Talk:Bass Vs Metal Sonic/@comment-33067344-20180120203849/@comment-32617116-20180301030953

1. Using the distance to Venus as an estimate is not very good. The reason the lowest distance for the moon is used is because that's around the best we can say for his distance considering how Little Planet actually looked in the cutscenes and in-game stuff we see it in. Here, just look at the view of Venus from Earth:

http://en.es-static.us/upl/2013/09/moon-venus-at-sunset-Jozef-Deak-Budapest-Hungary.jpg

The dot at the upper left is Venus if you couldn't catch it, which I wouldn't blame anyone for. Venus is 80% of Earth's size, which is basically what Little Planet is. Now compare that distance to these distances:

https://youtu.be/j0pjzTQPHyw?t=40s (Look in the upper left, here's a much better shot of Little Planet in Sonic 4, the one in the intro cutscene is hard to gauge a distance from because of how the camera is)

https://youtu.be/ccpY14bXcug?t=1m9s

Little Planet isn't the biggest thing in the whole entire universe, like Super Shenron from Dragon Ball Super decided to go "screw it" and fly to Sonic's World and that's what it would look like, but to compare it to our view of Venus from Earth is crazy talk! I mean, just compare the photos. Using the distance of the moon is a better estimate. Of course, the lowest point in orbit seems like a little bit too much of a lowball, so I wouldn't blame you if you used the moon at it's full moon distance but that's still nowhere near MFTL, only like relativistic+ or a bit above baseline FTL, which Sonic is anyways for the latter.

2. Miles is an important thing to know, but you said Eggman leaves off important factors. Putting miles at the end of a distance is not an important factor, just one of many different factors in this situation. Eggman's in-character way of leaving off an important factor would be something like leaving off an important location Metal Sonic would have to go to, but putting miles at the end of a distance does not seem like anything close to that. If he didn't do the utmost basic stuff like adding units of measurement in his plans, (which is almost akin to not carrying a two in this situation because if Eggman leaves off miles like this, calculating the "distance" must have been entirely inefficient because it would just be a mess with all the different numbers he'd be considering. C'mon, Eggman's above that.) it would all fall apart. It isn't that Eggman didn't put miles at the end of that slew of numbers because he leaves off important factors, it's that Eggman didn't put miles at the end of that slew of numbers because it's a coordinate.