Originally posted by celeyhyga17Well, then, let me recount one of my favorite annoyances: one-shot planetbusting. From a prior thread (and modified)...
Exactly. The point is he's not just saying someone pushing this or someone hitting this. H1 provided numbers(though I wish he provided calculations) as opposed to the other posts.
Originally posted by Mindship
It has recently come to my attention the following about planetbusting (with the Earth as the standard)...To really destroy the Earth, ie, to make an explosion big enough to not only blow it up, but to fling the pieces away from each other fast enough so that gravity doesn't take hold and pull the chunks back together: the explosion would have to overcome the Earth's gravitational binding energy, which is about 2x10^32 joules.
The Sun puts out about 4x10^26 joules/second. This means, that in one second, when [insert character here] busts a world with one punch, they're generating about 500,000x the power of the entire Sun (2x10^32 divided by 4x10^26 = 5x10^5).
My feeling now about planetbusting is the same as withstanding black holes or basking at the Sun's core: save it for the most powerful characters, eg, Galactus.