I've been hoping to find a way to quantify this for years, but wasn't sure how to. But no more!
MEDUSA destroys the city of Panzerstadt-Bayreuth, and later self-destructs, taking London with it.
When Tom and Hester are captured by Speedwell, Shrike is noted to be hundreds of miles away (by...
Larklight's gravity engine explosion creates a crater 1000 miles (1609.344km) wide and at least as deep as Starcross is. We don't have many references to how big Starcross is that I can recall, but it's well over 100 yards (91.44m) wide.
Volume of the crater as a spherical cap.
V = (π X...
The Uncrushable flies from Io to Jupiter in a few hours. The distance from Io to Jupiter is 628,300,000km. We'll go with a high end of 3 hours, a low end of 10 hours and a mid end of 6 hours..
(Low end)
T = 628,300,000km/10h
= 29087963/340.29
= Mach 51287.9538
(Mid end)
T =...
Jupiter is mostly hydrogen, so they'd likely weigh as much as hydrogen. Radius of the Moon is 1737km.
V = 4/3πr^3
= 4/3 X π X 1737^3
= 2.19527062e10km^3
= 2.19527062e+19m^3
Hydrogen weighs 0.0899^2kg per m^3.
M = 2.19527062e+19 X 0.0899^2
= 1.77421991e17kg
The heat of...
Larklight flies 30,000 miles (48280.32km) in the span of a few seconds. We'll have a low end of 10 seconds, and a high end of 3 seconds.
(Low end)
T = 48280.32km/10s
= 4828032/340.29
= Mach 14187.9926
(High end)
T = 48280.32km/3s
= 16093440/340.29
= Mach 47293.3086
Final Results...
Larklight is a trilogy of childrens/YA steampunk novels by Philip Reeve (of Mortal Engines fame) and illustrated by David Wyatt. Set in an alternate history Earth where Isaac Newton discovered space travel and the British Empire conquered the Solar System by the Victorian Era. It follows the...
Mortal Engines is a world where cities wander around and eat each other for reference. First up is an easy one; Salthooks speed.
80m/h is equal to 128.7km/h, or 35.75m/s. And London is even faster than this. Now onto it's energy.
The speed is 80 miles an hour (35.7632m/s), and has a height of...
Because I feel like it time for some more calcs, in this case for the total environmental effects of the 60 Minute War on the Earths surface. There's a ton of descriptions of earthquakes, volcanos, firestorms and centuries of darkness, but for the most part, it can't really be calced so far...or...
After the 60 Minute War, multiple Slow Bombs hit the Earth, one of which destroys Panama, seperating North and South America. A quick search reveals that Panama has a surface area of 75,517 km^2, or 75517000000m^2. It also has an average elevation of 360m.
V = Ah
= 75517000000 X 360
=...
Mortal Engines (also known as The Hungry Cities Chronicles in America) is a young adult science fiction novels written by Philip Reeve (who also wrote Larklight). It consists of two series; the original quartet set near the end of the Traction Era, and the prequel series Fever Crumb set at the...