To completely vaporize the Earth, you'll need to overcome the Gravitational Binding Energy of all of the atoms that hold the planet together. This amounts to 224,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Joules.
If you are uninspired, as so many evil geniuses are (sorry guys, but you know you are), then you probably went to ThermoNuclear Depot and tried to buy some nuclear weapons to do the job. Stan, the nice guy who works in that department with the bright red vest wearing a button that says 'Get Bent', told you that it would take roughly 107,000,000,000,000 bombs to vaporize the planet (he gets about three guys a week asking for the same thing). He politely and cheerfully sends you to the Special Order department to fill out one of their forms (they don't keep that many in stock, and they are seasonal). Most evil geniuses are averse to filling out forms, so you left.
Here's the math:
224,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Joules per planet divided by
2,100,000,000,000,000,000 Joules per nuclear bomb =
107,000,000,000,000 nuclear bombs per planet.
"If I have seen further it is by standing on ye shoulders of giants"
Will we be seeing even greater things if everyone in this world one day could get hold of a recipe to boost their memory? Boosting memory is not equal to intelligence but at least a large number of people could connect the patterns and do some great stuff.
I can't wait for the day our descendents create a big new world parallel to Earth and make it a sanctuary , even withstanding Black Hole rampage.
"I" prefer that, rather than forcing the US government with my infinite power to spend more money into protecting these databases. I am not giving a solution to everyone here. They are entitled to their own opinions or of the intelligent ones.
My Applied Cryptography professor used to say that replacing SSN with PKI infrastructure is another very good alternative for all our purposes. Educating the masses to use PKI though is difficult.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.deepastronomy.com/how-to-destroy-earth-with-a-coffee-can.html
To completely vaporize the Earth, you'll need to overcome the Gravitational Binding Energy of all of the atoms that hold the planet together. This amounts to 224,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Joules. If you are uninspired, as so many evil geniuses are (sorry guys, but you know you are), then you probably went to ThermoNuclear Depot and tried to buy some nuclear weapons to do the job. Stan, the nice guy who works in that department with the bright red vest wearing a button that says 'Get Bent', told you that it would take roughly 107,000,000,000,000 bombs to vaporize the planet (he gets about three guys a week asking for the same thing). He politely and cheerfully sends you to the Special Order department to fill out one of their forms (they don't keep that many in stock, and they are seasonal). Most evil geniuses are averse to filling out forms, so you left. Here's the math: 224,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Joules per planet divided by 2,100,000,000,000,000,000 Joules per nuclear bomb = 107,000,000,000,000 nuclear bombs per planet.
And you know that Reddit has 8 stories in its main page regarding 09 compared to slashdot's 2 today right?
I've heard your philosophy in "Full Metal Alchemists" Anime. I thought they were just bluffing.
"If I have seen further it is by standing on ye shoulders of giants"
Will we be seeing even greater things if everyone in this world one day could get hold of a recipe to boost their memory? Boosting memory is not equal to intelligence but at least a large number of people could connect the patterns and do some great stuff.
I can't wait for the day our descendents create a big new world parallel to Earth and make it a sanctuary , even withstanding Black Hole rampage.
"I" prefer that, rather than forcing the US government with my infinite power to spend more money into protecting these databases. I am not giving a solution to everyone here. They are entitled to their own opinions or of the intelligent ones.
My Applied Cryptography professor used to say that replacing SSN with PKI infrastructure is another very good alternative for all our purposes. Educating the masses to use PKI though is difficult.
I don't give a shit anyway , if it's only going to be email messages. In the worst case they would call ? .. Just hang up.
These sound silly for some of us, but there are lot of people out there who actually believe these kind of crap.
..free broadband" .. and "Google Roxor"....
Several friends were pinging me today with "OMG
http://www.google.com/tisp/
I found out something. Try coding in large values in the URL string..
:)?
http://slashdot.org/slashdottit.shtml?vote="BIG NUMBER HERE"
It's interesting.
Did I succeed
I guess gmail team is fooling us.
powered by a solar sail get from Earth to Mars in just one month
Then what....!?
Oh yeah, the ANI demo code just hanged my distro [ Fedora core 3 with Firefox 1.0 ] ....