Post by Saturn on Aug 5, 2016 15:19:49 GMT -6
So a friend and I were trying to figure out the wingspan and wing surface of a Shadiir
and for some reason she calculated the wingspan that Big Bird needed to fly??? Which was funny but not relevant
Anyhow I said 'hey a great dane has a similar body shape to a shadiir' and so we decided to use that as an orbital point
cue the 'no one actually asked how big the wings of a great dane would have to be to fly'
bUT APPARENTLY
A very heavy Great Dane (which is kinda what a Shadiir is) is about 90 kilograms. And apparently, so is Big Bird
so she used big bird to calculate this:
"A 90 pound Great Dane (consequently the weight of Big Bird) would need a 7.6 meter wingspan, which is 3.8 meters on each wing."
so after some other shenanigans including MSPaint, lots of internet searching, my sibling screaming about 'the scalene triangle', and other great things, we discovered the area of one wing on a single side was 2.318 square meters, the surface area, per wing, is 5.635744 square meters, and the thickness of the wing would be roughly 10.16 centimeters.
Then there's the whole shit with scaling it up
6.86 cm is the diameter of a tennis ball, and the height of a great dane is roughly 76 cm
So if the tennis ball is equal to that of the moon's diameter, in conversion, and the great dane is equal to the shadiir in conversion
Therefore:
6.86cm*(?) = 347,400,000cm.
? = 506,413.994169
And by that same logic:
76cm*(506413.994169) = 38,487,463.5569cm, or 384.874635569 km (rounded to 384.9km). So that's the height of the Shadiir itself. But NOW we need to do the wings.
So basically we take the stuff and multiply it by the variable
Wingspan:
7.6m*506,413.994169= 3848746.36m (or 3848.74636km)
Area of one wing, single side:
2.318m^2*506,413.994169= 1173867.64m^2 (or 1.17386764km^2)
Surface Area (per wing):
5.635744m^2*506,413.994169= 2854019.63m^2 (or 2.85401963km^2)
Wing Thickness:
10.16cm*506,413.994169= 5145166.18cm (or 51.4516618km)
So a lot of bullshit. But here it is. And this is just EARTH'S gravity being considered, so we're gonna go into the whole 'Shaniir has a fuckton of gravitational pull', but later. We're exhausted and need to cry for a little, so these measurements may or may not be final! One of us will post the final results later. (Also, apparently, square meters to square kilometers is different than plain meters to kilometers. The more you know?)
The vast majority of this math came from Crystal, so most of this credit goes to her. Give her a pat on the back or something, because this was all pretty stressful and took a little over two hours to figure out.
and for some reason she calculated the wingspan that Big Bird needed to fly??? Which was funny but not relevant
Anyhow I said 'hey a great dane has a similar body shape to a shadiir' and so we decided to use that as an orbital point
cue the 'no one actually asked how big the wings of a great dane would have to be to fly'
bUT APPARENTLY
A very heavy Great Dane (which is kinda what a Shadiir is) is about 90 kilograms. And apparently, so is Big Bird
so she used big bird to calculate this:
"A 90 pound Great Dane (consequently the weight of Big Bird) would need a 7.6 meter wingspan, which is 3.8 meters on each wing."
so after some other shenanigans including MSPaint, lots of internet searching, my sibling screaming about 'the scalene triangle', and other great things, we discovered the area of one wing on a single side was 2.318 square meters, the surface area, per wing, is 5.635744 square meters, and the thickness of the wing would be roughly 10.16 centimeters.
Then there's the whole shit with scaling it up
6.86 cm is the diameter of a tennis ball, and the height of a great dane is roughly 76 cm
So if the tennis ball is equal to that of the moon's diameter, in conversion, and the great dane is equal to the shadiir in conversion
Therefore:
6.86cm*(?) = 347,400,000cm.
? = 506,413.994169
And by that same logic:
76cm*(506413.994169) = 38,487,463.5569cm, or 384.874635569 km (rounded to 384.9km). So that's the height of the Shadiir itself. But NOW we need to do the wings.
So basically we take the stuff and multiply it by the variable
Wingspan:
7.6m*506,413.994169= 3848746.36m (or 3848.74636km)
Area of one wing, single side:
2.318m^2*506,413.994169= 1173867.64m^2 (or 1.17386764km^2)
Surface Area (per wing):
5.635744m^2*506,413.994169= 2854019.63m^2 (or 2.85401963km^2)
Wing Thickness:
10.16cm*506,413.994169= 5145166.18cm (or 51.4516618km)
So a lot of bullshit. But here it is. And this is just EARTH'S gravity being considered, so we're gonna go into the whole 'Shaniir has a fuckton of gravitational pull', but later. We're exhausted and need to cry for a little, so these measurements may or may not be final! One of us will post the final results later. (Also, apparently, square meters to square kilometers is different than plain meters to kilometers. The more you know?)
The vast majority of this math came from Crystal, so most of this credit goes to her. Give her a pat on the back or something, because this was all pretty stressful and took a little over two hours to figure out.
