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      Constructing it is easy, just get a couple hundredthousand buckets of water and lava and bob’s your uncle

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      Well, the chapter 54: Snowball in Randall’s book What If? 2 contains the following, semi-related graphic:

      (Maximum diameters of spheres of various materials before collapsing under their weight, which is about the same as the material’s free-hanging length)

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      I think the answers are yes, somewhat (in addition to collapsing under its own weight), and probably impossible.