• This forum is strictly intended to be used by members of the VS Battles wiki. Please only register if you have an autoconfirmed account there, as otherwise your registration will be rejected. If you have already registered once, do not do so again, and contact Antvasima if you encounter any problems.

    For instructions regarding the exact procedure to sign up to this forum, please click here.
  • We need Patreon donations for this forum to have all of its running costs financially secured.

    Community members who help us out will receive badges that give them several different benefits, including the removal of all advertisements in this forum, but donations from non-members are also extremely appreciated.

    Please click here for further information, or here to directly visit our Patreon donations page.
  • Please click here for information about a large petition to help children in need.

[Invincible] The Infamous Sun Disk

No, because the article for the GBE is. "Constant surface mass density"

The article used constant surface mass density, which means it's a 2D object. It's also surface area and not volume, which you used.
 
@FuriousFieryFist We don’t know if those missiles are stronger than a viltrumite, and even then the Solar Disk is predominantly a supporting feat to the main one every Viltrumite would scale to, which is Nolan moving an entire planet.
I was under the impression that this was being used to scale viltrimites. I actually agree with them not scaling to it, so this doesn't really bother me.
I'm a little late but why can't Viltrumite's scale to the feat? The ship is supposedly one collations worst, so if they causally have that kind of fire power and it was enough to hurt a Viltrumite, they should never have struggled with the Viltrumite threat
 
I'm a little late but why can't Viltrumite's scale to the feat? The ship is supposedly one collations worst, so if they causally have that kind of fire power and it was enough to hurt a Viltrumite, they should never have struggled with the Viltrumite threat
There isn't a feat in the first place, the missiles are not responsible for the big explosion that the Solar Disk scales to
 
No, because the article for the GBE is. "Constant surface mass density"

The article used constant surface mass density, which means it's a 2D object. It's also surface area and not volume, which you used.
It's not a 2D object because it has depth
There isn't a feat in the first place, the missiles are not responsible for the big explosion that the Solar Disk scales to
Could still be valid for ED no? Also I responded to your comment under my calc
 
Could still be valid for ED no?
What? No. It exploded a compontent inside the Sun Disk, and it caused IT to explode, the missiles are probably continental at best. How is that ED, it relied on the Sun Disk being an unstable hunk of metal.
 
What? No. It exploded a compontent inside the Sun Disk, and it caused IT to explode, the missiles are probably continental at best. How is that ED, it relied on the Sun Disk being an unstable hunk of metal.
I don't think the Sun Disk was unstable, given that it lasted for years to freeze the Rognarrs. I'm saying if it's a chain reaction, then it woulda most likely been ED
 
I don't think the Sun Disk was unstable, given that it lasted for years to freeze the Rognarrs. I'm saying if it's a chain reaction, then it woulda most likely been ED
The fact it took two little explosions less than 5% its total size to cause a chain reaction is proof it was unstable. It never exploded before because it was placed near the sun where basically nothing could bother it.

Also, again, if it's a chain reaction that relies on the Sun Disk itself exploding, how can we scale this at all to the missiles? The energy value relies on the Disk's GBE. If the missiles exploded on a Viltrumite, or on an atmosphere, it wouldn't cause the same effect.

Also, I'm pretty sure the distance between the Disk and the Sun has to be wrong because at that point, the star would just pull the Disk into it, and vice versa.
 
The fact it took two little explosions less than 5% its total size to cause a chain reaction is proof it was unstable. It never exploded before because it was placed near the sun where basically nothing could bother it.
Orrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr the missiles are just THAT potent. They have zero feats apart from this and there's nothing in the show (nor the comics for that matter) establishing the disk to be unstable; in fact prior context would speak against that in the first place.
Also, again, if it's a chain reaction that relies on the Sun Disk itself exploding, how can we scale this at all to the missiles? The energy value relies on the Disk's GBE. If the missiles exploded on a Viltrumite, or on an atmosphere, it wouldn't cause the same effect.
Hencewhy either A. It's ED or B. Viltrumites are just that durable thanks to the statement about having no weapons that can harm them. Plus we don't know their effects on the atmosphere because they have no other feats.
Also, I'm pretty sure the distance between the Disk and the Sun has to be wrong because at that point, the star would just pull the Disk into it, and vice versa.
My calc accounts for the distance between the star and the disk. It's enough to keep it out of it's Roche Limit which would be around 2.28 solar radii
 
No. They fire 2 missiles and a 3rd explosion shows up right before the whole disk explodes, which again is much bigger than the ones cause by the missiles, both major points against the missiles doing all the work and instead it just being a chain reaction of some sort. There is no scaling to this chain reaction. You can't just finagle a way to scale people to the chain reaction explosion of a structure with no evidence beyond "Idk Viltrumites strong, they could prob maybe tank it if they were there at ground zero". Scale them to the missiles themselves, sure, but we're establishing the missiles didnt do all the work for the previous reasons.
 
What? No. It exploded a compontent inside the Sun Disk, and it caused IT to explode, the missiles are probably continental at best. How is that ED, it relied on the Sun Disk being an unstable hunk of metal.
I actually did a quick calculation of the missiles explosions off site and found that there still in the low exaton range.
 
Orrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr the missiles are just THAT potent. They have zero feats apart from this and there's nothing in the show (nor the comics for that matter) establishing the disk to be unstable; in fact prior context would speak against that in the first place.
They are not. We see the explosion created by them, it's miniscule.

A third, bigger explosion happens between. They are not caused by the missiles.
Hencewhy either A. It's ED or B. Viltrumites are just that durable thanks to the statement about having no weapons that can harm them. Plus we don't know their effects on the atmosphere because they have no other feats.
Sapphire, I don't think you know what Environmental Destruction means, it stands for abilities or potencies that can cause a level of destruction over time. Causing a machine to explode from its own internal energy is hardly a feat of ED.
 
I have no clue what that acronym stands for, so probably not.
Inverse Square Law, where you upscale a smaller attack from a bigger, weaker attack and thus finding the overall energy density. This can also be done in reverse where a bigger, stronger attack is compared to a smaller, weaker attack causing it.
They are not. We see the explosion created by them, it's miniscule.

A third, bigger explosion happens between. They are not caused by the missiles.
That's the chain reaction from the two smaller explosions, that doesn't necessarily mean the disk itself was an unstable construct, the smaller explosions were just potent enough to cause the third massive one to even happen.
Sapphire, I don't think you know what Environmental Destruction means, it stands for abilities or potencies that can cause a level of destruction over time. Causing a machine to explode from its own internal energy is hardly a feat of ED.
This is very much potency (two missiles) that causes a level of destruction overtime (the third explosion). By your own definition, that's a chain reaction and also ED.
 
If the 2 missiles caused a 3rd explosion and further damage beyond just their initial potency due to damage to the structure that led to it fully exploding, no matter how you try to semantics this then that final result is just not scalable. The missiles fired by the ship, the thing everyone was arguing to scale to because "viltrumite reputation" and "It's a garbage tier ship", had their own potency that led to the chain reaction failure of the sun disk, resulting in an explosion greater than what the missiles by themselves provided. As soon as you accept it's a chain reaction, it stops being scalable to anyone.
 
If the 2 missiles caused a 3rd explosion and further damage beyond just their initial potency due to damage to the structure that led to it fully exploding, no matter how you try to semantics this then that final result is just not scalable. The missiles fired by the ship, the thing everyone was arguing to scale to because "viltrumite reputation" and "It's a garbage tier ship", had their own potency that led to the chain reaction failure of the sun disk, resulting in an explosion greater than what the missiles by themselves provided. As soon as you accept it's a chain reaction, it stops being scalable to anyone.
Dawg I already have like 5 posts ago, that's why I said the third explosion (the result I got) was most likely ED. However you can still get an AP value from the missiles themselves if you use inverse square law to downscale them based on their sizes
 
Inverse Square Law, where you upscale a smaller attack from a bigger, weaker attack and thus finding the overall energy density. This can also be done in reverse where a bigger, stronger attack is compared to a smaller, weaker attack causing it.
Oh, I actually do know about that, I've just have never seen anyone abrieviate it. I actually just measured the distance the initial missile explosions covered using your found size of the sun disk as the reference. Using the basic airburst explosion formula I got a value of 4-10 exatons for each missile.
 
Oh, I actually do know about that, I've just have never seen anyone abrieviate it. I actually just measured the distance the initial missile explosions covered using your found size of the sun disk as the reference. Using the basic airburst explosion formula I got a value of 4-10 exatons for each missile.
You can't use an air-burst formula when the feat is in space. Use ISL instead where you find the area of both in metres and then J x (Lesser Area / Greater Area) to find the true potency of the missiles.
 
You can't use an air-burst formula when the feat is in space.
But have you considered Thragg headbutted and hit Nolan and Mark so hard there were visible shockwaves animated while in space? Clearly in Invincible space isnt a pure vacuum but just has 0.00000001% air, gg ez

But anyway, what's left now that we have seemingly dismissed the sun disk explosion itself? Just calcing the missile explosions themselves? Does that even need a calc group discussion thread at that point? Is there much reason to keep this open now that its main subject is seemingly going to be dismissed?
 
I have no clue what that acronym stands for, so probably not.
Inverse Square Law.

I actually did a quick calculation of the missiles explosions off site and found that there still in the low exaton range.
I assume you used Sapphire's calc to measure the disk and thus the explosion?

You can't use an air-burst formula when the feat is in space. Use ISL instead where you find the area of both in metres and then J x (Lesser Area / Greater Area) to find the true potency of the missiles.
There's no reference for J in this instance.
 
You can't use an air-burst formula when the feat is in space. Use ISL instead where you find the area of both in metres and then J x (Lesser Area / Greater Area) to find the true potency of the missiles.
I figured it wouldn't apply to space. Regardless, I can do the whole ISL method but the problem is that after the missiles fade we see zero visible damage on the sun disk. I was gonna lowball it by using psi values but since that doesnt work in space, I guess my only option is that. I'm sure it was just me being overly cautious as its likely just that way to save on animation.
 
Inverse Square Law, where you upscale a smaller attack from a bigger, weaker attack and thus finding the overall energy density. This can also be done in reverse where a bigger, stronger attack is compared to a smaller, weaker attack causing it.

That's the chain reaction from the two smaller explosions, that doesn't necessarily mean the disk itself was an unstable construct, the smaller explosions were just potent enough to cause the third massive one to even happen.
It's not a claim, we have a valid piece of evidence proving it's a chain reaction.

Yes. The lesser potent missiles can cause a chain reaction to destabilize the entire energy of the disk, causing it to explode. If you explode 1kg of TNT stick next to a warehouse full of explosives, and that warehouse produced a 15 ton of TNT explosion, you don't scale the 1kg of TNT stick to the overall explosion.

You can't scale the missiles to it, period.
This is very much potency (two missiles) that causes a level of destruction overtime (the third explosion). By your own definition, that's a chain reaction and also ED.
The level of destruction overtime doesn't happen unless the disk is present. Also, it's not overtime, it's a cascade effect and RELIES on an object that the missiles won't have access to.

Let's circle back to the stick of TNT example.

You blow up a 1kg of TNT stick, it's energy causes a chain reaction that caused a warehouse to explode in 15 tons of TNT.

Are you going to claim the 1kg of TNT stick has a 15 Ton ED every time it's used anywhere? Obviously not, it caused a 15 ton explosion in that particular scenario because it affected something else that held that much energy.
 
But anyway, what's left now that we have seemingly dismissed the sun disk explosion itself? Just calcing the missile explosions themselves? Does that even need a calc group discussion thread at that point? Is there much reason to keep this open now that its main subject is seemingly going to be dismissed?
You're right tbh. Also the accepted version should be nuked from the verse page
 
This is not how Hohmann transfers work. The correct approach uses the vis-viva equation to find the velocity at each endpoint of the elliptical transfer orbit, then deltas from the circular velocities at each point.
You only get the Vis-Viva if you want to move from Earth to Venus directly. That's not what Nolan was doing as otherwise he'd crash it into another planet lol. He just got it to the zone here
 
You only get the Vis-Viva if you want to move from Earth to Venus directly. That's not what Nolan was doing as otherwise he'd crash it into another planet lol. He just got it to the zone here
He wants to push it 0.05 AU, not to Venus anyway.
 
I figured it wouldn't apply to space. Regardless, I can do the whole ISL method but the problem is that after the missiles fade we see zero visible damage on the sun disk. I was gonna lowball it by using psi values but since that doesnt work in space, I guess my only option is that. I'm sure it was just me being overly cautious as its likely just that way to save on animation.
Here:
NQQWCG4.png


Solar Disk: 169px = 1013924803.23m
Explosion
: 139px = (139/169)*1013924803.23 = 833938152m
Volume of a half-sphere: V = (2/3)πr³ or (2/3) x π x (833938152/2)^3 = 1.51834392e26m3
E = V x u
u is the energy density.

We treat the fireball as a radiating sphere, assuming the temperature by the color (Yellow is 4000 Kelvin)

Now we use radiation energy density
For a blackbody radiation field:

u=aT^4
a = radiation constant = 7.5657×10^-16 J/m³·K⁴
T is the temperature.

u = 7.5657×10^-16 x (4000^4) = 0.19368192 Joules per meter cubed

E = 0.19368192 x 1.51834392e26 = 2.94075766e25 Joules or 7 Petatons (Multi-Continent level)
 
I said the calculation is unusable.

@M3X_2.0 @Drite77 @Floxy178

You are a part of the calculation group and you commented here, so please accept my debunk. This calculation is unusable with its current formula.
No, because the article for the GBE is. "Constant surface mass density"

The article used constant surface mass density, which means it's a 2D object. It's also surface area and not volume, which you used.
 
The fact it took two little explosions less than 5% its total size to cause a chain reaction is proof it was unstable. It never exploded before because it was placed near the sun where basically nothing could bother it.
Uhhh... the extra explosion it's very likely just visual flair to make the scene smother, it's a common VFX trick because one realistic blast would look too quick/underwhelming. It's probably not intended outside of that use
 
Uhhh... the extra explosion it's very likely just visual flair to make the scene smother, it's a common VFX trick because one realistic blast would look too quick/underwhelming. It's probably not intended outside of that use
Me when I make claims that cannot be substantiated.

No. If the missiles were responsible for the bigger explosion, they would just cause it directly. It's a byproduct of the Disk itself exploding. It's also ludicrous not to expect something so massive not to have a ridiculous amount of energy stored in it.
 
Me when I make claims that cannot be substantiated.

No. If the missiles were responsible for the bigger explosion, they would just cause it directly. It's a byproduct of the Disk itself exploding. It's also ludicrous not to expect something so massive not to have a ridiculous amount of energy stored in it.
Afaics, there are three explosion on the sun disc after missles hit, so why are we assuming that two missiles didn't cause the bigger explosions of the three?

Also, you sorta missed my point, I'm saying that the extra explosion(s) is just visual flair, which is a common animation trick so the blast doesn't look too quick/underwhelming
 
Here:
NQQWCG4.png


Solar Disk: 169px = 1013924803.23m
Explosion
: 139px = (139/169)*1013924803.23 = 833938152m
Volume of a half-sphere: V = (2/3)πr³ or (2/3) x π x (833938152/2)^3 = 1.51834392e26m3
E = V x u
u is the energy density.

We treat the fireball as a radiating sphere, assuming the temperature by the color (Yellow is 4000 Kelvin)

Now we use radiation energy density
For a blackbody radiation field:

u=aT^4
a = radiation constant = 7.5657×10^-16 J/m³·K⁴
T is the temperature.

u = 7.5657×10^-16 x (4000^4) = 0.19368192 Joules per meter cubed

E = 0.19368192 x 1.51834392e26 = 2.94075766e25 Joules or 7 Petatons (Multi-Continent level)
Isn't this calc forgetting about thermal energy?
 
Uhhh... the extra explosion it's very likely just visual flair to make the scene smother, it's a common VFX trick because one realistic blast would look too quick/underwhelming. It's probably not intended outside of that use
We can't really argue the visuals don't count then use said visuals as the basis for a calculation (as it seems to be the case here). These are mutually exclusive claims.

We can argue that from a logical perspective it's silly that somehow the sun disk is holding enough energy that smoking a cigarette next to it would blow it up but Invincible never concerns itself with internal logic and so the visuals are the only thing we have. Furthermore, the fact that this scene is changed from the comic - where a beam blows up the disk all on its own - seems to indicate the whole scene, including the chain reaction, was presented more or less exactly as it was intended for the show, i.e. the feat is unusable.
 
Afaics, there are three explosion on the sun disc after missles hit, so why are we assuming that two missiles didn't cause the bigger explosions of the three?
Because it's two missiles, and the trigger of the third explosion was in the middle of the disk, likely its core. That's textbook cascade effect.

Also, you sorta missed my point, I'm saying that the extra explosion(s) is just visual flair, which is a common animation trick so the blast doesn't look too quick/underwhelming
You can't prove that.
 
We can argue that from a logical perspective it's silly that somehow the sun disk is holding enough energy that smoking a cigarette next to it would blow it up
Of course, we agree. But since no one is arguing that, it should be fine.

We are arguing that the disk itself has energy, and that an explosion that destroys part of it is enough to trigger it, as it is the case for any impossibly big machinery even in real life.
 
Of course, we agree. But since no one is arguing that, it should be fine.

We are arguing that the disk itself has energy, and that an explosion that destroys part of it is enough to trigger it, as it is the case for any impossibly big machinery even in real life.
I agree, hence the rest of my comment brings up the difference between the feat's destruction in the comic and the show. It's further evidence for a chain reaction being the intended method of destruction for the show.
 
Back
Top