COULD COLUMBIA EXIST? - Bioshock Science Ep. 2

[@the11382]

Here is the thing: The lutece device allowed Comstock to steal technology from other timelines.

[@ChickenPhobia]

the city doesn't float though, the Lutece twins devised a method of fixing the city in space at the quantum level

[@GD30.06]

Yet has balloons on the bottom of the buildings

[@alexfilma16]

Mar-Kale Espartano The suspended quantum particles control elevation, but the balloons control movement.

[@nageenkhan5979]

Alex May so the major blockade separating the world from constructing anything anywhere near as advanced as Columbia is the magic fairy dust Tinker Bell uses.

[@nageenkhan5979]

No one Of importants I meant the ability to make the city fly, not all the vigors, handymen, portals, sky hooks etc.

[@truejoker1211]

That's right. That's probably a whole other video though and floating is probably easier to explain to the average guy looking at KZbin videos

[@andrewcochran123]

"I had trapped the atom in mid-air. Colleagues called my Lutece Field 'quantum levitation,' but in fact it was nothing of the sort. Magicians levitate--my atom simply failed to fall." *I felt the need to correct you for saying quantum levitation so much in this video haha

[@DanielODonoghue412]

I would definitely live in a floating city. But only if all the kinks were worked out. Being above the clouds seems like it would make for an epic sunset and even after the sun goes down it would be amazing because clouds and pollution would all be below you. Star gazing would be a sight to behold! Btw thanks for leaving the song to play after the video ended.

[@MTR702]

I'm glad you found value in leaving the song in Daniel. Was curious how many people stuck around to listen :D

[@ethanwagner6418]

If we're talking about a city with physics exactly like Columbia, then hell yeah, I'd want to live in a floating city.

[@BestKCL]

Get ready for the sea -- or cloud -- sickness. Have you seen how those buildings sway and bob?

[@kevinrwhooley9439]

3:45 in the Bioshock 2 online game 'There's Something In the Sea' it's implied that there's 500 thousand people in Rapture.

[@tonyremaro7132]

If I had to choose to live in rapture or Colombia I’d chooses Rapture because the fact that your under water is cool to me

[@benrussell-gough1201]

The fact is that the Luteces' quantum technology is just magic with a technobabble name. That doesn't make Columbia any less a fascinating location for story-telling but I don't think that it was ever meant to be realistic. FWIW, a real 'cloud city', like the one in The Empire Strikes Back would have to be totally enclosed and would have none of Columbia's distinctive moving geography..

[@AdrianFahrenheitTepes]

The spiritual predecessor to Bioshock was System Shock, and that featured a space station in a permanent orbit around Jupiter.

[@taylord5381]

it's bioshock, realism is thrown out the window. :P

[@MetaKnight964]

Not quite

[@Eivanl95]

Not, completely

[@Ajourneyofknowing]

Neigh or else it would be pointless to even try to explore the ideals of these dystopias

[@qman2061]

There is nothing to envy bc the Prophet provides

[@hunterwillis3775]

Idk I think there's a decent amount of realism to bioshock. Sure there's a lot of fantasy, and ultimately might only be possible in fiction, but still. I think some of the best fiction is good at augmenting fantasy with realism.

[@megalomatt8098]

3 minute outro? Way to milk the clock

[@officialkirbyfan6899]

Stupid ad revenue

[@michaelcrabbe3722]

He explained how it was possible for a city to float in the clouds so I’m gonna give this guy a pass he’s no ricegum

[@ansel5848]

OfficialKirbyFan68 the video isn’t even 10 min so he can’t put so many ads on his video

[@BestKCL]

He said it was for the music, but it's kinda suspicious.

[@genericpretsel3558]

Living in Columbia could be both dangerous and awesome. Danger 1: If your not careful, you could fall back down really fast, but then we have the Rail riding thing that lets you ride along the rails of Columbia so theres that. Awesome 1: Since the city can move as said in-game, you could drop stuff down there and hope not to kill someone and give them a letter or something. Maybe one of those parachute toys. Danger 2: What if you cant afford the rail riding thingy? You would be dead. if on land but if on the ocean, most likely. Awesome 2: Beautiful Stars Danger 3: If the politics is like the one in-game, then its dangerous, Comstock accusing of colored people as murdurers, racism, Metal men, vigors... Awesome 3: VIGORS I would live in Columbia because of them Vigors and them stars....

[@rednovember2205]

MisterXyo I've always wondered where all their food comes from.

[@Jonas-xl4wg]

@@rednovember2205 they have farms and factories.

[@sol15_]

Vigors are cool, but they’re not nearly as cool as the plasmids from rapture

[@keithmichael9965]

The lore of the games says multiple versions of the same people, like the "twins", were able to communicate through rips between the universes. So, technology would flow from the future to the past AND travel between alternate universes. So, there is always a man, a city, and a lighthouse. Hope they make another game in the series. Thanks for the video.

[@MTR702]

I agree. I liked Rapture & Bioshock 1 a lot more than Infinite, but I'd like to see what they could come up with next. Very excited, but still holding my breath about whether it's good or not

[@sol15_]

Yeah I’d like one too, but where would they put the city, will they just use rapture or Columbia again, or come up with a different one? Where would it be? Under the ground ? In space? Whatever they end up doing I’ll be extremely excited to play it when it comes out

[@papasmirk2883]

Bro I keep seeing people getting mad at him for proving it wrong just because you’d like to live there in real life doesn’t make it any less impossible

[@moboxgraphics]

Awesome graphics :D

[@XShadowzVarcolac]

Closest thing we would have for Columbia in real life is turning ISS into a full fledge space city.

[@antred11]

O'Neill cylinders (Island Three): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Neill_cylinder

[@benkerr5494]

We probably won't have to worry about earthquake or tsunami or even worry about rising sea levels

[@sevenproxies4255]

But the again, Bioshock infinite features personal forcefields (like the shield that Booker gets when drinking the shield tonic). If they can grant individuals personal forcefields that protect the wearer from bullet impacts, then generating a forcefield around columbia that would trap oxygen and warmth as a sort of greenhouse seems like a no brainer.

[@mateusoliveira8373]

Is it just me that is fascinated both by Columbia and specially rapture and it's ideals?

[@GentlemensClubHolyEdition]

City itself doesn't stay up via gasses though they even say it in the game and what the game says is very very possible

[@GentlemensClubHolyEdition]

@Need2connect tell me why are we so sure black holes could be possible if we have no real example of them existing, yeah maybe science just doesn't work like that.

[@GentlemensClubHolyEdition]

@Need2connect also this was a long time ago I have no idea what I was talking about.

[@robinwerwei5446]

Could you please stop destroying my dreams in every way? First you take Rapture and now Columbia? O.o

[@macomputersuck]

2:38 So like cloud city from Star Wars?

[@MTR702]

Yep!

[@SynisterFour]

I'd totally live there ..... night time would look absolutely amazing but again there is a risk of freezing to death irl

[@Karolina-lz2cf]

Columbia exist... Rapture exist!!!!! I love Rapture

[@MTR702]

Rapture is so awesome :D

[@m_hatzon4315]

Delta Δ prefer Columbia

[@izef538]

I would live up there just because it seems so relaxing and innovative, like the next step in our technoligical breakthroughs

[@MTR702]

Yeah there are some cool aspects, but it would be nerve racking knowing that at any moment it can all come crumbling down

[@saulgoodman6700]

Columbia would be a perfect city with tons of protocalls and police plus Skylines and vigors.

[@iTracti0n]

2:16 I think you misspoke. 5.5 thousand kilometers is well above the edge of Earth's atmosphere and is well into space. The ISS is only 400 KM up.

[@Tifsa123]

Living in house in the sky that moves up and down. Hell no On and the music man 👌🏾👌🏾 you really deserve so much more recognition

[@MTR702]

Yeah I totally agree. I'd get "sea" sick so fast. And thanks, the struggle is real!

[@jx592]

What if you launch a nuke or incendiary bomb into a gas giant? Presuming that the middle and payload can survive atmospheric entry

[@GenuineOwl]

Great content, honestly. You deserve way more subscribers. Your well researched videos are entertaining and fresh. Keep it up!

[@MTR702]

Thanks Keko, means a lot. I wish I could spend more time on them, but it's a struggle to be honest to find time!

[@tbotalpha8133]

I think a better question is, where did Columbia's food come from? The city is depicted as having access to all manner of fresh fruits and vegetables, yet we never see any farms anywhere. Rapture had the farms of Arcadia, along with a fishing industry, but there's no sign that Columbia had anything similar. It's not like it wouldn't have made sense - if Irrational wanted to comment on racism, airborne slave plantations would fit right in.

[@user-zg3om3uv7r]

There is cosmic ionizing radiation above the clouds. The average plane trip equals less radiation than you get from an x ray. However if you lived up there you would be hit by this radiation every second of every day.

[@EHBUD67]

Bioshock literally using magical multiverse engines

[@zachriley155]

I respectfully disagree. Not on all of it. Living in such a city would be extremely difficult without certain measures. But to keep the city afloat, I don't remember the exact way it's done, but I remember the luteces created a device that can safely keep the city afloat. Not that such a device really exists but I remember the logic around it was solid.

[@NeonDefense385]

You can't fall out of Columbia lol you'll teleport back up

[@huey6283]

Yes, so i can just jump down if i wanted too.

[@bl00dth1rsty9]

If you play the Bioshock Infinite and listen to The voxaphone tapes also if you played Burial at Sea 1 and 2 who and infant you would know that there is a particle lighter-than-air that they found, that is what they used to fill the balloons with

[@AdrianFahrenheitTepes]

Citadel Station, a space city in orbit around Jupiter, could be more practical than Rapture or Columbia, but that’s a matter of getting to Orbit around Jupiter, which is distant from Earth

[@brotherbarbatos8981]

I’m more or so wondering if Songbird could even exist.

[@AdrianFahrenheitTepes]

Most likely not

[@darkautumnstories5834]

I remember walking around Columbia saying "How the FUCK are these people not freezing to death?!?!?" lol.

[@Rossyboyy]

I wouldnt want to live in a floating city! If your football was to go over the edge you definitely wouldn't get it back.

[@MTR702]

lol #priorities

[@wargriffin5]

COULD PARIS EXIST? - Bioshock Science Ep. 3 😎

[@jessepepin7918]

Nothing better then a floating Mormon city

[@rayman17578]

Imagine dropping a fat box tv from Columbia

[@scottgilchrist4836]

I think it would be pretty cool to live in a city in the sky because of its view, bragging rights, and columbia's look, it's looks like a specific but very interesting culture to immerse in

[@MTR702]

Interesting to say the least, though the retro America feel seems cool

[@scottgilchrist4836]

***** yeah!

[@MTR702]

I CHOOSE YOU! SEND ME A MESSAGE AND I'LL SEND OVER YOUR CODE FOR BIOSHOCK INFINITE (STEAM)

[@riddlie787]

Columbia is held by a magnets and air baloons, now when I think about it, that must be one GIANT agnet.

[@riddlie787]

*magnet

[@numbnuts9007]

If Columbia isn’t corrupted or something. I would love to live there because it’s the closest place to heaven. Just imagining living there makes me happy but it’s impossible to live in such a high altitude surface.

[@MR.E776]

Not only that but because of high altitudes cancer would be much easier to get not only that it would be extremly painful for your ears

[@stm7810]

I wouldn't want to live in a floating city because you would get motion sickness from seeing the movement of the city and other sections of it through out the sky whilst not feeling it, or deal with children and animals needing protection from falling off the edge resulting in a nanny state where I would not like to live.

[@ChrisPBacon-xn9up]

Exactly, fuck that.

[@jx592]

I'm suddenly more worried about something falling out of the sky and killing me for some reason

[@MTR702]

If you liked this video, check out my other video about Rapture from Bioshock 1 & 2! kzbin.info/www/bejne/lZbVmHljn9Klqbs Also, don't forget, let me know if you would want to live in Columbia and I'll be picking someone to giveaway a copy of Bioshock Infinite for the PC!

[@deadchannel8498]

Hey can bioshocks plasmids happen?

[@MTR702]

Bonnie That's coming up in a future video :D

[@ZiotGaming]

5 THOUSAND kilometers? Are you sure about that

[@wolfboy18]

Don't forget the Radiation Levels are higher up in the air than on the Land. Plane Travel is safe, but living at that height you would see Cancer Rates Skyrocket, as well as much more severe Sun Burns.

[@T0xicZ]

The Lutece Particle gets Irrational out of a plot cul-de-sac. And I'd love to live in Columbia, even with it's faults it would just be amazing to see, not only how high up the city is but also the design of the buildings you just never see nowadays. It's a piece of the past in the sky.

[@MTR702]

I agree, the architecture is just amazing

[@user-kl7yu8sx7f]

I genuinely think as humans. The fact that we haven't tried to do something like thisAt least in modern times it's fucking Insane

[@user-kl7yu8sx7f]

Floating flying underground underwater cities

[@Kelis98]

Rapture has more than just 15,000 people, the city is just too big.

[@glennfriddle1674]

Only comment, The Lutese and the power of quantum Physics. Manipulating everything for warmth, air, and to be floating (Though it seems more likely in the future.)

[@lavalampluva55401]

My question is why wasn't it noticed from the surface? I mean to see a city the size of Columbia floating across the sky, it certainly would have been noticed.

[@divorce_s]

there was all kinds of newspapers or kinetoscopes (I forget which) that say Columbia secedes from the union and disappears into the clouds, or something similar. So they knew about it being up there. just no one knew where the exact location was since they move with the clouds

[@AdrianFahrenheitTepes]

The city was constantly moving but considering that it was metal still doesn’t explain why it wouldn’t show up on Radar for military or even civilian airliners. Rapture from Bioshock would be far less detectable, but unless there was something to prevent radar visibility or sonar imaging, it’s a really long stretch either way. Then there’s the lighthouses in the middle of the ocean…

[@fpsgod3028]

I would, it would be lit

[@christopherl.1072]

I would for the wonder, being able to see the clouds and stars so different to what we normally do.

[@MTR702]

It would be quite beautiful

[@christopherl.1072]

Just imagine a thunderstorm, electricity flying through the clouds.

[@LTheKURO]

The city didn't use quantum levitation.

[@GhostSlay3r]

Great video! :D Nice to see you back in track :) I am looking forward to manny videos to come :D

[@MTR702]

Yeah I think one video every two weeks is a good balance. If this becomes profitable then that can move to 1 per week, but that's a long ways off lol

[@GhostSlay3r]

***** Okey, great :D

[@KylePlayzGamez]

SMALL SOCKS MVP Most valuable pitcher

[@keithmichael9965]

I would love to live in a place so technologically advanced. A city in the sky would be perfect for astronomy fans like myself.

[@MTR702]

Yeah, but keeping the platform steady would be a struggle :D

[@James-cz8kn]

i would becaus it looks pretty cool i mean look at it all sunny and every thing

[@kishinasura1504]

Then I suppose the dome needed for the city to exists was either thanks to the tears Elizabeth makes, or somehow thanks to the Luteces.

[@cleveque]

But you're totally okay with the vigors, right?

[@aintitmax7113]

I would love to live in Columbia to be a pioneer of new technology

[@carlosvic7014]

quando tivermos domínio da tecnologia ant gravidade, talvez essa utopia podera ser real de fato.

[@XennHD]

Lets go to venus then.

[@anselmschueler]

No. I wouldn't want to live there. I don't want to fall off...

[@georgeomole14]

I would live in a city in the sky so I can act like Lando from Star Wars and be the only black guy in a Bioshock city. Just imagine the shady deals I would do for the good of the city....

[@MTR702]

If you remember in Bioshock Infinite, they didn't treat black people very kindly :(

[@Linguini1996]

For some strange reason, I didn't get a notification that you uploaded this video. Also, there's no way that I would live in Columbia. I'm afraid of heights lol. Awesome video Mike and keep up the hard work. One question, are you hyped for either cod 4 remastered or infinite warfare after seeing gameplay?

[@Rplanewar]

No I live in Florida and I like warm weather plus I bet there will be tons of terrorist threats saying they will make the city fall.

[@MTR702]

I never really thought about that problem! You're totally right

[@Eugen717]

whahahaa at 2.15 '' you mention 5.500 km instead of 5.500M'' xD nice video thumps up

[@Eugen717]

@Need2connect my bad

[@thomasvasquez7042]

yeah i wish colombia was real (good video btw)

[@Alinarotster]

I would rather live in a underwater city like rapture *if there was no civil war* where you can see all the beauty of the sea and its not so dangerous as a couple hundred miles in the sky.

[@weaponspedia5480]

I would watch this video about Columbia existing on Columbia lol

[@tropicalhorizongaming5459]

Nah- rapture is far cooler.

[@manspider4323]

Like? Yes Columbia? No

[@GD30.06]

Yes I would live there , I love the sun. The technology could create an atmosphere around the city and filter in the sun light to regulate the temperatures. Also allows birds to pass thru . One thing tho, if Columbia was as advanced why not air planes or hybrid aircraft that uses the technology to not fall

[@thecommentguy9380]

such city can only be made... in spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace

[@ethankrise1772]

I'd want to just to get the feeling of being lighter than air instead of constantly begin parallel with the ground

[@MTR702]

I'm not sure you'd get that feeling in Columbia unfortunately :/

[@Fogolol]

Imagine falling from there! Fuck no i wouldnt live there!

[@mr.jeffinizor2713]

*pretty sure there is a place called Columbia*

[@user-mm5py7wz4l]

yes, I would like that

[@Ironcladded]

It floats because of quantum physics. I think it was written somewhere in the game, not sure, tho.

[@mattdefalco4865]

Small socks u a beast

[@dariochristie7037]

Congrats on 25k subscriber @Spacepak

[@Dr.Ismael]

You never disappoint do you

[@MTR702]

I try not to man, but I think I disappoint when it comes to upload consistency, but who's counting lol

[@Dr.Ismael]

+SpacePak lol

[@DaVigilante]

2:16 u mean 5,000 meters?

[@kelliekara8434]

Yes

[@HaloForgeUltra]

5,000 kilometers is in orbit. You meant 5.5 kilometers.

[@MTR702]

I definitely meant 5.5 kilometers or 5,500 meters! Sorry about that!

[@maskedman4982]

I would say the Columbia could not exist... for some reason including, finding ways to keep it in the air... low oxygen levels, so hard to breath, acual time to build it and test it out. But for Rapture, like in your other video for that, I would say it is possible and may happen. But will have to watch out for whales, erosion, water pressure and artifical lighting... there will be very little

[@jx592]

The Lutece Particle is needed. AKA Helium on Steroids

[@BroAnarchy]

I mean... I some ways it definitely used to............

[@P0wd33r]

i thing its possible if you can do the quantum levitation

[@adamcroes4567]

Aside frome being a really cool a beautiful place, i think it would also be a great leap forward for history.

[@TheFireballReview]

Awesome video, Mike! Lando Calrissian would be proud! ;)

[@MTR702]

Thanks man. Whats the plan for tomorrow?

[@TheFireballReview]

Going to send you a DM on Instagram

[@dusken2550]

I'm asking my science teacher if we could watch you.

[@josiahjohnson13]

Did it work

[@andrewkim4655]

It's "quantum physics" in the game