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crustacean-menace · 1 year ago

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Being in environmental sciences and also anime makes for a fucked up and evil combo.

Be absolutely free to ignore, i do not come up with any conclusion worth reading here. Ravings of a madman. But know it involves One piece.

Today i wasted my morning looking into one piece worldbuilding, specifically the planet the story takes places in and its impossible landmarks and going too deep in a rabbit hole i am not sure i have the right amount of knowledge to delve into regarding Geology, Tectonics, Meteorology and also Astronomy.

All of which started from me seeing an image of Admiral Fujiitora, doing his funny admiral movement tech of "Fly across the sea on top of a chunk of ground he ripped out of the ground with gravity powers" and wondering how much this man may have impacted the soil microbial developement of each island by doing that, carrying ground bacteria, nematodes and all that as unwilling passengers of his trips.

And that turned into "hey, now that i think about it, how did life evolve around with so many insular communities cut off from the rest?" As insular evolution usually involves landmasses being connected at one point before getting separated and having speciation happen.

And that yet again turned into "Hey, how DID the geomorphology of this planet turn like that?" Which brought me to pull up my old geology, petrography, tectonic and orogeny notes and try to make sense of it.

Rinse and repeat, and now the final question is:

"HEY HOW DID LIFE DEVELOP AT ALL IN THIS FUCKASS DEATHWORLD PLANET FULL OF PHOENOMENA THAT CAN BE ARGUABLY PLAUSIBLE ON THEIR OWN BUT NOT WHEN PUT TOGETHER LIKE THAT?"

We got islands with their own magnetism and climate, incredibly deep abyssal sea floors that can reach 10.000 meters in depth, a continental strip that encircles the planet much akin to something that could be seen on a tidally locked planet but that goes across the poles vertically, the whole grand line and reverse mountain and adjacent calm belts, Pelagic megafauna that would make Subnautica devs sweat in fear, four evenly distributed oceans that may or may not actually be connected somewhere but are officially distinct and separated and thus insular in their own.

The planet pretty much has fauna that mirrors our real world one, a moon similar to ours (if not even more satellites if a specific scene of the anime is to be believed), but unlike ours, dry surface is sparse with only the red line continent and the numerous islands which one of the characters state could be more than 20,000,000.

Of course, foolish of me to try and reason out how a planet from an anime could work realistically, but the scary part is that a lot of it could be explained by the one piece world being some form of Super-Earth, with a rampant volcanic activity to generate enough hotspots so that island can spring up much like Hawaii, and with powerful tectonics that push opposite plates into eachother creating the red line. Bigger planets means bigger and stronger atmospheric phoenomena, but nowhere in the way they happen in the series.

I reinstate, all these geomorphological and meteorological situations COULD BE theoretically plausible, but not all together. And yet life on it developed in a way comparable to the earth's own biosphere. Which is the most absurd part, because a planet like this would constantly be faced with extreme cataclysms every friday and at best i could only see the fish men and mermaids survive there.

And remember, this absurd spelunking trip into a rabbit hole of my own making started from seeing THIS.

Rant over. Once again i wasted a morning being the Hubris-prone fool that can't watch anything without wondering about biological implications of certain factors the story definitely does not give much weight.

#crab says stuff #crab says DUMB stuff #i am not even gonna tag this as one piece i am scared someone may dig up this and ASK MORE QUESTIONS #``i may have something undiagnosed`` tag

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