If the world was made of peanut butter, it would have to be heaven! I love peanut butter!!
Me too! I think it would be hard to move
I eat it by the spoonful, I eat it with carrots, I eat it with bananas and chocolate, it's the best! It is quite viscous and would make everything difficult.
It is pretty awesome- I know in some parts of the world they don't eat peanut butter. I wonder what they would think
Building would be very different and any kind of travel. Hmm, yeah! That would be super weird for them. But think about the poor souls who are allergic to peanuts!
That would be awful! I wonder how you can build a building with peanut butter?
I imagine it would be more like a hut... But peanut butter gets way runny when it warms up, so that would be problematic
I wonder if you can spread it into thin sheets and dry it out
We'd all have to have peanut butter igloos in cold places, like Canada It would be worth trying! I think we'd also get bored pretty fast because part of what makes the world great is the diversity!
very true i wonder how gravity would be affected by an earth made entirely of peanut butter?
Interesting thought. It certainly has a different density and therefore would have a different mass with the same volume, which would affect gravity
I just looked it up-  the earth would be less dense It would be five times less dense
Oh the things you can find on google!
I think that means that gravity would be five times less! I wonder what would happen when it all expired?
Yeah, I don't think I've ever had expired peanut butter. Does that affect the properties it has? Does it get dried out and stale moldy?
I don't know- I'm looking it up now Yes it looks like it gets dry That's good for buildings I guess
Not necessarily. I think it would be pretty brittle
Most buildings are built out of brittle things Concrete and glass for example Brittle materials are good in compression but generally not in tension. I think you could build buildings out of peanut butter but probably not very high because of the foundation I wonder if the water turned into peanut butter too?
True.  I guess I just think about the steel reinforcements when I think about buildings and they have a very different stress-strain curve
Are you an engineer?
If it did, we wouldn't survive very long! Yeah, mechanical
Me too!
Cool! I figured civil or mechanical when you knew concrete was better in compression than tension
Have you ever read the book What if? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions?
Nope, never heard of it. Sounds like a fun book though!
It is written by a retired NASA scientist who started a web comic It's called xkcd.com Have you heard of that comic?
Oh, I know xkcd! One of my favorite procrastination tools!
So he wrote a book and it is awesome That's awesome! Funny enough, I was just reading that before we started this conversation. There was one on, "What would happen if the Earth's rotation were sped up until a day only lasted one second?"
Haha, yeah this might be a new procrastination tool! Man, that sounds like my kind of book!
What field in mechanical engineering do you want to get into?
Robotics What about you?
I'm not entirely sure yet Unfortunately I have to get back to studying
There are a lot of options! Yeah, I've got to go to class, but it was a fun chat!
Yep! Goodbye!