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Re:Pip.io tries to boil an ocean @ TC50 - please help give t... by staringispolite on Monday September 14, 2009 @08:47PM (#822973)
Heh, it may be that I'm running on little sleep, but I initially read the headline literally, and got excited about a sweet publicity stunt :)

Looks to me, pipio is a replacement to almost every social site out there (facebook, friendfeed, twitter mashups, likaholix, etc...) and thus is "boiling an ocean" in terms of startup goals.

Man I do wish they'd do that publicity stunt tho and _actually_ try to boil an ocean :) Maybe one day.

Re:Pip.io tries to boil an ocean @ TC50 - please help give t... by thegoleffect on Monday September 14, 2009 @09:08PM (#823010)
approximate pacific ocean volume = 7.24176e24 cm^3

median ocean water density = 1.028 g/cm^3

temperature difference = 1 deg C

specific heat of water = 4186 J/(g·K)

multiply all together should = energy required to heat the ocean by 1 deg C is 3.12e+28 J

Maybe one day! Haha