Just hot off the press...
Well I received this in my email today...
As of Sunday, a new poll has been taken and there is
competition for the new top smartest
scientist.....Jeremy has fallen back in the race and
the title goes to Javann!!!wooooo!!!
Scientist of the Year!
Copyright of Montgomery residents
All rights reserved
So there ya have it...
Although I must say in Javann's talk he basically made it apparent that scientist are morons... so what does this mean? Hmmm...
And on an elaboration from the talk. Javann brought out that The nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima in WWII had 84TeraJoules of energy. To answer the question of how many calories that is equivalent to. We will speak in terms of Twinkies (not fried Twinkies, regular Twinkies) that would be the same amount of energy as eating 1,340 Billion Twinkies! (that would cover the state of Alabama 4 deep in Twinkies!) So in reality we all have the capability of purchasing nuclear weapons, in the form of Twinkies...
Feel Free to Check my math... I'm pretty sure thats right... anyone interested in the conversion... the calculations are available.
Beware! Twinkies and Javann ... the mad scientist... it could be dangerous!
Comments
Good work Javann. Scientist of the year, quite a prestegeous award. Maybe you can help me on this nuclear twinkie idea, somehow it must be possible.
Posted by: Jason | October 12, 2004 02:13 PM
I checked your math and it seems that your off by about 1,200 Billion...
1 teraJoules = 2.39E+11 calories
84 teraJoules = 2.01E+13 calories
1 twinkie = 150 calories
84 teraJoules = 1.34E+11 twinkies
1.34E+11 or 134,000,000,000 or only 134 billion
That's still a lot of twinkies---you could use less if you deep fried them--it would only be between 47 and 51 billion (depending on the type of oil that you used)...
Now if I could just get a hold of one or two to hold me over till dinner...
Posted by: Jeremy | October 12, 2004 04:41 PM
... oh well thats what 4 hours of sleep will do for ya...
hey i just work for nasa anyway... we dont worry about decimal points. (Refrence your past mars test studies)
Posted by: itzjerm | October 12, 2004 06:23 PM
Ah yeah hey good job Janvann. So you wanna help me destroy the world or what?
Posted by: Captian Jonathan!!! | October 12, 2004 07:26 PM
Have there even been 1,340 Billion (easier to say 1.34 Trillion?) Twinkies ever made? And forget about Nukes, couldn't we just bomb countries with twinkies? Wouldn't that be much more effecient? How many twinkies would it take to make a standard one ton smart bomb?
And the fact that a NASA scientist misconstrued the mathematical facts only makes me a little apprehensive - especially when you consider they were the ones who said that asteroid was going to be a million miles away from the earth when it passed. Does this mean it was two million miles away? Or does it mean it missed by like 20,000 miles? (I know, if it passed within 20,000 miles it would have surely been pulled into the earth - don't lecture me)
Posted by: keats | October 13, 2004 02:12 PM
no...
but here is an article on the politics of twinkines... its sad what people spend years on a degree for...
oh wait i calculated how many twinkies are in an atomic bomb...
stupid education.
Posted by: itzjerm | October 13, 2004 02:33 PM
I think the math was initially correct because it is to my understanding that a twinkie is not 150 calories but 15 calories. Yes, that is correct. Twinkies contain less calories then a piece of whole grain wheat bread. That is why I'm starting a diet program called the Twinkie diet. It consists of twinkies for food and twinkie filling for drinks. Using the basic 2000 calorie diet as a standard one would be able to sustain himself on 130 twinkies a day. If you eat less than 130, you have accomplished your goal and will soon be sheading the pounds. This reminds me of what Mark Twain said: "Beware of reading health books. You may die of a misprint."
Posted by: Tre | October 13, 2004 02:47 PM