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Comment by tristanj

8 hours ago

I asked Claude Opus 4.8 to estimate the size of the explosion in kilotons of TNT, and it estimated the explosion at 0.18 kilotons of TNT (with an ~0.13–0.26 error range).

For comparison, the N-1 rocket explosion was around 0.5 kilotons of TNT.

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