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Terminator 2
Les Miserables
Brave Heart
The Departed
(WIP: more to come, as I think of them)
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Horse Power Out. Food Over Time In.
Horse Power. An archaic measurement of power based on a bit more than a draft horse can sustain. Normally defined as 735.499 Watts, but in the case of a boiler horse power -- it's 13.4 times that. But how much power is that really? Well, the truth is no one knows. This is why I'm introducing a new system: Food over Time (or FOT).
FOT is quite simple. You get the energy content of a certain food, put it over a time period. And you have a robust and comprehensible unit. For instance:
The Suzuki FZ6 can produce a maximum of ~1,700 big macs a minute of power.
A trained athlete can briefly output the power of ~76 Subway six-inch Sweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki.
Trivia:
The Hiroshima bomb (Little Boy) had the energy of ~9,727,000 cheese cakes. (Which makes me wonder why so many are starving in Japan)
FOT is quite simple. You get the energy content of a certain food, put it over a time period. And you have a robust and comprehensible unit. For instance:
The Suzuki FZ6 can produce a maximum of ~1,700 big macs a minute of power.
A trained athlete can briefly output the power of ~76 Subway six-inch Sweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki.
Trivia:
The Hiroshima bomb (Little Boy) had the energy of ~9,727,000 cheese cakes. (Which makes me wonder why so many are starving in Japan)
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