Q. Would you eat the moon if it were made out of ribs?

[Tommy Carcetti]

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Well, would you?

It’s a very simple question. It’s not rocket science.

Just say yes and we’ll move on.

[Emile]

1. Yes if it was in the lounge where one could have a beer.

[rsdsharp]

2. Yes, with two caveats: If I could reach it, and if I could afford it.

I just saw a menu of a BBQ joint in Adel, Iowa (Nike Kinnick’s home town), where a full rack of ribs was $38!

[The Wielding Truth]

3. Well, we need it for Earth's stability and I would miss that sweet face shining down on us. So, no.

[Irish_Dem]

12. It would be very short sighted to demolish the moon.

Earth would be a mess.

[Xavier Breath]

4. Ok, but I'll need an asteroid each of cornbread and cole slaw.

[Baked Potato]

5. Yes, yes i would. Nt

[dameatball]

6. Maybe if it was a crescent moon. A full moon means some goes to the freezer.

[PJMcK]

7. Now I know what to have for dinner!

Yes, I love ribs.

[Demsrule86]

8. Giant Eagle had a slab of ribs for 14.00 and barbecued outside the store..delicious...so yes I would

[Demsrule86]

9. Giant Eagle had a slab of ribs for 14.00 and barbecued outside the store..delicious...so yes I would

[Wicked Blue]

10. Sorry, no

Vegetarian.

Plus I'd be wondering what gigantic creature those ribs came from.

[FreepFryer]

11. space... the infinite frontier!

[krispos42]

13. XKCD did a "What if?" article on this issue

A moon-sized orb of meat did not sound very pleasant! Or appetizing!

What would happen if you were to gather a mole (unit of measurement) of moles (the small furry critter) in one place?

—Sean Rice

Things get a bit gruesome.

First, some definitions. A mole is a unit. It’s not a typical unit, though. It’s really just a number—like “dozen” or “billion.” If you have a mole of something, it means you have 602,214,129,000,000,000,000,000 of them (usually written 6.022 * 10²³). It’s such a big number because it’s used for counting numbers of molecules, which there are a lot of.

{snip}

Instead, let’s gather the moles in interplanetary space. Gravitational attraction would pull them into a sphere. Meat doesn’t compress very well, so it would only undergo a little bit of gravitational contraction, and we’d end up with a mole planet a bit larger than the moon.

{snip}

The outer surface of the planet radiates heat into space and freezes. Because the moles form a literal fur coat, when frozen it insulates the interior of the planet and slows the loss of heat to space. However, the flow of heat in the liquid interior is dominated by convection. Plumes of hot meat and bubbles of trapped gases like methane—along with the air from the lungs of the deceased moles—periodically rise through the mole crust and erupt volcanically from the surface, a geyser of death blasting mole bodies free of the planet.

{more}

https://what-if.xkcd.com/4/

Ewwww....

[Amishman]

14. Absolutely!

My bloated belly would replace it in the night sky and the earth would gain a ring of used napkins and bones

[H2O Man]

15. Er, tough one .....

I know that everyone I've ate had ribs, though.

[48656c6c6f20]

16. It's blue cheese.

And no.

[JHB]

17. Well, not the whole thing in one sitting

Is there some sort of green cheese sauce?

[Cracklin Charlie]

18. No.

But I’d eat the moon if it was made of cornbread.

With butter.

[Hugin]

19. Ribs, no.

Bacon, yes.

Simple enough?

[LuckyCharms]

20. Yes. /t

[Yonnie3]

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