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- Error601, on 10/10/2007, -1/+36The power tells you the rate and not the amount. Just like MPH tells you your speed and not your distance. A better way to say it is the bomb was moving energy at 1/100th the rate of the Sun for 39 nanoseconds.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+36if i had a dollar for everytime the tsar bomb has been on digg....
- fpcyber, on 10/10/2007, -3/+31Dugg for the word yottawatts.
Reminds me of Star Wars
Yoda: "May the Force be with you". - NoOneButMe, on 10/10/2007, -2/+29Am i the only one that thought "Glad the earth's still here.." after reading the description?
- wesamel, on 10/10/2007, -0/+21Pay attention in physics class kids!
- jmpeagle, on 10/10/2007, -0/+18power is measured in joules per second, time is built into it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watt - blackrich, on 10/10/2007, -1/+121.21 gigawatts!!!
- Universal, on 10/10/2007, -2/+13Video of that power being tested: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiyUSv2Z07A
- VeryBoredNow, on 10/10/2007, -6/+17In todays world it is neccessary for every country to have one of those... you know just in case one decides to end the world the rest won't sit there like little p*ssies.
- Terr01, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Hey, buddy, does dis' thing even work?
I dunno, Lenny, but them science guys says it's got a yotta watts. - skinrock, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9An even quicker one to get right to the mushroom cloud: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfoQsZa8F1c
- danep, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8You joke but when the first atomic weapon was tested there was actually a reasonable amount of debate over whether the nuclear reaction might increase exponentially and actually propagate through the entire earth.
- EXreaction, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8I haven't seen it on digg yet. :P
- EXreaction, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7The sun outputs an average of 383 yotta watts, the Tsar Bomba outputted an average of 5.4 yotta watts.
5.4/383 = (about) 0.0141 = 1.41% - slayerab, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6So it would be a kind of intercontinental nuclear food fight that wouldn't end with the principal asking who started it, but everyone on Earth dead/dying? Sounds like fun!
- prisoner24601, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Easy there guys... Everybody step away from the keyboard for a mintue... Take a deep breath...
- johnmalc, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6I'm tired of all this Playstation 3 news. Silly fanboys.
- EXreaction, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Wait a minute, why did I just reply with the same link as the story? I just viewed the video and thought that was the link for some reason. :P
-Swoosh- - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5well in the article it said it was too big to fit in their biggest bomber normally so they had to remove the bay doors, some fuel tanks etc, and they had to put a parachute on it to slow its fall otherwise it'd have fallen to fast and taken out the bomber with the blast, or just smashed into the floor without going off,
although building a bomb this powerful is impressive its kinda sad at the same time because it aint practical lol - thephreak99, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Comparison:
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=339291829&size=o - Terr01, on 10/10/2007, -7/+11I'm guessing they mean in the same period of time (39 nanoseconds).
- Error601, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Of course you need a launch vehicle that can move an apartment building. Smaller nukes are far more potentially devastating than this Cold War competition result.
- Terr01, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I'd prefer to Nuke The Moon.
- Qeveren, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4In all honesty, while Tsar Bomba was the largest manmade explosion ever created, it's peanuts compared to the stuff Earth has to deal with on a fairly regular basis. The Krakatoa volcanic eruption back in the 1883, for example, was at -least- 200 megatons, or four times the power of Tsar Bomba.
- venom8599, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5When you hear something like this, it's usually referring to 1% of the sun's rate of output, or 1% of the sun's output for those same 39 nanoseconds, not 1% of the sun's daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, or lifetime output.
- thentro, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4in a sub comment, Error601 wrote:
"The power tells you the rate and not the amount. Just like MPH tells you your speed and not your distance. A better way to say it is the bomb was moving energy at 1/100th the rate of the Sun for 39 nanoseconds."
There you go. - EXreaction, on 10/10/2007, -4/+8In Soviet Russia...
- goblindegook, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4In Soviet Russia, you bomb.
- EXreaction, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4The Tsar Bomba was a three-stage hydrogen bomb with a yield of about 50 megatons.[2] This is equivalent to all of the explosives used in World War II multiplied by 10.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_bomba - tgunner, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en-commons/thumb/9/99/250px-Comparative_nuclear_fireball_sizes.svg.png
- tehbored, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5I'm sorry, I really am, but I have to...
In Soviet Russia, Sun is 1% of Tsar Bomba! - EXreaction, on 10/10/2007, -1/+45,400,000,000,000,000 Gigawatts. :P
- jedikv, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2WUN THOUSANDD!!!11!!!
- expert01, on 10/10/2007, -3/+5We need some gigaton bombs, just in case aliens invade or a huge asteroid comes our way. Never hurts to p[lay it safe.
- thephreak99, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I cant say that this looks natural:
http://maps.google.com/maps/mm?ie=UTF8&hl=en&ll=72.008704,52.109528&spn=0.162882,0.6427&t=k&z=11&om=1 - Qeveren, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Castle Bravo was also a big one; it was the largest nuclear detonation by the United States, in a darkly amusing sort of way. The device was designed as a 5 megaton bomb, but due to an error in their calculations, it produced three times the expected yield, 15 megatons, and led to the worst radiological accident in American history.
- EXreaction, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3You that thick headed?
- prisoner24601, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Anyone else notice it's categoized under the "HowTo & Do It Yourself" section?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2That's a yottawatts.
- venom8599, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2If a gigaton bomb were to be used on Earth, say hello to nuclear winter.
- happytron, on 10/10/2007, -0/+24 times the energy. I doubt it exceeded the power output of the Tsar Bomba. Krakatoa's energy was released in seconds, whereas the bomb's energy was released in nanoseconds.
- DarkPenguin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Just overload a stargate - an easy 2 gigaton explosion.
Or an almost expended ZPM. - blobert, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Give me a large cheese pizza and a bottle of Tabasco and I'll show you the most powerful device ever utilized....
- Endeavorer, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2The Pilot had some cool goggles
- Spikeli27, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2i was thinking the same thing. just in case
- aroundtown, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Lookup Operation Ivy and Baker Event, that/those are big ones too.
- frimple, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3I didn't think anyone could miss a Back to the Future joke.
- pitlord, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2...you'd be Kevin Rose.
X^P - STAKware, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2"I figure we can extract at least 10 to the 21st photons per cubic centimeter which will give one kilojoule per cubic centimeter at 600 nanometers, or, one megajoule per liter." -Chris Knight
- gann, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3I know saying this is very wrong... but it's cool.
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