Current Events > Lanturn's light is another thing in the Pokemon world that makes no sense.

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"Lanturn is known to emit light. If you peer down into the dark sea from a ship at night, you can sometimes see this Pokmon's light rising from the depths where it swims. It gives the sea an appearance of a starlit night."

"The light it emits is so bright that it can illuminate the sea's surface from a depth of over three miles [exactly 5 kilometers in Japanese original]"

No it can't. It just fucking cannot do that. The only way to illuminate the surface from 5 kilometres depth is to fucking vaporize the water inbetween. Why? Because water is excellent at dampening light, it does so exponentially. Here's an askscience thread on the matter (I hope I'm allowed to link to it)

But that's for the Mariana Trench (11000m) and due to the exponential nature I'm forced to do the math for our depth myself.

The formula turns out to be I(d) = I(0) * e^[-d*a]

I(0) is light power input, d is depth and a is water absorbtion for a specific wavelength of light. For I(d), the light power we get at the surface I'll go with 5 milliwatts. d is 5000m and a is 0.05 for the yellow light Lanturn outputs.

One maths later... http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=0.005+%3D+x+*+e%5E(-5000*0.05)+solve+for+x

Yes you're reading this right, the light output of a Lanturn would have to be at least 10^105 Watts for its light to reach the surface. Each second it releases more energy than 10^35 observable universe mass energy equivalents.

This is obviously not true. It can't be true because the Pokemon universe hasn't turned into a universe sized black hole yet.

The people who write this shit just don't know what they're talking about. It probably went something like this: "Lanturn being bright enough to make the ocean glowy would be totally rad, right guiz?" "Sure mang, just do your thing." And then you end up a hundred orders of magnitudes off and destroy the universe.

For reference, TON 618, one of the most massive black holes discovered at a mass of 66 billion solar masses, possesses a quasar that is one of the brightest objects known in the universe, which emits 410^40 watts, and according to this, Lanturn's light far outshines even that.

All this, yet its Special Attack stat is only 76.

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A 10 year-old wrote the pokedex. Don't expect accuracy.

Remember. Alakazam has an IQ of 6000 but is still a slave in a ball.

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FabIe posted...

A 10 year-old wrote the pokedex. Don't expect accuracy.

Remember. Alakazam has an IQ of 6000 but is still a slave in a ball.

You're being ridiculous, it's not 6000 at all. It's an IQ of 5000, total difference.
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Imagine actually doing all that math and work just to fact check Pokemon lol. Imagine that's your life.

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Also lol at people getting upset about that. Anyone remember those old meme pics about the kid writing pokemon entries like magacaro being hotter than the sun and and pigdey flying at mach 3 speed
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FabIe posted...

A 10 year-old wrote the pokedex. Don't expect accuracy

Or that world functions on different rules.

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saspa posted...

Also lol at people getting upset about that. Anyone remember those old meme pics about the kid writing pokemon entries like magacaro being hotter than the sun and and pigdey flying at mach 3 speed

Best pokemon meme

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It's a kids series. If u try to dig too deep into it you'll come out with a headache.

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saspa posted...

Also lol at people getting upset about that. Anyone remember those old meme pics about the kid writing pokemon entries like magacaro being hotter than the sun and and pigdey flying at mach 3 speed

I liked those
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Lantern's light is actually just radioactive pee.

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