Of course, that's if you put a battleship on its end, since Yamato's height (while still rather impressive) is not even close to her length.
OOZ662 said:
And yet one Nadeshiko turret still weighs as much as the loli.
Keep in mind, that weight includes the parts that go below the deck, which is where the majority of the mass actually resides, and goes down essentially to the base of the hull. (That can-like body of Rensouhou-can is accurate. The magazine is protected deep in the ship, and they hoist the powder and ammo up to the guns for each shot.) Then there's the actual solid armor they put on a battleship turret, which weighs much more than a hollow tin can they barely armor. Plus, you know, Yamato's not just longer, she's also wider and taller, so you get the square-cube law in effect...
MaxAndEmilytate said:
For you
Incidentally, you'd be the size (but significantly less mass) of one of her shells, or in the human form, since Yamato is actually pretty close to a million times the average mass of an adult woman, so to give you a good comparison, it'd be like a creature that weighs 70 grams. The first go-to tiny animal, the ant, is actually too small (1-2 grams), a firefly is about 20 grams, but after looking around for WAY too much time (everyone wants to list legnth, but nobody lists mass!) I found that a scarab beetle (AKA. True Dung Beetle) is a fairly good analogue for the relative mass to an average human what you would be to her.
Keep in mind, that weight includes the parts that go below the deck, which is where the majority of the mass actually resides, and goes down essentially to the base of the hull.
Yup, and it's still an amazing and entertaining fact that the workhorses and frontline warships of the Japanese side of the war weigh the same amount as a single turret that scored fewer hits than I have fingers.
Yup, and it's still an amazing and entertaining fact that the workhorses and frontline warships of the Japanese side of the war weigh the same amount as a single turret that scored fewer hits than I have fingers.
Well, in the words of Joseph Stalin, "Quantity has a quality all its own."
They were the frontline workhorses specifically because they were small and light and fast (thanks to being light) and cheap and expendable.
Also, a lot of destroyers didn't see that much combat, themselves. Even ignoring poor sods like Takanami (sunk within a month of being commissioned, although she did launch a salvo of torpedoes that hit a couple cruisers before being sunk by the cruiser she launched torpedoes upon), there were a lot of ships that did nothing but transport runs and wound up being sunk by submarines or aircraft without ever firing their guns. That was particularly the fate of the older or more cheaply-built destroyers like the Matsu-class or the escort ships that were only used for escort duty or cargo transport. Matsuwa's 'career' section is particularly sad.
NWSiaCB said: Incidentally, you'd be the size (but significantly less mass) of one of her shells, or in the human form, since Yamato is actually pretty close to a million times the average mass of an adult woman, so to give you a good comparison, it'd be like a creature that weighs 70 grams. The first go-to tiny animal, the ant, is actually too small (1-2 grams), a firefly is about 20 grams, but after looking around for WAY too much time (everyone wants to list length, but nobody lists mass!) I found that a scarab beetle (AKA. True Dung Beetle) is a fairly good analogue for the relative mass to an average human what you would be to her.
There's one thing you've missed and that's that a ship's weight is far too light compared to a person's weight scaled to the size of said ship. I covered in post #2201465 that a person whose weight is scaled with their height according to the square cube law weighs roughly 10 times as much as a cruiser of the same length and scaled by the same rules. A ship is made of iron, but also mostly hollow. Assuming the Yamato shown here is more human than ship on the inside, 263 meters / 1.6 meters cubed is a little less than 4.5 million times that mass. A human would be 15-20 grams by comparison, so the firefly would be the more accurate analogy.
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