Pokémon

Snorlax is 6'11'' tall. His head and his torso are his two distinct body sections. His head looks to be maybe 1.5 feet in height, his torso is the rest.

Both of those sections are roughly spherical, so we can do some simplemath to calculate his volume:

His head has radius 0.75 feet, thus it has volume 1.77 ft³
His body has radius 3.46 feet, thus it has volume 173.25 ft³, making his total volume about 175 cubic feet.

1 cubic foot = 0.0283168466 cubic meters.

So, Snorlax has a volume of approximately 4.95 cubic meters.

He weighs 1041 pounds, or473 kg, giving him a density of 95.5 kg/m³.
Converting to g/cm³ yields 9.55, that's about halfway between Bismuth and Thulium.
For reference, the density of carbon is 2.26 g/cm³, and oxygen is 1.43.




A team of Diglett triplets. It triggers huge earthquakes by burrowing 60 miles underground.

For reference, the deepest Earth's crust has been measured is around 30 miles deep. This brings Dugtrio well into Earth's mantle,which is superheated and under incredible pressure.

Dugtrio's body mass is 73.4 lbs, and has a volume of about 1.325 ft³. That makes his density somewhere around 55.36 lb/ft³.

For reference, that's almost 2 times the density of solid gold.




With ninja-like agility and speed, it can create the illusion that there is more than one.

Scyther must be lying on the ground in order to encircle his enemies at such a speed.
The human eye sees around 20 "frames" per second. For the human eye to see afterimages, that something must be seen in many places - each not moving - in consecutive "frames". Thus, Sycther must move its own width in 0.05 of a second.

Sycther is about 1.5m long and high. Thus, it must move 1.5m every 0.05 seconds, or 30m/s, which is 108km/h or 72mph. Assuming it wanted to encircle its enemy with a complete set of believable afterimages, that circle would have to be, at most, 30 metres in circumference so Scyther can make it back to the start in time to stop that afterimage from disappearing from the person's sight. The radius of such a circle would be ~5m. Therefore, the centripetal force required to keep it moving in a circle is:

F = mv² / r, where m=mass (55.8kg), v=velocity (30m/s), and r=radius of the circle (10m)

Thus, F= 55.8 * 30^2/5 = 10 044 N.

To prevent from tumbling off in a straight line at 30m/s, Scyther must be leaning at an angle that makes the resultant force of its weight (~508N) and its centripetal force (10 044N) travelthrough its center of gravity. To find the angle with the ground, angle = 1/tan(508 / 10 044) = ~2.9 degrees. Practically horizontal.

To find a more reasonable angle - say, 60 degrees, so he won't be eating dirt at 108km/h - for Scyther to be leaning forward whilst encircling an enemy, the radius of the circle must be changed.

To find the centripetal force Scyther must have to need to lean at an angle of 60 degrees,

centripetal force = 55.8 / tan(60) = ~32.2 N

Now to find the radius required,

F=mv²/r
r=mv²/F
r=55.8*30²/32.2 = ~1559.6m

Therefore, Scyther must be traveling in a 1.5km radius circle in order to encircle his enemy.





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