It might not be enough to prevent injury, but disturbing the water will make it much easier to see the distance so the diver knows when they'll hit the surface.
Please note, that in Superman he does NOT just catch her but slows her down. They continue to fall at a decelerated pace. This is always missed by nit-pickers. Batman is right, however. He stops dead ( pardon the obvious reference). Oh, and "compensators" are the equivalent of inertial dampeners which even the original series of Star Trek talked about. They also have "Navigation shields" that deal with hitting microscopic particles at warp speeds. (or "hyperspace" as in Star Wars) But you are overall correct, momentum is dismissed when it interferes with the plot in most films.
Star trek ships have "inertia dampeners", and if they fail, every one inside the ship dies (this happens in DS9), and warp drives warp spacetime around them with antimatter reactions. It's not completely realistic, but nobody travels at light speed in star trek.
Also one real weird thing. Technically space is moving not the ship. The ship creates a warp bubble and the space moves around the bubble. So there is no inertia inside the ship for the dampeners to well dampen. There is no sudden start or stop. It's all happening OUTSIDE the bubble.
@@dori411 Another interesting thing about ST tech is that it did adress the concept of time dilation. A shiip travelling within a subspace warp field wasn't moving at high speeds within the bubble itself, it was essentially stationary and carried along by the bubble, the bubble moved through 'subspace' where the laws were circumvented. Ships using thrusters were subject to time discrepencies and periodically had to re-sync their time with Command, and extensive use of reletivistic travel was discouraged. Sorry, being nerdy, but wanted to give Trek some credit in this discussion, they DID think out a lot of their concepts.
@@SFox-if9id There is another thing related to ship movements and such that people complain about: Why do all the ships meet right side up? It's because of the SINS Base Datum in Galactic Coordinate System that uses celestial bodies or other ships as reference and automatically fixes their orientation. As seen below www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/blueprints/sftm/02-06-12.jpg
Yeah, what you pointed out about lightspeed is right. BUT in Star Wars, Star Trek (and pretty much all other SF-Series) the characters DO NOT travel at lightspeed. Now, let me explain, cause I am a nerd here. Star Wars utilizes the hypothetical dimension called "hyperspace" which is said to be a space similiar to ours, with the exception, that it is much smaller. That means, you could enter this dimension (or whatever you wanna call it), travel 1 km and when you switch to "normal space" you would have travelled e.g. 1 billion km. Note however, this is only one way hyperspace is hypothesized. The movies use the term lightspeed because... honestly, nobody knows, in every novel and novelization and all movies but OT it is however referred to as hyperspace, or hyperdrive etc. Besides, they travel many thousand times faster than c, so... Regarding the fact that Han states "We could hit a star or a supernova...", in Star Wars, those and similiar phenomenons cast a so called "gravity shadow" into the hyperspace dimension. One has to navigate around those, otherwise the ship would end up in nothing but dustparticles... Okay. Star Trek. Star Trek is a bit trickier but not by much. It uses an Alcubierre Drive (not please, the concept of Alcubierre was inspired by Star Trek, not the other way around. Doesn't matter much, since it is basically the same, we just call it that now), in Star Trek itself referred to as Warp-Drive. This device literally folds spacetime, compressing it slightly in front of the ship and stretching it behind it. The ship itself does not move, allowing for otherwise impossible maneuvers (like warping INTO a battlefield). Instead, its Warp-Drive keeps folding and compressing spacetime, resulting in seemingly superluminal speeds. Einstein stated, that spacetime could be fold indefinitly, meaning one could travel a billion times the speed of light, given the right circumstances. And inertia. As you pointed out, "conventionally" accelerating to the speed of light would be... deadly, at best. But both Star Trek AND Star Wars address this. In ST it is called "inertial compensator". It generates gravitational fields in various strenghts, compensating for the immense acceleration. It's like falling, but since both forces cancel each other out, one feels absolutely nothing. Theoretically possible. Now Star Wars addresses that only in a few books (non-canon as of yet, but I'm guessing the tech doesn't change). The SW device is basically magic, and nothing but, since nobody ever cared to explain how it works. I am pretty sure you, coldcrashpictures, are aware of everything I just pointed out, but it was fun writing, and pointing YOUR mistakes out :P
Also for both franchises, for super fast non-warp/hyperspace travel, both ships also have "deflector dishes/shields that deflects objects from in front of the ship so that they never impact the ship itself. These deflectors usually also tie into the navigation and propulsion systems of the ship to likely steer the ship out of the way of the larger objects that might overwhelm the shields. If you have sufficiently advanced sensors you could detect the debris a sufficient enough distance away to make a minor correction far enough away (1cm heading left or right 1m/km away clears quite a large object).
@@Herkfixer1 Such a shield would still require astronomical (heh) amounts of energy though to move even very small debris out of the way. It'd be functionally the same as trying to deflect a rock that's thrown at the speed of light at you, which would give it the energy of several nuclear bombs. And even if such vast amounts of energy were readily available it'd still be a problem as those shields would have to be deployed at such a strength for prolonged times and considering they are applied over quite some area be that strong at any given point. Even with an electro-magnetic field that moves object out of the way of the ship instead of plain absorbing the impacts they'd still need a lot of energy, increasingly more the faster they'd have to move something out of the way.
the assassins creed part where he uses the knife to break the surface tension reminded me of the ghost busters cartoon when they were falling fast and Egon instructs them to fire their proton packs at the water to break it up... now that I think about it wouldn't that make the water really hot?
@@jimmyeng663 No only with a large heavy hammer. The bot the hammer form a strange guy with a red cape - who mumbled something about "Being worthy" and such.
With the knife from Assassins Creed, did no one on the production team watch Mythbusters? The guys tested, and busted, throwing an object into water before impact to break surface tension.... you’d need something twice the size of yourself, and impacting that would do just as, if not more, damage than hitting the water without said object.
Great video, but one comment about the warping. If it warps the space around it technically the ship is only exerting the force of the relative speed it is actually going. So as the space folds around it, the ship is not actually experiencing that level of impact of it runs into anything and it wouldn't run into anything, it's all folded around it, though likely the large masses would have an effect as they also warp the space around them enough to have detrimental effects
people always like to show the original Superman movie catch in these videos like this. but notice!! the windows on the building behind them as he catches Lois are STILL ZIPPING "UP"! indicating that as he gets to her he himself begins ever so slightly to fly "down" to match her speed before coming to a stop and then reversing direction. this one needs to stop being part of this discussion. it may not be a well executed shot as a film goes but i think they were trying to depict him gradually slowing her fall. And as far as regulation on hyper drive light speed travel under the rule of the Galactic Empire (or even the Republic new or old for that matter) maybe there were strict regulations. i mean Han was smuggler for cryin' out loud! and the Falcon is the only ..."civilian" vessel we see travel at light speed; all the others are military or political dignitary and thus probably had special permissions to forego many of the regulations on hyperspace travel. Han's a criminal that doesn't care about regulations AND the Falcon had a TON of after market and/or illegal modifications on it particularly its hyper drive engine. so the arguments about regulations are irrelevant. unless there is some canon material that states that there were NO regulations on hyperspace travel, then we can just as easily assume that there were.
Brilliant, as always. Nit: FTL physics is an unknown. We can not know what momentum a vessel will have when it gets out of hyperspace or warp. Wormholes and Alcubier drives are different: we have the physics for that. But most FTLs are not explained in-universe well enough for is to be certain of their consequences.
UA-cam recommended your videos to me and I LOVE them! Whenever there's something that's reality v.s. story, there's the "Cool Factor" involved. Do ships bank? No, but it looks cool. Would unregulated be remotely safe? No, but it looks cool. As a fan of those movies, I can watch them with a suspension of disbelief and enjoy them even though (possibly because??) they are not scientifically accurate.
As a Star Trek fan myself. Star Trek did explain why people do not slam against a bulkhead and Star Trek ships can travel at light speed but they have warp. The ships technically do not travel the ships create almost like a wormhole.
WOW, by far best video you’ve done! 1) Thanks for pointing out maintain-mass/linoleum. 2) Good point with terminal velocity, however you didn’t point out how long it takes to get to 120mph (3 seconds to reach 50%, 60mph; 8 seconds to reach 90%, 108mph; 15 seconds to reach 99%). It looks like people falling from buildings in film often accelerate slower than 9/11 jumpers. 3) I’ve always assumed the phrase “light speed” (LS) is used as a generalisation to mean “close to light speed”, for example the Millennium Falcon making the Kessel Run faster by going just that little bit closer to LS. 4) Avatar also gets light speed right. (Warning: Cameron connoisseur alert). As explained in the treatment, Alpha Centauri is 4 LY away and in the opening film dialog it took 6 years to get there, 1 to accelerate up to almost LS, 1 to decelerate. 5) hitting anything even much smaller than a golf ball at near LS is probably fatal given what happened when the space shuttle at only earth-escape-velocity shook violently when just hitting a microscopic piece of dust once.
It doesn't matter how much momentum the whole ship has, only the speed it was traveling at. Because the people inside aren't hitting the WHOLE ship, they're only hitting one tiny piece of it. And even if the ship came to an abrupt and sudden stop, they are only hitting it at exactly the speed the ship was going. That's just d'Alembert force. Only the mass of the passengers counts.
Aye. Sure the ship would have a lot of energy to transfer, but a human can only absorb so much. It may be a high energy collision but if it takes place over a longer period of time that energy gets distributed more evenly. The destructive force is based on how much energy gets from point a to point b in what span of time.
One note on Superman's helicopter scene catch. The filmmakers did appear to understand that he couldn't simply catch her safely, although I question whether they did *enough.* See how when he catches Lois, the fall continues? He appears to be slowing her fall before stopping it. I appreciate that they tried!
there are a couple of white papers available by NASA employee's describing how warp drive would work. essentially you would compress space ahead and expand space behind a ship creating a warp bubble. those inside the bubble wouldn't feel any movement or relative time alterations, but the compression and expansion of space would move them through space beyond light speed. so no splat on the bulkhead I'm afraid. so Trekkies did theoretically get something right, back in the 60's.
@@kinggonch but you require more energy that you could store inside said bubble (I think they also looked at antimatter, which would be together with matter the most space efficient storage of energy).
I wonder how you can have a scene where Superman catches a falling plane. To apply enough force to adequately decelerate it, over only the area of his hands, would simply result in him punching right through the fuselage. Or causing the plane to crumple. Applying little enough force to keep the plane intact probably wouldn't be enough to stop it in time. Similarly, in Hancock, when he throws the beached whale back into the ocean, I think it more likely that he would simply tear off a couple of chunks of the tale, leaving the rest of the whale on the beach. And, I thought, when he mentioned Antman going through the linoleum, he meant he would crash through the tub and the floor underneath.
It isn’t only on his hands. His power has an “aura” that affects what he touches. He’s lifting the whole plane as a solid object held by that aura. It’s more like the aura bubble surrounds the plane, then he lifts the bubble (and thus everything in it). This is also why his clothes don’t rip apart under machine gun fire; the aura is protecting the clothes as if they were skin; they’re inside the aura. Or how he can hold his cape up to block something to protect a civilian. Why wouldn’t a bullet go thru the cape and his Lois? The cape is imbued with the aura.
When Hancock was hit by the train and stopped it dead, how could he do that? No matter his strength how could he out-mass the train. No matter how strong he was the train should have sent him flying and his tiny relative mass would have had virtually no effect in slowing it down, much less stopping it. Ditto in the first Superman when the taxi hits him and he stops it dead but he does not budge a fraction of an inch.
The Last Jedi got the light speed thing right. When a ship traveling at light speed collides with another, it creates a massive explosion and the most beautiful looking shot in the movie.
Avatar: The Last Airbender also got the "surface tension of water" thing right... admittedly, not at first, but most times. Take a look at any scene where a waterbender falls into the water from a great height, and you'll notice they immediately start bending the water below them to foam it up and cut the surface tension; in particular, during the Sozin's Comet 4-parter, you can very clearly see Aang create a water tentacle to catch him many tens of feet up in the air BEFORE he hits the water
Love these vids but just one note. In the third Star Trek film they did. The got “light speed” correct in the only way it would be theoretically possible to travel faster than light. They crest a bubble around the ship that passes through space and time
1:56 In that Superman scene, he actually doesn't catches her and brings her to a complete stop immediatly, but decelerates her over the time of about 1 second, which translates to an acceleration of 5 and a half g, which is high, but definitly survivable.
4 Scientific Inaccuracies Scientific Inaccuracies: Bathtubs aren't made of linoleum. Riddick isn't human. It's not the surface tension that kills, it's the change in acceleration. If the director isn't putting in feathers, he sure isn't fixing wrists.
Strictly speaking its the rate of change of acceleration, not change of acceleration in itself. I thought Riddick was human... mind you I've only seen the two films not any of the animated stuff
They tested the 'breaking surface tension' thing on mythbusters and determined that any difference it made was inconsequential. Riddick is a Furyan, which is presumably some kind of human sub-species like the elementals. Its briefly touched on in Chronicles of Riddick and Escape from Butcher Bay. They're apparently tougher, and more aggressive and animalistic than baseline humans, as well as possibly having some kind of energy based power?
I've read that breaking the surface tension on water before hitting it doesn't actually do much of anything to save you from the impact. Also most Sci-fi with lightspeed typically do have something like "compensators" such as inertial dampeners. Startrek and Stargate are two examples off the top of my head.
I always thought that in Star Trek they make a point to have inertia buffers that make it possible for the crew to be alive while traveling the speed of light. Which is also a little untrue as the warp technology doesn't actually travel the speed of light, but it folds the space in a way that it seems so. It's basically the same thing as in Event Horizon.
Jukka-Pekka Tuominen You're half right. The inertial dampers are for traveling at sub-warp speeds. Starships can accelerate and travel very fast at impulse speeds. Usually limited to 25% the speed of light so as to avoid problems with time dilation.
Stargate Atlantis also got acceleration correct in one episode colonel Sheppard when captured activates the ships engines without activating the inertial dampeners first and everyone is sent flying into the rear of the bridge.
One of my biggest pet peeves is people being electrocuted. EVERY movie that I've ever seen including Sin City depicts people being electrocuted but their muscles miraculously stop contracting when they die as though they were seizing voluntarily. If you lay down on the third rail of a subway train, that 600 volts AC will cause you to INVOLUNTARILY shake and shudder until your muscles are well done.
After I shot this video, I realized I could be completely misinterpreting Fassbender's intentions in that scene. Maybe he saw a fish that he really wanted to eat?
Star Trek has Intertial dampeners that supposedly protect the crew from the effects of warp speed, and also the ship is in a warp bubble that bends space around it that allows it to travel at warp speed. They also have deflectors that deflect microparticles in front of the ships.
As a science-fiction writer, I love these videos. But I can't help but sometimes cover my ears because I don't want him to come after my own kinda stuff haha.
Funny thing is, the Jurassic World scene where the raptors opened the door could still have been pulled off even if they’d used their correct anatomy because the door handle was accessibly designed. It allows one to open a door without a fully functional hand, or any hand at all.
6:45 Someone might have said this already but in Star Trek when traveling at high speeds starships use a navigational deflector to sweep the area in front of the ship of particles from atoms up to debris in order to prevent collisions. The navigational deflector on the tos enterprise is the large orange dish on the secondary hull's front, with newer versions having blue coloured deflectors (while powered).
This isn't a scientific inaccuracy, but my pet peeve in movies is the hacker girl/guy who can get into any system/computer/nuclear reactor anywhere by sitting at a laptop and clacking the keyboard for 45 seconds
You should check out the Farscape series. Moya's ability to star burst was kept in check because leviathans have to charge up their energy after each 'jump'. The Physics of how it works is weird though.
4. As you can see, Superman starts going down when he catches her. He doesn't immediately stop (but that is something that bugs me in a lot of movies). The "throw something to break the surface tension" doesn't really work btw. 3. While it is true that the momentum of the ship would be huge, what really counts is the momentum of the person. The ship loses its momentum when it crashes. The deformation of the ship and whatever it crashes into takes care of that. But the people also have momentum and they're not part of the ship, so their momentum keeps them moving forward at the speed they were before. So actually it wouldn't be that dramatic. 2. Warp drives (in theory) distort space in a way that you are inside a "bubble" in which you're not actually moving. I'm not a specialist on that, but I think you wouldn't suffer the effects of acceleration. 1. Totally valid
*HONK* Starfleet ships do have inertial compensators! The authors of the original series thought of that. Also the warp bubble bends space towards the ship, so that when it then moves forward with sublight speed it *seems* to be faster than light from the "outside" - on the inside it still travels with sublight, but the distances it has to travel are much, much shorter.
Not a huge trek fan so I might be wrong, but I thought the warp drive wasn't lightspeed it was warp. Basically "faster than light" travel due to warping space time into a "wave" if that were the case there would not be as significant a difference in acceleration when "dropping out" of warp because your momentum would stay the same just not the surrounding space time.
I love it! We're discussing the scientific inaccuracies of showing a flying man catching a falling woman but ignoring the heck of the notion of a FLYING MAN!!!! LOL!!!!
A lot of the space related inaccuracies from this video, is a bit more correct in tv shows like battlestar galactica, for how ships fly in space. And stargate sg1, for using “inertial dampeners” in their ships when going into hyperspace/warp/ftl speeds. When sg1 created their hybrid ships from the goa’uld ships, they still suffered from more and more inertia when the ship goes faster and faster. They weren’t able to turn or “bank” at high speeds, without the pilot blacking out, or getting crushed by the inertial “gravity”. Its been awhile since I’ve watched these shows, so i might be a little off on the details. But there was films from the sg1 series, and the atlantis series. So if your list was films only, and not series, you can add some mentions from the films. There is a third spinoff series called stargate universe, didn’t have a film to end the series, like the other series’ did.
Love the new look. Very manly. Loved the 4 minutes in joke as well :D I've often wondered about these things - using another body to cushion the fall MIGHT save you, but you would still be pretty messed up, full of their ribs and whatnot. And how much water surface must you break to make it safer - shooting works, does a knife as well? Thanks, great vid. Good start of the week :D
I've got one for you. The improbability that someone shot with a pistol bullet immediately keels over dead. It CAN happen depending on where he's shot, but, if you're trying to stop an attacker, don't count on it; make sure you at least triple-tap. On the same note, the bad guy has a cocked revolver and is about to shoot the good guy, but, at the last second, someone shoots him and saves the good guy. Now, if you get shot and you're holding a cocked gun pointed at someone with your finger on the trigger, and you get shot, that someone you're pointing your gun at is going to get shot, too. When something intrudes on your physiology and your body tenses up, including your trigger finger.
I always preferred when Star Wars used the term Hyperspace instead of “Light Speed”, since it’s as though they’re in some sort of worm hole or something that allows them to go fast, but not light speed fast. And yes, that B.S. “landing approach at light speed” in Force Awakens did make me chuckle a bit. Then again...they could have destroyed that thermal oscillator with one shot if they made their landing approach at light speed...but it would be a suicide mission and the Star Wars plot wouldn’t be needlessly complicated.
Very enjoyable. Your knowledge is amazing...and clears up a lot of things I noticed in the films. Thanks....how about the heart being depicted on the left side of the body...so annoying!
I like this video. I have heard that Superman (in your example of catching Lois at the last minute) has the ability to slow her down due to his super strength. Overall, though I agree.
Endymion by Dan Simmons got it right. Everybody biological is crushed to a pulp instantly when traveling between stars, but the ship's computer reassembles the travelers when they get to destination.
As for ftl travel; I would put that is generally accepted in sci-fi that 'hyperdrive/warp' is not moving a body through space faster than light, but somehow shortcutting/warping space itself such that your actual velocity is a unchanged. Under these circumstances collisions; if they happen at all (since star trek does have a magic wand for this) would occur at orbital velocities even when travelling 'at light speed' - still devastating, but not apocalyptic.
My physics teacher in High School showed us that scene from superman to see if we could spot the scientific inaccuracies and pretty much everyone in the class noticed that superman was actually descending at close to Lois Lane's speed when he caught her. They got that one right.
More more more! I almost think you should have an exclusive channel for this. It's super interesting, and entertaining... and you are teaching us real science!
Thank you for bringing the facts about scientific errors in movies. I see it in all the the movies I watch. It scares me what some folks believe because of it. Perhaps my biggest issue is that of mass and volume. If an object of a given size suddenly grows to many times its size it would still have the same mass. If it were large and shrank it would still have the same mass and would be denser. Another, If a super hero caught a heavy falling object while standing, then he and the object would still be forced into what ever he was standing on, hence, a crater is formed and the super hero would still be forced into the object at the small point of contact. Also, no object is stronger than its anchor point, or to say, this is connected to that and that to something and something to whatever. If whatever is a post two feet in the ground, then the anchor is no stronger than a post two feet in the ground and it still depends on the solidity of the ground. An example is the King Kong movie where he is on the theater stage with big chains.... what are the chains connected to? KKs restraint is no stronger than that. Oh, the biggest error? A bullet that hits a bad guy and throws him across a large space without going through him, it would also throw the gun and the shooter's arm at an even faster rate in the opposite direction. But knowing science sure makes those movies hilarious.
You missed the fact that, falling from a tall building and accelerating to 122mph will cause you no damage if you bounce off a shop awning. The shop awning will suddenly become strong enough to absorb all your momentum without causing you any damage, and then ejecting you at a slow enough speed tfor you to land safely on the ground. Aren't all shop awnings built with this feature?
Another problem with traveling at light speed: it still takes ages. (Which is why it's often travel way over light speed in sci-fi, because travel times of a few hundred years are a little boring. And make space wars practically impossible as described in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy somewhere.)
Dude, I just found your channel and sub’ed! Love it!...but one note of advice...your audio, your voice, on your vids...is low at times! You need to bring your volume up...and lower the background stuff! XOXO
Thank you! I've got a Twitter (@coldcrashpics) and tumblr (coldcrashpictures.tumblr.com/). But the tumblr is mostly just for reblogging pictures of cute doggos.
AhahaHA! Animorphs! My childhood! Hork-Bajir Chronicles! Still one of my favorite books, and quite an interesting parallel to the Vietnam war when you think about it, (taking place during the same time, settings wise).
Try the John Geary The lost fleet series for very realistic space battles, speed of light issues (such as realizing the enemy has jumped in awhile back as you only see the enemy well after they actually were there) (and communication due to speed of light lag) and weaponry that takes advantage of kinetic and relativistic energy.
Except.... you don't instantly reach terminal velocity. You'd have to be falling for five solid seconds before you were traveling at even 100mph at which point you would have already traveled 400 ft and I don't often see Batman catching somebody once they're that far down. 400 feet is a lot of rope to be in his grappling gun. Plus there would be an amount of tether stretching just like your Spider-Man example. I think Batman catching someone after just a couple of seconds of falling is totally fine scientifically. Superman has super strength and they even show him cushioning the blow while catching Lois as they decelerate before changing direction and flying back up. Spider-Man has super strength. Riddick is a Furyan, not human, so I'm fine with him surviving that impact. These are just nitpicks on your given examples. Overall I agree with you that falling is often poorly represented in media.
Even if all the characters used were human & the terminal velocities of the saving ropes/webs/devices could hold them back from hitting the ground, what he should have said is the recoil of those ropes/webs/devices would have had those being saved hit into stuff on the way back up.
I was trying to say, if you had read my reply, simply, what goes down, attached to something else, will surely bounce back up (every Action has an equal & opposite Reaction) & would eventually or accidentally hit something bouncing upwards. Remember there is always debris when someone falls up from being down.
In star wars they travel to the equivalent of light speed, but only by some how transporting the the alternate dimension of hyperspace, where they can go faster, or some equivalent.
One thing that annoys me is the idea the we only use 50% of our brains (or 70%, 20%... or some other low figure), as if an organism that had evolved to survive lean times (drought, food scarcity etc) would waste energy maintaining things that weren't used.
Though I've not seen the series, the Expanse books seem to address the multi-G physical effects and ship compensations well (from my layperson perspective).
all sci fi spaceships have inertial dampners and forcefields that Star trek calls shields .This is what makes it possible to move at great speeds without turning everyone into mush
"Maybe before you fix the science you should fix the script."
That's a might hot burn for a channel called COLD crash. ;)
is he wrong?
pretty sure mythbusters did the breaking water tension then hitting and still found the force was enough to mess you up
Yup. Breaking up surface tension is a myth.
It might not be enough to prevent injury, but disturbing the water will make it much easier to see the distance so the diver knows when they'll hit the surface.
Please note, that in Superman he does NOT just catch her but slows her down. They continue to fall at a decelerated pace. This is always missed by nit-pickers. Batman is right, however. He stops dead ( pardon the obvious reference).
Oh, and "compensators" are the equivalent of inertial dampeners which even the original series of Star Trek talked about.
They also have "Navigation shields" that deal with hitting microscopic particles at warp speeds. (or "hyperspace" as in Star Wars) But you are overall correct, momentum is dismissed when it interferes with the plot in most films.
Thank you, Lacey. Effing Animorphs for ffs...
Star trek ships have "inertia dampeners", and if they fail, every one inside the ship dies (this happens in DS9), and warp drives warp spacetime around them with antimatter reactions. It's not completely realistic, but nobody travels at light speed in star trek.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive
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Guess I should watch star trek instead of star wars then
Also one real weird thing. Technically space is moving not the ship. The ship creates a warp bubble and the space moves around the bubble. So there is no inertia inside the ship for the dampeners to well dampen. There is no sudden start or stop. It's all happening OUTSIDE the bubble.
@@dori411 Another interesting thing about ST tech is that it did adress the concept of time dilation. A shiip travelling within a subspace warp field wasn't moving at high speeds within the bubble itself, it was essentially stationary and carried along by the bubble, the bubble moved through 'subspace' where the laws were circumvented. Ships using thrusters were subject to time discrepencies and periodically had to re-sync their time with Command, and extensive use of reletivistic travel was discouraged. Sorry, being nerdy, but wanted to give Trek some credit in this discussion, they DID think out a lot of their concepts.
@@SFox-if9id There is another thing related to ship movements and such that people complain about: Why do all the ships meet right side up?
It's because of the SINS Base Datum in Galactic Coordinate System that uses celestial bodies or other ships as reference and automatically fixes their orientation. As seen below
www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/blueprints/sftm/02-06-12.jpg
I love that you always find a way to incorporate Animorphs. Yus!!!
Yeah, what you pointed out about lightspeed is right. BUT in Star Wars, Star Trek (and pretty much all other SF-Series) the characters DO NOT travel at lightspeed. Now, let me explain, cause I am a nerd here. Star Wars utilizes the hypothetical dimension called "hyperspace" which is said to be a space similiar to ours, with the exception, that it is much smaller. That means, you could enter this dimension (or whatever you wanna call it), travel 1 km and when you switch to "normal space" you would have travelled e.g. 1 billion km. Note however, this is only one way hyperspace is hypothesized. The movies use the term lightspeed because... honestly, nobody knows, in every novel and novelization and all movies but OT it is however referred to as hyperspace, or hyperdrive etc. Besides, they travel many thousand times faster than c, so... Regarding the fact that Han states "We could hit a star or a supernova...", in Star Wars, those and similiar phenomenons cast a so called "gravity shadow" into the hyperspace dimension. One has to navigate around those, otherwise the ship would end up in nothing but dustparticles...
Okay. Star Trek. Star Trek is a bit trickier but not by much. It uses an Alcubierre Drive (not please, the concept of Alcubierre was inspired by Star Trek, not the other way around. Doesn't matter much, since it is basically the same, we just call it that now), in Star Trek itself referred to as Warp-Drive. This device literally folds spacetime, compressing it slightly in front of the ship and stretching it behind it. The ship itself does not move, allowing for otherwise impossible maneuvers (like warping INTO a battlefield). Instead, its Warp-Drive keeps folding and compressing spacetime, resulting in seemingly superluminal speeds. Einstein stated, that spacetime could be fold indefinitly, meaning one could travel a billion times the speed of light, given the right circumstances.
And inertia. As you pointed out, "conventionally" accelerating to the speed of light would be... deadly, at best. But both Star Trek AND Star Wars address this. In ST it is called "inertial compensator". It generates gravitational fields in various strenghts, compensating for the immense acceleration. It's like falling, but since both forces cancel each other out, one feels absolutely nothing. Theoretically possible. Now Star Wars addresses that only in a few books (non-canon as of yet, but I'm guessing the tech doesn't change). The SW device is basically magic, and nothing but, since nobody ever cared to explain how it works.
I am pretty sure you, coldcrashpictures, are aware of everything I just pointed out, but it was fun writing, and pointing YOUR mistakes out :P
Thanks now my brain hurts....lol
Also for both franchises, for super fast non-warp/hyperspace travel, both ships also have "deflector dishes/shields that deflects objects from in front of the ship so that they never impact the ship itself. These deflectors usually also tie into the navigation and propulsion systems of the ship to likely steer the ship out of the way of the larger objects that might overwhelm the shields. If you have sufficiently advanced sensors you could detect the debris a sufficient enough distance away to make a minor correction far enough away (1cm heading left or right 1m/km away clears quite a large object).
Plus in Star Trek, they have "Inertial Dampeners" to prevent occupants from being thrown into walls or bulkheads when Warp is used.
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@@Herkfixer1 Such a shield would still require astronomical (heh) amounts of energy though to move even very small debris out of the way. It'd be functionally the same as trying to deflect a rock that's thrown at the speed of light at you, which would give it the energy of several nuclear bombs. And even if such vast amounts of energy were readily available it'd still be a problem as those shields would have to be deployed at such a strength for prolonged times and considering they are applied over quite some area be that strong at any given point.
Even with an electro-magnetic field that moves object out of the way of the ship instead of plain absorbing the impacts they'd still need a lot of energy, increasingly more the faster they'd have to move something out of the way.
The change from "Lightspeed" to "Incorrect Raptor Wrist Anatomy" made me blow out more air through my nose than usual
the assassins creed part where he uses the knife to break the surface tension reminded me of the ghost busters cartoon when they were falling fast and Egon instructs them to fire their proton packs at the water to break it up... now that I think about it wouldn't that make the water really hot?
btw Mythbusters tested that with a hammer and it did not wirk.
@@Slazlo-Brovnik Did they try it with a Proton pack?
@@jimmyeng663 No only with a large heavy hammer. The bot the hammer form a strange guy with a red cape - who mumbled something about "Being worthy" and such.
With the knife from Assassins Creed, did no one on the production team watch Mythbusters?
The guys tested, and busted, throwing an object into water before impact to break surface tension.... you’d need something twice the size of yourself, and impacting that would do just as, if not more, damage than hitting the water without said object.
Didn't he think by the example he had given prior to that example, like the Hulk hitting the water, it would be just like a big belly-flop?
Superman flies by psychically manipulating gravitons ergo Lois Lane falling into his arms would be like falling into an antigravity field
I fucking love your videos man. Very high quality, and interesting
Thank you!
In Star Trek, the ship isn’t moving. When it comes to warp drive, it’s space that’s moving around you rather than the ship moving through space.
Another example of this is the ships in Dune.
Great video, but one comment about the warping. If it warps the space around it technically the ship is only exerting the force of the relative speed it is actually going. So as the space folds around it, the ship is not actually experiencing that level of impact of it runs into anything and it wouldn't run into anything, it's all folded around it, though likely the large masses would have an effect as they also warp the space around them enough to have detrimental effects
LA Nuked "These are the voyages of the star ship Enterprise." Oh man I lost it too funny.
people always like to show the original Superman movie catch in these videos like this. but notice!! the windows on the building behind them as he catches Lois are STILL ZIPPING "UP"! indicating that as he gets to her he himself begins ever so slightly to fly "down" to match her speed before coming to a stop and then reversing direction. this one needs to stop being part of this discussion. it may not be a well executed shot as a film goes but i think they were trying to depict him gradually slowing her fall.
And as far as regulation on hyper drive light speed travel under the rule of the Galactic Empire (or even the Republic new or old for that matter) maybe there were strict regulations. i mean Han was smuggler for cryin' out loud! and the Falcon is the only ..."civilian" vessel we see travel at light speed; all the others are military or political dignitary and thus probably had special permissions to forego many of the regulations on hyperspace travel. Han's a criminal that doesn't care about regulations AND the Falcon had a TON of after market and/or illegal modifications on it particularly its hyper drive engine. so the arguments about regulations are irrelevant. unless there is some canon material that states that there were NO regulations on hyperspace travel, then we can just as easily assume that there were.
It made me happier than it probably should have that you brought it back to dinosaurs again.
Antman landed on porcelain coated cast iron, not linoleum. Should have cracked the porcelain coating.
Brilliant, as always.
Nit: FTL physics is an unknown. We can not know what momentum a vessel will have when it gets out of hyperspace or warp. Wormholes and Alcubier drives are different: we have the physics for that. But most FTLs are not explained in-universe well enough for is to be certain of their consequences.
Plus Han solo's ship in 1.25 or 1.5 times speed of light.
Damn it. I'm about to binge every single video you've made. Now I'm gonna be sleepy tomorrow and it's your fault. Jerk.
7:05 - "these are the voyages of the starship enterprise" nuke scene,
I literally spat out my coffee all over the screen, thanks mate :)
lol, apologies
I love how the Joker is laughing his ass off as he's falling to his "death". It was his victory, forcing Batman to unalive him
Great to see a movie review channel that actually cares about science. Awesome video!
Lol, binge watching my missed videos. Love your stuff bud
About #2, The Last Jedi shows what happens when an object gets in the way of a ship travelling at lightspeed.
I had to re-sirt the comments to find this one. As soon as I heard him mention that, I thought, "Oh! He predicted the Holdo maneuver."
Oh, Animorphs. Brings back memories... and who would have thought it held up to scientific scrutiny?
UA-cam recommended your videos to me and I LOVE them! Whenever there's something that's reality v.s. story, there's the "Cool Factor" involved. Do ships bank? No, but it looks cool. Would unregulated be remotely safe? No, but it looks cool. As a fan of those movies, I can watch them with a suspension of disbelief and enjoy them even though (possibly because??) they are not scientifically accurate.
As a Star Trek fan myself. Star Trek did explain why people do not slam against a bulkhead and Star Trek ships can travel at light speed but they have warp. The ships technically do not travel the ships create almost like a wormhole.
WOW, by far best video you’ve done!
1) Thanks for pointing out maintain-mass/linoleum.
2) Good point with terminal velocity, however you didn’t point out how long it takes to get to 120mph (3 seconds to reach 50%, 60mph; 8 seconds to reach 90%, 108mph; 15 seconds to reach 99%). It looks like people falling from buildings in film often accelerate slower than 9/11 jumpers.
3) I’ve always assumed the phrase “light speed” (LS) is used as a generalisation to mean “close to light speed”, for example the Millennium Falcon making the Kessel Run faster by going just that little bit closer to LS.
4) Avatar also gets light speed right. (Warning: Cameron connoisseur alert). As explained in the treatment, Alpha Centauri is 4 LY away and in the opening film dialog it took 6 years to get there, 1 to accelerate up to almost LS, 1 to decelerate.
5) hitting anything even much smaller than a golf ball at near LS is probably fatal given what happened when the space shuttle at only earth-escape-velocity shook violently when just hitting a microscopic piece of dust once.
It doesn't matter how much momentum the whole ship has, only the speed it was traveling at. Because the people inside aren't hitting the WHOLE ship, they're only hitting one tiny piece of it. And even if the ship came to an abrupt and sudden stop, they are only hitting it at exactly the speed the ship was going. That's just d'Alembert force. Only the mass of the passengers counts.
makes sense to me
Aye. Sure the ship would have a lot of energy to transfer, but a human can only absorb so much. It may be a high energy collision but if it takes place over a longer period of time that energy gets distributed more evenly.
The destructive force is based on how much energy gets from point a to point b in what span of time.
One note on Superman's helicopter scene catch. The filmmakers did appear to understand that he couldn't simply catch her safely, although I question whether they did *enough.* See how when he catches Lois, the fall continues? He appears to be slowing her fall before stopping it. I appreciate that they tried!
there are a couple of white papers available by NASA employee's describing how warp drive would work. essentially you would compress space ahead and expand space behind a ship creating a warp bubble. those inside the bubble wouldn't feel any movement or relative time alterations, but the compression and expansion of space would move them through space beyond light speed. so no splat on the bulkhead I'm afraid. so Trekkies did theoretically get something right, back in the 60's.
that same paper was improved on so you don't need an infinite amount of energy to do this.
@@kinggonch but you require more energy that you could store inside said bubble (I think they also looked at antimatter, which would be together with matter the most space efficient storage of energy).
Your commentaries are very amusing and good. Thanks.
I wonder how you can have a scene where Superman catches a falling plane. To apply enough force to adequately decelerate it, over only the area of his hands, would simply result in him punching right through the fuselage. Or causing the plane to crumple. Applying little enough force to keep the plane intact probably wouldn't be enough to stop it in time.
Similarly, in Hancock, when he throws the beached whale back into the ocean, I think it more likely that he would simply tear off a couple of chunks of the tale, leaving the rest of the whale on the beach.
And, I thought, when he mentioned Antman going through the linoleum, he meant he would crash through the tub and the floor underneath.
It isn’t only on his hands. His power has an “aura” that affects what he touches. He’s lifting the whole plane as a solid object held by that aura. It’s more like the aura bubble surrounds the plane, then he lifts the bubble (and thus everything in it). This is also why his clothes don’t rip apart under machine gun fire; the aura is protecting the clothes as if they were skin; they’re inside the aura. Or how he can hold his cape up to block something to protect a civilian. Why wouldn’t a bullet go thru the cape and his Lois? The cape is imbued with the aura.
When Hancock was hit by the train and stopped it dead, how could he do that? No matter his strength how could he out-mass the train. No matter how strong he was the train should have sent him flying and his tiny relative mass would have had virtually no effect in slowing it down, much less stopping it. Ditto in the first Superman when the taxi hits him and he stops it dead but he does not budge a fraction of an inch.
The Last Jedi got the light speed thing right. When a ship traveling at light speed collides with another, it creates a massive explosion and the most beautiful looking shot in the movie.
Avatar: The Last Airbender also got the "surface tension of water" thing right... admittedly, not at first, but most times. Take a look at any scene where a waterbender falls into the water from a great height, and you'll notice they immediately start bending the water below them to foam it up and cut the surface tension; in particular, during the Sozin's Comet 4-parter, you can very clearly see Aang create a water tentacle to catch him many tens of feet up in the air BEFORE he hits the water
Love these vids but just one note. In the third Star Trek film they did. The got “light speed” correct in the only way it would be theoretically possible to travel faster than light. They crest a bubble around the ship that passes through space and time
1:56 In that Superman scene, he actually doesn't catches her and brings her to a complete stop immediatly, but decelerates her over the time of about 1 second, which translates to an acceleration of 5 and a half g, which is high, but definitly survivable.
I love that you talk about Animorphs in your videos every time it's possible 💕 , ka Applegate really nailed it with that series
That Elfangor book though... I did not see that coming. I remember that book!
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Bathtubs aren't made of linoleum. Riddick isn't human. It's not the surface tension that kills, it's the change in acceleration. If the director isn't putting in feathers, he sure isn't fixing wrists.
Strictly speaking its the rate of change of acceleration, not change of acceleration in itself. I thought Riddick was human... mind you I've only seen the two films not any of the animated stuff
They tested the 'breaking surface tension' thing on mythbusters and determined that any difference it made was inconsequential.
Riddick is a Furyan, which is presumably some kind of human sub-species like the elementals. Its briefly touched on in Chronicles of Riddick and Escape from Butcher Bay. They're apparently tougher, and more aggressive and animalistic than baseline humans, as well as possibly having some kind of energy based power?
I seem to remember that Myth Busters showed that breaking the surface tension of water doesn't work.
Anyways, I remember in the first JurASSic movie they were using frog DNA along with the dinosaur DNA, so no feathers & sticky wrists/fingers.
I've read that breaking the surface tension on water before hitting it doesn't actually do much of anything to save you from the impact. Also most Sci-fi with lightspeed typically do have something like "compensators" such as inertial dampeners. Startrek and Stargate are two examples off the top of my head.
I always thought that in Star Trek they make a point to have inertia buffers that make it possible for the crew to be alive while traveling the speed of light. Which is also a little untrue as the warp technology doesn't actually travel the speed of light, but it folds the space in a way that it seems so. It's basically the same thing as in Event Horizon.
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You're half right. The inertial dampers are for traveling at sub-warp speeds. Starships can accelerate and travel very fast at impulse speeds. Usually limited to 25% the speed of light so as to avoid problems with time dilation.
Stargate Atlantis also got acceleration correct in one episode colonel Sheppard when captured activates the ships engines without activating the inertial dampeners first and everyone is sent flying into the rear of the bridge.
Never thought I'd read the sentence "incorrect raptor wrist anatomy"
One of my biggest pet peeves is people being electrocuted. EVERY movie that I've ever seen including Sin City depicts people being electrocuted but their muscles miraculously stop contracting when they die as though they were seizing voluntarily. If you lay down on the third rail of a subway train, that 600 volts AC will cause you to INVOLUNTARILY shake and shudder until your muscles are well done.
Mythbusters busted the myth of breaking water tensions long long time ago :P
After I shot this video, I realized I could be completely misinterpreting Fassbender's intentions in that scene. Maybe he saw a fish that he really wanted to eat?
So, I suppose it is method acting? ;)
Thank you for number 1. This bugs me so much.
Star Trek has Intertial dampeners that supposedly protect the crew from the effects of warp speed, and also the ship is in a warp bubble that bends space around it that allows it to travel at warp speed. They also have deflectors that deflect microparticles in front of the ships.
As a science-fiction writer, I love these videos. But I can't help but sometimes cover my ears because I don't want him to come after my own kinda stuff haha.
Funny thing is, the Jurassic World scene where the raptors opened the door could still have been pulled off even if they’d used their correct anatomy because the door handle was accessibly designed. It allows one to open a door without a fully functional hand, or any hand at all.
6:45 Someone might have said this already but in Star Trek when traveling at high speeds starships use a navigational deflector to sweep the area in front of the ship of particles from atoms up to debris in order to prevent collisions. The navigational deflector on the tos enterprise is the large orange dish on the secondary hull's front, with newer versions having blue coloured deflectors (while powered).
This isn't a scientific inaccuracy, but my pet peeve in movies is the hacker girl/guy who can get into any system/computer/nuclear reactor anywhere by sitting at a laptop and clacking the keyboard for 45 seconds
You should check out the Farscape series. Moya's ability to star burst was kept in check because leviathans have to charge up their energy after each 'jump'. The Physics of how it works is weird though.
“Using a human as an airbag” has reportedly (unfortunately) been successfully test by tandem skydivers [The Herald (Scotland) 25 Jun 97]
4. As you can see, Superman starts going down when he catches her. He doesn't immediately stop (but that is something that bugs me in a lot of movies). The "throw something to break the surface tension" doesn't really work btw.
3. While it is true that the momentum of the ship would be huge, what really counts is the momentum of the person. The ship loses its momentum when it crashes. The deformation of the ship and whatever it crashes into takes care of that. But the people also have momentum and they're not part of the ship, so their momentum keeps them moving forward at the speed they were before. So actually it wouldn't be that dramatic.
2. Warp drives (in theory) distort space in a way that you are inside a "bubble" in which you're not actually moving. I'm not a specialist on that, but I think you wouldn't suffer the effects of acceleration.
1. Totally valid
*HONK* Starfleet ships do have inertial compensators! The authors of the original series thought of that. Also the warp bubble bends space towards the ship, so that when it then moves forward with sublight speed it *seems* to be faster than light from the "outside" - on the inside it still travels with sublight, but the distances it has to travel are much, much shorter.
If you shrink size, you are also shrinking mass. For example, model railroads. The really tiny ones need magnetism to stay on the rails
Not a huge trek fan so I might be wrong, but I thought the warp drive wasn't lightspeed it was warp. Basically "faster than light" travel due to warping space time into a "wave" if that were the case there would not be as significant a difference in acceleration when "dropping out" of warp because your momentum would stay the same just not the surrounding space time.
Okay, that last one was actually pretty cool.
So nit-picking the fall gets your panties in a bunch, but mentioning Superman's indestructible rib cage is fine.
You have 28 Days Later and 300 in your collection before the As. They belong in the Ts.
I love it! We're discussing the scientific inaccuracies of showing a flying man catching a falling woman but ignoring the heck of the notion of a FLYING MAN!!!! LOL!!!!
Ant Man wouldn't go through the linoleum in that shot, because he's inside an old, enameled cast iron bathtub.
I love movies, I love science ( I don't know anything about either) so this video is highkey amazing.
A lot of the space related inaccuracies from this video, is a bit more correct in tv shows like battlestar galactica, for how ships fly in space. And stargate sg1, for using “inertial dampeners” in their ships when going into hyperspace/warp/ftl speeds. When sg1 created their hybrid ships from the goa’uld ships, they still suffered from more and more inertia when the ship goes faster and faster. They weren’t able to turn or “bank” at high speeds, without the pilot blacking out, or getting crushed by the inertial “gravity”.
Its been awhile since I’ve watched these shows, so i might be a little off on the details. But there was films from the sg1 series, and the atlantis series. So if your list was films only, and not series, you can add some mentions from the films. There is a third spinoff series called stargate universe, didn’t have a film to end the series, like the other series’ did.
this guy REALLY does love him some dinosaurs
Love the new look. Very manly. Loved the 4 minutes in joke as well :D
I've often wondered about these things - using another body to cushion the fall MIGHT save you, but you would still be pretty messed up, full of their ribs and whatnot. And how much water surface must you break to make it safer - shooting works, does a knife as well?
Thanks, great vid. Good start of the week :D
I've got one for you. The improbability that someone shot with a pistol bullet immediately keels over dead. It CAN happen depending on where he's shot, but, if you're trying to stop an attacker, don't count on it; make sure you at least triple-tap. On the same note, the bad guy has a cocked revolver and is about to shoot the good guy, but, at the last second, someone shoots him and saves the good guy. Now, if you get shot and you're holding a cocked gun pointed at someone with your finger on the trigger, and you get shot, that someone you're pointing your gun at is going to get shot, too. When something intrudes on your physiology and your body tenses up, including your trigger finger.
varanid9 head shot kills immediately. Shoot lower (legs if possible). Takes him out of the fight as well as others that care for him.
I always preferred when Star Wars used the term Hyperspace instead of “Light Speed”, since it’s as though they’re in some sort of worm hole or something that allows them to go fast, but not light speed fast. And yes, that B.S. “landing approach at light speed” in Force Awakens did make me chuckle a bit.
Then again...they could have destroyed that thermal oscillator with one shot if they made their landing approach at light speed...but it would be a suicide mission and the Star Wars plot wouldn’t be needlessly complicated.
Very enjoyable. Your knowledge is amazing...and clears up a lot of things I noticed in the films. Thanks....how about the heart being depicted on the left side of the body...so annoying!
On #4 i think Jeremy Clarkson told it pretty good. It's not the speed that kills you, it's becoming suddenly stationary, that's what gets you.
Ant-Man doesn't only punch through the linoleum, he should have created a blackhole, I think.
All The Artsy he is too big. All of earth would have to be marble sized.
Star Trek also has compensators for going really fast. I even remember a few episodes where they failed and all the crew were killed because of it.
Great Video! Really creative and informative.
I like this video. I have heard that Superman (in your example of catching Lois at the last minute) has the ability to slow her down due to his super strength. Overall, though I agree.
U of C!!! My compliments, as a fellow graduate, I very much enjoy your videos. I would even if I weren’t. Thank you.
In Star Trek, they explain away conservation of momentum by having the ships equipped with inertial dampers.
Endymion by Dan Simmons got it right. Everybody biological is crushed to a pulp instantly when traveling between stars, but the ship's computer reassembles the travelers when they get to destination.
I love your vids...keep them coming. Have a request...do the black hole science on "Interstellar". thanks dude!!!
"Mythbusters" showed that throwing a heavy object into the water doesn't have much effect in reducing the impact force on a human body.
As for ftl travel; I would put that is generally accepted in sci-fi that 'hyperdrive/warp' is not moving a body through space faster than light, but somehow shortcutting/warping space itself such that your actual velocity is a unchanged. Under these circumstances collisions; if they happen at all (since star trek does have a magic wand for this) would occur at orbital velocities even when travelling 'at light speed' - still devastating, but not apocalyptic.
My physics teacher in High School showed us that scene from superman to see if we could spot the scientific inaccuracies and pretty much everyone in the class noticed that superman was actually descending at close to Lois Lane's speed when he caught her. They got that one right.
More more more! I almost think you should have an exclusive channel for this. It's super interesting, and entertaining... and you are teaching us real science!
Thank you for bringing the facts about scientific errors in movies. I see it in all the the movies I watch. It scares me what some folks believe because of it. Perhaps my biggest issue is that of mass and volume. If an object of a given size suddenly grows to many times its size it would still have the same mass. If it were large and shrank it would still have the same mass and would be denser. Another, If a super hero caught a heavy falling object while standing, then he and the object would still be forced into what ever he was standing on, hence, a crater is formed and the super hero would still be forced into the object at the small point of contact. Also, no object is stronger than its anchor point, or to say, this is connected to that and that to something and something to whatever. If whatever is a post two feet in the ground, then the anchor is no stronger than a post two feet in the ground and it still depends on the solidity of the ground. An example is the King Kong movie where he is on the theater stage with big chains.... what are the chains connected to? KKs restraint is no stronger than that. Oh, the biggest error? A bullet that hits a bad guy and throws him across a large space without going through him, it would also throw the gun and the shooter's arm at an even faster rate in the opposite direction. But knowing science sure makes those movies hilarious.
Delmus Ingle they are entertainment, not education. Took me years to stop having “that doesn’t work!” Spasms in hacker movies.
Your videos are sooooo good! Keep it up!
You missed the fact that, falling from a tall building and accelerating to 122mph will cause you no damage if you bounce off a shop awning. The shop awning will suddenly become strong enough to absorb all your momentum without causing you any damage, and then ejecting you at a slow enough speed tfor you to land safely on the ground. Aren't all shop awnings built with this feature?
Another problem with traveling at light speed: it still takes ages. (Which is why it's often travel way over light speed in sci-fi, because travel times of a few hundred years are a little boring. And make space wars practically impossible as described in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy somewhere.)
Love these videos, all the years I was saying "Wait a damn minute" make sense now because the scenes made no sense.
"Hydrogen Bomb with seatbelts" lololol
Dude, I just found your channel and sub’ed! Love it!...but one note of advice...your audio, your voice, on your vids...is low at times! You need to bring your volume up...and lower the background stuff! XOXO
I seriously enjoy your videos. Do you have any other public social media?
Thank you! I've got a Twitter (@coldcrashpics) and tumblr (coldcrashpictures.tumblr.com/). But the tumblr is mostly just for reblogging pictures of cute doggos.
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AhahaHA! Animorphs! My childhood! Hork-Bajir Chronicles! Still one of my favorite books, and quite an interesting parallel to the Vietnam war when you think about it, (taking place during the same time, settings wise).
As far as I know, it is unclear, yet impropable for dinosaurs to scream.
Try the John Geary The lost fleet series for very realistic space battles, speed of light issues (such as realizing the enemy has jumped in awhile back as you only see the enemy well after they actually were there) (and communication due to speed of light lag) and weaponry that takes advantage of kinetic and relativistic energy.
Except.... you don't instantly reach terminal velocity. You'd have to be falling for five solid seconds before you were traveling at even 100mph at which point you would have already traveled 400 ft and I don't often see Batman catching somebody once they're that far down. 400 feet is a lot of rope to be in his grappling gun. Plus there would be an amount of tether stretching just like your Spider-Man example. I think Batman catching someone after just a couple of seconds of falling is totally fine scientifically. Superman has super strength and they even show him cushioning the blow while catching Lois as they decelerate before changing direction and flying back up. Spider-Man has super strength. Riddick is a Furyan, not human, so I'm fine with him surviving that impact. These are just nitpicks on your given examples. Overall I agree with you that falling is often poorly represented in media.
Even if all the characters used were human & the terminal velocities of the saving ropes/webs/devices could hold them back from hitting the ground, what he should have said is the recoil of those ropes/webs/devices would have had those being saved hit into stuff on the way back up.
I remember reading decades ago in a Superman comic book how he would blow a cushion of air over his hands and arms to catch a falling victim.
I was trying to say, if you had read my reply, simply, what goes down, attached to something else, will surely bounce back up (every Action has an equal & opposite Reaction) & would eventually or accidentally hit something bouncing upwards. Remember there is always debris when someone falls up from being down.
No need to justify, I love these videos
In star wars they travel to the equivalent of light speed, but only by some how transporting the the alternate dimension of hyperspace, where they can go faster, or some equivalent.
One thing that annoys me is the idea the we only use 50% of our brains (or 70%, 20%... or some other low figure), as if an organism that had evolved to survive lean times (drought, food scarcity etc) would waste energy maintaining things that weren't used.
Though I've not seen the series, the Expanse books seem to address the multi-G physical effects and ship compensations well (from my layperson perspective).
all sci fi spaceships have inertial dampners and forcefields that Star trek calls shields .This is what makes it possible to move at great speeds without turning everyone into mush