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Nov. 18th, 2013 11:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
adiva_calandiaFor future reference: the likely results of that "bomb" going off at the end of The Dark Knight Rises, if Gotham is New York. Bats would have to get about 40 km away from the tip of Manhattan/Gotham for there to be no casualties or injuries. Barring that, people in Gotham and its surrounding locales may survive but be severely burned.
If Gotham is in New Jersey in Great Bay, as some maps have it, then Bats only has to get about 20-30 km out to minimize casualties. So if an Apache helicopter's top speed is about 293 km/h, then it's doing about 4.8 km/minute -- let's be generous to the Bat and say it can do 5 km/min -- then in the two minute time frame Bats is going to get the bomb about 10 km out and an enormous swathe of the coastline is going to be badly burned.
Although! We might assume that the US Gov't, being aware of Bane's threat of detonating the bomb in the city and knowing the probable yield of said bomb, would have evacuated every town in a 20-30 km radius around Gotham during the four months it was occupied. So then only the people in Gotham would be at risk for thermal burns.
Conclusion 1: if the bomb was really four megatons, Bats probably did save most of Gotham, but Blake and those kids ought to be a lot toastier than they were. That, or Pavel miscalculated the yield of the bomb, or the Batcopter is even faster than the Sikorsky X2 -- and carrying a load, no less.
Conclusion 2: why on earth do I not have a Batman icon yet?
Morning ETA: Still can't rationalize how Bats gets out of the blast zone in time to survive. How much protection would he have underwater? Does he have a fridge to hide in?
If Gotham is in New Jersey in Great Bay, as some maps have it, then Bats only has to get about 20-30 km out to minimize casualties. So if an Apache helicopter's top speed is about 293 km/h, then it's doing about 4.8 km/minute -- let's be generous to the Bat and say it can do 5 km/min -- then in the two minute time frame Bats is going to get the bomb about 10 km out and an enormous swathe of the coastline is going to be badly burned.
Although! We might assume that the US Gov't, being aware of Bane's threat of detonating the bomb in the city and knowing the probable yield of said bomb, would have evacuated every town in a 20-30 km radius around Gotham during the four months it was occupied. So then only the people in Gotham would be at risk for thermal burns.
Conclusion 1: if the bomb was really four megatons, Bats probably did save most of Gotham, but Blake and those kids ought to be a lot toastier than they were. That, or Pavel miscalculated the yield of the bomb, or the Batcopter is even faster than the Sikorsky X2 -- and carrying a load, no less.
Conclusion 2: why on earth do I not have a Batman icon yet?
Morning ETA: Still can't rationalize how Bats gets out of the blast zone in time to survive. How much protection would he have underwater? Does he have a fridge to hide in?
