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  • Опубліковано 12 сер 2019
  • Kyle talks life in Chernobyl, responds to your comments, and more!
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  • @becausescience
    @becausescience  4 роки тому +132

    Thanks for watching Super Nerds! *Link to last week's video* in case you missed it: ua-cam.com/video/1Pu934afVrM/v-deo.html -- kH

    • @NinjaBearFilms
      @NinjaBearFilms 4 роки тому

      Because Science another Nuclear based episode. I really need to get my Father to sign up for a UA-cam account so he can start commenting.

    • @hulktopf5031
      @hulktopf5031 4 роки тому +1

      In Russia there was a nuclear explosion, could you explain how dangerous it could be for us next to chernobyls disaster?

    • @mikeschlager4581
      @mikeschlager4581 4 роки тому +1

      Hey Kyle Hill I've been enjoying the videos and all the hard work you put into them. I was wondering if you have any videos lined up about the Amazon show the boys? It's a dark comicbook show that really showcases what would really happen if superheros walked on Earth

    • @boot...
      @boot... 4 роки тому

      You should do a video on if Dragon ball's "ki" could stop scanners (Medical scanners like X-rays, motion sensor cameras, and material detectors) from detecting you.

    • @autisticwriter5763
      @autisticwriter5763 4 роки тому

      Request: Real Life applications of ADAM(Bioshock)

  • @scottskene8387
    @scottskene8387 4 роки тому +268

    "Nature is much more resilient than that". In other words, "life, uh, finds a way". XD

    • @mradhayuda1
      @mradhayuda1 4 роки тому +3

      Some will survive this covid19. Some dont. But human will finds a way

    • @justicegraceful2171
      @justicegraceful2171 3 роки тому +5

      you forgot 3 more uh's

    • @farmtomeme6265
      @farmtomeme6265 3 роки тому +3

      Perfect. A flawless comment. 👌

    • @karlosdaniel6537
      @karlosdaniel6537 2 роки тому +1

      Evolution is a force that we can't totally control although we are a product of it.

    • @NoTv10
      @NoTv10 2 роки тому

      Or that God gots this!

  • @Advance493
    @Advance493 4 роки тому +74

    Kyle: "There's a Fungi that converts gamma radiation to energy"
    Superman: *Stares intensely*

    • @techstuff9198
      @techstuff9198 2 роки тому +6

      Who needs plants when our fungus photosynthesizes death rays?

  • @aidanrogers4438
    @aidanrogers4438 4 роки тому +340

    Notice how Kyle doesn’t disagree with being compared to Thanos. It’s because he knows it’s a small price to pay for salvation.

    •  4 роки тому +11

      But Thanos is the good guy!

    • @aidanrogers4438
      @aidanrogers4438 4 роки тому +5

      Zoltán Végh Exactly though! Kyle is taking inspiration from him.

    • @MarginalSC
      @MarginalSC 4 роки тому +13

      Kyle is inevitable.

    • @brianl8481
      @brianl8481 4 роки тому +7

      But what will it cost?

    • @Merennulli
      @Merennulli 4 роки тому +1

      @@MarginalSC We need Iron Commentator

  • @oneparticularlysmartape
    @oneparticularlysmartape 4 роки тому +246

    Kyle: Fungi feeding on radiation
    Me: GODZILLA IS OUT THEEEEERE!!!!

    • @greatwhitesufi
      @greatwhitesufi 4 роки тому +6

      Exactly what I thought, *Fubuki 2019 theme plays in the background*

  • @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache
    @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache 4 роки тому +491

    Thor: "An organism that eats radiation"
    Bruce Banner: Seriously? There's no need to be mean.

    • @NoSubsWithContent
      @NoSubsWithContent 4 роки тому +15

      Oh my god you are everywhere

    • @antares1070
      @antares1070 4 роки тому +8

      Oh you again huh.
      I've got a question for you, are you related to *Just Some Guy with a Mustache?*

    • @antares1070
      @antares1070 4 роки тому +1

      1000 subs with no content I know right!

    • @youknowtherules5681
      @youknowtherules5681 4 роки тому +7

      Laughs in Godzilla

    • @KainaX122
      @KainaX122 4 роки тому +4

      Me: "No, being mean would be me saying your science is debunked"

  • @jameslogan410
    @jameslogan410 4 роки тому +701

    How hard can Steve from Minecraft punch

    • @ToabyToastbrot
      @ToabyToastbrot 4 роки тому +46

      You mean as he is able to punch stone hard enough to widle it down over a few seconds?

    • @chanbricks4461
      @chanbricks4461 4 роки тому +34

      Enough to break diamond

    • @chanbricks4461
      @chanbricks4461 4 роки тому +17

      Actually it can be any amount since he can punch mobs away with a running jump and knockback

    • @GaloreInfernoLionGaming
      @GaloreInfernoLionGaming 4 роки тому +1

      It's hard to compare Steve from Minecraft to real humans in determining how hard he actually hits and there's too many theorists saying their own theories about the game to actually know how it all works so how hard does Steve hit if he can punch a tree with no problem and get a block of wood compared to a real human who ends up hurting person's fist then I would say that Steve can hit a tree at least a lot harder and faster than a human

    • @pyrobob5724
      @pyrobob5724 4 роки тому +24

      Well Steve can walk around with somewhere between 44 million to 350 million kg of gold in his inventory without being slowed down or inconvenienced so I imagine he can punch pretty hard

  • @ChrisRand-gf7lz
    @ChrisRand-gf7lz 4 роки тому +159

    Well technically Kyle, the tardigrade aren't lost on the moon. We know where they are: They're on the Moon.

    • @DanielRieger
      @DanielRieger 4 роки тому +23

      By that logic no one is ever lost, you know where everyone is, they're on Earth

    • @alexanderelderhorst2107
      @alexanderelderhorst2107 4 роки тому +21

      @@DanielRieger Exactly my thinking. When Master Chief was floating outside the solar system, we knew exactly where he was. Outside the solar system.

    • @inkdreams5113
      @inkdreams5113 4 роки тому +13

      A bit like a tv remote. Even when lost you know it hasn’t left the house.

    • @Mango_Eter
      @Mango_Eter 4 роки тому +5

      I found your location: probably not on sea.

    • @meganofsherwood3665
      @meganofsherwood3665 4 роки тому +4

      TARDIGRADES IN SPAAAAACCCCEEEE

  • @redxlaser1562
    @redxlaser1562 4 роки тому +84

    10:46
    Hey, since I got a radio thrown at me recently and didn’t get so much as a bruise, does that mean I have higher radio resistance?

    • @N3verFam0us
      @N3verFam0us 4 роки тому +1

      I hate that, but congrats

    • @alexanderelderhorst2107
      @alexanderelderhorst2107 4 роки тому

      I appreciate this comment

    • @virulenthunter3017
      @virulenthunter3017 4 роки тому

      Congratulations, you got my slight chuckle.

    • @nubjens4204
      @nubjens4204 4 роки тому +1

      it proberly means ur an asshole :)

    • @Goultek
      @Goultek 4 роки тому +3

      an apple a day keeps the doctor away, but have to throw it hard enough

  • @scouttyra
    @scouttyra 4 роки тому +11

    Interesting thing when it comes to the spread of radiation from Chernobyl; in a mushroom guide from early 2000s (originally like from 2000, the edition in question from like 2011) there was a section about the effect of radiation from Chernobyl. It talked about which areas of Sweden still had mushrooms that picked up radioactive material, recommendations on how much you can eat without significant health effects, how some mushrooms from those areas were too radioactive to be allowed to be sold, and how boiling the mushrooms could significantly reduce the amount of radiation.
    Iirc there's a mineral that mushrooms absorb that's very similar to some of the fallout from Chernobyl, which leads the mushrooms to absorb the radioactive material. Which when I think about it is quite similar to CO poisoning (although to my knowledge it doesn't have an adverse effect on the mushrooms).
    Unfortunately the book does not belong to me, so I'm woefully unable to cite my sources atm.

  • @Ice_Karma
    @Ice_Karma 4 роки тому +5

    9:20 It also helps that they cleaned the _hell_ out of many roadways...

  • @marvthebass
    @marvthebass 4 роки тому +130

    Also, Godzilla is a giant walking fungus. Science proves it. Don't fight me on this.

    • @Hanatash
      @Hanatash 4 роки тому +14

      Don't tell me what I should or shouldn't do, you're not my dad!

    • @Grinnar
      @Grinnar 4 роки тому +10

      @@Hanatash you should fight him.

    • @Tazman55x
      @Tazman55x 4 роки тому +11

      @@Hanatash how do you know he's not your dad??

    • @JokerFey
      @JokerFey 4 роки тому +5

      @@Hanatash how do i know you're not my dad?

    • @acephas3
      @acephas3 4 роки тому +3

      Science proves Godzilla is actually a mammal. Step in the ring.

  • @theshamanite
    @theshamanite 4 роки тому +42

    "...Where I address them at warp speed!"
    *Rap God plays*

    • @andrewmartin1829
      @andrewmartin1829 4 роки тому +5

      Uh, sama lamaa duma lamaa you assuming I'm a human
      What I gotta do to get it through to you I'm superhuman
      Innovative and I'm made of rubber
      So that anything you say is ricocheting off of me and it'll glue to you
      I'm devastating, more than ever demonstrating
      How to give a motherfuckin' audience a feeling like it's levitating
      Never fading, and I know that the haters are forever waiting
      For the day that they can say I fell off, they'd be celebrating
      'Cause I know the way to get 'em motivated
      I make elevating music, you make elevator music

  • @1TakoyakiStore
    @1TakoyakiStore 4 роки тому +6

    I sent Jeremy Wade an email back in 2009 and he responded graciously as well. Really nice and humble person. Keep up the videos fellow science nerd!

  • @remliqa
    @remliqa 4 роки тому +2

    That Felicity comparison... I cannot unsee it now.

  • @dolphinexpert2748
    @dolphinexpert2748 4 роки тому +55

    The Manhattan project created doctor Manhattan. Don't mess around Kyle, of course he could destroy the atmosphere

  • @woody2066
    @woody2066 4 роки тому +20

    Drones? With scissors? Somebody call Simone Giertz

    • @SonsOfLorgar
      @SonsOfLorgar 4 роки тому

      Simone already knows, she invented the concept ;)

  • @Lunar_Blacksmith
    @Lunar_Blacksmith 4 роки тому +5

    Oh man. I laughed so much at this follow up. There were so many moments where I just laughed out loud. Kyle, you’re awesome. Thanks for being you.

    • @nepii6043
      @nepii6043 4 роки тому

      Here a comment for you my fellow nerd

    • @nepii6043
      @nepii6043 4 роки тому

      F**k you hahahaha

  • @barrybend7189
    @barrybend7189 4 роки тому +46

    Kyle why not do a video on the feasibility of the fusion and Fission reactors of Gundam.

    • @johnaldag3645
      @johnaldag3645 4 роки тому

      Or the degeneracy reactors from Gunbuster.

  • @AlexssandroMeneses
    @AlexssandroMeneses 4 роки тому +78

    Evil Kyle is becoming one of my favorites Kyle's personas!🤷🏻‍♂️

  • @tetsuyakenshi
    @tetsuyakenshi 4 роки тому +12

    Kyle, aka "Evil Bat-Thor", continues his research to destroy humanity, in the following episode: "How to turn the air into a fused exploding death".
    Love the show XD

  • @hathus5536
    @hathus5536 4 роки тому +24

    All of this is leading up to Kyle raging war on Earth from his void

  • @zJoriz
    @zJoriz 4 роки тому +4

    That Clarkson impression was spot on. And yes, I also thought that was a silly episode, wasting all that energy to avoid having to drive through a parfectly safe area of Chernobyl.

  • @quentinmacleod9748
    @quentinmacleod9748 4 роки тому +10

    8:28 Perhaps if Felicity grew some facial hair, went to the gym and came up with some laughable yet cheesy jokes then YES she would share striking resemblance.
    .

  • @markmccormack-reamer7591
    @markmccormack-reamer7591 4 роки тому +3

    “Or moss piglets if you’re nasty” 😂 lmao I just love this channel

    • @KainaX122
      @KainaX122 4 роки тому

      *_[pictures Mosswine from Monster Hunter]_* 🤔🤔🤔

  • @mr702s
    @mr702s 4 роки тому +4

    "There will be places we will never boldly go" ..... thank you for crushing my dreams 😭

    • @skylx0812
      @skylx0812 4 роки тому

      Why? Where ever you go there you are.

    • @meganofsherwood3665
      @meganofsherwood3665 4 роки тому

      Although I'd like to point out that Star Trek rarely tried going outside of our own galaxy. There's plenty to discover right where we are

    • @mr702s
      @mr702s 4 роки тому

      @@meganofsherwood3665 we are (Milky way and Andromeda) are in a super void. Once intergalactic travel is possibe, it would hopefully allow us to cross the void into super clusters that hopefully are teaming with life. Problem is, our limited human life spans and if warp will be possible. But even so, the statistical odds of us finding compatible life (comradeship) outside of our own improved as we cross the void. I think that is a great purpose to strive for as a species.

    • @meganofsherwood3665
      @meganofsherwood3665 4 роки тому +1

      @@mr702s I'm game for that!

  • @sidneymcghee2626
    @sidneymcghee2626 4 роки тому

    again thanks so much for more of these real world science questions!! keep up the amazing work

  • @justBeinRAD
    @justBeinRAD 4 роки тому +2

    HAMMOND!
    That made me chuckle. Thanks, Kyle.

  • @kingjose9964
    @kingjose9964 4 роки тому +64

    Can you defeat Superman if you place him at the bottom of the ocean? Sense theres no light and crushing pressure?

    • @NoSubsWithContent
      @NoSubsWithContent 4 роки тому +4

      He could just fly up to the surface at close to the speed of light vaporizing water as he goes

    • @alexisjuillard4816
      @alexisjuillard4816 4 роки тому +8

      He doesn’t need permanent light sources, and the punny bottom of the ocean type pressures wouldn’t even make him break a sweat

    • @alexisjuillard4816
      @alexisjuillard4816 4 роки тому +2

      Maybe at the center of the sun, there are some serious pressures. But you’re also feeding him UNLIMITED (~) power...

    • @freezingfire1800
      @freezingfire1800 4 роки тому +6

      @Adequate Bros. I think the golden superman you are referring to is super prime 1 million. Apparently he lived in the sun for a thousand years or something

    • @LordofSyn
      @LordofSyn 4 роки тому +3

      @@freezingfire1800
      He did. If Supes (even Silver Age) wasn't a "God" before that...he certainly was afterward.

  • @barronkoll6436
    @barronkoll6436 4 роки тому +88

    1:25 Kyle you should try LUDACRIS speed, much more scientific.

    • @duckyboy4329
      @duckyboy4329 4 роки тому +15

      WHAT
      NOT LUDICROUS SPEED
      THAT'S TOO FAST SIR
      hehe
      I love Spaceballs
      here is the trailer
      ua-cam.com/video/dQw4w9WgXcQ/v-deo.html

    • @Ganbalf
      @Ganbalf 4 роки тому +8

      Ludicrous Speed is beyond what mere humans can accomplish, You must be one with the schwartz in order to master it

    • @Jakobman76
      @Jakobman76 4 роки тому +10

      But I don't look good in plaid.

    • @LordofSyn
      @LordofSyn 4 роки тому +4

      I'm a Mog. Half man, half dog. Hehe, I'm my own best friend! (RIP John Candy)

    • @JeremyFath
      @JeremyFath 4 роки тому

      But then we wouldn't get to see that episode for a week and a half.

  • @varundattoo9512
    @varundattoo9512 4 роки тому

    That sigh at 12:39 really sums up the interwebs experience

  • @leroyjenkins2639
    @leroyjenkins2639 4 роки тому

    Lol I can never unsee the felicity smoke comparison. You have a great sense of humor and run a great show. Keep doing your thing Kyle! We love you

  • @manfromnantucket9544
    @manfromnantucket9544 4 роки тому +3

    Please do a video on the logistics and feasibility of both building and racing on Rainbow Road, thank you

  • @acephas3
    @acephas3 4 роки тому +6

    Chernobyl is being saved because of phytoremediation.
    The DOD use trees to mitigate nuclear burial sites.
    Also, because of aneuploidy, trees do get “two-headed” so to speak.

  • @small-el1990
    @small-el1990 4 роки тому

    The shirt fitting bit at the start of the video was perfect.

  • @bradleybriggs4910
    @bradleybriggs4910 4 роки тому +1

    That Picard maneuver joke was funny af XD

  • @KainaX122
    @KainaX122 4 роки тому +7

    River Monsters is awesome
    The Goliath Tiger Fish is awesomely terrifying -- seriously, watch the episode of it. That thing is *_savage_*

  • @716monk
    @716monk 4 роки тому +3

    FDA Organic food still uses raidiogenic mutagenesis rather than precision editing, in fact...

  • @ivanovichlee
    @ivanovichlee 4 роки тому +1

    You watched river monsters and wrote to him too, so cool.
    Now I need to watch that episode I missed.

    • @ryanstaley5590
      @ryanstaley5590 4 роки тому

      It’s definitely one of the best ones

  • @mattthetrucker5585
    @mattthetrucker5585 4 роки тому +1

    The kids are going to love this. Thank you Kyle and the rest of the Because Science team.

  • @nick11crafter
    @nick11crafter 4 роки тому +15

    Fungi that use radiation to produce energy? Awesome, now if it becomes bioluminescent then we can make a game theory that all the glowing mushrooms in Skyrim are signs of Nirn being hyper iradiated

    • @empireempire3545
      @empireempire3545 4 роки тому +2

      Treat the radiotrophic fungi story with a MASSIVE MOUNTAIN of salt, last time I checked there were very few papers on this, just from one group, and their results were... sketchy. The effect, if it really was there, was VERY weak.

    • @Torrmtrooper
      @Torrmtrooper 4 роки тому +2

      That lends a lot to the theory that skyrim is a post fallout world after further and further mutation of creatures and magic being a result of radiation, like argonians and dragons have evolved from deathclaws and other lizards and khajiit evolved from normal cats, orcs are evolved supermutants, and normal humans slowly split into sub species because of mutation variety being increased by radiation, this results in elves, nords and imperials, and other such sub species, we're talking billions of years in future, the theory also says that magic is a result of radiation and the technology of fallout evolving, but that seems less plausible, anyway yea its crazy shit

    • @corey8704
      @corey8704 4 роки тому

      Nirn is a Dreamworld.

    • @Torrmtrooper
      @Torrmtrooper 4 роки тому

      @@corey8704 or is it the glowing sea after climate change? I don't care if the theories are ridiculous, they're fun XD

    • @joshuahadams
      @joshuahadams 4 роки тому +1

      Hop over to the other big BGS franchise and Fallout 4 has mushrooms in the ruins of Boston and the surrounding area that glow green.

  • @marvthebass
    @marvthebass 4 роки тому +21

    Even the astronauts on the ISS are under the Sun's weather 🤷‍♂️

    • @rwxstudio7173
      @rwxstudio7173 4 роки тому

      That's more solar weather. I think he meant getting above the clouds kind of weather.

    • @marvthebass
      @marvthebass 4 роки тому

      There was no specification 🤷‍♂️

    • @brianl8481
      @brianl8481 4 роки тому +1

      So... we are all under the weather?

    • @Merennulli
      @Merennulli 4 роки тому

      "Under" is relative to gravity. For solar weather, the weather would always be under you since the sun weighs more.

    • @marvthebass
      @marvthebass 4 роки тому

      Isn't it more relative to the surface of an object and it's atmosphere? Granted, the Sun doesn't really have an atmosphere in the traditional sense, but solar weather does extend throughout the solar system. In a weird way we aren't even in the Sun's outer atmosphere when you consider the extent of its solar wind and storms

  • @Sakurei1
    @Sakurei1 4 роки тому +1

    I love how goofy Kyle is sometimes and I like to think it's unintentional. Really likable guy.

  • @TToxicom
    @TToxicom 3 роки тому

    dude river monsters was such a big thing of my childhood and the fact that you acgtually messaged him is so amazing!! jeremy wade himself is awesome too

  • @jonathanmatthews4774
    @jonathanmatthews4774 4 роки тому +4

    You made one mistake Kyle. You just revealed your super villain plan of igniting the atmosphere on fire.
    Well played.

  • @MartinBogomolni
    @MartinBogomolni 4 роки тому +4

    OMG -- I just realized that Kyle is Zaphod Beeblebrox.

    • @Merennulli
      @Merennulli 4 роки тому

      @Alan Hardcastle He only blew up the Earth because he was in debt to a consortium of high powered psychiatrists.

  • @LexoG33
    @LexoG33 4 роки тому +1

    I earned points with my microbiology professor when I told him about the radiotrophic fungi. In the presence of high energy radiation they have a 4x increased ability to reduce NAD+

  • @chriscollen6543
    @chriscollen6543 4 роки тому

    My buddies and I (all in the Army) long ago crafted a theory that Jeremy Wade was actually a former member of the SAS and now works for MI-6 with River Monsters just being a cover for him to get into “hot spots” and hard to get places (ie he’s done episodes from the Congo to Israel to Venezuela. It made watching the show even more entertaining coming up with conspiracy theories while watching him fish lol

  • @solanumtinkr8280
    @solanumtinkr8280 4 роки тому +12

    Opening is technically wrong. A TNG episode showed a way to travel to the farthest points of the universe in seconds, though they were not able to replicate it without the Traveler...yet. The fastest a warp drive can go under those circumstances was practally teleportation, making Ludicrous Speed look like a slow motion replay 😂🤣🤡

    • @LordofSyn
      @LordofSyn 4 роки тому +1

      No, fast forward. In fact, never show this again.

    • @user-vn7ce5ig1z
      @user-vn7ce5ig1z 4 роки тому +3

      _Voyager_ had numerous ways of traveling faster than warp 9.999, hence why they were able to get home in only seven years instead of 75. The chart includes only warp-drive, not alien technologies-though it didn't include Tom Paris' trans-warp (warp 10).

    • @LordofSyn
      @LordofSyn 4 роки тому

      @@user-vn7ce5ig1z
      Aye. That Roadrunner Thrust & Slignshot maneuver around a Black Hole would dramatically help.

    • @Shockeye00
      @Shockeye00 4 роки тому +1

      The thing is I think we could invent the TARDIS before the Warp Drive.

    • @skylx0812
      @skylx0812 4 роки тому

      Go as fast as you like the bald headed Deltans still aren't going to take advantage of no sexually immature species.
      Be long and pointy ...or something 🖖

  • @tetrahedronal2829
    @tetrahedronal2829 3 роки тому +3

    Fungi: Man, after that explosion it’s hard to survive
    Fungi: *Yo I be eating this now*

  • @loganwilliamsbluecheck
    @loganwilliamsbluecheck 4 роки тому

    Yay footnotes. And I actually got on the comments just after the video posted. Ok question time. Do you have a show schedule? I can never seem to catch the live videos “live”

  • @jackus217
    @jackus217 4 роки тому

    That explanation for how big space really is is one of the best I've heard

  • @Badnone
    @Badnone 4 роки тому +4

    So, smashing particles in the large hadron collider. Cool.

  • @TheAdanChannel
    @TheAdanChannel 4 роки тому +3

    0:50 that calculation is very interesting does it takes in consideration time dilation, I mean the faster you go the less you age, so is there any scenario where you could go fast enough to go from one end of the known universe to the other? you know in the same just because human fashion that has commanded many pointless endeavors like the first around the world non-stoping flight?
    amazing content

    • @coryzilligen790
      @coryzilligen790 4 роки тому

      That's for traveling at relativistic speeds. "Warp drives" and "warp speed" are different, as you are not actually moving at a great speed, but rather _warping_ the fabric of spacetime around yourself. Look up the Alcubierre drive for a theoretical example (if I am not mistaken, this is actually what Star Trek warp drives are based off of).
      If you were able to walk through a wormhole, that would technically be going at "warp speed."

  • @robertlarson3156
    @robertlarson3156 4 роки тому

    Thanx for the great shows Kyle

  • @gearandalthefirst7027
    @gearandalthefirst7027 4 роки тому

    Lol I figured out the next episode from the hint at the beginning. Can't wait it sounds awesome!

  • @michaelnurrenbrock7845
    @michaelnurrenbrock7845 4 роки тому +3

    Radiation eating fungi? Sounds like Nausicaa of the valley of the wind.

  • @mrdude1516
    @mrdude1516 4 роки тому +3

    Hey felicity is goooorgeous id take it as a compliment 😂

  • @SelfReflexivity
    @SelfReflexivity 4 роки тому

    This was uploaded on my birthday. How did I miss this?!

  • @darcieclements4880
    @darcieclements4880 4 роки тому +2

    I did the seed irradiation thing in college. I ended up with a squash plant that grew upside down, as in its sense of gravity was upside down. Useless, but interesting.

    • @jerichaux9219
      @jerichaux9219 Рік тому

      Should’ve cultivated a farm of Australia’s first right-side up squash.

  • @promo2099
    @promo2099 4 роки тому +4

    We found an organism that eats radiation!
    *Godzilla: hold my plutonium*

  • @comadant1
    @comadant1 4 роки тому +4

    For a second there I thought you were gonna say '16 times the detail'.

  • @jasminelee7834
    @jasminelee7834 4 роки тому

    This series of videos got me reading up on the Chernobyl accident. In my reading, I was shocked to find out that the other reactors at the plant were actually in use until 2000, 14 years after the accident. They were all shut down for only like 18 months after the accident before they started Reactor 1 back up. It had just never occurred to me.

  • @MrTotalybadical
    @MrTotalybadical 4 роки тому

    I always liked the way John Scalzi does space travel in "old Mans War"

  • @paramountx
    @paramountx 4 роки тому +4

    Yes you do look like Felicity!! Hahaha

  • @odawne
    @odawne 4 роки тому +8

    After all this time still waiting for a full episode on The Guyver Bio-Booster Armor...

    • @alb9022
      @alb9022 4 роки тому +1

      I'd love Kyle's take on how those titty cannons produce so much power and how a wheel of alien flesh can mutate into a living exoskeleton lol

    • @barrybend7189
      @barrybend7189 4 роки тому +1

      Or an episode on the reactors of Gundam.

  • @curtisholsinger6023
    @curtisholsinger6023 4 роки тому

    Heh. Jeremy Wade reference ftw. "River Monsters with Jeremy Wade" is an absolute gem. You all MUST watch that series, it's fantastic.

  • @egorobidin4888
    @egorobidin4888 4 роки тому +1

    If Crispr is fixing a typo in a sentence, eradiation is using a letter scrambler to fix it.

  • @sjoerdvandeweg4702
    @sjoerdvandeweg4702 4 роки тому +4

    Kyle: *makes another phone call*
    Me: *squinting intensifies*

  • @masonbrown2593
    @masonbrown2593 4 роки тому +4

    I love you Kyle

  • @kshitijsharma759
    @kshitijsharma759 4 роки тому

    Finally the only question that I wanted to be answeres so badly

  • @dejaiced3871
    @dejaiced3871 4 роки тому

    Hey Kyle! I absolutely love this channel. Is there possibly a chance of a video pertaining to Dark Energy and Universal Expansion? Thanks!

  • @TheAzazzExperience
    @TheAzazzExperience 4 роки тому +8

    turns playback speed to 2.0
    w a r p s p e e d

  • @perfectdesign33
    @perfectdesign33 4 роки тому +3

    When you're doing the low pitched voice like when you're calling for drones to cut his beard you remind me of Ryan Reynolds.

  • @trentonarney6066
    @trentonarney6066 4 роки тому

    Two things. In the FFA (Future Farmers of America) class room there was a stuffed sheep with two heads. The teacher's friend had delivered it and it only lived for like a few hours.
    As for the radiated crops that explains the report I read about in a newspaper how our fruits and vegetables only have half the nutritional content of the goods our parents and grandparents were consuming in the 1940's and 50's. Also why so many fruits taste like wax paper or worse.

  • @hi-its-matt
    @hi-its-matt 4 роки тому

    11:00 when you say this part, is it like smacking piece of stone with a sledgehammer, versus smacking a piece of glass with a sledgehammer, where, you can mess up a slab of stone, but it’s a lot easier to do it to a glass pane?

  • @alfyadhenry3812
    @alfyadhenry3812 4 роки тому +3

    Kyle is a weird mix of Wade Wilson, Felicity Smoke and Thor

    • @Atillathepun
      @Atillathepun 4 роки тому +1

      Remember in GI Joe how COBRA gathered up DNA from all sorts of Tyrants and historic leaders to make Serpentor? Well they did the same with Kyle. In addition to the 3 you mention there are also bits of Jeff Goldblum, Adam Savage, Bill Nye, Groucho Marx and Grizzly Adams.

  • @TheIdeasGuy
    @TheIdeasGuy 4 роки тому +12

    The irony of the Because Science sticker on your computer is not lost on us, *KYLE*
    Lol. Anyway, your videos are somewhat enjoyable, no point in telling you that though *Because Science* cares not for opinions.

    • @becausescience
      @becausescience  4 роки тому +4

      thanks? -- kH

    • @jeffgrencik7213
      @jeffgrencik7213 4 роки тому

      @@becausescience i think he was implying science is "bs".

    • @nathanhamman418
      @nathanhamman418 4 роки тому

      @@jeffgrencik7213 I think he was more talking about bitwit, a tech news channel hosted by a guy named Kyle

  • @MonkeyJedi99
    @MonkeyJedi99 4 роки тому

    One of the original "radiation = huge critters" was in the movie "Them". Great movie, gave 11-yr old me nightmares.

  • @robmckenzie283
    @robmckenzie283 4 роки тому

    First time viewer & instant subscriber. Very informative. Going to watch these with my grandkids.

  • @algsunshine7075
    @algsunshine7075 4 роки тому +20

    How come Xena’s chakram doesn’t slice her hand open when she’s using it?

    • @themartianway
      @themartianway 4 роки тому +3

      Calluses?

    • @davidbodor1762
      @davidbodor1762 4 роки тому +6

      The same way you can half-sword with sharp swords or do a mordhau (grab the blade and hit someone with the pommel)
      I'd recommend Skallagrim's video on the subject he demonstrates it pretty well.

    • @peterosborne8315
      @peterosborne8315 4 роки тому +1

      David Bodor but she catches it as it's spinning super fast. It would be slicing

    • @ShinoSarna
      @ShinoSarna 4 роки тому +2

      @@peterosborne8315 Inside is blunt. Some versions even have a handle inside.

    • @davidbodor1762
      @davidbodor1762 4 роки тому

      @@peterosborne8315 Well, she is supposed to be somewhat superhuman isn't she? She could hold the sides of the chakram when catching it and not touching the inside of the hand.

  • @graylinshowell7051
    @graylinshowell7051 4 роки тому +3

    The point is, even with warp speed, rush-hour traffic is going to make your morning commute an hour when it should have been 15 minutes.

  • @briansouribio1993
    @briansouribio1993 4 роки тому

    that felicity smoke bit was hilarious

  • @aa-tx7th
    @aa-tx7th 4 роки тому

    "Or moss miss piglet if you're nasty."
    Why do I love this sentence so much?!

  • @Xbob42
    @Xbob42 4 роки тому +3

    Kyle Hill: I am here to bestow upon you knowledge so that you may grow and understand!
    Kyle Hill when asked about how he does his on-screen writing: YOU MAY ASK NO MORE QUESTIONS, I SHALL TELL YOU *_NOTHING!_*

  • @FaeChangeling
    @FaeChangeling 4 роки тому +4

    Sorry Kyle, the Hacksmith gave away your secret to how you draw. I only had to mention that I wondered how and he replied to tell me it's a sheet of glass you're drawing on mixed with some post-production to animate it.

    • @thatrandomguy9841
      @thatrandomguy9841 4 роки тому +1

      He also flipps it in post so it looks correct from our side

    • @Likeomgitznich
      @Likeomgitznich 4 роки тому

      That Random Guy Yurp the whole video is just a mirror image. If you pause when he is drawing you can frequently see “expo” on the markers is mirrored.

    • @FaeChangeling
      @FaeChangeling 4 роки тому

      @@thatrandomguy9841 You're right. He draws with what looks like his left hand in most videos, but gestures with and holds his pens in his right hand in footnotes videos, so he must be right handed and just flipping it.

    • @Sparrowly1
      @Sparrowly1 4 роки тому

      They had a special live stream once where at the very beginning they showed Kyle drawing with it unflipped for a min or two

  • @joemiller361
    @joemiller361 4 роки тому

    Drones! With scissors... my god that had me practically crying from laughter, excellent work.

  • @darylewalker6862
    @darylewalker6862 4 роки тому

    The comics have tried to update with the times. The original Spider-Man origin had the spider affected by radiation experiments. The more recent adaptations, both on Peter and Miles, use genetically-modified spiders. The Hulk used to be created from gamma radiation mutation. Later, Dr. Banner and Reed Richards suspected their radiation exposures just activated something that was already there (probably the changes the Celestials did that lead to the potential of (X-men style) mutants).

  • @Bergyn
    @Bergyn 4 роки тому +4

    I mean kyle has told us why we don't want many kinds of super powers but why we don't want to be as a thor.. huh?
    I think his super plan is to create Thor as the ultimate and the only one superhero

  • @kakarot2430
    @kakarot2430 4 роки тому +3

    So , standing next to Super Saiyan Goku will give me a fatal dosage of radiation right ?

    • @000Krim
      @000Krim 4 роки тому

      BDL obviously

  • @jm-ib7tb
    @jm-ib7tb 4 роки тому

    "We're gonna shave it " Holy crap! I laughed so loud outside, that my neighbor stopped trimming his hedges to see what was going on. Your awesome!

  • @dustyprater7884
    @dustyprater7884 4 роки тому

    Radioactivity and Fungi. My two favorite things in one video. Keep up the good work super nerds and Because Science. 😁

  • @piemparade
    @piemparade 4 роки тому +4

    Do you think you could do an explanation on something Jojo-related? Maybe Hamon or Stands?

  • @biosonic100
    @biosonic100 4 роки тому +4

    A good thing that Star Trek (hardly ever) leave the Milky Way galaxy

    • @user-vn7ce5ig1z
      @user-vn7ce5ig1z 4 роки тому

      Why go out when there's still so much to do and see here?

    • @LordofSyn
      @LordofSyn 4 роки тому

      *chuckles in Q*

  • @chinobambino5252
    @chinobambino5252 4 роки тому

    I think it's so cool seeing info about Chernobyl blowing up (ha) all over the internet right now, thanks to the HBO series i'm assuming. I am an undergrad at UofSC who works in Dr.Mousseau's lab, who authored a couple of the papers in your description in the original video. I mostly look through data collected from trailcams used to track population statistics AKA i creep on animal's private lives all day. We also do research on Fukushima and some land here in SC that was contaminated by nuclear waste dumping prior to modern environmental protection laws.

  • @goliathprojects7354
    @goliathprojects7354 4 роки тому

    0:46 To be honest. Jumping from exploring earths orbit to exploring a hand full of galaxies is more than enough advancement at once.

  • @NeroThacher
    @NeroThacher 4 роки тому +3

    I legitimately have been watching star trek TNG all day - unhook yourself from my television, sinister fiend kyle!
    And if I may kyle, the shirt doesnt fit; BECAUSE SCIENCE

  • @thevrhubnetwork
    @thevrhubnetwork 4 роки тому

    You mentioned the water bears lost in space great job

  • @kayrazpatel
    @kayrazpatel 4 роки тому

    Hello I do enjoy watching your video you made it easy to understand

  • @CRITICALLIMITT
    @CRITICALLIMITT 4 роки тому

    Awesome show, love it. Say just a quick one, can you go into detail regarding impulse, and the impulse-momentum relationship please I'm using it to create an equation with regards to martial arts. Thanks in advance if you get around to me. If not, keep up the awesome work :)