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Filling the Solar System with AIR - What would happen?
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Apparently this would have about five times the mass of "Scary Barbie".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT_2021lwx
That's maybe a hundred million solar masses, and mindbleach is figuring that we're dealing with about five hundred million solar masses.
So assuming that the gas composition isn't a factor here, I'd guess that we'd probably wind up turning ourselves into the largest explosion that humanity has ever observed in the universe, as the nitrogen undergoes gravity-induced nuclear fusion.
EDIT: Actually. Hmm. There's some portion of hydrogen gas in the atmosphere. According to this, it's mostly in water vapor. It's not much:
https://byjus.com/question-answer/what-percentage-of-the-earths-atmosphere-is-hydrogen/
But I guess that it might be sufficient to start undergoing fusion prior to the nitrogen and blast most of the stuff apart prior to the nitrogen undergoing fusion.
Ditto for the carbon in the carbon dioxide, even if the hydrogen isn't enough.
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