TheMightyOzaru wrote:Rocketman wrote:Also what is this nonsense about "blowing up the Moon from the core". What does that even mean.
It essentially means you are forcing the planet apart from it's core with an Omnidirectional blast.
What Rocketman's getting at is that the amount of energy necessary to force the Moon apart from its core is exactly the 30 trillian megatons you mentioned earlier. Blowing up a planet from its core doesn't make it easier. This is fiction, of course, so it can do whatever it wants, but I guess it just feels weird to some people to hear others say "it was easier because they blew up the core" as if it's perfectly logical because it just goes against everything they know, you know?
Mjb1985 wrote:Yea considering there isn't a core , at least not like the one on Earth that could start a chain reaction
Likewise, a big ball of iron can't have a chain reaction. But again, this is fiction, and the way Toriyama wrote it does make it seem like planets are ticking timebombs waiting to go off. How did Namek explode, anyway...? Freeza "took out" the core, implying it was gone, and that somehow caused the planet to explode several minutes later? What exploded, exactly? The gap where the core used to be? Dragon Ball's weird.
The Monkey King wrote:Is his word not good enough for some of you?
If they want to question it, that's up to them. Hell, if they want to ignore things the author said outside of the original story itself, that's up to them, too. If you think you should accept anything the author says, whether it's made up on the spot or doesn't make much sense or whatever, then that's up to you, but please don't force your approach on others or tell people to stop thinking and questioning for themselves. Even if you do want to accept the author's answers as law, we can at least talk about them and suggest alternatives that might have fit better.
This conversation keeps making me think about Toriyama's random "Saiyan tails are recessive" comment.
