Wednesday, December 29, 2004
Mars Bars
This is what happens when you have spare time, an excel spreadsheet, and a desire to compute unnecessary statistics:
Energy released during Indian Ocean Earthquake: 32 exajoules
Energy in 1 Mars Bar: 1200kilojoules
Energy released in quake in mars bar terms: 1.47 x10^13
Mars Bar weight: 54grams
Maximum tonnage in a 20 foot container: 28.15
Maximum number of 20 foot containers on largest cargo ships: 12,500
Equivalent number of cargo ships fully laden with Mars Bars required to create a 9 Moment Magnitude Earthquake: 41905
