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The Eight Best Fake Storefronts and Phony Facades in New York

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Anders

09-14-2013 12:54 AM

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Scientists compute the energy needed to vaporise a human body.

Now why would they need to know that?

Ze'Manel Cunha

09-14-2013 02:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Asta Kask (Post 1645078)

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.

Anaraxes

09-14-2013 04:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Asta Kask (Post 1645078)

Now why would they need to know that?

It comes in handy for creating those journalistic metaphors, such as "Worldwide, nuclear power plants produce enough energy to completely vaporize the population of Providence, Rhode Island in less than half an hour."

lwcamp

09-15-2013 03:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Asta Kask (Post 1645078)

Scientists compute the energy needed to vaporise a human body.

Now why would they need to know that?

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Originally Posted by Ze'Manel Cunha (Post 1645101)

For what it is worth, they seem to have calculated the dry tissue part incorrectly. They used the calorie content from the complete combustion of dried pork - which is the energy you get from burning the dried tissue, not the input energy needed to turn it in to vapor.

Luke

Terebrant

09-19-2013 09:43 AM

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You ought to be careful when discussing philosophy...

I could see that used as a cover up, for example in a oWOD Mage game, the grocery store being the location of a deal in view of mundanes that went awry and the rubber bullets being the explanation to not suffer from paradox.

Anders

09-22-2013 08:02 AM

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The Northampton Clown.

This is scary, folks.

Flyndaran

09-22-2013 08:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Asta Kask (Post 1649071)

The Northampton Clown.

This is scary, folks.

Many places have laws against wearing masks not on Halloween. I gather England doesn't?

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