[Ze'Manel Cunha]

Originally Posted by Asta Kask

Scientists compute the energy needed to vaporise a human body.

Now why would they need to know that?

It's good to know that if you're making a phaser/disruptor which is going to vaporize someone that you need to generate ~3,000 megajoule reaction, which would mean 3+ GW batteries on those Star Trek blasters.