Regarding the atomic bomb factoid, they might have usefully added that 10,000 times that much energy reaches the Earth in the form of sunlight every second. (su

Regarding the atomic bomb factoid, they might have usefully added that 10,000 times that much energy reaches the Earth in the form of sunlight every second. (sunlight per second = 1.2e17 joules; the Hiroshima bomb = 1.5e13 joules.)