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[@becausescience]

Thanks for watching, Super Nerds! *Here's a link to last week's video* if you haven't peeped it yet: kzbin.info/www/bejne/namWemhog850o7s -- kH

[@gregvfx1]

Thanks for muting the mug slurps!

[@alejandrofernandezcastro5421]

I'd like to see the rest of the team too :)

[@jsgehlen]

I have a problem, a light-side user's blade will only be hotter from a certain point of view.... From a certain point of view?! also what if the dark blade isn't dark but is actually like a standard lightsaber only it's releasing x and and gamma ray radiation, not the puny visible light. in the intense insane radiation released by The blade would cause a glow around its perimeter due to the ionization of the air around it... From a certain point of view...

[@MaximusLight]

Fun side note: Stars likely look white to our eyes because our eyes evolved to react to light in the visible spectrum *because* the visible spectrum is the wavelength that's most abundant specifically green light is most abundant. So the reason we can't see green stars is because of evolution even though it's because of green light that our eyes evolved to see the visible spectra in the first place. *Thanks evolution*

[@El-Hombre-Random]

and if the dark saber is like the black manta material that does not reflect the light

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

Thor: “A rock that isn’t a rock” Literally everyone: “Dwayne Johnson”

[@ultimasurge]

dang, you read my mind "edit" forgot kiddies were here for a moment.

[@wubbalongdingdong8832]

Too accurate jellal

[@ranwolf1240]

my second thought was "Concrete?"

[@dreathnor]

I thought, "It was a rock... lobster!"

[@otakuribo]

"i don't know who out there needs to hear this, so I'm not gonna say it." *power move*

[@Javierm0n0]

a real super villain sentence, i would say.

[@GrandpasMagic]

"Unless your whole planet is a city.." also plays as a Ravnica joke

[@acediadekay3793]

Kyle: The Neutron Star Slingshot!! Me: Oh boy, I can't wait for Joergsprave to show me its features

[@biohazard724]

[laughs in German]

[@Danke_Schoen]

lol, nice one

[@DemonicaaD14]

Quick meme DeviantART.com/firsha/art/Neutron-Features-820822046

[@RemedieX]

Insert hearty laugh*

[@sdfkjgh]

I love his fullauto crossbow vid.

[@pangolothian]

This outro and the "There aint no party like a Kyle Hill party cause a Kyle Hill party dont exist. Leave me alone." outro have gotta be my faves lol

[@skylordqasar6165]

"A sword made of antimatter would annihilate whatever city you were in if you tried to use it" . . . That sounds like a great idea!

[@phizicks]

rock that isn't a rock. yeah his name is Dwayne Johnson

[@lifestokens7469]

Do you, smmmeeelllllllllll?

[@dickmarx1298]

@@lifestokens7469 it smmmeeeeeeellllllllls like roo-dee-poo candy ass up here in Smackdown hotel. Doesn't anyone ever clean these sheets?!

[@bushmaster6894]

That's where I thought he was going with that.

[@robertagu5533]

But what we've all really been wondering is if Rocky is FINALLY after all these years finished cooking whatever it was he was cooking

[@MonkeyJedi99]

Ever seen the stuff dung beetles push around? Those aren't ROCKS!

[@vampujazz9454]

"Baseball sucks " 😂😂 couldn't agree more ... You're going to get some flak for this 1 😂😂

[@AuraTale]

"Have you ever seen a rock that isn't a rock?" Yes. His name is Dwayne Johnson.

[@skylx0812]

Gall stones Kidney stones and Breast milk jewelry

[@NerdySatyr]

The idea of a crowd of faceless/unknowable creatures offscreen that Kyle just casually speaks too lowkey terrifies me

[@zemorph42]

I think that's the point. There's nothing more terrifying than the unknown.

[@spartan3924]

When you mentioned a rock that doesn't look like a rock, all I could think of is that horrible sea-creature that looks like a rock and people keep cutting it open to show you

[@bryce1197]

*Kyle talking about inefficiency * *Takes swig of coffee from his mug without using the handle* Me: Hmmmmmmm

[@caveman_casey]

Finer motor skills take more time however infinitesimal, therefore grabbing the mug like a regular cup is more efficient

[@ghostface0927]

I drink my coffee the same way lol

[@icydeath0000]

That first Mcconaughey impression had me dying Kyle. Well done sir. XD

[@ondrabroz888]

Ok I wasn’t noticed first time, I’ll try reposting: Anything with temperature above 0 Kelvin emits radiation, but what if it’s 0K? Yeah in our universe it’s not possible (as far as we know) but maybe in Star wars universe it could? Complete stop of particle movement could have some whacky implications, it would attract the lightsabers thanks to the temperature and thus air pressure difference. The glow on the edge could come from the air molecules solidifying super fast after touching it and reflecting light. And the super coldness wouldn’t be much of a problem, if they can survive star-hot blades something below -200C shouldn’t be an issue 😂😂 BTW love the show pls notice and correct me senpai

[@okbkcq]

galaxy far far away, not universe far far away

[@marcosdheleno]

its not that they emit radiation when their temperature is above 0 kelvin, the radiation comes from they will radiate IF their temperature is higher than their enviroment. and yes, even in space. if you are in a place where the temperature is the same as the body, then you wont radiate. since you will be in equilibrium. of course, that's easier said than done.

[@ebonking5486]

Well actually star wars is in our universe just in a galaxy far far away. I know my shit

[@The_Musical_Cartograph]

The last punchline got me rolling on the floor that sir : was a hilarious wtf moment xD

[@jonathanmatthews4774]

These footnotes are just as entertaining, if not more than the actual show. I love these. Keep up the great work.

[@JettScott]

Omg, I almost fell out laughing at the Dazed & Confused/Mathew McConnahie reference joke! Classic.

[@BigBossMonkeytE]

Thanks Kyle, I really needed to hear that at the end

[@DM-me2hx]

Correction for Kyle: There's nobody off camera #foreveralone

[@jonribeiro266]

"Yeah, that's right. Baseball sucks." I give it three years before some random team of scientists find out it's turing complete and you eat those words

[@becausescience]

Hahaha pretty good -- kH

[@okbkcq]

@@becausescience Kyle, you are right and you can prove it with maths. Premise: Baseball is, essentially, ppl watching the Pitcher and Catcher playing toss n catch. 1) Good MLB hitters hit the ball well enough to get on base about 30% (0.300) of their times at bat (average is 0.248). This does not include getting walked (on base due to getting 4 "balls" pitched to them. 2) On average, 3.83 pitches are thrown to each MLB batter for each time at bat. For simplicity, call it 4 pitches to account for walks. www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2014/05/22/high-heat-stat-pitchers-per-plate-appearance/9444913/ 3) Each inning has 6 outs (3/team). Each game has 9 innings. Assuming they pay through both teams in the 9th inning, there would be 4 pitches X 6 batters times 9 innings = 216 pitches at the low end of a scoreless game. With good hitters, 6 batters X 9 innings X 0.300 = 16.2 hits (average = 13.4). 4) So, in a game with good hitters and not counting warm up pitches, there is one hit for every 13.3 pitches (216/16.2) or 7.5%. With average hitters, it is one hit for every 16.1 pitches (216/13.4) or 6.2%. Conclusion: Baseball is a game of toss and catch that is rarely interrupted by a hitter getting on base. QED

[@davidpeabody3429]

@@okbkcq dang you really worked hard for that. I hope he puts it into a super nerd thing

[@elementalist1984]

@@okbkcq ok, now use math to explain why soccer sucks. Not because I need a reason, but because I'd like to see your logic at work.

[@okbkcq]

@@elementalist1984 to be sure, I am not a fan of soccer; but my discourse above was provoked years ago by a fellow math teacher who had claimed that baseball was the 'thinking man's sport' due to all of the statistics that you can follow.......so I gave him statistics.....I also rambled on a bit about baseball teams are successful if they win over half of their 200 ;) games every year

[@RirtyDascal]

That helium thing you guys did there was fantastic and an excellent answer to the question posed.

[@OldMate94]

"Kyle who do you look at the end of your videos?" Kyle* "dont you dare get on camera" Theory- its voice of the void nate Conspiracy-kyle actually knows where nate is in the void

[@micahspruth-janssen3138]

Kyle- baseball sucks 32k people- 👍sounds about right... 30 people- 👎 but we like baseball!

[@zemorph42]

At least one baseball fan liked the video anyway; he commented below in the main comment section.

[@Peemanufacture]

I love your channel. I’m sorry I don’t have as much time to watch ever since I got this new job

[@topanteon]

I've seen a rock that isn't actually a rock. Dwayne Johnson!

[@RegisBodnar]

Such a heartfelt outro! We need more like them!

[@Vastin]

"Yeah, that's right... Baseball sux."

[@satansprguy4404]

Because Science

[@Penjulum]

Naa... Just _because._

[@madscientistshusta]

It's true tho

[@matthewlavis8376]

No it dose not!

[@SweetSoccerMoves]

Automatic thumbs up for that.

[@KingXOreo]

Ah, Kyle, that was a brutal ending. I had my heart set up to hear some inspirational wordy words and you just drop me like that? True villainy, I tell ya

[@MohammadNohman]

DAMN KYLE TEASING US RIGHT AT THE END. I LOVE IT

[@thoughtsofapeer]

Had to watch twice because I didn't pay attention to what you said as much as how you said it first time around. Funny how you couldn't put away your accent after starting out with it. I love it.

[@jessiesmith4239]

I'd like first to state that I absolutely adore your shows. I'm fascinated not only with your mathematics and scientific reasoning but also with the fact you are able to publicly acknowledge your mistakes in such a way that those looking for it are easily able to see you're more of a scientist than most scientists out there today. With that being said, I would like to disagree with one statement you made. I would fear the red lightsaber more than the blue lightsaber as the higher temperature of a blue lightsaber would mean a quicker cauterisation of the wound making the wound potentially more survivable. I also believe it would cut through quicker and cleaner meaning less time in contact with the flesh or Surface of your skin or tissues. Your "you" if I may. I believe a red lightsaber would probably take a few milliseconds longer and would require more force behind it to cut through the same amount of "you". I understand that a red "Plasma sword" would potentially cauterize a wound as well but I don't believe it would be as efficient as there could potentially be places or spots in your tissues, muscles, or bones that would allow for tearing or ripping when you inevitably moved. You know, because if you don't you die by the Jedi or Sith who originally placed such a grievous wound on your "you" to begin with. Keep On Keepin On! Congratulations on your success by the way. You earned it!

[@SilverAlex92]

Hey kyle, love the show. I have a couple of question from a "friend" Say a theoric supervillain managed to control gravity on local points and decided that the best way to show off is creating a black saber, following your idea of a black hole blade. Assuming their own gravity manipulation allows keeping the magnetic field localized to the blade and not destroying everything around. *Wouldn't a horizon event of the size of a lightsaber create a gravity field similar or even stronger than the planet our theoretical super villain is trying to conquer? *Would they need to generate an equal gravity field to contain/counteract the former? (side note, by that point, better use the fields to crush the foe, right? that's two planets worth of gravity) *Is there a way to stretch a significantly less massive horizon so circumvent the problem? (is the gravity needed to "stretch" a saber sized volume of the universe less than the one needed for a saber sized black hole?) I know that this probably falls in the don't ask too much about this, but this friend of mine is really curious if there is a way of making a practical black hole blade that doesn't just destroys everything the moment it turned on, and actually lets him cut stuff. You know, for academic reasons.

[@charliegoodson8247]

I bet it is a mirror just off-screen. That is how he keeps his hair on point. Love the show.

[@docmccrimmon4489]

... I literally was thinking 'I want that hoodie' and you said 'You can get this at the Nerdist store'... as casually as if it were a genuine conversation...

[@biohazard724]

It was. Didn't you know? Kyle can read your thoughts, but only yours.

[@docmccrimmon4489]

biohazard724 That poor man… trust me, nobody wants in my head. Lol

[@Jessie_Helms]

Even nerdier correction: In both Legends and Canon there are other lightsabers that resist lightsabers. In Canon the Praetorian’s armor resists lightsabers. In Legends the Vong, Darth Bane, some Royal Guards, some Shadow/Dark Troopers, etc... have lightsaber proof armor. Phrik, Beskar, and Cortosis, as far as I know, are all the metals that resist sabers, and Cortosis is by far the most interesting as it actually disrupts the blades.

[@crxyfish]

In star wars legends and recently made canon due to the mandolorian beskar or mandolorian iron is almost completely lightsaber resistant

[@skylordqasar6165]

If you could find a way to block or redirect gravity, you could mold the event horizon of the black hole into the shape of a saber AND deal with the weight and attraction issues

[@skylordqasar6165]

If you could find a way to block or redirect gravity, you could mold the event horizon of the black hole into the shape of a saber AND deal with the weight and attraction issues. If i'm remembering correctly, the singularity of a black hole (and thus, the black hole itself) is a single infinitesimally small point. The event horizon is just the radius at which light can no longer escape. In a way, the visible portion of the black hole is just a gravitational projection being emitted by the singularity. Any object that passed through whatever you were using to stop gravity and came into contact with that event horizon would then be subjected to the black hole's gravitational attraction. This would require new physics and likely also require a lot of energy, however.

[@kerrimtthefrog1001]

Kyle you should do a video on how light colors mix and how we perceive light . Keep up the good work!

[@ihavenoname1819]

Awe I missed it.😣😣 I was so excited. I've been watching all the reruns I've missed to catch up. I hate I missed the first live one I've would have seen in a while

[@Just_A_Choom]

Lmao! “I don’t know who out there needs to hear this... so I’m not gonna say it!”

[@GameTesterBootCamp]

I get the sneaking suspicion that Kyle recently watched Dazed and Confused again. :-D

[@TinaBojan]

As a jewelry hobbyist, I'd like to share that Fordite is often referred to as "Detroit Agate" or "Motor City Agate." Another manmade jem is Bowlerite made from pieces of old bowling balls.

[@seekyunbounded9273]

With that baseball comment you cut off one whole island of of your watch numbers xD

[@Magnymbus]

I had a big chunk of teal fordite-like solid paint. It was from a jar of paint that hadn't been closed all the way and was left sitting in a shed for at least 10 years, maybe 20. I had to litterally peal away the hard plastic jar from it because the lid had been welded to the jar by the paint. It had these cool rings of alternating light and dark colors. Maybe it was from drying at various temperatures throughout the years until if finally finished. It had a bubble just under the surface that gave it a bulge. I eventually decided to see how far down the bubble was, so I tried hammering a nail into it... the nail bent and the tip of the nail mushroomed... it was crazy. I eventually just used a carbide drill bit... it was only about 1/16 of an inch thick, but that little dried paint dome withstood at least 100 hammer blows, most of those with a nail unbetween trying to break in. Too bad I lost it like 5-6 years ago when I moved.

[@Jedi_Spartan]

5:49 Ha. Take that Sith Lords!

[@atk9989]

nope, nope, nope. the color means nothing other then the color of the crystal used, it just dyes and focuses the energy. as a star wars fan I cant let kyle break the lore of that universe with the non applicable science of ours to this degree, saying "ifs" is one thing but outright declaring blue lightsabers are hotter.... no. plus his point is shattered by green, purple, and silver lightsabers as they arent on the heat spectrum.

[@Jedi_Spartan]

@@atk9989 I KNOW THAT!

[@paradox7358]

Did you know... Chuck Norris can kill two rocks with one bird.

[@Boeing_hitsquad]

Dwayne Johnson isn't a twin

[@robertagu5533]

Kyle making Star Wars jokes.. KZbin: "Cue Star Wars commercials!"

[@j.megatron]

Help KZbin with a survey: Which of these movies would you rent Start Wars Ep 6 Star Wars Lego Star Wars Porn or Star Wars Family Guy Edition

[@zemorph42]

@@j.megatron Yes.

[@tristandurr6371]

That impression is actually pretty good Kyle lol I vote for Kyle to play him if a remake was ever done of Dazed and Confused

[@DeadMarine1980]

"Baseball sucks" okay Kyle that's fighting words!

[@dragonweyr44]

Mace Windu DIDN'T cut through Jango Fett's helmet, he cut his head off at the neck where there IS no armor

[@MonkeyJedi99]

Or at least only the pressure seal material. If his suit was able to keep in breathable air in toxic environments and/or vacuum. I realized just now how little I know about Jango and Mando armor.

[@clothar23]

I am just going to add yes Besker can't be cut by lightsaber but by the time of Jango Fett Mandolorins weren't wearing Besker armour anymore . Since the secret of refining raw Besker ore had been lost and that the ore was incredibly rare even in the hey day of the Mandalorians. Jango's armour was nothing more than Durasteel which a lightsaber has no problem cutting through.

[@dragonweyr44]

@@clothar23 Lightsabers have SOME difficulties cutting through durasteel on certain conditions. In The Phantom Menace, Qui Gon Jinn tried to cut through a durasteel blast door aboard a Trade Federation ship and was doing it, with a bit of difficulty, i.e. VERY slowly

[@clothar23]

@@dragonweyr44 Yes but that door was the same width as the lightsaber was long. That's more a matter of having to shove aside the sheer mass of metal than a difficulty in cutting said metal.

[@dragonweyr44]

@@clothar23 So if I understand you correctly, it would've been faster to cut a series of holes through the blast doors (like in movies where people escape by shooting the floor around them, cutting the hole in the floor and dropping to the floor below like in the movie Underworld with Kate Beckinsale) than it would be to slice a hole through it?

[@YoutubeIsAGarbagePit]

lool my boy nate tryna get back in the show. LET HIM ON CAMERA

[@snabbott]

It kind of blew my mind when my Physical Chemistry professor referred to gravity as a force field.

[@ultimasurge]

is it not a field of force. the field being the universe .

[@zemorph42]

The best explanation I've heard, imo, is that gravity is a consequence of the geometry of spacetime. Don't remember where I heard it from, though, but I think they learned it from Einstein and his equations.

[@stevejohnson5013]

Kyle my friend, you need a vacation. Recharge, reload. This isn't a criticism on production quality, the shows are still awesome! Just an observation

[@MarcSiqueira]

About the lightsaber cutting through boba's fett armor, there isnt any problem because Fett's armor wasn't actually a true Mandalorian Armor, it was made in the same shape, but, is was made from the metal that is used to make spaceships, which is a relatively strong material that can withstand blasters but not lightsabers. That is due to the fact that the fetts were not actually real mandalorians, therefore, they did not had access to the special metal called Beskar, that can only be found in Mandalore (the mandalorian planet) and Concordia (Mandalore's Moon). Although, Beskar is one of (if not) the most resilient metal in the franchise, there is a few others that can be used against lightsabers. Neuranium and Phrik are similar in reslience to Beskar but even more rare to find. Cortosis and ultrachrome are weak and brittle but they turn off (defuse) any lightsaber that they come in contact with, it is explained that they do something like a feedback loop that short out the sabers.

[@barrybend7189]

Hey Kyle please do a Gundam themed video.

[@matthewnichols4843]

That'd be cool. The physics of moving objects that long, the giant laser swords, the fuel requirements, the movements, the control dynamics... Alot of issues to cover.

[@salixalba6536]

I'm pretty sure he's commented on the gundams cockpit sound feedback mechanics (because of no sound in a vacuum) as well as minovsky particles already but I could be wrong

[@barrybend7189]

@@salixalba6536 no he only did the no sound in space one. But nothing Gundam specific.

[@matthewnichols4843]

@@barrybend7189 when he was doing the faster than light speed scissor thing he talked about how long a material can be and when you put input to one in that it takes a significant amount of time for the information to get to the other and I think that would come into effect with a giant Gundam robot spaceship thing... completely has no point but I was walking through the store and I saw a model for a Gundam that had a giant robot horse thing which I have no idea but that is just ridiculous but it might be faster than flying your Gundam itself I don't know

[@barrybend7189]

@@matthewnichols4843 was that the Master Gundam and his horse from G Fighter by any chance.

[@pablosotopower]

3:06 Matthew Mcconaughey possessed Kyle!

[@TheRealSpiderMew]

What if the Darksaber is a blade made of stop-time? Solid static time.

[@Vares65]

...wut?

[@Vastin]

The fundamental problem we run into with almost any kind of Force Field is E=MC^2. Which basically tells us that MATTER is incredibly ENERGY DENSE. (C^2, in fact). This means that one of the strongest imaginable fields of force we can put up is in fact... A nice armored hull of plated titanium/osmium alloy or something similar. That simply represents a huge amount of 'energy' placed between you and whatever is trying to kill you. That doesn't mean that we can't project an energy field with very high energy densities that approach or even exceed that of solid matter, but it does mean that the amount of energy we need to project those fields is *vast*. This is also why slug throwing weapons are unlikely to ever be fully supplanted by energy weapons, a solid slug of fast moving matter simply carries a huge amount of extremely dense energy that's very difficult for any laser or particle beam to match. However, all is not lost for the idea of a force field. One advantage that you could potentially get with a force field vs old fashioned armor is the concept of deflection at a distance. If you can extend your 'force field' some considerable distance out from the hull of your ship - say, a hundred km or more - you might only need enough energy to slightly nudge or deflect an incoming projectile or particle beam to cause it to miss your ship altogether. Now, alas, projecting fields over significant distances has its own additional burdens in terms of energy requirements and technical issues, but it is nevertheless a lot less energy intensive to gently redirect the trajectory of a relativistic slug or energy beam than it is to try to halt it outright just a few meters from your crew compartments.

[@zeeman0306]

Hey Kyle, irrefutably amazing show. I know this probably won't make it onto a BS ep because I'm commenting on a Footnotes ep, but I actually had a conversation with a friend of mine a whole ago about the possibility of a black lightsaber. He tried to argue that it was possible and I tried to get him to understand that based on how conductivity and thermal radiation work, a lightsaber could never actually be black. I then tried to hypothesize how it COULD possibly exist, for the sake of it being in the Star Wars universe, and the only conclusion that I could come to would be that whatever the lightsaber blade is made out of must be a material that only exists in the Star Wars universe and when it is excited, or given energy, it begins to absorb more light. I then explained how this would be technically impossible to happen because even if you were to increase whatever temperature it takes for a material to start getting off electromagnetic radiation in the visible spectrum, it would never actually give off no light at all unless it was below absolute zero somehow. In conclusion, we realized the only way that a lightsaber could actually be black is if it was the exact OPPOSITE of a lightsaber and was somehow an Absolute Zero Sword, or a CryoSaber (Coined by friend)

[@bavettesAstartes]

Kyle doing his weird helium voice woke up my cat and she was super distraught because it sounded like a kitten. Thank you Kyle, for scarring my cat.

[@abnegazher]

Kyle: "baseball sucks" Japanese: "I see that someone is wanting to go to the lewd tentacle torture chamber..."

[@DigitalJedi]

Sign me up!

[@Gost-uk5mk]

That's not a rock. It's a mineral, Marie. Geez

[@dickmarx1298]

That's not a rock, it's a Space Station! Dun dun dunnnnn

[@erinkarp6317]

What if the dark-saber somehow absorbs all radiation around it to generate its heat? Including the light, which would explain the black.

[@LilithLonelyHeart]

7:50 well there was a crystal in Legends lore that was capable of creating an invisible blade but it was only by description and there was no known user of such lightsaber, especially considering that this crystal was extremely rare and hard to obtain, but not black

[@LivTheCyberdhole]

CORRECTION TO THE CORRECTION: Boba Fett's helmet was an imitation made from Durasteel, as Beskar was at a premium during the time of the Empire, and as he never returned to Mandalore to take his father's place as Manda'lor, Boba settled for a Durasteel alloy that merely LOOKED like Beskar'gam, to intimidate his prey. In Legends, he gets a full suit of Beskar'gam once he returns to Mandalore and takes up his place as Manda'lor, but that's all non-canon now because Disney.

[@Dedjkeorrn42]

No auto subtitles, please enable them

[@jamesbailey4304]

Hey Kyle, love the show. Just wanted to point out that in Star Wars lore, the color of the beam of a lightsaber is reflected in the crystal that used to focus the sabre, that is almost invariably how the color of the beam is chosen.

[@flabort]

Which is why almost all sith blades, which widely use Synthetic crystals, are red.

[@roderik1990]

On the lightsaber more like a gas discharge thing, one could also suppose the lightsaber giving a lot of light from its heat, while ALSO emitting peaks of other wavelengths, thereby causing the eventual colour we see. Though at the same time, I think that puts either a maximum on how hot a green lightsaber can be, or requires it to have a rather overwhelmingly bright green peak, or have most of the light caused by heat to be outside of the visible spectrum. This is interesting, I might want to do some math to see what comes out of it.

[@ryans8113]

But I needed to hear it

[@darrenwood5050]

Felt like a different Kyle this video. Long day of filming? Tough week? We’ve all been there

[@Merennulli]

Correction - Baseball doesn't suck. The pressure around the sport of baseball is merely higher than it is inside the sport of baseball.

[@NessHX]

I must say (after getting a bachelor degree in physics) that the fact that there are no green stars is literally the first "literally new" thing I have ever learnt on yt

[@formiga130]

Have you seen a rock that isn't a rock Have you seen a ROCK LOB-STER! *80's synths intensifies*

[@hunter5822]

I’m glad you guys considered the anti-matter dark saber.

[@Thomas-uk5cp]

Lightsaber color is the result of the bond formed between the user and the kyber crystal used to focus the energy of a power grid. These crystals were force attuned living organisms that are colorless until chosen by and bonded with a force user. The reflect the spiritual alignment of their user. They are naturally attuned to the light side of the force, meaning to use one a sith must force the crystal to submit to their will causing it to 'bleed' and turn red

[@mykel723]

Neutron start slingshots might be the ultimate form of interstellar travel if the g-forces don't turn you into a puddle.

[@j.megatron]

Baseball quote was dope AF

[@atk9989]

hey Kyle I got one that is nerdy and interesting. I saw a video comparing Bankai in the anime Bleach, one was Rukia's that creates an area around her and flash freezes it to 0K (absolute zero) and another was Yamamoto's that makes his sword burn at 15,000,000 degrees was the stated numbers but the official sources uses the wording, his body and blade are coated in the flames of the sun. so im curious what would happen if Yamamoto's bankai was active and he was suddenly in absolute 0 and both constantly tried to maintain their temp?

[@Shifty1987]

Hey Kyle, love the show! Quick correction on your statement regarding lightsaber colors being related to their temperature. While that may be true if they existed in our universe, in the Star Wars universe however, they get their color from the crystal used in the creation of the hilt.

[@Yamiling]

KYLE!! I love the show and I never miss an episode!! BUT I had to stop and offer a small correction to your correct correction and a cool/scary explanation of why. I recently learned a bit about antimatter. Feel free to correct my correction of your correction if I'm incorrect but an antimatter darksaber would do much more than destroy a city upon use. 1 teaspoon of antimatter has the same energy equivalent of 10 nuclear bombs The blade of a lightsaber is about 3feet long and 1inch in diameter 1 teaspoons volume is about 0.300781 cubic inches so 1 cubic inch is about 3.32468 teaspoons and The volume of a lightsaber blade is 113.1 inches If we take 3.32468 teaspoons amd multiply by the volume of a lightsaber we get about : 376.021308 total teaspoons of antimatter!! If 1 teaspoon of antimatter is equivalent to 10 nukes and (as per the New York Post) research argues that 100 can destroy society.. an antimatter darksaber would have the one time use equivalent energy of 376,000 nukes.. enough to obliterate every last square miles worth of life on this planet and have more than 250,000 nukes worth of energy (depending on the nuke) left over, possibly going on to reach outward and destroy neighboring planets(not including fallout). Scientist have yet to study the effects of antimatter explosions on modern society but I think we can all agree that an antimatter light/darksaber can stay in a galaxy far far.. vary far far away.

[@Luraldir_Original]

6:59 pun pain

[@TheXlen]

There is a tech that creates IR field around an object, in 1980ties it was planned to use it for tanks, then they understood it requires too much power

[@jamesevans7388]

In THIS universe he says.... not "OUR" universe.... THE PLOT THICKENS!!

[@hillbarwald6396]

I am far from the first comment, but may I just say your great Kyle (and the rest of the team(which may or may not exist)will also be credited here) .

[@ondrabroz888]

*you’re

[@Vivi2372]

@@ondrabroz888 no one likes a grammar Nazi. Sometimes people make typos. Sometimes autocorrect screws with you. And sometimes English isn't someone's first language. Point is there are plenty of reasons someone might spell incorrectly or use the wrong word that don't involve them not knowing the correct way or just being an idiot or something. As long as you can understand them I say let it go.

[@becausescience]

Thanks Josh, that really means a lot to me (and us if they exist) -- kH

[@silencetheknight9634]

@@Vivi2372 That whole thing could be subjective, as you can't speak for everyone regarding how much "grammar nazis" are appreciated. Though I do agree, it is pointless to try correcting grammar online. Unless someone who doesn't speak English as a first language could actually benefit from it.

[@ondrabroz888]

@Vivi2372 I didn’t mean to be toxic or a grammar nazi. It actually helps a lot of people (I learned most of my english from watching tv shows in english and by being corrected on the Internet) and since this is a part of english grammar that appears very often and quite a lot of people don’t understand it, I usually correct it and hope to help maybe not the person who made the mistake, but someone else just casually reading through comments. I am sorry if I offended you

[@maddog9669]

In canon the green light sabers held by those who have a stronger connection to the force while blue is for the more combat efficient

[@iamcyndelaq3515]

Oh, but Kyle *begins tapping desk vigorously* uHuUhHUuUhHuHuHuHUUuhHuHuuhHhhUuHuHUHUHUH!!!!!

[@coreydavis4106]

8:32- 8:37 i snorted and almost pee'd myself laughing

[@SHOGAN1212]

I always thought the dark sabre was just a plasma that emits light at frequencies we can't see. It still blocks light from the other side, so instead on being transparent, it would appear black. The edge would simply be spillover in which the light is stretched to drop down into visible, violet light.

[@landrue.3369]

I have no idea if you take idea request for episodes or not but an episode I would love to see in the future would be how the food replicators from Star Trek work

[@jackielinde7568]

The food replicators (or matter replicators, because you could have them make all sorts of stuff) is just an extension of teleporter tech. It's supposed to work by projecting energy in the pattern of the object's exact energy levels, then let that energy [coalesce/condensed/form/eh?] into matter to generate the object you wanted. To get the patterns, you would have to have an object to sequence the energy levels at each point in the object, which would destroy an object... Meaning someone had to sit down with a replicator at some factor and feed it stuff to image. The true fun is figuring out: How to put that amount of energy exactly where you want it at each spot without the energy doing stuff while you're putting other energy in other spots, the amount and from what source are you getting that energy, and investing data storage solutions big enough to store all the data needed for each pattern. (Give you an idea how big the storage would need to be, imagine voxel (3D pixels) sizes at the Planck length. Yes, you would be measuring every object in Planck Voxels. Did I just coin a new term? Whomever perfects this, please remember me in your Nobel speech.)

[@landrue.3369]

@@jackielinde7568 oh

[@thebobm12]

1:20 I’m glad someone finally said it

[@ANunes06]

My all time favorite Force Fields in Sci-Fi come from the Honor Harrington series, a relatively campy retelling of the Horatio Hornblower series but in space. With a woman. Anyway, their ships achieve acceleration through two means. One, by translating into an extra "hyper" dimension, which is really just a projection of our universe into a smaller space that can be more quickly traversed. Two, and more importantly, by using a system similar to the Alcubierre Drive to warp space-time locally around the ship to make it "fall" forward while not imparting forces that would flay their human occupants into fine red mist. The author (David Weber, for the curious), thought about that a bit and came up with the notion that this warping of space-time would have the same effect on ... stuff ... that any massive distortion of spacetime has. Namely, it would impart accelerations onto any incoming object... or projectile... or even laser beam. Because of the way his fields were projected, ships in his universe are functionally invulerable to attack from everywhere except the poles of the field. He calls it "The Throat" of the spaceship, and thus the goal of every captain in space is identical to that of a captain on earth. Cross the T, shoot straight down their throat with your broadsides. Anyway, TLDR: Any spaceship that used a drive method that warped space-time would create such intense acceleration gradients locally to itself that any incoming projectile would be torn apart or deflected before it could reach the hull, simply because space-time was so warped around it. No clue how rigorous that is, but it's a really neat idea. And I am enjoying the series currently. So deal with it.

[@MehrumesDagon]

8:58, technically kyle, this clip you showed didn't cut the helmet itself but uncovered neck below it - that is if you mean the Jango's beheading in there.

[@forloveofthepage2361]

Kyle, you would crush at "Um.. actually" by College Humor. I'm sure this isn't the first time you've heard this, but I would love to see it. Also, Boba's helmet isn't made of Beskar, if it was it wouldn't have a dent in it.

[@chrisgerena229]

Actually in the star wars universe lore, bobba Fett's armor is made of composite materials, not beskar so it would be able to be sliced by a lightsaber. And Mandolorian armor is not the only kind of armor that is lightsaber resistant. The ultrachrome armor by Captain Fasma is lightsaber resistant as well. Also the orbelisk armor of Darth Bane is, along with crab armor of the Yuuzhan Vong in the legends lore.

[@mewhunter67]

Have to be that guy, and point out they actually introduced a special armor in a recent book, that uses an energy diffusing root woven into fibers of the armor. It makes the armor blaster proof (by being energy Kevlar), and somehow shorts light sabers, so they turn off. It wasn't totally explained, but it felt hand wavy enough to follow along.

[@MrPeterson74]

For the fields issue, embrace the power of &. Its not gravity or magnetic or electric, its all three together. Something that can exert influence over all the fields simultaneously.

[@ethanjohnson2548]

I heard neutron star slingshot and the only thing I even considered was "Big Rubber Band"

[@GMBenavidez]

Could you make an ELECTROMAGNETIC Gravity field?!

[@JasonWW2000]

I could be wrong, but I don't think those two forces are interrelated.

[@panhead16]

Haha your voice that was a cross between G.W. Bush and Bill Clinton cracked me up