In this video I wanna talk about one interesting detail in Prometheus regarding the Engineer. Most of you remember the scenes in which the awakened Engineer punches and throws the crew members across the room with no effort.
That made me wonder how strong was the Engineer in Prometheus compared humans, more specificaly, how strong was the Engineer’s punching power compared to strongest human punchers like mike tyson and olympic boxers. In real life, not a single human could make another human fly a dozen meters across a room just by a single punch, so the Engineer must be incredibly strong, but in this video we’ll find out his exact strength level.
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To determine Engineers strength we’ll need some physics formals, but don’t worry they’re pretty easy to follow.
There are a few ways to calculate power of a punch but since we can only rely on our observations in the movie, we’ll stick to theb relatively precise method that only requires a few measurements.
Fortunately, we can use the one of the Isaac Newton’s laws that says that force or punching power in our case equals mass times acceleration.
so to estimate how strong was the engineer, we need the mass and the acceleration of people that we punched.
Accroding to laws of physics the force exerted by the engineers hand is equal to the force required to throw the crew members across the room in the way we saw. So instead of estimating the mass and speed of the Engineer’s hand which we don’t know anything about, we will estimate the same parameters regarding the crew members which is much easier.
So if we find the force that was need to send Ford and Weyland’s guard flying across the room, we will find the force of the engineers’ punch.
We can ignore planet’s gravity because all crew members move pretty much like on earth.
We’ll first find the force it took to throw the guard across the room. The way the engineer moved his hand to kinda throw jack is very similar to an uppercut so we’ll use this to estimate Engineer’s punching power.
For our formula, we need the mass and the acceleration of his body after the punch.
Judging by his weight and the fact he is in military , we can assume that he carries a significant amount of muscle which wieghs more than fat, so his body weight would be around 200 pounds, then we add the weigh of the costume another 50-70 pounds which results in the total of about 260 pounds.
In the Prometheus script, the sleeping pods are described as 20 foot long and by looking at the set photos it’s clear that another sleeping pod would fit in the center between the the two. So the platform is about 60 feet in diameter or 18 meters. In the movie Weyland’s bodygaurd traveled the distance of about 10 meters on the platform and a few additional meters between the platform and the wall. By measuring the time it took him to reach the wall, his speed comes to about 14 meters per second. However we need the acceleration so by diving 14 by the time he reached that speed after the punch, we have that the acceleration equals 56m/sec
By applying the formula the force is mass times acceleration we get that the force used to throw the guard across the room was 14 560 pounds which is quite a lot.
Mike Tyson, has one of the hardest punches in the world which is 1440 pounds, 10 times weaker than an Engineer’s punch.
If we do similar calculations with Ford, we get that the Engineer's punch was 11 450 pounds of force which is very high.
The Engineer is probably way stronger than we calculated because he didn’t use his force to the full extent. Despite the fact that he hardly put any effort in his punches, he hit at least 10 times harder than one of the strongest human punchers.
So that makes us wonder what are the The Engineer made off so that they can generate such extreme amount of power. In the script the awakened Engineer is described 13 feet just like ispace jockey, but on the screen he seems to be about 8 feet.
His strength would be more realistic if he was 13 feet, however in both cases he is extremely almost unbelievably strong for his size considering the fact that humans share most of their genetic material.
However, it’s possible that his bio suit came into play and significantly increased his strength.
That’s all for this video guys, thank you for watching, I hope you enjoyed my analyzis of the Engineer’s punching power.
Let me know in the comments how do you think the engineers possess such incredible strenght.
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