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"If an object were to fall from a height of one meter on a neutron star 12 kilometers in radius, it would reach the ground at around 1400 kilometers per second".

Good to know... instead of being instantly obliterated into dust, I just get liquified.



Oh it's much worse than that. "However, even before impact, the tidal force would cause spaghettification, breaking any sort of an ordinary object into a stream of material."


`spaghettification'... mmmmmmm




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