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Thread #113371 Message #2411229
Posted By: Paul Burke
12-Aug-08 - 03:06 AM
Thread Name: BS: running the numbers
Subject: RE: BS: running the numbers
If we talked about Rudall Cartes it could go above the line....
How many Rudall Carte 1867 system flutes would you need to hold a megatonne of TNT?
I estimate that one flute has an internal volume of about 0.0075 cubic metres, that's 0.0126 tonnes of TNT. So we would need about 792 million flutes, which is about 100,000 times as many flutes as the company made, so the fact that you wouyld need more suicide flautists than there are people in the world wouldn't matter.