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0 pointscomrade123411h ago0 comments

What is that in firecrackers?

Gemini says a firecracker releases 150 J, so yeah not a lot.

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It's a fraction of the energy released when an unlit fire cracker is dropped an inch. Basically unmeasurable

Wolfram Alpha says its approximately the kinetic energy of a mosquito in flight

Which seems suprisingly high given that it's 92 protons worth of antimatter!

Definitely, I've had a mosquito hit me while flying and you can actually feel it hit your skin.

api10h ago

E=mc^2 and c^2 is a big number.

Wolfram Alpha says it's approximately _one-sixth_ the kinetic energy of a mosquito in flight

When we're talking scales like 10^-23, "one" and "one sixth" are comparable enough to warrant an "approximately".

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