Brian Cory Dobbs
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And he answered it, you know, safely.
He just said, well, let's just hope that we don't have to address that.
Okay, so if you, Ryan, if you wouldn't mind bringing up, here we go.
The atomic bomb in Hiroshima, in terms of joules of energy, what is that, 60 billion?
Trillion.
Trillion?
60 trillion joules of energy versus the Chicxulub impact, most notably credited for killing the dinosaurs, right?
The meteor impact?
Yep.
If we're going with that, that's 10 to the power of 23.
I don't know what the number is.
Yeah.
Okay?
Brandenburg estimates... It's a billion times more power.
So what about Mars?
How much energy would it take to ignite the atmosphere of Mars?
10 to the 25.
He says that if you filled the Empire State Building with nuclear weapons, then you could ignite the atmosphere.
Okay.
Trinity wasn't enough.