Thread:Superluigiluigi/@comment-1058260-20150302080212/@comment-1058260-20150304024555


 * "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."

This is indeed the philosophy to use when you're dealing with science, but there's a reason "cartoon physics" is called such. If you need something specific that shows relativity isn't applying: Lorentz contraction. The moon should have visibly flattened to an ellipsoid at 86% of the speed of light, and it didn't. No Lorentz contraction, no relativity.

If the moon should have caused an extinction event, then it also should have blown up when DK punched it if he was a star-buster. but I think it hitting Tiki Kong is a reasonable enough explanation.

The lower limit is a reasonable ballpark with that speed because if you look at the acceleration due to gravity just before the moon was "locking" back into place from the volcano's force, the falling speed is roughly the speed at which DK knocked it out. So if he canceled the kinetic energy, the scene makesmore sense.