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Old 27-March-2008, 02:34 PM
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Originally Posted by m1omg View Post
Would someone do the maths for me pls?I am no good at maths.
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5 · 1016 megatons? If the BA is right, the Sun produces 100 billion = 1011 megatons worth of energy every second. The GRB released million million million times (= 1018) more energy in the few seconds it lasted (= 1011 · 1018 = 1011 + 18 = 1029 Mt). In other words, you could blow up the Earth 1029 / (5 · 1016) = 2 · 1028 - 16 = 2 · 1012 times. That's 2 trillion times. Even if the number is a few orders of magnitude off, it is still a mindbogglingly insane number.
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