Aldnoah.Zero

[lelouch]

Love how everyone is debating the show's explanation for defibrillators. Now let's debate that the show explained that the sky is blue from Mie Particle Scattering, not light refraction.

[Buffalobiian]

Love how everyone is debating the show's explanation for defibrillators. Now let's debate that the show explained that the sky is blue from Mie Particle Scattering, not light refraction.

There's two reasons for this:

1) Few picked up on, or know what Mie particles are, so whether that was correct or incorrect was not picked up nor dwelled upon. (I was actually going to add something to my previous post about how there may other erronous parts that I didn't happen to be familiar with). Whether that Leidenberg effect could really change bullet projectiles like it did would also be debatable.

2) Light refraction / scattering was a relatively minor point in that if the point was wrong, it means Inaho was wrong and Slaine was right. Character-development-wise you can argue that Inaho being wrong is very significant. However, in the case of the defibrillators and her hypoxemia-induced heart rhythm - it impacts on whether Seylum should or should not have survived. Since that was the entire cliff-hanger of the episode before last, I suggest that it is a point more worthy of discussion than light scattering.

(Note that I say it is more worthy of discussion, instead of saying that either is worthy of discussion at all)

[lelouch]

2) Light refraction / scattering was a relatively minor point in that if the point was wrong, it means Inaho was wrong and Slaine was right. Character-development-wise you can argue that Inaho being wrong is very significant.

I think you misunderstood this scene. My understanding was that Earth has learned a lot more about science in the past years and has developed further knowledge, while Mars is dependent on Aldnoah and is behind on the most current information.

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Okay so I googled Mie & Rayleigh scattering, apparently that's a real fucking thing? I thought that was some crazy shit the show made up to show how smart Inaho is that something everyone else thought to be known, he found out some like even more complex answer. I legit thought the sky was blue because of refraction. But apparently it actually is because of Rayleigh fucking scattering? What the fuck is this shit? Was I lied to all through school?

EPISODE 11: ----------------------

Okay that fight scene soundtrack is officially on my workout playlist. What a great fucking show. Haven't been this excited for the next ep since Code Geass or Gundam Seed.

[Buffalobiian]

Okay so I googled Mie & Rayleigh scattering, apparently that's a real fucking thing? I thought that was some crazy shit the show made up to show how smart Inaho is that something everyone else thought to be known, he found out some like even more complex answer. I legit thought the sky was blue because of refraction. But apparently it actually is because of Rayleigh fucking scattering? What the fuck is this shit? Was I lied to all through school?

I don't think you were "lied" to, but the papers talking about mie effect seem to be relatively recent. There was one in 2003 which was about verifying that the effect was even real.

Mahou showtime doesn't have an episode count for this show yet, but in recent years I've found that site, while reliable, tends to lag behind in the times. I won't be surprised to see this end in 1-2 episodes however. It's not the first Urobuchi show to do something like that.