There have been discussions about how physically strong a T-800 terminator is, mostly based on him holding a door open in T3.
But in T2, he picks up a grown man and throws them about 10 feet with one arm. He does it twice.
Can that info be used to roughly gauge how physically strong a terminator is? I would assume a man could do that with 10-25 pounds (lift it off the ground and throw it with one arm about 10 feet in the air in an arc). Since those people were 200 pounds, would that make a terminator 8-20x stronger than a human?
What the hell? That isn’t even remotely meaningful to the question. Your own quote about caber tossing describes the athlete getting help getting ready, using two hands and that the distance thrown doesn’t matter. Did you just get back from the Highland Games or something?
Interesting question - but I don’t think it’s answerable because what we don’t know is what percentage of his total strength the terminator used to toss the person.
An Olympic shot-putter can throw the ball +20m with 100% of their strength, but they can also casually toss it any distance less than that with an appropriate lower % of full strength.
You’re assuming he’s using 100% of his strength - is there anything to validate that assumption? He might have been able to toss the guy 40m if he used full power.
On the other hand here is a human picking up and throwing another human with one hand. Distance isn’t overly clear but its probably 3-5 feet so that at least gives an order of magnitude adjustment to 2-3x a person. But the quest IPO n really is how hard they were both trying.
I am tall, formerly strong, and was once a manual laborer. I could and did lift 80-100-lb weights like concrete sacks one-handed to a shoulder. I could and did, when pissed one way or another, toss such a sack up to 4-5 feet one-handed. Neither the sack nor I were much good afterward but yes, it happened, using about 110% of my strength.
I suspect lifting and throwing X pounds of something requires more than twice the work / energy of tossing 2X pounds. Will a physiologist correct my error? And what of skeletal tensile strength? Would a Terminator twist his frame, tossing 200 lbs a dozen feet?
How far he throws people only gives you an idea of the lower limit of his strength. Being a robot he throws people only as far as necessary, he might be capable of throwing them much further.
No, mass doesn’t work that way. You are probably thinking of the coefficient of friction, which means it takes much more than twice the power to make a car go 200 mph than it does to make it go 100, but there’s no similar exponential calculation involved in throwing something based on its mass.
Dolph Lundgren would be the first to tell you that he couldn’t actually lift a full-grown human by the throat using one extended arm. The unofficial record for a one-armed bicep curl is 135 pounds, and that does not involve lifting a struggling and unbalanced victim, and doesn’t present a grip issue.
The Terminator is almost certainly not using his full strength, so it can’t be used to scale up and estimate.
He uses a not very efficient form of shot put technique. That is, he throws the guy *casually *across the room or out the window. He doesn’t use the strength of his legs and back very much, which would be efficient. When you toss a wad of paper into the basket, you don’t bother using efficient technique because you don’t need to. Same here - so Terminator is much stronger than 8-20X a normal person.
Plus he’s wearing a boxing glove, and grabs the guy by the throat. The grip force required to transfer enough force from the legs, back, and shoulder to toss Evil Russian Guy would almost certainly cause major damage to the trachea and other structures of the neck.
