When you're an engineer in the Star Wars Universe
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I think we need a part 2
I want a shirt with the quote "in the year 3 of 3 plus graham's number cubed....plus another 7%"
The Earth is flat. The spinning ball Earth is a massive globalist anti Christian conspiracy.
Your merch is too costly man :( Even the branded stuff is cheaper here
Can't say I've been advertised to by Darth Vader before...
I think this is just Zach telling us he was darth Vader for Halloween.
True 😂
😂😂😂
He's Darth Vader every day.
Exactly what I was thinking.
😂
If anyone thinks the "matter can't be destroyed nor created" argument for an invincible death star doesn't make sense, hear me out:
It was spoken aloud. Therefore, the air moved as vader spoke. Air is matter. Therefore, the argument is indestructible as well. It's just science.
So if I said that I fucked ur mom, would my argument then be indestructible?
Technically matter is frozen energy so in a way, maybe? 🤔
damnnn
but if matter can't be created, then how are they going to create the death star ???
But, is what you say really important?
No.
So, it doesn't matter. And if you can't matter it, it's not matter.
The joke about losing 20% of your grade for not having a table of contents is underated😂
Giving my flashbacks to an AI assignment, -15% for a mislabelled X axis in a chart
Its minus 100 if you forget to put your name at the top of the page, and in some cases it needs to be at the top of every page…
Reminds me of the main critique of my Master's thesis, "So, you don't have a table of contents..."
Imagine not adding a toc. How stupid can you be? Do you really expect people will read your entire thing? Do you do that yourself?
@@RhombonianKnight Your answer: "Well in my defence, good sir, it can't have a table of contents if it has no content."
"Countable Infinity" is definitely my favorite "number" ever
The set of rational numbers is countably infinite.
@JohnCena-le1jj which is why i put number in quotation marks
Stupiditius maximus
@@Faroshkas ?
It's a cardinal number
Canonically, Darth Vader thought the Death Star was a waste of time and resources
He was right
Along with Thrawn!😂
Not just canonically. Vader spells it out in the very first movie during the meeting with the high ranking officials. He was definitely not impressed, and warned Tarkin.
"the ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Force"
Then Luke destroys the Death Star using the Force
Tarkin masks are not as cool.
My dad is 75 years old and has worked as an engineer for literally 50 years. I showed this to him and he snort-laughed all the way through.
That's so nice and wholesome ❤❤
i'm an engineer and i'm fucked dead after watching this
Thankfully I’m not an engineer so I was able to stay alive but still laugh, at the few things I did understand.
I’m a wannabe engineer flunky, and I died after that matter explanation.😂
I'm not an engineer, but wanted to play one anyway. So I paused the sketch, brewed some coffee, and wrapped my keyboard in plastic before resuming.
“are you with Lockheed?” is incredibly underrated
Both have the tendency to forget that they're supposed to have a budget
Pretty sure if lockheed was working for the empire there would be no rebellion left
@@Typexviiib*cough cough* Tell that to the Taliban *cough cough*
@@lucofparis4819 are you talking about the group that agreed to every us demand in the doha accords in the un ratified treaty of 2020 which allowed for a gradual us withdrawal over a year in exchange for the Taliban taking over the counter insurgency activities against isis and al queda?
Or are you talking about the group that couldn’t manage to kill 2 dozen U.S. servicemen a year from 2015 onward?
The us doesn’t commit genocide, the empire does. My comment was talking about what would happen if Lockheed worked for the empire. There was nothing stopping the us from wiping the Taliban as a concept off this planet, but the us isn’t one to blow up all of alderon because of a few freedom fighters using it as a base.
@@Typexviiib preach brother preach
Fun fact, vader in lore hated the death star, as did thrawn. They both viewed it as a stupid waste of resources
Also it didn't help that it was the Empire's worst kept secret. Even low level imperial officers stuck on Coruscant knew about it years before it was even finished.
Should have kept making more clone troopers instead
When you have a project that includes millions of personal it's a hard to keep secret.@@samzilla567
@@samzilla567 I don't know much about Star Wars but I feel like hiding a 'death star' the size of a moon would be kinda difficult
@@indolencegaming Bruh space is BIG there are any number of uninhabited star systems that they could have used to hide it's construction, but they didn't.
Am lead engineer and project manager for several defense projects .
This is basically a documentary. The destructive interference bit killed me. Further misunderstanding of popsci resurrected me long enough to write this comment
you said
"Am lead engineer and project manager for several defense projects ."
YEAH, BUT NOT FOR THE DEATH STAR PROJECT
@@martinkulizasorry dude what projects he works on is classified. He could be working on the deathstar 😊
@@Crossfirev
Drats !!!
Also please spell the name of the Death Star correctly
1. it's 2 words
2. Death must start with a capital D
3. Star ,must start with a capital S
4. and when spoken it must always be spoken with the utmost seriousness
I like how neither of them questioned the need for a giant hole leading from the throneroom DIRECTLY to the Death Star's power core, as if the engineer was in on the understanding that if Vader EVER needed to suplex the Emperor to his doom. They would need that thing.
I get the impression that if anyone ever interacted with the emperor for two seconds post mask off, wishes for him to fall down a bottomless hole.
Mmh no, it was to let out the excess of heat, preventing the core to over heat and exploded into a thousand pieces.
@@brendenhawley2225no, "the emperor of the galaxy" it's not someone anybody would meet, only kings of planets and such, in other words people like himself.
I dunno man, perhaps the emperor was just a giant nerd like me. I know if I built a giant death Star with power cores and such I'd for sure want to look at that stuff on the regular just because cool.
I'd probably like put some glass or a higher fence though.
The stuff was still under construction, so...
The fundamental theorem of physics: Frictionless surfaces, massless pulleys, and spherical cows. 😁
Don't forget the most important law: you can't push a rope.
You forgot that everything exists in a vacuum
Spherical cows
Spherical cows experiencing perfectly elastic collisions in a frictionless vacuum.
On a planet with a gravity of 10m/s²
After all of the extensive engineering design and development, engineering challenges, the coordination of vast amounts of materials, and 19 years of construction to complete the Death Star, seeing it explode in an instant must have been like the equivalent of ten 9/11s.
It was the equivalent of eleven 9/11s, which is why the event became known simply as "9"
@@esquilax5563 Oh Nein!
Galen Erso was laughing his ass off in heaven
"What's an aluminium falcon?!!"
That's right. 9110
Technically the Death Star is more workable than you might think. The Empire has the industrial capacity of an entire galaxy behind it, and has the ability to mine asteroids and empty planets for resources. Money and resources aren’t an issue, and with trillions of inhabitants in the galaxy plus droids, the workforce is really not that unbelievable.
The Death Star laser being dumb also is believable because it’s made via Lightsaber crystals, so whatever shenanigans makes lightsabers funky just makes the Death Star Lasers funky as well.
Gravity is funky considering the Death Star is actually so massive it should have a noticeable gravity field. (Don’t remember off the top of my head but the number of ~0.5 m/s^2 sounds in the ballpark) also the SW universe just has gravity tech anyway lol.
I also believe it's workable. The civilization is already at a Kardashev scale of 2.something so it's perfectly doable.
However, the real problem with the SW universe is that everything you see in it is some form of tech from the 80s plus some magic.
It is hard to extrapolate a Kardashev scale of 2.something with such janky ideas. It's just immature in that sense, but I would argue that none of it really matters for the main plot to work. The SF here is really just a background for a classical fairytale full of mythic archetypes.
@@milanstevic8424 indeed, Star Wars is space fantasy with some Sci fi slapped on top, it’s not really worth worrying about the tech lmao.
Yea if 5 bigillion planets just produce part of death star and then ship it then it's possible to make. Like planes aren't made in 1 factory
@@realdragon Nah a single star system should contain enough material and in the SW universe one could deploy enough (robotic) workforce to complete the entire Death Star on site. Yes there is some troublesome logistics, especially with the highly specialized equipment that cannot be made on site, but it doesn't work the way you imagine it to be.
For starters, the construction is not on a planet and there is no gravity, air, or dust.
In space (with sufficient energy and construction capacity) you can easily build a frictionless orbital conveyor belt that is also smart enough to keep the assembly of complicated objects work like a progress bar. This can scale perfectly to any size.
The actual, real issue with accumulating so much mass is the emergence of gravity, but in the universe where artificial gravity exists this should be no problem.
It is still hard to estimate how much time is needed for the object of that size. If you allow me to adopt the terminology of bricks vs building vs truckload, then there is a natural/physical sweet spot for the most efficient universal ratio between the three, and this would effectively spell the ultimate duration of the project, given its final size.
@@milanstevic8424 It's not just about materials but industrial capacity. If 10 planets build part of the death star work goes much faster than if only 1 planet would be building it.
Additionally 1 planet might not have industry to do everything. If 1 planet makes electronics, second weapons and third shields and they have their specialized industry it only makes sense to separate work
How many workers do you need? 12 should be fine 😂
Sonic developers be like. 😆
With infinite time and money, you don't need many workers. In fact you can have one worker building it in his leisure time and still come under budget and before deadline.
@@harzemyalcinkayaIf that one worker is immortal that is.
Never more than twelve
@@harzemyalcinkaya They somehow built that in 20 years...
"How infinite?"
"Countably."
Priceless.
‘Cause, ya know, set theory
Its funny because he's just describing how firms have to deal with ridiculous client demands 🤣
Very true, especially internet demand. 😆
In an alternate universe, this video was titled,
“architects submitting plans to engineers”
Wouldn't that be to management?
Burn…
"Is that what they call spooky action at a distance?" "That's exactly what that is." made me almost spit out my food lol 🤣
"Take it up, with Physics!" 😂 I'm using this in my daily life now! Very quotable
Literally used this line last week at work!
When you realize Darth Vader was asking for the lasers to be “green” cause he cares about the environmental impact of this project but the engineer just thought he wanted the lasers to be green in color 😔😔
Especially the impact on the environment on Alderaan
It makes sense.
Look up how batteries for electric cars are made if you wanna see how much it 'saves' the environment.
@@LordTyph Thats why Vader used Kiber crystals for the death star.
Such a hero for the enviroment.
@@nicolasreinaldet732 Vader: In truth, I had nothing to do with the Death Star's construction. In fact, I despised it.
@@LordTyph This is show In the movie, but just as the movie can pretend that space wizards existed In a galaxy far far away I ca pretend that Vader Is space Greta Thumberg.
So this was just an excuse for Zack to wear his darth Vader outfit right?
No, it was a justification of why he bought the costume.
He use that as a tax write off probably
Real talk, I'm amazed that a man can be a physicist yet equally skilled actor. Please never stop doing what you do.
i hate that the table of contents joke from that one engineering video still gets me every time
Do you know the title of that video? Or the gist of the video so I can find it myself?
@@rafidsiddique2010Engineering professors be like
I love the idea of Vader still being a kid at heart when he talks about lasers because he never got the chance to just be a child. He was either a slave or a Jedi apprentice who got told to cut off his emotions. But nobody dares to disrepect him as Vader, so he just sets his inner child free 😂.
according to numberphile just holding the information of Graham number alone is enough to collapse into a black hole. So if we calculate TREE(3) + (Graham's number)^3 we will have a huge black hole, maybe enough to power the Death Star, and addressing the gravity situation.
Yeah, the black hole would be bigger then the visible universe, I think they have enough gravity.
Can’t forgot the 7 for testing
TREE(3) + Graham's Number^3 is equal to TREE(3) for any purpose numbers are used for. It's like saying Graham's Number + 1.
Hah! Problem Solved
Note that graham cubed has less than two bits more info, than graham.
Dark Vader using an inhaler is just hilarious😂
5:35 I implore everyone that's never heard of Graham's Number or Tree 3 to look them up and understand how mindbogglingly long it would take for that many years to pass.
_Has Darth Vader know absolutely nothing about science all sketch_
Darth Vader: *I learned everything I know about science from Brilliant*
Damn, the shade.
Ok. The whole “matter can’t be created nor destroyed” thing killed me. 😂
The difference of Graham's number to the power of 3 being there or not would be negligible, Tree(3) is unimaginably big compared to it
yeah they just wanted big number
@@karlcole5617 Should have done Tree(grahams number) instead
I mean, that's part of the joke. Not to mention that G(64)^3 is basically indistinguishable from G(64)
And then he adds SEVEN!!!
@@user-tp7gy4dj4lYes, you need time for testing. 😆😆
Vador needing an inhaler killed me lmfao.
One of the best things which comes with experience is that as an engineer any request must be answered with "ok, we will be working on that", and then, once you actually build what realistically can be done and see how they are happy about THEIR idea actually working you tell them its features (limitations), 90 percent of the time they will distractedly nod and leave you alone, as for the other 10 percent you tell them it will be implemented with the next iterations, and that's how you actually ensure they keep hiring you.
Yup. For an engineer, just nodding, ignoring most of what the hell these people are talking about (like Jesus some of the ideas that sales department can come out with are just mindbreaking if you even try to comprehend it) and just doing your work right makes wonders.
As a data person, this is pretty much every conversation I ever have in business
Can we all take a moment to appreciate he requested only 12 workers 😂
The amount of physics jokes in this is amazing, I love it all
“By the year tree(3) plus g(64)^3, plus 7 for testing.”
The extra 7 there is so insignificant it’s fucking hilarious.
I sometimes forget this guy is actual nerd. Good to be reminded.
I've always thought about the idea of being an engineer in the Star Wars Universe, so it's awesome that you've actually put into a video.
Funny thing is the step from 7 to grahams number is smaller than the one from grahams number to tree(3)
Depends what you mean by "step". Obviously true on absolute value but that's not surprising at all. You could just triple the number and have a way bigger "step".
But if we're talking, idk, orders of magnitude, i'm not even sure if the "step" is bigger or smaller. Could be smaller.
@@jimmyh2137 if we're talking about multipliing, then yes, it's*ucking smaller. TREE(3) is bigger than Graham's number ^ 2 / 7
@@jimmyh2137 i just mean like in a vauge intuitive sense of how huge the numbers are, not a mathematical step. Though you could take almost any mathematical concept as a step and it would still work
@@greenmarble638 from what I can recall, Grahams number is fucking huge, but Tree(3) is like, the number of atoms in the universe digits long
@@RovingTroll in the scale of those numbers, having as many digits as the atoms of the universe is so tiny its not even comparable
I accept the lore that vader's mask breathing sounds are just asthma, this is now canon in my head.
Are you with Lockheed? actually killed me i was not ready for that
Lockheed and Boeing making American death machines since the early 20th century. 😄
Never thought I'd see Darth Vader himself try to sell me on Brilliant
3:50 Darth: I just thought of something super smart.
Zach: I doubt it.
LOL
As both a Star Wars fan and a physics student this is the best video i have seen in a very long time.
Can Brilliant teach me how to use the Force?
"Emperor, the Force may move in mysterious ways but our annual budget is definitely moving straight down."
"Take it up...with physics." 😂
1:51
Its possible. Use a refractory Crystal/Mirror to focus all the lazers in one direction.
The problem: The crystal/mirror will eventually break, and its purely wasteful.
If you can project artificial gravity and have infinite energy you could project a gravitational lens that does whatever you want with the beams.
I don't know what's funnier, Darth Vader using inhaler or him using briliant
They could just find a somewhat huge asteroid, tie some old clanky hyperdrive to it and hyperspace ram with it
No, just no. Stop it, get some help.
Stroids from god seems easier than delayed laser interference.
Kurzegart: How to win intergalactic war
This guy: How to make death star
😂
The funniest and most unlikely thing was the project not having a time overrun at the end!
Darth Vader was there the whole time the Death Star was being created. He has become the second oldest Sith in existence, only after his master. Impressive.
There are only 2 sith at any one time, so that’s not really impressive.
@@KieraQ0323
I mean, if you word it like that…
I’ve beaten every bear I’ve ever fought. Wasn’t even a contest. Doesn’t sound as badass when I further admit I’ve only fought teddy bears, does it?
I love the drop of tree of three(Kruskal's tree theorem) and graham's number in the same video
0:30 Foreshadowing a video on TREE(3) and Graham's number on the "main" channel 👀?
I mean, take out the tractor beam bit and that's pretty much what being an engineer is like in our universe.
Darth Vader pulling out the asthma inhaler had me dying.
"spooky action at a distance" i love it
That's an Einstein quote!
The inhaler !!! LMAO
3:49 "and matter cannot be created...nor destroyed..."
Best part hahaha
"I would literally never show my face in public again." ... love it
i like how he says 12 workers should be fine to build a moon sized weapon
The video right above this one in my subscriptions inbox is "one hour of ambient coruscant music"
1:19 engineering prof whose grading system makes no sense was Darth Vader?!? woah
Interesting thing is Anakin was an engineer before the plot of Star Wars hit him.
The force pulling the laptop during the ad was Brilliant.
"What if we just hurled asteroids at planets at relativistic speeds?"
"There would be no green pew, pew lasers... and that's the point."
this was awesome love seeing the physics and engineering crossover
Vader was not in charge of the death start Palpatine was, however, Tarkin was the general commanding the death star. And while Vader and Tarkan were at, basically, the same rink went on the death star Vader basically took orders from Tarkin. So the boss should either be Tarkan or Palpatine, but really Palpatine. Still a good video. I enjoyed it and I'm glad you made it and I hope you make more..
Vader didnt want the death star if i remember correctly :P then again, the books arent cannon anymore so maybe this is accurate
"Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed. The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Force."
-- Vader, A New Hope
@@John73John oh yeah, relevant quote :P
Yeah, Vader hated the Death Star. It was old Palps who wanted a shinny new death machine to show his fans. 👋
”Uuhm, I’m from Alderaan” 😂
Amazing video
Wow, Luke and Leia sure looked good for being Tree(3) + (Graham's Number)^3 + 7 years old!
I often wondered that what Vader does beside fighting. The video answered it. Thanks, Zach!
You know what. There are dozens of better ways to wreck a planet than a death star. You could hit it with a single piece of dust moving at near light speed. Come to think of it they could have a single ship in orbit jump past the planet and drop a lunch box as it jumps. That way you get a relativistic lunch box hitting the planet.
Shields
they could've just warped a ship into it... Disney already did his and the effect was so powerful it destroyed... the entire SW canon.
To be fair, the Death Star wasn't just a weapon, but a space station acting as a seat of power overseeing the Empire's military and defense. Basically, the Empire's version of the Pentagon.
The Expanse got it right. Just put engines on a few asteroids and slam them into the planet. The planet won't be destroyed, but anyone left alive will be struggling just to feed themselves.
A piece of dust going that fast actually makes a pretty tiny explosion all things considered. Tens of thousands of grains of sand going that fast though now we’re talking.
“Take it up with physics.” Excellent response!
Vader would definitely be familiar with tractor beams as they exist in most Star Wars media
But he grew up on a farm so tractors might be his first frame of reference.
@@polreamonnHe grew up in a used parts shop not a farm
@devmin_dot_exe6551 oh yeah....that was his son I'm thinking of.
@@polreamonn you're thinking of Luke
@@oliversherman2414 his son
Absolutely loved your Computer Science Major Playlist! Please keep making videos like this❤
Funny how Kurzgesagt nearly simultaneously released a video how to wage interstellar war. Let's hope that this isn't surprise for 2024
I swear in the Kurzgesagt video there is something about focusing all the beams into one point.
i love this channel so much, makes engineering tollerable
The Death Star wasn't destroyed, just rearranged. How do you think they had a second one so quickly? They arranged it back again.
I appreciate the humor during the ad. Goo Job.
1:00 Dude you're too funny, the mask is GOLD. A fun science guy us cool to break the prejudice.
Adding Grahams number cubed to TREE(3) is still pretty much equal to TREE(3)
"And how many workers?"
"Twelve."
"We would REALLY like the Death Star to be completed sooner."
"Ok, thirteen."
Guess the empire is gonna have to look into ancient history and look into British Empires "recruiting methods".😬 Sorry Geonosians, Wookies, and anyone else that's potentially exploitable.💀
I think the joke about the Death Star schematics already being a sphere was almost too subtle. 😂
im working as an assistant of an architect... it was as if i saw my superior speak to a investor... exactly like that....
"take it up with physics" lol
"So these Storm Troopers. They're all gonna be the same height?"
"Yep"..........
There's a fanfic about exactly that called "Instruments of Destruction". (And it's fully written from an in-universe perspective, without going "lasers don't work that way".)
Also, matter can be broken down into different forms of matter. It would still be matter, just not the death star.
In other words, matter cannot be created or destroyed, but it can change into a more exploded form.
@@DecidedlyNinjaor a form you no longer desire
This really needs a background Hum or spaceship ambient sound
So so good, love from Portugal
How tf u watch this 20 hours ago? This some patreon shit or smth?
@@wolfiegames1572 hi, I pay him on Patreon, so I see before most people
Funny putting Vader as the manager since he badmouthed the Death Star
"how many workers" 12. dying. laughing. dead.
I like how they are talking about how artificial gravity will be extremely difficult while on a ship.
The Droids/iOS joke was hidden gold.
I'm so glad you didn't out right make the "why there's a huge vent that could destroy the ship" joke
Good engineer: exists
Thrawn: I’LL TAKE YOUR ENTIRE STOCK
Good thing the price is only countably infinite, as otherwise it might depend on the status of the Continuum Hypothesis in the Star Wars universe.
It's about time you got that shirt! I already have one