Pokémon's BIGGEST Threat! (The Science of Team Sky)

[@ancientbaltoy8769]

We're asking Michael to react to this right?

[@shadowfan115]

Oh 100%

[@luc_de_hoogh]

Hail yeah!

[@Me_Bole_Briga]

Of course!

[@kenacitie8245]

Absolutely yes

[@TheDisnerd]

Is the sky blue?

[@vessel__]

Someone hasn't told this man that team sky is exceptionally broke

[@overseerpjoe9477]

Chiptide and MAndJTV was not on my list of Top Ten Anime Crossovers, but here we are.

[@chaoscasserole5990]

The solutions to expanding the sky turned Night Sky levels of evil really quickly

[@derekstryder2281]

Might explain why Prime TS!Mikey chose to play hero after a bit of self inflection.

[@KingCarbon72]

So he didn’t get the memo that Team Sky’s not an evil team anymore. I have a feeling you’ll get accepted anyway but still

[@MegaDerpyDragon...52]

It's still a team right, evil or not?

[@claran3616]

Yes! We are! Would you like a pamphlet?

[@levievil9220]

@@claran3616dude the leader is trying to reform after seeing the dark future so we rebranding as an environmentalist group to protect the sky from air pollution so hand me the old ones and I’ll hand you the new ones

[@Mewvally]

@@levievil9220 no need, i already gave him the new ones before hand

[@levievil9220]

@@Mewvally aight I’m going back to galar to make sure rose doesn’t do anything stupid

[@YoelSchwarz]

The funniest part is that team sky themselves have no idea what their goal is.

[@claran3616]

WE’RE WORKING ON IT

[@PokemonNerd265]

We have a goal. It's to expand the sky, whatever that means. The goal is there, the science is not.

[@DarkEclipse23]

@@PokemonNerd265expand and protect* the sky is for all to admire its majestic beauty ;3

[@PokemonNerd265]

@@DarkEclipse23 Ah yes, of course. That's on the pamphlet.

[@annelisewegner1411]

I thought we already got to the point of not EXPANDING THE SKY but rather go against air-pollution and all that since we still weren't able to figure out how to do the expanding stuff 😂😅. We want our lord skydios to finally be proud of us after all. (And not wast his time 😅 We after all already dragged him into the groudon and kyogre-mess.😅)

[@yusheitslv100]

3:00 both Team Magma and Team Aqua use Poochyena/Mightyena, and in the first Team Sky vid, Mikey names his "Air Bud." So it's also a movie reference.

[@chaosenforcerdhm969]

Solution use the power of palkia to make the sky bigger

[@meladaptiveTragedies]

Giratina would be better as the master of gravity

[@SkyEcho751]

I was gonna say use Giratina to rip out the underlayers of the planet, but your plan works too.

[@pixlepalzcrowther6694]

I mean in the platinum vid he uses Giritina so that checks out

[@Sybry605]

​@@meladaptiveTragediesit's the opposite of gravity(it's the pokemon of antimatter

[@acidp0p]

​@@meladaptiveTragediestechnically anti-matter...

[@derbyt]

Earth has PLENTY of space for flying creatures already. What we really need to do is thicken the atmosphere so more creatures can fly in it.

[@claran3616]

Ooh I like that.

[@theletters9623]

now THERES a thought

[@snowboundwhale6860]

Loving the idea of a game where throughout the story Team Sky leadership is visionary but hasn't quite figured out the details, so they keep declaring their new plans on how to expand the sky, then coming back later/ having one of their researchers approach them saying "we've run the numbers and this one's a bust, we'll have to find another way", and they slowly progress through all of these plans until they finally settle on this. After they land on this course of action their base gets revamped to have a stage effect that gives every pokemon below a certain weight threshold in the pokedex levitate.

[@thesausageman5388]

@@snowboundwhale6860I would actually love to see the arbitrary values like weight have a function

[@VannyBeumer]

Mikey has access to several gods, gravity is a suggestion.

[@banditrests]

Nerd sniping Mikey so hard. At least it would be an interesting planet if we had 41 moons and a network of super volcanoes.

[@IronVigilante451]

GO TEAM SKY!

[@cullenhutchison6528]

Basically, vaporizing the oceans or ejecting the land into space would effectively expand the sky. Therefore, Team Sky directly opposing Team Aqua and Team Magma makes sense.

[@PokemonNerd265]

To explain how any Pokémon becomes acceptable. If it's a flying type, it's in. If it can learn fly, it's in. If it can visibly fly, it's in. Floating is a grey area, but we allow those with levitate. Air Bud/ Air Buddy is an exception.

[@DarkEclipse23]

Just a reminder. Golurk can fly. Leader Mikey absolutely had a ‘blast’ with that realization 😆

[@PokemonNerd265]

@@DarkEclipse23 Ah yes, I remember. Definitely the most unusual member, but it fits the criteria of being able to learn fly.

[@zivronen9539]

I mean, there is an entire lore about Mightyena, but to avoid important spoilers, let's just say that last one I remember was, I believe, eventually tera flying which isn't usually approved but there was an exception for them. Also, Mightyena deserve more love, because gamefreak obviously didn't give them any.

[@RayTheLukas]

The first reason Mightyena got use in Team Sky was because Team Magma and Aqua used one too

[@DarkEclipse23]

@@RayTheLukasand then used again because he discovered how to give his mightyena the gift of flight :3

[@swampazzo9615]

Dude, my evil organization lasted like 10 minutes. We just asked jirachi to remove all fire types from Sinnoh to prevent forest fires and it was done. Surely some move can alter the rules of physics themself without making everyone go extinct.

[@ThisIsAHandle-xz5yo]

Did the fire types die or did they just get teleported somewhere else?

[@nightspawnson-of-luna4936]

So you're the reason that Sinnoh has such a crappy regional dex in DP

[@PokemonNerd265]

This is a new level of evil.

[@swampazzo9615]

@@ThisIsAHandle-xz5yo well the wish had "gone". Never expected the damn star baby to own a 38mm..

[@Glacier_Prince]

Quick! Someone get the leader of Team Sky away from his date with Skyla to react to this!

[@joshuaanderson9102]

Lmao

[@GoldenTGB]

I always figured that the plan was to use Rayquaza to somehow generate more air molecules. Sure, its creating air out of nothing, but what would happen if you were to double the amount of air molecules in our atmosphere?

[@TheChiptide]

Depending on what type of gas you’re creating, a lot of it would just be lost to space

[@LEGONERD06]

@@TheChiptideso nothing

[@airplanes_aren.t_real]

​@@TheChiptide and what if you double gravity to compensate in order for earth to hold onto all that oxygen?

[@zap4th368]

@@airplanes_aren.t_realnot an expert, but likely an increase to air pressure without changing the actual height of the atmosphere.

[@nightspawnson-of-luna4936]

Also now that I think about it, this kinda reminds me of how in Phineas and Ferb Doof would sometimes have these really petty reasons for doing schemes that realistically would probably destroy the entire world by accident...

[@Rose-yx6jq]

Isn't that why when he went to Kanto, he decided to just conquer all of it after realizing he had no idea how to actually expand the sky.

[@klikkolee]

Decreasing the surface gravity will also decrease the surface pressure. The surface pressure is the result of the atmosphere near the surface needing to hold up the atmosphere above it. With a lower acceleration due to gravity, that weight will be lower too. So it has the same problem as changing composition. One way or another, this plan needs to involve adding more matter to the atmosphere.

[@SheepStar8]

2:59 Is hilarious! Although I do get why Michael included it.

[@TalesofDrCreepYPasta]

Correction on Team Sky being evil:They were never really too successful at being evil in the first place, and they stopped calling themselves an evil team after they met the leader of Team Night Sky, a version of team sky from another universe where team sky actually is evil. So, they would probably care a lot about morals. Correction on the goal:They gave up on that in the first episode.

[@vanguardbreaker8826]

Great video! Loved the mafia bit at the end lol. Although team sky pivoted away from evil recently- Mikey does know an ethically dubious scientist who might have an internship position open though!

[@NassiLove]

Michael used to be like maxi where he was the one with the glasses... But you're right. He is missing a nerdy guy with glasses in the team

[@aliciastokes9897]

Who knew that expanding the sky would involve going underground oh the irony

[@SmollerishBean]

Who's gonna tell him Team Sky stopped being an evil team and started being a more hero-type protective team a while ago?

[@hhjan594]

Well I can't wait for Michael to post a reaction video to this video. Hopefully that happens soon.

[@huhfeesh]

I would say expanding the sky is making the atmosphere higher so Rayquaza has a bigger home.

[@yusheitslv100]

To think "expand the sky" isn't just "deal with air pollution"

[@PokemonNerd265]

That's included in the fine print. We praise all towns that don't drastically increase emissions. We love wind turbines, for example. Very safe, very clean, and they're in the sky. Perfect creations.

[@TheRealMariobrine]

Learning that Mightyena can learn "Fly" was never on my bucket list

[@jakariashafin8685]

It can't it was a tera flying mightyana

[@Mr.Brothybear]

I can see why They Changed their Goal from expanding it to Protecting it

[@YoelSchwarz]

Hear me out: we just rewrite the laws of physics.

[@grimcreeper8196]

Considering what the team sky scientists have already done I would not be surprised

[@WeirdPeacock]

Physics? whats that?

[@skskslla1396]

use arkoos

[@Rose-yx6jq]

*GO TEAM SKY*

[@nightspawnson-of-luna4936]

I just discovered this channel through my recomended, I'm loving it, this reminds me of classic Matpat... back when it was more about math

[@dubbingsync]

Air Bud still taking hits all these years later.

[@KingCarbon72]

Also what about Team Night Sky. There goals are very specific. Are they possible?

[@LuckyNumber39]

I's say yes since enough cloud density could probably create an artificial night, darkening the sky as he wants

[@grimcreeper8196]

They could also try the pollution route

[@MayBeSomething]

I always thought that "expanding the sky" meant "make it easier for pokemon to fly." There's an easy way to do this. Just demolish mountains, since they reach up into the sky, meaning less sky to fly in.

[@LuckyNumber39]

I see a potential truce between the Hoenn teams happening after this. Think about it: - The sky is expanded by removing enough of the Earth to make a second one - A second Earth means double the space for both land and sea dwellers - Teleportation exists, so travelling between planets won't be a problem Everyone wins!

[@GiraffesRweird-x4e]

I can imagine him doing this whole thing in front of team sky Mikey with the conclusion and asking to be on team sky and Mikey saying “I mean all you had to say was ‘I like birds’ and you would be accepted but I like that too!”

[@BlakeTingler]

So that makes three members of team Sky Mikey: The Leader TheChiptide: The Scientist Me: Also a Scientist and Admin

[@owencoles2798]

We’ve got ourselves another Team Sky scientist!

[@AlexDayz]

10x better than any of the Team Sky submissions on the subreddit

[@halolytical9375]

Team Sky using Fire, Ground, and Flying Pokemon is very unique. Fire to heat and evaporate all the water, Ground to dig the earth and remove the ground, and Flying to populate and preserve.. THE SKY

[@hussarya3380]

3:00 It's because Mightyena can fly if you get it a jet-pack XDDD But really, Team Aqua and Team Magma commonly use that Pokemon, even Archie and Maxie too.

[@drsupriyobhattacharya7422]

Oh so this is what team night sky did

[@jonathanmarks3112]

You just got yourself a new subscriber! As an MandJTV fan and gamer, that was fascinating. Gave me Game Theorist vibes.

[@luxrayblast]

Well, the goal of Team Sky has Changed by "Pokémon Violet, but, I'm Team Sky" because Team Night Sky is Team Sky from a Dark Future where Mikey loses to Professor Turo, but, is picked up by alternative version him where he actually becomes a victorious villain. So, Night Sky Michael came to Present Day & tried to Break *our* Mikey. Team Night Sky Mikey is currently FAR in the past. How far? We don't know. Our Mikey sent Night Sky Mikey far into the past. But, Night Sky rules a Darkened Sky and no one can see the sun unless they grovel to him. Anyone that defies Night Sky is crushed. So now, Team Sky is preventing that future by protecting the Sky, because no one deserves to suffer under a Darkened Sky. *Also,* *Team* *Night* *Sky* *dumped* *Mightyena* *and* *that's* *unforgivable!*

[@TheTenzen12]

I mean if digging half of Earth doubles sky, why not throw that on Moon to give it enough mass to have it's own sky too? ...a no I don't care about boring stuff like tides.

[@Magma-Idiot-2001]

Speaking Magma and Aqua are two extreme ends of the environmentalists in Hoenn, I imagine Team Sky would be in the middle of that spectrum and keeps both groups in check. But hey, I wouldn't know, I'm just a Magma with mostly Electric Pokémon.

[@garatenadialga6886]

Two get a patreon we need to give an eevee a nickle stone

[@IamMeHere2See]

2:26 Ah, yes. Our most beloved star. May it be a light in dark places when all other lights go out.

[@LEBNice]

He just wants to get rid of pollution dude

[@Luigicat11]

Well, there's always the Matryoshka World approach. For just a relatively-small amount of extra land to hold onto it placed at the proper distance, we could make the atmosphere, and by extension the sky, as big as we want. Provided we had the material to put it all together, of course.

[@cwolf1221]

Great, now team sky needs to hunt down Hoopa, release it from its shackles, and then find a way to force it to portal all of Earths hyper dense core out into space somewhere else, or maybe Palkia if you can get the god of space to work for you but those Hoopa rings showing up all over ORAS islands seem to indicate hoopa is somewhere in Hoenn

[@KenBladehart]

I would create an underground team where they enforce a rule that if any of the Pokemons fainted, they have to trade with each other Illegal? No. Nefarious? Mayhap

[@kaylaa2204]

In one video he did refer to the concept of getting rid of the land and sea, which hampers the goals of the other two teams while making more sky, but come to think of it, that wouldn’t make more atmosphere.

[@sweeneytodd1414]

Guess we're sticking to protecting the sky.

[@garatenadialga6886]

That's just a theroy...a GAME theroy

[@Sybry605]

If birds can breathe in it than it's the sky in my book

[@phacey4444]

Michaels probably quite proud he's popular enough for this video to exist

[@incorrectdigit]

Maybe I’m really dumb and there’s an easily explained answer why this wouldn’t work (I tried google, but didn’t find anything out though maybe that’s google being bad now) but is there any science about what would happen if we could magically just get more gas, like what if we could somehow go to other planets, get the gasses from there into canisters at the same ratio as our atmosphere, came home, and vented them all out essentially doubling the amount of gas in the air, what modifier are we adjusting then? Or would it be like earths gravity can’t hold it and it’d vent into space or something else?

[@TheChiptide]

Depending on what type of gas you use, you’d me modifying the mean molar mass. But you’re right at the end, a lot of that gas would be lost to space

[@claran3616]

Oh WE’RE LEGIT NOW LADIES AND GENTS OF THE SKIES

[@ICallShotgun13]

COMBINING THE MANDJTV SCIENCE MEMES AND TEAM SKY.

[@Lpro1281]

SOMEBODY SUMMON OUR LEADER

[@cblazerc]

actually, while his goal was to expand the sky at first, after failing to set up a proper base of operations long enough that he was able to fight an evil version of himself from the future (don't ask), his goal has eventually changed to protecting the sky that already exists.

[@ChilaAuroraVT]

Hear me out, would adding more air work?

[@TheChiptide]

Not without increasing the space height, the excess would just be lost to outer space

[@Forten3]

The best fan villain team ever

[@turtledragon5264]

Team sky mas caught giratina. Just have it destroy half the mantle. (By which I mean, break the law of conservation.)

[@samuelebertinazzi4468]

The problem is that youre wearing a red shirt and not green on a team sky team

[@TheChiptide]

I wanted to, but when you use a green screen that can be tricky…

[@PokemonNerd265]

​@TheChiptide We will accept that this time. In the future, you need to get a green glow up.

[@cullenhutchison6528]

Personally, I think the edge of the atmosphere should be defined as the elevation where the average molecule in the air would have a 50% chance to have escape velocity. The calculations for this are more complicated though, since the fact that temperature is not constant with respect to altitude becomes more important.

[@shynox599]

GO TEAM SKY!!

[@user-db4fy5ji8e]

Team Sky's goal **was** to expand the sky... That didn't work out, and they changed it to conquering the sky of various regions. Before some interdimensional time travel shenanigans helped him realize he wasn't actually interested in Villainy and became a protector instead of A. Conqueror or ekoterrorist...

[@CaptainUnown]

Is Richard coming with you to join Team Sky? And if so, does that mean he can finally get paid?

[@forgerofsouls9126]

I'm also a sucker for base tens! But...that is due to my OCD...and nothing else. Also, small correction on the Pokemon that can be used by Team Sky...basically, it includes any Pokemon that are: Flying type, can float/levitate, will evolve into a Pokemon that can fly/float/levitate, Mightyena, and/or can learn the move Fly. The last one means, even if the Pokemon does not fit the other groups, it can join, hence Golurk and even SMEARGLE, being able to be used. Just a small correction, nothing important.

[@StrawberryStickRB]

This video is my dream come true

[@felipestaudt4601]

Michael want to expand the ozone layer

[@puglinbrute9264]

I cant wait for someone to post this to his subreddit and gonna be like "yea people were dending it to me, i saw this when it came out"

[@Connowot387]

If Team Sky goes to Kalos, what will the leader think of Sky Battles? And the first five gyms…

[@supermannygamer2003]

So what about team sky going good and the introduction of team night sky

[@seecunning]

I love all this science, but if you need to change Earths gravity to make more sky, couldn't you just use Giratina, the literal GRAVITY pokémon

[@KaiserKai16]

Wouldn't hollowing out the earth remove the atmosphere? Not only would gravity be reduced due to the reduced mass of the earth, but the spinning of the metal core creates the magnetic field that protects against the sun stripping the atmosphere away.

[@TheChiptide]

Yeah, you can’t completely hollow it out, but as long as you don’t go beyond the mantle you’ll be fine! (At least, in that regard. You’ll probably be dead for a bunch of other reasons…)

[@thecartoonist058]

What if you tried causing clouds to become more solid so pokemon who cant fly can still admire the skys beauty.

[@TheChiptide]

I mean, it technically is possible to make clouds solid, it just all comes down as snow!

[@Dubbidu]

If we wanted to make the Karman line higher couldn't we add air to the atmosphere? It would make it so there is higher air pressure way higher up and both flying Pokémon and airplanes could go higher. Of course it's not it's easy, but we could use some Pokémon to do it

[@prohungary8614]

Space is sky so expanding the sky would be just destroying the planet itself😂

[@generationofwonders787]

"What is this, a crossover episode?"

[@janeokra]

Aww, you've been working on this video for so long that you didn't notice that Team Sky has evolved. It's a great video though

[@ladynoluck]

Wild mashup, but I’M EXCITED

[@BramLastname]

Okay but if oxygen is the limiting factor we can just add a bunch of hydrogen gas and add oxygen in a lower quantity too Because as long as you don't increase the amount of Nitrogen the overall density should go down, Meanwhile increasing the oxygen levels would lower the amount of air pressure required to breathe.

[@Baaluluna]

I personally always thought of it as destroying the top parts of the land & sea, making them sky. Where would the bits go? idk space or something Edit: Oh hey, you thought of a better version!

[@JAFarrow]

You could lower the average molar mass by adding in loads and loads of helium, without taking anything out

[@acidp0p]

Chiptide making a team sky video was not on my bucket list

[@rainbow_vader]

If Arceus just made earth like 10-20% bigger wouldn't that make all 3 teams happy?

[@snowboundwhale6860]

There's something really funny about how none of these methods are remotely helpful to flying pokemon. Team Magma had a similar issue with expanding the land, and Team Aqua at least would have "helped" oceanic water types at the cost of everything else, but team Sky's options are "superheat the world and kill everyone", "achieve unfathomable mining feats to make the air too thin to breathe or fly in", and lastly "argue to change the legal definition of where the sky is", the clearly least devastating of the three but also it's literally useless. Like do the birds care where we think the sky ends? They're the ones who know when they can't fly higher because they experience the effects of that. Litigious Team Sky is more just a menace to aeronautical engineering than anything else because that line isn't even really "where the sky ends" but "the upper limit to how high aircraft can fly at" and somehow that feels extremely fitting for the pokemon verse. If anything they should be arguing to either lower that line or impose a second line which makes the lowest legal flight altitude to clear more room for pokemon by limiting available space for aircraft.

[@AceDestro]

All I could think of was stealing the air/atmosphere from other planets and pumping it back into out own XD

[@levievil9220]

Mighty is there because of team aqua and magma and flying Tera types are allowed however only mighty seems to use that rule

[@puglife658]

Team sky also has giritina under its power and giritina can just reduce gravity without removing any matter.

[@lucianoardanazsgalla8630]

13:35 changing the composicion of earth for something less dense would reduce it mass?

[@Bluespace1230]

I am pretty sure team sky doesn’t know what team skys goals are

[@kaylaa2204]

I really hope Michael reacts to this.