Neutron Star BB Gun | Because Science Footnotes

[@TheJimtanker]

As an Abrams Master Gunner and a Light Weapons Master Gunner I can say that you got the muzzle brake close, but not perfect. The muzzle brake redirects some of the exhaust gasses rearward therefore pushing the weapon forward slightly canceling out some of the recoil. Also, when talking about the suppressor, added weight to the weapon reduces felt recoil of the weapon in general. The added length and weight ALSO reduces muzzle rise. If you have any questions about weapons please hit me up.

[@GundamReviver]

Flash hiders are just shrouds really, they extend (mostly) beyond where the flash would be, so the flash is less visable from the side, but still visable from where you are shooting at

[@TheJimtanker]

Jtzkb, flash hiders disburse the gas so that it is harder to see. The best way to reduce flash is the tune the load to the barrel length so that all of the powder is burned before the bullet exits the barrel.

[@smashbluewhale9674]

So the Noisy Cricket is the perfect weapon for Black Panther, every time he fires it he charges his suit right?

[@alexixeno4223]

I think he would still have to deal with the whole being thrown back thing, but yeah his suit we be at full power.

[@KingXOreo]

@@alexixeno4223 Panther-like reflexes would take care of that

[@robertagu5533]

Iron man too probably. Saw what happened when Thor LITERALLY hit him with a lightning blast expecting him to fry instead of overcharging him.

[@martyjehovah]

@@robertagu5533 Iron Man charged from Thor's lightning because the suit runs on electricity, his suit doesn't convert kinetic energy into potential energy, so unlike Black Panther he isn't going to gain charge from being forced back by the noisy cricket's recoil, in fact it will probably cost him energy since his suit presumably has some sort of dampener that uses power to redirect forces to protect him from impacts.

[@dog9302]

Magnetically Accelerated Ring to Achieve Ultrahigh Directed Energy and Radiation Its an acronym and an EMP!

[@TryckSpot]

I'm fairly sure that rocket jumping in the TF games uses the rocket's explosion on the ground at your feet to launch you, as well as jumping. So uh... yea go ahead and try to rocket jump, it'll work. Once.

[@salemnights8236]

That one time will be glorious though. I'll watch...

[@SoranoGuardias]

As a former Infantry assaultman, I can tell you it WON'T work. For one thing, rocket-launchers are recoil-less systems that, unlike a gun, do not fire their propellants within an enclosed system. So if you were to just stick the barrel of a rocket launcher in the ground and fire, the propellant would blow out the back of the launcher like normal, and the rocket would NOT detonate because it would not have travelled far enough for the fuse to activate the warhead. So in the end you just wound up burying a rocket in the ground.

[@becausescience]

That kind of jumping is EVEN LESS plausible -- kH

[@JCintheBCC]

@@SoranoGuardias I would still love to see that attempt, even if just for the comedy of it.

[@MostlyPennyCat]

And it means you can do it with perfectly real rocket launchers!!

[@Blinkehyo]

Kyle's shirt was blue in the immortality video

[@leinonlylein]

13:58 "donut of magnetically confined plasma" I don't know why but the Gamma Gun from Fallout 4 immediately came to mind

[@joaogadelha9500]

Got here faster than the noisy cricket's projectile

[@straightjacket219]

Found on wiki, A Noisy Cricket is a small pistol-like weapon with a small grip and pointed barrel. It fires a powerful orb of energy, creating the sound of a cricket. It produces a strong recoil that can upend an unsuspecting user. It can also be suppressed to reduce the recoil, but this reduces its power.

[@sasfamilliarquill83squach39]

A muzzle flash suppressor is the actual term and they are not technically used to lower the sound of the firearm but are actualy used to control the light released from firing the weapon

[@jagx234]

A muzzle brake, a flash suppressor, and a sound suppressor are all different things. His use of the term is correct. OTOH, a sound suppressor does "catch" forward moving gas, providing a forward pulling counter force to the recoil, thus minutely reducing actual recoil, as well as felt recoil. Also, muzzle brakes don't just direct gas sideways, but also rearward, again creating that pulling counter force.

[@AbrasionUK]

"chimps are only 30% stronger than humans" and Joe Rogan's whole world crumbles.

[@AbrasionUK]

@@kylejones6984 That's not how it works at all. 30% is 30%, regardless of how many muscles we're talking about. They don't stack. If a chimpanzee is more than 30% stronger than a human (which I believe they are) then there must be other factors at play beyond muscle strength, such as leverage, insertion points etc.

[@SoI_Badguy]

Isn't it because they have mostly fast-twitch muscles? So they can immediately use the MAXIMUM amount of strength their muscles can put off. Theoretically, if humans could do it, they could probably tear limbs off too.

[@kylejones6984]

@@SoI_Badguy im sure fast twich muscle is just a term produced as a result. their strength of course comes from living in the wild, climbing and what have you. they are pretty huge muscle wise if youve seen one without hair. we can fast twitch all we want but if the muscle/tendons aren't there were more likely to just hurt ourselves. of course iv'e seen some pretty super human feats of strength that might compare but usually theres a huge negative/recovery time. of course, im always wrong though and have a lot to learn so, :) yes i'm sure what you said is accurate in a way. i posted the link to the science behind their strength in this post as well, but like i said, im just a dude with a pc, very little adult life experience

[@SoI_Badguy]

@@kylejones6984 no, fast twitch muscle fibers are an actual thing. It's the same reason you can't write a paragraph with your foot (other than comfort), your leg doesn't have the same slow twitch fibers as your arm.

[@kylejones6984]

@@SoI_Badguy i didnt say they werent a thing, i know they are a thing. my bad. are you trying to reference the muscle capacity to those fibers or specifically "fast twitch" ? people do have fast twitch muscle fibers as im sure many entities do. didnt mean to confuse or get confused, I hear what you're saying either way.. Also, i thought footnotes came from my restless legs 0.o

[@brianhansen5882]

Hey Kyle, As a huge shooting enthusiast, I can tell you that suppressors DO reduce felt recoil. My father and I both own identical high powered magnum rifles. He put a muzzle break on his. It reduced felt recoil but made the gun way louder and because the expanding gases are being redirected back towards you it actually made it less comfortable to shoot. I went through the process to get the federal tax stamp that allows you to own a suppressor and put a suppressor on my rifle. Because it captures the expanding gas that is trying to travel forward, that gas imparts a force on the gun that is counter to the recoil force. My gun now kicks less than my dad's and because the gases are not being redirected towards your face it is a lot more comfortable to shoot, not to mention quieter. Also on a side note, many games make suppressors have some sort of draw back like reducing range or weapon damage. This is also false, adding a suppressor is similar to adding length to a rifle or pistol barrel. When you add barrel length you get high bullet velocities for the same load which in turn increases range, damage, and accuracy.

[@omarpadilla8033]

How do you manage blowback gas?

[@brianhansen5882]

@@omarpadilla8033 If you are referring to the blowback gases in a direct impingement gas system like an AR has you have to get a special gas block that allows you to reduce the amount of gas returning to the bolt carrier group. They also make special BCG groups, and stiffer recoil springs that do similar things but changing the gas block is how I did it, and the recommended way to do it. If you are referring to gases coming from a muzzle break the only way is to get a different muzzle break. The angle of the holes or slots in the muzzle break determine 1. how well it will work, 2. the direction of the gases. If you get a muzzle break that vents the gasses 90 degrees to the barrel it won't hit you in the face as hard but it also does not reduce the recoil nearly as much. If on the other hand you have a muzzle break that redirects the gases more than 90 degrees, you will feel the gases coming past you face more, but the more extreme change in the direction of the gas increases the recoil reducing ability.

[@omarpadilla8033]

@@brianhansen5882 wow thanks for the info, I did not knew about the recommended way to manage the blowback gas from using a suppressor

[@MotoCat91]

Idea Suggestion! How does Spoderman fly (or rather glide) with so little web acting as a wing surface. Not only is the surface area much much smaller than that of a wing suit, but being made of web it would let all the air through anyway and would barely have more of an effect than just holding your arms out like a skydiver

[@Nightpacer]

Most likely down to how much force spiderman is able to output with his legs, giving him a lot of forward momentum and the skydive pose combined with the little bit of extra surface area allows him to descend slower.

[@dillonshafer3895]

Has MIB ever put together the noisy cricket and a rolling office chair in an pseudo chase scene? That would be a great way of functionally putting the mind bending recoil to use.

[@evanhough60]

12:27 Kyle fun fact there is actually a gun called the Chiappa Rhino that moves the barrel of the gun down and more in line with your wrist making its recoil more straight back, which is similar to a lot of “Hand Cannons” in the destiny franchise which in my opinion justifies why they are so powerful and kick so little.

[@jjlb82]

A suppressor operates in a similar way to muzzle breaks. In suppressors and muzzle breaks the forward moving gases hit the baffles pushing them forward reducing the felt recoil. In a suppressor the gases are contained cooled and released more slowly. A muzzle break redirects the gases sideways and backwards in relation to the muzzle

[@ArtifiSir]

Thank you for clearing up the reasoning behind the fact that the math would be the same if it were a projectile/plasma/air. It's always great to learn how physics is working as intended!

[@crgrier]

He still didn't take the pressure wave into account. Something moving with that kind of energy in the atmosphere would move a lot of air.

[@fatbabyjake]

A Millennial Pineapple hahaha. That almost made me spit out my drink of coffee.

[@JuiceBlack]

I think the Iron Man question was in fact a reference to his "inertial dampeners" in his suit which enable him to pull off some of the extreme high G moves he does. Im sure you've even spoke about them in a previous Because Science episode

[@Incrementium]

1:17-1:18 Kyle seems so dejected or concerned by that "It's not their fault though, they're chimps." xD What made it funny for me was that moment where his brow furrows right at the end lol

[@MazokuJun]

I know I am wrong when I said air friction caused the heat up of reentry spacecrafts in public lectures, but it is much easier than telling people it is heat from pressure and they all get a puzzled look. I do explain myself but usually that eats up way too much time in a lecture for people who don't have a Physics/Engineering background. Great dilemma.

[@johnmventers398]

Regarding a sound modirator, just forward of the muzzle there is what is know as the blast baffle. Which the gas from the propellant smashes into causing something called muzle pull off. This is whare the column if air Infront of the projectile pulles the firearm away from the shooter. And this helps reduce recoil.

[@DarthNaktis]

"Check yo self" best quote that everyone should follow

[@pizzas4breakfast]

As a great man once said "chickity check yoself before you wreck yoself"

[@NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEJ]

A good indication to keep track of your developing body. (no matter your age your body always develop things)

[@skylx0812]

Actually if kids would simply learn the differences between endomorph, ectomorph and mesomorph we wouldn't have scrawny body conscious teens and young men resorting to steroids trying to bulk up. Then maybe soldiers, cops and first responders wouldn't be over muscled and over tatted roid rage thugs on a hair trigger.

[@lordvader4089]

@13:14 "No you will not." Kyle secretly a Physics cop. They enforce the laws of physics. 😀

[@LostAI117]

The term for the distance between the wrist and force from recoil is bore axis. Recoil is in line the bullet going down the bore of the barrel. Competition pistol shooters are always looking for better designs to get a lower bore axis.

[@alexvogel610]

Correction at 6:16 many suppressors DO act as muzzle brakes as well. The construction and layout of many solid core suppressors is very similar to a muzzle brake, the only difference being the enclosed container. The propellant gasses hit the internal baffles of the suppressor the same way they hit a brake, allowing them to expand and cool within the suppressor, and then exit the front of the suppressor at a slower speed and over a longer period of time than compared to a bare muzzle. They're not usually designed specifically to do that, but it's often a side benefit to suppressing a weapon.

[@Crowwalker100]

As retired military and weapons instructor. A muzzle brake ( some call them flash suppressors) Is used on not only artillery but on most battle rifles. There are some types of muzzle breaks that can almost negate the recoil of a rifle. I have one on an M4 that works so well that I do not even notice the recoil.

[@desmondfromlost]

Could you talk about tipler cylinders? The concept blows my mind and I think you’d find it interesting too

[@Subparanon]

04:00 rocket jumps weren't added to games as riding on recoil, they insinuate the character is exploding something at their feet and the explosion is propelling them up. Firing a real life bazooka or rocket launcher really doesn't have much kick back or recoil because it is not propelled by building up pressure in a gun barrel and then releasing it suddenly, it works more like a rocket engine, throwing mass out one end and riding the recoil to go the other direction. Early rocket launchers were called "recoil-less rifles" precisely because they could fire huge rounds without tearing your hands off.

[@callmejan5813]

In some guns, like the barret m82 the muzzle breake Is oriented backwards so that the exaust gases act against the recoil.

[@veejayegrealy3971]

It could be that the recoil was not recoil but a thermal expansion explosion.. If the noisy cricket fired a ultra cold projectile that on launching gets super heated to room temperature simultaneously expanding in a spherical explosion. It would explain why it only blew off half the van and not evaporate the buildings behind it the van was near the end of the weapons range. In simple terms the noisy cricket fires super popcorn.

[@AtilaElari]

Hm. Maybe Noisy Cricket fires a miniature containment chamber that houses a tiny grain of neutronium in it, that makes a small pellet much heavier (say, as a normal led bullet we people without alien tech use), and when the projectile imacts the target the containment shell breakes, releasing the neutronium, which then explodes with a lot of force. That sounds plausible for a MiB gun.

[@OverlordMaggie]

@kylehill, a lit of your talking points on the biomechanics of firing the Noisy Cricket made me think of an excellent video from @ForgottenWeapons (an excellent channel as well. In it, Ian talks about target pistols made by a man blinded in his 20s (Margolin) who learned modelling and engineering and used those skills, descriptions, physical models to interact with, and a stronger sense of touch and proprioception to learn gunsmithing. In particular, at 10 minutes in, Ian talks about how Margolin invented a gun where the barrel, breech, chamber, and bolt are all in line with the forearm and how that almost eliminated the gun's jumping due to the moment around the wielder's hand and wrist. That's what got me to link the videos' content mentally. Ian's video covers all manner of gun talking points that you did - how the gases ejecting would shift the barrel hence a muzzle brake, how weighting the end of the barrel would reduce the felt impact of this moment, even how the first model had extra weights you could add so that the recoil would accelerate the gun less quickly and how the weight of the projectile affects the experienced recoil (since .22 has super light recoil, for example). Love your vids, as I'm catching up from Nerdist to present day. Lots of great science and memes, wanted to share a practical example of all of your talking points about the Noisy Cricket (minus maybe the wrist-shattering, which if experienced you would require a BONESHADOWER). Video in question: kzbin.info/www/bejne/h2KyY4iFas-cqNEsi=2HGxhlieL_R1rOcm

[@ShadowHammer1]

I like your comments about rotational force when firing pistols. I have a whole lot of experience firing pistol so I know exactly what you're talking about. That being said you should check out the Chiappa Rhino revolver. the fires from the bottom cylinder instead of the top cylinder to try to negate that rotational force. so instead of having a bunch of flip from the barrel from The recoil comes back into your wrist and kind of nullifies that. It's a pretty cool concept and a pretty cool looking revolver. this design doesn't completely negate the rotational Force but it very much lower is it.

[@MrTheDridge]

At higher pressures and velocities from firearms such as rifles or artillery a significant portion of the recoil is from the thrust of the gas jet after the projectile leaves the barrel. Compensators and muzzle brakes reduce that recoil by redirecting the gas to either 90° or slighly backwards for the brake effect where the thrust is now countering the remaining gas thrust and momentum from accelerating the projectile. A suppressor/silencer also reduces actual and felt recoil both by slowing the expanding gasses and lowering the pressure internally before they get to the muzzle of the can. As with the rocket equation, you have a slower exhaust gas and thus less thrust. The muzzle blast of some cartridges can be upwards of mach 4.

[@ligh7foo7]

6:35 lol yay for Arnie and Total Recoil, also if you put a suppressor on the noisy cricket it would be no longer b a "nosy crickey"

[@roleplayingwithidiots7455]

So in theory 🤔...if the made gun invert so to say that the barrel is somehow lower than ur wrist or at the same height then the kick back Or muzzle rise would go downward or be negated?

[@a-blivvy-yus]

If you put the barrel in line with the grip, the kick back would go *straight* backward into your arm. If you put the barrel below the grip, the kickback would pull the barrel down instead of up like it does with modern firearms. The nature of how human grip works would mean that an upside down gun would pull itself out of your hand, which is why guns are designed to work up the other way, because this allows more of the recoil to be expended in rotational movement instead of direct force being applied into your bones and joints, and because doing it that way instead of the other way results in a gun you can fire again without having to pick it back up after each pull of the trigger.

[@evanhough60]

I’ve actually known that fact about dry ice for years me and my dad who works for a delivery company used to bring dry ice home and we would take that dry ice put it in a water bottle half full and throw it, making a fun little explosion!

[@Sian_Raven]

What if the exploding star energy was stored in a pocket galaxy inside the noisy cricket. (Like Orion the cat carries in MIB) it would weigh very little but release a lot of energy.

[@straightjacket219]

I was under the impression that the noisy cricket used sound waves, in some sort of ultrasonic weapon

[@mortenhundevad]

there are also mussel brakes that instead of venting to the sides, up to the sides at an angel to activly reduse recoil ..

[@hemagionaltovao5291]

I might also add, with regard to the muzzle break comment, some muzzle breaks are designed with the exhaust is dispelled at a slight rearward angle, which applies a forward force on the 'end' of the barrel, reducing the recoil. Given that it is significant enough that it was a staple of cannon design in WWII for simple recoil reduction, I'd imagine a muzzle break might do quite a bit to reduce recoil. Maybe the internal barrel design doesn't have rifling, but baffles to reduce recoil.

[@vishva8kumara]

In LHC, it is "accelerated" inside a vaccum, and it takes so many many thousands of kilometers (barrel length) to accelerate to that velocity.

[@ProfessorChops]

Hey Kyle, muzzle brakes aren't necessarily designed to reduce recoil as much as they are to direct the muzzle debris out of the line of sight of the gunner or the tank commander. If the debris cloud sits in the way after the gun is fired then it will take longer for the commander or gunner to see if they have hit or to reacquire the target.

[@Wingdnadlla]

Can you talk about how slip space works from halo

[@becausescience]

There you are -- kH

[@YoshionoKimochi]

Haha... Hey... I'd like to know too Kyle!

[@SilkyJohnson625]

A suppressor on the barrel of a gun will help reduce felt recoil by slowing down the escaping gasses and not just from an increase in weight. Though it isn't a lot.

[@anonymousd5485]

I have a correction, at around 13:15 you said if someone would move faster than the speed of light, wouldnt you still see them, because light would still collide with them. Like two cars colliding at a 90 degree angle, if one was faster, there still would be a collision course, it just changes based on speeds. Therefor, wouldnt you still see them, even for a second. And a second thought, if some light wouldnt hit them, would they be, a least a little, transparent.

[@stilmaho]

Well, according to special relativity as you get closer to the speed of light your length (according to a non moving bystander) would contract and at the speed of light you would have 0 length and if the formula still holds at beyond speed of light (which probably doesn't) you would have negative length. So it wouldn't be possible to see you. On the other hand your mass would also increase and reach infinity at the speed of light which would turn you into a micro black hole I guess and as a result you would disappear shortly after for a reason I don't really know (due to hawking radiation maybe?). So, again, it wouldn't be possible to see you but it could be possible to observe the blackhole you formed.

[@cndosrs]

So according to Google.. Kyle Hill is a 6ft 9 retired basketball player for the Dallas Mavericks, it's got this Kyle's picture and everything 😂

[@Mendygarb]

I think Marvel needs to recognize B.S. in the MCU. Eventually the Multiverse will be in the movies and Thor's intro for it should include mistaking Kyle for himself on our world. Thanks for the content KH.

[@robertagu5533]

That'd be a funny Kyle cameo... how many of us would laugh at that

[@littlecreator4129]

Thor will be confused to see himself , more thinner and talking about science like Jane foster to a camera and lifting a hammer . Kyle will be surprised to see fat Thor and the two of them will become best buds . Maybe the movie will be called 'Thor and Kyle : Because Asgard'

[@Tr4sh13]

So you say if you fired a neutron star bullet, in essence the star would be firing you?

[@fighteer1]

Okay, I just have to say two things. 1. Light does have momentum, but not mass. So you can fire a laser and be affected by recoil. You did an episode about the Death Star based on this idea. 2. No matter what the projectile is made of, as soon as it leaves the barrel at .2 c, it will hit air molecules, which will convert its kinetic energy into a rapidly expanding shell of gamma rays,x-rays, and plasma that will vaporize everything in the vicinity, including Agent J.

[@gogroxandurrac]

If you really want to get sci-fi with it, you could say the noisy cricket converts kinetic energy into waves of gravitation. This would launch J as a unit instead of direct forces placed on his arms. It could also allow for a much more powerful projectiles as the wave would disperse the energy over a greater area with less damage done to the user.

[@boisq97]

12:52 fun fact there is a revolver that has its barrel lower and thus reducing muzzle rise (saw it on trigun at first and then i found that it was based on real guns, although it seems there arent many of them)

[@pulsefel9210]

i have a buddy who is very proud of his gun knowledge and would full support a claim that the muzzle break doesnt work like that. ive had this argument with him many times, and every time he brings up that hes the one who actually has experience with a gun. but i have science!

[@KalijahAnderson]

In video games you are not using the rocket recoil to jump father, you are using the impulse applied to your character from the explosion to push yourself farther. If you braced your gun properly and distributed the shock across your body well enough you could launch a large enough projectile downward (like a tank round but with less propellant) and get a double jump. Ancient Greeks used to run and jump with a heavy stone in rcv hand. Mid jump they would throw the stones down as hard as they could. This would give them a small double jump to send them a couple feet further.

[@osmium6832]

9:42 You are correct in that it must have momentum, but it doesn't necessarily require mass. Photons have momentum and they are massless. You can push a solar sail or even a spaceship, albeit slowly, with nothing but photons. Mass and energy are interchangeable thanks to E=Mc^2, so the energy content of a photon determines its momentum.

[@angelnieves5679]

Muzzle breaks are also used on high powered rifles for the same reason. Look at the Barrett m82a1 .

[@wolfofnowhere]

" you may have seen these on some tank cannons" uses an artillery piece instead

[@adambielen8996]

Well depending on the cannon in question it could be used for both Tanks and Artillery.

[@khodexus4963]

I always got the feeling that the gun releases something equivalent to a pressure wave that expands in all directions but with the bulk of it condensed toward the front. In this way, force is applied to J's entire body, not just from where he's holding the gun. Not sure if that's functional with our understanding of physics, but it is pretty soft sci-fi, so I don't think perfect accuracy is really super beneficial to the experience.

[@adennfett8743]

11:58 That explanation is what makes the Chiappa Rhino (revolver) so amazing. Because the barrel is located at the bottom of the cylinder, its much closer to being in-line with your arm. making the muzzle climb little to almost none. Edit: Demo Ranch has a video about the Rhino where he explains this as well: kzbin.info/www/bejne/j4HRd6mqhZyebZI

[@RAarMason]

Hey Kyle love the show I have a different interpretation of how the noisy Cricket works though I don't believe it fires anything at all. But I believe the noisy Cricket does is two things first I believe when it fires it's option 2 energy from another dimension at a pinpoint which would normally expand in a sphere,. The next what you hear making a cricket like sound is the noisy Cricket actually focusing that energy however it doesn't Focus the entire sphere there is a portion that comes out in a cone shape towards the person firing the weapon hence Will Smith being thrown back with his whole body feeling it and not just the recoil at the weapon while the rest of the energy is focused into a beam going straight out from the tip of the weapon.

[@xdtechniker2554]

12:45 So, these axial weapons on sci-fi ships are, thinking of the angular momentum, are pretty smart thing, also reducing energy usage for repositioning after firing (except canceling the recoil of course). Also as a positive thing, axial weapons are pretty easy to enlarge. Now, what if the Noisy Cricket would be like Megamans arm cannon? A axial weapon, on the front of your arm? 1. The recoil definitely hits harder 2. RIP in pieces bones of the arm 3. RIP shoulder 4. RIP a lot more, but I hope I can get the idea around of you having a real bad time.

[@kjnoah]

The noisy cricket could simply be ripping electrons off atoms causing a plasma to occur at the target which then would cause a rapid increase in air volume that then causes a large noise and a gust of wind that could safely blow him back. He would then not be thrown back if the target was further away or if the mass of the hit object was not sufficient enough to reflect the super heated air back. There would be no nuclear waste but some things could ignite due to the plasma induced. It could also be the only weapon that would allow for a double jump without ripping your arms off.

[@MostlyPennyCat]

Just FYI, if you're throwing stuff at 0.2C out of a barrel you're getting a plasma pistol whether you like it or not. Probably starts with most of the barrel.

[@MostlyPennyCat]

I mean, a 1g mass moving at 0.2C contains (I think) ~1.8TJ. Using half MV squared. I think that's a terrifying amount. I don't know if that would start fusing things and create exciting particles and radiation.

[@MostlyPennyCat]

Good news! I think it's only equivalent to 430 tons of TNT. So it's not like hurling thermonukes at, well, yourself.

[@MostlyPennyCat]

But hey, mount that bitch on a tank and you are GOLDEN.

[@irgyn]

btw, the "vapor" you can see when cooking water is not actually vapor, but water from the vapor condensing from cooling. you can't see many gases, especially those in the air.

[@temporaldisplacement]

Corrections! - Rocket jumping isn't conservation of momentum ...that's more phyics than you'll find in most (mirrors edge and portal being exceptions although neither game has rocket jumping) first person shooters and if you aim and the ground and fire you will in fact ...explode. Rocket jumping is aiming down, jumping, firing a rocket in the ground the player is above and riding the AOE (area of effect) explosion up higher than the jump would otherwise have taken the player. - A tanks muzzle-break does not reduce recoil to any significant degree according to tank engineers although it is a commonly held misconception. A bore evacuator or fume extractor however can also have a small effect but hydraulic recoil absorbers and springs do the work in recoil reduction. The purpose of a muzzle-break on a tank is to divert smoke and gas out of the gunners feild of view so they can determine if a shot fired hit it's target as quickly as possible. Note! - I always thought the noisy cricket was a extremly high powered audio spotlight. This technology was originally developed by the US Navy and Soviet Navy for underwater sonar in the mid-1960s, and was briefly investigated by Japanese researchers in the early 1980s, but these efforts were abandoned due to extremely poor sound quality (high distortion) and substantial system cost. These problems went unsolved until a paper published by Dr. F. Joseph Pompei of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1998.

[@bundlesofjoe]

Pretty sure if you had a rifle that could allow you to double jump that when it was put under your arm (as it would need to be or it would just fly out of your hands) it could potentially have enough force to just rip through both of your arms. Especially considering it would just need to move a bone out of the way not break it to pass through.

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

Who needs a gun when you have a hammer? -Thor

[@aaronmorgenstern8705]

Dude

[@aaronmorgenstern8705]

Are you stalking me jellal?

[@aaronmorgenstern8705]

This is too spooky

[@AJ-ut8cz]

The answer for next episode: Because lighting is high in voltage while a tazer would be high in amps. A lighting strike would take the path of least resistance while a tazer arc would take the shortest distance between the two points, so if thor was wearing his armor then lightning would through that to the ground. You'll also remember that in endgame gamora says his muscles feel like metal fibers, so if his muscles are as dense as metal then they may share some properties with metal. Like the ability to very efficiently conduct electricity, turning his musculature into a lightning rod. Which also may be why he can redirect a lighting blast at his opponent.

[@ginnyjollykidd]

What we can't get around is the recoil Will Smith feels from the Noisy Cricket. We calculated the muzzle velocity of the Noisy Cricket by the recoil he feels and how far it throws him backwards. The thing that makes the scenario impossible is the direction of the recoil force of the gun. And we have determined that the shot could recoil and break his wrist, arm, shoulder, and any flesh it hit would be jelly or vaporized at the point of contact. You can try to change the muzzle velocity, but you can't get away from the effects of the Noisy Cricket unless there was a way to process that momentum through Will Smith's entire body, as is depicted in the movie.

[@dtllmpn]

Maybe the Noisy Cricket houses piece of neutron star in some kind of hyper-pressurized containment system with anti-gravitational systems. Firing the cricket temporarily and quickly creates a small opening, with the resulting expansion being used as the "bullet" like a space age super-soaker, but with neutrons instead of water.

[@kineangstkills5377]

You didn't quite describe how a muzzle break works right. The expanding gases push on the perpendicular portions of the muzzle break to the rifle and the forward force on the muzzle break witch is attached to the barrel of the gun is what counters the force we call recoil. Not the gases moving to the sides. The break basically tries to push the gun forward.

[@anthonyk7924]

Around 12 min when you’re talking about firing a pistol. There is a pistol made by Chiappa called the Rhino. They re did how the pistol works so the energy transfers into your hand instead of over. Helping reduce kick.

[@aveleziii]

How could such a heavy, slow moving projectile actually travel? Would it actually move through the air or plow through the ground? Also kind of reminds me of the mooninite's quad-glacier.

[@Jespin_]

"The bullet is enormous, there is no escape".

[@MarginalSC]

Main issue about the projectile idea is... How does a gun that small never run out of ammo? There's no clip. Extradimensional channeling?

[@roleplayingwithidiots7455]

MarginalSC and most importantly Can universes big that ring to fit in a charm/pendant?

[@MarginalSC]

@@roleplayingwithidiots7455 Perhaps it's shooting proto universes.

[@allenspace4123]

Kyle I think it was misleading referring the noisy cricket to a 155mm howitzer and calling it a "tank cannon"... It maybe more safe say as a "large gun" because a cannon assumes it is using some form of explosive (propellant) device to send an object on a ballistic trajectory. In addition, a "tank" in this case is a heavily armoured and heavily armed weapons platform that is highly mobile on different terrain. I could be entertaining wrong!! Love your SHOW!! :)

[@fatbabyjake]

Haha I know someone that tries to say that they know ways to achieve faster than speed of light to do warp speed and that it is possible to do in this lifetime lol. Love the episode and what you covered in this footnotes episode as well. Can't wait until the next episode of Because Space, Because Science and Because Science live.

[@Biomaterials_Science]

Surely the point on a handgun where the impulse from firing it acts is close to the cartridge where the most acceleration takes place and not at the tip of the barrel as you describe in the video.

[@lesliekilgore648]

let's all hope Kyle's new channel is just as dope and popular as this one. :D i've watched all its content and THERE'S NOT ENOUGH!!! :(

[@SerathDarklands]

If Chris Hemsworth ever decides he wants to retire from playing Thor, Kyle could easily fill the role with his luxurious locks.

[@supercoolpanda]

Hey Kyle, hopefully I don't ruin the fun of the next episode but I may have an idea of what it is. Current. Kinda like how u can touch a battery and not an outlet. Maybe Thor's body is used to lightning which is a very very high voltage of DC (Not the inferior comic company) electricity so when faced with a comparatively lower amperage to lightning, maybe Thor's body is accustomed to DC more so than AC is what I am getting to. Idk. Kinda confusing wording so i might just be spouting garbage but idk maybe i'm way off track from what's in the video but that's just what i think would be most logical for the theory. Thx

[@Ascalis1]

One of the best things about science is that knowledge and acceptance that being wrong is a possibility, especially in the face of evidence. This is so unlike... other walks of life.

[@wattsmith2656]

Perhaps the Noisy Cricket fires a much smaller bit of neutronium or some super dense material that is a lot less dense? An iron projectile at 7.85 grams per cm3 has to go 60,000 km/s. A projectile with a density of 39,250 gm/cm3 need only go 12 km/s, only 75% the speed of the fastest recorded macroscopic projectile. Material

[@ligh7foo7]

8:58 lol Mathew doing the Maths, it's in his name

[@NelielSugiura]

I am surprised you did not bring mention to Destin's (SmarterEveryDay) video about suppressors and how they work. I think he had two, actually.

[@hueyiroquois3839]

13:00 If spider Doom were going to travel faster than light, we would probably already have heard about it. There was a young lady named Bright Whose speed was far faster than light; She set out one day In a relative way And returned on the previous night. A. H. Reginald Buller

[@Kazz1187]

Question for Because science video!! You know how Titans shifters take on a lot of material when transforming? What are the implications of that? Environmental, surrounding folk, the air around them?

[@xdailo2x]

What happens if I travel at 50% of c in one direction and you travel at 51% of c in the opposite direction? From my perspective would you be traveling at 101% the speed of light?

[@leeman27534]

what if the noisy cricket's 'suppressor' just either gives it a different projectile, somehow, or it's a form of energy fired, and the 'suppressor' lessens how much energy is fired in a single shot, therefore actually leading to less recoil, less dmg, because less 'energy' is used in a single trigger pull?

[@vishva8kumara]

I'm more of bow and sward person, but the recoil of the gun that rotates it up is due to wrong grip of the weapon. In any hand held weapon system, the grip is a very important factor on the aim.

[@Lucian_Andries]

6:08 Have you seen the recoil of that thing??? He was recoiling allover the place...

[@roleplayingwithidiots7455]

Also ... have you every done “perpetual motion” I theorized that if 4 wooden fans placed adjacent from each other in a box shape with magnetic dowels or stick/pegs so that when they spin they each in turn push on each other propelling each in turn. While they rotated they would pass some sort of striker that would give or make a spark. (Creating static electricity) The magnetic pegs/dowel equipped with opposing polar (positive and negative wires) or whatever conduit to generate and redistribute the power created back into the spinning of the fans. And each fan will be able to produce the minimum amount of energy to power or keep it spinning🤯...I have more but....maybe I’m just high

[@calebdouglass5644]

I know how to have perpetual motion... throw something in space

[@MostlyPennyCat]

Moment of force. It's called a moment of force. Say mo..YAAAAAAAAAY

[@swampcooler8332]

If the white smoke on dry ice is condensed water vapor, why do you see it to a lesser degree when you open a new 2 litre soda bottle? Im pretty sure it does that even when not refrigerated.

[@jab-io2po]

Have u seen the recoil of the T-Rex It’s a rifle bro crazy recoil Also a ridiculous amount lol makes it kinda useless to use realistically Also in quantum entanglement don’t the particles send info and react wayyyy faster than the SOL??? They can be at opposite sides of the universe and the react instantly (I think)

[@christianheichel]

You'd have to have measuring being done by both people on both ends and then they'd still have to meat up in order to tell if it worked. There by negating of the need to break the speed of light.

[@jab-io2po]

Chris Heichel yeah I feel u but, in theory if those 2 ppl can send a signal or idk ( i don’t wanna use an impossible analogy like if they can teleport to let each other know it worked But then the teleportation would be faster than the SOL LoLs) So in theory if they can let each other know some how Those particles are still sending info faster/reacting faster than the SOL even if we can’t talk to the other ppl on the other side.. right? So we technically know.. That something out there that can go faster I might be speculating a bit but Yeah there is “technically” something that can surpass the SOL what u think?

[@christianheichel]

@@jab-io2po I guess technically you would have information moving instantaneously just not that we can tell of until after the fact

[@timandersen3498]

Just some random high thought: What is infinity? We know that even the universe and therefore spacetime have to die at some point. So time isn't infinite. But I was wondering, don't we use the duration of time to describe infinity? Let's say, the absolute end of time is 100. If a person lives to 100 and dies together with the universe, would they have lived forever? Or would they have to still exist after the end of time, to live infinite? - Love the show Kyle! Please keep it up \m/

[@Nightpacer]

You answered your own question, the reason we don't use time to describe infinity is because it isn't infinite? At least as we currently understand. It may very well be past the death of the universe but after that there will be literally nothing. And no, living from the current time until the end of the universe wouldn't be forever, as forever implies beginning with no end. Even if the meaning of it was from the start to the end it still wouldn't be forever as nobody has lived since the beginning of time and the universe

[@dm4n20]

The Noisy Cricket is so small, you might have a more direct recoil force. Instead of a more rotational recoil. Then it would exert more straight backward force.

[@notgiven5631]

That recoil is exactly why the under barrel was invented to reduce recoil by putting the force closer to the hand

[@grahamcann1761]

As always thank you so very much for your video. However you touched on a very deadly point, and one I think you should expand on, unless the news articles I've read are somehow wrong. I've read of at least two occasions of people dying in their vehicles because of dry-ice, and carbon-monoxide poisoning. (For example a woman in Washington, on August 2nd last year.) Maybe what you see aren't carbon monoxide fumes, but, as I understand it, the fumes are still their, and can be very deadly. So I'd urge you to consider warning folks, during a hot summer, when many are keeping their drinks cool in their car with dry ice, (popular with RV users I understand,) you may not see carbon monoxide, what you see may not be carbon monoxide, but the fumes do exist, and are deadly! Again, thank you Kyle, and all those behind the scenes.

[@MinistryOfMagic_DoM]

You missed the part on suppressors where they actually make the projectile more accurate, stable, and slightly faster, which is something that every video game gets wrong by reducing range and damage when you add a suppressor despite it actually doing exactly the opposite in real world physics.

[@giovanelupo36]

the projectile fired by the noisy cricket is also canonical in shape from what i've seen