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Jeff's Reference Page
Reference Page, put it in perspective
What i'm attempting here is to make sence of those weirdo dates you read about the oldest person and furthest planet. Or the 10 million volts that hit some guy playing golf. Take a look at the link Nate found... How Stuff Works. -jef
Current 0.2 Amps P100 Laptop Running 0.4 Amps P100 Laptop Running with Screen on 0.4 Amps AMD400 Running 0.9 Amps AMD1600 Running Idle (2hdds) 1.1 Amps AMD1600 Running & working 15 Amps Laserjet4 spikes ~once a minute 10^-12 Synaptic current (never cell in brain) 10^-10 10^-8 Integrated circuits memory cell 10^-6 10^-4 Typical integrated circuit Thereshold of sensation (in humans) 10^-2 Causes ventricular fibrillation (deadly) 10^-0 Typical Household appliance 10^2 Large Industrial appliance 10^4 Lightning bolt 6 billion billion electrons per second = 1 Ampere Voltage 10^-8 Antenna of radio receiver 10^-6 Electroencephalography (EEG) Human scalp 10^-4 Electrocardiogram (EKG) Human chest 10^-2 10^-0 Flashlight battery Voltage on integrated circuits 10^2 House wiring Large industrial motors 10^4 TV picture tube 10^6 Cross country high tension transmission line 10^8 Lightning | Power10^-14 Earth receiver from a geosynchronc satlite 10^-12 10^-10 Superconducting Gate 10^-8 Average Human Brain Cell 10^-6 Typical CMOS gate (IC) 10^-4 Bipolar transistor (small signals) 10^-2 Electronic calculator 10^-0 Microprocessor chip 10^2 Lightbulb Power in a 5 hp lawn mower, Radio Station 10^4 Large industrial motor 10^6 Hydro-electric plant 10^8 Nuclear power plant High energy pulse laser 10^10 10^12 Nuclear weapons effects simulator Inertial containment fusion experiment 10^14 1 Horse power = 33,000 foot-lbs/min (lbs moved one foot in one min) |
Time Year - - - - - - - Event Massive Black Hole Evaporates in: ten thousand trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion years 14,000,000,000 BC Big Bang 6,000,000,000 BC Earth 4,000,000,000 BC Life (simple) 4,000,000,000 Mars lost atmosphere 1,000,000,000 BC Oldest layer in Grand Canyon 600,000,000 BC Snowball Earth 500,000,000 BC Life (complex) 225,000,000 BC One Continent Pangaea 180,000,000 Earily African Dinosaurs 65,000,000 Dinosaurs Die 40,000,000 Pangaea Separates 15,000,000 Earliest ProtoHuman Found 6,000,000 Chimps / Human Diverge 3,200,000 Lucy Early Human 1,000,000 Grand Canyon Started 350,000 BC Bi Ped Creatures 93,000 BC Human (modern) 20,000 BC Farming 10,000 BC Glacier Over N. America 4,004 BC Religious Beginning of Time 950 BC Greeks 330 BC Hellenistic 150 BC Romans 500 Middle Ages 1,789 Modern Period 1,800 Goto Work 1,812 Nepolean 1,215 King John - Magna Carta (modern govt) 1,400 Market Economies There have been 1026 nanoseconds since the big bang Radio, Light, Lasar (concentrated light), Microwaves, Gamma CB radio is 27Mhz and 4-5 watts Odds Money Air | Speed 186,300 mpSecond Light 18 mpSecond Earth in its orbit 24,000 mph to Escape Earth 78,000 mph Max Speed of Deep Space 1 People Space Universe Brain Thrust Mass Data Rates TV Resolutions (Scan LInes) |
References... dont need no stinkin references!
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