How to eat a bomb

Credit: New Line Cinema

Is it possible to swallow a bomb and survive?

Don Gorsky has been featured on the internet this week, he is "famous" for having eaten his 25,000th Big Mac.

A Big Mac contains 490 Calories

1 food calorie = 1000 thermochemical calories

1 thermochemical calorie = 4.184 Joules

490,000 x 25,000 x 4.184 = 51,254,000,000 Joules or 5.1254 x 10¹⁰ Joules

This is equivalent to the energy released by a GBU-43/B MOAB (Massive Ordnance Air Blast) bomb, the second most powerful non-nuclear weapon ever designed.

So, yes, you can eat a bomb, as long as you do it slowly.