Christian_Szegedy comments on Open Thread June 2010, Part 3 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Christian_Szegedy 14 June 2010 10:46:35PM *  1 point [-]

Your numbers seem to be off: (e.g. 4.26e9 J/sec would be truly minsiscule) You probably meant 4.29e29 J/sec, but then 5.74e5 years are wrong. According to wikipedia, the Sun's energy output is: 1.2e34 J/s which is still at odd with both of your numbers.