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How Does Superman's Heat Vision Work? (Because Science w/ Kyle Hill)

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    Over the years, Superman’s Heat Vision has been many things from literal heat to lasers, but how does it work? This looks like a job for Kyle on this week’s Because Science!
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  • @4DeMS
    @4DeMS ปีที่แล้ว +84

    I think Homelander has the most cool looking heat vision mainly because the actor is so good at making it look like he's shooting lasers from his eyes

    • @internetproduction5446
      @internetproduction5446 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Yeah but superman could easily turn HL into to ashes if he didn’t hold back

    • @irladovelasquez975
      @irladovelasquez975 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@internetproduction5446 well not supermans heat vision can kill homelander because remember in the scene where solider boy and butcher fighting with homelander butcher shoot his heat vision at homelanders chest which it didn't kill him

    • @03Pii
      @03Pii 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@irladovelasquez975Superman heat vision has repaired reality, destroyed dimensions and is stated to be hotter than a hundred suns. He’s definitely killing him with it

    • @lanhhuyethan5686
      @lanhhuyethan5686 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@internetproduction5446why you guy keep bringing up power scaling in this kind of talk, are you braindead. OP only talk about who look cooler

    • @user-sp5ub7fb1h
      @user-sp5ub7fb1h 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@03Pii you guys are not the real heroes I'm the real hero

  • @SkinnerNoah
    @SkinnerNoah 4 ปีที่แล้ว +70

    Based on the power Superman is able to release with his heat vision, it stands to reason that he can vary the intensity of it. If he let off his full strength every time he shot a laser out of his eyes, he'd be causing mass damage to everything near his target

    • @elenaKS230
      @elenaKS230 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      In the smallville tv show his vision works like you describe, with him being able to keep it low enough to heat up drinks without melting the bottle but also able to intensify it to the level of lasers.

  • @Teth47
    @Teth47 8 ปีที่แล้ว +370

    Or he could just go hang out in the core of the sun, which he has done before, and gain absolutely massive amounts of power in seconds...

    • @archambaultphil
      @archambaultphil 8 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      +Teth47 Woot, Superman Prime! 15000 years at the core of the Sun.

    • @creme8338
      @creme8338 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +archambaultphil woot woot!

    • @chrisesquibel13
      @chrisesquibel13 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +archambaultphil it's called superman 1 million

    • @MrDd2331d
      @MrDd2331d 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      +Christopher Esquibel Both of you are right, Superman prime one million.

    • @Njrocks00
      @Njrocks00 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Teth47 He would die of radiation tho watch game theory's batman vs superman

  • @jacobclark6002
    @jacobclark6002 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    My personal explanation has always been that A: his bioelectric aura which covers him and his suit (canon) is what absorbs sunlight, not just through his skin (since most of his skin is covered by suit), and B, his cells aren't just solar batteries, but are actually like tiny contained nuclear reactors that activate and create energy upon sunlight absorption.
    His cells stop producing much energy under a red sun, normally produce power under a yellow sun, and go into overdrive under a blue sun.

    • @ciresolstice
      @ciresolstice 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      This!

    • @theowilds3778
      @theowilds3778 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      A red supergiant sun wouldn't give Superman a powerboost, it would just make him unable to recharge and get him weaker until his strength, speed, durability etc is the same as an average human. I mean his home planet, Krypton, orbits around a red sun and no Kryptonian before its destruction did what Superman did under the Earth's yellow sun, it was even addressed in the Legion of Superheroes TV show: Superman and Timberwolf went to Zoon with Brainiac's head to fix him and Superman losed his powers, which Brainiac stated near the end that Superman receives his powers from the yellow sun, and season 1's second final episode had Superman wearing a metallic suit so he can keep/use his powers under a red dwarf sun.

    • @Chuck_EL
      @Chuck_EL หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yup Superman is basically a human nuclear reactor

  • @Fraxxxi
    @Fraxxxi 8 ปีที่แล้ว +169

    "he could punch right through a guy but never does" well do I have a comic book series for you...

  • @Devils_Lair_Comics
    @Devils_Lair_Comics 8 ปีที่แล้ว +155

    or, hear me out, he could fly directly into the sun (which he has done in the past) to turbo charge his abilities. just saying.

    • @bambubambubambu1194
      @bambubambubambu1194 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      +Godzillarulz Exactly what I was thinking. Should speed things up quite a bit, right?

    • @meganaxeliar
      @meganaxeliar ปีที่แล้ว +2

      not sure he can escape that gravitational field

    • @Devils_Lair_Comics
      @Devils_Lair_Comics ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@meganaxeliar he has...numerous times

    • @meganaxeliar
      @meganaxeliar ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Devils_Lair_Comics
      guess that answers ur question then

    • @dek5775
      @dek5775 ปีที่แล้ว

      He literally escaped a blackhole

  • @geohiekim8705
    @geohiekim8705 8 ปีที่แล้ว +64

    superman literally flies into the sun for power

    • @EmeraldEmsiron
      @EmeraldEmsiron 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lets go filing!

    • @austinharrison2453
      @austinharrison2453 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Geohie Kim basically hes a walkin battery and his body is a solar panel so without the right sun (power source) no superman

    • @mortimerreid6766
      @mortimerreid6766 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@austinharrison2453 Yea but it would take several months for Superman to lose his power. He has been absorbing solar radiation since he was born.

  • @keitholsen8787
    @keitholsen8787 8 ปีที่แล้ว +305

    Red star would diminish his power since it was this type Krypton revolved around. Blue, however, would increase it his power dramatically.

    • @anthonymathias2094
      @anthonymathias2094 8 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      +Keith Olsen im gonna assume your being sarcastic

    • @grantharrison918
      @grantharrison918 8 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      +Keith Olsen the thing that gives superman his powers is the difference in gravitational forces not the different types of suns, but i see what you are getting at.

    • @johnmillevoi782
      @johnmillevoi782 8 ปีที่แล้ว +78

      +grant harrison No, Keith is right. The solar energy of a red star *drains* his powers, he only gains his famous superpowers under the power of a yellow sun. He is also correct in that a blue star gives him even more power.

    • @EmeraldEmsiron
      @EmeraldEmsiron 8 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      +Suppa Suppa and that is why he said that at the end the way he did! I r angry

    • @naverilllang
      @naverilllang 8 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      +Suppa Suppa to be fair, it is mentioned that his increased strength is partly due to the lower gravity. it explains strength, but everything else still star power

  • @ImAlexGoodwin
    @ImAlexGoodwin 8 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    *Batman watches this video*
    "So you're telling me Superman CAN melt steel beams! I KNEW IT!"

  • @dmdizzy
    @dmdizzy 8 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    My only question is why his eyebeams never converge. They're always parallel, but if his eyes are focusing on a certain point shouldn't the beams meet there?

    • @attercops
      @attercops 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      maybe he can do the chameleon trick...?

    • @dmdizzy
      @dmdizzy 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Who knows?

    • @jakepope4770
      @jakepope4770 8 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      They often do meet at the point that he looking at. Like when he uses them to write on a surface or something. He has the ability to shape his heat vision from microscopic to engulfing everything in his field of sight. I'd imagine he just has them move straight out from his eyes placement on his face.

    • @brokenwave6125
      @brokenwave6125 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Youre wrong. They aren't always parallel.Also, just because his vision is focused on one point doesn't mean his heat vision has to be.

    • @GamesFromSpace
      @GamesFromSpace 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It's weirder how often he uses them to hit multiple enemies or track in different directions. Cross eyed superman is canon.

  • @horizon4937
    @horizon4937 8 ปีที่แล้ว +95

    Wait, a Second, a Red Sun would take away Superman's Powers! It's better with a Blue Star ;3

    • @annazulfiqar2007
      @annazulfiqar2007 8 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      This guy is right.... Because comics

    • @Theolppoman
      @Theolppoman 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      +Clarence Ho That was the joke

    • @JaelinBezel
      @JaelinBezel 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      PEANUT BUTTER THO!

    • @olivierbontinck3050
      @olivierbontinck3050 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Dindon A red sun takes away his powers as Krypton, his home planet, was a planet in a red sun based solar system.

    • @willow7610
      @willow7610 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Clarence Ho it dosent take them away it just dosent power them so if he runs out a red Sun won't supply him

  • @mdavies97131
    @mdavies97131 8 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    OOPS, some bad numbers, though good episode mostly, I'd love to see a revised/updated one :) . He stated the sun output 100PJ (1e17 J), but wikipedia showed the sun outputting 400YJ (4e26) in thermal energy alone, which is 4 billion times as much per second as he stated. As, like any sensible person, I don't entrirely trust Wikipedia, I looked further. NASA's Cosmicopia showed the sun outputting 380YJ (3.8e26) which is actually pretty close. I really really wish he'd do a new episode with this change :) This I thought important if we consider him actually flying into the sun (he's done that historically to supercharge). Please upmark this one if you do, too. Maybe he'll notice :)
    EDIT: FYI, the number used at Earth's distance was correct, so all that math was fine, just the sun's output was off, or he may have referring to the tiny fraction that heads Earth's direction. If that's the case, though, at a certain point flying toward the sun, his profile (and percentage of sun's output striking him, accordingly) would increase. If, for argument's sake, he were to fly into the sun and somehow absorb all output, he'd absorb in one second roughly 60 trillion Hiroshima blasts, or 1.8 billion Tsar Bomba blasts (biggest explosion we've ever made), or enough to heat the entire by 1 degree Celsius 400 times over... that's with a one second charge. That's just nuts... b/c science!

  • @nikorobinson317
    @nikorobinson317 8 ปีที่แล้ว +428

    It's simple. He has frickin' lazer beams attached to his frickin' head.

    • @medea8395
      @medea8395 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      OMG

    • @ethan_7480
      @ethan_7480 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      How bout no

    • @adamhunt7872
      @adamhunt7872 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      It's heat vision not lasers.....

    • @nikorobinson317
      @nikorobinson317 8 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      +adam hunt I know. It was a joke...

    • @TheEpicImpaler
      @TheEpicImpaler 8 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      FRICKIN' LASERS BEAMS! - Dr. Evil

  • @Jamman88888
    @Jamman88888 8 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    confirmed laser eyes can't melt steel beams, lex Luther did krypton.

    • @BonesCapone
      @BonesCapone 8 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Kent did 9/11.

    • @two-face1041
      @two-face1041 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Knew this comment would be here lol

  • @linyenchin6773
    @linyenchin6773 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    3:12 through to the next 4 seconds, the mannerism you employ to express the dementedness of what you are talking about, it is super adorable.

  • @zvonimirtomac7896
    @zvonimirtomac7896 8 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    He clearly absorbs a lot more energy than that since he charged super flare after super flare each day, and since it took 24 hours for his powers to come back it takes a lot less time for him to recharge.

  • @Real28
    @Real28 8 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    kyle, I love your delivery. keep it up. it's incredibly enjoyable and very informative.

    • @Nerdist
      @Nerdist  8 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      +LateralGs Thank you very much! -- KH

    • @NiamonDrox
      @NiamonDrox 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +LateralGs Yeah, the delivery is really really impressive, but the facts are not always correct. For example, at the end of this video, Kyle is all wrong.
      For supermans xray vision to work and actually see stuff, his eyes would have to xray detectors, not emitters, therefore supermans xray vision could never ever give you cancer.
      Xrays, just like any ionizing radiation, are rays, and travel in a straight line. Theoretically, if superman could modify the energy spectrum his eyes sees, he could in fact see xrays. By adjusting the radiation collection scheme, and his brain compensating for our planets terrain/athmosphere induced artifacts (which the lore sets as highly probable due to kryptonian brain capacity), superman could use the cosmic background radiation as a xray default generator.
      Still, no way for cancer being induced from his xray sight!

    • @tanyanikolaevagizdova6571
      @tanyanikolaevagizdova6571 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nerdist please make a video about marvels superman hyperion

    • @Darkstar.....
      @Darkstar..... 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      dexter floy dude you must think xrays are being created by some magical fairies that all super man has to do is see them as they move through objects. you would have to emit xrays and then in lightspeed flash to the otherside of the object to see the xrays going through before they went too far.

  • @SpiritHawk7
    @SpiritHawk7 8 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    At the end, your sun colors are backwards. A red sun releases less energy as they are slow burners. A blue sun however burns hot and fast, releasing way more energy.

    • @zchen27
      @zchen27 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      +SpiritHawk7 However, if you are sitting near a red giant, the apparent luminosity of the star gets higher, so you receive more sunlight to charge whatever kryptonium thingimagic that powers your heat vision.

    • @TSEDLE333
      @TSEDLE333 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You got it!

    • @alexrhinehart9604
      @alexrhinehart9604 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@zchen27 Except red suns take away his power.

  • @Roberto-REME
    @Roberto-REME 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Kyle, you are the best. Thank you for making intelligent and entertaining video-blogs. You make learning fun and your personality is what the school system is missing.

  • @dreski83
    @dreski83 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    I was hitting the like button before the video even started... awesome science stuff as always, Kyle. The brain flexing is greatly appreciated.

  • @BoZoiD57
    @BoZoiD57 8 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    My lord your energy reminds me of Jake from VSauce

    • @madmiico
      @madmiico 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ikr

    • @jukmifggugghposer
      @jukmifggugghposer 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He also makes pretty similar types of videos.

    • @attercops
      @attercops 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      they sound and sorta look alike.
      secret brothers?

  • @abro3936
    @abro3936 8 ปีที่แล้ว +107

    new civil war trailer with spiderman

    • @kitcollar3102
      @kitcollar3102 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yesssssss

    • @lolobrezzy24
      @lolobrezzy24 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +Kit Collar sen-fucking-sational

    • @nicodemusedwards6931
      @nicodemusedwards6931 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It made my eyes explode.

    • @Johnny_Sins
      @Johnny_Sins 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      I love you, thank you

    • @forte210392
      @forte210392 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Abraham Martinez He looks terrible :(

  • @SchlrFtrRkMystc
    @SchlrFtrRkMystc 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Really though this is how all of Superman's powers should work... I wish they'd do a part two of this applying these rules to strength, flight, speed, and durability via stored solar joules. I know Superman never follows these rules but a superhero who did would be far more interesting....

  • @sinzarh
    @sinzarh 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    I just love when kyles on here explaining all these things. I want kyle as president

  • @katuwasa
    @katuwasa 8 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    You're getting more and more fun to watch, Kyle. Sweet videos 👍🏽

    • @Nerdist
      @Nerdist  8 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      +Jers Hern Thank you so much! -- KH

  • @theagg
    @theagg 7 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Perhaps Kal-El's solar absorption cells are also biological amplifiers (utilising other energy sources to scale up the stored energy and shorten time required)
    Plus, the angle he is standing or flying in relation to the sun at a particular point on the Earth will affect matters too..Sheesh, complicated!

  • @princereamurd3055
    @princereamurd3055 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I can't get enough of the special effects he put's on his videos

  • @the_mattador726
    @the_mattador726 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    How long would it take superman to charge his heat vision to the same energy levels as the death star?

  • @lordmorgoth7
    @lordmorgoth7 8 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    explain the science of your hair. Oh Thor Odin's son protecthor of mankind, guide our minds with knowledge

  • @simongreve
    @simongreve 8 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    If superman went to a red sun he would lose his powers, thats a well known superman weakness.

  • @JayTheArtistOfficial
    @JayTheArtistOfficial 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    I like how at 4:01 in the second full panel super man says "GG" 😂😂

  • @kordarron3501
    @kordarron3501 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    "From *gestures around eyes* to ... stuff."
    Perfect

  • @Antenox
    @Antenox 8 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Can you do a video on Spider-Man's web shooters?

    • @jacobburriel3972
      @jacobburriel3972 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      PLEASE DO THIS

    • @ezboi7713
      @ezboi7713 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Jacob Burriel he already did -_-

    • @ezboi7713
      @ezboi7713 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Tony Vega already did

  • @airshipgaming7471
    @airshipgaming7471 8 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    What about after 10, 000 years... while in the center of the Sun? (It has happened)

    • @charliewalker6519
      @charliewalker6519 8 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      he became omnipotent

    • @MyIpadMail
      @MyIpadMail 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      +LoL Stacker he didn't really become omnipotent

    • @charliewalker6519
      @charliewalker6519 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Emre Kaya
      i thought he could do pretty much anything including rewriting someones DNA

    • @jonathandelacruz8844
      @jonathandelacruz8844 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +LoL Stacker he became omnipotent and learned 5th dimension moves so he can travel through time and do crazy shit

    • @Probonoman
      @Probonoman 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      it's not canon, so it didn't really happen

  • @anonymususer1728
    @anonymususer1728 ปีที่แล้ว

    Some questions:
    - how does his vision still work while the "beam" is coming out of his eyes ? How does he see and aim the beam ?
    - regarding the absorption of energy from the sun: can we get some details on that ? What if it's cloudy ? How about the material of the clothes he's wearing ? What if he's not directly in the sunlight, let's say it's a sunny day, but he's under the shadow of a building, how does it work then ? What about night time ?
    (the answers to these questions are important to me in more than 1 way, it's not only to get things straight on Superman, but also on how Vampires and their aversion to sunlight would work)
    - I like the calculation regarding how much energy he would need to absorb in order to power his heat vision, so how about calculating how much energy he would need to absorb in order to power his other abilities. Like for example his strength.. let's say he tries to lift 100 tons, how much energy does that require ? What about his flight ? How would that work, and what energy requirement would it entail ?
    - and since we've been talking a lot about Superman's different abilities that require power, how about his power storage ? How would you design Superman's "battery functionality", to have energy usable at his discretion, but also keep some in reserve for his basic functions ? What happens when he's not at full energy ? Does he have partial ability, or is he always at full strength, and when his reserves are fully depleted, he turns into a regular human ?

  • @justinianslegacy6463
    @justinianslegacy6463 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This video was epic. Subscribed.

  • @shamz_ai
    @shamz_ai 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    can you do a because science on NZT from limitless?

  • @iCanHasRandomness
    @iCanHasRandomness 8 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    that double marker action seriously fucked me up D:

    • @MonochromeHeart
      @MonochromeHeart 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Yuro Same xD I didn't realize he had two at first. I thought the lower one was a reflective effect on the glass (Although I suppose it should have been obvious that it wasn't). When he used the other, I was like...wait...What??? 0-o

  • @CriticalHaterRD
    @CriticalHaterRD 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    This kind of videos deserve more views!!

  • @Blicky_47
    @Blicky_47 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    i learn more in this series than i do in physics class at school

  • @seanconor1
    @seanconor1 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I'm a big guy, I could probably make floor mats for an SUV.

  • @shadomatch4375
    @shadomatch4375 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Another way to increase the effective power of Superman's laser vision is to fire it into water, if done correctly it could split into hydrogen and oxygen then causing hydrogen fusion(this would take a LOT of energy to start up). Now that the fusion reaction is going he could harness the radiation from that and continue the loop. Essentially making a small star to harness for extra energy.

    • @GamesFromSpace
      @GamesFromSpace 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He doesn't need to harness that energy. But I like the idea, and his extreme heat vision being "causes nuclear chain reactions in the air" vision makes a lot of sense.

    • @shadomatch4375
      @shadomatch4375 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      why doesn't he need to, given a strong enough foe. especially in the presence of cryptenite, he may be forced to improvise with what little energy he has left.

    • @GamesFromSpace
      @GamesFromSpace 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ShadoZerg Did you read the second half of my comment?

    • @shadomatch4375
      @shadomatch4375 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      yes, simply responding to the first bit since it states a lack of necessity. Never the less I think it would be cool if this was featured in a movie or game.

    • @GamesFromSpace
      @GamesFromSpace 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ShadoZerg The second half explains why i said he doesn't need to harness any energy from that.

  • @sphoenix41
    @sphoenix41 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    There was a stint in comics that Superman meditated in the center of the sun... Hahaha

  • @flappybird5067
    @flappybird5067 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    kyle hill is the master of back writing lol

  • @adamhunt7872
    @adamhunt7872 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Imagine energy saving heat vision...
    Hippy superman

  • @morg4620
    @morg4620 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Man I love your channel 👍👍👍

    • @Nerdist
      @Nerdist  8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +morg4620 Thank you very much! -- KH

  • @AtomCarlyn
    @AtomCarlyn 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    In some movies where it shows people teleport, there's a split second where they disappear before they exit their worm hole or whatever you believe causes their teleportation- my question is, would they get from one place to another instantly, or would there actually be that slight second of absence?

  • @hampushorling6603
    @hampushorling6603 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    The diagrame just made my math brain melt, the line for the minute was as long as the year! Great video tho

  • @Cbev1994
    @Cbev1994 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I guess we're not gonna talk about how red solar energy completely depowers him

    • @Tyoda9
      @Tyoda9 8 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      That's the irony of him mentioning the RED super giant

  • @russellhowens
    @russellhowens 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Superman can fly faster than the speed of light. I would think that him hitting someone at that speed would do more damage than his super flare attack would do. I mean wouldn't superman be splitting billions of atoms just by hitting them at that speed? That sounds more powerful than the super flare does to me.

    • @dyllanbitzer7215
      @dyllanbitzer7215 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      true

    • @GeneralBlackNorway
      @GeneralBlackNorway 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Max Powers Basically what happens in the LHC is what would happen, just with a human body weight of matter being shattered into sub atomic particles. About 30 GJ, that's about the chemical energy of 6 barrels of oil. My calculations could be wrong though, but it's not as much as a nuke if I'm correct.

    • @russellhowens
      @russellhowens 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      A Hadron Collider does not move the particles hundreds of times faster than the speed of light. If you calculate the amount of energy in something going faster than the speed of light, it should have a lot more energy behind it than an atomic blast.

    • @son_guhun
      @son_guhun 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Max Powers Well, you can't calculate that because it would lead to a mathemetical impossibility. Unless you want to throw away relativity hehehe

    • @Ultinuc
      @Ultinuc 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      I just wanna say he can't move FTL. Flash can, but I don't ever recall Superman ever having canonically done it.

  • @stizan24
    @stizan24 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Superman just chills in the core of the sun.

  • @zaksolo8927
    @zaksolo8927 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Supermans eyes are so Dank, they can melt steel beams.

  • @poiuytrewq11422
    @poiuytrewq11422 8 ปีที่แล้ว +80

    I believe red stars actually weaken Superman.

    • @dboymax1
      @dboymax1 8 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      +poiuytrewq11422 True. Its Blue Supergiants that make him more powerful...

    • @ataraxia2894
      @ataraxia2894 8 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      That's the joke

    • @XSRVX_01
      @XSRVX_01 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      They do

    • @ForeverGraced
      @ForeverGraced 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Not really. He is just used to being "overfed", so to say, with Yellow Star Radiation. Consider that Krypton has a Red Star, but they weren't hurt by it. Red Star radiation provides enough energy to sustain normal Kryptonian Life, but not to sustain superpowers. If Superman is using superpowers, and his energy source switches to a weaker one, his body responds to that (consider rapid decrease in caloric intake coupled with massive caloric output).

    • @jspntr
      @jspntr 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      my thought exactly

  • @AMDERS17
    @AMDERS17 8 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Not cool guys. Copying a film-theory video they're going to do in the future.

    • @Nerdist
      @Nerdist  8 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      +Daniel Luzzi I actually laughed. -- KH

    • @kenzofinucane4057
      @kenzofinucane4057 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      +924252chongsir -.-

    • @picamerons
      @picamerons 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      +924252chongsir That's the joke...

    • @924252chongsir
      @924252chongsir 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Oh...Well then my bad. Geez I should take things less seriously.

    • @saulw6270
      @saulw6270 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Supra Kooper it doesn't jus happen its strategically smart to link your videos to the topics other popular videos do so that your video pops up in the search engine too

  • @ScamstinCrew
    @ScamstinCrew 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    I've always wondered how do the manage the writing on glass effect or is it just clever placement of glass and shot is mirrored?

  • @mdx3020
    @mdx3020 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    dude.. i know if off topic, but.... you guys should totally do a Because Cience of How to train your dragon... how big a dragon must be for a person to ride?, how a two headed dragon would work?, is it actually posible for a species to have 4 legs and 2 wings?, would it be possible for a dragon to sweat something for covering itself in fire?... Toothless echolocation, acid spit, the nadders spike tail, the stingers paralyzing shot, the thunderdrum sonic blast... there are lots of material that could possibly hold some real viability

  • @EcstasyJesus
    @EcstasyJesus 8 ปีที่แล้ว +113

    Laser Vision can't melt steel beams

    • @EcstasyJesus
      @EcstasyJesus 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      would be an interesting comic book xD

    • @randomperson5426
      @randomperson5426 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +Killah841 Too soon... too soon....

    • @baartenkaas
      @baartenkaas 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Cabbage Head
      Reply of the year.

    • @attercops
      @attercops 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Cabbage Head Diana wishes her name was superman, in that case.

    • @krbraveofficial
      @krbraveofficial 8 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      steel beams can't melt laser vision

  • @nicks2437
    @nicks2437 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    But, but, but......... Its specifically the yellow sun of our solar system that gives him his power. So one should assume that the yellow spectrum is the source of the power, not the full spectrum.

    • @Bradyboy26
      @Bradyboy26 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well he does get a power boost from blue stars so take that into consideration

  • @zacharykozak9829
    @zacharykozak9829 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Can we all just take a second and consider the fact that he is writing backwards so that we can see it... Impressive. Most Impressive.

  • @joshuathebritishotakuarno2341
    @joshuathebritishotakuarno2341 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    it's because of these because science videos I was able to pass my physics test

  • @icspps
    @icspps 8 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    He's flown into the sun. I'm pretty sure that significantly lowers the amount of time he needs to charge up significantly.

    • @-k7228
      @-k7228 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      It killed him in all Star superman.

    • @icspps
      @icspps 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      It was alternate universe. Specifically one where they toned down Superman as a tribute to the Golden Age Superman. Golden Age Superman is unarguably the weakest superman to exist.
      Take most iterations of Superman, and he flies into space to gather power from the sun without interference from the atmosphere, and flies closer to the sun when the situation is especially dire.
      There are several occasions where he entered the sun itself to gain strength rapidly. One iteration had him he spent 15,000 years inside "the heart of the sun," and basically emerged as a God. Not god... God.

    • @KojinMacJorn
      @KojinMacJorn 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Aaacccttuuuaalllly... The bomb he get rid of was designed to target Superman's ability to absorb Solar Radiation. It basically gave him Cancer, causing him to suck up so much radiation, his cells actually began to commit apoptosis (cell death). So in actuality, that wouldn't have killed him under normal circumstances.

    • @gabrielthedarkangel
      @gabrielthedarkangel 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      significantly. lol

    • @godbear2930
      @godbear2930 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      icspps
      So what you're saying is Goku could totally beat Superman. 😆

  • @roberthoff6670
    @roberthoff6670 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    one problem when u said a red giant his home star was a red giant so he would have no powers if that was the case

    • @brianluk2006
      @brianluk2006 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +Robert Hoff red or yellow doesn't make any difference in real life, just more power output, comic book science is misleading af

    • @Mastermind8908
      @Mastermind8908 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Robert Hoff Maybe that's why Krypton exploded. The planet probably absorbed enough of the red sun's energy and caused a nuclear chain reaction.

    • @bryanwoods3373
      @bryanwoods3373 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's the joke.

  • @LegendOfKitty
    @LegendOfKitty 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    Could there be any science-y stuff in shape-shifting? Like werewolves and other creatures? That would make a cool video, I think.

  • @diablominero
    @diablominero 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I think in "solar energy in his cells," the word "solar" means "sun-related," not "derived directly from the sun's radiation." If yellow sunlight modifies Superman's metabolism to allow perfect conversion of matter into usable energy, that would explain most of the absurd displays of energy release we see from him without needing similarly absurd charge times.

  • @lieutenantnomad9198
    @lieutenantnomad9198 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    So Superman spends years on end to get enough energy to destroy a city. But when Goku trains for the same amount of time, he can destroy solar systems and even galaxies!

    • @tiquezgraham7963
      @tiquezgraham7963 8 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      +Lieutenant Nomad Stop just stop your an idiot

    • @rishabh27ful
      @rishabh27ful 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +TiQuez Graham you're *

    • @tiquezgraham7963
      @tiquezgraham7963 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      rishabh singh thank you now advice for you language is only used to convay information so grammar is ultimately pointless the fact that you understood me is enough

    • @rishabh27ful
      @rishabh27ful 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +TiQuez Graham was just a joke man, don't know why people get so offended

    • @mattesses70
      @mattesses70 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +rishabh singh it wasn't a joke it was a condescending correction

  • @jackotd
    @jackotd 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    The red star makes him normal right?

    • @garthe6631
      @garthe6631 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      JackoftheDead yes, yes it does

    • @AmaranthOriginal
      @AmaranthOriginal 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeah, in the comics. But we're transposing his heat vision onto normal reality based on the assumptions Kyle has set forth. We still have to assume a man can shoot lasers from his eyes based on storage of solar energy in his cells, but we've set forth premises assuming he absorbs all the radiation, etc.
      Why? Because -if we want to break down a fictional concept based on conventions of real world scientific principles, it is necessary to make some concessions to the limits of our reality, and the absorption of solar energy is naturally limited by the amount of potential output from the Sun or star in question- Science!

    • @TSEDLE333
      @TSEDLE333 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Normal for a KRYPTONIAN....a species that evolved on a planet that WAS bigger than Earth, and thus had more gravity, had a far less dense atmosphere and so on. His bones are denser than any human, his skin is also tougher and so on...people seem to forget his so often...even the fucking writers of said character...

  • @BenE8844
    @BenE8844 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Dude Superman’s powers have been developing since he was on earth.

  • @tomschumacher5434
    @tomschumacher5434 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Lol 😂 “from mmm to stuff” exactly

  • @durinviirathkh-guzukh7806
    @durinviirathkh-guzukh7806 8 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    Heat vision doesn't melt steel beams

    • @jnobile22
      @jnobile22 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      But does jet fuel melt steel beams?

    • @muffinman4515
      @muffinman4515 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Mr Skeltal you are over estimating jet fuel

    • @muffinman4515
      @muffinman4515 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Mr Skeltal you are over estimating jet fuel

    • @lieutenantnomad9198
      @lieutenantnomad9198 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wake up people!

    • @rtohiu9632
      @rtohiu9632 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      he patched holes I. reality with heat vision , I'm sure af that he can melt steel with that.

  • @benlipson6497
    @benlipson6497 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Don't red supergiants actually weaken superman? I knows it's a red star of some kind

    • @rmt430
      @rmt430 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Ben Lipson My thoughts exactly, and why I went to the comments!

    • @darkamora5123
      @darkamora5123 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Ben Lipson Yes, in canon any red star weakens Superman. However in recent years astrophysicists have pointed out the flaw in Superman's powers. The idea was based on a lack of actual knowledge of stars and their energy output by the creators who used that as an explanation for his powers. But the reality is that a red supergiant puts out more energy than a yellow dwarf star like the Sun. Now a red dwarf on the other hand that would have a lower energy output than the Sun.

    • @benlipson6497
      @benlipson6497 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Darkamora it may have been a red dwarf. If I recall correctly, it was all star superman when he went to bizarro world. It may have been a red dwarf. Thanks for the knowledge anyway

    • @darkamora5123
      @darkamora5123 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ben Lipson No problem.

    • @photoo848
      @photoo848 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That may have been the joke

  • @zerowing3213
    @zerowing3213 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wait how does his energy absorption work ? could we possibly get a video on it ? like can he control it or is he just absorbing it every time he is in the sun ? please explain

  • @dubledolix0956
    @dubledolix0956 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hey speaking of Solar Energy, can you do a really important calculation for me. In the Digimon franchise, a being called WarGreymon has an attack called "Terra Force" and what its descriptions said was "Takes all of the energy within the atmosphere and concentrates it into one spot, then fires it as an extremely dense, high-temperature energy shot."
    How much energy would that require to make the Terra Force attack?

  • @mohamed10403
    @mohamed10403 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    actually superman once went to the sun and stood there in a couple seconds and he was fully charged

    • @generallymexican8978
      @generallymexican8978 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      that's true he can even sleep in the sun.

    • @mohamed10403
      @mohamed10403 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Jose Acosta exactly so he is a thousand miles (and more) closer to the sun then the closet planet in our solar system

    • @SideStrafed
      @SideStrafed 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Jose Acosta he occasionally takes sun bathes

    • @mohamed10403
      @mohamed10403 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      :) haha :)

  • @crispybacon4240
    @crispybacon4240 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    5:25 So all the women at "The Daily Planet" would have breast cancer?

    • @crispybacon4240
      @crispybacon4240 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      ***** X-ray vision. High exposure to X-rays causes cancer.

    • @JLCR1993
      @JLCR1993 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Crispy Bacon...watch the Daily Planet's drop their employee insurance coverage. lol

  • @goktimusprime
    @goktimusprime 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    "Quarter mile"? One thing that I've enjoyed about this video is the use of metric weights and measures that I can actually understand instead of archaic pre-metric measures that some other videos use that I understand about as well as Old English (i.e. pretty much not at all... actually, I can understand Old English a lot better because a surprising amount of it still survives in Modern English with relatively little change if any)

  • @katieblade7083
    @katieblade7083 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    2800w but voltage and amps make a difference. so what are those values? How many ohms i can decipher if i have those values, and is the resistance what makes the beams (ohms make heat )?

  • @DeadUnicornClub
    @DeadUnicornClub 8 ปีที่แล้ว +110

    Did anyone else see Kyles sloppy handwriting and think: Time/s) and get frustrated? Tighten up that parenthetical!

    • @Nerdist
      @Nerdist  8 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      +TrulyEvilBob WRITING AND TALKING IS HARD DUDE -- KH

    • @DeadUnicornClub
      @DeadUnicornClub 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      TheRebelAE Truly it must be the evil in me.

    • @whitherwhence
      @whitherwhence 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Nerdist l'm just amazed you flunked the writing that was right way around, as oppose to the sideways one.

    • @MrFrelix92
      @MrFrelix92 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +TheRebelAE Is he writing backwards? Or is it mirrored in post?

    • @DeadUnicornClub
      @DeadUnicornClub 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      MrFrelix92 It's mirrored... or he's left handed.

  • @Dragoboi1998
    @Dragoboi1998 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    but superman poeple dont have power in a red sun

    • @TSEDLE333
      @TSEDLE333 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      That was a joke...

  • @flaggerify
    @flaggerify 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The analogue effects so much better in the Reeve clip than the CGI crud.

    • @flaggerify
      @flaggerify 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +The Masked Rambler Superman 3 was otherwise rubbish. It's nothing to do with nostalgia. This CGI in the newer films looks as cheesy and as fake as hell. I guess you're a CGIdiot.

  • @iliagofman
    @iliagofman 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Superman is just able to see in the xray spectrum like we can see in the light spectrum, but xrays can go through objects and look different. Maybe for him to look at a solid object, is like looking at an aquarium. There are usually minor xray emissions in our environment which is normal and doesn't harm us at all, which he can see, right?
    So he doesn't need to emit xrays to see inside an object and doesn't harm you, because instead he sees them, as they are coming in from various sources and through objects, interacting with those objects and then into his eyes.
    Although if he wanted to see through something really dense, he could fire lazers out of his eyes in a wide dispersal area, in the xray spectrum and see those partially reflected back into his eyes.

  • @max.wilson
    @max.wilson 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    DeathBattle stated that in one comic Supes went into the sun for 15 minutes and came out with enough strength to push Earth. That's a lot of POWAAAA!

  • @Tekrothebountyhunter
    @Tekrothebountyhunter 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    Honestly, I was more curious about what it would be like for Superman as he was shooting his heat vision. Would he still be able to see as he was firing, or does he just aim and hope? Would he feel any kind of pain as that kind of energy was blasting out of his face? How would he trigger the blast to begin with; would it involve flexing special eye muscles or simply concentrating? I suppose the same questions could be asked about X-Men's Cyclops.

  • @benparrish672
    @benparrish672 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I like Superman's
    "Super Flare" power that he started using in the New 52

  • @liamceveart7980
    @liamceveart7980 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video, but i was curious to know if there could be a scientific explanation about why his heat vision is red, mainly, or the color it SHOULD have in relation to the power he is releasing

  • @level58deathknight18
    @level58deathknight18 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    That car mat comment was amazing

    • @scottmantooth8785
      @scottmantooth8785 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Level 58 Death Knight mildly unsettling is more like it

  • @theredblazesf5594
    @theredblazesf5594 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    the question is how strong do your eyes have to be in order to handle that kind of energy plus exerting it from the eyes

  • @Sikraj
    @Sikraj 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Funny thing is that in the comics Red Sunlight zaps superman of his powers. I think he kinda of knew that I was just making a slight joke at the end...which would explain the grin

  • @MusicMike512
    @MusicMike512 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    "He could punch right through a guy but he never does"
    *laughs in Joker*

  • @JCcrewsifide4me
    @JCcrewsifide4me 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    I know these comments are for this video but I would like to make a suggestion on a video that you could possibly make. How much pressure is exerted from Spider-Man's web shooter and would it be a dangerous amount of pressure if used to help a falling person? In the movies and comics we see Spider-Man saving people by sometimes using his web and as it makes contact with the person it shows them to have no affect by it at all unless it would be a thief or a crook. This is just a suggestion and you could change it up to make it sound more sensible.

  • @mjolnirgod
    @mjolnirgod 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    Can you answer how The Iron Giant's digestive system/metabolism might work?

  • @draco9280
    @draco9280 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Superman could just take literal sun baths

  • @user-lm7yx7wj5l
    @user-lm7yx7wj5l 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    You forgot that a big part of the light (the most energetic wave lengthes ) from the sun turns to heat at the ozon layer, which makes the amount of energy he observes, lower!

  • @dcordin
    @dcordin 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    what about the tendency for the eye to not move in a fluid motion. how safe can heat vision be if a single distraction could decapitate a building?

  • @gieromguy_does_nothing_pro8458
    @gieromguy_does_nothing_pro8458 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    gives a whole new meaning to the sun is a deadly laser

  • @5t3v3zzzzzz
    @5t3v3zzzzzz 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Imo the calculation of superman energy absorption can only be applied to the moment he gets out the ship and is on earth , u gotta remember he has stored energy from all his life of being in the sun that he can call on and that grows every sec he is alive, plus the times he's been in direct contact with the sun , BUT ...when he gets out of his space craft and is on earth this is applicable, and the part i cant back up but i think his cells amplify the power he absorbs as well

  • @SenshisReviews
    @SenshisReviews 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hmm not sure if you did one or not, but can do one with the different ki blast for vegeta? I wanna how strong and how fast its is, I'm asking because I watched a video and I wanna see how accurate it is.

  • @the83rdtrombonist60
    @the83rdtrombonist60 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    for a while, I've been thinking about how Superman is and Kryptonian Powers work. A red giant puts out more energy than the majority of stars but red giants colors kryptonians 2bd power. What may have happened is since their bodies are so accustomed to red Giants, when they get near a store that doesn't put out that same amount of energy, their body goes into overdrive an attempt to suck up all of the solar energy from that nearby star inadvertently giving them superpowers that they would normally not have.

  • @LutherBlackmar
    @LutherBlackmar 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hey Kyle, what about all the flight take offs landings jumping/landig

  • @ReaperVolume2
    @ReaperVolume2 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    @Nerdist Shouldn't the diagram supposed to look like a linear function? Or was it just a sketch for better illustration?

  • @mattthemuso8818
    @mattthemuso8818 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Im just confused on what it would physically look like from his (Superman's) perspective when he expels his heat vision... how would he aim it if its coming straight out of his eyes... would he be able to see or just have to guess where to aim it.... or can he see perfectly fine out of his eyes when he's using it.