WHAT IF A TITAN FELL? - Titanfall Science

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Published on February 14, 2014 2:04:09 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hERSjUUcxW0

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What if a Titan fell?

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In the game Titanfall you control a robot that is dropped from the sky, so what if a titan fell?
The average human today would be about 195lb and about 5 feet 9 inches. From some promotional art we can get a good idea for how tall a titan is with respect to a pilot. Also in the corner you can see some dimensions for the Atlas class titan. So it looks to be 25 tons and about 23 meters tall. 23 meters is a little more than 75 feet, a way more realistic height would be about 2.5 times that of the pilot, leaving the titan to be about 14 and a half feet tall. To put it into perspective, if a titan decided to punch you, its massive 7500Kg arm would be traveling nearly 40m/s and that energy would be transferred straight into your face. This energy exchange would be like being punched by Mike Tyson, 7500 times.

Now we don't know the tech of this world, but what we do know are the laws of physics. The time it takes a titan to land after being called in is about 5.09 seconds. Although this is an exo-planet, let's use earth's gravity as a reference. The titan is falling from about 130 meters with at a velocity of 50 meters/second at impact.

Being of similar mass to about 12 cars and dealing with a hard landing onto concrete, the force exerted on a titan would be transferred through the frame, distortion would absorb energy along with the deformation of the ground beneath it. The shock wave would shatter windows and set off car alarms. The joints in the legs would be torn apart and any computer brain would be pulverized. With a softer landing onto another titan, things change a little bit. The energy and forces would be transferred into Titan B and then into the softer earth. Insane amounts of deformation would occur leaving Titan B's cockpit being caved in first, along with the legs giving out. Depending on the geography, it could be buried up to a meter into the ground. The equal and opposite reaction would be propagated into Titan A as well. With the earth absorbing a lot of the energy and the deformation of Titan B, Titan A could partially survive.

Let's look at the hypothetical situation where the shield absorbs all the force, and in this hypothetical situation where the titan lands on you.

So you have a Titan traveling 110 miles/hour, and your body is in charge of breaking its fall. Your head would go from zero to 50m/s in only 35 mili-seconds. The 1,429Gs you would be experiencing would cause your eyes to be ejected from your head and your arms pulled from your body as they are trying to keep up with your new situation. But this isn't the worst part. Because you are acting as a cushion for this falling robot, you're the only thing between it and the 10 meter crater it will create. At the bottom would be a puddle, a puddle of you.

How do you clean up a radioactive puddle of pilot and titan?
Similar to Chernobyl, they would send helicopters to drop neutron absorbing material, then douse the rubble and surrounding area with a constant stream of liquid nitrogen to slow the release of radiation gasses. Truck loads of wet concrete would be trucked in to burry and fill the rubble and seal the material in. Think of it as your tomb stone. Unfortunately it couldn't be visited for about another 40,000 years, because that's how long it would take for the radiation levels to stabilize a safe level.
So next time you call in for Titanfall, know what you're getting into.


Sources
Stuntbusters - Car Drop at 1000 FPS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zrr_XYU3T8Q
Plutonium Space Probes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seXbrauRTY4
Submarine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVkYJ6r72mM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVkYJ6r72mM

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