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Graphic Fail: USA Today Thought MOAB Was Almost As Destructive as Hiroshima A-Bomb
Newsbusters.org ^ | April 15, 2017 | Tom Blumer

Posted on 04/15/2017 11:33:52 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: Kaslin
USA is anti-science. Anti-math, too.

41 posted on 04/15/2017 6:54:26 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill: TWITTER, FACEBOOK, CNN, ESPN, NFL)
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OOOPS! That was suppose to say "USA Today."

42 posted on 04/15/2017 7:05:30 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill: TWITTER, FACEBOOK, CNN, ESPN, NFL)
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To: Kaslin
Gigajoules?

Not there only because they didn't go far enough, not that it doesn't exist.

In the Energy and Work section you find, "joule, kilojoule, megajoule." And, what comes next?

43 posted on 04/15/2017 7:14:02 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill: TWITTER, FACEBOOK, CNN, ESPN, NFL)
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To: Kaslin
"Layers and layers of fact checkers"

#SmarterThanYou

44 posted on 04/15/2017 10:08:17 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: SaraJohnson
You have to admit, it was not a nice bomb...


45 posted on 04/16/2017 2:44:09 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Right Wing Assault

Ooops?

Nah; you were fairly correct.


46 posted on 04/16/2017 2:44:58 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Right Wing Assault
And, what comes next?

Wasteofjewels?




47 posted on 04/16/2017 2:47:00 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Ray76
Ton, kiloton... whatever. /s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX3kxAA2L4Q

48 posted on 04/16/2017 4:41:08 AM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: sauropod

McPaper—perfect! LOL!


49 posted on 04/16/2017 5:43:57 AM PDT by proud American in Canada (May God Bless the U.S.A. (Trump: I will bear the slings and arrows for you, the American people))
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To: Kaslin
Nice workup. I'm posting this on MOAB threads. Someone else may have done this on this thread, but I wanted to add this just in case.

This MOAB bomb was estimated to carry 21,600 lbs of TNT. LINK

That is 10.53 tons of TNT. (1 ton = 2000 pounds)

Definition of a kiloton: LINK

The Hiroshima bomb was pegged at 15 thousand tons of TNT and the Nagasaki bomb was pegged at 21 thousand tons of TNT. LINK

50 posted on 04/16/2017 4:47:24 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Happy days are here again!)
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To: Kaslin

Author Michael Crichton was always ahead of his time, as illustrated by his perceptions of journalistic integrity in the novel Airframe. Once television achieved dominance as the go-to resource for news, propaganda theatre overrode the ethical considerations of factual reporting.


51 posted on 04/18/2017 8:52:03 AM PDT by Ozark Tom
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