How Deadly Are Gambit's Exploding Cards?
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- Опубліковано 20 чер 2024
- The Ragin' Cajun is known for his explosive power and his signature weapon of choice, playing cards, but how dangerous could they be? Kyle stacks the deck on this week's Because Science!
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"Big deck energy"
That's it, give this man a Nobel prize.
Then we shall
Gimme some of that shit
I hated to mess up 222 likes but I had to thumb you up
@@watcher805 ayy bro u ruined my angel number
In the Animated Series we actually get to see Gambit purchase his cards. They are just standard playing cards. However, after using his power, they become Ridgid. They don't bend anymore. They also penetrate through Rock when they hit it. It seems to me that he's not just releasing the potential energy, but increasing the potential energy before the explosion.
Gambit at his full power could and did destroy all life on earth, in another universe, interesting enough. The man literally had to nerf himself, because he couldn't control his ever growing power, when he was young.
Wow! I guess it's not too surprising, given the "open-ended" nature of his power. Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't there a situation where Gambit either did or explained that given enough time, he could charge the entire planet because it's a moving object? With that being said, considering the combination of your statement with the concepts in this video, I wonder if the use of playing cards is as simple as a choice of objects that would yield some power, but not so much as to be deadly to anyone/everyone around. In my opinion, I see it as a clever choice. A weapon that was readily available, easily concealable, non-metallic, etc. Gambit is definitely one of the more underrated characters in the MCU.
Yep New Sun, the evil Gambit who was a Omega and gave hint he could be the son of Amanda Mueller aka the Black Womb
7:06 "Big Deck Energy" These are the jokes I love, Kyle.
In the words of Deadpool fighting Gambit is like fighting Bugs Bunny, he can just reach off screen and pull out a bomb.
😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢wnz
And Deadpool has the bag of holding as a part of knowing he's in a comic so thats an interesting comparison for him to say
Didn't Gambit actively refuse a job to take out DP? Make it was someone else, but I thought he, known as a valid and exceedingly capable assassin, stated that such was tantamount to a suicide mission.
@@yourfriendlyinternetmeatshield It was a 5 issue comic called deadpool vs gambit and if I remember correctly they started fighting because of a misunderstanding
First off. Big Deck Energy. Amazing.
Secondly. Gambit's power doesn't just convert potential energy to kinetic energy. It also increases kinetic energy which takes longer, the more mass an object has. It also doesn't cause an object to explode unless he charges it beyond a certain point.
When he charges an object, it seems to exert more force as if it was a more massive object. He's charged his bo staff and then swung it and the impact was enough to level a building. He's also charged other people which makes them run faster and punch harder.
I'd say he's able to charge an object with extra kinetic energy but once it reaches a critical point, the object explodes under the stress, and smaller, less massive, objects are easier to hit this point with which is why he uses them as his bombs.
So instead of looking at collecting potential energy, it's more stress testing binding energy?
Also he has 72 shots in a small package and they are cheap as well.
@@ucitymetalhead literally this. He uses them because cheap, plentiful, and easy to throw fast/ accurate
Hea actually uses them beacause style. Or he would use beads.
@@arthurrosa9403 Beads are smaller. Unless things have changed and I don't recall they have, the bigger the object, the more force he can charge it with.
So a card has more mass than a bead.
Also, not sure he could throw the beads as well, not to mention, the playing cards are just as easily to carry around without much worry about concealed weapon issues (which, yes, he wouldn't have with beads, but they'd be stored differently on his person).
Uranium 235 playing cards. What could go wrong. Gonna be a lot more "mutants"
LOL! Best comment here! :)
The poor kids effeceted get to see the x men via make a wish
Nein. U238 denser and heavier
@@kucingmiumiu854 U235 has 92 protons & 146 neutrons, U238 has 92 protons & 143 neutrons. U235 is heavier.
Sheer Card Attack has no weaknesses.
Hayato
Killer Queen Bites Za Dusto
Cultured.
I knew in the opening 10 seconds that jojo fans like myself would be here
r/unexpectedjojo
Wait did he just say big deck energy... I see what you did there Kyle. And I like it
that means that, his dock could shoot high velocity sperm projectile that is capable of penetreting you like a bullet from a sniper rifle?
@@lolibear Docko Man!! It sounds similar to taco man atm but it's definitely NOT!
@@lolibear "BDE" makes no claim about the actual power or ability of the.....uh...'D'.
Just that someone's 'D' seems like it is 'B'.
so glad I wasn't the only one who caught that!
A video about Big Deck Energy, viewed by a father with Bored Dad Energy, who sets out to the backyard and converts it into Build a Deck Energy.
Energy resulting in an object.
Beware the efficiency of BDE.
"Big Deck Energy" noice
Professor Smallwood would approve
I see you Kyle!
Yep i caught that too
I was looking for anyone else to notice
Noice
Okay, just a bit of a follow-up for your Uranium playing card idea: The current world record for the farthest card thrown by a human being is 65.96 meters--thrown at over 90mph. Even if we gave Gambit the benefit of the doubt and said that he could match these crazy numbers with his (considerably heavier) uranium cards, a 100 megaton blast will still burn everything within 77km, level most buildings within 33km, kill just about every living thing within 12.5km, irradiate everything within 8km, and incinerate everything within 3km.
In other words, he would have to Daffy Duck it: "This is my most spectacular trick... but I can only do it once..."
It's also worth noting that with a hand grenade, the kinetic force from the explosion isn't the dangerous part; it's actually the shrapnel from the casing that gets 'ya. (Unless you're under water, in which case it's 'fishing with dynamite'.) As I understand it, with most conventional weapons the explosion is just a means of getting a solid projectile into the squishy bodies of unsavory people. Plus, his cards explode on impact, so their force would disperse like a firecracker held within an open hand (as opposed to if they penetrated their targets and then exploded like a firecracker held in a closed hand, which would be much more effective and spectacularly gross). While that does explain why, in the family-friendly representations, the playing cards only ever 'knock down' or 'knock out' a bad guy instead of blasting them to pieces like an actual hand grenade, it also begs the follow-up question: How much force do you need before just the force alone would be deadly?
Paper isn't as dense as metal either, so paper shrapnel isn't going to cause as much damage as the shrapnel from a hand grenade. That said, he can chuck a bunch of them (and usually does) in a very short space of time, so I reckon he could still do some considerable harm.
100 mega tons is 1,000,000 times more energy that he came up with though, right? Not saying that standing within 70m of a kiloton explosion would be deadly but it's orders of magnitude less than 100MT
100 Megatons of TNT = 100,000,000 tons of TNT, which is twice as much energy than the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated released, the Tsar Bomba was tested by the Soviets and it reportedly had a yield equivalent to around 50 Megatons of TNT. Kyle's estimate for the U-235 playing cards' energy was 1 kiloton (1,000 tons) of TNT equivalent. Either way, throwing a U-235 playing card capable of complete nuclear fission of all of its atoms would be suicide and cause massive collateral damage both immediately and in the long-term from radiation.
Wow that was very interesting a lot to read tho
Caleb Crook • I guess “a lot” to read in a comment, but it should have taken you relatively much less time than watching the video.
I've always thought the reason he uses playing cards is because there are fifty of them, they are lightweight and, they hold a limited amount of energy due to their size and their thickness. For instance his staff let's off a bigger bang than the cards do so it's like having fifty grenades that fit into your single pocket and he has alot of pockets. Cards can also be thrown to stick into materials or cut thin materials
They're also something that won't get confiscated at airports or by cops, usually. In his first appearance in the comics, he used throwing knives, but transitioned to cards because nobody thinks they're weapons.
Hey Kyle love the show, just want to say you missed a detail or two.
First, playing cards aren't just made out of paper, the more high end ones (which I assume Gambit would use) are made of Cellulose Acetate which has a higher specific heat(1509 J/kg.K) than that of paper, as well as vinyl (polyvinyl chloride) which has an even bigger one than that(.9kJ/kg.K). Also since these materials weigh more than paper(966.845 g/mol and 62.5 g/mol respectively) they would have even more energy and would be better than normal paper. While it isn't a handgrenade it still is a powerful card.
I would imagine being a little bit heavier would also make them much easier to throw any distance at all, especially safe detonation distance from a handgrenade equivalent explosion...
Banned in standard
wonder if the size of the card in question change the boom. say from a standard deck to a tarot deck
AgeTemplar: With what Guild do you think Gambit would personally identify? I'm guessing Gruul.
@@sdfkjgh Nah man, House Dimir. He's a professional sneaky guy.
If Michael Bay directed the MCU Gambit would be the only character.
And Boom Boom!
You forget about Jubilee
Maybe he'd even feature Nitro
If Michael Bay directed the MCU, he wouldn't have access to any of these characters for at least another couple years. Now, if he directed the Fox X-Men franchise, it would be a different story.
Also, don't forget the one kid whose mutant power was the ability to explode, but without protection from his own explosive power. Therefore, he had the mutant power of "suicide bomber". He was in one comic, and at the end he detonated to kill a corrupt corporate executive.
Also, Cannonball. Maybe not explosive, but he uses his forcefield powers to travel at high speeds, hitting objects with explosive force even without the actual explosive powers.
They're is another mutant named Nitro who has the power to turn his entire body into an explosion lol.
0:06 "Killer Queen, is what I call it."
yes
"Big deck energy"
That was sneaky
What if he actually did throw a hand grenade? How much energy would that be compared to a normal hand grenade explosion?
This aint a normal bomb. This is a hyperbomb
holy hand grenade, batman!
+Arpin
I'm modestly certain that the effectiveness of fragmentation grenades is from the damage caused by shrapnel, and secondarily from the explosion itself.
If he converted the shrapnel into combustion products, I think the effectiveness of the explosive would be lessened.
@@callumunga5253 Who said it was a frag grenade? It could be a flash bang, a concusion, or a tear gas grenade, and yeah a frag probably has the highest potentional energy.
Pretty sure it'd be the same. Isn't the entire point of his powers that he can make things explode that wouldn't normally?
I believe it’s canonical that Remy can charge much more deadly objects. But chooses playing cards as a means of regulating the destructive power of his power.
It’s not like he’d want to be within throwing distance of his uranium playing card. Or using such a thing when fighting off sentinels trying to apprehend Teen Mutants at the local shopping mall.
Even if Gambit could survive being in throwing distance of a nuke uranium throwing card, the collateral damage he’d impart would destroy cities and kill millions of innocent humans and mutants alike.
I think you mean canonical. Conical means cone-shaped.
Thank you, Corrected.
Totally agree.
The main reason Gambit uses playing cards over anything else, is because you can take playing cards anywhere and no sensors or alarms go off.
Yeah, he charged a train car once... one he was on. He didn't set it off as it was more to scare the crap out of the villain, but there you go.
@@Sacremas LOL There is a great list that was online a while ago, listing all the crazy things Gambit has charged over the years ;P
Some of them are pretty wild!
But still, after all that information from Kyle, imagine if Gambit had set that train car off! That would have been one Hell of a BANG! >:)
One of the reasons Gambit uses cards is as a power limiter. If he started throwing around anything bigger than playing cards or maybe a brick, he would start doing some serious collateral damage. As a hero, even as an occasional antihero, that draws a bunch of attention to yourself that you don't want. Even throwing the equivalent of hand grenades would be questionable, if not for the pure devastating power of the other X-Men and the villains they fight. Ease of convenience is also a good reason to use cards. Gambit can carry 52 + potential weapons in the space of a deck of playing cards. On top of that, his abilities allow him to manipulate the flight path of the cards with near telekinetic precision, and he's an expert card thrower without using his abilities. So, in a way, its like he has a pocket full of short range, exploding attack drones. Additionally, as soon as most battles are underway, there will be plenty of debris lying about, just waiting for Gambit to pick them up.
7:07
*big deck energy*
Eye sea what chu did there
Most people don’t know that Gambit voluntarily had a piece of his brain removed because he was becoming too powerful. At his maximum power level (New Sun Gambit) he’s blue and very similar to Dr. Manhattan.
Yeah he's a spooky boi
But with a hotter name
Actually I want to see you do a video on Jubilee's powers now because her "fireworks" are actually stupid powerful when she is controlled by her emotions or if she ever trained enough to fully control her power. I mean she did blow up a mansion because she thought Wolverine died. "While training in Generation X, Emma Frost described Jubilee as having the untapped ability to detonate matter at a subatomic level, which in theory is the equivalent of a nuclear fusion bomb." "Emma stated that Jubilee had unlimited potential and was one of the most powerful mutants she had ever encountered."
But then she went and got de-powered shortly after exhibiting some latent psychic power.
And then willingly became a vampire who Wolverine fed because she couldn't drain him enough to transform him.
I want a Jubilee/Blade spinoff.
Emma says that about every mutant who's even mildly powerful these days. Even with the power to affect someone on a subtomic level their are still mutants who can already do that and so allot more experience using their powers. Being a powerful mutant means nothing anymore since every mutant seems to have some sort of untapped potential the writer pulls out their ass these days.
@@HunterHerne Being de-powered wasn't by choice and she did get her powers back. Jubilee/Blade spinoff would be awesome though, lol.
"Unlimited potential"? The thought of Gambit high-fiving her scares me now.
@@HunterHerne Jubilee has her original powers back now (and is not a vampire anymore, thank Grond), but Marvel is still selling them short.
Just like Gambit does by using only paper cards, Jubilee's "fireworks" were the result of her holding back, because she actually didn't like blowing stuff up. But in the years after she lost that power, she grew into quite the brutal fighter, and there is no reason why she wouldn't use them more destructively after she got them back.
"Big deck energy." I was howling.
Also, keep in mind, Gambits powers got nerfed, majorly. This is the guy who became the horseman of Death. I think that you also missed a part of the equation, well maybe two parts. The first is the fact he throws the cards, the second is it’s likely Gambit is adding some type of different energy to the projectile, adding to the potential energy overall. The first part may not have much of an effect, the second; however, does play a major role. That’s because it appears Gambits mutant powers can have various charges applied. After getting a part of his brain removed to limit his powers, he can still charge a card to grenade levels.
What would happen if Gambit threw Captain America's shield? Would the shield just reflect the kinetic energy?
Ooooooh wow.... i can see that being a REALLY big bang O.o
@Roscoe Ricketts yup - quote stolen from reddit :
"mugenhunt
It's happened during AvX. Basically, the shield deals the normal amount of damage but isn't destroyed in the process. Gambit then did probably the sneakiest move ever by charging Cap's UNIFORM and letting it explode on him. Cap was not pleased."
My brain just exploded. Wait isn't that the Unstoppable vs. Unmovable argument in reverse? BLACK HOLE forms.
@@carriesnider3209 if you are thinking about the way vibranium works canonically, then it make a great deal of sense. Vibranium simply stops impacts by changing any and all kinetic energy applied to it (up to a limit according to marvel) and stores it as potential energy between it's own particles and atoms. So, gambit would simply release this potential energy from the shield into kinetic energy plus a decent bit more due to the energy from actual material itself. However, the material (vibranium) would simply change the kinetic energy applied to itself in the resulting explosion as potential energy again. Which it would easily withstand, since it is only a small part of the blast (and the entire energy of the blast was already being stored in the material).
@@sixolddereks2130 all this because marvel needed an explanation for why bullets don't bounce off Cap's shield, causing collateral damage.
I laughed pretty hard at Big Deck Energy 😂
Good job.
Went looking or this comment. I knew someone would have said something about it.
I thought it was my mind playing with me when I swore I heard him say "dick"
@@coreycarpenter2489 same😂
Came looking for this as soon as I heard it, actually laughed
Dude I love time wizard yugioh is awesome
You totally forgot the energy trapped by the strong force. If Gambit can really exploit ALL potential energy he can do WAAAAAAY more than was covered
Can we talk about what would happen if Gambit got ahold of say.... a vibranium panther suit?
Do we know the max energy storage potential of said suit? He could theoretically become a walking repeater bomb, constantly charging the suit with potential energy, and then releasing it as the suit does.
This is an amazing combo from two different ends.
Now imagine them throwing caps shield at somebody.
Hey Kyle, love the show! Wanted to add my two cents!
While it may theoretically makes sense to make decks of cards out of more 'volatile' cards, I think in handling they may not be as useful - as we know, Gambit loves to get fancy with his playing cards. Cardists and magicians are known for having very specific preferences regarding the types of card stocks, thickness, and cuts to make handling the cards much easier, and I doubt Gambit would be any different.
However, nowadays playing card companies like Art of Play or Dan & Dave have become very creative with creating new decks and using various technologies to bring their designs to life - think foil stamps, embossing and debossing, and of course the prints themselves.
What if, instead of making the cards out of different materials, Gambit would use his preferred card stock and cut to create the basic cards, but would use methods such as foil stamps and specialised inks to attribute various playing cards with various properties? Perhaps his Ace up his sleeve could be his most deadly playing card, stamped with a material with much more potential energy.
This way, Gambit would still be able to handle his cards perfectly and not suffer any consequences because of the changes in materials, as they're primarily made out of the same card stock. He could just create a custom deck, carefully put together to suit his specific needs - whether that's whooping Logan's ass in a game of poker, or in a fight.
That was along my line of thinking as well. I was curious as to why the inks and prints weren't mentioned, as they are placed on the paper after the fact. Thus they should have some additive to the initial effect right?
Gambit also threw a can of beans in a All New Wolverine comic and it blew up the side of a helicarrier.
Depending on the person, those beans could be more powerful than a nuke. I know i clear a room like its nothing.
pyruleanfire demon But I assume you have a slow-burning fuse on that room-clearing?😉
Isn't one of the version of gambit or him at full potential as powerful as an omega mutant level ?
@@KaedweniWitcher420 yes, he is. That was only once he attained his full power though.
Guy on the helicarrier: LOOK AT THIS DUDE! HE GOT A CAN OF BEA... *dies in bean explosion*
Gambit: Well....beans are the magical fruit.
"GO GAM-uha KILLER QUEEN!!"
KILLER QUEEN
DAISAN NO BAKUDAN
BITES ZA DUSTO
This explanation makes a lot of sense when you see the Gambit's cards in the movies, cartoons and games for example. They does have a effect of a massive impact but not as destructive as actual grenades.
Wow! All I heard news of was that Gambit and Rogue were getting married....but this was way more informative! Brought me back to my biochem days.
They've been married for a few months already. They have their own title now, Mr and Mrs. X
Also gambit as new sun is gambit at full potential he is basically Dr.Manhattan and yep mr and Mrs x the series us great so far!!
Hey Kyle, great job on this. I think your research on this episode was particularly well-done, and I agree with all of your conclusions except one: the use of polystyrene. Unfortunately, while polystyrene has the highest energy-per-volume ratio of all polymers, it's still a bit too rigid. Typically, polystyrene is used in CD cases, and if you bend one of those, they tend to snap. And also, he's combusting these cards with oxygen but polystyrene tends to burn incompletely. That black sooty smoke you see when you burn styrofoam means you aren't using the combustion energy at 100% efficiency. So with that in mind, let's try to find an alternative.
There's a nifty table online that lists materials by their energy density per unit volume (source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density#Energy_densities_ignoring_external_components). The top ten choices are B, Be, Al, Si, Graphite, Polystyrene, LiBH4, Mg, polyethylene, and polypropylene. Unfortunately, all but one of these fail the material properties check. They're either too rigid (like graphite), too soft (like boron), too brittle (like silicon), or too easy to permanently deform (like aluminum).
The one that passes this test is actually very similar to polystyrene: polyethylene. It's flexible, dense, easily customizable for material properties, it burns efficiently, and it's tied for the cheapest of these options with polypropylene (which is also too rigid). Where I work, we manufacture a high-density flexible polyethylene that could easily be turned into playing cards for less than $1 per deck. At a deck volume of 92.9 mL, specific energy of 46.3 MJ/kg, and a density of 0.965 g/mL, that brings his deck of cards to 4.2 MJ, or 76.9 kJ per card. Not a bad trade-off for extra authenticity.
I feel aa though this will definately make the super nerd section because of your extensive explanation... good job my friend
Heres a like for your effort.
Kyle needs to read his comment... It was fantastic. Well done, sir!
Can I be in the super nerd screenshot??
This immediately made me think of the actual plastic playing cards you can buy. I managed to figure out that they are made of cellulose acetate, but ran out of nerd power before I could determine the energy density of that material. Since cellulose is plant material I'd guess it has similar energy to paper so it probably isn't a contender for a better material.
7:06 Forget solar panels, we need to be looking into Big Deck Energy 👀
I never thought about it that much, this was awesomely informative kyle thank you. I appreciate you show your math
You forgot to including the wax and ink on the paper of the card,
So little easier to avoid in the calculation.
Would imagine that standard playing cards are made with some form of paraffin wax due to availability ,melting, temperatures and cost. Soy based would have to low a melt point and would become soft in ones pocket especially on a hot day. An unless it is high-end cards would think bee's wax maybe to expensive.
At least from my knowledge of candle making paraffin blends can be quite energetic if heated/excited beyond a certain point. An could definitely add to the potential energy; sadly my lack knowledge of chemical makeup of modern printing inks prevents me from even pondering a guess at to the amount it could add. However older cards could have natural pigments and binders. Mix that in with the alcohol or kerosene used in the extraction process that would at least in trace amounts make it into the ink. Could potentially lead to highly combustible inks.
@@samarnadra Which wouldn't be the case because Gambit holds back on purpose. He already knows he has the potential to be far more lethal with the right weapon. He doesn't use cards because they're the most powerful, it's because they're efficient and easy to carry.
@@kevinking8603 blatantly stolen from madehow.com "Layered paper is produced by putting a number of sheets of paper in a stack and gluing them together. This type of paper is stronger and more durable than standard paper. Higher quality cards may be made from polymeric plastic films and sheets. One material that is often used is a cellulose acetate polymer. This is a semisynthetic polymer that is made into a paper-like sheet by being cast from a solution. This produces a film, which can be stacked and laminated to produce an appropriately thick sheet. This material is much more durable than paper and cards that are made with it last considerably longer.
Read more: www.madehow.com/Volume-4/Playing-Cards.html#ixzz5eM8y4yN0"
He also failed to point out that his body also generates kinetic energy as well which he adds to the energy of the card( that's why rouge dated him in the comics, because his body continuously mass produces extra energy she could touch him without hurting him)
So if Gambit used the key to Superman's fortress of solitude, could he destroy the Earth?
if that key is made out of neutron star matter as stated in the comics, i could see that happening. or at the very least me as a reader/watcher would not consider it suprising
If Gambit expended the card's gravitational potential energy in the explosion, then the remaining fragments of the card would have to float afterward, since they'd no longer have gravitational potential. Also, since mass can be converted directly into energy (normally by combining with antimatter) wouldn't he be able to release that potential energy, and get an explosion far more powerful than the nuclear blast?
Unless he is actually pulling the other side of that energy, the matter in the Earth. He could be slightly reducing the Earth's potential to fall toward the card, allowing the card pieces to fall, relatively normally.
If you want to check out the upper limit of gambit, watch this: ua-cam.com/video/O_lzGd5vr58/v-deo.html
If we just stick to chemical energy and not nuclear fission or fusion, the material with the best explosion would be hydrogen. But its a gas. So to make a playing card out of it you'd have to freeze it into a solid which means it would be about 14 Kelvin or less and it would have to stay under 20 Kelvin in flight or risk boiling and becoming hydrogen gas, which would kind of make it hard to get to the target. But if there was a way to keep supercooled hydrogen playing cards in his pocket, they'd have about 4x the specific energy of coal. The only material with more specific energy than coal that could be throwable at normal temperatures is animal or vegetable fat. If he had access to fat-based cards he'd have about 20% more energy in the cards than coal. And of course if it was hot out they might still melt... but in a cool room you could totally throw fat-cards for more bang.
I'd be hilarious to see Gambit carrying bacon in his pockets
WigantX he’s gonna have to change his name to Baconbit.
Rogue: Ok, who stole the bacon I bought last night?
Bacombit: *Leaves the room*
Unless you were to hyper compress the hydrogen you are using. That would change it into metallic hydrogen, and would provide a much more powerful explosion... however the problem with a solid, and/or a metallic hydrogen card is that it would require oxygen to burn, and en either case it would conflagrate, rather than explode... so we would have more like burning cold hydrogen cards, rather than exploding ones...
To create a true explosion you need somthing that is both energy dense, and self oxidizing... so a flourine/metallic hydrogen would in theory be the most lethal, most explosive form of playing card you can make, simply because fluorine is a better oxidizer than oxygen, and metallic hydrogen is the most energy dense chemical substance available to humanity... since metallic hydrogen isnt available in and realistic quantities outside the core of Jupiter and Saturn, I cant really tell you any numbers, but it would be a wicked explosion
You talk about the cards but no one mentioned the ink that's on the cards, wouldn't this be a factor in figuring out the cards destructive chemical energy🤔
Realistically, he should use Legos. Their potential is strong even when they are on the ground.
Lol
Then he could have shaped charges.
specially if you step on it bare foot
Didn't they ban their use as weapon in the Genova convention?
He should just throw legos and not blow them up. He'd be the most OP character in Marvel.
I think you mean "U-Remy-um"...
I'll see myself out
Appreciate the well-researched video :)
One minor note that I've seen a lot of other pop physics channels get slightly wrong that might be useful to be clearer on in the future -- at around 8:29, you mention that an explosion from TNT is not "harnessing the power of mass itself", but that a nuclear reaction does harness the power of mass itself.
This is actually a false dichotomy, as both explosions have equal claim to saying they are "harnessing the power of mass itself", as they are both doing it in the same way.
It's often said that "mass can be released as energy", but this is a little misleading. What's actually happening is that most of what we measure as mass isn't actually inherent in the elementary particles that compromise the system, but comes instead from the potential energy within the system. It isn't E = mc^2, per se...but more m = E/c^2. That is, if your system has potential energy E, it effectively increases the mass by E/c^2.
The difference is that we tend to think about mass as a fundamental intrinsic property of matter, and from this comes the idea that we can "convert" mass into energy. But this isn't what's going on: instead, the elementary particles have insignificant intrinsic mass, and the mass we observe from an object doesn't come from the elementary particles: it comes from the potential energy and configuration of the system. A nucleus doesn't have that high of a mass because its components (quarks) are intrinsically massive. It only has a "high" mass because of the potential energy of the arrangements of quarks inside it. On their own, the quarks have very little mass in comparison.
So really, a nuclear reaction and a chemical reaction are the same thing, here. A TNT molecule is in a stable configuration, and we break that configuration to yield the potential energy bound in it. A nucleus is in a stable configuration, and we break that configuration to yield the potential energy bound in it. In both cases, all you're doing is breaking a stable configuration to get access to the potential energy bound in it.
In both cases, you are "converting mass into energy", because a TNT molecule pre-explosion has a higher PE, so its mass is higher. A nucleus pre-explosion has a higher PE, so its mass is higher. In both cases, you are "converting mass into energy". But the causality is a little twisted: it's not really mass you are converting into energy, but rather the potential energy you are converting into kinetic energy. It's just that the loss of PE can be observed as a loss of mass, because the mass in the system originally came from the PE in the first place.
The main quantitative difference is that for a chemical explosion, you are releasing very little energy that is actually in the system. In a nuclear reaction, you are releasing a lot of energy that is actually in the system. But, more energy lost = more mass lost, since the mass you are losing is only a *byproduct of the PE*, in the first place. So yes, you do lose more mass, but that's only because you lose more energy, and more energy = more mass.
But yeah, the main thing is that conceptually, releasing energy from TNT, and releasing energy from a nuclear reaction -- they both "harness energy from mass itself" :) There is no qualitative difference. In both cases you are "getting energy directly from mass itself", in the sense that you are getting energy directly from the PE bonds in both cases. In TNT, you're getting energy from the chemical bonds, and in nuclear, you're getting energy from nuclear bonds.
I have reason to believe they are as deadly as an explosion from Gambit's cards.
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that means that, his dock could shoot high velocity sperm projectile that is capable of penetreting you like a bullet from a sniper rifle?
For a slightly more informative answer, see above -- kH
Gambit had part of his brain stem removed by Mr. Sinister, because he was afraid he couldn't control his powers. When his full powers are unlocked, he has complete control over kinetic and by extension chemical energy, to the point that he can throw energy blasts, stop people from moving, heal wounds, even travel through space-time or transform himself into pure energy.
Also he's literally supernaturally charming. Which is to say X-Men writers eventually made his charm actually a mutant power.
@@deathknight75 I guess that's just more evidence that he's some kind of vampire...he fits the charming southern vampire thing pretty well..didn't that actually happen in one of the comics?
@@deathknight75 CHARM had historically been associated as a spell or magic used by fairies and sort to attract people. Charm is definitely an old school power used in stories, we just tend to shrug it of as something common and trivial now
"What were Jubille's powers again"!? She can create fireworks of any size anywhere she wants. The cartoon for some reason made her annoying and weak. In the comics she was much more powerful. She can (and has) create tiny explosions inside someone's body and either kill them silently or just blow them into a million pieces!
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But Kyle, cards are not just made out of paper. There is the ink, many have a plastic or plastic like coating, some are made out of different papers, or have other additives rather than purely wood fibres, some have linen or cotton. Indeed there are plastic playing cards, or acetate ones for modern use and to last longer and be wear resistant. All factors which would affect the overall potential to be more handgrenade like.
john morgan also most quality playing cards are pressed paper. That alone would add some potential energy. He just took the weight of the card. If u stack 3/4/5 layers of anything and press it down its going to accumulate more potential energy
And so ace card may not be as strong when thrown by gambit compared to king, queen, or jack card because they have more illustration, which is more ink and also more chemical potential. And it also means the super ultra rare card from whatever trading card game that often come with hologram design etc would make the best gambit card bomb lol
Gambit's cards also has properties to 'cut' things and dig into solid objects like steel walls.
I think his ability is less on making things go explode, and more on changing it's chemical structure to his liking.
Like making paper as hard as steel and throwing it, which means his powers re-arranges the subatomic matter of objects he holds?
And he uses playing cards possibly because it's easier to manipulate them due to their simple structure, but you don't see him throwing bigger objects and 'charging' them with his powers, possibly because he can't charge a plastic chair and turn it into a exploding metal chair.
That and his ability to throw the cards aerodynamically in a direction means he could also manipulate the gravitational or kinetic energy of the object at hand when thrown, otherwise the cards will flop everything inaccurately.
What I find kinda interesting about this one is it's actually considered as a part of Gambit's arc. Once he started to realise how powerful his powers could be he got Dr Sinister to limit them out of fear. He eventually runs into an alternate from another dimension. From wikipedia:
"Appearing in the 1999 Gambit mini-series, Gambit is called New Son (Sun) (X-Cutioner II) in Earth-9923 reality. In his own reality, the New Sun's kinetic charging powers had flared out of control, burning the world and killing everyone. As a result, the New Sun hunted down and killed versions of himself in other realities to ensure that they would not repeat his mistakes. New Sun is not limited to inorganic matter and can convert matter into energy at a sub-molecular level so it vaporizes or explodes. He also has the ability to time travel, can propel himself by a wave-like aura and can transplant matter through time and space, as well as being able to biokinetically augment all his physical abilities to superhuman levels"
So yeah sometimes capped powers are actually better plot wise... I'm looking at you Goku.
I was looking for this, Gambit is Omega level mutant. He's just powered down in the main continuity...
He's on the level of Jean Grey, Iceman, etc...
Was also looking for this. I thank you. So in a basic breakdown mutants learn to use their powers as they grow up and as a result become stronger... I like to think Gambit can choose how much he can charge up an object but as its pointed out he chose to limit this charge potential because of what he can "potentially" become within our universe. Imagine picking up a pebble and splitting every single atom at precise intervals to form a super nova like explosion... -_- joining in on the Goku staring.
@@gigantkranion more like, "Omega-potential" mutant..
I think a gambit closer to the first calculation would be a gambit that not only activates potential energy but amplifies it to the same level as a hand grenade.
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So Gambit has the ability to destroy Thanos with the flick of a playing card?
What if he just touched Thanos.... himself...boom see that was easy what's wrong with all those Avengers...just no skill....lol
That wouldnt be any fun lol. Gambit cant charge anything organic.
The gauntlet isn't organic, neither is Thanos' outfit. One touch and boom.
@@mrkarterhuh9830 Wait... But isn't paper organic?
@@arkt1k330 By definition, paper would be considered organic, yes.
Big deck energy!!😂🤣😎 I literally laughed out loud and scared my cat. Standing O Kyle!
In one of the 90's X-Men cartoon episode, Gambit stumbled upon a bucket of bolts/nuts/nails, grab a handful of them and throw them at a Sentinel.
Gambit was a personal favorite of mine & I've always been curious about the specifics of his powers... so thank you! But the card isn't just paper, there's also ink & laminate to consider as materials. Nevertheless, very cool video & keep up the great work!😁👍
I've been a longtime Gambit fan since I was little and I think he also he has the ability to control how much of a charge he puts into an item for example he could charge his cards all the way and have them go off. which is according to the comics like a grenade but according to this video not quite or he could charge them a little bit and they will go off like a firecracker also I think he has a low-grade ability to manipulate atoms since he's also been able to do other things when he charges an item like in one issue he charged an umbrella just very lightly and it was able to float up bearing the weight of a 10 year old and another issue he charged a I think it was a bolt and got it to fit inside the hole without any tools he described it as having the atoms do a little jig
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True. And, if I remember correctly, the amount of charge he can apply is also tied to the materials he's using. The greater the material, the more powerful the explosion would be. Also, if too much charge is applied, the material will simply deteriorate. At the end of the day, Gambit's power is downright frightening! Especially when his full power is unlocked, allowing him to also charge living matter & just by looking at it! Which is probably how he got the nickname "the Raging Cajun".
So, I am not going to pretend to be brilliant but I'm curious if the type of ink, or the amount of ink on a card impacts the explosions as well. So something like a king, which is obviously more ink heavy would have a greater impact than the two of clubs.
It probably would...you can actually find a video of what they use to make a standard deck of Bicycle brand cards which is the most common and popular brand in the states..bare minimum the cardstock is made from two separate pieces of paper, glue to put them together, and the ink..and they feel like they might have a light coating of some kind of plastic for mine that I got..not waterproof but something to make them a bit more rigid than JUST paper..so there's quite a bit more energy to come out of these cards than Kyle proposes just based on the basic and cheapest pack of 56 cards...52 regular cards+2 Jokers+2 advertising cards for the company.
Ink powered explosives. _Squid Bomb_
Great video! Gambit has always been one of my favorites, and his powers actually make him able to do much more than make things explode in some of the comics.
Also, to avoid misconceptions, it's best to talk about potential energy as a property of systems, not of individual objects. This deals with the question of "where the potential energy is stored?", for example.
The gravitational potential energy is a property of the system and how the masses are distributed in it. The energy is stored in the field, not in the masses somehow. The system couples with the field and extracts energy from it to reconfigure itself. This is the change from potential to kinetic energy. So when you raise a ball in Earth's gravity, you are putting potential energy in the Earth-ball system, not on the ball.
I love these videos! Nuclear ninja stars would be pretty scary.
I should note: Cyclops' optic blasts are not heat. They are concusive force. They heat up only things that try to resist them as the friction quickly rips them apart.
Hey Kyle
GREAT episode! Gambit is my favourite character and never gets much love. :(
Going over how scientifically his power work, was wondering if you could quickly crunch some numbers on one of the times he used his powers.
Gambit got in a heated conversation then ended up charging the other gentleman's waxed moustache. With what you have just calculated would Gambits powers just make the hairs go *poof* our would the gentleman with the waxed moustache be in some serious pain?
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I think you should also take into consideration the speed of his throw. If he's throwing playing cards like professional magicians they have been clocked in at around 90Mph (or 144.84 Kph) a card sized object with the explosive potential of a landmine hitting you in the chest at 90 is going to take out a huge chunk of flesh. There might be a few mph discrepancy due to the weight but I still stand by my statement because I feel like a speedy exploding boi would have more kinetic energy to exploit than a slower one.
Should be the card's kinetic energy considered a potencial one, and then put in the math? I mean, the horizontal velocity of the card has nothing to do with the gravitational field. I guess...
See you in Footnotes -- kH
Wouldn't that just add the kinetic energy of the flying card to the system, which works out around 1.45 J. Slightly more than an airsoft bb (which would still hurt) but significantly less than the 36 kJ, that Kyle worked out for a base value.
As for the explosion, I'd imagine it depends on how the energy is released. If it's instantly, all transformed into kinetic energy then you'd be facing a ball of expanding gas comparable, at the very least to TNT, so 6,940 m/s ( 15,500 mph). But if the power of the explosion is lower (takes place over a longer time) that extra 90 mph could become a significant factor.
Kinda curious what would happen if Gambit could change some proportion of the cards energy to heat energy, the results could be pretty horrific!
@@eoinkenny3188 I'm not certain about the calculations because I'm not that smart (working on it with classes and books) but I was thinking along the lines of how he works his bow staff. He seems to be able to do two kinds of kinetic control for lack of a better word, one is explosive and one let's him hit harder without kablamoing his victims only really knocking them back or launching himself skyward. With that thought in mind I thought he might be able to give his cards extra heft along with the explosions potentially embedding the aces into his foes before the explosions or even just adding the the overall energy he is able to manipulate. But you are right, it really is a paltry amount after the calculations have been done. Thanks for doing that, guess my head was more in the fantastical rather than the factual.
@@ilovepinatas3179 You don't have to be smart to do calculations (I'm certainly not), it just requires familiarity with the concepts and practice, same as everything else. Messrs Newton, Joule , Watt and company have already done all the hard work for us, we just have to stand on their shoulders and keep asking questions.
That being said I won't be surprised if Kyle corrects everything I wrote in the footnotes :-P
Hey Kyle love your show and hope this gets me into the show thanks (been trying for a long time) ,
Correction : you said anything that applies a force on you gives you potential but the fact is only forces that are conservative will give you potential energy ie the forces that only depend upon the initial and final position of the object in question eg: Gravitational force. There is also another type of force which is called non conservative forces which depends upon the path taken by the object in question the characteristics of such forces are:
1. Doesn't have a field
2. Does not give you potential energy.
Examples of these forces include friction and forces based on friction like drag.
One more thing,
Gambit could throw 2 cards one made of matter another made of anti matter and throw them in a way that they collide in front of the bad guy in question and convert its entire mass into energy as this is 100% efficient the math:
E= ∆mc²
E= 0.03kg×c²
E= 2.696265536×10^15 J / card
In a deck of cards (52 cards)
The energy would be 1.402058079×10^17 J
° Chemical reactions only convert 0.000000001% of the mass to energy
° The most powerful nuclear fission bombs are only 0.08% mass is converted to energy
° The most powerful nuclear fusion bomb converts 0.7% mass to energy
So the best bet for gambit is matter-antimatter annihilation
Great episode, thank you for your work!
Technically, we set the 0 of gravitational potential energy at the surface only because the normal force cancels out the objects weight. We are free to choose where to define the 0 since potential energy depends only on the difference between one point to another.
Thus, if Gambit can truly convert potential to kinetic energy, there is no reason why we should not choose the center on the earth as the 0 point. If there were no normal force, the card would continue to fall straight to the center of the Earth. Finally, Gambit's powers have nothing to do with the normal (or any interactions between the cards and the ground) and we, therefore, have a good argument to set the 0 of gravitational potential energy at the center of the earth.
mgh = (0.0018kg * 9.8m/s^2 * 6.4x10^6m) = 112 896 J
where "h" is the radius of the Earth in meters
Therefore the gravitational contribution is about 113kJ which is 3x more than the chemical potential energy contribution
I had a similar thought, but remember that mgh only works in a constant gravitational field, which is a fair assumption at or near Earth's surface. If you go down into the center, however, you have to integrate over the enclosed radius and density. When doing that, I found ~170kJ. It was a very quick calculation, though, and with integrals I haven't done in some time, the odds I made a mistake are relatively high.
@@Phoboskomboa - Since the field is uniform at the surface, can you not just make the assumption that the centre of the Earth is a point mass and calculate it on the difference in 'h' alone?
@@KindredBrujah That works if you're outside of the Earth and only considering what happens outside of the Earth, but the question is the total potential energy from the center. As in, if you let an object fall straight to the center, what would its kinetic energy be? If your BS detector is going off with regards to the fact that the distribution of mass shouldn't matter, that's probably because we're using potential energy in a non-physical way. We're treating it as a real physical quantity, and not just a book-keeping method for keeping track of how much energy could be gained if something were to fall.
If you treat it as a point mass at the center and just calculate GMm/r^2, you would end up with a ludicrous amount of energy, as you'd effectively be treating it as a black hole. You would actually end up dividing by zero, and find that such an object had infinite energy. Which is a worse non-physical solution than just assuming potential energy is a real physical quantity. After all, it is technically possible that somehow some mutant power could take that energy by imparting some imperceptible acceleration on the planet. It's far less ridiculous than Cyclops having dimensional portals inside his eyes.
If you do the integral, you find that the potential scales quadratically with r inside of a mass. It's U=GM(3R^2-r^2)/2R^3 inside. Plugging in r=0 for the center, and r=R for the surface, you find the potential energy difference between the surface and the center is U_s=(3/2)GMR. Multiply by m to find the energy: (3/2)GMmR. I think that's right. Again, I'm really phoning in these integrals. I didn't even do them this time, I just looked up the solution from another video.
@@Phoboskomboa - Just looking for a way to avoid doing any integrals. Your methodology looks sound to me, though my experience is more in Maxwellian physics and not Newtonian.
@@KindredBrujah Yeah. It's actually the same problem as determining an electric potential inside and outside of a sphere of charge with a non-constant charge density. Only the constants and some signs are different depending on the sign of the charge.
Question with a bit of a silly lead-in:
In one story, a bad alternate future version of Gambit had ended up charging the entire planet with a boosted version of his power (and then renamed himself the New Sun, which most of the characters in present of the story thought at first was New Son until they realized what was actually going on, but that's just a weird aside) and keeping it permanently charged up, looking like a miniature star and leaving him as the last living thing on it.
What sort of energy would a "charged up" version of the Earth in this manner be able to unleash, based on what you've calculated here? I know part of your calculation is based on an object being thrown in Earth's gravity, so I suppose the result would be based on either its pull from the Sun, or a version where a theoretical gravitational force equal to what a card would feel from the Earth was also pulling on the Earth itself.
Now that's an awesome question I hope gets answered in foot notes.
Earths mass = 5.9722×10*24 kg > E=mc2 = 5.1427e+18 joules or 1.2291e+3 megatons of TNT or 1229 megatons.
Russia's tsar Bomba was only (but still a massive) 50 megatons. 8.1 on the richter scale, shockwaves went round the earth three times, mushroom cloud was 40 miles high!
That doesnt seem right. The Earth converted to energy would be many, many times greater than all of the explosive power of humanity put together millions of times over.
Running a calculation I think 1229 megatons is off by about 23 orders of magnitude.
(Though what kyle was doing was a little more complicated and to work it out like that for the constituent compounds of Earth would probably be quite tough.)
Um...it would probably be equal to a supernova or black hole or at least get really close to that kind of energy production not to mention Venus would probably cause a secondary explosion from all the aluminum hitting it making a thermite reaction (mini sun) making our solar system a binary star system and melting Mercury in the process.
@@dylanplotner5145 I'm no physicist but a black hole would require an appropriate amount of mass in order to form, which I'm not sure that our solar system possesses. it would definitely be in the nova to super nova range since it's exploding to begin with and the mass of our solar system, even if great enough, is un-concentrated.
I come for the surprise bo-staffs/lightsabers, i stay for the hilarious contextual dialogue at the end.
You should look into the deal he made with Mr.Sinister as it goes deeply into how all his powers do what they do but it does go off the rails after abit.
I always thought that Gambits power was to change a variable amount of the base material into a form of antimatter, thus transforming a very small percentage of the base weight of any material into pure energy when the antimatter comes into contact with the matter, and explaining how he is somehow able to choose how much energy, providing an some sort of explanation for the purple "aura" in that he has to keep the anti-matter separated from matter and that energy spent is discharging light, and allowing him
.000185 (Kg) x 299,792,458 (c)^2 or 166,269,708,066,311 joules ( google calculator says thats approx 0.0397 megatons) maximum engery from his cards... and. Thats a lot more energy then a hand grenade.
Oh wait.
He could have a higher maximum if he converted more then 50% to antimatter.
He is a real gambit alright.
Buut, I am not sure if that is assuming more, or less about his power then the bases of chemical or nuclear reaction. When looking at what the comics state.
I really haven't geeked out over the x-men to much. 🤷♂️
(I'm not sure what value you found for the average weight of a card. So I used 1.85 grams. I know I just listened with my ear holes but then I got to the math and that number went poof.)
If this makes it to the after show, please say high to my son Jacques, because of you, he wants to he Tony Stark, instead Spiderman.
Hey Kyle, great episode. Two things, though. (Sorry to be that guy but talking science with fellow nerds is awesome.)
You described nuclear fission and nuclear fusion, but only calculated fission. How about we try fusion? Suppose gambit's cards are little packets of D2O and T2O (deuterium and tritium water, respectively) and that gambit induces nuclear fusion in this water. My playing cards are about .31 mm thick, so say that the pocket of water is .2 mm thick and has an area of 45 cm^2 (a little smaller than the area of my cards). This gives a volume of 90 mm^3. Assuming D2O and T2O have the same molecular density as H2O, this means there are N=N_A*rho*V/M=6.022*10^23*1000*90*10^-9/18*10^-3=302*10^20 molecules of heavy water in the playing card. Since every 2 molecules can cause 2 Deuterium-Tritium reactions, each of which can release 17.6 MeV of kinetic energy, the total energy released would be 564 MJ. Never mind, stick with uranium. Much less of an engineering challenge anyways and I don't suppose Gambit's powers include creating Tritium, because that is hard to find too.
Also, if he was able to supply energy to the cards, wouldn't it be better to just throw them fast without having them explode? Cards weigh about 1.35 grams each. Given E=1/2 m*v^2, v=sqrt(2*36000/1.35*10^-3)=7300 m/s. They thus impart a force of F=m*v/Δt=7300*.00135/1=10 N, assuming that they would stop within a second. (This assumption was made completely arbitrarily, based on the fact that the entire card is essentially a crumple zone.)
Now, let's be generous and assume a card hits you with its longest side. For my cards, that is .31*87=26 mm^2, bringing the total pressure imparted by the playing card p=F/A=10/26*10^-6=.38 MPa. Now, at a shear strength for bone of 51.6 MPa, that shouldn't be able to break your bones, but it is most definitely enough pressure to cut through your flesh like a hot knife through butter. Just imagine somebody slicing your throat from across the room using a playing card.
P.S. I'm aware that releasing the potential energy would require breaking up the card, but for the sake of the calculation I neglected that.
Childhood favorite cant wait for this movie. This episode was great thanks Kyle.
Big Deck Energy....Nice work Kyle!
A good drinking game for this episode : take a shot every time you hear "energy"..
Yeah you ded
Hey, Cyclops optic blasts are concussive, not heat based. I know you know this!
Distracted me from everything else in this video.
They are punches from the Punch Dimension!
There you are, I found you, you didn't disappointed me haha
It's one of the things I hated in X-Men Apoc. I was all "Where is the fire coming from?"
@@JoybuzzerX Then there's "Deadpool"'s eye beam heating up Wolverine's blades in Wolverine: Origins. But I suppose we don't talk about that movie anymore; so says the all might Ryan Reynolds.
Huh, I thought his power was amplifying kinetic energy by an order of magnitudes, which was why his cards exploded on impact.
Anyway something like a can/bottle of pop would be the closest literal analog for his power turning a thrown object into a hand grenade lol.
You're right. Gambit has the ability to charge the object to whatever level he wants
I can't remember exactly what issue it is but there is an issue where Gambit uses a can of beans and apparently the explosion is impressive enough that he even mentions that he should probably start carrying around beans
@@nicolesmith2297 That I don't remember, but if you stumble across it again could you point it out please? Sounds hilarious!
This is insane and I love it, such good work, thx man
While using conventional fission materials is an option for fission, in this situation it may not be necessary. Since we're assuming he can access the potential energy of the objects he uses, any material can be used as all nuclei have some nuclear binding energy. The reason we use heavy elements like uranium and the like is because the energy we put in to the uranium to force fission to occur is less than the energy produced, but gambit isn't restricted by this. Using then the binding energy of carbon; 92.2 MeV or about 1.48E-11 Joules and multiplying by the number of carbon atoms in a paper playing card (I could not find a value for the carbon content by mass for the paper used in playing cards so I'll use a value for a pure carbon sample of the same weight you used for a playing card). The number of atoms is just the (weight(in grams) / atomic mass)*Avogadro's number so: 9.03E+22 atoms, giving an energy release of 1.34E+12 or 1.34 terajoules of energy which is on the level of a small nuclear bomb. This is only possible since we aren't concerned with the input energy and we are assuming the entire atom is blown apart. Also, this way he doesn't need to carry a suspiciously heavy deck of radioactive playing cards around with him... so there's that too
Just use the weight of the playing card it is full of atoms...
@@2awesome292 I thought about doing that but some portion of the card will be made of hydrogen, which can't be split
@@thelopen9277 Well if you split the hydrogen into quarks you can
With Gambits Original Powers he didn't have to touch an object to manipulate the energies in it. He got his powers nerfed eventually, but there was a storyline where his powers didn't get nerfed. His name was New Sun and well he got to a point where he could convert an entire city into kinetic energy and just detonate it.
In your Mortal Engines video you estimated the a city would be 5 000 000 000 Kg
just plug that into your handy dandy E=mc^2 formula
and you get 4.4938 * 10 ^26 J of energy
more than the sun outputs in a second (I think)
good thing he got nerfed.
Yessss! More surprise bow staff!
Big Deck Energy HAHA 😂 I love you Kyle
What if he used graphene or carbon fibre?
those materials are made from pure carbon, and there aren't many ways to extract the energy in their bounds in any meaningfull way, so they'd have essentially zero chemical potential energy.
TL:DR they'd be significantly weaker
@@doom87er carbon is tetra valent and has very strong covalent bonds so their potential energy will also be more and so if we do break them wouldn't an enormous amount of energy be released?
@@rakshith7002 Kyle!! Check this out in the footnotes!!
#BecauseScience
@@doom87er Assuming Gambit's power can utilize the maximum amount of chemical kinetic energy, he can in theory ignite diamonds making the carbon react with oxygen. I'm a little rusty on the enthalpy of formation but I think you'd get less bang out of diamonds since it has more enthalpy of formation than graphite which is set at 0 kJ/mol whereas diamonds is at 2 kJ/mol
Correct me if I'm wrong here.
But playng cards have smal vertical surface . So they would apply high amount of energy over small area . So its efficient for head shots ... Assuming he has good aym
Nuclear Ninja Star sounds like a GREAT name!
Gotta say, although I still maintain that Magneto was grossly undervalued (complete control of "magnetism" means he is literally God) a friend and I long ago thought it hilarious that according to Gambit's undefined canonical powers, he can end Any fight by putting his hand on the ground. If he's really got complete conversion from potential to kinetic energy, how does blowing up the entire planet sound?
A version of him did. Look up a character called New Son
I have to admit, first time I saw one of your videos was because you looked like thor, but I'm still here to this date for the amazing content you bring us!
(Edit: Senpai noticed me! :D)
Same
I'll take it -- kH
Okay... Gotta draw issue here, sorry, but to be clear, it appears most logical that Gambit chooses playing cards as a weapon of choice for it's damage level. A fully charged card is like an exploding bullet. This does damage to most things, and is effective at scaring and distracting enemies. And a minimally charged card would be like a punch.
So playing cards are best for most combat for non lethal effect.
When greater force is required you will regularly see Gambit charge alternative objects, like rocks, and use them as weapons. So why carry the larger heavier items you use less often.
Also keep in mind that Remy is a thief and uses his power to burgle, so being weighed down is a bad idea.
So, I obviously get a nerd if the week for this.
Also to be more clear, he gets 56 shots per deck of bicycle playing cards, and can carry many decks easily. As a magician I can attest to how many you can fit on your person.
He has skill with cards.
So I see no need to add additional bulk.
And seeing as the world record is 216'4" and 91 mph speed, I'd say a Gambit with cards is deadly enough.
Just had to add that.
I'm not sure you get nerd of the week JUST for being clever and pointing out gambit chooses to use non lethal weapons. Although those are good points.
Oh... I see you're a magician, I take that back.
I think my favorite joke he threw in w/o making a Big Deal (gambit pun) that actually made me lol was "Big Deck Energy". 😂
I always imagined Gambits cards being regular cards with energy dense ink. Most inks get their colors from elements such as cobalt or copper for blue, mercury or iron oxide for red, nickle for black, and titanium for white. Adding all the energy there, at least in my mind, accounted for the energy released.
Could he charge lets say a boulder and then someone super strong or powerful enough with telekinesis throw that object ?
Yes
Having a deck of Uranium card would be quite dangerous with the radiations, no?
Also, would he be able to handle/survive the shockwave from a blast that big with a (heavy) card throwing range?
It depends, with the same thickness and dimensions of a playing card a uranium 235 card would be radioactive enough to kill you... but I Kyle's case of this matter, I would say uranium 238 would be an acceptable substitute, and is itself not radioactive and safe to carry... as for throwing... the heavier an object generally the further it will fly with the same speed given, that's why people make bullets out of lead, because bullets made out of aluminium would be so light that air resistance would slow them down too much given the lower density... hence why cards make bad weapons in the first place
Big Deck Energy. 😎 Well played Kyle, well played.
One thing to think about is there may also be disadvantages to having a super powerful explosion, as there may be other things nearby you do not want to damage. That could be your allies, random people, certain properties/buildings or even yourself. The best would probably be to use something that is just powerful enough to take down the one enemy you're aiming at.
But I get that this is about discussing how powerful his explosions could get, not the tactically smartest option
You could also consider that he has the potential to convert the mass directly into energy ALA a matter-antimatter mutual annihilation. At which point if he's capable of that (which cannonically he kinda is... just check out Comics Explained video on just exactly how powerful Gambit really can be!) then it wouldn't matter what material the cards are made out of. And if he already knew how to throw a card pretty well, choosing the regular bicycle cards isn't the worst of ideas, as they are small enough and can be throw both fast and accurate enough that they would be incredibly difficult for anyone who doesn't have super-reflexes to be able to avoid. And if they really do hit with the force of a hand-grenade, you don't really need to be super-accurate, you only need to be close... (As close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades!). Now I'll be back later to try and figure out exactly how much mass it would take converted directly to energy to be able to release the power of a hand-grenade, but that'll be later... Right now It's off to school I go!
Yeah, anti-matter conversion was somehow what I always thought he was doing, with the "release potential kinetic energy" just being them fancy-talking themselves around not knowing what they were talking about. The issue of course is that it could potentially detonate in contact with any positive matter then... including air molecules. So unless he could delay the final result of it, the literal interpretation as Kyle did here may simply be easier to avoid having to put a lot of OTHER stuff onto it.
On the other hand, antimatter would explain why he's using cards; it's way more efficient. The problem with antimatter is that once it comes into content with it's thing it detonates with a massive force, but only whatever part of it was in contact with the positive matter, while the rest of it is flung far away, one reason why antimatter bombs are not quite as good as you'd think (unless you found a way to set all of it off at once flawlessly), and a smaller object would result in a far more controllable detonation.
@@Sacremas Well it's not that he IS anti-matter conversion, I'm just saying LIKE anti-matter conversion.
Looks like your beard is getting more massive, Kyle. Welcome to the family of winter beards. The natural balaclava.
It's an experiment -- kH
@@becausescience Gonna need more argon oil.
9:51, my favourite minute Jajajaja, the face, the words, the disposition, jajajajaja
Everybody gangsta until gambit throws a vial of Manganese Heptoxide
So an entire card made out of uranium is pretty heavy, but what if he just used it in the ink on cards made of paper, or a paper-foam mix?
Hey Kyle I was wondering how does Gambit cause his playing cards to go through the air so fast. He must have power over their velocity and mechanical kinetic energy when he throws them. If so won't the cards have even more energy as he's speeding up his cards when they go through the air to impact a target. I know I can't throw playing cards like that they just kinda float and fall like a feather. Maybe he uses the mechanical kinetic energy to make his cards so deadly. If Gambit could make his playing cards travel at the speed of a bullet, using the equation T = 1/2mv^2 and plugging in .6g approximately for the mass of 1 playing card and using 400m/s for the velocity of a rifle bullet you end up with 480J of energy. These values were all quickly googled and I may be wrong.
Edit: After rewatching the video I realize how small these values are and that it was just a thought experiment that I had thought might've been more practical to think about.
You don't need mutant powers to make cards fly fast through the air (unless you are aiming to match the speed of a bullet, which Gambit doesn't do with his cards. As apparent by all of his interpretations, the cards are easily dodge-able). There's a trick to the throwing that makes them fly fast. A friend of mine can do that, and when a card hits me it even hurts a little ;d Gambit probably does the same thing.
Actually, they could become significant if he was able to manipulate the mass (Higgs field) of the things he was throwing. Surprised Kyle didn't mention mass manipulation.
@@samarnadra I've never heard of this trick thanks for informing me I hope I get mentioned in footnotes so Kyle can elaborate on this topic and alternative ways that Gambit could make his cards so deadly
With practice an lots of it standard playing cards can be thrown in a way as to cut the rine of a watermelon and stick into it.
It is also possible to cut small candles with them.
It's also possible he uses cards made out of something other than paper. It would be easier to control the flight of cards made from stiff plastic, with the added benefit of all-weather reliability. As Remy ends up fighting in the rain quite often, this is likely the case.
One thing you didnt take into account is that in many versions of the character he uses special playing cards made by the mutant Forge that are made out of a special metal
The Surprise Bo staff was the best part XD