What if the UNIVERSAL Logo was REAL?
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- Опубликовано: 7 июн 2024
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What would happen if the Universal Studios logo ACTUALLY appeared in orbit above earth? In this video Wren takes you along on a journey to find out!
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00:00 What Would Happen if the Universal Logo was Real?
02:05 The Challenge of Recreating the Logo
02:55 How it Would Look, Depending on Where you Are
04:48 Calculating the Core Physics
07:01 Calculating the Gravitational Forces
08:27 Our Hero, Scott Manley Explains All
11:06 Could the Logo Lift You Off the Ground?
11:54 The True Chaos that Would Ensue 
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I legitimately want you guys to try to pitch this movie idea to Universal Studios.
And get Roland Emmerich on it!
And the universal logo in the start would flow straight into the movie.
@@MonthTea that would actually be really cool, similar to how columbia studios sometimes does their intros.
Just gave me an idea
@@MonthTea that would be neat
This was a fun thought experiment. I think you’d enjoy the book “Seven Eves” for many many reasons.
Hey Destin! Pretty cool to catch you over here on Corridor Crew!
An extremely fun book with one heck of an acid trip for a third act.
This is proof destin has been using cgi and all his experiments are fake! Lol just kidding
Yes! Another book that popped into my head was "The Three Body Problem" by the Chinese writer Liu Cixin. Also very interesting and fun to think about!
Destin! It would be awesome to see a cross over with you and Wren!
I can say with certainty that the Universal Logo that was introduced about 25 years ago or so was made of Solid Brass - about 1.25 inches thick. I made them for the design studio that was commissioned to create the new Universal opening. I used a company that had a Wire EDM machine (Electro Discharge Machining) to cut the letters into separate pieces. It was shot with a motor control camera system that "flew" the letters in one by one , with the proper offset to give the proper spacing for the letters. I would assume that the letters are now on some execs office at Universal . . they were each very heavy !
cool
So it would be a lot lighter in total, but if it ends up melting, doesn't brass give off toxic fumes when it melts? I wonder what impact that would have.
I'm gonna assume you're talking about the 1990 logo that was a complex rig before they switched to CGI.
There's a fun story about the opening titles for Waterworld. The concept in those titles is that the Universal logo appears as normal, then the Universal text fades out and the camera starts descending towards Earth while the oceans flood the continents. The VFX company hired to do the opening titles, PSF, assumed that the then current Universal logo (mid-90s) had been done with CGI and asked for the assets to be sent over. They did get the assets sent over - a 4-foot globe encased in a wooden crate.
In the end they had to recreate the Earth and surrounding space elements from scratch, with the Universal text carefully rotoed and composited in from a scan of the existing optical title elements.
@@Zacabeb PSF: "Yup, 4ft box. Takes up a lot of (1995) harddisks". 🤣
The Solid Brass Logo that I fabricated for the Universal Studios Logo, was for a company I believe called Studio Effects - they had also been part of the refresh for the Paramount Studios Movie Introduction . This was shot at a facility called the Chandler Stages located in the Marina Del Rey area of LA, where they had the large Motion Control Cameras System that shot the Letters as separate elements. If there was any CGI it would have been in the very early days of Digital Compositing - but that was in post production which I had no involvement.
so the logo was ACTUALLY made of metal?
FINALLY FIXED!!!! RUclips Editor glitched out and this video was unlisted for a bit. It's all back and fixed now, thanks for being patient. Enjoy the show!
I was wondering what had happened. I just started watching it and everything was out of sync.
oh ok😊
Can't wait!
haha so wierd to see this
thought my brand new laptop is laggging...thanks god
A movie about the universal logo would be funny
Edit: does this mean I'm famous now? Maybe my dad will finally come back with the milk now
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A move?
@@hotcat127 shhhhhht I already corrected it 😂
*could be funny
Only through the movie scientists are debating if its natural or aliens but what they don't know is its the universal logo till the very end of the film.
Love how Wren managed to turn this insane world ending scenario into something wholesome at the end
“That was my desert :(“ sounded so sad
Such a niche concept, yet so _universally_ epic
I see what you did there
I see what you did last summer ...That was a fine ass why you didn't fuck her . From when did, " you are my sister " became an excuse
It seems Roland Emmerich just should stick with this
Well played
Never write another comment again.
/j
I would love to see a movie about the universal logo and have references to all the other movies they made
That would undeniably awesome, but no chance that'll happen
1:45 "is that the U-nited States?" what a Funny Convenience lol.
This is a question I’ve never asked, but I in fact never knew I needed the answer to. Thank you Wren for reporting only the highest of intellectual questions!
Exactly!
I know right man
Dude right? This was awesome to think about. Especially when he went into the fact another object would be in space looking back at us; this was running through my head as soon as we got started - especially since that's how our moon was formed.
-Lol you're welcome-
But yes, same.
911 likes💀💀
*I think Wren and Michael from Vsauce should start a channel that focuses on stuff like this. I'd watch every second.*
Why skip every other? ;)
They even work on the same street already. Their buildings are opposite each other.
@@BaldMancTwat wait what
with Adam Savage.
They really should!
11:15 bro found the concept of bridges 😂
Bro, an ad was litterally in the middle of his "haircut transition", totally wrecked it. 2:40
Wren seems like the person who could be friends with literally anyone. Seems like a great guy
He seems like a guy who's cool on camera but in reality is cool
Imagine having a friend like Wren. There'll never be dull moments.
We can only wish...
Protect Wren at all cost!
This moment is dull.
fwrend
I appreciate how you clipped the movie Another Earth in this video! It's always cool to see perhaps lesser known stuff getting some attention!
5:54 "Hollow or solid?"
"Hola."😂
Wren is genuinely the greatest asset Corridor has. Seems like he constantly has ideas for interesting videos and they all convey his vision and the points of the videos perfectly.
Wren was one of their first hires way back and has always been a great addition to the team.
Ya go wren!!
🍔
Most people ask "Why" or "Why not?" Wren is like the drive thru lady in "Dude, Where's My Car."
What if the Universal logo was real?
Wren: "And then?"
Scientifically what would that mean?
Wren: "And then?"
Uh....what's the worst case scenario of this?
Wren:" . . . . . And.......THEN??????"
That's the video?
Wren: "And then?????"
@@steeljawX Everyone is asking "Why" is Wren, we should all be asking "How" is Wren.
This episode is definitely a testament to why science fiction is so damn compelling as a genre
I hate this planet.
@@DoremiFasolatido1979 then stop being on it
@@PoggersFloppa"I don't want to live on this planet anymore"
@@vladimirirkhinok than get off this planet 🤷
@@vladimirirkhin i live on mars
This video is awesome, I'm so glad i came back to it after the audio glitch.
Here before this blows up
2 likes and 1 reply
@@PowerSergeit ain’t blowing up anytime soon 😅
I think this is one of the best vids you guys have done. That was so interesting I want more!
I love how everyone is coordinating to turn on the lights every time the letters cast a shadow
I'm just imagining millions of light sensors going crazy. That's why the logo goes around the night time size of the planet, to be more courteous.
Wren just freely gave a multi-million dollar idea for any movie company that are serious enough to actually make this into a movie
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Now they just need to add on the annotation that says "And let us make it for you!"
Another Earth (2011)
@@darraghodonovan I might just watch that movie now
Universal: The Movie, coming to theaters in 2027 near you.
For the people who dared to say: ”you cannot make a movie about Battleship or Tetris”, we say: ”hold on to your inflatable water donuts, for you are in for a surprise!”
Wren's videos are always my favorite. Science and space are my spirit animals!
Your vids are crazy i love the amount of effprt keep it up man
That’s why the Universal intro freaked me out as a kid!
Uranus is here sucks
Pluto is a planet
Why is this the almost non popular comment
Having 14 likes is crazy
universal balls
Depending on how fast the logo would rotate, people could more efficiently tell the time by looking up into the sky and seeing where the logo is located and what letters are visible.
for the brief seconds before they obliterate
"Hey mate do you have the time?"
"Oh yeah it's about _looks up_ Half past E"
"Thanks man."
Oh so like the sun? 🤣
Only if there are any people😅
unless you are north
I'm glad y'all were able to get the channel up again!
LOVED the reference to the double rainbow video @ 4:11! And great video overall
Dude, you just got so many kids interested in space because of this. I've been into Scott Manley, Marcus House, Fraser Cain, Felix Schlang Joe Scott, Sabine Hossenfelder etc. for years and I'm pretty sure you may have single handedly influenced hundreds of young minds to shape out future. Rock 'n' roll, Wrenski...
Creator of logo in 1990
_"Dude, it was just a sketch while sitting on the toilet"_
Undeniable proof that the world is round. How else would the universal logo go around the world?
It could rotate around the disc perpendicularly.
I'll see myself out.
Holy shit, the proof has been right before our eyes this whole time
I am glad that my video has helped you in some way in your project.
Oh hello! I loved that Universal logo video and I loved it. I also love your channel.
Goated content.
Santos bacalaos, ¡es el jefe!
it was pure dark
you are a very underrated youtuber ill be watching your videos alot more, i didnt even know you existed but thanks for making this its very entertaining!
excellent stuff. would love to see more science/tech focused episodes from you guys
Since Universal is a movie company, I think the letters should be made as if they are props. My assumption is they would be wood with the minimal amount of internal structure. Gathering enough wood to make that would cause its own set of massive ecological issues.
@@JJBrothers2admig Since Universal needs to save money, the letters are hollow, covered only with a metal foil that is a few atoms thick.
What if other movie studios should the same thing of doing it in real life
I think plastic
The real damage is the deforestations we've made along the way.
If that were the case, the letters would plummet to Earth causing a extinction level event due to the gravitational pull of the Earth.
Wren and Scott Manley; the crossover I didn't know I needed. Thanks guys!
I saw both show up on my subscriber feed and my first thought was that they happened to have the same idea at the same time before I realized it was a collab...
@@annaairahala9462same haha I was convinced it was an amazing coincidence
12:40 and thats how the grandline was created :D
I never thought I would see this but I have always wondered thank you so much crew!
I love how unnecessarily specific the details are on these videos!
No way Scott Manley!? I used to watch his Kerbal Space Program videos because of how cool and educational it was, also I liked his voice.
Hullo, fellow Kerbonaut. Fly safe! o7
yessss the goat
he made me want to be an aerospace engineer. then my grades took a hit and now i want to grow weed in canada. so.
Got to love a Scottish accent!
@@Crazyclay78YT Well either way you'd be helping people get high!
I was wondering about this! Thx for making this video!
Honestly these type of vids with wren are my fav besides the super og vlogs
I love this thought experiment! It would fit so well into Randall Munroe's "What if?"-Series, which I highly recommend!
Absolutely! Someone should ask it in "What If?"
ooh, would love to see Corridor Digital do a complete What If series...
I was thinking of "What If?" the entire time watching this video. Helps me realize how much work Randall puts into each one of his questions.
Time for a collab!
lol yes
I love the creativity the led to asking this question, I love Wren’s enthusiastic delivery, and I love that you got a collaboration with Scott Manley! ❤
This opens so many more questions! Like what if hallow? What if different metal? Like what if helium balloons?What if they had alien tech to keep them all separated? What if the old logo was used? What would moon be like? Who built it? Who sent it?
The things we send to space especially metal are usually all hollow, then the material has to be sourced from here so it's only better if it's hollow, maybe at the thickness of the space station
Did not expect to see Scott Manley! What a great collab! I've been watching him ever since his early KSP stuff. Fly safe.
dope.
omg HOW ARE YOU NOT POPULAR YET
I know your scenario was using some magic force to keep the logo (generally) in place, but it would be fun to see it play out all the way. The logo is well within the Roche limit so it would be ripped apart and rain down on Earth, but as it did, it would also fall closer to Earth and have greater gravitational impact as the center of the letters mass descended. There would be a point where the remnants of the letters would have greater local gravitational pull than the Earth from the surface of Earth, though it would probably be VERY brief. Of course, that one's not so easy of a calculation. You might have to get Scott to take over the spreadsheet at that point.
Very idea of the logo coming into real life scenario was just brilliantly awesome, and the process steps trying to figure out the mass n gravity is mind bending, very inspiring 😊 love u guys the entire corridor crew 👏👏👏👏
Your videos are so good that I'm prepared to watch them even when the audio is completely out of sync 😂😂
My god, I thought I was the only one having this out of sync audio issue since I couldn't find any comments about it 😂
I started watching it last night. There was a clip right before the Corridor logo pops up where you can see the logo moving in the sky. I think RUclips cut the video part out for copyright reasons.
Jesus Christ, I was trying to find my computers audio problem the whole time!! thank you
lmao i thought i was the only one having this issue
I love wren but this was hard to watch 😅
Griffin was working on the thumbnail of 2 weeks ago VFX artist react video. It's amazing how much work and time planing is required for these videos. Thanks Wren and CC.
Meanwhile I’m all like “I can’t believe we made this video so fast” haha
They started working on this around or even before ThinkerCon 2023 which was almost two months ago, as Wren and Scott met there.
I was skeptical clicking this but you nailed it! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
I liked the part where you mentioned that the equator was due south of LA. Yeah, that’s how the entire northern hemisphere works, actually. AND the equater is also SW, SE, SSW, SSE, etc of LA.
The fact that Scott the Rocket Scientist is like "it's just a vector equation!" made me giggle 😂
"I'm an Astrophysicist. I'm not a rocket scientist, I just play one on the internet." 😁😁
Seeing Scott Manley was a surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one.
Dang you gave me an idea for my software dev/Eng job search. Good job Wren.
This was freaking awesome Ren!!!
The moment I saw Wren starting with the calculations I thought "Probably Scott will have something to say about it" and then... BAM! Scott helping Wren with the numbers.
is anybody else experiencing some wild desync on this video? the sound feels like it's 10 seconds behind what's happening on screen
that movie idea at the end sounds awesome!!
Yes
I love seeing them making other videos during this video because it’s so weird without context
The amount of study and passion Wren puts in these videos is amazing. Love it.
It would be nice to know how things would have turned out, if the logo was assumed to be hollow (which would be more realistic, if it were actually build).
Missed opportunity
No, the whole point was for things to escalate and get as crazy as possible
No known material could support a structure this big. It will be pulled apart by the earth's, the moon's and the sun's gravity while also collapsing under it's own. Debris rain down on earth as a less devastating but still a potentially civilisation ending meteor shower. The end.
@@icevlad148uhh it doesnt have to be supported magic exists
@@ifallious then whatever you want to happen would happen.
Also op asked for a "realistic" take on the idea, so i pumped out something more or less realistic.
He starts talking about time and Interstellar-like music starts playing
That's an amazing entry for the Film Theorist
The effect of the Universal Logo orbiting the Earth was shown in the intro to Waterworld (1995). It caused the polar ice caps to melt, flooding the entire planet.
But the nine letters in the 1995 Universal logo were smaller, thinner, and further from the planet. The calculations are made based on the current logo that has been used since 2012... Maybe they weren't so dangerous to the planet back then.
There's an additional factor you didn't consider in your renderings. The letters are well within the "Roche limit" of the earth for their masses meaning not just are things on the earth being dragged up into the sky, but the letters are being torn apart by the differential strength of gravity between the near face and far faces of each letter. This would cause molten metal to stream off of the letters into lower orbits, quickly forming an accretion disk around the earth. It isn't just "splashes" of metal from collisions between the letters that will be raining but an entire accretion disk.
yeah they wouldn't form a moon, they would form an unstable ring.
13:25 he did explained why they wouldnt break forming a ring
I did actually! I calculated the Roche limit for every letter. Because that equation is density based, and because the density ratio we’re dealing with is so extreme, the Roche limit wasn’t actually ever reached! So the letters wouldn’t have turned into an accretion disk! I was a little surprised, as I had plans to make a big shiny disk around earth, and even calculated the diameter at various thicknesses.
But in the end it didn’t really feel necessary for this video because by the time the Roche limit was reached, the earth was already melting. And it would’ve been the earth that started breaking up, not the platinum. Hence why I ended it with the double earth scenario.
-Wren
@@CorridorCrew Now it makes me wonder about those other letters floating in space the begin with "It is a period of civil war..."
@@CorridorCrew the 'double earth' surprised me.
I figured the two spheres would just combine and Earth after it cooled in probably a million years would have a massive platinum core. I guess because the letters are in geosynchronous orbit they had enough momentum to keep separated? The atmosphere would have slowed them down a bit, especially since their own gravity would increase the drag, gravitational drag is a thing, momentum energy would transfer from one body to another.
I still applaud you on a very complex simulation.
This is normally given to supercomputers to figure out.
So excited by the surprise Scott Manley
Manley is the man. Perfect colab for this video. GG
Seeing you together with Scott Manley in both of your videos really made one of the best cross over experiences for me I ever had ❤
I think my RUclips is broken, the sound is off by like 6 seconds
great video Wren. but i think you should do these crazy ideas videos more often.
3:53 omg theyre making another AI animation, this is gonna be sick!
I’ve always wondered what it would look like, but never have I ever wondered what it would do the planet. This is incredible!!
“You might be safe in a submarine, but you won’t be safe for long” didn’t age too well
Plz do more of these ‘what if’ scenarios.. love it and truly educational … maybe a new colab channel on the horizon?
Always, Good job Wren
Just because I love Wrens personality, I will always watch one of his videos. No matter the subject; he’s just so damn entertaining.
13:24 "you might be safe in a submarine at the equator..." - Wren
This was the smartest and funny science experiment on the internet
Love your efforts
9:30 I understand this😂😂turns out my Engineering course actually make sense
Would be fun to make a movie that starts with the universal logo as usual but the earth in the back reacts correctly and goes all kinds of crazy and then it slowly zooms in to focus on a certain spot with protagonists. Would be a cool oner (single camera take, no cuts).
Wren, never stop wondering, my man. Your creativity and curiosity always lead us to greater videos and thought experiments.
12:57 I love ho there’s just a plane casually flying over
Wren is so engrained in the digital world that he pronounces equator as if it's short form for electronic quator.
I love how you contacted Universal and they would not help in providing the raw 3D files, so you create them from scratch, nice one 😁
whenever you’re talking and i’m not looking, i just imagine Serial Designation N talking about this stuff
i like this
The look on Wren's face when Nick ganks his sodawater is priceless!
This journey got me more engaged than actual adventure movies
When a company decides to contact Corridor for promotion, you get an educational science video to a question you never thought you needed the answer to
There was a movie about two planets that were connected at a single point but I can’t remember what it was called. I’m curious why you didn’t touch on the orbital speed the logo had to have to keep from colliding into the earth. Great video though, very in depth!
If it was real, we’d hear the words “Comcast” at full volume in CinemaSins’ voice.
Wren always want to make the things that no one wondered into a reality
0:01 Do not go onto roof for any reason except emergency. Patrick: is filming an emergency?
12:56 😮 OMG I remember this film *2012*
14:35.....that's why it's called....UNIVERSAL.......OHHHHH!!!
I always like to think of the universal logo as just a giant space station.