I mostly want to use this blog to create a hub for science and technology articles around the web that i find interesting. This is my first blog post, it's taking more thought than i expected to write something interesting... i think the article pretty much speaks for itself.
"Late in 2009 year we witnessed the largest explosion ever recorded: a super giant star two hundred times bigger than the sun utterly obliterated by runaway thermonuclear reactions triggered by gamma ray-driven antimatter production. The resulting blast was visible for months because it unleashed a cloud of radioactive material over fifty times the size of our own star, giving off a nuclear fission glow visible from galaxies away." - DailyGalaxy.com, Anti-Matter Triggers Largest Explosion Ever
The largest explosion that humanity has ever caused was a three stage Thermonuclear bomb detonated by the Russians in 1961. It was equal to 50 Megatonnes of TNT or 1,400 times the combined yield of both nuclear bombs dropped on Japan in WWII. In comparison an earthquake that registers 9.5 on the richter scale is about 60 times more powerful. When a star goes supernova it releases about as much energy as our sun does every second, or roughly a few octillion warheads, and when a star goes hypernova it's about 100 times more powerful than that.
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