WELL ACTUALLY... :D * The torpedoes do not have to travel 60km after entering the exhaust port. The dialogue clearly states that the port leads directly to the reactor system, but also that the torpedoes will set off a chain reaction that will destroy the station. The (rather lowres) animation shown at the briefing also demonstrates this with graphics of the explosions getting larger as they descend into the station until arriving at the core. * Also. Star Wars clearly states that the weapons are "lasers" but also show particle/plasma like subluminal beams or bolts. This could mean that the lasers are used to energise and accelerate the particles rather than using them directly. This would still legitimately earn the weapons the moniker "laser" just as guns are often referred to as "FIRE"arms, despite the actual damaging mechanism being terminal kinetic energy poisoning. Perhaps the Death Star's "laser" just needs to bore a temporary cavity to the planet's core, where the visible particle beam then delivers a payload of antimatter. The antimatter then trapped in the high density core reacts with the core and causes a cascade of annihilations as it boils outwards. The density of the planet itself attenuating the emiitted gamma rays into a cascade of nuclear reactions that releases more fission energy and attenuates the rays into heat that blows the planet apart. Just a thought. (or three).... Evil
Hulk most certainly has the strength to jump into space. Does the ground have the ability to allow the transfer of energy necessary to do it? That is the real question.
There's also the question of drag through the atmosphere. Remember that goes up with the velocity squared. Try to go faster in order to get into space quicker and avoid the drag and you've actually just increased the drag.
I’m no comic book expert, but hasn’t he already done it? In the storyline where he gets so angry he can destroy planets (world breaker hulk) doesn’t jump from one planet to another?
4:35 oh now you're just *luke* ing for puns also, the deathstar's "laser" isn't a laser... it uses giant kyber crystals to form the beam, just like a lightsaber... so it would be the same material as a saber (which is why they can converge on a single point instead of passing through 13:17)... sooo if you call a lightsaber plasma, the deathstar's "laser" would also be plasma. with all that said, the beam would then be matter and thus have mass..
FryingPan Why would that automatically make it worse? The reason the calculation comes out so bad with it being a laser is because it's traveling at the speed of light. If it was plasma it's no longer light so not traveling at that speed. If a plasma beam was fired and even though it has more mass, if it was traveling a lot slower then the recoil would be way less. Note that you can physically see the beam traveling in Star Wars, so it's going nowhere near the speed of light.
I liked that last line from this video. So long as you are doing what you are passionate about and you are improving yourself at it, you are successful.
It was built as an open ended blade like swinging your Wii controller or a sword with a blade that was not fastened down so it activated and the power shot out and with no real control to it the planet was destroyed from the inside out (like a nuked jaw breaker :). And blasters are basically a gas launcher not a laser weapon.
TiagoTiago it would be more like a giant lightsaber because of the kyber crystals. blasters did not use kyber crystals.. blasters could be powered using "Dedlanite" and used different gasses to create the bolt colors and effects (stunning, burns, bleeding, etc.)
Basically the death star was a giant force gun. Kyber crystals use some from of electrical energy to generate a magnectically sealed plasma blade via the force (kyber crystals are a basically a force conduit). The death star is essentially the same but on a brokenly epic scale. And because star wars tech has more in common with actual magic than science its possible to do all this in such a way as not to actually apply recoil because space magic, and its in a galaxy that seems to have its own laws of physics and is full of people who are genetically conditioned to not understand the most basic of military tactics in the first place.
I have always assumed that part of Galen Erso's genius was that he solved for the stability of an Einstein-Rosen Bridge (or rather a whole bunch of them), so that the Death Star's LASER is actually a spherical array of lasers pointing at a few different points within the Death Star, emerging at or near the cannon port of the Death Star, and then a secondary set of them (immediately next to the Death Star) that would re-focus them all pointing forward. If this *wasn't* the case, then why would the Death Star have been so difficult to engineer in the first place, such that the Empire would expend the ridiculous resources required to go on a galaxy-wide manhunt for a former engineer?
What about a semi orbital focusing array ? A device positioned away from the Death Star at the theoretical convergence point of the lasers that would both focus them into a single beam and then redirect them at the desired target ?
I know I'm a bit late on this one, but I just thought of something... In Return of the Jedi, the Death Star is close enough to the surface of the moon that it can be easily seen from the ground and looks almost as big as our moon, despite being a lot smaller than that. This means the Death Star would have to be orbiting REAAALLY close. Since the Death Star isn't just a solid ball of metal and is at least 50 to 60% hollow, wouldn't Endor's gravity itself be enough to put a lot of stress on the station's structure due to the nearer side of the station to the moon experiencing a grater gravitational pull than the farther side? Could this force alone rip it apart just like what Jupiter does to comets that get too close?
There is a scientific explanation for how Star Wars beam weapons work, Negative Matter, NM. While not ever observed, it is theoretically possible that matter of negative mass exists. If a civilization could harness that it would explain a great many things in Star Wars, but let's start with converging beams and lightsabers. While referred to as lasers and and laser swords, what if, in fact the Kyber Crystals used by the Death Star Super Laser, DSSL, and Light Sabers, LS, are in fact a means by which to harness and control and NM? The glow we then see if a magnetic plasma (cold plasma) used to contain and isolate the NM. In a converging beam weapon like the DSSL, the individual beams act like giant LS's and keep the NM in place until enough has built up to reach critical mass for the target (A ship, a city, a planet), at which time an impulse laser forces the NM down the magnetic containment beam into the target. Tarkin's single reactor shots would indicate that the DSSL reactors might run, or contain, NM so that allows the DSSL to have a variable yield. Similarly, an NM core LS would explain how they react. LS have been seen to bounce off normal matter unless forced into them, and even a saber lock, where two LS's come into contact and remain together, are ended first, but forcing the LS's together. See, once the the magnetic cold plasma shell is breached, NM will repel normal matter, so when swung with enough force they would create a cutting edge (assuming say the beam is only a few atoms thick) and the cold plasma would cauterize the wound. Similarly, if two LS come into contact, the NM cores would attract to one another. But, due to the nature of NM, pulling will not separate them, but pushing would. This could actually from the core of all Star Wars weapons and tech (repulsor lifts, hyperdrives, etc...) The crystal fuel source from Solo could be an expendable version of the crystals needed to harness NM, whereas Kyber Crystals are far more stable and last longer. Anyway, just a thought.
The issue you describe with antimatter can be seen when people play with sodium and water. Some have been hurt when they threw a big chunk of sodium into water and the small explosion created by the contact basically threw back the chunk of sodium at them…
Alright, normally I don't comment because I don't have much to say but you are overlooking a crucial part of the Star Wars Universe. I didn't state this in the last video because I too forgot about it until now. Acceleration isn't a problem in the Star Wars Universe: I repeat. ACCELERATION ISN'T A PROBLEM IN THE STAR WARS UNIVERSE! Ships "jump" to light speed all the time, without the occupants becoming paste from the rapid acceleration rate. I don't know precisely how fast they're reaching light speed, but it happens in a matter of seconds (faster, even, if you exclude hyperdrive warmup time) so their acceleration rate is DEFINITELY lethal. How this is accomplished safely is unexplained, but I have a theory. Kinetic Energy exchangers. This is a fantastical universe. If lasers and light speed hyperdrive is a thing, we can have energy exchangers capable of controlling the amount of kinetic energy a system has. Hyperdrive computers likely contain massive energy exchangers that transfer the heat energy from the ship's engine into kinetic energy that is directly injected into every molecule of every item of mass inside the ship (this would also explain why larger ships tend to be faster). Because the force of acceleration then becomes internal instead of external, everyone accelerates safely because they aren't actually feeling the acceleration or deceleration rates. They're just suddenly moving. If this is the case, a station the size of the death star could easily harness it's massive heat output into kinetic energy via kinetic energy exchangers, but instead of flooding the entire station with kinetic energy, it would flood the light particles in the laser. This would cause the light to suddenly be moving extremely fast (about the speed of light) in a single, focused direction, without the need for external acceleration forces.
I always thought that the point of hyperspace is that the ships shift into a parallel dimension whose respective distances are smaller than those in the physical universe, thereby avoiding the need to move quickly in order to get places. Although it could be that hyperdrives are explained differently somewhere within that universe.
Xanthanarium - since it's all fantastical the Death Star and FTL ships' science probably includes Inertial Dampening which accounts for that sudden acceleration. What it works as is a force generated by the ship's energy that is designed to reinforce the structure of objects within their perimeter. The forces are such that objects maintain their size and true mass but behave like hyper dense objects in relation to their external environment with attraction towards the designated floor/down direction to approximate internal gravity.
C'mon guys, they have inertial dampeners and gravity well projectors. Acceleration means nothing because they have machines to counteract inertia and gforces.
Bleeding Raindrops, I just realized the same thing. (According to Legends [RIP]) Inertial Compensators are used to prevent this problem, and can either dampen (for starfighter pilots) or remove entirely (jumps to hyperspace) the effects of inertia. Xanthanarium, Hyperspace is either the bending of space in such a way that the space in front of the ship is smaller, and the space behind is larger, or moving faster than light. This is why you need to calculate your path with a NavComputer so that you don't run into planets or black holes, and cause a similar reaction as seen in The Last Jedi.
It seems that the artificial gravity would indeed be a fix to the recoil problem. The reason I say this is because artificial gravity is essentially inertial control. The ability to direct inertial mass in any direction you need to create gravity. Star Trek calls them inertial dampeners, but essentially, that is the system that keeps their feet on the deck and bodies from plastering against the bulkheads when they accelerate.
I have to make a little correction/addition Vaders mother might not have been just a Genetic Chimera, she might have been a Genetic Mosaic. With a Mosaic such as swyers syndrome , where the genetics are male but the body female due to a broken Y chromosome , the offspring could be a genetic clone of the parent. all the force would have to do is 'fix' the Y chromosome in the offspring, and Anakin is born.
Fertility would be greatly affected, but it's not impossible. About half the "egg" cells would have a Y chromosome, but throw enough feces at a wall...
I'm hoping everyone realizes that when his mother stated, "There was no father... etc" that she meant he was not involved in any way of Annie's upbringing. Not that it was immaculate conception... or space magic. (She was prolly raped)
Side note: These momentum and acceleration considerations are part of what makes "The Expanse" so cool. Its one of the few franchises that take actual physics and realities of life in space into direct account in their story lines! (If you haven't seen it and read the books... what are you waiting for?)
He mentions in the video this footnotes is to that even a planet would be pushed back by the force of the laser. And since the recoil will hit the crust of the planet first, you may just end up breaking the planet open like a lava filled egg.
SKB was even worse. It took the matter from an entire sun, and threw it across interstellar distances. Every shot would destroy the solar system it’s in, and fling the entire planet across the stars. Likely at speeds faster than the deathstar would be propelled at, since it’s just dealing with the momentum of the light, and not the combined mass of a star.
Kacper Malinowski Your probably right. The star killer base weapon systems are probably impossible, but the idea of making a planet into a weapon with a lazer (the size of the one on the Death Star) is definitely less dangerous considering that it would have almost the same mass as a planet. AND unlike the Death Star most of it wouldn’t be hollow. I’m not sure if this amount of increased mass would be enough to counter the acceleration, but it would most definitely accelerate slower, possibly at a survivable speed.
I had to make sure it existed because I couldn't recall for sure that it did in Star Wars but "Gravitational Technology" was used to handle the recoil of the Death Star shooting the beam. It's the only way they could use a weapon like that to destroy a planet. Also, you already commented about how the laser beams shouldn't connect before shooting in a straight line together.
It will be what they call the effect of a black hole's tidal forces once Einstein's Theory is meshed with Quantum Theory... we just needed to realize the sphagettification needed some pasty-ketchup-gooify. And now the whole thing works.
No. I really don't think this is possible. A gas has no internal binding between particles, they can be as far apart from each other, a gases particles must be bounded by interaction impacting a boundary (or other containment force). A liquid has binding between neighboring particles, meaning they have to be close enough to experience a bond, and has a specific volume. Both of these statements are bounded by temperature and pressure, of course. What can bound a gas in such a way that something can float on it. It would not work by many definitions.
Not at 1atm. If you remove the pressure requirement? Sure. You can float NaK (sodium/potassium alloy) on xenon gas. Floating is a density problem, and things will float in any fluid which they are less dense than. It's not a question of "binding gas" or you wouldn't be able to float a balloon!
Since you did the Death Star (Star Wars) how about doing a video on the Genesis Device (Star Trek)? Also I'm thinking there would be some sort of -initial- inertia dampeners that would compensate for all those acceleration forces, without one every time a ship (in Star Wars or Star Trek) accelerated past light speed, they would paste just like in your Death Star example.
Bernard Gilbert Star Trek says in every series, they use inertial dampers. It’s when they get battle damaged, or overloaded by battle. That the crew gets flung around.
Inertial dampeners/compensators are pretty much assumed by anyone watching sci-fi where ships accelerate to even a significant portion of light speed in a short time who also knows a little about physics.
Considering their use of tractor beams and crystals, could they suspend a crystal at the convergence point allowing a storage of power until the desired power level is reached? Would this allow less energy being expelled in an instant burst and provide a more manageable recoil?
blasters, lightsabers and even the death star super "laser" are all actually plasma and force field technology. so imagine a super hot plasma contained inside a form of ray shield.
@13:40 Lasers wouldn't usually collect and redirect. So there would have to be a collector unit in space at that point to "catch" the Lasers then combine and redirect them. I may have even heard that mentioned before as the method used.
I would have gave him a pass if he didn't actually say magic space wizards. Plus magic space wizard sounds kinda redundant, what kind of wizard doesn't use magic?
Palpatine could also be genuine in relating that information, but still wrong/mistaken. Just because a character states something as fact doesn't mean that information is true.
Funny thing about the converging laser problem: we do know of a situation in which that is plausible. It’s where the lasers have so much energy that they curve space time (just like the mass equivalent of that energy) enough to create a gravity well strong enough to bend their own paths. The gravitational binding energy of the earth has a Schwartzchild radius of about 3.3 picometers, so if the lasers delivered all their energy focused into such a point at the same time, you’d get an artificial black hole. Widen the focal width a bit or deliver the energy more slowly and you could calculate the precise curvature needed to get the results seen on screen.
Wouldn't the only way to create artificial gravity (other than acceleration) be by manipulating mass? Since the floors of the death star appear to be arranged like the floors of a building and people still walk around normally I think there would have to be some way they are increasing the mass of the floor beneath the peoples' feet to cause that earth-like gravity. And if they can do that, I think increasing the overall mass of the death star when firing the laser would be relatively easy. Presumably they have some control over the Higgs field if they have artificial gravity, which seems to exist in every ship in the star wars universe.
abcd efgh We don’t actually know. some of the Star Wars EU claims it’s manipulating gravitons. But, how do you make a science-based video on something we have no empirical knowledge of, like gravitons?
In whatever manner the Death Star's artificial gravity works I think the original "but..." comments were aimed at utilising that same tech to counter the laser-firing induced acceleration. It would come down to using (close to, let the superstructure take some of the strain) the same amount of energy that is in the laser to ramp up the artificial gravity to counter the acceleration. 'Gravity' is/causes an acceleration, so artificial gravity can do that.
Artificial gravity can be created with energy, that is electricity, since the stress-energy tensor in the Einstein field equations includes an electromagtic field tensor. The energy requirements? I do not know.
Drkwll we don’t actually know that, but it’s likely not true. Gravity is totally separate from the EM spectrum, so it likely can’t be made with energy from it. We can make simulated gravity by spinning an object, but I think that’s not the kind of artificial gravity he’s talking about. We just don’t know enough about how gravity is actually made(ex: we don’t know if gravitons actually exist), to even think, we would know how to make true artificial gravity.
No, we do know that the stress-energy tensor in the Einstein field equation can include the electromagnetic field tensor. Why don't you check them out before you conclude that we don't know that and that it's not likely true? Here's something to help you, check out the mass-energy equivalence. We do not need any knowledge of graviton to know this. The electromagnetic field tensor includes an electric field term.
On the reflex deal you can also test it on a baby/infant. If they are crying just blow in their face and they will clam up and stop for a bit. Don't do this if you just want your baby to stop crying because you are an awful parent.
Alright I gotta be honest, I did not expect that motivational speech in the end. Thanks Kyle I really needed that right now. I have an interview for my promotion in few hours from now. Wish me luck
Barry Bend Right. Didn't think of that. As long as there's charge, there's force. As long as there's force, there's repulsion/attraction, right? You win.
With regards to the beams combining I always thought there must be some kind of focusing device floating out there like a crystal or something that bent the light in the right direction
Oh, on top of that last comment, the second Death Star's "shield generator" is located on the surface of Endor, meaning the Death Star would have to stay in the same spot above its surface at all times in order for the shield to work. Assuming Endor has about the same gravity as Earth and from the aforementioned previous comment how close the Death Star is orbiting, how is it not falling and burning up in the atmosphere? The International Space Station needs to orbit so fast it makes one full circle around earth every 20 minutes, so unless Endor has days that are no more than 20 to 30 minutes long, the Death Star simply wouldn't be able to hover over one spot as is orbits around it for very long without dropping out of the sky.
Ace .There is a type of orbit, called a geostationary orbit, where a body in orbit stays above a certain spot of the planet it's around. Additionally, the Death Star has engines and can move, or keep itself in place.
The Death Star is mostly hollow remember, meaning the outer hull would start to burn up, then the innards would be exposed to the heat and turbulence. Plus, again, that same turbulence would almost certainly rip it to shreds. For that matter, how did that space ship Anakan and Obi Wan "landed" at the beginning of Revenge of the Sith not completely burn up when the entire rear end of it sheared off?
Maybe when the separate lasers combining together to make one bigger beam like in the film, maybe they create some sort of solar sail(or It has some sort of invisible sail that the lasers fallow, almost like fiber optics so they can make that impossible bend), and the heat from the beams or some other source, created a forward motion to counter act the recoil.
I actually splashed water on my face right before he said to since I was taking my contacts out while listening to the video...it was kinda weird timing
The lazers coming to a point can be explained by the ejection of a prism before each firing. Each individual lazer making the single focused point allows for the lazers being smaller and yet still focusing the beams into a single point from several smaller ones. The change in directions would probably impart enough energy into that glass prism to obliterate it, but it would still be feasible.
Pull the people back at the same rate as the death star is being pushed by recoil, and they don't experience the acceleration. We don't actually feel gravity, as we feel the matter on the ground pushing back. If you apply the same concept to artificial gravity, you can have inertial dampening due to the crew merely "dropping" in the same direction as the Death Star's recoil. As has been said by people afraid of heights everywhere: "I'm not afraid the fall will kill me, I'm afraid the sudden stop will."
kirknay 15:09. Changing your weight doesnt help. Firing your rockets in opposite direction is same as the train so wont help. So using gravity as another engine sufferes the same problem. And even if it all worked, youd still squash the death star into a pancake from the massive sudden opposing forces.
We're not talking about moving the death star using artificial gravity, we're talking about pulling the people *inside* the death star using artificial gravity. Sure, it can result in some pull on the death star, but what's going to move more? One massive battle station, or thousands of small humans? The thing we need to pull is the people so they don't go splat on the nearest wall to the laser side, and we're good.
Rewatching this, and the thought came to me: what about intertial dampers? Those are a canonical thing in Star Wars, which for example help fighter pilots pull maneuvers without feeling the G’s that come along with those maneuvers. Could the Death Star have the same kind of technology? How would that technology work? Would it increase the mass? 🧐
I am a little disconcerted about how your vagina so near your face, or produces such copious amounts that you are wet all-round/near your face! Still a hilarious comment though! 😆
@@scriptosaurusrex Lying down in the tub? Still brings up the question of that much- [actually I don't know what natural lude is called, I know what cum is, just not what comes before it]- was produced by a single human quickly enough to bypass the tub's drain rate up to covering their face WITHOUT them dying of dehydration and being able to leave a comment mentioning this hypothetical feat.[since it is nearly impossible.]> Or she [I assume female, for obvious reasons] (to lewd for this Tube) with enough force to splash some fraction of it back into their own face.
While I can not explain the mechanism used to allow the Death Star's lasers to combine. It's been stated in canon and legends materials, that "Lightsabers" use a weak force field to shape the plasma blade and to maintain the length. The field collapses when it touches another object. Which explains how it melts things like "Blast Doors". When two lightsabers clash the force fields repel each other in a way to make it feel as if solid contact has been made, hence the impact and friction effects seen in the movies and other media.
The talk about acceleration has me with an idea. It would be cool if there were a measurement of gravitational force based on acceleration under that force, according to the time it took an object in freefall (without atmosphere or change in gravitational force) to reach 1/2 c. Between 0 and 1/2 c the Lorentz factor is fairly small, so we could say that 1G is about 180 days (to 1/2 c), 2Gs would be 90 days, 10 Gs would be 18, etc.
A couple quick little things: 1. I believe I remember seeing an article about scientists being able to develop a crystal that would converge lasers to increase their power output the way that the Death Star does, so maybe the Empire has one floating outside the DS using a tractor beam or something 2. Rogue One established that the Empire used massive kyber crystals, the crystals used in lightsabers, to power the DS "laser." So, what if instead of being a laser, it's actually a massive lightsaber that injects an astronomical amount of heat energy into the planet, destroying it? At least in the movies, standard lightsabers don't seem to have a recoil, and the magnetic fields to contain the plasma could be shaped to converge the "beams" like we see in the movie.
4:16 Yes, Mr. Hill; I do, in fact, have a problem. In your episode on Wolverine's bodybuilding habits, you missed the opportunity to use, "Swolverine and the Flex-Men".
The death star lasers converge with the carrier beam at the focal point of the targeting field generator which bends the beams into one conformed laser in the direction the field projects (yes, light is bendy)
Hey Kyle, two things : On Star Trek they have a technology called "inertial dampeners", would such a thing be of any use concerning the Death Star problem ? Second, what if the Death Star was moving away (backwards) from it's target when it fired the super laser ? Would that negate the acceleration of the laser ?
12:30 - The Death Star laser combination thing. How about a prism? Maybe it has a prism-like force-field that deflects the laser beams. That could distribute the recoil and (I'm conjecturing here) maybe make the recoil make a tangent on the surface of the Death Star leaving close to none recoil to the ship itself? A prism disperses light. Maybe that could be the reason why many beams were needed for making the final result more powerful. That would make the Superlaser actually not be one beam, but several beams close together looking like if it was one.
so i came from your most recent video (today being 12/24/19) I commenced on your excellent use of "bleh". Finally stopped laughing and i get @1:58 and you use "bleh" for the death star laser. oh boy here i go laughing again...You crack me up good sir.
Perhaps midiclorians interact with the nervous system to control them for exchange of a body I think they manipulate space-time, and particles causing things to move towards you fast like an ion engine and cause it to be shorter than it should
Inertial dampeners is a cannon technology in Star wars, so it {the Death star} can anchor itself in place and prevent the people inside from being flattened... Plus the supperlaser beams converge at a point controlled by magnetic fields to form a focused beam... Because Unobtanium/Plot tech.
Mass well generators from the Empire's interdictor cruisers solves the recoil problem easily and were probably incorporated into the design. Seriously... they can create a localized mass effect (see what i did there?) That tricks ship based hyperdrives into thinking there is a whole planet there. Just to be clear... they can produce a gravity well the size of a planet. Negating recoil on a laser is simple.
The gravitational binding energy isn't 2.4*10^32 J, it is 2.5*10^32 J. The calculation is perfectly straightforward. Here is some Mathematica code to work it out: re = 6.378137*10^6; f = 1/298.257223563; rp = re*(1 - f); rv = (re^2*rp)^(1/3); h1 = 1.2215*10^6; h2 = 3.4800*10^6; h3 = 3.6300*10^6; h4 = 5.7010*10^6; h5 = 5.7710*10^6; h6 = 5.9710*10^6; h7 = 6.1510*10^6; h8 = 6.3466*10^6; h9 = 6.3560*10^6; h10 = 6.3680*10^6; G = 6.67408*10^-11; p[r_] := Piecewise[{{-2.177275*10^-10 r^2 + 1.911026*10^-8 r + 1.308848*10^4, 0
How about crossing universes and bringing in Element Zero from Mass Effect? At the same time you fire the main laser, you apply a charge to the Eezo laced throughout the Death Star temporarily and artificially increasing its mass to mimic that of the planet it's firing at. That would still cause recoil, but it would be manageable at that point.
It was moving pretty fast towards Alderaan (however you spell it) they did move it into range to fire it, don't recall them saying they stopped at all, but that still doesn't solve the issue you pointed out with the sheer stopping force of the acceleration backwards
Great video and content! Two things I'd like to add concerning gender: 1) There is a strong correlation between genotype (the literal genetic code) and phenotype (observable expressions of that code), but there are a bunch of fun exceptions. For the expression of male sexual characteristics, you can have the male phenotype with XX - with either male external genitalia, ambigious genitalia, or some combination of male and female genitalia (XX male syndrome). Also, it is rare but possible for the XY female phenotype (Swyer syndrome) to conceive, so Vader could be a XX male or his mother could have been an XY female. 2) Gender-identity is almost never explicitly stated in movies, so Vader could be a transgender male. This is more in the realm of head-canon, but transgender identity exists (and is far more frequent than either rare phenotype mentioned in (1)).
Perhaps the death star is utilizing gravity to counter the recoil thrust from the lasers. By allowing the vessel to become entrapped by the targets gravitational pull, the mass of the death star plus the gravitational pull from the planet might be potentially enough to at least the laser weapon plausible?
Kyle I've always thought that the exhaust port expelling the heat was the counter recoil. Also considering that firing the laser was only for an instance the strain on the structure would be miniscule.
Going by the movies, the acceleration and deceleration of spacecraft and the issues with recoil are not explained, leaving lots of puddles of liquified people in shiny white armor. However, the EU (now Legends) introduced a technology a few years after the first movie that basically fixed/handwaved this issue; inertial compensators, or sometimes called inertial dampeners. This device was installed on pretty much every spacecraft and many land and air-based vehicles specifically to protect people from the effects of excessive g-forces. It’s even mentioned that experienced pilots tuned their compensators down to 90-95% power so they could actually feel how the craft was moving. How they work, I’m not sure, but it might make an interesting mini episode to discuss how one might make a device to counteract g-forces like in Star Wars. Also an EU explanation that is not really ever mention in the movies (aside from the fact that Cloud City was a mining facility for it), pretty much every “laser” in Star Wars from blaster pistols to turbo lasers use something called Tibanna gas. According to the Star Wars Wiki, “Tibanna gas produced four times its normal energy output when cohesive light passed through it. Thus, spin-sealed (compacted at the atomic level) tibanna was used as a conducting agent in blasters and other energy weapons, producing greater energy yields and thus greater amounts of damage.” So all those lasers are actually bolts of plasma, which makes more sense (but not completely) considering the damage and properties we see on screen. I’m not sure if the Death Star’s laser also uses Tibanna gas, but if it did, that would make the mini laser feeding into the main beam plausible, though still pointless.
I feel I should point out that those people who asked about artificial gravitational compensation for the laser's acceleration weren't necessarily only talking about increasing the strength of the artificial gravity to "anchor" the Death Star's crew into place. I think at least one of them (Darth Platypus) was actually suggesting that some artificial gravity be redirected to pull the crew away from Alderaan, in the direction the laser accelerated, replacing a horrible, gooifying level of acceleration into harmless freefall. Presumably, the 1G of force pulling them to the floor would remain while a perpendicular gravitational vector would pull them away from Alderaan and the laser at the calculated 2100G, "dampening" the effect of the laser's momentum transfer. Of course, this would likely require artificial gravity hardware to be installed in the walls as well, not just the floor, and immense levels of power would need to be redirected to them in the event of a firing, and the timing would have to be extremely precise to keep the crew from being sucked to those walls as if they were the surface of a neutron star a millisecond after the laser was done firing, and this doesn't exactly stop the Death Star from moving away from the target planet at 100km/s, although I suppose an enormous artificial gravity system could be used as an engine-- but I think we're supposed to believe that the Empire's engineers were geniuses. Except when it comes to heat rejection systems and dealing with juvenile delinquents.
Watched this whole thing with a wet face. So relaxing.
WELL ACTUALLY... :D
* The torpedoes do not have to travel 60km after entering the exhaust port. The dialogue clearly states that the port leads directly to the reactor system, but also that the torpedoes will set off a chain reaction that will destroy the station. The (rather lowres) animation shown at the briefing also demonstrates this with graphics of the explosions getting larger as they descend into the station until arriving at the core.
* Also. Star Wars clearly states that the weapons are "lasers" but also show particle/plasma like subluminal beams or bolts. This could mean that the lasers are used to energise and accelerate the particles rather than using them directly. This would still legitimately earn the weapons the moniker "laser" just as guns are often referred to as "FIRE"arms, despite the actual damaging mechanism being terminal kinetic energy poisoning.
Perhaps the Death Star's "laser" just needs to bore a temporary cavity to the planet's core, where the visible particle beam then delivers a payload of antimatter. The antimatter then trapped in the high density core reacts with the core and causes a cascade of annihilations as it boils outwards. The density of the planet itself attenuating the emiitted gamma rays into a cascade of nuclear reactions that releases more fission energy and attenuates the rays into heat that blows the planet apart.
Just a thought. (or three)....
Evil
Hulk most certainly has the strength to jump into space. Does the ground have the ability to allow the transfer of energy necessary to do it? That is the real question.
There's also the question of drag through the atmosphere. Remember that goes up with the velocity squared. Try to go faster in order to get into space quicker and avoid the drag and you've actually just increased the drag.
I’m no comic book expert, but hasn’t he already done it? In the storyline where he gets so angry he can destroy planets (world breaker hulk) doesn’t jump from one planet to another?
He could kick off the air if he wanted to.
@@KCUFyoufordoxingme nooo
Please say: “Thanks for watching Adriana”. Next time. My niece watches your shows with me every week, and would love the shout out.
There is any way to bump this? Well this is old idk if he did it, that would be cool for your niece.
@@OmarFeliciano I agree.....too bad youtube comments aren't like those on Reddit.
Please explain the physics and drawbacks of the Omnitrix from Ben 10.
Yes!
This I like my 3rd or 4th time asking. Though I'm not super aggressive if he doesn't because I know how much time and work goes into these videos.
I don't think that could be explained with physics, it's more to do with biology and genetics.
yess, I'd like to see if there is any way to explain that
probably the same problem of ant man
the mass can't change without being a nuke or be a black hole for energy
"You missed. You shoulda turned off your targetting computer."
Tyrannosaurus-REKT!
Laser sword
Laser sword
Laser sword
"It's not stressful. We're learning." My new catchphrase for when everything is going to shit.
4:35 oh now you're just *luke* ing for puns
also, the deathstar's "laser" isn't a laser... it uses giant kyber crystals to form the beam, just like a lightsaber... so it would be the same material as a saber (which is why they can converge on a single point instead of passing through 13:17)... sooo if you call a lightsaber plasma, the deathstar's "laser" would also be plasma. with all that said, the beam would then be matter and thus have mass..
darcraven01 which would make the recoil even worse...
true, though im wondering if the angle of the smaller beams has anything to do with that...probably not but maybe?
FryingPan Why would that automatically make it worse? The reason the calculation comes out so bad with it being a laser is because it's traveling at the speed of light. If it was plasma it's no longer light so not traveling at that speed. If a plasma beam was fired and even though it has more mass, if it was traveling a lot slower then the recoil would be way less. Note that you can physically see the beam traveling in Star Wars, so it's going nowhere near the speed of light.
Then it would technically be a Matter Beam.
Fabio Lacap Haha gotta love puns.
I liked that last line from this video. So long as you are doing what you are passionate about and you are improving yourself at it, you are successful.
The Death Stars use kyber crystals to energies ion cannon fire so the Death Star is basically a giant light saber that lasts a small amount of time
How far can the Deathstar's blade reach? Wouldn't it make more sense to call it a giant blaster, and not a giant lightsaber?
It was built as an open ended blade like swinging your Wii controller or a sword with a blade that was not fastened down so it activated and the power shot out and with no real control to it the planet was destroyed from the inside out (like a nuked jaw breaker :). And blasters are basically a gas launcher not a laser weapon.
TiagoTiago it would be more like a giant lightsaber because of the kyber crystals. blasters did not use kyber crystals.. blasters could be powered using "Dedlanite" and used different gasses to create the bolt colors and effects (stunning, burns, bleeding, etc.)
Basically the death star was a giant force gun. Kyber crystals use some from of electrical energy to generate a magnectically sealed plasma blade via the force (kyber crystals are a basically a force conduit). The death star is essentially the same but on a brokenly epic scale. And because star wars tech has more in common with actual magic than science its possible to do all this in such a way as not to actually apply recoil because space magic, and its in a galaxy that seems to have its own laws of physics and is full of people who are genetically conditioned to not understand the most basic of military tactics in the first place.
So true
The last 30s of this video really made my day. It was exactly what I needed to hear during a rough patch a work.
Thanks Kyle Odinson.
I have always assumed that part of Galen Erso's genius was that he solved for the stability of an Einstein-Rosen Bridge (or rather a whole bunch of them), so that the Death Star's LASER is actually a spherical array of lasers pointing at a few different points within the Death Star, emerging at or near the cannon port of the Death Star, and then a secondary set of them (immediately next to the Death Star) that would re-focus them all pointing forward. If this *wasn't* the case, then why would the Death Star have been so difficult to engineer in the first place, such that the Empire would expend the ridiculous resources required to go on a galaxy-wide manhunt for a former engineer?
It use kyber crystals (yes it is cannon) to turn the Death Star into an open ended light saber and cooked the planet like a nuked jaw breaker
What about a semi orbital focusing array ? A device positioned away from the Death Star at the theoretical convergence point of the lasers that would both focus them into a single beam and then redirect them at the desired target ?
@@tommorrissey5037 this makes way more sense
@@machochocolate7679 Thank you. :)
OMG CAN I BE THE FIRST CORRECTION OF A CORRECTIONS EPISODE?! galactus is the eater of WORLDS not GALAXIES... KYLE!
His hunger constantly grows. In the comics when travel to the far future occurs he does indeed increase the size of his 'meals'.
My man, would you consider talking about the Mimics of Prey 2017?
Thank you for bringing this up. Not only that, but the implications of mimics...being post it notes.
what a great game, good suggestion.
I want this to happen
Heh, have I ever told you the definition of insanity?
If a mimic from Prey took on the form of a Predator, would it be predator or prey? 🤔
I know I'm a bit late on this one, but I just thought of something... In Return of the Jedi, the Death Star is close enough to the surface of the moon that it can be easily seen from the ground and looks almost as big as our moon, despite being a lot smaller than that. This means the Death Star would have to be orbiting REAAALLY close. Since the Death Star isn't just a solid ball of metal and is at least 50 to 60% hollow, wouldn't Endor's gravity itself be enough to put a lot of stress on the station's structure due to the nearer side of the station to the moon experiencing a grater gravitational pull than the farther side? Could this force alone rip it apart just like what Jupiter does to comets that get too close?
I think it's pretty well established throughout all Star Wars media that in gravity can be cancelled with technology.
But this is Because Science. Chalking everything off to lazy writing would defeat the point of the show. XD
This guy is fricking hilarious in a sciency way.
Indeed ce for the science but stayed for the hilariouaness 😂
There is a scientific explanation for how Star Wars beam weapons work, Negative Matter, NM. While not ever observed, it is theoretically possible that matter of negative mass exists. If a civilization could harness that it would explain a great many things in Star Wars, but let's start with converging beams and lightsabers. While referred to as lasers and and laser swords, what if, in fact the Kyber Crystals used by the Death Star Super Laser, DSSL, and Light Sabers, LS, are in fact a means by which to harness and control and NM? The glow we then see if a magnetic plasma (cold plasma) used to contain and isolate the NM. In a converging beam weapon like the DSSL, the individual beams act like giant LS's and keep the NM in place until enough has built up to reach critical mass for the target (A ship, a city, a planet), at which time an impulse laser forces the NM down the magnetic containment beam into the target.
Tarkin's single reactor shots would indicate that the DSSL reactors might run, or contain, NM so that allows the DSSL to have a variable yield.
Similarly, an NM core LS would explain how they react. LS have been seen to bounce off normal matter unless forced into them, and even a saber lock, where two LS's come into contact and remain together, are ended first, but forcing the LS's together. See, once the the magnetic cold plasma shell is breached, NM will repel normal matter, so when swung with enough force they would create a cutting edge (assuming say the beam is only a few atoms thick) and the cold plasma would cauterize the wound. Similarly, if two LS come into contact, the NM cores would attract to one another. But, due to the nature of NM, pulling will not separate them, but pushing would.
This could actually from the core of all Star Wars weapons and tech (repulsor lifts, hyperdrives, etc...) The crystal fuel source from Solo could be an expendable version of the crystals needed to harness NM, whereas Kyber Crystals are far more stable and last longer.
Anyway, just a thought.
I love this, I have to remember it
This show is so dope, learn something new everytime!! This time it literally took less than a minute👍🏾👍🏾
The issue you describe with antimatter can be seen when people play with sodium and water.
Some have been hurt when they threw a big chunk of sodium into water and the small explosion created by the contact basically threw back the chunk of sodium at them…
Alright, normally I don't comment because I don't have much to say but you are overlooking a crucial part of the Star Wars Universe. I didn't state this in the last video because I too forgot about it until now.
Acceleration isn't a problem in the Star Wars Universe:
I repeat. ACCELERATION ISN'T A PROBLEM IN THE STAR WARS UNIVERSE!
Ships "jump" to light speed all the time, without the occupants becoming paste from the rapid acceleration rate. I don't know precisely how fast they're reaching light speed, but it happens in a matter of seconds (faster, even, if you exclude hyperdrive warmup time) so their acceleration rate is DEFINITELY lethal.
How this is accomplished safely is unexplained, but I have a theory. Kinetic Energy exchangers. This is a fantastical universe. If lasers and light speed hyperdrive is a thing, we can have energy exchangers capable of controlling the amount of kinetic energy a system has. Hyperdrive computers likely contain massive energy exchangers that transfer the heat energy from the ship's engine into kinetic energy that is directly injected into every molecule of every item of mass inside the ship (this would also explain why larger ships tend to be faster). Because the force of acceleration then becomes internal instead of external, everyone accelerates safely because they aren't actually feeling the acceleration or deceleration rates. They're just suddenly moving.
If this is the case, a station the size of the death star could easily harness it's massive heat output into kinetic energy via kinetic energy exchangers, but instead of flooding the entire station with kinetic energy, it would flood the light particles in the laser. This would cause the light to suddenly be moving extremely fast (about the speed of light) in a single, focused direction, without the need for external acceleration forces.
I always thought that the point of hyperspace is that the ships shift into a parallel dimension whose respective distances are smaller than those in the physical universe, thereby avoiding the need to move quickly in order to get places. Although it could be that hyperdrives are explained differently somewhere within that universe.
Xanthanarium - since it's all fantastical the Death Star and FTL ships' science probably includes Inertial Dampening which accounts for that sudden acceleration.
What it works as is a force generated by the ship's energy that is designed to reinforce the structure of objects within their perimeter. The forces are such that objects maintain their size and true mass but behave like hyper dense objects in relation to their external environment with attraction towards the designated floor/down direction to approximate internal gravity.
C'mon guys, they have inertial dampeners and gravity well projectors. Acceleration means nothing because they have machines to counteract inertia and gforces.
Bleeding Raindrops, I just realized the same thing. (According to Legends [RIP]) Inertial Compensators are used to prevent this problem, and can either dampen (for starfighter pilots) or remove entirely (jumps to hyperspace) the effects of inertia.
Xanthanarium, Hyperspace is either the bending of space in such a way that the space in front of the ship is smaller, and the space behind is larger, or moving faster than light. This is why you need to calculate your path with a NavComputer so that you don't run into planets or black holes, and cause a similar reaction as seen in The Last Jedi.
wait, so... my theory is actually canon (or used to be) but it just has a different name?
It seems that the artificial gravity would indeed be a fix to the recoil problem. The reason I say this is because artificial gravity is essentially inertial control. The ability to direct inertial mass in any direction you need to create gravity. Star Trek calls them inertial dampeners, but essentially, that is the system that keeps their feet on the deck and bodies from plastering against the bulkheads when they accelerate.
I have to make a little correction/addition
Vaders mother might not have been just a Genetic Chimera, she might have been a Genetic Mosaic.
With a Mosaic such as swyers syndrome , where the genetics are male but the body female due to a broken Y chromosome , the offspring could be a genetic clone of the parent. all the force would have to do is 'fix' the Y chromosome in the offspring, and Anakin is born.
Giving "The Clone Wars" a whole new meaning.
But with swyers syndrome she probably couldn't have kids.
True, but with the all new space-magic, anything is possible!
Fertility would be greatly affected, but it's not impossible. About half the "egg" cells would have a Y chromosome, but throw enough feces at a wall...
I'm hoping everyone realizes that when his mother stated, "There was no father... etc" that she meant he was not involved in any way of Annie's upbringing. Not that it was immaculate conception... or space magic. (She was prolly raped)
I love your videos! One of my favorite parts are the "Don't forget" section at the very end. You're like a physics Yoda. Thank you.
You forgot to mention the power to use said laser would mean a power system that would literally make the station implode due to gravity.
Side note: These momentum and acceleration considerations are part of what makes "The Expanse" so cool. Its one of the few franchises that take actual physics and realities of life in space into direct account in their story lines! (If you haven't seen it and read the books... what are you waiting for?)
Because Because Science with Kyle Thor Hill!
An MTG fan on top of answering my nerdy questions. You have just become my favorite UA-camr.
"Most impressive" is an Empire Strikes Back reference
Indeed ua-cam.com/video/bTlXZf5qsZI/v-deo.html
I love the “um actually” lol so nerdy.
"A reaction drive's efficiency as a weapon is in direct proportion to its efficiency as a drive."
- The Kzinti Lesson, Larry Niven
That was the most inspirational ending quote of all time.
What if they built the death star lazer on a planet to solve the density issue?
LIKE STAR KILLER BASE...
That thing is even more scientifically inacurate then the death star (if it is even possible)
He mentions in the video this footnotes is to that even a planet would be pushed back by the force of the laser. And since the recoil will hit the crust of the planet first, you may just end up breaking the planet open like a lava filled egg.
SKB was even worse. It took the matter from an entire sun, and threw it across interstellar distances. Every shot would destroy the solar system it’s in, and fling the entire planet across the stars. Likely at speeds faster than the deathstar would be propelled at, since it’s just dealing with the momentum of the light, and not the combined mass of a star.
And that would catapult SKB into a completely different franchise.
Kacper Malinowski Your probably right. The star killer base weapon systems are probably impossible, but
the idea of making a planet into a weapon with a lazer (the size of the one on the Death Star) is definitely less dangerous considering that it would have almost the same mass as a planet. AND unlike the Death Star most of it wouldn’t be hollow. I’m not sure if this amount of increased mass would be enough to counter the acceleration, but it would most definitely accelerate slower, possibly at a survivable speed.
I had to make sure it existed because I couldn't recall for sure that it did in Star Wars but "Gravitational Technology" was used to handle the recoil of the Death Star shooting the beam. It's the only way they could use a weapon like that to destroy a planet. Also, you already commented about how the laser beams shouldn't connect before shooting in a straight line together.
Empire Strikes Back: Vader "Impressive... most impressive"
For the deceleration bit, it's very much a "you can't stop, it's too dangerous! We have to slow down first!" situation.
Wow. Such science. Much knowing. Smart boi.
That bit at the end about success, I've needed that lately. Thank you, Kyle. :)
I think “pasty-ketchup-gooify” should become a standardized term in sci-fi
It will be what they call the effect of a black hole's tidal forces once Einstein's Theory is meshed with Quantum Theory... we just needed to realize the sphagettification needed some pasty-ketchup-gooify. And now the whole thing works.
We already have "chunky-salsa-fy".
And who are the evil geniuses who named vampiritoothus and the goldilocks zone?
When he says that "oh hello" it kind of reminds me of Elmer Fudd
Can a gas be more dense then a liquid?
Can the liquid float on it?
(considering standard condiction: 25 °C, 1 atm)
No. I really don't think this is possible. A gas has no internal binding between particles, they can be as far apart from each other, a gases particles must be bounded by interaction impacting a boundary (or other containment force). A liquid has binding between neighboring particles, meaning they have to be close enough to experience a bond, and has a specific volume. Both of these statements are bounded by temperature and pressure, of course. What can bound a gas in such a way that something can float on it. It would not work by many definitions.
Not at 1atm. If you remove the pressure requirement? Sure. You can float NaK (sodium/potassium alloy) on xenon gas.
Floating is a density problem, and things will float in any fluid which they are less dense than. It's not a question of "binding gas" or you wouldn't be able to float a balloon!
Well shucks, ending on a hopeful and uplifting note like that, just making me feel all warm and fuzzy.
Since you did the Death Star (Star Wars) how about doing a video on the Genesis Device (Star Trek)?
Also I'm thinking there would be some sort of -initial- inertia dampeners that would compensate for all those acceleration forces, without one every time a ship (in Star Wars or Star Trek) accelerated past light speed, they would paste just like in your Death Star example.
Bernard Gilbert Star Trek says in every series, they use inertial dampers.
It’s when they get battle damaged, or overloaded by battle. That the crew gets flung around.
Yeah that's what I was thinking too.
Inertial dampeners/compensators are pretty much assumed by anyone watching sci-fi where ships accelerate to even a significant portion of light speed in a short time who also knows a little about physics.
Considering their use of tractor beams and crystals, could they suspend a crystal at the convergence point allowing a storage of power until the desired power level is reached? Would this allow less energy being expelled in an instant burst and provide a more manageable recoil?
blasters, lightsabers and even the death star super "laser" are all actually plasma and force field technology. so imagine a super hot plasma contained inside a form of ray shield.
@13:40 Lasers wouldn't usually collect and redirect. So there would have to be a collector unit in space at that point to "catch" the Lasers then combine and redirect them. I may have even heard that mentioned before as the method used.
That super nerd comment is a joke entirely stolen from a college humor video, it’s very funny, because that video was very funny.
Max Heim-Salgado this needs to be seen by kyle and justice served.
That SuperNerd™ title needs to be taken away!! It was practically word-for-word from the engineer who designed the Death Star skit!
KickyFut every1 please upvote op so kyle sees it
Yeah I saw that, hilarious because it's true.
I would have gave him a pass if he didn't actually say magic space wizards. Plus magic space wizard sounds kinda redundant, what kind of wizard doesn't use magic?
I love your motivational quotes at the end of your footnotes. It may be a couple seconds, but people need to hear stuff like that.
9:45-ish Orrrr, it's just Palpatine snowing Anakin with a lot of flim-flam. The senator is scarcely the most reliable source of info.
Palpatine could also be genuine in relating that information, but still wrong/mistaken. Just because a character states something as fact doesn't mean that information is true.
The Death Star was overkill for fighting rebels, yes. But I do believe that it was meant to fight a far greater threat somewhere in the SW universe
You grow that beard out to its full capacity.
Shave his hair, make him powdery white, then wield a normal axe, and have a child named Atreus...
Glitched_ Reality_ Shave his hair down so he's discount Thor.
Funny thing about the converging laser problem: we do know of a situation in which that is plausible. It’s where the lasers have so much energy that they curve space time (just like the mass equivalent of that energy) enough to create a gravity well strong enough to bend their own paths. The gravitational binding energy of the earth has a Schwartzchild radius of about 3.3 picometers, so if the lasers delivered all their energy focused into such a point at the same time, you’d get an artificial black hole. Widen the focal width a bit or deliver the energy more slowly and you could calculate the precise curvature needed to get the results seen on screen.
Wouldn't the only way to create artificial gravity (other than acceleration) be by manipulating mass? Since the floors of the death star appear to be arranged like the floors of a building and people still walk around normally I think there would have to be some way they are increasing the mass of the floor beneath the peoples' feet to cause that earth-like gravity. And if they can do that, I think increasing the overall mass of the death star when firing the laser would be relatively easy.
Presumably they have some control over the Higgs field if they have artificial gravity, which seems to exist in every ship in the star wars universe.
abcd efgh We don’t actually know. some of the Star Wars EU claims it’s manipulating gravitons.
But, how do you make a science-based video on something we have no empirical knowledge of, like gravitons?
In whatever manner the Death Star's artificial gravity works I think the original "but..." comments were aimed at utilising that same tech to counter the laser-firing induced acceleration. It would come down to using (close to, let the superstructure take some of the strain) the same amount of energy that is in the laser to ramp up the artificial gravity to counter the acceleration. 'Gravity' is/causes an acceleration, so artificial gravity can do that.
Artificial gravity can be created with energy, that is electricity, since the stress-energy tensor in the Einstein field equations includes an electromagtic field tensor. The energy requirements? I do not know.
Drkwll we don’t actually know that, but it’s likely not true. Gravity is totally separate from the EM spectrum, so it likely can’t be made with energy from it.
We can make simulated gravity by spinning an object, but I think that’s not the kind of artificial gravity he’s talking about. We just don’t know enough about how gravity is actually made(ex: we don’t know if gravitons actually exist), to even think, we would know how to make true artificial gravity.
No, we do know that the stress-energy tensor in the Einstein field equation can include the electromagnetic field tensor. Why don't you check them out before you conclude that we don't know that and that it's not likely true? Here's something to help you, check out the mass-energy equivalence. We do not need any knowledge of graviton to know this. The electromagnetic field tensor includes an electric field term.
By far your funniest video to date.
Thank you for giving me a great gut laugh.
On the reflex deal you can also test it on a baby/infant. If they are crying just blow in their face and they will clam up and stop for a bit. Don't do this if you just want your baby to stop crying because you are an awful parent.
Darn I was just about to go do this :P
Works for many rodents when they are biting you too.
Alright I gotta be honest, I did not expect that motivational speech in the end. Thanks Kyle I really needed that right now. I have an interview for my promotion in few hours from now. Wish me luck
How dense with light would a laser need to be to bounce off another laser? Is this even possible?
Chris Young
Nope. Light by it's definition, has no Mass. No Mass, no density.
Dick Marx but has electric charge so yeah it can still bounce off if dence enough.
Barry Bend
Right. Didn't think of that. As long as there's charge, there's force. As long as there's force, there's repulsion/attraction, right? You win.
It was done with Kyber crystals :)
light acts like waves while travelling and as particles while interacting with objects and as I know of waves can’t interact with each other.
The very last segment always hits deep. good effort
It's okay. I love puns. I can stand the "pun"ishment.
With regards to the beams combining I always thought there must be some kind of focusing device floating out there like a crystal or something that bent the light in the right direction
How many people actually did splash Water in their face?
Taya80x O/ try it its nice
Luuk I did try it
this is four years old but thank you, you're the best.
Oh, on top of that last comment, the second Death Star's "shield generator" is located on the surface of Endor, meaning the Death Star would have to stay in the same spot above its surface at all times in order for the shield to work. Assuming Endor has about the same gravity as Earth and from the aforementioned previous comment how close the Death Star is orbiting, how is it not falling and burning up in the atmosphere? The International Space Station needs to orbit so fast it makes one full circle around earth every 20 minutes, so unless Endor has days that are no more than 20 to 30 minutes long, the Death Star simply wouldn't be able to hover over one spot as is orbits around it for very long without dropping out of the sky.
Ace .There is a type of orbit, called a geostationary orbit, where a body in orbit stays above a certain spot of the planet it's around. Additionally, the Death Star has engines and can move, or keep itself in place.
Ah okay, fair enough. Still my point about Endor's gravity affecting it being so close still stands, right?
1: Have you seen how big the thing is? It isn't just going to burn up.
2: Pending...
The Death Star is mostly hollow remember, meaning the outer hull would start to burn up, then the innards would be exposed to the heat and turbulence. Plus, again, that same turbulence would almost certainly rip it to shreds.
For that matter, how did that space ship Anakan and Obi Wan "landed" at the beginning of Revenge of the Sith not completely burn up when the entire rear end of it sheared off?
Maybe when the separate lasers combining together to make one bigger beam like in the film, maybe they create some sort of solar sail(or It has some sort of invisible sail that the lasers fallow, almost like fiber optics so they can make that impossible bend), and the heat from the beams or some other source, created a forward motion to counter act the recoil.
Who else actually splashed water onto their face?
10,000 Subscribers With No Videos?? I can’t get water in my face or else I could trigger my ear infection! Fujuck you water!!!
I tried but someone had left the shower on and the back of my head got soaked in cold water.....
I actually splashed water on my face right before he said to since I was taking my contacts out while listening to the video...it was kinda weird timing
Pufferfish Art I feel you dude
Didng
The lazers coming to a point can be explained by the ejection of a prism before each firing. Each individual lazer making the single focused point allows for the lazers being smaller and yet still focusing the beams into a single point from several smaller ones. The change in directions would probably impart enough energy into that glass prism to obliterate it, but it would still be feasible.
ok the Deathstar works on a gravity drive, creating artifical gravity and negating the recoil of the primary weapon. QED.
nah -- KH
As he explained gravity doesnt help. Youd have to change its mass.
Pull the people back at the same rate as the death star is being pushed by recoil, and they don't experience the acceleration. We don't actually feel gravity, as we feel the matter on the ground pushing back. If you apply the same concept to artificial gravity, you can have inertial dampening due to the crew merely "dropping" in the same direction as the Death Star's recoil.
As has been said by people afraid of heights everywhere: "I'm not afraid the fall will kill me, I'm afraid the sudden stop will."
kirknay 15:09. Changing your weight doesnt help. Firing your rockets in opposite direction is same as the train so wont help. So using gravity as another engine sufferes the same problem. And even if it all worked, youd still squash the death star into a pancake from the massive sudden opposing forces.
We're not talking about moving the death star using artificial gravity, we're talking about pulling the people *inside* the death star using artificial gravity. Sure, it can result in some pull on the death star, but what's going to move more? One massive battle station, or thousands of small humans? The thing we need to pull is the people so they don't go splat on the nearest wall to the laser side, and we're good.
Rewatching this, and the thought came to me: what about intertial dampers? Those are a canonical thing in Star Wars, which for example help fighter pilots pull maneuvers without feeling the G’s that come along with those maneuvers. Could the Death Star have the same kind of technology? How would that technology work? Would it increase the mass? 🧐
The water thing didnt work because i was already wet. You're hot
I am a little disconcerted about how your vagina so near your face, or produces such copious amounts that you are wet all-round/near your face!
Still a hilarious comment though! 😆
@@scriptosaurusrex
Lying down in the tub?
Still brings up the question of that much- [actually I don't know what natural lude is called, I know what cum is, just not what comes before it]- was produced by a single human quickly enough to bypass the tub's drain rate up to covering their face WITHOUT them dying of dehydration and being able to leave a comment mentioning this hypothetical feat.[since it is nearly impossible.]>
Or she [I assume female, for obvious reasons] (to lewd for this Tube) with enough force to splash some fraction of it back into their own face.
@@scriptosaurusrex
Also puns.
0:57 you better believe I just did that!! Feels sooooooo good
The death star is flat
While I can not explain the mechanism used to allow the Death Star's lasers to combine. It's been stated in canon and legends materials, that "Lightsabers" use a weak force field to shape the plasma blade and to maintain the length. The field collapses when it touches another object. Which explains how it melts things like "Blast Doors". When two lightsabers clash the force fields repel each other in a way to make it feel as if solid contact has been made, hence the impact and friction effects seen in the movies and other media.
The Antimatter would explode as soon as it hits the Atmosphere, so it would work even worse, than you proposed...
Kim Schröder hell if literally any speck of space dust was in the way it would blow up
Apathetic Nomad yes you're right. And like, since when is anti matter bright green...
If at all. It might be ecploding before the matter and antimatter even left the deathstar. Causing MASSIVE damage inside of it
The talk about acceleration has me with an idea. It would be cool if there were a measurement of gravitational force based on acceleration under that force, according to the time it took an object in freefall (without atmosphere or change in gravitational force) to reach 1/2 c. Between 0 and 1/2 c the Lorentz factor is fairly small, so we could say that 1G is about 180 days (to 1/2 c), 2Gs would be 90 days, 10 Gs would be 18, etc.
I just wanna say again that the final consideration of the footnotes is the best part for me! AND REMEMBER: you are also a smart boy kyle
Range and sass in the same episode, Summer Kyle is the best Kyle
13:47, I instantly envisioned the Spaceballs scene where they decelerated the ship to zero as Kyle read off this comment!
The exhaust Port is what's holding it together when it fires I think holding it from moving.
A couple quick little things:
1. I believe I remember seeing an article about scientists being able to develop a crystal that would converge lasers to increase their power output the way that the Death Star does, so maybe the Empire has one floating outside the DS using a tractor beam or something
2. Rogue One established that the Empire used massive kyber crystals, the crystals used in lightsabers, to power the DS "laser." So, what if instead of being a laser, it's actually a massive lightsaber that injects an astronomical amount of heat energy into the planet, destroying it? At least in the movies, standard lightsabers don't seem to have a recoil, and the magnetic fields to contain the plasma could be shaped to converge the "beams" like we see in the movie.
17:11 someone was watching the "Dorky" Video about the Death Star Architect... was even using quotes and keywords...
4:16
Yes, Mr. Hill; I do, in fact, have a problem. In your episode on Wolverine's bodybuilding habits, you missed the opportunity to use, "Swolverine and the Flex-Men".
The death star lasers converge with the carrier beam at the focal point of the targeting field generator which bends the beams into one conformed laser in the direction the field projects (yes, light is bendy)
Oh my goodness, just discovered your channel, you beautiful human being. This is wonderful.
Hey Kyle, two things : On Star Trek they have a technology called "inertial dampeners", would such a thing be of any use concerning the Death Star problem ? Second, what if the Death Star was moving away (backwards) from it's target when it fired the super laser ? Would that negate the acceleration of the laser ?
12:30 - The Death Star laser combination thing. How about a prism? Maybe it has a prism-like force-field that deflects the laser beams. That could distribute the recoil and (I'm conjecturing here) maybe make the recoil make a tangent on the surface of the Death Star leaving close to none recoil to the ship itself?
A prism disperses light. Maybe that could be the reason why many beams were needed for making the final result more powerful.
That would make the Superlaser actually not be one beam, but several beams close together looking like if it was one.
so i came from your most recent video (today being 12/24/19) I commenced on your excellent use of "bleh". Finally stopped laughing and i get @1:58 and you use "bleh" for the death star laser. oh boy here i go laughing again...You crack me up good sir.
also happened to be a star wars episode about Jedi lighting (bleh)
Perhaps midiclorians interact with the nervous system to control them for exchange of a body
I think they manipulate space-time, and particles causing things to move towards you fast like an ion engine and cause it to be shorter than it should
Inertial dampeners is a cannon technology in Star wars, so it {the Death star} can anchor itself in place and prevent the people inside from being flattened...
Plus the supperlaser beams converge at a point controlled by magnetic fields to form a focused beam... Because Unobtanium/Plot tech.
"jumping right over that weird euphemism" I can't breathe...
10:22 I do the same thing every time someplace has flashlights for sale right at the checkout
Mass well generators from the Empire's interdictor cruisers solves the recoil problem easily and were probably incorporated into the design. Seriously... they can create a localized mass effect (see what i did there?) That tricks ship based hyperdrives into thinking there is a whole planet there. Just to be clear... they can produce a gravity well the size of a planet. Negating recoil on a laser is simple.
The gravitational binding energy isn't 2.4*10^32 J, it is 2.5*10^32 J. The calculation is perfectly straightforward. Here is some Mathematica code to work it out:
re = 6.378137*10^6;
f = 1/298.257223563;
rp = re*(1 - f);
rv = (re^2*rp)^(1/3);
h1 = 1.2215*10^6;
h2 = 3.4800*10^6;
h3 = 3.6300*10^6;
h4 = 5.7010*10^6;
h5 = 5.7710*10^6;
h6 = 5.9710*10^6;
h7 = 6.1510*10^6;
h8 = 6.3466*10^6;
h9 = 6.3560*10^6;
h10 = 6.3680*10^6;
G = 6.67408*10^-11;
p[r_] := Piecewise[{{-2.177275*10^-10 r^2 + 1.911026*10^-8 r +
1.308848*10^4,
0
How about crossing universes and bringing in Element Zero from Mass Effect? At the same time you fire the main laser, you apply a charge to the Eezo laced throughout the Death Star temporarily and artificially increasing its mass to mimic that of the planet it's firing at. That would still cause recoil, but it would be manageable at that point.
It was moving pretty fast towards Alderaan (however you spell it) they did move it into range to fire it, don't recall them saying they stopped at all, but that still doesn't solve the issue you pointed out with the sheer stopping force of the acceleration backwards
Great video and content! Two things I'd like to add concerning gender:
1) There is a strong correlation between genotype (the literal genetic code) and phenotype (observable expressions of that code), but there are a bunch of fun exceptions. For the expression of male sexual characteristics, you can have the male phenotype with XX - with either male external genitalia, ambigious genitalia, or some combination of male and female genitalia (XX male syndrome). Also, it is rare but possible for the XY female phenotype (Swyer syndrome) to conceive, so Vader could be a XX male or his mother could have been an XY female.
2) Gender-identity is almost never explicitly stated in movies, so Vader could be a transgender male. This is more in the realm of head-canon, but transgender identity exists (and is far more frequent than either rare phenotype mentioned in (1)).
It must take great strength of will to believe in something demonstrably false. Good work.
I feel like you were extra salty in this episode and I was living for it.
Perhaps the death star is utilizing gravity to counter the recoil thrust from the lasers. By allowing the vessel to become entrapped by the targets gravitational pull, the mass of the death star plus the gravitational pull from the planet might be potentially enough to at least the laser weapon plausible?
Kyle I've always thought that the exhaust port expelling the heat was the counter recoil. Also considering that firing the laser was only for an instance the strain on the structure would be miniscule.
Going by the movies, the acceleration and deceleration of spacecraft and the issues with recoil are not explained, leaving lots of puddles of liquified people in shiny white armor. However, the EU (now Legends) introduced a technology a few years after the first movie that basically fixed/handwaved this issue; inertial compensators, or sometimes called inertial dampeners. This device was installed on pretty much every spacecraft and many land and air-based vehicles specifically to protect people from the effects of excessive g-forces. It’s even mentioned that experienced pilots tuned their compensators down to 90-95% power so they could actually feel how the craft was moving. How they work, I’m not sure, but it might make an interesting mini episode to discuss how one might make a device to counteract g-forces like in Star Wars.
Also an EU explanation that is not really ever mention in the movies (aside from the fact that Cloud City was a mining facility for it), pretty much every “laser” in Star Wars from blaster pistols to turbo lasers use something called Tibanna gas. According to the Star Wars Wiki, “Tibanna gas produced four times its normal energy output when cohesive light passed through it. Thus, spin-sealed (compacted at the atomic level) tibanna was used as a conducting agent in blasters and other energy weapons, producing greater energy yields and thus greater amounts of damage.” So all those lasers are actually bolts of plasma, which makes more sense (but not completely) considering the damage and properties we see on screen. I’m not sure if the Death Star’s laser also uses Tibanna gas, but if it did, that would make the mini laser feeding into the main beam plausible, though still pointless.
I feel I should point out that those people who asked about artificial gravitational compensation for the laser's acceleration weren't necessarily only talking about increasing the strength of the artificial gravity to "anchor" the Death Star's crew into place. I think at least one of them (Darth Platypus) was actually suggesting that some artificial gravity be redirected to pull the crew away from Alderaan, in the direction the laser accelerated, replacing a horrible, gooifying level of acceleration into harmless freefall. Presumably, the 1G of force pulling them to the floor would remain while a perpendicular gravitational vector would pull them away from Alderaan and the laser at the calculated 2100G, "dampening" the effect of the laser's momentum transfer. Of course, this would likely require artificial gravity hardware to be installed in the walls as well, not just the floor, and immense levels of power would need to be redirected to them in the event of a firing, and the timing would have to be extremely precise to keep the crew from being sucked to those walls as if they were the surface of a neutron star a millisecond after the laser was done firing, and this doesn't exactly stop the Death Star from moving away from the target planet at 100km/s, although I suppose an enormous artificial gravity system could be used as an engine-- but I think we're supposed to believe that the Empire's engineers were geniuses. Except when it comes to heat rejection systems and dealing with juvenile delinquents.