Thread:Superluigiluigi/@comment-1058260-20150302080212/@comment-25547865-20150304022649

Still, something like the moon dropping on the planet is going to cause a massive counter-reaction force, at least enough to cause a mass extinction event. This is why I originally proposed that Tiki Tong managed to shift the counter-reaction force elsewhere somehow (the Tikis were evil, but they didn't seem like the type to let the entire planet be destroyed along with them to me).

We can't assume that the laws of physics aren't being applied unless: 1) the event absolutely cannot be rationalized with any existing theories and 2) no new theory can be generated that explains the event and is consistent with the other theories we have. That doesn't seem to be the case with this cutscene. Just because they have FTL travel doesn't mean relativity doesn't apply anymore, unless you can show that they were traveling faster than light in their own reference frame. We have theoretical ways for FTL travel in real life (Alcubierre drive, wormholes, etc.). Maybe kinetc energy cancellation is a more defendable estimate and probably good to use as a lower limit, but DK punched the moon to the ground in less than 2 seconds. Why should that be given the same estimate as a character who takes hours or even days to do the same?