Josh -
More (of my version of) blending (a violent metaphor for the technical
non-sequitor?):
Which leads to this interesting tidbit: "A garden snail has a top
speed of about 78 furlongs per fortnight."
Speaking of Firkin Furlongs per Fortnight
... the garden snail also seems to weigh in at about 20-30 grams or
.0006 firkin/snail... which suggests that if converted entirely to
energy, said snail is worth very roughly
~2.0 E21 Firkin-Furlong^2/Fortnight^2.
Since a good way to convert mass entirely to energy is via a
matter-antimatter interaction, take one anti-matter garden snail and one
normal-matter garden-snail put them together (aka ticking the snail's
tail). We have:
`4.0 F*(Furls/Fort)^2 total energy...
So what is the theoretical maximum specific impulse of a snail-powered
rocket engine in Fortnights?
(spoiler answer: ~600 fortnights..)
On our next installment, "who wins the race, the antimatter tortoise or
the antimatter snail"? And which one tastes better in garlic butter?
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