The Soviet Union’s AN602 Hydrogen Bomb AKA Tsar Bomba, dropped on October 30, 1961, was the most powerful bomb ever detonated on planet earth yielding 50-58 megatons.
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Google, a popular search engine, was initially called BackRub but the name was changed to a play on the large number named googol which is 1 followed by 100 zeros or written another way 1.0 × 10100
Ray Kurzweil, in a 2013 interview, stated that in 15 years medical technology could add more than a year to one’s remaining life expectancy for each year that passes, and we could then “outrun our own deaths”.
There is 10,000 times more sunlight (hitting Earth’s surface) than we need to meet 100 percent of the world’s energy needs. Capture 1 part of 10,000 and the Sun powers the entire planet.