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This is interesting but...

how does it remind you of that? i don't follow in the slightest

The headline just didn’t convey any sense of scale to me. I found this metric much more interesting:

> 500 times as powerful as the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, at the end of World War II.

which is funny, because 10 megatons intrinsically conveys scale. it's equivalent to 10 million tons of TNT.

I never bothered to look it up, but that still tells me nothing. Is everyone into what's the destructive power of one ton of TNT but me? All I can think of when I read TNT is some old cowboy movie where they threw TNT cartridges around, or some cartoon.

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