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The One Ring Forums:
Tolkien Topics: Movie Discussion: The Hobbit:
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The Mitch King
Rohan
Jul 6 2013, 5:47am
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I am questioning if they could have gotten out of there uninjured. Of course, as you know, the giants weren't really moving slow. It is an illusion of low velocity because of the large scales. The earth seems to not be moving at all but really we are traveling about 67,000 mph through space! To the dwarves it would have been massive amounts of force on them. You raised another point I didn't think of in inertia. I want to get the weights of those dwarves and find out the speed of the giant and really see how fast they are moving! I can't imagine they would come out unharmed or all land on the tiny edge. It is an incredible amount of luck and I realize it's a movie but looking at it from a realistic/fun viewpoint I don't think it works. I would need to see the actual numbers to be convinced and I'm sure if I did see them then my biology would kick in and tell me the injuries would have been huge!
I'm not missing your point about the buildings colliding by the way. It seemed to me though that they were located in a bad spot pushed by immense forces with no hope of survival. That's not a touchy situation it is a mountain hitting a mountain with small sacs of fragile Carbon on them! What is flesh to a rock right?
We might just have to agree to disagree my friend but it is great fun to think about it! 
(This post was edited by The Mitch King on Jul 6 2013, 5:49am)
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