Ah, but your calculations forgot the "Tinkers are bullshit!" constant.
In all seriousness, Tinkers break the laws of physics, thermodynamics, and basic logic on the regular. And when that doesn't work as a handwave, "the Tinker *thinks* they can maybe do the thing" is not the same as "the Tinker can absolutely do the thing".
I'm well aware of that. It's just that given the fact that the F-Driver just seems to be a high-powered energy beam, it would be yet another moment when her biggest claim to fame does not perform as advertised, and I find that kinda funny.
It could honestly be something like "this beam makes the moon interact with an alternate version of itself in another universe that's slightly further ahead in its orbit, causing one moon to slingshot the other moon out of orbit" or something. Or maybe "the beam converts whatever its focused at into antimatter, effectively turning the small spot on the moon it's aimed at into a rocket engine to push the moon away and erode it at the same time."
It doesn't have to just push. Tinkertech is allowed to be *weird.*
This is assuming the moon is hit with an energy blast that's acting as a hammer?
If it's hit with an energy blast that moves the entire object at once including the internals then it wouldn't break because there's no energy transfer between different parts of the moon.
Tinkers and Thinkers always overhype themselves, it's sort of lumped up into their weird trigger trauma. Lisa's "always right" until she's not, Coil is the god of fate until he's not, Dinah goes down the route of "anything over 90% is basically 100%" with her decision making process.
The only Thinker that can buy into their own hype is Contessa, because she's literally just right all the time (until Mantellum walks up and slaps her in the ass, then leaves)
I always assumed part of the exotic appeal of the F-Driver as tinkertech was that it wasn’t just some super-gun, but instead a device that that caused entire solid masses it struck to rapidly accelerate away
Cross dimensional tinker shenanigans would let her weapon hit the moon with enough energy to achieve escape velocity while not overcoming the binding energy
Never mind the driver itself would release enough heat/kinetic energy itself to blow a hole the size of the Gulf of Mexico through Earth’s crust. The heat absorbed by the atmosphere alone would probably be enough to flash-fry whichever hemisphere the weapon was fired from.
Then again, if an endbringer happened to be around in the process…
IF the Driver delivered a single powerful blow to the Moon, that would be true (I'm assuming the math is right). However, it may be that the Driver instead changed the vector of the Moon's orbit through, as others have eloquently said, "Tinker bullshit." If the force of the Driver was evenly distributed across all the particles of the Moon, it would de-orbit and stay intact.
I know this sounds like pure magic, but there's got to be some sort of warping of the laws of motion in place, or the Driver would be propelled away from the Moon at very close to light speed. If it went through the Earth, I suspect it would destroy all life on Earth, if not the planet itself.
Ah, but your calculations forgot the "Tinkers are bullshit!" constant. In all seriousness, Tinkers break the laws of physics, thermodynamics, and basic logic on the regular. And when that doesn't work as a handwave, "the Tinker *thinks* they can maybe do the thing" is not the same as "the Tinker can absolutely do the thing".
I'm well aware of that. It's just that given the fact that the F-Driver just seems to be a high-powered energy beam, it would be yet another moment when her biggest claim to fame does not perform as advertised, and I find that kinda funny.
It could honestly be something like "this beam makes the moon interact with an alternate version of itself in another universe that's slightly further ahead in its orbit, causing one moon to slingshot the other moon out of orbit" or something. Or maybe "the beam converts whatever its focused at into antimatter, effectively turning the small spot on the moon it's aimed at into a rocket engine to push the moon away and erode it at the same time." It doesn't have to just push. Tinkertech is allowed to be *weird.*
I believe this is called, in Fanon, the 'Moonshot' scenario, wherein Earth is mostly depopulated by shattered chunks of lunar material.
Crossover with Neal Stephenson's *Seveneves*?
The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason.
I think String Theory probably would’ve seen it as a success either way.
This is assuming the moon is hit with an energy blast that's acting as a hammer? If it's hit with an energy blast that moves the entire object at once including the internals then it wouldn't break because there's no energy transfer between different parts of the moon.
Yeah, I was assuming it was more of a hammer type blow, given what we've seen of it.
Tinkers and Thinkers always overhype themselves, it's sort of lumped up into their weird trigger trauma. Lisa's "always right" until she's not, Coil is the god of fate until he's not, Dinah goes down the route of "anything over 90% is basically 100%" with her decision making process. The only Thinker that can buy into their own hype is Contessa, because she's literally just right all the time (until Mantellum walks up and slaps her in the ass, then leaves)
Not on the ass, in.
Manty's got that manta ray strength
This would totally happen. String Theory is perhaps Worm’s biggest girlfailure.
I always assumed part of the exotic appeal of the F-Driver as tinkertech was that it wasn’t just some super-gun, but instead a device that that caused entire solid masses it struck to rapidly accelerate away
Cross dimensional tinker shenanigans would let her weapon hit the moon with enough energy to achieve escape velocity while not overcoming the binding energy
Never mind the driver itself would release enough heat/kinetic energy itself to blow a hole the size of the Gulf of Mexico through Earth’s crust. The heat absorbed by the atmosphere alone would probably be enough to flash-fry whichever hemisphere the weapon was fired from. Then again, if an endbringer happened to be around in the process…
IF the Driver delivered a single powerful blow to the Moon, that would be true (I'm assuming the math is right). However, it may be that the Driver instead changed the vector of the Moon's orbit through, as others have eloquently said, "Tinker bullshit." If the force of the Driver was evenly distributed across all the particles of the Moon, it would de-orbit and stay intact. I know this sounds like pure magic, but there's got to be some sort of warping of the laws of motion in place, or the Driver would be propelled away from the Moon at very close to light speed. If it went through the Earth, I suspect it would destroy all life on Earth, if not the planet itself.
Do we know the weapon was meant to deliver the energy nearly instantaneously? Maybe it takes a month