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So, I was reading CH 122, and realized that I couldn't make sense of the idea that they had to walk to conserve Stormlight here. By my back-of-the-napkin calculations, they could have easily covered more ground with about 6 secs' worth of Stormlight than three days of very fast walking. Further, since they had already flown (fallen) most of the way, they would have needed even less to just keep falling for a few more seconds before Lashing back to the ground. Am I missing something here?
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Hey, I wrote a thing for school, and I just handed it in, but I wanted to know what you guys thought of it. A bit of background, I'm a pilot, this is an exaggerated story about something that happened to me, and this is based on last summer where I was accepted onto a $50,000 scholarship to get my private pilot's license in seven weeks through the air cadet program in Canada. Without further ado, here is Hazy View.
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As I recall it, Steelpushing is based on a line of force from one's center of gravity to a piece of metal - visible to the Allomancer as a blue line, whose thickness/strength was relative to the mass of the metal object in question, and distance from it. You could push with varying degrees of power on the object, but the force would always be along in that straight line. When Vin first tries it, she shoots straight up, and manages to balance at the apex. When Kelsier joins her, he explains that the body's sense of balance (that lets you just stand on one leg for a while, for example) translates to Steelpushing, so balancing on a Steelpush isn't that hard, but "move too much to one side, and you'd tip over like a weight on the top of a very tall pole". I get that later she finds embedded parallel sets of iron bars in a kind of path going between cities, that Coinshots and Mistborn can use to "fly", using the pairs as "course corrections". And that Wax, living in a more modern age than the Final Empire, with steel structures and lampposts all around, could REALLY get around the city (and that a Lurcher could probably do about as well as Spider-Man in flinging himself around town). What always struck me as dubious though was the way Elend, Vin, Zane, Wax, etc., can just drop a small coin - a clip - and launch off into the air. Unless they dropped it directly between their feet and stood very still, wouldn't the effect be just to shoot the coin away? Like if I were to jab my finger at an angle on a coin on my desk. Some or most of the force would be transferred directly into the desk (downward), depending on the angle, but some horizontal force would remain to shoot the coin away from me. And if they did manage to drop it straight down, wouldn't they just shoot straight up, like Vin did in her initial exercise? Yet we often see someone drop a coin and flying up to land on a rooftop, go over a wall, etc., which seems to require some horizontal movement to do, otherwise instead of dropping down onto the roof or on the other side of the wall, you'd just come down exactly where you started from. I didn't let this detract from my enjoyment of the Mistborn books by any means, but it's one of those details that has always been niggling me, and if someone could explain it away for me, I'd like it that much better For example, in a city or somewhere with a lot of metal attached to structures nearby, you could always "push off" a bit on SOMETHING near you... Like door hinges or whatnot. Is that always the unspoken assumption?