Minty Electronica
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Boredom struck last night, and I wrote the following. Feel free to correct me.
There is, as I've just realized, very little logic to Team Aqua and Team Magma's goals. To put it simply: it violates the laws of physics, doesn't it?
Then again, everything in the Pokémon world kinda does, but still.
Okay, so what am I talking about?
One of the most basic laws of physics is the conservation of matter. That is, no matter can be created or destroyed (with the exception of the original matter, of course) within a given system, e.g. the planet itself. It can only be "recycled," so to speak. That basically means that if you have a glass of water sitting on a counter for a couple of days and the glass is suddenly empty after all of that, then the water had to go somewhere.
Now, why are Aqua and Magma violating the laws of physics? Think of it like this: Magma is trying to destroy matter, while Aqua is trying to create it. (Water is matter, after all.)
To put it simply, take Team Magma. Now, they want to get rid of a good portion of the water on the face of the planet so that the planet becomes mostly land. However, they go about doing this by attempting to create droughts or lava flows. Therein lies a problem, however. It doesn't explain where the water goes.
Now, logic would say that by heating up water, you'll create steam. That means the displaced water goes into the atmosphere. (The lava flow, meanwhile, would at least cover water – if it goes further out into deeper parts of the ocean where evaporating ocean water all the way down to the depths of the sea would be impossible – and at most sink to the depths, resulting in little change over the land-to-water ratio anyway.) Okay, fine. There's just two problems with this:
1. Evaporated water would just precipitate again. In other words, it may not end up in the exact same place, but that water's still going to just come down and cover a nice bit of land Magma tried to free up for the land populations.
2. When considering raising the temperature of the entire planet to an extreme degree (also close to impossible unless we're talking severe global warming – and I mean severe), that would then melt the polar ice caps, resulting in, yes, more water (even if it's an inch off the coastlines and a spot on the north pole). But hey, at least Antarctica becomes free land.
So, yes. Try to get more land, and you'll just get more water. Nice logic there, Maxie.
On the other hand, Archie's attempt would be further whacked for this reason: where is all of the water coming from? Seriously.
Now, there's several possibilities that could explain the presence of more water, some of which are linked to what they've actually done in the games and others they haven't actually tried. For example:
1. Evaporation. Serious evaporation of major bodies of water. Which would then just move the water, rather than put more on the earth. And let's not forget that it'd be taking one step closer to achieving Magma's goals (even for a brief moment), so great going at that, Team Aqua. You've just made your rival team's job easier.
2. Melting the polar ice caps. This, of course, reeks of psychovillain, though if the anime's depiction of Archie is at all reliable, I wouldn't put it past him. Let's just not tell him that all of the melted ice and snow from the polar ice caps would equal a few inches off the coastlines of the world and thus probably wouldn't really matter.
3. Anyone know about Tank Girl? Okay, you know those funky devices W&P uses to draw out water from living organisms? Yeah. Imagine Archie doing that. To half of the human population (and maybe some Pokémon species as well).
4. Water Guns. Lots and lots of Water Guns.
5. Many hours in a laboratory with hydrogen and oxygen. Serious idea here. It's possible to synthesize that simple of a molecule, so it might be possible to create the water needed either in a lab or by using a machine to rape the entire atmosphere of its hydrogen and oxygen. Of course, this means that we may suffocate (depending on how overboard Archie goes), but hey. More water for us, right?
6. Well, this guy named Noah was walking along one day, and he started hearing a voice that told him it'd be flooding…
So, yes. From what I can tell using my basic skills in science, Team Aqua's logic is apparently not Earth logic.
Neither is the rest of the Pokémon world's, I guess, but still.
Thoughts?
There is, as I've just realized, very little logic to Team Aqua and Team Magma's goals. To put it simply: it violates the laws of physics, doesn't it?
Then again, everything in the Pokémon world kinda does, but still.
Okay, so what am I talking about?
One of the most basic laws of physics is the conservation of matter. That is, no matter can be created or destroyed (with the exception of the original matter, of course) within a given system, e.g. the planet itself. It can only be "recycled," so to speak. That basically means that if you have a glass of water sitting on a counter for a couple of days and the glass is suddenly empty after all of that, then the water had to go somewhere.
Now, why are Aqua and Magma violating the laws of physics? Think of it like this: Magma is trying to destroy matter, while Aqua is trying to create it. (Water is matter, after all.)
To put it simply, take Team Magma. Now, they want to get rid of a good portion of the water on the face of the planet so that the planet becomes mostly land. However, they go about doing this by attempting to create droughts or lava flows. Therein lies a problem, however. It doesn't explain where the water goes.
Now, logic would say that by heating up water, you'll create steam. That means the displaced water goes into the atmosphere. (The lava flow, meanwhile, would at least cover water – if it goes further out into deeper parts of the ocean where evaporating ocean water all the way down to the depths of the sea would be impossible – and at most sink to the depths, resulting in little change over the land-to-water ratio anyway.) Okay, fine. There's just two problems with this:
1. Evaporated water would just precipitate again. In other words, it may not end up in the exact same place, but that water's still going to just come down and cover a nice bit of land Magma tried to free up for the land populations.
2. When considering raising the temperature of the entire planet to an extreme degree (also close to impossible unless we're talking severe global warming – and I mean severe), that would then melt the polar ice caps, resulting in, yes, more water (even if it's an inch off the coastlines and a spot on the north pole). But hey, at least Antarctica becomes free land.
So, yes. Try to get more land, and you'll just get more water. Nice logic there, Maxie.
On the other hand, Archie's attempt would be further whacked for this reason: where is all of the water coming from? Seriously.
Now, there's several possibilities that could explain the presence of more water, some of which are linked to what they've actually done in the games and others they haven't actually tried. For example:
1. Evaporation. Serious evaporation of major bodies of water. Which would then just move the water, rather than put more on the earth. And let's not forget that it'd be taking one step closer to achieving Magma's goals (even for a brief moment), so great going at that, Team Aqua. You've just made your rival team's job easier.
2. Melting the polar ice caps. This, of course, reeks of psychovillain, though if the anime's depiction of Archie is at all reliable, I wouldn't put it past him. Let's just not tell him that all of the melted ice and snow from the polar ice caps would equal a few inches off the coastlines of the world and thus probably wouldn't really matter.
3. Anyone know about Tank Girl? Okay, you know those funky devices W&P uses to draw out water from living organisms? Yeah. Imagine Archie doing that. To half of the human population (and maybe some Pokémon species as well).
4. Water Guns. Lots and lots of Water Guns.
5. Many hours in a laboratory with hydrogen and oxygen. Serious idea here. It's possible to synthesize that simple of a molecule, so it might be possible to create the water needed either in a lab or by using a machine to rape the entire atmosphere of its hydrogen and oxygen. Of course, this means that we may suffocate (depending on how overboard Archie goes), but hey. More water for us, right?
6. Well, this guy named Noah was walking along one day, and he started hearing a voice that told him it'd be flooding…
So, yes. From what I can tell using my basic skills in science, Team Aqua's logic is apparently not Earth logic.
Neither is the rest of the Pokémon world's, I guess, but still.
Thoughts?
