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Old 12-19-2013, 03:38 PM   #792
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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube View Post
I posted my criticism of the ridiculous action scenes, zany physics, and nausea-inducing luck of our heroes of these films already previously but...

Liquid gold has a density of 17.31 g·cm−3. Solid, room temperature iron has a density of 7.874 g·cm−3. I don't know what the density of a Dwarf is but it's probably close to 1 g·cm−3 since he's mainly composed of water. Therefore, an iron shield with a little Dwarf would easily float on liquid gold.
Fair enough. But yeah, lots of falling off high things into perfect parkour barrel rolls.
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