Given that mini Kraid is seemingly on the heavier side based on his sprite, we’ll say he has a mass of approximately 155 kg. Based on my testing, I know that this resultant mass is 10kg from both the maximum and minimum average weight for someone of mini Kraid’s height. From here, I multipled the largest male weight in the range of 2.13 meters (124.7 kg) by that ratio, yielding a result of approximately 145 kg. This means that mini Kraid is about 1.15x taller than 2.13 meters. If I take mini Kraid’s height of 2.45 meters and divide it by a height on the chart (we’ll use 2.13 meters) I get a ratio of approximately 1.15. If that all seems confusing, allow me to put it in context. After some testing, I found that when I used the largest weight within the range of the smaller height, my result was always in the middle of the range of the larger height (about 10 kg from either extreme). I ran some tests in which I took the ratio between a larger height and a smaller height (divided a larger height by a smaller height) and multipled weights within the range of the smaller height by that ratio. To do so, I took a look at a chart that documents average human weight range relative to height (female onleft, male on right). Now that I had his height, I could find his mass. Looking at his sprite, mini Kraid stands at 62 pixels tall, comparing that to Samus’ in-suit height of 1.91 meters (48 pixels) we can calculate that mini kraid is approximately 2.45 meters tall (which would fit as he is seemingly about 1.5x taller than Samus) To find his approximate mass, I first needed his height. The particular enemy I chose was mini Kraid, an enemy you encounter only once in the entire game. For argument’s sake and to ensure that the body is completely disintegrated, we will take the higher end of this range.įor the variable of mass, I took the largest enemy I could find that Samus was able to vaporize with the screw attack, as larger mass would require more energy to vaporize it. According to, a body is typically heated anywhere between 1400-1800 degress Fahrenheit (approximately 760-982 degrees Celsius). More specifically, I could find the energy it would take to heat a body to that temperature, at which point anything un-vaporized would likely be destroyed by the subsequent explosion created by releasing such a large amount of energy in such a short time. Using that data in combination with the estimated mass of a reference enemy and the specific heat capacity of the human body, I could find the energy it would take to reduce a body to ash. I wanted to find out at what temperature a body is heated to during the process. After some brainstorming, I had the idea to look into the cremation process.įor those unfamiliar, cremation is the process of heating a deceased body to such a temperature that it is reduced into bone fragments and skeletal remains, which are then pulvarised into dust. This was due to the fact that it was difficult to find how many volts it would take to vaporize a human (for obvious reasons). During my reasearch, I concluded that the best way to go about this would be to find energy first and work backwards from there. Rather than focusing energy as my endpoint, I wanted to take it a step further and calculate the theoretical voltage and current of the screw attack’s electric field in order to compare them with that of other large otputs of electrical energy (i.e.
Screw attack as seen in Metroid Zero Missionįor this instance, I decided to do things a little differently.Only a handful of enemies are unaffected by this bounty hunter turned spinning death machine, such as metroids (who can only be defeated through use of the ice beam).
This field also shields Samus from most sources of damage, making it both an incredible offence and an effective defence. Should any enemy be unfortunate enough to make contact with her in this state, they will be completely vaporized almost instantly, quite literally exploding in the process. This powerup grants Samus the ability to project a field of electric potential energy around herself when spinjumping. The screw attack is typically one of, if not the last power up that Samus finds in her various adventures, and for good reason.
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The screw attack is seemingly one of Samus’ most powerful and devastating abilities, as well as one of her most iconic (as the series logo shares its logo with that of the ability’s icon).
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