Fallout tech is based on over 130 years of pseudoscience from a genre known to play it lose with the very science it idolizes, and when you play it loose with physics you get stuff like a gram of nutronium exploding faster than an atomic bomb over an area so small it wouldn’t even break the average wooden table but having a boiling point so low that in earth like pressures it wouldn’t freeze even at absolute zero (meaning the atoms have literally stopped moving around).
@@dhararry7929 A) Just because some people pronounce it wrong, that doesn't mean it's an acceptable pronunciation. Giga has a hard "g". B) It was very clearly a joke riffing on the supposed scientific genius, Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown's, mispronunciation of a basic SI prefix.
Fun fact there is a fifth state of matter called Bose-Einstein condensate, its when matter gets in a really low temp and begins to get magnetic properties, some MRI equipments use them to produce the magnetic fields for doing the imaging.
I have never heard of an MRI using Bose-Einstein condensates, they pretty much exclusively use superconductors, which have some similar properties but are fundamentally different. As to whether or not condensates are a state of matter is basically a semantic debate. Another cool potential state is superfluid, and some people consider many other cool things to be states as well, such as glass and quantum hall state. My favorite new potential state of matter is definitely photonic matter, which is when photons behave as if they have mass. Super neat!
Tiny Valkyrie if I remember correctly glass is called a “collide” I read this in an elementary science book so I don’t know, but the book also said that lead was a collide. According to the book a collide is like halfway between a solid and a liquid, but since they flow (glass over decades and lead over centuries) they are technically collides.
You skipped a step: That's not hydrogen plasma it's shooting, as hydrogen plasma appears pink, not green. From my research, it appears that would have to be either mercury plasma or neon-xenon-krypton plasma, but note that the latter also has orange at the edges of the plasma which the plasma shots in Fallout seem to be lacking.
Gingah Ninja but... the sun is made of hydrogen... and it’s a bright yellow color. Then there’s other stars that burn hydrogen that are blue, and other super giants that burn a deep red. It isn’t always pink.
That is a fair point. However, given the energy levels we are working with in this case, I dont think it would matter all that much to the required amount of material. On a smaller scale it perhaps would but not with the comparison being hurling a chunk of the sun like greek gods of old.
And? Liquiefy= Vaporisation and condensation in a short enough time...like the air cools the vapor down and poof a goo that is colored by the colorization of the projectile...
This was what I was thinking as well. Then I realized that while we could knock off a portion of the energy needed by assuming there is less mass of the behemoth left to melt when it dies and that it's over all body tempeture is raised it would still need to transfer the vast majority of the final energy in one shot otherwise the target would vaporize, melt, or have other really nasty things happen long before he could gooify.
GrifWithOneF no both lazed and plasma weapons suck rocket sledge ha ha that's a real wastelanders weapon even better atoms gift or whatever the fuck the name is I renamed it rad hammer
Actually if you go to the RobCo museum in Fallout NV you'll find out that plasma is something entirely different in the Fallout universe. It's nothing more than some sort of weird goo with unique properties.
I kinda had an idea similar to that for plasma being some rare liquid element that becomes extremely volatile when heated up becoming a death dealer turning the target into a pile of neon sludge.
Computers went from taking up entire rooms to fitting in our pockets with way more power. It is not too surprising to think of the power of the massive damn to with enough time be put into a portable size
+zokr Well, then based on that, if that were to happen, all the extra energy left over, it should still detonate like a bomb and destroy everything around it.
Andy Morgan first of all you need less enegry to liquify a super mutant, and becusae you use multiple shots, the amount of energy is smaller, and avoids huge overkill for smaller things
Brian Wang the put him closer to the edge of melting the last shot puts him just over the edge, and he liquefies, and now dont ask how a half molten supermutant can continue to live
I think the most terrifying thing about plasma and laser weapons is that it does not take that much of an increase in core body temperature of a person to kill them. You don’t need to instantly vaporize or gooify them to kill them, just give em a light roast
its fun.... but some of your numbers are way off. Typical us home produces 20 tons of CO2 per year.... which is about the same energy as (all part numbers) same number of tons of TNT.... not 3/4 ton in 300 yrs! Vaporizing ppl basically is boiling the water. Ppl weigh 100kg..... boiling 100kg of water is not the energy used by the us home in 273 years. Some of these numbers are off by a few orders of magnitude. I could go on about laser rifles not having recoil....photons DO have momentum.... its a relativistic thing. Even if they didnt you would still get a recoil from the heated air. But generally quite a fun rant :-)
+Cyler s Don't worry I'll clean it little teddy Bear. ooohohohohohooooooooooohohhhhhhhooooooooooooohhhhhhooooooooohhh There, I cleaned with sensual ooohhhing
My favorite weapon in Fallout 4 is a plasma shotgun with the legendary mod. Each plasma pellet deals a separate explosive redial damage which shreds through most enemies (and allies so be careful). It also leaves a very satisfying explosive effect when you hit water.
You're doing it wrong. You're saying that the target is being vaporized in one shot. The targets aren't in game, rather, the energy is spread over several shots.
+Cole Scott if you're talking about the game, that would be Nolan north. If you're talking about the cartoons, that's a few different people, none of which are Ryan Reynolds. If you're talking about the movie, then Ryan Reynolds was the actor. The only part of dp that wasn't real was the mask.
Your math is wrong; or more specifically, you've applied it incorrectly. You are not achieving complete 100% vaporization of the human body, or what the figures were for. You are not turning the solids and liquids of a body into a gas (vapor). Instead, you are breaking just enough molecular bonds to turn people into a steamy puddle of goo; which takes much much less energy. Basically if you put maybe a stick of dynamite into a well armored container with a body (basically containing the explosive force just to the body, not letting any of it escape into the environment: efficiency), you can achieve the steamy puddle you are looking for.
This is all assuming that it's one-shoting everything, when reality you're pumping fusion cell after fusion cell into that behemoth before it changes it's state of matter. So if you take that into consideration it's probably a lot less energy per shot.
Boom i kinda exactly feel like i wanna know that, plasma weapons works, brute spikers i feel like are a maybe, gravity hammers are a somwewhat, their beam rifles are a whaaat, and there spikers are like how you doing that, what the fuck how can they follow the e emey, and how come they blow up
This is a game where you can shoot someone in the head point blank with a rifle and they can survive and keep fighting. I wouldn't spend much time analyzing the physics.
5:58 This is a bit pedantic but you really simplified the math here, yes q=mcdeltaT but you're treating a fleshy body as one solid hunk of material with a single specific heat capacity rather than at least breaking it up into the water-content, soft tissues, and bones like you did when calculating the mass, and you have to account for the fact that it appears that you're changing the phase of matter here either vaporizing as you said or fully ionizing the mass into a plasma, in which case you have to account for the fact that a phase change takes extra energy in the form of the latent heats of the phase changes also the body is comprised of solids liquids and gasses each having to go through different phases changes to become a gas or plasma or possibly even a liquid as the material produced afterwards, though glowing, appears to behave as a liquid.
A slight problem I noticed in the video. Now, I'm not a scientist, so I don't know if this has changes anything, but the plasma usually doesn't kill an enemy in a single shot, therefor the heat of each plasma shot would not need to be that hot
use kinetic weapon to hit 99percent health and 1 shot plasma will still melt the body so even using in game sense its max power output still need to be as high as he mentioned. BTW even if the heat is built up, all organ will be burnt before melting.
It's really not, considering the fact that that line isn't copyrighted. Game Theory/ Film Theory never copyrighted the line, "But that's just a theory. . . a GAME/ FILM Theory!"
because I'm a nerd, I'm slowly making my own superhero comic universe, and one of my heroes has robotic arms that shoot plasma, and to get around how this is possible I made it so that it was an alien tech genius that gave her the plasma-shooting arms, but I haven't thought in depth about how this would affect her body or anything she shoots, so I really appreciate that this video exists to tell me about the weaponry potential of plasma guns
You're in a world where giant mutants are running around, the world is still inhabited straight after nukes have gone off all over the world, a guy in a fedora randomly spawns and one shots everyone and a raider can carry on firing at you after a .45 round to the face. Yet you're questioning whether plasma weapons are possible. Great vid though
+MSB 1997 yeah it could be habited. I had an image in my head that every nuke being on the planet at the same time would be more devastating than it actually seems. I guess we won't know unless it actually happens but I'm not going to sit here and argue an invalid point like most people. I was wrong
+Barry Scott I do think it's a bit of a plot hole how when you escape the vault Bethesda go out of their way to show the damage. Showing bodies disintegrated by the bomb in the same area that the vault tech rep was, yet he still survived out in the open
+Dylan Nix and you're also bending the laws of the universe by duplicating matter out of nothing and flinging it at them in roughly the same velocity and time. All cause you killed some random schmuck that happened to live long enough in the wasteland to be notably special and could possess this weapon from killing or looting a less lucky schmuck.... And then inexplicably not using it on you after you gun down six of his buddies. Or you crafted it with a mod, which means you have the power to bend the universe to your will, and rather than fix humanity, you decided to... See how fast you could turn shit into goo.
+Lance Martin I love how everyone is talking science in a game which you fight giant scorpions, and run around in giant suits of steel armor. This is not possible, just enjoy jetpacking around in a suit of power armor.
Dylan Nix I do, immensely, but this video is on questioning the different aspects of the game, encouraging discussion. Just because i partake doesn't mean I'm not going to use my Mighty Plasma Rifle that hasn't left my inventory since it dropped, or leave my flame red T-60 armor at my settlement because the jet pack isn't realistic, or not use vats because time doesn't work like that. Im just enjoying discussion with like minded individuals
So..... For the cost of melting 1 human you can go back in time, kiss your mother, almost prevent your self from getting born then return home to find you have a new car because of the butterfly effect.
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+NearFear Do you base that on the fact that nukes go BOOM or on the fact that nuclear fission based weapons have a minimum size or else the fissile material won't go critical fast enough? ... Not to be insulting, but you never know who you deal with these days.
+ShoddyCast Why do you keep blaming Bethesda for the mathematical mistakes when it was Interplay that created fallout 1 and 2. The Plasma weapons were around in fallout long before Bethesda got the rights to it.
+ShoddyCast Dude get a life. We know that whining about Bethesda is your job, but you should know that fallout is a VIDEO GAME not real life, like halo it will never happen!!!
I’m not sure if it matters but it takes a LOT of shots to vaporised (or whatever) a behemoth. Could it be that it’s blasting away. Large chunks of its material and is just sort of falling apart at death? That way the energy used would only be a fraction of the energy you came up with. I don’t know if this is correct (please correct me if I’m wrong) but it might make plasma weaponry slightly less impossible and more implausible or just impractical.
That what I'm thinking too you shooting off a lot of plasma at people and behemoth's their noway it's that hot, but dam i kinda want him to do the math again.
How the fuck is there like zero radiation almost EVERYWHERE in Fallout when it's only been two hundred years since the Great War? That should not be possible.
+Chesh of Shire Lol, yes, if you had a geigercounter on you anywhere in the world right now, it'd be clicking every few seconds due to normal background radiation (which doesn't harm us).
This subject needs to be revisited, but for the Plasma Gun of DOOM(1993, II, 64, 3, 2016, and Eternal). Just all of DOOM Plasma Guns. You've already done the BFG 9000 so not that (unless you feel like including an update on it with something new you find). I also have a couple recommendations for a starting point: Dense Plasma Focus, and The Safire Project. They are both laboratory experiments involving studies of plasma structures. The Safire Project being a sort of proof, laboratory evidence, of the validity of Electric Sun Model (which serves as an older alternative to the Standard Model of the Sun) as well as the next big step in Plasma based Fusion power. The Dense Plasma Focus being an earlier experiment in an effort to successfully produce a fusion reaction with plasma (a sort of very early precursor to The Safire Project) which succeeded in producing what is called a Plasmoid.
Well you see, Akatosh the dragon God of time blessed horses to be the counter to the dragons but after Bosefus the horse God died fighting a sweetroll in the great Leyawiin feast they gave up the sacred oath to Akatosh. He then cursed them so that they could never ascend to the Horse Heaven. This is why they stick to the sides of mountains. It's because Horse Heaven constantly repels them down with 4,000 newtons of force.
DadeCounty_Kidd the fact you cant climb a mountain without a horse baffles me I mean im a giant cat who evolved climing trees so why cant I use my claws to gain traction on the ground and climb a frikken hill
I am curious about your take on the particle projection cannon and its extended range version (PPC and ERPPC respectively) from the Battletech and Mechwarrior franchises. I think that science fiction setting is criminally underappreciated.
Nice video, but you don‘t kill anything, especially not a mutant behemoth, with one shot from a plasma gun. EDIT: Kelvin are not mesured degrees, just Kelvin
Are Halo's plasma weapons at least somewhat on par with actual science? I'd assume no seeing as forerunner weapons use light but have recoil. Anyway I'd love to see a video about Halo Austin. Keep up the good work.
I've always liked to think that, just like with the fact that lasers are silent, people EXPECT the weapons to make sounds and have recoil, so they are features built into the weapons.
I can't remember which it was, but that was a real thing they did to a rifle. Its recoil was so light it made the soldiers uncomfortable, so they gave it recoil on purpose.
Practical laser weapons are very loud and do have recoil. Gas dynamic lasers get energy from chemical combustion. The exhaust gas is vented causing recoil. No electricity is used. As for sound, continuous lasers are a really stupid idea for a weapon. Nanosecond pulsed lasers cause micro plasma detonations on target which is loud same as a normal gun. The lenses on lasers are also stupid. Plasma lenses will not be broken by high intensity pulses.
Simple answer. At those temperatures, it wouldn't be green. It would be far to hot to be a certain color. It would more likely just blind you. I'm no expert though and this is only a guess. I mean, I don't have any personal experience with the center of the sun.
Dorian Costley it would have to be either lithium, or a combination of different gas. But it would be like looking at the sun and our eyes would not be able to see the actual color. And since lithium reacts with water in the atmosphere and accumulates different chemicals on it, it would not be green unless it was stored in a single canister of depleted uranium, as to not react. And because it is an alkali metal and reacts with water it would accumulate explosive elements inside a diamagnetic field around the plasma.
Hey hey shoddycast, this is probably not the place for this comment, but the lever action rifle from far harbor! that loading, thats a disgrace!! fire off 1 shot, when u reload, well u insert 5 new bullets wtf? and after reload u yank the lever and discard the bullet already chambered, who would do that! that would basically mean that u discarded a already loaded bullet? they did such a good job with the covboy repeater from new vegas, why would they do such a bad job with this really nice rifle? bad bad bethesda! love ur channel thumbs up
I may be wrong but with that you put a bullet in the chamber, which means that you have an extra space for one. But for that to work of course you would need to put another one in after doing that.
If light works differently (lighter mass per say) in a different dimension or the amount of energy works differently because its mass and structure is different to our dimension. Would all this make more sense in Fallout 4. If you don't get what I mean watch what happens to light, when two black holes collide, very far away.(The plasma is a different kind of plasma.) And if you can't understand my meaning, I can't help you Shoddy.
i can see one or two shots from a plasma rifle containing that 2.99 GJoules. but for beheemoths those things will tank multiple shots before gooifying. so the eariler 2.99GJoules per shot numbers you had were better in my opinion
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At this point, it feels like everything in fallout 4 is supposed to be able to take out a city.
Ironically, mini-nukes seem to release less energy than plasma weapons since they can't turn behemoths into green goo.
why do you think the fallout world still has not been rebuild, it clearly has but each time is destroyes by a idiot whit mini nukes and plasma weapons
your right, definitly forever by now
Fallout tech is based on over 130 years of pseudoscience from a genre known to play it lose with the very science it idolizes, and when you play it loose with physics you get stuff like a gram of nutronium exploding faster than an atomic bomb over an area so small it wouldn’t even break the average wooden table but having a boiling point so low that in earth like pressures it wouldn’t freeze even at absolute zero (meaning the atoms have literally stopped moving around).
I mean...if you had to fight a land war in Asia you'd fund it.
The plasma weapons are capable of utilising 2.99 Gigawatts to vaporise a human, but we only need 1.21 Gigawatts to time travel.
Priorities people!
No, no, the flux capacitor uses 1.21 jiggawatts. I don't know what the fuck a jiggawatt is, but that's what Doc Brown said.
@@RabblesTheBinx some people pronounce it giga. Others pronounce it jiga. It's the same thing.
@@dhararry7929 A) Just because some people pronounce it wrong, that doesn't mean it's an acceptable pronunciation. Giga has a hard "g". B) It was very clearly a joke riffing on the supposed scientific genius, Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown's, mispronunciation of a basic SI prefix.
Plasma weapons don’t vaporise. They melt and its 141,000,000 or nearly the same energy in 1sqcm of liquid hydrogen. And it takes at the least 2 hits
@Garon Elliott as much as I love time travel yeah if it was real it would mess everything soo hard the universe literally collapse on itself
Fun fact there is a fifth state of matter called Bose-Einstein condensate, its when matter gets in a really low temp and begins to get magnetic properties, some MRI equipments use them to produce the magnetic fields for doing the imaging.
I have never heard of an MRI using Bose-Einstein condensates, they pretty much exclusively use superconductors, which have some similar properties but are fundamentally different. As to whether or not condensates are a state of matter is basically a semantic debate. Another cool potential state is superfluid, and some people consider many other cool things to be states as well, such as glass and quantum hall state. My favorite new potential state of matter is definitely photonic matter, which is when photons behave as if they have mass. Super neat!
Artma FINALLY someone else who has mentioned this!
Tiny Valkyrie if I remember correctly glass is called a “collide” I read this in an elementary science book so I don’t know, but the book also said that lead was a collide. According to the book a collide is like halfway between a solid and a liquid, but since they flow (glass over decades and lead over centuries) they are technically collides.
Ive heard there’s a 6th similar to Bose-Einstein condensate but I don’t remember the name
Really low as in close to 0°K?
anyone else catch that "all part of a balanced breakfast"?
Ya
I would Like if it wasn't at 69 Likes.
Lol
which a slightly intelligent Behemoth would achieve by using a scale before consuming his morning human flesh
You skipped a step: That's not hydrogen plasma it's shooting, as hydrogen plasma appears pink, not green. From my research, it appears that would have to be either mercury plasma or neon-xenon-krypton plasma, but note that the latter also has orange at the edges of the plasma which the plasma shots in Fallout seem to be lacking.
Gingah Ninja but... the sun is made of hydrogen... and it’s a bright yellow color. Then there’s other stars that burn hydrogen that are blue, and other super giants that burn a deep red. It isn’t always pink.
+Google It Reminder that the color of the stars you are viewing are the outmost temperature, which is also the coolest part of the star.
That is a fair point. However, given the energy levels we are working with in this case, I dont think it would matter all that much to the required amount of material. On a smaller scale it perhaps would but not with the comparison being hurling a chunk of the sun like greek gods of old.
Neon-xenon kyrpton? Sounds made up.
@@caballthesayiangodofwar9426 neon-xenon-kripton they burn in green.
But doesn’t the plasma gun liquiefy people, not vaporize them?
ThatWhiteGuy yep...
technical term in series is gooify
If it flash vaporizes then equilibrium will drive it back to a mostly condensed state as the energy dissipates.
Yep it liquefy them even said in the tips area on the loading menu
And? Liquiefy= Vaporisation and condensation in a short enough time...like the air cools the vapor down and poof a goo that is colored by the colorization of the projectile...
except the plasma rifle doesnt kill a behemoth in one shot
This was what I was thinking as well. Then I realized that while we could knock off a portion of the energy needed by assuming there is less mass of the behemoth left to melt when it dies and that it's over all body tempeture is raised it would still need to transfer the vast majority of the final energy in one shot otherwise the target would vaporize, melt, or have other really nasty things happen long before he could gooify.
GrifWithOneF because it makes no sense
GrifWithOneF no both lazed and plasma weapons suck rocket sledge ha ha that's a real wastelanders weapon even better atoms gift or whatever the fuck the name is I renamed it rad hammer
GrifWithOneF also he shot the head not the torso
Shotgun blast to the face doesn't kill a human being either
When The Hall of the Mountain King starts, you know it's going to escalate real fast
Oh yeah! I pay attention when I hear hall of the mountain king start.
Actually if you go to the RobCo museum in Fallout NV you'll find out that plasma is something entirely different in the Fallout universe. It's nothing more than some sort of weird goo with unique properties.
Perhaps something relating to biological plasma?
I kinda had an idea similar to that for plasma being some rare liquid element that becomes extremely volatile when heated up becoming a death dealer turning the target into a pile of neon sludge.
@@zachduperron8543like some sort of thermally catalyzed acid? The hotter the acid is the more volatile it is?
"vaporized into goo puddles"
since when is liquid a vapor?
When it's volatile!
+inferno vapours are still liquid. the liquid disolves into the gas just like gases or liquids can dissolve into solids or liquids.
Gas and liquid are both counted as fluids, aren't they?
Mike Peabody yes, fluid is anything that can "flow".
Does that make sand a fluid?
2.99 Gigawatts?? GREAT SCOTT!!!
+Paddy “Danger” Pie What the hell's a gigawatt?!
+SemperFiMac77 He literally referred to that and what it is like 5 times in the video...
Koolguydude4 come on man... I was quoting Marty Mcfly. Paddy was quoting Doc Brown.
XD
MARTY WE HAVE TO GO BACK TO THE PAST TO STOP YOU FROM SEEING THE MOVIE TO STOP YOU FROM MAKING THAT REFERENCE
"We need to talk about the plasma rifle"
Halo, DOOM, or fallout?
Yes
Halo
2.99 gigawatts is also more than enough for two trips through time (which, of course, is 1.21 gigawatts).
XD
+Miche bruh is this b8
nice one
Vader the White I was thinking that too
Great scott
ah yes, my magical slingshot that is loaded through a dimensional rift into the core of the sun.
I mean... Fusion is hella powerful.
Making it small is still a lot of power.
The heat tho, yeah no.
Computers went from taking up entire rooms to fitting in our pockets with way more power. It is not too surprising to think of the power of the massive damn to with enough time be put into a portable size
That's just because old computers were inefficient as hell. No amount of technological advancement is going to change the laws of physics
like doctor Mobius always says science happens for a raisin
I love raisins
I do so like custard, or was it mustard?
I miss mobius
@Daniel von Strangle *feels abused*
but you are not turning the super mutant into gas but liquid and your are not one shotting him
...What?
+zokr Well, then based on that, if that were to happen, all the extra energy left over, it should still detonate like a bomb and destroy everything around it.
Andy Morgan first of all you need less enegry to liquify a super mutant, and becusae you use multiple shots, the amount of energy is smaller, and avoids huge overkill for smaller things
+Brian Wang in summation yes, but individual shots have less energy. Still implausible but not as implausible.
Brian Wang the put him closer to the edge of melting the last shot puts him just over the edge, and he liquefies, and now dont ask how a half molten supermutant can continue to live
Here I was, ready to whine about how underpowered plasma seems in FO4. Now I feel like an entitled jerk.
Same
Speak for yourself. I can 3 shot a super mutant master with my plasma rifle
HA!
Plasma rifles are op...
+TheCrystalCrow But you still are an entitled jerk
I think the most terrifying thing about plasma and laser weapons is that it does not take that much of an increase in core body temperature of a person to kill them. You don’t need to instantly vaporize or gooify them to kill them, just give em a light roast
All this science would make an awesome game.
Xenomorphic Drone my head would explode
wait... there is a game...
You scare me...
The SA-X nice Metroid fusion
It is called Real Life..
True fact lol
its fun.... but some of your numbers are way off. Typical us home produces 20 tons of CO2 per year.... which is about the same energy as (all part numbers) same number of tons of TNT.... not 3/4 ton in 300 yrs!
Vaporizing ppl basically is boiling the water. Ppl weigh 100kg..... boiling 100kg of water is not the energy used by the us home in 273 years. Some of these numbers are off by a few orders of magnitude.
I could go on about laser rifles not having recoil....photons DO have momentum.... its a relativistic thing. Even if they didnt you would still get a recoil from the heated air.
But generally quite a fun rant :-)
+Thunderf00t a wild Thunderf00t appears
+Thunderf00t I love it when my favourite youtubers comment on the same videos i watch
A wild science man!
+Beaurrak Beaubama (SomethingCloudyXY) Yeah, one of those unexpected but pleasant surprises for sure.
+Thunderf00t I'll just add my comment here: MINDLESS FANBOYISM WOOHOO
Sudden Old World Blues. I came a little.
SCIENCE
+Ice Bird Gaming Many penised feet.
+Cyler s Don't worry I'll clean it little teddy Bear. ooohohohohohooooooooooohohhhhhhhooooooooooooohhhhhhooooooooohhh
There, I cleaned with sensual ooohhhing
+Ice Bird Gaming lemme grab my cram and ducttape
I blame Richie Marcus.
My favorite weapon in Fallout 4 is a plasma shotgun with the legendary mod. Each plasma pellet deals a separate explosive redial damage which shreds through most enemies (and allies so be careful). It also leaves a very satisfying explosive effect when you hit water.
Gee, no wonder there was a resource war. The world's energy went into making cool guns that shoot glowing globs of awesome.
It's hot as fuck!!
SCIENCE!!!!!
2:21
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Chris Sanderson this is why I love the internet
You're doing it wrong. You're saying that the target is being vaporized in one shot. The targets aren't in game, rather, the energy is spread over several shots.
apart from that poor level one raider. this game is weird in regard to how much energy you need to kill someone, anyway.
I thought of that too, but actually, if you take the behemoth HP down with a shotgun, and finish him off with plasma, he can still be vaporised
Balázs Földes BETHESDA!! FIX THIS!!
ya
Exactly what I was thinking the whole time
Imagine getting shot with a hydroelectric dam.
Now you know how that super mutant feels.
Communism is gay
You are now officially my favourite youtuber.
+Kami K oh, thanks
Backtoast the outstanding Citizen ?????
Hadrian Fry
Hadrian Fry my dream just became reality
I can agree with that
this guy would be a great voice actor for deadpool lol
If Deadpool had to be played by someone else, I would vote this guy 10/10
Yea.
yeah deadpool or Peter Parker
No. Ryan Rynolds for life
+Cole Scott if you're talking about the game, that would be Nolan north. If you're talking about the cartoons, that's a few different people, none of which are Ryan Reynolds. If you're talking about the movie, then Ryan Reynolds was the actor. The only part of dp that wasn't real was the mask.
Your math is wrong; or more specifically, you've applied it incorrectly. You are not achieving complete 100% vaporization of the human body, or what the figures were for. You are not turning the solids and liquids of a body into a gas (vapor). Instead, you are breaking just enough molecular bonds to turn people into a steamy puddle of goo; which takes much much less energy. Basically if you put maybe a stick of dynamite into a well armored container with a body (basically containing the explosive force just to the body, not letting any of it escape into the environment: efficiency), you can achieve the steamy puddle you are looking for.
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How long did that take you to write? Let me tell you something. NO ONE cares.
Also it takes multiple shots to turn them into said goo which makes it take less energy
Let's not forget the infinite source of power known as FUSION
But what's the minimum energy required for matter to exist as plasma?
Is it even possible to get it down to dynamite levels?
“I don’t swear that much! *it cuts to a compilation of every time he swore in the episode”
Lol swear MORE!
Dear Bethesda. Why does my tin can give me pure steel?
+CPPRODUCTIONS1001 The Sole Survivor's last name is Elric.
Ahh I see why now
CPPRODUCTIONS1001 Also explains how you building things so fast
Seaghán Pipistrello and why you like being inside giant armor
CPPRODUCTIONS1001 and why you got a bunch of artificial human that are genetically related to you
And thus why I have a mod that makes them only melt the flesh and just chars the skeleton (cross grit overhaul, for anyone that's curious)
4:14 Holy shit! It's enough for DeLorean to travel through time twice!
WOAH THAT WAS A TURN
"do they make sense"
my brain has been yeeted down the hallway
That moment when you realizes that your practically shooting mini lightning bolts. DAUUUUUUUUM.
+Midnagamein G I love the lightning guns from District 9, Quake, and Painkiller.
*you're
+Midnagamein G Lightning hurts.
+Noah Grün stop being a grammar nazi
Daniel Riddick I couldn't help myself.
This is all assuming that it's one-shoting everything, when reality you're pumping fusion cell after fusion cell into that behemoth before it changes it's state of matter. So if you take that into consideration it's probably a lot less energy per shot.
Prolly megawatt range.
I’m binging old THE SCIENCE videos and it is very weird watch Austin curse
I found it was weird when he stopped swearing.
Miss the old days..
"It Just Works" -Todd Howard
well I'm on the concept of halo, how the he'll does the needler work?
Boom i kinda exactly feel like i wanna know that, plasma weapons works, brute spikers i feel like are a maybe, gravity hammers are a somwewhat, their beam rifles are a whaaat, and there spikers are like how you doing that, what the fuck how can they follow the e
emey, and how come they blow up
+Maxwell Frond I think game theory did something on the needlers
Ive been waiting for this moment, alll my liifee. Oh loooord
oh i see what you did there phil colins
+Maxwell Frond . . . Kinda exactly? are you high? or just 9 year old
Right but how does this gun prevent the portal that scopes parts of the sun becoming unstable?
What?
It's a game m9.
+TH0MA5_03_GAMING there is a timer that pulses to close the portal every .001 seconds
+BMANSAB1 Right so what your saying is don't pick faulty ones up right
yea, or the portal is just really unstable and refuses to stay open.
This is a game where you can shoot someone in the head point blank with a rifle and they can survive and keep fighting. I wouldn't spend much time analyzing the physics.
5:58 This is a bit pedantic but you really simplified the math here, yes q=mcdeltaT but you're treating a fleshy body as one solid hunk of material with a single specific heat capacity rather than at least breaking it up into the water-content, soft tissues, and bones like you did when calculating the mass, and you have to account for the fact that it appears that you're changing the phase of matter here either vaporizing as you said or fully ionizing the mass into a plasma, in which case you have to account for the fact that a phase change takes extra energy in the form of the latent heats of the phase changes also the body is comprised of solids liquids and gasses each having to go through different phases changes to become a gas or plasma or possibly even a liquid as the material produced afterwards, though glowing, appears to behave as a liquid.
I like how energetic Austin is in this video
loved that swearing montage at end
why am I watching this, I'm asian and trying to get a master's degree in biology not physics
U wot M8 because learning new things is always a good idea
U wot M8 if you fail miserably at biology then you have Physics as a backup plan!
Because physics are really cool. That's why.
because it has fallout in the title
yup something thats actully very usefull
I hear, "Hall of the Mountain King" in the background. Shits about to get goddamn terrifying.
A slight problem I noticed in the video. Now, I'm not a scientist, so I don't know if this has changes anything, but the plasma usually doesn't kill an enemy in a single shot, therefor the heat of each plasma shot would not need to be that hot
use kinetic weapon to hit 99percent health and 1 shot plasma will still melt the body so even using in game sense its max power output still need to be as high as he mentioned. BTW even if the heat is built up, all organ will be burnt before melting.
"the specific material 1 degree Kelvin"
"1 degree Kelvin"
*degree Kelvin*
Maxman013 mmm yes temperature right above absolute zero yes yes this is saaaafe
Yes, to heat something by 1°K can mean going from absolute zero to almost absolute zero or from 362°K to 363°K and start boiling water
@@mortenbund1219 He was referring to the fact that Kelvin isn't measured in degrees, it's just Kelvin
when i was on 6th grade, my science teacher said stars were liquid
i cringed so much
uilsoum i used to be o n sixth grade too.
@@cb.squared i too used to be o n sixth grade
Ima take that didnt happen for 500
I hope that teacher has been fired from teaching for being stupid
As a resident (former) of Missouri I am honored for the first plasma weapon to have been manufactured here
last time I was this early a settlement needed my help
I think a behemoth has at least 10 times the mass of an average human.
he used an infailable scientific measuring technique. he is right
+Patent Acorn ITS SEVEN
Patent Acorn
Ok
Probably more, imagine the muscle density these super mutants have, and also bone density to even support the size the behemoths are.
+Marauder Shields to stand on 2 legs not 4. elephants aint got shit on a behemoth
Just remember, when in doubt, it's not science the Falloutverse is using, it's SCIENCE!
Yeah, SCIENCE!!!
That little swear montage at 9:00 will be my new ringtone. :)
Once I get a smartphone, that is.
Good god I love this series. Thank you for making this!
But thats just a theory ... a GAME THEORY.
+Dark Tenka but that's just a theory... a FILM THEROY!(oh what its not?, oh ok)
Here take this L
It's really not, considering the fact that that line isn't copyrighted. Game Theory/ Film Theory never copyrighted the line, "But that's just a theory. . . a GAME/ FILM Theory!"
Actually it would be trademarked I think?
The letter series is amazing. Never stop this!
because I'm a nerd, I'm slowly making my own superhero comic universe, and one of my heroes has robotic arms that shoot plasma, and to get around how this is possible I made it so that it was an alien tech genius that gave her the plasma-shooting arms, but I haven't thought in depth about how this would affect her body or anything she shoots, so I really appreciate that this video exists to tell me about the weaponry potential of plasma guns
You're in a world where giant mutants are running around, the world is still inhabited straight after nukes have gone off all over the world, a guy in a fedora randomly spawns and one shots everyone and a raider can carry on firing at you after a .45 round to the face. Yet you're questioning whether plasma weapons are possible. Great vid though
technically it could be inhabited tho
+MSB 1997 yeah it could be habited. I had an image in my head that every nuke being on the planet at the same time would be more devastating than it actually seems. I guess we won't know unless it actually happens but I'm not going to sit here and argue an invalid point like most people. I was wrong
+Barry Scott I do think it's a bit of a plot hole how when you escape the vault Bethesda go out of their way to show the damage. Showing bodies disintegrated by the bomb in the same area that the vault tech rep was, yet he still survived out in the open
+Barry Scott thats true
ayy, I learned more physic from this video than what I can remember from highschool.
Vlad you're sad
You're face is sad
your*
xMarco FUCK!!!!!
well this is normal since this level of physics/chemistry is learnt in college/university not in highschool, at least in my country
I would like to see this guy in Game Theory and Vice Versa.
"Links in the doobldeedoo" I see. You're a man of quality as well.
Problem being that plasma weapons aren't "one shot killers". It takes multiple shots to melt someone. So, still implausible, but possible.
Unless you have a two shot fully upgraded plasma rifle. Then you one shot lots of shit
+Dylan Nix and you're also bending the laws of the universe by duplicating matter out of nothing and flinging it at them in roughly the same velocity and time. All cause you killed some random schmuck that happened to live long enough in the wasteland to be notably special and could possess this weapon from killing or looting a less lucky schmuck.... And then inexplicably not using it on you after you gun down six of his buddies. Or you crafted it with a mod, which means you have the power to bend the universe to your will, and rather than fix humanity, you decided to... See how fast you could turn shit into goo.
+Lance Martin I love how everyone is talking science in a game which you fight giant scorpions, and run around in giant suits of steel armor. This is not possible, just enjoy jetpacking around in a suit of power armor.
Dylan Nix I do, immensely, but this video is on questioning the different aspects of the game, encouraging discussion. Just because i partake doesn't mean I'm not going to use my Mighty Plasma Rifle that hasn't left my inventory since it dropped, or leave my flame red T-60 armor at my settlement because the jet pack isn't realistic, or not use vats because time doesn't work like that. Im just enjoying discussion with like minded individuals
Lance Martin Well that is a fair point. I guess I am not used to intelligent individuals on the Internet.
here's one. how bout how do the halo gravity hammers work
So..... For the cost of melting 1 human you can go back in time, kiss your mother, almost prevent your self from getting born then return home to find you have a new car because of the butterfly effect.
Ahh the sound of classical music against Austin swearing more times in 10 minutes than I swear in a week is quite satisfying.
I want Austin to be my mod companion in Fallout. Both swearing and giving knowledge. Yes.
Still gonna wait until you can romance Maxson.
I bet when he thought of making video, he said "Il have to science the shit out of it"
How do proton axes work in fallout new vegas?
I'd like to know this as well
they don't ...
+cameron corbett Lol that's most likely.
Also, I haven't played NV, but proton axe? PROTON AXE? WHAT THE HELL?
+Cable Butkus Yes, Proton Axe. The most powerful of...
Deodorants.
Feels like getting a science lecture from a slightly sober Rick Sanchez.
Well aliens did bring plasma tech to humans in the Fallout universe.
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+ShoddyCast lightweight vs heavy armor doesn't make sense in fallout 4
+ShoddyCast why not do one on mini nukes? I've always wondered how that can be fired without destroying a 1/2 a mile radius.
+NearFear Do you base that on the fact that nukes go BOOM
or on the fact that nuclear fission based weapons have a minimum size or else the fissile material won't go critical fast enough?
...
Not to be insulting, but you never know who you deal with these days.
+ShoddyCast Why do you keep blaming Bethesda for the mathematical mistakes when it was Interplay that created fallout 1 and 2. The Plasma weapons were around in fallout long before Bethesda got the rights to it.
+ShoddyCast Dude get a life. We know that whining about Bethesda is your job, but you should know that fallout is a VIDEO GAME not real life, like halo it will never happen!!!
"Oh, not this shit again."
*watches video anyway*
I’m not sure if it matters but it takes a LOT of shots to vaporised (or whatever) a behemoth. Could it be that it’s blasting away. Large chunks of its material and is just sort of falling apart at death? That way the energy used would only be a fraction of the energy you came up with. I don’t know if this is correct (please correct me if I’m wrong) but it might make plasma weaponry slightly less impossible and more implausible or just impractical.
That what I'm thinking too you shooting off a lot of plasma at people and behemoth's their noway it's that hot, but dam i kinda want him to do the math again.
ShadowLocks yeah me too
8:57
I like it when he swears. It's all just words to me.
It's only a theory...a Shoddycast theory!
NO GOD NO NO NOOOOOOOO
Piccolo: NEEEEERDD!!!
I understood that reference
I don't completely get a lot of the physics stiff I find these videos really entertaining, good job Austin.
OK, I'll admit this was a really good one.
Not to mention that you grip the heatsink on the thing.
How the fuck is there like zero radiation almost EVERYWHERE in Fallout when it's only been two hundred years since the Great War? That should not be possible.
+Chesh of Shire
Lol, yes, if you had a geigercounter on you anywhere in the world right now, it'd be clicking every few seconds due to normal background radiation (which doesn't harm us).
This subject needs to be revisited, but for the Plasma Gun of DOOM(1993, II, 64, 3, 2016, and Eternal). Just all of DOOM Plasma Guns. You've already done the BFG 9000 so not that (unless you feel like including an update on it with something new you find). I also have a couple recommendations for a starting point: Dense Plasma Focus, and The Safire Project.
They are both laboratory experiments involving studies of plasma structures. The Safire Project being a sort of proof, laboratory evidence, of the validity of Electric Sun Model (which serves as an older alternative to the Standard Model of the Sun) as well as the next big step in Plasma based Fusion power. The Dense Plasma Focus being an earlier experiment in an effort to successfully produce a fusion reaction with plasma (a sort of very early precursor to The Safire Project) which succeeded in producing what is called a Plasmoid.
how do Skyrim horses work?
Well you see, Akatosh the dragon God of time blessed horses to be the counter to the dragons but after Bosefus the horse God died fighting a sweetroll in the great Leyawiin feast they gave up the sacred oath to Akatosh. He then cursed them so that they could never ascend to the Horse Heaven. This is why they stick to the sides of mountains. It's because Horse Heaven constantly repels them down with 4,000 newtons of force.
+Angus Warrender seems legit
Lmfao! The fact that you can climb a mountain on horseback in Skyrim just baffles me 🤔😂😂😂😂
Gavin MacDierney spider horses
DadeCounty_Kidd the fact you cant climb a mountain without a horse baffles me I mean im a giant cat who evolved climing trees so why cant I use my claws to gain traction on the ground and climb a frikken hill
Nice video, but the most important question remains: HOW'D IT GET BURNED!!!!!????
brain.exe has stopped working
I am curious about your take on the particle projection cannon and its extended range version (PPC and ERPPC respectively) from the Battletech and Mechwarrior franchises. I think that science fiction setting is criminally underappreciated.
The institute already has teleportation? Why not?
Nice video, but you don‘t kill anything, especially not a mutant behemoth, with one shot from a plasma gun.
EDIT: Kelvin are not mesured degrees, just Kelvin
This bothers you yet there is a weapon that can freeze anything in second
Cryolator
+115_zombie_slayer oh, just give him time
+115_zombie_slayer can't nitrogen do that?
Two words
Liquid Nitrogen
and super mutants the size of elephants
Liquid Nitrogen.
The video was great, and I absolutely love the swearing. It’s hilarious and a nice break from a very pg life
Are Halo's plasma weapons at least somewhat on par with actual science? I'd assume no seeing as forerunner weapons use light but have recoil. Anyway I'd love to see a video about Halo Austin. Keep up the good work.
+JITCY9107 Forerunners have hardlight. They probably manufacture light with mass so who cares how their stuff works.
Justowner Well I'd still like to see Austin do a Halo video nonetheless
But hey, it's just a theory. A Game Theory!
+icefrout would be funny if that was copyrighted
+DragonHeart3713 ha-ha yea
+icefrout
nope.
Can Christians even watch this? It has logic, science and cursing
Not cool
was that really necessary?
+NINJAxBACON Nope, never.
Their insignifcant, tiny little narrow minds would just fucking melt in their skulls.
I've always liked to think that, just like with the fact that lasers are silent, people EXPECT the weapons to make sounds and have recoil, so they are features built into the weapons.
I can't remember which it was, but that was a real thing they did to a rifle. Its recoil was so light it made the soldiers uncomfortable, so they gave it recoil on purpose.
Practical laser weapons are very loud and do have recoil. Gas dynamic lasers get energy from chemical combustion. The exhaust gas is vented causing recoil. No electricity is used. As for sound, continuous lasers are a really stupid idea for a weapon. Nanosecond pulsed lasers cause micro plasma detonations on target which is loud same as a normal gun. The lenses on lasers are also stupid. Plasma lenses will not be broken by high intensity pulses.
For the plasma to be green, what gas or ore would it have to be?
Simple answer. At those temperatures, it wouldn't be green. It would be far to hot to be a certain color. It would more likely just blind you. I'm no expert though and this is only a guess. I mean, I don't have any personal experience with the center of the sun.
XD
Uranium ;)
Dorian Costley it would have to be either lithium, or a combination of different gas. But it would be like looking at the sun and our eyes would not be able to see the actual color. And since lithium reacts with water in the atmosphere and accumulates different chemicals on it, it would not be green unless it was stored in a single canister of depleted uranium, as to not react. And because it is an alkali metal and reacts with water it would accumulate explosive elements inside a diamagnetic field around the plasma.
Dunno how you plan to vaporise Lithium. Shit's just gonna go bang.
Hey hey shoddycast, this is probably not the place for this comment, but the lever action rifle from far harbor! that loading, thats a disgrace!! fire off 1 shot, when u reload, well u insert 5 new bullets wtf? and after reload u yank the lever and discard the bullet already chambered, who would do that! that would basically mean that u discarded a already loaded bullet? they did such a good job with the covboy repeater from new vegas, why would they do such a bad job with this really nice rifle? bad bad bethesda! love ur channel thumbs up
FINALLY! SOMEONE BESIDES ME NOTICES!
Oh fuck me it's so annoying!
how could anyone not notice
I may be wrong but with that you put a bullet in the chamber, which means that you have an extra space for one. But for that to work of course you would need to put another one in after doing that.
If light works differently (lighter mass per say) in a different dimension or the amount of energy works differently because its mass and structure is different to our dimension. Would all this make more sense in Fallout 4. If you don't get what I mean watch what happens to light, when two black holes collide, very far away.(The plasma is a different kind of plasma.) And if you can't understand my meaning, I can't help you Shoddy.
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+Trent Vickers You make no sense. Also, black holes aren't plasma. Nor is light.
duh.....
and you didn't look to see what happens.
Trent Vickers Look to see what happens where, dude? Your comments make zero sense.
facepalm.......can't u rea.....oh a troll no more feeding
i can see one or two shots from a plasma rifle containing that 2.99 GJoules. but for beheemoths those things will tank multiple shots before gooifying. so the eariler 2.99GJoules per shot numbers you had were better in my opinion