Up in Smoke

I've been reading an article in the New Yorker about the guy that's most accurately reconstructed the atomic bomb, Little Boy, dropped on Hiroshima.

He's done most of it from old photographs, interviews, sketches and mathematical guesses.

Though horrible at math and science myself, I've been going around looking at things with a different perspective since reading the article.

Take the ash pan of our pellet stove for instance.

I clean it out roughly every 7 days. We burn roughly a bag of pellets a day. A single bags holds 40lbs. of pellets. That's 280lbs of pellets reduced to this pile of ash.

Wow! is about all I can come up with. Sure, I could weigh the ashes, give you the size of the ash pan, blah, blah, blah and we could probably figure out the BTUs for the week, etc.

But I'm empirical at best, so all you get is - wow!

- b