Figures from Mintel reveal that we eat a tonne of crisps every three minutes in the UK. This would be enough to fill a telephone box every 43 seconds and an Olympic size swimming pool every 14 hours.
or how about
The CMS, along with the rival experiment Atlas, will seek to identify the elusive Higgs boson (known as the "God particle" because of its importance to the Standard Model of particle interactions), look for so-called supersymmetric particles and seek out the existence of extra dimensions.
These experiments, each about the size of a mansion, will capture and measure new particles produced in the beam collisions.
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During its lifetime, Calder Hall nuclear power plant produced enough electricity to power a two-bar electric fire for 3.8 million years.
Well, now, from NPO Energomash, the Russian manufacturer of rocket engines, which insists, against all available evidence, that it is named after Academician V.P. Glushko, comes, erm, this (in reference to the RP-171 engine used on the Zenit launcher):
1 set of turbines and pumps - Turbine produces approximately 257,000 hp (192 MW); equivalent to the power output of 3 nuclear powered icebreakersWell, certainly, but for how many thousands of years could a whole Zenit heat a mansion full of crisps?
What sort of nuclear icebreaker, anyway? There are three classes, arguably four. This is a bizarre comparison. Are people expected to know how much power a nuclear powered icebreaker produces? Anywhere between 180 and 340MW, that's how much, so Energomash is lying. Now how am I supposed to trust the BBC on the phonebox thing?
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