Why You Don't Actually Want Super Strength! | Because Science w/ Kyle Hill

[@becausescience]

Wow a LOT of comments about how I "have never heard of car jacks." I'm addressing this in the next vlog but yes, I do in fact know what car jacks do/are. And yes, I've used them. In the episode I say, "Cars are made out of pretty strong stuff these days, so grab them in the right place, like Superman on the cover of Action Comics #1..." Look close at the cover -- he's grabbing the car at the jack points. I then say the car might only bend or creak in a way you didn't expect. THAT was my acknowledgement of the issue. I didn't say that picking up a car at the perfect points would destroy it. Hope this clears things up. Thanks for watching! -- KH

[@illusion2937]

You look like aquaman but without any muscles

[@remmy100]

Omitting Superman, you're right about pressure. But with Supes i think his unique way of grabbing things is explained by his supercharged bio electric field supplemented by his tactile telekinesis. I may be completely wrong about it all but i think thats how he bypasses the pressure issue. Superman isn't exactly physically strong, but rather an uber psychic. When he comes into contact with something his bio-field, aura, tactile telekinetic power or whatever engulfs the entire object and somewhat applies equal force to it. The more effort he uses, the more even spread the force is applied, which would explain how some super heavy objects deform to some degree but still retain their relative shape as Supes is lifting or pulling them.

[@thif4722]

Because Science what about mechanical exosuits (Deus Ex style) they can provide super strength but are super controllable

[@thif4722]

Because Science what if superman used presure for stopping the plane

[@solego5504]

I assumed you meant picking up in the middle of the car... You know like the illustration. Car jacks pick up one side of the car at a structurally strong point. You don't just ram a jack under and call it good. 🤣

[@MrMejia187]

Maybe not Superman's super strength, but Cap's might be optimal.

[@a-terrible-fate532]

@@team3gaming749 well Captain America is definitely stronger than even the strongest man alive today but he is definitely not nearly as strong as Spider-Man, Spider-Man can lift thousands of pounds when needed

[@jorgegomezespinosa8192]

The thing about Superman's strength is that is not just brute force, it involves his power to generate a bioelectrical field around his body and other objects

[@JaDanBar97]

No... Saitama strength is optional😀

[@NikNokGamer]

jason daniel barry I would agree but some wouldn’t.

[@caseymoore4759]

Castiel Null cap can lift a max of 900lbs and spiderman can lift 20-30 tons depending on the series

[@wandileletsoalo271]

This explanation just made the train scene from invincible a whole lot more realistic

[@charlescrawford4907]

Agree agree

[@sametsahin6863]

I still think the humans and the steel train was a bit weak

[@Blackest9th]

correct

[@totmgsrockxd9900]

The "super strength results in murdering bad guys" explanation also makes the scene in Ep 1 have more verisimilitude. Omni-Man literally grounds the Guardians into a bloody paste. Super-punches result in super glory kills.

[@robertcox1966]

I just made this comment lol

[@DragonScytheX]

Kids: I want to be a superhero Because science: “I’m about to end this man’s whole career”

[@Haki145]

dream*

[@helicopterchooper4276]

*potato

[@Haki145]

@@helicopterchooper4276 dream potato*

[@helicopterchooper4276]

@@Haki145 *Gay

[@anonymous.2660]

Man ? U just said kid

[@VanillaMidgetSSBM]

Superman's specific form of Super Strength is what you want, Superman (and by extension - kryptonians) have Tactile telekinesis, which allows them to lift incredibly massive things without the side effect of the opposite force

[@kingdribs9286]

this doesn't sound right though...shouldn't whatever I punch always remain in place if the reaction force is always equal to my applied force ? Like in his example if the normal reaction is 250kN which is the same as what I'd have applied,then the apple wouldn't move at all since there was never a resultant force in any direction so it never accelerates from rest...right ? I get it now

[@VanillaMidgetSSBM]

@@kingdribs9286 what do you expect? Comic book writers with physics degrees?!

[@kingdribs9286]

@@VanillaMidgetSSBM no...I'm just tryna get how punching an apple with 250kN of force will result in that force being applied to me as well. I don't get how it can work like that

[@kingdribs9286]

@@VanillaMidgetSSBM I've never expected movie physics to apply to real life...they make up half of it as they go

[@danieljaspring7400]

@@kingdribs9286 The reason it works is because the apple doesn’t have the same mass, if there was no equal opposite force you just wouldn’t feel anything, which why if you have ever punched or slapped an apple or watermelon it kind of hurts if you hit it hard enough.

[@wizardly9211]

This is why invincible is a great series. It makes these concepts into weapons. Such as the train scene.

[@muhammadthariqhumaid6830]

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[@ThugOG30VIPs3rd-T]

Exactly! IT Feli like a show that really felt how powers would b like irl

[@jackthecommenter2768]

@@ThugOG30VIPs3rd-T the boys does a good job of it too tbh

[@Kyleplaysgames567]

I would love to just see someone stronger just beat the shit out of Omniman just to teach him some humility.

[@Kakarot64.]

@@Kyleplaysgames567 Shame we cant bring in fighters from other fictional materials as a crossover to fight him unless........ quick get to the fanfiction mobile.

[@apxprdtr_mge]

"Imagine how hard it would be to interact with society if you were a 100 times stronger than the average person, or more" *Saitama shakes his bald head*

[@keyshiamotagarrido5014]

What about Sakura, she can control herself while having super strenth

[@dante8624]

*laughs in dragonball*

[@aquariussunvirgomoon4311]

Saitama is not 100 times stronger but 1 trilion of power.

[@querelleur8330]

@@keyshiamotagarrido5014 cause sakura doesnt have a natural super strength, she gather chakra in her fist when she hit someone or something if i remember well

[@oformakelvin3568]

Voglia di morire 2020 umm his strength is infinite

[@AlStone2]

"I feel like I live in a world made of cardboard, always taking constant care not to break something, to break someone. Never allowing myself to lose control even for a moment or someone could die" = Super strength

[@Naruku2121]

Gotta love that JLU quote.

[@Ace2014Ace]

if you watched the avengers cartoon when all the members besides black widow become hulks. Hulk tells one of them to pretend everything's an egg. same basic idea.

[@adedamolaafonja7333]

Supes against Darkseid

[@howardpatterson2818]

thats a superman quote right?

[@adedamolaafonja7333]

RAIN MAKER yes. He was speaking to Darkseid

[@TORMENTUMM]

Goku's super strength is modulated by it's control of ki so that would be a manageable way to keep living a relatively normal life with super strength. But you might need to have an extreme control of your emotions otherwise you could kill or injure a lot of people.

[@mavvynne444]

Not just that. He's also a full fledged Saiyan and he is built as an absolute unit

[@LilXancheX]

Muffin button 😊

[@yourunclejohn984]

Or say something like an activation type of power. Or just a subconscious lock on that strength like what our bodies actually do to keep us from injuring ourselves

[@kamikaze00007]

This reminds me of the Doctor Manhattan video. It is highly possible that Goku and Co. have glowing auras is because they are actually radioactively releasing energy at the time when they are "powered up".

[@DrShaym]

One explanation I've heard for how Superman is so strong and manages to lift things without them breaking under their own weight (like in _Superman IV_ when he lifts the Statue of Liberty by the arm without it snapping off) is that he has a form of "local telekinesis". Basically, whatever he touches becomes lighter or somehow levitates, so he's not really lifting the full weight. That doesn't really make much more sense than the problems it's trying to explain away, but there you go.

[@Linktober04]

Dr Shaym woah, didnt expect you to be here,

[@buzzlightyear8392]

Linkmaster 04 you mean *Dr Sham Wow*

[@Linktober04]

Buzz Lightyear lol

[@teufelhunden7331]

@@buzzlightyear8392 the door is to your left

[@MajorLawliet]

Wasn't the local telekinesis more that a sort of film, like the one that envelopes his body making his clothes super resilient as well, covers the object in question so that it's not resting the entirety of it's weight upon whatever area he's grabbing?

[@SergioHernandez-le8wp]

Of all things, Dragon Ball Z made a decent attempt to address this as a problem. During the Cell Saga, Goku needed Gohan to really control his Super Saiyan power, so he had them stay transformed throughout their regular lives and not just in battle. It forced them to have to learn to control their strength, not just to fight, but to hold back and be able to do mundane tasks which all of a sudden became extremely challenging (holding a glass of water without instantly shattering it, for example)

[@babitabrahma616]

Q

[@fullmetaltheorist]

And the funny part where Krillin threw a rick a Goku and it hurt him.

[@Ai_Boss_]

​@@fullmetaltheorist that's show how much a genius DBZ Goku was. The rock hurting him is proof his training was working.

[@dragonballlegends3050]

​@@Ai_Boss_ and also they use their ki to strengthen a substance that they hold like in baseball tournament episode. So while lifting somethings they can actually strengthen it to not go through it or distribute its pressure. But its just my theory so it might be wrong.

[@MAHAManiac1]

That’s after stepping off of the flying magical cloud.. Let’s be real, any apparent attempts to follow science performed by dragonball was an accidental one on Akira Toriyama’s part.

[@xyon9090]

*"The Incredibles" movie portrayed hints to the consequences of super strength.* An example of it is the dinner scene wherein Mr. Incredible was slicing meat but cut through it and also cut through the plate.

[@damotoneko1500]

*+Dean Natuno* And the table, dont forget the table.

[@richardjackson9584]

And also when he loses his footing, grabs the car to brace himself his fingers been to the car roof so he can't close the door without breaking the window which he did.

[@thegaybagelbagel6274]

That's when he got mad...

[@notproductiveproductions3504]

Dean Natuno and My Hero Academia solved that problem

[@swagg3rcat]

Achyually

[@xX0utca5tXx1]

My viewpoint of super strength has always been a bit different than this video. The video seems to go with the idea that because your max strength is x times stronger than your min strength must also be x times stronger, but most heroes or characters with super strength show a lece of control suggesting that their max strength is increased, but their min strength is the same as everyone else. From there its all about control (which is something humans learn automatically over time and use). Conclusion: super strength can be super difficult for a new user, but for someone with years of experience living with it then their day to day could be perfectly unaffected. The big danger moments are when startled/spooked. Or if someone with cerebral palsy had it...

[@fermantgg7887]

main concern is newtons third law if you hit something you also feel a little bit of pain because the object hits you with the same force if you hit an object with super strength you’d be buried to the ground

[@_ori_690]

Same thing I was thinking. You would be able to control your strength no matter what with experience but at the beginning it would be hard

[@Anonymous-gq7ho]

@@fermantgg7887 I'm sure if you have super strength your body would also adapt to that. I don't think someone is just going to have super strength with not good enough bones and tendons to support the strength, otherwise it's somewhat pointless to even mention having super strength.

[@BobaDavis]

@@fermantgg7887 The idea behind super strength is that it works similar to comic book characters - the durability that comes with the strength. I mean, human beings currently don't have a level of durability that equates to our potential strength levels.

[@LilXancheX]

@@fermantgg7887 I think it go something like this: because of super durability and invincibility. Only the hand is affected, the rest of the body is left unharmed. Think of it like fighting a guy on the street. You’re not being flung back when you hit him right? Your fist doesn’t hurt when you punch him, it’s the same with super strength. The hero isn’t affected by the aftermath because of his invincibility, so any force applied to him, does nothing, just how Superman cancels out bullets from hitting him. The force instead bounces off.

[@ruthmeow4262]

I don't need to be 100x stronger, 2-3x stronger would be just fine...

[@2s4in28]

U can do that from working out tho...

[@spyridon7896]

thats.....nothing..

[@lordindigonnisvoldebeastal3796]

Plenty of strong men are ten times stronger than the average person.

[@Clarkkent163]

@@lordindigonnisvoldebeastal3796 so the average person is lifting 30-40kg? or the strongest men are lifting 800-1,000kg?

[@lordindigonnisvoldebeastal3796]

@@Clarkkent163 Average person? No. Did I say that? No.

[@wvincagold]

Superman said it best when fighting Darkseid. "I live in a world of wet cardboard......"

[@letthewolveslead]

Thank you for this quote. Still one of my favorites ever.

[@sarvanash1873]

I was looking for this.

[@petermirtitsch1235]

Eeeuuwwww.....

[@anderssorenson9998]

Doesn't Superman manipulate gravity? and he can just dial down his strength this is also apparently how he flys. Gotta love hacky retcons.

[@MrGamelover23]

@@anderssorenson9998 he's basically telekinetic.

[@starhalanonim2859]

And that's why telekinesis is MUCH better

[@xL0stKIlah]

Nope no mind could sustain it :P

[@yourmother6045]

I have telekinesis

[@Mr.Zoynkle]

YES. My dream power.

[@noahkoler]

xL0stKIlah says who?

[@Bird_Dog00]

So, instead of your arm taking the force of your punch, it would now be your brain. Not sure that's better... Action = Reaction. Doesn't matter if the force is transmitted through the bones in your arm or a force field generated by your brain, it's still the same force.

[@BedrockGateBreaker]

The thing is, superman actually has tactile telekinesis. Basically he can move objects with his mind but only when touching it

[@amvcentral9198]

That sounds like moving something with extra steps

[@RecapRico]

@@amvcentral9198 superman had the power to turn regular rugs into flying carpets

[@BedrockGateBreaker]

@@amvcentral9198 he can also balance something even if he isn't "holding" it at the centre of mass

[@BedrockGateBreaker]

@@RecapRico now I'm just imaging a Superman Aladdin taking Louis for a ride on a carpet

[@xX0utca5tXx1]

This would explain flight too if he could only fly while wearing clothes.

[@keepchillin4261]

I don't know, It's like he is assuming you're gonna use 100% of your strength all the time. I mean, you can grab a bug without crushing it.

[@Bird_Dog00]

sure. But have you ever accidentialy broken something by aplying too much strength? I sure have. With super strength, you'd do it far more often. Just pulling on a door handle, expecting the door to be unlocked, only to find someone for some reason has locked it, and you have ripped that handle out of the door.

[@pex_the_unalivedrunk6785]

It's all about control...not so much only in dexterity, but mental control. Even a peak human body builder would agree that it takes great mental ability.

[@philosophyandhappiness2001]

@@ajasen but their bodies are only stronger in certain moves. Plus a strongman is about 2-3 times stronger than the average man. Youd have to be bare minimum 100 times, thats 30-50x stronger than the strongest man alive. Brian shaw talks about how he has to be gentle with things because he breaks them so easy. Now imagine being at least 50x stronger. Yes there are different muscle fibers but the muscle fibers used are relative to your strength level. Like, have two people bench 135. Have one max 225, have another max 450, 135 i light for both, but 135 will always be lighter for the stronger person because his strength level is so much higher. You could use less than 100% of your strength and live a normal life but itd take extreme control. Cause even lightly exerting yourself would be the equivalent of 5000 lbs. Think, imagine how little energy you exert picking up 5-10 lbs. At 100 times stronger you'd be exerting 500lbs of pressure just by moving your arm, thats enough to shatter bones.

[@deadelaus2611]

You are gonna use MORE than 100%.PLUS ULTRA

[@brandonwhite1021]

He's not assuming that. He basically explained multiple times that you'd have to *constantly* hold back and be *extremely* careful to not break everything and kill everyone you touch. Edit: And like people have already essentially said, it would take an extreme amount of precision and control to use things made for normal people...because the ability to shatter concrete would also translate to the ability to shatter bones effortlessly with a gentle movement.

[@Draconightfury]

I think something to keep in mind about super strength in movies and comics it usually also comes with a super resistance. Basically their bodies are much tougher so they can take the force of their own punches. Along with that punching someone across the room would work if you had enough resistance. It’s the same situation when a regular person punches someone and they fall back but the person punching doesn’t.

[@gipsymelody1268]

Because who got the punch he got much more energy instantly And who gived he generated that energy (get longer time even if with 0,5mp) and Still he is in a stance so he can transform the energy into his legs and the ground! Also yeah there is opposite force but Still not the same sized object impacted! Some of energy not run out on that person who gived the punch! Even you can trick with your weight to transport into another part of your body! Like into the legs… and now your central weight is totaly different!

[@Draconightfury]

@@gipsymelody1268 I think things like flight and speed have similar resistances with them. Though his videos on why they would be bad for normal humans are fun and very entertaining. It does seem to forget those parts haha.

[@gipsymelody1268]

@@Draconightfury funny just yesterday watch why dragons cant fly...! ":D but still there is birds type who can fly but their flight formula is cant! so it is interesting... the point yeah speed and flight has a unique resistance (has no more gravity force in that time) well i am sure they could make a test! like their normal power is the super power ! i mean if just changing the numbers metetric the point : if they can punch with less back-power then they can use superpower too!

[@RetroTaylor94]

You just have to be heavier than who you're hitting.

[@LilXancheX]

@@gipsymelody1268 it’s the same thing. Super hero punches super hero, is like human punching human.

[@Buzzlightning12]

Hilarious that Sky High handles super strength problems the best like when the dad dials the phone, breaks it, then had like 7 more in a drawer.

[@darthvader1775]

I st8 thought about that when he said you’d break door handles lmaoo

[@lazarus8018]

@@darthvader1775 Will ripped the door right off its hinges.

[@epicfights7898]

And then Will proceeds to defy logic by lifting the falling High School when in reality he'd break a hole through it. Then again, the Sidekicks reactivated the School's ability to float so maybe that was what saved it mostly.

[@stm7810]

@@epicfights7898 it probably has a shielding system designed to spread out forces from collisions, even if just as a missile defense.

[@hauntedgraveman]

the problem is that super strength alone would just get you killed by accident since for super strength, you would need, well, super DURABILITY. because whats the point of being 100, 1000 or even a million times stronger then an average humen when all of your bones shatter immediatly upon impact. now, people would argue that super strength also is super endurance/durability, but i digress. this is also shown in the manga baki, where, the character hanayama kaoru is so strong, he can crush the very fist he makes, he is so strong that his fingers and palm strength start to break his own hand and dig through his flesh, so to utilize super strength, you would need 2 super powers, not one.

[@reloadfc7490]

🤓

[@hauntedgraveman]

@@JoshuaValentine pretty much

[@Anonymous-gq7ho]

I understand what you're saying, however if somebody has super strength I'm sure their bones and tendons would correspond to the strength. I saw someone saying Deku has this problem but that's because he wasn't born with this power, so his body naturally wasn't prepared for this since he's not supposed to have super powers. Just like using steroids you can increase your limit in terms of muscle mass, but your bone and tendon durability doesn't really grow the same as your muscle mass potential so you have imbalance in that department. This is why a lot of bodybuilders injure their tendons first before their muscle, their body simply cannot keep up simply because it's not supposed to.

[@nicolae-alexandruluca7853]

Well super powwr ussually comes from the muscles being trained and therefore since the muscles are trained biologically speaking all the enzimes the body has and how strong they are it all also results in them being much mire resilient as with power comes resilience as well, theres no way that someone is incredibly strong without being resilient

[@blackflash-mb1wp]

​@@nicolae-alexandruluca7853I mean since we are on the topic about being durable you have to break a few bones to evolve 😂😂😂

[@SollowP]

I liked the speech Superman gave when he fought Darkseid in Justice League. "That man won't quit as long as he can still draw a breath. None of my teammates will. Me? I've got a different problem. I feel like I live in a world made of cardboard, always taking constant care not to break something, to break someone. Never allowing myself to lose control even for a moment, or someone could die. But you can take it, can't you, big man? What we have here is a rare opportunity for me to cut loose and show you just how powerful I really am."

[@omnisyn00]

Oh yea are you talking about the animated justice league cartoon?? Because I still remember that

[@natehigman3987]

Logan Laminack He is talking about the justice league animated series

[@SollowP]

logan laminack kzbin.info/www/bejne/nYLEk6WJpbCWgNk

[@dbstewart86]

logan laminack You're denying yourself. The DCAU was DC's finest work, live action or animated to date.

[@JMercerSniping]

Isn't that 30 seconds before he gets dumpstered?

[@drewwaters7078]

Thank you discount Thor.

[@jamaruperi5715]

drew waters Ha!!!!!! Somebody get this man a pin for his comment!!

[@tommytwobrews]

Jamaru Peri why? It was an unoriginal joke

[@jamaruperi5715]

Tom P But the thing is, I dont give a fuck. When is anything original anymore? 😏😉

[@tommytwobrews]

Jamaru Peri when the person came up with it themselves....

[@jamaruperi5715]

Tom P Yeah you do have a point. But you took my question to literal. You wasn't supposed to answer it but you know, I might not have known what original means. Or maybe you are just following human nature and is trying to show out by proving me wrong or getting a point across. But hey who knows. But I appreciate it 😊

[@ControlDeeBR]

This reminds me of a line from Superman in Justice League Unlimited that he says he spent his whole life treating everything around him like they were made of glass and paper!

[@TROOPERfarcry]

I remember that! He said, "I live in a world of cardboard"

[@ControlDeeBR]

@@TROOPERfarcry Well. . . This is what he said in my language. . .

[@nosuchthing8]

Yes

[@roy4173]

in the old '92 X-Men cartoons, there is an episode called Juggernaut Returns where Juggernaut's powers are temporarily transferred onto a regular citizen (this episode is on KZbin). When you see the citizen attempt to do normal things, everything ends in disaster in a similar fashion to what you described in this video. He would unintentionally rip the steering wheel of his car off, remove the door handle to the door of his apartment, and he's unable to turn on the sink to his kitchen because he's tearing into everything with the slightest effort. In a way, it's a retelling of Midas's Touch, except he's destroying everything he touches instead of turning them into gold. It's pretty funny, and I'm surprised you missed putting this episode into your video given how relevant it is.

[@sign543]

I specifically remember as a kid of about 10-11 years of age thinking that if Superman could actually lift a building or some mega-sized object, yes, his body could do it, but the ground below him, holding his weight at that small point, would give.

[@JaxBlade]

You should analyze All Might's One for All Power from My Hero Academia and realistically what it would do to a person since Deku got broken the first few times he used it lol

[@abdulaziz-alharbi5437]

Hey there jax

[@linyenchin6773]

!!YOU...you know the parameters of fictional characters as much as I do(and probably a lot more). Please explain it to Kyle, all the ways his math is off, the various factors that are missing in contemplating how Superman and Spiderman's powers work....please? Notice How he did not Cover Luke Cage's method of super strength(which is just a leveraging of the hyper elastic propertied in his mutate cells)? Kyle has no clue of how Superman's aura reinforces the structural integrity of his body and whatever or whomever he physically touches. In Superman returns, the moment he caught that airplane's right wing tip, his aura seeped around it, enhancing it's integrity, but the further from his body = the less reinforcement, and he was not yet fully charged up as he had just returned from Kryton(thus he was just getting his powers back into effect). Due to lack of solar charge, the distance from the contact point and centre of mass, the wing eventually snapped, so he had no choice but to catch it at the centre, which he did by grasping the nose. You can see the ripple of distorting force through the airplane as it comes to a halt, it was his aura straining to maintain integrity of the hull while he was applying the max force he could without squishing the whole thing(or having it splay open in an explosive manner). The only example I can not completely account for, is Spiderman's catching that cop car, without using webbing. It's a stretch to claim spidy's electron attraction has a secondary effect of spreading exerted force over a greater surface area than is physically contacted by his body, but I do recall Kane(a legendary clone in the Spireman comics) demonstrating just that as he tore down a building using the force of this electron attraction which is ordinarily just used for wall-crawling.-This makes spidy's wall crawling power very similar to Qi-manipulation...he does eventually learn a form of Qi-sensing as part of his training with Shang-Chi to compensate for his temporarily missing spidy senses. All of these fictional characters have very precise control over their use of force, thanks in part to altered states of perception in correlation to their use of force.

[@JoelFeila]

the most unrealistic thing about One for All is the force it generates only goes in one direction. When Deku flicks his finger in a fight it should be like an explosion going out in all directions not just forward.

[@darkrac2]

Lin Yen Chin Good reasoning but only if the "aura" is a thing that is originally mentioned in the comics.. so is it?

[@whitherwhence]

Don't you mean he got... smashed?

[@voiddragon8233]

This could all be solved if: 1. You could turn off your strength, realistically this could be something like a slider or a switch you can activate so you can do normal stuff 2. Along with super strength you also are as many times strong as you are tough. This would make your body 100 times heavier most likely, but the strength would even it out. You would also be able to turn this off with the strength so you could be gentle without weighing 20,000 pounds. 3. You're careful to lift heavy objects with both hands, unless it is a wall, where destroying it is the optimal outcome 4. I reckon borrowing ant mans suit to lift things like planes ( so you can spread the pressure more evenly) would be a good idea 5. Just give the bad guys a little shoulder tap so instead of exploding you let them know, they ain't walkin home again

[@rokmutul8445]

What if you just make you self be able to lift a ton insted of puting all tjose things

[@user-jg5qx7eg8i]

7:10 This was exactly why Homelander COULDN’T have saved those people on the plane. If he tried to lift it, the more force exerted upwards would exert to him downwards so he needed something to push off of and because of pressure, even if he could of pushed off something to lift the plane, it’s structures would bend and tear apart and he would likely puncture holes through it, making the situation worse cause then people would be falling out the plane. He couldn’t stop it head on like Superman in Superman Returns cause he would’ve gone straight though the nose and make things worse as well. EDIT: Also a similar example is Omni-Man and the subway

[@HK47_115]

🤔😐Oh my god, your right. He wasn't just being a lazy asshole

[@machochocolate7679]

Yeah i immediately thing of that scenario with homelander. Btw season 3 is out

[@simon-peterwilliamson2412]

What if he tried to lift it from the bottom?

[@machochocolate7679]

@@simon-peterwilliamson2412 if he did ftom the landing gear maybe

[@alexzero3736]

Than he should push it, like engine.

[@sten2222]

Guess Homelander watched this episode before heading to the plane.

[@psychopirate1779]

Loved what u did there😂😃

[@felixchristopher5653]

I was about to say this 😂😂

[@soufianeammou5132]

So he was right after all

[@zaywyd5463]

Lmfao

[@jstnsmutek]

The hero we all need

[@Witandwitless]

I still remember reading a Spider-Man paperback novel there's a scene where he's about to punch Doc Ock and he's working out the math in his head concerning fall speed and such to know how hard he should punch to not actually kill Doc Ock. He gets into talking about how fights go so long because he doesn't want to kill anyone and he goes lighter on the punches rather than harder to avoid accidentally killing anyone. While a neat concept I just went nope I have a hard time believing in mid fight anyone can do that level of calculation. Before anyone says you can definitely pull a punch I'm not arguing you can't, I'm just saying the degree of thinking that supposedly happened in those sorts of scenes had me laughing.

[@phoebusapollo8365]

Well for one, Spider Man is a genius of Iron Man’s caliber, this already gives him the ability to think faster and more intricately than the average person. Then consider combat speed, Spider-Man has dodged lightning and dodged point blank bullets before. This, coupled with his Spider Sense giving him a warning every time a bad guy tries punching him, would make it plausible for him to easily and effortlessly dodge blows (relying on his spider sense heavily) while using his genius mind to calculate stuff.

[@AJJr-hc5lz]

Dude got powers from a radioactive spider bite and swings around the city solving crime in red and blue tights.

[@lamppost6194]

spiderman has dodged a lighting bolt before and you don't think he can do those calculations in time when he is a super genius?

[@AriThecraftydragon]

Yeah, I want to agree. The amount of practice Spiderman/Peter Parker & Superman had to do, from not ripping door handles off to not harming people when shaking hand or the Dexterity they'd need to move suddenly if they got bumped.

[@nosuchthing8]

I used to wrestle with my young niece and she had almost zero strength. It can be done.

[@rustybrooks8916]

I assume that all Super Strength is scaleable. It's not just super because it's greater than what humans can produce, but it's also super because of the ability to control the force you're applying perfectly. So when Supes punches a bank robber, he's scaling his strength down to Mike Tyson force, but when he punches Doomsday he's scaling up to Maximum. He could also be using his Flight to anchor him from moving when he hits things. Of course that doesn't explain other characters, like the Hulk, but Supes seems to have it all covered. As far as catching things that he should go through, I think he's been able to extend his personal forcefield around objects in the past, so maybe he does. Superman can basically do anything.

[@rewrose2838]

Question: How dense would your bones need to be to not pulpify when you _Hulk Smash_ Iron-man's standard (gold-titanium alloy) suit? [Will having denser bones help at all?] Also, assuming all your body's muscles are 100xstronger, how likely is it that you would die from something as silly as your rib cage getting crushed by your super-strong diaphragm? I love BS-ing with Kyle , but I hope he delves into some video-game theory stuff as well~ ( your catch-phrase is way better than MatPat's)

[@makor9510]

I think Density would more or less keep you from flying. There are somethings out there more durable with less density. For example spider silk is far more durable then steel, yet it's far less dense. But none the less that is a good question on durability.

[@TheUrbanwerebear]

Yeah, density isn't the issue, it's the material strength of the bones. Basically, in order to use super-strong muscles, the standard mostly-calcium bones would have to be replaced with something much stronger. Strangely enough, Wolverine's adamantium-laced skeleton is nearly the best-case scenario in comics for this, though he doesn't have super-strength (or at least, not nearly to the extent demonstrated in this video).

[@becausescience]

Good comment! But I do try to stay off MP's turf. Otherwise every comment is "Game Theory did it first." Trust me. -- KH

[@zenhydra]

There is a reason that pretty much every portrayal of super-strength is accompanied with super-durability. Real-life competitive weightlifters have to be very careful when lifting very heavy amounts of weight. Not just from accidentally dropping them on a body part, but also from traumatic injury caused by their own muscles to their supporting bones, ligaments, and joints. I've seen photos of some pretty gnarly injuries caused by lifting more weight than the body's support structure can buttress.

[@rewrose2838]

@Because Science I understand, but I hope you don't let comments affect you too much -spoilers: they're always from the loud minority of douches-

[@muhammadbasit7644]

Batman’s super power is what I want He’s rich

[@leehervey3502]

Facts

[@yvigil6692]

And an orphan and likes beating up mentally ill people

[@muhammadbasit7644]

yVigil bring an orphan isn’t his power

[@kamil3214532145]

Here is why you dont want to be rich

[@faroukmajed1035]

Basit Fitness I thought his intellect xD

[@tront6897]

You only saying that to stop us from becoming super strong

[@operaghostkay]

Leg Hurt yes, he is stopping the creation of one punch man!

[@crosby817]

He tried to trick us!!! We will never stop our progress to the unlimited power of strength!!!

[@operaghostkay]

Crosby one puuuuunch!

[@Hanlb]

I won't stop doing my 100 pushups 100 sit ups 100 squats and a 10 kilometer run every single day.

[@operaghostkay]

Lawrence Han one must train in order to gain power, train until your hair falls out my child, then you might one day be strong enough to face Boros

[@michael30736]

Yes and no. You would have to have the durability to live with super strength, but you would learn to deal with the dexterity issues. You would also learn to brace for the equal and opposite force. A fight might end up with a dead bad guy at first. You would probably learn to hold back to about equal force. It wouldn't be cool like the movies. I think it wouldn't be that bad.

[@clipsbyjae]

I agree, I just don't see these being issues

[@wuguxiandi9413]

I mean, you can brace all you want, but will whatever you are standing on handle that force being exerted onto it through your feet?

[@MrShroomed]

7:10 Well there goes the reason as to why Homelander couldn't save the people on the plane.

[@allenholzgrove9303]

About that, why didn’t they think to control the flaps on the wings manually?

[@SamMelon]

@@allenholzgrove9303 homelander cant be in two places at once and maeve doesnt have his strength nor can she fly

[@SafeBurrito5465]

@@SamMelon also they aren’t unusually smart.

[@tz28exile]

Some day one of your viewers is going to start making scientifically accurate comics

[@spidey5385]

That's me

[@amdfenom2875]

I'm already haha Whenever I write a scene, i come to his channel to know if it's scientifically possible 😂

[@Donald6309]

If they were scientifically accurate, they wouldn't be comics

[@primeoil4758]

The Boys: am I a joke to you??

[@2tall308]

What if you could store your strength and exert it when you want

[@RobT192]

Sounds like a pretty good character idea

[@yingnyang2889]

Thicc Daddy that’s what you call “work”.... going to sleep to store your strength and exert it - as as sponge bob would say..... go to work, go to work, go to work, go to work

[@davecrupel2817]

Unless you can raise and lower your muscle mass at will, that cant happen

[@maco2896]

Half of superheroes do not look big enough to support such strength

[@matheusjezini]

Exactly, we're talking about fictional stuff here. In the video he tries to scientifically disprove that specific type of super strength, but since is entirely fictional I could just write new counter measures

[@manvendrasingh4409]

Perhaps Homelander didn't save people from aeroplane crash because he knew the Physics.

[@deezbignutss3057]

This is exactly what came to my mind.. turns out he was probably onto something

[@barrackthebomba8198]

No shit

[@dx-dragon4399]

He literally said that would happen he would fly right through it

[@MessiahMaster530]

Maybe but when he saved Butcher from the C4 explosion in the season finale, Butcher was disoriented but unharmed even though HL carrying him to safety at anywhere from Mach 4.5 to Mach 16 instantaneously would be fatal for a human being due to the immediate acceleration and immediate deceleration, not to mention the air compression as well. Homelander if he can do that, must have powers that either bend physics in his favor or he possesses a personal forcefield like Supes that allows him to pick up heavy thingies without them buckling under their weight due to The Wedge Principle and save people at breakneck speeds without them turning into burnt mush due to inertia. From that, I firmly believe that Homelander probably did know the physics but he still was too lazy and apathetic to at least try to save either the plane or the people in it. Plus Homelander’s excuse of having nothing to stand on to lift the plane cuz Maeve and him were in the air is a poor one cuz later in that scene, he is clearly hovering in the air, carrying Maeve.

[@mrrager13]

@@MessiahMaster530wouldnt it be safe to assume her weight doesn’t require any extra force? Just how you an carry things around daily without exerting much force but if you power lift you need to exert much more with proper form.

[@MorsecodeZ]

This argument was brought up in an FF comic, where the Kree version of Superman was observed lifting a building, and Reed speculated that the character had to have a subconscious telekinetic power that supports his physical activity or the building would just collapse.

[@garontime2033]

MorsecodeZ yup. Superman had a telekinetic field.

[@paulschuckman6604]

And weird psychic chest symbols he could throw and wrap you in, but only in your mind.

[@_gamepoint_]

Was this during a kree invasion story?

[@paulschuckman6604]

Jyerell Lee in Superman 2 during the end fight scene he attacks a Kryptonian with what looks like yellow plastic wrap.

[@MorsecodeZ]

I don't remember it being a full invasion, and I don't remember the issue, but I can picture the page in my head ... but a quick search doesn't pull it up, and my comics are buried, but it was most likely from the late 80s, early 90s.

[@zenhydra]

The issue is more complex when it comes to applying "super" strength to a punch. Muscle twitch speed is more relevant to the force of a punch than the muscle's contraction force. Without a significant increase in speed and/or mass, the "super" punch won't be noticeably different than a "normal" punch. The "super" strength would be better leveraged by grappling techniques.

[@zenhydra]

Yes. For about 27 years. Why do you ask?

[@qrlifescan]

You are spot on... Hence why big strong lifters and body builders can't punch worth a damn... That's why a scrawny guy like me can punch harder than then... But because of their muscle mass they can lift far more than me. There are several different muscles and the human bodies motion is very complex. But we must assume that the ability to control one's strength is as easy as we find it... In dragon Ball super Beerus slaps Bulma... Earlier he flicked Goku with one finger in SSJ3 and sent him into a crater, but Bulma stumbles a bit... Clearly Beerus is able to control his work output.

[@mickeyg7219]

Well, on a human scale, it's hard to imagine, but for a fictional super strong being, their punching force can also be attributed to the fact that their muscles contains a lot of energy. When they made a contact with someone or something, the titanic amount of energy got transferred this way. That's why a relatively slow superheroes (when compared to flying bricks), like the Hulk can punch just as hard.

[@KidArkx]

Yeah but a big guy would kill you with judo. With super strength just throw people dont punch .

[@qrlifescan]

KidArk I think you miss the point... It's not about if I could beat up a big guy or not.

[@sigvaldithor]

the human brain can adjust our strength better than you think, someone who gains plenty of muscle does not lose accuracy for small tasks like using a computer mouse or threading a needle. the biggest problem put about super strength is that our brains fail to adjust or wrongfully adjust our strength when we get angry, you could easily drive a car with super strength but we might rip the steering wheel of if we get road rage.

[@Anvilshock]

There is a difference between loose and lose, you know.

[@sigvaldithor]

Anvilshock corrected, thanks that one often gets me.

[@Anvilshock]

Much appreciated, thanks!

[@allloren7277]

Lol theirs a meme where the dude does exactly except for the caption reads “If he turns the wheel he’ll rotate the planets axis” or something like that

[@krismartinez2685]

Anvilshock Lmao you have no chill with the corrections ffs just understand what he meant and move on lol

[@MildarValsik]

Reasons why I like the show "The boys" . It's easy to make mistakes in keeping control. Imagine how bad it be if a superhero gets drunk and loose all control of their power. Some times we manipulate things in our ever day life without realizing it. Like springs to absorb force to halt it and slow down pressures. Our joints work like that often yet that's where the spearing effect can come in to effect. That is if all pressure is focused only on one point as to two points. We see this often in the bed of nails trick. Most of those are blunted nails and numerous to spread pressure evenly. So yes because science. I'm thinking superheroes would also have to be super smart or super aware of their abilities and how to apply it... which takes practice.

[@dragonmagic9872]

Just saying, the so called "super heroes" in the boys are not really heroes.... like at all, Maeve and star light are the only somewhat good supes.

[@guyclykos]

controlling super strength may not be an issue. Remember the time when you need to output more strength, you needed to command more effort into outputting such strength? Let's say super strength only activates ONLY when you reached your ORDINARY strength limit so you can output more force if needed. In this case, dexterity will not become an issue.

[@IMPULSEGaming1]

This is how I always imagined super strength would work. Extending your strength limit rather than replacing your level of strength application.

[@VLorenzoStone]

This is what I call psycho-metabolic and sometimes psychokinetic super-strength.

[@moanguspickard249]

Guy from the Internet THANK YOU.

[@MikefromTexas1]

Guy from the Internet Like Bruce Willis in "Unbreakable".

[@HunterHerne]

I would say that would depend on the super strength. Not all forms are created equal, even within the same set of stories. There are versions of super strength which require an activation (Sugar Rush's ability in My Hero Academia, Strong Man in Marvel Comics), and while active, they would have less dextrous control. In many cases, you are probably correct, like Bruce Willis; character in Indestructible. He has the potential for super strength, because of his invulnerability, but he doesn't know about it until he has reason to try. And then he finds out he can lift several hundred pounds with only some effort, and no practice.

[@saffy9321]

I don’t know man, punching a hole through someone’s face sounds pretty good to me

[@babyplum2837]

n o

[@dzagoproductions3450]

@@babyplum2837 y e s

[@babyplum2837]

no no no no no *N O*

[@olutopemofikoya9733]

EEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWW. Do you have no idea how much blood that would be?!?!!????!!!?

[@l0sts0ul89]

@DUMM-E a Look up Luthor Strode, he litterly explodes normal peoples faces odd

[@jeffreyherrera5069]

7:55 Omniman: Hold my-Actually, nevermind. I'll hold my kid. I've got this. We've got a train to catch anyway.

[@boonkgame9986]

omniman fr 😭

[@dukeman466]

Lesson learned: Be a villain

[@jatintomar8170]

I thought when I comment on this video then I realized it's not me!

[@jatintomar8170]

Let me subscribe myself

[@DK-gl3ih]

@@jatintomar8170 lol

[@YourLovelyGuy9442]

@@jatintomar8170 lmao

[@D00DM00D]

And a masochist

[@abbadonsdungeon1565]

If I were to punch someone across the room wouldn't the reaction be applied to my arm.. And being that I have super strength wouldn't I be strong enough to stop the force against my arm from throwing me across the room as well? Oh BTW love the show!

[@Radianx001]

You can imagine what will happen if you look for videos on youtube where one dude hits another with a huge bouncing ball

[@WaveOfDestiny]

Wear some super friction shoes

[@meleoron4652]

I thought pretty much the same thing. What if your legs are super strong, so (assuming your legs are at the right angle to keep you from falling over or sliding away) the whole force applied to you just gets transferred into the ground?

[@rewrose2838]

I was wondering about why super-strong legs wouldn't help in that case too, we need Kyle to address this!

[@brightenblack207]

In TV shows and movies, they show people get electrocuted and get launched. That would caused by your muscles all activating, right? Also, I'm sure you would go across the room for you can't stop that force coming back at you. That is unless you found a way to keep yourself secure, but there's no question you would at least break your arm and your leg if it's stuck to somewhere

[@AustiuNoMatterWho]

bruh the editors did AMAZING this episode

[@RSpudieD]

they always do don't they

[@GenJotsu]

Unsung heroes

[@mattfox829]

This force problem can be showcased very well in the TV series "Invincible"...if you know you know

[@kyle21843]

The infamous subway scene Also makes sense in The Boys when Homelander said he couldnt just stop the plane

[@blakewadington4390]

if you were just standing straight with no body movement and you punched someone across the room then yes you would fly across to the other side of the room but why don't professional boxers fall on their back when they knock someone else on their back? it is because they don't just extend their arm very fast, they create momentum with their body towards the target so when they make contact it doesn't knock them back but instead brings their already existing momentum to a halt so they can remain standing. wouldn't this be applied to having super strength? isn't it just on a higher scale?

[@theblasblas]

I think that you have to take into account what you're bracing against. Depending on how you brace yourself you'll either skid a shorter distance or gouge out part of the floor. Normal floors don't have the roughness or strength to support a person that's making use of super strength.

[@azmah8523]

You have a valid point about conservation of momentum, but theblasblas also has a point. If you were to throw a punch with superstrength you would have a very short time to build the momentum with your body to counter act it. This would put a lot of force on the floor so you would slip before your punch makes contact. If you don't build enough momentum, then you slip after you make contact.

[@becausescience]

Think about the force here. Boxers punch with 1000-3000N. Boxers weigh (heavyweights) 1000N+. The force of friction at the feet (bracing), will be some fraction of this weight. So we’re already taking about “resistive” forces in the ballpark of the forces applied. What I’m saying is take all that, but dramatically increase the punching force... - KH

[@LexicalNoScope]

Because Science you keep comparing these things to super man. Well if you were Superman or Goku and can fly, then that would be how you brace yourself.

[@nfcopier1]

You are correct that flying could help the problem. And that is why Because Science specifically mentioned that you would need other superpowers to make it work.

[@LifeInsider]

Oh hey Thor

[@Elvenwind]

Life Insider oh hey mark

[@ShinobiShindou]

Want a dead ringer for Thor, check out FredsVoice an ASMR channel. Looks and sounds like he should be Thor.

[@Bai32771]

Don't Tell Me What I Want! Thor!

[@Angel-je3bh]

Fitz from agents of shield.

[@elreyY299]

Clayton K hey belly

[@qasedzxswd9892]

having super strength sucks... just ask saitama ( one punch man )

[@vigneshmahajan6130]

ya it sucks even more when u gain it by losing ur hair and still u will never beat even pikachu outta ur own weakass universe😂😂

[@gj4312]

@@vigneshmahajan6130 it's not the universe that's weak, he is infinitely powerful.

[@vigneshmahajan6130]

@@gj4312 ... m not arguing with u saitamatards.. excuse me pls

[@gj4312]

@@vigneshmahajan6130 I'm sorry? I just stated something canon about the series when you said there is something that he cannot defeat. There is no such thing. Maybe I misunderstood because your grammar is so poor. Punctuation isn't just something that we put in for fun you know, it's kinda necessary... I'll ignore the "u"s and accept that as shorthand but that doesn't help me have a fucking clue what else you could have meant. If I got what you meant right then I don't see your problem.

[@vigneshmahajan6130]

@@gj4312 ....dude.. re read my comment.. i said tht he can beat anybody from his own universe (ya.. only from his own weakling universe.. he is infinitely powerful only there).. and hey my grammar aint poor dude.. poor is the quality of genes u inherited..

[@petermichaelmoore4908]

Now I want to see a superhero deal with these physics. I still want super strength though, as long as it adheres to comic book rules so I wouldn't have to deal with all this 😂

[@vinson3725]

Do the impossible: break a Nokia 3310 by kicking it hard.

[@dinidusamaranayake3266]

minecraft_player game developed by: Mojang man not even the sun can destroy it

[@markone6861]

That phone is indestructible

[@vizthex]

Anyone who can do this has more power than the gods.

[@aliozanerbektas]

Make an episode about how quick silver will instantly kill every living thing on the mansion when it explodes in x-man days of future past due to his momentum.

[@idiosyncrasy7703]

Ozan Erbektaş yep, his lack of speed force is quite concerning.

[@fantasyconnect]

I swear someone said that all mutants warp reality to some extent.

[@fullestauto8912]

The comics don't clarify this and decide to say "Quicksilver's mutation made his body be able to work for super speed, so everything in his biology is made to be able to work with that, and thus be able to do what he does" Okey.... But.... Where's the Gravity, weight distribution, momentum and well just really warping abilities come from? Is that a thing? Is that one of his powers? What do you say comics? -Comics: Nope. Nothing. He just is -So how the hell can he make such close turns, how the hell can he even run at super speeds? I don't care if his legs can move forward and backwards 300 times per second. Go do that on the floor and you'll be propulsing yourself rocket high faster than a bullet and or pealing the ground underneath you like a massive super fast fan hitting a mountain of sand. Does he have enough super strengths to beat the sht of the Juggernaut? Does he weight like 1300 pounds? How can he get hurt from a regular slow old school knife wound but be able to do all that shit? How can he carry people? Why doesn't he burst in flames or at least smoke when running? Flash gets a pass... because speed force. What ever that shit does but does Quicksilver have something like that? -Comics: Nope... At least I haven't implied it. -So how the fck? -Comics: .... bazinga

[@idiosyncrasy7703]

Fullest Auto well dc did the same thing too, tho. They just actually named the darn thing. It’s basically the same concept, the speedster violates all laws of physics and live a happy life. For dc, the power comes from the speedforce while marvel used the mutations. Both don’t make any sense at all but we still buy the dc one, so why not buy the marvel too. He he. But, to be completely honest, when they teased that quicksilver and scarlet witch were going to be part of the avengers movie, I thought they’d give an explanation as to why they were like that and how their powers came to be since mcu had a good track record for origin stories. Then, they just killed the guy and I was like, welp, guess they can’t come up with anything.

[@amogharsekar1488]

idiosyncrasy they said in the movie that their powers came from the mind stone when strucker was experimenting with them. What's left to explain?

[@novski3175]

the part you say punch someone and exact samething happen to you Punching a hard wall = same force to you Punching an empty plastic bottle = no effect on you in conclusion it depends on shock absorption

[@OD_Plays]

NEXX yeah but if you are super strong then you are also strong enough to stop your self from moving

[@novski3175]

shock absorption means close enough to what you just said ( like strong enough to absorb shock if you're strong enough when you're punched while floating on air you will fly away because there is no assist on ground and cant control gravity/flight and you wont take damage like throwing nokia 3310 and hitting it with a baseball bat

[@robbierotten2024]

It's the same force either way, it's just that the wall is still in your way and applying it's various forces onto your fist (the wall don't wanna move is pretty much that law of physics), causing a sudden stop and breaking your fist. The same force is applied to the cup and the wall, or the car or the plane, it's an objects resistance to being moved that really hurts you, because it causes a sudden stop and compression; but the same force is still applied to the object you are punching.

[@derpboss2671]

that's not true, the reason punching a plastic bottle has no effect on you is because its mass is so much smaller, so when your mass hits it, both take the same force, but the bottle is accelerated much faster due to its smaller mass. Also, a plastic bottle can move around, unlike a wall, so you're not actually just putting your force into the bottle, you're also putting a lot of your force into the air around the bottle. If the bottle stayed still like the wall, you would feel a lot more force coming back at you.

[@JuanRamirez-bj6qe]

It just depends on mass. If you have more mass than the object being hit, your mass overtakes it and in turn doesn't damage you.

[@timothyhayes2963]

So hulk said it best in the avengers episode where everybody got his powers. He told them to pretend everything is egg.

[@flower-ld5id]

doesn't super strength just mean you have the ability to have a lot of strength but you can also have fine motor skills and precision. i mean there are people who are above average strength because they are bodybuilders and they can still pick things up without breaking them, but they can also use their strength when they need to win a strongman competition.

[@theblasblas]

The problem is when you're about 50 times stronger than the strongest strongman. You'd have to have super-motor skills to control that.

[@flower-ld5id]

i don't think that's how it would work. why exactly would they not just have a bigger range of strength where they could easily do delicate things as well as lift heavy stuff and that sort. i mean super strength is impossible because your bones and stuff aren't strong enough to use that strength, every force is met with an equal and opposite force. so you would still be crushed if you tried to lift a bus, or your arm would break if you tried to punch a truck into the sun.

[@deadman2807]

flower edit well lets say you had bones strong enough to support your strength. Bodybuilders have larger muscles and muscles are spring-like. You can put more force into a larger spring. Lets use Hulk Hogan at his peak he had 24 in biceps. The average person has roughly 13 to 16 in biceps. He can lift a lot more because his muscles can store a lot more energy. So lets use an average build of 13-16 in and lets say increase his strength 100 times. His muscles can now produce 100 times more energy but they can't store 100 times more enrgy. So in theory if they tried to lift 1 lb they would lift with the force to lift 100 lbs. Keep in my that i know very little about anatomy but if that was hard to follow here is a summed up version. Bodybuilders have more space to store energy so they can control the amount of energy they release so if you took the average man and increased his strength past the amount of energy his muscles can hold than that amount of energy wouldn't be conserved because his muscles can't stand it.

[@notproductiveproductions3504]

theblasblas imagine reducing the physical and mental effort to make things not break in your hands

[@kenleonard7739]

Of course. And most of the characters with heightened strength are also displayed as having heightened physiology in other ways, too. Most of them have several kinds of enhanced dexterity in play, including things like super-speed (Superman, Wonder Woman), Spider-Man's agility, or even just generally-superhuman dexterity (Thor, Wonder Man, Jessica Jones, Aquaman, the Hulks, Captain Marvel, Beast, Vision, Anaconda, Tigra, Drax, Sub-Mariner, etc.). The idea that they wouldn't be able to control their strength could, maybe, be applied to someone like Giant-Man or Colossus, maybe the Thing, but that's pretty close to it. I can't think of a single reason to assume that someone like Thor can't tell the difference between how much power it takes to open a door vs. rip the door from its hinges.

[@mrCuteStevO]

Hello, actually in my opinion lifting a car would not bend it or pierce through it. Cars have special contact points which are reinforced and made specially to lift them up. It's very common for example for stiff/sport cars to lift a half of a car just with one jack. By the way I totally love your show :D You're Best internet scientist on youtube :D

[@becausescience]

Thank you Stefan! Good points -- KH

[@theBabyDead]

You are right, but then you'd still have to grab the car at those points. Also, you would be likely to bend it as a jack gives extremely stable pressure where you probably won't. The jack will jack the car straight up where as you will probably lift it at an angle. And besides this, catching a car would still wreck it. That's the point he was trying to make most of all, I'm guessing. Don't nitpick

[@Andrewtr6]

Kyle predicts the train scene from Invincible 8:10

[@shadowmomochiuchiha6839]

The way i see it if your body can produce said amount of energy your body has to be durable enough to withstand said energy otherwise your body would crumble

[@mushtaqkhan4800]

Why you dont want super strength Says Chris Hemsworth

[@summeronio9751]

His face just looks like him but Kyle is built like me, and im no big dude at all

[@dallasreynolds2962]

Being 6'10" I have to be very careful about ceiling fans and door frames. ER trips are expensive.

[@lukeconlin3612]

Rip

[@lukeconlin3612]

Imagine being too tall

[@dallasreynolds2962]

@Luna I have 5 tiny humans and they manage to always be wherever I want to set my feet down

[@brettsix2027]

I can identify. I’m always worried that I’m going to break things I touch. When I was in technical school, I broke a metal crimper used to make Ethernet cables without even trying. My instructor handed me another one and said try again and this time take it easy 😆

[@lazarus8018]

It ain't easy being big.

[@JohnnyKronaz]

My prediction before watching: The assumption will be that immense strength also brings a total loss of control over how much strength you use. Because powerlifters always accidentally throw their groceries through the ceiling.

[@JohnnyKronaz]

Haha, I was at least partially right. I wonder if Hafthor Bjornson accidentally rips knobs off doors, or crushes food he tries to eat. I'm sorry, normally I love these videos, but that is just a damn silly assumption to make.

[@FrankHarrison12]

He said 100x+ the normal human strength capacity..

[@ilijakocev6068]

Yeah, it's kinda ridiculous,if someone was that strong im preety sure he would adapt to our society and surroundings,he would'nt use all of his strenght to open a freaking door,he would use as much as he needs even if it is very small.

[@JohnnyKronaz]

Frank, what about it? Do you ALWAYS use your full capacity for every little task?

[@z-beeblebrox]

I think you're getting into a whole different world when a light grip is enough to break the handle off a door. It'd be like living in a world where everything's made of soft clay. QUITE different from simply being a powerlifter

[@michaelcook8580]

Homelander pointed out the same thing about the plane in a very similar plane crash over the ocean. The plane didn’t make it because homelander zapped the controls, and carrying the plane would punch a hole in the fuselage

[@palianakamakakoa1383]

I was looking for this specific comment

[@nosuchthing8]

No, HL has superseded. He could easily fly each person down to the ground one after another. He was just lazy.

[@michaelcook8580]

@@nosuchthing8 I think there would have been a lot of physiological issues with people being moved almost instantaneously from a plane in the sky to the Earth's surface. Yeah HL could move all the people but it'd be insanely difficult to move ALL of them at a safe speed with the given time frame.

[@wisdombeyondyears]

Don’t forget the massive amount of calories you’d have to eat. You’re also not the flash so it takes as long as normal to eat. You’d be eating ALL of the time. The biological effects just sound terrible.

[@GameTimeWhy]

StrangelyAmusing like Goku!

[@rewrose2838]

I wanna know if super-strong jaws and esophageal muscles would make eating any more dangerous~?

[@ninjahombrepalito1721]

StrangelyAmusing But with your super strength (and a metal box, maybe), you could compress large amounts of food so it would be easier to eat. Also, everything you eat would be like eating applesauce because of the massive strength of the muscles in your mouth. So, you could eat like 20 meals in one, eating 100 times more than normal in 5 meals instead of 3, because you are 100 times stronger (although that doesn't necessarily mean you burn 100 times more calories per day when you think about it). And actually, put on steel springs on your legs. You will be doing more work with less calories. So being stronger can make you more efficient so you don't have to eat much more than normal.

[@wisdombeyondyears]

Ninja Hombrepalito Their stomach is the still the same size as normal. Capacity per meal is still the issue.

[@wisdombeyondyears]

Rew Rose Assuming you had high density and resistance along with the strength then it wouldn’t be an issue like crushing your teeth. But your burps would be able to be compressed and you’d have cold breath if I’m remembering my gas laws. So you’d burp after eating and freeze something in front of you.

[@ruthmeow4262]

After watching this, I want to see a breakdown episode on the one inch punch. Please.

[@yasonyohannes]

Ruth Miller he made one

[@rohanshirodkar8353]

What if super strength was an active ability, not a passive one? (Passive ability- an ability that will automatically be triggered by a loving thing’s body when needed, e.g.- paper cuts healing. Active Ability- an ability that can be used by a living thing, though the said being will have to consciously use it, in other words allowing this being to turn the ability on and off, e.g.- superman’s heat vision). That would make you use super strength whenever you want, though not all the time, so the real life issues. At least if super strength was dependant on another variable, like how Bruce banner can only harness hulk’s power when he’s really angry, it would be a lot easier to control it

[@TheophilusWallen]

Deku from My Hero Academia pretty much has the "on/off" super strength ability you're referring to.

[@victorsrur134]

Rohan Shirodkar super adrenaline would be better,like hulk you are a a normal guy get scared by a robber crack his skull with a punch

[@HilaryPea]

-You're videos always leave me laughing while I learn. Thank you for that! -My brother is a big guy and much stronger than he realizes (even though he is in his 40s and should be used have adjusted by now). He is an artist and very gentle with his figurines, but is bumbling everywhere else. So, I can understand how super strength can get in the way. Just higher than normal strength gets in the way, sometimes.

[@k-koldgaming2509]

this is why there is a term called "required secondary power" super strength would come with appropriate dexterity, and strength control

[@olteanu9181]

K-kold Gaming Yea, I was thinking about that too. But in this case, explain Iron Man's suit... In real life it would just break all your bones when using those powers

[@k-koldgaming2509]

true, but in the case of super strength. one would assume that if you could hit that hard, than your body would be able to take the force of it due to it being your own strength. now of course we could also look to one anime where the logical part of this is used boku no hero academia, the main character deku has super strength basically, but he doesnt have the "requiered secondary power" of durability.

[@UcanKanatsizPenguen]

Luca, the dude makes a suit that can fly faster than the god dammed jets, im sure he can invent somethink that absorbs those Gs

[@BCtube01]

to all the people complaining about his take on superstrength, I think the video is really focusing on Superman's strength, or heroes of his power level.... Guys like, Captain America, Spidey shouldn't have any of these issues,like going through a car when picking it up.

[@johnnyskinwalker4095]

also he kept talking about Superman using his strenght in flight

[@Dampzombieslayer]

Spiderman does have these issues though, when Doctor Octopus takes over Spiderman’s body and punches Scorpion with full force it takes his jaw clean ofg

[@bofflethewaffle]

To be fair, Spider-Man (MIND THE HYPHEN) has been shown time and time again to be one of the strongest humans on Earth. The cinematic verse aknowledged this by letting him casually catch a punch from Bucky's metal arm, something that has been established to be powerful enough to catch Captain America's shield. Which has been thrown by a man who can pull down a helicopter. And throw the blunt edge of the shield in such a way that it buries itself into a concrete wall. So yeah. Spider-Man's a pretty tough and strong guy.

[@ggarzagarcia]

@@bofflethewaffle well Spidey can lift up to 25 tons. His biggest feat is lifting himself from off the concrete ceiling, which weighed close to Spidey's max lift. Both the comics and Homecoming depicted this. As to vs. Captain America's strength, Spidey is definitely stronger. But as to strongest humans on Earth 616, he's like in the middle. There are many other mutants stronger than him. Peter normally keeps up with stronger opponents via Spider-Sense and his intellect (even in battle he is savy, but not like Captain America or Iron Fist, who have better fighting skills and experience).

[@Jay-dn9xo]

Going off what kolot said, Spidey also holds back whenever he's fighting someone (besides maybe the hulk). I recall him saying in some if the early comics that if he punched someone with his full strength he would kill them on impact.

[@goofylakez3628]

8:58 and that, ladies and gentlemen, is a glory hole

[@kudugod795]

u think negative

[@alphyishere]

Hehehe. 69... nice

[@jonathancross1736]

Damn had to remove my like

[@classifiedveteran9879]

I think not accidentally manhandling things would be innate. We have the ability to exert extreme force and also be very delicate and precise. I don't know any bodybuilder neurosurgeons out there, but I'm sure it's possible. What I do see as a problem is that your body would still be quite vulnerable. Basically, you'd be prone to self-damage. Look at Olympic weightlifting accidents, and you'll see what I mean. Elbows bending backwards, wrists snspping. It doesn't matter how much you can deadlift if your spine gets crushed in the process. Super-punches would shatter every bone in your hand. Let's not forget Newtons third law of motion. If a 250-pound person were to throw a Dodge Avenger at 50 MPH, they'd end up flying backwards at 680 MPH. Let's not forget that picking up large and heavy objects would be very awkward since your center of gravity would be off-center too. You'd tip over if you tried to pick up a car. You'd have to lift up one end of the car like a hydraulic jack and walk your hands underneath it until you reached its center of gravity. Of course, some superpower characters have ways around this _(other than Superman)_ like Colossus, who is a heavy metal person. _(They never show road or floor damage with these characters, or their feet sinking into soft ground...)_ Making his body very tough and giving him lots of weight to throw around. However, characters like Spiderman are seemingly vulnerable to this. Unless there's something else going on with his powers that saves herniated discs, torn tendons, knee injuries, and fractured bones. Last I checked, he's still very _"squishy."_ But super-strength by itself would be only slightly useful. You'd have to be very careful to super-punch a concrete wall, liquifying your entire hand, doing little or damage to the wall, sending you tumbling backwards at hundreds of miles an hour, likely resulting in your death.

[@wedgelad5894]

I really don't think you're right about the punching across the room stuff. If someone has super strong punching ability it serves the same logic to say that that person would have the same strength stabilising muscles. So in that case they wouldn't be shot across the room, muscles like the core and glutes with a stance that almost every boxer uses would be enough, although i'm not sure if the floor would be unscathed.

[@zohaq9256]

It could add some resistance but it wouldn’t be enough considering how much force is being applied

[@wedgelad5894]

Me Me but it would be, consider someone throughing a roundhouse kick that pushes the heavy bag a metre back. It doesn't even make the kicker flinch. This is because of their stabilising muscles. In addition, the muscles in your lower body and back are much larger than the ones in the upper body so you would be super stable.

[@velkoivanov9155]

True, but if you hit something hard enough, even if your muscles, bones and tissues are able to withstand it and keep you upright, you will either make a hole in the ground or in the thing, or both.

[@DKCrules50]

Actually he said the force wouldn't be easy to react with society so theoretically the surface one would stand on would break beneath their feat due to an equal force sending them falling or flying across the room depending on where one was hit.

[@jamescorrigan7639]

It would put some force back onto you but if you're punching the person with your bare fist, that's a lot of force concentrated on a small surface area so your hand would just go right through them and because the neck isn't very stable, you could literally punch someones head off

[@HappYinc]

5:34 "Ooh No"....i see what you did there, and i applaud you

[@becausescience]

Thank yooouuuu -- KH

[@HappYinc]

Because Science

[@bananaenvelope3849]

hahahahaha!

[@mehve]

I don't get the reference... D:

[@MichaelGaryScott90]

*I understood that! I understood that reference...*

[@williamdaliege1016]

This is why modern explanations of super strength (Superman, Superboy (the clone), Gladiator (in Marvel Comics), etc.) resort to something called "tactile telekinesis". Essentially, characters with super-strength are actually utilizing a degree of mental control (telekinesis) to not only lift the entire structure in question, but to also maintain its integrity so it doesn't shatter in their hands. Their physiology is still "super" or "enhanced", but so are their minds. So the powers are actually a kind of two-fold symbiosis of effects. Superman is physiologically denser and stronger; but he flies and lifts things by an additional effort of "mind-over-matter." (Some have taken this even farther to suggest Superman has the psionic ability to "warp" the Grand Unified Field of the Universe -- at least in his personal locality --and thereby "cheat" the laws of physics.) :)

[@axekickstudios2886]

Kyle carried this channel. The only Kyle who's mortal enemy isn't drywall.

[@asurajsharma]

*This reminds me of Mr.Incredible after he was forced to retire from hero work!!*

[@kaskando]

Eddie Sharma when he slips on the skateboard and catches the car for support

[@asurajsharma]

kaskando funny scene 😂😂

[@kaskando]

You would need to be insanely collected all the time, if you lost focus for a second u could destroy something, or yourself. You would need some intense meditation lessons and do a butt tonne of yoga xD you would need to be a zen master o___o

[@asurajsharma]

kaskando Bob Parr really knew how to control himself,well for most of the time! 😂😂

[@RessG]

Mr and Mrs incredible compatible for eachother then lol

[@Rick-jf2ig]

8:05 reminds me of that scene in invincible

[@FaeChangeling]

To be fair, Superman caught the plane by the nose, which is a surprisingly clever detail, since it's curved in the perfect way that the pressure would be distributed more evenly throughout the surface of the nose of the plane. It's the same reason bridges are often arched.

[@vargyassoma7733]

Nonetheless, a plane's nose is still not designed to be able to take that kind of pressure. There is no reason for it to be that strong. So it would just break. Your average jet weighs couple dozen tons and the only support for that weight is Superman's palms. (And we didn't even mention the kinetic energy of the moving plane that adds to this.)

[@carstekoch]

Yep the nose radome is made from few millimetres thick alligned glass fiber epoxid to allow the radar systems in it to Funktion properly and simultaneously not grill the pilots. Several tons of compressive force, even if placed evenly on the entire surface, would break it. Or the screws that hold it in place.

[@FaeChangeling]

killer Duck You're watching Because Science, everybody here is a nerd.

[@10-AMPM-01]

Got him. Also, if you pushed 45,000 lbs of force through one square foot of hand area... You're going through anything you don't crush.

[@jameswhite8345]

Also sups didn't just immediately stop the plane he used just enough force to decelerate it or at least that's what they tried to portray. Pretty sure it would still take more damage under it's own weight

[@TheMysterieRPGguy]

I don't know if it already exist but if it doesn't we need a TV show about super people with scientifically accurate results to using their powers, maybe make it a dark comedy.

[@nayreel3529]

You should watch The Boys then. And maybe also Invincible

[@TheMysterieRPGguy]

@@nayreel3529 I've watched both really good shows, but that's not really what I meant.

[@zzzorb]

Science ruins everything 😭

[@90slifter90]

Samething when they say Godzilla is too heavy to walk on land.

[@avatareternal3204]

90sLifter Yeah. Damn square cube law.

[@ranjaykumar2417]

No because it can never ruin virginity of fortnite player

[@youngmasterzhi]

Wait til Adam Conover's lawyers hears about this!

[@luli5851]

ツEliteKiller science is the real superman

[@TimeyWimey.]

wouldn't the super hero also need super durability in order to withstand the stress that they are exerting on their own body or to withstand the equal/opposite reaction?

[@drakkenmensch]

To see this problem in action, just look up the comic miniseries "Marvel Ruins" where NOBODY has the required secondary powers and everyone dies either obtaining their powers or using them just once or twice. It's a horrifying freak show, especially Hulk who looks like something the Lich King reassembled out of multiple corpses as a living toxic bomb.

[@mavric1031]

This man, this man here destorys all my dreams 😂

[@andrewward5891]

In the Boys Homelander recognizes he can’t save a crashing passenger plane because he’d just tear through the part of the plane he was trying to lift. And in the Boys and Invincible they do show graphically what happens when a superstong being hits a non suoerstrong person (it’s gross).

[@ajani9194]

Wouldn't the super strength in your legs be enough to withstand the force from that equal and opposite reaction stuff

[@Tsurf]

PolarFlame It would yes. But depending on the stuff you're standing on and the force you're exerting...

[@Thedamped]

I love the way Archer handled Ray's super leg strength. When he tried to move a jeep that was stuck in the sand with his bionic legs he hurt his back, since it wasn't bionic.

[@TalesOfWar]

God Damnit, Archer!

[@demoncore5342]

No, you would have to be super heavy as well, othervise, you would launch you self in oposite direction...

[@azmah8523]

You would be limited by the static friction between your shoes and the ground, as well as the compressive strength of the ground if a large portion of your force was applied upwards.

[@michaelfeist1759]

Part of super strength is being able to control it

[@michaelfeist1759]

Part of super strength is the ability to master delecacy

[@AstralApple]

A couple a wise folk ova hurr

[@nobutreallybro]

With great strength comes great bitches.

[@AstralApple]

Típico Hernán haha

[@the4thElement88]

Calon Rocker - Cover Metal Hits Indonesia super fucking

[@mikimomo97]

This equally assumes you're unable to CONTROL said strength

[@leeman27534]

eh, tbh there's still issues. and honestly, assuming that someone can control their strength i kinda doubt they can be literally millions of degrees of control. and even if they did have like a million degrees of control, it'd be like a gas pedal on a car that can either be at zero mph, 35 mph, 50 mph, 75 mph, etc. there's little real fine measuring. it'd be better if the super strength was a 'mode' or something, or even additional force via energy projection not related to muscles or your body as much, rather than something your body was doing 100% of the time.

[@AstralOunita]

Super strength + tentacles generation/Maniuplation + super strength arms generation/Maniuplation + size Maniuplation, would nullify "how bad super strength is" argumant, instead of putting super strength to your hands you can create limbs or tentacles with super strength and control their size, its just easy bro, i call this power (multilimbed super strength) without having super strength on your real hands

[@gaunterodimm8764]

Well, you forgot the other thing about equal and opposite reaction: if you punch with more energy than the said object needs to be thrown in the air - you will be perfectly fine. There are some people that are breaking concrete plates with their shoulders or cinder blocks with their fists. If they don’t generate enough energy - they get their bones crushed. But if they generate enough energy to break it - then the block breaks and the bones in person’s body are totally fine.

[@RetroTaylor94]

You're confusing stunts with physics. Do you believe you can shatter a brick wall with an egg without cracking it? It doesn't matter how fast you launch it, the egg WILL be destroyed. Same with bones, hitting something HARDER doesn't take away the force you are experiencing. You have to be able to weather the same forces that are breaking what you're hitting.

[@alexzero3736]

The guy above is actually right. Crushing the structure of the object you hit makes most of retaliation power to fly away, although there would be initial impact. You see, physics law mentioned here works perfectly for strength applied to the object, but since object is shattered the effect becomes scarcer, depending on what actually happened, how much impact is still there, after shattering...

[@alexzero3736]

Also since we're talking about "real" super strength, that strength is supposed to crush everything by default...

[@jaegervonn1322]

I wish I had teachers like you in school. You make learning very interesting and fun. I could watch your videos all day. Great job.

[@becausescience]

Thank you so much for saying that Jaeger! That's the best praise I can get -- KH

[@jaegervonn1322]

Because Science just wondering if you could do something about Star Trek. I'm a big Star Trek fan. Maybe about the shields or phasers. Whatever you like to do I know I will enjoy and other Star Trek nerds. LOL

[@laurahughes815]

Ikr

[@themayorofpoundtown9163]

I would like to clarify, the reason superman can pick up huge ships or car or anything, and have it not break is bc is kryptonian aura is holding it together *steps off podium*

[@nataliagonzalez1698]

The Mayor of Pound Town What about other heroes? This stuff definitely would apply to them IRL

[@scottmantooth8785]

not to mention he's just better at it than anyone else

[@claire4760]

Also the reason he doesn't get sent flying whenever hits something is cause of he manipulates gravitational fields. It's also how he flies.

[@Scugzerker]

Actually, we already have super strength. Believe it or not, but our muscles are build to be capable of lifting tons. The only thing stopping us from doing that is ourself, because our own body limits the capacity you can use of your muscles. This is to prevent the muscles from either ripping the tendons from your muscles or bones. But in some cases we can surpass that. There are stories of people doing incredible things. For instance, a child got under a car and his/her mother basically lifted the car up long enough for the ambulance to arrive. She did end up getting severly injured though (I think she had a broken spine). And I know someone who doesn't have such limitations. He was simple-minded, but he's incredibly strong.

[@285tech4]

wait. You're not Chris Hemsworth

[@Coanfrome2]

He looks like Chris after a coma and 4 years of post secondary

[@Quince477]

Captain Falcon lol

[@sylvetteslavika5930]

He is THOR

[@JohnSmith-yi9cp]

Captain Falcon because he aint got no muscle

[@CountDain7]

Was looking for this comment. XD

[@olorinistar9903]

The act of punching through a wall would actually require less force, because a proper punch does not actually use the entire surface of the fist. A proper punch uses only two knuckles, which would be well under a square inch of surface. Even an untrained punch wouldn't use nearly all of the surface of the fist, but would probably use three or four knuckles. That probably doesn't change any of the facts of using the super strength, but I just thought I'd throw that out there.

[@nohmaan]

Yes, a good punch would be distributed across the index and middle finger knuckles. The surface area changes the formulas drastically-- a full force punch on all fingers would probably result in a boxer's fracture, and the absorbed 3rd law force would be along the aligned punch.

[@TheMarshmellowLife]

And then you have to account for the individual variances. Like on my fists, the second knuckle sticks out almost half an inch farther than my first, so I would have half the surface of the proper punch.

[@adrianotironi7533]

This would be right if you tried to punch a hole the size of your first few knuckles, but you need a hole the size of your fist, so you will be punching the area of the size of your fist

[@S3NDP13]

Dustin Saunders Boxer's Fracture... So that's why my knuckle still hurts after punching that wall 3 years ago...

[@olorinistar9903]

Adriano Tironi The thing is, tyre shock of the first two knuckles hitting would crack the wall all the way through, and the rest of the fist would just be pushing that broken concrete out of the way. And as an aside, it is possible for regular humans to punch through cinderblocks. I know people who have done it.

[@MichaelAllred]

So you'd just have to learn how to handle it over time. I'd live with it.

[@totmgsrockxd9900]

This is why "kid-friendly" superhero fights make even less sense unless both fighters can withstand a super punch. Superpowered fights with super strength against non-super-durables are inherently R-18 if one actually considers the pressure generated by super strength. You punch someone and they don't fly across the room in one piece, they fly across the room in millions of pieces.

[@bryanmiller476]

Everything you’re saying right now true but assuming you just like got the power of superstrength versus if you are born with it and you grew up knowing your own strength big difference

[@AravaxElvor]

True. It's hard enough growing up like that but if you got it all at once it would be almost impossible to control.