So I recently rewatched the music video for the Gorillaz song, Clint Eastwood and noticed a really good feat. Del the Ghost Rapper causes a thunderstorm upon his release. Now, how do can we tell Del caused the storm? Well:
- It was a sunny day before Del was released, so sunny in fact that the sun light was a pretty massive glare.
- As soon as Russel Hobbs starts to get overtaken by Del, clouds blot out the sky, blotting out the sunshine.
- Del controls the ground around them too, meaning its not out of the question that he can cause storms.
- Lastly, when Del returns to Russel's head, the storm starts to disperse.
Now that we have that out of the way. Feat here
The Calculation[]
The storm is seen going as far back to the horizon from Del's perspective. Now, Del is a giant, but how tall? Well, let's find out.
The official VEVO upload is only in 360p, go figure. Well, it's good enough I guess.
The guy is 2-D, who has an official height of 1.88m. He stands at 145 pixels, and the tower is 694 pixels
694 / 145 = 4.78620689655
1.88 * 4.78620689655 = 8.99806896551 meters
Now, this is a different tower, but it's clearly taller then the one I scaled, so think of it as a lowball. This tower is 331 pixels, and Del is 386 pixels
386 / 331 = 1.16616314199
8.99806896551 * 1.16616314199 = 10.4932163767 meters
Pretty tall dude, huh. Now to Ringbell.
The Horizon at the calculated height is 11.6 Kilometers.
Area of a Circle = πr2
π * 11.6^2 = 422.732707467 km^2
Average height for Storm Clouds is 13 km
422.732707467 * 13 = 5495.52519707 km^3, or 5,495,525,197,070 m^3
Cloud density is 1.003 kg/m^3
5,495,525,197,070 * 1.003 = 5.5120118e+12 kg
Method #1: Kinetic Energy[]
We first see the storm form at 00:51:97, the clouds mostly blot the sky at 00:57:49 and becomes a full storm at 01:29:76 the very latest. We'll use that as our high end and low end respectively.
57.49 - 51.97 = 5.52s
1:29:76 - 51:97 = 37.79s
11.6 km / 5.52s = 2,101.44928 m/s
11.6 km / 37.79s = 306.959513 m/s
5.5120118e+12 * 0.5 * 2,101.44928^2 = 1.2170768e+19 J
2.908 Gigatons
5.5120118e+12 * 0.5 * 306.959513^2 = 2.5968229e+17 J
62.06 Megatons
Method #2: C.A.P.E.[]
C.A.P.E. Values here. Big thinks to AN!
The storm is pretty intense, so I'll use 4 kj/kg.
5.5120118e+12 * 4,000 = 2.2048047e+16 J
5.26 Megatons
Small City level+