Game Theory: Mario's LUNAR APOCALYPSE!! (Super Mario Odyssey)

MatPat demonstrates counting moons like lollipops, consuming 48 moons and feeling sick, setting up the theme of the episode.

• Super Mario Odyssey features diverse kingdoms including Rainbow Forks and a Dark Souls-like environment • New Donk City's residents are over 10 feet tall compared to Mario's canonical height of 5 foot 1 inch • The moon is the final location in the game

The moon represents a bigger threat to Mario and the Mushroom Kingdom than Bowser, comparable to the planetary catastrophe in Majora's Mask.

The theory will use mathematical formulas and physics to explain why the moon poses such a threat to Mario's world.

• Attempted pixel measurements but found no consistent reference points • Tried measuring steps but stages don't show whole continents • Attempted Al-Biruni's method using mountain heights but couldn't establish horizon distance • Examined globes, brochures, and promotional materials without success

Issued the Mario Odyssey Challenge to viewers, stating there is no definitive way to prove Mario's planet and moon actual size from the game alone.

• Found two frames in the overworld map showing moon and planet side-by-side • Moon's radius is about 30% of the planet's radius • Verified by model in New Donk City: planet radius equals 3.3 moon radii

Introduced by Reddit user JohnsonAndJohnCena, the Roche Limit is the critical distance a moon must maintain from a planet to avoid being torn apart by gravity.

• All objects are held together by their own gravity, forming spheres as material pulls toward the center • Everything has gravitational force, from large planets to small objects like people • Earth's continents rise about 50 centimeters due to the moon's gravitational pull

When celestial objects move closer together, the larger object's gravity can exceed the smaller object's internal cohesive forces, tearing it apart.

Saturn's rings are believed to have formed when a small moonlet orbited too close and was pulled apart by Saturn's gravity, with pieces now orbiting as rings.

Earth's Roche Limit is 18,470 kilometers (about 11,470 miles), or about one-twentieth the current orbital distance of our moon.

Mass equals acceleration times radius squared divided by the gravitational constant. Acceleration is found by measuring how fast Mario falls after jumping.

• Mario's normal jump has downward acceleration of 70.16 m/s², seven times Earth's gravity • This is three times Jupiter's gravity and over double any other 3D Mario game • Mario feels heavier not from weight gain but from the planet's extreme gravity

The moon has acceleration of 11.74 m/s² or 1.19 g-forces, showing how much higher Mario could jump under that gravity.

• Planet mass: 1.14×10¹³ r² kilograms • Moon mass: 1.75×10¹¹ r² kilograms

Density equals mass divided by volume. For spheres, volume is calculated as 4/3π times radius cubed, resulting in specific density values for both planet and moon.

Roche Limit equals 2.4 times the planet's radius times the cube root of the planet's density divided by the moon's density.

Mario's planet Roche Limit is 9.66 moon radii. If the moon orbits within this distance, it will be slowly torn apart by the planet's gravity.

Using in-game compass and trigonometry, the moon is positioned at approximately 5.5 moon radii from Earth, placing it well within the Roche Limit and confirming it is being torn apart.

• Massive moon rocks and multi-moons scattered across the Mushroom Kingdom are direct evidence of the moon being torn apart • These fragments are visibly present both in the overworld and on the moon itself

When Earth's sun becomes a red giant, our moon will be pulled from orbit, cross the Roche Limit, and be torn apart, creating temporary rings but showering the planet with debris.

• Massive pieces of lunar debris will destroy land • Ocean tides will be thrown into chaos • The planet will face extinction-level waves of space rock impacts

Mario accelerates this process in the final battle by destroying huge chunks of the moon's core, hastening the catastrophe.

The mathematics and science prove that Mario's moon is currently within the Roche Limit and is already being eaten alive by the planet's gravity, creating the scattered moon rocks throughout the game.

• This explains why Shiver Star in Kirby appears as a cold dead Earth • This suggests Mario travels the galaxy seeking a new home due to the coming apocalypse

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