Thanks for watching! Loved how the animations for this one turned out. I'll answer this in the next Footnotes, but apparently I'm in the minority of people that assumed that x-ray vision actually used x-rays. I would have guessed guess that if you asked 100 people how "x-ray vision" worked 99 would say "x-rays," and that's my point. If we try to think about the power scientifically, would we want it? If x-ray vision is just a term without a definition, we can't even start! Also, Wifi-vision, giving how many cell phones are on the planet, would absolutely give you The Dark Knight-like vision. -- KH
Many people actually read/watch fiction and go/went to school. X-Ray Vision is a term and it has it's definition - it's a superpower that allows to see through solid objects. If you want to talk about the power scientifically, then talk about power. Otherwise, well, can't for you explaining how Human Torch isn't an actual torch, Silver Surfer isn't made out of silver and Iron Man not only isn't himself made of Iron, but also isn't even wearing a suit made of iron (although he might have been at some point, because comics).
Most importantly, if you could see WiFi radiation, you would be the single best superhero ever, allowing people to find a strong WiFi signal no matter where they were....You could become a god at airports for instance.
Not only that, being able to see and interpret wifi signals with that degree of precision would likely allow you to decode them. In other words you could read the data being sent/receives by everyone around you. Look, in that chair! It’s a creep! It’s a pervert! No, it’s... NSA Man!
Or, going through peoples houses, for a fee, and showing them all the dead spots in their house. Or, whether they would need repeaters to reach the upper/lower floors.
I don’t know if this was just me, but I never assumed X-Ray vision actually involved X-Rays. The “everybody around you has cancer” problem seemed just too obvious for even comic book writers to ignore. I always assumed it was just shorthand for being able to see through solid objects, because the public would have been most familiar with that idea through their doctor’s X-Ray machines.
That's not just you. No person over the age of 5 that's ever read any fiction that involved a power called "X-Ray vision" thinks it actually uses X-Rays or that X-Rays work like that. Pretty much half of this video is pointless straw-man, and the rest explains how X-Rays vision might work, but doesn't explain why you don't want to have it.
Yeah the X-ray part has likely always just been a shorthand way of conveying the power, but since the ability is rarely ever explained it leaves itself open to interpretations like this. A literal interpretation yes, but also an interesting way to get into the mechanics of multiple forms of emissive radiation. IMO good content.
Same. The Flash and others like him are called "speedsters" because the underlying power they have is more complicated. X-ray vision just means you can see through stuff. But the that doesn't make for a good science video :-)
Superman can cycle his vision through all spectrums, some of those allow him to see through things. X-ray in the context of "X-Ray vision" just means he can see through things, not that he's literally using x-rays. But he could totally see x-rays if he wanted to.
Yeah but some type of electromagnetic radiation still has to reflect off of (for example) bones in order for you to see them. There’s not nearly enough background radiation to get a useful image, so you absolutely would have to shoot radiation at objects you want to see through.
Superman can fly and had can thrive at the center of the sun.... Clearly he's not using normal physics. X-ray is a way of dumbing it down not literally shooting x-rays from his face
Dude, why are you ruining every superpower for me. Now I can't think of superpowers without imagining the science behind it in real life. Wrote this before the video finished.
@@PastMourning or accelerate too fast... Or turn too quickly. That stuff might mess woth your brain/spine etc. Fly safe! (also you'd have to take air turbulences/winds or whatever into account , which you might not see and which could then knock you around uncontrollably. But that risk is probably decreased if, like you said, one doesn't fly too high)
The amount of radiation from medical X-Rays is actually quite low. The X-Ray techs leave the room simply because they have to perform the procedure a lot and the exposure can add up. So if you could emit X-Ray radiation from your eyes (and it was of the intensity of an X-Ray scan), the average person you come into contact with while super heroing would prolly be fine. But don't stare into your loved one's eyes, cause after a significant amount of time, you know cancer.
Medical x-rays are low power now but they used to be a lot higher power as the film was not so sensitive. I can remember there being X-Ray machines in shoe shops so people could see how well their children's feet fitted their shoes.
@@banglaanimeproject9036 That was in the late 1960s. I think the machines had been used from the 1920s. These were fluoroscopes, using a screen to form an image, there was no hard copy produced. There was probably not much radiation hazard to occasional customers, but shop staff working near the machine could be at greater risk.
If I could switch it on and off I would call it cancer vision Bad guy: I’ve got you now. Me: cancer vision on. Bad guy: shoots me Dies of stage 4 cancer in a week
Actually it's the programmers behind all that the World Wide Web has to offer that you should be blessing. The radio signals of Wifi gives us access to it like two phones connecting two people in a conversation, other words: pointless without the people/programmers.
Very nice video! Thanks for the shout-out, it was a blast contributing to this video! To share a few other footnotes: The threshold of detection is defined by the wavelength of the radio waves you are using. Modern studies give us 12cm on the side for 2.4 Ghzs, 4-5cm on the side for 5 Ghz (this depends on the precise processing method). Objects below this size, unless *highly* metallic, will not be detectable (and even those highly metallic objects, more by chance), and at 12cm respective 4-5cm they are only low-resolution blibs- a single "voxel" (think a 3D pixel - cube instead of square.) Still, even with those limits we are looking at through-vision sensing of room layouts, all major furniture and its positions, the position of any people and their rough posture (standing, huddling/crouching, laying on the ground, extremities pulled in or stretched out), and based off practical results you could sense something as small as a coffee cup in the table in the next room, with a 5Ghz WLAN nearby. What I also think needs highlighting about WifDar or WiFi vision is how secondary powerful it is. WifDar makes for a good spider sense (metallic masses on people moving in certain ways near you are very probable a weapon being drawn or brought to bear on you; you can sense people's movement near you (such as preparing to throw a punch or rush you); you can sense cars; and in a fight situation you enjoy a massive information superiority, which is *extremely* valuable) and either by physically placing a WiFi emitter or hacking a device, you can mark and track objects. And as a look forward to "upgrades". Right now there is potential talk about the commercial use of 60Ghz WiFi. This isn't usable *through* walls anymore, only over a few meters of air, but offers drastically improved bandwith and would likely find use in smart homes/smart enviroments, "spime" smart objects and the like. And with 60Ghz, you could image as fine as *5mm*. Many people have smartphones today. Many more will have them in the future. In every badguys pocket is a potential emitter source, maybe in the future with a 60Ghz antenna also. How's that for "X-Ray" vision? :D
Am I the only person disturbed by that red necklace thing Kyle is wearing? I couldn't be sure if it was a blood-colored necklaces or loosely connected stitches holding up a recently reanimated zombie Kyle.
That was the first thing I thought of when I started watching the video. "Has Kyle gone through an autopsy? What's going on with his chest? Oh it's a stringy necklace, good lord."
With radio vision, you could have your superhero differentiate wavelengths the same way we differentiate colour. You could also have them able to focus on a certain wavelength if they wanted, like how we focus our eyes, to filter out interference. It would be awesome.
Honestly it seems better that instead of pigeon-holed powers; you’d want broad, voluntary powers like super-perception, or the ability to change you rod and cone cells to perceive additional light wavelengths. Some stories I’ve read, people removed their lens which allowed them to see in UV. Imagine being able to switch to Infared reception to win every hide-and-seek game ever.
Haha you evil doers! You might have won this time, but in approximately 10-20 years you have a chance of developing cancer, so enjoy your ill gotten gains while you can!
you can't have pets, friends, family etc. and anything you own would have to be replaced on the regular, so as to not give yourself cancer, and all your food would at best be bland as the radiation breaks down some of the molecules in it.
minecraft or I work at the hospital’s radiology department, I do x-rays, CT, MRI, mammography, etc... You can get a degree in a technical school. You can also work with industrial radiology, x-raying materials and building walls.
6:45 Kyle, actually... Alex Hills, author of Wi-Fi and the Bad Boys of Radio says: "Way back in 1999 the fledgling wireless industry needed a marketing name for the new products that conformed to the technical specifications called 'IEEE 802.11'. 'IEEE 802.11' didn't have much of a ring to it, and the industry association wanted a catchy name. They came up with wi-fi, and that's what's been used ever since. It didn’t hurt that the name rhymes with 'hi-fi,' which was short for 'high fidelity,' a term that, back in the day, referred to high-quality sound systems. Some people even say that wi-fi therefore stands for 'wireless fidelity,' but those who were involved in the industry association's process of selecting a name say it's not really true. They say that the name was always just wi-fi."
Why you don't want "Wi-Fi vision" -you can't really sleep because you can see through your eyelid. -your vision would be weird because in theory you can see behind you. -your superpower would easily blocked by aluminium foil. -you will see alot of new colour. -your superpower is useless in rural area where there is no Wi-Fi. -you can't use your superpower in the day because Wi-Fi is fairly weak. -radar would look like giant laser. -radio tower would look like a spot light. -and alot more..
In addition to being able to turn your wi-fi vision off, you would also want to be able to emit wi-fi or the cm length waves mentioned in the video, just like some interpretations of x-ray vision that include being able to emit the x-rays. The would solve the whole rural areas problem
(wi-fi isn't short for wireless fidelity) Wi-Fi being shorthand for Wireless Fidelity is a common misconception, in reality it's just a nickname because it's a lot easier to say/remember that than "IEEE 802.11x"
Having vision from the microwave level all the way up to infrared have some interesting powers: If you could see in the high frequency end of wifi range, much of that would be absorbed by water (which how microwaves work)... this would mean we would see dark patches of people's blood and muscle rather than bone shadowing. As a super power this could lead to some really cool powers like being able to see how much a supervillain is "plotting" becuase of blood moving towards the brain or a heightened "spidersense" by being able to see muscles starting to tense before someone actually moves. Maybe I don't want X-ray vision but I DEFINITELY want microwave vision!
Another great "Why You Don't Want" video!! Though, I think you got a little hung up on the "x-ray" part. It's just what they called that type of superhero vision at the time. Not because it used x-rays, but because it was the only thing that was analogous. Plus it sounded better than see-through vision. LMAO
Actually, while I do think the video is pedantic because no one actually thinks of them as x-rays nowadays, "at the time" when Superman's x-ray vision was first established they were one hundred percent canonically x-rays. While the writers misunderstood how x-ray devices capture images, they would occasionally times assign it other properties based on how x-rays work. That's why he can't see through lead.
X-ray vision is what I like to call associative terminology. While specifically incorrect, it is used to invoke an idea and/or understanding of a concept, for which the proper scientific terms are unknown (due to lack of understanding of the underlying mechanics) or not understood by general public. Great job over thinking this one tho!
Y'all are just being salty af, tbh. This is literally the entire purpose of Kyle's show. Overthinking EVERYTHING about pop culture. That's why you people are here, is it not?
When saying"x-ray vision", I think that people don't necessarily mean shooting and receiving x-rays. It seems to be more of *visually block/ignore the light from certain objects and use environmental queues to image objects behind what is, currently, in front of you.
Yes. Just looking for sources that are the same "colour" that your wifi router is currently. Although that becomes difficult if there are so many wifi sources in your area that you are getting collisions.
Wi-Fi vison sounds like the adds that promote themselves and say "The best washer in the world. It'll make your dishes sparkling clean. I's only $200000.99" or something like that.
The world wouldn't go dark if your visible spectrum of light increased to include x-rays, because you would still the the normal visible light spectrum, it would only add to your normal sight.
Even though the energy required to blow planets up IS pretty big, I don't think it'd be enough to affect a far more massive, dense, and energetic object like a neutron star. Don't forget that they're literally Black Holes Lite. It would be like launching all of the Earth's fissile materials and nukes at the sun. Hardly a drop in the churning sea.
Holy crap. I am currently studying radiography, and while sitting in class the same day you released this, I thought about x-ray vision and how it would affect those around us, and having you make a video about it. This is awesome!
@Francisco Cota 4 years later, and I still reference this video everytime I teach people how xray images are made. 'It's not the bone we see as much as its the SHADOW of the bone we see.'
Wouldn't the X Rays affect your whole body as they radiate from your eyes. You'd have to wear a lead suit whenever you use the power. Kinda like Iron Man but heavier.
If you can see anything besides a flash, then your eyeballs must be able to block x-rays everywhere except for the pupil; because if your eyeballs didn't block it, light bouncing from all directions could hit the x-ray sensing cells in the back of your eye with almost exactly the same odds, it would not form a picture. Well, unless the x-rays you emit are mostly aligned like a laser, emitted in pulses, your eyeballs twitch to scan your field of view, and your retina can detect the time of flight of the photons (how long it took from emission to detection); in that case, it might be possible for your brain to reconstruct the image from the timing of the series of pulses and your eyeball twitch patterns.
To everyone saying that x-ray vision is just the name, here's a quote from Justice League (the animated series) "Pa Kent: We used to wrap his presents in lead foil so he couldn't peek."
Lo de Lea Justice league the animated series (and all the other TV shows as well) are not Canon with the comic books. Also lead can block more than just x-rays.
I think lead blocks pretty much everything. Even radio waves. So even if the Kryptonians have Wi-Fi vision instead, I think lead would still block it. Actually just about any metal would block Wi-Fi. I worked at a place that had a room lined with copper mesh for testing radio equipment. It wouldn't let radio waves in or out. With the door shut even a cell phone wouldn't work in it.
On the other hand, having strong X-Rays shooting out of your eyes would be a cool superpower for a villain. Giving everybody around cancer without them seeing you do anything *muhahah*!
Usually villains seek for some kind of profit. Unless you're one of the few villains that are so just because they want or you own a pharmaceutical/are an oncologist in USA/something else to benefit from ppl getting cancer, you wouldn't want it.
Well "supervillains" often do evil just because. But sure, why not have a pharmaceutical/clinical branch. Then you could even give more people X-ray-eyes to spread the plague! And for a costume I'll wear a lead-suit - to be the last one standing.
Mr. Hill (since you don't like me using your full name), that was, well, different from what I expected. Pretty good, though. You could also see with sonic waves. Different frequencies can go through different things. And bounce back at you. . This makes me wonder though, about Superman's heat vision. Maybe he can just produce different wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation, which would not only give him both X-ray vision and heat vision, but all the way from microwaves and radiowaves up to gamma radiation. Scary. At least now with Man of Steel, he seems to shoot plasma out of his eyes.
The most awesome consequence of this power would be that he could, granted he could do this in complex patterns. Make an object INVISIBLE from a certain angle. Thanks to the fact that light acts like a wave, and he could let waves interfere with each other In such a way that not only he (if he emits such waves) but everyone behind him as well could look through the same stuff.
Yes Kyle Hill doesn't like you using his full name, that's because it's weird when people use your full name, and is generally used when you are in trouble, I'd suggest calling him by his given name, Thor.
it actually does. look up monochromatic lazer on solid object. It looks super weird cause the interference causes some parts to cancel eachother out and other parts to amplify eachother. edit: sadly UA-cam does not have a proper video showing it. but I am really sure of it working this way, since a group at my university is using this concept to create a new way of detecting died of parts of the body.
If you wanna see an obscenely under-subbed UA-camr, look up Captain Disillusion! He's been posting for 10 years, extremely high quality content, and once even did a video where he had Beakman on as a guest! Still has less than 1 million subs.
I always figured that's how Superman's x-ray vision worked, that he could just shift his vision up and down the electromagnetic field. I think "x-ray vision" is just a term because we just generally think of seeing through things as that.
Maybe x-ray vision is the wrong name for the power and what it really is is a "radiation vision", in which the hero sees almost every wavelengths, or at least enough to mount an image.
not even Rad-Vis, Superman has super-sight, he can probably focus his eyes to look at the thing he wants to see by simply focusing on more distant particles, think like when look for a person in a crowd, there's a lot of moving people (representing the molecules) and through use of focusing, he's able to look past the people in the front to see the people he wants to see
I think if someone had a spectrum of sight that large he or she would be ofuscated from any light, unless he or she could have a sight sensibility complex enough to detect and separate a spectrum from the other that might overlap each other when arrive into his or her eyes.
Or a superpower called “radiation-vision” in which you can change what kind of radiation you can detect going all the way from gamma radiation and radio waves. You could be able to detect dangerous radioactive deposits and save people from unknown radiation poisoning, and also use your infrared and wifi vision to detect others and things around you as stated in the video.
Microwave ovens work around the cm range I think, and they might work for seeing through some things, as long as those things went metal or large amounts of water. If superman could also produce them in large amounts (either as a flashlight sort of thing or as an extension of his laser eyes, or both), he could use a less visible version of laser eyes (microwave eyes) to cook burritos and prevent them from getting cold while he eats them. Of course this would have many more uses, but I like the burrito thing.
There's a comic book idea. Nuke man. He doesn't actually "nuke" anything, but he emits microwaves, but instead of boiling people from a mile away, he just ends up operating a taco truck that microwaves all the food really fast, until some mutant recruiter finds him and adds him to a team of super soldiers...
I have Wi-Fi Vision and with it i tried to save a little boy from being kidnapped but i couldn't, you know why? because i had 1 bar and i was lagging too much.
Hmm, actually WI-FI does not stand for wireless fidelity. It is a common misconception. You can Google that if you want. There was this man called Phil Belanger he was the member of the group thats purpose was to name this thing that we now know as Wi-Fi. And so he said in an interview that Wi-Fi "can mean anything you want it to mean".
what if x-ray vision is less like what we see in the medical community and more like a higher perception of vision? like the ability to detect neutrinos emitted from the sun? so for example, as the neutrinos pass through us, those with "higher perception" could detect the bone shadowing similar to an x-ray machine. this would allow the "rays" to be sourced behind the subject (rather than us having to emmit the x-rays) mand your eyes could receive the bone shadow signal. GOD I love your show!
Rather doubt the neutrinos. Lead glasses would help blocking them only if they were about 4 light years thick :) Muons are much more possible, though they still travel couple of kilometers into the ground, but maybe if we found right material we would be able to make a decent detector that could be used as glasses. The problem is to isolate such radiation from even more abundant light.
+TheTokuin I know, but often Clark Kent, and Kara Danvers, wear lead glasses to help them not to see skeletons of other people at all times. So it is a tangentially relevant topic. OP has proposed that perhaps neutrinos could be the source of "perception", and i pointed out that even if that was possible, it would create far more problems that it would solve.
There might be other forms of radiation that would work, as Kyle pointed out, but definitely not neutrinos. They can pass through our entire planet without being stopped by anything. Detecting them would be pretty useless because nothing can stop them to create a shadowing effect. You want a form of radiation that will pass through some substances and not others.
Jan Negrey i think what the op was going for wasnt neutrinos being the source of the power but the eyes working like a muscle and being able to detect things such as neutrinos by focusing. This would be more in line with the comic book idea as well. So the power would be that your eyes can see all light wavelengths and you could flex your eye muscles to narrow the range more towards xray or infrared or whichever. This means the power would always be working and the user would need to focus to stop seing those exotic wavelengths or wear special glasses
I always thought that "X-ray" vision actually had nothing to do with x-rays. I thought that when Spooper Man sees through things it was some comic book reason not actual x-rays, but the association with x-ray machines coined the name.
@@daviddavis8965 All material blocks x rays if its thick enough, not just lead, but Superman's vision isn't effected by it at all like x ray vision would be. He can see through whole mountains and shit.
@@daviddavis8965 I didn't say he could see through lead.... I said he can see way deeper into other materials, including steel or rock, than xrays can. Not only lead blocks xrays...everything does to some degree...like bones for example... But his vision doesnt work like that at all. He can see right through large buildings, mountains, etc... Clearly and in color too. His vision really has very little in common with fluoroscopy.
2:54 Can you really not leave the void? How big can it scientifically be? Can it be Infinite? Would you not fall down, inless, it is only infinite in 2 axises.
I'm sorry Kyle, but I don't think x-ray vision would be as bad as you think. You say that you'd mostly see nothing in x-ray vision, but I don't think it's true for the same reason why half your vision isn't black when you cover one eye with your hand. My assumption on what would happen if someone had x-ray vision is that their brain would overlap what they see in x-ray vision with what they see in visible light. Since the expectation isn't that they can only see x-rays but also see regularly, so it makes sense that the users brain would edit so that they see x-rays and visible light at the same time. This would also mean that the scene from man of steel that you showed earlier was scientifically correct. But that's just a hypothesis, not a theory, a hypothesis.
nick cottrell he was talking about a hypothetical situation in which we could only see xrays. If the range of visible light was extended to x-rays then the brain would just overlap the light information
Something similar already exists. There is a condition (I can't remember the technical/scientific name) where a person's lens in their eye does NOT block UV, like a normal eye's lens would. What a lot of people don't know, is that without the lens blocking UV light, the human eye actually CAN see it. People with this condition typically describe UV light sources as being a very pale purple, or slightly blue-ish white. It does in fact also have the added effect of causing flowers and things to look very different, much like Kyle described. So yes, having UV vision does not block out the rest of the spectrum, it only expands the upper limit of what the person can see. I think X-ray vision would be the same, just an expansion of the person's visible spectrum.
Also some X-ray sources (those very old tubes) were visible, especially in the dark, even through wooden door, or wooden walls. It wasn't direct visibility of course (though described as a yellowish glow) - but rather excitement of electrons in the eye, that when they dropped down to their normal state, they emitted this yellowish light. Or even some other photoelectric effect - I read about this a while ago. Obviously not good for health.
In fact, Kyle said exactly that you would almost see anything in x-ray vision, considering only the x-ray income. Knowing how our vision works, it very probable that we would only extend our upper limits, but this is true by only considering our eyes like an optics piece, and neglecting their biological aspect. Remember, X-Ray is really high energy and we did not evolve to manage so much energy. From an evolutionary point of view, it makes sense, X-ray is not an interesting feature since there's almost nothing to see with this. I don't think that it could improve your adaptation skill in anyway. "Life always finds a way" to answer your question "because science !" (Meeting between Malcom and Kyle)
There could be a series of nictating membranes that could filter out varying wavelengths, which would allow the varying types of vision. I don't really know how this would explain the scene shown, though.
Am i the only one who didn't take x-ray vision as literal? I never thought they were actually using x-rays or any kind of electromagnetic radiation. I always thought it was the catchy name that made sense to people because they know what an x-ray is, and not the actual power. anyone else?
No, it's exactly the opposite - Kyle is the only one who though X-Ray vision is literally X-Rays. Everyone else who read comics/watched movies/etc with X-Ray vision being involved knows that it's just a name. Like how Batman isn't an actual werebat, but a man that dresses in a suit that somewhat resembles a bat.
The Boss And that disagrees with what exactly? That whatever light kryptonians are emitting from their eyes is called called x-rays in some iterations? And I've no doubt that there were absolutely Superman (the only source of X-Ray Vision in the entire fiction, apparently) stories where some writes actually meant literal X-Rays. But lightsaber isn't made out of light lorewise, but it was that way in the beginning.
@@1001-v1s no, not everyone. I can and with ease. Pretty much any character in a video game with stealth has it nowadays. No, even in Superman it is not X-rays. Just because it is called similar doesn't mean it's the same thing. I already mentioned lightsaber, thanks for deliberately ignoring that point. I may also mention, that the planet Krypton is not made out of Krypton, a noble gas. And this is the last time I'm replying to you if are going to keep redirecting the conversation into superman. It's not about him, and your only argument with him is weak anyway (if you don't conveniently ignore points against it, like you did the last time).
This was my senior project at FAU as an electrical engineer. Through the wall radar imagining using wifi signals in the bandwidth of 2.4GHz. I was able to detect object behind reinforced concrete!
I would imagine that the more the wifi would travel through the more scattered and absent it would become. Say one substance blocks range AA, and another closer one blocks AK, and another blocks BH, etc all the way till it reaches you. That would be the absent aspect of it. Then imagine the nearby surroundings that reflect these ranges, which would necessarily also reduce the presence and alter the perception of origin, similar to the process of smudging parts of a picture. If you combine the two, the clarity of objects would probably be one of the primary give aways for order of proximity (as in, in this context, how many objects are between me and the item in question). Then, if this was simply an additional function for the brain's normal processes, combining several senses together to generate our actual perception of spatial awareness, our brain could then give estimated distances and interference values to develop a new and more information-dense spatial awareness. Long story short, if combined with our other senses akin to the way our senses already assist one another, it would be less of a vision-oriented sense and more of an enhanced spatial-awareness with limited or no actual visual impact. At least, this is what I figure it would be like.
I actually know someone who claims to be able to see in ultraviolet. A long time ago my grandfather had the lens in his eyes replaced. Those old lens allow him to see ultraviolet, but he also mentioned an unfortunate downside. Eyeball sunburn.
Wifi vision vs echo location who would win? Lets say daredevil in universe 1 million had wifi vision instead of regular sight and he fought our current daredevil. How would that go? Could you do anything to disrupt wifi vision the same way that echo location could be disrupted with loud noises?
WiFi Imaging *can* be disrupted. The first trick is to line walls with metal, like multiple layers of tinfoil. That will weaken signal propagation. A faraday cage will swallow up WiFi signals wholesale and create "blind walls" that way as well. You can also create complex reflective sculptures of tinfoil that add reflection noise into an environment, eventually causing so much reflection you just can't get coherent data out of the signal mess anymore. Doing this actively on the other hand is tricky, and I daresay almost nigh-impossible. Just adding raw WiFi radiation to the mix will not do a thing. Chaotic switching on-and-off of emitters and the resulting signal interference might do a thing. Alternatively, for one signal processing method I discussed with Kyle, you could create 2.4/5Ghz radiation holographic waveform emitters and create false positives and noise *that* way. Both of those require quite comprehensive and complex implementations to work however. Your best and cheapest bet really is just a lot of reflective metal. Or turning your WiFi off. By pulling the plug physically. Because learning to hack WiFi emitters on is the next best thing to get after WiFi vision.
Sevoris Doe hmm i see, so in my scenario its highly unlikely that either would know how the others ability would work. Atleast not at first. So in a straight fight it would be easier to disrupt echo location over wifi vision even if you had devices that emitted wifi signals such as phones, routers, etc. because my thought process was, in the streets of NYC it would be impossible to see due to all the clutter, but wifi vision could easily see through all that. I like the fact that just coating yourself in tinfoil would mess someone up, it would definitely be interesting to see two almost blind people duke it out, while one is covered in tin foil and one is shouting at the top of their lungs or blaring an air horn.
Sevoris Doe oh wait, you would need to not just be covered in tin foil but also have antlers and tendrils in order to absorb all the signals. That just gets even better! Someone needs to draw this.
Milkyway Squid well i dont think he is emitting wifi he is just detecting it, the jammer i dont think absorbs wifi it just prevents it from being read in a radius. So although clever, i dont think that would work.
Thanks for watching! Loved how the animations for this one turned out. I'll answer this in the next Footnotes, but apparently I'm in the minority of people that assumed that x-ray vision actually used x-rays. I would have guessed guess that if you asked 100 people how "x-ray vision" worked 99 would say "x-rays," and that's my point. If we try to think about the power scientifically, would we want it? If x-ray vision is just a term without a definition, we can't even start!
Also, Wifi-vision, giving how many cell phones are on the planet, would absolutely give you The Dark Knight-like vision. -- KH
Wifi-glasses. You mean Google glass?
@3:50 we should be heroic with this power but you'd know what most would do tho haha!
So the predator's heat vision is fine, since some snakes can see in the infrared spectre.
Many people actually read/watch fiction and go/went to school.
X-Ray Vision is a term and it has it's definition - it's a superpower that allows to see through solid objects. If you want to talk about the power scientifically, then talk about power. Otherwise, well, can't for you explaining how Human Torch isn't an actual torch, Silver Surfer isn't made out of silver and Iron Man not only isn't himself made of Iron, but also isn't even wearing a suit made of iron (although he might have been at some point, because comics).
With the hint from foot notes I thought this was going to be anime eyes but this works to thanks for the great video 👍
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Love the old Diablo Style fonts on this. very metal! I can see Kyle LARPing as a Diablo necromancer and all his Bone Shadow minions....
I found my new gamertag
Muskwatch music how lazy 😂 speaking of whens the next episode of that?
Most importantly, if you could see WiFi radiation, you would be the single best superhero ever, allowing people to find a strong WiFi signal no matter where they were....You could become a god at airports for instance.
"God of airports..."
I'm keeping that in mind.
Not only that, being able to see and interpret wifi signals with that degree of precision would likely allow you to decode them. In other words you could read the data being sent/receives by everyone around you.
Look, in that chair! It’s a creep! It’s a pervert! No, it’s... NSA Man!
WiFi signals are encrypted, if you were able to pull any info at all, which is unlikely, it would just be a hash of random bits.
Poor shit
Or, going through peoples houses, for a fee, and showing them all the dead spots in their house. Or, whether they would need repeaters to reach the upper/lower floors.
Us, living in 2018: we want x-ray vision
Kyle, living in 3018: nah bro you want wi-fi vision
why would the sodium bromate want wifi vision?
jesus capitan spoiler, i can't believe u made this joke...
I would say us living in 1980 want xray vision and kyle in 2018 wants wifi vision.
"You're seeing through cloths maybe but not walls."
Me: I see this as an absolute win!
What if an old man stands in front of u
@@dayved5508 You'd like that wouldn't you...
@@battleframestudios8989 idk
@@dayved5508 in morse code, you can speak.
@@dayved5508 why is your name so long, I can't read the replies
I don’t know if this was just me, but I never assumed X-Ray vision actually involved X-Rays. The “everybody around you has cancer” problem seemed just too obvious for even comic book writers to ignore. I always assumed it was just shorthand for being able to see through solid objects, because the public would have been most familiar with that idea through their doctor’s X-Ray machines.
That's not just you. No person over the age of 5 that's ever read any fiction that involved a power called "X-Ray vision" thinks it actually uses X-Rays or that X-Rays work like that. Pretty much half of this video is pointless straw-man, and the rest explains how X-Rays vision might work, but doesn't explain why you don't want to have it.
@@Sheol02 Zzz..
Yeah the X-ray part has likely always just been a shorthand way of conveying the power, but since the ability is rarely ever explained it leaves itself open to interpretations like this. A literal interpretation yes, but also an interesting way to get into the mechanics of multiple forms of emissive radiation. IMO good content.
Same. The Flash and others like him are called "speedsters" because the underlying power they have is more complicated. X-ray vision just means you can see through stuff. But the that doesn't make for a good science video :-)
Haha yeah poor X-ray vision is getting straw-manned. Whatever will Superpowers do? -- KH
With my X-ray spectrometer I do have x-ray vision and it’s awesome!
You should do a video on it would be awesome to see what it looks like
I'd love to see an episode of you showing us what objects would look like with your X-ray spectrometer.
He has already done that, go to his channel
LynSpyre he’s briefly touched on it he should a full in depth episode
Assumes he hasn't recorded such awesomeness and needed to be told by random Internet people to do so...
meet the INTERNET MAN
*has wi-fi vision*
*knows everything on the web*
*distracts vilans in fights with interesting facts*
If you had the entire collective knowledge of the internet I feel like social media would just kill you with the salt alone
Kills villains with dead memes
Shoot Rick Astley and Darude directly into their minds
That's Freakazoid
I can watch Because Science any time with my power being a Proxy Server. Fuck you CIA
Superman can cycle his vision through all spectrums, some of those allow him to see through things. X-ray in the context of "X-Ray vision" just means he can see through things, not that he's literally using x-rays.
But he could totally see x-rays if he wanted to.
He shoots lasers from his eyes. Also shooting x-rays from his eyes is hardly a leap from that.
Yeah but some type of electromagnetic radiation still has to reflect off of (for example) bones in order for you to see them. There’s not nearly enough background radiation to get a useful image, so you absolutely would have to shoot radiation at objects you want to see through.
Superman can fly and had can thrive at the center of the sun.... Clearly he's not using normal physics. X-ray is a way of dumbing it down not literally shooting x-rays from his face
When being a god just doesn't work anymore.
Yeah
PFFFTTTT
God.exe is not responding
It's definitely a combination deal at least 😉
Tough economy
How to beat a WiFi superhero :
Airplane mode...
that...
is...
so..
freaking...
INFURIATING!!!!!!
Ps. U only need 5 lines remeber dat
Zach D thanks i didnt know how many it was and was just able to
guess well
i was replying to zach d
or ethernet
Airplane mode doesn't turn off wifi it turns off your cellular connection.
Dude, why are you ruining every superpower for me. Now I can't think of superpowers without imagining the science behind it in real life.
Wrote this before the video finished.
+GP Jr Some videos debunking them are bullshit to a certain extent.
Maybe that's because you are develop a a more accurate understanding of actual reality over fictional reality
You'd want flight. Nothing can go wrong with flight. So long as you don't fly too high without a source of oxygen.
GP Jr totaly agree
@@PastMourning or accelerate too fast... Or turn too quickly. That stuff might mess woth your brain/spine etc. Fly safe! (also you'd have to take air turbulences/winds or whatever into account , which you might not see and which could then knock you around uncontrollably. But that risk is probably decreased if, like you said, one doesn't fly too high)
The amount of radiation from medical X-Rays is actually quite low. The X-Ray techs leave the room simply because they have to perform the procedure a lot and the exposure can add up. So if you could emit X-Ray radiation from your eyes (and it was of the intensity of an X-Ray scan), the average person you come into contact with while super heroing would prolly be fine. But don't stare into your loved one's eyes, cause after a significant amount of time, you know cancer.
Medical x-rays are low power now but they used to be a lot higher power as the film was not so sensitive.
I can remember there being X-Ray machines in shoe shops so people could see how well their children's feet fitted their shoes.
@@peterjf7723 oh wow
@@banglaanimeproject9036 That was in the late 1960s. I think the machines had been used from the 1920s. These were fluoroscopes, using a screen to form an image, there was no hard copy produced. There was probably not much radiation hazard to occasional customers, but shop staff working near the machine could be at greater risk.
@Chris Kortjohn This is misleading at best. We get cancer all throughout our lives, our body simple removes it. Sometimes you get a bad dice roll.
Is it just me or does Kyles neck-string-thing look like he risen from an autopsy?
It does look like a Y incision.
His secret power is animated corpse...
But what Necromancer arose him?
@@randomwhittyname41 that would be me.
Random WhittyName Diablo
I mean I wouldn't mind banana vision...
Muscle Hank ayyyy
Muscle Hank ayyyy
Does Scishow release a new video today, oh my majesty?
You would know exactly how big something is just by looking at it. No need for a banana for scale when you have banana vision.
What??
If I could switch it on and off I would call it cancer vision
Bad guy: I’ve got you now.
Me: cancer vision on.
Bad guy: shoots me
Dies of stage 4 cancer in a week
GOT YOU
Lol
Jacksonavitch Ofmg LMFAO!🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@aspwned no it isn't why would it be
@@aspwned why should it not be people who have it don't mind why should you ?
His necklace makes it looks he had an autopsy done on him
😆 The "Y" incision
But can I get B O N E L E S S S H A D O W S
Clints Random Channel hmmmm ya
The fuck kind of shadow and C A L C I U M M A C H I N E 🅱️ROKE
Sure thing fam, right alongside your boneless watermelons
woke
Wi-Fi: Saving people's childhoods as well as being the best thing ever created
Actually it's the programmers behind all that the World Wide Web has to offer that you should be blessing. The radio signals of Wifi gives us access to it like two phones connecting two people in a conversation, other words: pointless without the people/programmers.
WiFi vision
Does anybody else find him just annoying and unfunny
wifi is somehow controlling and boil our selves ^_^... thats why some companies have only LAN
Also, WiFi: Cancer waves. Glad to be hard wired.
Have you tried turning it off an on again?
and*
My wife when the viagra won't work
@@pizzas4breakfast HEY!!! ED isn't a joke.
Man tears is a good viagra substitute for women, we should save them.
You are right about ED not being a joke.
What Pizza 4breakfast typed was a joke about ED.
See the difference?
U could see diamonds in minecraft
Kristupas B lmao xd
Ir ne tik deimantus ;)
@@EctoGamer jo ir redstona
@@waffleman5800 norejau parasyt grynai "ir redstona", bet kazkodel nerasiau...
@@EctoGamer galvojau kad norėjai parašyti kažką vulgaraus
Very nice video! Thanks for the shout-out, it was a blast contributing to this video!
To share a few other footnotes: The threshold of detection is defined by the wavelength of the radio waves you are using. Modern studies give us 12cm on the side for 2.4 Ghzs, 4-5cm on the side for 5 Ghz (this depends on the precise processing method). Objects below this size, unless *highly* metallic, will not be detectable (and even those highly metallic objects, more by chance), and at 12cm respective 4-5cm they are only low-resolution blibs- a single "voxel" (think a 3D pixel - cube instead of square.)
Still, even with those limits we are looking at through-vision sensing of room layouts, all major furniture and its positions, the position of any people and their rough posture (standing, huddling/crouching, laying on the ground, extremities pulled in or stretched out), and based off practical results you could sense something as small as a coffee cup in the table in the next room, with a 5Ghz WLAN nearby.
What I also think needs highlighting about WifDar or WiFi vision is how secondary powerful it is. WifDar makes for a good spider sense (metallic masses on people moving in certain ways near you are very probable a weapon being drawn or brought to bear on you; you can sense people's movement near you (such as preparing to throw a punch or rush you); you can sense cars; and in a fight situation you enjoy a massive information superiority, which is *extremely* valuable) and either by physically placing a WiFi emitter or hacking a device, you can mark and track objects.
And as a look forward to "upgrades". Right now there is potential talk about the commercial use of 60Ghz WiFi. This isn't usable *through* walls anymore, only over a few meters of air, but offers drastically improved bandwith and would likely find use in smart homes/smart enviroments, "spime" smart objects and the like. And with 60Ghz, you could image as fine as *5mm*.
Many people have smartphones today. Many more will have them in the future. In every badguys pocket is a potential emitter source, maybe in the future with a 60Ghz antenna also.
How's that for "X-Ray" vision? :D
Someone needs to write a comic series about a super hero called Bone Shadower. And his symbol needs to be the Wi-Fi symbol
Am I the only person disturbed by that red necklace thing Kyle is wearing? I couldn't be sure if it was a blood-colored necklaces or loosely connected stitches holding up a recently reanimated zombie Kyle.
That was the first thing I thought of when I started watching the video. "Has Kyle gone through an autopsy? What's going on with his chest? Oh it's a stringy necklace, good lord."
Def thought it was a scar at first
Well now jts bothering me too . Thank you
Same.. I thought he had had some gnarly chest surgery.
Interesting
With radio vision, you could have your superhero differentiate wavelengths the same way we differentiate colour. You could also have them able to focus on a certain wavelength if they wanted, like how we focus our eyes, to filter out interference. It would be awesome.
Ok Thor, like having a hammer is any better.
Lmao
**dabs on e’m**
EEEEYYYYYYY
3:52
You kept me waiting way too long for this joke.
Best part about WiFi vision....knowing where you will get good internet connection.
You said I could see through clothes. I WANT IT, don't care about anything else
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
You and me both, you and me both brother
you could, but you could not see with a good enough definition to be really called "see through clothes"
@@Reisboy_PhD Listen closely at 10:30 to 11:05 . It is possible.
Actually you can see through clothes but it would be useless cause all you will be seeing is X ray ( skeleton) not body
that necklace you wear makes it look like you had an autopsy done. lol
Kyle got frustrated as he disproved superhero X-ray vision and he still wanted to see inside stuff.
With a pizza cutter
Exactly what I thought haha
He may also have done it as a statement regarding Healing Factors.
Honestly it seems better that instead of pigeon-holed powers; you’d want broad, voluntary powers like super-perception, or the ability to change you rod and cone cells to perceive additional light wavelengths. Some stories I’ve read, people removed their lens which allowed them to see in UV. Imagine being able to switch to Infared reception to win every hide-and-seek game ever.
remote viewing
I'd hide in the fridge if I knew you had infrared vision. Unfortunately I might not end up well but hey, that's a problem for my future self!
*X-Ray Vision... **_Ionize your foes into giant cancer cells..._*
Now that’s ALOT OF DAMAGE
Haha you evil doers! You might have won this time, but in approximately 10-20 years you have a chance of developing cancer, so enjoy your ill gotten gains while you can!
I think the ability to change your type of vision would be cool like infra red, radar, wifi, ultraviolet etc
Radar aren't lights, I think
@@TheSMR1969 correct its an electromagnetic wave that uses the frequencies that bounce off of whatever it hits to locate objects.
@puteqx that would be sonar
dont tell me what i want. ill take the xray vision just on principle now.
Oooh boy. You're in for a terrible life, bro.
oh look we have a badass overhere
I agree with Tomato Anus.
Purposefully giving someone cancer because you hate them is something a villain would do. A hero would stop you.
@@Tulik2 very wise, and terminology can be unwieldy.
0:13 Technically no, you did not get us, your hand was not below your waist.
And at 6:07
EXACTLY
Aaron D. Rodriguez 9:30
Aaron D. Rodriguez are you trying to be funny
Aaron D. Rodriguez who hurt you?
"If you were emitting X-ray vision you would cause damage to everyone around you!"
Me: "And that's a con how exactly?"
because your increasing the chance of people near you to have cancer
@@shadowdestroyer93yt48 but then you can call it cancer vision.
@@wyatt3m7 this was 2 months ago I did not know I posted this but ok your kinda late but have a good day
@@thraxironhide1674 yes but it's still X ray vision but with an added bonus.
you can't have pets, friends, family etc. and anything you own would have to be replaced on the regular, so as to not give yourself cancer, and all your food would at best be bland as the radiation breaks down some of the molecules in it.
as a radiology technician im happy i can understand at least one of your videos
You are pretty
wow
two things:
1. wait, radiology technician, that's a thing?!
2. how do i become a radiology technician?
minecraft or I work at the hospital’s radiology department, I do x-rays, CT, MRI, mammography, etc... You can get a degree in a technical school. You can also work with industrial radiology, x-raying materials and building walls.
technologist not technician
6:45
Kyle, actually...
Alex Hills, author of Wi-Fi and the Bad Boys of Radio says:
"Way back in 1999 the fledgling wireless industry needed a marketing name for the new products that conformed to the technical specifications called 'IEEE 802.11'. 'IEEE 802.11' didn't have much of a ring to it, and the industry association wanted a catchy name. They came up with wi-fi, and that's what's been used ever since.
It didn’t hurt that the name rhymes with 'hi-fi,' which was short for 'high fidelity,' a term that, back in the day, referred to high-quality sound systems. Some people even say that wi-fi therefore stands for 'wireless fidelity,' but those who were involved in the industry association's process of selecting a name say it's not really true. They say that the name was always just wi-fi."
Christian, Sebastiano Baudo
Thank you, Saved me the hassle of pointing this out.
:)
Never fear it's Wi-Fi Vision man!
it's WI-F-eyes!
With the power of WiFi and the internet!!!!!
I'm so sorry, we don't have Wi-fi here. You'll have to use the cable
Waifus
airplane mode
8:21
Well now I'm uncomfortable
I love your in-depth scientific explanations, and your comedy has been improving! Keep it up!
Why you don't want "Wi-Fi vision"
-you can't really sleep because you can see through your eyelid.
-your vision would be weird because in theory you can see behind you.
-your superpower would easily blocked by aluminium foil.
-you will see alot of new colour.
-your superpower is useless in rural area where there is no Wi-Fi.
-you can't use your superpower in the day because Wi-Fi is fairly weak.
-radar would look like giant laser.
-radio tower would look like a spot light.
-and alot more..
I’m pretty sure if you would want to have wifi vision, you would also want to have the ability to, idk, *switch it off* ?
Yeah, right. It's like X-Ray vision, you don't use it all the time.
Idk how its called in english but in google translate it says its called mobile data,wich gives you Internet
In addition to being able to turn your wi-fi vision off, you would also want to be able to emit wi-fi or the cm length waves mentioned in the video, just like some interpretations of x-ray vision that include being able to emit the x-rays. The would solve the whole rural areas problem
Limi V portable hotspot maybe?
0:18 why does that stick of dynamite say "conditioner"?
also, nice use of the muskwatch theme for bone shadower
erbgorre maybe it's a belonging of Thor because he's uses ThorAel
Its a conditioner bottle in the Safe, Not dynamite, wtf.
People always ask about his luscious locks. Why wouldn't he keep the source locked up to keep people away?
Because Kyle's hair is dyn-o-mite
Love that hair.
Discount Thor is my favorite UA-cam "celebrity"
you look like thor...
exactly
He is thor.
Like Thor he whould look better with short hair.
Onmmg he does
Exept smarter
MCU Spiderman's enhanced reconnaissance mode is a perfect example of wifi vision in application!
(wi-fi isn't short for wireless fidelity)
Wi-Fi being shorthand for Wireless Fidelity is a common misconception, in reality it's just a nickname because it's a lot easier to say/remember that than "IEEE 802.11x"
boingboing.net/2005/11/08/wifi-isnt-short-for.html
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You deserve a lot of likes
Wireless fidelity is not even a technology. WiFi is a company.
Wi-Fi is short for Wireless Fidelity.
Wireless Fidelity is the nickname for IEEE 802 11x.
“Also gotchu”
*M o t h e r f u c k e r*
didn’t know thor was a teacher
Please do an episode on Doctor Who's sonic screwdriver
I think he already talked about it, but I can't remember where.
It is possible because sound waves can move things
ua-cam.com/video/lIXlPZHtdbU/v-deo.html
Thanks!
Having vision from the microwave level all the way up to infrared have some interesting powers:
If you could see in the high frequency end of wifi range, much of that would be absorbed by water (which how microwaves work)... this would mean we would see dark patches of people's blood and muscle rather than bone shadowing. As a super power this could lead to some really cool powers like being able to see how much a supervillain is "plotting" becuase of blood moving towards the brain or a heightened "spidersense" by being able to see muscles starting to tense before someone actually moves. Maybe I don't want X-ray vision but I DEFINITELY want microwave vision!
Another great "Why You Don't Want" video!! Though, I think you got a little hung up on the "x-ray" part. It's just what they called that type of superhero vision at the time. Not because it used x-rays, but because it was the only thing that was analogous. Plus it sounded better than see-through vision. LMAO
Actually, while I do think the video is pedantic because no one actually thinks of them as x-rays nowadays, "at the time" when Superman's x-ray vision was first established they were one hundred percent canonically x-rays. While the writers misunderstood how x-ray devices capture images, they would occasionally times assign it other properties based on how x-rays work. That's why he can't see through lead.
What if x-ray vision doesn't actually use x-ray's?
I watched the rest of the video....
You remined me to watch Maxmillian mus
what the hell is this comment section
X-ray vision is what I like to call associative terminology. While specifically incorrect, it is used to invoke an idea and/or understanding of a concept, for which the proper scientific terms are unknown (due to lack of understanding of the underlying mechanics) or not understood by general public. Great job over thinking this one tho!
Y'all are just being salty af, tbh. This is literally the entire purpose of Kyle's show. Overthinking EVERYTHING about pop culture. That's why you people are here, is it not?
You seem like the salty one to me. My comment was in no part criticism. I watched and commented BECAUSE I do enjoy the thought experiment.
Everyone calm down. It's fine. I had no idea many people didn't think x-rays were involved in x-ray vision -- KH
That is by far the best explanation of that concept I have ever heard. Well done Daniel.
When saying"x-ray vision", I think that people don't necessarily mean shooting and receiving x-rays. It seems to be more of *visually block/ignore the light from certain objects and use environmental queues to image objects behind what is, currently, in front of you.
I really love this show! Thanks Kyle for delivering science knowledge in such way we get in "ressonance" with it.
Would Wi-fi vision allow you to see who is stealing your Wi-fi?
Hmmmmmm interesting
Lol
Define "stealing your WiFi".
Physically, obviously. Otherwise... a.) maybe but b.) why is your WiFi not encrypted and password-protected?
with programming and network knowledge you can figure it out.
Yes. Just looking for sources that are the same "colour" that your wifi router is currently. Although that becomes difficult if there are so many wifi sources in your area that you are getting collisions.
Wi-Fi vison sounds like the adds that promote themselves and say "The best washer in the world. It'll make your dishes sparkling clean. I's only $200000.99" or something like that.
Wait so when I go through an airport scanner thingy they can see my pee pee?
Joshusky yes and they know how short it is too
gamer guy damn it's a tough life :(
I think it is only the machines that they use if they take you to another room for a security scan that can see in such detail.
@@gamerguy9729 They can see mine rolled up in a 10 ft coil.
Yes if it was big enough to see
Can I borrow that metal riff
But Cmon man...
Can we just agree that that was a disappointing metal scream
The world wouldn't go dark if your visible spectrum of light increased to include x-rays, because you would still the the normal visible light spectrum, it would only add to your normal sight.
QUESTION: What would happen if the Death Star or Star Killer Base fired at a neutron star?
Bad things. Very bad things would happen
@@freyadraginda-burnett9781 very bad
Even though the energy required to blow planets up IS pretty big, I don't think it'd be enough to affect a far more massive, dense, and energetic object like a neutron star. Don't forget that they're literally Black Holes Lite. It would be like launching all of the Earth's fissile materials and nukes at the sun. Hardly a drop in the churning sea.
Hey Kyle please explain the GN Drives from Gundam 00. Requires quantum physics.
Now thats an idea
2:44 Who says I'd be a hero? I just want x ray vision.
“X-ray vision is EYE-onizing radiation.”
A Fiendish Bear 😂
3:46 exactly what we have asked for.
Holy crap. I am currently studying radiography, and while sitting in class the same day you released this, I thought about x-ray vision and how it would affect those around us, and having you make a video about it. This is awesome!
It's a sign from god. That god is Thor. Science Thor.
@Francisco Cota 4 years later, and I still reference this video everytime I teach people how xray images are made. 'It's not the bone we see as much as its the SHADOW of the bone we see.'
what about clairvoyance
you would be able to send your sight anywhere so it better than xray vision
Wouldn't the X Rays affect your whole body as they radiate from your eyes. You'd have to wear a lead suit whenever you use the power. Kinda like Iron Man but heavier.
Like Black Sabbath's version of Iron Man.
Not to mention if you were able to be your own detector, they would be coming back into your eyes.
If you can see anything besides a flash, then your eyeballs must be able to block x-rays everywhere except for the pupil; because if your eyeballs didn't block it, light bouncing from all directions could hit the x-ray sensing cells in the back of your eye with almost exactly the same odds, it would not form a picture.
Well, unless the x-rays you emit are mostly aligned like a laser, emitted in pulses, your eyeballs twitch to scan your field of view, and your retina can detect the time of flight of the photons (how long it took from emission to detection); in that case, it might be possible for your brain to reconstruct the image from the timing of the series of pulses and your eyeball twitch patterns.
To everyone saying that x-ray vision is just the name, here's a quote from Justice League (the animated series) "Pa Kent: We used to wrap his presents in lead foil so he couldn't peek."
Lo de Lea Justice league the animated series (and all the other TV shows as well) are not Canon with the comic books. Also lead can block more than just x-rays.
Robert is right. Lead can also block visible light.
Osiris Rex and gamma rays
I think lead blocks pretty much everything. Even radio waves. So even if the Kryptonians have Wi-Fi vision instead, I think lead would still block it. Actually just about any metal would block Wi-Fi. I worked at a place that had a room lined with copper mesh for testing radio equipment. It wouldn't let radio waves in or out. With the door shut even a cell phone wouldn't work in it.
Lo de Lea where would u get let foil? Generally I'm really curious where they got it, cause I'm looking to get some too lol
On the other hand, having strong X-Rays shooting out of your eyes would be a cool superpower for a villain. Giving everybody around cancer without them seeing you do anything *muhahah*!
Usually villains seek for some kind of profit. Unless you're one of the few villains that are so just because they want or you own a pharmaceutical/are an oncologist in USA/something else to benefit from ppl getting cancer, you wouldn't want it.
Well "supervillains" often do evil just because. But sure, why not have a pharmaceutical/clinical branch. Then you could even give more people X-ray-eyes to spread the plague!
And for a costume I'll wear a lead-suit - to be the last one standing.
However, because of you always wearing a lead suit you would get other kinds of affections causing an untimely death as well.
No villains plan should be perfect guys, stop helping me with my plan! :D
Fear the Cancerman!
Wi-Fi vision is good for hacking.
Wi-Fi vision is also good for malware i just lost my underwear.
Mr. Hill (since you don't like me using your full name), that was, well, different from what I expected. Pretty good, though. You could also see with sonic waves. Different frequencies can go through different things. And bounce back at you.
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This makes me wonder though, about Superman's heat vision. Maybe he can just produce different wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation, which would not only give him both X-ray vision and heat vision, but all the way from microwaves and radiowaves up to gamma radiation. Scary. At least now with Man of Steel, he seems to shoot plasma out of his eyes.
The most awesome consequence of this power would be that he could, granted he could do this in complex patterns. Make an object INVISIBLE from a certain angle. Thanks to the fact that light acts like a wave, and he could let waves interfere with each other In such a way that not only he (if he emits such waves) but everyone behind him as well could look through the same stuff.
Kees Wuister that sounds good, but light does not interfere with each other.
Yes Kyle Hill doesn't like you using his full name, that's because it's weird when people use your full name, and is generally used when you are in trouble, I'd suggest calling him by his given name, Thor.
it actually does. look up monochromatic lazer on solid object. It looks super weird cause the interference causes some parts to cancel eachother out and other parts to amplify eachother.
edit: sadly UA-cam does not have a proper video showing it. but I am really sure of it working this way, since a group at my university is using this concept to create a new way of detecting died of parts of the body.
Tweaking his nipples adjusts the wave-length?
what we want is xray visions that only go through clothes
Hehe
thats the weak x-ray vision he was talking about
Yes CASUAL WALKING DOWN THE STREET GONE SEXUAL
@@Local_commentor what if you only see black and white ?
of course 😁
Why don't this guy have 1 million subscribers
Because science?
If you wanna see an obscenely under-subbed UA-camr, look up Captain Disillusion!
He's been posting for 10 years, extremely high quality content, and once even did a video where he had Beakman on as a guest!
Still has less than 1 million subs.
He's part of Nerdist and they have 2.5 Million subs.
He will get there eventually.
give it time
Now, I wonder, what about being able to see every wavelength? Like, from 10^(-30)m to thousands of meters of light?
@intercontinentalballisticdepre well...
you need a bone shadower metal tshirt. radiologists will buy it. definitely. lol
I always figured that's how Superman's x-ray vision worked, that he could just shift his vision up and down the electromagnetic field. I think "x-ray vision" is just a term because we just generally think of seeing through things as that.
Maybe x-ray vision is the wrong name for the power and what it really is is a "radiation vision", in which the hero sees almost every wavelengths, or at least enough to mount an image.
That's exactly what I was thinking. You have mind reading powers!!
not even Rad-Vis, Superman has super-sight, he can probably focus his eyes to look at the thing he wants to see by simply focusing on more distant particles, think like when look for a person in a crowd, there's a lot of moving people (representing the molecules) and through use of focusing, he's able to look past the people in the front to see the people he wants to see
I think if someone had a spectrum of sight that large he or she would be ofuscated from any light, unless he or she could have a sight sensibility complex enough to detect and separate a spectrum from the other that might overlap each other when arrive into his or her eyes.
Or a superpower called “radiation-vision” in which you can change what kind of radiation you can detect going all the way from gamma radiation and radio waves. You could be able to detect dangerous radioactive deposits and save people from unknown radiation poisoning, and also use your infrared and wifi vision to detect others and things around you as stated in the video.
I, as a creep, would be very happy with emitting weak x-rays out of my eyes🕵🏽♂️
I see you're a man of culture as well
Microwave ovens work around the cm range I think, and they might work for seeing through some things, as long as those things went metal or large amounts of water. If superman could also produce them in large amounts (either as a flashlight sort of thing or as an extension of his laser eyes, or both), he could use a less visible version of laser eyes (microwave eyes) to cook burritos and prevent them from getting cold while he eats them. Of course this would have many more uses, but I like the burrito thing.
There's a comic book idea. Nuke man. He doesn't actually "nuke" anything, but he emits microwaves, but instead of boiling people from a mile away, he just ends up operating a taco truck that microwaves all the food really fast, until some mutant recruiter finds him and adds him to a team of super soldiers...
I have Wi-Fi Vision and with it i tried to save a little boy from being kidnapped but i couldn't, you know why?
because i had 1 bar and i was lagging too much.
that would only make the image darker....
I have bluetooth vision...
So what if you could Emitt and call back your own rays that can go through walls and are harmless and then "tell" you what they hit
That thumbnail is cursed.
*SPOOKY*
But does it come with sprinkles?
A sad, strange little man a
Hmm, actually WI-FI does not stand for wireless fidelity. It is a common misconception. You can Google that if you want. There was this man called Phil Belanger he was the member of the group thats purpose was to name this thing that we now know as Wi-Fi. And so he said in an interview that Wi-Fi "can mean anything you want it to mean".
TentailE Wow, never knew that. Apparently it’s a trademark, and its etymology reminds me of how people thought Spam must mean “spiced ham”, etc.
And what if I want it to mean "Wireless Fidelity"?
mangenkiou Got em!
Even if I want WI-FI to mean fopdoodle?
what if x-ray vision is less like what we see in the medical community and more like a higher perception of vision? like the ability to detect neutrinos emitted from the sun? so for example, as the neutrinos pass through us, those with "higher perception" could detect the bone shadowing similar to an x-ray machine. this would allow the "rays" to be sourced behind the subject (rather than us having to emmit the x-rays) mand your eyes could receive the bone shadow signal. GOD I love your show!
Rather doubt the neutrinos. Lead glasses would help blocking them only if they were about 4 light years thick :) Muons are much more possible, though they still travel couple of kilometers into the ground, but maybe if we found right material we would be able to make a decent detector that could be used as glasses. The problem is to isolate such radiation from even more abundant light.
Jan Negrey nobody was talking about making glasses, its a super power
+TheTokuin I know, but often Clark Kent, and Kara Danvers, wear lead glasses to help them not to see skeletons of other people at all times. So it is a tangentially relevant topic. OP has proposed that perhaps neutrinos could be the source of "perception", and i pointed out that even if that was possible, it would create far more problems that it would solve.
There might be other forms of radiation that would work, as Kyle pointed out, but definitely not neutrinos. They can pass through our entire planet without being stopped by anything. Detecting them would be pretty useless because nothing can stop them to create a shadowing effect. You want a form of radiation that will pass through some substances and not others.
Jan Negrey i think what the op was going for wasnt neutrinos being the source of the power but the eyes working like a muscle and being able to detect things such as neutrinos by focusing. This would be more in line with the comic book idea as well. So the power would be that your eyes can see all light wavelengths and you could flex your eye muscles to narrow the range more towards xray or infrared or whichever. This means the power would always be working and the user would need to focus to stop seing those exotic wavelengths or wear special glasses
This channel is actually really good for envious people.
I always thought that "X-ray" vision actually had nothing to do with x-rays. I thought that when Spooper Man sees through things it was some comic book reason not actual x-rays, but the association with x-ray machines coined the name.
Sure but then why does lead block his vision like it would x-rays
@@daviddavis8965 All material blocks x rays if its thick enough, not just lead, but Superman's vision isn't effected by it at all like x ray vision would be.
He can see through whole mountains and shit.
no he cant see through lead its canon look it up
@@daviddavis8965 I didn't say he could see through lead....
I said he can see way deeper into other materials, including steel or rock, than xrays can.
Not only lead blocks xrays...everything does to some degree...like bones for example...
But his vision doesnt work like that at all.
He can see right through large buildings, mountains, etc...
Clearly and in color too.
His vision really has very little in common with fluoroscopy.
2:54 Can you really not leave the void? How big can it scientifically be? Can it be Infinite? Would you not fall down, inless, it is only infinite in 2 axises.
maybe not x-ray vision, but what about x-ray glasses? 👓 at least those you can take off at any time.
captain N but what if you break the x ray glasses? (゜o゜)
then you would have to get new ones or try to find a way to fix them, depending on how you broke them.
captain N. true
still need to out run them to be able to see the shadow but you'd probably get cancer too since it's not a magical "mutation" you have.
@@_captain_N Literally everything would be dark when you put them on, and you yourself will get cancer.
3:55 aigh you got me there ngl
I'm sorry Kyle, but I don't think x-ray vision would be as bad as you think. You say that you'd mostly see nothing in x-ray vision, but I don't think it's true for the same reason why half your vision isn't black when you cover one eye with your hand. My assumption on what would happen if someone had x-ray vision is that their brain would overlap what they see in x-ray vision with what they see in visible light. Since the expectation isn't that they can only see x-rays but also see regularly, so it makes sense that the users brain would edit so that they see x-rays and visible light at the same time. This would also mean that the scene from man of steel that you showed earlier was scientifically correct. But that's just a hypothesis, not a theory, a hypothesis.
nick cottrell he was talking about a hypothetical situation in which we could only see xrays. If the range of visible light was extended to x-rays then the brain would just overlap the light information
Something similar already exists. There is a condition (I can't remember the technical/scientific name) where a person's lens in their eye does NOT block UV, like a normal eye's lens would. What a lot of people don't know, is that without the lens blocking UV light, the human eye actually CAN see it. People with this condition typically describe UV light sources as being a very pale purple, or slightly blue-ish white. It does in fact also have the added effect of causing flowers and things to look very different, much like Kyle described.
So yes, having UV vision does not block out the rest of the spectrum, it only expands the upper limit of what the person can see. I think X-ray vision would be the same, just an expansion of the person's visible spectrum.
Also some X-ray sources (those very old tubes) were visible, especially in the dark, even through wooden door, or wooden walls. It wasn't direct visibility of course (though described as a yellowish glow) - but rather excitement of electrons in the eye, that when they dropped down to their normal state, they emitted this yellowish light. Or even some other photoelectric effect - I read about this a while ago. Obviously not good for health.
In fact, Kyle said exactly that you would almost see anything in x-ray vision, considering only the x-ray income. Knowing how our vision works, it very probable that we would only extend our upper limits, but this is true by only considering our eyes like an optics piece, and neglecting their biological aspect. Remember, X-Ray is really high energy and we did not evolve to manage so much energy. From an evolutionary point of view, it makes sense, X-ray is not an interesting feature since there's almost nothing to see with this. I don't think that it could improve your adaptation skill in anyway. "Life always finds a way" to answer your question "because science !" (Meeting between Malcom and Kyle)
There could be a series of nictating membranes that could filter out varying wavelengths, which would allow the varying types of vision. I don't really know how this would explain the scene shown, though.
Am i the only one who didn't take x-ray vision as literal? I never thought they were actually using x-rays or any kind of electromagnetic radiation.
I always thought it was the catchy name that made sense to people because they know what an x-ray is, and not the actual power.
anyone else?
No, it's exactly the opposite - Kyle is the only one who though X-Ray vision is literally X-Rays. Everyone else who read comics/watched movies/etc with X-Ray vision being involved knows that it's just a name. Like how Batman isn't an actual werebat, but a man that dresses in a suit that somewhat resembles a bat.
The Boss
And that disagrees with what exactly? That whatever light kryptonians are emitting from their eyes is called called x-rays in some iterations? And I've no doubt that there were absolutely Superman (the only source of X-Ray Vision in the entire fiction, apparently) stories where some writes actually meant literal X-Rays. But lightsaber isn't made out of light lorewise, but it was that way in the beginning.
Haha you REALLY take issue with this don't you -- KH
Yes, I do. That's very perceptive of you to notice.
@@1001-v1s no, not everyone.
I can and with ease. Pretty much any character in a video game with stealth has it nowadays.
No, even in Superman it is not X-rays. Just because it is called similar doesn't mean it's the same thing. I already mentioned lightsaber, thanks for deliberately ignoring that point. I may also mention, that the planet Krypton is not made out of Krypton, a noble gas.
And this is the last time I'm replying to you if are going to keep redirecting the conversation into superman. It's not about him, and your only argument with him is weak anyway (if you don't conveniently ignore points against it, like you did the last time).
You just keep crushing my dreams over and over again with every video you make
This was my senior project at FAU as an electrical engineer. Through the wall radar imagining using wifi signals in the bandwidth of 2.4GHz. I was able to detect object behind reinforced concrete!
The WIFI vision would be hard to use or to focus with in 3D. How would you filter out?
I would imagine that the more the wifi would travel through the more scattered and absent it would become. Say one substance blocks range AA, and another closer one blocks AK, and another blocks BH, etc all the way till it reaches you. That would be the absent aspect of it. Then imagine the nearby surroundings that reflect these ranges, which would necessarily also reduce the presence and alter the perception of origin, similar to the process of smudging parts of a picture.
If you combine the two, the clarity of objects would probably be one of the primary give aways for order of proximity (as in, in this context, how many objects are between me and the item in question). Then, if this was simply an additional function for the brain's normal processes, combining several senses together to generate our actual perception of spatial awareness, our brain could then give estimated distances and interference values to develop a new and more information-dense spatial awareness.
Long story short, if combined with our other senses akin to the way our senses already assist one another, it would be less of a vision-oriented sense and more of an enhanced spatial-awareness with limited or no actual visual impact.
At least, this is what I figure it would be like.
I actually know someone who claims to be able to see in ultraviolet. A long time ago my grandfather had the lens in his eyes replaced. Those old lens allow him to see ultraviolet, but he also mentioned an unfortunate downside. Eyeball sunburn.
Paul Mehlerlie
Lie
Does anybody else find him just annoying and unfunny
Scyttles The Original yeah idiot you are the unfunny person
Wifi vision vs echo location who would win? Lets say daredevil in universe 1 million had wifi vision instead of regular sight and he fought our current daredevil. How would that go? Could you do anything to disrupt wifi vision the same way that echo location could be disrupted with loud noises?
WiFi Imaging *can* be disrupted. The first trick is to line walls with metal, like multiple layers of tinfoil. That will weaken signal propagation. A faraday cage will swallow up WiFi signals wholesale and create "blind walls" that way as well. You can also create complex reflective sculptures of tinfoil that add reflection noise into an environment, eventually causing so much reflection you just can't get coherent data out of the signal mess anymore.
Doing this actively on the other hand is tricky, and I daresay almost nigh-impossible. Just adding raw WiFi radiation to the mix will not do a thing. Chaotic switching on-and-off of emitters and the resulting signal interference might do a thing. Alternatively, for one signal processing method I discussed with Kyle, you could create 2.4/5Ghz radiation holographic waveform emitters and create false positives and noise *that* way.
Both of those require quite comprehensive and complex implementations to work however. Your best and cheapest bet really is just a lot of reflective metal. Or turning your WiFi off. By pulling the plug physically. Because learning to hack WiFi emitters on is the next best thing to get after WiFi vision.
Sevoris Doe hmm i see, so in my scenario its highly unlikely that either would know how the others ability would work. Atleast not at first. So in a straight fight it would be easier to disrupt echo location over wifi vision even if you had devices that emitted wifi signals such as phones, routers, etc. because my thought process was, in the streets of NYC it would be impossible to see due to all the clutter, but wifi vision could easily see through all that.
I like the fact that just coating yourself in tinfoil would mess someone up, it would definitely be interesting to see two almost blind people duke it out, while one is covered in tin foil and one is shouting at the top of their lungs or blaring an air horn.
Sevoris Doe oh wait, you would need to not just be covered in tin foil but also have antlers and tendrils in order to absorb all the signals. That just gets even better! Someone needs to draw this.
Wifi vision could probably be jammed with a wifi jammer
Milkyway Squid well i dont think he is emitting wifi he is just detecting it, the jammer i dont think absorbs wifi it just prevents it from being read in a radius. So although clever, i dont think that would work.
So isnt this what Bales Batman does in Part 2? In the building?