Me, looking disappointed, set myself there in the office, looking disappointedly at myself all day.
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If it's 1:1 ratio? The sun
would be interesting to see if that much cardboard had a noticeable gravitational field.
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 a mass of about 1.5 x 10¹⁸ kg for the cardboard cutout.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth
Mass: 5.972168×10²⁴ kg
Earth has about four million times as much mass, so the Sun cutout would have about a quarter-millionth Earth's gravitational pull.
seems like it'd be pretty bad news for humans
I'll take 2
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?
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.
Came here to say that, thank you.
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.)
Mr. T.
my bed. I love it so much
It's pretty awesome. I like the racing stripes and spiderman stickers you have on the headboard
Excuse me, I'm a woman, I have disney princesses on my headboard
Godzilla. People would freak the fuck out!
No!!!! I came here to say that!!! GIVE ME BACK MY GODZILLA CUTOUT
Am I the only normal person in these comments?
I only want a life-size cutout of Danny Devito, and it's only £40!
(I may mis-recall all the details because this was some years back.) There was girl who took a Danny Devito cutout as her "date" to highschool prom and posted the professional prom photo online, and the story got big enough that he heard about it. He was so amused by it that he brought a custom made cardboard cutout of her from the prom picture to the It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia set to take a photo with.
I have the mini version of this (about 2ft) and it is my favourite. When I had more space, he was placed at my doorway to greet me when I'd come home.
OMG the Frequently Bought Together section!
Jim
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.
That's awesome; I'd get along great I'm sure. Is your husband single?
He says no, cause if he said yes he'd be very single very quick!
Dang. Well, I shot my shot!
Elon musk holding a piece of paper with his bank credentials and crypto wallet access keys written on it
The guy who made the cutout would have already transferred the funds.
This is the way
Itself
The upcoming winning lotto numbers
True story time.
I used to work in public health. One time I was assigned to inspect one of the local men's shelters. There were 'pods' where a dozen men slept together in one room. One guy had a full size cutout figure of Joanna Lumley as Patsy from 'AbFab.' She is in all white, holding a cigarette and a bottle of Stoli. My man was homeless, but he had his priorities straight.
evangelion angel
Definitely either the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog version of Sonic and Tails.
The Andromeda Galaxy.