself there in the office, looking disappointedly at myself all day.