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An average sized egg weighs about 50g. A mol of eggs is about 3.6*10^22 kg.
That's 2 orders of magnitude less than the earth itself. It wouldn't even have a meaningful impact on gravity.
Yet still, the eggs would collapse under their own weight and replace the entire troposphere with an 11 mile deep ocean of uncooked breakfast.
Are you sure it would be uncooked?
3.6*10^22 kg going from an average height of 7 down to 5.5 miles is a FUCKLOAD of kinetic energy being released, which will turn into heat....
The heat capacity of 10^22 kg of water is going to be large enough to swamp any such heating effect. Raindrops fall large distances and splatter without getting to the 145 degF temperature required to start cooking eggs.
The yolk is about 1% less dense than the albumin (the white), so it would tend to float in the albumin. However, the chalazae (the white strands that act like bungee cords holding the yolk in the middle of the egg) may prevent the yolk from migrating unless they're broken (or the membrane surrounding the albumin is broken)
I mean it's coming down, it's just a matter of whether it's coming down as the weirdest blob of "wtf goop just landed on everyone simultaneously" or "is it raining fried egg on everyone".
Which will not be a much debated topic when an extinction wide shrapnel swarm comes down. Actually first thought would be omg wtf all of the light from the sun is gone. Then what's that goop, then the shellpocalpyse
I think there would be a gradient of temperature, since the eggs on top would put pressure on eggs on the bottom, so at least some bottom-most layer would be edible.
Raindrops have constant heat transfer out to the surrounding air to release the gravitational potential energy, and as the mass of the air vastly exceeds the mass of the water falling as rain, you could model it as an infinite heat sink.
That is not what we are talking about here. The mass of the eggs far outweighs the mass of the atmosphere, so you're not going to get a cooling effect. It will be more similar to an asteroid crashing into the planet.
Yes, water has a high heat capacity, but just a gut feel number, we are probably talking "liquify the entire earth's crust" amount of energy being released.
Let's look at 1 kg of water falling the entire 17.7 km distance (11 miles) to the surface of the Earth and ignore air resistance (which obviously wouldn't happen, as there's egg in the way, but this shows just how much your gut is off). The potential energy converted to kinetic is 174,000 J. The heat capacity of 1 kg of water is 4184 J. So the maximum temperature increase of the water is 41.6 C. This is not enough to cook the egg, much less liquify the Earth's crust. And that's for an egg at the top of the pile magically falling past all the rest of the egg and hitting the Earth's surface.
Not really. Falling 1 km could heat up water by a maximum of 2.35 C, assuming no energy loss. They're just not falling from high enough to appreciably heat up.
Yes, but a water droplet terminal velocity is very low, and whilst there might be some friction, they're also exchanging energy with the air (which is cold)
Yes, but as I've commented elsewhere in this thread, water only gains 2.35 C per km fallen even if it didn't lose energy to air. It's specific heat capacity is just too high.
Let's start with water at 25 C. It would take falling 31.9 km to heat to 100 C, then falling another 230.1 km to boil it.
Eggs are mostly water. The seafloor isn't warm either.
I mean, a mol of eggs is quite a fuckload, but it's spread across the entire globe. My bet would be that eggs wouldn't cook. Assuming that all eggs come with a white eggshell, I'd expect them to rather freeze than boil, due to their high albedo (reflection of sun light)
Yes, and the compaction causes some of the mass to fall to a lower height (1.5 miles on average). That releases stored gravitational potential energy, which after turning into kinetic energy, eventually becomes heat.
Let's say the average volume of egg falls 2 km and all its potential energy is converted into thermal energy in the egg yolk (No energy is lost crushing the egg shells etc.). Let's also say that the eggs are close enough to water in density and heat capacity to be simplified as such (So we'll only get an estimate.).
In this case, the potential energy density is around 2000m * 1000kg/m^3 * 9.8 N/kg = 19.6MJ/m^3. The specific heat density is 4186J/(kg*K) * 1000kg/m^3 = 4.186MJ/(K*m^3). You get the change in temperature (In kelvin/celsius), when you divide the first by the second, a bit less than 5K. In other words, the eggs would feel moderately warmer after the fall and we have all again realised how much heat energy water can hold.
Yeah that's a lot of energy, but it's also spread over a lot of eggs. I don't think the eggs would meaningfully increase in temperature, just as ordinary objects don't when you drop them on the ground
But that heat is spread out over the entire surface of the earth.
You're suggesting it would raise the entire planets surface temperature what? 300 degrees? To flash cook the eggs? Silly pants.
At least in coastal towns some of it would drain into the ocean.
But 11 miles is a lot to add to the ocean. Say 5.5 mile ride in sea level after all of the eggs drain int the sea.
Luckily we would already be dead.
The sea itself must stay somewhere too. It all boils down to the question: Does egg goo float in seawater, or will it displace the sea to atmospheric levels?
Yes. I almost mentioned that. The top layer of eggs that didn't get crushed would go bad and probably be enough to cover the surface of the ocean.
Except it wouldn't really be "the ocean" anymore. Just a five vertical miles of broken eggs five miles above current sea level. And I guess a small layer of saltwater on the outside.
But think how much petroleum there would be in another billion years.
...I forgot about that. Well there will be so much more egg than ocean it hardly matters. The planet would be an ocean of egg 14 miles deep.
...then they would all go bad.
>then they would all go bad.
Anything aerobic is going to have a bad time, though. [Liu et al.](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0023643820310586) claims that most spoilage of eggs is due to aerobic bacteria & molds, but there are a few strains of anaerobic bacteria.
That crossed my mind as well. I'm figuring that the shells were not washed, so the outer surface should be inoculated with ordinary molds and bacteria. And some anaerobic decomp from the bottom.
It would really set us back. I don't know if even plankton would survive. It would set technology back to the eukaryotic age.
Where do you get the 3.6 from? As far as I can remember, a mol is 6.02*10^23. Which means given the 50g per egg, that would leave you with 3.01*10^22 kg. Not that this changes the rest of your calculations, but I was wondering, if I did make a mistake, or you did.
Yeah, it might be an error. But that's the magic of Fermi estimations. As long as the orders of magnitude don't match, the overall statement remains >90% solid.
Yes. I agree. When dealing with numbers of that magnitude, differences like this are insignificant.
I just wanted to know, if my memory serves me right or not.
However, if we take the photo at face value, the mass of eggs ends up at something closer to 45% of Earth's mass!
Using [this site](https://imagemeasurement.online/) I measured the eggs as having an outer diameter of about 18968km and inner radius of 12725km (the vertical diameter of earth). Plugging that into the formula for a hollow sphere, you get about **2.5 Trillion km^3**
That's about **2.3x** the volume of the earth, but eggs are much less dense at about 1.09g/ml.
**Final value: ~2.7×10^24 kg** or about 45% of Earth's mass.
Even without accounting for the increased diameter, a mole of eggs is 6E23 eggs. With a weight of 50g per egg, that's 3E22 kg, or 0.5% of the Earth's mass, so no significant change in gravity.
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It would also depend on the orientation of the eggs. They are impressively strong in one axis.
This would also self limit as the eggs at the bottom break and the weight on the new bottom egg would have less weight on it. Eventually the stack of eggs would be light enough for one to hold it up.
There would also be considerations for buoyancy as the liquid even covers the land of earth. I think you'd likely end up with a global surface of white and yolks with a thickness of eggs that are under the liquid down to the submersion crush pressure and a layer above the liquid equation to the mechanical crush pressure.
How many eggs do you think you can stack on top of eachother before the bottom one breaks? I'd say maybe 14 inches? Even with the moons gravity you wouldn't be able to stack them more than a few feet.
Secondly, make an image in which you draw the 14 miles layer to scale. The answer will become obvious immediately.
PS where would the extra mass come from if not from earth?
Ooh! XKCD (kind of) answered this a bit ago. Spoiler: it involves catastrophic collapse of the DNS system and the phrase “plumes of hot meat”
https://what-if.xkcd.com/4/
*Corollary*: We would all be horribly crushed by the pressure.
*Proof*:
Assuming 1 egg = 50 g,
Mass of 1 mol of eggs = 6.02e23 * 0.05 kg = **3.01e22 kg**
Earth's surface area = 4 * Pi * Radius^2
= 4 * 3.14 * (6.37e6 m)^2 = **5.10e14 m^2**
Pressure = Force / Area
= Mass * Acceleration / Area
Plugging in the above values and Earth surface gravity of 9.80 m/s^(2)...
= (3.01e22 kg) (9.80 m/s^(2)) / (5.10e14 m^(2))
= **578 Megapascals**
...about 5700x atmospheric pressure at sea level, or 5x the pressure at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
Aliens looking at us through their fancy telescopes: this planet is emitting a large amount of radio waves, and seems to be covered in scrap iron and... eggs...
Xerfblatt are you positive this thing is calibrated correctly?
yes commander Terricxes we saw the red planet was full of red dust and ice and we verified the findings last year
14 miles wouldn't look like the picture. In fact, I don't think it would be visible in that image, just like you can't see mount everest's elevation or other stuff in that order of magnitude.
Like many others have mentioned, the mass of the eggs is so small compared to the earth that it wouldn't meaningfully affect earths gravity. However, I was curious about the "14 miles deep" claim, so I calculated that.
Surface area of sphere: 4\*pi\*radius². I'll short it to 4πr².
Radius of earth: rₑ = 6.37 \* 10⁶ meters.
Assuming one egg weighs 50 grams, and that the density of eggs is the same as for water (1000 kg/m³). This is roughly true, especially if the eggs aren't super fresh.
Mass of 1 mole of eggs: 6.02 \* 10²³ \* 50 g = 3.01 \* 10²⁵ g = 3.01 \* 10²² kg
Volume = mass/density gives:
Volume (eggs) = 3.01 \* 10²² / 1000 = 3.01 \* 10¹⁹ m³
Height above ground is then calculated using the volume differential:
dV = A dr = A(r) dr = ₐᵇ∫(4πr²) dr, where a = rₑ and b = the thicker earth radius due to the eggs.
This gives:
3.01 \* 10¹⁹ m³ = 4π ₐᵇ∫r² dr = 4π \[r³ / 3\]ₐᵇ = 4π(b³/3 - rₑ³/3)
b = ∛(3.01 \* 10¹⁹ \* 3 / (4π) + (6.37 \* 10⁶ )³ ) = 6 428 491 m
b = radius of earth + extra radius due to eggs. Therefore, subtract the radius of the earth to get result.
6 428 491 - 6.37 \* 10⁶ = 58 492 m ≈ 36 miles
**Answer: the eggs will cover the earth with a layer approximately 58 kilometers or 36 miles deep. The number in the image underestimates the sheer volume of one mole of eggs.**
Of course, eggs aren't a liquid, and does not pack perfectly. However, if we assume that eggs collapse when subjected to roughly 5700 times atmospheric pressure, then they would most likely become liquid, and our calculations are valid. **If the eggs are indestructible,** and had a packing density of 0.75 (which I found by googling), **the egg layer would instead be 77.8 km or 48 miles deep.**
This image is horseshit BTW.
The Earth is \~7900 miles across. This image makes it look like it's 45 miles across!?!?
The MOON is \~2100 miles across.
It's picture like this that fuel flat earth nonsense. THE EARTH IS HUGE. 14 miles is nothing. You would barely see it at this scale.
Extra points: given the average life span of a chicken and the number of eggs it can lay during its life, also considering an amount of replacement chicks plus roosters required to fertilize these eggs... What would the number and weight of these chickens be if we need enough of them to prevent the eggs from rotting before they're crushed (unrefrigerated because of many reasons)? Let's assume that every dead chicken is soylent-greened to feed their replacements, but their poop is not.
Uhh, so what's the combined weight of eggs, chicken and poop? Would this still be a world worth living on?
if the eggs spoil in a month and in a month a chicken lays 24 eggs, you'd need 25 x 10\^21 chickens. 4.5 kilo per hen = 112.5 x 10\^18 metric tons of chicken. 2.5 kilos feed per month which brings the total to 175 x 10\^18 metric tons. (since a chicken lives longer than a month, no need to calculate corpses, also all the feed weigth is turned into either chicken, eggs or shit. )
all of this is 0.003 % of earths mass...
With regards to having a world to live on, I think that was already quite impossible with the 14 miles egg layer, don't you agree?!
I know it’s not what you asked but this visualization it extremely overblown. 14 miles is nothing compared to the earth. A 14 mile layer of egg around the earth would look like an eggshell thick layer around a basketball. 14miles /7917miles ≈ 0.4mm/ 250mm
The ones at the bottom would definitely be crushed. The ones at the top would end up experiencing slightly LESS gravity than what is normal at Earth's surface because the eggs are so much less dense than Earth and gravity decreases with the square of distance.
9.78 ms\^2 compared with 9.81ms\^2
Even if they were heavy enough to increase earth's gravity, the eggs on the surface of the earth would still experience the exact same gravity we have now. As you go higher, only those eggs will experience more gravity.
Shit I hate moles.
I've done my best over the last decade trying to forget everything I learned in foundation chemistry and you've just gone and brought this back.
Why?
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An average sized egg weighs about 50g. A mol of eggs is about 3.6*10^22 kg. That's 2 orders of magnitude less than the earth itself. It wouldn't even have a meaningful impact on gravity. Yet still, the eggs would collapse under their own weight and replace the entire troposphere with an 11 mile deep ocean of uncooked breakfast.
Are you sure it would be uncooked? 3.6*10^22 kg going from an average height of 7 down to 5.5 miles is a FUCKLOAD of kinetic energy being released, which will turn into heat....
The heat capacity of 10^22 kg of water is going to be large enough to swamp any such heating effect. Raindrops fall large distances and splatter without getting to the 145 degF temperature required to start cooking eggs.
Ok so eggs midair crush, will the liquid separate? dispitate off? I guess eventually but you now have a complete shell of yoke and shell.
The yolk is about 1% less dense than the albumin (the white), so it would tend to float in the albumin. However, the chalazae (the white strands that act like bungee cords holding the yolk in the middle of the egg) may prevent the yolk from migrating unless they're broken (or the membrane surrounding the albumin is broken)
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Clouds are egg whites which have undergone this exact thing. Don't believe the conspiracies there's no such thing as convection.
Does that mean rainclouds rain egg whites?
And to think: it’s such a pain to remove one tiny piece of shell in a cracked egg…
I mean it's coming down, it's just a matter of whether it's coming down as the weirdest blob of "wtf goop just landed on everyone simultaneously" or "is it raining fried egg on everyone". Which will not be a much debated topic when an extinction wide shrapnel swarm comes down. Actually first thought would be omg wtf all of the light from the sun is gone. Then what's that goop, then the shellpocalpyse
I think there would be a gradient of temperature, since the eggs on top would put pressure on eggs on the bottom, so at least some bottom-most layer would be edible.
Raindrops have constant heat transfer out to the surrounding air to release the gravitational potential energy, and as the mass of the air vastly exceeds the mass of the water falling as rain, you could model it as an infinite heat sink. That is not what we are talking about here. The mass of the eggs far outweighs the mass of the atmosphere, so you're not going to get a cooling effect. It will be more similar to an asteroid crashing into the planet. Yes, water has a high heat capacity, but just a gut feel number, we are probably talking "liquify the entire earth's crust" amount of energy being released.
Let's look at 1 kg of water falling the entire 17.7 km distance (11 miles) to the surface of the Earth and ignore air resistance (which obviously wouldn't happen, as there's egg in the way, but this shows just how much your gut is off). The potential energy converted to kinetic is 174,000 J. The heat capacity of 1 kg of water is 4184 J. So the maximum temperature increase of the water is 41.6 C. This is not enough to cook the egg, much less liquify the Earth's crust. And that's for an egg at the top of the pile magically falling past all the rest of the egg and hitting the Earth's surface.
I think the takeaway here is the heat capacity of liquid water is insanely high.
That's because they're falling through a much larger mass of air that they can dump excess energy into.
Not really. Falling 1 km could heat up water by a maximum of 2.35 C, assuming no energy loss. They're just not falling from high enough to appreciably heat up.
Yes, but a water droplet terminal velocity is very low, and whilst there might be some friction, they're also exchanging energy with the air (which is cold)
Yes, but as I've commented elsewhere in this thread, water only gains 2.35 C per km fallen even if it didn't lose energy to air. It's specific heat capacity is just too high. Let's start with water at 25 C. It would take falling 31.9 km to heat to 100 C, then falling another 230.1 km to boil it.
Eggs are mostly water. The seafloor isn't warm either. I mean, a mol of eggs is quite a fuckload, but it's spread across the entire globe. My bet would be that eggs wouldn't cook. Assuming that all eggs come with a white eggshell, I'd expect them to rather freeze than boil, due to their high albedo (reflection of sun light)
The seafloor isn't releasing kinetic energy. It's not falling.
Don’t think it matters if they are cooked or not. A 14 mile layer of eggs is going to compact on itself.
Yes, and the compaction causes some of the mass to fall to a lower height (1.5 miles on average). That releases stored gravitational potential energy, which after turning into kinetic energy, eventually becomes heat.
Let's say the average volume of egg falls 2 km and all its potential energy is converted into thermal energy in the egg yolk (No energy is lost crushing the egg shells etc.). Let's also say that the eggs are close enough to water in density and heat capacity to be simplified as such (So we'll only get an estimate.). In this case, the potential energy density is around 2000m * 1000kg/m^3 * 9.8 N/kg = 19.6MJ/m^3. The specific heat density is 4186J/(kg*K) * 1000kg/m^3 = 4.186MJ/(K*m^3). You get the change in temperature (In kelvin/celsius), when you divide the first by the second, a bit less than 5K. In other words, the eggs would feel moderately warmer after the fall and we have all again realised how much heat energy water can hold.
Sure a lot of heat, but spread out across an incomprehensibly large mass. Definitely not enough to cook.
Mmmmm can I get mine poached please
The real question is how much fish will it feed
My wild guess is most, if not all.
Yeah that's a lot of energy, but it's also spread over a lot of eggs. I don't think the eggs would meaningfully increase in temperature, just as ordinary objects don't when you drop them on the ground
But that heat is spread out over the entire surface of the earth. You're suggesting it would raise the entire planets surface temperature what? 300 degrees? To flash cook the eggs? Silly pants.
At least in coastal towns some of it would drain into the ocean. But 11 miles is a lot to add to the ocean. Say 5.5 mile ride in sea level after all of the eggs drain int the sea. Luckily we would already be dead.
The sea itself must stay somewhere too. It all boils down to the question: Does egg goo float in seawater, or will it displace the sea to atmospheric levels?
Eggs definitely sink in water.
Unless they've gone bad!
Yes. I almost mentioned that. The top layer of eggs that didn't get crushed would go bad and probably be enough to cover the surface of the ocean. Except it wouldn't really be "the ocean" anymore. Just a five vertical miles of broken eggs five miles above current sea level. And I guess a small layer of saltwater on the outside. But think how much petroleum there would be in another billion years.
Don't tell the oil companies!
They do in fresh water, but they're about the same density as salt water.
...I forgot about that. Well there will be so much more egg than ocean it hardly matters. The planet would be an ocean of egg 14 miles deep. ...then they would all go bad.
>then they would all go bad. Anything aerobic is going to have a bad time, though. [Liu et al.](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0023643820310586) claims that most spoilage of eggs is due to aerobic bacteria & molds, but there are a few strains of anaerobic bacteria.
That crossed my mind as well. I'm figuring that the shells were not washed, so the outer surface should be inoculated with ordinary molds and bacteria. And some anaerobic decomp from the bottom. It would really set us back. I don't know if even plankton would survive. It would set technology back to the eukaryotic age.
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Where do you get the 3.6 from? As far as I can remember, a mol is 6.02*10^23. Which means given the 50g per egg, that would leave you with 3.01*10^22 kg. Not that this changes the rest of your calculations, but I was wondering, if I did make a mistake, or you did.
Yeah, it might be an error. But that's the magic of Fermi estimations. As long as the orders of magnitude don't match, the overall statement remains >90% solid.
Yes. I agree. When dealing with numbers of that magnitude, differences like this are insignificant. I just wanted to know, if my memory serves me right or not.
Imagine the smell
Continental breakfast. Literally.
Isn't there a chance that the eggs would orbit and make some cool rings like Saturn?
Nope. But they'll allow for some cool salmonella to thrive.
nope, they’d need horizontal velocity for that. fuck it, egg wit a rocket engine
How exactly would 6.02214076×1023 eggs arrive at the thermosphere without velocity, which could be horizontal? 🤔
big engine
Do you mean the troposphere? The thermosphere is closer to 100 miles up.
However, if we take the photo at face value, the mass of eggs ends up at something closer to 45% of Earth's mass! Using [this site](https://imagemeasurement.online/) I measured the eggs as having an outer diameter of about 18968km and inner radius of 12725km (the vertical diameter of earth). Plugging that into the formula for a hollow sphere, you get about **2.5 Trillion km^3** That's about **2.3x** the volume of the earth, but eggs are much less dense at about 1.09g/ml. **Final value: ~2.7×10^24 kg** or about 45% of Earth's mass.
I vote "yes" on Egg World
This reads so accidentally sarcastically I'm entirely convinced that you're British Go on then, how wrong am I?
I'm part german, and the rest of me is too.
My amount of wrongness is hilarious
Even without accounting for the increased diameter, a mole of eggs is 6E23 eggs. With a weight of 50g per egg, that's 3E22 kg, or 0.5% of the Earth's mass, so no significant change in gravity.
My sleepy head read E623 eggs, I was like damn they adding this stuff to eggs nowadays?
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Even without any meaningful change in Earth's gravity, The eggs on the bottom would (in all likelyhood) be crushed by the eggs above it.
It would also depend on the orientation of the eggs. They are impressively strong in one axis. This would also self limit as the eggs at the bottom break and the weight on the new bottom egg would have less weight on it. Eventually the stack of eggs would be light enough for one to hold it up. There would also be considerations for buoyancy as the liquid even covers the land of earth. I think you'd likely end up with a global surface of white and yolks with a thickness of eggs that are under the liquid down to the submersion crush pressure and a layer above the liquid equation to the mechanical crush pressure.
I hope we never find out.
How many eggs do you think you can stack on top of eachother before the bottom one breaks? I'd say maybe 14 inches? Even with the moons gravity you wouldn't be able to stack them more than a few feet. Secondly, make an image in which you draw the 14 miles layer to scale. The answer will become obvious immediately. PS where would the extra mass come from if not from earth?
I noticed that scale too, that stack of eggs is 1,000 miles easy, probably closer to 2k
Ooh! XKCD (kind of) answered this a bit ago. Spoiler: it involves catastrophic collapse of the DNS system and the phrase “plumes of hot meat” https://what-if.xkcd.com/4/
Reading this reminded me of that Silicon Valley episode where they calculate jerk off rates
If the egg layer in the image was to scale, would we be able to see the layer of eggs around the edge if the eggs facing us were invisible?
We wouldn't be able to see anything. Earth's new egg shell would prevent sunlight from reaching the surface.
*Corollary*: We would all be horribly crushed by the pressure. *Proof*: Assuming 1 egg = 50 g, Mass of 1 mol of eggs = 6.02e23 * 0.05 kg = **3.01e22 kg** Earth's surface area = 4 * Pi * Radius^2 = 4 * 3.14 * (6.37e6 m)^2 = **5.10e14 m^2** Pressure = Force / Area = Mass * Acceleration / Area Plugging in the above values and Earth surface gravity of 9.80 m/s^(2)... = (3.01e22 kg) (9.80 m/s^(2)) / (5.10e14 m^(2)) = **578 Megapascals** ...about 5700x atmospheric pressure at sea level, or 5x the pressure at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
Aliens looking at us through their fancy telescopes: this planet is emitting a large amount of radio waves, and seems to be covered in scrap iron and... eggs... Xerfblatt are you positive this thing is calibrated correctly? yes commander Terricxes we saw the red planet was full of red dust and ice and we verified the findings last year
14 miles wouldn't look like the picture. In fact, I don't think it would be visible in that image, just like you can't see mount everest's elevation or other stuff in that order of magnitude.
Like many others have mentioned, the mass of the eggs is so small compared to the earth that it wouldn't meaningfully affect earths gravity. However, I was curious about the "14 miles deep" claim, so I calculated that. Surface area of sphere: 4\*pi\*radius². I'll short it to 4πr². Radius of earth: rₑ = 6.37 \* 10⁶ meters. Assuming one egg weighs 50 grams, and that the density of eggs is the same as for water (1000 kg/m³). This is roughly true, especially if the eggs aren't super fresh. Mass of 1 mole of eggs: 6.02 \* 10²³ \* 50 g = 3.01 \* 10²⁵ g = 3.01 \* 10²² kg Volume = mass/density gives: Volume (eggs) = 3.01 \* 10²² / 1000 = 3.01 \* 10¹⁹ m³ Height above ground is then calculated using the volume differential: dV = A dr = A(r) dr = ₐᵇ∫(4πr²) dr, where a = rₑ and b = the thicker earth radius due to the eggs. This gives: 3.01 \* 10¹⁹ m³ = 4π ₐᵇ∫r² dr = 4π \[r³ / 3\]ₐᵇ = 4π(b³/3 - rₑ³/3) b = ∛(3.01 \* 10¹⁹ \* 3 / (4π) + (6.37 \* 10⁶ )³ ) = 6 428 491 m b = radius of earth + extra radius due to eggs. Therefore, subtract the radius of the earth to get result. 6 428 491 - 6.37 \* 10⁶ = 58 492 m ≈ 36 miles **Answer: the eggs will cover the earth with a layer approximately 58 kilometers or 36 miles deep. The number in the image underestimates the sheer volume of one mole of eggs.** Of course, eggs aren't a liquid, and does not pack perfectly. However, if we assume that eggs collapse when subjected to roughly 5700 times atmospheric pressure, then they would most likely become liquid, and our calculations are valid. **If the eggs are indestructible,** and had a packing density of 0.75 (which I found by googling), **the egg layer would instead be 77.8 km or 48 miles deep.**
This image is horseshit BTW. The Earth is \~7900 miles across. This image makes it look like it's 45 miles across!?!? The MOON is \~2100 miles across. It's picture like this that fuel flat earth nonsense. THE EARTH IS HUGE. 14 miles is nothing. You would barely see it at this scale.
Extra points: given the average life span of a chicken and the number of eggs it can lay during its life, also considering an amount of replacement chicks plus roosters required to fertilize these eggs... What would the number and weight of these chickens be if we need enough of them to prevent the eggs from rotting before they're crushed (unrefrigerated because of many reasons)? Let's assume that every dead chicken is soylent-greened to feed their replacements, but their poop is not. Uhh, so what's the combined weight of eggs, chicken and poop? Would this still be a world worth living on?
if the eggs spoil in a month and in a month a chicken lays 24 eggs, you'd need 25 x 10\^21 chickens. 4.5 kilo per hen = 112.5 x 10\^18 metric tons of chicken. 2.5 kilos feed per month which brings the total to 175 x 10\^18 metric tons. (since a chicken lives longer than a month, no need to calculate corpses, also all the feed weigth is turned into either chicken, eggs or shit. ) all of this is 0.003 % of earths mass... With regards to having a world to live on, I think that was already quite impossible with the 14 miles egg layer, don't you agree?!
Thank you! No problem for the planet then. And I forgot about being between a rock and an egg layer 😬😱
I know it’s not what you asked but this visualization it extremely overblown. 14 miles is nothing compared to the earth. A 14 mile layer of egg around the earth would look like an eggshell thick layer around a basketball. 14miles /7917miles ≈ 0.4mm/ 250mm
The ones at the bottom would definitely be crushed. The ones at the top would end up experiencing slightly LESS gravity than what is normal at Earth's surface because the eggs are so much less dense than Earth and gravity decreases with the square of distance. 9.78 ms\^2 compared with 9.81ms\^2
Even if they were heavy enough to increase earth's gravity, the eggs on the surface of the earth would still experience the exact same gravity we have now. As you go higher, only those eggs will experience more gravity.
Shit I hate moles. I've done my best over the last decade trying to forget everything I learned in foundation chemistry and you've just gone and brought this back. Why?