very true... but perhaps real world physics don't apply in the bioncile world?

very true... but perhaps real world physics don't apply in the bioncile world?

Hardcore storyline freak . He he.

Gravity keeps all the water and sand onto the planet's surface and prevents it from going out into space.

 

Think about it, if you increase gravity thousands of times above normal, the most buoyant thing is going to crash downwards.

 

~SB~

Your first sentence -- that's absolutely correct. Don't forget that that's the same gravity that causes water pressure, the effect of water's "piling up on itself." The box on the bottom of a tower of boxes is the one that gets squeezed the most. So it is with the water at the bottom of the ocean. It gets squeezed, and the sqeezing gets gradually less intense as you go toward the surface. You know how you can squeeze a sliver out of your skin? The water squeezes objects in it to places of lower pressure, and since the pressure gradient gets less intense upward, that's what causes objects to float up to the point at which their weight and the squeezing force are in equilibrium -- and that point isn't always at the surface, it can be at some point below. Where that point is depends on density.

You make it sound as if bouyancy equals weight, but they aren't the same thing. At some point, gravity could win over on an extremely bouyant object, but it would have to be ridiculously powerful. Like putting out a house fire with a lawn sprinkler.

And this is why Bonesiii should be a consultant for all physics-related plot devices in the Bionicle universe.

It affects the object. But there are more "ridiculous" mask powers. Shielding? Dimensional Gates? Illusion?

It affects the object. But there are more "ridiculous" mask powers. Shielding? Dimensional Gates? Illusion?

. . . reanimation. . .

Because that would be hugely inefficient and therefore a big evolutionary no-no. You just don't get aquatic creatures that have a natural tendency to sink.