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Macro Maths!
13 years ago
[WARNING! I'm crap at math.]
So
ramsusxiii claimed to be the size of Florida this morning.
Florida is 447 miles tall, north to south. Or 2,360,160ft.
If a normal person is 6 foot tall, 2,360,160 / 6 = 393360 times bigger than a normal person.
So, if Moonlight is that many times bigger than us, how heavy is he?
An average man is 80 kg, in America at least, but as things get bigger, they get bigger disproportionately. If something is twice as big, it's 8 times as heavy.
So, 80kg * 8 * 393360 = 251,750,400 kg. Which is 251,000 tonnes, if we make tonnes 1,000kg. (As there are two different kinds of tonnes).
Hm. I ponder. How large are his hands? Shall we find out?
Danny is 5 foot 10 tall, or 70 inches. His hand measures 6 inches from pinky tip to thumb tip, if he stretches his fingers out lazily.
6 / 70 = 0.085714, the Hand of Height ratio.
Alas, Moonlight is 28,321,920 inches tall. 28,321,920 * 0.085714 = 2,427,585 inch wide hands. Or 202,298 ft. Or 38 miles. With a bit more stretching, he might wrap a hand around Long Island!
Further still! How big are Moonlight's feet at this thunderous size? Let's find out!
So, Danny is 5 ft 10, or 70 inches. He has 10,2 inch long feet. Shoe size doesn't help here, really.
10.2 / 70 = 0.14571, which is the percentage of foot size against main body size.
Moonlight is 28,321,920 inches tall. 28,321,920 * 0.14571 = 4,126,786 inches long. Or 343,898 foot. Or 65 miles. Placing his feet end on end, he can stand all over Long Island. Or take his long legs and dip his toes in the Bahamas.
Oh, if for ever 10 inches, you gain 8 shoe sizes, his sneakers are size 515,848. He could also fit a small city in his boot.
So
ramsusxiii claimed to be the size of Florida this morning. Florida is 447 miles tall, north to south. Or 2,360,160ft.
If a normal person is 6 foot tall, 2,360,160 / 6 = 393360 times bigger than a normal person.
So, if Moonlight is that many times bigger than us, how heavy is he?
An average man is 80 kg, in America at least, but as things get bigger, they get bigger disproportionately. If something is twice as big, it's 8 times as heavy.
So, 80kg * 8 * 393360 = 251,750,400 kg. Which is 251,000 tonnes, if we make tonnes 1,000kg. (As there are two different kinds of tonnes).
Hm. I ponder. How large are his hands? Shall we find out?
Danny is 5 foot 10 tall, or 70 inches. His hand measures 6 inches from pinky tip to thumb tip, if he stretches his fingers out lazily.
6 / 70 = 0.085714, the Hand of Height ratio.
Alas, Moonlight is 28,321,920 inches tall. 28,321,920 * 0.085714 = 2,427,585 inch wide hands. Or 202,298 ft. Or 38 miles. With a bit more stretching, he might wrap a hand around Long Island!
Further still! How big are Moonlight's feet at this thunderous size? Let's find out!
So, Danny is 5 ft 10, or 70 inches. He has 10,2 inch long feet. Shoe size doesn't help here, really.
10.2 / 70 = 0.14571, which is the percentage of foot size against main body size.
Moonlight is 28,321,920 inches tall. 28,321,920 * 0.14571 = 4,126,786 inches long. Or 343,898 foot. Or 65 miles. Placing his feet end on end, he can stand all over Long Island. Or take his long legs and dip his toes in the Bahamas.
Oh, if for ever 10 inches, you gain 8 shoe sizes, his sneakers are size 515,848. He could also fit a small city in his boot.
Works the opposite for 'micros'. Being smaller, their weight is drastically less.
A macro of such size would be obliterated under their own weight.
Where as a small enough micro could be dropped off a tall building and land on their feet like it was nothing.
...........and did you call me fat?
To answer Shades' question, how much gravity would a a macro of that size have, we can use Newton's law of universal gravitation: F = G(m₁m₂)/r².
Lets take your earlier value for mass of Moonlight to be m₁=4.78e18 kg. Since Moonlight is a macro, basically everything else is insignificantly tiny compared to him, so we can get rid of that annoying m₂ term and say that m₁m₂≈m₁. Lets also assume that Moonlight is approximately spherical (Physicist love doing this - lets just say he curled up into a ball 1/3 his height), thus the distance between Moonlight and the tiny sitting on him would be r = 447 miles / 3 ≈ 239,792 m.
Throw this all into Newton's magical formula and we get 0.00555 Newtons (or about 1/1760th of the force of Earth's gravity), so there would be a very gentle attraction (close to the weight of a paper note sitting in your hand).
Either way... that, being the size of Florida would still make Moonlight bloody huge!