Outside the Box - Tom Explains the Gnome to Lydia

[@SquidGame]

I thought the "i've seen that episode of the simpsons, i think i know how space works" was enough to show i was joking about the whole thing but i guess not 😂

[@Aetheraev]

Joking? On the internet? In [Current year]? You should have known better. Also everyone knows bullets work by magnets not gravity

[@JACKplusBLANK]

How dare you joke about physics and our brave lunar space heroes going to space war.

[@ryankunst668]

Oh thank God. It crossed my mind you were joking, but the rest was very convincing and I was concerned.

[@RubelliteFae]

​@@Aetheraev Localized entirely within your kitchen?!?

[@beebix247]

I honestly was not sure whether you were joking or not and given the current geopolitical state of the world I would not be surprised to find out that an adult human thinks that that's how gravity works in space

[@EpleGoesInsane]

Lydia has the most orc logic of anyone Ive heard on the internet and Im all for it

[@ringosis]

The funny funny thing is she's more correct in most of her statement than Tom is. If you fire a gun when there's no gravity then Lydia is correct, the bullet will just fly off into space forever. She's just misjudged the gravity on the moon. Escape velocity on the moon is 2.5ish km per second when a fast bullet only does about 0.8. If guns shot bullets at higher velocity then what Lydia said would be true, you could shoot them into space and they couldn't come back to the moon.

[@RubelliteFae]

@@ringosis 🤨 A bullet fired at a man on Earth will arc down along with Earth's gravitational acceleration. A bullet fired at a man on Earth's moon will arc down along with Luna's gravitational acceleration. Even without gravitational acceleration it's not going to be fired, then travel orthogonal to its trajectory vector 😵💫

[@ringosis]

@@RubelliteFae That's not something she said. That's how Tom misinterpreted what she said. "Floats off into the abyss" doesn't imply a change of direction. The point Lydia is making but doesn't understand well enough to be clear about, is that if you shoot a projectile faster than the escape velocity of whatever gravity well you are in, that projectile wont stop, it will fuck off into space until it hits something. Knowing Lydia, I would put money on this being her half remembering the "Isaac Newton is the deadliest son of a bitch in space" speech from Mass Effect 2. Even if she's not, Google it, it's a good explanation of what she's referring to.

[@RubelliteFae]

@@ringosis It's what her hand movements indicated. Orthogonality.

[@fufumccuddlypoops5502]

“What’s behind that box?” One of life’s greatest mysteries, classic

[@jackstewart2258]

I ask that question to myself frequently

[@WhiteEagleTube]

Lydia's gravity knowledge is almost as good as her knife knowledge.

[@theishiopian68]

Lydia's gravity knowledge hurts to listen to.

[@AbsoluteTravisT]

It's so funny just to think what is causing the bullet to float *upwards* in her mind

[@omfgblondie]

Lydia doesn't think there's no gravity on the moon, as Tom seemed to. She thinks there is negative gravity on the moon.

[@KGello]

@@AbsoluteTravisT Gravity acts on all things on Earth, and pulls them down. Despite gravity's influences, bullets fly level. Clearly, bullets have the power to rise up, to cancel out gravity. Hence, in space bullets will fly up and away.

[@PierceArner]

Even just listening to her explain pants folds at 1:36 is… _quite something._

[@daddysempaichan]

​@@AbsoluteTravisT Only thing I can think of is that she only knows bullets goes up then down, and just assumed all guns do that, not understanding that it's the user aiming higher to compensate for bullet drop, for Earth's gravity pulling everything down. Something like that. That, and maybe probably her putting guns in it's own special, mystical catagory from other weapons like the Bow and Arrow, despite the fact that they're doing essentially the same thing and are working under the same physics, that's causing her some confusion.

[@thomasfloyd6714]

4:58 modern guns fire in a vacuum, all the oxigen they need is in the cartridge.

[@dororo101]

But what makes the bullet go if there’s not gravity or sound?

[@thomasfloyd6714]

@dororo101 If a gun fires in space and no ones around to not hear it scream does the bullet still feal fear

[@dororo101]

@@thomasfloyd6714 they have no mouth but they must scream

[@dziewiaty]

But then when cartridge is broken all oxygen escapes and goes up, carrying away bullet with it because there is no gravity in space

[@valeforedark]

Lydia is like Tom's cool appreciative little sister . That wants to be enthusiastic about his hobbies

[@CaptainSnowman96]

I love hearing Lydia’s concept of how a gun shoots

[@BCase56]

10d6 psychic damage

[@damienbox4758]

We need another Tom and Lydia Warhammer stream. This one was too funny to be a one off

[@travishimebaugh8381]

The gnome is really more of a state of mind, Lyds. You wouldn'tt get it.

[@Blitzkrieger17]

i think you're thinking of the fishstick, it's a delicate state of mind!

[@joshcorbett9674]

Someone left a window open

[@ArkonArchive]

2:48 lmao, it floats down. If only Lenny were here

[@Taudlitz]

I liked this Lydia person, but turns out shes Firefly heretic. Pass the torches and pitchforks

[@PasqualItizzz]

Is Lydia related to science?

[@rc_aw11_mr24]

The Soviet’s shot a 23mm cannon in space back in the 70s it apparently worked but they needed to fire thrusters to counter the force of the cannon

[@danielhall6354]

Art Deco is when it looks like it is made by Dwarves and art Nouveau is when it looks like it is made by elves

[@belzedk]

Has Lydia never seen a mooning gnome before?

[@poyaispanic5269]

Lyds normal human perspective makes a lot of sense when it comes to the Vietnam war, but not so much with ballistics

[@tovakiin.]

I love this duo.

[@ndnbs4984]

why is there ambient noise of cars? 0_0

[@Magic__7]

Im going to guess it's the game sounds

[@Metalrasputian]

The gravity turned off and the cars started floating by the studio

[@Kragnar1]

Oh Lydia. So funny… yet so wrong.

[@jonathanwells223]

The worst part is that she’s not even trolling, she really is that dumb

[@SquidGame]

​@jonathanwells223 i literally am trolling - every time this clip is posted everyone things I'm being serious and it's so painful hahah. It was a throwback to a different video I'd done with Tom where I was winding him up with this "gun in space story" 🥲

[@B1GB3RN]

"What's (beh)in(d) the box?"

[@keeganhines517]

Cool to see the ANZAC represented

[@strategystuff5080]

How little they know about guns, and Physics is pretty immense. If anything The gas-expansion would be less hindered, by the lack of atmosphere. But then again depends on how cold it is, if the gun has been cooled to the point where there is not enough heat for ignition.

[@Blitzkrieger17]

something has awoken in lyds, now she's gnome curious...

[@VengD]

Dear Lydia... Other than gravity, it's wind, atmosphere and all that shit, that guides a bullet. If there's none of that... It just goes straight.

[@MrDarillion]

Ah yes, the war... in vietnam... the war that belongs to vietnam... the vietnam war.

[@Trick.Sparrow]

Lydia is the funniest person in the yogscast

[@emmiannon1266]

Im kind of glad Lydia called out the Vietnam minis, that war is way to recent and full of crimes against humanity for me to be comfortable with people making little toys out of.

[@Mystic-Midnight]

That's generally true for any war in the 20th century though

[@XMysticHerox]

Unless you also have issues with basically any modern shooter and most war movies that seems a little inconsistent.

[@emmiannon1266]

@@XMysticHerox Yeah every wars fucked and frankly I do feel funny when I see people trivialising things like the Iraq wars or yugoslav wars. The thing with Vietnam in particular is it has such a larger place in this kind of culture, an almost 'action figure' culture around it. Lydia in the clip mentioned "that photo" which I know the one shes talking about, its the one of the small child running in terror as firebombs fall on her village, thats the sort of thing that comes to mind when I think of the Vietnam war, and then suddenly jolting back to going "woah cool napalm bombers" just feels beyond fucked.

[@emmiannon1266]

@@Mystic-Midnight Anything WW2 and older falls into 'historical' for me which is fine. but anything newer than that and youre just making toys and games out of current trauma and crisis situations which never sits right with me. It feels like an insult to the victims of these conflicts, many of whom are still alive and living with the trauma to this day.

[@LazurBeemz]

​@@XMysticHeroxyeah I do think those are in poor taste, actually

[@Sp4rt4nSl4ya]

As an American with a decent amount of firearm knowledge, hearing Lydia talk about them is both horrifying, and staggering.

[@awmperry]

As an ex-mil Brit and Swede with quite a lot of both that and physics and space knowledge… what you said.

[@branominal]

You can _really_ tell that Lydia didn't go to university lol

[@jekanyika]

You can study art at University

[@Alexander59059]

I love listening to British people talk about guns

[@HammerTime150]

Then you will love Jonathan Ferguson (the keeper of firearms and artillery at the Royal Armouries museum in the UK which houses thousands of iconic weapons from throughout history)

[@jekanyika]

British people have been talking about guns since before the US was a country

[@Lunch_Meat]

Genuinely curious if anyone here can actually desribe what would happen if you fired a gun on the moon. See a lot of people joking about it, but very few explaining it

[@ryankunst668]

Well the gun would fire fine without atmosphere because gunpowder is self oxidizing. Basic physics tells us that an object in motion will stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force. On Earth bullets eventually fall due to both gravity and air resistance. On the moon there is no air resistance and significantly less gravity, so the bullet will travel much farther than normal. I don't think it would have enough velocity to exceed the moon's gravity and escape into space, but admittedly I'm not certain. In open space it would continue on the same trajectory indefinitely until it struck something or passed close enough to something with enough gravity to alter its course. But also Lydia commented saying that she was joking and has at least a somewhat better understanding of physics than she implied in this video, making all the jokes moot.