Breaking Down The Science In Video Games • Mass Effect: Legendary Edition

Real NASA Rocket Scientist Olympia LePoint plays through the Mass Effect series, and explains the difference between the science, and the fiction.
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ABOUT OLYMPIA LEPOINT
Hailed the “New Einstein” by her fans, and named the “Modern Day Hidden Figure” by People Magazine, Olympia LePoint is an award-winning rocket scientist, celebrity author and TED speaker of the talk “Reprogramming Your Brain to Overcome Fear.” LePoint has been seen by over 26 Million people watching TV news channels on NBC, ABC, FOX, PBS, CBS, MSNBC, on Newsweek, Amazon Prime, and Buzzfeed for her books and science knowledge.
LePoint helped launch 28 NASA Space Shuttle missions into space. She helped launch the satellites used for today's video technology, plus she verified the safety for NASA astronauts traveling to the International Space Station (ISS). Today, LePoint’s Mission Control Room desk is a science exhibit at the California Science Center in Los Angeles.
In her youth, Olympia LePoint overcame severe poverty, traumatic experiences, plus failing math scores by reprogramming her mind, which led her to graduate Top 5 from a 6,500-graduating class with university degrees in Mathematics from California State University Northridge.
LePoint is an internationally recognized author and founder of the multi-media platform AnswersUnleashed.com. Her Answers Unleashed science educatioonal book series explains how to understand STEM, plus how to use your faith and decision-making power for your success. She gives distinguished live and virtual talks at universities and global technology forums across the world with her books.
Olympia LePoint explains science with her personal story in amazing ways.
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[@Robert-qw9hp]

Why would you have her focus on these mundane things like explosions in space and magnetic boots holding Shepard to the floor? The WHOLE underlying concept behind Mass Effect is Element Zero and it's non-Newtonian properties, how it allows for FTL travel and momentum dampening and mass-free relay tunnels. Why not have her talk about the that? It's common knowledge that fire can't burn in space and that artifical gravity is not really a thing, don't need a rocket scientists to tell you that

[@1080lights]

Exactly right. The most important topic is clearly the mass effect itself.

[@em4six348]

That is right, but she reacted to things that was visible and not, you know, an internal part of the game so...

[@DarkVWolf]

Don’t forget the mass effect field and generator.

[@McGayveR80]

Because it is Buzzfeed

[@Ernohauki]

Because it is a game. She is just talking how things work real. There ain't such thing as element zero etc. 🤣

[@kejaris949]

The Codex explains alot of the tech in the game. I wish the footage would have focused on some of the techy conversation Shepherd has with different Npc's in the game like Tali, or the Engine area crew. She would have had a lot of material to go over.

[@phantommangagirl]

I love how completely misses Shepard dying because she’s too busy explaining how the Normandy exploding is inaccurate 😂😂😂

[@buzzfeedmultiplayer]

It's ok because Shepard always comes back!

[@em4six348]

@@buzzfeedmultiplayer Let's see how the story writers bring Shepard back in the next ME game.

[@yveltal_gal]

@@em4six348 I'm betting someone was able to extract the details of the Lazarus Project before eventually leaving the Cerberus base. I can't remember if you destroy it or leave it. Liara has the capacity to recreate it and the motivation lol

[@rayclay3249]

@@em4six348 The best destroy ending already confirmed Shep to be alive. The writers still need to contrive reasons for the other endings though

[@justhavingamidlifecrisisd216]

@@rayclay3249 that's cool

[@christophergroenewald5847]

0:45 A Mass Effect is the ability to alter the mass of a volume of space time through the use of Element Zero(Eezo) Eezo is created when solid matter such as a planet or asteroid is exposed to the energy of a star going supernova. The substance is rare and commonly found in the asteroid belts surrounding black holes. Making it also expensive to mine. What makes Eezo so special is that it radiates dark energy and when it is exposed to an electric current, this energy can be used to create a mass effect field. A negative current increases mass and a positive current decrease mass. An additional function of a mass effect field is the altering of the speed of light. Light moves faster in a mass effect field than through speed, allowing for FTL travel. 1:22 Gravity plates are a thing in Mass Effect. They are powered by the ship's Element Zero Drive Core and generate a mass increasing field in the floor. Such tech however is quite power intensive. During combat, a ship's a-grav is turned off as power is redirected to more important systems. Capital ships(Cruisers, Battleships, etc) have their decks oriented perpendicular to the vector of thrust with the upper deck towards the bow and the lower decks towards the aft. This takes a lot of the stress off the drive core. Only ships capable of landing such as Frigates, have their decks parallel as it makes ship operations easier when planetside. 1:36 That's a Mass Relay(an interstellar jump gate). The core in the centre is a 5 km diameter Element Zero Drive. The largest in the known galaxy. Mass Relays create corridors between each other that have virtually zero mass and no light speed limit. Allowing instantaneous transit across thousands of lightyears. As an extra note. A Mass Relay is so powerful that if one was destroyed, the energy released would be a supernova-like event, taking the entire star system it's in with it 1:48 The Stealth System referred to here is the IES Stealth System. That stands for Internal Emission Sink and has 2 parts. The first is the advanced lithium heat sink system built into the ship's hull that completely hides it's heat signature. The other part is the Tantalus Drive Core. Standard drive cores are responsible for all the mass effect related systems on a ship(FTL, gravity, shields, ets). The Tantalus has one additional feature that allows it to create mass concentration ahead of the ship, allowing it to fly without the use of heat emitting thrusters. This one feature made this Light Frigate cost the same as a Heavy Cruiser. 4:10 Combat Hardsuits have magnetic boots for Zero-G environments. You can tell by the change in walking speed that this deck has lost a-grav and Shepherd was using Mag boots 5:30 Combat Hardsuits are made of high-density ablative ceramic. Not metal 6:19 It's never confirmed whether Shepherd was actually dead. When she was resurrected, they first attempted tissue regeneration. When that failed, they turned to bio-synthetic fusion. The entire process took 2 years and cost billions

[@cyberspectre8675]

You got Olympia LePoint to comment on Mass Effect and you didn't ask her about the plausibility of *the mass effect*?

[@msmedved_]

Anyone else notice her landing on Mars @6:45 lol 😄😄😄 love it!

[@TrillBill]

lol

[@artursandwich1974]

We always assumed: 1. Drive core riding on Eezo had enough pull to secure gravity. Or/and 2. Magnetic boots with space suits.. Hence floating chairs, but Shep can walk to cockpit. Ps. How do you like the line that Sir Isaak Newton is the most dangerous SOB in space? Or did you miss it?

[@McGayveR80]

If I remember correctly, at that scene where normandy is torn apart, Shepard was activating magnetic boots, and that was why he/she was walking that way.

[@npinkmax96]

Hey!! That was my math professor!!! Whoa! Crazy how I saw her in my feed.

[@buzzfeedmultiplayer]

No way! You passed with an A, right? 😳

[@TheAngel6391]

omg mine too i was like what she was so awsome

[@CRYOKnox]

Awesome video im a huge SciFi fan since I grew up with Star Trek, eben if i don't undeesty all science and most likely only long outdated data i love science too. What since did was delivering me hope so manu times. Mass Effect is a very strong narrative game and in the codex there are even voiced Dialogs explaining the in-univers science. Honestly i would love to see her and maybe some co workes playing that series. It was a blast, not the Normandy that gets me every time, but her approach, her energy. Also love her outfit. Thank you for taking your time to approach one of my favorite games ever and to give us your insight, it was entertaining and good to know a bit more about that details, i smiled throughout the video. Thanks for that good vibe energy.

[@aobatoshiki8371]

I NEVER EXPECTED YALL WOULD HAVE SOMEONE PLAY MASS EFFECT!! I'm so hyped!!!

[@AtomicEy]

" I'm so hyped" it's not like the entire sentence being put in All Caps gave that away

[@aobatoshiki8371]

@@AtomicEy It's not like you get any bitches 😹👎👎

[@buzzfeedmultiplayer]

👽🛸

[@a.r.5100]

1:30 for someone so smart you would think she would realize that's the reason they aren't floating 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@DivaQuinzel]

I would love to see someone like her go over some of the Codexes

[@twentyeightstabwounds7761]

>Breaking Down The Science In Video Games • Mass Effect Me: oh cool, the real scientist will read codex about how stuff in game works, such as eezo, mass effect fields, relays, ship engineering, etc. Scientist playing the game: there can't be fire in space (literally middle school material) Me: *completely disappointed*

[@charlie398]

She is truly a star! Love her

[@doodlesbyalex8765]

This is so fun and educational, thank you for this!!

[@buzzfeedmultiplayer]

Glad you enjoyed it! 🚀

[@denisa_the_jedi]

I am disappointed in the lack of commentary about the MAIN PART OF THE TRILOGY, WHICH IS ELEMENT ZERO AND THE MASS EFFECT ITSELF.

[@gozzyboy1989]

I agree sometimes I eat bananas then I stop and think do bannanas really like too be eaten ,I stop I cry and then i continue too eat the bannana peal ,but why do onions always stare at you when u eat a banana?

[@uberboomer8670]

Maybe someone can elaborate I've always had trouble with the Goldilocks theory in order for life to be on other planets because as far as I understand, that's based on the assumption that any living being is a carbon based lifeform that needs oxygen/water to survive, but what if they survive on another element? Just a thought...

[@rmannayr2129]

LET HER PLAY STAR CITIZEN NEXT!

[@thesunisup_]

What else is new, I guess? I mean she didn’t comment on anything that is essential to the game specifically. No offence but things like “there is no fire in space” are common knowledge, you don’t need neither a NASA scientist to tell me that nor a Mass Effect game to be involved.

[@DJCooL4]

they didnt play the sir issac newton marine for her lol

[@elfusss]

6:44 yeaaaaa 😄❤️❤️

[@rmannayr2129]

SHE IS SO SMART!

[@kwilde2387]

Buzzfeed be like: "None of this is realistic???"

[@Ace-sn8rq]

Beautiful and smart such a deadly combination 😩

[@lordvelos1]

OMG I'm in love! She is smart and cute!! ❤️❤️❤️

[@Bretaxy]

What does pressure have to do with gravity?

[@a.r.5100]

5:30 what about technology that can save more human lives than the one you would save over it?... Did you get that? 😂

[@leonzurawski4219]

Why didn't you do KSP(Kerbal Space Program) with her?

[@james7x659]

Mass effects has power suits to help them walk

[@star-hy9eg]

ily

[@CaptainPilipinas]

so any Space corps/etc out there don't do concepts like artificial gravs even to this Day *(**01:25**)* 'o-kay'.

[@CaptainPilipinas]

'yeah'.... do Not think someone like joker over there was only talking about being invisible on sensor maps alone. [sighed *(**01:57**)* ]

[@CaptainPilipinas]

fairly a bit, hm. (06:49). not like that version of mars is Golden Age era Mars anyways.

[@Bdr000b0]

"I am a ted talk rocket scientist " *Immediately * : starts calling a space ship a * space vehicle

[@donovanbowers734]

Hi

[@TheAscended01]

Next time have the person play through for 100 hours, then give their opinion. This lady didn't know the difference between the normandy , and the mass effect field for ftl travel.

[@rmannayr2129]

NOW SHOW HER STAR CITIZEN!

[@doorhandle3270]

Does she know the timeline???

[@darkphoenix2]

Instead of selecting random parts of the game for her to comment on after only a quick observation, they could have had her look through the codex and analyze some of the actual thought out scientific concepts in the game. Lame.

[@cylon_aspect6474]

Okay now show her Star Citizen.

[@Varrus101]

Wasted potential Explain the game to the expert, no wonder why she thought a mass relay would make artificial gravity on the Normandy

[@mannofnope6836]

When can we get Ryan and Shane to play Phasmophobia? Or maybe better, the Ghost Adventures crew.

[@MrBakedDaily]

Pretty young looking for doing so much.

[@Kobrakai21]

Did anyone at Buzzfeed actually ever play Mass Effect? You severely handicapped this poor woman by not presenting her with the actually scientifically interesting aspects of the game. You didn't even cover why the game is called Mass Effect or what the mass effect actually is. Waste of a video.

[@LuisMendoza-pp9qi]

Most of her explanations are pretty basic ...

[@fuwa9498]

“To save human lives is the priority with any human technology you create” the creator of guns:☹️☹️☹️

[@charleswillis7004]

I get what she is saying it's not real but... IT'S A GAME! it's not supposed to be real, that's what science fiction means. secondly it's set many years in the future. at the start of each game, it states a past date (cant remember the exact date) that's a long way in the future of the present. need to add, it's an awesome game i love it. sorry don't mind me. I am a professional game and movie critic.

[@merosepearl6325]

I mean the obvious games are games and reality is reality but the point being is that game takes in space and some people think if this happened in real life like a space ship catching on fire they would think it would have expulsions after the fact but like she said it would need air its mainly to give another point of view.

[@JSkyGemini]

I feel you. Brah.

[@zela6]

Professional or did you just give yourself that title?

[@rmannayr2129]

BUT NONE OF THIS IS REALISTIC!

[@admiralgeneraln.n.547]

WTF this so out of context. It all seems so random. No proper thought behind it. Mass effect goes in detail withbmist of it's technology. Almost everything is explained in Codex.

[@TabbyVee]

Her complete lack of understanding of the science of the game is so annoying.

[@judgemanmusic2701]

she's a lie and not the game

[@rdr2pro845]

this has to be fake a women cant be that

[@grimstuson9573]

that....?