The human body is a,not so much, ticking time bomb

[GeneralKrunk]

Alright so I got bored and decided to do some math, because bitches love math or so the internet told me. Here is what I discovered:
If you took a 120 kilogram human being and through some kind of magic or with antimatter turned his mass into energy the resulting explosion could destroy 15000 dairy barns.
Warning math below this line
Alright so we take the 120 kilos and toss it on into every 8th grade science teachers fovorite equation E=mc2
E=energy
M=mass, not matter.
C=the speed of light in meters per second
just so everyone is on the same page.
Right so 120kgx(300000000x300000000)= 1.08e+19 J or 10800000000000000000 joules.
Making that an explosion gives us 2581.3 megatonnes of explosive force.
which would do some serious dammage.
So whenever your feeling insignificant just remember you (technically) have the power of a 2581.3 megatonnes bomb sqashed into your clothes.

 

[Hal10k]

Why do people always use cities as the scale for destruction?

I mean, it's never, "The human body contains enough energy to destroy 15,000 dairy barns." It's always "a city". Maybe I want some variety in my comparative representations of scale.

 

[GeneralKrunk]

Better? Also I think its because no one has ever seen 15000 daily farms side by side..

 

[Unchained_M]

Wait until they industrialise milking cows to the max!

 

[Erana]

Why do people always use cities as the scale for destruction?

I mean, it's never, "The human body contains enough energy to destroy 15,000 dairy barns." It's always "a city". Maybe I want some variety in my comparative representations of scale.

The Pokedex often uses Indian elephants as a measurement.

 

[Hoplon]

To be fair, a 2.5 gigatonne bomb would take out the planet never mind a city.

The conversion is a little odd, needs to show his working for that.

 

[McMullen]

To be fair, a 2.5 gigatonne bomb would take out the planet never mind a city.

The conversion is a little odd, needs to show his working for that.

When they set off the Tsar Bomba, they found that as the yield of the detonation goes up, its efficiency eventually starts going down. More of the energy is radiated into space instead of destroying the target. 2 gigatons is bad, but the Chicxulub event was more like 96 teratons. So no, not earth-destroying or even extinction-causing.

Strange title for a thread that basically is just a long way of saying E=mc^2, but yeah it is impressive to think about. The thing I tell people to get that law across is that the Hiroshima bomb got its destructive power by converting about the mass of an American penny into energy. Mostly it comes up when discussing antimatter.

 

[DasDestroyer]

But if you consider the amount of energy you would need to instantaneously turn a person into energy, suddenly it isn't that impressive.

 

[StBishop]

Better? Also I think its because no one has ever seen 15000 daily farms side by side..

I've never seen 1 Dairy Barn.

Where I'm from cows were only farmed as food.

 

[Melon Hunter]

Why do people always use cities as the scale for destruction?

I mean, it's never, "The human body contains enough energy to destroy 15,000 dairy barns." It's always "a city". Maybe I want some variety in my comparative representations of scale.

The Pokedex often uses Indian elephants as a measurement.

Wales is usually used for large areas, such as rainforest loss. I worked out that the current land used for agriculture is approximately 730 Waleses, and will be as much as 1.2 kiloWaleses by 2050, if current trends continue.

Yeah, Wales should totally be an SI unit of area.

 

[Hero in a half shell]

Wales is usually used for large areas, such as rainforest loss. I worked out that the current land used for agriculture is approximately 730 Waleses, and will be as much as 1.2 kiloWaleses by 2050, if current trends continue.

Yeah, Wales should totally be an SI unit of area.

For example, if the Welsh were to successfully gain independence from Great Britain, then the United Kingdom would loose governance of an area roughly the size of Wales.

On topic I always wondered why the statistics for deforestation of the rainforest always seemed to be measured in football pitches. Or large bodies of liquid being measured in how many olympic swimming pools it could fill. How large is an Olympic swimming pool? I have no idea, I've only ever been to the ones with slides and stuff!

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Better? Also I think its because no one has ever seen 15000 daily farms side by side..

I've never seen 1 Dairy Barn.

Where I'm from cows were only farmed as food.

Are you kidding me? Don't you know anything at all? Seriously, cows are made at the dairy factory.

People are idiots.

OT:

Spoiler: There's something I never told you about me...

I'M A BOMB

 

[Vegosiux]

*headdesk*

I'm sorry, but this thread feels kind of silly. You see, yes, maybe by the mass to energy conversion we, as individuals, do have such power if a 100% conversion happens. But, since all things are relative, everybody else does too, so what makes me more significant than then next insignificant guy again?

 

[Vhite]

How exactly is it ticking?

 

[StBishop]

Better? Also I think its because no one has ever seen 15000 daily farms side by side..

I've never seen 1 Dairy Barn.

Where I'm from cows were only farmed as food.

Are you kidding me? Don't you know anything at all? Seriously, cows are made at the dairy factory.

People are idiots.

OT:

Spoiler: There's something I never told you about me...

I'M A BOMB

This was fun. Thank you very much. My studies will surely suffer.

 

[Substitute Troll]

Are you saying fat people are now bombs?

That's fatist!

 

[snagli]

I don't think my demands will be met if I threaten to unleash the energy stored in our bodies. Still, if someone figures out how to harness that power, Earth will have 20 seconds of limitless energy, after which some idiot will try to weaponize it and blow us all up.

 

[Zipa]

I hate to point this out but there is a chance that e=mc2 is a flawed equation in itself.

http://www.inquisitr.com/144267/scientists-say-emc2-might-be-wrong-say-neutrinos-are-faster-than-light/