Stardate 20010731.1855 (Crew, this is the Captain): I was just sitting in a waiting room leafing through a news magazine and it had a side bar about Lance Armstrong, full of impressive numbers like how much food he was going to be eating during the Tour de France (it was published before the race) and how many calories he would burn and how much water he'd consume, and the last factoid was that he was going to generate 97.2 million watts "enough to power his home town for 2 hours and 28 minutes". 97 megawatts is an impressive power output for a human, don't you think? Puts a whole new meaning to the phrase "explosive breakaway from the pack", don't it? That's comparable to the energy release of burning TNT, except that only lasts for a fraction of a millisecond. (I believe they meant
joules, not
watts. Like as not someone said "watt-seconds" and the reporter omitted the time period.)
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