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Omaha Man Convicted of Multiple Robberies (United States Attorney's Office for the District of Nebraska)

Edit Public Technologies 25 Mar 2016
(Source. United States Attorney's Office for the District of Nebraska). United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Emmanuel Chaplain, age 26, of Omaha, Nebraska, was convicted after a jury trial ... The Honorable Chief District Judge Laurie Smith Camp presided over the trial that began March 14 in Federal District Court ... Mr ... The probability that the bandana did not belong to Chaplain was one in 20 sextillion ... Original Document....

10 Cosmic Dangers Threatening Our Planet

Edit What Culture 16 Mar 2016
Earth has already seen its fair share of devastation throughout its 4 and a half billion years of existence, and while its still present and brimming with life, one day something might come flying in our direction, that not even 5.9 sextillion tons of mass could withstand ... ....

Genetic profiling of trees helps convict timber thieves (The University of Adelaide)

Edit Public Technologies 10 Mar 2016
(Source. The University of Adelaide). Monday, 7 March 2016. University of Adelaide forest DNA forensics research has helped convict National Forest timber thieves in a landmark case in the United States ... 'Our database indicates that, with these markers, the likelihood of two trees having the same DNA profile is as low as one in 428 sextillion; there are thought to be approximately 70 sextillion stars in the universe.' ... Original Document....

Gravitational waves: an explainer

Edit Canberra Times 11 Feb 2016
Gravitational waves are ripples in the fabric of space-time caused by the acceleration through space of massive objects. They are a predicted phenomena emerging from Einstein's theory of general relativity. They have never before been measured ... merging our theories of gravity with our understanding of the quantum world in a grand unified theory of matter. Einstein's theory of gravity ... The Earth has a mass of about 5.97 sextillion tonnes ... ....

Measuring ocean heating is fundamentally important to track global warming

Edit The Guardian 03 Feb 2016
Taking the Earth’s temperature is a challenge, but a critically important one. Human emissions of heat-trapping gases like carbon dioxide are causing the Earth to warm. We know this, and we have known this would happen for over 100 years. But scientists want to know how fast the Earth is warming and how much extra energy is being added to the climate because of human activities ... This is over 1 zettaJoules (sextillion Joules) per year ... Dr....

Which industries are going to be affected by big data? (ISG Technology Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 28 Jan 2016
(Source. ISG Technology Inc). The digital age has ushered in a level of information transfer that has never been seen before. A Cisco report predicted that in 2016 alone, the human race will generate more than a zettabyte of worldwide IP traffic ... A zettabyte, on the other hand, is one sextillion or 10²¹ bytes. That's a lot of letters zipping around the globe every year ... 'Those working outside IT can benefit from analytics.'. Insurance....

Today in the press

Edit RTE 26 Jan 2016
FACEBOOK WARNS OF POTENTIAL TAX CLAIMS DATING BACK TO 2009 - Facebook’s corporate vehicles in Britain and Ireland have warned of “potential tax reassessments” dating to the start of the decade and earlier ... *** ... *** ... *** ... Back in 2008, when annual inflation peaked at 89.7 sextillion per cent - that’s roughly 9 followed by 22 zeros - a single egg could cost well over a billion dollars, assuming you could find one. ....

Climate change causing oceans to heat up at alarming rate

Edit The Examiner 20 Jan 2016
The amount of human-made heat energy absorbed by the world’s oceans has doubled since 1997 ... A Joule is the unit of electrical energy equal to the work done when a current of one ampere is passed through a resistance of one ohm for one second .A Zettajoule is one sextillion Joules. That's the 150 Joules followed by 21 zeros (150,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Joules). That is a lot of energy; almost too much energy to comprehend....

How Much Money The Death Stars Cost The Empire

Edit Cinema Blend 07 Dec 2015
When it comes to a galactic weapon of ultimate death and destruction, both Death Stars from the Star Wars franchise have most other competitors beat ... All of this could be yours for the price of $419 quintillion! ... Meaning that out of the $4.6 sextillion gross galactic product, $920 quintillion is needed in order to stabilize the Empire's financials after Return Of The Jedi's daring raid turned into an explosive success ... Star Wars ... ....

Just how much did the Death Stars cost the galaxy in Star Wars?

Edit Entertainment Weekly 04 Dec 2015
It seems Emperor Palpatine may have fleeced the Galactic Empire for every penny to create the Death Stars. Zachary Feinstein, an engineering professor at Washington University in St ... With an estimated $4.6 sextillion Galactic economy, the bailout would run between $690 and $920 quintillion ... ....

Why Destroying The Death Star Was A Major Mistake

Edit Huffington Post 03 Dec 2015
You don't necessarily have to wait for the Dec. 18 release of "Star Wars ... Louis.  ... Feinstein draws on some work published a few years ago to estimate that the two Death Stars would have cost the Empire about $419 quintillion ... With these factors in mind, Feinstein found that the destruction of the two gigantic space stations would have resulted in financial losses of about a sextillion dollars ... Also on HuffPost. ... ....

Here's How Much The Death Star Would Have Cost

Edit IFL Science 03 Dec 2015
Louis, destroying them would have been catastrophic for the galactic economy and the rebel chances to establish a second republic ... According to the U.S ... Based on the cost of the battle stations being 0.21 percent of the total Empire budget, compared to the cost of the Manhattan Project, the estimate for the GGP is $92 sextillion (thousand billion billion) during the 20 years of the Empire ... (h/t. Popular Science) ....

A professor has calculated how much blowing up the Death Star in 'Star Wars' would set back gross galactic product

Edit Business Insider 02 Dec 2015
Major geopolitical events have often been followed by volatility in the economy and financial markets. World War II helped to shake the US out of the Great Depression ... Average Gross Galactic Product, similar to our GDP, during the 20 year reign of the Empire is around $4.6 sextillion a year. For reference, a sextillion is a 1 followed by 21 zeros (in the US) and 59 million times the Earth's 2014 GDP ... ....
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