Will Ant-Man Drown in a Drop of Water? | Because Science Footnotes

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[@becausescience]

Thanks for watching, Super Nerds! *Here's a link to last week's video* if you haven't watched yet: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rZrCZWWJmLCirbs -- kH

[@icecoldchilipreppers6496]

If a dragon blew fire under its wings as it was flying, would it get lift from the heat? Would it be getting high off it's own supply? Please Kyle help me!

[@TheNightmareMan]

Speaking of the carnival ride which btw is called The Graviton why when you are in the ride spinning does it feel like the ride tilts when it actually doesn't.

[@rat4289]

hey kyle, could you make a human have copper based blood?

[@Hugo_Wallner]

5:17 are you sure you don't mean centripetal force?

[@Hugo_Wallner]

wait, shit, fuck. You right.

[@alisaurus4224]

“Doing some research of my own” How many hapless minions did you shove out the airlock, Kyle?

[@therealdoc]

​@tinylilmatt It's unfortunate that your opinion differs from the fans of this community, though I find it rather difficult to call a channel dedicated to scientific quandaries based on nerd culture as "bad". I'm not a fan of (all) his comedy even though it's easy for me to tell that so much effort has been put into every living moment of his show (this isn't his main series but is responding to comments from his OTHER video). Simply interacting with his community is more than enough to show that he cares about what he does. His following currently measures over 1.3 million (as of writing this), so it's clear that people enjoy the content he produces (either scientific, comedic, or both). What turns you off about his content to the extent that you would classify it as "bad"? Is the humor stale? Does his scientific method not hold up to your standards? Did someone tell you his channel isn't down their alley and you decided that their opinion is now yours so now you went out of your way to call the channel bad without any form of feedback making your whole statement virtually useless to all parties except for yourself?

[@petrocksgarage]

@tinylilmatt, ok. Bye, Felicia.

[@petrocksgarage]

@tinylilmatt, that was a great non-sensical response. Just sayin'...

[@petrocksgarage]

​@tinylilmatt, ok, since I guess you are craving some substance lets see... you were told that the channel was 'bad' and you clearly watched with a preconceived notion that the video & channel was bad. As such, nothing but an amazing video and/or channel would change your already made up mind. So you weren't really telling us _your_ opinion. You were telling us someone else's that you are claiming as your own. Very original of you. Then, instead of starting your own thread to tell everyone your opinion on the channel, you decide to hijack someone else's like a troll. Then you complain when others don't agree with you and give you the validation you so desperately (think you) deserve. So, how about instead of being a troll, you could just keep to yourself and just move on to another channel to watch instead. Thats what an adult would do. btw, I'm pretty sure the people who run this 'bad' channel appreciate the additional views you are giving them by checking back in to comment. TL;DR: a long response wasn't really warranted initially. My initial response got the point across pretty well I think. If you don't like the channel that's fine. Don't watch. Bye, Felicia.

[@petrocksgarage]

@tinylilmatt, sorry. You are right. Instead of saying "don't watch" I should have said "don't _continue_ to watch". Just move on. I'm not upset you don't like the channel. I couldn't care less. I'm just stating what everyone else is likely thinking: Bye... I'll stop feeding the troll now.

[@kylebirch5934]

Kyle should bring out a book “SPACE where no one can hear you”

[@jannikschmidt8511]

scream*

[@Merennulli]

I prefer the sequel. "ANECHOIC CHAMBER Where no one can hear you a second time."

[@Merennulli]

@tinylilmatt No one interested in science or working in STEM fields has ever posted a meme, made a joke, or sarcastically responded to an arrogant comment.

[@tomstech4390]

@tinylilmatt Explains why you're here then.

[@rodya4090]

How does Antman breathe in quantum realm, if he is smaller than the Oxygen atoms?

[@Mystikus2]

As he pointed put, Ant man would need an oxygen tank that also shrinks with him

[@stanislavkalabza8645]

Short answer: Pym particles Long answer: He has to able to reduce distance between particles smaller than atom because he can go subatomic.

[@mr.arcane9485]

His suit has a thin layer of oxygen jell that is slowly pulled into helmet. Inside that a thin layer of oxygen making moss to feed jell that has been genetically altered to produce more oxygen an thrive in dark warm places aka against his body. All gets smaller with him. Just a quick ruff thought on one possible answer 😋😋😋 Also why hasn't this idea at least been gone over for space travel or mabey doomed Mars stay 😜

[@rmsgrey]

The Quantum Realm is actually a separate ... place? dimension? reality? ... whatever you want to call it, so it works by its own rules. During the transition to the QR, he'd pass through sizes where he needs an air supply in his suit, but, once there, asking how he breathes is like asking how Dr Strange breathes while bargaining with Dormammu .

[@mr.arcane9485]

@@rmsgrey strange could use magic for that Ant-Man has to try an use only science.

[@erbgorre]

"its a jungle out there.. and down there.. and especially in space!" id say out of all the imaginable places is the universe, space is probably the one that is the least of a jungle

[@rolfs2165]

Just because we haven't yet found a star surrounded by an arboreal Dyson sphere doesn't mean they can't exist. And who knows, maybe one day our descendants will plant one.

[@buggytheprophet1017]

But we live in space don't we?

[@wesh8121]

Its space, its has LITERALLY everything!

[@erbgorre]

@@wesh8121 if we take it as the space that starts outside of our planets (and/or other planets) atmosphere, which is how kyle is using the word here, then we do not know of anything that lives in space, as of right now. it is the least crowded environment within the known universe, both in terms of living stuff, and just stuff in general. it is quite literally the anti-jungle.

[@rudymiskelly6486]

Secret footage of Thor working out ways to kill Ant Man

[@bland9876]

"And if all your friends jumped off a bridge would you do it too?" "We i don't take fall damage"

[@MySerpentine]

xkcd.com/1170/

[@Dargonhuman]

@@MySerpentine Oh I love that response!

[@mikebramlett445]

Skeptic Kyle is my favorite Kyle. I love it when you drop a knowledge bomb on pseudoscience

[@zaczane]

“It’s a jungle out there, down there, and in SPACE!!!” Best quote of 2020 so far!!

[@theinsane4469]

Since you got the question lined up already, at what planetary rotation rate would humans be thrown off the surface of the earth?

[@Pyrotekkit]

Kyle: "I see what you say about me" Me: Notice me Senpai! Also thanks to you and the team for all team for all the awesome content!

[@princeofthedark3547]

Once I saw the title all I can think of Ant man vs. The Ocean

[@jackielinde7568]

Ant Man versus Rain was my thought.

[@pfrarredamentisrl8507]

@@jackielinde7568 Ant Man Vs Rain Man

[@brix007]

Hey Kyle! a guy from sweden that just wanted too say, You are great! Love your shows! Absolutley lööve it!

[@ddg79]

I'm up to season 4 of the expanse now. Loving it

[@stormboss57]

When does it start to get good cuz so far season one is boring.

[@skepticalbadger]

@@stormboss57 Sounds like it isn't for you, but things do pick up pace during season 2.

[@skepticalbadger]

Best SF series I have ever seen.

[@YoshionoKimochi]

I love you Kyle, you're so endlessly entertaining and if you could ever get an acting part on the expanse or any other sci-fi show, I would absolutely love it!

[@katj3443]

Shawn Kangiser I would literally just watch it for that reason alone lol, he’s great.

[@boyankovachev7982]

He is now on his own channel, if ya don't know, go and greet him there. The channel's name is literally his own name. And the content is just as good, if not better

[@Wingdnadlla]

Can you talk about how GN drives work from gundam 00 also can hard light fix some of the issues with light sabers

[@drakefang8368]

I believe I've read a thread about solar furnaces in a Gundam 00 forum talking about photon decay, the green vs red particle color, mass manipulation, and the use of a certain hydrogen isotope only found in Jupiter. There were physics students involve as well. It was an extremely interesting discussion. Would love to hear Kyle's thought on it too.

[@larrykellogg6797]

Just keep up the good work. I'm no Super Nerd, but I do look forward to your videos after work.

[@golnectr]

I could listen to this beautiful mane all day.

[@macaiebo]

Hey Kyle! Love the show man. I just want to ask you if, in the next footnotes, you can leave the link for the video it references. There were times that I liked watching some of your footnotes but couldn't find the video it was discussing about. Thanks man! Greetings from Brazil.

[@lornelthaltmer]

hey kyle love your show and thanks for your efforts in making science easier to for ppl to understand. I was curiouse is it possible for something like The quickening in the highlander franchise to actually happen/exist?

[@theemperor1338]

Me:I wanna be an astronaut and go to space..... Kyle:WHERE NO ONE CAN HEAR YOU!!..

[@BryanEshbaugh]

Hey Kyle, love the shirt! Keep up the awesome.

[@Jessie_Helms]

In a video soon Kyle should do something mundane and be like “oh sorry I was just... plotting a hostile takeover of the UN” or something

[@JonVonBasslake]

"I was just... calling my mother...?"

[@skylx0812]

The U.N. is a pushover. Just look at their 2016 comic book Wonder Woman debacle. An old lady with a broom could shove them over.

[@Jessie_Helms]

@@skylx0812 I wasn't making a statement about the UN, it was just the first thing that came to mind XD

[@birnenschreck7798]

Hey Kyle, love the show! I think you misunderstood TheAtherions question. What I think he meant is that if you applied the acceleration not by pressing a surface against your body, like in a seat in a rocket, but by a force field, like gravity. If you were in a relatively close orbit around a neutron star/black hole for example (in a spacesuit, of course), your body would be subjected to enormous accelerations just by staying in orbit, but i think you should be fine, because every atom in your body, from the ones in your blood cells to the ones in your bones, would be accellerated equally, therefore no forces would act between them. Because of this, your blood should flow normally and you should be fine. Thats something I wondered in your episode about interstellar travel, where neutron stars would be used to reach enormous speed by flying close by them. You would be under enormous accelerations, but you would barely notice it, because no forces are acting between the atoms of your body. But if you would get too close, tidal forces (is tidal forces the right word? I mean the differences in strength of the gravity field of where your feet and your head are) would rip you appart, wouldn't they?

[@rmsgrey]

As you say, the trouble with close orbit around a super-dense object isn't the raw gravitational forces, but the tidal effects - the rate at which gravity weakens with distance - making for significant differences between the forces acting at different points. One of the fundamental ideas behind General Relativity is that if you're in a sealed box in free fall in a uniform gravitational field, it's impossible to tell how strong that gravity is (without looking outside the box somehow). In real life, you can detect gravitational fields because they're not uniform - you can measure the tidal effects - but in an artificially created uniform gravitational field, you could be accelerated at ludicrous levels without any detectable effects - right up until you hit something. Or until you reach speeds relative to the rest of the universe where weird effects become noticeable.

[@bradywells1293]

The original question was still about uniform gravitational waves applied across all atoms at the same 'time', which is not the same thing at all as 'strapping into a rocket and accelerating' like Kyle said, nor the same as in orbit around a really massive object. I think TheAtherion was ultimately right about it being harmless.

[@coach_brandon1842]

Just wanted to say thanks so much. I took your recommendation and started The Expanse. I LOVE IT SO DAMN MUCH

[@pazdivina965]

Thank you for debunking the astrology thing, I had noticed this but I didn’t know about the actual research. Thank you senpai

[@bradayers1563]

Just finished the entirety of the expanse , it was so good and binge worthy 10/10 recommendation thicc boi

[@huddl3buh50]

Hey Kyle, I've been watching your videos for about 2 years now and am a huge fan of what you do with all of this but usually can't make it to the live shows to ask you questions but if you are doing grab bag questions now I might as well ask now. I am a civil engineering student and will hopefully be graduating soon and I am wondering how I should best study and prepare for the FE exam?

[@Athuall]

Hey Kyle, can you do a video on perpetual motion and whether a perpetual motion machine could be built in space and whether that would work?

[@jordanmurray4061]

Dude! Ive been trying to tell people about the Forer effect since I was little I just never those words! I assumed the study had been done because wordcrafting like that shows well thought out tact. I love it!

[@josephevans3728]

I've never heard of the forum effect. But I was taught about the Barnum effect which is what you described.

[@IainsTheName]

With the next episode being about surviving fall damage, please mention Halo’s Spartans who (from what I’ve read) have survived atmospheric re-entry and landing on planets using their suits alone. Lore states this is them using the ‘gel’ layers and armour locking abilities to do so, but wouldn’t their internals turn to mush? As stated on your other videos? Is this an example of video game logic or is there some scientific truth to it because of their enhancements being able to survive? (Stronger bones etc). Love the show and would love to hear more on this! :-)

[@ruissuu]

Kyle, what do you think are the possible great filter/s that we might encounter? I just thought of asking this because I just randomly began thinking of how human civilization will come to an end for basically no reason. I love your videos by the way!

[@garrettknowlton6539]

Hey Kyle long time fan. I've had a idea in my head for awhile and was wondering your take on it. Some of the fastest strobe lights can flash 40 times in a single second. When we point these at object that are moving we can make them seen like their stationary or slowing down. But what if we speed up the flash rate to say the speed of light, how would that affect a moving object under said strobe light?

[@bsn0730]

So I'm new to the channel and I just watched the spaceship earth episode... what exactly (approximately?) would happen if we stopped earth's rotation? Natural disaster-wise. My uneducated guess would be that it would eventually stabilize with one side of the earth scorched and the other side frozen (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong), but what all would happen on the way to that point? Love the channel!

[@parmvirgrewal6145]

Hay love your videos can you do a video about the SR-71 Blackbird?

[@Merennulli]

How strength of an effect changes over scale is my favorite part about things like Ant-Man. In the parts where they do it accurately, of course. There's too much physically wrong with "shrinking" to not rely heavily on suspension of disbelief with an Ant-Man type of story. You might actually want something akin to spiked soles on your Ant-Boots in order to keep a small pocket of air trapped there instead of providing more surface area for water cohesion. At Ant-Man scale, the surface tension of water could support your weight (assuming your mass scaled with you...which is how some scenes are shown but not how the dialog describes the shrinking), but if the water gets onto you, it will be attracted to you like it is the edges of a cup or bottle. But since you're smaller than the water, it will pull you down rather than pulling itself up. Even touching a drop of water could be a fatal mistake as it would pull you in the same way.

[@Adahn99]

Mass is sometimes relevant, sometimes not in the movies. He can ride an Ant, but he punches a man with full force? Also why is he not weaker when giant, did his mass increase too? Those are plot holes for the movie, not how shrinking would really work (if it did).

[@Radial3clipse]

Oh hey Kyle, my 4 year old daughter loves to watch your videos and hopefully she pursues some field of science when she gets older! Thanks guy

[@jo2765]

I’m not sure if you have done a video on this, but can you make a video on the powers in The Incredibles and explain them in depth? Thanks

[@itsdeonlol]

I'm hooked on The Expanse because of Kyle!!!

[@daniel1995erador]

I've been trying to explain the Forer effect to people in my own words for about a decade now. Really happy to find out someone actually tested this and went on to elaborate a theory.

[@mcmg5370]

Going back to a previous video about turning earth into a spaceship, how much mass, or how dense would the earth have to be for it to be successful?

[@preshnii-chan7368]

Beginning questions i instantly knew those were so vague that they were going to be relatable and generalized sounds like joel osteen

[@LandscaperLife]

Hi Kyle, keep up the great vlogs! I hate to bring up the death star firing it main weapon subject again, but I was thinking. If an opposite force is needed to fire the main weapon without turning everyone into meat goo, wouldn't the death star already have that technology built in? It seems that the death star might have some type of hyperdrive capabilities. After all, it did destroy Aldaaron and made it to Yavin pretty quick for a small moon. Could this propulsion be used to balance out the force from firing its plant killer?

[@abhijitsingh3329]

Hey Kyle, love your show. My question is, in any sci-fi tv show/ movie where there are multiple planets, the characters going from one planet to other doesn't seem to be effected by the change in composition of air. What effect would this change have on humans even if it slight, for example at what levels of oxygen humans would pass out. Besides the obvious training those astronauts would need for the varying gravity of diffrent planets.

[@PhoutianPhill]

6:08 You said it Kyle. I feel the exact same way.

[@greghawkins59]

12:20 reminds me of a certain video you made way back when (on a godly game 👌)

[@chasejankovsky7738]

Hey Kyle first time commenter here. My comment is about an older video where you talked about the universe possibly being a simulation. My question is how would we know anything that we've learned as a species is correct. For example if we are a simulation it could be possible for whoever simulated us to change the world the same way we can In minecraft. Maybe the simulator changed gravity from what it is in his universe to be twice as strong in our simulation therefore making our current understanding of the universe false. Just something I've been thinking about. Love the show and keep up the teaching

[@brockmckelvey7327]

I actually really want to look into whether there's a correlation between when someone is born (measured by Astrological sign) and personality (measured in Myers-Briggs typology). The Dean at the school I work at suggested that some MB test websites should have some demographic data on users (like birthday), but I have no idea how to get that data.

[@mr.anderson1562]

Been binge watching this channel for the last couple weeks. Good shit on here all the questions you would think are too stupid to ask or apply to real life you have a legitimate answer for😂 even better that though is how even when something doesn't work in real life you make adjustments and give us a scenario where it would work (no lazy answers)

[@mr.anderson1562]

ALSO (this is probably most important) you explain in a way so that non a science whizz (me) can comprehend 😭 my fav channel by far

[@GermanoHKJ123]

Please make a video about different metal based blood, other than copper and iron, for we understand how it's affect tempeture, oxygen, etc

[@stevenschofield8518]

Figured I’d ask this....I’ve always wondered if an astronauts gloves came off in a space walk, and the hand section of the suite was isolated and the hand was completely exposed to vacuum but everything else was secure. The rest of your air / blood be sucked out through the hand.? Or would it just hurt like hell and you def have to get the hand amputated.... love the channel you the man!

[@TotallyHuman]

that survey at the intro, I was like, "maybe 2.2? not me at all"

[@krystopherjohnson4548]

Hey, have you thought about investigating the Scott Westerfield books, Uglies, Pretties, Specials, and Extras? They have some stuff dealing with altering the human body with the use of nanomachines and other such things.

[@smithysforge2278]

I've always wondered how much force does the fus ro dah really has, bc I seen it knock a giant off it's feet but I always wanted to know how much force it really has.

[@neilhaynes7934]

"In space, no one can hear you scream" was the tag line of Alien

[@kylejones8582]

I seen those rides one was called a gravitron

[@chanon07]

I’m new to this channel and I haven’t seen anything on this and I’m not sure if I should suggest this in the comment box because it has nothing to do with the video but I was wondering who would win in a fight between The Human Torch or Ice Man? Have you touched on this at all?

[@davidjusenius6799]

Could you jump out of a plain without a para shot but go straight down onto your super springy shoes or like how big would they have to be

[@RexYoung206]

Great episode, Kyle! FYI: Mandalorian : 8 episode 1st season for $7 ....vs.... Watching a 2-hr movie in a theater for $15. I think subscription services are being pushed too much these days, too. But in this case, I think getting Disney+ for Mandalorian was worth it. I suspect you will enjoy the series when you eventually get around to watching it.

[@Yasac]

Oh man lots of good stuff this episode making me think! in regards to hearing people scream in space...i had a wonder...but what if you could? Kyle how loud would space be if sound waves could travel in space? How far could we hear the sun from and would it just sound like a constant explosion? Would the storm on Jupiter be heard on it's moons? Or...would it just all deafen us anyway so it's just all moot from the beginning :(

[@Vastin]

Dear lord my comments are too wordy. :D Thanks Kyle! Love the show!

[@kyesito1381]

Would jumping right before hitting the ground decrease or increase the velocity in any way?

[@engineer547]

Hey Kyle, one of my favorite games is Deus Ex series, where machine meets man. Is it possible to mate machines to the human body? Like limbs and internal body bits? Are there any down sides?

[@SalarymanGaming]

Hey Kyle, in media like Sekiro and Avatar the Last Air Bender characters redirect lightning by taking it into their body and shooting it back to their target. Seeing as how people have survived lightning before would there be anyway of doing this if you were strong enough and fast enough?

[@isaacciego888]

hey Kyle, the part about the gravity on ceres made by making it spin made me think that maybe the Halo would have this kind of artificial gravity too if it is spinning , maybe you could do an episode about this kind of mechanisms if you haven't

[@PantsuMann]

A great scene in The Expanse from Ceres is when Miller is pouring his drink. That is the coriolis effect of the spin gravity. How accurate that arc is I cant say, Kyle might. But it is an awesome level of detail of the life on a spinning body. Ceres is a dwarf planet. What people might miss is that they have their feet towards space, not the core of Ceres, and thats why you get the effect when pouring fluids. Because science.

[@DG-oc2uw]

Hi Kyle, love the show. I think this may be right up your street. What's the minimum exit speed for gas from the rectum in order for it to make a sound? Also, why do some smells travel faster than others?

[@kreamy_karym]

I love how you tell us about the hypothetical demise of human race and make it sound exciting 5:40

[@bravomike4734]

Thanks for answering the question Kyle. By studying Circular Motion in Mechanics, I should've already understood this but for some reason it didn't occur to me at all. Plus the terrible teaching doesn't help. Its not that the teacher is terrible, its just that he's old, really old (from what I heard, almost into his 70s) and hard to understand. He's supposed to be retired but the school can't find a replacement teacher that also teach quantum mechanics.

[@xenomorph_starx3696]

What you said in the beginning is me exactly

[@notorious_majora]

If I didn't have a kid, I would've never seen the Mandalorian either. Also I'm dying at the Kyle's comment on the octopus clip 😂

[@Ultraporing]

I would love Evil Kyle to create a Super Villain 101 Class (series), which theoretical aspiring super villains could watch. Which im not...

[@jonathanjiang3557]

I’m imagining damaged Gundams exploding while plasma rushing into the cabin. What a way to go.

[@TrepedatiousTrex]

Sooooo I’ve been wondering, with the brushfires in Australia, what kind of updraft could be attained to pull a human, or any interesting object off the ground?

[@bringerebrethil6176]

I have an episode suggestion? In Futurama there is a race of aliens that Leela from the team adopts one called Nibbler. Each time he poops he drops a small highly potent fuel source that is only the size of a golf ball but weighs several hundreds of kilograms. But in the episode Dr.Farnsworth says that the fuel source Nibbler poops was once the entire mantle and cores of the planet they find Nibbler on. My question is what would be happening on that planet with such an immense mass over volume? Like gravity affect?

[@johnnorris3528]

Hey Kyle, love the show. A rocket wouldn't apply acceleration uniformly to every atom of your body. It would push on the atoms making up the cells of your back (for example), which then push on the cells next to them, which then push on the cells next to them, etc etc all the way through. Lots of squishing in this scenario. The only way I can think of to accelerate every atom of your body (nearly) uniformly is with gravity. Jump out of a plane and you'll accelerate at about 9.8 m/s^2 but you won't really feel it because gravity is affecting all of your body, not just one surface.

[@cosmogoblin]

6:54 I agree with TheAtherion, I think Kyle misunderstood them here. Kyle correctly states that fighter pilots experience problems, but they *human-experience* acceleration, as they're pushed back into their cockpit seat. Atoms accelerate relative to each other, as the increased speed affects the human's rear first (as it's against the seat surface), propagating at the speed of sound through human tissue through to their front. This causes an increase in their "weight", causing all sorts of squishy-meat-bag problems. But I think TheAtherion is talking about acceleration of each atom individually, as you would *physics-experience* in a strong but uniform gravitational field. Atoms would not accelerate relative to each other. This is freefall in a relativistic geodesic, which is indistinguishable from remaining stationary, and won't upset your delicate human organs.

[@zoddsmetal]

HEY Kyle! I fell from about 70ft onto solid ground and while falling, I went into a relaxed state and survived with only some minor scratches and tensed up shoulders, so I guess I wasn't damage-free as you stated. Although, I once saw a show about a tornado that carried a man over a mile from his home after being knocked unconscious from a lamp that hit him in the head and he was totally damage-free, but it seems like that was also luck. Some of the items flying in the tornado could have easily killed him. Going unconscious is definitely top 3 options!

[@demitrischoenwald1436]

Hey Kyle, here's something I thought up a while ago and since it's not so far from Witcher modification and soon enough freefall survival, and I'm currently writing a neat little paper on it. With the advancements in prosthetics that we've made in the past five years, we've gone from plastic mannequin legs to more lithe and capable mechanically engineered extensions. We are slowly abandoning the stigma of prosthetic limbs needing to look like human parts and moving to mechanical limbs, going back to more robotic replacements. With this in mind, what if a person's limbs were (willingly and ethically) replaced with mechanical limbs, modified to be able to handle immense impacts and crushing forces, and their skeletons were also enhanced and reinforced to take equally massive forces? What if their bones were plated with a tough and anti-rusting metal, like titanium, but in a way that still allows blood to be transfered freely from their bones to the rest of their body, similar to Wolverine (if I remember there's an alternate universe version with this detail)? And what if their neurological and other biological bits and pieces were also slightly altered to be able to handle the stresses of this sort of heavy modification? Imagine the sort of super-person we could possibly make with it! A super fire fighter that can run and launch themselves into burning buildings to pull people out, a super cop that can stop bullets with their arms and chase down suspects in vehicles while on foot, even a super EMT that can reach an emergency call sooner than the fire department because they don't have to wait for traffic! It would be amazing and a curious thing. Thanks, and remember, if a sword is sentient and doesn't like being a sword, there's a real problem.

[@mathewofborg7280]

Many knowledges in deed

[@justerick1364]

Columbia exploded on take off not re-entry. Love the show bro!

[@MrAnimination]

How do the Prototypes, from the two games titled [Prototype] 1 & 2, survive crazy falls of from any distance?

[@Thaumh]

I used to read my Horoscope "religiously" (snerk lol) and it got my future correct exactly once. It predicted a distraction from my travels. That evening I was walking to my D&D game and got distracted by some awesome dude and we talked for like half an hour.

[@ozieladrian]

I don't know if you've done it, but can you make a video about The Matrix human battery?

[@Il-JayD-lI]

“ Put Down That Sode 😏 And Watch That Yode 😉” That actually got me!!!

[@FaultyMuse]

Hey Kyle, Love the show. About the uniformly applied acceleration, I think you may have misunderstood what @TheAtherion was getting at. When you are being accelerated at high Gs by a rocket, that force is not being applied uniformly throughout each atom in your body. It is being transmitted from your chair into your back and then throughout the rest of your body. If only there was some magic force could apply a large amount of force directly to every atom in your body... Hey wait, that sounds like gravity! And it turns out that when you're in free fall (or orbit as the space-bois call it), you actually feel as though there are no forces acting on you, even though the force of gravity is still accelerating you. As an example, even if were to free fall into Sagittarius A* from 10 AU away, baring colliding with matter in the accretion disk and all the radiation, you actually wouldn't really feel much of anything at first even though the gravity from Sagittarius A* at 10AU is an impressive ~26 million g!

[@Adahn99]

I have to say it, but Ant-Man is actually the key to survive " fall damage". As soon as you are the size of an insect, air resistance starts to be way more impactful, and forces like gravity way less impactful. Also, a body extending like a sheet makes air resistance even more impactful (the way parachutes work). Just like you can make a feather fall from a skyscraper and it doesn't break as it touches the ground, so an animal with weight and width inversely proportional, with the same ratio as a feather, can theoretically survive a fall from any height, but since we're talking about insects it would probably die of old age before landing if it falls from too high.

[@theyoungfamily8295]

@Becausescience What's the difference between air and wind? Also which one would you want as a power? Basically which one would you think is more beneficial as a superpower to manipulate and control?

[@Purgosmusic]

Kyle, is it true sound doesn't travel in space cuz I was told space is vaccum so no air pressure no pressure to carry the sound is that correct because if so then did the big bang theory's explosion not make any sound theoretically. Am I correct?

[@GTBProduction]

Hey Kyle. You mentioned that copper based blood reflected blue light and that got me thinking. Would a blue paper still be blue in a dark room or does no colors exist in darkness. Is all colors the same without light.

[@danielbutler8103]

i got a grammarly ad was that DR Moo's voice on the ad?

[@AZ-wg3eg]

Hey Kyle (giggity) Question, is it possible to develop an auto-immune disease process from a mimicked drug that is so believable to the body it attacks it and also the chemical of which it was mimicking within the body. Therefore drug-induced auto-immune disease? PS alright.

[@minecraftmaster2215]

So theoretically if you could alter your blood by replacing your blood with blue blood we could survive cold temperatures and also could that be possible if not by replacing your blood if you used dna splicing i forget the other term for it essentially like how people can give their baby a certain eye color could that possibly happen?

[@adarshsaurabh7871]

You literally are awesome 😂😂

[@anitahoffman1]

It's been a while since I saw the movie, but I'm pretty sure that in the ant movie Antz, the ant character voiced by Woody Allen (Woody Anten?) almost drowns in a drop of water, but he's saved by rolling the droplet off of the leaf it was on and onto the ground below. I always thought of that scene when my science teachers would talk about surface tension.

[@KylarStern244]

Reminds me of A Bugs Life. When it starts raining, it sounds like bombs dropping

[@connerlee7356]

Hey Kyle what are your thoughts on Mr. Tyson's master class?

[@LilithLonelyHeart]

Ok so this is more of a comment for future "evergreen" footnotes but after watching your episode on space wars I had some interesting own conclusions about some aspects you talked about Overheating - well yeah space don't give many possibilities for a cooling system utilizing external effects but can always use a system based on a temperature drop while the pressure of gas lowers like this was used to create liquid helium for 1st time in science history so for sure it's a good way to get rid of heat and all you need is coolant, chamber, where it gets pressure release, collector and pressurizer, and this system could be very flexible and even modular so it could have extra chambers to increase cooling during battles and even enough of them that if some get damaged rest can handle the heat, so there is option for good coolingRange - like yeah I agree with fact that weaponry doesn't have physical range cap as in the atmosphere but the thing is, how are you gonna aim weapons on that long ranges? I know we can look further with telescopes but in combat optical information is supposed to confirm hit and as long as the delay of a hit by the laser would be fairly short the physical projectiles gonna be huge, also not many of the long-range telescopes are of technology that could be easily adapted for heavy-duty military equipment so relatively short-range combat might be the effect of simply lack of good technology allowing for reliable aiming systems for the ranges you talked aboutTypes of weapons - well agree that in space even something as simple as a weapon releasing simple chunks of metal onto other ships could work, but considering these ships usually have some sort of shields and armored hull to protect from shuch things or even form simple space mini-meteorites and other thingsl iek that so more adcanced weaponry might be neaded to deal with it

[@ArticJane]

Out of curiositywould it be possible for you to do more episodes like this like maybe once or twice a month just to bounce back and cover other things. maybe just create another show or would that be too much of a workload on top of the three you do a week already? I know that you have to do a lot writing, researching, and everything else but was just curious as i do love these that bounce back to the other comments and stuff and don't just focus on the previous week's video