Hey, /sci/, I was wondering something and was hoping you guys

>>8956960
I can tell you right off the bat that is fucking stupid and you can't make sense of Star Wars physics without ludicrous mental gymnastics e.g basically admitting it's all fucking magic.

You would need tens of gigatons of TNT equivalent to blast away a single big hill.
Liquefying entire planetary crust with three, kilometer long space ships powered by some roided up fusion reactors is insultingly stupid.
You would need trillions of tons of antimatter for something like that.

>>8956996

No offense, but I'm not asking if it's realistic or anything. I'm asking how much energy would be required to do it. It's scifi, you should never expect it to be realistic. But that doesn't mean we can't apply real world science to it to figure out what it would require to achieve those results.

>>8957004
My rough calculation was at least 100 billion kilograms of anti matter assuming you only need to heat the top half of the crust to melting point and let the heat from the mantle finish the job.

This figure doesn't include a lot of factors that could make the real energy requirement much higher.

>>8957004
>But that doesn't mean we can't apply real world science to it to figure out what it would require to achieve those results.
Smashing Mars into us would do it.
What, you want a number?
For what purpose?
It's gonna be a 1 with so many zeroes you will fall asleep reading them.

Yes, I'm the king of all parties.

>>8957004
>if we discard all real world science and suppose this thing exists, with no explanation of how, then using real world science, what is its energy output?

If you're going to suppose that these things work then what's the point in asking fact-based questions about them?

It's like asking how many calories santa burns per hour to deliver all the presents in the world at the same time. Sure I guess you could calculate the energy required to do that feat but considering that the method is simply "magic", does the energy required mean anything?

>>8957029

That's a really big number. Goddamn.

>>8957036

Basically I want to know how much firepower an ISD has. So the amount of energy required to achieve these results over the course of a few hours divided by three should give the firepower of an individual ISD, I think. I'm not well versed on science matters.

>>8957029
I don't buy your numbers. Show your math.

>>8957056
>t. teacher

Fuck your shit teach. Do you own work on your own time or respect Anon's results and shut up.