Hiroshima's "Little Boy" gravity bomb: 12-15 kt -- gun type uranium-235 fission bomb.
EC17/Mk-17, the EC24/Mk-24, and the B41 (Mk-41) (most powerful US weapons ever: 25 Mt
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Little Boy is around 20,000 smaller than the largest nukes the US has ever made.
Kinetic energy equation is 1/2*m*v^2
1 Kiloton of dynamite is 4.184x10^12 joules of energy
A little bit of algerbra determines that a 3 ton object going over 56,000 meters per second would have more power than the "Little Boy" bomb. To make it 10,000 times larger just increase velocity by 100 fold (since velocity is squared). That means it would have to be going 5,600,00 meters/second, or approximately 1/50th the speed of light. I don't know if objects fly through space at that speed though... I just know how to work the math.
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I think it was advertised as a free tool to remotely control a computer. But it also allowed you to have the remote computer send an email or ICQ message whenever it was online with its current IP address. Then you could connect to it and do a variety of things:
Delete/Move/Upload/Download Files
Print things
Run any programs
Change system settings
Open/Close Optical Drives
Or so I heard...
"We would expect an industry standard fee for this work, which we estimate to be $200 USD per hour per person."
I have never heard of a programmer being paied 200$ an hour... Perhaps I should have stayed in Computer Engineering rather than switch to Electrical?
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Hiroshima's "Little Boy" gravity bomb: 12-15 kt -- gun type uranium-235 fission bomb. EC17/Mk-17, the EC24/Mk-24, and the B41 (Mk-41) (most powerful US weapons ever: 25 Mt Wikipedia Link
Little Boy is around 20,000 smaller than the largest nukes the US has ever made.
Kinetic energy equation is 1/2*m*v^2
1 Kiloton of dynamite is 4.184x10^12 joules of energy
A little bit of algerbra determines that a 3 ton object going over 56,000 meters per second would have more power than the "Little Boy" bomb. To make it 10,000 times larger just increase velocity by 100 fold (since velocity is squared). That means it would have to be going 5,600,00 meters/second, or approximately 1/50th the speed of light. I don't know if objects fly through space at that speed though... I just know how to work the math.
Salzman from Accounting saw this day coming... We must use the Sword of a Thousand Truths!!!
"196,000 pounds of plants to make a gallon of gasoline"
Huh? I believe turning corn to ethanol is a hell of a lot more effective than this... I didnt even know gasoline could be made from plants...
Sub 7 Defcon I think it was advertised as a free tool to remotely control a computer. But it also allowed you to have the remote computer send an email or ICQ message whenever it was online with its current IP address. Then you could connect to it and do a variety of things: Delete/Move/Upload/Download Files Print things Run any programs Change system settings Open/Close Optical Drives Or so I heard...
Am I the only one with a sensor for online sarcasm? This had me on the floor laughing.
Yeah KOTOR only had an average critic score of ~9.3 It is a terrible game. I hardly even enjoyed the 3 times I played through it... I swear.
Although automated flight may prevent a crash from pilot error, it introduces "crash" due to a "driver" problem.
"We would expect an industry standard fee for this work, which we estimate to be $200 USD per hour per person." I have never heard of a programmer being paied 200$ an hour... Perhaps I should have stayed in Computer Engineering rather than switch to Electrical?