*COUPLE OF THINGS* 1) I know it's no longer the holiday season, but I recorded this in December. Just, y'know, cut me some slack maybe? 2) Also, THANKS FOR BEING HERE IN 2018!!! You all are awesome! 3) Here are those two videos I mentioned. VariantComics collab: th-cam.com/video/qeNcwcQQ0JA/w-d-xo.html and Star Wars video th-cam.com/video/C25xry0NywY/w-d-xo.html 4) We already have the next two videos written and recorded, so we're ahead of schedule this year! Make sure to subscribe if you haven't already! 5) Five is too many things.
Nitpick: You said that graphite is opaque and brittle, but by contrast diamonds are clear and hard. This is true...but "brittle" and "hard" are far from antonyms. Case in point, diamonds are both hard _and_ brittle. In fact, their brittleness comes in part from how unyieldingly hard they are. Just a point to be made.
Kevin i hope you realize that diamonds found in earth are not useful in jewellery? Very small percent of diamonds are pure enough, and even them have to be properly polished.
Long time since NerdSync made a science video, I didn’t knew it, but I kind of miss them. Also I kind of love this kind of quick pase videos. Thanks for all the 2017 content and I’m sure you will make amazing content in 2018
All diamonds have an irregular shape in their raw, uncut form. Superman would probably use his heat vision to shape it into its symmetrical facet form.
I realize that, but the video shows animation where he produces a diamond that's already cut and faceted. Presumably the general public wouldn't know what a raw diamond looks like and even if the artist or animator did, they would choose to use the story telling shorthand of him producing the finished diamond we're familiar with. I guess I'm just pointing out how absurd that is.
Awesome video. I never even considered Superman could do this and somehow missed out on all the instances he has. But little things like this is why I love this channel.
I still remember this Smallville episode when Clark Kent made a Diamond using his heat vision for Lana Lang's engagement ring right in front of her before her proposed to her.
The Star Wars video was fantastic. I almost didn't watch it cause so many other youtubers I watch had already talked about it. But yours was def one of the best videos I'd ever seen in the subject
I got a BLUE DIAMOND almond commercial before this... Blue as in Superman and diamond as in 💎 lol am I overthinking this?! lol 😂 Good! This is NerdSync! 😊🤓
I actually didn't know, like, any of this! Diamonds are always depicted as being formed from coal and I didn't realize that wasn't the case, so thanks for a super interesting and informative video!
What's even more interesting is how would the diamond economy work in a world where there are people who can make as many as they want with their bare hands?
There was an old Superman comic where a woman claimed to have given birth to Superman's son. The baby had some coals and crushed them to diamonds. Turns out the kid was myxlyptlyk (sp) in diguise. Supes figured it out since the diamonds the kid crushed were cut diamonds instead of raw ones.
the one thing you forgot is that superman examines the coal before he makes a diamond, proof of this is in superman 3 were before he asks for a piece of coal he stares at the coal then grabs a specific piece, so x-ray vision is clearly a part of the procedure .
Kimberlite veins are super easy to see from the air ... and sit between his home in Metropolis and his home up north in Canadian arctic ... he could just swoop down and grab whatever diamond he wanted in minutes
I kinda figured we go a little more into detail about how much pressure and heat it takes, and whether or not Superman can exert that much pressure and strength in any reasonable amount of time.
A few points: 1. HPHT diamond grows at around 5 GPa, so guessing the surface area of his hands as around 200cm^2 each, that means he is applying ~10 million Newtons of force. That's a hell of a handshake. 2. Even the fastest modern recipes for HPHT diamond take weeks to grow a big impressive gemstone. 3. The HT part of HPHT stands for high temperature, as the melt has to be around 1500 degrees celcius, so he will have to awkwardly explain to the staff of the daily planet why Clark Kent is walking around with fiery death hands for a few weeks. 4. Other than just graphite, you need a seed crystal and all sorts of additives to get fast growth and good crystal quality. You could say he carries these things around with him just to do this trick - but he has no pockets....
This video kinda feels like Game/Film Theory. This is neither a compliment, nor a critizism, just an observation. 😅 No, I think it's a great video. It combines science, comicbooks and humor, which is a really awesome combination! 😁
Shit, I can’t wait for my mans Superman to form a bunch of diamonds varying in worth; for him to give them away free to anyone; devaluing diamonds(as if they had any REAL value) as a whole so the corporation that made them popular by advertising them as the thing you need for an engagement goes under. He’s gonna ruin the monopoly of diamonds that has trapped us for years. Truly a hero in my eyes, because if anyone I ever marry spends a month or twos salary on a ring, I will drop them.
Hey Scott, not sure if you have already covered this topic but I was really interested to know what exactly does Iron Man shoot out of his hands and out of his arc reactor? Is it plasma? Can it be produced like that? And can it actually cause so much destruction??
I had always assumed diamonds could be made from coal, so it was nice to learn otherwise! Also, I really like how the videos have been getting more visually interesting!!!
Just a thought, but could Supes also be using his super speed and microscopic vision when making the diamonds from coal to quickly identify and remove the impurities?
Hey Scott, general question here, do you or any other viewers have recommendations for night lamps or ways to avoid comic book glare when reading in the dark?
So are diamonds actually from lead, cause under the circumstances with lead underground should create diamonds. Also if it takes a while for coal to turn to diamonds, is coal commonly around diamonds.
Hey Scott could you sometime in the near future do a tribute piece to comic artist and writer Mort Walker who died today? Maybe you could talk about the history of his strips Hi and Lois and Beatle Bailey.
I've taken a lot of Chemistry classes in university and already knew the answer, but it was fun to watch you explain it. By the way anything on the almost Chemistry called nerdsync kitchen?
You're not considering Superman's ability to remove the impurities from the coal dust which he Then compresses into a diamond. Trust me, anyone who can shoot tiny Supermen out of his fingertips can extract impurities from coal dust.
What superman should do is go grab asteroids and meteors and push them into earths orbit. Then we could just mine those for their resources and then he could just push them back out.
I always figured this would look more realistic if Supes gave the lump a few zaps of heat vision while he was compressing it. He could burn out the impurities in the coal, leaving only pure carbon, and if he's just squeezing it no doubt he'd just mush it into dust (I once read the 50s Superman story that introduced Titano the Super-Ape and at one point he tries to make a diamond out of coal but just makes coal dust because - to quote Lois Lane - "he doesn't have super-strength like Superman")
I find this very intresting, but when I'm in school the teatcher makes everything sound so boring. Great video! Relly gave me motivation to keep study.
I did not know were would be a good place to put this but I figgered I try hear and see what happens. I was trying to find put what is the importance of the diamond shape on Ravens head / of it dose anthing for her.
Loved the vid. Dont stop the jokes. Keep doin wat your doin. And tanx for another wonderful video. O yea I think that they are called "alleles" right (same molecular formula but different molecular structure) so graphite and diomond are alleles right?....🤔....
*COUPLE OF THINGS*
1) I know it's no longer the holiday season, but I recorded this in December. Just, y'know, cut me some slack maybe?
2) Also, THANKS FOR BEING HERE IN 2018!!! You all are awesome!
3) Here are those two videos I mentioned. VariantComics collab: th-cam.com/video/qeNcwcQQ0JA/w-d-xo.html and Star Wars video th-cam.com/video/C25xry0NywY/w-d-xo.html
4) We already have the next two videos written and recorded, so we're ahead of schedule this year! Make sure to subscribe if you haven't already!
5) Five is too many things.
No slack!
Nitpick: You said that graphite is opaque and brittle, but by contrast diamonds are clear and hard. This is true...but "brittle" and "hard" are far from antonyms. Case in point, diamonds are both hard _and_ brittle. In fact, their brittleness comes in part from how unyieldingly hard they are.
Just a point to be made.
NerdSync thank you I find this really informative
Im definitely hetting back into comics
NerdSync
Double post?
Superman:
*Forgets he and Lois's anniversary
*Runs out and buys a pack of pencils
NerdOutpostAlpha Why doesn't he just burrow into the Earth and just grab a natural diamond?
His*
kimberlite veins are very visible from the air & lie between metropolis and his home up north ... he'd be able to just grab a couple diamonds easy
Kevin i hope you realize that diamonds found in earth are not useful in jewellery? Very small percent of diamonds are pure enough, and even them have to be properly polished.
Long time since NerdSync made a science video, I didn’t knew it, but I kind of miss them. Also I kind of love this kind of quick pase videos. Thanks for all the 2017 content and I’m sure you will make amazing content in 2018
Thanks! We have a lot of great stuff planned!
Scott looks dapper
Why thank you!
You're quite welcome, sir
I learned more in five minutes here than I have in the last five months of school. Thanks, NerdSync! I always love your vids, man.
I was just livin my life normally. Ready to go to bed. But then i got an alert came up on my phone at 00:51 UK time, informing me nerdsync uploaded.
DROP EVERYTHING!
Just not anything breakable!
Anyone who is a NerdSync viewer does not live life normally. Just saying.
Even if he can make diamonds with his hands, wouldn't they come out the shape of his palm grip?
Superman has mysterious ways... haha
All diamonds have an irregular shape in their raw, uncut form. Superman would probably use his heat vision to shape it into its symmetrical facet form.
I realize that, but the video shows animation where he produces a diamond that's already cut and faceted. Presumably the general public wouldn't know what a raw diamond looks like and even if the artist or animator did, they would choose to use the story telling shorthand of him producing the finished diamond we're familiar with. I guess I'm just pointing out how absurd that is.
The answer is (and always will be) : Precise muscle control!
How can Superman imitate Batman's voice : Precise muscle control!
Oh wow! I bet that's useful in the bedroom.
Awesome video. I never even considered Superman could do this and somehow missed out on all the instances he has. But little things like this is why I love this channel.
Vsauce meets comics
Nah, that's what Vsauce3 is for. Haha
What if they made a Vsauce comic?
John Squarez wouldn't read it but will talk smack like I do when the movie comes out.
all they have to do is make this:
th-cam.com/video/JQgAT-09qHA/w-d-xo.html
NerdSync *but what are comics?* , wait a second you already did that
Niiiiiiiiice, and I give better presents than pencils. ;-)
You said it's voice over only but that's clearly you!
Shhhhhhhhh
Fancy Teeth
I know, right?
Surely when you see bits of black dust in his hand (as well as the Diamond), thats the impurities
I still remember this Smallville episode when Clark Kent made a Diamond using his heat vision for Lana Lang's engagement ring right in front of her before her proposed to her.
but............who would give Scott of all people coal???? like why? more like HOW? Scott is great.
To be fair, I asked for coal.
Big fan here Scott!! Loved all of your videos!
Wow I’m just realizing that this is the first video of NS that I’ve watched in full since the podcast ended. I’m glad you it’s doing well scott
NerdSync is back!!! Also I didn't know you did a collab with Variant. I gotta watch that now!
I love this channel. I learn so much. NerdSync is my favorite class, and Scott is my favorite teacher.
I got graphite for Christmas. How to you contact Superman? There isn't a superphone or supersignal. Why does Batman get all the cool toys?
Happy New Year Scott and all at NerdSync; you are still awesome!
I love the humor put into this one, it’s fantastic.
The Star Wars video was fantastic. I almost didn't watch it cause so many other youtubers I watch had already talked about it. But yours was def one of the best videos I'd ever seen in the subject
Just for the record. I had no clue you were actually doing a video about superman and coal when I commented on your post. That said, this was awesome.
I literally sit and wait for your videos!
Hello! Awesoem video :) I really like the science based videos, you should do more of these... they're really cool.
Scott keep doing ya thing! Love to learn more through comics and your videos are very fun and informative! You're a super hero in your own right!
Even if he can, you're the prettiest diamond in the world.
Another great video. Keep up the awesome work
I got a BLUE DIAMOND almond commercial before this... Blue as in Superman and diamond as in 💎 lol am I overthinking this?! lol 😂 Good! This is NerdSync! 😊🤓
Also great video as always Scott!!!! 😊
YAY SCOTT IS AWESOME AND NERDSYNC IS BACK
I actually didn't know, like, any of this! Diamonds are always depicted as being formed from coal and I didn't realize that wasn't the case, so thanks for a super interesting and informative video!
OMG! That high five mini clip was great! Where was that from?
Great video Scott. I hope you enjoyed the holidays.
But a fist shaped diamond is what it would be!
Great content as always
Happy New Year, Scott! I hope it's a GREAT year for NerdSync. I appreciate the intelligence offered in your videos. It's well refreshing.
Wow that was quick but nice, I enjoyed it. Thanks nerd sync
What's even more interesting is how would the diamond economy work in a world where there are people who can make as many as they want with their bare hands?
You make science entertaining!
Yay one of my favorite comic book channels :)
There was an old Superman comic where a woman claimed to have given birth to Superman's son. The baby had some coals and crushed them to diamonds. Turns out the kid was myxlyptlyk (sp) in diguise. Supes figured it out since the diamonds the kid crushed were cut diamonds instead of raw ones.
I think he can, because he could probably use some unknown power to extranet the non carbon part of coal
That sounds like Superman. A random, unknown power that helps him out.
"Probably" and "Unknown Power" are my favorite scientific terms!
the writers would shuehorn it in just for that one single moment, and it would never be seen, heard of or referensed ever again.
Super weaving because even mundane skills deserve to be super.
Transparent and incredibly hard! Great for newlyweds!
I see what you did there, heheh.
lol DOWN, boy!
Claude Larose Good One
Diamonds are forever but Nerdsync makes the present special.
Cool video!
Yoooooo. Dope video!!!!
the one thing you forgot is that superman examines the coal before he makes a diamond, proof of this is in superman 3 were before he asks for a piece of coal he stares at the coal then grabs a specific piece, so x-ray vision is clearly a part of the procedure .
Kimberlite veins are super easy to see from the air ... and sit between his home in Metropolis and his home up north in Canadian arctic ... he could just swoop down and grab whatever diamond he wanted in minutes
I kinda figured we go a little more into detail about how much pressure and heat it takes, and whether or not Superman can exert that much pressure and strength in any reasonable amount of time.
A few points:
1. HPHT diamond grows at around 5 GPa, so guessing the surface area of his hands as around 200cm^2 each, that means he is applying ~10 million Newtons of force. That's a hell of a handshake.
2. Even the fastest modern recipes for HPHT diamond take weeks to grow a big impressive gemstone.
3. The HT part of HPHT stands for high temperature, as the melt has to be around 1500 degrees celcius, so he will have to awkwardly explain to the staff of the daily planet why Clark Kent is walking around with fiery death hands for a few weeks.
4. Other than just graphite, you need a seed crystal and all sorts of additives to get fast growth and good crystal quality. You could say he carries these things around with him just to do this trick - but he has no pockets....
I loved the time that The Tick tried this. "Arthur is it a diamond yet?"
**spits** saitama can, yeah keep coming with excuses Clark
All the jokes in this were fantastic! I actually found myself audibly laughing xD
This video kinda feels like Game/Film Theory. This is neither a compliment, nor a critizism, just an observation. 😅
No, I think it's a great video. It combines science, comicbooks and humor, which is a really awesome combination! 😁
Hope everyone enjoyed the new year celebrations
This might be the earliest I've been! Less than 100 comments so far!
Great job, as always Scott. Now to find some pencils...
So Superman could definitely just give all the school teachers a box of diamonds in exchange for pencils.
This is what I love science and comics!!
Shit, I can’t wait for my mans Superman to form a bunch of diamonds varying in worth; for him to give them away free to anyone; devaluing diamonds(as if they had any REAL value) as a whole so the corporation that made them popular by advertising them as the thing you need for an engagement goes under. He’s gonna ruin the monopoly of diamonds that has trapped us for years. Truly a hero in my eyes, because if anyone I ever marry spends a month or twos salary on a ring, I will drop them.
Hey Scott, not sure if you have already covered this topic but I was really interested to know what exactly does Iron Man shoot out of his hands and out of his arc reactor? Is it plasma? Can it be produced like that? And can it actually cause so much destruction??
I had always assumed diamonds could be made from coal, so it was nice to learn otherwise!
Also, I really like how the videos have been getting more visually interesting!!!
hey Scott are u still making the book?
Those colored diamonds made me instantly think of chaos emeralds
Just a thought, but could Supes also be using his super speed and microscopic vision when making the diamonds from coal to quickly identify and remove the impurities?
Hey Scott, general question here, do you or any other viewers have recommendations for night lamps or ways to avoid comic book glare when reading in the dark?
So are diamonds actually from lead, cause under the circumstances with lead underground should create diamonds. Also if it takes a while for coal to turn to diamonds, is coal commonly around diamonds.
Hey Scott could you sometime in the near future do a tribute piece to comic artist and writer Mort Walker who died today? Maybe you could talk about the history of his strips Hi and Lois and Beatle Bailey.
I love nerdsync!!
My grand aunt actually gave me a pack of pencils this christmas.
Grandma, lol my wife loves her videos! re: video, so is there an example of a coal diamond or, I guess not? Also great mythbusters episode about this.
I've taken a lot of Chemistry classes in university and already knew the answer, but it was fun to watch you explain it. By the way anything on the almost Chemistry called nerdsync kitchen?
What color profile do you use on your camera?
4:18 I haven’t see a comment that haven’t referenced to a particular show on Cartoon Network about magical alien gems
1:10 ooo nice foreshadowing.
Scott must have a lot of frequent flier miles with all that traveling
I think it would be cool if gou did a video about Hawkeye. On what, I have no idea but gour creative, like a scientist.
Learning about the science, Yay!
That black powder wouldn't be bad either. That means I would have met Superman!
Loving the bow tie
I'm not surprised, I saw him did that in Superman III. And,why not?Supes can even make a smaller clones of himself from his palm.
You guys should really cover the Japanese Tokusatsu Spiderman show
The impurities were squeezed out by superman when the carbon atoms were forced into a crystalline structure. That was what the residue was.
Now that is one well dressed gent right there.
I've always wondered this
Please do a video on Umbrella Academy!! It's my favorite comic series
So wooden pencils are worth more than led pencils. *Interesting* 😃
It almost sounded like Scott said "I got married" at the end when he said "it got barried"
You're not considering Superman's ability to remove the impurities from the coal dust which he Then compresses into a diamond. Trust me, anyone who can shoot tiny Supermen out of his fingertips can extract impurities from coal dust.
diamonds are a supergirls best friend
What superman should do is go grab asteroids and meteors and push them into earths orbit. Then we could just mine those for their resources and then he could just push them back out.
I always figured this would look more realistic if Supes gave the lump a few zaps of heat vision while he was compressing it. He could burn out the impurities in the coal, leaving only pure carbon, and if he's just squeezing it no doubt he'd just mush it into dust (I once read the 50s Superman story that introduced Titano the Super-Ape and at one point he tries to make a diamond out of coal but just makes coal dust because - to quote Lois Lane - "he doesn't have super-strength like Superman")
Would the natives have known any different?
I find this very intresting, but when I'm in school the teatcher makes everything sound so boring. Great video! Relly gave me motivation to keep study.
I did not know were would be a good place to put this but I figgered I try hear and see what happens. I was trying to find put what is the importance of the diamond shape on Ravens head / of it dose anthing for her.
funny is in most circumstances Superman doesn't use his heat vision with it, most it is just hands
Hey wait! We're not talking about natural diamonds, we're talking about SYNTHETIC diamonds!
More voice over video in future please
Hey Scott! We're not talking about natural diamonds, we're talking about SYNTHETIC diamonds!
James Smith eyyyy! Comment pals!
Loved the vid. Dont stop the jokes. Keep doin wat your doin. And tanx for another wonderful video.
O yea I think that they are called "alleles" right (same molecular formula but different molecular structure) so graphite and diomond are alleles right?....🤔....
*LASER VISION*