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NASA aims to destroy an Empire State Building-sized asteroid
(interestingengineering.com)
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What kind of murica unit is this?
Also there is a pretty big difference between 22 Davy Crocketts and 22 Tsar Bombas.
Comparing high-energy events, especially ones that cause destruction, to weapons that have been used is very common, not just in "murica"
The lack of specificity as to what kind of atomic bomb is silly, though.
Yeah, usually you put it into TNT equivalants. Which in itself isn't useful, but it allows me to look up which order of magnituted of atomic bomb we're talking about. And somebody actually put in the work and it is 22 of the biggest bombs ever. (which ironically are Sovjet, not Murican).
Anyway, It was really just a cheap "Americans don't use metric joke", don't overthink it.
can you provide a few examples?
Watch one kurzgesagt video about how to destroy the planet.