Talk:Rotobaga/@comment-27812602-20160216230132/@comment-28218732-20161129195955

It can't float over the water on Pirate Seas because of how flying with a propeller works.

As the name "propeller" implies, it's use is to propel wind in a certain direction. When said wind's force acts as any other force, meaning it can not only push an object in the wind, but also push the generator of said force, as said by Newton's Third Law (Every force generates an equal one in strength in opposite direction). Using this force's reacion, is how elicopters, and Rotobaga, fly.

However, there's a problem when it comes to using wind push in order to fly, wich is that the strength of the wind peters out over distance (Try standing in a fan's way, and walk away from it. You'll notice that eventually you stop feeling the wind created by the fan).

Rotobaga's spinning leaves allow it to sligthly hover over the ground and water in Big Wave Beach, but the water rows in Pirate Seas are too low for Rotobaga to lift itself in such a way that it's able to fight. Realistically, rotobaga would be slightly over the sea, unable to even see the action (Since the battlefield in Pirate Seas consist of a dock, and planks attached to a boat.

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