Niagara Falls has a power output equal to a Hiroshima-sized bomb going off every eight hours! The atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki had an explosive power equal to 1.3 Hiroshima bombs! For context, the gentle breeze blowing across a prairie also carries roughly the kinetic energy of a Hiroshima bomb.
— Randall Munroe, What If? book, mocking science writers' tendency to compare everything to the Hiroshima bomb (footnote 4 of "All the Lightning")
To give you an idea of how hot liquid tungsten is, I could tell you the exact temperature that it melts at (3422°C). But a better point might be this:
Liquid tungsten is so hot, if you dropped it into a lava flow, the lava would freeze the tungsten.
Liquid tungsten is so hot, if you dropped it into a lava flow, the lava would freeze the tungsten.
Scientist has estimated that the energy given off from the Big Bang was roughly equivalent to 1 CNRK: 1 Chuck Norris Roundhouse Kick.
He tried to visualize what that would mean, and failed. He had been told that uranium was potentially twenty million times as explosive as T.N.T. The figure was meaningless that way. He thought of the pile instead as a hundred million tons of high explosive, or as a thousand Hiroshimas. It still did not mean anything. He had once seen an A-bomb dropped, when he had been serving as a temperament analyst for the Air Forces. He could not imagine the explosion of a thousand such bombs; his brain balked. Perhaps these atomic engineers could. Perhaps, with their greater mathematical ability and closer comprehension of what actually went on inside the nuclear fission chamber, they had some vivid glimpse of the mind-shattering horror locked up beyond that shield. If so, no wonder they tended to blow up.
— Blowups Happen by Robert A. Heinlein
Callie: So, Agent 4, the brush you've used the most is the <Brush Type Weapon>. Let's see here. You swing your brush <Number> times a minute, and you've inked a distance equal to <Number> Maries laid end to end!
Marie: That's just weird.
Marie: That's just weird.
Speaking of ocular enhancement, keep your eyes peeled this December for Megalodontia, a new King Salmonid! It's the largest observed—we estimate its bite radius at 1.4 boats wide. Yes, we're using boats as a unit of measurement! Desperate times call for desperate measurements!
It means the core is open. It means the fire we're watching with our own eyes is giving off nearly twice the radiation released by the bomb in Hiroshima. And that's every single hour. Hour after hour, 20 hours since the explosion, so 40 bombs worth by now. 48 more tomorrow. And it will not stop. Not in a week, not in a month. It will burn and spread its poison until the entire continent is dead!
— Valery Legasov, on what is being released to the world from Reactor No. 4, Chernobyl
