Thanks for watching Super Nerds! *Immediate correction* (yay): around 12:40 I meant to say "low frequency, high voltage" space taser. Apologies. What you may not know is that I film these episodes all in one go, and so sometimes I get tired enough after 3 hours or so to make simple mistakes. See you in Footnotes. -- kH
Nothing is immune to all things,as God of thunder he is immune to a point (as they say energy is energy) thus thor is not immune also as many of his opponents are not electrical based, he himself has no opportunity to condition himself to all forms but he could if he so chose to.
Your mistakes are forgiven Kyle you are the dopest. And I didn't know you did it all at 1 go so more props to you for that man. Your channel is the only RUclips channel I consistently watch.
Q: Since lighting is basically "just plasma", could that also answer how Thor could survive the blast from "a dying star"? Also, are you wearing a contact lens about 9:00 in?
@Andrew Gray tho its not inconceivable that its a toxin thats hurting thor, I was assuming the video was right. With that said, ur right electricity itself is not really a weakness. But assuming the video is right, it also points out that he can be hurt by it given the right conditions. If a super villian were to take advantage of this, given the amounts of electricity thor can normally channel, and kill Thor with his own powers. It maybe possible that a relatively weak display of his own powers maybe enough to kill him in that instance. Tho that last part is just speculation on my part.
@Andrew Gray interesting idea it'd be worth finding out wether that's the case or not. FYI I never noticed the skin thing till you pointed it out good eye
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@@jamesbizs Bs. Thor is one of the dumbest superheroes in Marvel, we already saw that from his interaction with Dr Strange and people who read comics already knew. But yeah Tony and Banner are some of the smartest people on the planet. In fact, according to Marvel's Official list, Tony Stark is the smartest person on the planet after Reed Richards Source - www.marvel.com/articles/comics/10-smartest-super-heroes
@@z7983 yeah Thor is dumb but Hulk is dumber (or atleast old Hulk not the professor) also Thor is quite powerful, one of the most powerful beings in the universe I should say
There's something I think several people tend to forget about the scenes with the "taser", and it's the way it makes Thor's veins stand out the way they do and the convulsions, neither of which is caused by something that produces laser-like effects. Instead, I would posit that it's some sort of neurotoxin that causes Thor's nervous system to shut down, and that the sparks and electrical noises are his body and powers struggling to fight it off, as we do not see this happen to Loki later in the movie. While this explanation covers the little neck implant, it wouldn't cover the shock net, but unless I'm mistaken the science presented here works well at discussing that particular piece of cinematic license.
@@phantomminer3293 JonTron is the god of game reviews Robbie Rotten is the god of villains Sans is the god of puns And so on Moto Moto and Ricardo are the gods of gayness
You just explained why I lived through 3 indirect lightning strikes and only had my skin have burns. I'm sending this video to a couple friends, one of which saw me hit by two and thinks I'm somehow having some abnormal electrically insulating skin... who makes fun of me for being really electrical-shock phobic. I'm rational in my fear, he's the dipsh^t.
But isn't there a video of a Japanese guy running down a street in the rain and he gets struck twice (he even leaves behind two dark scorch marks in the road) and lost none of his clothing. ...or is it just a case of you know you're having a bad day when even mother nature dosen't want to see you nekid?
@@skylx0812 He wasn't talking about Rain water in the video though, he was talking about oils and other possible more conductive liquids used to make their muscles shine.
@@Klespyrian are you really trying to say, that oils, would be more conductive, than water??? You know that they have computers filled with mineral oil, used as cooling.....
Hi, maybe. I'm still waiting for a Azula episode from Kyle, because I don't think her powers aren't only electrical but also radioactive. It would be more effective to "burn" the Avatar with "blue fire" (ionized air) than with a lightning strike!
Dean Nah, ethics in the modern era are pretty universal. Human attitudes towards said ethics aren't. You can choose to agree or disagree with ethics. It doesn't make them not universal.
*I always see the **_"Thor-being-electrocuted"_** as his own insecurity causing him to fall down.* It's not just the device's doing, but his state within also.
@@barrybend7189 its made by man and not the ancient gods of Egypt..its not like the infinity stones or doctor Manhattan's powers..its a tiny jet..in a backpack
I always imagined that Thor had a sphere of ionised air surrounding him at all times which behaves like a faraday cage (negative charge so providing high resistance) which protects him from lightning but not other attacks that move through this air forcefully (tasers or electric spears). This could be an alternative to the idea his skin is resistant like you mentioned in the video.
Okay but it's clear that in Ragnarok that disc thing had a neural effect on Thor. Does no one notice the blue veins that pop up every time the disc is activated?
Didn't the taser disk have prongs that attached underneath his skin? Wouldn't that solve the skin effect problem and direct the current through Thor's body?
Amusingly Wikipedia says that Thor is the god of "thunder," "lighting," "storms," "strength" and.... "oak trees" Mythology is weird like that. - Also the protection of mankind and... fertility, of which I'm sure many lady fans of Chris Hemsworth will concur.
Thunder is just the sound of Lightning, . . . . So as the god of thunder Thor would be able to create thunder at will and the only way to do that would be to be able to create lightning at will
Okay dude its 3am here and you freaked me the hell out by thanking me for watching because my name just so happens to be Glen. Then I remebered you do this for the purpose of freaking people out. Well played Kyle, well played.
12:52 "a space taser that is high frequency, low voltage" - said it the wrong way around there. you want low frequency, high voltage. small slip up ;P also, there could be something more technical going on. the best kind of going on.
Dude your a damn good science teacher....I would be a hell of a lot smarter if I had a teacher this excited about science...excited you love what you do, your passion will show once asked about it...the excitement of explaining in a understandable simplified way will intrigue others...good job man...keep up the good work kale
I had personally *theorised* that it had something to do with *bioelectricity* because Thor can't be immuned to it, otherwise he wouldn't be able to move. And since (I assume) bioelectricity and lightning aren't the same thing I would say this *theory* should make (some) sense. I have to admit I didn't really looked into it, it's just that I remember my biology teacher precising all the time that what travels through our nervous system is bioelectricity like if it wasn't just regular electricity which makes sense since say are meant to be transmitted by neuroreceptors like Acetylcholine.
@Andrew Gray ok, thanks. I was confused because to me when two things are called differently it's because they are meant to be different different and so their names show it and to the contrary, when two things share the same name they are meant to be similar according to the definition of this name. But apparently here scientists created the word "bioelectricity" where they should have used the word "electricity" 😅 It's like when different scientists work on different subjects and name totally different things/concepts by the same word, it's quite confusing 😅
The device that was planted on Thor is called an "Obedience Disk" and not something as simple as a shock collar, it not only shocks the subject but it also deprives the subject of their powers, it has been used on the likes of Hulk, The Silver Surfer, and even Beta Ray Bill. The grandmaster is nearly 14 million years old in the comics so it's conceivable that he has technology far beyond our understanding of physics, to quote Arthur C. Clarke "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" or in this case, it looks like a simple device. Great Video Kyle, keep up the awesome work!!!
In ragnarok, the shock that stopped him was not just a shock. It hit his nervous system directly. The control disc on his neck went beneath the skin into the spinal cord.
Hey kyle, you said in the end that if Thor was wet, and he got struck by lightning, then his clothes would blow off and he would get damaged. However, if the asgaurdian armor he was wearing was made from ulu, it wouldn't be damaged. if His skin was made to be more durable because of the lightning, it wouldn't be affected either. His hair would be made out of the same stuff as his skin, so it wouldn't get blown apart. Really, the only issue is with his cape, but that could have been made out of an extremely elastic material, which would minimize the damage. P.S. I love the show.
About 40 years ago, my dad was lying on the floor of the family room watching TV. There was a nasty thunderstorm outside. Apparently, lightning struck outside, bounced onto the concrete porch soaking wet from the storm, traveled to the steel door, and then traveled along a small leak to the metal strip separating the carpet from the linoleum. Dad says he saw the charge but couldn't move fast enough before it zapped him. It tore the metal strip off the floor. My brother was on the couch and saw it and jumped up shouting "Do it again, Dad, do it again!"
Hey Kyle love the show! Did I ever tell you I've been struck by lightning 7 times. -Once while I was repairing a leak on the roof. -Once just crossing the road to get the mail. -Once I was in the field tending to my cows. -Once I was riding my truck minding my own business. -Once just walking my dog down the road. Blind in one eye, can hardly hear, get twitches and shakes, always losing my line of thought but you know what? Just keeps reminding me I'm lucky to be alive. 😉
I almost got hit by lightning once. It struck a tree a few meters away from where I was standing. It was one of the most awesome and terrifying things I ever experienced. A few seconds before the strike, I could feel the energy building up in the air all around me. Every single hair on my body stood up just like if you were holding a static charged balloon next to them. Then it struck a big limb of the tree, which literally exploded. I don't know how I wasn't impaled by any of the slivers raining down. The flash was blinding and when my vision did return, the section of the tree that got hit was glowing red hot. I think it would have burned down the whole tree, if everything wasn't so wet at the time. The worst part was the deafening thunder clap. It was painfully loud, and I could feel the sound waves rippling through my whole body. My ears didn't stop ringing for weeks. If you ever played a shooter game, and been hit by a flashbang, that's pretty much the sensory effect it had on me. I'm not ashamed to say, I peed my pants some.
@@becausescience, your right iris went solid red; not like a red-eye reflection in the pupil or something. At first I thought it was a reference to Thor losing his eye, but it wasn't mentioned and then it changed back.
In the game Bioshock 2 there is a tonic that protects the player against electricity damage (loss of health) but electricity still hurts (the character groan and the controller vibrates indicating that he feels pain).
@@tonuahmed4227 A sword might magnetized by a bolt of lightning, but he would not be able to pull it using lightning or minions. Also metal does not attract lightning.
A great story book I read as a teen talks all about lightning. It's called Jolted and it's about a boy whose family is cursed to forever be killed by lightning strikes.
Could part of why the taser worked be from some sort of chemical or electrochemical effect because the blue seems to travel along his veins or is there some other reason for this
KYLE: The stories told in the eddas and the sagas explain that thor has not only his hammer, but he also has a belt, called Megingjord, and a pair of iron gloves called Jarngreipr. The belt is said to grant the strength of ten men, and the gloves are said the be the control device for mjolnir. Electromagnetism as a theory before science was a thing.
I've always wondered this and none of my research has given me a solid answer. Maybe I can get one here. Why can't we trap lighting for use later in our electrical grid?
Ian Aldred Because "lightning" isn't a tangible thing. It isn't a fluid. It isn't something you would trap. It isn't a concrete object. Lightning is just an electrostatic discharge. It's for the same reason you can't trap gravity. Gravity isn't an object.
9:06 I can't tell if that's accident, after effect, or does Kyle actually have different color eyes lol but nice video, you even cover skin effect which wasn't explicitly explained to us in my second year E&M
If you have ever seen slow motion foot age of lighting, it become clear lighting does not flow from the sky to the ground but from the ground to the sky. It just happens so fast our mind thinks it other way around.
The whole issue with control disks is they're supposedly chemically based tools to control folks like Thor or Korg on Sakaar by inducing pain in them. But in Ragnarok they do play it off as a shock effect, even if Thor in the same movie is generating the lightning from inside his body. In comics Thor has knocked himself out with his own produced lightning (and has hurt folks inside the sun with his lightning or the Silver Surfer who cruises through stars with his lightning). I dunno, Thor is a guy who bathes in constant streams of lightning he can produce and the control disks do a something to immobilize him and accumulated living rock beings like Korg.
Also Thor seems to store or generate electricity given his fight with Hulk and against Hela; and the obedience disks or whatever are also used on Korg, made of stone or equivalent and that should have a high resistance
I was struck by lightning. I was putting up a fence in FL when a storm came through- The lightning hit the fence- which i was not touching at the time (from what I understand- didn't really remember much) it arched into me- i was like 3 feet away. Blew my shoes off and I woke up in a hospital 3 days later. No permanent damage although I needed new shoes and I had some 3rd degree burns. And a mark from where the lightning hit me and out my foot. Looked cool but luckily did cause any permanent scars. I was told I was stupid lucky.
6:13 "The shape of this wire kind of reminds me of Loki's hole, it's -. But then he's -. He got *Unintelligible.* by an eggplant emoji.", don't I just love mishearing things~?
Am suddenly curious about your sexuality, Kyle. Never thought much of it but I feel like you've expressed a level of thirst for male characters before as well. :)
so if i’m inside a body of water and it gets struck would i die instantly? also why doesn’t thor die if lightning travels through the hammer and onto him?
Fascinating video, however, the devices from Sakaar that act like a Taser are supposedly using a neurotoxin (whenever the devices are activated, there is darkening of the arteries and veins) and not electricity, and when Thor was tasered in the original Thor, he was made into a mortal man without powers by Odin, so those are the in-universe reasons for why Thor doesn't seem to be immune to tasers.
Hey Kyle here is a random idea to discuss.: Gravity teathers. I was re watching the movie dead space downfall, and the USG Ishimura is a planet cracker in the lore of the universe of Dead Space. So the USG Ishimura is a "Planet Cracker", a orbital ship used to pull massive amounts of planetary resources at once. But the way they pull up that much mass is by "Gravity Teathers". I was thinking that that could be feasible if gravity particles could be harnessed and with specific equipment used could mankind eventually make such a feat in science, or is it even feasable to harness the power of gravity and use it in such a manner. I would love to hear a reply or something. Been a fan for a while, just never had the courage to write a post. Tha ks again for reading
Thanks for watching Super Nerds! *Immediate correction* (yay): around 12:40 I meant to say "low frequency, high voltage" space taser. Apologies. What you may not know is that I film these episodes all in one go, and so sometimes I get tired enough after 3 hours or so to make simple mistakes. See you in Footnotes. -- kH
well, no subtitles....................
I will see you there KH!
--MK
Nothing is immune to all things,as God of thunder he is immune to a point (as they say energy is energy) thus thor is not immune also as many of his opponents are not electrical based, he himself has no opportunity to condition himself to all forms but he could if he so chose to.
Your mistakes are forgiven Kyle you are the dopest. And I didn't know you did it all at 1 go so more props to you for that man. Your channel is the only RUclips channel I consistently watch.
Q: Since lighting is basically "just plasma", could that also answer how Thor could survive the blast from "a dying star"?
Also, are you wearing a contact lens about 9:00 in?
Wow thor explaining why thor can get shocked
Great job thor
The other Thor is a big boy now.
He must be super confident, not worrying about somebody taking advantage of his weaknesses.
@Andrew Gray tho its not inconceivable that its a toxin thats hurting thor, I was assuming the video was right. With that said, ur right electricity itself is not really a weakness. But assuming the video is right, it also points out that he can be hurt by it given the right conditions. If a super villian were to take advantage of this, given the amounts of electricity thor can normally channel, and kill Thor with his own powers. It maybe possible that a relatively weak display of his own powers maybe enough to kill him in that instance. Tho that last part is just speculation on my part.
Wait,!!!!,!!!!!!! Kyle's real name is THOR! Mind blown
@Andrew Gray interesting idea it'd be worth finding out wether that's the case or not.
FYI I never noticed the skin thing till you pointed it out good eye
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"Oh?! But ..."
"Don't worry. That is just a name."
"Oh ... phew."
"They are not really eels."
Why does this sound familiar but I can't find anything on the internet
Tyler Rogers I know, Futurama perhaps?
Reminds me of Princess Bride and the fire swamp, but I know it's not and just memory tricks.
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@@leftadin The Screaming Eels.
The hair of Thor, The face of Cap, and the brains of Banner/Iron Man. He's got it all!
Thor is actually very smart. Easily as smart, if not smarter than Kyle. Banner/Tony are some of the smartest people on the planet.....
@@jamesbizs Bs. Thor is one of the dumbest superheroes in Marvel, we already saw that from his interaction with Dr Strange and people who read comics already knew.
But yeah Tony and Banner are some of the smartest people on the planet. In fact, according to Marvel's Official list, Tony Stark is the smartest person on the planet after Reed Richards
Source - www.marvel.com/articles/comics/10-smartest-super-heroes
@@z7983 yeah but Thor speaks groot. That's got to count for something.
@@jamesbizs He was just trying to be nice. Why must you be a dick?
@@z7983 yeah Thor is dumb but Hulk is dumber (or atleast old Hulk not the professor) also Thor is quite powerful, one of the most powerful beings in the universe I should say
There's something I think several people tend to forget about the scenes with the "taser", and it's the way it makes Thor's veins stand out the way they do and the convulsions, neither of which is caused by something that produces laser-like effects. Instead, I would posit that it's some sort of neurotoxin that causes Thor's nervous system to shut down, and that the sparks and electrical noises are his body and powers struggling to fight it off, as we do not see this happen to Loki later in the movie. While this explanation covers the little neck implant, it wouldn't cover the shock net, but unless I'm mistaken the science presented here works well at discussing that particular piece of cinematic license.
0:44 "First we must understand what Thor is the god of"
Me: HE'S THE GOD OF HAMMERS
Why thor cant swim, he is a hammer
Phil Swift is the god of flex tape
@@phantomminer3293 JonTron is the god of game reviews
Robbie Rotten is the god of villains
Sans is the god of puns
And so on
Moto Moto and Ricardo are the gods of gayness
To be fair, his sister is the goddess of spikes
@@PapaBear_Gaming I thought she was the goddess of green. I thought my favorite color had a cool character😞
Thor has a really good Kyle impression throughout the video!!! Nice job Thor!!!
"Knowledge is power".
Now that you bring it up, Kyle could be a voice actor for Thor in a marvel animated show.
Hahahahahah
@@echbruh6598 or a young thor at least. ...
"But then he got strangled by an eggplant emoji"
🤣😂🤣
His Thor Impressum is almost perfect.
@@palpatinethesenatehog7086 Wdym? I think Thor just has a really good impression of Kyle
@@K..C fucking autocorrect ruind my comment cause i meant to say "impression" but it says "impressum" for some reason
@@palpatinethesenatehog7086 that's not auto correct, that's just your inability to type.
Thor doesn't have Volt Absorb
Jolteon > Thor
Just Some Guy without a Mustache Thor himself is having a confession for this
Ironman does
Dude check your inbox this is the gajillionth time I'm replying to your comment!😮
Just Some Guy without a Mustache Jolteon doesn't have Lightningrod
Raichu > Jolteon
Natalie Portman also shocked thor in the 1st movie 🙄
i like how Thor talks in third-person
You just explained why I lived through 3 indirect lightning strikes and only had my skin have burns. I'm sending this video to a couple friends, one of which saw me hit by two and thinks I'm somehow having some abnormal electrically insulating skin... who makes fun of me for being really electrical-shock phobic. I'm rational in my fear, he's the dipsh^t.
Wow danger
@@timohara7717 🤣 Now you sound like my one friend who thinks I ATTRACT lightning.
@@That80sGuy1972 what it's not dangerous? Your skin heated up
@@timohara7717 Ah. Now I know what you meant. Briefly, almost instantly, but it was hot enough in that time to burn.
Some people that survive a lighting strike develop the characteristic of attracting more lighting and to be sliglithly resistant to them
"would blow his clothes off, which...." [shrug]
Laughed out loud properly at that joke :D
But isn't there a video of a Japanese guy running down a street in the rain and he gets struck twice (he even leaves behind two dark scorch marks in the road) and lost none of his clothing. ...or is it just a case of you know you're having a bad day when even mother nature dosen't want to see you nekid?
Same lol.
@@skylx0812 He wasn't talking about Rain water in the video though, he was talking about oils and other possible more conductive liquids used to make their muscles shine.
@@Klespyrian are you really trying to say, that oils, would be more conductive, than water??? You know that they have computers filled with mineral oil, used as cooling.....
That video is fake lol
Love the chris impersonation, you know you actually might be a good voice actor 👏
He even had different colored eyes at one point lol
It not an impression of chris. Its chris doing an impression of kyle.
@@nadyicolon0122 Wait, what?
@@SuperZX49 One of his eyes is red at 8:59
I know right? Have you ever heard his Gollum impression?
4:00 The stomach detour is critical, Kyle. You must not allow the lightning to pass through your heart or the damage could be deadly.
Fucking Iroh
@@lordderppington4694 Am I correct in thinking that's an Avatar reference?
Airbender avatar not blue avatar.
@@hazeltree7738 the good avatar yes
@@lordderppington4694 Yup, it's a bit toph to tell them apart by name.
My jokes aren't funny I *see* what you did there.
Kyle: Can’t call it magic but can’t call it an exact science.
Thor: where I come from they are one in the same
I can’t believe nobody replied to this comment it’s amazing
This comment rocks bro
But Kyle = Thor
Lighting strike Survivability 90% is prolly why Azula from avatar the last air bender only killed like 1 person.
that or it was a kids show
Bitch
Plus people know how to defend against it using water bending technique.
@@izzyv830 yeah such as when telling of the monk temple being massacred, showing the literal corpse of aang's mentor.
What a kids show!
Hi, maybe. I'm still waiting for a Azula episode from Kyle, because I don't think her powers aren't only electrical but also radioactive. It would be more effective to "burn" the Avatar with "blue fire" (ionized air) than with a lightning strike!
"because ethics" brillant Kyle thank you ❤️
Except, ethics aren't universal. So I will try it. :)
YES!!! That is what the next sub-channel will be. Because ethics.
Dean Nah, ethics in the modern era are pretty universal. Human attitudes towards said ethics aren't. You can choose to agree or disagree with ethics. It doesn't make them not universal.
I could see Thor all Lebowski like sayin "Dont taze me bro"
That's like, just your opinion, man.
_"Is it Thor?"_
_"...well it stingsth a little."_
-Robin Williams
You're Thor?
Well it hurth.
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*I always see the **_"Thor-being-electrocuted"_** as his own insecurity causing him to fall down.* It's not just the device's doing, but his state within also.
Kyle's spooky red right eye @8:58 lolol
I was shocked by it too
What the hell was that? LMAO.
makes sense....but what if....naaa it cant be lol
Hey Kyle this video is SHOCKINGLY good.
But can you please do a video on Falcon's MCU flightpacks and the EX-Gear from Macross Frontier.
Barry Bend a vid on my favorite avenger? Yes please
he is just using a jetpack..what's so magical and requires a full episode about a piece of technology?
@@dead_shot_475 standing start flight and small size as well as power to carry 2 people.
@@barrybend7189
its made by man and not the ancient gods of Egypt..its not like the infinity stones or doctor Manhattan's powers..its a tiny jet..in a backpack
@@dead_shot_475 what he did do a video on Grappling hooks in videogames.
I always imagined that Thor had a sphere of ionised air surrounding him at all times which behaves like a faraday cage (negative charge so providing high resistance) which protects him from lightning but not other attacks that move through this air forcefully (tasers or electric spears). This could be an alternative to the idea his skin is resistant like you mentioned in the video.
8:59 Oh my god. His eye is so red.
Omg lol
420 bro
Thor explains why he is not immune to electricity
BTW love your show
Anyone else notice that he has 2 different colored eyes at about 9:00?
Spoiler alert! Thor had got a replacement in infinity war, so one is real and one is mechanical.
@@raytttc9636 not much of a spoiler anymore
@@garthe6631 r/wooosh
@@renaultluk6376 Found that one person who "r/" outside of Reddit
@@renaultluk6376 r/ woosh yourself. Both commenters were joking
Okay but it's clear that in Ragnarok that disc thing had a neural effect on Thor. Does no one notice the blue veins that pop up every time the disc is activated?
a better question is why Kyles right eye is red ? 9:00
Thank you Kyle for finally getting to my question about Thor and his electrical resistance.
And thank you for asking an interesting question. I enjoyed watching it.
Didn't the taser disk have prongs that attached underneath his skin? Wouldn't that solve the skin effect problem and direct the current through Thor's body?
yes
"Strangled by an eggplant emoji"
I'm fucking dead.
5:22 wait DC in a marvel movie
What is this a crossover episode
Yo was that a Bojack Horseman reference
Thor is not immune to electricity because
He is the god of thunder
Thx for likes
Amusingly Wikipedia says that Thor is the god of "thunder," "lighting," "storms," "strength" and.... "oak trees" Mythology is weird like that. - Also the protection of mankind and... fertility, of which I'm sure many lady fans of Chris Hemsworth will concur.
God of Hammers
Thunder is just the sound of Lightning, . . . . So as the god of thunder Thor would be able to create thunder at will and the only way to do that would be to be able to create lightning at will
I didn't watch the whole video, but it was a chemical reaction to generate the stun, supposedly. So that's it.
You mean criminally seductive god of thunder?😂
6:08 Wow!, I haven't studied this in my class. This is new to me.
Okay dude its 3am here and you freaked me the hell out by thanking me for watching because my name just so happens to be Glen. Then I remebered you do this for the purpose of freaking people out. Well played Kyle, well played.
12:52 "a space taser that is high frequency, low voltage" - said it the wrong way around there. you want low frequency, high voltage. small slip up ;P
also, there could be something more technical going on. the best kind of going on.
Gotta love technical stuff
Like how you can make 10,000% Fortify Enchant potions in Skyrim
High Voltage?
#SuddenACDC
Yeah I slipped up, sorry -- kH
That wasn't a electric taser it was a nerve neutralizer
Yeah man I've been trying to find someone else that knew this!
Not many people read Planet Hulk it seems.
You shocked Thor in the balls like four times. Why you gotta do that to him, man?
Because science!
Nay, pleasure
Dude your a damn good science teacher....I would be a hell of a lot smarter if I had a teacher this excited about science...excited you love what you do, your passion will show once asked about it...the excitement of explaining in a understandable simplified way will intrigue others...good job man...keep up the good work kale
8:39 Genius.
I had personally *theorised* that it had something to do with *bioelectricity* because Thor can't be immuned to it, otherwise he wouldn't be able to move.
And since (I assume) bioelectricity and lightning aren't the same thing I would say this *theory* should make (some) sense.
I have to admit I didn't really looked into it, it's just that I remember my biology teacher precising all the time that what travels through our nervous system is bioelectricity like if it wasn't just regular electricity which makes sense since say are meant to be transmitted by neuroreceptors like Acetylcholine.
@Andrew Gray ok, thanks.
I was confused because to me when two things are called differently it's because they are meant to be different different and so their names show it and to the contrary, when two things share the same name they are meant to be similar according to the definition of this name.
But apparently here scientists created the word "bioelectricity" where they should have used the word "electricity" 😅
It's like when different scientists work on different subjects and name totally different things/concepts by the same word, it's quite confusing 😅
What !? even here on Earth? I need to change my name, that badger will pay for this.
You sir win the internet today
You know what would be a badass name, TASER FACE!
Glad to see you survived the exploding space ship.
hahahahhaha taser face...
'The way he called thor a wide handsome Australian car' someone's got a crush 😁😂
The device that was planted on Thor is called an "Obedience Disk" and not something as simple as a shock collar, it not only shocks the subject but it also deprives the subject of their powers, it has been used on the likes of Hulk, The Silver Surfer, and even Beta Ray Bill.
The grandmaster is nearly 14 million years old in the comics so it's conceivable that he has technology far beyond our understanding of physics, to quote Arthur C. Clarke "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" or in this case, it looks like a simple device.
Great Video Kyle, keep up the awesome work!!!
As an Electrical Engineer, I approve of this video. :)
In ragnarok, the shock that stopped him was not just a shock. It hit his nervous system directly. The control disc on his neck went beneath the skin into the spinal cord.
Hey kyle, you said in the end that if Thor was wet, and he got struck by lightning, then his clothes would blow off and he would get damaged. However, if the asgaurdian armor he was wearing was made from ulu, it wouldn't be damaged. if His skin was made to be more durable because of the lightning, it wouldn't be affected either. His hair would be made out of the same stuff as his skin, so it wouldn't get blown apart. Really, the only issue is with his cape, but that could have been made out of an extremely elastic material, which would minimize the damage. P.S. I love the show.
"We can't call it magic, and we don't want to..."
me: "............I want to call it magic...It makes everything sound more whimsical."
More whimsical, but less actual -- kH
Your ancestors called it magic, now most of you call it science.
I come from a land where they are one and the same.
This video would have been an ideal time to perform a practical demonstration of what a taser does. What, are you afraid of a few thousand volts?
I am. -- kH
Some of us would be interested in seeing if the current blew your clothes off..
About 40 years ago, my dad was lying on the floor of the family room watching TV. There was a nasty thunderstorm outside. Apparently, lightning struck outside, bounced onto the concrete porch soaking wet from the storm, traveled to the steel door, and then traveled along a small leak to the metal strip separating the carpet from the linoleum. Dad says he saw the charge but couldn't move fast enough before it zapped him. It tore the metal strip off the floor. My brother was on the couch and saw it and jumped up shouting "Do it again, Dad, do it again!"
Hey Kyle love the show! Did I ever tell you I've been struck by lightning 7 times.
-Once while I was repairing a leak on the roof.
-Once just crossing the road to get the mail.
-Once I was in the field tending to my cows.
-Once I was riding my truck minding my own business.
-Once just walking my dog down the road.
Blind in one eye, can hardly hear, get twitches and shakes, always losing my line of thought but you know what? Just keeps reminding me I'm lucky to be alive. 😉
Darcy in Thor 1 also tased Thor with a human made taser so Valkyrie's taser disc can't be THAT special but then again, he was depowered at the time
Good point! -- kH
He was also getting knocked out by a car. But powered up he can take the full force of a dying star… so…
@@NinjaBearFilms And, nigh indestructible enemies like the Destroyer, Surtur and Hela
Darcy tased "human" Thor. Remember, at that point he had been stripped of his powers.
@@DavidTheGamer27 That's what I said
Loved the swap on your right eye contact from 9:00 to 9:10 XD.
"Let's evaluate this standard handheld Taser" proceeds to pull out a stun gun
I almost got hit by lightning once. It struck a tree a few meters away from where I was standing. It was one of the most awesome and terrifying things I ever experienced.
A few seconds before the strike, I could feel the energy building up in the air all around me. Every single hair on my body stood up just like if you were holding a static charged balloon next to them.
Then it struck a big limb of the tree, which literally exploded. I don't know how I wasn't impaled by any of the slivers raining down.
The flash was blinding and when my vision did return, the section of the tree that got hit was glowing red hot. I think it would have burned down the whole tree, if everything wasn't so wet at the time.
The worst part was the deafening thunder clap. It was painfully loud, and I could feel the sound waves rippling through my whole body. My ears didn't stop ringing for weeks.
If you ever played a shooter game, and been hit by a flashbang, that's pretty much the sensory effect it had on me. I'm not ashamed to say, I peed my pants some.
9:00 just thought I should point this out, your eye is red
Yeah, what happened there?
Was it? -- kH
@@becausescience, your right iris went solid red; not like a red-eye reflection in the pupil or something. At first I thought it was a reference to Thor losing his eye, but it wasn't mentioned and then it changed back.
@@becausescience Some bright light entered your eye causing you to bleed then you healed quick or that scene was filmed last.
Seeing how powerful lightning strikes are and the survivability they have was quite shocking.
13:33 that's Steve Roggers of "Because Science" verse.
In the game Bioshock 2 there is a tonic that protects the player against electricity damage (loss of health) but electricity still hurts (the character groan and the controller vibrates indicating that he feels pain).
Was that Valkyrie from God of War, boy?
(By the way this show is awesome keep up the good work!)
The shock discs from Sakaar target the nervous system directly.
That God of War Valkyrie art gave me flashbacks I didn’t need.
Time Stamp?
@@lukewhitsell942 12:35
But lightning in his eyes? Is that how he can call his hammer? He is magnetic on a certain level? So, Thor and Magneto would be unstoppable.
As I remember he did pull a sword and helas minions with lightning from thor ragnarok
@@tonuahmed4227 A sword might magnetized by a bolt of lightning, but he would not be able to pull it using lightning or minions. Also metal does not attract lightning.
14:20 great, thansks for the more questions
A great story book I read as a teen talks all about lightning. It's called Jolted and it's about a boy whose family is cursed to forever be killed by lightning strikes.
So, only Taserface has a chance at dealing ultra high damage to Thor!
Sadly, he passed away.
"...so if he summoned his lightning powers, he would blow his clothes off. Which...." [mysterious grin]
Could part of why the taser worked be from some sort of chemical or electrochemical effect because the blue seems to travel along his veins or is there some other reason for this
6:13 is the best thor I've heard and seen
He should have trained with Uncle Iroh. He knows everything about how not to get electrocuted.
KYLE: The stories told in the eddas and the sagas explain that thor has not only his hammer, but he also has a belt, called Megingjord, and a pair of iron gloves called Jarngreipr. The belt is said to grant the strength of ten men, and the gloves are said the be the control device for mjolnir. Electromagnetism as a theory before science was a thing.
I've always wondered this and none of my research has given me a solid answer. Maybe I can get one here. Why can't we trap lighting for use later in our electrical grid?
Ian Aldred Because "lightning" isn't a tangible thing. It isn't a fluid. It isn't something you would trap. It isn't a concrete object. Lightning is just an electrostatic discharge. It's for the same reason you can't trap gravity. Gravity isn't an object.
i heard about a guy that was struck by lightning twice and survived and after he died his grave was struck
9:06 I can't tell if that's accident, after effect, or does Kyle actually have different color eyes lol
but nice video, you even cover skin effect which wasn't explicitly explained to us in my second year E&M
I love your endothermic evolution of keratin proteins :3 Is it natural or product enhanced?
Who would win. Peter Griffin or Homer Simpson. Peter is the unstoppable Force and Homer is the immovable object.
Pretty sure that Sakarian disc was a nerve attack. You can see his veins go black then he’s shocked which a taser wouldn’t do.
If you have ever seen slow motion foot age of lighting, it become clear lighting does not flow from the sky to the ground but from the ground to the sky. It just happens so fast our mind thinks it other way around.
Thor:I am Thor, son of Odin, God of THUNDER, Prince of Asgard, protector of the nine realms, strongest Avenger
Kyle: I am……the God of…puns…I guess…
The whole issue with control disks is they're supposedly chemically based tools to control folks like Thor or Korg on Sakaar by inducing pain in them.
But in Ragnarok they do play it off as a shock effect, even if Thor in the same movie is generating the lightning from inside his body. In comics Thor has knocked himself out with his own produced lightning (and has hurt folks inside the sun with his lightning or the Silver Surfer who cruises through stars with his lightning).
I dunno, Thor is a guy who bathes in constant streams of lightning he can produce and the control disks do a something to immobilize him and accumulated living rock beings like Korg.
Also Thor seems to store or generate electricity given his fight with Hulk and against Hela; and the obedience disks or whatever are also used on Korg, made of stone or equivalent and that should have a high resistance
A video of original Thor talking about Thor: Ragnarok. This is great.
I was struck by lightning. I was putting up a fence in FL when a storm came through- The lightning hit the fence- which i was not touching at the time (from what I understand- didn't really remember much) it arched into me- i was like 3 feet away. Blew my shoes off and I woke up in a hospital 3 days later.
No permanent damage although I needed new shoes and I had some 3rd degree burns. And a mark from where the lightning hit me and out my foot. Looked cool but luckily did cause any permanent scars.
I was told I was stupid lucky.
Thor is basically a Faraday's cage
Um, actually, thor is the god of thunder, Kyle, not lightning.
(I'm just kidding I love you)
Thunder is the sound/shoke wave that is followed by the lightning bolt. So he will called God of Sound.
Wrong on both accounts. He is the god of hammers
You must be pretty good at writing backwards
Jack Dineen I don't even think most people realize he has to do this
Skin Effect is related to frequency. If you think about it, lower frequency AC is closer to DC, as its more like DC relative to time.
6:13 "The shape of this wire kind of reminds me of Loki's hole, it's -. But then he's -. He got *Unintelligible.* by an eggplant emoji.", don't I just love mishearing things~?
So glad I wasn't the only one who heard that the first time around- x'D
I believe him! I believe every thing this man says because he IS THOR.
I knew he couldn't let himself have no proof of how he does it aswell
Am suddenly curious about your sexuality, Kyle. Never thought much of it but I feel like you've expressed a level of thirst for male characters before as well. :)
It's almost like it's never come up before because it's nobody's business.
Shocking.
it wasn’t a shock collar, in ragnarok. If I remember correctly it was nerve poisoning or something like that in the comics .
13:43 So...that scene in Thor: The Dark World, where Thor makes it only rain around him and Jane....probably wasn't a good idea on his part.
You called him the God of Lightning. He's not. He's the God of Thunder
Imagine if he could make thunder, but not lightning. Bargain bin superpower.
That explains it, he's not immune to lightning coz he's immune to thunder
Thought you might have sighted the time a soccer team got taken out by ground current when the pitch got struck during a game.
Thank you for your good puns and punishments for said puns. 🥰
You should do a collab with Game Theory!
Bro why are you speaking in third person about yourself?
so if i’m inside a body of water and it gets struck would i die instantly?
also why doesn’t thor die if lightning travels through the hammer and onto him?
Fascinating video, however, the devices from Sakaar that act like a Taser are supposedly using a neurotoxin (whenever the devices are activated, there is darkening of the arteries and veins) and not electricity, and when Thor was tasered in the original Thor, he was made into a mortal man without powers by Odin, so those are the in-universe reasons for why Thor doesn't seem to be immune to tasers.
I did a study on lightning back in early 2002... statistics at that time said survival was only 10%.... how has it changed to 90% since then?
Hey Kyle here is a random idea to discuss.:
Gravity teathers.
I was re watching the movie dead space downfall, and the USG Ishimura is a planet cracker in the lore of the universe of Dead Space. So the USG Ishimura is a "Planet Cracker", a orbital ship used to pull massive amounts of planetary resources at once. But the way they pull up that much mass is by "Gravity Teathers". I was thinking that that could be feasible if gravity particles could be harnessed and with specific equipment used could mankind eventually make such a feat in science, or is it even feasable to harness the power of gravity and use it in such a manner.
I would love to hear a reply or something. Been a fan for a while, just never had the courage to write a post. Tha ks again for reading