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Ships Ahoy! #2:[FEBRUARY LADYNOIR] Results!

(Infographics made with Piktochart.)

This is a bit late, but the second ‘Ships Ahoy!’ survey results are here! This survey can be seen as a ‘sequel’ to ‘Ships Ahoy #1: [LADYNOIR]’.

All results were collected between the 1st and 26th of the month of love, February 2016! A lot has happened since then, so while these results may not reflect current opinions, they are accurate to that time period.

If you didn’t get to answer this survey, check out @mlscience and our research page!

This same survey will be reconducted in about a month, so we could provide a picture on how the fandom’s preferences and opinions change over time.

We also launched the BOX OF FREEDOM with this survey! Click “Keep Reading” to view some of the responses that caught our eyes.

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Ships Ahoy! #1:[LADYNOIR] Results!

The first full infographic out of MLSFR and ‘Ships Ahoy!’ is here! All data that was used came from a Google Forms Survey conducted between November 27, 2015, and January 7, 2016. A total 550 people answered the survey. If you didn’t get to participate in this survey, don’t worry! @mlscience has many more to come in the near future. Check out our research page!

We now know what the fandom calls the combinations of ships, including how to pronounce “Ladrien”, how the ‘N’ in “LadyNoir” doesn’t matter whether it’s upper- or lower- case, and how only nine people support “Marinara” for the very saucy ship.

We also noted the popularity of Marichat, which was possibly caused by the popularity of fanfiction such as @taylordraws ‘s Heartstrings, which has earned over 4,634 Kudos and over 82,058 hits on Ao3, and 741 Favs on Fanfiction.net.

We also conclude that everyone ships LadyNoir, bar a couple of outliers.

This same survey will be reconducted in a few months, so we could provide a picture on how the fandom’s preferences and opinions change over time.

(Infographics made with Piktochart.)

Q:Since the part that allows cats to have "night vision" is behind the retina, how come Chat Noir has this ability when the part of his mask covering his eyeballs is on his scelera? (Unless this is some sort of futuristic night vision technology OR his eyes turn into actual cat eyes or kwami magic?)

Anonymous

We don’t actually know how Chat Noir gets and uses his abilities, but like you said, it probably is magic, technology, or anatomical changes brought about upon transformation by Plagg and the Miraculous. 

Sadly, such magic doesn’t exist in our universe, so we can’t tell exactly what goes on in there. So unless we find an actual Chat Noir and do an autopsy or MRI scan or something (or get an episode that shows us exactly what we’re looking for), his powers and how they work are up for speculation. 

-Admin AT

Mlscience is happy to announce MIRACULOUS TRIVIA! We figured that the many calculations and research we’re working on were taking too long and making the @mlscience blog… inactive. So we thought about this! MLTrivia posts will be regularly scheduled...
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  Mlscience is happy to announce MIRACULOUS TRIVIA!

We figured that the many calculations and research we’re working on were taking too long and making the @mlscience blog… inactive. So we thought about this! MLTrivia posts will be regularly scheduled and should give you your daily dose of facts relating to Miraculous Ladybug.

So while we work on looking for what species of butterfly the akuma are most similar to, re-calculating everyone’s heights, doing some psychological analyses, and figuring out how strong some of our villains are with some hardcore physics, enjoy some cat biology. Of course, your asks aren’t ignored :)

The MLScience blog is also undergoing renovation; we’re adding new sections and links to make the browsing experience easier and more enjoyable.

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Chat Noir’s “Night Vision” (as seen in the episode “Stormy Weather”) may have been inspired by the amazing abilities of real-life cats to see in the dark!

Cats, as predatory animals, have adapted to have improved senses that make them more efficient hunters. One of these senses is their ability to see better in the dark. 

The tapetum lucidum is a thin layer of tissue located just behind the cat’s retina that reflects the light back through it, increasing the light available to the cat’s photoreceptor cells (Rod cells and Cone cells). This membrane also causes the “eye shine” that we see in flash-camera pictures of cats and dogs!

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("Tapetum lucidum domestic cat” by Stablenode - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tapetum_lucidum_domestic_cat.png#/media/File:Tapetum_lucidum_domestic_cat.png)

Rod cells are photoreceptive cells in the retina that can function in low-light environments. An average human has around 90-120 million rod cells, but cats have six to eight times more! This explains their impressive night vision.

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HOW TALL IS CHAT NOIR? ~PART 2~ Yes, this post looks familiar. No, this isn’t the same post. Here we are again trying to calculate Adrien/Chat Noir’s height even though we clearly already did in this previous post. A LOT OF YOU said some things along...
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HOW TALL IS CHAT NOIR? 

~PART 2~

Yes, this post looks familiar. No, this isn’t the same post. Here we are again trying to calculate Adrien/Chat Noir’s height even though we clearly already did in this previous post. 

A LOT OF YOU said some things along the lines of ”Chat Noir is so tall wtf” and “How tall are the adults?” (which we will someday totally calculate btw), and Admin AT agreed that yes, Adrien does look a little bit… too tall for a french ~15 year old.

So we did it again. This time with fencing swords.

TL;DR We pulled out four possible heights from these calculations; ~156.5cm (5′2″), ~166.6cm (5′6″), ~171.7cm (5′8″) and ~181.7cm (less than half an inch shy of 6′0″), based on four different sizes of modern regulation fencing foils and épées.

(Click “Keep Reading” to view the calculations. Click here to see Part 1 of this series that aims to narrow down Adrien/Chat Noir’s height and the heights of other characters.)

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HOW TALL IS CHAT NOIR? As a science and mathematics blog, @mlscience needs a lot of data to calculate stuff. One such piece of data would be dimensions; length, height, width, etc. These dimensions are crucial in order to calculate how fast things...
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HOW TALL IS CHAT NOIR?

As a science and mathematics blog, @mlscience needs a lot of data to calculate stuff. One such piece of data would be dimensions; length, height, width, etc. These dimensions are crucial in order to calculate how fast things go, how heavy things are, and how much volume everything has.

We needed to find someone’s height, so we set our eyes on one of the easiest candidates: Chat Noir. We also needed something that we can compare him to in real life, and that thing turned out to be Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece, the Mona Lisa.

TL;DR: Chat Noir is about ~180cm (5′11″) tall, assuming that Copycat and Chat Noir are exactly identical in height and that the Mona Lisa portrayed in the show has the same dimensions as the real life Mona Lisa.

(Special thanks to @madelinelime for providing us with HD screenshots, and to @mylittlehony for pointing out an error in the cm to feet conversions!)

(Click “Keep Reading” to view our methods. Click here for Part 2.)

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