Robert Lynn wrote:
Also space shuttle main engine combustion chamber releases 9 GW from a rice-cookerish 10 litres of volume, not a bomb, but definitely vigorous.
The Shuttle engine was as close to a bomb as you can get without being a bomb. I mean it was the most heat and energy possible in that volume of space. It was extreme engineering. Someone called it a "barely controlled explosion."
- Jed
