On 01/08/2013 12:17 PM, george152 wrote:

On 09/01/13 07:39, BruceS wrote:

LOL.  Artie pretends he's requested 10^57 (that's a 1 with 57 zeros
after it) imaginary bombs from his imaginary kook squad.  But, even
though the whole thing is in his own imagination, it rejected his
request.  Still, just to keep the numbers making sense, with about 7 x
10^9 people on the planet, he's suggesting the use of 10^57 / (7 x 10^9)
bombs per person.  That's about 1.4 x 10^47, or (if my typing is up to
the challenge)
140,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

Yep.  That's how many of his bombs he wants to use per human on Earth.
If these bombs of his were made of anything heavier than deranged
imaginatons, the mere shadow of his arsenal would be enough to implode
the entire solar system.

Sane people are welcome to correct my math.

Your math is okay. The poster who nutted out those figures isn't and
should be removed from society until some form of treatment be
discovered that can cure the terminally stupid

But if we remove Artie, what will we do here when Graham is in one of his quiet phases?

To take the math a little further (thanks for the confirmation), the Earth's mass is about 6x10^24 kilos, or 6x10^30 milligrams.  If each of Artie's bombs had a mass of 1mg, together they would have the mass of over 2x10^22 (20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) Earths for each person on Earth.  A proton has a mass of about 1.7x10-27 kilos, so Earth has a mass of about 3.5x10^51.  Even if each of his bombs is the mass of a single proton, the whole set would still be over a quarter billion times the mass of the planet.

I have to wonder if Artie is even allowed access to dull scissors, much less bombs.