I would prefer to have over 1 storey of altitude. Otherwise, you're still weaving through streets, between buildings, and trees, and stuff. Make it at least 15' for rooftops, just to be on the safe side, because most single storey suburban homes don't have flat roofs. Otherwise, you're talking about as much of a game changer as riding around the trailer park on a moped. Your feet are over pedestrian's heads, that's about it. (Not to mention, just falling from 10 feet, going about 35mph probably isn't the sort of "Game changer" you're thinking of, unless you think crutches are cool, for some reason.)
Because you need to get away from these pesky birds. Note that during the migration period, some birds create 'clouds' of millions of birds and there is absolutely no way you will not fly into one, if you happen to be in one of their paths. While this doesn't seem like much, Kyle points out that even if you're 'only' flying 550 km/h, the force of the impact with the bird is 90,000N which is enough to completely destroy you even if you were made out of solid diamond and since we are talking momentum here, the ONLY way to protect you, is for you to have enough mass to distribute this force evenly, like - say - a Boeing 747 but it would still suffer a lot of structural damage.. No ring, no force field, nothing can protect you from the conservation of momentum. That's exactly the reason why airliners fly at 30,000 feet.
Bro, imagining that I could fly at like 1 km height and go 30 miles per hour to school is still the coolest thing to ever imagine so I would take the superpower 100%
That's all you need anyway, the point of the power is traveling. I also don't see the danger of going as fast as a motorcycle but just high enough where no buildings are in your way. Even then, you'd adjust speed and go around. I don't want to be an airplane just take no fall damage, simply hovering would be dope
There's also a remarkable technology called "warm clothing" which could make it possible to fly at, say, 3-4 kilometres up, at speeds comparable to a car or perhaps a light aircraft.
If I could fly like Superman, I would simply stay at a breathable altitude and fly at a manageable speed. There you go, the power of flight made desirable again.
@Fuckyou EatshitDie Omniman explicitly stated that he doesn't need to breath. You know, when he taught Mark how to fly in space, and he asked how he breaths there... "That's the neat part. You don't."
This only considers it as a long distance travel option though. You don't have to stop taking flights or commuting to work, its just a fun little (huge really) novelty=) Just hover around at "floating" speeds, even that would be fun. Take some pictures, take your gf on a ride, reach that top box, dunk on any hoop, never need ladders again, do amazing tricks on a snowboard, etc. the list goes on=D I think people want the power of flight because of the amazing sensation of flying itself, not to travel efficiently.
@@andrewt9204 As long as it's a far enough fall, I feel like your immediate ape brain panic from the sensation of falling will keep you from remembering "Oh right I can fly" for long enough to hit the ground if you're too low. I've had this reaction when climbing a few times, not remembering that there's a rope about to catch me until it does.
@@zakabog I'm assuming it's a natural reflex if you have it from birth kinda like how you put your arms out when you trip its just natural or we can straight up assume we would start floating if were about to hit the ground just because, I do still get what your saying though and it's honestly a valid argument
You would probably have to slow down your fall before just stopping If you're falling fast, I'm no expert on this stuff but coming to an abrupt halt, even If It's do to your flying ability, would probably screw your body In some way, shape or form
One aspect I think is cool about flight is that, assuming it wasn't tiring in any way, you could just passively float. It depends on which flight superpower 'model' you're going on, but would be extremely handy in itself. Also I think it would still be cool to go slow. I'm not up to date on laws about flying, but you could probably fly (obviously slowly) at about double the height of an average person (~3.5 metres). This would be incredibly useful for getting through crowds. Last idea, assuming you don't need to be in a specific stance, you could get on a bike or something like that and use your ability to propel yourself forwards. This would be incredibly cost efficient and wouldn't break any laws, and could still be safe, efficient, and effective.
"i want to be able to fly, but i want to be able to breath in low and no oxygen environments, and i want to be able to withstand sub zero temperatures, and have super human reflexes so i don't suffer mid air collisions.
@@lvl18abilities Pilots gets payed for flying planes or jets. Normal People with super flying powers will face something, that pilots can handle, those people will pay the price for their injuries.
@@KillaZamii Powers, yes but they mostly want you to do suicide missions, and pay you enough and might to use you as sponsors for advertisement. Only super power is worth is superman or Shazam, Dr' Manhatten, Captain Marvel, Thor super powers and all they immune to all of the elements. Or Iron man along with us air forces. The one paying is the government carry out their orders and they ensure your reward for obedience.
So... As a biker, I don't see any problem with flying as you described it. Flying low? Why would you want to fly over the clouds? Sounds cool, but most cities are located under 2km over the sea level anyway, and you would be actually making travel times longer. How slow? 100km/h? Sounds great. Equipment and weather? Helmet, wind proof water resistant clothing and gloves... Yeah, I wear those everyday. Still better than being stuck in a traffic jam and inhaling exhaust fumes from all those stupid SUVs EDIT: WITH ONLY ONE PERSON IN IT.
Yeah, the necessary gear and legal realities don't sound considerable to a biker and pilot. Goggles, helmets, and an insulated, low friction suit sounds awesome. Most of these limitations are "well, yeah. Your point?" to someone who has studied aviation. If those concerns alone were significant, no one would bother flying ultralights. Watch some of those people and decide whether they think they're missing out on anything.
Bird strikes are still a thing, hit a crow once going 50mph, broke 3 ribs, bruised the entirely of my chest, it actually tore my jacket open. Managed to keep the rubber down luckily so still in the haven’t yet dropped a bike catagory, but dear god was it painful.
You are basically flying in protective gear when using any motorcycles, bicycles, electric unicycles etc... any open personal transport, so being able to move without it would be so much of an advantage. Of course considering all physical limitations, you wouldn't be able to fly like a superhero but just imagine flying to your local shop or university with a car speed above the houses. Huge time savings even across short distances like few kilometers, huge cost savings because of eliminating a need for any personal transport and lots of new experience
"I'll concede that some kind of flight power that has you just floating above the trees at the speed of a car over to your friends place would be awesome." In all the dreams I've had about flying, that's exactly how it's worked, and it most certainly is awesome.
the kind of flight i fantasize about is more floatation that isnt limited by weight or being conscious or any effort or manipulating gravity and thing i choose with the same bonuses
For me it‘s controlling gravity all along. Imagine sleeping at 0.1G. If you can control the Influence of Gravity on objects you could levitate objects. Depending on how good you are, you could immediately stop bullets if you just change their gravity to 10000G in another direction. You just need to be careful that you don’t accidentally kill yourself.
The true potential of the power of flight. Whenever somebody pisses you off, you just to float and act godlike, it will surely scare the everliving fecalmatter out of them
hahahaha and then you extend your open hand towards him like you're about to do something when actually you don't have more powers. And if it doesn't work you just fly your knee to his face XD
you just give me a weird idea of annoying those people: levitate or "fly" right above their head for indefinite amount of time, and go higher when they try to reach you. idk where that came from but feels rather annoying
I mean I'm not hearing any negatives here, like sure it's pretty useless but you can still use it for some helpful tasks. Like not dying when you fall out a window. Or skipping the lift, or not having to find a crosswalk or bridge ect Basically, I'll take low level flight
And if you had some sort of metal suit or missile looking shell for even more speed, or maybe if you could fly inside and push a small plane,. And you could fly your car out of traffic haha
Or if you had telekinesis, then you would have the ability to fly as well and just as a safety measure. you might pass out from the g-force so you would put an invisible barrier around you so that air resistance to the face wouldn't be much of a problem.
@Nathan Andres exactly, also if you had super speed, you'd need to be invulnerable. Otherwise, your body would be torn to pieces. So if you think about it, the flash should technically not feel a punch from a regular person.
@Mikimarux well, looks like someone else here has secret powers and is willing to share trade secrets with us all. Good tip! But what do you do about the drag, like when your feet start to flip around, because I can't seem to keep my feet from doing this weird dolphin thing at any speed higher than 80mph?
@@summeronio9751 I'm confused by his statement that you just have oxygen at 4km... This is just over 13k feet. I've been skydiving at 14k feet with no oxygen... Is he referring to spending extended periods of time at this altitude?
Even given all the restrictions listed, I would still take this power. Having to wear a flight suit and oxygen in exchange for never getting stuck in traffic? I would take that any day. Even if you have to limit you elevation to only a kilometer or two, that is still high enough to easily go over most objects. And flight speed limited to 50-60 kph would still beat just about any conventional travel method simply in terms of being able to fly directly there and not take roads that aren't direct. As for the mid air collisions, staying under a Km or two would have you well under most flight pats, with the exception of flying right next to an airport. With the issue of bird strikes, most people are able to drive safely at 50-60 kph, so I think that avoiding birds wouldn't be too big of an issue. So while you couldn't go speeding through the air at Mach whatever, or easily travel far distances, on a day to day basis, I still think this power would be viable, and very useful, even with the limitations you have listed.
With being able to fly with 60 km/h it would take me 2:39 minutes to get to the university. It takes me longer to walk to the tram. But to visit my parents it would take me one hour longer than driving.
This video is made by an idiot, until the power of Jets, ALL AIRCRAFT were not pressurized and flew at or near 80-300mph in an altitude of or about 400 feet above land, many of which were open topped or at the vary least not air tight in anyway. so, in the near 150 years of only in the last 40 or so have we even had a proper windshield let alone any level of pressurization
Wow... you may want to untwist there, pal...you'll hurt yourself. It's not 100 years ago, where you could land anywhere you want, fly without a license, or even formal training. It's today. ..with tens of thousands of planes, helicopters, drones in the air daily, way more skyscrapers, and RADAR. Your ad hominem attack is idiotic.
Paused at zero seconds, im telling you right now NOTHING you will say will convince me I would not want the power of flight. With safe practice, and small speeds, and low altitudes, it would definitely be safe and definitely worth having.
I think that's usually because people think of Superman or a Superman-like character like the many Superman analogues in comics when they think of a character flying.
That's the beauty of this. He was looking strictly at the power of flight, and ignoring all other powers. He even said at the end, you would need additional powers to be able to do what Superman does.
Fly around altitude of 2 km and use a motorcycle suit, you can withstand around 200km/h and since birdstrikes can happen to a motor driver the gear is designed and padded to be able to take highspeed collisions with birds
Just a quick note on the convective skin cooling thing: downhill skiers can move up to 90mph in some cases, but even average non-olympians can do 60mph on skis pretty easily. They do this in sub-freezing temperatures routinely. At European resorts many runs are several km long and take much more than 2 minutes to descend, even at great speed. Olympic downhill courses, even at maximum human ski speed, sometimes take over 2 minutes to complete. It is extremely rare for anyone to experience ski-induced frostbite, even on exposed face skin. Further, my grandfather got frostbite on his toes in WWII flying missions with open windows, BUT it took many hours of sitting sedentary in those cold aerial temperatures on bombing missions... and only happened because they didn't issue his size (14) insulated flight boots at that time. So, if skiers don't get frostbite on their faces, and bomber crews only get frostbite after hours of sitting still with the wrong boots, I think the danger of frostbite can be fairly easily mitigated with some simple winter gear. Nothing Iron-Man fancy. Its just not the inhibiting factor that you are depicting, unless you are flying around naked up there. Now bird strikes, oxygen, etc. those are much more pressing concerns.
While skiing you're mostly wearing some insulating clothing, except on your face, which is surprisingly not that bothered byfreezing temperatures anyways, but keep in mind, that this is a guy from Los Angeles speaking, if I'm not mistaken, where it's still 23°C right now, so he probably forgot, that there are warm jackets, that do a surprisingly good job at keeping you from freezing.
@J Paterson I readily concede the cloud argument in that I was assuming dry skin. I object to the ducking argument, in that flying would naturally assume an aerodynamic position, just as skiing would. Hands forward, face down. The ducking (or tucking as its called) from skiing would not put any less airflow over the face than flying. And as far as mountaineering, that is an all-day or multi-day adventure. The frostbite is certainly not normally suffered in the first few minutes of climbing, but over a longer period of prolonged exposure. I am simply stating that the 2 minutes referenced in the video is ridiculously fast compared to real-life experiences of people with exposed skin and high cold winds. Not that you cannot get frostbite... you certainly can.
@@genoobtlp4424 yeah, thats all I'm saying. A little trip to REI and you could probably fly around for quite a while. Maybe not hours and hours, but a quick trip of 10-15 minutes probably would not result in frostbite, even at 60mph.
for the cold factor I think that a suitable technical clothing is the solution (basically there are people who work at the south pole outdoors at many tens of degrees below zero and survive) but the point I think is the concept of flight in culture pop ... definitely far from the difficulties of real life lol
I think the most realistic way to flight is like the Iron Man. Wearing an special suit, with coordination systems, thermal systems, oxygen supply system, like the comfort of an airplane in a suit form.
@@tehsolace just put some iron bars to sustain your body and keep you in the same place. In according with your movements the bar metals pushes the suit to move as well. Very simple.
Everyone thinks the best super powers to have are Flying, Invisibility, Teleporting, Shapeshifting, Stopping Time/Time travel, Mindreading, Strength and Speed. But after thinking about it for awhile, even though stopping time would be great to save lives, I think the best super power to have would be the power of suggestion/persuasion. You simply say something to someone and they immediately do what you said without question.
Now that's a superpower that could actually break the law every time it's used because it's basically manipulation into making people do things against their will
Not quite. See, people have this strange quirk about not liking to be slaves. And laws about unlawful imprisonment + forced labour too. Most superpowers that are considered heroic, are those that influence yourself, giving you extra stuff. When you go into mind-control and other perception-affecting powers, then it's not so clear. And when you gain time by draining others, it's far less heroic too. Which is why we already use money to waste other's people time, lawfully. Now, if your power gives you a lot of money, and you pay people to do stuff for you...then it's fine.
My explanation for Superman’s flight is that he vibrates at roughly the speed of light while midair, which cancels out the force of gravity. So you’d have to do a little work to get off the ground. Also, he uses super strength to leap into the air anyway.
You only need to go high enough to go over trees and buildings... And something like a surfers wet suit would make the temperature “problem” moot. The power of flight would be awesome.
even more so, he can actually alter the code of the simulation to his liking. so even if all of the physical restrictions mentioned were properly coded into the matrix to begin with, he could just overwrite them - one might say - on the fly.. *HEY-OOOHH*
In comicbooks Superman manipulates graviton particles allowing him to fly. Considering he's extremely durable and can go at a fast rate alongside prolonged breathing capacity, the physics behind his form of flight is surprisingly well-written to go with physics in comics.
To be fair, most superheroes who can fly have additional measures to protect them. Superman is invulnerable and doesn't need to breathe. Green Lantern's ring protects him from the elements. Iron Man's suit protects him. Thor is a god, so mortal limitations don't really affect him. Etc., etc. Of course, my favorite "flying" superhero is The Blimp from the Inferior Five. He can't actually fly, he just sort of floats. His teammates usually drag him along with a rope.
You completely miss the mark. Kyle points out the simple fact that even if superman was made of diamond, or if he was in fact Iron man, he would still not survive a bird strike: There is no material known to man or even an energy field or anything else than can beat conservation of momentum. The kinetic energy of the bird relative to the fast flyer is huge. A ring - no matter of which composition and of which race or even of intergalactic multidimensional race, cannot beat conservation of momentum, as the momentum has to go somewhere, so even if the ring creates some sort of magical super strong field, the sudden momentum change would still be transferred to whoever flies in said field at super high relative velocity, and he would still be hit just as if that field didn't exist at all. Even he was made of diamond - with the mass of an average human being (and not - say, the mass of a Boeing 747), he would still crumble into dust. There goes all that superhero BS :-).
BTW, its recommended that you watch Kyle's series about Star Wars. He really does a neat job out of it. You could say Kyle snipes away the whole light saber theme and super luminary travel. And besides, its hilarious. watch?v=_-niSHWcnGQ and also watch?v=i1M95njhovw .
@@deadlyninja112 "Invincible" is BS: If something is "invincible" by your logic, than what is it made from? Even diamond would crumble to dust from the sudden change of momentum these 90,000N would impart upon impact and no magical or else field will defend against it, since the guy in said field still needs to change his momentum instantly. And this is exactly the problem. So he cannot be made out of flesh and blood. So what is he made of? Steel won't take it, diamond won't either.. Neutron star material? Than would simply explode in Earths pressure. Black hole? Common. In short, what Kyle points out is that none of this superhero stuff stands even a moment scrutiny. You don't need deep reflection to disqualify it, all you need is to apply the laws of physics and it crumbles away instantly. The interesting thing is that even human imagination falls short here, the moment you simply apply physics. Even "MAGIC" won't save the poor superman when he hits a bird. All you have to do to realize this, is apply conservation of momentum, and that's game over for suppy.
The kind of flight I'm capable of in dreams and stuff is basically swimming through air. With a bit of a jump and a few strokes, I get to go above my house and look around my neighborhood or whatever environment I'm in (sometimes it's a big grassy field, one time it was a giant cave) from above. I some versions of the dream, I start falling if I stay in one place for too long, so I have to control my descent too. I'd like that kind of flight.
sorry if this is creepy but i have a mild interest in dream meanings and feel like what you're describing might be telling about your psychology - flight is often meant to portray freedom, either a feeling of current freedom or a desire to be free - so your dreams could be telling you that you feel free as long as you don't stagnate
Your flight on your dreams are awesome! All Im able to do in my dreams is to "fly" in like a wave form, up and down, at walking speeds... and 2 feet off the ground...
This has happened to me, and I used to have similar dreams to this. It started off me in my grandparents back yard jumping and going very high and kind of floating and slowly coming down like your jumping on the moon. And then Faced to the field to the south and I started to glide. It was kind of like when you push off a surface in the pool and kind of push forward just more constant movement through the air. It was more like a gliding kind of sense than flying since I usually start to fall back down the ground very slowly during the glide.
i would still want it. thermal body-suit for the cold and collision, like a steel fitted armor set for going long distances and just a thermal one for short ones. other than that it would be training to make ur flights as safe as possible, training ur stomach, ur head, ur muscles and why not, have a parachute too for the worst case scenario.
Hey yo that “floating above the trees at the speed of a car” is *exactly* my dream version of flight good to know that doesn’t have terrible consequences 👌
i think that at the speed of a car a bird strike can still hurt you way more than a motorcycle accident, i mean take the damage from the impact and take the damage from the fall THAT'S A LOTTA DAMAGE
Yeah like if you fly 100 meters above ground you avoid most buildings, and the speed of a car will take places way faster than driving. So yes, sounds good.
@@aikslf which bird we talking about cause you know that mr. pilgrim falcon is a bird right? i'm kidding, anyway you would need to be careful in any case, because it's like driving a bike but more dangerous
Fun fact: the mics that pilots use are voice activated so that "uhhhhhh" you hear so often from pilots are them waking up the mic so that it transmits their whole message and doesn't cut off the beginning
Interesting. But why wouldn't they just make them push-button-to-talk so they don't have to sound like they forgot what to say? Are their hands very busy while they're talking?
@@sadyakubovich I don't fly often, but I thought they did all the talking while waiting on the runway. I know there's at least 10 minutes between all the passengers being loaded and the plane actually moving.
@ross plavsic they do the boring talking in a stationary position yes, but if something happen, and pilot needs to adress the people, lets say in a turbulance, be sure that he wont have his hand available.
My question is, at what point would the air resistance cause enough friction (like a rocket on reentry) to warm you up enough to counteract the temperature and wind chill? Is that possible?
It isn't Friction that warms up rockets on reentry. Rockets and metors heat up because they compress the air in front of them. Remember one of are problems is not enough air.
It's possible, but you're talking supersonic speeds. BUT, then you run into the problem where the friction from drag starts to cook you alive. Also, you have to deal with the sonic boom you'd create, and all civil aviation authorities (like the FAA) would want to have a word with you. Did you know that, at least in the US, that noise abatement issues was one of the reason Concorde flights were restricted to specific airports? Yeup, the plane sucked at subsonic flights so the crew would do what they could to get up to speed as quickly as possible... and that really limited where the Concord could go.
It could still be a very valuable power for a few reasons. The biggest benefit would be that you could safely do things that have the hazard of falling, like working on towers, bridges, caves, buildings, and anything more than 6 feet off the ground; just being able to stop yourself from falling to death or injury in general. Imagine the nice jobs contracting yourself out for projects. Another would be that it's a good thing for a human to have for survival, you could much more easily escape grounded threats..
As a motorcyclist, I'm no stranger to wind chill at even 100km/h - compounded if the initial air temperature is already sub-zero (i.e. riding to work on a frosty morning). As to bird strike - motorcyclists have had that, too. One I heard of was lucky in that it hit the bike (and "merely" _demolished_ his coolant system) rather than striking his body. I haven't had a bird strike - _yet_ - but I have had a _bee_ strike... which was enough to forcibly knock my head back when the bee hit my helmet visor at approx. 100km/h. If it had been a sparrow, I would have been knocked off the bike. How do I cope with propelling my frail human body at "merely" 100km/h? By wearing protective clothing to keep me warm against wind chill and somewhat protected from rogue bees and machinegun-like raindrops. I have a full-body outfit including leggings, jacket, boots, gloves and a helmet with a transparent visor so that my body doesn't bear the brunt of inclement weather and inconsiderate insects. This set-up can protect someone from air pressure and wind chill at speeds up to around 360km/h (c.f. 1234.8km/h for the speed of sound) but if you were hit by a bee, let alone a bird, at that sort of speed, it's going to be an issue. At those sorts of speeds, the riders are generally crouched down behind a fairing and a windshield that is forcing most of the incoming air (and bees) past them, anyway, not riding exposed like a person on a "naked" bike. Anything faster than that and you're going to need invulnerability as a secondary super-power or some serious hard armour. Even if you could fly under your own power, you're going to wind up looking like Iron Man if you want to travel at a decent speed or altitude.
Yeah dude my buddy took a bird to the face at about 45 mph. Luckily he was wearing his full face helmet because it was chilly that day but he said it damn near took him out
@@DangerCloseMinis Damn! That was lucky! I won't wear anything but a full-face after arsing off the bike when I was still experimenting with the "keeping it upright at all times" concept and when I took my helmet off, the deep gouges in the chin-guard of the helmet, my understanding of the relative hardness of my flesh and bone and that of gravel, and my own overly graphic imagination was enough for me to decide it was lucky I didn't have an open-face helmet on! Still, would not want to get suddenly surprised by a bird strike to the helmet - OK, I might get a bit more warning to brace myself for impact with a bird than with a bee (that I didn't see until it had actually smeared itself across my visor) but I still wouldn't want to have it happen. Glad your mate managed to keep control.
Came here to say the same stuff. Rain without leather hurts. I've dropped my motorcycle at about 15-20mph (avoiding a car that didn't see me). My ribs were sore for a week and had a gash on my leg where my leather shifted. Flying would only be fun in the summer.
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this is what I liked about dragon ball flight in which they made this sphere of aura around them that likely solved most of these issues; they just vaporized the bugs and birds they encountered
Yes like motorcycle cruising speed for local flying around. Just don't accelerate to mach 2 then come to a dead stop. Ugh that would cause a gross mess. Honestly for world travel just give me the space stone hehe.
Ah true, though some superheroes don't have secondary powers, or relevant ones at least. Although only gliding, there is Moon Knight. And the Falcon simply flies (though he does have a bird in the comics that might just keep the other birds away lol). Also, we can include the Wasp and Yellowjacket (though mini sized, does that make a difference?) and, from Alpha Flight, Aurora and Northstar, as well as Quicksilver (in an early Avengers' comic he can fly short distances by rubbing/vibrating his legs; yeah a bit weird). But most fly at slower speed and mostly zipping around cities not way up into the atmosphere. And most others have special powers (secondary powers) like magic, durable bodies, intangibility, flames, etc. ... and they have those secondary powers because, you know, science. :)
already nearly doable man: ua-cam.com/video/U2-VqGcwXVU/v-deo.html EDIT: max speed of this thing currently attempted is 46mph, or about 74kph. The guys did say it is capable of higher speeds, but with regards to safety it needs further development.
I'd still rather have to put on a special suit every time I wanted to fly then have to deal with TSA and the increasingly decreased space we seem to have on flights.
Oh cmon we all know daedalus could have made it better and unable to melt. We of course are talking about the inventor of the minotaurs prison, the Labyrinth
People really overlook the more mundane benefits that flight would grant. It would affect any and all motion. Never worry about tripping or falling or getting stuck anywhere. Slippery surfaces don't matter because you move yourself independent of your surroundings. You could push way heavier objects because you can just fly-push yourself into them without the limitation of how much force your weight+friction can generate. Fighting is super easy because -you- don't have to dodge and attack. You can just fling yourself around and drop kick everyone from any angle with zero downsides. Don't feel like getting out of bed? Just levitate your blanket burrito self to the kitchen to get coffee and levitate right back. Literally your entire life would become an effortless rainbow cloud dreamland from a physical standpoint. Every movement we will ever make is completely reliant on the 3 laws of motion and flight would let you compeltely ignore the 1st and 3rd. Its broken af
But that's only because the circuits would get fried every time he used his lightning. Tony doesn't have the time to fix them multiple times each battle.
@@3lueoce512 Actually since Ironman can recharge his armor with Thor's lightning in Avenger 1 so Ironman could built a ironman armor custom made for Thor. it could actually even better in Thor hand because he can call lightning and recharge the suit anytime
Perfect telekinesis would essentially be god mode. Flight would be a simple matter, but you could do soooo many other things with the ability to control matter to a perfect degree
@@_Dio_Brando_69 I don't know about "God Mode", it is pretty much canon that most telekinetics are unable to lift themselves... Of course, comic book physics and laws are fairly flexible, that can change...
I'm surprised bugs didn't get a mention. Even "low and slow" is a problem because you could end up with bugs smashed all over your face. Depending on the area, it could be a substantial amount of them, and going "car speed" through them would not be fun. Even if you're Superman, with all the powers to survive the issues mentioned in the video, you're still likely to have bug guts splattered all over you when you takeoff / land in the wrong places. In places without a ton of bugs, you still run the risk of catching a stray one to the face.
A lot of your videos assume we get the one single ability we wouldn't want by itself. I'm sure if we had the power of flight our bodies would also adapt to handle flying all over.
@@supercon20 Yes they can. They have found locusts flying at 4500 m, mayflies at 5000 m, and butterflies as high as 6000m. see article: www.livescience.com/55454-how-high-can-insects-fly.html
@@DatsuKyoraku That would be the superpower I choose depending on how potent it is. If we assume we can control our bodies and the air around us, we can make a pressurized bubble around us which will allow us to accelerate to thousands of miles per hour and be perfectly fine since we wouldn’t make contact with any incoming air nor weather. Of course we might be blind because the bubble would block photons but we’re assuming photons can get in. Then, with all of these parameters, telekinesis would be the best super power around. You could make yourself look stronger than normal, move at extremely high speeds with your self made air bubbles, fly as fast as you want, and control anything you lay your eyes on. At this point it is magic but hey, magic is also extremely cool
"That's not really the version of super-flight we see in pop culture." Well, in those pop culture versions, accurate physics don't exist, so I think I do want super-flight!
You should have used "Avian Dinosaurs" instead of birds. Technically the same, but much, much cooler. "There are an estimated 13.000 avian dinosaur strikes in the U.S. alone each year." also "When a plane hits an avian dinosaur mid-flight (...)"
I think the hardest part people don't think about is the neck strain. Lay flat and then tilt your head back to look forward constantly. It's not a natural resting position. Our heads naturally look forward from a sitting or standing position. Now factor in the wind resistance further pushing back on your head the entire time and you're going to have one hell of a sore neck in a very short time. You're going to end up looking straight down trying to rest your neck which will prevent you from looking where you're going. If you fly in a sitting or standing position you're going to greatly increase wind resistance; you'll quickly feel like you're in a wind tunnel so you'd need some sort of seat with a clear aerodynamic shell... that would all be dependent on how much additional weight your power can support.
Now this would have been a better point unlike all the inaccurate info in this video. The only issue he got right was the government being picky over things in their airspace. All this other points were debunked by skydivers: people who travel faster than speeds he said would be possible at higher altitudes than he said we could go without passing out or getting frostbite.
Honestly I could be pretty happy just riding a broom at about 20-30 MPH. I'll get where I need to go eventually. It's just the lack of expended energy and no obstacles at about two stories high that would be the biggest benefit.
@@Brandonhayhew It would probably be hard to support someone's body weight while levitating though, especially if you need some kind of pivot point rather than just moving freely through the air. But with time and practice these would all become less of an issue and your body would adapt
I found this video because I recently went Skydiving for the first time and I realized how thick the atmosphere really is. One thing I'm still wondering. At 14,000 feet or under, without temperature being a factor, and without Superman's invincibility, how fast could someone fly before the atmosphere starts tearing the body apart? And what would happen first? Hair ripping out, skin tearing off? Etc?
We do have motorcycle gear for temperature and bird strike issues - being able to fly at 50-100 meters altitude at 50-60 kmph would really REALLY save me a lot of commuting time.
I would like to point out that during the air argument he only uses the example of static pressure. However dynamic pressure exists, while it also decreases with altitude it also goes up with air speed. You could raise your max altitude by going faster. Going faster also would somewhat increase temperature, negating cold attitudes. You would have to go slower at lower altitudes though.
Exactly, which is why Mach 2.8 is the max sustained speed most military planes can fly unless the leading edges are made of titanium, composite materials, ceramic, or carbon nanotubules, otherwise, the plane will melt. The SR-71 & X-15 were both made from titanium.
Dynamic pressure is not a real substitute for static pressure. Unless you have a container that is only open to the front - which if you put your mouth forwards, you kind of have. But you still will never be able to reach altitudes at which you need a pressure suit for your body, since the rear side of it will not be able to benefit from the dynamic pressure. Also, the problem with using drag to heat you up is that at lower speeds, the chilling effect dominates (unless you are in 36° / 100F warm air). Meaning that if you want to get to those warming speeds you'll need the ability to accelerate faster than you start getting frostbite. Also, even if you were able to make it to mach 2.8, you'd need to be able to fly while spinning yourself around, or your front-facing side would get much warmer than the rest of your body. Interestingly, none of these problems immediately rules out that you could exceed mach 1 or altitudes of 12 km. You might land bald and I'd advise the most heat and rip resistant clothing you can find, but it MAY be possible to survive flight at the conditions of commercial airliners, as far as I know. It all depends on which altitude-velocity profiles are available to you. Firstly, you'd need the dynamic+static pressure to be near or above 1atm (if it's more, you can just turn your mouth away from the forwards direction). Secondly, you need the ambient temperature plus heating effects to not deviate from normal conditions (for too long). Sadly, the chart he showed at 6:07 didn't nearly reach airplane speeds (those would be 17 times further down). And the combination of those 2 profiles might make some altitude or speed ranges unsuitable for sustained flight (additionally to the hard limit of 19km).
Even if I couldn't go above say 1 km, and wouldn't be able to fly faster than 30 km/h in order to stay safe, I'd still see that as an absolute win. Yes it is quite slow compared to a car, but keep in mind that you're no longer restricted by 2 dimensional movement (left/right, forward/backward). You can simply fly up a bit, and then go in a straight line to wherever you need to be.
Walking speed is about 5 feet a second, and most people can reach naturally a height of about 6 1/2 feet off the ground comfortably. Think of what you could accomplish if you had flight that was "limited to" 120 feet above a solid or liquid surface, and allowed you to move at a speed of up to 20 feet per second.
The speed of a fast bicycle would be enough, and the altitude doesn't need to be that much, either, maybe maximum 1,000 meters, or even less. That would completely suffice for me, and be completely safe given the right clothing. I don't see why I wouldn't want that.
Funny how they never show that in Ironman films. Lol He'd need a little windshield wiper on his face plates. Plus the stuff in your car you use to clean the windshield.
About the skin turning cold - can't you just get a custom suit built for that? You only wear it when travelling long distances because you won't really need it when you just wanna hover 20 ft above the ground and go to your friends' house or running errands
you sold me the idea of flight when you talked about frozen pee. Imagine frozen icicles of pee raining down from the sky, slaying man and beast alike. who wouldn't want to have that godlike ability
You are comparing being able to fly with being able to fly like an airliner. I am a glider pilot and if you would be able to fly like a glider pilot without a plane, well hell yeah. None of the problems you talked about would be a problem there. Put on a helmet and some warm clothing plus a radio rucksack, you would be fine.
I was thinking fly like a helicopter or humming bird. Hover. No need for ladders. Not a "super power" but that's always been my dream. Gliding would be cool, too! See, we can avoid all those problems with our solutions! 👍🏻
I allways imaginated the flight superpower as 100-200m high and regular car velocity. I live on a tiny island. Is 40 minutes with car going to one extreme to the other, no skyscrapers and not high mountains. And main land is close enough that you see it on sunny cool/windy days (when there's not too much evaporation from the sea)
@@godsdontcry3883 I thought in the case of superman kryptonians developed anti gravity organs to combat the intense gravity caused by kryptons red sun?
That's exactly how the comic writers explained Superman's ability to fly. Telekinesis is also what makes him invulnerable. He creates a force field on his skin with tk. So if you want to fly like Superman, you'd want his level of telekinesis.
I don’t think that calculation is accurate as F=ma is only applicable after a force has been exerted, you would need to use conservation of momentum or just measure how much the bird accelerates and then use Newton’s laws to approximate the force of the collision. However, the main takeaway seems to be correct
![How Does Superman Fly? [Sup Sci Pilot]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/qC7601wD_Us/mqdefault.jpg)
So basically what I've come to understand is you wouldn't want just one super power. You want them all
Basically he’s saying you want to be a god.
Sylar had the right plan
@@norteco this is a deep cut but damn im here for it !
Yep, to have one major power you need multiple other minute ones. That's what I get form these videos
No because then you would have the super power to shart everytime you blinj
Bro Just being able to fly 10 feet from the ground would be an absolute game changer.
Terrain advantage for life
@@alexfanfan9511 High Ground for Life
@@scarlettaddams anakin dead for life
I would prefer to have over 1 storey of altitude. Otherwise, you're still weaving through streets, between buildings, and trees, and stuff. Make it at least 15' for rooftops, just to be on the safe side, because most single storey suburban homes don't have flat roofs. Otherwise, you're talking about as much of a game changer as riding around the trailer park on a moped. Your feet are over pedestrian's heads, that's about it. (Not to mention, just falling from 10 feet, going about 35mph probably isn't the sort of "Game changer" you're thinking of, unless you think crutches are cool, for some reason.)
This is exactly what I thought. I don't need to go way up in the sky or anything like that.
"You won't be flying very high"
I don't know about other people, but, I consider safely flying 2 miles into the air to be flying pretty damn high lol
2miles is still high
Because you need to get away from these pesky birds. Note that during the migration period, some birds create 'clouds' of millions of birds and there is absolutely no way you will not fly into one, if you happen to be in one of their paths. While this doesn't seem like much, Kyle points out that even if you're 'only' flying 550 km/h, the force of the impact with the bird is 90,000N which is enough to completely destroy you even if you were made out of solid diamond and since we are talking momentum here, the ONLY way to protect you, is for you to have enough mass to distribute this force evenly, like - say - a Boeing 747 but it would still suffer a lot of structural damage.. No ring, no force field, nothing can protect you from the conservation of momentum. That's exactly the reason why airliners fly at 30,000 feet.
@@nyyotam4057 also the atmosphere is too thick to fly fast near the ground.
nyyotam
There’s no birds in my area, so I’ve won.
aidanjt
Explain cars then please
Bro, imagining that I could fly at like 1 km height and go 30 miles per hour to school is still the coolest thing to ever imagine so I would take the superpower 100%
Bro switchhing from imperial AND metric like it's nothing where TF you from
The UK uses both
That's all you need anyway, the point of the power is traveling. I also don't see the danger of going as fast as a motorcycle but just high enough where no buildings are in your way. Even then, you'd adjust speed and go around. I don't want to be an airplane just take no fall damage, simply hovering would be dope
There's also a remarkable technology called "warm clothing" which could make it possible to fly at, say, 3-4 kilometres up, at speeds comparable to a car or perhaps a light aircraft.
then you get kidnapped by the government for experimentation
If I could fly like Superman, I would simply stay at a breathable altitude and fly at a manageable speed. There you go, the power of flight made desirable again.
@Fuckyou EatshitDie he’s from a different planet he isn’t human so he wouldn’t have the same limitations as humans
@Fuckyou EatshitDie viltrumites have an impossible about of lung capacity letting them survive in space for weeks at a time
But super man can breath in the space
@@443MoneyTrees super man is also an alien. Which Omni man is literally derived from lmao
@Fuckyou EatshitDie Omniman explicitly stated that he doesn't need to breath. You know, when he taught Mark how to fly in space, and he asked how he breaths there...
"That's the neat part. You don't."
If I could fly, I see no reason to go THAT much vertical anyway. Flying at a comfortable 50 meters above the ground does also fine.
and on weekends fly up to a skyscraper just for fun
The biggest advantage of this superpower is countering high falls IMO, wich is still valid.
I was thinking the same thing
Yeah, like why the hell would we want to go above 600 feet anyway?
And suit up with some bottled air, IF you want to fly a higher.
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Why you don't want *_W A L K I N G_*
You don’t, just tried it and now my legs are broken.
Why you don't want B R E A T H I N G
Krystian Golus episode after that why you don’t wan’t L I F E
Why the hell we r living
Why you don’t want E X I S T A N C E
This analysis is taking it to the extreme when all we want is to be able to have a nice stroll in the air
That but I also want to fly fast to any location
He mentioned that the power of flight he discussed is about the pop culture of flying superfast.
and being chased by scientists wanting to experiment on you
Bro im sayin i just wanna relax just sleeping in flight and not needing a bed or gravity anymore... the simplest Pleasure
@Velocity HDMI mate why fly fast when you can teleport. Never said why we can fly maybe we're pure energy and can send ourselves in a text as well
"Why You Don't Want the Power of Flight."
Said by Thor.
Yes of course.
lol
Yes thats totally thor mhm
Exposed
Well he has the durability to do so
He's talking in personal experience
This only considers it as a long distance travel option though. You don't have to stop taking flights or commuting to work, its just a fun little (huge really) novelty=) Just hover around at "floating" speeds, even that would be fun. Take some pictures, take your gf on a ride, reach that top box, dunk on any hoop, never need ladders again, do amazing tricks on a snowboard, etc. the list goes on=D I think people want the power of flight because of the amazing sensation of flying itself, not to travel efficiently.
Knowing that I could stop myself from falling would really ease my fear of heights. That would be one of the biggest advantages to me.
@@andrewt9204 As long as it's a far enough fall, I feel like your immediate ape brain panic from the sensation of falling will keep you from remembering "Oh right I can fly" for long enough to hit the ground if you're too low. I've had this reaction when climbing a few times, not remembering that there's a rope about to catch me until it does.
Yeah! I just want to go upstairs without having to do the stairs part. That would be good enough for me
yeah, for travels woud suck, I bet you would get exhausted from flying a certain amount of time, so a long travel at a car speed seems impossible.
@@zakabog I'm assuming it's a natural reflex if you have it from birth kinda like how you put your arms out when you trip its just natural or we can straight up assume we would start floating if were about to hit the ground just because, I do still get what your saying though and it's honestly a valid argument
I believe fear of heights dies down really quickly when you can easily levitate off the floor with relative ease
yeah, you'll eventually get used to it.
You would probably have to slow down your fall before just stopping If you're falling fast, I'm no expert on this stuff but coming to an abrupt halt, even If It's do to your flying ability, would probably screw your body In some way, shape or form
Guess what. You don't need a superpower to get rid of your phobias
Yeah. Walking would be pretty scary too if you accelerated 9.8m/s and couldn't stop
It's not a fear of heights or even falling, it's a fear of hitting the ground!
One aspect I think is cool about flight is that, assuming it wasn't tiring in any way, you could just passively float. It depends on which flight superpower 'model' you're going on, but would be extremely handy in itself. Also I think it would still be cool to go slow. I'm not up to date on laws about flying, but you could probably fly (obviously slowly) at about double the height of an average person (~3.5 metres). This would be incredibly useful for getting through crowds. Last idea, assuming you don't need to be in a specific stance, you could get on a bike or something like that and use your ability to propel yourself forwards. This would be incredibly cost efficient and wouldn't break any laws, and could still be safe, efficient, and effective.
Yeah until everyone else learns how to fly and then instead of the traffic being on the ground, it'd be up 3m in the air with you....
he is like a genie that you have to be really really reeaaallllllyyyyyyy specific with
Definitely xd
"i want to be able to fly, but i want to be able to breath in low and no oxygen environments, and i want to be able to withstand sub zero temperatures, and have super human reflexes so i don't suffer mid air collisions.
I feel like you might as well just say “make me kryptonian” or “make me a god”
I wish you had no rules i wish for 1m wishes lol
@@darthxerxes5468 forgot Resistance to heat super durability also some attack power for those missiles he
Nope, I still want that power.
Or you could just go to college and then join the piloting school to fly a plane or a jet.
I still want every single superpower he has made videos on about why I wouldn't want them.
@@lvl18abilities Pilots gets payed for flying planes or jets. Normal People with super flying powers will face something, that pilots can handle, those people will pay the price for their injuries.
@@Brandonhayhew do you know how much money you would make showing off your powers? People would pay thousands
@@KillaZamii Powers, yes but they mostly want you to do suicide missions, and pay you enough and might to use you as sponsors for advertisement. Only super power is worth is superman or Shazam, Dr' Manhatten, Captain Marvel, Thor super powers and all they immune to all of the elements. Or Iron man along with us air forces. The one paying is the government carry out their orders and they ensure your reward for obedience.
So... As a biker, I don't see any problem with flying as you described it. Flying low? Why would you want to fly over the clouds? Sounds cool, but most cities are located under 2km over the sea level anyway, and you would be actually making travel times longer. How slow? 100km/h? Sounds great. Equipment and weather? Helmet, wind proof water resistant clothing and gloves... Yeah, I wear those everyday. Still better than being stuck in a traffic jam and inhaling exhaust fumes from all those stupid SUVs EDIT: WITH ONLY ONE PERSON IN IT.
Yeah, the necessary gear and legal realities don't sound considerable to a biker and pilot. Goggles, helmets, and an insulated, low friction suit sounds awesome. Most of these limitations are "well, yeah. Your point?" to someone who has studied aviation. If those concerns alone were significant, no one would bother flying ultralights. Watch some of those people and decide whether they think they're missing out on anything.
WeissM89 Also you could illegally immigrate
Man, we are all talking about this like we can actually fly
Bird strikes are still a thing, hit a crow once going 50mph, broke 3 ribs, bruised the entirely of my chest, it actually tore my jacket open. Managed to keep the rubber down luckily so still in the haven’t yet dropped a bike catagory, but dear god was it painful.
@@azrael6280 what you can't
You are basically flying in protective gear when using any motorcycles, bicycles, electric unicycles etc... any open personal transport, so being able to move without it would be so much of an advantage. Of course considering all physical limitations, you wouldn't be able to fly like a superhero but just imagine flying to your local shop or university with a car speed above the houses. Huge time savings even across short distances like few kilometers, huge cost savings because of eliminating a need for any personal transport and lots of new experience
"I'll concede that some kind of flight power that has you just floating above the trees at the speed of a car over to your friends place would be awesome."
In all the dreams I've had about flying, that's exactly how it's worked, and it most certainly is awesome.
These are my favorite dreams
I once flew to the top of a building, but my dream immediately faded to black afterwards. Has never happened again :(
@@solonyetski if my dream ever faded black I would get scared af
@@airam1721 it faded to black and then showed me floating painted portraits of what seemed to be Slavic conquerors. I'm latino.
@@solonyetski lmao
This video didn’t change my mind and I still want to fly.
Just dont fly that high lol
Nich cooke true also don’t need to go at speed of sound lol, this video proves nothing
Get a iron man suit, he said that's better than flying
Didn't pay attention probably
@@lookherelooklisten7850 it proves your virginity
5:11 His hair isn't moving the way it is supposed to when flying, I think this is fake. He wasn't actually flying.
Can confirm.
But you can hear the air whooshing. Stop lying bro
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He's a phoney! That guy's a great big phoney!
Damn! You're right! I feel cheated now!😑😤😡
the kind of flight i fantasize about is more floatation that isnt limited by weight or being conscious or any effort
or manipulating gravity and thing i choose with the same bonuses
For me it‘s controlling gravity all along. Imagine sleeping at 0.1G.
If you can control the Influence of Gravity on objects you could levitate objects. Depending on how good you are, you could immediately stop bullets if you just change their gravity to 10000G in another direction.
You just need to be careful that you don’t accidentally kill yourself.
I don’t really care about flying fast I just want to fly. I’d be fine if it was 20mph or something.
i know right
you could just fly at half a kilometer in the air and move at walking speed and it would still be cool
It's still faster than I can run.
I mean like I would fly at like 10 meters
Do you have any idea how slow that would be?
Yeeter Nation bro it’s still flying 😂
The true potential of the power of flight.
Whenever somebody pisses you off, you just to float and act godlike, it will surely scare the everliving fecalmatter out of them
Magne Toftanes That's exactly what I was thinking, I'm a weeb so that's part of my dream.
hahahaha and then you extend your open hand towards him like you're about to do something when actually you don't have more powers. And if it doesn't work you just fly your knee to his face XD
You'd like to think so, but pull that stunt in Texas and the person would just whip out a gun and shoot you out of the air. Only Jesus flies in Texas.
@@richarda3764 Then put on dem robes and a fake beard, it is time to go cosplaying
you just give me a weird idea of annoying those people:
levitate or "fly" right above their head for indefinite amount of time, and go higher when they try to reach you.
idk where that came from but feels rather annoying
I mean I'm not hearing any negatives here, like sure it's pretty useless but you can still use it for some helpful tasks. Like not dying when you fall out a window. Or skipping the lift, or not having to find a crosswalk or bridge ect
Basically, I'll take low level flight
And it's easier to get to your work if you don't have to go to far. A highway is faster, but within one city flying would still be faster.
Watch out for power lines and freaking Magpies if you fly in Australia
And if you had some sort of metal suit or missile looking shell for even more speed, or maybe if you could fly inside and push a small plane,. And you could fly your car out of traffic haha
There's definitely no level on which it's worse than not having flight.
For real. I'd take a little over none.
Alot of these super powers need to have other supporting powers to make them work, like flight+invulnerability
Or if you had telekinesis, then you would have the ability to fly as well and just as a safety measure. you might pass out from the g-force so you would put an invisible barrier around you so that air resistance to the face wouldn't be much of a problem.
@Nathan Andres exactly, also if you had super speed, you'd need to be invulnerable. Otherwise, your body would be torn to pieces. So if you think about it, the flash should technically not feel a punch from a regular person.
I've always said that, so true! 👍
Or just motorcycle leathers plus helmet. Should be good at least up to 140 mph.
@Mikimarux well, looks like someone else here has secret powers and is willing to share trade secrets with us all. Good tip! But what do you do about the drag, like when your feet start to flip around, because I can't seem to keep my feet from doing this weird dolphin thing at any speed higher than 80mph?
Uhhh 2 miles or about 10 thousand feet above the ground is high enough for me 😂
You can probably go 15K with high altitude training.
Hell. I'd be fine at 1000 feet. High enough to see any birds coming, and still plenty of oxygen and warmth
@@summeronio9751 I'm confused by his statement that you just have oxygen at 4km... This is just over 13k feet. I've been skydiving at 14k feet with no oxygen... Is he referring to spending extended periods of time at this altitude?
@@taylormay9938 maybe?
pretty sure he kept saying kilometers 😁
Even given all the restrictions listed, I would still take this power. Having to wear a flight suit and oxygen in exchange for never getting stuck in traffic? I would take that any day. Even if you have to limit you elevation to only a kilometer or two, that is still high enough to easily go over most objects. And flight speed limited to 50-60 kph would still beat just about any conventional travel method simply in terms of being able to fly directly there and not take roads that aren't direct. As for the mid air collisions, staying under a Km or two would have you well under most flight pats, with the exception of flying right next to an airport. With the issue of bird strikes, most people are able to drive safely at 50-60 kph, so I think that avoiding birds wouldn't be too big of an issue. So while you couldn't go speeding through the air at Mach whatever, or easily travel far distances, on a day to day basis, I still think this power would be viable, and very useful, even with the limitations you have listed.
With being able to fly with 60 km/h it would take me 2:39
minutes to get to the university.
It takes me longer to walk to the tram.
But to visit my parents it would take me one hour longer than driving.
Honestly just wear a motorcycle helmet and jacket. You've solved most problems right there.
I'd rather fly like Hawkgirl than Superman anyway, at least that way I know I won't start flying accidentally.
This video is made by an idiot, until the power of Jets, ALL AIRCRAFT were not pressurized and flew at or near 80-300mph in an altitude of or about 400 feet above land, many of which were open topped or at the vary least not air tight in anyway. so, in the near 150 years of only in the last 40 or so have we even had a proper windshield let alone any level of pressurization
Wow... you may want to untwist there, pal...you'll hurt yourself. It's not 100 years ago, where you could land anywhere you want, fly without a license, or even formal training. It's today. ..with tens of thousands of planes, helicopters, drones in the air daily, way more skyscrapers, and RADAR. Your ad hominem attack is idiotic.
Paused at zero seconds, im telling you right now NOTHING you will say will convince me I would not want the power of flight. With safe practice, and small speeds, and low altitudes, it would definitely be safe and definitely worth having.
Kml
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Heaven Williams learn english! LEARN IT!! ASSIMILATE!
Facts!!!
Yeah. We can fly just over the roof of skyscrapers, not very high. ☺☺
With all these draw backs I would still prefer flying over speed, I don't want to waste energy, ruin my shoes, and have to go pretty slow.
the fuck’s the point of the shoes then
When we think of flying I always thought it includes everything that would allow you to fly comfortably even in outer space. like a full package deal.
I think that's usually because people think of Superman or a Superman-like character like the many Superman analogues in comics when they think of a character flying.
@@JR-ju3kj Exactly. Its always been sold like that.
Well then it's same for invisibility and mind reading, and all powers people have said are bad.
The power of Spaceflight then? Cause rockets travel in atmosphere too
That's the beauty of this. He was looking strictly at the power of flight, and ignoring all other powers. He even said at the end, you would need additional powers to be able to do what Superman does.
Fly around altitude of 2 km and use a motorcycle suit, you can withstand around 200km/h and since birdstrikes can happen to a motor driver the gear is designed and padded to be able to take highspeed collisions with birds
Right? I thought the same thing. Most motorcycle gear is attuned to these issues.
Genius
And I’ll keep this saved when I unlock this ability. Just gotta level up
I thought the same. It seemed pretty obvious you shouldn’t fly in just a t-shirt.
Big brain, smart think!
Just a quick note on the convective skin cooling thing: downhill skiers can move up to 90mph in some cases, but even average non-olympians can do 60mph on skis pretty easily. They do this in sub-freezing temperatures routinely. At European resorts many runs are several km long and take much more than 2 minutes to descend, even at great speed. Olympic downhill courses, even at maximum human ski speed, sometimes take over 2 minutes to complete. It is extremely rare for anyone to experience ski-induced frostbite, even on exposed face skin. Further, my grandfather got frostbite on his toes in WWII flying missions with open windows, BUT it took many hours of sitting sedentary in those cold aerial temperatures on bombing missions... and only happened because they didn't issue his size (14) insulated flight boots at that time. So, if skiers don't get frostbite on their faces, and bomber crews only get frostbite after hours of sitting still with the wrong boots, I think the danger of frostbite can be fairly easily mitigated with some simple winter gear. Nothing Iron-Man fancy. Its just not the inhibiting factor that you are depicting, unless you are flying around naked up there. Now bird strikes, oxygen, etc. those are much more pressing concerns.
While skiing you're mostly wearing some insulating clothing, except on your face, which is surprisingly not that bothered byfreezing temperatures anyways, but keep in mind, that this is a guy from Los Angeles speaking, if I'm not mistaken, where it's still 23°C right now, so he probably forgot, that there are warm jackets, that do a surprisingly good job at keeping you from freezing.
@J Paterson And? He's saying all you need to fly at 4km is a snow suit, assuming you're willing to fly relatively slowly to avoid birdstrikes.
@J Paterson I readily concede the cloud argument in that I was assuming dry skin. I object to the ducking argument, in that flying would naturally assume an aerodynamic position, just as skiing would. Hands forward, face down. The ducking (or tucking as its called) from skiing would not put any less airflow over the face than flying. And as far as mountaineering, that is an all-day or multi-day adventure. The frostbite is certainly not normally suffered in the first few minutes of climbing, but over a longer period of prolonged exposure. I am simply stating that the 2 minutes referenced in the video is ridiculously fast compared to real-life experiences of people with exposed skin and high cold winds. Not that you cannot get frostbite... you certainly can.
@@genoobtlp4424 yeah, thats all I'm saying. A little trip to REI and you could probably fly around for quite a while. Maybe not hours and hours, but a quick trip of 10-15 minutes probably would not result in frostbite, even at 60mph.
for the cold factor I think that a suitable technical clothing is the solution (basically there are people who work at the south pole outdoors at many tens of degrees below zero and survive) but the point I think is the concept of flight in culture pop ... definitely far from the difficulties of real life lol
That's why flying like Sayans is the best way, you have an energy aura
that guards you from wind and low temperature. You are in an energy capsule.
"Right now your body is most likely in contact with some kind kf air, I hope."
*sweats nervously*
I was going to comment this lol.
*sweat vaporizes immediately*
"You may as well just be Iron Man"
I'm okay with that
You are welcome I gave you the 69th like
I would love to be Ironman. At the very least have something resembling his suit
I am gonna be Nova the human rocket
Nobody can they are not rich enough well Jeff Bezos can be Iron Man
is that cause he's dead?
I think the most realistic way to flight is like the Iron Man. Wearing an special suit, with coordination systems, thermal systems, oxygen supply system, like the comfort of an airplane in a suit form.
All you really need is a motorcycle helmet, still don't go too too high there Icarus
>airplane
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The biggest issue with an Iron Man suit is the sudden changes in momentum. Your body's internal organs just can't handle those sorts of g-forces.
@@tehsolace just put some iron bars to sustain your body and keep you in the same place. In according with your movements the bar metals pushes the suit to move as well. Very simple.
@@kyh148 airplanes are much more safer than cars if you know.
Everyone thinks the best super powers to have are Flying, Invisibility, Teleporting, Shapeshifting, Stopping Time/Time travel, Mindreading, Strength and Speed. But after thinking about it for awhile, even though stopping time would be great to save lives, I think the best super power to have would be the power of suggestion/persuasion. You simply say something to someone and they immediately do what you said without question.
Now that's a superpower that could actually break the law every time it's used because it's basically manipulation into making people do things against their will
Not quite. See, people have this strange quirk about not liking to be slaves. And laws about unlawful imprisonment + forced labour too. Most superpowers that are considered heroic, are those that influence yourself, giving you extra stuff. When you go into mind-control and other perception-affecting powers, then it's not so clear. And when you gain time by draining others, it's far less heroic too. Which is why we already use money to waste other's people time, lawfully. Now, if your power gives you a lot of money, and you pay people to do stuff for you...then it's fine.
@@andrew3203 They wouldn't feel like they are being slaves if you suggest to them that they are completely comfortable doing what you tell them to do.
Bro....if i could just go...effortlessly....my lazy would expand. Watch me levitate from the ground to the couch to the kitchen and repeat
Lmaoooooooo
My explanation for Superman’s flight is that he vibrates at roughly the speed of light while midair, which cancels out the force of gravity. So you’d have to do a little work to get off the ground. Also, he uses super strength to leap into the air anyway.
I think you would need to use energy to fly, so it would be more o less the same as walking
Or just float like in space don't need no couch
@@BriefcaseGaming4460 What the heck is with this guy?
You only need to go high enough to go over trees and buildings...
And something like a surfers wet suit would make the temperature “problem” moot.
The power of flight would be awesome.
Neo is in a computer simulation so he doesn't have to deal with real life issues as he can manipulate the code at will.
he's beginning to believe
Just like when you fly in a dream
**HE** created the Matrix. Also, the Matrix is a perfect movie in every way, change my mind.
even more so, he can actually alter the code of the simulation to his liking. so even if all of the physical restrictions mentioned were properly coded into the matrix to begin with, he could just overwrite them - one might say - on the fly.. *HEY-OOOHH*
@@blu4875 Using humans as batteries?
Once you have lived in Metro Manila in the Philippines, having flight at even average bicycle speed through the air will be the greatest relief ever.
In comicbooks Superman manipulates graviton particles allowing him to fly. Considering he's extremely durable and can go at a fast rate alongside prolonged breathing capacity, the physics behind his form of flight is surprisingly well-written to go with physics in comics.
This is also seen in man of steel movies where when he takes off you can see dust getting affected by gravity right before take off
@@th3gov3rnm3nt I loved that part of the special effects.
@@th3gov3rnm3nt i have to check that out
@@th3gov3rnm3nt Oh cool! I never even knew the physics behind it was explained let alone depicted in the movies.
That's not cuz of Gravity its happens cuz of the Air Burst..(he generally flies faster than speed of sound..!) For Example- Supersonic Jets!🛩
To be fair, most superheroes who can fly have additional measures to protect them. Superman is invulnerable and doesn't need to breathe. Green Lantern's ring protects him from the elements. Iron Man's suit protects him. Thor is a god, so mortal limitations don't really affect him. Etc., etc.
Of course, my favorite "flying" superhero is The Blimp from the Inferior Five. He can't actually fly, he just sort of floats. His teammates usually drag him along with a rope.
You completely miss the mark. Kyle points out the simple fact that even if superman was made of diamond, or if he was in fact Iron man, he would still not survive a bird strike: There is no material known to man or even an energy field or anything else than can beat conservation of momentum. The kinetic energy of the bird relative to the fast flyer is huge. A ring - no matter of which composition and of which race or even of intergalactic multidimensional race, cannot beat conservation of momentum, as the momentum has to go somewhere, so even if the ring creates some sort of magical super strong field, the sudden momentum change would still be transferred to whoever flies in said field at super high relative velocity, and he would still be hit just as if that field didn't exist at all. Even he was made of diamond - with the mass of an average human being (and not - say, the mass of a Boeing 747), he would still crumble into dust. There goes all that superhero BS :-).
BTW, its recommended that you watch Kyle's series about Star Wars. He really does a neat job out of it. You could say Kyle snipes away the whole light saber theme and super luminary travel. And besides, its hilarious. watch?v=_-niSHWcnGQ and also watch?v=i1M95njhovw .
@@nyyotam4057 no invincible means that doesn't affect because its invincibility the bird will just die
@@deadlyninja112 "Invincible" is BS: If something is "invincible" by your logic, than what is it made from? Even diamond would crumble to dust from the sudden change of momentum these 90,000N would impart upon impact and no magical or else field will defend against it, since the guy in said field still needs to change his momentum instantly. And this is exactly the problem. So he cannot be made out of flesh and blood. So what is he made of? Steel won't take it, diamond won't either.. Neutron star material? Than would simply explode in Earths pressure. Black hole? Common. In short, what Kyle points out is that none of this superhero stuff stands even a moment scrutiny. You don't need deep reflection to disqualify it, all you need is to apply the laws of physics and it crumbles away instantly. The interesting thing is that even human imagination falls short here, the moment you simply apply physics. Even "MAGIC" won't save the poor superman when he hits a bird. All you have to do to realize this, is apply conservation of momentum, and that's game over for suppy.
@@nyyotam4057 nope invulnerability trumps your little physics lecture
The kind of flight I'm capable of in dreams and stuff is basically swimming through air. With a bit of a jump and a few strokes, I get to go above my house and look around my neighborhood or whatever environment I'm in (sometimes it's a big grassy field, one time it was a giant cave) from above.
I some versions of the dream, I start falling if I stay in one place for too long, so I have to control my descent too.
I'd like that kind of flight.
sorry if this is creepy but i have a mild interest in dream meanings and feel like what you're describing might be telling about your psychology - flight is often meant to portray freedom, either a feeling of current freedom or a desire to be free - so your dreams could be telling you that you feel free as long as you don't stagnate
man i wish i could have dreams when i sleep
Your flight on your dreams are awesome! All Im able to do in my dreams is to "fly" in like a wave form, up and down, at walking speeds... and 2 feet off the ground...
This has happened to me, and I used to have similar dreams to this. It started off me in my grandparents back yard jumping and going very high and kind of floating and slowly coming down like your jumping on the moon. And then Faced to the field to the south and I started to glide. It was kind of like when you push off a surface in the pool and kind of push forward just more constant movement through the air. It was more like a gliding kind of sense than flying since I usually start to fall back down the ground very slowly during the glide.
Wtf this is my exact method of dream flight even the falling if I stand still. It's like an air Rollercoaster .
i would still want it. thermal body-suit for the cold and collision, like a steel fitted armor set for going long distances and just a thermal one for short ones. other than that it would be training to make ur flights as safe as possible, training ur stomach, ur head, ur muscles and why not, have a parachute too for the worst case scenario.
Hey yo that “floating above the trees at the speed of a car” is *exactly* my dream version of flight good to know that doesn’t have terrible consequences 👌
the police might think you fit the description!
i think that at the speed of a car a bird strike can still hurt you way more than a motorcycle accident, i mean take the damage from the impact and take the damage from the fall THAT'S A LOTTA DAMAGE
Yeah like if you fly 100 meters above ground you avoid most buildings, and the speed of a car will take places way faster than driving. So yes, sounds good.
@@kevynjhordan How about flying close to the speed of a bird?
@@aikslf which bird we talking about cause you know that mr. pilgrim falcon is a bird right? i'm kidding, anyway you would need to be careful in any case, because it's like driving a bike but more dangerous
Fun fact: the mics that pilots use are voice activated so that "uhhhhhh" you hear so often from pilots are them waking up the mic so that it transmits their whole message and doesn't cut off the beginning
Good to know, I always figured the pilots were just really confused or something and reading from a script. This makes way more sense.
Interesting. But why wouldn't they just make them push-button-to-talk so they don't have to sound like they forgot what to say? Are their hands very busy while they're talking?
@@rossthebesiegebuilder3563 when you're piloting a plane your hands might be busy.. piloting a plane?
@@sadyakubovich I don't fly often, but I thought they did all the talking while waiting on the runway. I know there's at least 10 minutes between all the passengers being loaded and the plane actually moving.
@ross plavsic they do the boring talking in a stationary position yes, but if something happen, and pilot needs to adress the people, lets say in a turbulance, be sure that he wont have his hand available.
My question is, at what point would the air resistance cause enough friction (like a rocket on reentry) to warm you up enough to counteract the temperature and wind chill? Is that possible?
At the point your skin is ripping off.
It isn't Friction that warms up rockets on reentry. Rockets and metors heat up because they compress the air in front of them. Remember one of are problems is not enough air.
Not to mention at that speed hitting a bird would probably turn you into meat confetti
@@HigurashiMerlin if you were going rocket speed as a human, the few air particles you hit would shred you apart
It's possible, but you're talking supersonic speeds. BUT, then you run into the problem where the friction from drag starts to cook you alive. Also, you have to deal with the sonic boom you'd create, and all civil aviation authorities (like the FAA) would want to have a word with you. Did you know that, at least in the US, that noise abatement issues was one of the reason Concorde flights were restricted to specific airports? Yeup, the plane sucked at subsonic flights so the crew would do what they could to get up to speed as quickly as possible... and that really limited where the Concord could go.
It could still be a very valuable power for a few reasons. The biggest benefit would be that you could safely do things that have the hazard of falling, like working on towers, bridges, caves, buildings, and anything more than 6 feet off the ground; just being able to stop yourself from falling to death or injury in general. Imagine the nice jobs contracting yourself out for projects. Another would be that it's a good thing for a human to have for survival, you could much more easily escape grounded threats..
This dude flies with an axe(previously hammer) and tells us that flying is dangerous?
Unlike him, and his more famous but not so cool cousin, we aren't frigging deities.
Axel Dornelles frigging... I don’t think we need to bring frigg into this. I don’t think she can fly, anyway.
He just wants the sky all to himself. The bastard.
@@GreyFox23 I believe you meant..... basTHORd!
*drum roll*
Not only did he fly with a hammer AND an axe. But they can both conduct and direct LIGHTENING
Tbh, I get what u mean, but I don’t wanna fly over clouds or go super fast, I just wanna float :D
Floating around at normal speeds 🙃
Like 5 mph or so
just don't talk when you're floating
@igor caique same, although that would be my vertigo talking...
@@ls200076 wear a scarf?
Oh you don't want to fly for convenience as free transport, you just wanna be able to get around while being fat and lazy... I get it now.
me tooo......toooo lazy to walk
As a motorcyclist, I'm no stranger to wind chill at even 100km/h - compounded if the initial air temperature is already sub-zero (i.e. riding to work on a frosty morning).
As to bird strike - motorcyclists have had that, too. One I heard of was lucky in that it hit the bike (and "merely" _demolished_ his coolant system) rather than striking his body.
I haven't had a bird strike - _yet_ - but I have had a _bee_ strike... which was enough to forcibly knock my head back when the bee hit my helmet visor at approx. 100km/h. If it had been a sparrow, I would have been knocked off the bike.
How do I cope with propelling my frail human body at "merely" 100km/h? By wearing protective clothing to keep me warm against wind chill and somewhat protected from rogue bees and machinegun-like raindrops. I have a full-body outfit including leggings, jacket, boots, gloves and a helmet with a transparent visor so that my body doesn't bear the brunt of inclement weather and inconsiderate insects.
This set-up can protect someone from air pressure and wind chill at speeds up to around 360km/h (c.f. 1234.8km/h for the speed of sound) but if you were hit by a bee, let alone a bird, at that sort of speed, it's going to be an issue. At those sorts of speeds, the riders are generally crouched down behind a fairing and a windshield that is forcing most of the incoming air (and bees) past them, anyway, not riding exposed like a person on a "naked" bike.
Anything faster than that and you're going to need invulnerability as a secondary super-power or some serious hard armour. Even if you could fly under your own power, you're going to wind up looking like Iron Man if you want to travel at a decent speed or altitude.
Yeah dude my buddy took a bird to the face at about 45 mph. Luckily he was wearing his full face helmet because it was chilly that day but he said it damn near took him out
@@DangerCloseMinis Damn! That was lucky! I won't wear anything but a full-face after arsing off the bike when I was still experimenting with the "keeping it upright at all times" concept and when I took my helmet off, the deep gouges in the chin-guard of the helmet, my understanding of the relative hardness of my flesh and bone and that of gravel, and my own overly graphic imagination was enough for me to decide it was lucky I didn't have an open-face helmet on!
Still, would not want to get suddenly surprised by a bird strike to the helmet - OK, I might get a bit more warning to brace myself for impact with a bird than with a bee (that I didn't see until it had actually smeared itself across my visor) but I still wouldn't want to have it happen.
Glad your mate managed to keep control.
Wolf NZ Outdoors I’m going on a ride today and will be dressing in many layers.
@@afterburner2869 Cool. Keep it rubber-side down, mate.
Came here to say the same stuff. Rain without leather hurts. I've dropped my motorcycle at about 15-20mph (avoiding a car that didn't see me). My ribs were sore for a week and had a gash on my leg where my leather shifted.
Flying would only be fun in the summer.
Dear Sir, This is the first video of yours that I have found on the internet and lets me just say that your video made my entire day LOL And now I have to binge all of your content. Really looking forward to it.
this is what I liked about dragon ball flight in which they made this sphere of aura around them that likely solved most of these issues; they just vaporized the bugs and birds they encountered
And because that aura is literally just straight heat you could also get a nice cooked meal on the way
and because the aura is heat you can fly faster and higher.
Yes that be cool. Another reason I love dragon ball. Maybe that’s why they created the great sayaman lol
I still want flight.
1) Fly slower and lower, say 40 mph and 150 ft
2) wear appropriate clothing.
nuff said.
Biker suit and helmet.
Wear a plague doctor's mask for aero
Clicked on 'Read more', expecting more to read, found a "nuff said", now I feel stupid...
@@Helios9826 lol that's why I did it
Yes like motorcycle cruising speed for local flying around. Just don't accelerate to mach 2 then come to a dead stop. Ugh that would cause a gross mess. Honestly for world travel just give me the space stone hehe.
This is an example of what TVTropes calls "Required Secondary Powers"
Ah true, though some superheroes don't have secondary powers, or relevant ones at least. Although only gliding, there is Moon Knight. And the Falcon simply flies (though he does have a bird in the comics that might just keep the other birds away lol). Also, we can include the Wasp and Yellowjacket (though mini sized, does that make a difference?) and, from Alpha Flight, Aurora and Northstar, as well as Quicksilver (in an early Avengers' comic he can fly short distances by rubbing/vibrating his legs; yeah a bit weird). But most fly at slower speed and mostly zipping around cities not way up into the atmosphere. And most others have special powers (secondary powers) like magic, durable bodies, intangibility, flames, etc. ... and they have those secondary powers because, you know, science. :)
The Flying Nun never had any issues with oxygen when she flew, but I don't believe she flew up as high as the clouds!
How did you solve the icing problem?
Gotta love Ironman
"I put the icing _inside_ the cake." - Eier Man
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a gold-titanium alloy full body tattoo.
I am *_so_* happy that 2 other people got my multi-lingual joke :'-)
Look bro I'm just tryna save on gas lol
And having a car
You have corona for that
Well I just wanna fly like Peter pan 😂😂
Teleport
I didn't do the math but I'm pretty sure you'll pay more for food instead, since gas is way cheaper than food for the same amount of energy.
Dude, honestly I just wanted to fly at like 50ft at maybe 30mph
Same. Heck I'd settle for 10 feet.
The whole time this is all I could think. I'd dont want to fly like a superhero, just like a bird. Bird altitudes and speeds.
@@Jdthib327 Yeah, that would be absolutely sufficient.
already nearly doable man: ua-cam.com/video/U2-VqGcwXVU/v-deo.html
EDIT: max speed of this thing currently attempted is 46mph, or about 74kph. The guys did say it is capable of higher speeds, but with regards to safety it needs further development.
Having flown hang gliders many years ago, I'd love to have the power to fly like that without having to have a glider.
And people have used hang gliders at altitudes higher than 2km without passing out.
I'd still rather have to put on a special suit every time I wanted to fly then have to deal with TSA and the increasingly decreased space we seem to have on flights.
exactly! look at black lightning, he seems fine with a suit ;)
Nah, dim gate travel(like portal gun) or folding space (small scale version of what traveling guild does in DUNE)
Its like driving a motorcycle just have a special clothing for it.
>Very serious about science and physics.
>Doesnt put fan in face for flying scene.
Oof
That's right Iccharus, fly slow and low. 😁
YESSSSSSSS ANY OTHER GREEK MYTHOLOGY NERDS HERE?
*Icarus
Well...
Oh cmon we all know daedalus could have made it better and unable to melt. We of course are talking about the inventor of the minotaurs prison, the Labyrinth
Watch out for the waves man
People really overlook the more mundane benefits that flight would grant.
It would affect any and all motion. Never worry about tripping or falling or getting stuck anywhere.
Slippery surfaces don't matter because you move yourself independent of your surroundings.
You could push way heavier objects because you can just fly-push yourself into them without the limitation of how much force your weight+friction can generate.
Fighting is super easy because -you- don't have to dodge and attack. You can just fling yourself around and drop kick everyone from any angle with zero downsides.
Don't feel like getting out of bed? Just levitate your blanket burrito self to the kitchen to get coffee and levitate right back.
Literally your entire life would become an effortless rainbow cloud dreamland from a physical standpoint.
Every movement we will ever make is completely reliant on the 3 laws of motion and flight would let you compeltely ignore the 1st and 3rd.
Its broken af
Looks like Thor is just mad he doesn't have an Iron Man suit.
I know right.
LMAO
But that's only because the circuits would get fried every time he used his lightning. Tony doesn't have the time to fix them multiple times each battle.
Tony should have given Iron men suits to the avengers expect for Thor of his lightening powers and he can fly without a suit.
@@3lueoce512 Actually since Ironman can recharge his armor with Thor's lightning in Avenger 1 so Ironman could built a ironman armor custom made for Thor. it could actually even better in Thor hand because he can call lightning and recharge the suit anytime
How about telekinesis based flight? Like own atmosphere bubble etc etc
Absolute mad lad
Perfect telekinesis would essentially be god mode. Flight would be a simple matter, but you could do soooo many other things with the ability to control matter to a perfect degree
Oh how I would love to have telekinesis. It's almost like a perfect power.
@@_Dio_Brando_69 I don't know about "God Mode", it is pretty much canon that most telekinetics are unable to lift themselves...
Of course, comic book physics and laws are fairly flexible, that can change...
@@robbieharris3900 just get a snowboard and lift that with you on top in case it's not posible to lift yourself
I'm surprised bugs didn't get a mention. Even "low and slow" is a problem because you could end up with bugs smashed all over your face. Depending on the area, it could be a substantial amount of them, and going "car speed" through them would not be fun.
Even if you're Superman, with all the powers to survive the issues mentioned in the video, you're still likely to have bug guts splattered all over you when you takeoff / land in the wrong places. In places without a ton of bugs, you still run the risk of catching a stray one to the face.
5:25
Your body is in contact with air... I hope.🤣
A lot of your videos assume we get the one single ability we wouldn't want by itself. I'm sure if we had the power of flight our bodies would also adapt to handle flying all over.
You didn't even mention B-U-G-S! 😷
I hate hitting a bug while skating or biking. 😲
Bugs prob cant go that high
Fabian Banda III
No, they can’t
@@supercon20 Yes they can. They have found locusts flying at 4500 m, mayflies at 5000 m, and butterflies as high as 6000m.
see article: www.livescience.com/55454-how-high-can-insects-fly.html
Bro, just think of it like a snack while you ride
@@Mycernius That's bold of them, considering crustacean wings do not agree with great altitudes.
Kyle: "Might as well be iron man"
*telekinetic flight + force field enters chat*
Technicly if you could fly like a superhero devloping an Ironman suit would be easy scince you dont need energy to fly
hmm I wonder what would happen if I had telekinesis ngl
@@DatsuKyoraku Harassing your Neighborhood
@@DatsuKyoraku That would be the superpower I choose depending on how potent it is. If we assume we can control our bodies and the air around us, we can make a pressurized bubble around us which will allow us to accelerate to thousands of miles per hour and be perfectly fine since we wouldn’t make contact with any incoming air nor weather. Of course we might be blind because the bubble would block photons but we’re assuming photons can get in. Then, with all of these parameters, telekinesis would be the best super power around. You could make yourself look stronger than normal, move at extremely high speeds with your self made air bubbles, fly as fast as you want, and control anything you lay your eyes on. At this point it is magic but hey, magic is also extremely cool
@@silistar2646 but he has to charge his suits
I swear this guy is crushing my dreams, day by day, with each video I watch😭😭😭😭😭😭
"That's not really the version of super-flight we see in pop culture."
Well, in those pop culture versions, accurate physics don't exist, so I think I do want super-flight!
05:28 "Right now your body is most likely in contact with some kind of air.... I hope" LOL 😂😂😂😂😂
It was a comma not 3 full stops
@Pk Shaz no u
@Pk Shaz Naruto is a decent anime but not great. Its a 7/10 max
@Pk Shaz you said and I quote "is naruto a good anime?
I wanna watch it with my dog and sister while my mom plays with the mailman in bed."
@Pk_shaz its true you said exactly that.
Don’t delete ur comment to pretend like that never happened
You should have used "Avian Dinosaurs" instead of birds. Technically the same, but much, much cooler.
"There are an estimated 13.000 avian dinosaur strikes in the U.S. alone each year."
also
"When a plane hits an avian dinosaur mid-flight (...)"
I think the hardest part people don't think about is the neck strain. Lay flat and then tilt your head back to look forward constantly. It's not a natural resting position. Our heads naturally look forward from a sitting or standing position. Now factor in the wind resistance further pushing back on your head the entire time and you're going to have one hell of a sore neck in a very short time. You're going to end up looking straight down trying to rest your neck which will prevent you from looking where you're going.
If you fly in a sitting or standing position you're going to greatly increase wind resistance; you'll quickly feel like you're in a wind tunnel so you'd need some sort of seat with a clear aerodynamic shell... that would all be dependent on how much additional weight your power can support.
Now this would have been a better point unlike all the inaccurate info in this video. The only issue he got right was the government being picky over things in their airspace. All this other points were debunked by skydivers: people who travel faster than speeds he said would be possible at higher altitudes than he said we could go without passing out or getting frostbite.
*_Just ride a dragon_*
Cyberdragon
@@ls200076 this guy dragons
Just become a dragon. Way better.
You haven't played Drakengard, have you?
*_What are you, fricking Dovahkiin?_*
Honestly I could be pretty happy just riding a broom at about 20-30 MPH. I'll get where I need to go eventually. It's just the lack of expended energy and no obstacles at about two stories high that would be the biggest benefit.
I could never fly a broom lol, what if you fall off?
@@JustBramz then you grab your smaller dust pan broom.
@@geo_no_go2657 lol
Yeah, I feel like the power to avoid traffic is pretty damn desirable.
“Flying is also a good superpower because it can save you from falling anywhere or at high places"
Unless you been in training or practice to save someone.
@@Brandonhayhew It would probably be hard to support someone's body weight while levitating though, especially if you need some kind of pivot point rather than just moving freely through the air. But with time and practice these would all become less of an issue and your body would adapt
@@javianbrown8627 unless you been under the training of emergency, or the army
@@Brandonhayhew fair enough.
I found this video because I recently went Skydiving for the first time and I realized how thick the atmosphere really is.
One thing I'm still wondering. At 14,000 feet or under, without temperature being a factor, and without Superman's invincibility, how fast could someone fly before the atmosphere starts tearing the body apart? And what would happen first? Hair ripping out, skin tearing off? Etc?
We do have motorcycle gear for temperature and bird strike issues - being able to fly at 50-100 meters altitude at 50-60 kmph would really REALLY save me a lot of commuting time.
Facts.
What I was thinking.
I mean, really, any time you're given an option between anything and being Iron Man, you should choose being Iron Man.
like what does he not have
life sure, but what else?
Duh... then I’d stop being iron man and just be rich instead lmao
@@thatcrystalpie, for one, a suit that could protect him from using six cosmically powered stones at once without dying.
But does his suit have padding?
Spider-Man vs iron man? I’ve always been interested in his powers
"Big learning curve when you curve without learning." -Socrates
That needs to be the next Because Science t-shirt
Or maybe it was Plato, I forget, definitely someone crazy smart though -- kH
I love how you do your videos!! I’m glad my brother found you and shared a video with me!
As the episode was going along I just kept saying to myself, "Okay, so Iron Man,", "Okay, ya. So Iron Man," And finally, "Yep. Iron Man."
Or a guy with a jetpack.
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Yeah, the super powers you really want is super-engineering genius and super-rich.
I would like to point out that during the air argument he only uses the example of static pressure. However dynamic pressure exists, while it also decreases with altitude it also goes up with air speed. You could raise your max altitude by going faster. Going faster also would somewhat increase temperature, negating cold attitudes. You would have to go slower at lower altitudes though.
Exactly, which is why Mach 2.8 is the max sustained speed most military planes can fly unless the leading edges are made of titanium, composite materials, ceramic, or carbon nanotubules, otherwise, the plane will melt. The SR-71 & X-15 were both made from titanium.
Dynamic pressure is not a real substitute for static pressure. Unless you have a container that is only open to the front - which if you put your mouth forwards, you kind of have. But you still will never be able to reach altitudes at which you need a pressure suit for your body, since the rear side of it will not be able to benefit from the dynamic pressure.
Also, the problem with using drag to heat you up is that at lower speeds, the chilling effect dominates (unless you are in 36° / 100F warm air). Meaning that if you want to get to those warming speeds you'll need the ability to accelerate faster than you start getting frostbite.
Also, even if you were able to make it to mach 2.8, you'd need to be able to fly while spinning yourself around, or your front-facing side would get much warmer than the rest of your body.
Interestingly, none of these problems immediately rules out that you could exceed mach 1 or altitudes of 12 km. You might land bald and I'd advise the most heat and rip resistant clothing you can find, but it MAY be possible to survive flight at the conditions of commercial airliners, as far as I know.
It all depends on which altitude-velocity profiles are available to you. Firstly, you'd need the dynamic+static pressure to be near or above 1atm (if it's more, you can just turn your mouth away from the forwards direction). Secondly, you need the ambient temperature plus heating effects to not deviate from normal conditions (for too long). Sadly, the chart he showed at 6:07 didn't nearly reach airplane speeds (those would be 17 times further down). And the combination of those 2 profiles might make some altitude or speed ranges unsuitable for sustained flight (additionally to the hard limit of 19km).
So i can lay my dreams of becoming Superman to rest and become a billionaire, genius and philantropist...
You forgot the playboy... the playboy is important
Billionaire, genius, philanthropist, AND Playboy. gotta hit all the squares, just to be sure.
Well if you're Superman you don't need to worry about things like temperature, lack of oxygen or hitting birds, since you'd survive all of those.
You also need a college degree in Mechanical Engineering
Superman has a ton of other powers that would keep him safe. Honestly, so do most flying superheroes.
Even if I couldn't go above say 1 km, and wouldn't be able to fly faster than 30 km/h in order to stay safe, I'd still see that as an absolute win. Yes it is quite slow compared to a car, but keep in mind that you're no longer restricted by 2 dimensional movement (left/right, forward/backward). You can simply fly up a bit, and then go in a straight line to wherever you need to be.
Or just the fly up part alone is useful.
Walking speed is about 5 feet a second, and most people can reach naturally a height of about 6 1/2 feet off the ground comfortably.
Think of what you could accomplish if you had flight that was "limited to" 120 feet above a solid or liquid surface, and allowed you to move at a speed of up to 20 feet per second.
That's like 14mph
Roughly 6m/s isn't really fast enough to be worth it.
@@thegurw1994 I'm too lazy to walk 6 meters to grab a soda so i go thirsty If i could just float my self there I'd consider that a win.
@@thegurw1994 it’s still flight tho. And it’s avoiding traffic
The speed of a fast bicycle would be enough, and the altitude doesn't need to be that much, either, maybe maximum 1,000 meters, or even less.
That would completely suffice for me, and be completely safe given the right clothing. I don't see why I wouldn't want that.
And the bugs, dear God, the bugs. In warm weather, if you were height limited, there would be bugs EVERYWHERE!
Funny how they never show that in Ironman films. Lol He'd need a little windshield wiper on his face plates. Plus the stuff in your car you use to clean the windshield.
NOT THE BUUUUUUUGS !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Protein suplement
Oh my god I never thought about that horror
Fly fast enough and the compression of air in front of you would take care of small insects & [true] bugs.
Just gotta feel #theNeed4Speed
If I could fly, I would go just like you've said, at car speed over the trees
The problem though is then you'd frequently encounter obstacles
Obstacles over a 20 meter tall forest? No
People would shoot you out of spite
@@silentlamb21 I live in Europe
@@silentlamb21 😂😂good one
About the skin turning cold - can't you just get a custom suit built for that? You only wear it when travelling long distances because you won't really need it when you just wanna hover 20 ft above the ground and go to your friends' house or running errands
You could also use the avatar air Bisson version, changing air currents around you to let you fly
you sold me the idea of flight when you talked about frozen pee. Imagine frozen icicles of pee raining down from the sky, slaying man and beast alike. who wouldn't want to have that godlike ability
No man should have that kind of power.
Urination decimation
it'll freeze the hole shut.
@@somekid7867 superpowers means the hole never shuts down... let me have my pee icicles of doom man... whatdidieverdotoyou :D
"Death by Piss" would certainly be an amusing obituary
You are comparing being able to fly with being able to fly like an airliner.
I am a glider pilot and if you would be able to fly like a glider pilot without a plane, well hell yeah.
None of the problems you talked about would be a problem there.
Put on a helmet and some warm clothing plus a radio rucksack, you would be fine.
I was thinking fly like a helicopter or humming bird. Hover. No need for ladders. Not a "super power" but that's always been my dream. Gliding would be cool, too! See, we can avoid all those problems with our solutions! 👍🏻
I allways imaginated the flight superpower as 100-200m high and regular car velocity.
I live on a tiny island. Is 40 minutes with car going to one extreme to the other, no skyscrapers and not high mountains. And main land is close enough that you see it on sunny cool/windy days (when there's not too much evaporation from the sea)
Me:starts flying
Us government:shoot em down
About the bird strike, what if it was a 5 ounce bird carrying a 1lbs coconut?
Well is it an African swallow or a European swallow?
Well since African swallows are non-migratory, I’d have have to say European. Although there is the matter of weight ratios.
This comment wins the internet :)
It's basically a bird with a grenade
Well, you accept the generous offer of a coconut, put a lime in it, and drink it all up.
Since you brought up superman and neo, I always imagined the power of flight, just as an extension of the power of telekinesis.
It pretty much is.
it's manipulating graviton particles
@@godsdontcry3883 I thought in the case of superman kryptonians developed anti gravity organs to combat the intense gravity caused by kryptons red sun?
That's exactly how the comic writers explained Superman's ability to fly. Telekinesis is also what makes him invulnerable. He creates a force field on his skin with tk. So if you want to fly like Superman, you'd want his level of telekinesis.
@@TnDAtkinson That's always the way I imagined it, but according to the internet, his body produces "anti-gravitons".
I don’t think that calculation is accurate as F=ma is only applicable after a force has been exerted, you would need to use conservation of momentum or just measure how much the bird accelerates and then use Newton’s laws to approximate the force of the collision. However, the main takeaway seems to be correct