Awesome. There's so much geekery in that article I now am covered in Cheeto dust.

My favorite part is the drawing of Yoda in the Smart car

The emperor would be like nuclear energy but at what cost? Also because he is an unstable element.

That was fantastic.

We assume our conclusions! It's SCIENCE! This isn't a "thought experiment, more like a "thought talk-out-my-assiment".

I put this here to derail the idiots who showed up in the fastball thread talking about how this was so unscientific and stupid, etc. It's been said. You can go about your lives, and continue failing to get the joke. This thread doesn't need you. Your work here is done.

t3knomanser: This isn't a "thought experiment, more like a "thought talk-out-my-assiment".

It's the kind of question they'd give to an engineering interviewee to see if he could come up with a plausible answer or figure out a reasonable way to figure out a plausible answer.

"The energy it takes to lift an object"

That assumes that gravity is present. If gravity is instead being blocked or redirected, then different amounts of energy may be needed. But we don't know what those might be.

/hopes this is under the Geek tab and not Politics

kasmel: He should have used Luke levitating C3P0 on Endor for a baseline for Luke's force power..

That was my thought, as well (though it was a moon of Endor).

...Wait, why did I suddenly go pedantic there?

OceanVortex: As has been pointed out elsewhere, his math is incorrect in that he confused lbs and Kg when calculating the F-16 weight. Just in case you were planning on submitting his math as your homework.

Failed Yoda science has. Go into exile it must.

Tobin_Lam: $2/hr is $169,360/year. That's not bad.

Assuming you work 24/7. But he's got important kids to molest...erm, train.

albuquerquehalsey: Thanks for reminding me why I stopped reading XKCD.

You couldn't keep up with the math?

imgod2u: Tobin_Lam: $2/hr is $169,360/year. That's not bad.

Assuming you work 24/7. But he's got important kids to molest...erm, train.

If you work 24/7 for two dollars/hour, you only make $17,472 a year. In order to make $169,360/year at $2/hour, you'd have to work for 262.6 hours a day, every day, which as you can imagine, is going to be difficult if you are less than 11 people.

FloydA: imgod2u: Tobin_Lam: $2/hr is $169,360/year. That's not bad.

Assuming you work 24/7. But he's got important kids to molest...erm, train.

If you work 24/7 for two dollars/hour, you only make $17,472 a year. In order to make $169,360/year at $2/hour, you'd have to work for 262.6 hours a day, every day, which as you can imagine, is going to be difficult if you are less than 11 people.

Huh, that's what I get for not checking the math.

NkThrasher: FloydA: If you work 24/7 for two dollars/hour, you only make $17,472 a year. In order to make $169,360/year at $2/hour, you'd have to work for 262.6 hours a day, every day, which as you can imagine, is going to be difficult if you are less than 11 people.

365 * 24 * $2 = $17,520

I assume you did 52 * 7 * 24 * $2 = $17,472, which is a day short.

/nit-picky


Oh very well. 8765.81 * 2 = $17,531.62.

Shows what I get for trying to do things the easy way. ;-)

utter fail - he turns to pure energy after he dies - therefore, e=mc2:

converting 80 pounds of matter completely into energy yields
3.2613e+25 ergs
3.2613e+18 joules
2.4054e+18 foot-pounds
7.7948e+5 kilotons of TNT
779.48 megatons of TNT

2.1×10¹⁷ J yield of the Tsar Bomba, the largest nuclear weapon ever tested (50 megatons)

The megaton of TNT is a unit of energy equal to 4.184 petajoules.

i dunno what the hell to do from here, but i think yoda could power us quite a bit more than $2 worth