Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
Sentry: "I have the power of a million exploding suns."
Supes: "Solar radiation makes me more powerful."
Sentry: "Shit."
Supes: "Yeah. I'll give a three second head start and then I kill you."
Hehe.
I don't think it's meant to be taken quite that literally. Firstly because our sun doesn't have the mass to go supernova in the first place. Secondly, I think the key word there is power of a million exploding suns.
A supernova (of a star with 1.44 solar masses) releases 10<sup>42</sup> joules of energy. To put that in perspective if a superhero punches with the same energy as a car going highway speeds it's around 10<sup>5</sup> joules, or 500,000 J.
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Originally posted by Ytse
Hehe.I don't think it's meant to be taken quite that literally. Firstly because our sun doesn't have the mass to go supernova in the first place. Secondly, I think the key word there is power of a million exploding suns.
A supernova (of a star with 1.44 solar masses) releases 10<sup>42</sup> joules of energy. To put that in perspective if a superhero punches with the same energy as a car going highway speeds it's around 10<sup>5</sup> joules, or 500,000 J.
I know what a star needs in order to go supernova. Sun is just being used as another word for star in that case.
Taken literally having the power of a million exploding suns would actually limit Sentry's power since everything he does would use up some of that energy.
With the power of a million supernovas Sentry would probably win just by engulfing everything within a parsec in energy. That or he would just hit Superman once with all his strength.
Originally posted by Ytse
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Use scientific notation with the E notation.