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To: Salgak
321 quintillion joules.

I need a reference to make sense of that number. Like Mt St Helens or H-bomb blast or something similar.

42 posted on 07/25/2002 10:03:02 AM PDT by Soren
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To: Soren
As I recall, 4.5 X10^12 j =a megaton

We're talking 3.21X10^17 j

Let's just round it: 100,000 megatons. We're talking Dinosaur-Killer level event, likely. . .

51 posted on 07/25/2002 11:06:30 AM PDT by Salgak
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