Originally posted by NemeBro
Anyone who thinks you can't quantify the energy to kill all life on Earth and reshape a world is an idiot.It is quantified as better than Thor. 👆
Anyway, to be honest the two pictures you posted don't really show me anything, do you have any better ones?
Ok fine. Quantify it then. How strong is it? Is it equivalent to a nuclear bomb? Maybe 2? Maybe 10? Or maybe it's just as strong as a thousand light bulbs?
How long would it have needed to terraform the Earth? How many tons of force was each pulse generating if at all? Do we have anything we can compare it with so we have an idea of how strong it was?
Besides, it's not a destructive force, otherwise it would destroy the Earth. It's "terraforming" it to look like Krypton, meaning it's not simply a destructive force.
Originally posted by FrothByte
Ok fine. Quantify it then. How strong is it? Is it equivalent to a nuclear bomb? Maybe 2? Maybe 10? Or maybe it's just as strong as a thousand light bulbs?
It would be more powerful than every nuclear bomb ever created. Combined.
How long would it have needed to terraform the Earth? How many tons of force was each pulse generating if at all? Do we have anything we can compare it with so we have an idea of how strong it was?
Yes, apparently.
http://www.howstuffworks.com/terraforming2.htm
"If it is possible to smash an asteroid of such enormous size into Mars, the energy of one impact would raise the temperature of the planet by 3 degrees Celsius. The sudden raise in temperature would melt about a trillion tons of water, which is enough water to form a lake, with a depth of one meter, that could cover an area larger than the state of Connecticut. Several of these missions over 50 years would create a temperate climate and enough water to cover 25 percent of the planet's surface. However, the bombardment by asteroids, each releasing energy equivalent to 70,000 one-megaton hydrogen bombs, would delay human settlement of the planet for centuries."
Here is a theoretical method of terraforming Mars to be like Earth. Said method is far slower than the World Engine's.
Here is another:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/quora/2013/09/12/outer_space_can_we_make_mars_or_venus_habitable.html
http://www.slate.com/blogs/quora/2013/09/12/outer_space_can_we_make_mars_or_venus_habitable.html
The lowest estimates for the amount of energy needed to terraform Mars being 10^16 J of energy, aka nearly a thousand times more powerful than the Fat Man bomb.
Besides, it's not a destructive force, otherwise it would destroy the Earth. It's "terraforming" it to look like Krypton, meaning it's not simply a destructive force.
It was visibly destroying Metropolis and was going to kill all life on Earth and reshape its very climate.
"Oh but it wasn't going to destroy Earth"
Neither is a hand grenade, is that not a destructive force?
It is a very destructive force, just not to the extent that it can destroy the entire planet.