[Europa (OP)]

Even if the Tunguska event was 200x, let alone 2,000x more powerful than the bombs my country dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, how did it not wipe out life on Earth, and how come only a few people noticed the event actually happen? I know it was in the desolate Siberian wilderness, populated by some farmers and Tsarists political prisoners, but still...

The Tunguska explosion is estimated to be 33 times the blast at Hiroshima or 500 kilotons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event#:~:text=The%20exploding%20meteoroid%20was%20determined,release%20of%20approximately%20500%20kilotons.

It's also estimated as up to 30 MTons
"The 30 Mt (130 PJ) estimated upper limit blast power of the Tunguska event could power the same average home for more than 3,100,000 years."
from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNT_equivalent

But the detail doesn't matter.
Most of Hiroshima survived the blast.
Almost all the damage was confined to sticky out bits that people had put there.
The flat bits were generally  fine.

That wiki page lists plenty of earthquakes etc that were much bigger than a thousand times the upper bound to the estimated energy from Tunguska.
A notable example is an hour's worth of sunshine: 104000 megatons.

Hey bored can you please explain how radiation escapes from outside a black hole?  Because actually Hawking proved that he was an imbecile when he wrote that nothing can escape a black hole, and people like you are still arguing to defend the physical falsehood.  Did you study black holes in third grade?

[Bored chemist]

Hey bored can you please explain how radiation escapes from outside a black hole?

I have a candle. It is outside a black hole.
Light escapes from it.
What part do you want me to explain?

Do you not understand the difference between inside and outside?
It seems that is the case, because you also got muddled about it here
https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=82746.msg648790#msg648790

[Just thinking]

Hey bored can you please explain how radiation escapes from outside a black hole?  Because actually Hawking proved that he was an imbecile when he wrote that nothing can escape a black hole, and people like you are still arguing to defend the physical falsehood.  Did you study black holes in third grade?

Did a black hole hit Tunguska there's nothing on the tv news.

[Europa (OP)]

Hey bored can you please explain how radiation escapes from outside a black hole?

I have a candle. It is outside a black hole.
Light escapes from it.
What part do you want me to explain?

Do you not understand the difference between inside and outside?
It seems that is the case, because you also got muddled about it here
https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=82746.msg648790#msg648790

Actually in order for the black hole to evaporate the contents of the black hole are released from the inside of the black hole, or the contents could not be released.  I presume that you understand the information paradox?

There is a logical section to IQ test for a reason.  So what is your IQ? 

Hawking died like he lived, a fool

[Bored chemist]

So what is your IQ? 

Last time it was measured, 173.
What's yours?

There are two ways in which you might reduce the mass of a BH.
You might try to  take stuff out of it, which is impossible, or you can add a negative mass to it- which is possible and is the basis for Hawking radiation.

Perhaps you should have paid more attention in 3rd grade.

[Europa (OP)]

So what is your IQ?

Last time it was measured, 173.
What's yours?

There are two ways in which you might reduce the mass of a BH.
You might try to  take stuff out of it, which is impossible, or you can add a negative mass to it- which is possible and is the basis for Hawking radiation.

Perhaps you should have paid more attention in 3rd grade.

LOL an IQ of 173 and you have nothing better to do with your time than play with a kids science site.  So what is your stock portfolio worth with an IQ over Einstein's you should be worth about 500 billion dollars and own a hundred car garage in your home on the French Riviera. 

Now since you have boasted an IQ of 713 which is higher than both Hawking and Einstein I am expecting a solution to the cosmological constant and proof of dark matter in the next ten minutes.

See in every group there is a super fool that knows that in spite of the drool on their shirt that they are the brightest person in the room.  Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[Europa (OP)]

So what is your IQ?

Last time it was measured, 173.
What's yours?

There are two ways in which you might reduce the mass of a BH.
You might try to  take stuff out of it, which is impossible, or you can add a negative mass to it- which is possible and is the basis for Hawking radiation.

Perhaps you should have paid more attention in 3rd grade.

So your IQ is 173, great I have been looking for you.  Can you please finish the equation below?

You are being timed

[Bored chemist]

Last time it was measured, 173.
What's yours?

[Bored chemist]

See in every group there is a super fool that knows that in spite of the drool on their shirt that they are the brightest person in the room.

And, in this case, it's You.
You are the one who thinks the theory says stuff comes out of a black hole.
You are the one who doesn't realise that an iron atom in the body would immediately be oxidised by water (or something else- but water's plentiful).
Best of all, you are the one who believes conspiracy theories.
Are you wearing a bib?

[Bored chemist]

Now since you have boasted an IQ of 713

Wrong on two counts; I didn't boast- you asked; I answered. Secondly, it works better if you don't include typos.

[Bored chemist]

LOL an IQ of 173 and you have nothing better to do with your time than play with a kids science site.

Because I'm bright, I have the choice to spend quite a lot of my time doing as I please.


One day a fisherman was lying on a beautiful beach, with his fishing pole propped up in the sand and his solitary line cast out into the sparkling blue surf. He was enjoying the warmth of the afternoon sun and the prospect of catching a fish.

About that time, a businessman came walking down the beach trying to relieve some of the stress of his workday. He noticed the fisherman sitting on the beach and decided to find out why this fisherman was fishing instead of working harder to make a living for himself and his family. “You aren’t going to catch many fish that way,” said the businessman. “You should be working rather than lying on the beach!”

The fisherman looked up at the businessman, smiled and replied, “And what will my reward be?”

“Well, you can get bigger nets and catch more fish!” was the businessman’s answer.

“And then what will my reward be?” asked the fisherman, still smiling.

The businessman replied, “You will make money and you’ll be able to buy a boat, which will then result in larger catches of fish!”

“And then what will my reward be?” asked the fisherman again.

The businessman was beginning to get a little irritated with the fisherman’s questions. “You can buy a bigger boat, and hire some people to work for you!” he said.

“And then what will my reward be?” repeated the fisherman.

The businessman was getting angry. “Don’t you understand? You can build up a fleet of fishing boats, sail all over the world, and let all your employees catch fish for you!”

Once again the fisherman asked, “And then what will my reward be?”

The businessman was red with rage and shouted at the fisherman, “Don’t you understand that you can become so rich that you will never have to work for your living again! You can spend all the rest of your days sitting on this beach, looking at the sunset. You won’t have a care in the world!”

The fisherman, still smiling, looked up and said, “And what do you think I’m doing right now?”

[Just thinking]

You are being timed

Is this a trick question I haven't got all those symbols on my keypad.

[Colin2B]

You are being timed

Is this a trick question I haven't got all those symbols on my keypad.

No, just someone playing stupid. It’s degenerated to the point of uselessness.

[Europa (OP)]

It is believed that the entire nuclear arsenal on the earth could destroy almost all human life many times over but that is the calculation taking into account direct hits on populated sites around the earth. But if all the nuclear weapons were detonated let's say in the middle of the south pole only penguins and other creatures would be bothered. The sound my travel quite some distance many thousands of kilometres and radiation would be a very big problem may be killing people some years down the track but the planet would barely feel it.

There are no penguins at the middle of Antarctica.  That said what exactly is the middle of the south pole

[Bored chemist]

There are no penguins at the middle of Antarctica. 

Nobody said there were.

[Europa (OP)]

There are no penguins at the middle of Antarctica.

Nobody said there were.

But you did say that your IQ was 173, and I ask you to finish the following equation, since you are brighter than Steven Hawking and Einstein

So please elaborate

[Bored chemist]

There are no penguins at the middle of Antarctica.

Nobody said there were.

But you did say that your IQ was 173, and I ask you to finish the following equation, since you are brighter than Steven Hawking and Einstein

So please elaborate

You forgot to define any of your terms.

However, why did you come to the conclusion that I would be able (or willing) to solve that mess?

[Europa (OP)]

There are no penguins at the middle of Antarctica.

Nobody said there were.

But you did say that your IQ was 173, and I ask you to finish the following equation, since you are brighter than Steven Hawking and Einstein

So please elaborate

You forgot to define any of your terms.

However, why did you come to the conclusion that I would be able (or willing) to solve that mess?

The terms are you finish the equation and demonstrate your 173 IQ.

So is everything that you do not understand a mess?

[Bored chemist]

demonstrate your 173 IQ

But I already know it.