Possibility of a Spindle Shaped World

We live on this lovely, assumed naturally shaped almost sphere (accepted as an oblate spheriod) that makes everything really nice and easy when it comes to things like constant gravity and horizon lines rather commonplace. But say back when Earth was just forming, some jerk-headed aliens decided to break the alien non-interference clause and make some trouble. So using their crazy elder race tech, reformatted the world into a spindle shape, with the same axial tilt, same orbit, etc., but the world was only 10,000 km wide at the equator but 16,000 km between poles.

Would this planetary structure be capable of retaining its shape without collapsing back into a sphere, or would it need something crazy (such as an internal adimantium system) to structurally support it? Warning: the following spoiler alert features a plot point from Avengers 2. You have been warned.

Like Avengers 2, Ultron's floating meteor/city thing which uses a "web" of vibranium to hold itself together.

This is part of a (hopefully) multi-question series.

posted almost 9 years ago

HadesHerald‭

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