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In a process that almost defies adjectives and analogies, each jet of water is the equivalent of a hundred million times the water flowing through the Amazon River every second and the speed of the jet is the equivalent of 80 times the muzzle velocity of an AK-47 assault rifle.

The blast creates huge shockwaves around the star and the process may be responsible for sprinkling the universe with water.

And it could go on for a thousand years in each star.

Let's run the math on this one.

Flow of water through the Amazon = 219,000 m³ / second.

Source.

219,000 m³/sec * (100 cm / 1 m)^{3 =}

219,000,000,000 cubic centimeters/sec

=219,000,000,000 ml /second * 1g/ml = 219,000,000,000 g /second

For 1000 years is

1000 year *(365 days /year) * (24 hr / day) * (3600 s /hr)

=31,536,000,000 seconds.

Multiply the two together 2.19 x 10¹¹ * (3.15 x 10¹⁰) =~ 6.9 x 10²¹ grams.

Convert to tons: 1 gram * (1 lb/454 g) * (1 ton / 2000 lb). 6.9 x 10²⁰ / 9.08 x 10⁵ --> 7.6 x 10¹⁵ tons of water.

7,600,000,000,000,000 = 7.6 quadrillion tons.

By comparison Lake Superior is 12,100 km³

1 km³ * (1000 m /1 km)³ * (100 cm / 1 m)³* (1 ml / 1 cm³) * (1g /ml) * (1 lb/454 g) * (1 ton / 2000 lb) =

13,325,991,189,427

So I guess 500 x the water in Lake Superior?

Bueller?

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Cheers!