Can we obtain the Unobtainium?
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- Опубликовано: 18 июн 2024
- 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 is actually possible in science!
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:19 Room Temperature Superconductors
3:08 HCSF tierlist
3:34 Antimatter
4:54 Helium-3
5:40 Mass destruction perspectives
5:55 The ultimate resistant material
6:59 Immortalium
9:44 Shapeshifting IRL
12:02 Antagonium
13:51 The Altered Mind
15:52 Robot Brain Matter
16:24 Luxurium
17:13 Handwavium opportunity
17:38 Future of science
18:11 Traversing spacetime continuum
19:30 Exotic matter
20:20 Final obtainium tierlist
21:11 Ways to bungle unobtainium
21:59 Outro
Idea, research, script, pixelart, voice and editing by Surge
Music by Heepothesys
Gaming videos by Neravar
Sound editing advice and inspiration by Paula
*a lot of the information given in the video is based on the knowledge of the author, who has no special education in most of the topics he speaks on, so please take it with a grain of salt and leave a comment if you disagree 
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Wow for once a non-sarcastic thanks RUclips for recommending this!!
Wonderful video it was a blast to watch and I look forward to the examples in the future.
Thank u! There are many more videos to come 😀
This serves as such good inspiration and help for not only science research but also for sci-fi world creation. You are amazing.
Thank u! I try to do my best 😅
Informative and entertaining at the same time. Keep going
Thanks! I will 😀
another amazing video 🎉
There’s more to come 😘 and it will keep getting better with time
Excellent video. I can't wait for the third!
Coming soon! Might be in the middle of January.
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Thanks! Hopefully new videos will be even better :)
great video!
Thanks!
Id like to know what type of unobtanium is fairy dust from the movies of “peter pan” as it seems to be useful as a transportatium due to its levitation properties but also others added across the next movies. It seems to also work as psionium due to its mental requirement of “happy thoughts” as well as healthium in the movie “pan” since it’s used to rejuvenate people and might be what causes the lack of ageing in that land. It also seems to be capable of creating varieties for other magical effects such as the manipulation of fauna and flora, air and light, inventiveness and water. I don’t know which ones those would be, perhaps some type of handwavium or mutatium to a degree.
Well first of all fairy dust does not even pretend to have a scientific explanation, which excludes it from unobtainiums 🤔 but if we look at it functionally, I’d call it antigravity-levitating transportalium type
@@HardCoreSciFi thank you very much! What about the infinity stones of marvel? They were attempted to be given a scientific explanation by calling them singularities.
@@irvs5922 Infinity stones were basically McGuffins before Loki 🤔 I actually plan to do a separate episode on MCU and DCU comparison sometime next year 😀
@@HardCoreSciFi that sounds perfect
When is your next episode? Can't wait!
It’s gonna be till the end of next week 😀
I have said this before, but will say this again. Electrocution, toxic chemicals, radiation exposure ect can lead to good mutations, but only in the offspring, not the organism after birth. In fact, in the 20th century and some places today, there was something called atomic gardening in which crop seeds are exposed to ironising radiation such as gamma rays to increase the number of mutations in the plants and they select the ones with wanted mutations like bigger crops. In fact, China is now doing this to seeds with cosmic rays, and they have created some amazing crops.
However, since the mutations are random, it is extremely unlikely if not impossible for radiation to create some of the monsters and superhuman abilities seen in movies and comics, unlike genetic engineering. In reality, the closest thing nuclear radiation can create to Godzilla is probably a slightly larger Komodo dragon, and the closest thing gamma rays can create to the Incredible Hulk would probably be to make your son(but not you) the strongest man in the world. The next Louis Cyr.
I have never heard of someone using so random and dangerous as radiation to experiment with genetics 🤔 to me it sounds like shooting a piece of rock with large caliber minigun in hope to carve Venus out of it 😅
@@HardCoreSciFi Well look up atomic gardening. Wikipedia even has a page about it, and China has now invented cosmic gardening.
I looked it up, and as I suspected, atomic gardening is more of a historical quirk rather than promising technology of the future. We had to use it when we yet couldn’t readily read, analyse and synthesise genetic material, and were limited to radioactive destruction of DNA in hope that some of strands will repair themselves in some new beneficial way. Chances of producing good mutation, compared with malignant one, are overwhelmingly low, and while it’s still possible, it’s not practical nowadays.
You are also right speaking that mutations can only really appear in offspring. I actually speak about it in video too - on the fact that it’s hard to impossible to deliver the mutated material to all cells of organism even if we do it with specially designed virus, not even speaking of something as random as ionising radiation.
@@HardCoreSciFi One other thing I will like to mention about radiation-induced superpowers is while earlier, I have mentioned the Fantastic Four, the Hulk, Spiderman and Daredevil, I will also like to mention the X-Men. It is said that the X-Men were born with their powers, but why? What actually caused the X-Men?
The exact cause of the X-Men is rarely discussed. However, in the early X-Men comics, it was actually still implied that radiation caused the X-Men. In the 1960s, the X-Men were often called Children of the Atom. Children of the Atomic Bomb. Also, Professor X’s father worked on the Manhattan Project, it was explained Beast got his powers by his father being exposed to radiation and Sunfire was born in Hiroshima the day the atomic bomb was dropped.
This explanation these days, however, tends to be either retconned or ignored, as later it was instead explained by something which exists in humans called the X-gene which causes the X-Men and other mutants to gain their powers during puberty. But the original concept was that the X-Men’s parents were exposed to nuclear radiation and this caused them to be born with their mutant powers.
I would also like to mention that the phrase “Children of the Atom” actually did not originate from the X-Men. It is actually the title of a 1953 science fiction novel, Children of the Atom, which is about nuclear radiation induced mutation causing children to be born with superhuman intelligence.
So while the radiation explanation of the X-Men is no longer canon, it is interesting to know that the original explanation of the X-Men actually gets half of the radiation-induced mutation thing right. For characters who gained their powers from radiation after birth like the Fantastic Four, that’s impossible, but for the original explanation of the X-Men, it is technically possible, but extraordinarily unlikely.
Happy new year and also, happy public domain day. Mickey Mouse is now public domain!
Thanks man! And thanks for the support this year, while I was figuring how to get channel started 😅 Happy New Year to you too 🥳
I was watching this video and then realized that you dont even have 200 subs like wtf?!
I’ve been doing this for only half a year and I’m not super good in marketing yet 😅