Can the Mach Bike from Pokémon Break the Sound Barrier?

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[@marcgomez8391]

You know, the game does make a "bonk" noise every time you collide with something. If all kinetic energy is transformed into this bonking sound, could we calculate how loud the sound would be in-game? Would everyone in a short radius go deaf or sustain hearing injuries? Is our protagonist secretly deaf? 🤔

[@youdont12know]

I think thats why all the npcs write their dialogue at the bottom of the screen, as an accessability thing for our protags

[@peperoni_pepino]

@@youdont12know The npcs actually do have full voice acting; we simply don't get to hear it since the protagonist has lost their hearing.

[@adef]

now this is a concept

[@speedgrump5515]

it would also be transfering energy in other ways like excessive amounts of heat 🤓

[@sammyvales]

on top of that, if the bonk is super loud that has some implications for the rest of the game's sound design. its relatively quiet compared to things like the soundtrack and pokemon cries - so does that mean the pokemon world is hellishly, freakishly loud? like does whismur actually cry out louder than a jet engine when you run into it? this concept has legs

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[@bennyk384]

10:52 Yes, I believe when the energy is released as sound, there is a devastating *Bonk*

[@MerkhVision]

“Devastating bonk” is a hilarious phrase lmao

[@yannickstevens4021]

The comments on the punching guy still killed me. Absolutely vicious lmao

[@mythaniakeroberos2405]

Breaks the sound barrier. Small "bump" noise plays.

[@pixaster]

I just realized why I love those videos. They are basically old school game theory videos in a Trenchcoat

[@Rainbro359]

Holy shit you're right.

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[@EuphratesCanyon]

God, I love these silly little videos. It's easy enough to say "it's just a game! The devs aren't gonna program actual physics, that would ruin player experience!!!!!" but once one suspends their disbelief, it's so fun to just ask "hey, should the bike be killing people?" or "can any of these pokémon actually fly?" This is quickly becoming one of my favourite youtube channels, thanks for your sharing your research and insights!

[@AMH9000]

Clearly the bump sfx is where all the energy ends up on collisions

[@davidmortimer9764]

I was literally graded as "unmarkable" by the British high school education system when I got my math GCSE, so all of this basically goes over my head, but in the words of a famous US president, "I like your funny words, magic man."

[@vlc-cosplayer]

Blud's the math antichrist 😭

[@henryhardtits]

I love the idea of using your school's performance evaluation to claim stupidity for all time, I think I'm going to start doing the same 😂

[@notmitrius7093]

Maybe in a world of magic creatures where most would be threats to national security IRL, humans evolved to be nigh indestructible. In other words, May and Brendan are built different.

[@DanielHarveyDyer]

Surely their most useful military skill is the ability to retreat from a lost battle with no remaining weapons and somehow make it back to the pokemon center unharmed despite walking through miles of grass inhabited by terrifying monsters. All while apparently unconscious or at least unable to remember it happening.

[@NurioMarayana]

Thinking about it, in the Johto games, some guy just tanks a Hyper Beam from Lance's Dragonite. Sure, the guy doesn't feel too great afterwards, but he didn't seem majorly injured by it

[@GlutzahnLP]

Adef posted another crazy Pokemon-Science project? Awesome sounds like doing the dishes will be fun today

[@szephyr]

“If you know anything about acceleration, your jaw should be on the floor” Jokes on you Mr. Adef, I’m stupid.

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the big racetrack in the sky when theyre done being around forever

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the greatest ad integration we will ever see

[@miguelsi7543]

My thoughts exactly 👏🏽

[@b_sway]

Now we know what Lt. Surge used for transportation during the war

[@samuelturner6076]

11:08 I mean they casually experienced escape volicity so it checks out. 8:44 So you're telling me that Pokémon Emerald is a fever dream May and Brendon are having on rainbow road and Scott is uncle Ted.

[@FreeTempest]

I now need a version of Pokémon where an NPC goes flying whenever you crash into them with the bike

[@katelynna10000]

It looks like Team Rocket's Blasting off Agaiiiiiin

[@mjdxp5688]

A loud sound, you say? **thud**

[@sailorsaturn2156]

This is the last place i expected to see Max Verstappen today...

[@muffinland]

If you think about it....the Mach bike could be used for sim racing.

[@HDMICIDE]

How does he even think of these

[@TimmyTSV]

Your content exactly matches my nerdy niche taste for science and old-school Pokémon.

[@rosieisla8286]

Loved this video - fan theories/analysis for unintended consequences are always fun! I also really appreciate you putting the forces into perspective without mentioning some pretty grim deaths or showing car crashes!

[@star0chris]

Banger video as always, now I'm curious how this compares to Link when charging up a super swim (manual super swim for example) in Wind Waker lol

[@SkadingleMadongle]

You're telling me the people and even DOORS are no more wide than 37.7cm? Have you seen how short that actually is? Thats 14.8 inch!

[@bigpurplepops]

The intro makes me wanna see a gen villain with a legion of Garchomps, Sharpedos, and Octillery....

[@thomasmontoya302]

1. Bro wait. That means... that means that the door to EVERYWHERE is just 37 centimeters? Big oof! Moving must SUCK. No wonder they needed Machokes to wrestle the furniture through the door! 2. Those kids are TOUGH for taking that many g-forces on a bike. And even TOUGHER for producing those forces with their 10-year-old legs. Somehow them taking down a criminal organization or two and taming one of the strongest pokemon in history isn't so outlandish... 3. Rip for you getting abducted by aliens. Glad they were chill. 4. Thank GOODNESS you don't mow down the NPC's with your Lockheed MB-1. That would make the Pokemon journey quite dark. 5. I loved this video. Hope you're doing well. Thanks for the hard work and humor, and hope you drop another good one soon!

[@Neogeddon]

Have you seen the old gen 3 protag art? Their legs are like tree trunks. 😨

[@jordanguy4241]

I love videos with titles like this. They always make me laugh Like this question does not matter at all, but it’s hilarious that someone took the time to answer it anyways. I always have to click on videos like these just to see what the hell the person is talking about

[@wavedashdownsmash]

shoutouts to applying real life physics to video game gotta be one of my favorite genres

[@topthog]

I had a good friend who’s dad bought him one of these for his birthday back in ‘07 without knowing it’s power, he rode it up to the end of the street and when he turned back he burned all the hair off his body and broke all the windows in the neighbourhood

[@dropatrain]

Imagine the arm strength to keep yourself planted on that bike at 100Gs

[@Hietara90]

*Somebody punches you into face* "Now there's that strange *bonk* sound again.."

[@g00dbyemisterA]

the idea that the bonking noise you get when you do crash into things/people on the bike is actually a gigantic violent crashing noise but our bird’s eye view leaves it a little thud is very funny to me

[@Wolfiyeethegranddukecerberus17]

This makes me think that we need a Physics based Legendary one day

[@SetariM]

Pretty sure that's just Giratina

[@Guimhj]

Miraidon

[@Kanbei11]

Being hit with a literal sonic boom only does 20 damage so it must have great bulk

[@MsVilecat]

There's also Palkia and Dialga as space and time respectively, so with Giratina you basically get that

[@NullnotVoid]

As an f1/pokemon fan. I approve of this content, and I don't even disapprove of the British Open Grand Prix renaming.

[@petrie911]

Veteran fighter jet pilots May and Brendan go to space to fight aliens is the actual plot of ORAS.

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Looking forward to an alien sourced science segment at SGDQ

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“A permanent frame trip in a casket” LMFAO

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Those wheelies do be cool tho

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the death rollercoasters kids made in rollercoaster tycoon vs the gen 3 protag:

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Love that video - creative and fun ad reads are so much better than just reading a copy.

[@Kready44]

feels like there could have been another science tangent at the end calculating the increase in temperature and loudness of sound experienced at the crashes

[@shaicontrol]

i discovered you yesterday, binged ur vids, and then subbed and hit the bell. great upload timing, i can expect another vid tomorrow yea?

[@kazemitra3896]

my favourite smart youtuber posted another vid, love you and your work adef!

[@Spifyninja]

Applying the laws of earth's physics to video games has always been fascinating to me. Keep up the good work Adef.

[@krisc1684]

All your videos deserve the views the probability video got. Fantastic work

[@jtothemaurednik]

so this is also a free realistic breakdown of dragon ball’s gravity training and how saiyan biology must be insane.

[@kylecornett5222]

They built an expensive machine for artificial gravity for Goku and all they needed was one of these bikes

[@ashngoyuchiha215]

the doorway is 0.337m is VERY TINY

[@aTypicalGabriel]

you are the spiritual successor to old game theory, I am so glad you make these physics videos on silly videogame logic

[@ddrchad]

Adef, I always love your mathematical breakdowns and your editing on these types of videos. Awesome job! Quick thought: say the player on the Mach Bike was travelling up or down a set of stairs (such as in Victory Road, entering Mirage Island, etc). I'm not sure if there's any actual loss of speed in-game while going up or down stairs when observing from tile-to-tile, so with the added force necessary to make it "up the stairs" at that speed, would the player be able to reach an even higher number of G's than what you calculated? Or would the math work out to where the extra forces for going up to instantly going down would basically cancel each other out resulting in no net gain?

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Loved the video man. Excited to see more.

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omg i LOVE your videos, you're so much fun, i was having a panic attack before bed so that's perfectly timed, thank you so much

[@SF3284]

Formula 1 x Science x Pokemon, this is made for ME !!

[@_D_P_]

That change in direction is rotation around the vertical axis. Not a linear acceleration. The liquids (and solids) of the body would be forced outward in a semi-cylindrical shape, with a low pressure void in the center. Like a tornado of flesh. You'd get "the bends" too. Which is fun. And since it is rotation, different parts of the body would experience nonuniform acceleration depending on their distance from the center. Then just...stop. The centrifugal forces would subside and the body would collapse in on itself and force air out of the lungs and expel gasses that had bubbled out of dissolution from blood and other liquids.

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I can’t explain how excited I get for new videos from you

[@danteshier5214]

I'm surprised there was nothing on the fact you can go up what appears to be a slope that's at least 45 degrees if not more like 60+, and is literally loose sand. Though I have no clue how to do math on that lol

[@FederxDev]

well that just makes going for the cycling road record all the more exciting.

[@AndrewH1994]

Some how, this one was more fun that which pokemon should actually learn Flash. And I loved that vid too! Keep up the great work :)

[@mintpalmer]

You don't cycle with Machs power - you strap yourself in and feel the G's!

[@GameBoiLight]

Absolutely loved this, thanks for all the laughs!!

[@raskal8112]

Missed your chance to start this with typing the beginning for the script, "Dear Gamefreak," with classical music and lots of yelling, and icluding THE SCIENCE in the title. This is some Austin stuff. Very good 👍

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I'm so glad that my 2am KZbin rabbit hole journey brought me here

[@kenttimothy]

this feels like old school game theory vid, and i love it

[@jahmocha9542]

Meanwhile, in Sinnoh, riding your bike too fast while turning too tightly can literally rip holes in reality.

[@feedback1204]

My jaw would have been on the floor, but I was doing a handstand so instead it accelerated upwards with over 900m/s^2

[@Leoandhismainprofile]

You just reminded me that I still have my first game file of my run in pokemon with 400+ hours on it

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Oh I actually know what Quiznos aliens you're talking about. I was reminded of those disturbing commercials

[@nightingem]

Genuinely love the cross application of your scholarly knowledge and nerdy interests. This is autism heaven for me.

[@jonskillings1258]

9:40 NPC's don't take the impact, Brendan and May have amazing reflexes and stop before they would hit them, as evidence by the fact they stop at the same rate when a trainer look at them from afar. My headcannon is that the sound we here when "bumping into things" is our brain telling us not to run into them, like Professor Oak telling us that it's not the time to use that

[@fortello7219]

I would argue that May/Brendan dont make visual contact with walls/NPCs so they must be braking even if we the players don't manually do so. Thus they would be pressing their kinetic energy into the brakepads and the ground as they stop themselves from crashing.

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[@Gorvinhagen]

"temporal resolution" im too stoned for this

[@Smidgemax]

Not to mention the extra 46.2g's of deceleration during the following frame as you return to full speed...

[@WestefordVT]

10:53 a huge crack breaking the sound barrier? Like that BONK sound whenever you run into a wall?

[@BirnieMac1]

I’m living for the physics adef arc

[@hnrysml]

you could do a similar video on whether or not the effects of a pokemon using the move gravity would be potentially dangerous or lethal, it would probably be able to be mathematically approached as the move would cause specific pokemon that levitate via magnetism (the move magnet rise or an ability description that says so) to fall to the ground, so you could work out the increase in gravitational force based on how much additional force would be required to overcome the magnetic effect

[@rev5379]

I never tought the protagonists where so short.

[@cdkw2]

Dude I love the intro! Nice video!

[@devanbrowne8706]

You can also still do this instantaneous turnaround on Cycling Road, which has an incline, so if you do the turn from traveling downhill to traveling uphill, the acceleration would be even higher since you're also going against the planet's gravity. To do that calculation you'd need to be able to estimate the steepness of Cycling Road's incline, which is tough because you only see it from head on and it appears to still be totally level with its surroundings. If we ignore for the moment the apparent non-euclidean properties of cycling road, would it be possible to calculate the hill's slope by comparing the differences in velocity between traveling downhill vs uphill vs on flat ground?

[@bripint]

Based on this, I have to imagine you pull some pretty serious g's in this game just turning around while running.

[@shiftsky7130]

Well the physics you used apply to the bike going backwards upon turning, try calculating the acceleration rotating the bike 180 degrees

[@HungryRonflex]

This is the first time your videos have reminded me of Game Theory and now I can't unsee it

[@alexrobinet7576]

Send this to the powerscalers.

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Someone tag swagkage.

[@JackieJKENVtuber]

Loved the Quizno's Training Program Advance skit in the beginning

[@massaosaito4084]

There is no way the whiplash wouldn't simply snap a person's neck at those conditions

[@bucsheels2424]

It’s a good thing Light-years measure distance, not time!

[@synysterdawn8913]

Can’t believe I just watched Eric Forman from That 70’s Show explain all this nonsense to me.

[@le__birb]

I'd like to point out that the acceleration you calculated was really an *average* acceleration over the turnaround time interval. Acceleration doesn't tend to change instantly, so the peak acceleration ciuld be significantly higher, though not likely more than twice the average.

[@halion4487]

“Has anything like this happened in real life?” Yes, and it’s called an explosion

[@Michael-ws6ng]

I really hope you blow up man, I love your vids!

[@mx._dobro-spec]

Humans in the Pokémon world are clearly a lot more durable than in real life. Not only is there this example, but throughout the series we see humans survive moves from Pokémon that no real human could withstand.

[@internalclorox7010]

This channel continues to amaze me

[@draegonspawn5361]

The character is used to handling these transitions from one direction to another at a notable fraction of the bikes capability. Run speed is 8 tiles/s, mach buke is 18. So from the character's perspective it is only 2.25 stronger than they are used to. Like 3g in relation to our adapted 1g.

[@nuttly556]

That transition to the sponsor was crazy!!!🤣🤣💀