PROJECT THOR: Deadly Metal From Outer Space

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  • Опубликовано: 19 июн 2024
  • Kyle discusses the history and science of the most famous almost-made space weapon: PROJECT THOR. He's not a supervillain.
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  • @PaleGhost69
    @PaleGhost69 4 года назад +440

    0:20
    So Kyle isn't a super villain...
    He's a _Clone_ of a super villain!

    • @NanakiPL
      @NanakiPL 4 года назад +15

      RUN! Run as far as you can! Before he finds you!

    • @the88thdarcstar
      @the88thdarcstar 4 года назад +7

      Or vice versa

    • @pizzas4breakfast
      @pizzas4breakfast 4 года назад +13

      Maybe the clone went mad and became the villain

    • @MrocnyZbik
      @MrocnyZbik 4 года назад +23

      There is no diffrence between clone and original, maybe there is no original. Only Kyles.

    • @jackielinde7568
      @jackielinde7568 4 года назад +12

      Kyle could be one part of a set of twins. You'd have a Good Kyle and Evil Kyle. The problem is telling who's who.

  • @kysier6015
    @kysier6015 4 года назад +692

    You people need to stop assuming kyle is a super villain.
    He's a regular every day guy, who has totally *NOT* kidnapped my son. He's babysitting him.
    Can i have my kid back now?

    • @tommytomthms5
      @tommytomthms5 4 года назад +49

      Yeah and Mr Madrazo is a totally legitimate businessman who was accused of running a latin American crime ring, But those charges were dropped when a few of the witnesses.. uhh.. went missing.

    • @ReyAmv
      @ReyAmv 4 года назад +2

      TomLovesKrissy classic.

    • @lewqitz
      @lewqitz 4 года назад

      He's secretly karen.

    • @djr7760
      @djr7760 4 года назад

      I was assuming he was Sasuke for like a year

  • @monk9816
    @monk9816 4 года назад +995

    Thor himself out here explaining how he’s gonna blow up everything. Confession time boys.

  • @rinneganbobby7903
    @rinneganbobby7903 4 года назад +370

    Real life: “Project Thor”
    G.i.joe: “Project Zeus”
    CoD Ghost: “Project Odin”

    • @spec-opsmexican4119
      @spec-opsmexican4119 3 года назад +9

      Wait, aren't they related?

    • @hadang1792
      @hadang1792 2 года назад +31

      We need Project Loki

    • @akumaking1
      @akumaking1 2 года назад +17

      @@spec-opsmexican4119 same idea of orbital bombardment

    • @jayvhoncalma3458
      @jayvhoncalma3458 2 года назад +3

      @@akumaking1 the GI Joe one was very cool looking it's satellites look like rail cannons in Minecraft

    • @jonathanathor117
      @jonathanathor117 Год назад +4

      Now I can't wait for Project Shiva, Project Atum, Project Huitzilopochtli and Project Ouroboros.

  • @BenCDawson
    @BenCDawson 4 года назад +927

    I liked the phrase "Orbital Lawn Dart", if that was the code name it'd never get OLD :P

    • @albertjackinson
      @albertjackinson 4 года назад +32

      Now THAT is a great acronym! Please put that in somebody's hard sci-fi novel!

    • @martinhanke1670
      @martinhanke1670 4 года назад +1

      Nicely done.

    • @darrylfoster6260
      @darrylfoster6260 4 года назад

      Nice

    • @garret1930
      @garret1930 4 года назад +18

      Space station OLD Man, Orbital Lawn Dart Manifold.

    • @awsomesauce03
      @awsomesauce03 4 года назад +8

      That would be the shittest code name of all time. "I wonder what they're talking about" is what people will say 2 seconds before they realise they're gonna get stuff dropped on them from space.

  • @abualil8808
    @abualil8808 4 года назад +1232

    Who Will Win ?
    A Super giant aircraft carrier that costs billions of dollars
    OR
    One Speedy telephone pole

    • @albertjackinson
      @albertjackinson 4 года назад +50

      One speedy telephone pole, lights up (eh eh, get it?).

    • @DrewLSsix
      @DrewLSsix 4 года назад +46

      Well.... that telephone pole its self could cost a similar amount by the time its deployed.

    • @edwhlam
      @edwhlam 4 года назад +30

      You need to spend billions to get the "telephone pole" into orbit, develop the targeting system for that "pole", develop deploy, and maintain the surveillance system so that you can find the carrier to target. Also, unlike a bunker, a carrier moves at over 30 knots. The "pole" will now needs an active guidance system to constantly change course and to hit the carrier. Lastly, to be useful, the Thor launcher and it's targeting systems need to be in low / mid orbit, and are vulnerable to anti-satellite weapons, including missiles such as SM-3.

    • @abualil8808
      @abualil8808 4 года назад +37

      @@edwhlam I think you are complicating stuff a little bit here, you just need a very stronk man to throw the pole into orbit for 5 dollars, then the satelite will use a a very stronk magnet to pull the pole and attach it, and firing it is even easier just throw it on top of your enemy and use a guidance spell and a old compose from 1600AD to give it +5 accaurcy buff and if it don't hit the target just keep throwing poles at it until it hits, very easy.

    • @edwhlam
      @edwhlam 4 года назад +8

      @@abualil8808 You need to find the carrier first. You can't just keep firing rods and hope they will hit. Low orbit is an altitude of 160 to 2,000Km. You will not hit a moving target from 2,000KM+ or even 160 km away without guidance correction. Oh. It will be shooting back with SM-3 missiles and likely will also be shooting at your command center.

  • @19ryuusei
    @19ryuusei 4 года назад +646

    I remember seeing this in CoD Ghosts, and then realizing that this was an actual concept. Like imagine seeing a telephone pole coming at you.

    • @MrMinigunman101
      @MrMinigunman101 4 года назад +93

      You wouldn’t see it coming. You’d probably be dead before you knew you were in danger

    • @geraldfrost4710
      @geraldfrost4710 4 года назад +66

      @@MrMinigunman101 The profile it would present would be a dot. then a ball. I was wondering why the ball was getting bigger, then it hit me.

    • @MSaleh-vy8rr
      @MSaleh-vy8rr 4 года назад +47

      ODIN (Orbital Defense Initiative)

    • @nemanjap8768
      @nemanjap8768 3 года назад +2

      @@MrMinigunman101 you would hear them

    • @MrMinigunman101
      @MrMinigunman101 3 года назад +18

      Nemanja P faster than sound

  • @ATLAS-tp3pm
    @ATLAS-tp3pm 4 года назад +328

    “What is it dad?”
    “It’s ODIN”

    • @sil3ntkn1ght27
      @sil3ntkn1ght27 4 года назад +19

      "ODIN"

    • @sil3ntkn1ght27
      @sil3ntkn1ght27 4 года назад +9

      Also called Woden, Glad o War. Raider, Third, One Eye, Grimnir the Hooded One, All Father, Gondlir Wand Bearer.

    • @dickiewongtk
      @dickiewongtk 4 года назад +27

      @Raphaël Tremblay It is a Call of Duty reference... 'Orbital Defense Initiative (ODIN)'.

    • @user-zz6ks9gw7i
      @user-zz6ks9gw7i 4 года назад +8

      Raphaël Tremblay no. It's actually ODIN.

    • @m5a1stuart83
      @m5a1stuart83 4 года назад

      Why not Kaido?

  • @SixGunJo
    @SixGunJo 4 года назад +1271

    Would this be better classified as "heavy metal" or "death metal"?
    I think it probably counts as both.

    • @pixl3l
      @pixl3l 4 года назад +88

      I think it also can be speed metal, and power metal to...

    • @km5405
      @km5405 4 года назад +46

      heavy death speed metal

    • @pixl3l
      @pixl3l 4 года назад +15

      and if we think about it trash metal to, as trash is all that's left of the target after.

    • @Prague3203
      @Prague3203 4 года назад +3

      Oho 🤣

    • @jayands
      @jayands 4 года назад +13

      *Boyinaband wants to know your location*

  • @evanhawn2183
    @evanhawn2183 4 года назад +880

    This is getting out of hand. Now there are two of them

    • @arto_1790
      @arto_1790 4 года назад +37

      There were aways two of them

    • @xSuperSS
      @xSuperSS 4 года назад +40

      @@arto_1790 An aprentince and a master

    • @taktycs6668
      @taktycs6668 4 года назад +22

      Good ol prequel memes 👌🏻👌🏻

    • @williamwinder5011
      @williamwinder5011 4 года назад +8

      How do you know there are only two?

    • @skylx0812
      @skylx0812 4 года назад +4

      You kno... It used to be said that bilocation was supposedly one of the signs of a person being a saint.

  • @side-beeetaloniswolfwolfac4179
    @side-beeetaloniswolfwolfac4179 4 года назад +529

    Because Science: "Order the Strike."
    RUclips: "Copyright Strike?"
    Because Science: "Wait what n-"
    RUclips: "Copyright Strike!"
    Unsuspecting RUclipsr: *Obliterated*

    • @haha69sexnumber
      @haha69sexnumber 4 года назад +30

      *O R B I T A L C O P Y R I G H T S T R I K E*

    • @Gorvahog
      @Gorvahog 2 года назад +7

      Orbliterated?

    • @podulox
      @podulox Год назад

      @@Gorvahog Like in that scan they did in Andromeda Strain (1971)
      (Not the Benjamin Bratt two-parter... I don't think they even mentioned that specific scan in that version... I could watch it again tho...)

  • @doboziandras8935
    @doboziandras8935 4 года назад +239

    The perfect anti-Kaiju weapon, after the Jagers of couse.

    • @vyiz1004
      @vyiz1004 4 года назад +23

      Holy hell your right. Add some armor piercing mods to it and big G couldn't stand it. I doubt even Shin G could mutate in time to stand it.

    • @vyiz1004
      @vyiz1004 4 года назад +4

      Who would know? Shin wouldn't...

    • @doboziandras8935
      @doboziandras8935 4 года назад +9

      @@vyiz1004 I saw the first moove, so no time mutateing stuff there.
      But large meat bags in some armoring and high heat resistance at the end. And the ending is solved to just kill that category 5 Slattern , with a bunch of those glorified TIG rods , put a nuke on it and drop the thing in to the portal. And BOOM.
      Less cool tho.

    • @cesarguzman3204
      @cesarguzman3204 4 года назад +2

      Godzilla has survived even meteors more powerful in the face

    • @royk7712
      @royk7712 4 года назад +1

      you could just build an anti kaiju railgun in every coast, a single railgun with sonar around the port can take any kaiju within 100km

  • @ruyman90
    @ruyman90 4 года назад +290

    Guys hear me out. I have an hypothesis that Kyle suffers from multiple personality disorder combined with schizophrenia. Here are the symptoms:
    - Hallucinations. The void might not be real and is a constant hallucination were he see impossible things. We even have seen several Kyles in the void.
    - Small seizures. Everytime Kyle gets hurt in the void he recovers in the next scene this could be those small attacks that his brain interpret as physical attacks
    - Trauma. We have seen Kyle expressing extreme remorse and sadness when talking about losing a girlfriend (captain america episode) or losing a love one (in spiderman episodes). He even starts crying.
    - Change of mannerisms. As he has said, he is very different when he acts IRL that when he is in the void, he not only become left and right handed between footnotes and episodes he even becomes a way better artist in the void than he is IRL because he was unable to draw as good and he confirm us once that he "draws" all the drawing himself and without help.
    - Memory lose. Kyle has never been able to tell us how he gets out or in of the void, it might be the jump between personalities
    - Time lapses. We just saw him talking to himself in a different timeframe meaning that personalities may be independent, also in the episodes of timetravel he is able to talk to himself from the future and past but he is sure timetravel isn't possible.
    - Compulsive. Maybe the telephone is the way he is able to connect both personalities to become functional (is this a jojo reference?)
    - Dominant personality. We see super villain Kyle ordering around science Kyle to make world ending projects and defeat superheroes.
    We may have in our hands a Kyle with 2 personalities were one was created as a cooping mechanic for a past trauma were another more demanding personality orders around to get work done. There may be more symptoms but there has been already 12 minutes and I have to get out of my building.

    • @tanmoy.mazumder
      @tanmoy.mazumder 4 года назад +17

      congratulations, you take the cake

    • @becausescience
      @becausescience  4 года назад +67

      Wow maybe I have a problem -- kH

    • @mtglive8313
      @mtglive8313 4 года назад +2

      What a beautiful duwang

    • @PipBoy2300
      @PipBoy2300 4 года назад +2

      @@tanmoy.mazumder GLaDOS you there?

    • @jparky1972
      @jparky1972 4 года назад +3

      I think you are onto something here!

  • @danhinchliffe7622
    @danhinchliffe7622 4 года назад +484

    Ah yes. Kinetic bombardment. My favourite form of lawn dart.

    • @jillvalentinefan77
      @jillvalentinefan77 4 года назад +11

      @@RZRREDD Jarts were outlawed by the Geneva convention for use by ground troops against infantry for its sheer danger to anything living.

    • @jillvalentinefan77
      @jillvalentinefan77 4 года назад +6

      @@RZRREDD I should know I used them alot against Iran. They didnt come for the chemical weapons they came for my stockpiles of jarts.

    • @seanm4095
      @seanm4095 4 года назад +5

      We start doing commercial space jobs and technology like we are doing now and you may just get your cost down!

    • @homemadeanarchy115
      @homemadeanarchy115 4 года назад +1

      that is also my favorite form of lawn dart

    • @Attaxalotl
      @Attaxalotl 3 года назад +3

      "The slayer has taken control of the lawn dart. Run."

  • @orppranator5230
    @orppranator5230 4 года назад +440

    "Rods from God"
    -Virgin Mary

  • @polla2256
    @polla2256 4 года назад +118

    The fact this weapon has a lower yield then a nuke makes its use for more likely and given that launch costs are only getting cheaper together with SPACE FORCE make this quite likely.

    • @norbertfleck812
      @norbertfleck812 Год назад +5

      The impact energy is less than a ballistic missile with some TNT warhead.

    • @Doi-
      @Doi- Год назад +4

      You would only see benefits if you could harvest and refine materials from space, as such you would need a full scale moon or satellite based refinery, a fleet of asteroid mining equipment and people or A.I. running the project. No country can militarize or colonize the moon so it would have to be a private company in that situation or a violation of international law, and you would need to be able to defend it all.

    • @thethirdchimpanzee
      @thethirdchimpanzee Год назад +1

      @@Doi- In Pournelle & Niven's book "Football" that is pretty much what the aliens used...dropping rocks - including one BIG rock, towed or pushed towards the Earth from the asteroid belt...and dropped into the Indian ocean. And in Robert Heinlein's "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress", a rebellious Lunar colony repurposed their mining mass driver designed to lob dumb payloads of rock and metal and ice into space...into a sort of rail gun, with their target being basically the entire Earth. You don't even need precision bombing (though some targets WILL fortuitously be in just the right...or just the *wrong*...place and time that you COULD hit some of them with precision, but if you could lob ENOUGH mass, precision isn't needed, you just need to get *near* your target. Hell, much of the Earth is covered with water, and most of the human race lives near coasts (and rivers and lakes)...so you just need to cause a bunch of tsunamis. You could *continuously* generate tsunamis for days and weeks and months and even *years* on end...just using strike after strike after strike.

    • @Doi-
      @Doi- Год назад +1

      @@thethirdchimpanzee welll, sort of.

    • @Leviathan-me5qd
      @Leviathan-me5qd 10 месяцев назад

      ​@norbertfleck812 Yeah but it could peirce anything. Anything that isn't 100ft of concrete and steel

  • @bostjanferlez5038
    @bostjanferlez5038 4 года назад +145

    Footnotes should just start with the back of the chair petting a cat slowly rotating.

    • @levi1929
      @levi1929 4 года назад

      Boštjan Ferlež Lololol “I’ll get you next time, science.....next time!!!!”

    • @TheSpiritombsableye
      @TheSpiritombsableye 4 года назад

      This was in footnotes😍

    • @bostjanferlez5038
      @bostjanferlez5038 4 года назад +1

      @@TheSpiritombsableye i saw and i love what he did :)

  • @chanbricks4461
    @chanbricks4461 4 года назад +474

    Kyle is basically what Thor would be if he had Loki's personality. Much more successful as a supervillain though

    • @MySerpentine
      @MySerpentine 4 года назад +11

      That's probably because he wants to be one as opposed to having an awful life.

    • @alejandrofernandezcastro5421
      @alejandrofernandezcastro5421 4 года назад +17

      Maybe Loki is actually Kyle/Thor in disguise, using this appearance for confusion purposes

    • @jacob_90s
      @jacob_90s 3 года назад +1

      He's Val Hallen from the Justice Friends

    • @grizzdajester1995
      @grizzdajester1995 2 года назад

      @@jacob_90s bro I'm fucking dead crazy ass reference I almost forgot about the justice friends

  • @aporia_ygo
    @aporia_ygo 4 года назад +109

    G.I. JOE: Rise of the Cobra
    Project Zeus

    • @MSaleh-vy8rr
      @MSaleh-vy8rr 4 года назад +9

      No, CoD Ghost, ODIN (Orbital Defense Initiative) it was sick

    • @yamadiyoo9658
      @yamadiyoo9658 4 года назад +10

      Gi Joe Retaliation which is the sequel to rise of cobra. Also CoD Ghost did it but Gi Joe came out in march and CoD in november that year 2013. So you can say they were both exploring the idea just one got it out sooner.

    • @TheUndergrounds_best_CHARActer
      @TheUndergrounds_best_CHARActer 3 года назад +1

      @@yamadiyoo9658 ACTUALLY russia was developing a kinetic energy missle aka KEM made of tungten if droped it will be going at 10 times the speed of sound

    • @Edo_Ginting
      @Edo_Ginting 3 года назад

      Project Zeus is blacklight tho

  • @GablesTheMadhatter
    @GablesTheMadhatter 4 года назад +80

    I would have called it "heavy metal thunder"

    • @sdslofi1107
      @sdslofi1107 4 года назад +10

      Metal Rod Solid: The Tungsten Pain

    • @vanatrix1942
      @vanatrix1942 3 года назад +2

      That's the song that plays on the sattelite as it falls

    • @maxmustermann5950
      @maxmustermann5950 3 года назад

      HMT Incomming!!!

  • @TheMasgrave
    @TheMasgrave 4 года назад +251

    'Slaps rod' "This is a solid metal rod" 'hollow galv pole sound plays'

    • @azraelf.6287
      @azraelf.6287 4 года назад +22

      Budget cuts.

    • @angelarch5352
      @angelarch5352 4 года назад +10

      Hollow Galvanized Poles From God!

    • @Jianju69
      @Jianju69 4 года назад +5

      Stop-signs from God.

    • @stevenscott2136
      @stevenscott2136 3 года назад

      Glad I'm not the only one who noticed that.

  • @myself2782
    @myself2782 4 года назад +319

    Everyone: "Hey Kyle, are you a supervillain?"
    Kyle: "Whaaaaat no hold on I gotta make a phone call..."
    Kyle: " *E X E C U T E O R D E R 6 6* "
    Kyle: "Sorry, I was just... ordering a pizza."

  • @snowblood82
    @snowblood82 3 года назад +37

    In GI Joe, the rods were platinum coated. I know this metal to super heat when heated (which is how a catalytic converter works). Would this, heated by friction from drag, add significant force, as in the heat makes the ground around it explode or something?

    • @galleryofrogues
      @galleryofrogues Год назад

      I think the intense kinetic energy already creates a ton of heat and probably an explosion. Think of a meteorite hitting the earth and causing a huge explosion. Same kinda thing. I think the platinum was just a cool idea fictionally but I could be wrong.

    • @fbiagentmiyakohoshino8223
      @fbiagentmiyakohoshino8223 Год назад

      tungsten is better because its denser and can survive up to 6000 degrees f

  • @brettpearson9979
    @brettpearson9979 4 года назад +56

    He said “it’s cost inhabitative”
    I say “what is space force?”
    Why can’t they stick a rocket on the end of that tungsten candle,

    • @paulchilders9969
      @paulchilders9969 4 года назад +1

      What is space force? Not what you think it is. It has nothing at all to do with putting military assets in space, and we are only spending like 10 million on it.

    • @rbnhd1976
      @rbnhd1976 4 года назад +3

      I'm guessing that rocket would have to be at least twice as big as the Saturn rocket, total guess

    • @Attaxalotl
      @Attaxalotl 3 года назад +1

      Or launch them from a rail gun?

    • @JcoleMc
      @JcoleMc 3 года назад

      @@paulchilders9969 Oh good only 10 million

    • @confectortyrannis275
      @confectortyrannis275 3 года назад +2

      @@Attaxalotl seeing as how we only have hypervelocity impacts from extremely large masses one would be led to believe there is a size minimum for projectile needed to not instantly gooify itself punching through an atmosphere at those speeds (separate argument then becoming more ok...so you're saying i can shotgun an area with in process molten mass, it's still mass at speed..) or is it straight self annihilated?
      One means you need one mother of all railguns to be effective, but so cost prohibitive to be practical.
      Or maybe you just need a solid tungsten slug the size of a vw wagon, just worry a 1' x 20' tungsten rod (can that even be fired by railgun? I suppose if aluminum shelled sabot) fired by railgun would just fracture and annihilate itself upon entry, think same problem with .50cal bullets hitting water... Hypervelocity impactor would react much the same way to a planetary atmosphere wouldn't it?

  • @adidas-dd4dt
    @adidas-dd4dt 4 года назад +120

    (Explosion)
    US: "Not it!"
    Russia: "Not it!"
    Kyle Hill: "Not ......DAMNIT!!"

  • @LOBricksAndSecrets
    @LOBricksAndSecrets 4 года назад +239

    I don't see why everyone is freaking out about supervillain Kyle. I think he would make a great overlord for our planet.

    • @ribbitgoesthedoglastnamehe4681
      @ribbitgoesthedoglastnamehe4681 4 года назад +14

      Yes. We all love our Great Leader. May he reign forever and let us bask in his benevolence, and certainly not make him upset in anyway. Please.

    • @drolfeyking3969
      @drolfeyking3969 4 года назад +8

      He would, that is why I wish to join him on his conquest.

    • @ribbitgoesthedoglastnamehe4681
      @ribbitgoesthedoglastnamehe4681 4 года назад +5

      @@drolfeyking3969 Yes. I wish to be a Minion.

    • @drolfeyking3969
      @drolfeyking3969 4 года назад +4

      I won't be a minion, I'll be the second in command!

    • @watevr4evr
      @watevr4evr 4 года назад +3

      How dare you blaspheme our dear leader Jim Pickens!!! You will pay with your freedom!

  • @JohnTaylor-gy2ps
    @JohnTaylor-gy2ps 4 года назад +52

    Read " The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress " by Robert E Heinlien.

    • @edwat10
      @edwat10 4 года назад +6

      Outstanding! You have great taste in literature sir.
      I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
      Mannie and Man.

    • @supernovagamer929
      @supernovagamer929 4 года назад +3

      They said they were just gonna throw rocks, rocks with the same damage as a hydrogen bomb

    • @extremosaur
      @extremosaur 3 года назад

      It's A. Heinlein.

  • @ehondat
    @ehondat 4 года назад +2

    Your videos are amazing and I appricate all the work you put into making these

  • @SuperDriver379
    @SuperDriver379 4 года назад +944

    "Science Fiction"
    The term for anything classified beyond top secret.

    • @cosmicodyssey3382
      @cosmicodyssey3382 4 года назад +42

      That is the best way to put that ever.

    • @spike51234
      @spike51234 4 года назад +23

      I actually did some simulations and found a way to make them faster by getting rid of the air drag and to launch them faster with a coil gun.

    • @jumpingman8160
      @jumpingman8160 4 года назад +42

      @@spike51234 I made them go light speed by throwing them at night

    • @mayankraj2294
      @mayankraj2294 4 года назад +1

      @@spike51234 .

    • @idoodooo3988
      @idoodooo3988 4 года назад

      mayank raj .

  • @mikecummings8872
    @mikecummings8872 4 года назад +86

    He's been calling himself the whole time?
    Came for the science, stayed for the lore.

    • @christianbarrett3040
      @christianbarrett3040 4 года назад +2

      So then are void Kyle and non-void Kyle different entities?

  • @kurtswanson6950
    @kurtswanson6950 4 года назад +32

    "Deadly Metal From Outer Space" would make a great album title.

  • @scarletjester7831
    @scarletjester7831 4 года назад +9

    I would love a Office-like show about henchmen and the scientists of Super Villains, because you just have that energy

  • @runningthemeta5570
    @runningthemeta5570 4 года назад +204

    So that's who Kyle has been calling
    He's been calling himself this whole time.

    • @TheWitheredWizard
      @TheWitheredWizard 4 года назад +10

      I was thinking the same thing. We finally get to see who's on the other side of the line and it's just him 😂😂 I fricking love this show

    • @meganofsherwood3665
      @meganofsherwood3665 4 года назад

      My head hurts so much now...

    • @tucker5720
      @tucker5720 4 года назад +1

      Evil twin!
      It all makes sense now

  • @GrindingGearsTV
    @GrindingGearsTV 4 года назад +168

    kyle is such a super villian he has obviously cloned himself from himself to give himself orders so he can be MOAR EVIL!

    • @angelofmalice0
      @angelofmalice0 4 года назад +7

      Wait does that mean the clone is in the void? Has it been the clone in the void all this time? Does the clone ever get out of the void? omg sooo many questions that need to be answered. Also the void is outside of our space time so does that mean Kyle can order clone Kyle to kill someone before they were born?

    • @sri_harsha_dv
      @sri_harsha_dv 4 года назад +3

      Seems like Fight club (movie)

    • @Kurofaytt
      @Kurofaytt 4 года назад

      HOW MANY CLOSES ARE THERE.......

    • @Ontarianmm
      @Ontarianmm 4 года назад

      Hansome Jack style?

  • @johnqpratt8278
    @johnqpratt8278 3 года назад

    Loving the highlights

  • @gapratt4955
    @gapratt4955 4 года назад +22

    Clarence "Kelly" Johnson of Lockheed had a similar idea. He envisioned using a modified YF 12 to deliver kinetic energy weapons.

    • @millertime7915
      @millertime7915 4 года назад +2

      Yes
      Jimmy Carter talked about it in his book
      A sort of super collider-nuclear reactor .

  • @nikoxy4510
    @nikoxy4510 4 года назад +207

    This Project Thor idea can be referred to as “Kinetic bombardment”

    • @SwirlyWhirlyXYZ
      @SwirlyWhirlyXYZ 4 года назад +6

      Rejected Niko
      That would also be a great title for a heavy metal song

    • @andrewsmith1735
      @andrewsmith1735 4 года назад +3

      The space satellite will be mass driver

    • @asuragaming6671
      @asuragaming6671 4 года назад +3

      *odin defense system* looks like call of duty actually did their research

    • @raptorep
      @raptorep 4 года назад +1

      SpaceX Starship can lift a dozen "Orbital Lawn Darts" per launch for a small fraction the cost launches were in the 80s. It will just about be practical with the first successful launch and landing.

    • @secrecy3915
      @secrecy3915 4 года назад

      @@SwirlyWhirlyXYZ or just a heavy metal concert. Or for what goes on at a heavy metal concert.

  • @rafagd
    @rafagd 4 года назад +165

    Wait, so Evil Kyle is always talking to Void Kyle? That canon is getting really complicaded.

    • @alexixeno4223
      @alexixeno4223 4 года назад +20

      I think he wants to make the canon so dense, that he will be able to drop it from space as a weapon.

    • @rafagd
      @rafagd 4 года назад +4

      That would definitely kill his audience!

    • @ItsJustFox
      @ItsJustFox 4 года назад +5

      Ever notice he occasionally plans dates with and tells Void Kyle that he loves them. That man has a lot of self love... either that or he's lonely.

    • @cognitiveTrifurcation
      @cognitiveTrifurcation 4 года назад

      BS canon is approaching FNAF levels of density. Critical mass is imminent.

    • @TaiWanWaf
      @TaiWanWaf 4 года назад

      Fox4222 I was literally thinking that!! Like oof, got some self love does he... narcissism can be a key attribute of a super villain!!!

  • @forcesightknight
    @forcesightknight 4 года назад +12

    Thanks for posting this. I knew about this when I worked for General dynamics. Whenever I mentioned project Thor people looked at me like I was crazy. Next project you need to check out is the space laser that can melt rock into lava. A Marine brother of mine mentioned an incident in Afghanistan. The choppers couldn't land in the valley we were in do to high wind. His unit was told to fall back to another valley. He said around midnight there was a flash of light, like a welding flash, and a large explosion. It only lasted few minutes. When they went back to the valley a few days there was an airfield made from what he described as obsidian. Planes where already off loading equipment and supplies.
    I was to trust that he wasn't FOS, but I haven't found anything online about that airstrip. I've even scanned Google earth for God knows how many weeks looking for anything.
    Thanks again for posting this, now at least I have a reference to use to prove I'm not Coo Coo kachoo.

    • @RobertSzasz
      @RobertSzasz 3 года назад +3

      Super late reply, but for project Thor, the problem is that all that energy comes from somewhere. You have to boost stuff into space, burn to set up the orbit, then burn to de-orbit (both of which are impossible to do stealthily). It's about as fast on target to just mount a rod on an ICBM and do a suborbital strike from the ground.

    • @kagemushashien8394
      @kagemushashien8394 9 месяцев назад +1

      Sounds like a black project to me.

  • @nathantaylor3033
    @nathantaylor3033 3 года назад

    Thanks for sharing. This gives me a lot to think about actually

  • @zaczane
    @zaczane 4 года назад +63

    6:50 Kyle “ how do I even get reception out here”
    Me: Um you’re holding a land line?

    • @dovahkat9635
      @dovahkat9635 4 года назад +11

      Ah yes, a landline in space. Of course. There are no problems with that statement, nope none at all!

    • @demandred1957
      @demandred1957 4 года назад +3

      A landline, made from carbon nanotubes..

    • @ryankunst668
      @ryankunst668 4 года назад +1

      This does not solve the problem.

    • @demandred1957
      @demandred1957 4 года назад +2

      @@ryankunst668 sure it does. If we could make a cable out of carbon nanotubes, we could have a space elevator, with a cable just a inch thick. Carbon also conducts electricity, so it would work just like any other landline phone.

    • @demandred1957
      @demandred1957 4 года назад +1

      @@dovahkat9635 no problems if the line is made from carbon nanotubes.

  • @MrmilesMiller
    @MrmilesMiller 4 года назад +37

    I finally figured out who Kyle reminds me of. President Zephod Beeblebrox from Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Love the stuff man!

  • @aaronthomas4883
    @aaronthomas4883 4 года назад

    Outstanding format.👍

  • @viggoeriksson878
    @viggoeriksson878 4 года назад +22

    So project-thor is a flechette on steroids

    • @XS69
      @XS69 4 года назад +7

      Nope, it is a flechette on... all the steroids.

    • @leonardosangaletti9949
      @leonardosangaletti9949 4 года назад +7

      No, is a flechette on asteroids.

    • @kiwikiwi2483
      @kiwikiwi2483 4 года назад +1

      leonardo sangaletti That's WAY more like it

  • @biigdoog
    @biigdoog 4 года назад +57

    Anyone else noticed dark Kyle and light Kyle? Super villain was wearing a black shirt where science boy was wearing a white shirt

    • @Imurai
      @Imurai 4 года назад +7

      Well obviously! We know since cowboy movies how evil people dress in all black and heroes in white!

    • @ZUMYnivedo
      @ZUMYnivedo 4 года назад +8

      Good kyle, or void kyle, is just an AI created by evil Kyle. He is good because he is doing just as he was created to do, and as such, done nothing evil. The evil actions of the AI fall on the creator.

    • @biigdoog
      @biigdoog 4 года назад +1

      @@ZUMYnivedo touche. maybe all of this is a farce in the void has slowly tainted Kyle's mind over the years turning him into the super villain that he is today!

  • @videogrimes6165
    @videogrimes6165 4 года назад +87

    I'm a huge nerd when it comes to the cold war, and one of the most important things about Project THOR is not only its cost, but its political ramifications! In 1967 *The Outer Space Treaty* was signed, and it laid out the basic legal framework for international space law. Among its principles it bars states party to the treaty from placing weapons of mass destruction in Earth orbit.
    This is incredibly important from a political point of view. Placing a weapon in space is literally aiming a gun at every single man, woman, and child on earth... and the weapon holder is effectively threatening the whole world at once. If you go to war with someone, they might want to remove your Orbital Weapons to protect themselves, and when they blow up your THORs, all of that space debris will scattershot across space, *creating a deadly cloud of shattered tungsten,* taking out friendly and peaceful satellites in it's path.
    This is why placing any weapons in space is *an EXTREMELY BAD IDEA!!!*
    Not to mention the threat of someone committing a Cyber Attack on your own THORs an then hacking them to attack you instead... or worse... one of your own Allies, sparking a war between you and your best friend!

    • @Sundablakr
      @Sundablakr 4 года назад +6

      Wouldn't a THOR weapons platform be really easy to destroy as well? Not like you have many ways to defend yourself in orbit.

    • @Dell-ol6hb
      @Dell-ol6hb 4 года назад +4

      Tom Morland yeah we just don’t have the point defense technology yet to sufficiently protect space weapons from debris and projectiles.

    • @Dell-ol6hb
      @Dell-ol6hb 4 года назад +4

      VideoGrimes weapons pointed at your own planet is dumb but once we start colonizing our solar system and expanding, weapons on space ships will be a necessity, especially if you are going really fast, because at high speeds with no air resistance or drag any little piece of debris is a potential ship destroying projectile so some weapons in the form of point defense systems are going to be likely necessary. So that means there will likely be warships with far more weapons as an extension of that, it’s just human nature to war

    • @JaelinBezel
      @JaelinBezel 4 года назад +3

      I hate it when friends fight.

    • @Xwrld967
      @Xwrld967 4 года назад +10

      It bans weapons of mass destruction in space. Which by definition means no chemical, biological, or radioactive weapons can be deployed in space but conventional weapons can

  • @williamchamberlain2263
    @williamchamberlain2263 4 года назад +10

    10:08 Elon's got you covered there

  • @klausbrinck2137
    @klausbrinck2137 4 года назад +11

    "All the bullets are like tiny little Thors" Because Science, 2019

  • @upwiggins
    @upwiggins 4 года назад +67

    Guys it’s not Kyle’s fault, The void has slowly been corrupting him all this time. The real him Has to still be in their deep inside. Everyone chant “ Kyle I love your hair” it will snap him out of it but you have to really believe

    • @MarsStarcruiser
      @MarsStarcruiser 4 года назад +3

      Need his brother Loki to pull him out of the void

    • @Sebs739
      @Sebs739 4 года назад +3

      Trust me, I believe.

    • @snapple1877
      @snapple1877 4 года назад +1

      We all want Kylo “Glorious Mane" Wren to remain evile, muhuhahahaaa!

    • @bumble3572
      @bumble3572 4 года назад +1

      I'm honestly surprised that he has lasted this long in The Warp without corruption

  • @ryans8113
    @ryans8113 4 года назад +23

    "Oh you're still here."
    I'm always watching.

  • @HOLYLIFEIFY
    @HOLYLIFEIFY 3 года назад

    The tapping on that bomb to the Mount Of Olives comes to mind. Terrill TC!

  • @HOLYLIFEIFY
    @HOLYLIFEIFY 3 года назад

    This bad boy is solid metal takes me to when I worked as a sports environmentalist for the U.S Navy there on Mare Island in Vallejo Ca during the engineering of my 5th semester of college. Terrill TC!

  • @MrBlack-rv3xx
    @MrBlack-rv3xx 4 года назад +57

    I love how Kyle has taken to the "alleged" supervillain thing and ran with it. Lots of fun. Keep up the great work Kyle.

    • @a-blivvy-yus
      @a-blivvy-yus 4 года назад +11

      I like how Kyle's non-mobile phone needs "reception" in order to ring.

  • @joeldavid3451
    @joeldavid3451 4 года назад +85

    So one could say that the results of an orbital strike would be.....Shocking...? Im sorry that pun was uncalled Thor...

    • @CyN_SpiKe
      @CyN_SpiKe 4 года назад +2

      I don't know if your puns had the impact you were hoping for.

    • @emmanuelbrioche6582
      @emmanuelbrioche6582 4 года назад +2

      Ehhh... It was Loki funny, but Odin no if everyone will think so.

    • @Jay-qb9gi
      @Jay-qb9gi 4 года назад +1

      @@CyN_SpiKe his puns was penetrating enough to give me a chuckle

    • @CyN_SpiKe
      @CyN_SpiKe 4 года назад +1

      @@Jay-qb9gi I'm glad they did. I'm Thory if anyone took offence.

    • @kuroarts6139
      @kuroarts6139 2 года назад

      Please stop, these puns are Hela bad.

  • @gustavorodriguez888
    @gustavorodriguez888 4 года назад +8

    In call of duty: ghosts there was some of this orbital weapons but these where "droped" into earth from orbital stations.

  • @Guardian179
    @Guardian179 Год назад +3

    Another reason we haven't implemented this, or any other space based weapon system is international law. We basically treat space as a neutral zone, and even anti satellite weapons are banned under treaty.

    • @DatBoiEmo
      @DatBoiEmo Год назад

      I was jus about to say that, I knew I read somewhere that making something like this was made illegal because space isn’t necessarily an area you can control or own. Let alone build weapons of mass destruction

    • @ennui9745
      @ennui9745 Год назад

      ASAT weapons are banned under treaty, yet China has tested them (and before the tankie idiots start their whataboutism, yes, I'm aware the US probably has them too).

  • @johnlukan230
    @johnlukan230 4 года назад +136

    Void Kyle is the R&D department, Desk Kyle is the super villain

  • @ZUMYnivedo
    @ZUMYnivedo 4 года назад +79

    Does this confirm that void kyle is just an AI created by evil Kyle, and Nate is just code for Neuro Activated Telecom Entity?

    • @ciarfah
      @ciarfah 4 года назад +8

      ZUMYnivedo Evil Kyle convinced void Kyle that he is hosting a science show to have him explain villainous things

    • @matthewlofton8465
      @matthewlofton8465 4 года назад +4

      Evil Kyle simply figured that now that Dolly's dead it's okay for him to reveal all the new advances in "reproductive" science made since then. Why try for a designer baby when you can have a designer Kyle?

    • @albertjackinson
      @albertjackinson 4 года назад +3

      Great acronym for Nate there! He's not Nate--he's N.A.T.E.

  • @Oops_My_Dood
    @Oops_My_Dood 3 года назад

    Fucking love how animated this bro is, keep the awesome videos coming brother!

  • @doreenlaird6289
    @doreenlaird6289 2 года назад

    Thank you for this fine education.

  • @Yora21
    @Yora21 4 года назад +54

    The third important quality of tungsten: Compared to iridium, uranium, or platinum, it's really cheap.

    • @matthewbaugh5560
      @matthewbaugh5560 4 года назад +1

      Now you've made me want to see a James Bond villain who uses platinum rods *because* they are so expensive.

    • @colchronic
      @colchronic 4 года назад +2

      The US has a lot of depleted uranium sitting around

    • @remliqa
      @remliqa 4 года назад +1

      @@colchronic
      What is the melting point of Uranium? Can a DU rod survive the reentry heat?

    • @jeffneinenstein5923
      @jeffneinenstein5923 4 года назад +1

      Actually, Tungsten is rare and expensive, but durable and tough. So it’s still tough to get, but nowhere near as expensive as the metals you mentioned.

  • @siennaarcher838
    @siennaarcher838 4 года назад +78

    I love how Kyle started against the super villain thing and was like WFT, now he has just accepted thats what the internet has chosen to be his fate

    • @becausescience
      @becausescience  4 года назад +28

      Know your audience I guess -- kH

    • @mitchellpatterson1829
      @mitchellpatterson1829 4 года назад

      @@becausescience Perhaps your audience should know you? Within reason of course.

    • @thegreywardenherald8923
      @thegreywardenherald8923 4 года назад +6

      @@becausescience You're only a villain if you lose, remember...history is written by the victor.

    • @shashank.k2509
      @shashank.k2509 4 года назад +1

      @@carloauditor von doom 😈

    • @stefansamuels8605
      @stefansamuels8605 4 года назад

      Carlos Omar Pineda Colorado 😂🤣

  • @brettpearson9979
    @brettpearson9979 4 года назад +19

    He said “knowing is half the battle”
    I say “ Yo Joe”

    • @samijacquin8814
      @samijacquin8814 4 года назад +1

      who's joe ?

    • @brettpearson9979
      @brettpearson9979 4 года назад +2

      Sami Gabriel Jacquin he is my imaginary friend, that’s kind almost right. I love him to death, particularly when he says “knowing is half the battle”.
      Have you ever tried DMT?
      Now you know.

    • @samijacquin8814
      @samijacquin8814 4 года назад +2

      @@brettpearson9979 joe mama ....

    • @jordanranstead3016
      @jordanranstead3016 4 года назад

      Sami Gabriel Jacquin Ill say it, JOE MAMA

    • @samijacquin8814
      @samijacquin8814 4 года назад

      @@jordanranstead3016 thank you

  • @scorpionf1504
    @scorpionf1504 4 года назад

    Bullet analogy was spot on. I grew up shooting black powder(round ball) and rifles.

  • @joecross5335
    @joecross5335 4 года назад +7

    Hey Kyle. Love the show.
    Two additional drawbacks to project Thor:
    1. Once you build it, and get it up in orbit you have to maintain that orbit forever. If the orbit ever degrades, you drop all the rods on wherever it would fall. That would be a lot of energy.
    2. I don't think a "Rod from God" would impart nearly as much energy as it has. Though it contains roughly as much kinetic energy as the MOAB you showed on screen, I think most of that energy would be spent burying the rod deep underground (not in an explosion.) Given that the mass and velocity of the rod is so high, I think it would just punch clean through the target, akin to a bullet through paper. So, while the energy is high, it could be possible to be not very far from the impact site and be relatively unharmed.
    Additionally, you mentioned Project Thor would be "prohibitively expensive." I did some research to flesh that out a little more.
    2018 Price of Tungsten $30,300.00 /metric ton
    $30.30 /kg

    Volume of Rod 0.4 m^3
    Weight/Cubic meter 19250 kg
    Weight of single rod 7700 kg
    Cost of single Rod $233,310.00
    Number of Rods / Station 70
    Cost of Rods in station $16,331,700.00

    Weight of rods in station 539,000.00 kg
    Cost per kg - Falcon Heavy $1,700.00 /kg
    Cost of lifting rods into space $916,300,000.00

    Total cost of rods - Less manufacturing $932,631,700.00

    Cost of station - Half of ISS $75,000,000,000.00

    Total cost $75,932,631,700.00
    Cost of a battleship $100,000,000.00
    Cost of Project Thor:
    760 battleships
    (Accountants can be super nerds, too.)

    • @TheSpiritombsableye
      @TheSpiritombsableye 4 года назад +1

      This post better make into Friday's recap.

    • @BeingFireRetardant
      @BeingFireRetardant 4 года назад +1

      _______
      Add a couple billion just because it's government funded, so therefore 'fat'.
      (The CIA, etc. need mission money from somewhere, cough, NASA budgets)
      Also, shot placement is the overarching criteria to the entire endeavor. All of it is for naught if said rod cannot do the kinetic energy dump Precisely On Target. So there's that whole unbeatable guidance system to be perfected.
      However, the 'unshootdownable' characteristics of the cylinder make it very attractive.
      Now it's a cinderblock dropped from an overpass into the windshield of whoever's pissed off the Pentagon that week. But therein lies the rub... say somehow that infrastructure is in place, and the weapon system is viable, how does that then not become the new arms race? Especially since there is no fallout. All the times a nation wanted to nuke but didn't for political and MAD reasons?
      Now they could. Call it surgical. Essentially a 'tactical nuke' with no repercussions lasting generations.
      I imagine, by generation 3, it would be able to hit HVTs in moving vehicle convoys no problem. Plausible deniability is gone, but target destruction is 100% certain.
      And the world is held hostage. THIS is what Captain America fought against, Fury!
      Just kidding. Hail Hydra...

  • @07TXTL
    @07TXTL 4 года назад +20

    Can we just take a minute to thank for these dark mode videos, they save tonnes of battery

  • @anthonydelgado2017
    @anthonydelgado2017 4 года назад +2

    You guys should do one on how much pressure would it actually take to use a force choke like with pressurized air or something idk I’m just interested in it if it could somehow be done.

  • @redleg1971
    @redleg1971 2 года назад +2

    Jerry Pournelle teamed with sci-fi author Larry Niven to write several successful books. One of these books, FOOTFALL, actually features an alien race using kinetic energy weapons against the forces of Earth in an invasion attempt. Footfall also features the Earth Forces using another theoretical device known as Project Orion, which theorizes using nukes to launch ships into space, and then using them as a type of propulsion once in outer space. It's a cool book!

  • @olahisawsome
    @olahisawsome 4 года назад +30

    This makes sense that the person he's talking to would be him self. Its The only person you can trust

  • @michaelc8295
    @michaelc8295 4 года назад +6

    "Oh, you're still here?"
    Because Science is like MCU movies; you should ALWAYS stay until the very end. It may just be everyone eating shawarma, or Kyle crawling under his desk, but it's worth the wait.

  • @aneophyte1199
    @aneophyte1199 4 года назад

    When I read about this concept in one of Pournelle's book (There Will Be War series), it was called "Thor's Hammer".

  • @tzarzinjo3766
    @tzarzinjo3766 3 года назад +2

    I remember these in Tom Clancy's Endwar

  • @thekraden04
    @thekraden04 4 года назад +8

    I was really hoping Sci-Kyle would say, "k, love you" and Vil-Kyle would answer back with something like, "love you too. Yes, I'll pick up bread on the way home".

  • @clamnuts72
    @clamnuts72 4 года назад +111

    Hey Kyle , mother of all bombs is just the nickname for MOAB the acronym actually stands for massive ordnance air burst. They detonate above the ground more like an atomic bomb than the rods from god. Where a rod uses kinetic energy from impact, I believe the MOAB and nuclear bombs use the stacking up of blast waves to increase their power. This is something scientists studied after the Halifax explosion during WW1. Thanks Kyle love the show been a long time fan. Remember a villain can be a hero from a certain point of view. Have fun buddy from a friendly Canadian eh.

    • @garret1930
      @garret1930 4 года назад +10

      Kinda cool that Canada has the wierd distinction of having held the world's largest non nuclear, manmade, explosion. And subsequently that caused the invention of brail.

    • @BrianCooperpiece
      @BrianCooperpiece 4 года назад

      From a certain point of view????????
      :p

    • @tomb66
      @tomb66 4 года назад +15

      Let's face it, they probably came up with "Mother Of All Bombs" first, and then came up with the technical designation to provide the desired acronym.

    • @boygarcia5821
      @boygarcia5821 4 года назад +1

      That's why he did the " " sign

    • @ServantofBaal
      @ServantofBaal 4 года назад +2

      I'm having trouble wrapping my head around what you mean by 'stacking up of blast waves to increase their power', and how it's relevant to MOABs and nukes

  • @zawsrdtygbhjimokpl6998
    @zawsrdtygbhjimokpl6998 2 года назад +1

    in a webnovel (lvl 1 skeleton warrior or something like that), a fellow wanted some godly robot dead, but couldn't even scratch it. This fellow had an indestructible sword, but still not enough, so he flew up, put the sword in a levitation field, then kept buffing it to increase its mass. Released the levitation field and flew downwards along the sword to the target, adjusting its trajectory. Upon impact, the robot was instakilled

  • @simon5143
    @simon5143 4 года назад +3

    I genuinely thought it would have been a great idea to use these against Godzilla in the movies. Nuclear warheads was proved useless against them due to them just absorbing the energy from it, but they are not immune against physical damage. And because of how large and easy to track they should’ve been really simple to hit.
    And time was not the problem, the US army had known about Godzilla since the 80s and warheads had already been tested on it and proved futile.

  • @ShadowLynx777
    @ShadowLynx777 4 года назад +58

    Wait, so the "agency" he calls is also Kyle. Is it a clone? Is it a timey wimey thing where that's the same Kyle but at a different time? Is it a multiverse thing like all the Ricks in the Citadel of Ricks? Is it a quantum thing where as all possibilities of Kyle all exist in the void at the same time? Is it that all of Kyle's alien species just look a lot like him and our optical receptors aren't advanced enough to tell his species apart?

    • @alexixeno4223
      @alexixeno4223 4 года назад +13

      I personally think the void has just made multiple kyles. I mean remember that ep. where he died multiple times (all because he kept wearing a red shirt...)

    • @aliruiz6457
      @aliruiz6457 4 года назад

      @@alexixeno4223 which episode was that? O:

    • @eddokter
      @eddokter 4 года назад +2

      Maybe Kyle in the void is simply suffering from isolation related mental issues and inventing other personalities to keep his mind intact. But one went off.

    • @jonfilippone2685
      @jonfilippone2685 4 года назад +1

      Kyle's just another member of the illuminati, why? Because science...

    • @levi1929
      @levi1929 4 года назад +2

      Ok, inside a void I can see that time wouldn’t exist. Time happens (I think) as a function of matter curving space. So, if Kyle doesn’t have mass, his void exists outside of space time, and therefore all of his thoughts and actions would happen simultaneously to an outside observer. Right? Or are we screwing it all up by watching it?

  • @WwZa7
    @WwZa7 4 года назад +356

    We had *MUSK* et balls, and now we have *ELON* gated bullets.

    • @clampmotosua1789
      @clampmotosua1789 4 года назад +5

      In less than five years you'll realize how overhyped that man is. From what I've heard eletric cars will hurt the environment more due to the HIGHLY toxic chemicals the batteries use. Plus they have to be replaced almost as often as your phone's battery.

    • @WwZa7
      @WwZa7 4 года назад +9

      @@clampmotosua1789
      I don't have to care what will be in 5 years, at most in half of a year. Let me enjoy Elon Musk memes for the time being.

    • @clampmotosua1789
      @clampmotosua1789 4 года назад +1

      @@WwZa7 lol I'd rather enjoy the alex Jones doom memes. Check out thunderfoots videos. Elon is just a brilliant business man. Not a scientist.

    • @WwZa7
      @WwZa7 4 года назад +3

      @@clampmotosua1789
      Don't know who Alex Jones is, ill look it up.
      I know Elon is not scientist, but he is still smart guy pushing innovation. And he is quite meme-friendly.

    • @clampmotosua1789
      @clampmotosua1789 4 года назад +1

      @@WwZa7 Alex Jones is from info wars. Honestly I only care about his memes. Thunderfoot is a nuclear physicists who breaks down inaccurate scientific products like the hyper tube and solar roadways. ruclips.net/video/L9-T9c44zxs/видео.html

  • @capsbr2100
    @capsbr2100 4 года назад +1

    Thank you so much for labeling your measures also as SI (International System of Units) for compatibility with 98.46% of the world.

  • @Axileoni
    @Axileoni 4 года назад +2

    4:51 carbon sublimes at a temperature higher than tungsten's melting point in atmospheric pressure.
    Technically tungsten has the highest melting point of any element in 1bar, but carbon remains solid at higher temperatures.

  • @kennethpeterson7524
    @kennethpeterson7524 4 года назад +20

    A telephone pole sized rod is a blockbuster. A crowbar sized one is a bunker buster.
    Variety is the spice of life

    • @marvinnation
      @marvinnation 4 года назад +16

      A blockbuster? That explains why they don't exist.

    • @jonathanwaters206
      @jonathanwaters206 4 года назад +1

      @@marvinnation ouch

    • @charlespickering2726
      @charlespickering2726 4 года назад

      I sort of assume the crowbar sized ones probably are already up there in some sat. There is also that new nasa space plan that has just been lurking around for a while which would make a pretty good vehicle for carrying a load of crowbars of this kind and popping them out wherever needed.

    • @holderheck
      @holderheck 4 года назад +1

      Yes but actually no, you need at least a few kgs of mass or it just burns up before hitting the ground.

    • @kennethpeterson7524
      @kennethpeterson7524 4 года назад

      @@holderheck tungsten is pretty dense. IF a crowbar sized rod wasn't enough, you wouldn't have to scale it up too much.

  • @charlescochran5103
    @charlescochran5103 4 года назад +35

    Prohibitively expensive you say? Time to start mining some space rocks.

    • @robertkeller9969
      @robertkeller9969 4 года назад +1

      Wouldn't it be just as expensive to get the funding to mine space rocks?

    • @Yora21
      @Yora21 4 года назад +3

      Babylon 5 has an invasion in which the attackers collect a bunch of asteroids to bombard their enemy's homeworld into rubble.

    • @TheUserid82
      @TheUserid82 4 года назад +1

      @@robertkeller9969 It is only expensive if you wish it to be fast as speed is costs. You can use a collection mirror array and a redirect mirror to turn sunlight into movement of the target as long as you don't care it will take years to get it to the needed spot but you never need to touch it and once on path you can swap to the next target to move.
      Move the target to a Lagrange point and it becomes very economical to mine as that is the point you would want materials anyway or put it in orbit around the Earth as a temporary moon if you want to drop materials to the surface or create infrastructure in orbit.

    • @charlescochran5103
      @charlescochran5103 4 года назад +3

      @@robertkeller9969 In reality, if you can get to space, almost any hunk of metal that is enclosed enough for air will work as a space ship. Then all you need are some miners (whether human/robot/machine) and fabricators. Once that is established then you can begin working in space and build it up.

    • @sth128
      @sth128 4 года назад

      @@charlescochran5103 in reality if you have the ability to get into space and turn hunks of metal into spaceships capable of manufacturing orbital weapon systems?
      ... You wouldn't need to. Your ability to manufacture ground based weapons will be much superior.
      All things being equal, it is far easier to build stuff on Earth than it is to build in space.

  • @user-1281
    @user-1281 4 года назад +2

    9:14 Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies

    • @starforcestelar
      @starforcestelar 4 года назад

      That only applies to super weapons such as nukes and military bases

  • @kirkbolas4985
    @kirkbolas4985 4 года назад

    I never noticed before that the drag equation is essential the same as the equation for kinetic energy. The mass term in the Ke equation is replaced to account the a variable vector and included the drag coefficient. The result appears to be energy lost to friction as a projectile passes through a media like air.

  • @austinhoward6557
    @austinhoward6557 4 года назад +6

    I love the idea that there are at LEAST two Kyle's and the one from footnotes has been commanding the Kyle of the Void to Orbital Strike people

  • @arthurhenrique4380
    @arthurhenrique4380 4 года назад +141

    I tought it was project Odin.
    Edit:I was thinking on Call of Duty Ghosts.

    • @perfectstranger1152
      @perfectstranger1152 4 года назад +21

      I feel as though in the only person that loved that game. The gunplay was my favorite outta all of them

    • @arthurhenrique4380
      @arthurhenrique4380 4 года назад +7

      I remember playing and it was so good.

    • @zeekiez
      @zeekiez 4 года назад +9

      Or Project Zeus (G.I. Joe Rise of Cobra)

    • @toneoftones7053
      @toneoftones7053 4 года назад +5

      Me too! The campaign was awesome!

    • @kratos_respawned
      @kratos_respawned 4 года назад +4

      Yup same here

  • @gamerx112
    @gamerx112 3 года назад

    I think this will be the only video I watch from here.

  • @93izak
    @93izak 4 года назад +17

    Speaking of Thor, he always reminds me to to Marvels Thor
    Because the beard and blond hair mostly

  • @asdrubalvect6328
    @asdrubalvect6328 4 года назад +21

    "Oh we don't launch it or fire it."
    "WE DROP IT!"

  • @MAJ0ROCEL0T
    @MAJ0ROCEL0T 4 года назад +6

    This needs to become canon. That only evil Kyle shows up for Footnotes and Live but the regular show is good Kyle

  • @blakehatfield384
    @blakehatfield384 Год назад +4

    If I was named Pornell I would also become a supervillain

  • @matthewmoser1284
    @matthewmoser1284 4 года назад +3

    It's also very hard to stop or deflect one from its course. You can try jamming the guidance signal of course, but you cant intercept it or blow it out of the sky like a conventional missile.

    • @dgd947a15fl
      @dgd947a15fl 2 года назад

      Hence why it's unrealistic, because it presumes such a platform wouldn't immediately be destroyed by whoever you would be using it on. Satellites are surprisingly delicate. If your enemy is not technologically advanced enough to shoot them down, then you probably don't need to go through to effort of building a space station full of tungsten arrows to do what you could with an ICBM.

  • @DerFauleHund
    @DerFauleHund 4 года назад +79

    Big metal rods that pierce through everything? *cheers in yondu*

  • @PhilBoswell
    @PhilBoswell 4 года назад +19

    "Rated M for Mature"
    I think we can see just how mature Evil!Kyle is, oh yes…

  • @robmiller5818
    @robmiller5818 4 года назад

    When I was in high school, in 89 or 90, I played a table top game called centurion. This game was a future ground combat game, and one of the things available to a player was..you guessed it, a thor satellite strike. It used 10m depleted uranium tipped unpowered rods that had their own terminal guidance to seek targets.

  • @raydunakin
    @raydunakin Год назад

    How small could the rods be and still provide sufficient mass and velocity to do some serious damage?

  • @TheMegazonyx
    @TheMegazonyx 4 года назад +15

    Remember when railgun were also impractible and topsecret?
    Looks like when it got researched on, it got practible...
    So... Murphy's Law?

    • @TheMegazonyx
      @TheMegazonyx 4 года назад

      @cak01vej You... Just did...

  • @SgtImrak93
    @SgtImrak93 4 года назад +10

    Thor talking about Project: Thor
    I see what you did there.

  • @johnwilson4909
    @johnwilson4909 3 года назад +1

    Kyle, could a rail gun accelerate a shaped billet of tungsten to an altitude where it could be recovered and added to an orbital battery of like armaments? Or could a stock booster perform the same function?

  • @Wisconsin.pikachu
    @Wisconsin.pikachu 3 года назад +2

    I remember reading about this in middle school in the early 2000s I wonder if it will ever actually be made