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Originally posted by: DrPizza
Originally posted by: Qriz
Haha a "yottaton" is simply 10^24 of SOMETHING. What do you mean by this? 39 yottatons of...what? Granite? TNT? Chamomile tea? Did you just learn the word or something?
For example, 1000 yottatons of marshmallow probably wouldn't put the moon out of orbit. But that would be pretty funny. It depends on density, velocity, etc etc etc.
EDIT: 1000 yottatons of marshmallow could put it out of orbit, but probably not (hence my addition of the word "probably."
yotta means 10^24 of something.
the something is tons
Sorta like a yottameter would be 10^24 meters
A yottagram would be 10^24 grams
And, a yottaton would be 10^24 tons. Although, I don't know what kind of tons
Also, once you're at that scale, units of weight don't make much sense. (i.e. "what's the weight of the Earth?" really doesn't make sense)
I really hope you guys realize that the *tons thing is about explosive yeild, meaning a kiloton bomb blows up with as much force as a thousand tons of TNT would. This method of measurement goes back to the first nukes, simply because they blew up bigger than anything we'd seen before so we needed some way to measure the force.