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Post: 27170241_1 created on Thu May 17, 2007 1:28 pmPosted: Thu May 17, 2007 1:28 pm
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I have heard a lot of questions about Naruto, like "Why do they run like that? Does it help? Can I do it in real life? Why and how?" Well, if any of you Naruto fans wonder that, too, then you have come to the right place. And please, if you think this topic is stupid, be considerate and shut your mouth.
Q: Why do the Naruto people run like that? A: It actually helps them. Now picture a person running upright. That thing called air resistance is slowing them down for every place it touches. Now, imagine someone Naruto-style running. Since they are bent over, they cut down about two feet of air resistance, so it makes them faster. And yes, it does work in real life. I have increased my running speed by about 1 mph with the same effort as 1 mph less. Another benefit is the center of balance. Leaning forward offsets it, and your body naturally reacts to help you keep your balance, causing you to be faster. But have you noticed that they tend to only run that way when they are jumping through trees? The cutdown in air resistance helps a lot more, and there is less motion in their legs, therefore there is not as much strain on the lungs. And be warned, if you are used to running regularly, I would advise to not run Naruto-style much. Our body structure is built to run the way you normally would. Q: Why am I so out of breath when I run that way? A: The same reason you cannot play a flute while you are slouching. When you are bent over, there is a lot of pressure from your ribs pushing on your lungs. Since your lungs cannot expand normally, you cannot breathe as well and get out of breath. Q: Why do they jump with only one foot? A: It is really simple. If they are running, tracking something or running away, they cannot afford to lose any time. If they were to jump with both legs, they would have to stop completely and most likely lose their balance. Q: What about that time where Shino was on his knees and jumped up without moving? A: In some ways, it is possible. Since he is leaning against the wall, his weight is distributed there and not on his feet. Then he lifts his feet up and pounds down. Of course, you have to have a lot of leg strength to do that. And the direction of force in real life would cause you to go up and backwards. Q: Could we do the Puppet Master Jutsu like Kankuro with ordinary string? A: No. Kankuro has ten strings, and ten strings can only pull ten points unless you hook each string up to different points, and that would make the actions of your puppet uncontrollable. Q: Do the gates exist in real life? A: Yes. There are some glands just above your kidneys that act like the gates. If you have ever heard of that "adrenaline rush", this is what causes it. They store energy that is only released in dire conditions; extra power surges through your limbs and your desicion-making skills are enhanced. And you cannot release the energy voluntarily. An even closer resemblance to the gates exists in the most dire situations; the brain can signal every muscle cell at once for incredible strength, and the position in which the control center for this phenomenon is almost at the exact location of the first gate. This does cause quite a bit of recoil, in some cases, muscle ripping from bone, just like the fictional gate. In different dire circumstances, the human body can mimic almost every gate, but in real life. And also recall that it is said that the gates are opened using chakra, so the gates have a surprising amount of evidence. If in the future scientists are able to develop a device to better control our energies, we very well could perform feats like the Lotus. Q: Do we have chakra points? A: Debatable, but I would say yes. We do have pressure points, and if you poke them very hard, the pain lasts for quite a while. Pressure points have no connection to most organs, but some specially trained people can cause damage eerily similar to Hyuugas. Causing internal bleeding and other problems can also kill someone by poking them. Q: Could Sharingan exist in real life? A: Surprisingly, yes. We actually see through these things we call pupils which expand and contract to gather or block light and only by having two eyes can we have depth perception. It is theorized that the only reason why we cannot see through walls and other solid objects is the biochemical making up our eyes. If they were aligned and composed differently, we would have sharper or duller vision, we would perceive other colors, and we would have different ranges of vision. For example, eagles and raptors can "zoom" like a camera, and many animals see in different colors, better or worse than we can. Also, our eyes take things in like a camera rapidly going off and throwing the image onto our brains. I think fighting games are usually about 60 frames per second, so imagine how fast we see. Think about if we could see at 1000 FPS. We would be able to copy anything, just as long as our brains could handle it. Apparently the Uchihas can, and so can Kakashi. The tomoe (comma-like things) in the Sharingan are probably pupils, each taking in from a different angle and with a different dilation and purpose, therefore allowing the user to take in a rapid movement with perfect precision and depth perception. The red is probably evidence of a different composition of the eyeball itself. So how could we have it in real life? The answer is genetic engineering. If we analyze the "code" for the chemical makeup of hawk eyes and cause mutations in a human eye, we could possibly, in the future, give someone Sharingan. Q: Could Byakugan work in real life? A: No, not completely. Remember how I mentioned that all we need to do in order to see things with different dimensions is to change the biochemical make up of our eyeballs? Byakugan users are born with it which explains their eye color. When they tense up and use it, we see veins in their faces and eyeballs because they are forcing blood into it to see not just through bodies, but through really dense objects or organs and blood, and to focus on the chakra running through a person and by this focus they are able to see where this energy concentrates, therefore they can see the tenketsu. The huge range of vision? Impossible. Hyugas have compound eyes like insects, but they are not at the right position to have near 360 degree vision. They would have to be mounted on the sides of their heads. And yes, we could also get a version of Byakugan from genetic engineering, or possibly even x-ray technology hooked directly onto our brains. Q: Could the Wind Scythe Jutsu do any damage without debris? A: Somewhat. The wind could, of course, knock the opponent against the wall or other object. Wind in itself, however, could not do any damage without debris. There is one case, but it is very unlikely that the Wind Scythe could do it. In theory, if the wind were strong and concentrated enough, it could burst open the skin. Of course, it would have to be very concentrated. So as for scratches, pretty much impossible for just wind. But if you had complete control of the air, you could concentrate it at the trachea (or other area) without debris and squeeze to cause lasting damage or suffocation. But keep in mind that it is close to impossible to get a room without any kind of debris. Q: How does regular illusion Genjutsu work? A: In your brain, chemical reactions take place, and these reactions are what cause thoughts and movement. Plain illusion Genjutsu stimulate and control certain reactions, and thus puts the victim in a position where the place feels, looks, smells, hears, and even tastes real. By controlling some brain functions, the genjutsu caster does not have to mess with nerves, eyes, mouths, or any body part to make it "real". They just mess with the brain, and that is it. Overwhelming messages of things, primarily pain, can override a genjutsu with different amounts of stimuli for different strengths of genjutsu. Q: How do they control their kunai and shuriken so well? A: They use they same principle as a boomerang. You see, because the shuriken are spinning, they work like a frisbee. The shuriken are balanced on all sides to make them fly straight. If you bent one very slightly so that it was unbalanced, the boomerang effect would take hold. Now, a boomerang has most its weight on one side, so when it spins it curves itself back to its owner. A shuriken in this case does not use this principle to the same degree as a boomerang, so it curves less. Their kunai are also carefully balanced and designed, so you have to throw them correctly. Q: Can we walk on water in real life? A: No. Not by ourselves with maintaining of energy, nor with special shoes or anything of the like. As for bugs walking on water: Water has a very thin "skin" on it, and bugs are so small that some can balance and walk on this skin. Humans, however, are much too heavy and break it on contact. Q: Could bone really be an efficient weapon? A: Yes. Bones are naturally strong; they have to be to be the framework for our bodies. And, even more so: "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger" is the case here. Constant fighting in situations that may have broken a bone but did not improve their strength and density farther. In fact, many professional fighters have bones that are stronger than most substances, and all of our strongest bones have a density and tensile strength slightly stronger than cement. Q: How can summoned monsters like the Chief Toad hold swords? A: In real life, even a toad of Gamabunta's proportions could not hold a sword in the least. After watching him hold a sword in the anime, you can tell his somewhat webbed fingers are not like regular toads'. Kishimoto has given him sort of opposable thumbs, unlike any animal in real life but humans and primates. He has done this as well with the other weapon-bearing summoning monsters. Q: How does Kin's technique work? A: First of all, what she says her bells do is not possible. Humans have never found a sound that can pass through the ear without you plainly hearing the sound (or possibly suffering cochlea damage from certain sounds). However, there is a way for her technique to work exclusively in the Naruto world. First, the bell rings. The sound is picked up by the eardrum, and vibrated through the ear bones. Then, Kin would use her chakra to divert the sound waves away from the hair cells on the cochlea. Without the cochlea transmitting the sound to electrical signals, the sound would, in fact, stay in wave form. Then it travels along the nerve branching your ear to your brain. Since the cerebellum is the farthest out, it is quite possible for the jutsu to affect movement and cause hallucinations, two things the cerebellum controls. It is quite possible the sound waves distort the paths of electrical signals in the brain to cause these effects. Keep in mind that Shikamaru still heard the bells. This means her chakra was unable to divert all of the sound waves from the cochlea's hair cells. And also remember there is no proof as to sound waves in the brain because it is currently impossible to get sound waves in the brain. Q: Could Zaku's sound wave technique really work? A:Yes, only without the cannons being in the arms. Some high frequency sound waves can cause confusion, deafness, and at the right volume, kill you. Only the people in the direct line of the soundwave will be affected at all due to its technological concentration. And it is possible to shatter bones or boulders with sound waves as well, being as that they are pressure waves, and anything can be destroyed with enough pressure. Q: In episode 68 Genma (the actual third exam proctor that takes Hayate's place)stops a kunai that Baki (Gaara, Temari, and Kankuro's sensei) throws by spitting out the senbon he is always chewing on. How is this possible? A: First of all, consider the real world. All kinds of spitting contests are held, plain spitting, paper clip spitting, even cricket spitting. Some unreal distances have been achieved in these competitions, so spitting out an object at such a force is very plausible. Being at close range meant that the air could not hinder the force of the senbon enough to lower its impact. As for the kunai being so much bigger than the senbon, remember the post about directing the kunai? The same goes for senbon, so spitting it out correctly would give it more than enough force, and the kunai's aerodynamics mean that the senbon could alter the angle of it and throw it off easily. Recall that in the episode the kunai was directed into the ground and the senbon went spinning back toward Genma. This is because the force of the senbon was not enough to completely stop the kunai. The kunai had quite a bit of force on its side as well, so when it collided, its energy was transferred to the senbon, which sent it flying back. Q: How can Shino's bugs, or any other member of the Aburame clan's, survive inside his body without access to air? A: A lot of organisms can live without air, such as tapeworms, other kinds of worms, and some other parasites. It can also be assumed the bugs use the chakra offered in the Aburame contract as a nutrient source. And a purpose of food being to provide energy, they may not even need anything else for the simple reason that chakra is energy. Q: Is it possible to use Misumi's (the person that fought Kankuro in the Chunin Exams) jutsu? A: Certainly not in real life. It is almost possible in their dimension, however. He said he had some sort of surgery to unhook his joints, and such a thing may be possible. It would be very painful, though, and require chakra to hold it in place as well as unhinge it. But remember how he wound all around Kankuro's puppet? This is impossible. Even without joints, we still have a shape because the joints and bones would still exist, just not connected. And it would be very unlikely for his bones to be that flexible, it requires days on end of surgery that may hurt your nervous system. But manipulating his limp appendages would be more than possible; just not to the extent he did it. Also, human skin can only stretch so much before splitting, so the distance he stretched his arms out would have resulted in painful cuts. Q: Is it possible to make a puppet out of a human being? A: Yes. There is, in fact, a way to turn the body into plastic instead of organic matter, it is called plastination, and it is used to preserve a body to put it on display at science centers around the United States. This material is substituted for organic liquids. It is very flexible before it dries, leaving the oppurtunity to place hinges and replace the bones with steel replicas and attach them to some sort of puppeteering tool to create a puppet. Q: How do the Naruto characters jump and land from tall structures without damaging themselves? A: It is all in the knee cartilage, and the solution seems simple. In this dimension, our knees can withstand about seven tons of force. However, sometimes the blunt pressure causes the foot to break or other damages. In the Naruto dimension, the shinobi probably have their chakra systems to thank for the ability to jump off tall buildings and easily survive. The chakra, which is said to be in every single protein of the body, most likely strengthens the cartilage in their knees. Cartilage is the main shock absorber of the knees, and with the cartilage strengthened for every single chakra-infused protein, it is no wonder the shinobi can jump off such tall structures with no recoil. Q: Is it really possible for Gaara to never sleep? Yes. Humans need to sleep; our brains conduct repairs throughout our bodies. We dream as well, and without this, we would go insane. His lack of sleep would explain why Gaara is probably one of the shortest characters in the series, as well as why Gaara's mind is perhaps one of the most easily disturbed. But can we die from lack of sleep? The answer is not quite straightforward due to controversy in resources. There is a disease called Fatal Familial Insomnia. As suggested by its name, someone with this disease may die after several months of no sleep. In some cases, lack of sleep weakens the immune system, which is responsible for fighting off infection and disease that threaten your body. Lack of sleep reduces the production and activity of white blood cells. One symptom of prolonged sleep deprivation is hallucinations. Activity in certain parts of the brain can drop as much as eleven percent after a person has missed sleep for only twenty-four hours. As a person loses more sleep or continues to receive less-than-adequate amounts of sleep the brain becomes even more taxed and may begin to generate even more confusing hallucinations, possibly resulting in temporary insanity. An extended period of sleep ensures that the brain will be able to complete the full sleep cycle, including REM sleep, which stimulates areas of the brain used for learning and memory. Some effects of deprived sleep cycles: irritability, blurred vision, slurred speech, memory lapses, overall confusion, hallucinations, nausea, and death. There are no documented cases of a healthy human dying from total sleep deprivation aside from those suffering from Fatal Familial Insomnia. People without Fatal Familial Insomnia experience cognitive deficits in memory and concentration early on, but are typically knocked out by their own sleep-needing brains before more serious conditions set in. People with Fatal Familial Insomnia experience death after long periods without sleep. So, assuming Gaara does not have this condition and is perhaps able to stop his brain from setting him unconscious, it is possible, though unlikely to prove the same for anyone in this dimension. Q: Can we control chakra like they do? No. To do damage with pure chakra, we would need some sort of conversion technology, and I doubt scientists could create an efficient one soon, though if more focus was placed upon it, such a thing could potentially be possible within the next century. We can control, however, it to an extent to make a certain action more powerful, though it takes a master for it to have much of an effect. Q: Can we improve our speed in the same way as Rock Lee? Yes, but nowhere near to that extent. Ankle weights do work, certainly, but of course, our knees in general are significantly weaker in this universe due to our underdeveloped "chakra" system, so to speak. So we could not possibly keep anywhere near as much weight on them as he does. Our knees can withstand seven tons of pressure, but that is upward shock, so it would not take as much as you would think to dislocate a hip with ankle weights. Q: How do fire-style jutsu work? This technique requires a lot of chakra, because it is used in two ways: as a fuel and as a lighter. First, the user superheats the air above the fingers usually held close to the face. Then, the user blows out a stream of chakra that catches fire at the ignition point. This stream of chakra must be controlled well; if the angle or timing is off, the user would burn himself. More questions and answers to come! And if you have any Narudynamics questions, feel free to ask and I or my teammates will answer! I am now recruiting new members on the Narudynamics team! Team members: SuperDuperRockLee, Seraphim_Dyre, 4magnum, Gaara_Baby_Eater, YaoixIsxLovex, MochaKittie PM me if you would like to join the team! |
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"*sharpens kunai* FUFUFUFUFUFUFU.... I feel the urge to kill somebody, Super-chan...NOBODY should make fun of Lee-kun...." -Winiola
Rudy! You've gotta DRAW somethin'!
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