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In the Dreamworks movie Monsters vs Aliens, Susan kicks B.O.B. into the air and he does not come down for 41 seconds (0:09 to 0:50 of this video)

I'll be calculating his durability based off of this. But in order to do this I'll be making a few assumptions. In the movie it is stated that he is made of a substance called Benzoate ostylezene bicarbonate, which does not exist. However, it is also stated that he was made by combining genetically altered ranch dressing with a genetically altered tomato. Both tomatoes and ranch dressing have sodium benzoate in them. With that in mind, I'll use the density of sodium benzoate (1.5 g/cm^3) as well as the volume I calculate for B.O.B. down below to find his mass.

Susan is 49 feet and 11 inches or 1521 cm tall. B.O.B. is vaguely cylindrical.

MvA measure

If you need to know how I got the rest of the values I'll be using, feel free to ask.

Volume of a cylinder is V = pi*r^2*h

3.14*(82.8477653631^2)*246.418994413 = 5.31x10^6 cm^3

(5.31x10^6) x 1.5 = 7965000 g or 7965 kg

E = 0.5*7965*(9.81*20.5)^2 = 1.61x10^8 joules or Small Building level

ZanyBrainy's Adjustment[]

Looking at the variables included, I presume you guessed that half of the flight - 20.5 seconds- was spent flying upwards, and the other half was expended falling down. I do not believe kinetic energy would be applicable, as this is a feat where an object is falling to the ground via the effects of gravity, so the gravitational potential energy formula would better suit this situation.

20.5 x 9.81 = 201.10500 meters off of the ground mid-point

9.81 * 7965 * 201.10500 = 1.5713671 x 10^7 joules, or 3.7556575 kilograms of TNT

Wall level+, really high-end wall level, too

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