It would be trivial to reroute power from the secondary systems to the forward shields anyway
replyIf it's built to federation specs, we even have redundancies for the redundancies.
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replyBut we have to reroute power from life support because auxiliary systems are down!
replyOnly on the unoccupied decks!
replyWhat is that in firecrackers?
replyGemini says a firecracker releases 150 J, so yeah not a lot.
It's a fraction of the energy released when an unlit fire cracker is dropped an inch. Basically unmeasurable
replyWolfram Alpha says its approximately the kinetic energy of a mosquito in flight
replyWhich seems suprisingly high given that it's 92 protons worth of antimatter!
replyDefinitely, I've had a mosquito hit me while flying and you can actually feel it hit your skin.
replyThe subject of this story is a single proton that you would definitely feel if it hit you: https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/OhMyGodParticle/
replyE=mc^2 and c^2 is a big number.
replyindeed, but note that c^2 is just a factor to convert between units here and is completely arbitrary (or rather, c is so high because our units are human scale)
replyindeed, in the most natural systems of units in this area, we set c = 1 as to simplify the equations
8 minutes to do a mere 1AU. Pretty slow.
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499.004783836 seconds. So, more like 8.32. I initially looked it up because I misremembered AU being a diameter rather than a radius.
reply> c^2 is a big number.
replyFamous tweet about conversations with God.
[1] - https://x.com/WraithLaFrentz/status/1981404849305686219
Except the fine structure constant
replyWolfram Alpha says it's approximately _one-sixth_ the kinetic energy of a mosquito in flight
replyWhen we're talking scales like 10^-23, "one" and "one sixth" are comparable enough to warrant an "approximately".
replyI'm not sure! One is just barely within human scale and one isn't. I think I could feel the impact of a mosquito on a sufficiently sensitive patch of skin. I'm not sure I could do the same with one sixth of a mosquito. Its like the difference between something I can lift (100 lb) and something I definitely cannot lift (600lb)
replyEven though you can't lift the 600 lb object it's still in the correct ballpark for illustrative purposes when dealing with orders of magnitude.
replyIn a similar vein a 20 gallon fishtank and a small bathtub are approximately the same despite that I can't actually fit in the 20 gallon fishtank myself.
It's also the difference between 1lb and 6lbs also, so the analogy isn't perfect. The problem is that once you approach the limits of the average human ability, multipliers can transform something possible into something impossible.
replyI'm pretty sure I could feel one sixth of a mosquito hit me, because I've been pelted by much smaller gnats before!
(It does depend on where, of course.)
It was on the radio here (I live on its route)- the ‚receiving’ physicist said it would be way less than what we catch anyway from daily cosmic radiation.
replyFor 92 protons? So 3*10^-10 J per proton?
replyFor a tiny number, that is still insanely high...
Baby steps on our way to a Dan Brown scene lighting up the night sky
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