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    High School Rotational Kinetic energy of a Hypothetical Planet?

    Would there be any way to get the energy from the rotation of a planet, which is an Earth like planet in material, sized like Jupiter, and seems to have a 24 hr day. I am just starting to get into real Physics, So I am not even sure where to start getting the numbers to work with, and I would...
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    Graduate Solar System destroyed vs Supernova

    Which part is the factor of 3 error in?
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    Graduate Solar System destroyed vs Supernova

    Yeah I mostly estimated on the planet side due to it not really mattering. So would you say I am right that a Supernova is hundreds of times more powerful than a raw mass SS destruction?
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    Graduate Solar System destroyed vs Supernova

    Would that be significant? My calc gave the energy for the planet destruction as being like .00001% of the total.
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    Graduate Solar System destroyed vs Supernova

    As for your first point. That is because one I got from the "Equivalent of TNT" Wiki Page, and One I got from the definition of a FOE, which is one supernova. Does that mean that page was incorrect? Because 10^44 has to be the correct number for Supernovae from what I have seen. On your...
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    Graduate Solar System destroyed vs Supernova

    I wanted to find out the difference between a supernova, and the energy it would take to blow up the Solar System. This guy: http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/2001-11/1004909251.As.r.html Says it would take the equiv of 5.09x 10^37 Tons of TNT to blow up the Solar System...