[per loin]

HPMs can unleash in a flash as much electrical power-2 billion watts or more-as the Hoover Dam generates in 24 hours.

Is it too much to ask that Time magazine be as scientifically informed as a high school physics student? The above is useless garble. Power and Energy are related but not identical concepts.

[Man of the Right]

Journalism students do dope, have sex with their same-sex partner, and take P-correct gut courses. Stone age tribes in New Guinea have a better grasp of elementary science.

[Mia T]

"HPMs can unleash in a flash as much electrical power-2 billion watts or more-as the Hoover Dam generates in 24 hours."

Dumb statement. Energy (power over time) and just "power" are two different things. The amount of energy released by a HPM is miniscule compared to what Hoover dam generates in 24 hours. 2 billion watts for a microsecond is only 2000 watt-seconds (joules). Hoover Dam is capable of generating 2,000 Megawatts for long periods of time. 2,000 Megawatts is 2 billion watts… If the HPM pulse is around one microsecond (it could well be shorter) Hoover Dam generates this amount of energy in about a microsecond. So the writer of this article is only off about 86 billion to one (24 hours vs. 1 microsecond)…

9 posted on 01/19/2003 10:05 AM EST by DB

.SCIENCE ILLITERATI BUMP!

..and power is work over time...

Is hillary clinton's $8M "book advance" a Peter-Principle artifact?

For anyone who has wondered why Simon & Schuster would award an $8M "Book Advance" for the memoirs of someone so banal that her saving grace is a feigned failing memory, I offer the following analysis:

Proposition: hillary clinton's interregnal $8M "book advance" is a Peter-Principle artifact.

 

 

 

Given:

Knowledge is Power.

 

Time is Money.

 

Work/Time = Power

 

Proof:

Knowledge = Power -->

Knowledge = Work/Time -->

Knowledge = Work/Money -->

lim (Knowledge) as Money approaches infinity = 0 -->

 

Conclusion:

The less you know, the more you make. -->

 

Corollary:

hillary clinton's interregnal $8M "book advance" is a Peter-Principle artifact.

Q.E.D

 

 

 

See also:

HALF A HOUSE, HALF A BRAIN: Why we were compelled to hit on Simon & Schuster,our personal agitprop & money-laundering machine)

Buddy web sites quickly exploded in cyberspace. (Socks web sites, too, he would add.) Mrs. clinton, a long-time adherent of synergistic exploitation, "authored" an instant book about three groups favored for exploitation by the clintons: dogs, cats and children. "Dear Socks, Dear Buddy: Kids' Letters to the First Pets" was published by the clintons' personal agitprop-and-money-laundering machine, Simon & Schuster. (see Is hillary clinton's $8M "book advance" a Peter-Principle artifact?)

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