The Evangelions are ENORMOUS! Some websites say that Evangelions are roughly 14 or 15 stories tall ! Don't believe me? We can prove this as well. In the episode where EVA 01 has been taken over by the dummy plug against Bardiel, Tohji's black EVA 04, we see EVA 01 hold the entry plug in its hands just before it crushes it. Imagine it to be your hand, and the Entry Plug suddenly becomes roughly the length of a straw (6 inches).
If the straw/entry plug is 6 inches, then let's convert an average person's height into the same scale to get the size of an Evangelion. I am roughly 5 feet, 10 inches, which converts to 70 inches. I read somewhere that the average ceiling height is roughly 7 and a half feet (for now, we'll round up to 8 feet to make things easier on the math. True, this rounding up will balloon our calculations later, but not by much, so it's acceptable). Thus we can assume that a one-story building is 8 feet high, two stories roughly 16 feet high, three stories 32 feet high, etc.
Let's put the calculations into a formula now:
70 inches (for your height) / 6 (inches for the straw or dummy plug) = x (the EVA's height) / 100
The next line of calculations should then look like this after cross-multiplying:
700 feet = 6 X, or (700 feet / 6) = X, where X = the Evangelion's height, in feet. This comes to 116.67 feet.
Sounds a little small, right? Well, divide this number into 8 feet, the height of a single story, and you get 14.58 stories tall ! Good Lawd!
Gundams, on the other hand, are not so lucky. According to the back of the Turn A Gundam diecast metal model box, a regular human is exactly the height of a Gundam head, minus the stupid V-antenna thingy. This is no good to us because we don't know how many heads tall a Gundam can be! So instead, we'll use the scale provided by the Bandai models.
A completed 1/144 scale model Gundam comes out to about 5.5 inches, so it would look like this:
1 / 144 = 5.5 / X, where X is equal to the true Gundam height, in inches.
When we solve for it, through cross-multiplication, we get:
X= 5.5 (144) = 792 inches, or 66 feet.
When we divide this 66 feet by 8, the average height we chose for one story, we get 8.25 stories tall!
While the Gundams' 8.25 stories tall is certainly impressive, it's still nothing compared to the Evangelions' average 14.58 stories tall.
POINT= EVANGELION (sheer size difference can make a huge difference in the course of a fight!)
*****
Okay, some people in the past have pointed out my errors in counting the Gundams in the part about sheer number of pilots. Fine, fine, I give them that point, for having larger numbers.
POINT: GUNDAM
*****
But there's still no way that you can get all of the Gundams throughout the Gundam Chronology together in one time era, in order to battle the Evas together. So, I revoke that point in any case.
POINT DEDUCT: GUNDAM
(LOL-- Gee, you think that this thing's rigged in any way?)
*****
But there's still no way that you can get all of the Gundams throughout the Gundam Chronology together in one time era, in order to battle the Evas together. So, I revoke that point in any case.
POINT DEDUCT: GUNDAM
(LOL-- Gee, you think that this thing's rigged in any way?)
*****
Both Gundams and Evangelions are controlled by a human pilot, and, in the Eva's case, also innumerable remote teams of engineers, technicians, and scientists. These pilots are also assisted by computers, which automate most details of the robot's movement.
In the Gundam's case, radar is virtually useless in combat (due to its own use and emission of Minovsky particles, which actually work against the radar system) and infrared sensors are useful only in indicating large heat sources. Thus, the Gundam is forced to rely on primarily visual sensors (located mainly in the head, although the cockpit is in the torso). Cockpit images are extensively enhanced by the mobile suit's computer, and when a mobile suit or vessel can be positively identified, crisp computer graphics are substituted for the low-quality visuals.
Since Gundams are reliant on visual sensors, it's possible to fool the pilot with simple decoys. An inflatable dummy balloon (not unlike what the Evas used against the blue floating prism-Angel in Episode 5) will often suffice to distract or confuse a Gundam pilot, and even dummy ships are sometimes used to intimidate a distant Gundam. After all, if the mobile suit's compter thinks it's identified an enemy unit, it'll substitute a computer graphic and the pilot will be none the wiser!
(Thanks to GundamProject.com for all of this info)
Gundams are reliant on a main camera or dual cameras in its eyes, with backup cameras and subsensors. Evangelion units, however, have a 360-degree visual interface in the cockpit-entry plug for the pilot, thanks to the entry plug and some trick with the LCL during initialization. (We see this in episode 1, when Shinji goes through three stages before initialization gives him a window's view of his surroundings. I believe these are the skeletal, muscular, and epidermal layers) The Evas' one, two, and four eyes serve no real use besides making it look more anthropomorphic (and, these are the Eva's true eyes).
Besides the 360-degree view, the Evas also have multitudes of unseen visual sensors which provide true, perceptual images (you see what the eyes would truly see, like a camera, rather than computer-generated stock images, which could be mistakenly identified).
Also, the Eva's backup operators at the bridge have access to multiple views from without the Eva unit, provided by NERV aircraft in the field. Thus, in the case that the pilots are blind on one side for any reason, their operators can still provide information on their visual surroundings.
POINT: EVANGELION (it's nearly impossible for them to be blinded, whereas Gundams are too reliant on their main sensors)
If the straw/entry plug is 6 inches, then let's convert an average person's height into the same scale to get the size of an Evangelion. I am roughly 5 feet, 10 inches, which converts to 70 inches. I read somewhere that the average ceiling height is roughly 7 and a half feet (for now, we'll round up to 8 feet to make things easier on the math. True, this rounding up will balloon our calculations later, but not by much, so it's acceptable). Thus we can assume that a one-story building is 8 feet high, two stories roughly 16 feet high, three stories 32 feet high, etc.
Let's put the calculations into a formula now:
70 inches (for your height) / 6 (inches for the straw or dummy plug) = x (the EVA's height) / 100
The next line of calculations should then look like this after cross-multiplying:
700 feet = 6 X, or (700 feet / 6) = X, where X = the Evangelion's height, in feet. This comes to 116.67 feet.
Sounds a little small, right? Well, divide this number into 8 feet, the height of a single story, and you get 14.58 stories tall ! Good Lawd!
Gundams, on the other hand, are not so lucky. According to the back of the Turn A Gundam diecast metal model box, a regular human is exactly the height of a Gundam head, minus the stupid V-antenna thingy. This is no good to us because we don't know how many heads tall a Gundam can be! So instead, we'll use the scale provided by the Bandai models.
A completed 1/144 scale model Gundam comes out to about 5.5 inches, so it would look like this:
1 / 144 = 5.5 / X, where X is equal to the true Gundam height, in inches.
When we solve for it, through cross-multiplication, we get:
X= 5.5 (144) = 792 inches, or 66 feet.
When we divide this 66 feet by 8, the average height we chose for one story, we get 8.25 stories tall!
While the Gundams' 8.25 stories tall is certainly impressive, it's still nothing compared to the Evangelions' average 14.58 stories tall.
POINT= EVANGELION (sheer size difference can make a huge difference in the course of a fight!)
*****
Okay, some people in the past have pointed out my errors in counting the Gundams in the part about sheer number of pilots. Fine, fine, I give them that point, for having larger numbers.
POINT: GUNDAM
*****
But there's still no way that you can get all of the Gundams throughout the Gundam Chronology together in one time era, in order to battle the Evas together. So, I revoke that point in any case.
POINT DEDUCT: GUNDAM
(LOL-- Gee, you think that this thing's rigged in any way?)
*****
But there's still no way that you can get all of the Gundams throughout the Gundam Chronology together in one time era, in order to battle the Evas together. So, I revoke that point in any case.
POINT DEDUCT: GUNDAM
(LOL-- Gee, you think that this thing's rigged in any way?)
*****
Both Gundams and Evangelions are controlled by a human pilot, and, in the Eva's case, also innumerable remote teams of engineers, technicians, and scientists. These pilots are also assisted by computers, which automate most details of the robot's movement.
In the Gundam's case, radar is virtually useless in combat (due to its own use and emission of Minovsky particles, which actually work against the radar system) and infrared sensors are useful only in indicating large heat sources. Thus, the Gundam is forced to rely on primarily visual sensors (located mainly in the head, although the cockpit is in the torso). Cockpit images are extensively enhanced by the mobile suit's computer, and when a mobile suit or vessel can be positively identified, crisp computer graphics are substituted for the low-quality visuals.
Since Gundams are reliant on visual sensors, it's possible to fool the pilot with simple decoys. An inflatable dummy balloon (not unlike what the Evas used against the blue floating prism-Angel in Episode 5) will often suffice to distract or confuse a Gundam pilot, and even dummy ships are sometimes used to intimidate a distant Gundam. After all, if the mobile suit's compter thinks it's identified an enemy unit, it'll substitute a computer graphic and the pilot will be none the wiser!
(Thanks to GundamProject.com for all of this info)
Gundams are reliant on a main camera or dual cameras in its eyes, with backup cameras and subsensors. Evangelion units, however, have a 360-degree visual interface in the cockpit-entry plug for the pilot, thanks to the entry plug and some trick with the LCL during initialization. (We see this in episode 1, when Shinji goes through three stages before initialization gives him a window's view of his surroundings. I believe these are the skeletal, muscular, and epidermal layers) The Evas' one, two, and four eyes serve no real use besides making it look more anthropomorphic (and, these are the Eva's true eyes).
Besides the 360-degree view, the Evas also have multitudes of unseen visual sensors which provide true, perceptual images (you see what the eyes would truly see, like a camera, rather than computer-generated stock images, which could be mistakenly identified).
Also, the Eva's backup operators at the bridge have access to multiple views from without the Eva unit, provided by NERV aircraft in the field. Thus, in the case that the pilots are blind on one side for any reason, their operators can still provide information on their visual surroundings.
POINT: EVANGELION (it's nearly impossible for them to be blinded, whereas Gundams are too reliant on their main sensors)