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by randomtoast 346 days ago
> this event released the same as 10^31 Tsar Bombas, which is … a lot of energy? That number is too big to be a good intuition pump

Let me try:

To match this power with sequentially detonated bombs, one would need to set off about 10^13 Tsar Bombas (or one hydrogen bomb scaled up to 5% the mass of the Moon) every second since the Big Bang to match it. With that amount of energy, you could essentially destroy earth every second since the Big Bang.