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At what speed would a gram of uranium have to be moving to match it’s fission explosive power?

Take a gram of (highly enriched, weapons grade) uranium. If it is caused to explode in a fission reaction, it will yield X amount of energy.

At what speed would an identical gram of uranium have to be traveling such that it’s kinetic energy equaled X. Or, perhaps, that at impact it’s kinetic energy equaled X.

Traveling in outer space, of course. This question occurred to me while watching a show on asteroid impacts. [No, I am not in school and lazy. I just don't know physics, but do know how to phrase a question.]

What would happen if a large meteor hit a hurricane?

A once in a billion years event but what would happen if a large meteor/small asteroid (~500 m) hit a hurricane in the eye. Would the shockwaves destabilize the circular motion and disperse the energy or would the added energy/heat from the impact would strengthen the hurricane.
Well of course it depends on the size of the meteor. When I thought of this question I was figuring a 0.5 km wide asteroid hitting a Category 4-5 hurricane that’s probably 100 km wide at least. It make great sci-fi right? Especially if humanity was able to launch the asteroid from the moon to stop the hurricane.
My understanding is that an asteroid of a similar size caused the crater in arizona–that one was probably smaller.

My main question was is there a scenario where an asteroid could smash into a hurricane and make it stronger. Or would it–as I expect–disrupt the airflows and thermals that drive hurricanes and just scatter it becoming a cluster of ordinary storms.

My understanding is that it takes a larger asteroid (~1 km and bigger) to just punch through the atmosphere and slam into the ocean bed. Smaller ones are slowed down enough by the atmosphere and breakup once they hit the water.

Have you ever felt someone’s stare or felt someone’s energy?

Even better, can you feel a person’s energy, mood, and character just from being in their presence?

I’ve been able to do this all my life, and I find that intuiting someone is more accurate than their conversation or body language (which only provides some information). In fact, their body language and words often contradict the information their energy provides.

Later on, when they are unable to keep up the “best appearance” charade, their true personality comes out (which matches their energy everytime). Some people are better at others for hiding their true selves to the point where I doubt my instincts, but sooner or later they trip up.

My sister can do this too, and if its someone we are familiar with, we can sense who was there and when, after they left a room or touched an object… just based on their energy they leave behind.

Granted, some people’s energies are stronger than others. It depends on how emotional they are feeling, how close I am to that person, if that person is particularly dangerous, or if they are particularly good allies to have, or if we are “cut from the same cloth”/on the same wavelength.

This was also how I knew my boyfriend was cheating on me, because her energy was left on him when he came to my apartment, and his energy was different. He was shocked when I confronted him about it.

Does anyone else have this ability? Is it normal in human interaction?

Ive heard it is not very usual, and one theory for it is that children who were raised in abusive, dysfunctional households had to hone this intuition and sensitivity in order to sense if their parents were in a dangerous mood or not. It’s a survival skill, basically.

Have you heard of ‘medika mamba’ ?

The energy dense, peanut butter food that’s designed to ensure Haitian children survive childhood.

Medika Mamba is easy to make, store, preserve and distribute.

Since research says “2008 was a record year in terms of harvest. There’s more food per person in 2008 than there’s ever been in history. The problem is not food, but how we distribute it.”…

don’t you think more should be done to make people aware of this miracle food and more should be done to make it available to those who need it?

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/11/17/hunger.week/index.html

Fallout 3 DLC questions?

i’ve started playing F3 (fallout3) again, and have all but 1 bobblehead(energy wep), all quest perks possible (ant might, barkskin, hematophage, power armour training, rad regen, survival guru, wired reflexes)
and built my character before even starting playing to make sure it is best possible
i have 10 unique weapons (A3-21′s plasma rifle, experimental MIRV, Fisto!, lincolns repeater, ol’painless, protectron’s gaze, reservist’s rifle, sydney’s 10mm “ultra” SMG, the terrible shotgun, victory rifle)
i also have railway rifle, dart gun, and mesmatrom and 1k+ of every ammo except alian powr cells
and most of my skills are 100 (and dont go down when using skill decreasing equipment)
i dont have any DLC’s and am nearing the end of the game and wouldnt want to lose this char just by ending the game, so if i finish the game and get a DLC will i still be able to continue this char?? can you play DLC’s on the char you beat the game with?
lol the reason i am asking is becuz i dont really have much left of interest to do but beat the game, and cant afford a DLC till payday which isnt for a while :(