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To: longshadow
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Ok, these stranglets are 0.1 mm in diameter and 1000 kg at 400,000 m/s
Thats 40 gigawatts in the 19 seconds it is passing through the Earth. (if all energy were consumed... which it is not)
The energy is about a quarter of the Hiroshima device.

So, what would a meteorite of the same energy look like?
If that had been a typical meteorite (of density=5 g/cm^3) of the same energy it would be 20x20x20 feet and travelling at 25000 mph.

Your reference to unobtainium, and the ease which which strangelets go through the Earth's iron core:
I guess the real-world analogy is the depleted uranium rounds going through tank armor like butter. Well, the density is an instructive analogy, but the speed isn't.

What I find interesting is the seemingly unending succession of surprises we get from nature.

56 posted on 05/12/2002 7:11:35 AM PDT by edwin hubble
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To: edwin hubble
What I find interesting is the seemingly unending succession of surprises we get from nature.

Agreed. In fact, that's why it IS interesting!

67 posted on 05/12/2002 9:31:07 AM PDT by longshadow
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