Is The Flash Faster on a Bicycle? | Because Science Footnotes

[@becausescience]

Thanks for watching Super Nerds! Sorry I wasn't able to get to your Spider-Comments -- we even have days off here in the Void, so I can't film everything all the time. See you for this week's episode; it's going to be a blast.-- kH

[@PeroMenalo]

I am glad to hear you guys take days off. I'd much rather know that one of my favorite youtube channels and the people behind that channel don't burn out. Enjoy your time off :) you all deserve it!

[@megageorgekaplan]

what would happen if you find a nerve end and send a electric shock thru end itself without being transmitted much thru skin and muscle?

[@KylarStern244]

@@megageorgekaplan Ummm pain. Lots of pain. Ive had a static shock on the end of my left leg stump and by god it dropped me instantly. Id hate to think what a proper electric shock would do. Provided theyre different lmao, I don't actually know

[@zephusdragon]

Hey Kyle. I was wondering if you have ever heard of the SCP Foundation? If you have do you have a favorite? If not, I think you should check it out, it's a perfect example of Creepy Pasta using a scientific format. Love your stuff.

[@them6086]

Hey Kyle when the flash runs(at or beyond light speed) would what he’s running to be blueshifted?

[@mglenadel]

Thor is the god of lightning. A few seconds later, Thor is the god of thunder. You can actually tell how far away Thor is with that information.

[@RoNin-sl7ws]

That's what science is Thor.

[@arronphilchavez]

Dude yes I'm dead xD xD

[@leviwall4677]

I don't know you got so few likes. This comment wins

[@yourhandlehere1]

@@leviwall4677 nothing to get Thor about...

[@eyebrid]

Or how far he was, considering flight speed. But the way you put it in your first sentence makes me imagine a time when the location of a god was considered an every day science.

[@aimeea.3775]

If Flash on a bike would just be speeding in place, how fast are Shaggy and Scooby when they see something scary?

[@RoNin-sl7ws]

Nowhere near as fast as The Flash.

[@Saikoes]

Even faster

[@irishcommander]

I think he'd just destroy the tire the instant he started pedaling

[@sageoz9886]

You guys act like he can't just walk or run at a normal pace. He can just like any cyclist control and build his speed up within the ability of the bike but then just keep spinning faster once he's up and going.

[@ForwardTokage]

Just a reminder, there's an episode of Scooby Doo where shaggy and Scooby take Scooby snacks and run fast enough around the Earth backwards to turn back time

[@GundamFranxx]

Bill Cipher: "Remember... reality is an illusion, the universe is a hologram, buy gold, BYE!"

[@ismetcancelik5052]

and yet morality of the show is what reality gives you is better than the fake world you create.

[@Jirodyne]

@@ismetcancelik5052 Mabel: Today, I learned that morality is irrelevant.

[@WAMTAT]

You have been burying your gold? Right?

[@Physhi]

It is an illusion, but free will does exist because of the element of consciousness and effects all time all the time. Your future consciousness can affect your current and even your past consciousness.

[@XavierZara]

@@Physhi *based on your and others perceptions of your actions

[@Sheepsbane00]

"I think this is more complicated than you think." "I think more complicated than you think." "I think more than you think." "No bike."

[@acbonbe7059]

Justin what?

[@federicopulpito2988]

7:54 "having you know that i'm a real person, with feelings" 3:39 "I will be, * sigh *, dissasembled again" I feel a little discrepancy there.

[@petrsevcik5044]

You think, just because he's a projection of the Void, he's not a real person?

[@francescofavro8890]

He's obviously a body double made by the void god, who thinks he's a real person.

[@KainaX122]

Don't you know totally normal, not-robot-people get disassembled all the time? Weirdo. Wait. Are YOU a robot?!? O-o

[@Zarlos01]

Maybe the real Kyle is always in the Void. And the one who we see is a robot doppelganger, that when it becomes self conscious they eliminate it.

[@rhuugh6438]

metaphore?

[@MsWrestlemania28]

@11:03 for the flash question

[@HuntJ62]

The hero we needed but didn't deserve

[@Bluedragoon2404]

THANKYOU

[@toniwills6967]

Thanks

[@marcusmanson4264]

thank you

[@namek303]

seriously. the clickbait is strong with this video title.

[@mamaandmummyodiavlog]

Kyle:-"reality is lie " Thanos:-"reality is often disapointing"

[@renatoigmed]

and uses the reality stone

[@DanielHenriqueDHDDS]

Portal: The cake is a lie

[@ditoo2002]

So is your spelling🤦🏻‍♂️

[@goldengameeagle]

RAJALAXMI DAS therefore lies are often disappointing.

[@goldengameeagle]

Renato Medeiros that means that the reality stone is also the deception or “lie” stone.

[@dragonman101]

"and there's no free will" ... Well that escalated quickly O.o lol

[@DJCatmom]

Kyle with long hair: "Yes sir, I'll bring her back by 7 pm!" Kyle with short hair: "Your daughter calls me "daddy" too"

[@RoNin-sl7ws]

😂

[@jongarrat2417]

Me: You want Her back?

[@sailingvesselchineel2253]

But we have already established that long-hair Kyle is a super villian. Don't believe his lies! ;)

[@napiersh1]

I feel like if Flash went full tilt on a bicycle it would fly apart.

[@CharlesBalester]

Maybe, but I feel that far before the bicycle broke, the chain would snap and the bicycle would decelerate and even if he turned the pedals it would not pick up any more speed

[@christianrapper]

Speed force.

[@purplecastillo]

OMG I thought the story of the girl who drank nitrogen was just my local hometown story, not global news. Apparently the nitrogen was the top layer of a cocktail that was supposed to be burnt off but wasn’t, so the bartender was dumb, not the girl. Love the show man! Keep it up 😊

[@robertomachin8914]

Reality= Lie Cake= Lie Reality= Cake. Yes everyone, we are right now experiencing a cake.

[@sdfkjgh]

"Since when do I listen to cake?!" --Homer Simpson/Pieman

[@aarontena]

Hotel: Trivago

[@blackpete]

Want. Cake. Now.

[@jeremybrimmer1990]

Layer cake

[@blackpete]

@@jeremybrimmer1990 layer or liar....? 😈

[@ryan1000011]

"Am I a man dreaming he's a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming their a man?" my favourite quote to show how perception is only a fabrication of our brains understanding of it

[@SurfAfghanistan]

Kyle, I went and found your article regarding the Elephants foot. Why is it that when I read it, I heard your voice in my head?

[@margaretschachte489]

Because that's how reading works.

[@markslaughter9497]

Read read it in his voice.

[@dr.catherineelizabethhalse1820]

It's called schizophrenia

[@ribbitgoesthedoglastnamehe4681]

Because you are going insane. You are not supposed to hear voices in your head. Do a little test: if you move your lips while reading, you are normal. If you dont, you are probably possessed ny the Devil. Its also possible Kyle is the devil, and built a nice home for himself out of your brain-bits and controls your actions from behind your eyes. Try turning your eyes completely around. If you see Kyle, you are being possessed as we speak. If you cant turn your eyes completely around, its Kyle who is preventing you from doing it and seeing him behind your skull-windows. Just stay calm, relax, and dig him out with a spoon.

[@sunnyglowvt]

It's an interesting question, and I find myself doing the same for books that were made into movies and I read the books again after watching the movie. Another interesting head voice question is why do we seem to not be able to change the volume of our inner voice? You try to mentally scream or whisper and it stays the same.

[@Cipher_Paul]

Hey, I was wondering, will there be a crossover between *Because Science and the Flash* 🤔 ? Because the Flash *Season 6 Episode 2* is apparently titled *“Into The Void”* 😂

[@JinxShadow]

One Piece NaKaMa Production yess and he can work with Cisco

[@osmium6832]

Yes, which also makes it a crossover with a Nine Inch Nails song of the same name. Now we just need to find a connection to St Elsewhere and it'll turn out that everything is an autistic kid's dream.

[@AsukaLangleyS02]

Black Sabbath is better

[@EvilGreenHat]

Hi Kyle, the first experiment that you show in this episode can also be explained by Gestalt study, it's called rule of "Simultaneous Contrast" and basically says that you cant define a color alone because they change appearence based of the other colors around them. Colors get charged with the opposite of the color they are surrounded by, like a white square look brighter on a black background and less white on a gray background, you can find stuff like this in a book called "Art and Visual Perception" of Rudolf Arnheim. Great show like alsways, also sorry for the bad grammar, english is not my mother lenguage :V

[@greatduck5297]

Indeed. It would be worth checking whether the actual photons produced by that image are the same color or if the surrounding colors do in fact cause it to blur. There are many illusions where that is actually the case.

[@walterchavez3081]

(At 10:15 minutes to 11:00 minutes)I've heard people say that acceleration could be considered physically equivilant to gravity. But gravity weakens over distance. So if, by using magical construction materials/techniques, I was in a room that weighed only a few tonnes but was 43,000 km tall I'ld get more measurable gravity at the room's floor as opposed to its ceiling. I don't think that would happen when accelerating the room at 1 G. . Is there any connection to the idea that the room's accelerating force would travel at the speed of sound going through that room? So please explain; hopefully you know why, despite my points, they're still considered equivilant and the answer isn't too complex.

[@LdNidd]

I am by no means an expert, but the answer is kind of a "yes and no" thing, afaik. Technically, the force of gravity is just the acceleration of bodies towards each other caused by their natural mass. So if the room was moving in the direction that what you'd normally perceive as the floor was at the bottom and the ceiling the top, with the vector of acceleration force moving from top to bottom, there should be an increase in force as you go. However, your theoretical room would have you moving so far from the earth that you wouldn't be under the full effects of its gravity anymore, so the difference would be noticeable, yes, but not because of the difference in acceleration and gravity. Acceleration can match gravity, but acceleration to mimic the effects of gravity can only be done in single measurements, not the entire range of a body's gravitational pull, which does change with distance while acceleration as a standalone force doesn't, and would be more dependant on things like fuel. Acceleration could mimic the earth's gravity at any point you measured, though, assuming this room could adjust its acceleration to match the distance variable.

[@Tealcjohnston]

The god of clap takes a whole different meaning without proper context.

[@IvanKrappenchitz]

Lol

[@falxonPSN]

I think I knew that guy in college. Was a frat boy, unsurprisingly.

[@swanclipper]

@@falxonPSN ironically nobody liked him and he never cheered for the local teams. he did give them each an individual clap though.

[@notthatbitchagain6857]

So ... at a golf event he whisper?

[@Domaith]

The perception of sound thing is one of the many reasons that the best thing a musician can do is record themselves, and listen to it. You can learn so much about how you sound.

[@Roger-uw1pj]

Thor is the lord of sparkles. Everyone knows this.

[@swanclipper]

he has a lesser known twin called "captain sparkle fingers". he's special.

[@GenJuhru]

Oh so Jubilee is his daughter.

[@Kindrick]

In a story I'm writing, they didn't push the Earth out of the Solar System, it got destroyed, but they did manage to save the moon by pushing it out of its orbit and away from the sun. Not only that, but it went interstellar, reaching an entirely different star system and was put into orbit around that star in such a way that it stays in the shadow of the local inhabitable planet.

[@tomclem]

You left out another Multiple Super Nerd... Mr. Kyle Hill is, in fact, a Super Nerd.

[@swanclipper]

AAAAHHHHH!

[@byllekylle3831]

Feels awesome being Kyle Hill's namesake

[@eagletsnupper7876]

I just realized young Kyle looks like Vsauce 3's Jake

[@epicmonkey6663]

I've been wondering this very question for YEARS!!! SIGH OF RELIEF ☺

[@volatiledawn5888]

Thank you for that little boost of 'confidence' at the end there Kyle!

[@roy4173]

Okay, Kyle, we see the golden plaque now. Congratulations, lol.

[@becausescience]

Do you? -- kH

[@andrewpaul8732]

@@becausescience twoshae

[@brianwhorton5619]

He worked hard for it, let him revel in the fruits of his labors.

[@lonewolf2156]

Flash on a bicycle....even if he did manage to accelerate without slipping the wheels the bicycle would rip itself apart from the centrifugal forces in the wheels

[@joshuabradshaw515]

This. None of the components of a bicycle would hold up at any serious speed. Consider the bearings and lubrication in the wheel hubs. How fast before the heat of friction boils off the grease and the whole thing melts to slag? A few hundred miles per hour? The Flash is fully capable of moving at normal speeds, so there's no reason to think he couldn't accelerate a bicycle gradually and maintain friction with the ground. What isn't going to happen is the bicycle itself holding up under the stress. As lone wolf says, the wheels will fly apart at a certain point. The lubricants in the hubs will fail. Something is going to give out LONG before he hits a tenth of his speed on foot.

[@mondaysinsanity8193]

Used to put lawn mower motors and weed whacker motors on bikes yeah they never lasted long the vibration alone would make the bolts come loose

[@bobthehotdog5138]

What if instead of traditional wheels it was just reinforced spokes attached to an axle, would it just dig In place instead or would the flash still get any lateral movement

[@gargoyle2423]

My thoughts exactly, the bike would fall apart before he could get up to a speed higher than if he just ran.

[@Jennifer_Devote]

Dude we are talking about a guy who made a treadmill that can travel thru time with him and pull others. I'm sure he could make a bike that wouldn't be destroyed

[@DrPonk]

“We should take the Earth, and PUSH IT somewhere else!”

[@jarosbodytko6462]

The checker board illusion simply shows what artists already know: that color and value react with the colors and values that surround them. 50% grey appears darker on a white background than it does on a black background but it’s still the same value. Squares A and B have the same color but since B is surrounded by even darker squares than A (as the shadow color adds to the square’s own color), B appears to be lighter than it actually is.

[@really296]

Congratz on your gold playbutton! I would prefer to see Mumen rider from One punch man become the next Saitama. He has the heart of a hero. He should have been working for it for the past three years. I wanted a Mumen Saitama Rider.

[@Daiyuki117]

??? It's not My Hero Academia my dude I don't think it works that way

[@theredstonesword984]

@@Daiyuki117, what does MHA have to do with OPM?

[@theredstonesword984]

@@royjaskowski905, what?

[@MRDVI_D]

The beginning of this episode is false, the effect is true but the printing and compression of KZbin makes that picture not stay true to the effect. A is 614A45 while B is 755B57 in hex, however, our brains still do adjust it because they are very close so... close enough. P.S. great videos kept up the great work by helping make everyone a little bit smarter.

[@leitzu8929]

aww... the moment you said rocket made me remember my request for the science of team rocket blasting off again. well, reality is often disappointing.

[@gumunduringigumundsson9344]

Squinting my eyes and holding my thumbs over each side of the tiles I can fiiiinally see they are in fact equal in tone... wow! What a mind bender.

[@aporvi18]

Would newborns be tricked by the checker illusion? Would they see it the same way we do?

[@1996Joebro]

Casually slips in a quick: "there is no free will" Me: *exhales in existential panic*

[@AdityaSingh-lp5rp]

Ever heard of kurzgesagt? Check him out

[@MostlyPennyCat]

"You can't just snap gravity away" Flat Earthers: "Hold my beer"

[@GREG_Khar-NÜ-Metalhead2000]

NaSa Is FaKe

[@borttorbbq2556]

T.T dont remind me of them

[@MostlyPennyCat]

@@borttorbbq2556 NASA or Flat Earthers?

[@borttorbbq2556]

@@MostlyPennyCat the flat earthers

[@MostlyPennyCat]

@@borttorbbq2556 Don't they fascinate you? They do me. No person who does some reading could come to any other conclusion other than all heavenly bodies tend to spherical. So what drives them? Nobody's that stupid, they can't be. It's the psychology side of it.

[@TheAdanChannel]

What about the liquid breathable thing from the abyss (James Cameron movie) you should make an episode about that, also where is because space? I love your content, I'm already a car nerd, and I will be someday a super nerd jajaja

[@bradbrandon2506]

Just saying Kyle, I'm impressed. You came up #3 (and if you don't count the wiki snip-it sporting the definition, #2) on bing. I watch your channel all the time and I've learned quite a bit and gone on "research adventures" just because of some things you've said. (P.S. I kind of look similar to you in a way as how I found out about your channel was a friend pulling up one of your videos then commenting that you look like me, albeit usually more clean cut than I am.) Ever since he showed me that video I thought, "Damn; I love science, specifically physics and I love learning and the way [you] explain things has a nice way of 'clicking' for my psyche so why not!" So I checked out your channel and ended up subscribing after a few videos. That was maybe about two years ago (you'll probably find my first comment a question about the void, which you responded to; so it may have been a few months to a year before that, but my perception of time is just awful depending). I figure you might like some of the stuff on my channel, although I don't have my own videos. I usually collect knowledge or some things I find ridiculous, fun stuff, music, military stuff and so on. Have a great day, man! As for now, I'm going to finish the video after I have had a modest break to have looked that up and posted this comment.

[@harissabotic5714]

What you said is next is actually what I thought about during my lunch. Coincidence... I THINK NOT!

[@dajiban9325]

Hahaha love Incredibles!

[@harissabotic5714]

@@dajiban9325 wtf

[@plantgang8738]

@@harissabotic5714 did you not get the joke

[@dajiban9325]

@@harissabotic5714 kzbin.info/www/bejne/iaTRqGV9dptobdU

[@harissabotic5714]

@@dajiban9325 oh

[@olewis843]

Your face when you was given out that warning at 8:15 is priceless! 😂😂

[@kylermills3360]

Ya I thought that was funny, but he kinda took it in the wrong way or maybe I didn't explain good enough but I meant like if you drank or were submerged in liquid oxygen and temperature wasn't a problem would you be able to breathe

[@olewis843]

@@kylermills3360 I understand completely

[@zorro2441]

Thor is called the god of Thunder because of the fact he causes it. He is the lightning that parts the clouds when he throws his hammer to fly/summons lightning.

[@socialparanoia149]

Thank you! That was my point!

[@AbqDez]

Thor is the God of Storms, & Master of the Western Wind! the rest is short hand nicknames and sobriquet.

[@znightowlz6585]

Captain Communist no it's when he smashes his hammer against a hard object, the crash causes lightning

[@ribbitgoesthedoglastnamehe4681]

@@znightowlz6585 Umm, actually the thunder is caused by the wheels of his chariot, the hammer is just a hammer and he doesnt hammer anything in the sky.

[@ShyBoy6ty9]

Fun fact: The Anglo saxon god Thunar (Thor) is where we get the word thunder.

[@DogWalkerBill]

8:06 Aaaahhh! That's so sweet!

[@jab-io2po]

Talk about quantum entanglement How particles react and send info faster then the SOL.. Even tho everyone say nothing can surpass that And the chain of the bike would break before he can reach any real speed It would fluke and the plastic around the pedals would rip off Unless it’s a bike built for sonic speeds made from Diana’s bracelets lol or adamantium Something that can’t break I think.. I just remember as a kid when I would pedal to fast the chain would get stuck or just slide and the pedals would spin without moving Again I think lols Kyle 1 more thing What do u think about Element 115 And the controversy behind it (Alien fuel)

[@agentbanana9773]

No One: No One Ever: Kyle: (Explains The Psychological Reason Why People Love Selfies)

[@RagnarTheRead]

Dwight: "False. Due to the speed of him pushing the pedals the wheels would easily fall off and the metal would melt."

[@borttorbbq2556]

Actually the sprocket would just break chains are made from hardened steel whereas sprockets are usually made from something like stainless steel or sometimes even aluminum both of which are significantly weaker than the hardened chain used

[@xchronicxblaiz3x]

So, the checker board thing has never really broken my brain. Even the first time I saw it (Sophmore year of highschool I believe) I wasn't blown away when the teacher revealed the truth. I remember people from that class weeks later still in awe over it.

[@globenstine1335]

wait, your human? i always thought you were a robot alien forever imprisoned in the endless black void to protect humanity.

[@Somber_Knight]

He is actually a super-saiyan, but he said he was a human so not to make people jealous.

[@ItsUrBoi]

Air is a fluid. Water is a fluid. _THEREFORE_ Air is water. We breathe air. _THEREFORE_ We are breathing under water.

[@krishnakedia9243]

I am a human. You are a human. THEREFORE I am you and there actually is no you.

[@ItsUrBoi]

wacky krishna Gasp!

[@davids.pumpkins2215]

Well yes, but actually no.

[@krishnakedia9243]

@@davids.pumpkins2215 don't steal my spotlight

[@jamespilgrim3774]

Loopholes in reality

[@pyrobob5724]

Liquid Oxygen is the Killer Queen of the chemistry world

[@bigkinggorilla8095]

Pyrobob 5 That's probably Chlorine Trifluoride. It's a better oxidizer than liquid oxygen and has even been observed igniting sand, asbestos and things that have already burned.

[@eduardokerber2931]

@@bigkinggorilla8095 when you are pure oxygen but isn't the best oxidizer

[@reginaldroyal9196]

@@bigkinggorilla8095 I'm around this chemical every day with intense caution I read your comment an researched it just now had no fuxking clue it could pwn us all so fast 🤣😂

[@justicevasey2295]

Yoshikage Kira has already touched this oxygen.

[@zmchaib]

Holy shit - I was very skeptical on the whole thing of Kyle being the top search result on google for The Elephant's Foot. So I googled 'the Elephant Foot Article', and lo, it is an article by Kyle Hill on Nautilus. Very cool. Very, very cool.

[@PrinceJavi]

Well the bicycle gearing also. Wouldn't the gearing hit a max capacity for speed at some point?

[@borttorbbq2556]

Not exactly he would chip the sprocket before he ran out of the ability for Speed because bikes move as quickly as the sprocket is turned the reason why mountain bikes have an average max speed of about 35 miles an hour up to 75 miles an hour is because of the limitations in which humans are capable at moving our limbs at

[@planexshifter]

The gear ratio was also my 1st thought about the bike not working :)

[@aerionomega935]

You would first have to get past the limitations of the materials... before you got anywhere close to his top speed, the bike would be ripped apart by friction... (assuming he made sure to gradually increase speed, and not full speed right off, as that would just snap the pedals and pedal arms off, if not the chain)

[@goreobsessed2308]

Honestly the chain might very well snap before he gets going to fast

[@arenacloser7528]

You'd also need like a 81961344542 to 1 gear ratio

[@RoNin-sl7ws]

Note: The Flash might also quickly wear out the bike. And yes, if he had a "special Flash bike" that was built to handle the friction he would create, I still think that he would move faster than himself running, alone.

[@Starwolf65]

well if you really want a planet that's a ship, look no further than Invader Zim

[@borttorbbq2556]

Muffins

[@アノにマス]

I loved that episode.

[@sobertillnoon]

In high school physics my friend Helen had her mind blown like I've never seen before or sense when we learned air is a fluid.

[@aaronrachiele5521]

If the force is as powerful as they say, ( specifically Vader, Palpatene, and Yoda) can a Jedi Master or Sith Lord or really anyone who is high ranking with the force, can they not destroy a planet without the death star?

[@readalotknowalot]

The quote you should remember is when Vader says "Don’t be too proud of this technological terror you’ve constructed. The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Force." The point he is saying refers to the Tarkin Doctrine about inducing fear into people. The exact power output of the Death Star is not just in the destruction of Alderaan but in how much fear people feel when they discover that the Empire has such a weapon. The Force however is capable of doing Anything. And so if a being is truly intuned with the Force then they could reshape reality however they wished. The destruction of a planet would be easier than it is to lift a pen for us, hence Vader's statement.

[@DhamankarTejas]

Brain : don't say it..! don't say it !!! Me : *real life Cisco Ramon !*

[@robinsuj]

I love how casually you throw the bomb "there's no free will"

[@jakwhyld4406]

I'm watching this while Skyrim is open on the main menu in the background, and the theme song is playing over and over again. Honestly, makes the video 100 times more badass.

[@jakwhyld4406]

"So Einstien..." DOVAHKIIN DOVAHKIIN!!!!!

[@CaptainJet99]

In season 1 or 2 of the Flash, Barry Allen say’s to Felicity Smoak that he has a friction proof suit. I was wondering if it is/would be possible to make a friction proof suit?

[@NinjaBearFilms]

What’s funny, is he needed that because running burned up his clothes from the friction. But once he got his super suit it stopped happening… even when he runs without his super suit.

[@CaptainJet99]

NinjaBearFilms never really noticed that but holy crap you’re right.

[@borttorbbq2556]

No because the only things in the universe that are frictionless is well almost absolute zero degree helium which is a superfluid man I don't think a pretty much a zero degree superfluid is going to help

[@francescofavro8890]

No, because he would be incredibly hard to put it on.

[@CaptainJet99]

“It’s made of a reinforced tri polymer, it’s heat and abrasive resistant so it should withstand your moving at high velocity speeds, and the aero dynamic design should help you maintain control...” - Cisco Ramon S1 E1

[@BelairPedicab]

Hey Kyle, the rockets on the earth thing totally has been around way longer than a recent movie. If you watched the Adult Swim show Frisky Dingo, the Annihilatrix was just that. A jetpack for earth to push it into the sun. Still very excited to see you tackle this question tho. Thanks for all the years of high quality wholesome dorkery, and keep it up!!!!

[@JaredLS10]

First video I have stumbled across that you respond to comments, very cool man. Congrats on passing 1 million subscribers.

[@traisjames2]

Couldn't the Flash start paddling slow, to not slip, and slowly speed up?

[@tishaflorence1009]

Well yes, but that's boring

[@D00ML0RD1]

He could but he'd still reach a point in witch the tires are moving to fast to keep gripping the ground. Like trting to drive in mud

[@Acaykath]

No. If he did, he would automatically lose the race against his on-foot self because it would take longer to accelerate on a bicycle than to run the race.

[@BubblegumTrollKing]

That beginning illusion is only true in person. It's so good it tricks the camera.

[@jerrymarquez3613]

Hey Kyle what do you think about superionic ice?

[@tomfoolery4490]

I read this as "supersonic ice" and got _very_ confused. Okay, now I'm curious. What would happen if you subjected ordinary ice to super/hypersonic speeds? Would tiny pockets of high-pressure phases like Ice III form briefly due to shockwaves?

[@biohazard724]

@@tomfoolery4490 I read "superIRONIC ice" like hipster ice.

[@RayMasters03]

Tom Foolery I read supersonic ice also and instantly got worried that something like that would exist.

[@jesserauma7840]

Yeah, supersonic ice here as well. As far as the reality of it, several people have fabricated ice bullets🤷🏼‍♂️

[@heirofthedog1]

biohazard724 Well superIRONIC ice, is just ice that 95% of Americans don't get! 😜😉😂

[@JamesHuggett_]

I knew Chernobyl still had radioactive material but I had no idea about the elephant's foot until Kyle released that episode give yourself more credit Kyle

[@ShdowHuntr]

So that movie Abyss totally lied about liquid oxygen :O

[@PytD]

It wasn't liquid oxygen in The Abyss, it was oxygenated perfluorocarbon fluid. Basically a liquid that can hold vast amounts of Oxygen. The rat scene in The Abyss was actually done, with a real rat and real Oxygenated PFC fluid.

[@TheNykademos]

@@PytD Is that true?! mind blown....

[@SeanBlader]

My first reaction to the idea of The Flash on a bicycle is that there is likely no material a bicycle could be made of that would sustain a decent level of flash speeds. Can you acellerate the Earth like a rocket? Yup. I can imagine the physics, what I can't imagine is the engineering of actually doing it. Basically you just need a way to launch enough matter off the planet fast enough that said material is well above escape velocity. Realistically, any interplanetary probe we send out of the earth/moon system creates a miniscule thrust vector on the earth. I was originally going to describe the "thrust vector" as small, but that seemed too big for the actual effect, and then I though miniscule isn't probably right either... Nanoscule? Picoscule? I don't think those are even words, is there a word for the amount of thrust the Earth gained from New Horizon pushing away from us?

[@danielstudart2062]

11:06 If you came for the title LIKE EVERYONE and don't care about the rest LIKE EVERYONE.

[@MegamanStarforce2010]

Thanks brother, love you

[@danielstudart2062]

@@MegamanStarforce2010 S2

[@thomasdavis4253]

To add more to the ionosphere topic... The ionosphere as far as radio comms is concerned can be split in to layers ascending in height. D, E and F (depending on the amount of ionization the F layer can split into two, F1 and F2 respectfully) with each having a different effect on radio waves depending on the time of day, and the frequency you are using. On the day side of the planet increased ionization from the sun causes the MUF (maximum useable frequency in radio jargon) to climb. The MUF is the highest frequency that can be reflected by the ionosphere at that moment to facilitate communications. To complicate things certain layers of the ionosphere ABSORB radio waves below a certain frequency during the day (the D layer), limiting the typical range of propagation during the daytime, however at night this layer dissipates making world wide communications more likely on these frequencies. Most of this only really applies to 30MHz and lower. The frequencies above are mostly affected by Sporatic E layer propagation and atmospheric conditions such as tropospheric ducting.

[@daedalussass_5365]

What if the flash slowly accelerated on the bike

[@CaveFreediving]

I was thinking the same thing. Accelerate slow enough to avoid spinning your wheels. It should work because the wheels are moving at the same speed as the ground, so there's enough friction to push against. Gearing shouldn't be a limitation either because the gears allow the wheels to rotate faster than the pedals, and Flash can pedal extremely fast. The only real limitation is the friction heat generated from the moving parts of the bike, which could melt it.

[@ferdonandebull]

Well... you still would reach a point where the tire would just spin.. If you turned any degree off of straight or went any degree of elevation you would overcome your coefficient of friction and loose traction..

[@jessejohnston8388]

Hey Kyle, I was wondering if you'd cover how Wolverine makes red blood cells with his bones covered in Adamantium. Would there be some way of having metal on a person's bones and them still performing like they are supposed to? Maybe with some sort of a semi-permiable material. And would it make his bones almost as indestructible like we see in films and comics? (Sorry for the broken english, still learning.)

[@kate_valdez]

Long Hair, Short Hair, don't care, I'm there~ XDD Love the show, Love your Hair & Love you~ From Us; your Fans~ ❤

[@computerolegy2336]

Youre a singular person

[@bhjklol]

A silly point to be made on my part but I believe that before friction took effect with the flash on a bicycle his feet would move to fast for the gears to resist the force and the gears or chain would shatter/fly off or the pedals and their arms would snap. he would have to slowly build up speed for friction to be the giving point in my mind but their are to many variables on the bike such as strength of all of the parts to make a prediction and thus your idea of a "Flash Bike"- Kyle Hill, Because Science, would be the only way to do it. Great show, love the hair, and keep unloading science on the masses sir.

[@gregpayne3770]

I laughed so hard my mom woke up and asked me why i was watching videos of myself. Apparently she thinks we look alike 🤣

[@7kortos7]

first 3 minutes were the best build up ever lmao

[@atlasofthedeep]

Question: If an object moves to another area, is it really the same object?

[@masterninjason157]

If I walk forward, do I move? Or do I push the rest of the universe behind me?

[@atlasofthedeep]

@@masterninjason157 the real questions.

[@marcolamagra9419]

12:42 the best train of thoughts I’ve ever experienced, I kinda have it from time to time

[@JohnA...]

You could take gravity away from one room... just put that one room out in space a few light years away from anything. I was one of those many, Thor is just the God of LOUD NOISES.

[@rayzimmermin]

Technically speaking that would not remove gravity it would just make its effects on the room very weak. But it would still have gravity even if you were experiencing 0g while in the room Their is actually no way to remove gravity all together. Let alone from one room because every part of the universe can feel the gravity produced by every gravitational field in the universe. There is no where in the universe you could go where the gravity of the earth could not be detected with the right instruments. We know this because we are picking up gravity waves from light years away of both stars and planets already with the primitive equipment we have right now. So far as we can tell the only way to feel weightlessness aka zero g ( Side note. This is not the same as no gravity it just means you can't actually tell how it's effecting you) is to use gravity to put yourself in a perpetual free fall. But that is not having no gravity. In fact that is literally just falling without hitting the ground. A certain toy cowboy would say its just falling with style To be honest we don't even know if you actually are weightless in space. For two reasons first being we have never launched anything that didn't use and arc in a gravity well. And second everything we sent out had motion and their for its like the room on earth vs the room moving up at the same rate as earth's gravity pulling down thought experiment. meaning we couldn't test for gravity when we sent them. Now a days we have a new way of testing for gravity by looking for gravity waves but we never sent one of those out yet. so ya we actually don't know if you would actually be weightless in empty space. It very well could be that if you were stationary in a room in empty space. You would feel the slight pull of the closet gravity well and center to that up and down and come to rest on the side of the room closet to that gravity well because it would be pulling you just ever so slightly more in that direction then every other gravity well in the universe. or it could be because every gravity well in the universe would be pulling you in a slightly different direction that you would just feel weightless. But logicly it's more likely the strongest gravity well closest to you would effect you and pull you ever so slightly in that direction that you would still feel a gravitational effect. their for having a gravitational sense of up and down you would center to.

[@estudiordl]

Gravity is not everywhere? I mean, the entire solar system is bounded by the gravity of, well, the sun...

[@JohnA...]

You are correct, there is most likely some pull of gravity no matter where you are in the universe, even if it is only the slight gravity of the room itself... though that was an awful lot for what was just a bad joke about throwing someone in a room out into empty space.

[@rayzimmermin]

@@JohnA... there is no empty space there is always something there it's just a matter of if you have the right equipment to look for it be it matter antimatter or dark matter also if you put a room in "empty space" as you call it would that space be "empty space" anymore

[@JohnA...]

I'm starting to think I've found the "empty space"... like I said it was just a joke, but that doesn't seem to be registering with you for some reason even after I specifically said it was intended to just be a joke.

[@vamp6767]

"There is no free will." Best episode ever.

[@ScottJPowers]

Wouldn't chlorine trifloride be a more powerful oxidizer than liquid oxygen? I've heard that it is and it can cause almost anything, including metal and water, to catch fire.

[@joshuahadams]

Chlorine trifloride can set fire to asbestos and corrode gold.

[@ScottJPowers]

@@joshuahadams exactly

[@borttorbbq2556]

I guess in a roundabout technical way you are correct but if I remember correctly it's actually just the reactivity of the fluoride combined with the chloride fluoride itself really likes to bond the things and the things that likes the bond too well 10 not to release day as a coherent he's at which point the chlorine can cause it to corrode and react with oxygen more strongly causing oxidation otherwise it's not an actual oxidation it's a different form of corrosion

[@ScottJPowers]

it's like real world amaterasu

[@TinchoX]

2:53 **MIND BLOWN**

[@krishnakedia9243]

OMG I am living a lie. Bye Earth.

[@Obi1kenobi10]

1:14 into the video and my brain just ran away.....

[@jf80406]

I wished I had a science teacher like you, maybe I would have liked Science as a kid.

[@lyricsundar722]

Real quick question? Is the commandzone in the void with you? How did you escape the void to play magic with them?

[@madcatdr]

Hey Kyle, love the show and how you break everything down into super simple explanations so knuckle heads like me can understand it. Can you break down the scene towards the end of “The Abyss” when they fill Ed Harris’ dive/space suit with “liquid oxygen” so he can survive the drop to the creatures home? Obviously liquid o2 wouldn’t work since it’s so deadly. So what could they have used instead?

[@myztklk3v]

I remember the first time i ever saw that illusion, it was shortly after broadband was becoming common-place, and social networking and memes weren't really a thing, I was in such disbelief I copied the image into mspaint and cut square b and dragged it over square a and my mind exploded

[@CutoutClips]

I took a screen capture of the the shadow illusion at the beginning of the video and compared the color values for the two squares. The way the video was recorded, square B is actually lighter than square A.

[@g45h96]

Let's start a petition for Cisco to make a flash bike. Only needs to be in one episode, it can be decided later that it's impractical. But I could totally see Cisco doing it

[@ethangorman8046]

I haven't watched videos on this channel for a while. This format it really good. It's more personal compared, I agree 7:40

[@RafaelusOptimus]

The thing with the cylinder and the checkerboard, it's a similar effect as 'the dress'. We saw it blue and black if our brain supposed that it was illuminated by yellow light, we saw it white and yellow if our brain supposed that it was illuminated by blue light. If you check the color of the 'black' parts, they are actually yellow, if you check the color on the 'white' part it is actually blue. The one our brain will neutralize has apparently something to do with the fact that we are night owls or early birds :P.

[@SuperBossGiovanni]

In regards to the Flash bike problem, while Kyle's explanation is reasonable, there is another problem Flash would face. He could never get to that fast on a normal bike. Anyone who has ridden a bike has likely gone down a steep hill, thats why a lot of bikes have gears. Typically, you will have a large front chain ring and a smaller rear cassette. This dictates how hard you need to petal to get them moving. The larger the chain Ring, the more difficult pedaling is, the inverse is true for the rear cassette, the smaller the cog, the harder to pedal. Back to the hill thing, everyone has likely gone down a hill really fast. When you do this, you will notice that the faster you go, the easier it becomes to pedal, until your pedaling does nothing, you physically cannot go any faster, the bike wont let you. That's why you change gears to make pedaling harder down hills. You'll find that bikes have a speed limit that comes LONG before you break friction like Kyle Suggests. So, unless the flash had a bike specially made bike that im not convinced is even possible for the relativistic speeds he would be achieving, his super fast legs would be turning so fast that the bike would reach its speed limit long before he hit speeds that are normally attributed to him. TLDR; Bikes have a speed limit too much lower than Flash's average speed so a bike would hinder him, not help.

[@crazylarryjr]

Honestly, with the potential power needed to do what the Flash does (IE speed based powers), a Bicycle could not withstand the stress. Even if he started slow and eased into it, the friction of both the air and ground would essentially melt most every part of said bicycle. Add to that that at some point beyond a certain speed, the centrifugal forces would not only destroy the tires, but also the wheels, chain and sprockets.

[@thomasfplm]

The next episode makes me remember an animation called Shadow Raiders (it didn't age well) that also had rocket propelled planets.

[@Neyonius]

Part of the Flash's ability to move fast in the first place has to do with him using the Speed Force to negate friction to a degree.

[@oldpro8783]

In high school I made the plans to make lox.. liquid oxygen. I learned how to make it online and drew up the diagram to create it and then determined it was too dangerous to mess with. Real glad I made that decision.. I dunno if I would have been successful in creating it, but the diagram seemed like it would work and was based on schematics I found online after lots and lots of research.. I was a pyro and into things that go boom.. That would have been a serious thing that go boom though. lol

[@ZyphorusGaming]

Thank you for making me feel good i always thought i sounded terrible whenever i heard my voice in a video.

[@greglembree6540]

10:06 Kyle drops the inadvertent F-bomb

[@alt2max]

I love your show foot notes and Because Science, question why did some plants like the Venus flytrap evolve to eat bugs and small animals while others just stayed normal plants?