One Piece 194

[BioAlien]

haha i want to see the look on Nami face if Robin tell her that.

[Assertn]

The ridiculousness of that scene was that....not only would that much gold be INSANELY heavy....wayy too heavy for the number of people carrying it....and wayy to heavy for the ship to support it....

but I'd imagine that being so high up in the sky, things with alot of mass would feel even HEAVIER.

[kippykinkel]

actually, an object farther away from the earth, compared to an object closer to the earth, would be experiencing less gravitational pull, so it would be lighter. i think you're thinking of an object being dropped from a higher place and having more time to accelerate.

[Kraco]

Yeah, unless he meant the mass would feel heavier because the air would be thinner high up in the sky, and thus the body and muscles couldn't work so effectively.

[ChaosK]

Roger was at sky island too? This guy must've had one crazy adventure.

[Raven]

Roger seems more impressive every time we hear about him... but then again he's probably "the strongest one" in the series so far, despite how little we know.

[Assertn]

Yeah, unless he meant the mass would feel heavier because the air would be thinner high up in the sky, and thus the body and muscles couldn't work so effectively.

They made alot of emphasis about how much harder it is to move for a blue sea dweller in the white-white sea, and how creatures evolved in ways to minimize their density in order to move more freely in the sky. By Oda's own world-physics, that gold pillar should be like, twice as heavy as a normal gold pillar.

Also, in normal physics, I would assume the variation in gravity between the surface and the stratosphere should be less of an influence than the variation in air density.