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Monday, April 13, 2009

1% of the Sun

Here's an amazing number:
"When the Soviet Union exploded a three-stage bomb yielding nearly 60 megatons on October 30, 1961, it was estimated that, for a moment, the energy flux exceeded 1 percent of the entire output of the sun."

-- Project Orion, George Dyson

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