I’m about finished with Phil Plait’s latest book Death From The Skies! Thus far a very excellent read. He starts each chapter with a short short short story to give you a picture of an terrifying event. He then explains IN PLAIN ENGLISH the scientific facts of the disaster, and then why it wouldn’t happen. All the while keeping things simple, and interesting. I will most definitely be buying his other books.
The reason for bringing this up now is in the book he describes the energy out put of super Nova in nuclear bombs. So I was trying to find something that I could relate to as far as level of destruction. Oddly, one of the web comics I read (postnukecomic) posted this link today.
http://www.carloslabs.com/node/16
So I type in Anchorage, selected tsar bomba, and Oh shit.
I then selected asteroid impact.
That is a lot of power. The suns core does that thousands of times a second.
The page is fun to play with though.
Maybe I need Minions