The Faster-Than-Light Guillotine

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  • Опубліковано 20 чер 2024
  • Kyle explores physics phenomena that apparently break the SPEED OF LIGHT, and does the math on a totally NOT EVIL F.T.L. machine.
  • Наука та технологія

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  • @becausescience
    @becausescience  4 роки тому +783

    Thanks for watching, Super Nerds! This was a fun one, as many others have talked about these phenomena, but I've never seen the math on how to make some of them "work." See you in Footnotes. -- kH

    • @meinkamph5327
      @meinkamph5327 4 роки тому +7

      I have a question.
      How fast are we going thru the universe?

    • @TheEFRoommates
      @TheEFRoommates 4 роки тому +2

      Thanks Kyle, see you there!
      Edit: Quick Question Kyle, what's your favorite SCP?

    • @lasarith2
      @lasarith2 4 роки тому +2

      Because Science I believe that galaxies at the edge of the visible universe are moving away from us around 3.34 +/- 0.02 x C even though in reality there velocity is only 71km/s parsec.

    • @TheLonghairedhippi
      @TheLonghairedhippi 4 роки тому +8

      "It's not evil... Snot."
      Kyle, it's a good thing you're not a super villian... You'd make a good one. You rolled high on your intelligence, wisdom and charisma, great on dexterity... Good on your constitution and strength, being a rock climber takes decent strength and good stamina and that dexterity... I mean, really I'd let you use athletics or acrobatics... But, that's just me. Point is, is you'd make a nasty villian. Unsuspecting. Charming. Broad range of knowledge.
      Secretive. Slightly introverted. Moderately perfectionistish. I dunno... The more I type, the more I convince myself...
      .... Need a sidekick? I rolled pretty good stats, myself.
      Oh, and we can get into feats and skills when we get to the base. Ky'll-Gore Voidkeep...🤔😏

    • @marcasrealaccount
      @marcasrealaccount 4 роки тому +6

      Im just gonna say there is no speed limit, there is a maximum observable speed limit which is The speed of light

  • @ShadowLynx777
    @ShadowLynx777 4 роки тому +1621

    Kyle stop telling us how we can exploit the Universe's physics engine. The devs won't like that.

    • @ribbitgoesthedoglastnamehe4681
      @ribbitgoesthedoglastnamehe4681 4 роки тому +40

      That. Is. A. Scary. Thought.
      Icantsleepamoar....

    • @silverstar4505
      @silverstar4505 4 роки тому +38

      I dont think I want the devs mad at me.

    • @antares1070
      @antares1070 4 роки тому +9

      Pardon my ignorance, but what's a dev?

    • @MyVideosJose
      @MyVideosJose 4 роки тому +65

      @@antares1070 A software developer. Like the ones that program the simulation that run our universe.

    • @buttersstotch1636
      @buttersstotch1636 4 роки тому +45

      Don't worry devs gonna release the patch to fix that soon ;)

  • @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache
    @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache 3 роки тому +699

    "I cannot stress enough that I'm not a supervillain"
    Don't worry, Thor, I trust you.

    • @tinle9
      @tinle9 3 роки тому +27

      Plot twist: it's Loki disguised as Thor

    • @redpotat5498
      @redpotat5498 3 роки тому

      OMG IT'S YOU, ALL MIGHTY, I PRAY, AND KNEEL DOWN BEFORE THY. How do you not have more like. I've been subscribed since 2017.

    • @cloroxbleach3936
      @cloroxbleach3936 3 роки тому +3

      u again

    • @demonprincemeliodias6590
      @demonprincemeliodias6590 3 роки тому +2

      Hi

    • @auritro3903
      @auritro3903 Рік тому +3

      You again

  • @eggmcmuffin6067
    @eggmcmuffin6067 4 роки тому +766

    “I’m not a supervillain.”
    *looks at next video*
    “Should we nuke Mars?”

    • @Tanspotty
      @Tanspotty 4 роки тому +5

      I know

    • @brennanslocum3958
      @brennanslocum3958 4 роки тому +2

      Lol!

    • @muratunlu229
      @muratunlu229 3 роки тому +7

      "There are no accidents."
      -Master Oogway

    • @MinatheRaichu
      @MinatheRaichu 3 роки тому +1

      All for a prank call

    • @I_am_a_cat_
      @I_am_a_cat_ 3 роки тому +2

      Not very super villainy. And come on, look at his face. I'd laugh at a "villian" that looked like that

  • @randywa
    @randywa 4 роки тому +246

    Kyle: I’m not a super-villain
    Also Kyle: Lets make a giant space guillotine.

  • @brown297
    @brown297 4 роки тому +563

    And the barman said "sorry we don't serve tachyons here"
    A tachyon walks into a bar...

  • @TheKnuckleneck
    @TheKnuckleneck 4 роки тому +988

    Kyle: "Here's why you DON'T want superpowers."
    Also Kyle: "Here's another way I could kill you with science, you non-superpowered nerds."
    TOTALLY not a supervillain.

    • @lucillefrancois150
      @lucillefrancois150 4 роки тому +16

      TheKnuckleneck Kyle is gonna be the next Lex Luthor

    • @TheKnuckleneck
      @TheKnuckleneck 4 роки тому +16

      Lucille Francois Dear God...protecting his hair should be a national mandate.

    • @lucillefrancois150
      @lucillefrancois150 4 роки тому +7

      TheKnuckleneck Honestly I’d protect his hair without any legal reason

    • @Enderia01
      @Enderia01 4 роки тому +5

      He would know. If anyone knows, it's him

    • @seiyuokamihimura5082
      @seiyuokamihimura5082 4 роки тому +4

      I mean, hes not wrong....

  • @morlath4767
    @morlath4767 4 роки тому +398

    The "speed of dark" has been one of those things that have fascinated me for ages, you supervillain you.

    • @bumblebee6875
      @bumblebee6875 4 роки тому +17

      speed of dark is just the speed of light

    • @MistBestWaifu
      @MistBestWaifu 4 роки тому +17

      @@bumblebee6875 It's the speed of the absence of light

    • @Carewolf
      @Carewolf 4 роки тому +6

      @@bumblebee6875 The speed of light projected. The projection however means a shadow can move faster than the speed of light.

    • @bumblebee6875
      @bumblebee6875 4 роки тому +25

      @@Carewolf no because a shadow only exists where there is light to cast it. If you move an object infront of a laserpointer you are only blocking new light, not old light.

    • @Carewolf
      @Carewolf 4 роки тому +4

      @@bumblebee6875 Sure, but the shadow is that projected onto a surface. A spotlight on a surface can also move faster than the speed of light, because the spot like a shadow is a not a physical object, but a name we have given to an interaction point of two objects, and like the scissors example, such an abstract point can move faster than the speed of light.

  • @billyyank1163
    @billyyank1163 4 роки тому +457

    When will the "Let's put rockets on our space guillotine." t-shirt be available? Asking for a friend.

  • @paradox7358
    @paradox7358 4 роки тому +1275

    The faster-than-light guillotine.
    *Louis XVI has left the chat*

    • @mastervexpc1881
      @mastervexpc1881 4 роки тому +7

      Ha ha ha good one 😂

    • @DavidBarkland
      @DavidBarkland 4 роки тому +59

      Are you sure it was not just his head that left?

    • @cherrydragon3120
      @cherrydragon3120 4 роки тому +41

      @@DavidBarkland that joke was surely a NO brainer then :D

    • @comradeviper4054
      @comradeviper4054 4 роки тому +28

      I guess you could say his connection was... Severed...

    • @abel3557
      @abel3557 4 роки тому

      I'm guessing he just had world history lol I had it a while ago

  • @jerrynope7060
    @jerrynope7060 4 роки тому +620

    "I'm not a super villain, but what if rocket guillotine "

    • @cherrydragon3120
      @cherrydragon3120 4 роки тому +1

      XD

    • @2MCHFRETMEProduction
      @2MCHFRETMEProduction 4 роки тому +17

      Kyle is the reincarnation of Emperor Palpatine. He has the charisma and a red lightsaber to prove it.

    • @tohanwi
      @tohanwi 4 роки тому +3

      Nah Kyle is a super villain in training

    • @deusexaethera
      @deusexaethera 4 роки тому

      LMAO right???

    • @MindStarsSoulStops
      @MindStarsSoulStops 4 роки тому +6

      Megamind: You dare challenge Megamind?
      Titan: This town isn’t big enough for two supervillains!
      Megamind: Oh, you’re a villain all right, just not a super one.
      Titan: Oh yeah? What’s the difference?
      Megamind: Presentation!

  • @solidsnake8330
    @solidsnake8330 4 роки тому +213

    Kyle: * Makes a FTL Guillotine *
    *FRANCE WOULD LIKE TO KNOW YOUR LOCATION*

  • @MonkeySimius
    @MonkeySimius Рік тому +40

    I really like the fact that you threw in that pushing on the scissor handle would only propagate the force through the scissor at the speed of sound. Not that it really mattered to the point you were making, but taking the time to mention that shows a care for accuracy, even while discussing ridiculous things, that is just really refreshing.
    Kudos to you and your team.

  • @fandiandan
    @fandiandan 4 роки тому +273

    "I'm not a Super Villain, i swear."
    Sounds like something a Super Villain would say...

    • @ArtumTsumia
      @ArtumTsumia 4 роки тому +13

      But... wouldn't someone who _isn't_ a Super Villain say the same thing? Wait? Are *you* a Super Villain!?

    • @DrewLSsix
      @DrewLSsix 4 роки тому +5

      Supervillains actually cant resist expositing their villainy, its physically impossible for them.

    • @jonathonpolk3592
      @jonathonpolk3592 4 роки тому +2

      There's a great way to sort it out. Trial by Ordeal. Throw him into the event horizon of a black hole. If he falls in then he was a good guy that was accepted as pure by the universe. If he gets spat out, he's a diabolical monster and we nuke him before he can escape. Problem solved and 100% accurate to ensure no supervillains are around.

    • @lee1978good
      @lee1978good 4 роки тому

      The FIRST thing a super villain would say.

    • @ecstasy8261
      @ecstasy8261 4 роки тому +1

      Hmm... yes...

  • @paopaothesiopao995
    @paopaothesiopao995 4 роки тому +186

    "We wouldn't have a planet chopper anymore."
    Why do I hear disappointment in Kyle's voice?

  • @theshamanite
    @theshamanite 4 роки тому +77

    Stuck with a phantom German accent?
    You may have Einstein moustache.

    • @markuspfeifer8473
      @markuspfeifer8473 4 роки тому +1

      The Shamanite It wazent partikularly Grrman sou. Seems too be a tuff one too imitayt.

    • @minecat1839
      @minecat1839 2 місяці тому

      Austrian?

  • @EdKolis
    @EdKolis Рік тому +55

    Are you sure about that "speed of dark" thing? Because it sounds awfully similar to "let's destroy the sun and see how long it takes for people on Earth to notice", which of course does obey the speed of light. Not that I've personally destroyed the sun...

    • @nolesy34
      @nolesy34 Рік тому +2

      That WOULD be evil

    • @rabbitpiet7182
      @rabbitpiet7182 Рік тому +4

      Well either way we wouldn’t know for 8 minutes.

    • @99temporal
      @99temporal Рік тому +6

      Those are two different phenomenons.
      Yes, if you destroyed the sun, it would take 8 minutes till the earth noticed it.
      In the same way, from the moment the you put your hand on that hypothetical flashlight till the "shadow" "arrived" on the moon, it would take roughly 1 second. But that's not what we're talking here, we're talking about the perception of said shadow on the surface of the moon
      Think about a screen fully lit, and some pixels turned off in such a way that it seems there is a black dot moving on the screen... Notice that no pixels are moving in this examples

    • @EdKolis
      @EdKolis Рік тому

      @@99temporal Wait, so if I was somehow standing on the sun, and the sun disappeared out from under me, then I'd see the earth disappear right away, even though the light from the sun hadn't yet had time to reach the earth, bounce off, and come back?

    • @ThespianGamr
      @ThespianGamr Рік тому +5

      ​@@EdKolis The main idea is the light is shining in a cone, so your hand moving across a flashlight close to the flashlight causes the shadow that's reaaaaaally far away appear to move suuuuuuper fast.

  • @PyroMancer2k
    @PyroMancer2k 4 роки тому +470

    "I'm not a super villain. And if anyone knows it, it's me."
    The thing that makes a good villain is that they don't think they are the villain. ;)

    • @lillyanneserrelio2187
      @lillyanneserrelio2187 4 роки тому +4

      Yup, he's not an evil villain just like the Joker isnt crazy.

    • @tappajaav
      @tappajaav 4 роки тому +2

      Garou.

    • @justdave9610
      @justdave9610 4 роки тому +9

      Every villain is the hero of his own story

    • @vutava8292
      @vutava8292 4 роки тому +1

      @@tappajaav Are you calling the warriors of Gaia villains?! That sounds like something a tool of the Wyrm would say! Brothers, to battle!

    • @tappajaav
      @tappajaav 4 роки тому

      Negatory.

  • @Jahsatracks
    @Jahsatracks 4 роки тому +198

    “We could make make this with today’s technology, I’m not saying that we should, I’m just saying that it would be totally awesome”
    This man is truly the best

    • @Rattus-Norvegicus
      @Rattus-Norvegicus 4 роки тому +8

      I say not only should we do it, but we should use it to circumcise mount Everest.

    • @NickTheGreatAndPowerful
      @NickTheGreatAndPowerful 4 роки тому

      Lol, he said that right as I read this.

    • @mindblown42069
      @mindblown42069 4 роки тому +1

      Isn't this why we have the united nations? They need to get on top of this and unite everyone into building an earth FTLS guillotine

  • @thiagod47
    @thiagod47 4 роки тому +150

    Kyle: " I have a new idea for a guillotine"
    French ppl: " tell me more..."

  • @tonyt756
    @tonyt756 4 роки тому +56

    "Answer the phone you coward." is my new favorite way to call people.

    • @seiyuokamihimura5082
      @seiyuokamihimura5082 4 роки тому +3

      Is it bad i do that? Granted i also answer the phone like *swish/faceturn* "moshi moshi" and City morgue! you stabbem, we slabbem! Or city morgue! You killem, we chillem!

  • @Nebulabomb
    @Nebulabomb 4 роки тому +111

    Kyle is definitely not a super villain. He is clearly informing everyone of the potential dangers that comes with a greater understanding of science. I mean, its not like he is using these videos as a subtle way to threaten any potential heroes that might stop his rise to ultimate glory or anything. Totally not evil in the slightest.
    For the glory of SCIENCE!

    • @TheEFRoommates
      @TheEFRoommates 4 роки тому +4

      HAIL SCIENCE

    • @vasstsa4202
      @vasstsa4202 4 роки тому +1

      AYE AYE AYE !

    • @oliverebbing6637
      @oliverebbing6637 4 роки тому +2

      He was Planing project Thor last week thou 😅

    • @opaldragon75
      @opaldragon75 4 роки тому

      I might argue he has just become one. The only time length is a factor in the calculation he has presented is if acceleration is a factor (which he failed to apply). If that is what he was going for then he failed in presenting those factors so people could check his work. He never gave travel distances or desire distances to achieve with in a set time frame.
      Now I am willing to accept my wrongness if someone can answer this question: If light travels at 299 792 458 m/sec then how fast does a light pulse goes if I send it to a target 1000 m away, or even 200 m away?
      If you say 299 792 458 m/sec, then why does the 6 m/s blade need to be 14,500 km for his speed of light (299 792 458 m/sec) blade? And how fast is it going across the cut at both the 100 km mark to 500 km mark of the blade. (I am ignoring the roundness of the surfaces he is cutting)
      He just became a villain for bad science! But he could yet redeem himself! Maybe that's because I still like Kyle, that I say that!

  • @TKMG_07
    @TKMG_07 4 роки тому +13

    Kyle isn't a supervillain, he's the guy that makes their plans and the weapons.

  • @MusicMike512
    @MusicMike512 3 роки тому +6

    I was so intrigued by all the science within the first 8.5 mins that I totally forgot that this video is supposed to be about a FTL guillotine until he finally mentions it

  • @tomfoolery4490
    @tomfoolery4490 4 роки тому +188

    "By Feynman's follicles, you scared me!"
    That's a new one.

    • @nenmaster5218
      @nenmaster5218 2 роки тому

      "Our Values are Under Attack!!!"
      is probably one of the most conspiracy-like Things one can say,
      and yet, for Science, it's literally true.
      As Professor Dave in his epic video about the Discovery Institute
      and it's members showed:
      Yes, a lot of people are just being salty about
      not having had the Best Grades once... but some are doing Science-Denial
      delibaretely. As in 'sitting down, planning, and then going to discredit Science'.
      Some are silly, yes, and some want to just make money,
      but some want something else.

  • @danbonddev3756
    @danbonddev3756 4 роки тому +17

    Kyle Hill: Into the Voideyverse (2019)

  • @jonathonspears7736
    @jonathonspears7736 4 роки тому +11

    "I'm not a supervillain"
    Me: yeah ok. Keep telling yourself that.

  • @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache
    @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache 4 роки тому +145

    Light speed guillotine? Sounds like something I'd want to get my neck under.

  • @mr.nutcracker8957
    @mr.nutcracker8957 4 роки тому +92

    3:40 Evil Kyle eliminates his good counterpart (2019, colorized then decolorized and then colorized again)

  • @parkerstern1800
    @parkerstern1800 4 роки тому +7

    Nobody:
    Kyle: what if you built a rocket-mounted super massive space guillotine?

    • @nenmaster5218
      @nenmaster5218 2 роки тому

      "Our Values are Under Attack!!!"
      is probably one of the most conspiracy-like Things one can say,
      and yet, for Science, it's literally true.
      Science-Denial Grows.

  • @mungelomwaangasikateyo376
    @mungelomwaangasikateyo376 Рік тому +3

    Eusten:" We need an orbital strike towards asteroid shower gamma quadrant, over."

  • @alicemoffat
    @alicemoffat 4 роки тому +117

    Kyle: Calculates very complicated equations like it’s nothing.
    Also Kyle: “As the Sun rotates”

    • @Krishnath.Dragon
      @Krishnath.Dragon 4 роки тому +23

      The sun does rotate though, not around the planet, but it does rotate. Specifically, it rotates around the center of the milky way. It also revolves, but that's a different can of worms.

    • @alicemoffat
      @alicemoffat 4 роки тому +5

      Krishnath Dragon true, but he did mean the Earth in the context that I speak of.

    • @cherrydragon3120
      @cherrydragon3120 4 роки тому +5

      Both are correct here.
      Kyle did indeed use the earth as a point of refference to be the center of the universe.
      Middle ages all over again. But it makes it easier to understand

    • @becausescience
      @becausescience  4 роки тому +40

      Honest slip of the tongue without an extra take to fix it. Happens. Feels bad -- kH

    • @AssistantCoreAQI
      @AssistantCoreAQI 4 роки тому +1

      @@becausescience
      Hey, It's Alright.

  • @Wiseguy150
    @Wiseguy150 4 роки тому +115

    I immediately thought of vsauce's video on "what is the speed of dark?" when you mentioned it.

  • @TheReaverOfDarkness
    @TheReaverOfDarkness Рік тому +4

    0:43 That is a sick animation, and I think it goes underappreciated!

  • @kitsunesden8085
    @kitsunesden8085 4 роки тому +2

    *"I'm not a super villain"*
    - Kyle, Because Science of Doom

  • @Renzu-ZG
    @Renzu-ZG 4 роки тому +81

    "Oh, I was roaming. Oh, shi-"
    There goes 10 years worth of salary for that Mars call.

    • @Abri582
      @Abri582 4 роки тому +3

      Best part was the 12mins later he answered that phone call

  • @amankodimela8499
    @amankodimela8499 4 роки тому +70

    my dad saw me watching this video and asked y thor was making sciencey videos

    • @cherrydragon3120
      @cherrydragon3120 4 роки тому +4

      Lol xD

    • @menorak
      @menorak 4 роки тому +2

      Science is just what you midgardians call magic.

  • @VeritechGirl
    @VeritechGirl 4 роки тому +3

    When you keep denying that you’re not a super villain - - - you’re a super villain 😂

  • @VikingPickles
    @VikingPickles 4 роки тому +18

    "Scissors! Not planet cutters!"
    -Kyle Hill, 2019

  • @mummamortitia
    @mummamortitia 4 роки тому +13

    To quote Terry Pratchett:
    "Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it."

    • @Franky_Sthein
      @Franky_Sthein 4 роки тому +1

      I see you are a man of culture aswell.
      Or you a woman, not sure because of your profil pic.

    • @mummamortitia
      @mummamortitia 4 роки тому +2

      Woman, last time I checked.

  • @DubfestOficial
    @DubfestOficial 4 роки тому +72

    My little cousin is an infinite energy source, that little bastard doesnt seem to slow down ever

    • @thenotflatearth2714
      @thenotflatearth2714 4 роки тому +7

      Then use the FTL guilletine on him

    • @SlyPearTree
      @SlyPearTree 4 роки тому +4

      Give him a few decades, he'll slow down.

    • @druzzi9054
      @druzzi9054 4 роки тому +6

      SlyPearTree or just break his legs, in a few seconds he would slow the fuck down

    • @TreyBattles5150
      @TreyBattles5150 4 роки тому +1

      SlyPearTree oof

    • @Strifeu
      @Strifeu 4 роки тому

      break his femurs

  • @MichaelMoore99
    @MichaelMoore99 3 роки тому +2

    I did a time dilation calculation on those near-light-speed protons at the LHC, and it's effectively 1 second = almost 2 hours.

  • @joshuasutherland6692
    @joshuasutherland6692 4 роки тому +2

    You have shown what I always imagined Occam's razor to be before I looked it up. Thank you.

  • @martik0121
    @martik0121 4 роки тому +45

    Man I remember trying to race with light in my room by turning on the lights as im running through the room when i was little

    • @ribbitgoesthedoglastnamehe4681
      @ribbitgoesthedoglastnamehe4681 4 роки тому +6

      I remember trying to explain to other kid that circular logic cannot be proven and is thus false.

    • @skylx0812
      @skylx0812 4 роки тому +1

      I remember they used to make us take naps on the rug in kindergaten. The girl who slept next to me would lie on her hands and stare at me. By the time we reached high school she looked like Pat Benatar (...google her).

    • @ribbitgoesthedoglastnamehe4681
      @ribbitgoesthedoglastnamehe4681 4 роки тому +1

      @@skylx0812 I remember trying to take a nap while one kid was vomiting his guts out.

  • @pmgvictor4625
    @pmgvictor4625 4 роки тому +118

    5:54-5:57 "The speed of dark." Hey Vsauce, Michael here.

    • @nateinthenorth1999
      @nateinthenorth1999 4 роки тому +1

      I have an issue with the "shadow can move ftl" thing. Going to run some models to see what I can come up with.

    • @brownbear992
      @brownbear992 4 роки тому +2

      I'm a lot more interested in this concept then the whole space guillotine thing...

    • @aidenwhiting5131
      @aidenwhiting5131 4 роки тому +3

      The shadow doesn't move at all, it's not a thing, your seeing the absence of anything move @ the 2 clueless replies, vsauce explains it =^]

  • @accellex2845
    @accellex2845 2 роки тому +1

    7:15
    “You probably used a scissors before-“
    This got me. 😂

  • @adamlaceky8127
    @adamlaceky8127 Рік тому +2

    I'm glad to see this video. The idea occurred to me many years ago, so to see it confirmed makes me happy.
    However...
    Let's say you have two rigid rods that are a light-year long. One is stationary from your frame of reference. The other is parallel to the first, but it's moving toward the first one. They will collide. You're right at the midway point, a half a light-year from either end.
    From your perspective, the collision will NOT be simultaneous along the length. The contact point closest to you will collide first. The farther away from you the rods are, the longer it will take for you to see the collision. The rods are curved, from your reference point. It will take a half a year for you to see the ends of the rods collide.
    "Now" Is local. There's no such thing as absolute simultaneity. It doesn't even make sense to think of the second rod moving as a single inertial body, when it's a freakin' light-year long. What happens at one end takes a year, at best, to get to the other end.
    Imagine you're a light-year long. What's going on at your feet is a year away from your head. You don't exist in one time zone.

  • @davidgold2755
    @davidgold2755 4 роки тому +497

    Me: space guillotine is the coolest idea ever
    Kyle: LET'S PUT ROCKETS ON OUR SPACE GUILLOTINE!!!
    Me:Oh...My...God

    • @ajh22895
      @ajh22895 4 роки тому +7

      Yes :D

    • @amineabdz
      @amineabdz 4 роки тому +10

      He forgot to mention one thing ... this structure is nearly impossible because of how much a 5 km blade of steel might weight ... this object need to be accelerated from hundreds of thousands of kilometers in order to reach Saturn 5 max speed

    • @Matthew_Klepadlo
      @Matthew_Klepadlo 4 роки тому +4

      David Gold
      Mmn~

    • @seanm4095
      @seanm4095 4 роки тому +1

      @@amineabdz Did you forget there is no gravity in space therefoe no force pressing on the object so no weight. Ok your right I forget about microgravity my mistake I'm inadequate whatever.

    • @owenjames8575
      @owenjames8575 4 роки тому +2

      @@seanm4095 did you forget how mass works? You still need a large amount of force to move a large amount of mass

  • @omarigrant7111
    @omarigrant7111 4 роки тому +45

    Kyle: "Get out of my future past!"
    Kitty Pryde exits chat

    • @julianlockwood8056
      @julianlockwood8056 4 роки тому +1

      I think you got the order wrong

    • @tiamagus6641
      @tiamagus6641 4 роки тому +1

      @@julianlockwood8056 I'm pretty sure it goes both ways...

  • @marvinmcmartianpants9542
    @marvinmcmartianpants9542 4 роки тому +1

    The chop on the stash and the look after was amazing.

  • @LoneWolf343
    @LoneWolf343 2 роки тому

    "The speed of dark" is the best explanation I've seen of how a tachyon would work.

  • @TheThanatos023
    @TheThanatos023 4 роки тому +34

    "Not planet cutters"
    Sure Kyle, sure not sounding evil at all

  • @vhvkywsm
    @vhvkywsm 4 роки тому +80

    Sometimes I like to imagine Kyle is at the thanksgiving table doing these rants/speeches and everyone is too polite to tell him they don't care so they just smile and nod along.
    Loved the episode btw

  • @rad171500
    @rad171500 4 роки тому +1

    Kyle: ...rockets on a space guillotine!
    Mermaid Man: EEEVIIIIIIIIIL!!

  • @WeyounSix
    @WeyounSix Рік тому +5

    Han Solo does know what a parsec is. The drive in his ship allowed him to use a hyperspace lane that was closer to a black hole than the rest, he didn't have to go around it as much, shortening the distance. He literally did the kessel run in fewer parsecs.

    • @tuluppampam
      @tuluppampam 11 місяців тому +2

      That's just a later explanation because the actor only wanted to sound cool

    • @guyman1570
      @guyman1570 Місяць тому

      Ret-Con. It was a retcon, my dude.

  • @patrickstafford6493
    @patrickstafford6493 4 роки тому +79

    I've never heard someone say "a scissors"...you're my favorite.

    • @fendelphi
      @fendelphi 4 роки тому +9

      Well, it is called "a pair of scissors", similar to "a pair of pants".

    • @erbgorre
      @erbgorre 4 роки тому +10

      @@fendelphi and, similarly, you probably have not heard someone say "a pants" either ;P

    • @pewpewdragon4483
      @pewpewdragon4483 4 роки тому

      He should've said "2 scissors" XD

    • @fendelphi
      @fendelphi 4 роки тому

      @@erbgorre But you hear people call it "A pant"? Point is, it is technically wrong to call it "a scissor"(as that is a motion, not an object), and he is making a joke about it(like some of the other words and terms he is joking about from time to time) by leaving "pair of" out of the sentence.
      I'm not even a native english speaker and I got the joke right away.

    • @erbgorre
      @erbgorre 4 роки тому

      @@fendelphi you hear people call them pants, or scissors, for short. thats why the original commenter pointed out that "a scissors" sounds funny, as would "a pants". that was the whole point.

  • @x3non500
    @x3non500 4 роки тому +103

    11:27 "what if we put rockets on our space guillotine" xD
    12:00 I'm a bit concerned about him getting so excited about this "We could build something like this with today's technology" xD

    • @pudgebl67
      @pudgebl67 4 роки тому +11

      Annnnnnnddddddddd... of course he's not a supervillain. Only supervillain's think of those things

    • @gdesign95
      @gdesign95 4 роки тому +10

      @@pudgebl67 but he isn't a supervillain, he is a MAD SCIENTIST!!! there is a small but distinct difference between the two.

    • @sdfkjgh
      @sdfkjgh 4 роки тому +2

      gdesign95: Of course there's a difference. Supervillains are BR (gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?action=advanced&mark=+["League%20of%20Dastardly%20Doom"] ) &/or UB (gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?action=advanced&mark=+["Agents%20of%20S.N.E.A.K."] ), whereas Mad Scientists are GW (gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?action=advanced&mark=+["Crossbreed%20Labs"] ) or GU (gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?action=advanced&mark=+["Simic"] ).

    • @zzdesolatezz
      @zzdesolatezz 4 роки тому +1

      @@sdfkjgh having trouble with the links 🙁

    • @sdfkjgh
      @sdfkjgh 4 роки тому +2

      Library Adjacent: Start here: gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Advanced.aspx
      search in Mark (it's between Flavor Text and Artist) for League of Dastardly Doom, then Agents of S.N.E.A.K., then Crossbreed Labs, then Simic. Apparently, the computer coding can't handle brackets in hyperlinks. I prolly should've tinyurled up that bitch.

  • @pikabob4916
    @pikabob4916 3 роки тому +1

    "Entangled"
    *JADA WANTS TO KNOW YOUR LOCATION*

  • @neutronstarpilot4393
    @neutronstarpilot4393 4 роки тому +2

    This needs to be a Mythbusters special!!
    Bring Adam and Jamie back for this one off.

  • @osmium6832
    @osmium6832 4 роки тому +33

    2:31 Kyle mentally high fives himself for that pun without skipping a beat in the script. Nice.

  • @iainballas
    @iainballas 4 роки тому +68

    "Mostly because I read a paper that did the same thing"
    Ah, a true scientist: Cribbing off someone else's research since time immemorial.

    • @becausescience
      @becausescience  4 роки тому +22

      How science is built my dear boi -- kH

    • @iainballas
      @iainballas 4 роки тому +8

      @@becausescience Wow. I actually got a reply from BS.
      To be fair, I am aware that a scientist who insists on starting from first principles for everything is going to do alot less than the guy who read his professor's papers.

    • @ExasBits
      @ExasBits 4 роки тому +6

      And this is how engineering works. Source: I’m an electrical engineer.

    • @lordinquisitorstefanauster846
      @lordinquisitorstefanauster846 4 роки тому +5

      You guys are right. Human progress will be extremely slow if everyone starts from zero. Building from someone else's work allows us to improve their work and gives something that can go even further for the next guy.

    • @meh6244
      @meh6244 4 роки тому +5

      @@iainballas Crap, I read it as " I got a reply from bullsh*t"...
      Again...
      And I've been on this channel for about 2 years. I really feel sorry for myself.

  • @eddybobea6709
    @eddybobea6709 4 роки тому +3

    Every time I watch an episode of these, I change my own past beliefs and understanding of my own future, because science.

  • @krissisk4163
    @krissisk4163 4 роки тому +1

    Kyle, man, we need to have an intervention. You're in denial about your super villainy.

  • @jackwriter1908
    @jackwriter1908 4 роки тому +15

    So what did we learn today?
    Never give Kyle enough money to build something for Space... He is NOT a Supervillain!

    • @cherrydragon3120
      @cherrydragon3120 4 роки тому

      He wudnt be able to build it anyway if its too close to earth due to the size of it and earths gravity the guillotine would fall down back to earth at hundreds of miles per hour due to its weight. And earths 9.8m/s gravity would make that guillotine an absolute Hellish event if that fell onto the ground here from lets say 300KM high up.........
      Due to its 5KM size... the force of impact cud be comparible to a few nukes. If you wud use the estimations of his previous video bout the rods of god being only several feet long...... holy shit i wanna leave the planet now

  • @kaComposer
    @kaComposer 4 роки тому +51

    Kyle: I'm not a villain
    Every musician: But your theme music is a tri-tone. Historically known as...the DIABLO chord! 🤯

  • @banshee6k
    @banshee6k 4 роки тому +7

    "I'm not a Super-Villian..." is EXACTLY what a Super-Villian WOULD say to throw us off the scent.
    The scissors example broke my brain.

  • @frankyisadikted
    @frankyisadikted 4 роки тому

    This will absolutely and unequivocally be my final year project proposal. I dont care where the funding comes from. I will do this.

  • @samroberts6335
    @samroberts6335 4 роки тому +9

    i mean he said it himself, he CANT be a supervillain. nice one kyle

  • @jonfilippone2685
    @jonfilippone2685 4 роки тому +42

    ATTN KYLE: I'm sooo so sorry for doing this but I've gotta ask, "Why sooo sirius?" ... Because Science

    • @handsome_elite7203
      @handsome_elite7203 4 роки тому

      Serious*

    • @jonfilippone2685
      @jonfilippone2685 4 роки тому +7

      @@handsome_elite7203 ummm no that's not a correction Sirius is the name of the star. It's called a play on words.

    • @paulwagstaff5373
      @paulwagstaff5373 4 роки тому +4

      @@handsome_elite7203 That joke went over your head faster than something at the speed of light eh? XD

    • @handsome_elite7203
      @handsome_elite7203 4 роки тому +1

      @@paulwagstaff5373 r/woooosh on myself lmao

  • @jamessummers6366
    @jamessummers6366 4 роки тому

    Love the science. Love the passion. Love the impression.

  • @Shaggy_Rogers0001
    @Shaggy_Rogers0001 Рік тому +2

    There's not enough energy in the entire universe to accelerate an object with mass to the speed of light! So if I were to hypothetically throw a golf ball at the speed of light, it would have to be a God-given ability.

  • @dr.fatman1851
    @dr.fatman1851 4 роки тому +9

    Ok now I'm convinced Kyle is actually some comicbook villain but in real life

  • @morticus7650
    @morticus7650 4 роки тому +6

    Roaming on a hard wire phone, that bill would break your bank account.

    • @BKScience812
      @BKScience812 4 роки тому +4

      Morticus Would his bank account break faster than the speed of light?

  • @TheAtlantide5
    @TheAtlantide5 4 роки тому

    Man I love your channel i like your energy

  • @GGGamesXDlol
    @GGGamesXDlol Рік тому +1

    the universe expands faster than light

  • @scarletspidernz
    @scarletspidernz 4 роки тому +27

    3:40 so that's how Super Villian Kyle killed Super Nerd Kyle and took his place 😮

  • @Multipolo07
    @Multipolo07 4 роки тому +25

    "Im not a villain" you would say that if you were one... hmmmmmm

  • @vikj1255
    @vikj1255 Рік тому

    Super kool. Love the enthusiasm.

  • @sanitarymailbox-8023
    @sanitarymailbox-8023 3 роки тому

    Glad to see that kyle was an evil mastermind even before he started the facility

  • @alaroncamonosa1279
    @alaroncamonosa1279 4 роки тому +8

    Super villain?! I always thought you were Thor wearing a Kyle disguise

  • @haroldlindley6620
    @haroldlindley6620 4 роки тому +7

    12:09 Dude, did you all hear that giddy catch in his voice? He was really enjoying the prospect of the idea of a 3-mile wide guillotine.
    It's confirmed: he's a super villain

    • @matthewboire6843
      @matthewboire6843 9 місяців тому

      It has been confirmed for years practically 12:40

  • @lowkey_Ioki
    @lowkey_Ioki 4 роки тому

    My worldline would be a perfectly flat shape, signifying the fact that I never leave my computer.

  • @kenjames91680
    @kenjames91680 4 роки тому

    "We could make it and it won't be evil" cuts though space-time.

  • @jonnelson8543
    @jonnelson8543 4 роки тому +40

    "Change your perspective a bit." You mean take a certain point of view?

  • @ericwheeler1957
    @ericwheeler1957 4 роки тому +3

    I can't unsee that the Because Science Logo is inside of an upended triangle, resembling a Super "V" for "Villian".
    It was there the whole time...

  • @TomyIneXtriCable
    @TomyIneXtriCable 4 роки тому +1

    This Guy is SO Awesome,I literally can't stress that enough!

  • @middlespace8412
    @middlespace8412 2 роки тому

    “I’m not a super villain! I swear!” Famous last words before becoming a super villain.

  • @Enyx311
    @Enyx311 4 роки тому +12

    Thanks for narrowing down the coordinates to your secret lair a bit, it seems S.V. Kyle is on Mars (which kinda explains the terraforming Mars ep.) and his scientist clone/twin/pawn is on or near Earth in "the void" (Rods from God ep.).
    Poor Void Kyle, so easily replaced whenever the "original" KH, or an evil-er(?) VK from the future deems it necessary. 🤔 I HAD a question but unravelling the location of your lair got the better of me. Oh well.
    Anyways, love the show! ...and I'm not just saying that to keep you from sending those Laser Bees after me. **shudder**

  • @theenigma6160
    @theenigma6160 4 роки тому +23

    Me: Super villian?
    Kyle: *Super villain?*
    *Me: Yes.*

  • @scouttyra
    @scouttyra 4 роки тому

    Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws

  • @udemeebong3242
    @udemeebong3242 3 роки тому +1

    "We could build something like this with today's technology."
    Phineas: Ferb, I know what we're gonna do today.

  • @gamerid6507
    @gamerid6507 4 роки тому +13

    so now kyle wants to go back in time and rule the past wielding a light guillotine...very supervillain like

    • @becausescience
      @becausescience  4 роки тому +1

      WHAT. NO. -- kH

    • @gamerid6507
      @gamerid6507 4 роки тому

      @cak01vej thts just a ruse, a cover up for his true purpose...standard supervillain mo

  • @ryans8113
    @ryans8113 4 роки тому +8

    Love the show so much I had a weird sleep-aid induced dream that I met science thor and he's totally not a super villain thanks NyQuil
    Also those scissors got dangerously close to your hair be careful!

    • @cherrydragon3120
      @cherrydragon3120 4 роки тому

      Maybe it was one of those prediction dreams that seem to predict the future but are actualy random bits and parts of your memory mushed together but then actualy happening exactly or almost exactly like your dream went ans ending up in you have a Dé ja vu

  • @monsterbash9758
    @monsterbash9758 Рік тому

    What I got from this video is that Kyle is building planet cutting space scissors.

  • @lymh4850
    @lymh4850 Рік тому

    That's the dirtiest pair of scissors I've seen online.

  • @johnnyk8054
    @johnnyk8054 4 роки тому +58

    So when I turn my head from the Moon to Sirius the center of the plane of my sight(or the end point of the line of sight wich points to the Moon then Sirius) moves 8 light years within a second. That means I have FTL vision. Cooool.
    (Next Because Science episode: "why you don't want FTL vision")

    • @DarkGamer-si7pj
      @DarkGamer-si7pj 4 роки тому +3

      Nice

    • @ribbitgoesthedoglastnamehe4681
      @ribbitgoesthedoglastnamehe4681 4 роки тому +3

      You dont actually see either, you just see the photons that left those places, so you dont have ftl vision, you have microscopic vision, since you see particles. You dont actually see anything, you only detect light that attacks your eye-holes, and this light carries wave patterns that make your brain hallucinate about seeing things. As this takes a certain amount of time to process, what your consciousness perceives is a memory of sensory data which is not current anymore, so you cannot perceive the current moment, you see a few microseconds into the past.
      When this data is saved into your memory, it is not saved as raw data, but largely as cultural and linguistical concepts which only exist as such, in your mind.
      Yes, everything you think you know, is a lie.
      Everything.

    • @cherrydragon3120
      @cherrydragon3120 4 роки тому +3

      Oh shit bro.... that means we actualy have some real Hawk eyes XD

    • @cherrydragon3120
      @cherrydragon3120 4 роки тому +1

      @@ribbitgoesthedoglastnamehe4681 okay, makes sense. But then you see objects not only trough the photons and particles alone right? Your brain uses hearing and touch as well to determine an objects distance and shape. Sight alone wouldnt then be sufficient enough to identify things.
      Correct me if i'm wrong tho

    • @professorx3060
      @professorx3060 4 роки тому +1

      Can't have FTL vision if vision depends on light...

  • @mistwolf
    @mistwolf 4 роки тому

    Because Science is how Senkuu passes time until he breaks out of his statue.

  • @frankcastle4715
    @frankcastle4715 4 роки тому +1

    Before light is darkness therefore darkness is faster than light.

  • @Qsie
    @Qsie 4 роки тому +7

    For the moon example:
    That seems to be the general *intuition* of how this should work. However, imagine light moving like a stream of water. If you block a powerful hose with your hand that's pointing at a wall, say, 20 feet away... the water between the wall and the hose that left the pipe BEFORE the stream had been interrupted still reach the wall EVEN THOUGH your hand is still in front of the pipe. Try it!
    The analogy works with the moon as well: if you, say, shine a laser or bright light on the moon (and for the sake of argument, assume it lands and reflects/absorbs, etc.) then moving your hand across the beam to block some of the light from reaching the moon would have the same effect as with our pipe analogy. Even though your hand (or whatever other implement) has already blocked some of the light, the moon still receives the photons that left just BEFORE the block was implemented. During the photon's travel and reaching the moon, the hand would still be there, and the photon would still bounce off.
    This would therefore mean the speed of "dark" is roughly, if not exactly, the speed of light. Did... VSauce have a video on this?

    • @dovahkat9635
      @dovahkat9635 4 роки тому +1

      What I understood from that example is that if you were to say, have a spotlight that is illuminating an area, let's say 1000 times larger than the spotlight itself. If you were to pass your hand in front of the light for 1 second, the resulting shadow would also exist for 1 second, except passing over a much larger area, effectively moving 1000 times the speed of your hand in this case. Its not about the travel from source to target, its about how the target appears when it gets there.

    • @fuckyougoogle3024
      @fuckyougoogle3024 4 роки тому +2

      @@dovahkat9635 The problem with that is that the light would be diffused in a cone shape, so not only would the surface area of the object be 1000 times larger, but so would the surface area of your hands shadow, therefore nothing in this example is moving relatively faster than light.

  • @FullMetalMaster
    @FullMetalMaster 4 роки тому +5

    I love how this turned into kill la kill for a secend