500 million degrees

Here's a big number for you ... 500 million degrees.

That's the temperature that a nuclear bomb gives off at the point of detonation. Gives a new meaning to 'nuking your food'. "Honey .. are the pizza rolls done?" "Why YES .. as a matter of fact they are!!"

Or how about this number. 560 billionths of a second. That's 1/560,000,000,000 of a second. Yeah ... I know .. it's crazy. That's how long the bomb takes to explode once the atoms are split.

You know what else is crazy? That we have enough of these pretty little nuclear weapons stashed around the world to wipe out the entire earth many times over. How pleasant.

An atomic bomb is created when you split the nucleus of an atom into two smaller fragments with a neutron. And here's a little side note .. NO ONE HAS EVER SEEN AN ATOM!!! Now just how in the hell do you make something that can flatten an entire city with it's massive energy release and you've NEVER even seen the thing that makes it happen to know if it even exists???

It just blows Me away!!! How the hell did they think of this stuff? Meanwhile, I'm sitting there baffled on how to assemble some stupid toy My kids want Me to put together for them. But science is building crap out of something that they've never even seen. Pretty impressive I must say.

Did you know that only 2 nuclear weapons have EVER been used in warfare? Yeah, only 2 so far. You know who that was? Well it was US ... yeah, that's right .. the good old U.S.A. And when we used them, we thought it would be best to drop them over some highly populated cities too. It wiped out around 150,000 people in a matter of seconds. Not to mention the nuclear fallout that caused severe illnesses that scientist are still studying over there to this day. Doesn't it seem odd that WE are the ones telling the rest of the world that they can't have nukes? We were the only ones to ever use them in the first place! I know ... I know, we got attacked at Pearl Harbor first. Not only that, but Japan was on a quest to try to take over the world too. That's kinda strange actually, that seems to be the quest of the USA now a days, but I'm getting off subject.

So anyway, a nuclear explosion is the splitting of something so small that we've never seen it, but it can cause a mushroom cloud 11 miles high. I also heard that if a atom was the size of a baseball, then an actual baseball would be over 3000 miles high. That's pretty damn small. And yet when it splits up, it causes a chain reaction that will vaporize anything in it's sights. How the hell can the breaking down of the smallest particles known to man cause such an enormous amount of energy release????

And in a wider scope of things, science is pretty damn cool, even though in this particular case it seems like a pretty stupid use. It does seem plausible that the 'big bang theory' might have some teeth to it, even though I can't begin to imagine how basically nothing becomes something. And this is basically what our sun is doing all the time on a scale so big I can't even wrap My brain around it. The sun makes our meek little bombs look like 'snap pops'.

So many questions ... so little time. Why the hell did I spend 12 years in school picking My ass when there was all this cool stuff to learn? Oh well, I guess I'll just keep playing 'catch-up'.