13 Lies Movies Taught Us
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- Explosions. Gun silencers. Chloroform. All very exciting cinematic tools, but none of them really act the way they do in movies. Today, we're going to break down some of the most egregious lies that movies have taught us over the years.
Join host Erin McCarthy as she breaks down some common myths from the big screen.
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In fact, a T-Rex can't see you even if you DO move, just gotta keep some distance between them and yourself.
About 65 million years or so should do the trick.
I had a cat growing up that climbed a pole and touched it's nose to an electrical line while sitting on the transformer. An electrical shock about a foot long shot off of her nose and she fell about 40ft to the ground, landing on her side. She was breathing so we wrapped her in blankets and towels in a basket and watched over her, not knowing what to do. A few hours later she sat up and looked at us and meowed. She was never healthier. She had been a sickly kitten, and after this she lived another 6 years healthy and happy and strong. She had her nose completely blown off in the incident and had squiggly whiskers, but was otherwise totally fine. How's that for a cool cat?! Lol her name was Tigger
Wait, so... y'all didn't think to, y'know, maybe take her to the vet...? o.o
@@iprobablyforgotsomething one would think lol. It was a farm and my dad said "if it lives, it lives, it's just a cat." Yeah, life on a farm can be like that sometimes. I was a child, I couldn't do anything.
When I was in high school, the local fire department filled a house slated to be torn down with natural gas as a training exercise for gas explosions. The thing is, they miscalculated and overfilled the house by about 4 times. I was riding my bike around 1.5 miles away and I got knocked clean over. It was nuts.
I had a friend, and the house next door to him spontaneously exploded one day. The house was vacant. Apparently, natural gas filled up the house, and just Boom! (There's actually a history of natural gas explosions in my city for some reason? Worrying.)
His whole entire house actually shifted off its foundation by 9 inches. He was taking a nap in the basement. His bedroom was on the same side of the house that exploded. He heard the boom and woke up to glass and debris falling down on him and daylight coming through his ceiling.
His brother brought his kids over (4 and 2) and had just brought them in from the car. If they had been outside they all could have been seriously injured.
as a teenager, a house with an elderly person started exploding nearby. they were on oxygen and there was a house fire and all the bottles started exploding one after another. it sounded and _felt_ like trees falling on our roof from a couple thousand feet away.
@@UnashamedlyHentai Something similar happened at a nearby home that caught fire. There were three LP gas bottles for the grill. One heated up and blew with a huge boom and a shockwave. That blew another one skyward, hurling it five doors down. The one attached to the grill blew a couple of minutes later.
I had a stab wound on my calf. The second it happened blood gushed out and I lost the ability to stand on it immediately. It took 6 months of physical therapy to fully walk again. Now I laugh anytime a character gets stabbed and runs it off.
Or stabbed in the shoulder and then uses that arm to lift and throw their opponent. It don't work that way. You damage a muscle, it is NOT going to be okay. I know how incompacitated I am from a mere paper cut.
Here's a famous cat!
Unsinkable Sam, survived the sinking of three ships in WW2. He was on the Bismarck when it went down. He was picked out of the water by the crew of the Cossack. When the Cossack was sunk Sam made it to shore in a lifeboat. He was then on the Ark Royal when it sank. After that, remained safely on shore at Gibraltar.
Re: missing persons, I watch a lot of truecrime, and a recurring issue is in fact that many police officers also claim that waiting period, especially with teenagers. One explanation is that they don't want to risk wasting resources on someone who "ran away" and will turn up within an arbitrary cooling off period. So there may be no official requirement, but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
Yes. They will definitely file a report and send out a BOLO. They won't likely put "all ha ds on deck" immediately and send out an amber alert without justification, but still. They make a report.
I have a couple more to add that movies often get wrong, which more people ought to know for safety reasons. 1) myth: if someone is in a bad car accident you should yank them out of the car, such as through a window. Unless the car is actively on fire or there is some other immediate threat to life you are actually much better off leaving the person in the car and letting rescue crews extract them, and 2) myth: if you are impaled with something (like a knife or arrow) you can just yank the thing out of you. It's actually almost always preferable to leave the object in the victim, immobilize the object if possible, and get the victim to a trauma center so the object can be removed surgically. Removing the object yourself can increase blood loss and damage upon exiting.
The most you should do might be to cut the object (if you even can) so that it's not waggling around and causing more pain, suffering, and damage. And that you might be able to more easily get them to an emergency room. But for crying out loud, LEAVE THE ITEM IN THERE! It's the only thing stopping all the blood from coming out all at once!
On the missing persons-some police departments in true crime documentaries have told family members that they needed to wait 12-48 hours (depending upon the story) in order to file a report. This may be an outdated policy in those departments or laziness of the police to investigate every teen who ran away or even a misconception of the police themselves (we all know that they can be like other folks who don’t pay attention to policies or procedures). I think pushing the notion that you need to wait 24 hours is dangerous-the sooner they know, especially with children, women and seniors, the more likely they are to find them alive.
thanks for including the suppress lie. i think you could do a whole show on gun lies from movies. like how cars, tables and couches are not bullet proof. how guns only carry a set # of rounds not like the movies where the bad gun can shoot for ever.
I realised how powerful guns are when I watched Kurt Caz's South America videos. He went to Peru if I remember correctly, and showed a fence made out of metal bars that was torn apart by bullets.
Hiding behind cover only makes it less likely that you'll get shot because the shooter can't see you.
Body armour is that much more impressive to me because it's obviously way smaller than thick concrete walls, but way more effective.
@@userunaemu you just described the difference between cover (protection), and concealment (visual obfuscation).
The trick with body armor is that it doesn’t all have the same rating. A piece of armor may stop A, B and C bullets. But it can’t handle D, E, and F.
The FN 5.7 round is infamous for being a pistol round that travels so fast it goes right through most common armor. Most plates will stop it, but, I needs to be able to handle rifle rounds to stop those 5.7 shots, even when they come from a pistol.
The keys for round lethality are essentially mass and speed (there’s a bit more to it, but this keeps it simple). The small pistol round is more effective than some rifle rounds specifically because of the speed it travels at.
@@zero11010 there's also that 9mm dagny dagger round from atlas arms that goes threw any soft armor and is made from materials that by passes the " armor piecing rounds " laws.
@@zednott I’m not familiar with those. Just did some research. I see tests from about 2016. It doesn’t seem like they can be purchased. I see lofty goals of making the components attainable for home reloading. But, I don’t see the components for sale.
Admittedly, I only looked at this for a short while.
Are these readily available in any way?
If dinosaurs couldn't see you if you didn't move, they'd have spent their lives bumping into trees. Try rubbing his tummy instead.
Doesn't make much sense for a preditor anyway.
IF it were true It would more accurate to say that, rather than the T-Rex being unable to see you in the literal sense, it would mistake a non-moving animal for a tree or some other part of the terrain.
I appreciate how hard you worked on the script for the image enhancement portion to shut down any "but, what about" comments. All bases covered. :-)
In Hugh Jackmans defence on the explosion walk-away he was playing a magic super-strong self healing demi-human at the time.
True, BUT I don’t think his super powers included being physics-defyingingly heavy on the ground 😝
😎Yeah, ok magic makes it work. 6:57
@@jacforswear18Adamantium makes him heavy AF, actually...
When I went to an open house at my old Elementary school in 2013, I sat exactly where I was sitting in my 1st grade class picture, in 1964. I asked a stranger to stand where the camera had been in '64 and photograph me sitting exactly how the 6-year-old me had. He had no experience using my camera phone and the pic was blurry. I so wanted to make the coolest social media comparison image, so I went to a photo enhancing place and learned what you said: can't be done as easily as we have been led to believe.
I'm sure you know this one, but famous cats.
Tama the Station Master of Kishi Train Station in Kinokawa, Japan.
Tama was a stray cat who was adopted by a local who became the station master. Tama was so friendly and loved that the train line actually designated her as a station master, as well. She was often celebrated by the president of the company and the mayor, she was loved by everybody. When Tama passed in 2015 they even built a Shinto shrine to celebrate her and there have been three more station masters, Nitama, Sum-Tama-Tama, and Kontama.
Misconceptions in RomComs would be good episode all on its own. Young people can actually use the plots and tropes IRL leading to disaster for the victim and/or victimizer. Too many people think movies and TV are good sources of information for many things but from RomComs especially.
Biggest misconception: "But I can fix him."
My city’s missing person info page says you don’t have to wait right at the top of the page and they say it on the phone directory when you call. It’s honestly really unfortunately that myth is so pervasive (and still used)!
As a kid napper this myth is my favorite and I keep spreading it as much as a I can. It helps me to get them to the second location before anyone dose anything to try and stop me. so far I've yet to be caught.
Yes this is a joke and you 100% should call as soon as you think something is wrong.
When a person is knocked out they’re generally not unconscious for more than a couple moments. Not long enough for the hero to infiltrate a building for a half hour or whatever.
Also, people aren’t knocked out as easily as movies and tv shows demonstrate.
That's because the line between "knocked out" and "dead" is very, very fine. And mostly consists of "permanent brain injury". Also, waking up can be extremely horrible with nausea, vomiting, and extreme disorientation.
Archer had it right, if you’re unconscious for longer than 30 seconds, go to the hospital. Concussions are no joke
While there may be no law on the books regarding waiting periods in some states, police can use "discretion" whether to file a missing persons report and may tell concerned loved ones to come back X amount of time later. I find this particularly infuriating in the case of young teenagers who are not yet old enough to work or drive and are unlikely to have any real means of running away. Law enforcement needs to listen to friends and family who tell them that loved ones wouldn't run away and/or leave very personal belongings behind; I will never understand why police believe they know better. In the case of Kristen Smart, Cal Poly campus and city police refused to file a missing person report several times, and didn't even attempt to talk to people about her disappearance for at least a week. Sadly, there have been numerous cases of murdered missing teens in which police have waited *months* to begin investigating because they had no body.
The one TV show that got the sound in space mostly right (along with a lot of physics) was the 2000s version of Battlestar Galactica.
Most things aren’t bulletproof. Even a pistol round will go right through a car door. Doors aren’t bullet proof. In movies they like to show a person hiding behind another person. People aren’t bullet proof and bullets will often go right through a person.
Also, no your cigarette case or phone isn’t going to stop a bullet.
When you started with Jurassic Park, I thought for sure number one would be about dinos having feathers
What about how pretty much everybody can hold their breath for at least 30 seconds - unless some bad guy on TV is trying to strangle them?
Holding your breath while trying to do nothing else is one thing. Holding your breath during a violent altercation, with adrenaline pumping through your veins, is a very different situation - both for your ability to focus on your breathing and your body's oxygen needs.
@@jliller Huh. Good question, then. How long would it take?
Ok, according to ca.gov, unconsciousness can occur in as little as 10 seconds, but actual brain death takes 4-5 minutes.
They already got something wrong about T-Rex in Jurassic Park. All of the Dinos, according to JP lore, were created by splicing various ancient DNA with the DNA of extant amphibians and reptiles, and chickens. The vision of most frogs hinge upon movement and are highly adept at catching moving things, but not so great at seeing up close or things that aren't moving. While a natural T-Rex most certainly wouldn't have any issue spotting you even if you stood still, the bioengineered ones living in the Jurassic Park reality likely couldn't.
Although they did miss the far bigger mistakes regarding the T-Rex and other dinosaurs. For one, all T-Rex and similar clade raptorix had feathers, much like their modern chicken evolutionary descendants. Recent research also suggests that a fully grown T-Rex likely couldn't move very fast, at all, maxing out at a whopping top running speed of 13 mph. The position and form of their pelvises wouldn't allow them to run very fast, or for very long, and it's suspected that they were mostly ambush predators. They didn't jump out either at their prey, or really at all. Jumping any significant distances would have left them prone to broken bones due to their huge mass. Rather they'd spring out at pray biting down on their necks, and then use their mass to drag their prey to the ground before using their hind legs to rip them open in a raking motion.
Ironically enough, this means that a person, who is aware of a T-Rex could easily outrun, if not potentially out walk one.
I don't think most humans can run, let alone walk at that speed. But I'd have to look it up. I certainly can't.
DNA doesn't last much past 1My, let along 65+My so what they'd really end up with is mostly extant amphibians, reptiles, and chickens, not dinosaurs.
The capabilities of the dinosaurs tends to rely very heavily on the models being used. If a T-rex really was a short-range ambush predator then it's skin/feather colouration would have to be VERY good to allow prey to walk right by it and not see/smell/hear it.
@@gobblinal Well, one thing to correct is how long DNA and RNA lasts. If trapped in amber, as per the lore of Jurassic Park, it can last nigh indefinitely, at least in partial chunks. DNA is a very balanced and stable molecule, and so long as nothing radiation wise hits it that can destroy it, and so long as it isn't exposed to the elements, it could theoretically last tens of millions of years. New research has even recovered DNA samples from some very old 30 million year(ish) samples found in bogs.
@@gobblinal The average adult male with a gait of 1.1 meters and an average stepping speed of 1.7 steps per second will walk 102 meters in a minute. that's 6120 meters or 6.12 km which is roughly 3.4 mph. That's a leisurely pace. Move that up to a brisk walk, which can equate to 2.4-3.2 steps per second and that same average adult male can hit 14.68 km/h, which is 9 mph. A jogger going at a relatively slow pace with sit around 12-14, and power-walkers will walk at 12-14 mph as well. A long distance runner will actually pace around 7 mph, while an average adult male of the same gait can sprint up to 17 mph for a short burst. Well trained athlete sprinters hit around 19-20. Usain Bolt's record top speed is 23.35 mph.
So yes, the average human could easily outrun a T-Rex, and not only that, but likely out walk it.
Headphones wouldn’t make you unaware of a gunfight going on in your immediate area. Even with a suppressor the sound of a pistol is 120db or more. That’s significantly louder than being in the middle of a concert.
I think there are some people walking around who only use 10% of their brain. but the more accurate statement would be that usage of brain resources is like usage of computer resources: it's not common to be using the whole thing ALL AT ONCE.
If you’re looking for stories about interesting cats, you gotta go with Unsinkable Sam.
While there is some evidence that casts doubt on the story, *if* it is true it’s one heck of a tale. This ship’s cat not only served in both the Royal Navy and Kriegsmarine, but supposedly also survived the sinkings of the Bismarck, the HMS Cossack and HMS Ark Royal
My cat perked up at the sound of that eagle. Apparently the 6lb feline thought that bald eagle sounded like supper
No one hacks into unfamiliar code and has any idea what is going on in that system. It takes weeks to get ramped up and accustomed to a new codebase. No one is hacking a system and immediately able to locate things and run commands to open prison doors or change grades or change life support settings on a ship.
and the system won't tell you if the password is almost right
There's a book about Zamba - the (first) lion that was trained with affectionate methods for films. And then Christian the lion, who was released,and then reuinted with his original caretakers.
People rarely (immediately) die or are incapacitated when shot. People are often still very deadly even after being shot a half dozen times.
This is why police and others are trained to keep shooting.
There are plenty of videos on CZcams that show people getting shot one or more times and still being deadly.
PRO TIPS: space is quiet, also superheros don't have the ability to fly.
Yeah they just jump really hard, right? Except when they change direction smoothly while flying... Oh wait. Superheroes do fly. Because it's make believe.
Well, superheroes don't exist, so...
@@SECONDQUEST I mean, Superman originally did that instead of fly.
@@lainiwakura1776 Neither does Luke, Darth Vader, Buck Rodgers, Klingons, Vulcans...etc etc etc
@@SECONDQUEST So is star wars
Minimum evacuation distance does NOT equal 100% kill zone... just sayin'... the distances given are the safe distances... that doesn't mean that death is absolute (or even likely) at much closer distances.
Getting shot by a gun won’t knock you off your feet. It may make you fall down. But, the same force is applied to the person shooting the gun (the whole equal and opposite reaction thing).
So, a gun that would knock a person down would also knock down the person firing it.
Writers room "so we are looking for ide..." Erin "Cats!"
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you can use 2 fingers to zoom in if you have a track pad but those are very rare on desktops sadly
Grenades do not cause fireballs. It’s basically a puff of smoke and a LOT of shrapnel.
And the shrapnel is designed to wound the enemy so a healthy soldier has to take care of him (and stop fighting)
My first though when seeing the title was gun suppressors 😁
Americans and foot ball fields. How many Wal-Marts do you need to be away from an explosion to not get blown over?
Some of my favourite famous kitties are Li'l Bub, Venus the 2-faced Cat (both of which I got to meet at the Denver fair), Grumpy Cat, Morris the Cat (of course!) 🐈😸
Speaking of Hollywood KO lies most people who get hit on the head hard enough that they lose consciousness do NOT get up unharmed after a few convenient minutes. There's usually wicked aftereffects: disorientation, uncoordination, blurred or double vision, incredible sensitivity to any kind of further pain, et cetera.
I worked at a hospital, I keenly remember a guy who took a thrown cowboy boot to the side of the head; it fractured his skull and blinded him in one eye from nerve damage among other things. The boot thrower got narced out and faced felony charges. Brawls only look like harmless fun on TV.
That was one hell of a throw, or one hell of a boot!
UFC is a great example of what real KO's and chokeouts look like. Which makes the events in Minneapolis and NYC particularly egregious because it demonstrates how briefly you need to put someone in a chokehold to subdue them.
@@jliller You think UFC fights are real fights? How charming!
Do you still write to Santa?
@@mbryson2899 Define "real fight."
In terms of people legitimately getting punched, kicked, and choked out? And how the human body reacts to those things? Yes.
In terms of what your average drunken brawl at a seedy bar at 2 AM looks like? No. Because UFC has rules limiting what you can do (no biting, eye gouging, or weapons particularly), both people are trained fighters, and a relatively sanitary fighting environment. Plus the fighters wear gloves which decrease the chances they break their hand punching somebody in the face while also taking away some of the power of the punch.
@@jliller Yup, the first one. Some street brawlers can really mess up opponents, often with mundane items, "no holds barred."
I try to be at least several miles away from large explosions these days
No one holds a gun in each hand. That’s just not a thing.
You would be holding a single firearm on your strong side and aiming at your target, then transitioning to aim and shoot at the next target.
If you headbutt someone you’re just as likely to hurt yourself.
10% of the Brain: The origins of this idea take the assertion way out of context, rather the express idea was that our conscious effort only accounts for 10% of our brain activity, while the rest of the brain is working behind the scenes of that conscious thought. This is akin to how people can process a great deal of information, but unconscious and subconscious processes filter out a great deal of that input and discard it as unnecessary. Ever see the dancing video where you're asked to keep track of all of the dancers on the floor, but the presenter comes back and then asks "and now how many of you saw the monkey walk through the dance floor?" This selective filtering is done subconsciously by most people, their focus is on the given task consciously and since the "monkey" (a guy in a gorilla) isn't part of the conscious task, our brains automatically filter their presence out. This has since warped into the "We only use 10% of our brains" belief.
0:01 Kids? Idk about you, but it scared the crap outta me, and I was an adult...lol
Walking away from an explosion; well technically speaking the pyrotechnics used in films where action stars walk away unscathed are explosions, just directed thermal explosions. There are two types of explosions, thermal explosions and concussive explosions. Thermal explosions are flash, generate a lot of heat and smoke, may even generate the mushroom cloud effect, but their concussive force is highly minimalized even when not directed by a container. Almost all of the energy from the fuel source is converted to heat rather than pressure. So when an action star does walk away from an explosion where a practical effect is used to generate that explosion and they seem to be 20 feet away, they are in fact walking away from an explosion.
The problem is, most explosions are not thermal, rather their concussive. The energy released is done so to generate pressure. Such as a pipe bomb, ampho, TNT, etc. These are far more deadly, as the pressure created as it travels through your body, disrupts organ function, ruptures organs blood vessels, your lung alveoli, and the blood vessels in your brain. This causes severe internal trauma and quite often instant death. If it isn't instant, it would few a few agonizing minutes before you bleed out and there is virtually nothing that can be done to stop the bleeding. A concussive force of just 100 kpa is enough to cause this sort of damage. Luckily, the concussive force produced by an explosion decreases in relation to the inverse square law. For every meter travelled from the ignition point, the wave doubles in size and decreases in pressure by 1/2. So if an initial explosion is at 100 kpa at the ignition point, at 1 meter it is at 50 kpa, still deadly but possibly survivable, at 2 meters it's at 25 kpa exceedingly harmful but 50/50 chance of survival, at 3 meters it's at 12.5 kpa severe life threatening injuries but with immediate medical care likely chance of survival, at 4 meters possible life threatening injuries, but if you're lying down when the explosion happens and mitigate the forces experienced far likely to survive. 5 meters away it's at 6.25 kpa, likely moderate injuries possible internal bleeding, if laying down entirely survivable with minimal to no injuries. Etc etc. The 320 meter distance cited in this video is for a person to remain standing and observe the blast of a pipe bomb (not going to detail methodology or accelerants possibly used). Most pipe bombs are made from 2" steel pipe capped. Such pipe, depending on grade, has an absolute tensile strength of 50k-66k PSI. That's 455053.98 kpa, roughly 4.5x that of a deadly concussive blast. For an accelerant to burst a steel pipe it must at exceed the absolute tensile strength of the steel that the pipe is comprised of by 1 psi (for sake of argument) so at a minimum the blast of a concussive blast from a pipe bomb is 455053.98 kpa (assuming Grade 3 pipe).
That means at 4 meters it is still deadly even if you're laying down. At 8 meters it's about the same as the blast I described above at the 2 meter mark. At 16 meters it's about the same as the prior description's 4 meter mark, and so on. 320 meters would put the concussive forced at around 1,600 to 800 pascals of force.
@Krist Martin -- "the pressure created as it travels through your body, disrupts organ function, ruptures organs blood vessels, your lung alveoli, and the blood vessels in your brain..."
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Is this similar to what happens to people who are *under* water too close to a whale calling/singing?
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(note : specifically under, not above, the surface of the water)
@@iprobablyforgotsomething Yes, similar, but not quite the same. There is a bit of a difference, as the concentrated intensity of sound waves a whale puts out, and the frequency of those waves, is far greater than any typical explosion. In a weird sense, the danger with being too close to a whale that is using its sonar is akin to being hit by microwaves.
The explanation I have heard for sound in Star Wars is that it takes place in a universe with an older understanding of what space was made of. Basically, it's when humans though space was a fluid. This is supported by the fact that in canon, space ships in Star Wars have rudders. They also come to a stop when the engines stop running, which is why you see things like X wings running at full engine power for their entire flight. That would be completely unnecessary in real space. You could just turn the engines off once you reached maximum speed.
Who cares? It's a movie.
As long as the engines are running, wouldn't you be accelerating? So you'd burn half your fuel to get to "maximum" speed, coast until you get where you are going (assuming no course corrections) and then use the other half of your fuel to start decelerating.
Guns that don't blow your eardrums especially in confined spaces, firewalls that can tell you how much they have been hacked in percentage, Macs that can hack spaceships, shelling makes nice gentle booms with some earth falling around, not ear splitting BANGS sending supersonic fragments that can turn you to mincemeat. Cars with 14 forward gears. Watches containing lasers that can vaporise locks...
My watch contains lasers that can melt locks. Your Apple watch doesn't?
Homer the blind wonder cat! (See: Homer's Odyssey by Gwen Cooper)
Kudos for addressing the AI-assisted "enhance" and its limitations.
THE BEST CATS EVER ARE MY TWO CATS GARBO AND MALLOY AND YOU CAN'T TELL ME OTHERWISE
fantastic feline idea- the mayor of Talkeetna AK. you may have featured this before but figured I'd say something
Tried dropping my cat into the comments but he didn't want anything to do with it. Still looking for him. lol
The interesting thing about the "enhanced" blurry face, is that I recognized Obama's face, and I'd bet a lot of other people did too. Funny that an algorithm can't do it but our brains can (if we know who it is already). Just goes to show how good our brains are at recognizing faces. And strengthens the evidence that we use more than 10% of our brain even more simple tasks, if a complicated algorithm can't do what we can in a second.
If they trained the AI on a biased set of data (white guys) then when you put pretty much any blurred face in front of it, the AI will give you a white dude.
If an agent or soldier knows they’re going into a firefight, they’re getting a rifle/carbine. They’re not showing up with a pistol.
You can fill in blurry pictures with AI, I've used Topaz editors, and it's not bad, they've improved, but they have a very hard time with people who have dark spots around their eyes like raccoon eyes, and turns that into glasses. So it takes some good guesses, but I don't think it would be enough for actual evidence, especially if you have to increase the size by more than 2x. I've tried 4x resolution before, and it's still pretty bad, so no, you can't make a standard webcam be 4K.
work in a jail - thank you for the phone call bit
I always thought the 10% of your brain thing meant you only use that much at one time.
Another CZcams video I saw recently claimed the 10% thing stemmed misunderstanding an old study in which scientists could only identify the specific purpose of 10% of the brain. The other 90% of the brain was used, but scientists couldn't determine which part for which purpose wasn't clear.
The ghost cat from the white house
Don't move, it can't see us if we don't move.
Sir! My Both Legs Off
Blame Star Trek for sound in space. Apparently, Roddenberry tried to make the exterior shots accurate, but audiences and/or the studio were put off by the (eerie?) silence.
Wolverine is supposed to be superhuman similar to the Hulk or The Thing although not as strong or tough but approaching them in power, and has a healing factor for injuries that do happen.
There’s an American Suppressor Association? That’s wild
Oh, it's the Editor en Chief again...
I could put almost every single movie about geological disasters on this... a few do their best and do fairly well "The Wave" does take creative liberties but the fundamental disaster is reasonable.
"He's not what you'd call an athlete, Mr. T. Rex.
See? He's walking away in utter helpless defeat.
After all, his brain is the size of a walnut.
Sure, his sense of smell may be acute, but eyesight, hearing,
all of his higher functions completely compromised by that
walnut-sized brain. I mean, forget about the Polish.
It's the T. Rexes who are the real dummies of the world."
Dr. Rick Marshall (Will Ferrell)
Land of the Lost (4/10) Movie CLIP - Walnut-Sized Brain (2009) HD 🤣
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Coffee can help you be more alert but won't cause to be super smart.
At the time Jurassic Park was released, the science backed the Don't Move theory. It was later debunked. Don't put that on JP.
Also why there is a lack of feathers. And why the lack of feathers in the newer sequels is for continuity over the series
@@RonnieRLD That could just as easily be explained by hybriding it with frog DNA, making them more reptilian than otherwise. They're imitations, not replicas.
There is a statue of Félicette, the first cat in space, in Strasbourg
On the subject of cat names, I wonder how many black cats were named "Toothless", "Night Fury" or some variant after the release of How to Train Your Dragon
No doubt that the *coolest* feline is the Nyan cat!
But! For a real cat, I go with Oscar. He was a cat who lived in a nursing home around 2007 who would choose to nap with people who would die within around 36 hours (going from memory here).
Working in the medical, this always interested me. Death is a process, not a moment, so this cat was smelling the hormonal changes that come with dying (and for some reason) decided that’s where the best place to sleep was.
He was so consistent that staff started calling family members if they saw it. He wasn’t 100% accurate of course, because he wasn’t actually PREDICTING anything, he just picked places to sleep that was to his liking. It was the staff who started to connect the two and noticed he often preferred those spaces.
There are also humans who are able to detect diseases by smell.
Wow interesting
With Star Wars, it's a different Galaxy, far far away.
Oh no, Erin got a video all about cats coming up. She is going to be sooo annoyed with that! :P
When talking cool cats in history.. I don't know any specific feline.. but being worshiped as a god in ancient Egypt sounds pretty darn cool ^^
* As for sound in space, you have to remember, Star Wars took place long time ago far far away. You never know.
* Maybe we only use 10% of our brain potential. You know, the brain is in use but we're just too lazy to think.
* You're right about those great image zooms. I hate that.
The other laughable thing is the face recognition apps. They display each face as it goes. NOBODY would program that because it would slow the process way down and there is no need for it.
Guns are literally deafening. Especially in a small space with hard walls (concrete or metal) that won’t absorb any of the sound.
No mention of bullets slow down in water?
Ok you just said to survive a suv exploding via pipe bombs u need to be over a half a mi away: that is absurd
The whole "vision based on movement" isn't about visual acuity. its about how the brain processes and how instincts prioritize. Otherwise the creature wouldn't be able to navigate effectively at all. So your de-bunk doesn't really apply.
The missing person at 9:55 is Trevor Noah. I hope he makes it home safely.
I sort of hope he doesn't.
Maybe in a galaxy far away, space has closer molecules
It’s the Titanic pullover for me.
Shoutout to my Leo and Kate fans ❤
Here are some cool cats: my cats.
Sound in space; the common misconception about the common misconception. So we all know that space is a vacuum and thus sound doesn't travel in space, except, when it does. Take Earth for example, we love that big blue ball picture we all know it (even if Flat Earthers think it to be fake). We can even say "hey look that's the atmosphere", but the seemingly visible atmospheric boundary isn't actually the boundary of our atmosphere. Through multiple mechanisms, Earth has a massive exosphere which stretches in a tail past the Moon's orbit and is even dragged by the Moon as it orbits the Earth. Any sufficiently large explosion in the space between Earth and the Moon would be heard, the concussive blast would compress the very sparsely dispersed Exosphere enough to allow the sound to travel. The only sound that would travel would be higher pitched higher energy waves, of course, but because of what our spaceships are made of, that high pitch sound gets translated to a low pitch sound as it traverses those materials and into the atmosphere inside the ship.
Who is to say that Endor's exosphere isn't far denser than Earth's? Endor is shown to be a Super Earth planet with about 3x Earth's mass. That means a larger magnetosphere, more gravity (although likely relatively Earth like gravity on the surface) possibly denser atmosphere in general and thus a less dispersed exosphere in its outer reaches.
The Death Star is full of atmosphere, so when it explodes it sends out a shockwave carrying with it that atmosphere as well.
Now, the deep space battles, unless they're travelling through a dense nebula, those should be silent. However, the vast majority of battles in space Sci-Fi occur around planets, habitable ones at that, which mean a strong magnetosphere to protect against solar winds, a nitrogen oxygen based atmosphere, and a likely exosphere.
If you punch a person in the face (especially repeatedly) you’re really likely to break your own hand. It’s a little like punching a wall as hard as you can with a t-shirt between your hand and the wall.
I'm totally bummed now. Pew! Pew! Pew! isn't real. 😱😭
Best use of brain percentage power--- "Defending Your Life"
An bald Eagle cackling about how easily Americans are duped is so wonderfully poignant
Your explosion facts are misinterpreted.
Yes, you do need to be 1200 feet away from a pipe bomb to ensure the fragments won't harm you, but you are still highly unlikely to get hit by fragments unless you are fairly close. That is, you won't "be a goner" if you are closer than the quoted safety margins.
Operation Acoustic kitty - the CIA fitting radio transmitters into live cats to eavesdrop on unsuspecting Russian diplomats.
I still don't feel like that's what anyone means when they say the 10% of your brain thing.
The last one... I thought he said that the human brain was 8 pounds not the human skull.
I understand Lucy is total fiction & of course we use all of our brain,..but makes for a pretty good movie!❤️✌️
... and yet, she always pulls the football.
so many items of bad advice from movies and hundreds of bad advice on life, health, politics and every thing else from celebrities' will cause trouble in real life
Most swords are not effective as chopping tools. Imagine trying to carve up a steak by chopping your knife into the meat.
And just like your steak knife most swords are either used as a slashing weapon pushing the blade forward to slide it along a body part, or placing it and drawing it backwards to slice along the length.
Other swords, a very large percentage, are designed as stabbing weapons and great for piercing.
Very, very few are effective if you chop.
Machete, claymore, pretty much all broad swords. Daos, Falchions, long swords, etc etc etc.
@@RobertRedland you’re identifying some of the very few? Neat!
Though, I believe the longsword was still primarily a slashing weapon (could be mistaken, happy to be corrected by a HEMA fan or something). Not sure if you’ve looked into classic style sword combat. But, the effectiveness of it as a chopping weapon Vs the effectiveness of it as a slashing weapon is substantial from what I’ve gathered (no interest in trying to learn first hand).
The issue is primarily the weight of the weapon. It requires too much effort to get enough force to be effective. If you compare that to a natural chopper like an ax or a pole arm designed to be an ax with a long handle once you get it moving the momentum of the weapon itself does the work (harder to arrest the swing and change directions though).
Don’t get me wrong. I wouldn’t want to be chopped by one.
Some birds can damn near see the pours on your nose from space. All birds are dinosaurs. Dinosaurs in the lineage of birds probably had good eyes.
I came this conclusion when I was 10 and got mad at Jurassic Park the first time I watched it because I was still so young and naive that I didn't know even most of the people who do things you admire are real dumb. Almost nobody knows anything about anything except what's right in front of them.
Once I realized that, movies started being more fun again.
Also, I have finished several novels inside a week from first letter to last. Am I the one?
T-rex wasn't from the jurassic period.
Knife wounds almost never kill anyone immediately. That goes for anything knifelike.
Define immediately. . . Because the Guillotine was a pretty quick means of execution
@@RobertRedland I think what you want defined is the word “almost”.
@@RobertRedland i dont think there is anyone confusing a guillotine with a knife. or even knife like.
If you get punched in the face punched/kicked in the head more than a few times odds are your face will be so swollen you’ll be nearly unrecognizable for a couple days.
The recommended treatment for snakebite is to wrap the effected limb in a compression bandage and minimal movement until getting anti venom.
This is for cobra type snakes, elipids. I don't know if that is a good idea for vipers or other families of snakes. In Australia, this is taught because all the dangerous snakes here belong to that family.
@Hart Poole Yeah, another thing I've heard as an Aussie about bites - if unsure about how to treat, don't try. Simply get professional attention ASAP - not worth possibly making it worse. Oh and, do not try kill/capture the snake to show them what snake it is 😭
@@hart-of-gold I live in Australia and that's what we learned in first aid. I wasn't aware it didn't necessarily apply to all snakes though. Interesting.
@@hutchio Do or don't? I get that it's best to know what kind of anti-venin to apply, but on the flip side, you'll more than likely end up with 2 (or more!) victims instead of just one.
@@gobblinal Yeah - DO NOT. A brief description of what the snake looks like is usually enough since they'll know what snakes are common in the area/in the environment it was found in.