Thread:ImagoDesattrolante/@comment-27511601-20160421022248/@comment-26477305-20160421143131

Alright

'Gamera meets up with super-energetic power lines. Gamera is  struck by power line output. Gamera is  unfazed by the aforementioned surge of energy directly coursing through its body.

An incredibly basic premise, with potentially interesting results. Why, you may ask?

We are provided a very generous power yield for the electrical surge a scene prior to the Gamera assault on the geothermal power plant: the power station produces  350,000 kilowatt-hours at  maximum output.

To reinforce the specific usage of this value for the calculation, as opposed to a quick discredit due to high-end assumption, the lead professor in the film implores the power plant staff to utilise the  entire 350,000 kWh output against Gamera.

The duration of the energy exposure to Gamera ( 29:14 -  29:15) is  1 second before overwhelming damage to the energy-producing infrastructure is inflicted.

350,000 kWh = 1.26e+12 joules or  301.15 tons of TNT equivalent. '

So multiblock for original Gamera. And now, a showcase for easily the most well recognised (and quite possibly, the most fucking bizarre) special attribute possessed by all iterations of our friendly big turtle: its nuclear-generated, jet-propelled shell flight.'There are a small number of minor displays which numbers could be potentially yielded from, but they're universally messy to handle due to a distinct absence of direct temporal cues to determine flight duration, or indeed any significant hints of timespan to justify the extra work. Instead, I'll be picking out the greatest 'range' of freeform flight performed by Gamera in the film: it's documented in locations scattered across the world, including New York City, Cairo, a section of the Great Wall of China and Paris.Now again, there is an overall significant issue of difficult-to-ascert time cues for providing a definitive result, but this feat is not only of extensive enough distance to run the risk, there is also a slightly more detailed basis to work with, to a degree: roughly a quarter of the way through the film, the main protagonist Toshio and his family's lighthouse at Cape Erimo is demolished by Gamera; they are without lodgings as a result, and so Toshio and his older sister are sent down to Tokyo to briefly live with their uncle until building construction is complete (1, 2, 3, 4, 5).The very sudden nature of their arrival has me interpret this as Toshio and his sister arriving in Tokyo in the quickest (presuming flight, but their mode of travel is never specified) possible opportunity. The uncertainty is a bit of a killer to this whole feat the more I'm looking into it, but I'll low-ball and assume there was a timespan of 48 hours between Gamera's assault on Cape Erimo and Toshio's arrival in Tokyo (jet engines were being introduced to commercial planes in Japan in the 60s, but they weren't particularly common either).In that same duration, Gamera's most probable flight pattern would've been:#1 Hokkaido to the Great Wall of China (let's say the easternmost point, Qinhuangdao).#2 Qinhuangdao to Giza, Egypt.#3 Giza to Paris, France.#4 Paris to New York, USA.Distance #1 is 1994.75 km.Distance #2 is 7807.95 km.Distance #3 is 3214.53 km.Distance #4 is 5483.78 km.Total distance is 18,501.01 km.48 hours = 172,800 seconds.' 18501.01/172,800 = 107.06 m/s.Subsonic for original Gamera as well All calcs done by KaiserWombat.