1500 megawatt aperture science heavy duty supercolliding superbutton
@monorail i do wonder if the 1500 megawatt aperture science heavy duty supercolliding superbutton is designed to carry 1500 megawatts across its switch or if it takes 1500 megawatts in order to sustain its function. it would be funnier if it was the latter
@pearshapes do you think that light that comes on when you press the button takes 1500 megawatts
@monorail maybe! it might be like, an entire laser assembly deep in there that then gets scattered.
for scale comparison, the average incandescent bulb with a tungsten filament uses anywhere from 30 to 80 watts
@monorail a megawatt is a million watts
@pearshapes maybe they made the button out of something opaque but the light is just that bright
@monorail oh yeah like it glows through the material? that makes sense
i suppose if you did produce that much light you could make anything translucent
@pearshapes they got the material but cave johnson said "i want it to glow!"
"we'll have to get them to recreate the--"
"no time for that, make it work"
@pearshapes "the bean counters wanted approval to update the button design. fired every last one of them. if these buttons were good enough for the olympians of yesterday, they're more than good enough for... you."