God damn. I still remember getting my first Bionicles at the Disney World LEGO store for my seventh birthday. One of 'em was Tahu, too. Shit, man...
Anyway, I just re-watched the Mask of Light movie on Netflix and it inspired me to get more into the lore. Started watching the other movies and reading the DC comic series, and I figured I might as well calc shit while I'm at it.
Here's the relevant feat:
Makuta senses that the Toa are beginning to rise against him, so he sends a bunch of monsters and natural disasters their way. In the scan above, we can see Tahu instantly turning "a few thousand tons" of sand into glass with "a fraction of [his] power".
According to this, sand must be heated upward of 3200 degrees F to turn it into glass. To glass it instantly? Fuck if I know. And I know it's not the most scientific source, but it was a quick Google search, and it seemed to me that that shit would have to be hot, anyway, so let's roll with it.
3200 degrees F=1760 degrees C. Gonna go ahead and say the sand is 25 degrees C on average...or something, which means the change in temp would be 1735 degrees.
Specific heat capacity for sand is, apparently, 890 J/kg*degrees C.
Also, Makuta says he's dumping a few thousand tons of sand on Tahu. Gonna take a few to mean 3, and I'll assume tons would refer to short tons 'cause DC. In which case, mass would be 2721554kg.
Q=mass*specific heat capacity*delta temp
Q=2721554*890*1735
Q=4202487609100J
or about 1 kiloton.
Anyway, I just re-watched the Mask of Light movie on Netflix and it inspired me to get more into the lore. Started watching the other movies and reading the DC comic series, and I figured I might as well calc shit while I'm at it.
Here's the relevant feat:
Makuta senses that the Toa are beginning to rise against him, so he sends a bunch of monsters and natural disasters their way. In the scan above, we can see Tahu instantly turning "a few thousand tons" of sand into glass with "a fraction of [his] power".
According to this, sand must be heated upward of 3200 degrees F to turn it into glass. To glass it instantly? Fuck if I know. And I know it's not the most scientific source, but it was a quick Google search, and it seemed to me that that shit would have to be hot, anyway, so let's roll with it.
3200 degrees F=1760 degrees C. Gonna go ahead and say the sand is 25 degrees C on average...or something, which means the change in temp would be 1735 degrees.
Specific heat capacity for sand is, apparently, 890 J/kg*degrees C.
Also, Makuta says he's dumping a few thousand tons of sand on Tahu. Gonna take a few to mean 3, and I'll assume tons would refer to short tons 'cause DC. In which case, mass would be 2721554kg.
Q=mass*specific heat capacity*delta temp
Q=2721554*890*1735
Q=4202487609100J
or about 1 kiloton.
