Men in Black’s Noisy Cricket is CRAZY

[@becausescience]

Thanks for watching Super Nerds! For all the corrections about the kind of projectile the NC is firing, I'll see you in Footnotes. Also, the blue whale engine is now the Hill Engine (TM). -- kH

[@christiansebastianobaudo9558]

I need you to make the Hill Engine (TM) in real life Kyle. :)

[@majinjason]

I think I watched this episode but I can't seem to remember most of it. Maybe I'm getting old, wait how old am I? What is this show anyway and what are you talking about? WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE?!

[@UPSBHenryS]

kH? kiloHill?

[@Insanerobert44]

So, OK, the projectile will vaporize in atmosphere. But what about the massive shockwave produced by the projectile before disintegration? You know, the same kind of shockwave that happened last time when one of the meteors vaporized itself into atmosphere before landing, partially or not. The same would happen, sure, we're talking about huge differences of mass, but the same differences of speed can be applied. And we all know that the kinetic energy produced is half of mass times velocity squared (1/2*m*V^2), so.... At least some glass and ears will be broken forever?

[@techmetal2964]

What is it launched lead or gold so that it would have more Mass so less speed

[@zaczane]

We need to measure more things in Whale. It’s clearly the most accurate and scientific unit

[@fbiagentmiyakohoshino8223]

zaczane no. toyota corolla is better

[@recklesflam1ngo968]

zaczane how about bald eagles per second

[@Electric_Bagpipes]

that scene gave me flashbacks to the Orion program style propulsion- NUKES.

[@babablacksheep3950]

It's a scientific unit Japan would be proud of.

[@collinscody57]

Technically its the worst accurate unit as blue whales can be from 2.5ton when born to 150ton for adult males and 180tons for adult females so your unit of measurement has a possible range of 177.5tons

[@DasGrinch]

I always thought the noisy cricket was firing a wave of compression, like an amped up sound wave. Hence the name, 'noisy cricket'.

[@FEDORA_CAT]

That is actually a good thinking

[@biggycheese5764]

Honestly I thought it was like a photon blaster but the photons had mass that could cause an impact depending on objects in its path of travel (I know photons don’t actually have mass but this is movie science fiction we’re talking about crazier things have happened)

[@kevspeedruns9947]

@@biggycheese5764 Photons have 0 REST MASS. They can still carry momentum. Hence the concept of light sails for space travel and the like.

[@polarisukyc1204]

@@kevspeedruns9947normally yes, but there was some research that managed to couple photons to form pairs and triples as a sort of photon ‘molecule’ and they behave like they have mass. I think the first research was done with ultra-cold rubidium atoms and a weak laser

[@RavenwingAcademy7511]

Yeah i thought the name was a giveaway. If you could cause something to vibrate with enough intensity to generate and channel the pressure wave without feeling reverb or somethin. Like the frame was made outta "nth metal" maybe.

[@irisinthedarkworld]

"Faster than ANYTHING ever fired on Earth!" Nuh-uh! Watch this! *turns on flashlight*

[@firepower7017]

Light isn't a projectile.

[@firepower7017]

Or a physical projectile if you're getting technical.

[@ThePhoenix696]

@@firepower7017 Correct! Photons do not have mass, however we do see the result and source of turning on a light, and while the light from a torch (aka flashlight) may not be able to do much damage to a physical object, a laser can. So keeping in mind that photons do not have mass, would you consider a laser as a projectile? Also, all light has radiation.

[@firepower7017]

@@ThePhoenix696 Lasers are considered as lasers, they don't fit the category of a projectile weapon if it only emits photons, not only that but it only causes burning if given the right intensity. Also flashlights usually involve a closed circuit of electrical current to emit light, so it doesn't radiate photons like of that of lasers. This can be easily observable to the range both a laser pointer and just a regular flashlight has. Another problem is that you have to expose your target to a laser for a while because of heat transfer to the entirety of the body, not to mention we are made up of water making the burn feel like a intense pinch.

[@firepower7017]

@@ThePhoenix696 Also projectiles by definition is usually referring the act of propelling a solid or liquid(You can kind of count gas as a projectile?) object towards something or somebody. So by definition and modern day usage. It definitely ain't a projectile. So in conclusion, you cannot call lights or lasers other than "lights or lasers." Because they don't classify as a projectile weapon of any sort. And I do know all light has radiation.

[@awesome_axolotl264]

Because science: 'Physics is the same anywhere in the universe' Singularity: I'm about to end this man's whole career

[@AssistantCoreAQI]

Singularity: I'm Going To Flip This Man's Space And Time To Make Sure That The Future Of His Career Is Guaranteed To End In My Core.

[@eviljesus84]

You don't really need Singularities for that. There are theories that postulate the laws of physics vary throughout the universe. After all, they're not really LAWS, so much as descriptions of what we can observe. Even then we're having trouble, marrying classical macro-scale physics with the weirdness of the quantum realm - and that's in our own cosmic backyard.

[@sofieselene]

Still works the same way in/near black holes, we're just not sure exactly what hidden features the laws of physics contain that aren't noticeable except in such extreme conditions. Of course, physics in a black hole and physics in the rest of the universe would tend to bear little resemblance to each other, but they are still the same laws. Though, some of the more extreme ideas about what exactly happens beyond an event horizon (such as the possible existence of new universes inside of them) may change that, at least partially. If the laws of physics don't seem to apply the same way to something, you just have the wrong or insufficiently general laws of physics.

[@eviljesus84]

@@sofieselene You realize you've contradicted yourself, right? First you said Physics "still works the same way in black holes", then later you said "physics in a black hole and physics in the rest of the universe would bear little resemblance to each other". So which one is it? Hint: it's the latter. As to the last point, you're right. Our laws of physics are insufficiently general. Mostly because they aren't intrinsic properties of reality, so much as descriptions of what we can observe or calculate (limited as that is on a cosmic scale), and those same laws put a cap on how much we (as a species) will ever be able to learn - effectively barring us from knowing all, and thus creating a sufficiently general theory of everything. Perhaps it would be better to say there are certain physical constants that current physics assume are immutable throughout the Universe. Constants - which certain, more fringe, theories assert - might not be as universal as we believe (speed of light included)

[@sofieselene]

@@eviljesus84 It's not a contradiction to say that the laws of physics would bear little apparent resemblance. The same laws of physics can look very different depending on their context, but that doesn't change the fact that they are the same governing principles. Black holes, in particular, are rather extreme examples and are largely unknown, but they do indeed obey the same laws of physics as everything else. We simply don't yet understand *what* those laws of physics are yet, due to the fact that the laws of physics we've discovered so far are not directly applicable to extreme environments. And yes, it is indeed assumed that various physical constants are, indeed, constant and universal. They most likely are, though, as no measurement of either those constants in a lab or in two causally separated regions of space have yielded a different result. If the constants are changing, it's at an absolutely glacial pace, and they've likely changed only a tiny amount since the dawn of the universe.

[@stevena105]

"Humans are what we call...SquishyBendy."

[@Deity1]

So...Squendy? Or maybe, Bushy? Oh! I know! Bishi. (That time you make a bishonen joke no one will get.)

[@HyperionaSilverleaf]

@@Deity1 i get it!

[@jekabsojarsulskis9740]

@@Deity1 I didn't get it.

[@robertrigby-jones2805]

I'm surprised he didn't go further into how the recoil would work, I'm sure firing anything with mass at 20% the speed of light, there would be no recoil forced into you at all, just a tiny gun sized hole running the length of your arm and out your back

[@kanrahatake3626]

@@Deity1 i got it it was okay

[@patrickstafford6493]

Alright, the Saturn V being hurled into space by pooping whales over and over is the most amazing mental image I think I will ever have. Thank you, Kyle!

[@davidelligott2883]

All this time we were told they were endangered due to whaling... What else is NASA hiding?

[@iowafarmboy]

Whales per second should be an official measurement of thrust XD

[@sea_kerman]

That looked kinda like an orion drive.

[@i_am_the_monkey_king]

Yea. Thanks, Kyle~ I will never see it any other way ever again.

[@lillyanneserrelio2187]

The whale drive is intended for very large (1,000ft or longer) ships as its fuel source is very expensive and with such poor mileage (0.5-1.0whale/second) only large capacity vessels does the economies of scale make sense [think 747 planes gulping gulping 30-50 gallons PER second...only works because it carries hundreds of passengers]. And now departing logic and moving into SOUTH PARK and stereotypes...., I feel development and use of this WHALE engine is something that will be exclusively done in JAPAN- a country famously portrayed on GREENPEACE and Whale Wars reality shows for their CURRENT AND ONGOING WHALE HUNTING INDUSTRY for resources we no longer need thanks to replacements from synthetics.

[@Legandro_]

Why it feels like i've seen this episode like 20 times before?

[@scottmantooth8785]

only 20?

[@cristhianmlr]

-Beeeep *flash*

[@GundamFranxx]

@@cristhianmlr Oh look, a new Because Science video!

[@nacoran]

He should totally reupload a slightly edited version of this tomorrow and every day until the joke stops being funny.

[@Geo_242]

*B E C A U S E S C I E N C E*

[@JediSamson]

If I remember correctly, in one of the movies (and the TV show) they explain that the Noisy Cricket is actually a sonic projection weapon, that uses a narrow sonic radio wave to disrupt particles in a being or material and cause it to essentially shake apart violently and explode. So...technically, it shouldn't have any recoil at all because it's not firing a projectile or accelerating anything. It's an instant transmission of focused sonic waves. Still a great video though...

[@jenkem4464]

Yeah maybe it creates a big shockwave or sonic boom type thing as the energy leaves the barrel and that is what pushes Will back and not the actual recoil of the gun firing a physical projectile? Just thoughts

[@ProfAzimov]

Energy still has recoil

[@W0lfSh1eld]

"Whale! Whale! Whale! Whale!" *Looks down* *Shocked Pikachu face* xD

[@nicholasstone3705]

I was scrolling through the comments section specifically to find this...you have made my day! I freaking lost it at that part, lol! 😂🤣🤣

[@nicholasstone3705]

Yes! I was hoping I wasn't the only one to love that part! I lost it when Kyle said that, coupled with the animation and whale sounds!!😂😂🤣🤣

[@sargepent9815]

Reminds me of the weapons in Mass Effect. They use element zero to accelerate a small chunk of inert mass to hyper velocities instead of traditional gunpowder/bullets. Since they're useing only a small mass but extremely high velocities, they have devastating effects at impact. The ONLY part missing is the effect these hyper velocity rounds have on the atmosphere around the projectile when fired. You can see from the US Navy rail gun experiment, that firing a bullet at such speeds nearly creats a fusion reaction of the air molecules as they can't get out of the way and the bullet creates a stream of plasma in its wake

[@Suicidal_Soy_Sauce]

It sheers off a piece of metal and fires it at hypersonic speeds. The lore in Mass Effect was very interesting to me.

[@TheEmperorOfViltrum]

So that’s why it’s called Mass Effect

[@stilmaho]

Kyle: 0.20 c is faster than anything ever fired on earth. LHC: Am I a joke to you?

[@planexshifter]

Nice 👍🏻

[@rajeshdas6539]

*anything except sub-atomic particles

[@scottmantooth8785]

earth Prime maybe...lots of others across the multiverse

[@adminadmin8992]

LHC is not "on" Earth :)

[@IulianAxiomAVI]

I smell some footnotes

[@Walter-fc3uq]

Please stop erasing my memories, I have a quiz tomorrow...

[@mintyyetisalt3641]

Walter, what quiz?

[@insertdeadmeme]

Walter, what quiz?

[@KICKASSoBASSIST]

Well it looks like you also forgot about that paper that needed to be turned in today as well

[@insertdeadmeme]

Warhead_732 You forgot to mention that forgetting this paper meant forgetting something very important which is... Can’t remember :c

[@KainaX122]

Insert Dead Meme is it some sort of anniversary?

[@Aeleas]

I can't wait for the whale engine mod for Kerbal Space Program to come out of this.

[@barrybend7189]

Well we already have the Farscape 1/ hetch drive and GN drive mods on KSP.

[@ultimasurge]

it happened everytime free willie got released in the 90's

[@logix8969]

4:02 There, a replay button for one of those... golden moments :D

[@razorraptor2247]

4:14

[@dmdizzy]

"But of course, we know humans are not perfect spheres" Are we certain of this?

[@SAAltPants]

Tess Holiday says hello.

[@user-ud4jv]

Nikokado avocado is the prime example of us being spheres

[@tylercruise7334]

I consider kirby a pink, tiny human.

[@zanly5039]

@@user-ud4jv bruuuhhhhhh best comment i've seen all week lmaooooo

[@KeithElliott-zd8cx]

I mean, my mom was close but she still had arms and legs.

[@Goldmasterflex]

dude you had me at "WHALE"

[@freddy_mtl0]

Whale

[@rabbitracer79]

I have to pause it for my laughing fit. Lol.

[@osprey1645]

Mach 1.2

[@Goldmasterflex]

1.7 actually

[@osprey1645]

@@Goldmasterflex Super sonic attack whales.

[@cevichegrace]

The editing and delivery is incredibly hilarious 11/10

[@BigMobe]

The MiB cartoon from the 90's shows that their suits contain technology which absorbs most of the abuse they encounter. In fact they can even survive falling into lava.

[@wit6665]

that Will Smith sphere is terrifying.

[@alexknj1]

I could be wrong, but I thought the Noisy Cricket was an energy weapon, not a projectile weapon. Would that change the outcome?

[@ashenwuss1651]

*Everything is energy?*

[@arizonaranger4454]

Yea same

[@doom87er]

it would have no recoil in that case. Whatever it is firing must have SOME mass, otherwise the total momentum would be 0 or near 0 even if you shot it at light speed

[@tristangoncalves1417]

Well they did a similar calculation for the deathstar having insane recoil despite being an energy weapon not firing matter, so even lasers carry momentum creating recoil

[@danilooliveira6580]

that depends on what you are referring to energy. if its charged particles then they do have mass. if its light, well, light don't have mass but it still have momentum, you actually can move in space with a flashlight as a thruster. the formula to calculate the momentum of a photon is p = h/λ (where p is momentum, h is plank's constant and λ [lambda] is the wavelenght).

[@wayneigoe6722]

Kyle: "Physics is the same everywhere in the universe" Me: Even in a black hole? Kyle: ".... Not fair"

[@WAMTAT]

Black holes don't break physics, we just don't fully understand the interactions because of the gravity.

[@justink3200]

Ban is my personal favorite. At first for me it was King but after watching his backstory I really felt for the guy. I know this is no where near relevant for the topic that is being discussed but whatever.

[@henrynorcrossii3363]

How do we know that the interior of a black hole is in the same universe as the exterior?

[@Destroyahx2]

@@henrynorcrossii3363 Occam's razor I guess.

[@fredsmith9714]

Henry Norcross II This sounds like a reference to cosmic evolution theory...which is where black holes form and create new universes on the other side with altered/evolved physical laws. Honestly this theory is entirely a way to get rid of the problem of the singularity (the beginning of the universe). It makes more sense to explain the singularity with some intelligent force outside our universe I.e. God, aliens, a computer program etc... But atheists have chosen a philosophy where this is impossible. The truth is and will likely remain, we don't know. As for physics with black holes, they don't break laws. Things like time and space, physical dimensions, may not be comprehensible in such a place but energy is still conserved. We don't even know if black holes have an inside or go somewhere. The problem is with observing them and since our ability to observe things is greatly related to radiation bouncing around, black holes become problematic with the radiation trapped by the gravity.

[@Someone-cr8cj]

2:14 "basically controlled explosions" is also how a car works.

[@leonjohnson88]

I think its a gravity gun, it could magnify gravitational waves the same way we amplify sound. And with a proper shooting technique its effects could be counteracted by forcing the recoil into the ground similar to how boxers land blows. In short agent j had bad training

[@Artaimus]

@@leonjohnson88 I think you mean no training.

[@Nhawk316]

How fast would that car go? Changing pistons for noisy crickets?

[@hydewhyte4364]

Why would you assume it fired a projectile when all the other weapons fired energy bolts? I figured it to be a force projecting weapon.

[@Kalebfenoir]

Pretty sure it's a sonic cannon. The name gives it away 'Noisy Cricket'. Crickets make noise by scraping their legs together, which you can hear for quite a distance. Whatever is 'scraping' inside the Cricket when the trigger is pulled is a highly focused, but INTENSE source based on how much noise it makes. Enough that, when directed like a vortex cannon, can blow stuff up or shred it.

[@aidenaune7008]

@@Kalebfenoir that would explain the massive hole in the truck, the shockwave would expand outwards as it moves.

[@Kalebfenoir]

@@aidenaune7008 it depends on how tightly focused it is. Theres vids of regular vortex cannons that have ends about the size and shape of a 5 gallon jug sending whats basically a ball of condensed air into a brick wall and blowing it out in a roughly circular pattern. The cricket is much smaller with a pinpoint end, but whatever it generates inside creates enough distortion to blow out the side of that truck on impact, but not sweep the street clean of cars like a Shockwave blast might. Its a shaped-charge blast of concussion force that probably loses strength and cohesion the further it goes...and it only lasts a second or two. So it dissipates quickly.

[@Pedro38906]

Energy firing weapons do not have recoil. They do not fire projectiles with any mass, so the quantum of movement does not change. If there is recoil, you can assume a projectile with some mass was fired

[@lucifrmrningstr2992]

@@Pedro38906 actually energy weapons probably would, there's even a video about it. One other Death star flaw. It's just minimal.

[@williamostlund858]

5:04 if the diameter is 2mm, the volume of a spherical projectile would be (4pi*0.001^3)/3=roughly 4*10^-9 m^3. With a volume like this, the density that would result in a mass of 4mg would be (4*10^-6)/(4*10^-9)=10^3kg/m^3, which is the density of water. Thus, your estimation of 4mg is correct only when assuming that the projectile has a diameter of 1mm, because the volume would be 1/8 of the volume that you get with a diameter of 2mm, and the density of steel is roughly 8 times the density of water. So the mass of the projectile would be, according to your assumption of a 1-2mm diameter, somewhere between 4mg and 32mg (actually a bit more than these values since I rounded pi/3 down to 1)

[@Ender436]

I was thinking about how if the projectile was made out of steel or really anything earthly it would basically instantly vaporize. Then you said that at the end. Keep up the great work!

[@mario_panzera]

I could've sworn, mostly based on the name, that it was a sound-based weapon. Wouldn't that be an entirely different equation?

[@abrahamnotlincoln3439]

I thought it was called noise cricket cause it makes a annoying sound like crickets and its small but I could be wrong

[@jazzcat9363]

You are partially correct. We know it's not purely based on nothing but sound because when J first shot it, there was a path of fire leading from the store to the truck. The second time he shot it, there was a small explosion (we didn't see any fireballs but that's because he just hit the thin cable that was holding the van). The third time he shot it, he hit the trailer of a semi and there was a huge fireball explosion. A sound-based weapon wouldn't leave trails of fire or cause fireball explosions. It's possible that it uses soundwaves to fire the weapon itself. The chirping sound we hear are soundwaves building up in pressure and then when that pressure is released, it fires out some sort of projectile. That would be a perfect example of why the gun has such a huge kick to it. All that pressure building up and then finally releasing. So I guess, in a way, it's a combination of a sonic and projectile weapon. But Kyle would then need to figure out how much pressure would be needed to throw J backward so far.

[@jean-lucwalker3690]

could be alled that because it breaks the sound barrier.

[@bradleydale3589]

I'm no physicist but here's my theory. The weapon is neither sonic or a physical projectile in the traditional sense, look at the almost needle like tip of the weapon. The "projectile" is quantum mechanical probably just one intensely charged muon or quark.

[@MartinKellerII]

Fergil The Fox I always thought it was laser/energy based.

[@kylem.6101]

In the Men in Black Animated Series, Agent Jay put a suppressor on that thing. Also, I thought it shot soundwaves, hence the name Noisy Cricket.

[@StupidButCunning]

Wouldn't that immediately burst the eardrums of the user and everyone in the vicinity for a considerable distance if that were the case? Not to mention the sheer collateral damage to everything else that wasn't the target since it's a wave.

[@kylem.6101]

@@StupidButCunning I wouldn't know that, just take up with movie / cartoon logic.

[@psychetitan3529]

@@StupidButCunning The noisy cricket is probably an energy weapon firing a laser or plasma, since we never hear of sound from the cricket firing and only the sound of the explosion from what it hits.

[@512TheWolf512]

"fresh prince of bel-airtime" is the best pun you ever made

[@h1ghju1ce]

I suspect he started with this pun, and worked the entire video around it :-)

[@Attaxalotl]

Ladies and Gentlemen, that's a wrap. We're done here. Humanity has peaked; for nothing else can possibly top this.

[@kodyross8222]

“Physics works everywhere” Well not exactly, like when you approach a black hole the laws of physics seem to go a little haywire.

[@PanthereaLeonis]

Well, you tilt the time cone, so if you don't take THAT into account then everything is pretty darn weird. IIRC, they do function like they should, although we don't have complete models that work at such extreme conditions. I guess you can call black holes glitches/bugs. The code works as intended, but it does weird things when you mess with the parameters.

[@kodyross8222]

That was more in depth then I was trying to go. But essentially yes. The only problem with going in depth with black holes is we just don’t actually know exactly. There’s a lot of different ideas about how black holes work.

[@mastershooter64]

the laws of physics *that we know* seem to go a little haywire

[@Drkwll]

Would relativistic speed leave a hypersonic boom in the projectiles path?

[@vovochen]

Drkwll Yes.

[@jannegrey]

Since it has to accelerate through the speed of sound first, you'd have a sonic boom. Also any object that travels above the speed of sound in the medium leaves trail of sound (usually very loud) if it's aerodynamic coefficient isn't 0 - which means it would be totally silent, since it doesn't lose energy to the air, which is what makes sound. But since such objects (materials) don't exist - and somehow I don't think they can exist (the closest thing that comes to mind is Bose-Einstein condensate, which supposedly has viscosity of 0 - though I might have screwed up something given that I learned it in another language, also super-conductors have minimal or 0 resistance, so these are analogous situations, but not the same).

[@Drkwll]

@@jannegrey How about supersolids?

[@Callus1234]

It would probably rip his thumb right off, I mean the digit that goes all the way to the wrist.

[@Pro_Triforcer]

I wonder if it would also ionize the air making absence of flashy effects unrealistic

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

Kyle looks really similar to Agent H but with long hair

[@nt9382]

He is discount Thor.

[@z7r580]

I swear I see u everywhere

[@becausescience]

hmmmmm -- kH

[@awesomeanbar9402]

Because Agent H is Thor from another universe, and I always say Kyle looks like Thor

[@ziasteele9332]

Maybe the projectile created a sonic boom that knocked Smith back. Also never stop asking awesome questions.

[@deerjerf1]

Ok, a few thoughts I had from this episode: 1) The noisy cricket would be in interesting propellent for someone traveling in space. 2) Bit of a nitpick here: Proper weapon handling stance is important when firing high recoil weapons. The shooter braces their joints and musculature to absorb and redistrubte recoil through the body and into the ground. If a proper stance is not used the weapon will either knock the person down, or fly out of their hands. There are videos online of this. 3) Good video, keep it up!

[@Pyrilium1043]

I always thought that the noisy cricket was a gravity gun. It creates a super dense gravitational spot (possibly similar to a mini black hole), then releases it in a singular direction. All the gathered matter in that instant would than follow normal physics meaning it creates the backwards force (recoil). Would also explain the lack of a means to reload and the tiny extended tip of the weapon. I wonder if there would be any negative effects to generating a temporary microscopic black hole 2' from your body?

[@YatzeeWillWearAGreenHat]

So, you could in theory make a rocket jump in tf2 style with the noisy cricket?

[@fixo5132]

You could actualy go to the international space station with this methode

[@Peusterokos1]

@@fixo5132 you can achieve the same by finding a giant in the wild.

[@FoxDemonMaster]

I always assumed the noisy cricket was firing some kind of concentrated sound way

[@alexanderherd2973]

Makes sence with the name. But at the same time it looks more like plasma or some type of physical energy in the movie.

[@Katzztar]

I always thought it was some classic sci-fi energy ray-gun.

[@NinjaBearFilms]

I found a simplified formula for Ballistic gelatin penetration not accounting for deformation of the projectile based on the velocity, diameter of the projectile and density. I couldn't find official dimensions for the noisy cricket, but compared to a similar sized pocket pistol, I'm estimating that the average diameter of the noisy cricket to be 80mm with a density of 1.54 g/cm^3. Based on your assumption of recoil momentum at 240 KG m/s. It would recoil out of Will Smith's hands at a velocity of 500 m/s. Launched at this speed, the ballistic gelatin penetration would be 154.56 inches. Not accounting for the Noisy Cricket deforming and breaking on impact with his chest. That's enough to rip out of his hands and blow through his chest. And if after deformation and breaking transferring energy into his body, it maintained only 10% of it's speed on exiting Will Smith, pieces of the noisy cricket would be found about a foot to two feet behind him.

[@NinjaBearFilms]

Now that I’m thinking about it… the distance is under the assumption of the ballistic gel penetration. Maintaining 10% of it’s speed it would still be traveling at 50 m/s and travel a lot further than just a foot.

[@_just_nick]

I always thought it fired like an energy/plasma and not an actual projectile...

[@CodexVR124]

raygun

[@MrFlubber]

It's a sonic gun, the name gives it away, "noisy cricket". Crickets make noise by rubbing their legs together, so the noisy cricket probably makes an intense scrape inside of it that is very focused

[@Hubert_Cumberdale_]

Yeah I don't that spike is a barrel

[@simpjohnson]

Same

[@JBuick]

The book M.I.B.: Green Saliva Blues contained 2 paragraphs talking about the Noisy Cricket and, more importantly, how to hold it. Extend your arm to it's normal, relaxed length, bend your wrist at a 90° angle, extend your pinkie and fire at will. Firing it like this seems to indicate that it fires not with a recoil but a backblast that can be avoided by simply sidestepping it.

[@fatbabyjake]

I honestly have always wondered about how powerful the Noisy Cricket is in the first movie. It was also the first VHS I ever bought for myself and I still have it.

[@Zimzuni2980]

Correction: I think the name is telling and it fires powerful sonic waves not projectiles

[@urahara64360]

I remember in the series that it fired some kind of energy.

[@JubeiKibagamiFez]

I'd agree, but can sonic or even super sonic waves cause the kind of damage it does in the first movie? Where are those small explosions coming from? kzbin.info/www/bejne/nIXUqXl_pchkoJY

[@Sylencer1982]

I'm still thinking that the Noisy Cricket's "barrel" is really just an ionization antenna, super-heating then directing the local atmosphere. The force applied is not only from directing the super-heated plasma, but also from the expanding atmosphere caused by the suddenly heated air. See also: Thunderclaps. (The *really* noisy cricket...)

[@tommorrissey5037]

Hey Kyle, great episode as always. One thought on the whole recoil thing, there are videos out on YT that show people firing large caliber, high powered guns getting knocked back or knocked down by the recoil. So it may be possible for the Noisy Cricket to do the same thing.

[@tappgrease]

I love these because science videos. I wish I hadn't found this 3 years later, because I wanted a question answered about what if the noisy cricket was fired at Point Blank Range? Which object would move more, the one with the recoil or the one that received the force of the shot?

[@Duke00x]

I always thought it shot hyper dense cohesive energy/plasma blasts. Energy/plasma that has been condensed down with magnetic fields until it almost becomes solid matter.

[@raaston9761]

i thought it was a condensed atomic soup aka the point where the particles that makes atoms up separate from the heat alone

[@Louis-ok3ry]

@@raaston9761 isn't that what plasma is?

[@memerightsactivist7972]

I have a question: Do you draw everything backwards or is it all done with the Mafia of editing?

[@drbrown747]

Editing, he said that on one of BS Live

[@NinjaBearFilms]

Turn your self phone camera to selfie mode and point it at someone writing on glass to see how it’s done.

[@ssjpico]

They just mirror the image. I noticed in one of the older episodes he was wearing a shirt with a pocket on it and when there was writing on the screen the pocket reversed the side of the shirt it was on

[@shinjiji5537]

So, I was thinking on this.. When the recoil hits, it impacts all of J, rather than just his hand. In theory, if the recoil acted as you'd imagine, his arm would jerk back and he'd either break his own nose, or be thrown back by that point. So what if doesn't discharge like that? I'm BS'ing around with alien tech, but I'm going to assume it's a liquid or energy that reacts on oxygen. So when it leaves the barrel the reaction happens and that's the take off point, which creates a small boom and flings him back. That's kind of the only logical answer I can think of to have the backlash act like it does.

[@jlinkous05]

because science

[@AndresZevallos]

That also could explain why in the animated series when he adds the silencer the knock back gets controlled ( the silencer was a large barrel)

[@VNM-xg3ix]

The explosion would probably shatter nearby glass and definitely rupture his lungs and other organs. But a fun thing to think about

[@rododendron85]

and for this reason he got a silencer in the MIB animated show

[@createusername6421]

word?

[@MisterEFire]

3:47 - 4:21 had laughing so hard. Easily the best part of any video I've watched. I rewatched that part 5-6 times. So hilarious.

[@jurrehuizinga7136]

Whale Whale Whale Whale Whale Whale

[@LastShaddow]

I have personally always assumed the noisy cricket was some sort of sonic weapon where it affects the air not firing a projectile

[@danilooliveira6580]

that is what I thought, the "recoil" is actually just air expanding in front of you

[@sleepingbackbone7581]

@@danilooliveira6580 perhaps caused by gravity wave...??

[@danilooliveira6580]

@@sleepingbackbone7581 there is no reason to go that far, gravity wave that can push you back like that would probably rip you apart. it can be just air pressure or thermal expansion.

[@chezanariahchehassan4763]

kyle : ah finally the research the things i need and then his memories just got deleted

[@clancydr7211]

I'd always assumed that the Noisy Cricket was some sort of sonic weapon 'firing' focused pressure waves. If that were the case, how would that affect the recoil problem?

[@coltonbowerman4366]

Jooknar Does air even have enough mass to destroy a car or truck? And wouldn’t the air you are firing only go a short distance because of the outside atmosphere.

[@WolfShadowmancer]

I had a similar assumption. I figured it shot an energy blast (a wad of plasma, or a laser ionizing the air in front of it into plasma) that created immense pressure at the point of exit, creating a shockwave that knocked Agent Legend Deadeye backward. Of course Hollywood is using some sort of cable to pull him back, making it look like he was hit in the middle rather than in the arms, but that was the impression I got.

[@clancydr7211]

Can air destroy stuff that massive? I live in the Midwest. One word: Tornadoes.

[@parkwilkinson3543]

This is more or less how I would image it. A focused pressure wave in the front and an exhaust pressure wave out the back.(this would get rid of the broken arm problem).

[@Erowens98]

I don't think so. Energy/mass is energy/mass. It being in a different form wont change the physical interaction.

[@jbrew1237]

You're concerned about what the impact and reaction damage would be, I'm concerned about what damages that projectile would have just in the general area when it's going that fast.

[@brandonprater4613]

I always theorized that that "noisy cricket" was originally a vehicle-mounted weapon for really small aliens (Arquillian, perhaps), refurbished into a handgun.

[@leonardoboccaletti1790]

I maybe just me, but I always saw the MIB weapons as futuristic weapons that fired energy blasts and stuff, not projectiles.

[@shivanshlolayekar9668]

They are energy blasts... Blobs of blue/green are being fired continuously, without any shell cap or particle residue

[@matthewedwards6454]

Dang it! I was typing the vaporization of the projectile as you mentioned it. Ill never make it on foot notes. Next Time Because science!! *voice of Doctor Claw*

[@HyperionaSilverleaf]

Inspector Gadget! Ooo ooo ooo ooo!

[@ACDC-1FAN]

I always thought the noisy cricket was an energy based weapon not a projectile weapon...

[@xorex7344]

Yeah, me too

[@ivanromerocastella]

Hy Kyle, cheers from Argentina, it's late I know, but as you said the vaporization of the proyectile will create a heat wave that could push J back like we saw, but maybe there is another proyectile, if you manege to get some antimatter inside the weapon and you isolate until the end of the barrel and put a regular matter proyectile before it, it will anhile in contact with air therefore creating an explotion that will push J back and also propelling the proyectile towards, I guess they can hold antimatter with their tech, that way maybe you don't need that much velocity, hope you can read it ;)

[@Thegoldendemon]

7:00 fastest thing fired is a manhole cover afaik

[@KainaX122]

Ah, The Noisy Cricket. The obvious inspiration for the Grasschopper in Enter the Gungeon

[@ukmediawarrior]

I always assumed it was an energy weapon, not a projectile one. Looked like it had a power gauge or battery on it.

[@insylem]

Somehow I think photons still have momentum

[@sleepingbackbone7581]

@@insylem yes, but only in very large quantity and in extremely concentrated beam (death star anyone?)

[@TheBetterVersion]

Hi Kyle, love this show One small correction: the conservation of momentum happens in every collision, and most of the time some energy becomes heat. When you also have conservation of energy, this is a "completely elastic collision" and there is another formula to describe that (this formula comes from the conservation of energy and conservation of momentum).

[@nenmaster5218]

"Our Values are Under Attack!!!" is probably one of the most conspiracy-like Things one can say, and yet, for Science, it's literally true. As Professor Dave in his epic video about the Discovery Institute and it's members showed: Yes, a lot of people are just being salty about not having had the Best Grades once... but some are doing Science-Denial delibaretely. Many Science- and Atheist-Channel talk about Science-Denial.

[@silversaiyan7276]

If memory serves me right, it does actually show the damage the noisy cricket had done in that same scene where we see the fresh prince get sent flying backwards.

[@happybadger806]

1:55 But when it smashes into the large non moving object ; wouldn't it lose some energy overcoming the struck objects inertia ?

[@mastershooter64]

no

[@BassmanProducciones]

I know it's not canon but in the Men in Black animated series J has a suppressor for the cricket that pretty much eliminates the recoil.

[@johnmusshafen2105]

Wouldn't a weapon like that have so much recoil that it would just slip out of your hands and go through your chest.

[@robertk1701]

Probably, but I'm thinking it would more likely slip through your hand and into/through your chest. So, good job MIB. You made a weapon that vaporizes it's projectile before hitting the target along with snapping off your agent's thumb before embedding itself in his chest. At least he's already dressed for the funeral.

[@scottmantooth8785]

that's why you need a good tailor beforehand

[@danpitzer765]

My theory is that it's some kind of hyper-advanced gravitic or plasma weapon. Either firing a 'sphere' of distorted gravity which threw you backwards as normal gravitic fields reasserted themselves in its wake, or firing highly compressed, highly energized plasma enclosed in a rapidly dissipating EM shell that caused a shockwave that caught you and hurled you backwards as all the air that made contact with the contained plasma through the EM field basically...detonated. The plasma being too small to roast everything in it wake, but once it hit something and the EM shell dispersed, absurd damage being done. Both techs would require grotesquely more potent energy storage than we've got, but hey, the noisy cricket apparently comes from a species that's got FTL travel and communications developed. So they could very well have discovered some outlier in physics that let them contain the equivalent of a year's output of a nuclear reactor in something the size of a watch battery (that you would never want to break open).

[@eviljesus84]

1. what exactly is a "sphere of distorted gravity" supposed to be? And why would gravity "reasserting itself" throw you backwards, when Earth's centre of gravity is "below"? 2. why would anyone build a weapon, the projectile of which starts exploding the moment it leaves the barrel, potentially hurting the operator in the process? 3. if the plasma projectile was "too small to roast everyone", then why would it losing containment on impact suddenly make it so destructive? Hot or not, it's still a tiny ball of ionised particles in Earth's atmosphere, and so should dissipate almost immediately. All in all, your explanations sound quite scientific, but mostly in the way a Star Trek episode does. P.S. saying "highly compressed and energized plasma" is basically a tautology, since it's an ionised fluid that requires high pressure and temperature to create. So it's "compressed and energized" by it's very nature.

[@elkikex]

The biggest question here is: Why would agent K give an untrained rookie this gun over others similar to the ones he's handled? ... besides comedic purposes.

[@nuiun0495]

This is one of my fave of your vids Kyle. You made me laugh at least twice.

[@james_xl_quest7251]

Hey Kyle Great episode :) You covered speed, recoil, material, and human framework. What about the power requirements to make something move at those speeds? Is there anything even theoretical that would even come close to producing that much power in that small of a space? Or does that have to be waved off as "Alien Tech"? Take Care and Be Well

[@sleepingbackbone7581]

it has mini black hole as power source. how's that sound? :)

[@Gamelycan]

Could be a radioactive reaction going near critical for a moment. Basically a small fission explosion would do it because just one event releases 200 Mega electron Volts (MeV). Especially so if the shot has less mass than the minimum size of the barrel and projectile used in the video.

[@james_xl_quest7251]

Sleeping Backbone & Joseph Reynolds Both awesome ideas, but could either be contained in a space so small? Wouldn't some serious shielding be required to contain those power sources?

[@sleepingbackbone7581]

@@james_xl_quest7251 of course it would, but size and power of that gun kind of breaks any known physics anyway. 😁

[@enderkittygaming2348]

Super condensed sound waves, pretty sure that is covered in MIB lore.

[@psychetitan3529]

I don't think its sound waves, we never hear the sound of the noisy cricket firing and only hear the explosion of what it hits. It probably fires a laser of something and we just don't see it.

[@ThePhoenix696]

@@psychetitan3529 not all sound is audible to the human ear.

[@Hurricayne92]

I always imagined the Noisy Cricket was some kind of sonic weapon that create a huge pulse when fired and that's why Ajent J is thrown back

[@dudemanbroguy3464]

Have fun blasting out your ear drums shooting it then lol. Sperm whale clicks can pretty much cook you alive because they are so loud

[@jennyeel7675]

@@dudemanbroguy3464 sperm whales are that loud ?

[@bouboulroz]

3:35 the best thing about the Noisy Cricket is that it actually does both : - The first projectile is very light and shot at an insane velocity. - And the heavier projectile thrown at a relatively low speed is the shooter.

[@cyrosgold7]

So Kyle. I think we are not dealing with recoil here. What I theorize is that what many assume to be recoil is in fact a pressure wave caused by the propellant of the "projectile". I think that the noise of it charging up is the charging of particles near the "Barrel" and that when it fires it causes a small but powerful implosion outside the gun followed by a focused explosion that fires a charged particle cloud in the direction away from the shooter. However the implosion and then explosion becomes a wave of pressure in a spherical area that knocks the shooter off their feet. In essence the noisy cricket is a particle projection canon. There is a "Silencer" for it that removes the "Recoil" but reduces it's power. The loss of "Recoil" is because it contains the implosive/explosive force and channels it forward, but provides a smaller area for it to gather particles, so reduces it's power.

[@williambentein4664]

Kyle :'because physics works everywhere' Quantum mechanics : 'hold my atoms' Ps i could be wrong but that's wat first got in my mind. But hey if i am wrong then i learned somthing new n.n Sorry if i spelled somthing wrong. English is not my first language. Btw love the show

[@factudocs]

*Hold my Subatomic particles?

[@kuribohrulez8796]

You didn’t really spell anything wrong as far as I can tell but I might have missed something also yea physics work no where

[@eviljesus84]

Quantum mechanics is weird, and doesn't seem to gel with classical mechanics terribly well, but they are both part of modern physics. So as long, as they remain constant throughout the universe your argument is invalid. That being said, there's actually no proof that they do. In fact, there are certain theories that state laws of physics and so-called "physical constants" may actually vary, depending on where you are. So while your example isn't exactly right, neither is Kyle necessarily.

[@lifeofentropy]

Whale, whale, whale. that really got me like wow that was good.

[@toropazzoide]

I always thought the noisy cricket was some kind of energy gun, and not actually firing solid bullets.

[@sleepingbackbone7581]

is it even stated what it fires? i don't remember... could be anything.

[@78NINE0]

E=mc2 Energy in to mass

[@Lnaruto93]

Could the noisy cricket be a rail gun if so it could explain the pinpoint accuracy and immense amount of recoil?

[@alohafruge]

Yes it could look for my comment for a deeper thought of how it might could work

[@Attaxalotl]

What if it's actually just an LTD for some kind of orbital weapons system?

[@RidinWithMyLocsOn]

Insane... Watched MIB on DVD today, and now I got this recommended..

[@christianheichel]

Hey Kyle what if it was energy being fired instead of matter? Same recoil? Also no worries about the projectile being vaporized.

[@touchm3]

I always assumed that the cricket was a sonic weapon

[@reversethepolarityoftheneu773]

I always thought it was form of a sonic blaster

[@superdave6889]

My private theory is that the noisy cricket is a weapon that creates a tiny packet of superhot plasma (a few fractions of a gram) and accelerates it to near relativistic velocities

[@SanDukey]

6:01 Sir, distance over time does NOT equal velocity, it equals speed. Velocity is speed AND direction.

[@solomonthekaijudemon344]

Lightning McQueen is speed, you uncultured swine.

[@SanDukey]

@@solomonthekaijudemon344 kachow

[@Blinkehyo]

Your shirt was blue in the immortality videoooooo

[@becausescience]

Your brand is strong -- kH

[@Blinkehyo]

@@becausescience Must never forget!

[@helmet098]

I always thought it wasn't shooting an actual projectile but more of a concussive blast?

[@hanelyp1]

That fits the observed recoil, with not breaking wrists.

[@jackielinde7568]

Kyle: Of course we know that humans are not perfect spheres. Me: Hey! Talk about yourself, why don't you? Feel free to insert fat joke here.

[@ashenwuss1651]

I'm a twig, so I'll just wait around for the not-so-twiggy comments.

[@scottmantooth8785]

body type an shape are such superficial concepts of judging ones character and overall mass and kinetic impact ratios

[@ashenwuss1651]

@@scottmantooth8785 It's true, unfortunately. No one here is going that route. I genuinely have nothing to say about others, but I'd love to see humor from those who are comfortable with themselves, in a world where petty shaming takes place.

[@dejbranch8917]

Andew, Seventh Sun of Edwad I'm comfortable having the same physical build of a stop sign

[@ashenwuss1651]

@@dejbranch8917 I'm like a small, branchless tree, with uneven canopy. It's very unsightful. But my face and shoulders are okay, I suppose.

[@KrazyKunoichi]

You get my thumbs-up for that Bel-air time joke. Well done sir. Pretty interesting stuff as well!

[@psychetitan3529]

But when the noisy cricket is fired it blows up whatever it hits, meaning that it probably doesn't fire a physical projectile but instead is an energy weapon that fires either plasma or some soft of laser. Just a thought?

[@ditoo2002]

We love dr moo, she's literally a female version of you. I have nothing to say about this ep, great video, nice editing, and delivery🤷🏻‍♂️

[@willemjordan]

Not firing a projectile. Energy weapon or sound "noisy cricket". Fires a directed sound wave, at low frequency and high velocity.

[@HyperionaSilverleaf]

Shouldn't their eardrums burst?

[@CertainEnd]

Why is the crickey so noisy? *WHY HAVE I BEEN POSTING THIS EVERYDAY FOR THE PAST YEAR!? TELL ME!!*

[@MrThystleblum1]

Because it fires focused cymatic concussive blasts?

[@colinmoore7460]

Rocket motor start up?

[@miltonman08]

I was thinking instead of the projectile having to go at Super speeds what if the projectile was very dense, what kind of force would need to be imparted on it to move it out of the weapon at the speed shown in the movie. Would love to see another look at this topic looking at it this way.

[@tossedsalad1532]

I'm glad you mentioned ablation at the end of the video because I figured that would have to be a factor IF it fired a projectile. But what if it fired a concentrated beam of energy that is not in the visible spectrum? Seems plausible seeing as this is an alien weapon, right?

[@ianm.g.thompson9082]

HI you're assuming it's firing a projectile? Couldn't the Noisy Cricket be an energy weapon? If there's enough of it energy has momentum too. PS Love the show.

[@MatterBeamTSF]

Even energy has recoil.

[@the1niddo]

I always assumed the same as well when I was younger. As an older person looking back on the clips with the weapon now, you don't really see a magazine, certainly don't ever see it reload, and it has glowy bits. meninblack.fandom.com/wiki/Noisy_Cricket The MIB wiki also says that it launches a "large orb of energy", so I think we should be looking at Death Star style calculations for this thing instead of bullet calculations. Also amusingly enough, according to that same wiki link in the animated series they put a silencer on it which... somehow nullifies the recoil? My head hurts trying to figure out that one.

[@helmet098]

@@the1niddoIf you direct some of the energy in the opposite direction that would "muffle" the recoil

[@the1niddo]

@@helmet098 Sure, but the wiki makes it sound like the silencer completely removes the recoil. Recoil that well, has some serious numbers behind it as we just saw. Just how strong is that silencer, lol?

[@flykiller]

Energy to momentum for electromagnetic waves is very inefficient. p=E/c so in order to get 240 kgm/s you need 72 GJ. That's about 17.2 tons of TNT. The resulting explosion would be much more impressive compared to the movie.

[@PhantomSavage]

I don't think, nor did I ever think, the cricket was a projectile weapon. I think its an energy weapon, which changes some things significantly. For one, if it were a projectile weapon, the velocity alone would vaporize any material currently known to man, like Kyle said... but even if the projectile were made of another otherworldly material, i don't think you'd get the kind of impact you see in the movie... or you would, but to a much more devastating degree. If the material that projectile is made of can withstand 20% of the speed of light, it certainly won't break up on impact, which means, just like a bullet will go through a concrete wall, it will continue to travel... indefinitely. The projectile would go through your target, through the building behind it, and then the building behind that one, and probably half the city, an airliner, and a satellite before it leaves earth's orbit and probably our solar system. If that's how that thing works, you could probably kill someone by standing on the exact opposite spot on the earth and making a pea shaped hole through our entire planet. I doubt this is how the cricket functions. I imagine the cricket is more like a gravity gun or something of that nature... an energy, not a projectile, that sends a shot or perhaps a cone of energy hurling at the target, and its the force (perhaps even gravitational force) of the energy being fired that literally picks Agent J off his feet and sends him flying.

[@otonashijorge]

0:49 "Physics work the same everywhere in thr universe " Me: "What about blackholes?"

[@MigotRen]

The inside of black holes is mathematically not part of this universe anymore

[@sebbes333]

*@Because Science* 4:44 Maybe you are wrong here? What if that "barrel" isn't at all a barrel? What if the barrel(s) are actually those holes near it's base, and that "barrel" acts more like some kind of alien (linear-) accelerator? So it is actually firing something much larger, or more of the tiny stuff? Given the size of the hole in the targets 6:13 , it seams to act more like a shotgun, or it uses some kind of alien "expandable" projectile? (shock-wave?). (it's still a ridiculous weapon though.)

[@PlatinumJim]

I always assumed that the cricket was some kind of concussion/ shock wave device, that's why it was called noisy cricket. Kind of like a compressed air blast seeing how it quickly spread out from the end of the gun making it a great short range weapon but a lousy long range as the shock wave would weaken as it got further away.