Hardcore Sci-Fi
Hardcore Sci-Fi
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Can there be Godzilla?
It doesn’t really take an academic degree to figure that 50+ meter upright walking lizard that breathes radiation is not exactly hard science fiction. However, throughout more than 70 years of its existence, Godzilla has appeared in almost 40 movies as well as in a bunch of animated series, giving rise to many variations of the character. While some of these variations follow the rule of cool and don’t really care about plausibility, others try to make Godzilla look at least somewhat realistic. None of them look like really hard sci-fi so far of course, but several surely qualify as a bit harder science than the original. This video provides a general overview of main Godzilla subspecies ...
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Brief history of the Wrong Earths
Просмотров 69 тыс.2 месяца назад
While nowadays it's common knowledge that our planet is a sphere with a core of iron and plate tectonics on the surface, it had not always been this way. This video provides a quick overview of various alternative hypotheses, such as Flat Earth, Hollow Earth, Expanding Earth, and many others! The author does not promote any of those, though - rather, these alternatives get debunked from the poi...
Can there be King Kong?
Просмотров 3,7 тыс.4 месяца назад
This video is an honest and more or less scientific attempt to figure out, whether King Kong could theoretically exist in some corner of our world. Several other videos on such topic that can be found on RUclips focus mostly on Kong’s size, which is, I believe, only half of the story. The other important thing to consider is the ecosystem in which King Kong is supposed to live - and more often ...
WTF are Kaiju?
Просмотров 11 тыс.6 месяцев назад
So, what type of fiction are kaiju? Are they soft sci-fi of a fairy tale tier, or can we expect them in serious hard science fiction as well - and maybe even behind our windows? To answer that, I have made up a basic classification of kaiju morphology, and compared them with known megafauna, such as elephants, blue whales and sauropods like Argentinosaurus, as well as delved a bit into giant ec...
In search for the hardest Unobtainium
Просмотров 2,9 тыс.7 месяцев назад
This video makes a tierlist of the four of the possibly most popular unobtainium varieties: Spice Melange from Frank Herbert's Dune, Unobtainium from James Cameron's Avatar, Vibranium from Marvel and Kryptonite from DC - all with an aim to determine, which one of them has the highest sci-fi hardness and thus has the highest chances to exist in reality. Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:41 Spice Melange 4:...
Can we obtain the Unobtainium?
Просмотров 2,2 тыс.8 месяцев назад
This is a second video in my series on unobtainium, where we leave behind Avatar and Dune to have a look at what can real-life science offer us in terms of unobtainium. It's quite a lot, actually: there are room temperature superconductors, antimatter, helium-3, exotic matter and many other candidates for real-life unobtainium. Bear with me in this exploration of what stuff from science fiction...
WTF is Unobtainium?
Просмотров 4,1 тыс.9 месяцев назад
While we are all waiting for the Avatar 3, here's a little research into element that James Cameron has already used not just once, but twice: the unobtainium. It was the precious rare superconductor that earthlings wanted to mine from Na'vi lands in the first Avatar, but the meaning of 'unobtainium' is not limited to just that. Space whale brain liquid amrita from the Avatar 2 counts as unobta...
Dinkum VS Stardew Valley in science fiction hardness
Просмотров 68310 месяцев назад
This video does not contain any guides or walkthroughs for Dinkum or Stardew Valley, but is instead aimed to compare these two games in terms of science fiction hardness. While neither Stardew Valley nor Dinkum actually sell themselves as works of science fiction, I needed some test subjects for my sci-fi hardness scale, and so I tried it on these two games. If you have played any one of these ...
How hard is it to kill a movie character?
Просмотров 984Год назад
It is common knowledge that movie characters are much sturdier that regular mortal human beings in terms of pain and lethal damage resistance. But how far exactly are our modern media from the reality in the depiction of injuries and death? What parts of our body are actually most resistant and most vulnerable to damage? How effective is human regeneration? This video answers these, and a lot o...
Can there be zombies?
Просмотров 1,3 тыс.Год назад
Have you ever wondered, is it possible for zombies to rise in real life? If so, how would they look and act? Could they really cause an apocalypse? This video answers these, and a lot of others zombie-related questions, keeping up as close as possible to science. Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:33 Zombie history 5:17 Thanatology 9:01 Zombie origins: biology 14:49 Zombie origins: chemistry 16:59 Zombie o...
HCSF Sci-fi Hardness Tier List explained
Просмотров 1,2 тыс.Год назад
Have you ever wondered what's the difference between hard and soft science fiction? It sounds easy at first: hard is more scientific, soft is more fun. If we go a bit deeper, however, the concept of sci-fi hardness proves to be slightly more complex. This video offers an experimental pixelart-powered youtube-scaled system for science fiction hardness tiers, which gets explored further in other ...