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It was answered. You need 300 quadrillion bananas if you only use the energy emitted from the radioactive decay, or 10 bunches per day if you're willing to just burn them and basically ignore their radioactivity.


I expected the article to actually calculate it and not just give the answer.


> > I'm disappointed that the question wasn't answered.

> It was answered.

And now disappointed that the article only answered the question? :D


I couldn't initially find the answer because I was looking for a calculation to find the answer instead of just a sentence out of the blue with the answer


I thought this was a pointless quibble, but then I tried doing the calculation myself (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31284436), and I think Randall got the number wrong.




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