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[@becausescience]

Thanks for watching, Super Nerds! *Here's a link to the last video* if you haven't peeped it yet: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bH_SoWaYnqyhZ5Y -- kH

[@tacticiansix6646]

Here’s a correction - don’t ever involve yourself with that moron known as Bill Nye! You’re welcome!

[@Raygathex]

A Sarlaac Pit is basically just an oversize Ant Lion. Which I used to place around my house in Florida to keep fire ants away from the house.

[@NinjaBearFilms]

Isn’t a Sarlacc pit more of a cone than a cylinder? Or are you using the size of the creature?

[@ellewwyyn1483]

Hey man. Love the show! I have a question. What do you think about a Creator of the Universe? Just curious. Thanks and hope to hear from you.

[@nighthunter3039]

Hey Kyle could you make a video about how a disruptor rifle from Star Wars might work?

[@NightlyDaymare13]

"Balls don't fit perfectly together, there's always something in between them" *KNOWLEDGE* 😏

[@Real28]

"Ever seen a parachute? They're huge. Your pants cant slow you down" *MC Hammer has entered the chat*

[@FrarmerFrank]

Weren't those called Parachute Pants not only because it was baggy,but but also cause it was made of same material?

[@ProfessorChops]

Fun Fact: The saying "Its raining cats and dogs" actually comes from when cats and dogs would sleep on the roofs of houses to keep warm when it was cold outside. When it rained really hard they animals would get washed off of the roof and it would look like it was literally raining cats and dogs.

[@lovelace333]

Wtf

[@jebjebson7798]

That's dark.

[@kharnthebetrayer8251]

I love the caveat of 'That we know of' Which implies that there may be an alien civilisation out there with a larger ball pit

[@becausescience]

Have to be accurate -- kH

[@gallixypegasuss1546]

You got me at Star Wars, and you now have my full attention at Tentacles. Gotta love giant tentacle monsters

[@becausescience]

Your avatar confirms this -- kH

[@theairwaybat1830]

Oh that's naaasty

[@effendoor7841]

"unless your DM doesnt account for the terminal velocity of a goldfish" wow commenter, just taking shots at matt mercer. rude. lol

[@DeaconTaylor]

she said she changes at the last second. im pretty sure her speed isnt going to change a noticable amount in that time.

[@jaredking5737]

HAHA I CAUGHT THAT

[@MyPisceanNature]

@@DeaconTaylor I was thinking the same thing lol.

[@becausescience]

I actually calculated this for Matt when he. was at Geek and Sundry. Great dude. -- kH

[@TheNeojanus1]

@@becausescience wait, you did? What was the math?

[@PaleGhost69]

We need an episode about Dr Stone!

[@matthewnichols4843]

That would be EXHILARATING!

[@brocos]

@@jackschitt1709 it's an anime and it's pretty good.

[@PaleGhost69]

@@jackschitt1709 Humanity turns to stone. 3,700 years later, a super nerd wakes up first. He decides to restart civilization and depetrify everyone else.

[@ankokuraven]

Yas!!!!

[@ankokuraven]

@@jackschitt1709 Bill nye the shonen action survival guy

[@SolitarySword]

11:11 My new messenger notification is Kyle saying "Chonky Cat" what we all need is Because Science ringtones

[@Tfin]

Get back, chonky cat

[@aveoxus1139]

Play it at 0.5x for drunk mode

[@Specter_1125]

The issue is keylith was already at HUMAN terminal velocity when she polymorphed extremely close to the rocks.

[@NerdyAngel1989]

I don’t think landing on the sharp rocks and not the water helped things.

[@attorajah405]

7:36 I love how Palpatine that was. Dew it

[@HannahFortalezza]

Atto Rajah the time has come. Execute order 66

[@jonzemak1544]

Hey Kyle, this episode was very cool and hit a little close for me. I was ejected out of a car as it was rolling down an embankment on the road. I was about 15’ (5meters?) in the air before crashing to the ground. I broke my lumbar and thoracic vertebrae, as well as C7 in my neck. And though they never teach it in high school biology, I had worse than a concussion because my brain partially rotated in my skull and broke connective tissue. Clearly I am fine despite the 13 screws, 2 titanium rods and 8 level fusion of my lower spine. Oh, can’t forget the vertigo and bipolar depression that I now have too lol. Keep up the great work and thanks for giving me interesting things to look forward to and share with my daughters.

[@becausescience]

Holy shit. Thank you for sharing that with me -- I'm very glad you're OK. Thank you for the kind words and say hello to your family from me! -- kH

[@gabedattilo3951]

When you’re not the only Critter that watches because science: oh yeah it’s big brain time

[@zijoh2914]

My prediction: He's gonna talk about that wiered larva that sits in a sandpit with an angle that produces a sand avalanche whenever something is in there

[@NeonDream]

Ant Lions

[@becausescience]

..................... maybe -- kH

[@timcarder2170]

When i was around 7 or 8 years old or so. I used to look for Ant Lion burrows everytime I went to Sauble Beach, and would try feeding them various insects, to see what they ate. The part that stuck in my memory is, when they would kick beetles out of their *pit* :-)

[@NeonDream]

@@timcarder2170 back in like 5th grade I did a science fair project on the Ant Lions I found in my front yard and was actually sent to the state science fair and placed 1st!

[@timcarder2170]

@@NeonDream cool not me, i was just a kid that liked to look at bugs... well, animals in general, but at that age, i wasn't allowed to go into the bush, a lot and watch the bears..lol I think the bears were raised the same way...any time i came across one, we'd look at each other a second, then both turn and walk away from each other lol. (I always looked around to make sure there were no cubs, no matter what time of year it was..lmao...better safe than sorry ) But i did check out tons of insects, read the books, fed them, even named the spiders around the house...lol (in fact, I'm in my 50s now, and i still ont kill a spider in my place, but if i find an egg sac, it goes outside, a few hundred baby spiders floating around, is a lot different than two or three, in the bathroom or on the balcony door. :-D

[@erbgorre]

7:15 missed an oportunity to make a ".. and dont call me shirley" joke. airplane references never die!

[@Yellowdigigod]

4:37 Is this a Critical Role reference? 🐟

[@jaredking5737]

yep

[@elwynn9931]

We’re basically gods

[@devincheeseman3867]

I want Kyle to be my DM now.

[@ashenwuss1651]

"Make roll for Polymorph. Ohhh, a 7 you say? Oo-hhoo-ohh. That's good. Real good. ~with malicious arrogance~ Seriously. Thats pretty good. You pass. A++--- pfffft, *S++* "

[@martinkadlec6070]

Physics based D&D story would be fun.

[@Zieg17]

IT NEEDS TO BE DONE!

[@Stuffman1861]

Science based homebrew

[@htz11235]

But without doing any research about how to DM or play DND

[@ashenwuss1651]

"... be like an iron maiden, but for nerds." Nerds: I like Iron Maiden.

[@FryingPan76]

Iron Maidens...

[@ashenwuss1651]

@Tyeler Nowell I love me some edgy, sometimes cheesy, power metal.

[@Rodrigokdo]

he wasn't referring to the iron maiden band but to the torture mechanism which is a kind of sarcophagus with spikes in all sides.

[@ashenwuss1651]

@@Rodrigokdo I know what it is. I actually learned when I found out the name of Iron Maidens in RE4 and wondered why they were called that. Thank you, though.

[@ashenwuss1651]

@Tyeler Nowell Ok, you're right. It's pretty damn cheesy a good portion of the time

[@Jedi_Spartan_38]

Master Chief and Noble Six: *survives falling from orbit multiple times* Other Spartans: *dies in the standard Pelican crash* Seriously, 4 died that way during the Fall of Reach in the novel Halo: First Strike.

[@ddg79]

That is because of the special armour they wear. Other Spartans have not been equipped with oni's new plot armour

[@Beegrene]

Their armor makes them super heavy, which of course raises their terminal velocity.

[@copilots3159]

rabble rabble something about the "Gel layer" rabble rabble.

[@MrTrunks2432432]

The pelican crash also had a lot to do with it. Explosions and impact are more damage than just falling. Plus the chief hit a lot of trees on his way down and hit the ground at enough of an angle to extend his landing time (why you dont want to do a 3 point landing), which helped minimize the damage. Chief, even with all his mutations, was still knocked out for awhile after that fall

[@XIIchiron78]

Chief was riding a big door and used it as a lifting body to hit at a shallow angle, Noble 6 had a portable re-entry pack (jet pack to decelerate basically, you see him take it off in the cutscene)

[@ampPLrant]

Player: I polymorph into an ant to survive the fall down the cave shaft. DM: This is cave. Roll a DEX save to avoid being eaten by a bat. Oh you failed? You have been eaten by a 4cm bat. Best of luck in there.

[@kharnthebetrayer8251]

If you have Polymorph, just morph into a flying creature

[@erbgorre]

@@kharnthebetrayer8251 you dont have to rub it in. kiki tried her best ;D

[@kharnthebetrayer8251]

@@erbgorre Well, as pointed out in the video. A Goldfish would have a similar terminal velocity to an Ant. So she should have been fine

[@ampPLrant]

@@kharnthebetrayer8251 but as a gold fish you would immediately have to start making CON saves due to "drowning." All forms have there risks and a sufficiently creative DM can screw you over for any choice. ;-)

[@kharnthebetrayer8251]

@@ampPLrant A gold fish could hold its breath for the, like 20 seconds (probably less, I don't know the maths) for the fall. Minimum breath hold time in D&D is 1 minute

[@michael_bullard]

“An iron maiden but for nerds” lol

[@FrarmerFrank]

Nah, pretty sure that's what they call a sex robot

[@blackjesuschrist5881]

5:23 I like how he pretends not to know.

[@MainGoldDragon]

I LOVE Kyle's refusal to watch the show xD

[@nickcigic8927]

"The largest ball pit in the galaxy" But isn't the galaxy a ball pit?

[@FrarmerFrank]

Or inside a ball/marble thing according to MIB (Crap, got "That's about the Size of it" stuck in my head again)

[@IAMDARTHVADERBITCH]

I must, and I mean no offense this is all in good fun, nobody has calculated your sister.

[@forofs9317]

Yes, indeed. Quite splendid.

[@skullsquad900]

While my Uncle was in the Airborn, his commander - who served in Desert Storm, dropped out, passed everybody and hit the ground without opening his parachute and walked away to Court Martial the guy who packed it. *Loved the Critical Role, Keylith, death scene joke that apparently went far over Kyle's head. Tho, even a Goldfish would still die after falling 1500 FEET into solid rock!

[@FlagCutie]

Interesting Mercer impersonation lol

[@becausescience]

I'm doing an impersonation of ME -- kH

[@FlagCutie]

@@becausescience ok my bad.

[@RyanAlexanderBloom]

Thanks Kyle, glad to know I can now splat insects as long as I have a vacuum in which to drop them. Fun.

[@NelielSugiura]

I actually used the reverse of terminal velocity in a D&D game by creating a sheet of ice covered in thin spikes of ice pointed upward and we calculated how fast the ice would shoot up to the surface of the water... and if I caught any fish without needing to waste time with bait. Ultimately, the math got really tricky, so he just rolled a dice... but you just need a DM that is also a physics/math nerd and awesome things happen.

[@benway23]

Thank you for your work.

[@ericchapman5570]

I love that there was a fellow critter snuck kyle a question.

[@koglioknows]

Kyle, thanks so much for reading my silly comment, i feel honored. 😁 Here's another one: what if say a 100 people were all falling together. If they linked arms and legs all making one solid unit, could it make enough surface area to slow them down? What if they could make the combined unit arched in the middle like a parachute made from people?

[@pwnyboy9714]

... was that a Keyleth reference in my Science show? Sublime.

[@wyldride]

... Or, in any of those instances where Kyle was falling, he landed on a soft surface that slowed his fall to a survivable level. #OccamsRazor

[@maxballe8605]

If you take the numbers given by the commenter you mentioned, the one talking about the fact someone can get as fast as 200mph, Captain America would have survived a quite hard landing after he jumped out of a plane without a parachute Love the show btw

[@maxballe8605]

Looked it up, the commenter I am referring to is named cloudchief arcade

[@fabianthegreat10]

Hey Kyle; love the show! CORRECTION! Cats don't survive from terminal velocity falls by landing on their feet. They will try to land on their feet if the fall is around 6 stories (I think), but at terminal velocity, they spread their legs to maximize drag and spread the damage across more surface area. They only survive with medical attention, because their bones still shatter and organs still rupture.

[@molerewey5909]

Kyle Hill D&D is something I never knew I needed until now

[@philipfahy9658]

Felix Baumgartner actually broke human near-earth terminal velocity when he jumped from space. Due to the thinner atmosphere, he fell much faster than you could jumping off any mountain, for instance, and his fall actually slowed down as he got closer to earth.

[@mudpie6927]

Speaking of dnd id love to have kyle on critial role

[@josh6550]

Poor Keyfish. One of the best moments of all of campaign one.

[@spadekersey4102]

Hey Kyle, it absolutely answered my question! Thank you! :D

[@christopherdyer2046]

How did you do this whole episode without mentioning those lucky few who have survived free fall

[@kharnthebetrayer8251]

I'd assume its because in those situations, there's always something that helped them out. Using a bit of plane to fall with, landing through trees or whatnot to slow you down, etc. Nobody's fallen at terminal velocity onto pavement and survived

[@ostmen_draugr]

@@kharnthebetrayer8251 theres been parachuters that survived when their chute failed to deploy with nothing to slow them but the grass they landed on. They were broken beyond believe but they did survive

[@ostmen_draugr]

& though he didnt mention their names he did say their circumstances at the start of the vid

[@becausescience]

Because I did that episode already! kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJ3Vg5eFh8aGqdk -- kH

[@tristanboyd6205]

And today I have started to watch the Expanse. Thank you Kyle

[@creativelyadhd8627]

Hey Kyle. Love the show. I've heard a story where a man fell out of a plane and survived by riding the shockwave of a bomb going off below him, down to the ground.

[@jefferygoldthorpe919]

4:25 I believe the expression: 'Its raining cats and dogs' comes from a time when people had thatched roofs and the animals (especially cats) would sit up among the cross beams. When it rained and the roof inevitably leaked these animals would come down and find drier spots to sit.

[@Jarrett.p]

I fell off the 3rd story of our house growing up when I was around 1 and a half. Makes sense why I survived now

[@briciusd.8478]

You and Mat Mercer need to run a D&D game together sometime.

[@RhysLloyd2611]

There was a comic where Boba escaped the Sarlacc and then while trying to escape Tattooine with no gear he accidentally fell back into it, and honestly that's a metaphor for my life.

[@Jedi_Spartan_38]

Yeah... that's not even the worst of Star Wars Legends.

[@AgentGreen13]

You want closure? In Legends, it's revealed that Fett flies back once a year on the Anniversary he fell in, and blast it from orbit in Slave-1.

[@bardock7890]

You’re the bomb dot com Kyle, keep up the good work. Your channel has really come so far from where you started. You always have great content. We all appreciate the content. Thanks for all the good work 😊

[@Mendygarb]

The biggest flaw in Endgame is when the Avengers first test the time machine van on Scott and they show an "old" Paul Rudd. This is impossible.

[@L-udo]

3:28 when you played that sound I accidentally looked away for a second and got scared shitless lol

[@riadirige7804]

Regarding on how DnD goes, yes, yes it mostly goes like that.

[@allisterblossfeld9329]

When I was 6 I fell about 2 stories from the top of the tree in the backyard to the hard dirt ground. I totally believe that young kids have a greater chance to survive a fall like that or worse. They don't yet fear death or fear getting injured from doing something stupid. It helps that they're a bit more resilient than a typical adult otherwise I probably wouldn't be here today.

[@c.Orange]

This lad right here is the most metal nerd I have ever seen.

[@flexflair4410]

Good on you for taking a stand against goop. Great video as always, please keep being so awesome.

[@taatanka]

Doing some quick calculations, you can actually find that an ant falling from free fall height with no air resistance would feel a force of about 1050 newtons. However, it would feel a force of about 11 million pascals, or about 1600 pounds of force per square inch. So yes, it would be very much squished.

[@aofthefielde1305]

Hey kyle, love the episode. Because its about “raining” cats and dogs. I got a water question for you. You have probably heard about dry water. Water that is literally dry. (For the peeps who may not know it. Its when water is mixed with silica coating). Apparently this water-air emulsion can absorb more CO2 so could we (as a country) make a big like lake or something filled with this to lower the CO2 in the air ? Really actually, how large would we have to build it ? I love your enthusiasm about science. Hope I’ll meet this brilliant evil mastermind on time :).

[@vaivs7903]

We need more kyle evil mastermind moments

[@lysergiklich8205]

This is an amazing video

[@josesandoval5870]

Cool, i haven't think too much about terminal velocity on fiction caracters but based on the old episode of how dense legolas should be to walk on snow makes me think he in fact will survive to any high fall.

[@SpaceEngineerErich]

"I still haven't seen the show." is what I say every time I post a baby yoda meme.

[@tawon1984]

14:00 Aim for the bushes was Samuel & Dwayne’s idea 🤣

[@markkarlo4869]

Hi Kyle, Love your show! The recent volcanic eruption in my country and the number of active volcanoes over the past month got me into thinking... what happens if all the volcanoes erupt at the same time?

[@Vastin]

Really going to depend on whether you're just talking about all current active volcanoes, or add in all dormant volcanoes and volcanic hot-spots - because the latter might include things like the Yellowstone super-volcano caldera, which would be bigger than all of the others put together and dramatically change Earth's climate if it became fully active again. That would be a bad scene.

[@azraelf.6287]

It would be like depressurizing a submerged submarine. Let out all the pressure from inside, external pressure takes over. I think the sciencey term is: 'smoosh'. Its possible I just made that up though.

[@thedude6856]

has anyone else been having youtube unsubscribe you from a bunch of channels that you know you were subbed to? this one is one of many for me and i just had to subscribe again

[@davidalearmonth]

What's great about the Sarlacc ball pit is they let you stay in there to play for a really really long time.

[@shainekennedy2742]

If he fell, his hair could have save him, hands down.

[@CloneScavengerVulpin8389]

Fascinating video

[@etrinko]

WOOOOOO! Made footnotes!!!!!

[@christiandonaldson8252]

KYLE!!! watch Critical roll. it is amazing.

[@becausescience]

I know! We used to work in the same building -- kH

[@Obi_Jawn_Kenobi]

You shouldn’t say that the wildfires weren’t started by arsonists. Not unless your privy to some investigative information no one else knows.

[@LostWhits]

A lot were proved to be caused by lightning. Exacerbated by dry undergrowth that wasn't removed during the previous years by way of prescribed burns offs. The window of opportunity between too wet to burn and too dangerous to burn has reduced due in part to climate change. Parts of Australia have also experienced lengthy periods of drought which haven't helped matters. But yes some arseholes do light fires, and some people also accidentally cause them. Like the guy in Western Australia who was towing a trailer when a wheel bearing collapsed, when he pulled over it jad caused a fire that quickly jumped across the road he was travelling resulting in a fire that later spread at 2.5km/hour or about ~497Rods/hour for our imperial holdouts.

[@draco5991rep]

A fellow cat fan I see, now I like you even more Kyle

[@DumpsterKing1121]

I like watching Thor talk about star wars lore.

[@Kaiserland111]

KYLE! Watch the freaking Mandalorian already! It's amazing! Oh, and I love the show...

[@jotape270]

My boy bobba would love that

[@Kualinar]

Talking of D&D... In one of my games, the PCs' accidentally summoned an elephant while flying on a flying carpet at about 1000 meter altitude while confronting a rock bird. They went down to see what happened to it only to find elephant burger. They also managed to petrify the rock and found gravel in a crater where it landed.

[@ReaperChild79]

All I can picture is people showing up to a Sarlacc ball pit, yeeting children into it's plastic filled maw. And since Boba's down there, the kids that live become Mandalorians. This is my headcanon now, and I haven't stopped laughing.

[@ColtonGamingTV]

at 4:47, I think Cory Z is referencing a certain moment on Critcal Role

[@celtichistory]

Golden gods

[@jaredking5737]

lmfao sure is 😂

[@carolynbellion]

How much power does the Death Star have to blow up a entire planet?

[@redmoon383]

So I'm calling it now, he's gonna reference the little bugs I used to call "ant lions" as a kid. Idk what they are really called, but they use an inverted cone of sand at its natural angle of repose to allow themselves to trap ants and suck them down. I love those things I used to play with them in Florida when I grew up.

[@citizenprayer5644]

If I absolutely planned on falling from an extreme height and not dying, and I didn't have a parachute, I think I'd have some kind of makeshift glider or something. Come to think of it, is there a potential way for you to shape your body in a way to make it like a makeshift glider? Is it better to aim for water, grass, rock, or trees? And, what happens if you fall at terminal velocity and land in a Sarlacc Pit?

[@CloneScavengerVulpin8389]

Kyle has every super power.

[@Mike_Jones1980]

It's funny when Allen calls in the middle of Kyle recording "Build me a nerd trap! Love you."

[@ThePizzaGoblin]

that critical role reference. excellent

[@j.erider2748]

A cat person with luxurious hair, I do believe I have found my long lost twin. 😂 Seriously though, love the channel.

[@jameshumphrey8860]

Hey Kyle, thanks for keeping science fun! And speaking of fun, the whole "It's raining cats and dogs" idiom quite possibly originated from the joke that goes:It's raining cats and dogs! How do you know? I just stepped in a poodle!Then of course there is Douglas Adam's idea that flying is just falling at the ground and missing, but that's a whole other story.

[@optimusprime3692]

Who doesn't love a good sarlacc pit

[@FuzzyStripetail]

Only Kyle can pack 60% more balls into the science behind the conceptual cylindrical area of a hypothetical Sarlacc Pit.

[@Stuffman1861]

If Kyle is (totally not) a supervillain, who would be a hero to act as his antagonist? The Hacksmith maybe? He could build something to combat the void.

[@robofin117]

How would the Stargate SG-1 episode "A Matter of Time" work in real life? More specifically, how would a wormhole on Earth connected to a black hole would play out?

[@Sm00k]

A rather final vacuum cleaner.

[@otakuman706]

@@Sm00k eh, if you compare it to the portal to the moon, the 'small' portal may make that part not as much of an issue. Not an issue in SG universe- it's 'one way' though it did start to attract things due to gravitational fields (and other fields) being able to act both ways. Not saying it wouldn't be bad in other ways though.

[@ivanterrible7362]

Jabba didn't have a flying palace. The heroes were transported to the Sarlac pit via Jabba:s Sail Barge.

[@MrNickp2300]

Nice VM reference, I'm surprised no one told Kyle while shooting this what it was referring too

[@foolsplaywarzone4003]

The next because Science Episode is going to be titled "Shooting an ant at a wall at Mach IV"

[@donsawyer4521]

I've asked this before and you said you read all the comments but do you? DO YOU?! While in the void you bounce to emphasize words or maybe a physical representation of inflection. I cant stop seeing it and I'm reminded of your one video about talking like a youtuber. Same or similar thing? Thanks for reading (again maybe?) Deeply enjoy the shows.

[@wildera7456]

I almost asked myself, "why would anyone need this," then i realized, because science!

[@designerwookiee]

Kyle has revealed to us one of his few villainous codes of honor: Regardless of the evil plot, no messing with children. The Doctor would potentially be content to look the other way as the Kyle Clone Army conquers the known universe.

[@davidalearmonth]

In its belly, you will find a new definition of fun as you are slowly digested over a… thousand years.

[@thegodroxas]

Hey Kyle love the show. I was sure that being a climber you were going to say have a good Belay.

[@AgentGreen13]

"It's raining cats and dogs" originates when animals were kept in the loft and refers to it raining hard enough that the water got through the thatch and caused the animals to fall through the weakened patch.

[@otakuman706]

I thought he'd mention this at some point when the phrase came up.

[@Vastin]

You better be covering Ant Lions in your sarlac episode, because those little dudes are awesome.

[@angelemmanuelperezmuniz1474]

We all know that the secret of Kyle's survival from falling is on his mane.