What do you mean you don’t have a nuclear reactor in your stomach?
I never got this analysis, doesn’t any material have absurd energy if you break down its very molecules and atoms?
http://www.jaygarmon.net/2010/09/according-to-einsteins-famous-equation.html?m=1
Apparently 21.5 billion calories per gram of matter
Not sure what this meme is getting at, then, since it seems to be significantly undercounting it
Meme is referring to nuclear reactors, not complete antimatter annihilation.
Nuclear reactors don’t “burn” everything — most of the matter stays (this is what nuclear waste is). So you can only apply E=mc^2 to the difference in mass, not the mass of the fuel.
Can they really get out THAT many calories from a gram of Uranium?! That’s insane!
I wish I cared more and would verify it
Calories are just a measure of the energy released by a material.
Normally they’re measured by burning the material, so it’s not really accurate to say that you can get that many calories from uranium. On the other hand the whole concept is fucking stupid anyway, because it’s measured by burning the material. Technically, a kilo of dry sawdust has 4800 calories (more than double the daily calorie requirement of the average person).
I just googled around and I think the meme inflated the numbers. Fast neutron reactor gets 28GJ/g, which is “only” about 7 million food (kilo) calories.
Everything is edible once.
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Karlach approves
Literally, works even better with Plutonium.
Lembas
How long would a gallon of gas last me?
Also the rest of your life
Forget pop rocks we want hot rocks
This just gives me spec-evo ideas for a person who does the shin-godzilla schtick where they ingest radioactive material and then use their inner fluids, either blood or some secondary circulatory system, as a coolant for the internal bio-reactor digestive system.
Either developing sail-hawks and sail-backs to expose as much surface area as possible, or Kit-Fisto style tail-locks with the same purpose.
Maybe a mix of both with the sail fans migrating to be like bat wings for that extra surface area cooling combined with high altitude chill.
Surprisingly I’d actually imagine this creature getting smaller, more use out of every bit of material they can find, and smaller creatures radiate heat more quickly than larger ones, so even more bio-coolant features to keep the reactor from making biological corium.
SenzU bean!
I wanna have a glow-poo!
whaaamp whhaaaaaaaammmmmph!
I think a gram of uranium will be able to pass through your digestive system without killing you. I wouldn’t call it safe but that ammount of radiation isn’t lethal. I don’t know if it’d be poison, though.
If its an oxide or something else insoluble the toxicity would be relatively low. Soluble salts you may as well finalize your will.
Tetraethyluranium
This should be a stellaris litoid trait. Your pops need no minerals for food, but are highly radioactive.
Technically eating chlorophyll would give you infinite energy.
