How Iceman Is Actually a Bomb! (Because Science w/ Kyle Hill)
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Iceman is obviously known for his freezing powers, but to actually do it in real life, he would be more like a bomb! How is that possible? Kyle explains on this week’s Because Science!
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Kyle needs to write his own comic book with super humans that have really interesting yet scientifically possible abilities. I bet he could come up with some amazing shit.
+Crimsonphilic Damn that's a good idea! -- KH
Agreed!
+Crimsonphilic THIS 100% THIS
+Crimsonphilic I fully support this! :-)
+Crimsonphilic That or be introduced to Grant Morrison.
This has quickly become one of my favorite series on RUclips.
+ADunc10 Thank you so much! -- KH
same
+ADunc10 hell yeah!
aggreed
DJ Sawtooth I could never do that.
Your ability to write backwards is a mutant power on its own
+Cameron Haynes I had a high-school teacher who could right with both hands simultaneously; one going forwards and one going backwards; one writing in English, one writing in Arabic. I've never seen anything like it before or since.
+Chris V wish i had a teacher like that
+Cameron Haynes I don't think he does. You can see his pocket switches sides throughout the video. I think they are flipping the video.
+Keller Davis wow good eye!
+Cameron Haynes Actually he can only write backwards, it's a rare condition called scribens retrorsum.
it also means that when he transforms back he drans that much energy arround him, probably freezing everyone nearby
tiger of the sky!! Or accidently encasing himself in a shell of ice. Then he'd have to either transform back to ice form to thaw out or have someone break him out.
tiger of the sky!! I was thinking the same thing. The surrounding area would freeze because of the heat needed to turn his body to 98.6
tiger of the sky!! i think thats One use of his powers, to freeze everything around him by absorbing all the heat and energy on the sorroundings
So if he froze himself in ice transforming back, and he had to release that energy to transform into Ice man, wouldn't it mean that when he wasn't flying around as Iceman we could just be dormant in ice? Almost like a curse.
An easy fix for this is if the comic writers explained that Iceman manipulates moister and also lowers the specific that of liquid he is manipulating
I read somewhere that Ice mans powers go way beyond just freezing shit that he literally controls temperature and molecular movement
Cam Bolten That's true.
Iceman has always been the coolest mutant, he even created and piloted a gigantic ice Voltron to fight giant monsters.
That pun..
Grammar Nazi Haha, better for you to catch that pun than any grammatical errors.
That hat...
... really _is_ amazing!
+GuyWithAnAmazingHat coolest haha
@@AstraIVagabond the legend still has the name
Is this why the X-Mansion has burned down so many times
That builds character
+Raven R I understood that reference!
+Aaron Barrantes do you want a cookie
+The Deadpool. I would like one chocolate chip please
+TiQuez Graham aww sorry we dont have those. we have peanut butter cookies through
Frozone:"Where's my supersuit?!"Wife:"It doesn't exist"
Luke Denham i had to read it again because I thought it said “wife doesn’t exist”
Nah edna just made one immune to 41,000K+
So you're saying Elsa is implausible too? Whoa.
Not implausible, but potentially dangerous within a certain range.
+Frank Mitchell and Killer Frost too? D:
+williamcat Killer Frost does the opposite. She freezes targets by absorbing their heat. The original complained of feeling cold herself and drained heat to stay warm. Where she was losing all her body's heat to would be worth exploring.
guys, thats magic, it is not influenced by physics, i mean.... she can crete life out of nowere!
***** Yeah, but Leo is sort of right. Her powers are based on magic, which we cannot properly measure scientifically because fantasy style magic like hers is nonexistent (sadly); but, I'm pretty sure her powers would still have to obey the laws of physics in some manner.
That is cool, get it cool?
I should go now
Jarle Patrick Nielsen Bye now.
I always thought Iceman was freezing the water in the air when he's making the ramps. I don't remember if it was the comics or one of the old cartoons but when he was in places where it was really hot and not very humid his powers didn't work very well
That was the incredibles ;)
"I'm the greatest good you're ever gonna get!
*****
this was long before Incredible came out
+ranwolf76 Humidity can also decline in very cold temperatures since the water in the air is already frozen.
hence why I don't think his ice rocket theory is accurate
I always thought the stuff appearing to "come out" of his hands was just a visual indicator of his powers, I never really took it as him literally throwing ice
Is it me or does Kyle look like a younger Chris Hemsworth?
Frost Soul come to think of it, yeah he does
Frost Soul m8.. why do you think people are calling him thor in the comments -,-
ObjeQ I didn't read the comments
Frost Soul k read some of his popular vids comments its all about "Thor explaining science"
ObjeQ hahahahha
I think i've fallen in love with your hair... i might not be as straight as i thought.. oh well..
+thom Lamaness You just do you dawg -- KH
you can do me if you'd like :) "dawg" haha btw thanks for replying
okay so i'm not the only one that likes him xD
+thom Lamaness he looks like Thor, OF COURSE you're not the only one, wtf snowflake? Did you reeealllly thought you were the only person in the world to like a tall, pretty-faced, skinny/lean, with blond and luscious hair, and above all very smart dude???
i really appreciate being called snowflake omg :O maybe one day he will call me snowflake too xD and jesus christ if he is hot
Kyle is reinventing super heroes lore. Actually, I pick lots of his explanations as ideas for my stories. For instance, the only way to defeat a super villain Iceman-like would be to actually push him to go full powers on... dude would burn himself out before becoming an ice popsickle.
Ant-man creating a black hole while going subatomic is another awesome possibility. The villain would send himself into another part of the universe, if only he would not be crushed by the black hole itself.
Thanks, Kyle, for all of those episodes ! I'm a fan. :)
I love what you do, continue :-)
Can you do an episode about one of many of those propositions:
-how the hair control of Medusa works ?
-how the power of Nitro works (he can blow up without disapear) and how much he's powerful ?
-how the power of Magneto works ?
-how the power of Mistic works ?
-how the spider-sense of Spider-Man works ? (this is maybe impossible because this is precognition)
your videos are awesome dude, they're so fun and I love seeing the science behind super hero powers and characters. your hair is beautiful by the way
I think it would be cool if they implemented the real consequences of Iceman's powers in a comic or two. I think I'd be a rad arc to follow!
yup
I greatly enjoyed "The Physics of Superheroes" by James Kakalios and "The Science of Superheroes" by Gresh & Weinberg. This series that Kyle's running seems much the same vein and keeps it lighthearted while dissecting the portrayals in our entertainment. Good fun!
Though I was thinking that part of Iceman's mutation may be a storage "battery" in his body so he's not destroying everything around him when he uses his powers. Doesn't take away from the scientific aspect; just fits with the effects shown in the comics.
His "It's cool to me *shoulder shrug* at the end is adorable to me lol
its crazy how much u can learn when you're high
First things first, when Iceman makes an ice slide, he's not shooting ice as a projectile, he's shooting a beam of "cold" that is condensing ice at the target location, so there is no mass movement between his fingers and feet, the ice is created at his foot level and all that passes in between is a projected "cold wave" of energy.
Second, why doesn't Iceman explode with the heat of the sun? Where does he even get the energy to initiate the change? Like most mutants, it's likely an extra-dimensional property. When Iceman generates coldness, no heat is exchanged at all, at least in our universe. The only explanation for this is that he must be drawing cold, and expelling heat into some alternate universe, perhaps one with completely different physical laws, or one with an overabundance of cold (like ours would be trillions of years from now).
Perhaps Iceman's existence would be like a sun for some dying universe, into which he intermittently fires jets of solar flame, or perhaps he is some malevolent force there, repeatedly blasting some alternate but otherwise identical Earth with massive jets of flame that wipes out cities each time he feels like cooling a drink, leaving the eastern seaboard a charred hellscape (since that's where he spends most of his time).
+Tim Ogul that implies that iceman increasing the speed of the slow heat death of the universe. By removing the energy of atoms and sending them else wear.
+Deadi22
True, although likely to a degree that is completely insignificant on a universal scale, like shaving a few milliseconds off the trillions of years we have left. On a much more local scale though, he would be combating global warming. A day of fighting villains might be the equivalent of taking thousands of cars off the roads! One the other hand, there are plenty of other heroes that do spontaneously generate heat (likely from other dimensions still), and they would be raising the Earth's temperature. Really, since there seem to be more of these, it would stand to reason if global warming were a much bigger problem in the comic universes than in the real world. Tons of heat being produced from outside our ecosystem.
Tim Ogul not saying its by a lot just saying he is.
+Tim Ogul Its also possible that he is storing that energy in some form, because if he was simply shunting heat off into another dimension to transform into his ice form, he would need to pull in a huge amount of heat from the surrounding environment to change back, which he clearly doesn't do.
+conduit64
Well, he'd probably be drawing heat from where he left it, but remember that as a whole he'd be creating more ice than he melts, since he turns himself into ice and then back again (which is more than just freezing his body, he actually converts his atoms, and even clothing, into solid water, which is a whole different bag of worms), but most of the time he is just covering things with ice, reducing their temperature, creating ice objects and expelling them, etc. He never returns those things to their original temperature, they have to melt naturally.
I look forward to the because science videos all week. lol Kyle's awesome
This was actually something I asked my Physics teacher back in 1977. He gave me pretty much the same answer.
I already thought about how cold is only an absence of heat... So if you wanted to have the super power of freezing things you wouldn't throw a ball of ice at the target, you'd suck the heat out of the target leaving it cold.
However, now that you've absorbed all that excess heat you could focus and channel it back at the original target and blast it into pieces with a powerful fire ball.
In essence you'd have the power to freeze and burn things, as long as you always freeze something first.
Todoroki
I hope you guys realize what happens in IceMan's environment once he needs to go back to normal.
The Implosion Bomb.
Heat implosion would freeze anyone near by and fracture solids as they contract
Sebastian MacCormick
Ooooooh!! True! Uneven rapid cooling would cause fracturing in at least _some_ materials. I guess there goes all glass!
If only all science teachers were like you, I'd definitely pay more attention in chemistry class back in the day.
Keep it up guys. I really enjoy it although i can't understand things at times but your vids are extremely entertaining.
Actually laughed really hard at the end "Ice...rocket..man."😂
Based on all of the science-ing done in this video (and elsewhere) I would like to propose the idea that iceman's actual power is only mainly manifested in the form of ice because that is what he first identified with; Iceman's real power (and the means by which he actually sculpts things, creates structures and directs freezing water) is near-absolute and virtually unconscious control over a strange combination of the strong, weak, and electromagnetic forces (and maybe even a bit of gravity), thereby allowing him to disperse temperature and pressure as he sees fit. This is the only explanation for how he can freeze himself without killing people who are standing right beside him and how he seems to be propelled along without a problem while ice surfing. This would also allow him to do cheesy things like create an ice rose or freeze parts of his body without freezing the whole thing.
For example: Ice surfing -> While creating a "blast" of ice may seem intuitively like it would propel him backwards, quite the opposite would be needed to keep him standing still i.e. a carefully controlled blast of heat in the opposite direction. He is actually not creating a blast of ice, but instead creating exceptionally well-disguised electromagnetic fields while simultaneously creating directed side-by-side streams of low/high pressure atmosphere with carefully controlled temperatures, which could both rapidly condense moisture from the air and do so in a manner that would rapidly cool the moisture while en-route (via pre determined "pathways and channels") to its final destination.
Example 2: as with the previously mentioned ability to control micro-atmospheric conditions in batches and waves on a molecular level, Iceman can freeze himself very quickly without dismembering/disintegrating everyone around him by (again, very intuitively and virtually unconsciously) directing the resulting energy into various directions and/or wavelengths. Chances are pretty good that he is unknowingly converting heat into other wavelengths of energy on either end of the scale. If there was not a very noticeable blast of heat or direct transfer to kinetic energy when he freezes himself or anything else, I'd put my full faith in being able to hear his resonance on AM/FM radio, him showing up on the gamma ray detector, or both. Maybe he can cook a gas station burrito with microwaves from his hand and doesn't even know it yet.
This is all theoretically supported by the lore including his Thermal Vision powers and how his cryokinesis is specifically "at-will, with a thought" and "limited only by his imagination".
The biggest supporting evidence of the aforementioned scientific explanations is Bobby's ability to "evaporate someone into nothingness as well as COMPLETELY REVERSE THE PROCESS" allowing him to essentially teleport himself or others. There is also the specific reference to having such a vast level of control on a molecular level that he bends chemical reactions to his whim which allows him to render certain mutants/superhumans literally powerless. He could easily make magneto and storm both look like amateurs using powers that appear identical to their own.
Lastly, if all else fails to explain Iceman's abilities, even though Marvel lore specifically states that he can go exactly to absolute zero, we may have to infer that he is capable of manipulating temperatures to below absolute zero, putting molecules into a state where they absorb ALL nearby energy from both higher and lower states. I swear it's a science thing, look it up. This would effectively make him able to be both colder than absolute zero and hotter than infinity which is why he is classified as an Omega level mutant as opposed to other thermal-type mutants. TAKE THAT, HUMAN TORCH AND PYRO!!!
Nice write-up, Adam. All that and more are why he's my favorite omega-level mutant.
soo, marvel kinda covered how iceman's powers work when they deemed him omega level. and it actually has nothing to do with temperature. iceman controls molecular speeds. he freezes things not by chilling them, but by slowing the molecules down.
+Why not Dean except it's not . . . Marvel has stated his powers literally have nothing to do with temperature. zero. none. let me reiterate that one more time for you. does not directly effect the temperature. his ice is a side effect if his power slowing the movement of molecules, water to be exact. now, let me explain why this is important and different for you. because iceman is effecting reality of the atomic level and not simply changing the temperature if the area where he's wants ice this wonderful bomb hypothesis doesnt pan out. this video was created assuming all Bobby Drake does is supercool the water molecules to make water freeze, but he's doing so much more. and more, he limits himself to existing water molecules, the real power of Bobby drake comes when he's making large quantities of ice where there simply isn't the water molecules to support it, because then he's coaxing hydrogen and oxygen to bond and then slowing it's movement to near zero.
+Why not Dean are you actually physically that stupid? let me spell it out for you. one. more. time. Marvel has stated that Bobby Drake's powers have no effect on the temperature. that means his ice IS NOT COLD. Fuck are you that stupid? Christ, go fucking read the comics. until you can manage that little challenge you have no place commenting.
+Why not Dean bro you're still not fucking getting it. at all. please stop before you infect the rest of us. Bobby Drake is an omega level power. take everything you're saying and stop. just stop. because everything you're saying is wrong. because HE'S AN OMEGA LEVEL POWER. I'm telling you exactly how his powers work and you're just so fucking dense you aren't getting it. Bobby Drakes literally does not change the temperature around him, of anything, and isn't restricted to ice. Marvel has stated his powers work in a way that bends reality THATS WHY HE'S OMEGA LEVEL. Nothing you are saying matters, because you're trying to apply rules that Marvel has gone on record stating he fucking breaks. You. Are. A. Fucking. Idiot. Period.
this entire video is based on his powers instantaneously supercooling and that changing the phase of the water, except that not what Iceman is doing. because he's literally NOT CHANGING the temperature. He is stopping molecular movement while retaining the temperature of what he's changing. His ice is not cold, it is not water that froze because he lowered the temperature in order for it to change phase, there is ice because Bobby Drake wants there to be ice. period.
Omega Level: Reality Altering Power. Bobby Drake is so powerful he alters reality. You can not apply physics to an Omega Level power, that's why they're Omega level.
+ThisIsLudic
How would someone lower the temperature of something without slowing the molecules of it down?
All temperate is, is the measurement of how fast particles are moving. They're one in the same.
Thanks Kyle. I just now have to learn all that stuff for an upcomig exam, that was surprisingly helpful :D
This is the 1st RUclips video I've seen that definitively slays depiction of a mutant's power. I'm impressed!
Great video!
+Gadiel Lazcano Thank you so much! -- KH
Could you make a video on how the Force could actually work (I know you have lots of star wars vids) because I´ve heard there could be a slight chance people could actually manipulate objects with the mind and not using milichlorians
Telekinesis again. ._.
Did they do one?
telekinesis is fake 0_0
+Tes_StunO198 Ultimate_Killer no it's not. here's what you do.
shit tonne of shrooms
+Provader Nope.
Your serie is the only reason I subbed to this channel lol. Keep it up!
PS: Are you Thor? :o
Adds a whole new meaning to cold burns...
I think you, guys, missed a great opportunity to dress up Kyle as Elsa! hahahah And the braid would be natural! hahahah Just saying, hahahahah
oooo I see what you did there...
Fahrenheit. Really? REALLY?!
+Erik Akerberg We need Kelvin, cause of SCIENCE!
+Midnaroo Agreed
I assume the bulk of the viewers are american, like me. I wish we used metric.
90% of Science uses Kelvin. 9% of Science uses Kelvin/Celsius. American non-scientists use Fahrenheit. Like if you are one of them.
Zack McLean 100% of science use kelvin. That's why is known as part of International Measurements.
ahhh.....really enjoyed this episode....really forward for the next episode.thumbs up.
i found this series today and I already love it
is anybody notice he write backward( Mirror writing) ?
He probably doesn't.
I think he writes normally, then they mirror the image. :)
Jacob Birch Maybe ;)
+Animate ACE That or he possesses mad skills.
+Animate ACE you can tell they flip it... Look under his left eye (our right side) there is a spot or blemish... it flips to the other side when he is writing... same with his pocket.
+Animate ACE he is like DaVinci, maybe that's why he won't cut his hair :-P
I thought this was about kimi raikonnen
no one watch F1 here dude but good try.
you deserve more viewers man this is where it's at
This is now my favorite RUclips channel
Duhhh, because science
+Provader you mean science? xD
I'm late gotta make a joke
Welcome to the ice AGE!!!!
Cool pun 😄
Damn you dinosaur killer!
love this channel a lot!
Love this guy. Informative and entertaining.
How do you write back words so well
He doesnt
He flips the screen
He does write backwards
look at the pocket on his shirt (e.g 4'12" when he doesn't have a pen vs 3'38" when he's writing something) => he mirrors the screen. However he doesn't always do it when he _draws_ because we don't care about a drawing being flipped, the problem is just for the writings
BECAUSE SCIENCE! ☝
+Rew Rose no he doesn't, he flips the screen
Do i hear EXPLOSION? Mr. Torgue aproves this xD.
I know you've done Human Torch + Spontaneous Combustion, but what about Firestorm, including transmutation, quantum splicing, and the fusing of physical forms? Thanks Kyle, love your videos!
Dude, you are awesome, just because you write with your
LEFT HAND
MIRRORED
AND
REVERTED
at the same time!
While talking and looking at the camera, doing funny faces!
THAT'S EPIC!
Fahrenheit is not a real unit of measure!
Look, people need to get this right. Celsius is used for science, that is why water freezes and boils at 0 and 100 degrees Celsius. Fahrenheit is what is alright for humans to live in. It is possible to live from 0 to 100 degrees Fahrenheit with the right clothes. And kelvin is based on absolute zero. Get it right m8
Fahrenheit is used for day-to-day temperature measurements by The United States of America, and maybe 700,000 other people. Mostly in places starting with "B".
Everybody else in the world uses Celsius.
So, of some 7.4 billion people, 319 million use Fahrenheit.
Of those 7 billion other people, how many are stumbling around baffled because they can't figure out whether or not they can survive outside with clothes?
+Captain Cupkakez Kelvin is used for science
°C isn't the measure for temp in science, good try though
+FlashSmash Correct, BUT celsius and kelvin have th same steps, +1°C = +1K so C is MUCH closer to K than F
+Captain Cupkakez I don't know where you got your data, but it is absolutely false. There are many places where people live and have lived that regularly get well below 0 degrees F and well above 100 degrees F. The 0 marker for F was determined by an equal mixture of salt (Ammonium Chloride) water and ice. This produces a slurry that stabilizes it's temperature to 0 F.
That being said, all units of measurement are arbitrary human constructs and are all equally as valid as each other. We could easily come up with a temperature scale that focuses on the freezing point and boiling point of alcohol, or the boiling point of lead. Consistency is all that matters in the end so metric elitists can go and get frostbite from turning their noses up all the way into the stratosphere for all I care.
please please please have Neil DeGrasse Tyson on for an episode or go visit him on star talk. that'd be awesome
I even wanted to use that in a story I wrote: she refills her batteries by cooling everything around her just some degrees (but constant)
Damn bro. I can't get enough because science. You need more vids lol
Post credit scenes ?.. Nice 👍
+Ashish Bijlani Hahaha it's a fun little thing. OH GOD IM MARVEL NOW -- KH
love this series
He doesn't freeze his body he creates a suit of ice armor. Much different.
"When he's normal iceman"
HIS NAME IS BOBBY DRAKE!!
About the ice slide.
I've always thought of it that when Iceman does his ice slide transportation thing, what's shooting out of his hands is like concentrated makes-stuff-colder-energy. And the comic explanation is that Iceman turns the moisture in the air around him to ice (thus he's kinda screwed in a desert or Hell.) So the energy from his hands is forming the air just in front of him into the ice slide. Sometimes he's shown to be running as he makes the slide, sometimes he's just sorta surfing along it. So I guess that he's basically forming a bridge in front of him as he goes, not shooting ice from hands that forms the bridge.
This is so cool!! Like, anyone who knows borderlands, it's like you've got a fire nova shield every time he changes to ice
What a chilling episode.
A fantasy book series I have read took this into account.
The main character (a wizard) occasionally freezes things by removing fire, not adding ice.
Kyle makes science fun and easy :-D
I think what I'm most impressed with is the correct pronunciation of Leicester.
KYLE!!!!! Please explain Metroid! Everything from how and why they absorb power. And Samus' suit. How dose the morph ball work, why doesn't the power bomb hurt her, and does she have an A.I. with her? How is she able to maintenance it if shes constantly moving and fighting. Also how does the wave beam work? I think this would be a great episode for you to do. :-)
was not ready for Cobra Commander at 1:58
ICeman is my fav. super hero. Thank you for this!
He's powers are thermokenetics. Like telekenetic but with heat so he expels the heat out of his body. Considering he used to only change into a snow man I guess he learned to do it in a safe way to not harm anyone. Also this series is verry cool watching everything in 1 sitting right now :P
Iceman doesn't throw ice beams out of his hands, he manipulates the humidity in the atmosphere so he can transform thin air into ice. So, he doesn't throw the ice, he just makes it appear in front of him.
In the last book of the "Time's Arrow" trilogy a point is made that Iceman's power at its most basic is the ability to slow molecular motion thus reducing the heat energy contained in a system. I'm not sure if this is canon or how it effects this episodes analysis but I always thought it was interesting. these books also bring up how different environments effect his powers. In a rain forest there's plenty of humidity but too much heat for his ice constructs to last. In the Arctic there's almost no moisture in the air for him to use (until Volcana melts most of a glacier). Similarly in a space station the atmospheric control system keeps the humidity so low that he has to use water from his body to make ice, dehydrating himself until the station is damaged enough the system fails.
icemans ability is heat absorbtion and water control. Also, while somewhat paradoxically, the hotter and more moist, the more powerful, yet less practical his powers become. Read this in a marvel novel a while ago.
That ending xD Oh my god you're tearing me apart. xD
+Nerdist Great vid dude!
Though, speaking of superpowers, I have always wondered how the absorption and expulsion/manifestation of Conduit powers in inFAMOUS works. Most specifically, powers of pure elements, such as neon or even phosphorous. (the element I hypothesize is used for smoke).
Nice channel! My physics is pretty rusty after 10+ years, but I think the analysis omits consideration of the Carnot cycle. This appears to be just the amount of thermal energy present in the initial state that would need to be released, but does not consider the additional amount of work that would have to be done to the system to extract that thermal energy (per 2nd law of thermodynamics). Presumably this would come from Iceman's own metabolism, but would still result in additional thermal output. If you model Iceman as an ideal Carnot refrigerator you could get a more accurate, significantly higher estimate of the minimum energy that would be released.
awesome video, although before I clicked on it. The title I just thought how ice can expand mass but it's fun to be nerdy!!
That whole last bit - the "ice roses on a desk for a girl that he liked" - I know it probably wasn't intentional, but the voice used there would pass as a killer John Travolta in Pulp Fiction impression.
my favourite theory is that all mutants draw and store power for their abilities from some kind of 'equilibrium' field or other dimension. This could be a natural occuring thing, some kind of extradimensional field or particle system that is able to store enormous amounts of energy, and mutants gain acess to it by some evolutionary effect or the other, or it is a specifically mutant created thing that stores the energy of mutant's like iceman which have to rapidly get rid of a lot of it (everything with freezing, crystalizing, draining or kinetic absortion powers, etc) and makes it usable in some raw form for guys like cyclops and pyro. This'd be actually way plausible in universe, but i sadly can't find the blogpost talking about it anymore :(
Kyle could you please do a video on how Samus arans screw attack works I love your video and this would be an awesome birthday present for me
Ice rocket man
Burnin' out his fuse up here alone
I would have a beer with this guy without hesitation.
I was hoping you were going to say he keeps the power stored up in his body and every time he uses his ice-power he is absorbing heat and simultaneously condensing water to an area, which would mean he is absorbing a lot of heat to do this, or using a lot of heat to use his power to begin with. Afterall heat is energy, you need energy to use a power. Well to condense water you'd need heat, but to just pull heat from things you be sucking it away. Meaning he has a lot of potential energy, like a bit capacitor/battery.
Iceman usually starts running and then creates an ice-slide in front of him, his forward momentum allows him to slide on the ice he creates. When this momentum dissipates, he runs again for a short distance and then starts sliding again.
I'm always wiping my screen while I watch these videos
you know, in an old animated tv show with iceman he did not change into his ice form in a blink. he created an ice cube around himself, changed over several seconds and then broke the cube that melted instantly
Kyle always knows how to make me feel a lil smarter.
The idea behind iceman being able to "rocket" with his ice ability makes Frozone's use seem so much more practical while hes skating. Throws hand fulls of his ice ahead of him.
I beg your Pardon
This is why, in my writing, I did the elemental system differently. I have eight meta-elements: Solid, Liquid, Gas, Energy, Space, Mind, Darkness, Light. Elements like fire or Ice are not their own meta-element. They are formed from two or more meta-elements working together. To cast a fire spell you have to manipulate Gas, Energy, and Light, in particular using it to create an area of super-heated air that gives off heat and light (essentially a fire). To cast an ice spell, you would have to manipulate energy, liquid, and solid (because Ice is water, and water is a liquid at standard atmospheric pressure and temperature, the liquid element must be included to take into acount its tendency to use liquid). Alternatively, you could use an aspect of the Darkness element, entropy manipulation, in order to cause ice to form by causing the water to radiate away all of its heat.
If you want to manipulate ice in a certain shape, though (which is the only way it is truly useful in combat), you have to be able to manipulate both the crystaline aspect of it and the liquid aspect of it. Hence the sigil for Ice magic usually having mention of solid, liquid, and energy. In order to create cold, you have to either counteract the molecular motion of the particles using your own energy, or you have to take that energy out and put it somewhere else. Making enough cold can create ice if there is water around, but in order to then manipulate the shape of that ice in useful ways, you would need to be able to also manipulate solids and liquids.
Interestingly, the sigil for ice magic is no different from that for Lava magic and some other types, only in the case of lava, you're trying to turn rock into a liquid and make it super hot, and then manipulate it like a liquid. Someone who can effectively manipulate ice can also do the opposite and create magma.
Of course, if you're condensing water from the air to create that ice, you'll also need to manipulate it in gaseous form, so the sigil would change into a square in that case, and would no longer be similar to the sigil for lava magic. Performing that sort of a spell is much more difficult than just taking liquid water in some large quantity and using it in the form of ice (waterbending like from ATLA). Of course, someone who could manipulate ice in that way could also manipulate other really powerful forces of nature like wind, storms, lightning, earth, lava, etc., though some may have a more natural proclivity to one of those over another, and thus find it easier to use Ice than to wield lava.
Freeze rays would also require Light manipulation.
Magic, of course, is all fueled by spiritual energy, which through will and understanding the laws of nature, become other types of energy. For this reason, energy is the easiest element to manipulate, with gas being the second easiest, and Space being the hardest (because it's much more abstract than any other element)
I tried to add some realism to my magic system, to make it scientific in some ways. I never liked "just so" explanations in writing.
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Gods, I can never find a day when it's actually warm to swim
Mind blown, cool vid
For the ice surfing, Bobby is deciding where he wants his path to be, and then (somehow) creating channels to extract heat from there to himself, so it looks likes he's blasting lOx down from his hands but is actually shaping one aspect of the environment with the extra heat energy going temporarily to (pocket universe is often handy trope).
Easy way to explain the whole "throwing ice isn't propelling him backward" thing: he isn't throwing ice, he's absorbing heat from in front of him, and somehow it just looks weird compared to what one would probably expect.
this ep had a good vibe
The thing you forgot to mention is that once he got colder than the sorrounding tenperature, it would take energy to cool him further since he has to become a refrigerator.
I guess that's why he's an Omega mutant -- the destructive power he causes. We just didn't know HOW destructive, until this episode.
I hope they reference this with Frozone, in the Incredibles sequel.
Actually, that reminds me of a scene in Aldnoah Zero, where Frozen Elysium (basically Mr. Freeze the mech) was destroyed, it incinerated pretty much everything within a mile of it.
Lol at that ending
i have watched almost all your videos of because science it is awesome btw hair on fleek lel
How convenient that I just learned about this specific heat nonsense in chemistry yesterday