Socrates' Academy: Attacking Rush Limbaugh

Friday, January 30, 2009

Attacking Rush Limbaugh

Never get in a debate with someone who sells air time by the megawatt.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...: Or by the nuclear power plant equivalent (~1 GW).

500 stations x 50,000 Watts/station = 25 MW

Ok, he's a little short.

I served on a diesel sub that could produce 3 MW. It's a lotta juice.

BTW, I love your new light blogging, one-liner posts. Readers can flesh them out in the comments. ~JimmyOfTooManyWords; 1/30/2009 11:14 AM
Loren Heal said...: Yah, I first said gigawatt and had to change it. Still, my units don't match since air time is not really sold by the watt, but by the minute.; 1/30/2009 11:22 AM
Anonymous said...: 'Megawatt minutes', then, an odd unit of energy. Some high school physics class still teach dimensional analysis, btw.

So Rush's 3-hour program is roughly equivalent to 4.5 GW-minutes assuming all those 500 stations use 50KW transmitters.

We calculate this stuff while Rome burns. ~Jimmy; 1/30/2009 11:37 AM

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