i never really wanted the lollipop guild to go on, and here for only the second time is an opponent i respect enough to make me vote against them. let's make a crater out of oz.
HOLY LIVING FUCKjameelAugust 14 2008, 11:51:03 UTC
Okay. The death of the Wicked Witch of the East suggests to me that the denizens of Oz have no special resistance to death by falling object, and the K-T meteor is considerably larger than a house. Unless they have super Tommy guns (is the Lollipop Guild connected to Intergang?)...
Hrm. Let's think about this for a moment. Dorothy travelled to Oz via tornado, which is somewhat similar in appearance to a Boom Tube...
No. That way lies madness. I like the Lollipop Guild and all, but this meteor is pie's way of stabbing at them from Hell's heart.
I'm willing to be that the Lollipop Guild is prepared for this eventuality. They have built an additional candy-making civilization deep below the ground, drawing power from the Earth's molten mantel. Their bomb-shelters are secure, and their candy supplies are unlikely to run out before they can get a subterrainian factory going.
The meteor, on the other hand, is destroyed on impact, and thus the Lollipop Guild wins by default (ie. by surviving the kamakazi attack by K-T).
Assuming the meteor was approaching at a close to perpendicular angle to Oz, and giving it a size of about Texas at 60-80 k/s -- I'm pretty sure no subterrainian factory would survive either, and I'm even willing to pretend that this factory is in the Canadian Shield. The impact, transferred energy as heat and subsequent tectonic forces would crush anything you build down there into a Lollipop Guild Paste.
Re: K-T MeteorbluestknightAugust 14 2008, 13:58:46 UTC
My assumption was not that the Lollipop Guild would be underground at the point of impact, but far enough away that they would be largely unaffected by the impact itself, and more worried about the ensuing volcanic activity and nuclear winter. With all of the advanced astronomy that the Lollipop Guild is so well-known for performing*, I'm sure they'd have ample warning and be well prepared.
Well, technically Oz wasn't a part of Earth. It's fantasy. So, as the meteor destroys itself and all it hits, it will be unable to get caught in a tornado and arrive in Oz.
Lollipop guild wins it, and I can't believe I'm writing that.
Haven't we all, at some point or another in our lives, crushed a child with a boulder? How did that turn out? If your experiences are anything like mine, it worked out great for the boulder, and not so well for the child.
A midget is basically a child, only older.
A meteor is basically a boulder, only older. Oh, and lots bigger.
So, unless the whole "older" factor comes into play in a way I can't imagine, we're once again looking at crushed little guts.
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Hrm. Let's think about this for a moment. Dorothy travelled to Oz via tornado, which is somewhat similar in appearance to a Boom Tube...
No. That way lies madness. I like the Lollipop Guild and all, but this meteor is pie's way of stabbing at them from Hell's heart.
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The meteor, on the other hand, is destroyed on impact, and thus the Lollipop Guild wins by default (ie. by surviving the kamakazi attack by K-T).
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*this may be a lie.
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Lollipop guild wins it, and I can't believe I'm writing that.
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A midget is basically a child, only older.
A meteor is basically a boulder, only older. Oh, and lots bigger.
So, unless the whole "older" factor comes into play in a way I can't imagine, we're once again looking at crushed little guts.
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