Talk:Sonic rainboom (event)/@comment-71.193.254.124-20111206011629

according to a math/physics nerd friend of mine, her max speed while doing this is around mach 33, which is around 11,000 meters per second. this is more than enough to escape the gravity of earth and go to space. the energy she used was approx. 32 tera-joules (assuming her speed was constant for that time) or 32,000,000,000,000 joules, approx. equal to the energy exerted by 8000 tons of TNT half the energy of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. after I thought about this, I realized that if Equestria ever has an energy crisis, they can just make some kind of device to convert Rainbow Dash's sonic rainboom directly into energy, have her do a few of them, and BAM, instant, massive amounts of power. too bad we can't make any inter-dimensional portals...yet.