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I wanted to know how big an explosion would result if the antimatter containment fields failed. (Why do I feel like I'm suddenly in an episode of Star Trek? ;-)

So I asked an AI (Perplexity). It said one antiproton-proton pair annihilation would result in about the same energy as several mosquito wingbeats. Darn.

In the course of the conversation, I gave it the actual number of 92 antiprotons and it told me that would be equivalent to 9 million mosquito wingbeats. And I'm like "What? It doesn't scale linearly?" and the AI is like "Yes, it scales linearly" and I'm like "Then 9 million is wrong!" and the AI is like "I'm sorry my loose analogy caused confusion" and I'm like "Loose? You're off by many orders of magnitude, you moron!" After several rounds of this it finally admitted that it was "a wild miscalculation." I felt vindicated. But also foolish for wasting time with an idiot savant.

Mar 31
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