* Heft


Sure, BOMApens are heavy; but objectively speaking, they're not THAT heavy. For one thing, it's human nature to visually gauge density rather than actual weight when hefting an object. So even though BOMApens weigh a fairly normal amount, they're packed into such a small package that they FEEL really different–which is the point. Anyway, here's some perspective (all in grams, which is kind of odd for large things but what the heck):


The apparent mass of the Universe100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
The Milky Way Galaxy1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
The Sun1989100000000000000000000000000000
The Earth5974200000000000000000000000
The United States107130000000000000000000000
The Moon73483000000000000000000000
The Great Pyramid5900000000000
The mass converted into energy by the Sun every second429000000000
The Titanic42116000000
A Blue Whale99800000
The Lunar Lander15065000
A new VW Bug1300000
A person70000
The energy unleashed from a 15 megaton H-bomb682
A typical T-shirt250
BOMApen D6 w/tungsten endcap104
BOMApen D6 w/alloy X-750 endcap90
BOMApen D6 w/titanium endcap84
BOMApen B5 w/tungsten endcap74
BOMApen B5 w/alloy X-750 endcap63
BOMApen B5 w/titanium endcap58
A BIC® Stik™ pen7
A credit card4
A Cuban Bee Hummingbird1.6
The energy unleashed from a 15 kilo-ton A-bomb.68
A Monarch butterfly.5
A Ladybug
A 100W lightbulb filament.016
A snowflake.00003
An hour's worth of heat energy from a 100 watt lightbulb.000000000003
A human genome.000000000006
An hour's worth of visible light from a 100 watt lightbulb.0000000000004
A hydrogen atom.00000000000000000000001672
An electron.000000000000000000000000009109
A red photon.0000000000000000000000000000000034

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