"Rabbits belong on the moon, of course!" - What?!

Kendamu · Post by **Kendamu** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 3:41 pm

If Roshi did kill them (assuming that they didn't get back to Earth somehow) I'm pretty sure that either they got wished back or it doesn't matter because they're bad guys anyway.

Rocketman · Post by **Rocketman** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 6:41 pm

Amiable-Akuma wrote:3. Rocketman, - that was one of the most amazing/crazy posts I've ever seen. LOL!

Give me a couple minutes and I'll figure out how close DB's Moon is to its Earth.

EDIT: OK, guys, I think I've eyeballed it.

DB's Earth viewed from its Moon:

And a screenshot from a space simulator I modified:

Close enough? Yes, no?

landoku · Post by **landoku** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 9:57 pm

Endishiki · Post by **Endishiki** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 10:39 pm

Rocketman wrote:
Endishiki wrote:Well, obviously the Moon was in fact a magical oxygen sphere with a candy-coated rock in the middle.
Actually, we can guess what DB's Moon is.

Note here:

Earth fills the sky of DB's Moon.

In the real world:

Earth is pretty small when viewed from the Moon.

DB's Moon look to be at least twice as close to Earth as our Moon is, probably much closer.

Since it's not raising disasterous tides and its destruction didn't set off an apocalypse on the Earth, the DB Moon is hollow and filled with oxygen.

Ah, I did not know that. Points to you, sir!

Rocketman · Post by **Rocketman** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 11:09 pm

landoku wrote:Yes.

Then DB's Moon is either hollow or made of fluff. That pic from the space simulator is from a Moon I moved to about 25,000 miles above Earth. That's about geosynchronous orbit, where the Moon goes around Earth once a day.

At that range, the tides would be a mound of water 500 meters tall (Empire State Building-ish). Actually, that might be close enough that the rock of the continents would bulge towards the Moon noticably.

Pedro The Hutt · Post by **Pedro The Hutt** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 11:56 pm

At this point the "Whenever you bring real life physics into a fantasy universe debate, God kills a catgirl" picture would come in handy I must say. XD

BlueSky · Post by **Kaboom** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 11:41 am

Pedro The Hutt wrote:At this point the "Whenever you bring real life physics into a fantasy universe debate, God kills a catgirl" picture would come in handy I must say. XD

Much obliged!

aarondirebear · Post by **aarondirebear** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 2:41 pm

Only human arrgance would assume that Dragonball's moon has the same relationship to its Earth that ours does.

Of course, there is also no real evidence that the moon, being so damn far away, is able to pull on our oceans. Its as absurd as saying that the moon pulls on people's brains during a full moon: the moon doesnt actually get any closer when its full! If the moon's gravity were strong enough to change the tides, we ought to be floating towards it.

Rocketman · Post by **Rocketman** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 2:53 pm

Of course, there is also no real evidence that the moon, being so damn far away, is able to pull on our oceans. If the moon's gravity were strong enough to change the tides, we ought to be floating towards it.

The Moon's gravity doesn't change the tides, it creates them (except for the small tides created by the Sun).

As for why we don't float towards the Moon, it's because the Moon pulls on the Earth's rock just as hard as it pulls on us. We do 'float' towards the Moon, but the ground moves with us in a small bulge.

Water is liquid, so it moves more freely than the solid matter of the rock and us.

Also, the Moon does get closer to the Earth at some points during its orbit. Note this:

gohanku · Post by **gohanku** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 11:20 pm

Oh my goodness! Moon coming nearer, help! Anyway DB's moon isn't so far away, Goku could go there with his power pole and he went there in about one minute!

Rocketman · Post by **Rocketman** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 1:48 am

gohanku wrote:Oh my goodness! Moon coming nearer, help! Anyway DB's moon isn't so far away, Goku could go there with his power pole and he went there in about one minute!

Which means the power pole can extend at 1.5 million miles an hour.

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I'm not drunk enough for this thread.

Also, am I the only one who sees the thread's title and pictures Goku taking every rabbit he meets to the Moon?

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