KMC Olympics: The Javelin Toss

oh may bad i thought i saw mercer's name. so yoshi takes the silver than 😮

Originally posted by NemeBro
Mario is from Brooklyn.

He is more American than the whore from Zebes.

That's not nice! 🙁

Besides, Samus was born on the Earth colony K-2L. IN SPACE.

Anyway, I still believe a javelin moving faster than sound should go at least a few miles. Samus for silver, maybe.

Y'know, Scenario. I may just be able to figure that out with math. But I'll need some time.

I was sort of planning on attempting that, but I'm not a math person and a don't exactly know the mass of the javelin.

Alright, this is gonna be some franken math, so bare with me. 9.8 m per s^2 = accelleration due to gravity.

What we need to do to determine the distance of Samus toss is something like the following.

If we assume she launches the javelin at 45 degrees, then half of her speed will be used for vertical travel, and half for horizontal.

So, we'd need to figure out how long the accelleration of gravity takes to bring the javelin's height back down to 0, then determine the average horizontal speed due to wind resistance.

It should easily be a couple miles.

So, let's get cracking. Let's assume the speed booster makes her move at mach 2.

If that's so, her total innitial throw velocity is 680 m/s

Therefore, her vertical innitial velocity is 340 m/s

For the accelleration to gravity to catch up will take more than a couple seconds to totally reverse this. I wish I had a graphing calculator.

I'll just represent it step by step.

I'll return with more on this.

1. Samus
2. Yoshi
3. Mario

Also that Bowser was big... but if you haven't finished New Super Mario Bros. Wii, check that out cause that Bowser can definitely compete for biggest one evar.

I have finished it. The Bowser in Yoshi's Island can hog up the horizon, though. No other Bowser's done that. =P

Yoshi for #1, he knocked a bowser that size backward, quite a distance backward.

Giving Yoshi the gold, who takes silver?

Samus. Speed Boost throw > Mario, sadly.

But the man in red is still cooler.

War can throw a car 30+ stories.....

^ Alex can throw a tank that high >.> War should be in the top 3.

Samus takes gold.