Nuclear Pasta

Nuclear Pasta
Project Part #9. Ship with the Space Elevator to complete phases of Project Assembly. Power Usage: 500-1500 MW (1000 MW average). Nuclear Pasta is extremely dense degenerate matter, formed when extreme pressure forces protons and electrons together into neutrons. It is theorized to exist naturally within the crust of neutron stars.
Unlocked by	Tier 8 - Particle Enrichment
Class name	Desc_SpaceElevatorPart_9_C
Item
Stack size	50
Sink points	543,424

Nuclear Pasta is a component of Project Assembly. It is used to complete deliveries in the Space Elevator, which in return unlocks additional tiers in the HUB. As with all Project parts, it cannot be crafted in a Craft Bench and has to be automated with a machine.

Obtaining

Crafting

Recipe	Ingredients	Produced in	Products	Unlocked by
Nuclear Pasta	200 × Copper Powder100 / min 1 × Pressure Conversion Cube0.5 / min	Particle Accelerator 120 sec 500 - 1,500 MW	1 × Nuclear Pasta0.5 / min	Tier 8 - Particle Enrichment

Usage

Space Elevator

Nuclear Pasta is used to complete deliveries in the Space Elevator.

Crafting

No recipe uses Desc_SpaceElevatorPart_9_C

AWESOME Sink

 Nuclear Pasta can be sunk into the AWESOME Sink to yield 543 424 points.

Trivia

• "Nuclear pasta" is a real astrophysics term for the interior of neutron stars, describing the various intermediate phases between discrete neutron-rich nuclei and bulk neutronium. Under the pressures partway into the neutron star, the neutrons organize themselves into short cylinders ("gnocchi phase"), long cylinders ("spaghetti phase"), sheets ("lasagna phase"), etc.
• Despite its name, Nuclear Pasta is not radioactive.
• The glowing ball in the item's mesh is mostly shielding, surrounding a microscopic speck of the actual Nuclear Pasta material. A solid ball of Nuclear Pasta that size would weigh trillions of tons (more than a mountain range) and would immediately sink into the ground and tunnel into the planet's core. It would also require trillions of tons of material to make.
  • A Copper Ingot's in-game size is around 0.128 m³, which given that the density of copper is 9,000 kg/m³, means a single ingot weighs ~1,125 kg. Since 1,200 Copper Ingots are required to make a single piece of Nuclear Pasta, the mass of one can be determined to be around 1,350,000 kilograms or 1,350 tons (assuming no waste).
    • Since numbers that large are hard for humans to visualize, 1,350 tons is the just about the weight of 13 blue whales, or a fully-loaded 314-foot long Clemson-class destroyer.
  • With the density of Nuclear Pasta estimated at ~10¹⁷ kg/m³, the amount of actual physical nuclear pasta inside of the sphere would thus be ~0.28 mm wide, with the rest of the sphere being shielding.
• When placed onto the ground or moving on a conveyor, Nuclear Pasta warps the space around it, which is true to real life, as neutron stars have enough gravity to bend light.
  • This effect is not seen on low graphics settings.

History

• Patch 0.4.0.0: Made officially available, renamed from Dark Matter

See also

•  Smart Plating
•  Versatile Framework
•  Automated Wiring
•  Modular Engine
•  Adaptive Control Unit
•  Assembly Director System
•  Magnetic Field Generator
•  Thermal Propulsion Rocket