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Re:Earth now weighs six ronnagrams: New metric prefixes vote... by krallja on Friday November 18, 2022 @12:18PM (#33658011)
A ronna-Reagan is 10^27 Reagans.
Re:Earth now weighs six ronnagrams: New metric prefixes vote... by jerf on Friday November 18, 2022 @12:30PM (#33658251)
One ronna-reagan is approximately 4% of the sun's mass: https://www.google.com/search?q=%28185+pounds%29+*+10%5E27+%...

At least if I have that right. A single Reagan's mass is from: https://www.celebheights.com/s/Ronald-Reagan-1750.html

Or, if you prefer, our sun as about 25 ronna-Reagans.

Re:Earth now weighs six ronnagrams: New metric prefixes vote... by SuoDuanDao on Friday November 18, 2022 @01:15PM (#33659148)
weird question for anyone with the relevant knowledge, would 25 ronna-Reagans in one place behave differently than our sun? I know that mass would be mostly oxygen, but at that scale does it matter?
Re:Earth now weighs six ronnagrams: New metric prefixes vote... by smueller1234 on Friday November 18, 2022 @01:36PM (#33659584)
You should ask Randall Munroe! :)

http://what-if.xkcd.com

Re:Earth now weighs six ronnagrams: New metric prefixes vote... by jerf on Friday November 18, 2022 @03:38PM (#33661753)
He did something pretty close early on: https://what-if.xkcd.com/4/
Re:Earth now weighs six ronnagrams: New metric prefixes vote... by nkrisc on Friday November 18, 2022 @03:43PM (#33661836)
Are you asking in terms of gravitation or as a star?

By mass, the sun is 71% Hydrogen and 27.1% Helium, the last 1.9% or so being heavier elements (much of that being oxygen.

I’m no expert, but I suspect a mass of 25 ronna-Reagans would not make a very good star. I imagine it might collapse into a dense Oxygen and Carbon rich sphere, and in that environment various chemical reactions might turn it into some other kind of material.

But maybe I’m way off.

Re:Earth now weighs six ronnagrams: New metric prefixes vote... by saltcured on Friday November 18, 2022 @04:58PM (#33662948)
And 1 ronna-mcdonald's is over 9.9e37 served!