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[@kylehill]

*Thanks for watching!* And a huge thanks to HORIZON BLACK for sending me their awesome material. Pick up your own display cases here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/311352786/horizon-black

[@AxxLAfriku]

hi

[@shadow_stalk]

i wouldnt be caught dead on camera in sandals either bud!! lmfaooo

[@Inertia888]

I would love to use a box like that for some photography. Maybe with some fiber-optics and RGB light running through them inside the box. The definition would be incredible!

[@MoggyMoon]

why not put a lightbulb in there with the camera so you can see the light not reflecting off stuff and it would look like the bulb was floating in a void? or some kinda light source

[@zairac2564]

What's the temperature inside the box? It would be interesting to know what the peak wavelength is (IR no doubt) and if there are animals that can sense the walls then (damn mosquitoes).

[@majormoron605]

"This is what pure nothingness looks like." Me watching this on my phone, staring at my own expressionless face...

[@ahmeddaboi5732]

We are all fleeting moments in the void

[@IAMDARTHVADERBITCH]

Black mirror baby!

[@ssj4broly974]

@@ahmeddaboi5732 Like tears in the rain

[@BlackbodyEconomics]

​@@ahmeddaboi5732 oh snaps - you don't even know => The Great Filter's episode 5, "Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?"

[@italucenaz]

Idk you, but I looked at a smilling face

[@NaudVanDalen]

Me: "I want to see black." My monitor: "Here's dark gray."

[@IDoABitOfTrollin]

Get an OLED screen

[@NeutronicalGaming]

@@IDoABitOfTrollin Oled is prettygood, but it still only displays some level of grey, no panel on earth will ever display true black even when powered off and covered in carbon nanotubes to block photon reflection, the best we can possibly achieve is some arbitrary level of grey, which is why screens keep getting brighter in response to people's demand for greater dynamic range, since we can't reflect less light, but we can produce more, and even then it will eventually become headache inducing and potentially damaging to look at it.

[@ravissary79]

Turn your gamma down.

[@monad_tcp]

@@NeutronicalGaming get a LED TV, it has pixels in the backlight that can be turned off individually, mine looked exactly the same as when its powered off. so the super black worked perfectly, the TV didn't emit any light, it does the same if I create a perfect 0,0,0 RGB bitmap and show it fullscreen. And to finish it, I cut a frame from the video stream, and opened it, pure 0,0,0

[@KaminariHouse]

Mess with your settings. It looked pretty black to me.

[@FlyingDwarfman]

Kyle Hill - Super nerd - Mountain climber - Evil mad genius - *NOT* an arts and craftsperson

[@mr-barehiney]

- Handsome Devil

[@orm11videos26]

-possoble norse thunder god

[@againstthegrain4164]

-Magic: the Gathering player

[@lindaseel8633]

@@mr-barehiney Oh yeah.

[@revimfadli4666]

-icon of autism

[@anastasijakukic3858]

hey kyle, im a student of architecture and i make models out of foam core quite frequently and the safest way to use knives with these materials is to score them, scoring is going over your cut several time with very light strokes, its a slower process but its safer and makes the cut clear!! Rad ep though cheers !!!

[@pabo619]

I have also used this score-and-snap method on lexan RC car body shells and sheet rock wall panels

[@Mainyehc]

Not only that, but using the ruler to just guide the X-acto knife is much better than just doing it freehand…

[@charlesquinn8860]

Yeah, this vid brought me back to drafting & design/ architecture classes in high school

[@StopChangingUsernamesYouTube]

"Touching it could potentially ruin part of i--" "Did someone say, 'cat time'? Cat time!"

[@oklimbo]

Cats sense the desire to protect and it activates their desire to destroy.

[@supernukey419]

all time is cat time

[@MaryAnnNytowl]

But there's gonna be a BOX!! MUST GET IN THE BOX!

[@DerpliciousDerek]

6:33

[@elbaecc]

ARIA is everything I imagined ARIA would look like.

[@drawapretzel6003]

Until you mentioned that, i didnt even realize, that kyle has been wearing a tungsten black ring this whole time. Proof even huge nerds can find love.

[@drrocketman7794]

His computer wife...

[@drrocketman7794]

Looks like my screen was switched off....

[@kylehill]

@@drawapretzel6003 Solid black diamond, actually

[@drawapretzel6003]

@@kylehill Ah yes, my favorite mineral, coal :P

[@Arcayenneist]

Kyle: "There are no photons in this box." Ambient gammas: "AM I A JOKE TO YOU?"

[@crusher9z9]

Yeah but you can't ses those

[@rjrelyea]

And the black box infra-red photons. You need to pump the box down to 0 degress K!:).

[@nickmarr6740]

I appreciate this episode more, because it went from calm and relaxing build phase of an exciting idea to him covered in paint, bloody, and pissed off which coincidentally, is exactly how all my projects start and end as well lol.

[@vantablack3816]

I'm more than a little bit jealous over here, Kyle. Not going to lie.

[@Emily-ye1rj]

If you want him to use you, convince Anish Kapoor to let other people

[@felixmervamee7834]

"I'm delighted to have seen in the box, it was life-changing in a way" did you just turn Derek into a villain?

[@SteveDice21]

Kyle put antilife in there.

[@tdb4830]

Yeah, there's some kind of indoctrination or mind control something in there.

[@franciscoguinledebarros4429]

Those who gaze upon the void join his cause

[@tefoca]

The KZbinr League of super villains is coming to a fruition.

[@uncroppedsoop]

It's so dark that it absorbs all the light from your soul as soon as you look inside

[@poshima]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1155">19:15</a> “This is what pure nothingness looks like” -me staring at myself in the reflection of my tablet…..

[@medikiii]

"Derek" "Makes videos and friendly wagers" I"M LAUGHING

[@maneotis4g63t]

Friendly 10 thousand dollar wages lol

[@benjammin1304]

Imagine just being able to call Derek up to do objectively pointless science shit

[@sillykristy]

There's an element of truth to that.

[@codycast]

@@benjammin1304 and we all know who that is? I assume this video was sent to me because I watched some video about the super black BMW

[@louthinator]

@@codycast Derek runs the Veritasium channel, a VERY popular science channel.

[@paulschmitt4143]

Kyle puts us into the box... "Hey, you, you're finally awake..."

[@billyjo9127]

The camera: Goes into the box My OLED pixels: I sleep now

[@jonathanshaw6784]

my LCD pixels: trying as hard as they can and still not very black.

[@Rattus-Norvegicus]

My screen went full on black, to check it I switched my phone off* while watching in a dark room and saw zero change.

[@PrincessAshley972]

My poor computer tried so hard to keep up, even when i put it up to full 1080 HD graphics. but alas, it still came out pixilated

[@41tinman41]

My monitor: Is this thing on?

[@noesunyoutuber7680]

@@Rattus-Norvegicus Even in a light room, same thing. Pure black, the same as if the screen was off.

[@Fallkhar]

"Let's do a little Adam Savage impression" *taps table with fingers before beginning* I see what you did there :D

[@Mythis1]

The injuring a finger was spot on as well!

[@QuesoCucuy]

@@Mythis1 ikr he didnt need to go that hard but he did for science

[@atlys258]

Was so spot on, had me screaming 🤣🤣🤣

[@bastian_5975]

a full room of that wouldn't be the best use for it: what would be truly amazing would be a room with just the walls and ceiling that black. The floor and furniture is normal, but then you just have the void for walls... or like, a room in a haunted house type thing where it's just a path illuminated by old fashion street lamps, but everything else is the abyss

[@noesunyoutuber7680]

That would be fucking amazing, though you'd have to take care to place the lights on the path so their beam doesn't noticeably get cut off by the ultra-black surface of the walls and presumably the edge of the floor - which would ruin the illusion of infinite expanse by indicating that the light is being stopped by something. Lay it out right and it would be fantastic.

[@jaynoir8937]

"Always bet on Black" - Wesley Snipes LOL

[@JoshStLouis314]

"Don't pay your taxes" - Wesley Snipes 1999-2004

[@WeChallenge]

“The Only Two Certainties In Life Are Death And Taxes” - Benjamin Franklin - 1789

[@YannMack]

Derek: "Calculate the photons in the box Kyle" Kyle: Looks at Aria

[@facundocadaa9020]

How many photons, Jhon? How many photons are in the box?

[@NewGrow-kb1bg]

You can do this with a ppfd meter; apogee science makes one. Ppfd is photon flux density or literally how many photons hit in a certain area.

[@Real_MisterSir]

- creates a guesstimate

[@nicholaseedy3244]

So combine the sound proof and light proof and see who can keep their head in the longest.

[@SenhorAlien]

@@nicholaseedy3244 I'd love to spend a year in the soundproof and lightproof room :)

[@peaaanuuutz]

"darker than the blackest void" Mr. Popo, watering the plants: hm?

[@Ryanisthere]

YO IS THAT A MOTHA FUCKIN DBZA REFERENCE

[@TheLoraxshadenough]

Popo: Hiiii~

[@valdyr4695]

Yo nice reference bro

[@DamianQualshy]

All these squares make a circle

[@Goss5079]

Kyle:“And I’m also kinda new when it comes to constructing things.” Also Kyle: _Literally has The Facility_

[@Mythis1]

Must’ve had a lot of help from A.R.I.A.

[@SMFN_Else]

I imagine the Facility is some sort of Aperture Science-esque superstructure. A sort of fully sentient, self-building complex led by a single head AI.

[@ttry1152]

He paid kevin clones

[@alanorcotch7822]

​@@ttry1152you think kevin is paid?

[@archbishopmactasty76]

​@@ttry1152why would you pay a clone?

[@peterhacke6317]

Kyle: Takes us into a super black hole. My screen: Only capable of displaying regular black.

[@MattH-wg7ou]

Just turn your phone off... Manual full screen OLED 😆

[@frogz]

you mean you're not viewing this on a spamsung pico 5d televisional device? my my, what these POOR people have to deal with! i simply could NOT imagine, my screen collapsed reality when kyle showed the black room

[@rolfs2165]

Considering Tom Scott made a video about how he failed making a video about the brightest thing on Earth, just because his GoPro went "yup, fine with me, let me turn the sensitivity down" and made a melt-your-eyes wall of light look like a bunch of 60w light bulbs, I'm somewhat surprised Kyle's GoPro didn't adjust in the opposite direction and showed us a slightly dark box.

[@23130023]

@@rolfs2165 because there are no photons for the camera to even detect.

[@frogz]

@@23130023 photons no, electronic noise yes, your camera will pick up rf and xrays and all kinda EM/other radiation

[@mikotagayuna8494]

Kyle: "It should not be impossible to make something blacker than even space." Teenage Goths: *hyperventilates*

[@shoesncheese]

True.

[@mizuviper]

@@DaFeanor20 they grew up I guess lol

[@Straylight4299]

Vantagoth to regular goths: " So, wearing grey stuff is your thing? Cute."

[@kristianferencik8685]

@@DaFeanor20 well when your whole personality is revolved around "everything sucks" it can be quite a bummer. Everyone needs a bit of sunshine in their life.

[@brotesser6485]

Paint myself completely Black and run through the streets.

[@bf4chode2]

In Kentucky there’s a little site there called Mammoth Cave. There’s a location called Giant’s Coffin that is 175 feet under the surface. The tour guide does their little history class on it and then they turn the lantern off. Immediate disorientation. I was holding my wife’s hand and we both instinctively squeezed each other’s hands, almost to confirm that we were still there. The blackest blackest I have ever witnessed. A tour of 40ish people and you would believe you were all by yourself. One of the weirdest experiences of my life.

[@justsomeguywithahandlebarm2456]

Just make that box sound isolated and you've got a perfect void to scream into

[@monarchschwoop52]

“This isn’t just darkness, it’s ADVANCED darkness” -SpongeBob “Me Boy” SquarePants

[@YoshimitsuBloodPedal]

EXXXTREEEEME darkness

[@ericg7044]

The youtube channel 'The Action Lab' actually built a room (more like a large closet) with a different brand of ultra black material. It was really awesome, if he put the camera outside as soon as he walked into the room he just disappeared.

[@deathrobloxian]

This needs more likes

[@nickel36]

I believe it was the paint Black 3.0.

[@profgamble7012]

Yes, he painted the room in Musou black, which absorbs 99.4% of the light. So technically Kyles 99.9% is still more black.

[@Archangelusbe]

Also when he turned a light on inside the room, it was awesome and weird at the same time.

[@AdemVessell]

Yes I enjoyed that visual much much more.

[@makoman295]

"This is what the void looks like." *Sees my own reflection in the endless nothing.* That's deep Kyle

[@paulus.tarsensus]

Back in the day, we experimented with 'float tank' sensory deprivation chambers filled with warm water loaded with epsom salt. Not perfect, but workable. I'm thinking an anechoic chamber with its surfaces lined with this nano-fibre black felt might be an even more effective isolation experience.

[@Steelmage99]

"Let's try a little Adam Savage impression" * Drums on table* Ah, yes....a gentleman of taste. :)

[@Chaotix010]

I see you're a man of culture as well.

[@groofay]

I immediately scrolled down to see if anyone else noticed, haha

[@rockinrobin9093]

Kyle worked for the myth busters back in the day. He’s close with them I guess you could say

[@Dr_Andracca]

@@rockinrobin9093 I never watched Kyle's season, but irrc Adam had left at that point.

[@frogz]

....now THIS is a good impersonation...

[@facundocadaa9020]

"if you stare into the abyss the abyss stares back at you" - mustache guy "Let's make the abyss to stare at" - science Thor

[@domomitsune5920]

I'm not worried about what will happen if I stare into the abyss, I am the abyss.

[@facundocadaa9020]

@@domomitsune5920 r u ok, buddy?

[@domomitsune5920]

@@facundocadaa9020 perfectly fine.

[@facundocadaa9020]

@@domomitsune5920 for a moment I stared at you and you kinda stared back. Did you felt that connection?

[@MonkeyJedi99]

@@domomitsune5920 Is that you, "The Master"?

[@lintengong4427]

"black duct tape which I just happen to have" We know why, Kyle. We know why.

[@567secret]

Derek: "Makes videos and friendly wagers" Well that's a recent reference.

[@TheRockinDonkey]

I understood that reference.

[@seanhampson4126]

Gonna need a "days without injury" counter pretty soon, if you keep cutting fingers Kyle! Don't end up like The Modern Rogue!

[@kuzmavolkov]

Never thought I'd see them referenced on his channel o.0

[@qdllc]

When Kyle comes back with a bandaged finger, you know it’s gotten real.

[@danese1636]

The Engineer's bandaid!

[@amyk6403]

It has gotten real! lol

[@WingManFang1]

When his girlfriend puts to shame all other fantasy characters just by appearing once on screen 😂

[@qdllc]

@@danese1636 - He’s as bad with first aid as he is with knife wielding. 🤣

[@joaolima4770]

"How many photons are in here? Do the calculations, Kyle!" Veritasium showing who's boss XD

[@tryAGAIN87]

I love that Derek looks so pissed that his friend came over just to tell him to stick his head in a box lol. He always has the most hilarious reactions :D

[@dismalthoughts]

I loved that Derek mentioned a cave lol, I was thinking the same thing

[@storyspren]

Once, Kyle was trapped in the void. Now, the void is trapped in Kyle's house.

[@Real_MisterSir]

how the turntables

[@KingNedya]

@@Real_MisterSir turntables the how

[@oven2066]

The only box you can look into and still not know what's up with Schrodinger's cat

[@andrewkovnat]

What you may not see, you may... smell?

[@RFDN0]

Imperfect design for total nothingness. It needs to be built to remove all ambient sound and have a way to remove scent.

[@jerbearnone2012]

I am glad Derek made it clear a cave or mine may be darker or just as dark. I have been down in mineshafts that are exactly what you describe this box to be like, however, in massive rooms underground.

[@sunwupen5264]

It was great watching Kyle go from A Quiet Place to Birdbox. A real emotional journey. Maybe using a combination of both we can finally get the sensory deprivation needed to induce psychic powers.

[@enginerd1985]

Kyle, it would be fascinating to see how this void looks in other spectra, such as near IR, radio, UV, x-ray, etc.

[@WarlandWriter]

In IR it's probably quite bright as it's room temperature and thus still emits blackbody radiation

[@enginerd1985]

@@WarlandWriter I wonder. If it really is trapping all photons, it'll be interesting to see. Obviously the air inside will carry some heat energy and generate IR photons, but how soon would they be absorbed?

[@novicegreenenergy2059]

Plop a Faraday cage around it to isolate the longer wavelengths would be fun but kinda pointless. Put a radio in it and hear static ya know.

[@WarlandWriter]

@@enginerd1985 As the absorption of the nanoscopic structure relies on interference and thus the feature size is extremely important for what wavelengths can be absorbed. It's very well possible that IR and UV won't be absorbed

[@jon_j__]

@@WarlandWriter This was my exact thought. The material might eliminate reflection, but it doesn't eliminate black-body radiation. So, in some sense, it's still much "brighter" than outer space. Maybe if he cooled the box to close to absolute zero?

[@Cadrid]

“Take a peek inside my big, dark box!” "Excuse me, sir, this is a Wendy’s…"

[@Lucky_360]

Love that Kyle’s “sciencey friends” are both his girlfriends

[@Didymus69]

You mean all three of them?

[@Veldaren]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="862">14:22</a> So all this was just so Kyle could get the feel of the BS void again, huh?

[@lindaseel8633]

Ooooohhhh!

[@GapWim]

- So I put my head in like this? - Yeah, can you see anything? - No, this is weird! - So you can’t even see the tarantula in there?

[@sertaki]

Ok, got me to laugh out loud. Good one.

[@Dismythed]

That would have been epic to see their reaction. 😄 Though someone might have destroyed the box before he could say "Just kidding."

[@lindaseel8633]

😰

[@AbsolXGuardian]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1084">18:04</a> Kyle: A whole room of that would be... Me: A great way to psychologically torture someone Darek: An amazing bedroom

[@bryonyamada2620]

Would you REALLY be able to sleep in a room that BLACK???

[@EliasRinghauge]

@@bryonyamada2620 Just a room void of photons. That would be nice.

[@SCPFanMY]

Imagine being in a void bedroom and hearing a noise

[@witiwap86]

@@bryonyamada2620 Yes. I have aluminum foil taped over my bedroom window and any sources of light that don't have to move. I have weather stripping on the inner door and blankets against the door to block as much light as possible. I would love to have it that dark.

[@jamesabbott6425]

i really want to see Kyle remake this with Adam Savage purely so adam can give him some crafting tips and tricks!

[@tryAGAIN87]

Seconded. Adam and Kyle would be a great crossover...

[@thetexastickler5698]

Absolutely hilarious when it cuts back to Kyle having his finger bandaged and paint all over him😂😂😂 glad it wasn't a serious cut

[@AllMightGaming-AMG]

Darek: Makes videos and FRIENDLY WAGERS That cracked me up xD

[@MadJustin7]

Just friendly $10,000 dollar wagers...for science!

[@Robert_McGarry_Poems]

I imagine that he would have been a better interview subject, had he been allowed some coffee first.

[@erdmur]

Oh pulezz, he is Drek from Varitablium

[@ryanparker260]

I was looking for this exact comment.

[@kutsen39]

@@Robert_McGarry_Poems that's what I was thinking. Either Derek and Kyle are good friends, or Derek was _really_ crabby.

[@lightanddarklugia]

Okay, I'm sure someone has already suggested this, But you need to combine the darkest box with the quietest room, for the true black hole experience

[@sadiemichaels6405]

Yes, I wouldet "them" take large amounts of my money for a sensory deprevation chamber painted with that stuff!

[@saturnalia91]

@@sadiemichaels6405 Um... Edit incoming?

[@lightanddarklugia]

@@sadiemichaels6405 he spoke about the quietest room, and I'm not saying to "them" to 'take my money' but for him to go to that room with his box.

[@RFDN0]

It's wouldn't be a black hole but a sensory void room. A black hole is a mathematical point of highly dense mass crushing anything within a certain radius with It's gravitational force.

[@glitterkitten9499]

Well if the light were turned off in the room it should be just as dark? If the light if off then there is no light to see meaning it'd be pointless to line the room with it

[@kit2770]

When Kyle was taking the light readings at the end, he should've gotten a reading in the room w the lights off. It would help to know the difference between readings taken in a regular dark room and a reading from the box.

[@SmokeyChipOatley]

“Do not be alarmed dapper young man, no need to be frightened there fair lovely lady… all I ask is a quick moment, a fleeting minute of your time!Before you I possess a seemingly normal-looking yet suspiciously curious cubic cardboard contraption. Ladies and gentlemen if you dare yourself a soul brave enough to peer at the infinitely empty, depressingly cold, dreary and dark void that extends off into forever… I have here for you this evening an amazingly accurate physical representation of my former female romantic companion’s heart and soul! Fifteen cents per adult, children only a nickel if accompanied by a responsible adult. Peer at your own risk!” -how I would choose to monetize this box if I lived in the early 1900s

[@manuelchaparro4073]

Kyle: explains very interesting stuff. Me: Robot wife!?

[@Italianchef26]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="105">1:45</a> It's ok Kyle, we know that your shirt absorbs most of the visible light spectrum in order to power the reactor of the bipedal mech you call "body". It's also cool that the R&D guys at the Facility built A.R.I.A a mobile platform so that she could better interact with the rest of the staff

[@aaronhooker7588]

G: "But it doesn't do anything! " H: "No---it does nothing. "

[@akeron1an]

It would have been cool to bring a light-source into the box, I imagine it would translate better to video just how black it is to see the light source but nothing being reflected off of the walls.

[@VoltisArt]

Absolutely. This simple idea is one of the best suggestions or "what ifs" I've seen in comments among a lot of videos.

[@EricK-vf6uj]

was wondering the same thing

[@Fraxxxi]

"Blacker than the blackest black times infinity!" -Nathan Explosion

[@samiraperi467]

Duncan Hills Coffee! 🤘

[@sirdevinthedeepsmotoventure]

They gives us a lifes time supplys of coffees and no instructions on hows to cooks it!!! - switzgar

[@jaybowler3121]

Brutal

[@gecko1271]

Thank you so much

[@DadvsThePepps]

Hey Fraxxxi, we got you you're favourite thing...disappointment

[@insertfunnyhandlehere]

Oh no he's trapped in the void again lol

[@Veritas-invenitur]

Lol

[@facundocadaa9020]

A real OG

[@ukatofox]

Fun Fact: While Vantablack's first application dates to 2014, the first *actual* use of blackest-black pigment was in 1982 with the release of Spinal Tap's album "Smell The Glove".

[@KnightFallProd]

I love how this channel goes from high tech and concept ideas to "wanna see me make a really dark box?" :)

[@Maylott]

Kyle: "I'm going to build the darkest box in the known universe." Derek: "It does smell." Science!

[@Briggsby]

Also you could tell Derek was like "ok, let's do the science real quick so we can play some fucking halo dude. I do this for my job, I wanna relax."

[@Angel_Underscore]

Conclusion: black holes smell

[@valervan]

"it's like a void inside" The void: excuse me wtf

[@sciencoking]

I once held an industrial sized box of razor blades. The blades were all pointing upward at me. This had the effect of producing lots of almost vertical reflective surfaces where light would keep reflecting downward until it was absorbed. It looked really fascinating

[@IneptOrange]

I love how youtube's compression has a fucking stroke when you put the camera in the box

[@Fizzlefuse]

And so.. Kyle returns, ever briefly, to the Void.

[@tekuaniaakab2050]

Kyle tries to recreate the void where he originated from. Now he’s the master

[@Merlin7]

What if this is the void where Kyle originated from and this is all part of a closed timelike curve of Kyle's life that loops around infinitely? This is when Kyle enters the void.

[@rhov-anion]

@@Merlin7 that would mean from here on out, villain Kyle is gone, replaced by his good (or even more evil) twin, whip has trapped him in the void in a hell-loop to save the world.

[@Pratalax]

Can tell Derek's a professional in Sci-Comm, immediately explaining eloquently what he experiences and drawing the same analogues as you to boot! Very thankful for you both.

[@quantumhorizon]

That's some hella reverb for an empty void. Great video!

[@uranium_donut]

"calculate the photons in the box" >Doesn't calculate it

[@majoranix2753]

He measures the ambient lighting later though

[@sora9138]

do we need to sign a statement saying that by watching this video, we confirm we are not related to or affiliated with Anish Kapoor in any way?

[@waveformdistortion]

As should be standard in the comment section of anything mentioning Vantablack and/or Vantablack-like substances, (insert appropriately dismissive term beginning with the letter F here) Anish Kapoor

[@Carstuff111]

From the very serious and amazing nuclear videos to these more goofy but still awesome videos... I am so very glad I subscribed to this channel!!!!

[@BoDiddly]

Thank you Kyle! When you put that camera in the box, I was able to see that there was dust on my screen and I could wipe it off!

[@leosklein575]

The tapping on the table really sold me on the Adam Savage impression

[@dgEari]

Can you put a small light in there and filme It? I wanna see how a source of light would look like without anything reflecting it.

[@suryanshsrivastava5551]

Go to action lab he has done these type of videos, where he painted a whole room

[@divingeveryday]

True. But that was not a little light in this box.

[@faceplants2]

On the latest live stream he shows inside the box with a light shining straight in the end of it. It's not the same as seeing it in person but the way the camera freaked out trying to adjust light levels was cool.

[@TheVanishingDark534]

God, this reminds me of my room in one my older places of residence. It was the innermost room, so zero windows to let any natural light in. When I was in that room at night, blinking made the square root of zero visual difference, and even when it turned day, it was hard to tell what exactly I was looking at. Disorienting AF is putting it mildly.

[@VincentvestBlogspotMintyFresh]

I did some quick math on how much a room covered in it would cost. Horizon black sells 200mm x 200mm sheets for $200. If you wanted a 3m x 3m room you would need 1350 (15x15x6) sheets of horizon black. It would cost $270,000.

[@cavemaneca]

Making a dark room isn't actually particularly difficult though. The really interesting thing that could be done with this is lining a room like the anechoic chamber, with a suspended platform in the center. You could then actually have lights on the central platform and be apparently a platform floating in a void.

[@StopChangingUsernamesYouTube]

Wouldn't even have to be elevated by much. No shortage of primal fears in a room like that, I'm sure.

[@Sharkie1717]

Terence McKenna eat your heart out! 😄

[@CianDelano]

I was just thinking that while watching this. A Void Room, with an extending bridge and sliding wall, and a chair on the small platform in the middle... so you can sit in a true void... would be... terrifying/intense.

[@natsukimasamune7766]

technically one could recreate a solar system in such a room layout, no?

[@fehzorz]

Make an anechoic chamber and paint it vantablack

[@Hurricayne92]

“I’m a newbie when it comes to constructing and measuring” wait doesn’t Kyle have an engineering degree? 😂

[@akale2620]

Yes he purchased it off ebay

[@pizzas4breakfast]

Yeah but he failed first grade construction paper art

[@rafaelbrisolara7599]

He is a environmental engineer, or something like that, no? So is not like he had to learn how to build things.

[@MuscarV2]

Do you think engineering equals some sort of crafts and arts degree? Most engineers don't ever use their hands for anything other than writing by hand and using a computer in their studying and/or work... How are you this dumb? Do you seriously think engineers sit around and build stuff with their hands? What do you imagine craftsmen do then? Try to use that one half of a brain cell before writing comments, it saves yourself from showing everyone your immense idiocy and save everyone else from the exposure.

[@ZombieOfun]

@@MuscarV2 Who hurt you?

[@alexmcclead7012]

I love that he pretends to have made a super hi tech facility but an arts and crafts project is a real challenge. Just hilarious to me.

[@mavericklevay]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="250">4:10</a> I was listening to this as I was going to sleep and that ba ba ba laugh made me crack up so hard

[@PresidentFunnyValentine]

My friend just walked past me and asked, "why is one of the Hemsworth brothers teaching you science?"

[@jeremybrimmer1990]

"Whats in the box?" "Pain."

[@rabiaeverywhere9370]

Wow man. Spot on Adam Savage impression, right down to the mannerisms, it needed to be said. Great video!

[@Giffordei]

"Adam Savage impression" just had me waiting for the finger slice wrapped in paper towel...was not disappointed.

[@Jaebird88]

"Knock knock." "Who's there?" "Interrupting cat." "Interrupting cat, who--?" [cat happens]

[@kl4pp3d_78]

.......... wut?

[@user-uj4pn4dk5d]

@@kl4pp3d_78 yeah

[@jamesron5625]

I'm confused! But thank you!

[@ILIKEOTTERS]

Ha. You think that just because he's a speical cat he can interrupt strangers like that? How disgusting and monstrous of hi- (cat noises)

[@JeremyPickett]

Okay, this was great. I've been in unlit caves before and it's uncanny, but I couldn't stop laughing at 'head in the box' jokes :D (Also yer butterflies are gorgeous)

[@chrisbouchard4719]

Having worked underground (about 6000ft at its peak), I can imagine how dark it is

[@Sporkula1]

Thanks for putting the gopro camera in the box. My LCD monitor really picked up those infinitely black shades.

[@pwnmclovin1]

I love how the first thing Derek can think of is using it for a bedroom.

[@shigekax]

Pretty sure derek's jealous of the action lab

[@RizzRiderEUC]

A 100% ultra black bedroom, but it still has furniture, and a lamp. Imagine a well lit room, a bed in the center, and you still can’t see the walls

[@peterjohnson9438]

most guys would be content with just installing mirrors on the ceiling..

[@kylehill]

He needs his rest

[@oafkad]

Do the calculations, Kyle! - A stern looking Veritasium.

[@brandonfetter3559]

Beautiful! And looking at the Void..shows me myself

[@jollygreentank1131]

Ok that's cool! Now for a "hot one". As light is energy and anyone foolish enough to wear a black shirt in texas summer can testify, black gets very hot as it absorbs the sunlight. How hot and how fast would this stuff get even just indoors let alone in sunlight. If it is trapping nearly every photon would it reach near perfect wats per meter heating?

[@GraemePayne1967Marine]

My thoughts exactly! On the other hand, could this be a new way to make a black-body thermal reference? Using more robust materials, of course.

[@josesancho5047]

I love how the little round piece of that black material Kyle has looks like a "portable hole"to the camera.

[@saturnalia91]

I thought so too. 😂 Looked like nothingness compared to everything else around it.

[@innouniversedoineedthis]

"This is what pure nothingness looks like" The edges of my phone around the video: 🤷‍♂️

[@lordjacesearcy9382]

Yeah unfortunately the effect doesn't transfer well to screens due to how video file optimization and screens themselves work

[@drahcir8402]

Kyle misses the void so much, he has to make a replacement.

[@ThatJay283]

nice! i was really wanting to see the box without the black fabric over it, but that would just look like a black square

[@brendancleaver93]

"Makes videos and friendly wagers" absolutely killed me!!! 😂😂😂

[@severe_apathy]

Kyle is trying to return to the void, just like in the days of old

[@brandongreenland9632]

He’s making a superior void.

[@rhov-anion]

He's slowly becoming Master of the Void.

[@kdrgaming3344]

I have a condition called visual snow, it's where I constantly see a colorful static slightly tinted red, so I'd never be able to experience that level of darkness because it would just highlight my visual snow all the more and possibly make it really cool looking though. Even though I have really TV-static-like vision, I still have 20/10 vision. It's almost like I can see or distinguish every single individual rod and cone in my eyes and they are constantly firing. I also have photopsia, I think that's what it is, where I see constantly shifting forms of purple light chased by its complementary color, green, and the green follows suit and does the same thing the purple did. It starts this never-ending loop of complementary color illusions. I never really know which is which because if you see a color, you are going to then see its opposite, so it may be that the green starts out and the purple is the optical illusion, or the opposite. It's a chicken-or-the-egg kind of scenario.