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From: keithl@vice.UUCP (Keith Lofstrom)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Armageddon on your pocket calculator
Message-ID: <1276@vice.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 29-Nov-83 01:05:49 EST
Article-I.D.: vice.1276
Posted: Tue Nov 29 01:05:49 1983
Date-Received: Wed, 15-Feb-84 04:09:25 EST
Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
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Because the results of these calculations are politically incorrect,
they should not be taken seriously by intellectuals.
(Data from Science News, CRC handbook and The Effects of Nuclear Weapons )

World Nuclear Arsenal ~= 10000 MT   
1 Megaton = 1e15 calories
Solar insolation = 20,000 calories / ( m^2 - minute )
Earth Area facing sun = pi * (6371 Km)^2 = 4e13 m^2
( 1e4 * 1e15 ) / ( 2e4 * 4e13 ) = 12.5 minutes sunlight

Wasn't that funny?  Let's try another one:

Mass of Oceans = 1.67e24 grams
     1 calorie = 1 gm * 1 degree C
( 1e4 * 1e15 ) / 1.67e24   = 0.000006 degree C

What a relief! On the other hand:

Mass of human brain (mostly water) ~= 1000 g
Brain scrambling temperature change ~= +10 degrees C
Population of Earth ~= 5e9
Hiroshima bomb ~= 0.01 Megatons
( 5e9 * 1e3 * 10 ) / ( 1e-2 * 1e15 ) = 5 bombs
( 1e4 * 1e15 ) / (5e9 * 1e3 * 10 ) = 200,000 times "overscramble"

Horrors!
:-)   apples and oranges from the mathematically
sarcastic (and politically incorrect) asbestos calculator of:

-- 
Keith Lofstrom
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