Set your weapons on 'vaporise'

It's only since the nuclear age that we have
ceased to wonder what it would take to
vaporise your nosey neighbour.

We are now certain that splitting the atom
is a good thing. It keeps that neighbour in check.

Now, some lazy summertime lab talk this year
has raised the issue of literally how much
energy has to be transferred to
vaporise a human. Star Trek stuff?
Nope. The Neighbour Syndrome

They coulda found it previously,
but the initial experiments were a failure,
in 1945. Nobody was around
to set up the measuring equipment when
the Americans bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

I think about 10% were vaporised, if you
interpret wikipedia (below). You can't have
flash burns if you're vaporised, so anyway.

[the waste matter looks like a shadow. how interesting
I'll bet they could still swab for DNA. get him some comp]

[hey you. going somewhere?]
https://theatomicbombandhiroshima.wordpress.com/images-from-hiroshima/

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who do we appreciate?

Oppenheimer

America

Yaaaaay!

2 things
checkit: Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Within the first two to four months of the bombings, the acute effects killed 90,000–166,000 people in Hiroshima and 60,000–80,000 in Nagasaki, with roughly half of the deaths in each city occurring on the first day. The Hiroshima prefecture health department estimated that, of the people who died on the day of the explosion, 60% died from flash or flame burns, 30% from falling debris and 10% from other causes. During the following months, large numbers died from the effect of burns, radiation sickness, and other injuries, compounded by illness. In a US estimate of the total immediate and short term cause of death, 15–20% died from radiation sickness, 20–30% from burns, and 50–60% from other injuries, compounded by illness. In both cities, most of the dead were civilians, although Hiroshima had a sizeable garrison.

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How much energy does it take to vaporize a human?
Maggie Koerth-Baker at 1:46 pm Fri, Sep 13, 2013
According to a 2013 study published in the Journal of Interdisciplinary Science Topics (Annals of Mad Science and the Journal of Sophisticated Villainery not having nearly as good of impact factors) completely vaporizing an entire human body would require about 2.99 GJ worth of energy. This fact should give you pause before you try to vaporize a place, rather than a person, writes blogger Kyle Hill. You'd need more than 70 of the most powerful lasers that currently exist just to off that one person. And that's not very efficient evil.