BIG bada-BOOM

[Acroyear]

The real excitement, though, is this: If electrons or protons collide with their antimatter counterparts, they annihilate each other. In so doing, they unleash more energy than any other known energy source, even thermonuclear bombs.

 

The energy from colliding positrons and antielectrons "is 10 billion times ... that of high explosive," Edwards explained in his March speech. Moreover, 1 gram of antimatter, about 1/25th of an ounce, would equal "23 space shuttle fuel tanks of energy." Thus "positron energy conversion," as he called it, would be a "revolutionary energy source" of interest to those who wage war.

 

It almost defies belief, the amount of explosive force available in a speck of antimatter -- even a speck that is too small to see. For example: One millionth of a gram of positrons contain as much energy as 37.8 kilograms (83 pounds) of TNT, according to Edwards' March speech. A simple calculation, then, shows that about 50-millionths of a gram could generate a blast equal to the explosion (roughly 4,000 pounds of TNT, according to the FBI) at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995.

 

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/10/04/MNGM393GPK1.DTL

 

There, now you can stat out the real boom from an anti-matter explosion.

[ghost-angel]

Re: BIG bada-BOOM

 

you die. the girl dies. everybody dies.

[BNakagawa]

Re: BIG bada-BOOM

 

Actually it's "If you refuse, you die, she dies, everybody dies."

 

(sounded reasonable to me)

 

It's examples like this which provide the only real screaming need for megascale, provided you have a screaming need to stat them out at all....