Shower thought: when the news says things like “a 1 megaton bomb” … the bomb must not *actually* weigh a million tons, because there would be no way to lift it into the air
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Replying to @Litherum
It's all measured relative to the explosive yield of that weight of TNT; see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNT_eq…

TNT equivalent - Wikipedia

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Nov 14, 2022 · 7:51 PM UTC

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Replying to @davidbaron
Right, exactly. I guess I was expressing displeasure over how precise the newspaper’s language is, rather than expressing confusion
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