Sunday, June 14, 2020

Tumblr Thread: Elves Are Flat Earthers With Scary Eyes


This fun Tumblr thread has physicists banding together to illustrate the absurd reality of what elves eyes might look like, while factoring in the curvature of Middle Earth, while they're at it. The resulting picture is an unsettling one, for sure. All in all, it's fun to see how ridiculous things can turn out when logic is applied to a fantasy world. 

Get some more Tumblr fun here with this dog that figured out how to herd Lawn Roomba.

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Text - O colonelmagpie Theory: Nobody who writes a physics textbook gives any fucks Evidence: Q2S.12 In J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings (volume 2, p. 32), Legolas the Elf claims to be able to accurately count horsemen and discern their hair color (yel- low) 5 leagues away on a bright, sunny day. Make appropriate estimates and argue that Legolas must have very strange-looking eyes, have some means of nonvisual perception, or have made a lucky guess. (1 league 3.0 mi.) colonelmagpie Updat

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Drawing - 0.035 M= 3.5cm %3D i Legelas' pupls. eve 35cm indiometer. bagolos! Whot do your Elf-eyes see your THE Y'RE TAKING THE HOBBITS TO ISENGARD Science!

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Text - colonelmagpie I'm going to do it. I'm going to hand it in. glumshoe Legolas's pupil size isn't the problem here, though. 5 leagues is 17.262 miles. The curvature of the Earth means that for a person of average height, the visual horizon is less than three miles away. Even if your vision is telescopic and the atmosphere is perfectly clear, you can't see around the planet. If they were standing on a hill, it would have to be at LEAST 198 feet above sea level in order to see the horizon at 1

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Text - ontologicalidiot @sidereanuncia it's back, the post that I can only imagine haunts your nightmares sidereanuncia I shall never find peace. Also, for what it's worth, there's absolutely no reason to believe that the curvature of Middle Earth is the same as that of Earth. sindri42 There's no evidence that Middle Earth curves.

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Text - solwardenclyffe Yeah there is. The Silmarillion states that the world was curved after the fall of Numenor (I believe), preventing access to Valinor. But Elves (among others) can travel the straight path across it. So middle earth is round, but not for Elves because magic. sindri42 So wait, the reason he can see that far is because Elves just have the ability to ignore the curve of the earth? That's awesome. It also means that no matter how good your optics got, you would always want elf

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Text - lady-of-greenwood Oh thank God, my poor elf prince has seen too much in this post a-bore-of-a-whore Elves are flat-earthers cheattoe This post went from amusing to horrifying, to be brought back down to amusing, sprinkled in with some cannon explanation, and then you leave me here in fucking outrage

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Text - yourownpetard This post really was a rollercoaster. odinoco for elves it was a straight line Source: sidereanuncia #oh hey it's this post :'d #it mutated since i last saw it .. See all

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