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• midribbon_action@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Splitting a heavy U-235 atom, given perfect conversion to electricity, could power a 1 Watt nightlight for around 7.5x10^-13 seconds

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  • Vince@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    This was just the question I wanted answered

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    • midribbon_action@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      One could say I gave you what you Watt-ed.

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  • otter@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Maybe they had trouble hitting that atom, and decided to surround with many other U-235 atom before trying the splits

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  • turdcollector69@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That’s forever in Planck time

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  • nomecks@lemmy.wtf ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They’re fighting over an atom, they’re probably not that big

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    • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Life is unfair.

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  • deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    How many tons of TNT is that?

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    • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Around 7.66 x10^-3^ nanograms

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• NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  They’ve come a long way. www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2014-11-25

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  (click above link for full comic)

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• xoggy@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Since we’re nitpicking the atom thing, also Solomon didn’t split anything. He said cut the baby in half to see the reaction of the women to find out who the true mother was.

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  • Damage@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    And even if his method wasn’t actually great for establishing that, it certainly unmasked one woman as a psycho who was unfit to be in society, let alone care for a child

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• ameancow@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yes, yes YES we know, atomic fission doesn’t work that way. This isn’t reddit, people in Lemmy can like, read and stuff.

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• shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  If you don’t know the story, two women were arguing over which one was the real mother of a baby. Solomon said, “OK, I’ll cut it in half. Everybody happy?”

  One woman was like, fine, do it. The other went to screeching. Solomon concluded the second woman was the real mother.

  And that’s where the term “nuclear option” came from!

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• DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Lol I saw the nuke first and was like: wtf, then I read the rest of it and I lol’ed.

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• flandish@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  up and at them!

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