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I think they used a magnified Bugle corn snack for that prop...
Close, it was made of papier mache. That's a good stand-in for neutronium, wouldn't you say?

 

I feel a geek attack coming on. Of course genuine neutronium would collapse into a perfect sphere...but then less than 2 solar masses wouldn't be enough to overcome fermionic repulsion- the thing would explode. Then again if it were larger than 2 solar masses, even if it held it shape, it would be darn hard to move around with all that mass. But then you can invoke warp fields... help me!

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I think they used a magnified Bugle corn snack for that prop...

Of course genuine neutronium would collapse into a perfect sphere...but then less than 2 solar masses wouldn't be enough to overcome fermionic repulsion- the thing would explode.

Not if enough flash baked butter is involved.

 

The turning point of that episode was when Kirk realized that the rest of Courtney Love was still lurking around somewhere in the galaxy.

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