The super psychic ability that spice grants isn't really looking into the future but granting the ability to calculate the most likely outcome based upon chaos theory.
The thing with spice melange is that, if I'm not mistaken, the sandworms are not native to Dune, but rather brought there from somewhere else and not only that, spice was discovered before the worms under mysterious circumstances that may suggest that spice is a substance specifically engineered for humans and of non-human origin
Wait what the hell????? I've been assuming the reason I didn't know about this channel was because it only had a few thousand subscribers, but HOW IS IT THIS GOOD WITH LESS THAN 1000??? All of my hard scifi friends need to know about this channel immediately
@@HardCoreSciFi Hmm... So what went wrong with the algorithm? There has to be a low click through rate or something like that... if it gets good CTR and watch time then it should just keep recommending it and blow up? maybe it needs to find the right audience?
Kryptonite in the DC animated universe does indeed give cancer over long time exposure. It was a plt point as Lex Luther got cancer from always having a poece of Kryptonite on his person. Why it doesn't affect most people can be explained away as it usually carried in a lead container. As for it's rarity, Kryptonite is usualky shown to be rare, based on a large chunk of asteroid that is eventually owned by Lex Luther, who sells it to interested parties over the years and it becomes a Black market item. Also ofc doesn't ignore the fact that scientists can also just attemt to create more once they have the crystals here and can break it down.
Thanks for your comment! I somehow missed that plot twist with Luther cancer. But I’d say, if it causes cancer due to prolonged wear in humans, that means that radioactive substances that cause cancer in humans relatively fast (like uranium or plutonium) should then probably kill Superman on spot 🤔 And I totally agree that synthetic analogues can be produced - but only as long as they don’t start demonstrating the diverse rainbow of effects that they do in case of multi-colored Kryptonite family.
@@HardCoreSciFi It can kinda still be explained. Kryptonite might be a crystal that contains some small ammount of uranium or thorium. The decay of this substance then gives it its glow via phosphoresance and as part of that some sort of continous chemical process takes place that produces a chemical that is nearly lethal or a universal allergen to Kryptonians but is mostly harmless to Earth based life. The problem then is that if a chemical is mostly harmless to Earth based life then you'd expect it to be fairly common here and thus Superman would constantly be exposed to it. Basically it's kinda hard for a chemical to be 1) almost harmless to life on one planet 2) rare on that planet and 3) extremely toxic to life on another planet. Honestly the best candidate for Kryptonite might be some sort of infection that is harmless to Earth life because it uses different amino acids and thus can't interface with Earth life but can harm the life it evolved alongside. A Kryptonian virus might not be based on DNA and thus our cells would be immune to it.
If you take the spice melange within the context of 1960s psychedelic culture, its significance makes more sense. This was a time when ESP and psychic ability hadn't yet been debunked and was still being legitimately explored.
I think the point is that, at the time it was written, it would have been much more scientifically plausible, as much of the knowledge that we have right now that drags it down the tier list wasn't solidified yet. So... in a way, the hardness of the sci-fi softened as science advanced, removing the foundation of the sci-fi and collapsing it? To stretch a metaphor. This kind of implies that some of what we think of as hard sci-fi today will "soften" in the same way, if new scientific discoveries arise to contradict the assumptions made in the hard sci-fi, or heck if well established science gets completely overthrown, like the old concept of aether or similar instances.
9:15 the closest thing to Wakanda in history would probably be the Inuits of Greenland and North America. Two iron rich asteroids crashed into western Greenland in historic times which allowed the Inuit to essentially jump right to iron technology due to the incredibly pure iron contained in the asteroids. At the same time Greenland largely avoided settler-colonialism due to being fairly inhospitable to anyone but the native Inuit and thus Greenland is today the only indigenous country in all of North America. Greenland has even been a major advocate for the rights of indigenous peoples in the Arctic region, and the country is slowly becoming rather influential on the world stage due to it's location and it's rich mineral deposits. That being said the obvious real world inspiration for Wakanda is Ethiopia and it had no meteoric deposits, it just had some very clever leadership. But it is kinda funny how by accident Greenland has a pretty similar history to Wakanda, though the only Inuit superhero I can think of is Korra and she's obviously part Polynesian as well.
Avatar's unobtanium is a compound of rare earths that was formed under the intense heat and pressure of the formation of Pandora, that's the justification for why they can't just make it in a lab.
You might be at 127 subscribers, but your videos have the research, editing and quality of channels with hundreds of thousands subscribers, well done! The pixels animation consistency and quality is amazing!
This is absolutely amazing. I would say for spice melange all effects are technically born from a single effect, which is the perception of possibilities. The body is able to perceive the many shifting futures, not just consciously but also unconsciously, which is why the lifespan of the person who ingests it improves, because suddenly the body has instinctual foresight of how to improve its own health.
12:53 elements in the island of stabilaty are most deffinetly radioactive, the wikipedia article you pull up states at most a halflife of 1.2 days but most around seconds or less
Fair enough, a lot of them are radioactive. But quite a lot, as the same wiki article states, can supposedly live for longer than centuries - we just don't have any of these for now, so we don't really know 🤔I guess one day I might remake this video and then I'll certainly fix that point.
@@HardCoreSciFi the wiki states that "optimists" believe that, it seems most physisists don't dare hoping. i take it you are more on the optimistic side. it would be very cool and for the purposes of scifi definetly a neat adition that i like to see more media explore, with more focus on the dificulty of keeping it stable like the mini fusion reactor that is tony stark's pace maker (:
I like this interpretation of Kryptonite: a rare brittle phosphorescent mineral compound which produces a dust which is acutely toxic to kryptonians but not to humans due to their differing biology. I propose the possibility that only a small amount initially reached Earth, but it was subsequently analyzed and a synthesis pathway was developed under incentive of having a contingency plan for if Superman went rogue.
I'm not sure if you are still looking at this comment section, but I think Honka Star Rails Geomarrow is probably the most scientifically plausible unobtanium. It is located in the planet of Jarilo-VI, a post-apocalyptic snowball Earth planet which used to be lush and full of life into the past, before a Stellaron incident 700 years ago (Stellaron are not very plausible but I digress). I'm not sure if their formation is connected to the Stellaron incident, but probably not. It is a glowing yellow-orange crystal (but on a quest you can find Indigo-colored high quality Geomarrow, which suggest the orange comes from an impurity). The material is very valuable to the people of Belobog, the last bastion of humanity in the planet, as they mine it from underneath the city and use it as heating, to keep the city at a temperature which can allow for human habitation. As you say in the video there could be a chemical compound which is not known that is inorganic and can be used as a source of energy.
6:11 not necessarily - just because something is hypothetically synthesizable doesn't mean it's more economically viable to synthesize it than to mine it from Pandora. it's possible that whatever natural process generates Unobtanium on Pandora is not replicable in a factory cheaply for whatever reason.
I don’t know if you are still taking suggestions for more Unobtainium to cover, but may I suggest Spirt Stones a Unobtainium that is a staple of the Xianxia genre.
Capitan America's Shield isn't made of combination Vibranium and Adamantium (Wolverine claws)? In Wakanda (for example Black Panther suit) most Vibranium don't emit sounds unless they relies energy. Adamantium gives most of the durability. Also MCU makes different logic than original Marvel universe, I think original is more logic.
There are various versions of what exactly Cap's shield is made of, but the key component is Vibranium, as well as it is stated as such in the MCU. The original, as I mentioned in the end, also suffers from abundant varieties 🤷♂ Also, I guess, one day I might do the adamantium review as well 🤔
12:30, whilst this would make intuitive sense it's not actually true! quoting wikipedia for conviences sake: "[Rare Earth Elements] have been used in agriculture to increase plant growth, productivity, and stress resistance seemingly without negative effects for human and animal consumption. REEs are used in agriculture through REE-enriched fertilizers which is a widely used practice in China" The exact mechanisms are not well understood, but it does appear that certain heavy metals can posively affect life at very low concentrations.
not sure if anyone has mentioned this one yet, but I do like the purple Erudium (or whatever its name was) from the Borderlands game series maybe that could be interesting to check out
I made up my own fictional element a long time ago, and use it in my fictional world project Jalentite (symbol Ja), is able to produce infinite energy by unknown means It bonds with Hydrogen in the core of Jelian, the systems home star, forming JaH3, and releasing some energy and photons during bonding. It then unbonds ~40 seconds later, back into 1 Jalentite atom and 3 hydrogen atoms. It's presence also turns Helium and Carbon back into Hydrogen ions. This energy keeps the star running indefinitely. Jalentite can bind with and align with Oxygen, Silicon, Gold, and Xenon to make crystalline glasslike structures. These "jalentite glasses" speed up and slow down photons to and from thousands of times the speed of light when passing through it, allowing for extremely fast interstellar and interplanetary communication. A certain ion, Ja-11, opens and then holds open wormholes when exposed to an ABSURDLY bright light, allowing for instantaneous travel
Would be interested in hearing your take on project hail mary’s xenonite. you could probably get a lot of views out of it ~a year from now once the trailers come out.
Isn't Vibranium also super lightweight compared to other resilient metals? Wouldn't that change it to be less realistic? I am also interested in how Uru, the other "super metal" of the Marvel cosmos would perform
when netherite is a sturdy metal: realistic its hard to melt(does not butr in lava/fire): realistic isnt on the periotic table: can be an alloy of metals: realistic harder than diamond: realistic? i expect diamond tier or IRONICLY NETHERITE TIER
Why haven't you considered elements which have exotic nucleons other than and/or in addition to protons & neutrons as explanations of what a given type of unobtanium is made of? I think most unobtanium would probably be composed at least partially of exotic types of matter.
The super psychic ability that spice grants isn't really looking into the future but granting the ability to calculate the most likely outcome based upon chaos theory.
Oh! I didn't know that, very cool
The thing with spice melange is that, if I'm not mistaken, the sandworms are not native to Dune, but rather brought there from somewhere else and not only that, spice was discovered before the worms under mysterious circumstances that may suggest that spice is a substance specifically engineered for humans and of non-human origin
I am going to do a video on Shai Hulud sometime soon, and I will surely go deeper into that 😀
Wait what the hell????? I've been assuming the reason I didn't know about this channel was because it only had a few thousand subscribers, but HOW IS IT THIS GOOD WITH LESS THAN 1000???
All of my hard scifi friends need to know about this channel immediately
I just kinda worked hard on it, and for some reason yt algorithm kept not noticing me 😅 I hope your friends will enjoy it as well 😀
@@HardCoreSciFi Me too, this is so good dude 💜
@@HardCoreSciFi Hmm... So what went wrong with the algorithm? There has to be a low click through rate or something like that... if it gets good CTR and watch time then it should just keep recommending it and blow up? maybe it needs to find the right audience?
@@vincehomoki1612 Well it seems like since I've reached 1K, algorithm became somewhat more benevolent to this channel 😅
Kryptonite in the DC animated universe does indeed give cancer over long time exposure. It was a plt point as Lex Luther got cancer from always having a poece of Kryptonite on his person.
Why it doesn't affect most people can be explained away as it usually carried in a lead container.
As for it's rarity, Kryptonite is usualky shown to be rare, based on a large chunk of asteroid that is eventually owned by Lex Luther, who sells it to interested parties over the years and it becomes a Black market item.
Also ofc doesn't ignore the fact that scientists can also just attemt to create more once they have the crystals here and can break it down.
Thanks for your comment! I somehow missed that plot twist with Luther cancer. But I’d say, if it causes cancer due to prolonged wear in humans, that means that radioactive substances that cause cancer in humans relatively fast (like uranium or plutonium) should then probably kill Superman on spot 🤔
And I totally agree that synthetic analogues can be produced - but only as long as they don’t start demonstrating the diverse rainbow of effects that they do in case of multi-colored Kryptonite family.
@@HardCoreSciFi It can kinda still be explained. Kryptonite might be a crystal that contains some small ammount of uranium or thorium. The decay of this substance then gives it its glow via phosphoresance and as part of that some sort of continous chemical process takes place that produces a chemical that is nearly lethal or a universal allergen to Kryptonians but is mostly harmless to Earth based life. The problem then is that if a chemical is mostly harmless to Earth based life then you'd expect it to be fairly common here and thus Superman would constantly be exposed to it. Basically it's kinda hard for a chemical to be 1) almost harmless to life on one planet 2) rare on that planet and 3) extremely toxic to life on another planet.
Honestly the best candidate for Kryptonite might be some sort of infection that is harmless to Earth life because it uses different amino acids and thus can't interface with Earth life but can harm the life it evolved alongside. A Kryptonian virus might not be based on DNA and thus our cells would be immune to it.
If you take the spice melange within the context of 1960s psychedelic culture, its significance makes more sense. This was a time when ESP and psychic ability hadn't yet been debunked and was still being legitimately explored.
That’s hard to argue with 😅 however what I explore here is scientific hardness, not historical significance.
I think the point is that, at the time it was written, it would have been much more scientifically plausible, as much of the knowledge that we have right now that drags it down the tier list wasn't solidified yet. So... in a way, the hardness of the sci-fi softened as science advanced, removing the foundation of the sci-fi and collapsing it? To stretch a metaphor.
This kind of implies that some of what we think of as hard sci-fi today will "soften" in the same way, if new scientific discoveries arise to contradict the assumptions made in the hard sci-fi, or heck if well established science gets completely overthrown, like the old concept of aether or similar instances.
9:15 the closest thing to Wakanda in history would probably be the Inuits of Greenland and North America. Two iron rich asteroids crashed into western Greenland in historic times which allowed the Inuit to essentially jump right to iron technology due to the incredibly pure iron contained in the asteroids. At the same time Greenland largely avoided settler-colonialism due to being fairly inhospitable to anyone but the native Inuit and thus Greenland is today the only indigenous country in all of North America. Greenland has even been a major advocate for the rights of indigenous peoples in the Arctic region, and the country is slowly becoming rather influential on the world stage due to it's location and it's rich mineral deposits.
That being said the obvious real world inspiration for Wakanda is Ethiopia and it had no meteoric deposits, it just had some very clever leadership. But it is kinda funny how by accident Greenland has a pretty similar history to Wakanda, though the only Inuit superhero I can think of is Korra and she's obviously part Polynesian as well.
That’s actually very fair and precise comparison 🧐
Avatar's unobtanium is a compound of rare earths that was formed under the intense heat and pressure of the formation of Pandora, that's the justification for why they can't just make it in a lab.
You might be at 127 subscribers, but your videos have the research, editing and quality of channels with hundreds of thousands subscribers, well done! The pixels animation consistency and quality is amazing!
Thank you! I’m just trying to do my best 😀
This is absolutely amazing. I would say for spice melange all effects are technically born from a single effect, which is the perception of possibilities. The body is able to perceive the many shifting futures, not just consciously but also unconsciously, which is why the lifespan of the person who ingests it improves, because suddenly the body has instinctual foresight of how to improve its own health.
12:53 elements in the island of stabilaty are most deffinetly radioactive, the wikipedia article you pull up states at most a halflife of 1.2 days but most around seconds or less
Fair enough, a lot of them are radioactive. But quite a lot, as the same wiki article states, can supposedly live for longer than centuries - we just don't have any of these for now, so we don't really know 🤔I guess one day I might remake this video and then I'll certainly fix that point.
@@HardCoreSciFi the wiki states that "optimists" believe that, it seems most physisists don't dare hoping. i take it you are more on the optimistic side.
it would be very cool and for the purposes of scifi definetly a neat adition that i like to see more media explore, with more focus on the dificulty of keeping it stable like the mini fusion reactor that is tony stark's pace maker (:
I like this interpretation of Kryptonite: a rare brittle phosphorescent mineral compound which produces a dust which is acutely toxic to kryptonians but not to humans due to their differing biology. I propose the possibility that only a small amount initially reached Earth, but it was subsequently analyzed and a synthesis pathway was developed under incentive of having a contingency plan for if Superman went rogue.
I'm not sure if you are still looking at this comment section, but I think Honka Star Rails Geomarrow is probably the most scientifically plausible unobtanium. It is located in the planet of Jarilo-VI, a post-apocalyptic snowball Earth planet which used to be lush and full of life into the past, before a Stellaron incident 700 years ago (Stellaron are not very plausible but I digress). I'm not sure if their formation is connected to the Stellaron incident, but probably not.
It is a glowing yellow-orange crystal (but on a quest you can find Indigo-colored high quality Geomarrow, which suggest the orange comes from an impurity). The material is very valuable to the people of Belobog, the last bastion of humanity in the planet, as they mine it from underneath the city and use it as heating, to keep the city at a temperature which can allow for human habitation. As you say in the video there could be a chemical compound which is not known that is inorganic and can be used as a source of energy.
Such a great way to finish the unobtainium series (for now)! Its truly fascinating 🤩
Thank you so much ☺️ there is more even better videos to come 😀
6:11 not necessarily - just because something is hypothetically synthesizable doesn't mean it's more economically viable to synthesize it than to mine it from Pandora. it's possible that whatever natural process generates Unobtanium on Pandora is not replicable in a factory cheaply for whatever reason.
I wonder what that kind of process might be 🤔
I don’t know if you are still taking suggestions for more Unobtainium to cover, but may I suggest Spirt Stones a Unobtainium that is a staple of the Xianxia genre.
Capitan America's Shield isn't made of combination Vibranium and Adamantium (Wolverine claws)? In Wakanda (for example Black Panther suit) most Vibranium don't emit sounds unless they relies energy. Adamantium gives most of the durability.
Also MCU makes different logic than original Marvel universe, I think original is more logic.
There are various versions of what exactly Cap's shield is made of, but the key component is Vibranium, as well as it is stated as such in the MCU.
The original, as I mentioned in the end, also suffers from abundant varieties 🤷♂
Also, I guess, one day I might do the adamantium review as well 🤔
12:30, whilst this would make intuitive sense it's not actually true! quoting wikipedia for conviences sake: "[Rare Earth Elements] have been used in agriculture to increase plant growth, productivity, and stress resistance seemingly without negative effects for human and animal consumption. REEs are used in agriculture through REE-enriched fertilizers which is a widely used practice in China"
The exact mechanisms are not well understood, but it does appear that certain heavy metals can posively affect life at very low concentrations.
not sure if anyone has mentioned this one yet, but I do like the purple Erudium (or whatever its name was) from the Borderlands game series
maybe that could be interesting to check out
another great vid 👍
Glad you enjoyed it 😀
I made up my own fictional element a long time ago, and use it in my fictional world project
Jalentite (symbol Ja), is able to produce infinite energy by unknown means
It bonds with Hydrogen in the core of Jelian, the systems home star, forming JaH3, and releasing some energy and photons during bonding. It then unbonds ~40 seconds later, back into 1 Jalentite atom and 3 hydrogen atoms. It's presence also turns Helium and Carbon back into Hydrogen ions.
This energy keeps the star running indefinitely.
Jalentite can bind with and align with Oxygen, Silicon, Gold, and Xenon to make crystalline glasslike structures.
These "jalentite glasses" speed up and slow down photons to and from thousands of times the speed of light when passing through it, allowing for extremely fast interstellar and interplanetary communication.
A certain ion, Ja-11, opens and then holds open wormholes when exposed to an ABSURDLY bright light, allowing for instantaneous travel
Would be interested in hearing your take on project hail mary’s xenonite. you could probably get a lot of views out of it ~a year from now once the trailers come out.
Bro what's the track ID on the background music. Sounds cool asF.
That’s custom-made for the channel by my old friend who tinkers electronic music. More of him here:
on.soundcloud.com/NsDv8DhkByRLR1hs6
@@HardCoreSciFi ver nice man, I just gave him a follow and listen. Love the spacey vibes
6:20 Maybe it was created by an ancient civilization of Pandora
Isn't Vibranium also super lightweight compared to other resilient metals? Wouldn't that change it to be less realistic?
I am also interested in how Uru, the other "super metal" of the Marvel cosmos would perform
The captain america shield is a adamantium vibranium alloy, so it does not have the same properties as pure vibranium
when netherite
is a sturdy metal: realistic
its hard to melt(does not butr in lava/fire): realistic
isnt on the periotic table: can be an alloy of metals: realistic
harder than diamond: realistic?
i expect diamond tier or IRONICLY NETHERITE TIER
Scrith, from Ringworld.
Why haven't you considered elements which have exotic nucleons other than and/or in addition to protons & neutrons as explanations of what a given type of unobtanium is made of? I think most unobtanium would probably be composed at least partially of exotic types of matter.
Now I'm curious: where would you rate Element Zero from Mass Effect?
All i hear is BANE
1/10 No Tiberium