PROJECT THOR: Deadly Metal From Outer Space

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  • čas přidán 4. 05. 2024
  • Kyle discusses the history and science of the most famous almost-made space weapon: PROJECT THOR. He's not a supervillain.
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  • @PaleGhost69
    @PaleGhost69 Před 4 lety +439

    0:20
    So Kyle isn't a super villain...
    He's a _Clone_ of a super villain!

    • @NanakiPL
      @NanakiPL Před 4 lety +15

      RUN! Run as far as you can! Before he finds you!

    • @the88thdarcstar
      @the88thdarcstar Před 4 lety +7

      Or vice versa

    • @pizzas4breakfast
      @pizzas4breakfast Před 4 lety +13

      Maybe the clone went mad and became the villain

    • @MrocnyZbik
      @MrocnyZbik Před 4 lety +23

      There is no diffrence between clone and original, maybe there is no original. Only Kyles.

    • @jackielinde7568
      @jackielinde7568 Před 4 lety +12

      Kyle could be one part of a set of twins. You'd have a Good Kyle and Evil Kyle. The problem is telling who's who.

  • @kysier6015
    @kysier6015 Před 4 lety +691

    You people need to stop assuming kyle is a super villain.
    He's a regular every day guy, who has totally *NOT* kidnapped my son. He's babysitting him.
    Can i have my kid back now?

    • @tommytomthms5
      @tommytomthms5 Před 4 lety +49

      Yeah and Mr Madrazo is a totally legitimate businessman who was accused of running a latin American crime ring, But those charges were dropped when a few of the witnesses.. uhh.. went missing.

    • @ReyAmv
      @ReyAmv Před 4 lety +2

      TomLovesKrissy classic.

    • @lewqitz
      @lewqitz Před 4 lety

      He's secretly karen.

    • @djr7760
      @djr7760 Před 4 lety

      I was assuming he was Sasuke for like a year

  • @rinneganbobby7903
    @rinneganbobby7903 Před 4 lety +367

    Real life: “Project Thor”
    G.i.joe: “Project Zeus”
    CoD Ghost: “Project Odin”

    • @spec-opsmexican4119
      @spec-opsmexican4119 Před 3 lety +9

      Wait, aren't they related?

    • @hadang1792
      @hadang1792 Před 2 lety +31

      We need Project Loki

    • @akumaking1
      @akumaking1 Před 2 lety +17

      @@spec-opsmexican4119 same idea of orbital bombardment

    • @jayvhoncalma3458
      @jayvhoncalma3458 Před 2 lety +3

      @@akumaking1 the GI Joe one was very cool looking it's satellites look like rail cannons in Minecraft

    • @jonathanathor117
      @jonathanathor117 Před rokem +4

      Now I can't wait for Project Shiva, Project Atum, Project Huitzilopochtli and Project Ouroboros.

  • @monk9816
    @monk9816 Před 4 lety +993

    Thor himself out here explaining how he’s gonna blow up everything. Confession time boys.

  • @SixGunJo
    @SixGunJo Před 4 lety +1271

    Would this be better classified as "heavy metal" or "death metal"?
    I think it probably counts as both.

    • @pixl3l
      @pixl3l Před 4 lety +88

      I think it also can be speed metal, and power metal to...

    • @km5405
      @km5405 Před 4 lety +46

      heavy death speed metal

    • @pixl3l
      @pixl3l Před 4 lety +15

      and if we think about it trash metal to, as trash is all that's left of the target after.

    • @Prague3203
      @Prague3203 Před 4 lety +3

      Oho 🤣

    • @jayands
      @jayands Před 4 lety +13

      *Boyinaband wants to know your location*

  • @BenCDawson
    @BenCDawson Před 4 lety +927

    I liked the phrase "Orbital Lawn Dart", if that was the code name it'd never get OLD :P

    • @albertjackinson
      @albertjackinson Před 4 lety +32

      Now THAT is a great acronym! Please put that in somebody's hard sci-fi novel!

    • @martinhanke1670
      @martinhanke1670 Před 4 lety +1

      Nicely done.

    • @darrylfoster6260
      @darrylfoster6260 Před 4 lety

      Nice

    • @garret1930
      @garret1930 Před 4 lety +18

      Space station OLD Man, Orbital Lawn Dart Manifold.

    • @awsomesauce03
      @awsomesauce03 Před 4 lety +8

      That would be the shittest code name of all time. "I wonder what they're talking about" is what people will say 2 seconds before they realise they're gonna get stuff dropped on them from space.

  • @ATLAS-tp3pm
    @ATLAS-tp3pm Před 4 lety +328

    “What is it dad?”
    “It’s ODIN”

    • @sil3ntkn1ght27
      @sil3ntkn1ght27 Před 4 lety +19

      "ODIN"

    • @sil3ntkn1ght27
      @sil3ntkn1ght27 Před 4 lety +9

      Also called Woden, Glad o War. Raider, Third, One Eye, Grimnir the Hooded One, All Father, Gondlir Wand Bearer.

    • @dickiewongtk
      @dickiewongtk Před 4 lety +27

      @Raphaël Tremblay It is a Call of Duty reference... 'Orbital Defense Initiative (ODIN)'.

    • @user-zz6ks9gw7i
      @user-zz6ks9gw7i Před 4 lety +8

      Raphaël Tremblay no. It's actually ODIN.

    • @m5a1stuart83
      @m5a1stuart83 Před 4 lety

      Why not Kaido?

  • @19ryuusei
    @19ryuusei Před 4 lety +642

    I remember seeing this in CoD Ghosts, and then realizing that this was an actual concept. Like imagine seeing a telephone pole coming at you.

    • @MrMinigunman101
      @MrMinigunman101 Před 4 lety +93

      You wouldn’t see it coming. You’d probably be dead before you knew you were in danger

    • @geraldfrost4710
      @geraldfrost4710 Před 4 lety +65

      @@MrMinigunman101 The profile it would present would be a dot. then a ball. I was wondering why the ball was getting bigger, then it hit me.

    • @MSaleh-vy8rr
      @MSaleh-vy8rr Před 4 lety +47

      ODIN (Orbital Defense Initiative)

    • @nemanjap8768
      @nemanjap8768 Před 3 lety +2

      @@MrMinigunman101 you would hear them

    • @MrMinigunman101
      @MrMinigunman101 Před 3 lety +18

      Nemanja P faster than sound

  • @abualil8808
    @abualil8808 Před 4 lety +1229

    Who Will Win ?
    A Super giant aircraft carrier that costs billions of dollars
    OR
    One Speedy telephone pole

    • @albertjackinson
      @albertjackinson Před 4 lety +50

      One speedy telephone pole, lights up (eh eh, get it?).

    • @DrewLSsix
      @DrewLSsix Před 4 lety +46

      Well.... that telephone pole its self could cost a similar amount by the time its deployed.

    • @edwhlam
      @edwhlam Před 4 lety +30

      You need to spend billions to get the "telephone pole" into orbit, develop the targeting system for that "pole", develop deploy, and maintain the surveillance system so that you can find the carrier to target. Also, unlike a bunker, a carrier moves at over 30 knots. The "pole" will now needs an active guidance system to constantly change course and to hit the carrier. Lastly, to be useful, the Thor launcher and it's targeting systems need to be in low / mid orbit, and are vulnerable to anti-satellite weapons, including missiles such as SM-3.

    • @abualil8808
      @abualil8808 Před 4 lety +37

      @@edwhlam I think you are complicating stuff a little bit here, you just need a very stronk man to throw the pole into orbit for 5 dollars, then the satelite will use a a very stronk magnet to pull the pole and attach it, and firing it is even easier just throw it on top of your enemy and use a guidance spell and a old compose from 1600AD to give it +5 accaurcy buff and if it don't hit the target just keep throwing poles at it until it hits, very easy.

    • @edwhlam
      @edwhlam Před 4 lety +8

      @@abualil8808 You need to find the carrier first. You can't just keep firing rods and hope they will hit. Low orbit is an altitude of 160 to 2,000Km. You will not hit a moving target from 2,000KM+ or even 160 km away without guidance correction. Oh. It will be shooting back with SM-3 missiles and likely will also be shooting at your command center.

  • @evanhawn2183
    @evanhawn2183 Před 4 lety +880

    This is getting out of hand. Now there are two of them

    • @arto_1790
      @arto_1790 Před 4 lety +37

      There were aways two of them

    • @xSuperSS
      @xSuperSS Před 4 lety +40

      @@arto_1790 An aprentince and a master

    • @taktycs6668
      @taktycs6668 Před 4 lety +22

      Good ol prequel memes 👌🏻👌🏻

    • @williamwinder5011
      @williamwinder5011 Před 4 lety +8

      How do you know there are only two?

    • @skylx0812
      @skylx0812 Před 4 lety +4

      You kno... It used to be said that bilocation was supposedly one of the signs of a person being a saint.

  • @side-beeetaloniswolfwolfac4179

    Because Science: "Order the Strike."
    CZcams: "Copyright Strike?"
    Because Science: "Wait what n-"
    CZcams: "Copyright Strike!"
    Unsuspecting CZcamsr: *Obliterated*

    • @haha69sexnumber
      @haha69sexnumber Před 4 lety +30

      *O R B I T A L C O P Y R I G H T S T R I K E*

    • @Gorvahog
      @Gorvahog Před 2 lety +7

      Orbliterated?

    • @podulox
      @podulox Před rokem

      @@Gorvahog Like in that scan they did in Andromeda Strain (1971)
      (Not the Benjamin Bratt two-parter... I don't think they even mentioned that specific scan in that version... I could watch it again tho...)

  • @orppranator5230
    @orppranator5230 Před 4 lety +440

    "Rods from God"
    -Virgin Mary

  • @TheMasgrave
    @TheMasgrave Před 4 lety +251

    'Slaps rod' "This is a solid metal rod" 'hollow galv pole sound plays'

  • @danhinchliffe7622
    @danhinchliffe7622 Před 4 lety +484

    Ah yes. Kinetic bombardment. My favourite form of lawn dart.

    • @jillvalentinefan77
      @jillvalentinefan77 Před 4 lety +11

      @@RZRREDD Jarts were outlawed by the Geneva convention for use by ground troops against infantry for its sheer danger to anything living.

    • @jillvalentinefan77
      @jillvalentinefan77 Před 4 lety +6

      @@RZRREDD I should know I used them alot against Iran. They didnt come for the chemical weapons they came for my stockpiles of jarts.

    • @seanm4095
      @seanm4095 Před 4 lety +5

      We start doing commercial space jobs and technology like we are doing now and you may just get your cost down!

    • @homemadeanarchy115
      @homemadeanarchy115 Před 3 lety +1

      that is also my favorite form of lawn dart

    • @Attaxalotl
      @Attaxalotl Před 3 lety +3

      "The slayer has taken control of the lawn dart. Run."

  • @doboziandras8935
    @doboziandras8935 Před 4 lety +239

    The perfect anti-Kaiju weapon, after the Jagers of couse.

    • @vyiz1004
      @vyiz1004 Před 4 lety +23

      Holy hell your right. Add some armor piercing mods to it and big G couldn't stand it. I doubt even Shin G could mutate in time to stand it.

    • @vyiz1004
      @vyiz1004 Před 4 lety +4

      Who would know? Shin wouldn't...

    • @doboziandras8935
      @doboziandras8935 Před 4 lety +9

      @@vyiz1004 I saw the first moove, so no time mutateing stuff there.
      But large meat bags in some armoring and high heat resistance at the end. And the ending is solved to just kill that category 5 Slattern , with a bunch of those glorified TIG rods , put a nuke on it and drop the thing in to the portal. And BOOM.
      Less cool tho.

    • @cesarguzman3204
      @cesarguzman3204 Před 4 lety +2

      Godzilla has survived even meteors more powerful in the face

    • @royk7712
      @royk7712 Před 4 lety +1

      you could just build an anti kaiju railgun in every coast, a single railgun with sonar around the port can take any kaiju within 100km

  • @polla2256
    @polla2256 Před 4 lety +116

    The fact this weapon has a lower yield then a nuke makes its use for more likely and given that launch costs are only getting cheaper together with SPACE FORCE make this quite likely.

    • @norbertfleck812
      @norbertfleck812 Před rokem +5

      The impact energy is less than a ballistic missile with some TNT warhead.

    • @Doi-
      @Doi- Před rokem +4

      You would only see benefits if you could harvest and refine materials from space, as such you would need a full scale moon or satellite based refinery, a fleet of asteroid mining equipment and people or A.I. running the project. No country can militarize or colonize the moon so it would have to be a private company in that situation or a violation of international law, and you would need to be able to defend it all.

    • @thethirdchimpanzee
      @thethirdchimpanzee Před rokem +1

      @@Doi- In Pournelle & Niven's book "Football" that is pretty much what the aliens used...dropping rocks - including one BIG rock, towed or pushed towards the Earth from the asteroid belt...and dropped into the Indian ocean. And in Robert Heinlein's "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress", a rebellious Lunar colony repurposed their mining mass driver designed to lob dumb payloads of rock and metal and ice into space...into a sort of rail gun, with their target being basically the entire Earth. You don't even need precision bombing (though some targets WILL fortuitously be in just the right...or just the *wrong*...place and time that you COULD hit some of them with precision, but if you could lob ENOUGH mass, precision isn't needed, you just need to get *near* your target. Hell, much of the Earth is covered with water, and most of the human race lives near coasts (and rivers and lakes)...so you just need to cause a bunch of tsunamis. You could *continuously* generate tsunamis for days and weeks and months and even *years* on end...just using strike after strike after strike.

    • @Doi-
      @Doi- Před rokem +1

      @@thethirdchimpanzee welll, sort of.

    • @Leviathan-me5qd
      @Leviathan-me5qd Před 8 měsíci

      ​@norbertfleck812 Yeah but it could peirce anything. Anything that isn't 100ft of concrete and steel

  • @bostjanferlez5038
    @bostjanferlez5038 Před 4 lety +145

    Footnotes should just start with the back of the chair petting a cat slowly rotating.

    • @levi1929
      @levi1929 Před 4 lety

      Boštjan Ferlež Lololol “I’ll get you next time, science.....next time!!!!”

    • @TheSpiritombsableye
      @TheSpiritombsableye Před 4 lety

      This was in footnotes😍

    • @bostjanferlez5038
      @bostjanferlez5038 Před 4 lety +1

      @@TheSpiritombsableye i saw and i love what he did :)

  • @SuperDriver379
    @SuperDriver379 Před 4 lety +943

    "Science Fiction"
    The term for anything classified beyond top secret.

    • @cosmicodyssey3382
      @cosmicodyssey3382 Před 4 lety +42

      That is the best way to put that ever.

    • @spike51234
      @spike51234 Před 4 lety +23

      I actually did some simulations and found a way to make them faster by getting rid of the air drag and to launch them faster with a coil gun.

    • @jumpingman8160
      @jumpingman8160 Před 4 lety +42

      @@spike51234 I made them go light speed by throwing them at night

    • @mayankraj2294
      @mayankraj2294 Před 4 lety +1

      @@spike51234 .

    • @idoodooo3988
      @idoodooo3988 Před 4 lety

      mayank raj .

  • @aporia_ygo
    @aporia_ygo Před 4 lety +109

    G.I. JOE: Rise of the Cobra
    Project Zeus

    • @MSaleh-vy8rr
      @MSaleh-vy8rr Před 4 lety +9

      No, CoD Ghost, ODIN (Orbital Defense Initiative) it was sick

    • @yamadiyoo9658
      @yamadiyoo9658 Před 3 lety +10

      Gi Joe Retaliation which is the sequel to rise of cobra. Also CoD Ghost did it but Gi Joe came out in march and CoD in november that year 2013. So you can say they were both exploring the idea just one got it out sooner.

    • @TheUndergrounds_best_CHARActer
      @TheUndergrounds_best_CHARActer Před 3 lety +1

      @@yamadiyoo9658 ACTUALLY russia was developing a kinetic energy missle aka KEM made of tungten if droped it will be going at 10 times the speed of sound

    • @Edo_Ginting
      @Edo_Ginting Před 3 lety

      Project Zeus is blacklight tho

  • @GablesTheMadhatter
    @GablesTheMadhatter Před 4 lety +80

    I would have called it "heavy metal thunder"

  • @chanbricks4461
    @chanbricks4461 Před 4 lety +474

    Kyle is basically what Thor would be if he had Loki's personality. Much more successful as a supervillain though

    • @MySerpentine
      @MySerpentine Před 4 lety +11

      That's probably because he wants to be one as opposed to having an awful life.

    • @alejandrofernandezcastro5421
      @alejandrofernandezcastro5421 Před 4 lety +17

      Maybe Loki is actually Kyle/Thor in disguise, using this appearance for confusion purposes

    • @jacob_90s
      @jacob_90s Před 3 lety +1

      He's Val Hallen from the Justice Friends

    • @grizzdajester1995
      @grizzdajester1995 Před 2 lety

      @@jacob_90s bro I'm fucking dead crazy ass reference I almost forgot about the justice friends

  • @adidas-dd4dt
    @adidas-dd4dt Před 4 lety +120

    (Explosion)
    US: "Not it!"
    Russia: "Not it!"
    Kyle Hill: "Not ......DAMNIT!!"

  • @brettpearson9979
    @brettpearson9979 Před 4 lety +56

    He said “it’s cost inhabitative”
    I say “what is space force?”
    Why can’t they stick a rocket on the end of that tungsten candle,

    • @paulchilders9969
      @paulchilders9969 Před 4 lety +1

      What is space force? Not what you think it is. It has nothing at all to do with putting military assets in space, and we are only spending like 10 million on it.

    • @rbnhd1976
      @rbnhd1976 Před 4 lety +3

      I'm guessing that rocket would have to be at least twice as big as the Saturn rocket, total guess

    • @Attaxalotl
      @Attaxalotl Před 3 lety +1

      Or launch them from a rail gun?

    • @JcoleMc
      @JcoleMc Před 3 lety

      @@paulchilders9969 Oh good only 10 million

    • @confectortyrannis275
      @confectortyrannis275 Před 3 lety +2

      @@Attaxalotl seeing as how we only have hypervelocity impacts from extremely large masses one would be led to believe there is a size minimum for projectile needed to not instantly gooify itself punching through an atmosphere at those speeds (separate argument then becoming more ok...so you're saying i can shotgun an area with in process molten mass, it's still mass at speed..) or is it straight self annihilated?
      One means you need one mother of all railguns to be effective, but so cost prohibitive to be practical.
      Or maybe you just need a solid tungsten slug the size of a vw wagon, just worry a 1' x 20' tungsten rod (can that even be fired by railgun? I suppose if aluminum shelled sabot) fired by railgun would just fracture and annihilate itself upon entry, think same problem with .50cal bullets hitting water... Hypervelocity impactor would react much the same way to a planetary atmosphere wouldn't it?

  • @snowblood82
    @snowblood82 Před 3 lety +37

    In GI Joe, the rods were platinum coated. I know this metal to super heat when heated (which is how a catalytic converter works). Would this, heated by friction from drag, add significant force, as in the heat makes the ground around it explode or something?

    • @galleryofrogues
      @galleryofrogues Před rokem

      I think the intense kinetic energy already creates a ton of heat and probably an explosion. Think of a meteorite hitting the earth and causing a huge explosion. Same kinda thing. I think the platinum was just a cool idea fictionally but I could be wrong.

    • @fbiagentmiyakohoshino8223
      @fbiagentmiyakohoshino8223 Před 10 měsíci

      tungsten is better because its denser and can survive up to 6000 degrees f

  • @ruyman90
    @ruyman90 Před 4 lety +290

    Guys hear me out. I have an hypothesis that Kyle suffers from multiple personality disorder combined with schizophrenia. Here are the symptoms:
    - Hallucinations. The void might not be real and is a constant hallucination were he see impossible things. We even have seen several Kyles in the void.
    - Small seizures. Everytime Kyle gets hurt in the void he recovers in the next scene this could be those small attacks that his brain interpret as physical attacks
    - Trauma. We have seen Kyle expressing extreme remorse and sadness when talking about losing a girlfriend (captain america episode) or losing a love one (in spiderman episodes). He even starts crying.
    - Change of mannerisms. As he has said, he is very different when he acts IRL that when he is in the void, he not only become left and right handed between footnotes and episodes he even becomes a way better artist in the void than he is IRL because he was unable to draw as good and he confirm us once that he "draws" all the drawing himself and without help.
    - Memory lose. Kyle has never been able to tell us how he gets out or in of the void, it might be the jump between personalities
    - Time lapses. We just saw him talking to himself in a different timeframe meaning that personalities may be independent, also in the episodes of timetravel he is able to talk to himself from the future and past but he is sure timetravel isn't possible.
    - Compulsive. Maybe the telephone is the way he is able to connect both personalities to become functional (is this a jojo reference?)
    - Dominant personality. We see super villain Kyle ordering around science Kyle to make world ending projects and defeat superheroes.
    We may have in our hands a Kyle with 2 personalities were one was created as a cooping mechanic for a past trauma were another more demanding personality orders around to get work done. There may be more symptoms but there has been already 12 minutes and I have to get out of my building.

  • @myself2782
    @myself2782 Před 4 lety +320

    Everyone: "Hey Kyle, are you a supervillain?"
    Kyle: "Whaaaaat no hold on I gotta make a phone call..."
    Kyle: " *E X E C U T E O R D E R 6 6* "
    Kyle: "Sorry, I was just... ordering a pizza."

  • @kurtswanson6950
    @kurtswanson6950 Před 4 lety +32

    "Deadly Metal From Outer Space" would make a great album title.

  • @JohnTaylor-gy2ps
    @JohnTaylor-gy2ps Před 4 lety +52

    Read " The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress " by Robert E Heinlien.

    • @edwat10
      @edwat10 Před 4 lety +6

      Outstanding! You have great taste in literature sir.
      I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
      Mannie and Man.

    • @supernovagamer929
      @supernovagamer929 Před 4 lety +3

      They said they were just gonna throw rocks, rocks with the same damage as a hydrogen bomb

    • @extremosaur
      @extremosaur Před 3 lety

      It's A. Heinlein.

  • @LOBricksAndSecrets
    @LOBricksAndSecrets Před 4 lety +240

    I don't see why everyone is freaking out about supervillain Kyle. I think he would make a great overlord for our planet.

    • @ribbitgoesthedoglastnamehe4681
      @ribbitgoesthedoglastnamehe4681 Před 4 lety +14

      Yes. We all love our Great Leader. May he reign forever and let us bask in his benevolence, and certainly not make him upset in anyway. Please.

    • @drolfeyking3969
      @drolfeyking3969 Před 4 lety +8

      He would, that is why I wish to join him on his conquest.

    • @ribbitgoesthedoglastnamehe4681
      @ribbitgoesthedoglastnamehe4681 Před 4 lety +5

      @@drolfeyking3969 Yes. I wish to be a Minion.

    • @drolfeyking3969
      @drolfeyking3969 Před 4 lety +4

      I won't be a minion, I'll be the second in command!

    • @watevr4evr
      @watevr4evr Před 4 lety +3

      How dare you blaspheme our dear leader Jim Pickens!!! You will pay with your freedom!

  • @mikecummings8872
    @mikecummings8872 Před 4 lety +86

    He's been calling himself the whole time?
    Came for the science, stayed for the lore.

  • @scarletjester7831
    @scarletjester7831 Před 4 lety +9

    I would love a Office-like show about henchmen and the scientists of Super Villains, because you just have that energy

  • @ehondat
    @ehondat Před 4 lety +2

    Your videos are amazing and I appricate all the work you put into making these

  • @runningthemeta5570
    @runningthemeta5570 Před 4 lety +204

    So that's who Kyle has been calling
    He's been calling himself this whole time.

    • @TheWitheredWizard
      @TheWitheredWizard Před 4 lety +10

      I was thinking the same thing. We finally get to see who's on the other side of the line and it's just him 😂😂 I fricking love this show

    • @meganofsherwood3665
      @meganofsherwood3665 Před 4 lety

      My head hurts so much now...

    • @tucker5720
      @tucker5720 Před 4 lety +1

      Evil twin!
      It all makes sense now

  • @GrindingGearsTV
    @GrindingGearsTV Před 4 lety +168

    kyle is such a super villian he has obviously cloned himself from himself to give himself orders so he can be MOAR EVIL!

    • @angelofmalice0
      @angelofmalice0 Před 4 lety +7

      Wait does that mean the clone is in the void? Has it been the clone in the void all this time? Does the clone ever get out of the void? omg sooo many questions that need to be answered. Also the void is outside of our space time so does that mean Kyle can order clone Kyle to kill someone before they were born?

    • @sri_harsha_dv
      @sri_harsha_dv Před 4 lety +3

      Seems like Fight club (movie)

    • @Kurofaytt
      @Kurofaytt Před 4 lety

      HOW MANY CLOSES ARE THERE.......

    • @Ontarianmm
      @Ontarianmm Před 4 lety

      Hansome Jack style?

  • @johnqpratt8278
    @johnqpratt8278 Před 3 lety

    Loving the highlights

  • @aaronthomas4883
    @aaronthomas4883 Před 4 lety

    Outstanding format.👍

  • @nikoxy4510
    @nikoxy4510 Před 4 lety +208

    This Project Thor idea can be referred to as “Kinetic bombardment”

    • @SwirlyWhirlyXYZ
      @SwirlyWhirlyXYZ Před 4 lety +6

      Rejected Niko
      That would also be a great title for a heavy metal song

    • @andrewsmith1735
      @andrewsmith1735 Před 4 lety +3

      The space satellite will be mass driver

    • @asuragaming6671
      @asuragaming6671 Před 4 lety +3

      *odin defense system* looks like call of duty actually did their research

    • @raptorep
      @raptorep Před 4 lety +1

      SpaceX Starship can lift a dozen "Orbital Lawn Darts" per launch for a small fraction the cost launches were in the 80s. It will just about be practical with the first successful launch and landing.

    • @secrecy3915
      @secrecy3915 Před 4 lety

      @@SwirlyWhirlyXYZ or just a heavy metal concert. Or for what goes on at a heavy metal concert.

  • @rafagd
    @rafagd Před 4 lety +165

    Wait, so Evil Kyle is always talking to Void Kyle? That canon is getting really complicaded.

    • @alexixeno4223
      @alexixeno4223 Před 4 lety +20

      I think he wants to make the canon so dense, that he will be able to drop it from space as a weapon.

    • @rafagd
      @rafagd Před 4 lety +4

      That would definitely kill his audience!

    • @ItsJustFox
      @ItsJustFox Před 4 lety +5

      Ever notice he occasionally plans dates with and tells Void Kyle that he loves them. That man has a lot of self love... either that or he's lonely.

    • @cognitiveTrifurcation
      @cognitiveTrifurcation Před 4 lety

      BS canon is approaching FNAF levels of density. Critical mass is imminent.

    • @TaiWanWaf
      @TaiWanWaf Před 4 lety

      Fox4222 I was literally thinking that!! Like oof, got some self love does he... narcissism can be a key attribute of a super villain!!!

  • @gapratt4955
    @gapratt4955 Před 4 lety +22

    Clarence "Kelly" Johnson of Lockheed had a similar idea. He envisioned using a modified YF 12 to deliver kinetic energy weapons.

    • @millertime7915
      @millertime7915 Před 4 lety +2

      Yes
      Jimmy Carter talked about it in his book
      A sort of super collider-nuclear reactor .

  • @nathantaylor3033
    @nathantaylor3033 Před 3 lety

    Thanks for sharing. This gives me a lot to think about actually

  • @zaczane
    @zaczane Před 4 lety +63

    6:50 Kyle “ how do I even get reception out here”
    Me: Um you’re holding a land line?

    • @dovahkat9635
      @dovahkat9635 Před 4 lety +11

      Ah yes, a landline in space. Of course. There are no problems with that statement, nope none at all!

    • @demandred1957
      @demandred1957 Před 4 lety +3

      A landline, made from carbon nanotubes..

    • @ryankunst668
      @ryankunst668 Před 4 lety +1

      This does not solve the problem.

    • @demandred1957
      @demandred1957 Před 4 lety +2

      @@ryankunst668 sure it does. If we could make a cable out of carbon nanotubes, we could have a space elevator, with a cable just a inch thick. Carbon also conducts electricity, so it would work just like any other landline phone.

    • @demandred1957
      @demandred1957 Před 4 lety +1

      @@dovahkat9635 no problems if the line is made from carbon nanotubes.

  • @upwiggins
    @upwiggins Před 4 lety +67

    Guys it’s not Kyle’s fault, The void has slowly been corrupting him all this time. The real him Has to still be in their deep inside. Everyone chant “ Kyle I love your hair” it will snap him out of it but you have to really believe

    • @MarsStarcruiser
      @MarsStarcruiser Před 4 lety +3

      Need his brother Loki to pull him out of the void

    • @Sebs739
      @Sebs739 Před 4 lety +3

      Trust me, I believe.

    • @snapple1877
      @snapple1877 Před 4 lety +1

      We all want Kylo “Glorious Mane" Wren to remain evile, muhuhahahaaa!

    • @bumble3572
      @bumble3572 Před 4 lety +1

      I'm honestly surprised that he has lasted this long in The Warp without corruption

  • @forcesightknight
    @forcesightknight Před 4 lety +12

    Thanks for posting this. I knew about this when I worked for General dynamics. Whenever I mentioned project Thor people looked at me like I was crazy. Next project you need to check out is the space laser that can melt rock into lava. A Marine brother of mine mentioned an incident in Afghanistan. The choppers couldn't land in the valley we were in do to high wind. His unit was told to fall back to another valley. He said around midnight there was a flash of light, like a welding flash, and a large explosion. It only lasted few minutes. When they went back to the valley a few days there was an airfield made from what he described as obsidian. Planes where already off loading equipment and supplies.
    I was to trust that he wasn't FOS, but I haven't found anything online about that airstrip. I've even scanned Google earth for God knows how many weeks looking for anything.
    Thanks again for posting this, now at least I have a reference to use to prove I'm not Coo Coo kachoo.

    • @RobertSzasz
      @RobertSzasz Před 3 lety +3

      Super late reply, but for project Thor, the problem is that all that energy comes from somewhere. You have to boost stuff into space, burn to set up the orbit, then burn to de-orbit (both of which are impossible to do stealthily). It's about as fast on target to just mount a rod on an ICBM and do a suborbital strike from the ground.

    • @kagemushashien8394
      @kagemushashien8394 Před 7 měsíci +1

      Sounds like a black project to me.

  • @Guardian179
    @Guardian179 Před rokem +3

    Another reason we haven't implemented this, or any other space based weapon system is international law. We basically treat space as a neutral zone, and even anti satellite weapons are banned under treaty.

    • @DatBoiEmo
      @DatBoiEmo Před rokem

      I was jus about to say that, I knew I read somewhere that making something like this was made illegal because space isn’t necessarily an area you can control or own. Let alone build weapons of mass destruction

    • @ennui9745
      @ennui9745 Před rokem

      ASAT weapons are banned under treaty, yet China has tested them (and before the tankie idiots start their whataboutism, yes, I'm aware the US probably has them too).

  • @MrmilesMiller
    @MrmilesMiller Před 4 lety +37

    I finally figured out who Kyle reminds me of. President Zephod Beeblebrox from Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Love the stuff man!

  • @biigdoog
    @biigdoog Před 4 lety +57

    Anyone else noticed dark Kyle and light Kyle? Super villain was wearing a black shirt where science boy was wearing a white shirt

    • @Imurai
      @Imurai Před 4 lety +7

      Well obviously! We know since cowboy movies how evil people dress in all black and heroes in white!

    • @ZUMYnivedo
      @ZUMYnivedo Před 4 lety +8

      Good kyle, or void kyle, is just an AI created by evil Kyle. He is good because he is doing just as he was created to do, and as such, done nothing evil. The evil actions of the AI fall on the creator.

    • @biigdoog
      @biigdoog Před 4 lety +1

      @@ZUMYnivedo touche. maybe all of this is a farce in the void has slowly tainted Kyle's mind over the years turning him into the super villain that he is today!

  • @HOLYLIFEIFY
    @HOLYLIFEIFY Před 2 lety

    This bad boy is solid metal takes me to when I worked as a sports environmentalist for the U.S Navy there on Mare Island in Vallejo Ca during the engineering of my 5th semester of college. Terrill TC!

  • @klausbrinck2137
    @klausbrinck2137 Před 4 lety +11

    "All the bullets are like tiny little Thors" Because Science, 2019

  • @ryans8113
    @ryans8113 Před 4 lety +23

    "Oh you're still here."
    I'm always watching.

  • @johnlukan230
    @johnlukan230 Před 4 lety +136

    Void Kyle is the R&D department, Desk Kyle is the super villain

  • @HOLYLIFEIFY
    @HOLYLIFEIFY Před 2 lety

    The tapping on that bomb to the Mount Of Olives comes to mind. Terrill TC!

  • @viggoeriksson878
    @viggoeriksson878 Před 4 lety +22

    So project-thor is a flechette on steroids

    • @XS69
      @XS69 Před 4 lety +7

      Nope, it is a flechette on... all the steroids.

    • @leonardosangaletti9949
      @leonardosangaletti9949 Před 4 lety +7

      No, is a flechette on asteroids.

    • @kiwikiwi2483
      @kiwikiwi2483 Před 4 lety +1

      leonardo sangaletti That's WAY more like it

  • @Yora21
    @Yora21 Před 4 lety +54

    The third important quality of tungsten: Compared to iridium, uranium, or platinum, it's really cheap.

    • @matthewbaugh5560
      @matthewbaugh5560 Před 4 lety +1

      Now you've made me want to see a James Bond villain who uses platinum rods *because* they are so expensive.

    • @colchronic
      @colchronic Před 4 lety +2

      The US has a lot of depleted uranium sitting around

    • @remliqa
      @remliqa Před 4 lety +1

      @@colchronic
      What is the melting point of Uranium? Can a DU rod survive the reentry heat?

    • @jeffneinenstein5923
      @jeffneinenstein5923 Před 4 lety +1

      Actually, Tungsten is rare and expensive, but durable and tough. So it’s still tough to get, but nowhere near as expensive as the metals you mentioned.

  • @joeldavid3451
    @joeldavid3451 Před 4 lety +85

    So one could say that the results of an orbital strike would be.....Shocking...? Im sorry that pun was uncalled Thor...

    • @CyN_SpiKe
      @CyN_SpiKe Před 4 lety +2

      I don't know if your puns had the impact you were hoping for.

    • @emmanuelbrioche6582
      @emmanuelbrioche6582 Před 4 lety +2

      Ehhh... It was Loki funny, but Odin no if everyone will think so.

    • @Jay-qb9gi
      @Jay-qb9gi Před 4 lety +1

      @@CyN_SpiKe his puns was penetrating enough to give me a chuckle

    • @CyN_SpiKe
      @CyN_SpiKe Před 4 lety +1

      @@Jay-qb9gi I'm glad they did. I'm Thory if anyone took offence.

    • @kuroarts6139
      @kuroarts6139 Před 2 lety

      Please stop, these puns are Hela bad.

  • @gustavorodriguez888
    @gustavorodriguez888 Před 4 lety +8

    In call of duty: ghosts there was some of this orbital weapons but these where "droped" into earth from orbital stations.

  • @doreenlaird6289
    @doreenlaird6289 Před 2 lety

    Thank you for this fine education.

  • @MrBlack-rv3xx
    @MrBlack-rv3xx Před 4 lety +57

    I love how Kyle has taken to the "alleged" supervillain thing and ran with it. Lots of fun. Keep up the great work Kyle.

    • @a-blivvy-yus
      @a-blivvy-yus Před 4 lety +11

      I like how Kyle's non-mobile phone needs "reception" in order to ring.

  • @joecross5335
    @joecross5335 Před 4 lety +7

    Hey Kyle. Love the show.
    Two additional drawbacks to project Thor:
    1. Once you build it, and get it up in orbit you have to maintain that orbit forever. If the orbit ever degrades, you drop all the rods on wherever it would fall. That would be a lot of energy.
    2. I don't think a "Rod from God" would impart nearly as much energy as it has. Though it contains roughly as much kinetic energy as the MOAB you showed on screen, I think most of that energy would be spent burying the rod deep underground (not in an explosion.) Given that the mass and velocity of the rod is so high, I think it would just punch clean through the target, akin to a bullet through paper. So, while the energy is high, it could be possible to be not very far from the impact site and be relatively unharmed.
    Additionally, you mentioned Project Thor would be "prohibitively expensive." I did some research to flesh that out a little more.
    2018 Price of Tungsten $30,300.00 /metric ton
    $30.30 /kg

    Volume of Rod 0.4 m^3
    Weight/Cubic meter 19250 kg
    Weight of single rod 7700 kg
    Cost of single Rod $233,310.00
    Number of Rods / Station 70
    Cost of Rods in station $16,331,700.00

    Weight of rods in station 539,000.00 kg
    Cost per kg - Falcon Heavy $1,700.00 /kg
    Cost of lifting rods into space $916,300,000.00

    Total cost of rods - Less manufacturing $932,631,700.00

    Cost of station - Half of ISS $75,000,000,000.00

    Total cost $75,932,631,700.00
    Cost of a battleship $100,000,000.00
    Cost of Project Thor:
    760 battleships
    (Accountants can be super nerds, too.)

    • @TheSpiritombsableye
      @TheSpiritombsableye Před 4 lety +1

      This post better make into Friday's recap.

    • @neighbor-j-4737
      @neighbor-j-4737 Před 4 lety +1

      _______
      Add a couple billion just because it's government funded, so therefore 'fat'.
      (The CIA, etc. need mission money from somewhere, cough, NASA budgets)
      Also, shot placement is the overarching criteria to the entire endeavor. All of it is for naught if said rod cannot do the kinetic energy dump Precisely On Target. So there's that whole unbeatable guidance system to be perfected.
      However, the 'unshootdownable' characteristics of the cylinder make it very attractive.
      Now it's a cinderblock dropped from an overpass into the windshield of whoever's pissed off the Pentagon that week. But therein lies the rub... say somehow that infrastructure is in place, and the weapon system is viable, how does that then not become the new arms race? Especially since there is no fallout. All the times a nation wanted to nuke but didn't for political and MAD reasons?
      Now they could. Call it surgical. Essentially a 'tactical nuke' with no repercussions lasting generations.
      I imagine, by generation 3, it would be able to hit HVTs in moving vehicle convoys no problem. Plausible deniability is gone, but target destruction is 100% certain.
      And the world is held hostage. THIS is what Captain America fought against, Fury!
      Just kidding. Hail Hydra...

  • @scorpionf1504
    @scorpionf1504 Před 4 lety

    Bullet analogy was spot on. I grew up shooting black powder(round ball) and rifles.

  • @Oops_My_Dood
    @Oops_My_Dood Před 3 lety

    Fucking love how animated this bro is, keep the awesome videos coming brother!

  • @videogrimes6165
    @videogrimes6165 Před 4 lety +87

    I'm a huge nerd when it comes to the cold war, and one of the most important things about Project THOR is not only its cost, but its political ramifications! In 1967 *The Outer Space Treaty* was signed, and it laid out the basic legal framework for international space law. Among its principles it bars states party to the treaty from placing weapons of mass destruction in Earth orbit.
    This is incredibly important from a political point of view. Placing a weapon in space is literally aiming a gun at every single man, woman, and child on earth... and the weapon holder is effectively threatening the whole world at once. If you go to war with someone, they might want to remove your Orbital Weapons to protect themselves, and when they blow up your THORs, all of that space debris will scattershot across space, *creating a deadly cloud of shattered tungsten,* taking out friendly and peaceful satellites in it's path.
    This is why placing any weapons in space is *an EXTREMELY BAD IDEA!!!*
    Not to mention the threat of someone committing a Cyber Attack on your own THORs an then hacking them to attack you instead... or worse... one of your own Allies, sparking a war between you and your best friend!

    • @Sundablakr
      @Sundablakr Před 4 lety +6

      Wouldn't a THOR weapons platform be really easy to destroy as well? Not like you have many ways to defend yourself in orbit.

    • @Dell-ol6hb
      @Dell-ol6hb Před 4 lety +4

      Tom Morland yeah we just don’t have the point defense technology yet to sufficiently protect space weapons from debris and projectiles.

    • @Dell-ol6hb
      @Dell-ol6hb Před 4 lety +4

      VideoGrimes weapons pointed at your own planet is dumb but once we start colonizing our solar system and expanding, weapons on space ships will be a necessity, especially if you are going really fast, because at high speeds with no air resistance or drag any little piece of debris is a potential ship destroying projectile so some weapons in the form of point defense systems are going to be likely necessary. So that means there will likely be warships with far more weapons as an extension of that, it’s just human nature to war

    • @JaelinBezel
      @JaelinBezel Před 4 lety +3

      I hate it when friends fight.

    • @Xwrld967
      @Xwrld967 Před 4 lety +10

      It bans weapons of mass destruction in space. Which by definition means no chemical, biological, or radioactive weapons can be deployed in space but conventional weapons can

  • @ZUMYnivedo
    @ZUMYnivedo Před 4 lety +79

    Does this confirm that void kyle is just an AI created by evil Kyle, and Nate is just code for Neuro Activated Telecom Entity?

    • @ciarfah
      @ciarfah Před 4 lety +8

      ZUMYnivedo Evil Kyle convinced void Kyle that he is hosting a science show to have him explain villainous things

    • @matthewlofton8465
      @matthewlofton8465 Před 4 lety +4

      Evil Kyle simply figured that now that Dolly's dead it's okay for him to reveal all the new advances in "reproductive" science made since then. Why try for a designer baby when you can have a designer Kyle?

    • @albertjackinson
      @albertjackinson Před 4 lety +3

      Great acronym for Nate there! He's not Nate--he's N.A.T.E.

  • @redleg1971
    @redleg1971 Před 2 lety +2

    Jerry Pournelle teamed with sci-fi author Larry Niven to write several successful books. One of these books, FOOTFALL, actually features an alien race using kinetic energy weapons against the forces of Earth in an invasion attempt. Footfall also features the Earth Forces using another theoretical device known as Project Orion, which theorizes using nukes to launch ships into space, and then using them as a type of propulsion once in outer space. It's a cool book!

  • @user-1281
    @user-1281 Před 4 lety +2

    9:14 Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies

    • @starforcestelar
      @starforcestelar Před 4 lety

      That only applies to super weapons such as nukes and military bases

  • @siennaarcher838
    @siennaarcher838 Před 4 lety +78

    I love how Kyle started against the super villain thing and was like WFT, now he has just accepted thats what the internet has chosen to be his fate

  • @olahisawsome
    @olahisawsome Před 4 lety +30

    This makes sense that the person he's talking to would be him self. Its The only person you can trust

  • @williamchamberlain2263
    @williamchamberlain2263 Před 4 lety +9

    10:08 Elon's got you covered there

  • @brettpearson9979
    @brettpearson9979 Před 4 lety +19

    He said “knowing is half the battle”
    I say “ Yo Joe”

    • @samijacquin8814
      @samijacquin8814 Před 4 lety +1

      who's joe ?

    • @brettpearson9979
      @brettpearson9979 Před 4 lety +2

      Sami Gabriel Jacquin he is my imaginary friend, that’s kind almost right. I love him to death, particularly when he says “knowing is half the battle”.
      Have you ever tried DMT?
      Now you know.

    • @samijacquin8814
      @samijacquin8814 Před 4 lety +2

      @@brettpearson9979 joe mama ....

    • @jordanranstead3016
      @jordanranstead3016 Před 4 lety

      Sami Gabriel Jacquin Ill say it, JOE MAMA

    • @samijacquin8814
      @samijacquin8814 Před 4 lety

      @@jordanranstead3016 thank you

  • @thekraden04
    @thekraden04 Před 4 lety +8

    I was really hoping Sci-Kyle would say, "k, love you" and Vil-Kyle would answer back with something like, "love you too. Yes, I'll pick up bread on the way home".

  • @michaelc8295
    @michaelc8295 Před 4 lety +6

    "Oh, you're still here?"
    Because Science is like MCU movies; you should ALWAYS stay until the very end. It may just be everyone eating shawarma, or Kyle crawling under his desk, but it's worth the wait.

  • @zawsrdtygbhjimokpl6998
    @zawsrdtygbhjimokpl6998 Před rokem +1

    in a webnovel (lvl 1 skeleton warrior or something like that), a fellow wanted some godly robot dead, but couldn't even scratch it. This fellow had an indestructible sword, but still not enough, so he flew up, put the sword in a levitation field, then kept buffing it to increase its mass. Released the levitation field and flew downwards along the sword to the target, adjusting its trajectory. Upon impact, the robot was instakilled

  • @simon5143
    @simon5143 Před 4 lety +3

    I genuinely thought it would have been a great idea to use these against Godzilla in the movies. Nuclear warheads was proved useless against them due to them just absorbing the energy from it, but they are not immune against physical damage. And because of how large and easy to track they should’ve been really simple to hit.
    And time was not the problem, the US army had known about Godzilla since the 80s and warheads had already been tested on it and proved futile.

  • @WwZa7
    @WwZa7 Před 4 lety +356

    We had *MUSK* et balls, and now we have *ELON* gated bullets.

    • @clampmotosua1789
      @clampmotosua1789 Před 4 lety +5

      In less than five years you'll realize how overhyped that man is. From what I've heard eletric cars will hurt the environment more due to the HIGHLY toxic chemicals the batteries use. Plus they have to be replaced almost as often as your phone's battery.

    • @WwZa7
      @WwZa7 Před 4 lety +9

      @@clampmotosua1789
      I don't have to care what will be in 5 years, at most in half of a year. Let me enjoy Elon Musk memes for the time being.

    • @clampmotosua1789
      @clampmotosua1789 Před 4 lety +1

      @@WwZa7 lol I'd rather enjoy the alex Jones doom memes. Check out thunderfoots videos. Elon is just a brilliant business man. Not a scientist.

    • @WwZa7
      @WwZa7 Před 4 lety +3

      @@clampmotosua1789
      Don't know who Alex Jones is, ill look it up.
      I know Elon is not scientist, but he is still smart guy pushing innovation. And he is quite meme-friendly.

    • @clampmotosua1789
      @clampmotosua1789 Před 4 lety +1

      @@WwZa7 Alex Jones is from info wars. Honestly I only care about his memes. Thunderfoot is a nuclear physicists who breaks down inaccurate scientific products like the hyper tube and solar roadways. czcams.com/video/L9-T9c44zxs/video.html

  • @07TXTL
    @07TXTL Před 4 lety +20

    Can we just take a minute to thank for these dark mode videos, they save tonnes of battery

  • @Axileoni
    @Axileoni Před 4 lety +2

    4:51 carbon sublimes at a temperature higher than tungsten's melting point in atmospheric pressure.
    Technically tungsten has the highest melting point of any element in 1bar, but carbon remains solid at higher temperatures.

  • @aneophyte1199
    @aneophyte1199 Před 4 lety

    When I read about this concept in one of Pournelle's book (There Will Be War series), it was called "Thor's Hammer".

  • @asdrubalvect6328
    @asdrubalvect6328 Před 4 lety +21

    "Oh we don't launch it or fire it."
    "WE DROP IT!"

  • @ShadowLynx777
    @ShadowLynx777 Před 4 lety +58

    Wait, so the "agency" he calls is also Kyle. Is it a clone? Is it a timey wimey thing where that's the same Kyle but at a different time? Is it a multiverse thing like all the Ricks in the Citadel of Ricks? Is it a quantum thing where as all possibilities of Kyle all exist in the void at the same time? Is it that all of Kyle's alien species just look a lot like him and our optical receptors aren't advanced enough to tell his species apart?

    • @alexixeno4223
      @alexixeno4223 Před 4 lety +13

      I personally think the void has just made multiple kyles. I mean remember that ep. where he died multiple times (all because he kept wearing a red shirt...)

    • @aliruiz6457
      @aliruiz6457 Před 4 lety

      @@alexixeno4223 which episode was that? O:

    • @eddokter
      @eddokter Před 4 lety +2

      Maybe Kyle in the void is simply suffering from isolation related mental issues and inventing other personalities to keep his mind intact. But one went off.

    • @jonfilippone2685
      @jonfilippone2685 Před 4 lety +1

      Kyle's just another member of the illuminati, why? Because science...

    • @levi1929
      @levi1929 Před 4 lety +2

      Ok, inside a void I can see that time wouldn’t exist. Time happens (I think) as a function of matter curving space. So, if Kyle doesn’t have mass, his void exists outside of space time, and therefore all of his thoughts and actions would happen simultaneously to an outside observer. Right? Or are we screwing it all up by watching it?

  • @capsbr2100
    @capsbr2100 Před 4 lety +1

    Thank you so much for labeling your measures also as SI (International System of Units) for compatibility with 98.46% of the world.

  • @melvinmayfield470
    @melvinmayfield470 Před 2 lety

    Well Done!!

  • @kennethpeterson7524
    @kennethpeterson7524 Před 4 lety +20

    A telephone pole sized rod is a blockbuster. A crowbar sized one is a bunker buster.
    Variety is the spice of life

    • @marvinnation
      @marvinnation Před 4 lety +16

      A blockbuster? That explains why they don't exist.

    • @jonathanwaters206
      @jonathanwaters206 Před 4 lety +1

      @@marvinnation ouch

    • @charlespickering2726
      @charlespickering2726 Před 4 lety

      I sort of assume the crowbar sized ones probably are already up there in some sat. There is also that new nasa space plan that has just been lurking around for a while which would make a pretty good vehicle for carrying a load of crowbars of this kind and popping them out wherever needed.

    • @holderheck
      @holderheck Před 4 lety +1

      Yes but actually no, you need at least a few kgs of mass or it just burns up before hitting the ground.

    • @kennethpeterson7524
      @kennethpeterson7524 Před 4 lety

      @@holderheck tungsten is pretty dense. IF a crowbar sized rod wasn't enough, you wouldn't have to scale it up too much.

  • @charlescochran5103
    @charlescochran5103 Před 4 lety +35

    Prohibitively expensive you say? Time to start mining some space rocks.

    • @robertkeller9969
      @robertkeller9969 Před 4 lety +1

      Wouldn't it be just as expensive to get the funding to mine space rocks?

    • @Yora21
      @Yora21 Před 4 lety +3

      Babylon 5 has an invasion in which the attackers collect a bunch of asteroids to bombard their enemy's homeworld into rubble.

    • @TheUserid82
      @TheUserid82 Před 4 lety +1

      @@robertkeller9969 It is only expensive if you wish it to be fast as speed is costs. You can use a collection mirror array and a redirect mirror to turn sunlight into movement of the target as long as you don't care it will take years to get it to the needed spot but you never need to touch it and once on path you can swap to the next target to move.
      Move the target to a Lagrange point and it becomes very economical to mine as that is the point you would want materials anyway or put it in orbit around the Earth as a temporary moon if you want to drop materials to the surface or create infrastructure in orbit.

    • @charlescochran5103
      @charlescochran5103 Před 4 lety +3

      @@robertkeller9969 In reality, if you can get to space, almost any hunk of metal that is enclosed enough for air will work as a space ship. Then all you need are some miners (whether human/robot/machine) and fabricators. Once that is established then you can begin working in space and build it up.

    • @sth128
      @sth128 Před 4 lety

      @@charlescochran5103 in reality if you have the ability to get into space and turn hunks of metal into spaceships capable of manufacturing orbital weapon systems?
      ... You wouldn't need to. Your ability to manufacture ground based weapons will be much superior.
      All things being equal, it is far easier to build stuff on Earth than it is to build in space.

  • @tzarzinjo3766
    @tzarzinjo3766 Před 3 lety +2

    I remember these in Tom Clancy's Endwar

  • @kirkbolas4985
    @kirkbolas4985 Před 4 lety

    I never noticed before that the drag equation is essential the same as the equation for kinetic energy. The mass term in the Ke equation is replaced to account the a variable vector and included the drag coefficient. The result appears to be energy lost to friction as a projectile passes through a media like air.

  • @clamnuts72
    @clamnuts72 Před 4 lety +111

    Hey Kyle , mother of all bombs is just the nickname for MOAB the acronym actually stands for massive ordnance air burst. They detonate above the ground more like an atomic bomb than the rods from god. Where a rod uses kinetic energy from impact, I believe the MOAB and nuclear bombs use the stacking up of blast waves to increase their power. This is something scientists studied after the Halifax explosion during WW1. Thanks Kyle love the show been a long time fan. Remember a villain can be a hero from a certain point of view. Have fun buddy from a friendly Canadian eh.

    • @garret1930
      @garret1930 Před 4 lety +10

      Kinda cool that Canada has the wierd distinction of having held the world's largest non nuclear, manmade, explosion. And subsequently that caused the invention of brail.

    • @BrianCooperpiece
      @BrianCooperpiece Před 4 lety

      From a certain point of view????????
      :p

    • @tomb66
      @tomb66 Před 4 lety +15

      Let's face it, they probably came up with "Mother Of All Bombs" first, and then came up with the technical designation to provide the desired acronym.

    • @boygarcia5821
      @boygarcia5821 Před 4 lety +1

      That's why he did the " " sign

    • @ServantofBaal
      @ServantofBaal Před 4 lety +2

      I'm having trouble wrapping my head around what you mean by 'stacking up of blast waves to increase their power', and how it's relevant to MOABs and nukes

  • @PhilBoswell
    @PhilBoswell Před 4 lety +19

    "Rated M for Mature"
    I think we can see just how mature Evil!Kyle is, oh yes…

  • @SoloPilot6
    @SoloPilot6 Před 3 měsíci

    Jerry was always noting that the original idea came from Heinlein ("The Moon is a Harsh Mistress"). He refined the concept into a deployable weapon.

  • @AmelityshTV
    @AmelityshTV Před rokem +1

    Because Science: "It's impractical"
    Cobra Commander: "Hold my beer"

  • @austinhoward6557
    @austinhoward6557 Před 4 lety +6

    I love the idea that there are at LEAST two Kyle's and the one from footnotes has been commanding the Kyle of the Void to Orbital Strike people

  • @MAJ0ROCEL0T
    @MAJ0ROCEL0T Před 4 lety +6

    This needs to become canon. That only evil Kyle shows up for Footnotes and Live but the regular show is good Kyle

  • @anthonydelgado2017
    @anthonydelgado2017 Před 4 lety +2

    You guys should do one on how much pressure would it actually take to use a force choke like with pressurized air or something idk I’m just interested in it if it could somehow be done.

  • @iron0xide974
    @iron0xide974 Před 4 lety

    The CB 107 is a Kinetic energy weapon that used water to lubricate the rods when being dispersed to reduce drag.

  • @arthurhenrique4380
    @arthurhenrique4380 Před 4 lety +141

    I tought it was project Odin.
    Edit:I was thinking on Call of Duty Ghosts.

  • @TheMegazonyx
    @TheMegazonyx Před 4 lety +15

    Remember when railgun were also impractible and topsecret?
    Looks like when it got researched on, it got practible...
    So... Murphy's Law?

  • @HOLYLIFEIFY
    @HOLYLIFEIFY Před 2 lety

    The U.S Air Force report qualified me Air Force Chaplin in 2003 prophetically and then there during my 2015-2018 by way of print out! Terrill TC!

  • @robmiller5818
    @robmiller5818 Před 4 lety

    When I was in high school, in 89 or 90, I played a table top game called centurion. This game was a future ground combat game, and one of the things available to a player was..you guessed it, a thor satellite strike. It used 10m depleted uranium tipped unpowered rods that had their own terminal guidance to seek targets.

  • @upwiggins
    @upwiggins Před 4 lety +24

    00:20 & 6:21
    Sooo that’s who Kyle has been calling all of this time!!😱😰 I had faith in him but he is cloning himself a sure sign of a super villain 🦹‍♂️

    • @rhodrifleming6174
      @rhodrifleming6174 Před 4 lety +1

      I know right! But what if it's a future Kyle using a stretched wormhole or just void time physics!? If in the future space travel is cheaper + easier that explains all these strikes he's calling in 😲🤐 Either way we all know too much already, best go underground before Thor comes!

    • @upwiggins
      @upwiggins Před 4 lety

      Rhodri Fleming
      🤯

  • @SgtImrak93
    @SgtImrak93 Před 4 lety +10

    Thor talking about Project: Thor
    I see what you did there.

  • @warpdriveby
    @warpdriveby Před 2 lety

    There is a newer "THOR" system too. The "Tactical High-power Operational Responder" is a directed EM weapons system capable of roles from anti-drone to crowd dispersal.

  • @darrennew8211
    @darrennew8211 Před rokem

    Suarez has a novel called Daemon. One of the weapons was basically lawn darts dropped from high-altitude weather balloon platforms that would home in on someone's cell phone signal. Basically, a practical Thor attack that could target individual people instead of infrastructure.
    And of course it's expensive. All that energy has to come from somewhere, which would be the rocket fuel.