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Originally Posted by ckissick
Your typical gamma ray burst, created by a certain type of super nova, lasts for about 2 minutes. During those 2 minutes, the amount of energy released is equivalent to 100 million nuclear bombs going off every second for 100 billion years. And one happens somewhere in the universe every day.  |
What kind of nuclear bomb are we talking? Fat man, Tsar Bomba, B61, W87, RDS-9, VA-111 ? There are orders of magnitude difference in yield making that formula not very accurate.
