Only reason krillen dies so much is because he is always where the fight is. He's like that idiot who's always at the wrong place at the wrong time, because he wants to be there, at the wrong place and wrong time.
toriyama himself stated he sucked at math. The powerlevels were way off anyway. I mean, Vegeta was surprised goku got from 300-ish to 8000 in a year, yet he himself went from 18000 to... what? an easy million, over the course of 3 months or something. So lets just disregard the scouters anyway.
He's talking about the farmer who had a power level of 5 (5000*0.001) when raditz first touches down on earth, but I think that the scouter was somehow taking into account the gun he had, making a gun 5000 times more powerful than a really old/somewhat cowardly turtle.
I believe in the show it was explained by goku as the aura being the tiny vibrations in the air that gives you an idea of how well that person is able to manipulate their energy.....which is kinda confusing because we see their powers used in outer space as well. Whole other sayains hat someones 'fighting' ability is...basically power level may not just be determined tells their threat level. It may be more than just strength
everybody seems to be bad at math lol :) 5000 x 0.001 = 5, which is the power of the first human raditz met on earth.. I agree with you; it seems a bit too weak for a turtle
@EvilRyuGuy Much higher. If I recall, Toriyama said it was close to three hundred when he blew up the moon. Of course, like Trunks when he thought he could take on Perfect Cell he would lose a lot of speed in that form. So aside from blowing up planetoids it isn't particularly useful.
That was for the TV broadcast version since the FCC can't have guns shown to kids (what a load, right?) but the uncut DVD release of DBZ Kai shows the gun in Bulma's hands. What, did you think Kai was going to be unedited for kids on Nicktoons? DBZ may be for kids but American culture isn't the same as the Japanese's.
do you even know math? he was referring to the man with a power level of 5. krillin would be 200'000 times stronger than turtle, assuming the power level scaling is linear.
