How Does the Containment Unit Work? | The History and Physics of Ghostbusters Equipment
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It's time to get ready for Ghostbusters: Afterlife! If you’ve managed to snag a ghost with your proton stream and place it in a trap, what’s next? Place it in the Containment Unit. The Ghostbusters storage facility has gone through several renovations throughout the years but the basic physics behind how it works remain the same. Follow us to the basement of the firehouse as we go through its history from film, televisions, video games, and more and finally crack the science behind that red wall.
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Oh, shut up.
I always thought it was a device that generated a portal to a pocket demention like some short of limbo that they just dumped the ghosts into. Pretty fascinating theory tho.
That's more in line with how it's represented in the cartoon...the films and game took a slightly more grounded approach so it's likely it operates in a similar manner in the movies to how it's described here. Obviously a cartoon allowed them to have a more fantastical interpretation.
Like the cartoon.
That's a cool theory
All what you said...wow...it's like reading a description of my ass.
That's how I figured it as a kid.
The ionization decay monitor would suggest that the trapped ghosts lose power over time while in containment, maybe eventually their PKE dissipates completely. So the containment unit has a max capacity, but you only bump up against it when you trap a high volume in a short time.
That's what I thought. _Kingdom Hospital_ posited that ghosts sometimes have to return to the place where they died to 'recharge.' Thus the containment unit prevents them from doing that.
@@nicholastosoni707 That would explain on Slimmer returning to the hotel he/it haunted in "the video game".
@@nicholastosoni707 That's also a generic theory about ghost in real life. Ghost haunt the place they died and cannot leave for whatever reason. We also know ghost have the ability to move freely in GB but the owner of the hotel also said about slimmer that his staff have been aware of slimmer "for quite sometime" suggesting he can leave just cannot or will not.
@@Seriona1 Certainly. I was throwing out the first instance where I'd actually heard about it as an example. To be honest, I had never really given it much thought.
The containment unit is essentially a pocket dimension for ghosts. Its always great to see it
Such a fascinating topic. I truly feel this was one of the better fleshed out concepts that the real ghostbusters show manifested.
Not really. It just holds the ghosts essences in a laser grid since they can't be sent back to the afterlife
Sounds Iike my ass.
The containment unit is something that they should have built upon for the video game. They put the viewer in, but you never get to us it. We only get to turn the containment unit off.
Agreed. Also, you never emailed us about winning the Ecto-1 license plate!
@@ChannelingSpirits sorry, i completely forgot about that giveaway.
Egon: Trans-warp drive?
Venkman: Check
Egon: AH-HA! We don't have a trans-warp drive!
Venkman: But if we don't have one, it can't malfunction. And if it can't malfunction, then nothing's wrong. If nothing's wrong then it checks, right?
Egon: I'm not gonna talk to you for at least a week. It's not healthy for me.
@@nicholastosoni707
Peter: Hey don’t threat, this is how I got through college.
A master of psychology, I can see.
A true genius.
Ghostbuster 1984 is pure art.
I like the idea that ghosts inside the containment unit eventually develope multiple civilizations in it, with entities of Class 6 and above forming their own factions with lesser ghosts as their underlings. Heck in the animated shows we saw entities inside using money and we know that they can also reproduce.
Also, I imagine that Egon and Rey can update it, in order to be able to hold more ghosts. Since in the Paris episode they literally beamed MILLIONS of ghosts in it with not danger of it becoming overcrowded .
I love that the name we know came from the cartoon. 😂
I always thought of the contaiment unit being the physical device, where as the containment grid was the mechanical/chemical/partical grid the Unit produced which contains the ghost.
The Containment unit Houses and produces the Containment Grid, which holds indefinately a non-infinite number of ghost.
I'm surprised they never introduced the idea of converting the ghosts into pure energy since ghosts can't be destroyed.
An interesting concept would have been taking the energy of the contained spirits and once filtered into something usable have that recycled into a backup generator. Not sure how long that would take but it would deter any immediate release of spirits during a blackout. Someone hit up Dan Akroyd, I think we're onto something!
@@KrazyKunoYou mean like the PS2 _Ghost Hunter,_ where the ghosts you contained/"killed" also powered your spectral guns?
this is so genuinely helpful and insightful. the fact that you refer to not just the movie, but the making of book, the cartoon series, the other book, the other series, AND the game.
along with sick animations of the chamber, the visualisation of the protons.
top level work. mad respect.
Thank you. We try and provide a range of sources to support our claims and give lots of love to several aspects of the fandom. Thanks for watching!
I hope they answer this question in Ghostbusters Afterlife: What did they do with the containment unit? It seems Egon moved most of the equipment out to the farm house after he retired from the GB's... but did he move the containment unit? How is this possible? Did they release the ghosts?
I assume with better technology Egon can safely move the containment unit from NYC to a farmhouse where it wouldn't cause as much trouble if something happens to it
I have a feeling that is what the mine seen in the movie trailer is for. And why it takes place in such a remote location.
They did at the end.
Containment unit is still at the firehouse, likely beginning to show it's age.
@@laverdadbuscador Yes, I was very happy to see that detail!
One of the post credits scenes deals with this question.
I always see the Pokémon storage PC and the Pokeballs inspired by the ghostbusters gear. I bet they work in a similar way.
I really enjoyed this video, awesome science!
Great video, I would still like to see one on the flight suite uniform with equipment and the yellow hose that I have heard no reasonable theory for.
I never thought the containment unit had a storage limit. So it's like a flash drive of sorts too. Man, there goes my pocket dimension theory. Great video, as always.
Legit this was one of the coolest videos I have watched on the lore lol
Pretty much how I expected it to work and makes so much more sense than a pocket dimension. Great job !
Agreed
it's really amazing how you guys relay the deatails of every Ghostbuster equipment. really proud of you.🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
You should have so many more subscribers. These videos are so well done, and I’m just finding them now. But there has to be a lot more nerds out there who just saw Afterlife, that would love this. They’re all so good
Thank you, seriously. We spend hours researching, writing, recording, and editing but love making videos. We appreciate any shares and subscriptions because it helps us grow!
@@ChannelingSpirits I’ve already done both. I just wanna say 1 more thing though. I hope you keep at it. I honestly think that all it would take is like one celebrity or maybe one of the Ghostbusters to see one of these, and you would blow up subscriber wise. I know you do more than Ghostbusters, I’m just saying. These are so good though, and better put together than things I’ve seen with 500k subs. I’ll definitely do my part to spread the word, and I really hope you stick to it and keep growing. Thank you!
The Proton Packs, Traps, Contaminant unit and other equipment can someday become reality. The science is there.
We can only hope it happens in our lifetime. Late, perhaps, but possible.
I really love hearing how the Containment unit works.
Hey! I'm a mega-nerd for this kind of stuff, and I just found your channel.
Very interesting videos. Immediately subscribed!
Welcome! We’ve got more content coming and love to have fellow mega nerds enjoy it!
If the video monitor was installed on the containment unit in the movie, Peck would've been somehow convinced.
The laser would be used to draw the grid and magnetic fields would be somehow attached to the grid beams.
I have read where scientists are actually doing this.
It is way above my head
But it somehow contains the magnetic fields or attracts them.
This is really amazing
So it is possible to capture and contain ghosts for ever using real-life science? Well thought Dan Aycroyd.
So basically the Ghostbusters are Supernatural spirit police.
more like pest control than police
I've wondered where the caution-striped cartridge goes for 30 years now. Is it ejected somewhere unseen?
Our guess is after the antechamber is cleared, the containment chute can be manually opened and the canister removed from it.
@@ChannelingSpirits Makes sense, but seeing Ray toss the trap shell aside instead of immediately retrieving the canister is odd. Unless there's a more extensive emptying and/or cleaning process involved inside the chute, possibly ridding the canister of any leftover psychokinetic, uh, goo.
@@ChannelingSpirits Back in the early 2000's, some of us in the fan community theorized that the ghost simply passed through the trap cassette once the connection was made to the entry grid and the field was neutralized. After, the trap cassette was cleaned and/or repaired, placed back in the caddy, and they were ready to go again.
Also, it was believed in the animated series that the unit could be expanded with extension vessels of some kind to make sure they had enough space. Of course, even condensed PKE takes up physical space, so I could only imagine how much land they actually had under the firehouse to expand equipment. I always figured after the first unit's explosion, it hollowed out the basement even further down which is why the animated basement was so deep. Even in the video game, the firehouse now had a sub-basement we never saw in the movie.
Meh, just spitballin' here.
Wasnt that adressed in one episode where either slimer or one of the guys where sent in the unit?
Glad I'm not the only one :P
Hyped for this one!
Someone on DeviantArt once griped that the third floor of the firehouse is inaccessible in the 2009 game, rendering the floorplan inaccurate.
This got me thinking: There are an awful lot of pipes and conduits going up. Conclusion: *By 1991, they converted the entire third floor into a huge containment unit.*
You can't go to the third floor but the 2009 game does show a ladder leading up to it. If you go to Part 1 of our play through and jump to 4:21 you'll see the Rookie looking up it. A previous draft of the first film mentions there is a full kitchen up there as opposed to the kitchenette on the second floor. But who knows, after the roof was blown open it could be anything.
@@ChannelingSpirits Support: When the ECU gets shut off in the game, there's no structural damage, unlike in the first movie.
I hate that I found this channel now I've been bingewatching for 2 hours
The description here seems to fit with how the movie version works...the cartoon version seems to generate an alternate universe...of course, that conflicts with the episode where egon builds the gizmo to send captured ghosts to another dimension...🤷♂️ why would that be necessary if the containment unit already does that? also how could another dimension become full? Maybe the inside looks like that even though they are in our universe because the ghosts can alter the appearance of the world around themselves...kind of like a student decorating their dorm room...😁😊😁
I had a fascination with the containment unit as a child. I still to this day don't know why. I just wonder if the fact that messing about with it could cause all sorts of problems and the disaster that could ensue. I used to get annoyed as a kid if the episode didn't contain the containment unit.
I wonder if the upcoming film will have the containment unit since 2 never had it and never explained how the ghosts like Scoleri Brothers were held and how they built such a thing so quick and what type of containment unit they will have. Unlike the game, which was kinda disappointing, the containment unit wasn't red, if only it was like the Real Ghostbusters.
Thinking of that, I'd love a game like Virtual Springfield where the world of The Real Ghostbusters can be viewed. Going down to the Containment Unit and viewing ghosts in there and generally f&*£%i"g about it, would be cool.
I think we're going to need an update to this after Frozen Empire ;)
Heck yeah. Thanks!
when the trap casing is removed from the main body, and it is emptied of the ghost, how do they recuperate it?
I've been waiting for this one! Excellent theories, well done!
The one question that I think nobody has ever asked' is like how do you retrieve the ghost canister from the containment unit once after you load the ghost inside, like the ghost tray will need a fresh canister when you need to use it again, like how do you get the back' that part has never been explained before. That's another mystery we need to know about as well!
I imagine it probably functions like an airlock on a space ship or submarine, once the trap is emptied into the containment unit a door inside shuts and you can just pull the trap back out.
This is so awesome 😊
This was AWESOME!!!!
Wow this is amazing thanks for the knowledge ‼️‼️‼️
Wow! Great video!
Good job with this video. Amazing.
My favorite piece of equipment
If the containment unit is essentially a large ghost trap with maintained power source, it seems a bit contradictory in an episode that once 2 entities enter the same trap, the molecules merge and the entities become a new combined ghost. In the containment unit I am thinking that they are stored as one psycho kinetic that grows with each ghost contained until released when the ghosts separate from the collective taking back on their own individual frequency.
The cartoon was pretty loose with the "rules".
If you're talking about "Drool the Dog-Faced Goblin," it's either 1) Ray telling the fortune-teller a lie-to-children as a pat explanation of why they can't get Drool out of the trap, or 2) the capture streams ionized the two of them while they were "attached" to each other.
you should do a video of slimmer. I've always kind of wondered if slimmer was just made by ivo and specifically sent to the sedgwick for a reason of if he is a actual ghost of somone or something.
Awesome video!! Lol Keep up the good work! 👻🚫🚨
If it is possible, could you make a follow-up to this video explaining what the Containment Unit's pocket dimension is and how it works?
You may need to update this one from what we learned in _Frozen Empire._
In the ghostbusters universe, assuming this theory is true, and the special bond between negative ions is actually what holds the ghost together then this stuff must be very energetic and would make a hell of a fuel as the special bonds need to be strong to hold together the repulsive alike charges
Awesome content. Great editing! Cheers from Ohio 😎
you do a helluva job, like REALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!
These videos make me think we can build it!
Plz keep makin videos guys
I always wondered how things might have turned out for the Freeling family in Poltergeist if they'd called in the Ghostbusters.
That would be the length of a _Saturday Night Live_ sketch.
so the ghosts are literally stored there in the basement on the same plane of existence as the ghostbusters? that’s odd I always assumed they were stored in a different “ghost” dimension if that makes sense
The Cartoon seems to work that way, with the unit creating a sort of pocket dimension fit for ghostly habitation; we see the same later in the series with the 'peoplebusters' where there containment unit produces a pocket dimension that is similar to Earth for the humans they capture.
THe movies I'm sure probably do work on a slightly more 'realistic' take as seen here.
It's just the opinion of this video maker. This isn't canon.
@@gold333 but a "laser containment grid", as Egon describes it in the 1st film, is not a pocket dimension, and this video's explanation does fit with a laser containment grid.
What was max capacity in the first film?
They never official say. If roughly 500 was the capacity of the two-story tall, renovated unit, I'd guess 100-200 spirits? They were only open for about a month so a capacity of 100 seems likely.
I'd like to think that the videogame containment unit is how it would have looked in GB2.
Can you please do videos about Terminator ?
The science behind it is so cool
I really wish I could have explanations about it
I always imagined there was another dimension or something inside the main containment chamber. How the ghostbusters made it I don't know.
That's only in the cartoon
That's how the cartoon portrayed it.
Bill Murray sounds just like Garfield.
The animated venkman had the same voice actor as garfield.
he also played Garfield in the live action version of the movie and the Cartoon Network animated series if I’m not mistaken
@@spartida3850 lorenzo music voiced garfield & peter vankman in the real ghostbusters cartoon & ironically bill murray voiced garfield in the movie
Can you make a Video about the pke Meter?
It’s coming eventually!
Any Nightmare Before Christmas on the horizon?
We hadn't thought about it but we'll have to look into it!
Where does the physical component of a trap (the cartridge) go once inserted into the Ecto Containment Unit? Is it reclaimed for later use or is it stuck in the antechamber?
Yes, the detachable cartridge is intended to be retrieved and reused. So long as the containment unit is probably locked, the chute can be opened to remove it.
Walter Peck from US Environmental Protection Agency is not gonna be happy about this.
Oh, that would have been AWESOME
Why did they change the script ?
I would have loved to have them using an abandoned gas station secretly.
Oh, that would have made the story so much better.
Light is green, trap is clean
I have a feeling the contaminate unit will be a central plot piece in the next movie
It would have to be because where else would the do with the Ghost they caught.
So, it’s like a very complicated jail, but for ghosts.
Well the new ghost buster film just made all the hard work over 20years of ghosts and more of them at the end...to top it off how many are gonna escape or witch one in GB2...GB2 ending show a red light which means one is getting out....i can't wait for the new ghost busters 3 to come out I just watch GB2
Wait, their containment unit is 10 MEGAWATTS?! AT 220 VOLTS?! That means they have 45,000 amps running through the powerlines!
... I swear this was covered in Jurassic Park.
Does the containment unit require a limit of ghosts? Or infinite?
I like how they made their assistant played by Annie a lot sexier
It would have been a magnetic containment system, like a warp drive
Egon: this is a high voltage laser containment system
Do info on Danny phantom or scooby doo
Yay i was the 1000s like 👍 😄 ☺ 😊 😅 🤗 👍
"Transtator." Nice Star Trek reference lol
the Cartooon had Egon discuse how to solve the problem of catianore not holding enough ghost by sending them to a ghost diminsion
I heard it.
Still wished they showed how they gain the ghost trap cartridge back after loading it inside containment unit after the ghost is expelled out of it and into the unit.
You open the door and pull it out.
@@edisont.picard4112 The thing is they always show it by them closing the door with trap still in the slot as if they’re just leaving it. And as they operate the switches and stuff it seems like the trap does go into a different compartment down below.
@@kingbeef66 Well, not counting the cartoon, we've only ever seen it happen one time. As the unit is homemade, it's probably simplest to assume that it isn't too fancy. If you go to empty a trap and there's already a cartridge in the unit, pull it out and toss it in the pile and then put the new one in.
For the next video Heidi, tell us about the twinkie.
What about the twinkie?!
@@Seriona1 ''it would be a twinkie, about 35 feet long and weighing approx 600 pounds'', that's a big twinkie.
@@olliesmith2890 That's a big twinkie.
@@olliesmith2890 That is a *BIG TWINKIE*
Are you going to making a video explaining the Gozer Cult and Ivo Shandor?
Eventually, yes! Once we finish up our series on the equipment, we'll be doing in depth profiles on your favorite Ghostbusters haunts.
@@ChannelingSpirits I have to say that you did great work on explaining the Proton Pack and the Containment Unit 👍
Will you be covering the lore of the Slime Blower, Dark Matter Generator and the Meson Collider too?
@@argent-kestrel90 We are editing the PKE Meter as we speak. The physics for the all the equipment has been worked out, and we will get to the Slime Blower and GB:TVG pack upgrades eventually.
@@ChannelingSpirits keep up the great work :) 👍🐰
I always preferred the term storage facility. I disagreed with they changed it.
When I was a kid, the containment unit was basically seen as ghost-hell.
I always wondered what happened to the cartridge after its released into the containment unit. Does it get destroyed, or does it just stay inside?
The cartridges are reusable once the ghost is stored. If the system is engaged, the chute can be opened without fear of releasing any ghosts and it can be retrieved. The film simply didn’t show Ray pulling it out.
@@ChannelingSpirits thank you. This has been a mystery for me for a long time. Ghostbusters 1 came out when I was in first grade and 2 came out when I was in second or third grade. I enjoy watching watching your videos. Keep up the good work .
@@andrewfuoss5117It took you 5 years to get from 1st grade to 3rd grade?
@@edisont.picard4112 well I forgot what year ghostbusters 2 came out. It's been so long. I didn't keep track of the years. I was only a kid back in those days.
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But what happens to the trap after the ghost is released into the containment unit ??
You forgot one subsystem of the containment unit : the warpdrive 😄
2:47 as a person who believes that not All Ghosts aren't evil. I was VERY Offended. As someone who loved watching Ghostbusters as a kid, seeing how just BEING a Ghost is enough a reason to be Captured is rather unfair
Well, following the way actual exterminators work, only mischievous or downright evil ghosts are actively hunted and captured.
Being very offended that fictional ghosts have been slighted is quite a psychological condition.
@@edisont.picard4112 I wrote this a long time ago. I gotta say, I cringe a bit by what I used to type online. I'll might have to delete this comment.
I'm not smart enough to dispute any of this so I'll take your word on it lol
Sorry, whats behind the pannel? And how does the ghost go out of the trap if there is a wall infront of it?
The chute leads to an opening in the wall with the initial laser containment grid. That opening allows the ghost to be sent through to the antechamber while the grid prevents them from exiting immediately. The traps internal electromagnets are turned negative which repels the ghost, pushing it through.
So when they lost the fire house in the new movie. Where did the containment system go or did they release them all lol
Based on the second end credit where Winston revisits the firehouse, the containment unit is there but shown blinking in the red (presumably setting up a sequel where the containment unit does finally shut down). Winston may have purchased the firehouse after Egon's leaving and before (or shortly after) they abandoned the business.
This felt like a narrative dead end, they catch them and then dump them in the ECU, okay then what? The ghosts just stay there like toxic waste, doesnt end up dissolved or sent to the other side or something.... I always wished they would resolve that somehow
The first two walls are explained what about the floor and ceiling the other two sides of the whole building not to mention overcrowding equals overpushing putting all of the prisoners outside of the whole system
Never understood why a shut-off switch ever existed. Why would they ever need to release all entities?
Because it is a piece of electrical equipment. It has to have a means of disconnect.
OMG, so interesting... LOl
aaaand it take 8 minutes and a half to get to the explaining
I dont get the boys in gray every time, khaki/tan isn't gray
It's in the original film:
"The boys in gray slugged it out with a pretty pesky poltergeist, then stayed on to dance the night away with some of the lovely ladies who witnessed the disturbance. This is Casey Kasem. Now, on with the countdown."
The best theory I have is that the suits looked gray in old publicity photos, hence the name.
So many OSHA violations.