Originally posted by FinalAnswer
Well, considering Twilight character's aren't that fast in a fight, he doesn't need to be.
Wrong:
"Jasper backed up a few more paces, his body tensing.
'Okay, Emmett - try to catch me.'
And I couldn't see Jasper anymore -..."
Later on:
"It looked like Jasper had no more substance than a ghost - any time it seemed Emmett's big hands had him for sure, Emmett's fingers clenched around nothing but air."
And when Jasper went to fight Alice:
"Jasper sprang, disappearing. Suddenly, he was on the other side of Alice. She didn't appear to have moved."
Keep in mind that Bella is watching this fight from a distance. The vamps are so fast that, to human eyes, they appear to be teleporting while sparring.
...
But wait, there's more:
"She was moving - I'd just been missing it, distracted by Jasper's attacks. She took a small step forward at the exact second Jasper's body flew through the spot where she'd jsut been standing."
And on to Jasper's and Edward's sparring match:
"Edward had closed in on Jasper now, and this fight was more even than either of the others....
They came at each other, again and again, neither one able to gain the advantage...
They moved too fast for me to really understand what they were doing."
Originally posted by FinalAnswer
Twilight vampires aren't that strong that, considering that's hyperbole from a fallible character.
Granted that Edward is not God in that he can make mistakes and is not omniscient. However, to say his statement about vampires being thousands of times stronger than humans is hardly something you can call fallible. Edward is one of the most educated people on the planet and only Carlisle surpasses him in knowledge. Hardly something you can say is "fallible" when it comes from such a knowledgeable character. Hardly hyperbole.
Originally posted by FinalAnswer
I don't care what they're called by whom, feats are what matters, and if you want to go by statements, Emmett's (Who is explicitly stronger then Edward) strength in one arm is described as that of a cement truck going downhill at 60 mph. I'm not one of those guys who can pull calcs out of their ass, but I sincerely doubt that's 100+ tons.
There are so many things wrong with your logic is it painful.
1. That was Bella who was a newborn vampire and did not have almost a century of education under her belt: she is not qualified to make such statements. She was using a simile.
2. One arm, in a rotating motion does not even come close to constituting peak lifting power. Not sure why you'd equate that to 100+ tons.
3. The tree pushover feat is well above 200 tonne-force according to a white paper I found on the topic: there's your feat and that should end the discussion with no further derailment.
4. If you want the math:
p = momentum
p = m*v
m= mass
v = velocity
60 mph = 96.56 kmh = 965.6 mh
A concrete truck weighs 65,000-70,000 pounds. http://www.tx-taca.org/members/files/2011/07/Concrete-and-cement-faq.pdf
To be nice, 65,000 lbs = 29,484 kg
p = 28,469,750.4 kg/mh
Convert p to k (kinetic energy)=
k = (p^2)/2m
Again, m = 29,484 kg and p = 28,469,750.4 kg/mh
k = 13,745,195,106 joules (or is that kilojoules? I don't remember..I think it is just joules because kg were used for both the numerator and denominator).
Anyway, now convert to force:
Take your joules to convert to kilogram-force:
13,745,195,106 * 0.1019716213 = 1401619830 kgf
But we want that in tonnes.
1401619830 kgf/1000 = 1,401,620 kilonewtons or "tonne-force".
1,401,620 kilonewtons.
1,401,620 kilonewtons
1,401,620 kilonewtons
1,401,620 kilonewtons
You should not wonder why Bella shatters the boulder on which they were wrestling: that much force would certainly shatter a medium-size boulder.
Originally posted by FinalAnswer
They're not that durable though,
That's hilariously trying to hard to gimp the vampires. They are more durable than surgical steel. Only vampire teeth and wolf teeth can harm them, if we go by the books. I'd say that high-velocity and high caliber rounds can harm them, as well. Good luck getting a vampire to hold still to get that shot.
Originally posted by FinalAnswer
Aro specifically said that humans have the capabilities to kill vampires, just that they're rarely utilized due to a vampire's strength and speed.
I agree, with this point. I think a high-velocity high caliber round would punch through them.
Originally posted by FinalAnswer
Bulletproof can mean anything, should we believe a vampire could shrug off a shotgun blast to the face, sure. Should we believe that a vampire would shrug off fire from a GAU-8 Avenger firing armor piercing rounds? I have seen nothing to suggest they could.
I take bullet-proof to mean, in the context of the characters and Meyer's knowledge, to mean any round that the average american can fire from a legally owned gun: non-military. I think the gun you used is a perfect example of a gun that should be able to punch through them. Somewhere between an armor-piercing round fired from an assault rifle and that gun would be their limit but that's obviously a huge gap to cover as far as pascals are concerned. This is based off the the various commentary from Bella about her dad possibly shooting Edward but to no avail.
Originally posted by FinalAnswer
Iron Man would be outside the effective range of any of the vampire's psychic abilities, since he would be, y'know, flying around bombarding them.
Edward's mind-reading abilities work within a couple of miles.
You also assume he will be magically starting in the air: they won't.
That would be like me giving Alice a 30 minute procog head start so the twivamps can come up with a plan to win. Not going to happen.
You also assume what those psychic project limits are when they are not clearly defined: bad form. You should not do that assuming, at all. Additionally, this is not an open field: this is Downtown Manhattan.
You also assume that any of Ironman's attacks will land against foes that can move so fast it seems like they can teleport. They can also hear much more acutely than the most accurate of human parabolic mics. It is extremely unlikely that Ironman will get the drop on any vampire while in the sky.
Originally posted by FinalAnswer
Iron Man soloes.
Ironman dies before he leaves the ground...as does every other avenger minus Thor and Hulk.
You have not shown the Ironman has the reaction speed to even talk to a vampire much less avoid a killing blow. I admit that his laser things should cut them in half, no problem, but any of his other rounds minus the anti-tank missile will do nothing to the vampires. You're also forgetting the effective range of those lasers: it will not be nearly as powerful at 2 miles out (I'd assume you'd want him to stay out of range of Edward's mind reading powers, right).