| dark_aquatus wrote: |
| This isn't earth, plus Newton never lived there lol! Didn't you notice people living after falling off a 50 feet wall? |
Um....gravity works at a rate of less than 9.8 m/s2 in Avatar Land?
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| dark_aquatus wrote: |
| This isn't earth, plus Newton never lived there lol! Didn't you notice people living after falling off a 50 feet wall? |
| skye3001 wrote: | ||
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who told you that?
| skye3001 wrote: | ||
Um....gravity works at a rate of less than 9.8 m/s2 in Avatar Land? |
| skye3001 wrote: | ||
Um....gravity works at a rate of less than 9.8 m/s2 in Avatar Land? |
| dark_aquatus wrote: | ||||
That's probably right, yes. But you guys should stop discussing this subject. It's not earth, so you can't compare it with our lawls of physics. But at the same time this show has been created on earth, so it's kinda normal that laws like gravity are there, just not in the same ways as we know it... We DO know that the avatar world is round though Guess that's something |
| -TheSecondSign- wrote: |
The amount of force it would take to constantly keep yourself flying in the air is, well, a lot. It was the comet. And that would be ridiculously unbalanced if it was an ordinary occurence. |
| suss2it wrote: | ||
Flying really isn't that unbalanced, seeing as though the Air Nomads were capable of such a feat, of course it was a hell of a lot easier for them to do it. If you wanna talk unbalanced, look at bloodbending. |
| suss2it wrote: | ||
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That is true.
An airbender, however, generally needs a glider. They can use tornado like gusts, but this is almost exclusively Avatar level bending.
And I agree. Outside the full moon, bloodbending is stupid.
| KoalaSheep wrote: | ||||
But the air nomads bent the air around them to get lift, whereas the firebenders need a lot of propulsion. Note how it is a lot harder for Aang to fly without his glider. |
| -TheSecondSign- wrote: | ||||
That is true. An airbender, however, generally needs a glider. They can use tornado like gusts, but this is almost exclusively Avatar level bending. And I agree. Outside the full moon, bloodbending is stupid. |
| KoalaSheep wrote: |
I was just thinking; If shooting lots of fire can make firebenders fly, then that would mean Newton's (second?) law is in effect (every action has an equal/opposite reaction). What I'm getting at is, why wasn't Ozai sent flying backwards when creating the giant wave of fire? It's just a cartoon, Koala, you're thinking too hard. |
You can boost w/o the comet (TBRpt2), but as for flying with a jetpack like thing, I think you'd need the comet's power for extended periods of time.
But say if you're falling off a cliff, I don't see why you couldn't fly back up, it just wouldn't be controlled. Only a skilled firebender would be able to control exactly how much power they use to direct themselves anyway. But I don't see why you can't use it for short periods of time. It doesn't seem to use much more energy then regular flames.
| ItachiHatakeZ wrote: |
| You can boost w/o the comet (TBRpt2), but as for flying with a jetpack like thing, I think you'd need the comet's power for extended periods of time. But say if you're falling off a cliff, I don't see why you couldn't fly back up, it just wouldn't be controlled. Only a skilled firebender would be able to control exactly how much power they use to direct themselves anyway. But I don't see why you can't use it for short periods of time. It doesn't seem to use much more energy then regular flames. |
you can redirect yourself in the air, you cant sustain flight though. you can also use them as boosters
| ItachiHatakeZ wrote: |
| So, do you mean if you'd try to boost yourself in the air and sustain it, gravity would overpower your bending and you'd come back down regardless? Agh, we're getting into physics... |
no but it takes an immense amount of power to sustain flight, which is shy firebenders can do it during the comet but not without it. i'm saying that since we havent seen a firebender take flight without the comet we can assume that it would take an immense amount of energy for them to sustain flight. Its not technically physics, may be simple physics, but its more of common sense.
i mean its one thing to sustain flight and another to boost yourself for a big jump or re direct yourself in the air
| ISpeakTheTruth wrote: |
| So I think that we're starting to reach an agreement that flying for a Firebender is a rare thing like bloodbending for waterbenders, metal bending for earthbenders, and flying without a glyder for airbenders. But I think we can agree that it is something that takes a great deal of energy and they could only do it for a short period of time. Yes? |
| MauricXe wrote: | ||
It has to be or Azula would have done it throughout the series. |
