Welcome to the Knowledge Tower, a RU-vid Channel where we investigate the Science behind the BIONICLE legend. Join us as we dive deep into the lore and scientific principles to find the true speed of the Kanohi Kakama, the orbital mechanics of the Spherus Magna system and much more.
Another banger video Rahi! Absolutely mindblowing how big the Coliseum is! Bionicle has such a WONKY sense of scale for everything, and at this point its fully hilarious 😆
Hey, don't know if you will see this but I would like to know how the great spirit robot works. Like how the city's, islands and stuff works. Where are they? How does the sky work in the different places? A more overview of the matoran universe.
Turns out you can get a lot more ambitious with your civil engineering projects once you have access to magic metal. ^^' Scale in BIONICLE is always so weird - the Coliseum is a building comparable to the highest mountains on Earth, while the city it's in is just the size of a moderately sized human town. But it's located in a dome that is just so, so, *so* much larger than it would have to be to house the island, regardless if you go by Faber scale or Farshtey scale. And despite that, most of the interior of the GSR is not part of the dome megastructure but is stuff like EP pipes and power cables and plants and actuators and generators and engines and and and The GSR is one of the most fascinating fictional locations/structures ever imo. And so much of it still unexplored in both canon and fanon. And then you realize it is so fascinating because it's based on the human body, something all of us have, and which is no less complex and mysterious in its workings. I'm rambling, but that's because I love this story because it makes me dream and wonder. And I love how much love and passion this community still holds for it. Thank you for this and all of your videos! Happy 810NICLE day, gathered friends!
@@mek101whatif7 the building is thinner at the top than it is at the bottom, which we assumed to be a linear slope for the ease of calculation. We worked out earlier in the video that there were 870 floors, so if each floor gets slightly smaller as you go up due to the top being thinner than the bottom, then that means the top must be 870 times smaller than the bottom.
That onscreen note about the calculation being full potential floorspace stopped me from posting the comment I was going to make about the power plant. Well played. An excellent video. Also, I guess I always assumed the stadium was located somewhere next to the Coliseum and just didn't appear on maps. But the top makes some sense, I suppose. Makes the maps more consistent. Just makes it weird to me that the Toa were able to get up to the top and walk onto the field possibly without being noticed? I guess that's easier on game day.
So ignoring drag and assuming 1G, if you were to jump from the primary spires it would take about 30 seconds to fall to the ground. From the higher spire it takes another 6 seconds after. I don't know exactly what the real fall time from either of those would be. You probably need to calculate acceleration due to gravity, how long it would take to reach terminal velocity, and once you are at terminal velocity how long does it take to cover the rest of the distance. And I don't know if a Bionicle terminal velocity is the same as a human. For that matter I don't know if they have the same gravity as Earth
10:47 I don't know how I never realized this would be how to fix the field/stadium height vs tower height discrepancy until you mentioned "open air" and it all started to click. I had just assumed this was at ground level, but on the top floor(s) just under the spires makes way more sense. Now that we have the measurements of the Akilini Field we could calculate the actual population of the city, as there is no way there are only 1,000 Matoran in those stands
i imagine several floors are also turned into one massive room to hold larger project and exhibits, and maybe some of those floors you see on skyscrapers where they aren't really floors and are mostly for access to important structural bits also i wonder what the wind drag is at the top, plot armor is really the only reason the coliseum hasn't collapsed yet
I would imagine they also constructed it out of materials stronger than what we have access to, like the various forms of protodermis. Keep in mind that the entirety of the island is housed inside the head of the Great Spirit Robot (with room to spare) and that robot itself is as tall as a moderate sized planet's diameter, so the structural engineering needed for the coliseum was as simple for the Great Beings as ... well ... as us building a Lego house. That also ignores the notion that the city and coliseum do, in fact, exist inside of a massive enclosed space that, presumably, has some sort of artificial environmental manipulation to be able to control things like wind drag at the top of the coliseum. Though... even enclosed and controlled, the sheer size of the sphere inside the GSR head would mean some natural, or pseudo-natural, weather patterns could form on their own.
@@Dargonhuman i swear i remember weather patterns being a thing mentioned in the books, though there inevitably will be some from just the heat of the massive forge and icy cold around the knowledge towers (question mark on humidity because the sea around there is still protodermis))
@@dusksentry5836 as prcervi pointed out, the extreme temperatures of the Great Furnace and Knowledge Towers would create some pretty intense convection currents.
I definitely think that a lot of that space was probably composed of giant rooms, such as the Matoran storage Vakama saw in his vision, the hangars for their giant vehicles... I forget where the Vahki were built, but it would make sense that it'd be in the Coliseum! Whatever the structure of the building, the scale is impressive! Nice video!
Now I’m just wondering how much area is in the archives below the city, but I don’t think there are enough descriptions to really calculate that. But given how large Metru Nui is and the fact that the archives extended across the entire land mass and even out under the Silver Sea in some places, it was definitely a very huge area. And when you add the fact that there were lots of different levels of most likely equal size, it definitely makes a lot of sense how they could easily have a complete collection of every rahi known to the Matoran, and still be so large that even the Onu-Matoran who spent their whole lives down their could still get so lost in it that they would never find their way back out.
So what you're saying is the Onu-Metru Archives are the Bionicle analogue to the Backrooms? ... Ooooooh, can we get a Backrooms level just based on the Onu-Metru Archives?! Has anyone found Level 810 yet?
@@Dargonhuman oh man I never even realized that but it works surprisingly well, it’s basically the backrooms and the SCP foundation combined because of all the crazy monsters kept in there.
There is absolutely no need for such mega structures in real life. Burj Khalifa needs daily poop trucks to remove the waste cause the building is so large and doesn't have dedicated plumbing. It's also majority empty. It would be an utter waste of resources to make higher and larger buildings. Better keep these megalomaniacal stuff in fiction.
This video gets an instant like just on the basis that you had the patience to count 1089 pixels and Im pretty sure you had to do it twice to be sure of the number.
Glad I'm not the only one who caught that... Though, arguably, any tower of that size and scale would naturally share the same structural motif just to account for the physics of such a massive megastructure.
I used NukeBlast app to calculate what if all that enegry was converted into explosion. Power of explosion resulted to be 5,6 trillon megatons. And raduis of fireball (yes, that nuclear mushroom) was 146 000 km (≈90 720 miles) which is 22 times bigger than radius of earth. Such explosion can obliterate earth with moon P.S: I found out a simular site, and it's results was even bigger. 212 345 km (≈131 295 miles) fireball radius
You know what would be cool? how deep was Mahri Nui, on the toa Mahri teasers is said they were around 35.000 feet under water were the toa crawler landed, maybe we could get something out of that ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VGEuIGJYfSo.html
The rent on the rooms in there must be insane. Thank you for all the work you do bringing the world of our childhood heroes into perspective! Happy 810NICLE DAY!
There was that one rahi which had the powers of the kanohka discs and enlarged itself so much that it's atoms could no longer keep themselves together. I wonder if the rahi's powers let it bypass the usual size limit of the disc powers or if when using that disc power to go beyond the size limit causes that effect. I'd guess the former since if something was already at the size limit it's atoms should still be densely pact enough to keep it together.
Okay, so hear me out here! Remember in Mata Nui Saga Chapter 14? Where Mata Nui is traveling the stars, examing other worlds? You can see a profile of what looks like a primitive human caveman in the upper right corner next to an eerily familiar blue planet. Now Greg himself answered this question when I ask him about it years ago and he said no, but I refuse to believe that humans don't somehow exist in the Bionicle Universe. And now we're getting news of this nebula? Coincidence? I think not?
