Are we talking an extinction level event end of the dinosaurs type explosion? How much energy is released?

I'm reading The Sun Also Rises, and its mentioned that the whiskey and soda the characters but from a bar costs 12 francs. Would that have been a lot of money? Not quite a straightforward currency conversion as both France and Australia use different currencies than they did when the book was written.

In the recently concluded Kumbh Festival in India in 2025 it was said that almost 650 million people visited one place (City of Prayagraj) in 45 days.

Now the people came to the river banks, did the rituals and went back. some people stayed 1 night at the place. Some people stayed for 2 nights whereas a lot of people just came in the day and did not stay and went back the same day. There were some people who came stayed in the car and did not book hotels or stayed in open grounds

Is it possible that 650 million people visited in for 45 days? Is it possible logistically for transport, stay to manage this crowd

some sources of the info

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Prayag_Maha_Kumbh_Mela

This video gives an idea of the temp tent area where people stay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcxShS71QyQ

There are almost 100K tents build

https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/68-lakh-wooden-poles-100-km-fabric-and-3000-workers-making-of-tent-city-in-maha-kumbh-12907258.html

I'm talking about big servers like things used for chat got, YouTube, Facebook, crypto mining, etc.

A job I had awhile ago had a fun part of the commute. On the way home, once I merged onto the highway, if I got into a specific lane, I could follow that line for about 15 miles. It would merge me onto the interstate and drop me off on the right exit without ever changing lanes.

I took that route again tonight after a date night and my mind mused…what would be the longest stretch in the world where you could get into a lane and never change lanes?

Rules:

• No circles (e.g. multiple times around a roundabout)
• Assume no construction or lane blockages/closures
• A lane must be separated by painted lines, either dashed or solid. If a road ends to a non-painted street, that lane ends.
• A lane change requires driving over a dotted or straight line. If the lane exits to a different road, but it continues in a single lane without merging lanes, that is allowed.

So: There's this trivia game called that we use in my German (second language) class, and to finish the game, you have to collect 50,000 in-game dollars. To get money, you answer simple trivia questions. At first, a question is worth 1 dollar. The next is worth 2, then 3, etc until you break your answer streak by either being wrong or buying an upgrade.

I wrote the function f(X) = B((X/2)(2(C) + (X-1)(D))) to represent the total number of dollars earned in a given streak, where X is equal to the number of questions answered in a given streak, C is the number of dollars the first question in a streak is worth, and D is the number of additional dollars you earn for each successive question answered correctly in a streak. The initial function before buying any upgrades is f₁(x) = (X/2)(2+(X-1)).

With enough money, you can buy 4 upgrades from each of 3 categories that can change the output of the function. One is a "Multiplier" (B) upgrade, which will increase the B value. Another is the "Money Per Question" (C) upgrade, which will increase the C value. The last is the "Streak Bonus" (D) upgrade, which increases the D value.

B costs $50 for 1.5, $300 for 2, 2,000 for 3, and 12,000 for 5. C costs $10 for 5, $100 for 50, $1,000 for 100, and $10,000 for 500. D costs $20 for 3, $200 for 10, $2,000 for 50, and $20,000 for 250 Note that you do not have to buy the cheaper upgrades before the others, and they do not stack. The streak ends every time you buy an upgrade, but this only resets the streak bonus.

So, my question is: how can I optimize my purchase of upgrades in this silly little game so as to answer the least questions to earn $50,000, assuming I get none of them wrong?

What is the % size?

Presume that the car is filled to the brim of tennis balls.

Not sure exactly how helpful it may be, but the diameter for the tennis balls is somewhere between 2.575” and 2.7”. The dimensions of the car is 1.45m tall, 1.735m wide, and 4.64m deep. I don’t know the dimensions of the interior space. :-(

In the Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Link ascends a massive waterfall, starting at 209 meters above sea level and ending at 1290 meters above sea level, all in about 10 seconds (according to my unprofessional timer). To make things weirder, gravity stays the same, then significantly decreases right at the top. I don't know how much it does exactly, but I would guess it is about 1/6th of the gravity. Assuming that all the context is the same as earth (same gravity at the bottom and roughly moon's gravity at top, same air pressure, all that stuff), what did Link just experience? Is he having the worst ear popping of all time, and would he pass out? What are the Gs he is experiencing, and just all the other fun stuff?

Adding to this, the waterfall he ascended is polluted, and he then proceeds to climb roughly 1 KM in about 15 minutes

Picture was taken by me

As in, climate change isn't going to get worse.

How much did the front row of inauguration Day lose this week?

I was cutting some baseboards but this wall in my house is NOT a 90 degree angle. Both baseboards are cut at a 44 degree cut. In order to preserve the long baseboard, would I be able to cure more. I have an angle finder if that helps with the math. The angle finder shows 11.5 degrees

In Friends they buy $300(ish) worth of lottery tickets, (5 numbers + powerball) and only win $3 after they hit 7 on the powerball of one ticket. To only have one ticket with 7 as the powerball seems unlikely to me and got me thinking, what is the likely return on $300 worth of lottery tickets?

How much money do I need to start with to ensure, (or have a 99% chance of) not going bankrupt as the number of flips approaches infinity?

I looked up at the sky and asked myself this question and identified that it required math that wasn't capable of. Assuming that the area you're in as relatively flat so that maybe the bottom 10 degrees of your vision is blocked and that there aren't any clouds.