What if I were 1% charged? (2013)
> In short, if I lost 1% of my electrons, I would not be a person anymore.  I would be a bomb.  A Coulomb bomb, if you will, with an energy equivalent to that of ten billion (modern) atomic bombs.  Which would surely destroy the planet.  All by removing just 1 out of every 100 of my electrons.<p>The Chicxulub impactor struck with the force of ten billion Hiroshima bombs, and while the world underwent a mass extinction event, the planet itself was fine.