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A thread passed stating that the meteors break Kinetic Energy rules due to the calculation of the meteors flying from the atmosphere not equaling the damage.
This is flawed.
The thread deduced that because the strings effectively took 0.011545454% of the energy due to surface area, the speed and KE wouldn't change much, so the full continental KE rating would still stand.
However I find reason to doubt that due to the showing in the manga and the anime.
In the manga, nobody notices how fast they fall until they approach quickly, even from outside of the exosphere nobody notices them due to the speed, consistent with Issho's other meteors.
Yet here, we see that it stopped for so long that even the average marine could note its arrival.
In the anime, we see how fast it falls to the ground, yet the moment it hits the strings, the movement is semi-halted. It turns from a freefall to a struggle, like cutting butter with a hot butterknife vs cutting a steak with a spoon.
If calcs are disagreed on based on the logic of the meteors not following KE rules, then this shouldn't be a disqualifier, due to the strings mitigating a vast majority of the yield.
The strings having 0.011545454% of the surface area shouldn't mean that it only withstood 0.011545454% of the yield when we see it takes more than 90%.
This is flawed.
The thread deduced that because the strings effectively took 0.011545454% of the energy due to surface area, the speed and KE wouldn't change much, so the full continental KE rating would still stand.
However I find reason to doubt that due to the showing in the manga and the anime.
In the manga, nobody notices how fast they fall until they approach quickly, even from outside of the exosphere nobody notices them due to the speed, consistent with Issho's other meteors.
Yet here, we see that it stopped for so long that even the average marine could note its arrival.
In the anime, we see how fast it falls to the ground, yet the moment it hits the strings, the movement is semi-halted. It turns from a freefall to a struggle, like cutting butter with a hot butterknife vs cutting a steak with a spoon.
If calcs are disagreed on based on the logic of the meteors not following KE rules, then this shouldn't be a disqualifier, due to the strings mitigating a vast majority of the yield.
The strings having 0.011545454% of the surface area shouldn't mean that it only withstood 0.011545454% of the yield when we see it takes more than 90%.