MLSCIENCE IS BACK, WITH MORE CALCULATIONS AND LOTS MORE EIFFEL TOWERS.
This post has been in the works for around half a year now, with the first concept being produced way back when the episode “The Mime” first aired in South Korea. Since then, hiatuses and personal stuff prevented mlscience staff and contributors from focusing solely on this project (and a couple others), but it’s finally here.
Today we focus on the important question: How strong is the Mime?
To do this, we calculated approximately how much of the Eiffel Tower he cut off, and therefore how much of the Eiffel Tower he carried in those few seconds of the most epic scene in the first season of Miraculous Ladybug.
And to do that, we needed some statistics of the weights of each part of the Eiffel tower. It was a long search, but eventually, we found the best possible reference: this online copy of “La tour de trois cents mètres”, written by Gustave Eiffel himself, published in the year 1900, and filled with technical and scientific observations about the tower and the external forces that affected its design and engineering.
And then we had to recreate the slice of the Eiffel tower and calculate how much of each part remained on the tower, and how much was sliced off. For that, we created this spreadsheet (please click it), and our calculations can be summed up from there and this image:
As you can see, given the difficulty of calculating based on every single piece of the Eiffel tower (we were gonna do that but we couldn’t find a source for the weights of every single piece), we simply made educated guesses based on what’s visible, counting the pixels of the areas that remained and those that were sliced off, and moving along from there. (Do note that while there are differences between the ML universe Eiffel Tower and our actual Eiffel Tower, we used the dimensions and specifications of the real Eiffel Tower, for the sake of simplicity.)
Now, these are extremely rough estimates (so give or take up to 250,000kg), and they’re nowhere near exact, but these numbers give us an idea of how much the Mime can carry with his akuma powers:
The part of the Eiffel Tower that remained after the slice weighed around 4,838,619 - 5,011,352 kg (10,667,329 - 11,048,140 lbs).
The part of the Eiffel Tower that was sliced off (and, therefore, held up by the Mime) weighed around 4,688,138 - 4,860,871 kg (10,335,575 - 10,716,387 lbs!).
The angle of the slice relative to the ground is about 38 degrees.
That means the Mime carried close to 5,000 Tonnes of Eiffel Tower. STRONG.
Now, the reason that these numbers are so wide in range is because Eiffel himself put two different tables in his book (he claims within the book that it “wouldn’t make a difference” because it was only due to the inconsistencies brought by the revolutionary elevators), and so we had to calculate using both sets of information. In fact, the second set of info was off by 400 kg, and we had to provide yet another set of information. (All of which are seen in the spreadsheet.) Surprisingly, the part that was cut-off and the part that remained both were really close to each other in terms of mass; almost equally splitting the Eiffel Tower’s almost 10,000 tonnes to two parts of around 5,000 tonnes each.
So there’s our answer. The Mime can carry at least 5,000 tonnes, or around 5,000,000 kg, or roughly 11,000,000 lbs. That’s pretty strong.
And once again, the Eiffel Tower has helped @mlscience produce answers to these all-important questions. We love you, Eiffel tower.
@wikkedwolff for helping translate some parts of the book from French; and @slibinass for being the goddess of productivity that pushed us to make this happen.
We here at mlscience will be back with more content soon!
The Eiffel tower is Paris’s most recognizable landmark, and is of key importance to @mlscience. So far, the Eiffel tower has been used in three separate calculations as a reference (one of which hasn’t been posted yet!). Really, we wouldn’t know what to do without it.
Melting the entire puddle iron structure of the Eiffel Tower (which means this excludes the stone foundations, paint, etc.) and compessing it into a big ball would give you this.
The sphere would have a volume of ~935,000 Liters and would weigh ~7,300,000 Kilograms.
The Sphenoid bone is part of the human neurocranium, a collection of bones in the skull that forms a protective case for the brain. It is located behind the eyes.
Perhaps the most striking thing about this bone is how it resembles a pair of bat or butterfly wings, like this:
It kinda matches the shape of the communication mask thing Hawkmoth uses as well:
Hey guys! I saw something like this for the Girl Meets World fandom and I thought I’d do one for the ML fandom. It’s basically a map where you plot where you are in the world so we can see which miraculers live close to you and which ones live far. It’s also so we can see how widespread we are across the world!
1. Click this link. It will take you to a screen which looks like this:
2. Go to Additions, third from the left on the bar underneath the ZeeMaps logo, and then click Add marker - Simple
3. A box looking like this:
should appear on your screen. Then just type in your url, location (example Spain or Florida, USA or Paris, France) and a picture if you want. In the description write what languages you speak. Choose the colour of your marker then click submit.
4. Your marker should then appear in the location you chose like so:
and then you’re done! Yay!
I would really like this to be successful so we can see the spread of Miraculers across the world!
This is what the Eiffel Tower would look like if Ladybug never fixed it in “The Mime”.
(Software Used: SketchUp Make)
(Eiffel Tower model made and made accessible on the 3D Warehouse by Damo, and modified by yours truly.)
Note: Those thick black lines on the cut don’t actually exist.
Well, I spent some time on this.
This post is somewhat of a “preview”; all this 3D modeling is part of a bigger mlscience calculation. And yes, it is about the Eiffel Tower.
We recently found some wonderful sources for our calculations, mainly Gustave Eiffel’s book “La tour de trois cents mètres”. That discovery was wildly celebrated in the mlscience chat.
(I spent four days trying to understand and execute 3D software for this.)
Q:Do you think a possible reason why Adrien and Mari can't identify each other behind the mask is because they view the world differently when suited up? Like how Mari only sees the world in black and white so she really can't see what Chat Noir's hair color/eye color is?
Eh, if you really want my answer, the canon reason is just Clark Kenting. Astruc has also confirmed that their vision is totally normal, and the “bug vision” is more like a visually-shown thought process than what Ladybug literally sees.
(Adrien Agreste was used as a reference. To see how we retrieved Adrien’s height, click here and here.)
Using the pixel-proportion method, we now have a realistic and somewhat accurate list of the heights of the “collégiens”, or Marinette, Adrien and their classmates, minus Alix, Kim, and Max. This took a long time to do for various reasons, including the countless attempts to draw proper perspective lines on the reference image and the numerous calculations involving counting pixels, plugging the numbers on a calculator, and making that graphic above.
While we do have some pretty specific numbers up there, those shouldn’t be taken as 100% accurate results, due to some rounding off and other stuff that may have happened during the multiple stages of this project.
We might produce a more accurate version if we get more decent screenshots.
(If the image does not load properly, click “Keep Reading” to view the results.)
Idk. Because of the new episode, we know that Juleka is taller than Mari and Chloe. Alya is also taller than Mari, she is a super shorty. So idk how well I can believe this chart.
Yes. I had problems with perspective before, but with the new, clearer shots of them from the newest French episode I could make more accurate calculations.
In addition, because of some perspective problems I’ve overlooked when I calculated Adrien’s height using the Mona Lisa, the inaccurate-ness of this chart is given.
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.
MLSFR’s second Ships Ahoy survey is now accepting responses! Think of it as a sequel to the previous one. This survey is updated and contains different questions, focusing more on the preferred ship combinations than their naming conventions.
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.
MLSFR’s second Ships Ahoy survey is now accepting responses! Think of it as a sequel to the previous one. This survey is updated and contains different questions, focusing more on the preferred ship combinations than their naming conventions.
Maybe this is why Marinette and Adrien can’t tell each other apart when they are ladybug and chat noir.
Wait a second, this would totally make sense actually! When Ladybug uses lucky charm, it’s the one of the only times we get to see the world through her eyes. Everything is in black and white as she scans over the objects around the room. Maybe Ladybug can only see in black and white! 😯
The MPP is a demographics survey that aims to document how demographically and geographically diverse the fans of “Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir” are, and plot everyone on a big world map, showing which cities and countries have the highest densities of Miraculers.
Since its conception, there have been over 1,300 responses from six different continents, from people aged between 11 and 76, and from all walks of life.
However, we are clearly missing a lot of people within the survey. With the show now being released in English dub, we have no doubt that it has gained thousands more fans since. We also have other problems that have lingered since the beginning: The entire survey is in English, and we need someone to translate it into French and Korean and more people to share it with the other large fanbases of Miraculous Ladybug! (if you can, please send mlscience an ask!)
Now, Mlscience wants to remind everyone that this project is still underway! If you haven’t answered the survey yet, please do so by clicking here. If you feel like you already answered it, please check out other MLSFR (and other Miraculous-related) projects and surveys here, and reblog this post or share it on other social media websites so we can get a larger pool of responders!
Expect the results for the Miraculers Plotting Project to be released in mid-2016.
Let’s show the world how big the Miraculous fandom is.
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