SMG Science trailer leaves us baffled
by Chris Greenhough 
{ Nov 1st 2007 at 10:44PM }
Being entirely unable to understand Japanese, we haven't much of a clue about what's going on in this kooky Super Mario Galaxy Science trailer, but we're guessing it's something to do with gravity, and how our hero manages to stick to the underside of all those weird spherical levels.
Makes us wish we'd spent more time at school actually concentrating during double physics, rather than drawing on the back of Kevin Lomax's blazer.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Gareth Williams @ Nov 1st 2007 11:11PM
I'm more concerned about the "go west" music I can hear on the game...haha.
Odd video that.
ramuji @ Nov 2nd 2007 5:22AM
Yeah, even if you can't understand what he is saying, it is pretty obvious he is talking about why Mario doesn't fall off when walking on the "underside" of a planet.
In addition to gravity, he spends a good deal of time talking about centrifugal force, and how this force becomes stonger at greater distances from either pole.
He explains that because of this, it is better to launch space rockets from a location as close to the equator as possible; the increase in centrifugal force reduces the effect of gravity on the rocket.
More interesting facts: 90% of a rocket's weight is fuel. The remaining 10% is made up of the rocket itself, man-made satellites (cargo), etc.
The rocket body he is standing in front of has a width of 4 meters and a height of 50 meters when assembled, but a thickness of only 2 millimeters (about the same thickness as the coin he shows) at its thinnest point.
Isn't it fun to learn from games? ;)
Ethan @ Nov 2nd 2007 8:10AM
SMG isn't scientific. It's funtific.
ssuk @ Nov 2nd 2007 8:21AM
An interesting video, a bit jumpy... But not sure if it's my PC. Either way, it just shows the ammount of effort and detail that goes into games like this, even if they look kiddie and not realisitic, you'll often find that large ammounts accuracy goes into things like this.
Bigsven @ Nov 2nd 2007 9:16AM
To bad that centrifugal force really doesn't exist even though it is used to describe things all the time. Really they should be talking about the lack of centripetal force, which is really acting, or the lack thereof, on the object.
Chase @ Nov 11th 2007 1:22PM
Man, that video scienced the hell out of me. I need a rest.