I'll address this in next week's vlog too, but creating diamonds from the common pencil has the same problem as creating diamonds from coal -- impurity. I mentioned pencils as an example of where to find graphite (which is pure carbon, an allotrope), but taking normal pencil rods wouldn't help the synthetic diamond creation process. For that, pure graphite is used. Thanks for watching! -- KH
Wait, in the clip you showed Superman used his strength and body heat. So how hot is Superman? Does he have a normal human body temperature or can change his own body temperature because he can survive the heat of the sun. Sure he can finely use his heat vision along with his strength but without it would seem more impressive.
"Become bling, I command you!" Not the line I wanted to hear after my appendix removal. Laughing hurts, and you sir just pushed my recovery back a few days
We need to get this message seen by Kyle. It’s probably a dream for any communicator to know that their video was so funny they made someone pull their stitches.
Gems in general are rare, however diamonds in comparison to most all gems are common af, even before we began making them (In reality the factor that we make them takes all of the rarity out of it). They're also sometimes considered to be the most common gem on the planet.
Well they are made of one of the most abundant elements in the universe all it really takes is pressure. Compared to like and opal which needs many different things to happen in its environment. I think maybe the hardness of diamonds is what gives them their value, but idk 🤷♂️ I don’t rlly think diamonds are that pretty.
Did you know that after thousands of years carbon 14 decays and breaks down into carbon 12 (regular carbon) and we detect how much of this there is through a special machine and that helps us to find out the estimative age and date of a long dead person or very old thing of some sort. It's called carbon dating
Despite being an alien, he at least admires and is inspired by the human spirit. that's what modern writers get backwards. Superman is as inspired by humans as they are by him.
Proof coal doesn’t make diamonds, there is no life on Neptune or Uranus (That we no of) for there to be coal but it RAINS DIAMONDS! Also the star BPM 37093 aka Lucy that is 1.1 solar masses and has a crystallized carbon core similar diamond.
Actually a pencil is not made of pure graphite. Many pencils are made with a graphite and clay mixture so squeezing and heating it would probably make a really weird looking glass, unless he used his super vision to pick only pencils that consisted of only pure graphite but that's just splitting hairs.
Good point! 8B pencils are the best, and they still only have 90% graphite. A 2B pencil is 74% graphite. www.quora.com/What-is-added-to-graphite-in-order-to-make-pencils-of-different-blackness-and-hardness
Kyle mentioned this very briefly with coal but if the graphite isn't nearly pure carbon as you've pointed out, then, assuming most of the rest of the lead is clay, Supes would end up with some rock (from the compressed clay) and small fragments of diamonds where the graphite was more pure
Kyler Freilinger well if we want to get really sciencey then clay is usually a chemical mix of aluminum and silicon so he would never actually achieve "diamond" but rather he would have sapphire and not even pretty one either.
1:07 Kyle, diamonds aren't rare. They are very common (in terms of gemstones), it is just that gem quality diamonds all come from a monopoly, which makes them overly expensive. Stop falling for the lies of the diamond market!
Correct. The DeBeers Corporation has a monopoly on almost all of the worlds diamond mines. Since they also sell the diamonds at jewlery stores, they artificially restrict the supply and jack up the price claiming rarity.
If diamonds aren't rare, they wouldn't be expensive, not because one company controls the supply, but because any one can find one without much effort. That is what you're saying. Which is also not the case. Maybe everything u read in random internet posts isn't true, hmm?
They're also the reason synthetic diamonds are looked down on for jewelry purposes, even if they are almost literally perfect quality and with zero flaws.
Graphite is possibly formed from the metamorphism of Coal (inernite, type 4 petroleum products). Thus if superman was able to take a whole lot of coal and was able to create metamorphic conditions to turn into graphite then it could be turned diamond. what this does is add an extra step to his process but it does allow for him to turn coal into diamond. -From your friendly geologist
So what you are saying is it would take some extra time under extreme pressure to push out the impurities allowing the carbon to form a more pure crystalline structure, thereby allowing the pressure to then form diamonds?
I’m just imagining Clark Kent stealing office supplies and hoarding pencils. Then on a slow day carefully using his super strength to remove the wood and erasers from the graphite cores. All while lamenting there must be an easier way.
Should not need super strength to do that. pair of pliers to give the torque needed to twist the crimped on metal holder off and a little bit of moist heat to undo the glue. Assuming the Daily Planet has an in-house art department that uses pure graphite pencils (which likely don't have erasers anyway) it would be just plausible.
He could drill the planet itself and go get the diamond from the crust, he could go into space (easier...) and get it from an asteroid (even get carbon from such remains of celestial bodies would be easier too)...and so on and so forth...
Question: i've always wondered how does banshee fly using just the sound he emits? would that even be possible given the way sound waves work and how "loud" would he have to scream to achieve that movement?
Since coal still contains Carbon what would it take for superman to refine it to the level it would need to make a reasonably sized diamond? From my (admittedly limited) research coal is on average between 60% and 80% carbon, and 1 carat 200mg. Assuming the percentages of carbon were based on mass, we can conclude that we would need around 250 to 333.333.... mg of coal to make 1 carat of diamond. If super man wants to go big or go home he could gather 776.6875 to 1035.58333... grams of coal to make one of the largest diamonds. This is all of course assuming super man could refine the coal and use just the carbon from it, but I mean he has pretty much every other power so why not?
The problem is that he'd have to go through all the complex chemical processes to render all that carbon down from the coal. As it is, the coal in way too impure (as Kyle stated) a source of carbon to get diamonds. Basically, it would be like trying to get pure ice cubes by freezing diarrhea.
yeh but Superman has the knowledge of Krypton and easy access to intense heating and cooling. with heat vision and freezing breath he could easily distill pure ice from diarrhea. he could probably do similarly to make diamonds from coal.
VictoryNibbles At one point superman performed brain surgery through a man's eye in split second time or something like that. I don't think he'd necessarily struggle with purifying the coal like we would
No, its not the same as surgery, to refine materials you need other materials to make chemical reactions in which those impurities are bonded into other material which are easier to extract, so its not only pressure and heat or precise surgeon abilities.
"That sounds more like a Lex Luthor Plan." Lol! Even when Kyle tries to be heroic his true nature can't help itself and he ends up being the supervillain. 😂🤣 🖤💎😈
jam rose a little blind girl (like 12 yrs old) who is very funny, fun and has a bit of an attitude. And can control earth (including rocks, sand, mud, crystal, and even some metals, like iron). And I mean literally tons of the stuff. She can also see everything that is touching the ground if she is touching the same ground, even from hundreds of meters away. And although she cannot see what is touching ground that she isn't touching (for example, a man standing on a rock on top of a tree if she is on the ground), she can feel earth that is not touching the same ground as her. And she is the greatest earth martial artist of her time.
I have a rebuttal based on the definition of a diamond. While Superman couldn’t make bulk synthetic diamond from coal he could easily make Nanodiamonds. Nanodiamonds can be described as sub micrometre diamonds as it is pure(apart from occasional nitrogen vacancies) and retains the diamond cubic crystal structure. So if Superman used anthracite coal and using only his heat vision with the coal in ethanol at standard temperature and pressure, he could ablate the coal and create Nanodiamonds. This is one among several methods of creating Nanodiamonds from coal. While it’s not as macho as squeezing coal, imagining Superman in a lab coat using his heat vision on a flask is much cooler to me.
Hi Kyle! just want to say that you and the crew dont only motivate young people to pursue sciences but also inspire studying engineers (like myself) to work harder and have fun in what they do. Hope you keep being you Kyle! and for everyone who works on BS, keep up the good work! :)
Another thing I realized is: that kind of temperature and pressure means a normal human cannot be anywhere near a Kryptonian squeezing graphite into diamond without being cut by any streams of gas escaping from Supes' hand. Also, if you squeeze some modeling clay in your hand, that's kinda the shape of the diamond Superman would get, not the radially symmetrical 💎 we've seen in movies and TV.
Hey Kyle I've been watching Because Science for a long time now and love how you do so much research and go in depth about so many various topics. Wish you nothing but future success and more good things coming your way
At the end of most of his videos, Kyle specifically mentions to follow him on twitter and episode ideas can be mentioned there. Yours has me intrigued. I myself actually have two ideas. However, I'm a deployed National Guard soldier with no phone. Therefore a twitter request is out of the question for me, unless there's another way to sign up for twitter without a phone. Good luck in your idea being made a video.
"assuming"... that is where c14 etc have faults. C14 can't be used for dates beyond ~500k, and even under that it can give wild dates that are wrong for known ages. What about c14 found inside diamonds?
So would Superman actually need to use his heat vision to apply the heat to all that graphite... or would him “rubbing his hands together” while crushing the graphite within such a small space generate the heat without any other source? Obviously he’d also incinerate any nearby flammable stuff... or people but he’s Superman I’m sure we’d give him a pass for that
Magun BFP that description makes me think of Superman intently staring into his fist full of graphite and repeatedly crushing it akin to an old timey villain rubbing his hands back and forth forming a plan...
I’m remembering back to high school physics so take it with a grain of salt... but applying pressure exerts energy which has to go somewhere, potentially as sound but usually heat... but if you’re applying all that force into such a small area how hot would it get? Who’s to say that Superman might not be the Boy Scout he claims to be... “I just wanted to help the guy out... I didn’t know, with all my advanced Kryptonian knowledge, that everything would explode in fire” perhaps he is an old timey villain...
I thought this as well. Even without rubbing his hands together, the heat created from the pressure required to rearrange the carbon into diamond would probably be enough. There's another problem with the heat vision though. As far as I know superman can't selectively heat material on the other side of material. What I mean is, he can't heat the carbon without eye-lazering through his hand first. And if he left a hole to beam his heat vision through, surely the high pressure would squeeze the graphite out.
Diamonds are actually already worthless. There’s a Luxembourgish company that holds a monopoly on the diamond industry and keeps the price artificially inflated in order to make money. Like you said the world is really good at making diamonds, and them coming to the surface isn’t uncommon. But companies that sell them are.
I recently read that graphite is actually a more stable form of carbon than diamond, and that over very long periods of time, diamond can "decay" into graphite. But a lot depends on temperature and pressure as diamonds themselves are so tough.
Now that you mention it, I realized it would have been a straight conversion since theoretically there wouldn't be any change in mass even it got compressed and heated. Technically it would probably be about 40 pieces of pencil refills. Derp! :P
Rebmiami Minecraft but it is. He couldn't ask Reese for help if he doesn't exist in his universe. Now, I believe that there's a Molecule Man equivalent in DC, so he does have options. I mean, he could also hit up a State Alchemist and have them transmutate whatever was required. But then when apply context that's also impossible because there are no State Alchemists in the DC universe.
kourtney scruggs Technically, according to DC comics canon, the Marvel universe does exist, as did the crossover. That is DC canon, so Molecule Man technically exists to Superman. Although, said crossover did not happen in Marvel canon, so DC universe does not exist to Marvel, which means Superman does not exist to Molecule Man. All in all, it's a really weird situation. While it's not quite the same universe, it is, in a way, the same multiverse, which Supes should have little trouble crossing with someone like the Spectre.
There's also the problem with him using heat vision while crushing the graphite. He'd have to encapsulate the material with his hands to crush it properly, but since he's basically completely covering it his heat vision wouldn't be able to heat through his hands to superheat the matter. Considering all the trouble associated with gathering enough graphite (or whatever) and then converting it to make a diamond, Supes would be better off taking a quick jaunt over to Uranus or Neptune or one of the other "nearby" planets that have diamond rain and just chill there for a second.
Well if we are all carbon based and carbon makes diamonds then that would be true...ish. That also makes the #2 joke accurate as wouldn't our waste have carbon in it?
If your body suddenly stopped being affected by the earths gravity, would you shoot straight up into the air because of the centripetal force from the earth’s rotation?
Not staright up, but tangetially if the Earth was only rotating and not revolving around the Sun, if you consider rotation and revolution then you will fly off at some angle but not straight up, just like Lobo Hog wrote.
First consider a feather it is so light it falls slowly because air resists the motion down. So what your asking is if a person became so light much much lighter then a feather but was still the same size body. Almost like a human balloon. Well a person would do almost exactly what a balloon does but as long as they don't pop as they get higher they would float up and out of the atmosphere. Now if you think of it as magic where they retain the mass of a person and are just no longer pulled along by the mass of the earth then they might be affected by wind and air as they are just left behind while the earth circles around the sun.
After years of seeing both of them daily (however never at the same time) I still can't figure it out. It's weird they don't seem to have any connection but they just randomly pop up in the same place. To be honest I never noticed this but now that you mention it, it's slightly strange. What a mystery.
I once saw an experiment were they put regular peanut butter into a industrial hydraulic press. Afterwards they found tiny microscopic diamond fragments in it.
Question: Is it true that _detonation nanodiamonds_ are formed in nuclear weapons' _strike-zones_ with abundance of coal? Considering Hiroshima was mostly woodland , is there a chance for any nanodiamonds to be found there? Btw HPHT (high-pressure-high-temperature) method is used since 1964 to create artificial diamonds from Graphite rods at 130k atm and 1705 Celsius, where they use impurities like Boron and Nitrogen to get Blue or Yellow gems that look similar to the famous _Hope_ diamond, so -minisicule- impurities aren't always bad~!
Rew Rose new even synthetic diamonds are being made in China which forced De Beers to find out how to differentiate the two since they are so similar. Also because the synthetic ones are cheap as well.
I absolutly love your videos. Not many people can make science interesting and funny. A little personal question. I try writing a story and came up with a disease, that over time splits the red colour from the blood. The iron (and whatever else makes blood red) then is excreted with the sweat. Is that scientifically possible and how long could you survive that?
I would recommend reading up on hemoglobin, the circulatory system, and how we sweat to better understand the physiology of the human body. It will help writing your story and building the base of the disease. If you don't have hemoglobin your body cannot transport oxygen, which means you will die.
"What does the 'S' stand for?" "For.......Sitter! Yeah! Sitter! I was original gonna go with a symbol for 'babysitter', but then I'd be walking around with a big 'BS', and you can understand why I couldn't go with THAT!"
There 2 problems with this -Are hands able to apply the pressure evenly enough to make a diamond? I would expect a mixture of graphite powder and diamond powder out of this. -Can Superman do the squeezing and heating at the same time? Make a gap to let the heat beam through? Or heat his hands to 1000 degrees?
Kyle here is an anime question for you. In One Piece the main character ate a mystical/cursed fruit that gives him a body of rubber and all its qualities without hampering his metabolism. One technique he uses called Gear Second is where he uses his rubbery qualities to dope his muscles with more oxygen than normal. This grants him great speed and more strength but is it possible in any way assuming you could be rubber and alive in the first place. The reason he can do it and not die is supposedly because his arteries, heart, veins, and muscles can handle the strain because of their rubberyness. Could you do a show on this?
What are you doing with those glasses discount Thor. . . Oh hey Kyle, have you seen the walking L’Oréal commercial that is discount Thor. He was just here a minute ago. 🤔
At the end, you said that if Superman went around the world to acquire every pencil an turn the graphite into diamonds, he could kill the market value. The thing is, Da Beers can already do this because they have enough uncut diamonds sitting in a warehouse. By controlling the amount of diamonds that are available to the market, they control the prices.
Majestros, when covering for Superman protecting Metropolis, paid for his breakfast at a diner by crushing pencils and creating diamonds. Seemed someone at DC knew this.
Regarding impurities would it be possible for Superman to use superspeed to spin his hand like a centrifuge to separate out the pure carbon from the other components in the coal? If so then he could possibly make the diamonds out of coal or maybe even dirt in a two step process.
You can have practically pure carbon without much trouble. Common table sugar is amazingly pure saccharose. A simple kitchen oven can decompose sacharose into pure carbon plus water steam . So Superman could get a big rock of sugar and compress it. The pressure (and resulting heat) would decompose it into Carbon and steam. With more pressure he woul have a diamond.
Kyle, about superpowers you should not want, what about the power of stopping time? It sound really cool, but the more i think about it, the most catastrophic it becomes.
I agree. I'd be like driving playing golf in a supermarket & then i'd see a frozen hot lady & i'd be like "i could just slip my dick into her a little bit?" but then i'd be edisgusted with myself & shout "NO YOU MUSN'T" "..but she won't even know....NO YOU MUSN'T....i'd use a condom....NO YOU MUSN'T" like back & forth debating with myself for fucking weeks & then 1 night i get seriously drunk & when i wake up she's bent over with her face in the supermarket till ladies lap & we both wearing sexy lingerie from the clothes department
Love the video as usual!! But, I'm gonna be "that guy" for a second and make the annoying observation that the "lead" in #2B pencils is actually a baked combination or graphite and bentonite clay with a ratio of about 1 to 1... So, more impure than coal... Please ignore me. EDIT: I now see that you mentioned that in your pinned comment, so yeah... You're one step ahead as usual. ;-P
Judicious use of his heat vision could likely purify the coal sufficiently to work as a carbon source. The problem is mostly that the pressure method of making diamonds is more complex than just squeezing carbon, even pure carbon. To use pressure and temperature alone on a pure carbon source he'd have to keep the carbon just below its melting point and at that extremely high pressure for a period of time best measured in millennia. Otherwise diamonds would just decay back into graphite as soon as you took them out of the ground. (Which they do, but the decay process is as slow as the creation process would be, so your heirlooms will be around more than long enough to be destroyed by some other means.) To speed the process up, diamond presses dissolve the carbon in molten metal, which purifies the carbon the last bit it needs, and then pressurize it and expose it to a tiny bit of existing diamond, and that sets of a crystallization kind of like when you touch a supersaturated salt solution. Superman could probably do all that provided his hands are sufficiently non-leaky, but you never see him do anything more than squeezing, which is kind of silly.
I have a question that might make a good "because science" video. How cold does mr. Freezes gun have to be to be able to freeze people in a matter of seconds? Ps I love the show and keep up the good work:)
I guess it will depend a lot on the distance you're trying to freeze them at. The temperature of whatever you're spraying will be increased slightly by the air for more time depending on how far away they are. Making it take longer to freeze someone further away. Also bear in mind that the minimum temperature anything can reach is about -273.15'C (iirc) absolute zero, so freezing somebody solid will take longer than it does in the movies no matter what.
Someone got into a similar question: th-cam.com/video/kcUDf2rUfoc/w-d-xo.html He is doing the calculation for the Overwatch character Mai but it works the same way
You got a like as soon as you finished 'kiss begins with k....rypton. :) Love it. It makes me sad that the coal thing is total bunk and so completely common at the same time. :( I hope the comic writers are watching! The movie writers too!
Considering it everything has a Lower melting point and turns into gas at lower temperatures Superman could Refine the call in the pure carbon and then crush it into a diamond with heat. Just because it wasn't around back then doesn't mean you can't make it from coal. People are also making diamonds using a low pressure and high heat. Once again just because call wasn't around when diamonds were formed doesn't mean you can't use it as a material base.
You're missing a factor in the diamond (or any other mineral) forming process: Time. Heat and pressure creates the right environment for minerals to grow over time, a LOT of time. If you add extreme heat and pressure for a short amount of time, you'll only get tiny diamond dust.
"hold a Black Hole"-Not even light can escape a black hole. Even if he is Superman, the atoms on his hand would get ripped of by the gravitational field created by the black hole. Or at least the electrons ionizong Superman... that would be pretty gross.
Holding a black hole is not even a major feat by comic book standards. Even mid tier version of the Hulk have been able to do that and it's a fairly common feat in comics.
Mr Tentacles Incorrect... The school system has barely changed since the industrial era, they still have one goal and it is not to make you an intelligent person...
daveangels - Cool... Pencil dot tattoos! You know, up until this video and your comment, I've never met or known anyone else to have a pencil dot tattoo. Obviously, there must be loads of people with them. :)
I, too, have a pencil dot tattoo on my left hand. It is apparently less uncommon than I had previously thought. I was particularly bored one day in grade school and thought to entertain myself by bouncing a short, well-sharpened pencil against the desk. I was able to successfully catch the pencil many times between my thumb and forefinger. Until the time it went into my skin instead.
Is it possible that superheating coal, or impure graphite, could burn out the impurities like what happens when forging metal. Maybe it would take more work to crush the coal around to expose the impurities to the air so they can burn off but would that work, or would the carbon burn at a lower temperature than the other elements in coal?
I can’t believe he made the superman time travel joke. Superman wasn’t turning back the earth’s spin, he was flying faster than light and traveling back in time. So from his perspective the earth was spinning backwards.
It still wouldn't send him backwards in time even if that was what they were going for. He'd end up in the future but in less time than if he stood around just waiting.
Regular ash could possibly work to make diamonds, because there are actual real life companies that can make diamonds out of cremated remains of loved ones
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I'll address this in next week's vlog too, but creating diamonds from the common pencil has the same problem as creating diamonds from coal -- impurity. I mentioned pencils as an example of where to find graphite (which is pure carbon, an allotrope), but taking normal pencil rods wouldn't help the synthetic diamond creation process. For that, pure graphite is used. Thanks for watching! -- KH
Wait, in the clip you showed Superman used his strength and body heat. So how hot is Superman? Does he have a normal human body temperature or can change his own body temperature because he can survive the heat of the sun. Sure he can finely use his heat vision along with his strength but without it would seem more impressive.
Kyle said it was Superman's heat vision, but even if that wasn't the case the pressure itself can generate heat. Perhaps not to 1k Celsius but a lot
Woo my name’s Tom! Thanks I enjoyed the episode!
What do you mean by carbon purity and 1 contaminant per 1,000,000?
He means that in every 1 million particles, 1 of them is not carbon. That's contaminant
Better start working on my grip...
Lol
Careful there, diamond d*ck......
I still got 499,999,990 Newtons to work on. I may, or may not, have been too generous on that estimate.
A woman then? Men always work on their grip lonely ones at least
@@collinnear3570 Idk if this is sexist or completely random
"Become bling, I command you!"
Not the line I wanted to hear after my appendix removal. Laughing hurts, and you sir just pushed my recovery back a few days
i know how it feels mate i hope you recover well
3:31
i know that feel brah we were in the same position 8 months ago
I'm sorry you had to lose an organ that helps with your immune system.
We need to get this message seen by Kyle. It’s probably a dream for any communicator to know that their video was so funny they made someone pull their stitches.
Gems in general are rare, however diamonds in comparison to most all gems are common af, even before we began making them (In reality the factor that we make them takes all of the rarity out of it). They're also sometimes considered to be the most common gem on the planet.
Well they are made of one of the most abundant elements in the universe all it really takes is pressure. Compared to like and opal which needs many different things to happen in its environment. I think maybe the hardness of diamonds is what gives them their value, but idk 🤷♂️ I don’t rlly think diamonds are that pretty.
A better name would be
"Every kiss begins with Kal-el"
-hershey's kiss wants to know your lowcation-
Robert Johnson We just never remember it
😂😂😂
It could also mean Kara-Zor-El
correction: carbon14 is not decaying because it is radio active. It is radio active because it is decaying ;-)
love the show!!!
Correct.
Did you know that after thousands of years carbon 14 decays and breaks down into carbon 12 (regular carbon) and we detect how much of this there is through a special machine and that helps us to find out the estimative age and date of a long dead person or very old thing of some sort. It's called carbon dating
@@Jacksonmason112.-_ yes, I do Know. It had to be corrected after Mankind amaged to throw a shitload of nuklear material into the environment!
@@Jacksonmason112.-_ Nah, think it breaks down into nitrogen-14 by beta decay.
@@MeshamuNo it breaks down into Au through a process of 'wishful thinking' decay after about 1 day 🤣
"His logo looks a lot like a diamond"
Well yeah, he's humanity's gem.
Oh dannnnngggggg -- KH
Omg wtf, kyle actually replied
that's bs, he's not even human
Despite being an alien, he at least admires and is inspired by the human spirit. that's what modern writers get backwards. Superman is as inspired by humans as they are by him.
This channel's name is "Bs" but it isn't BS... why?...
BECAUSE SCIENCE!!!!!!!!!
BS
So that's why it isn't BS, makes sense
Zach Ryder
So that it looks like an element. Na, Au, all are Caps-small: Bs
I thought the same thing but I hadn't thought of it till seeing this vid hahah
"Become bling, I command you!"
Well, I was nearly finished with my drink anyway.
The only man who can make chemistry interesting.
Walter white made chemistry interesting also.
I agree a lot
Nilered would like to know your location
More of physics I would say. But in physics we have a lot of good guys.
NileRed
Proof coal doesn’t make diamonds, there is no life on Neptune or Uranus (That we no of) for there to be coal but it RAINS DIAMONDS! Also the star BPM 37093 aka Lucy that is 1.1 solar masses and has a crystallized carbon core similar diamond.
We thirsty high ww
Carbon makes a ton of stuff
That's not actually proof but ok.
@Tays012 I thought it rained glass
Actually a pencil is not made of pure graphite. Many pencils are made with a graphite and clay mixture so squeezing and heating it would probably make a really weird looking glass, unless he used his super vision to pick only pencils that consisted of only pure graphite but that's just splitting hairs.
Assuming pencils are not pure graphite, what is the pencil to diamond ratio. Give me minute to do some smart boi calculations.
Good point! 8B pencils are the best, and they still only have 90% graphite. A 2B pencil is 74% graphite.
www.quora.com/What-is-added-to-graphite-in-order-to-make-pencils-of-different-blackness-and-hardness
leaving comment to get the answer of this question
Kyle mentioned this very briefly with coal but if the graphite isn't nearly pure carbon as you've pointed out, then, assuming most of the rest of the lead is clay, Supes would end up with some rock (from the compressed clay) and small fragments of diamonds where the graphite was more pure
Kyler Freilinger well if we want to get really sciencey then clay is usually a chemical mix of aluminum and silicon so he would never actually achieve "diamond" but rather he would have sapphire and not even pretty one either.
1:07 Kyle, diamonds aren't rare. They are very common (in terms of gemstones), it is just that gem quality diamonds all come from a monopoly, which makes them overly expensive. Stop falling for the lies of the diamond market!
I thought monopolies were illegal since like, a hundred years ago.
It's not a monopoly, they just throttle supply to increase pricing. A monopoly would imply only one mining company and distributor.
Correct. The DeBeers Corporation has a monopoly on almost all of the worlds diamond mines. Since they also sell the diamonds at jewlery stores, they artificially restrict the supply and jack up the price claiming rarity.
If diamonds aren't rare, they wouldn't be expensive, not because one company controls the supply, but because any one can find one without much effort. That is what you're saying. Which is also not the case. Maybe everything u read in random internet posts isn't true, hmm?
They're also the reason synthetic diamonds are looked down on for jewelry purposes, even if they are almost literally perfect quality and with zero flaws.
Graphite is possibly formed from the metamorphism of Coal (inernite, type 4 petroleum products). Thus if superman was able to take a whole lot of coal and was able to create metamorphic conditions to turn into graphite then it could be turned diamond. what this does is add an extra step to his process but it does allow for him to turn coal into diamond.
-From your friendly geologist
Stephen Detwiler Friendly Neighborhood Geologist*
So what you are saying is it would take some extra time under extreme pressure to push out the impurities allowing the carbon to form a more pure crystalline structure, thereby allowing the pressure to then form diamonds?
Essentially yes, that would cause the coal to get to a high enough carbon concentration to allow for graphite to form
"Become bling, I command you!" I genuinely burst out laughing. :D
"Diamonds are rare"
DeBeers got vaults full of em.
He said "diamonds are considered are on earth" which is true, they really are *considered* rare
I’m just imagining Clark Kent stealing office supplies and hoarding pencils. Then on a slow day carefully using his super strength to remove the wood and erasers from the graphite cores. All while lamenting there must be an easier way.
Should not need super strength to do that. pair of pliers to give the torque needed to twist the crimped on metal holder off and a little bit of moist heat to undo the glue. Assuming the Daily Planet has an in-house art department that uses pure graphite pencils (which likely don't have erasers anyway) it would be just plausible.
Or mechanical pencil graphite
He could drill the planet itself and go get the diamond from the crust, he could go into space (easier...) and get it from an asteroid (even get carbon from such remains of celestial bodies would be easier too)...and so on and so forth...
Kyle's future hand-mined graphite-turned-diamond brings a whole new meaning to the phrase "Blood Diamond."
Kudos for your quick correction on the number 2's pencils, it was hilarious.
Question: i've always wondered how does banshee fly using just the sound he emits? would that even be possible given the way sound waves work and how "loud" would he have to scream to achieve that movement?
I got stabbed by a pencil too but in my leg. A little bit of the graphite is still there.
Alex the great bro same
SAME BRO!
1. Go to the gym
2. Leg Press and squats like a motherfucker with heat bags around the leg!
3. ???
4. Profit!
Since coal still contains Carbon what would it take for superman to refine it to the level it would need to make a reasonably sized diamond?
From my (admittedly limited) research coal is on average between 60% and 80% carbon, and 1 carat 200mg.
Assuming the percentages of carbon were based on mass, we can conclude that we would need around 250 to 333.333.... mg of coal to make 1 carat of diamond.
If super man wants to go big or go home he could gather 776.6875 to 1035.58333... grams of coal to make one of the largest diamonds.
This is all of course assuming super man could refine the coal and use just the carbon from it, but I mean he has pretty much every other power so why not?
The problem is that he'd have to go through all the complex chemical processes to render all that carbon down from the coal. As it is, the coal in way too impure (as Kyle stated) a source of carbon to get diamonds. Basically, it would be like trying to get pure ice cubes by freezing diarrhea.
yeh but Superman has the knowledge of Krypton and easy access to intense heating and cooling.
with heat vision and freezing breath he could easily distill pure ice from diarrhea.
he could probably do similarly to make diamonds from coal.
VictoryNibbles At one point superman performed brain surgery through a man's eye in split second time or something like that. I don't think he'd necessarily struggle with purifying the coal like we would
VictoryNibbles hahaha that example give me good laugh👍😂
No, its not the same as surgery, to refine materials you need other materials to make chemical reactions in which those impurities are bonded into other material which are easier to extract, so its not only pressure and heat or precise surgeon abilities.
should have drawn a little crowbar when you said "half-life" ;D
"That sounds more like a Lex Luthor Plan."
Lol! Even when Kyle tries to be heroic his true nature can't help itself and he ends up being the supervillain. 😂🤣 🖤💎😈
I wondered why they didn't make this video using Toph but instead of Superman
But no-one wants a 27 second long episode
Zach Ryder lol
Because a mere "Superman" doesn't compare to *Melon Lord!!!*
Zach Ryder who is toph
jam rose A character from Avatar: The Legend of Aang
jam rose a little blind girl (like 12 yrs old) who is very funny, fun and has a bit of an attitude. And can control earth (including rocks, sand, mud, crystal, and even some metals, like iron). And I mean literally tons of the stuff. She can also see everything that is touching the ground if she is touching the same ground, even from hundreds of meters away. And although she cannot see what is touching ground that she isn't touching (for example, a man standing on a rock on top of a tree if she is on the ground), she can feel earth that is not touching the same ground as her. And she is the greatest earth martial artist of her time.
I have a rebuttal based on the definition of a diamond.
While Superman couldn’t make bulk synthetic diamond from coal he could easily make Nanodiamonds. Nanodiamonds can be described as sub micrometre diamonds as it is pure(apart from occasional nitrogen vacancies) and retains the diamond cubic crystal structure.
So if Superman used anthracite coal and using only his heat vision with the coal in ethanol at standard temperature and pressure, he could ablate the coal and create Nanodiamonds. This is one among several methods of creating Nanodiamonds from coal.
While it’s not as macho as squeezing coal, imagining Superman in a lab coat using his heat vision on a flask is much cooler to me.
StrangelyAmusing because science. Right.
Nano diamonds would make for a lousy engagement ring. To be fair though, Kyle does {blink and you'll miss it) allude to this.
His laser vision was also so good, he cut the diamond perfectly.
Hi Kyle! just want to say that you and the crew dont only motivate young people to pursue sciences but also inspire studying engineers (like myself) to work harder and have fun in what they do. Hope you keep being you Kyle! and for everyone who works on BS, keep up the good work! :)
Incredibly kind of you Jonathan, thank you. That's the best praise I can get -- KH
Another thing I realized is: that kind of temperature and pressure means a normal human cannot be anywhere near a Kryptonian squeezing graphite into diamond without being cut by any streams of gas escaping from Supes' hand. Also, if you squeeze some modeling clay in your hand, that's kinda the shape of the diamond Superman would get, not the radially symmetrical 💎 we've seen in movies and TV.
True.
Also, he can use his heat vision to cut it flawlessly.
His heat vision is not the same as Homelander’s mere lazer, and will get the job done.
I have the same "injury" :-D the danger of pencils is highly underrated, thanks to The Dark Knight for bringing awareness to the subject
Related to star wars and han solo...what is Carbonite? And how could a person be "Frozen in Carbonite"?
Hey Kyle I've been watching Because Science for a long time now and love how you do so much research and go in depth about so many various topics. Wish you nothing but future success and more good things coming your way
he makes me giggle like a school girl, he's so adorkable
I would totally buy a shirt with "Become bling I command you!" and a cartoon Kyle firing eyebeams at some lumps of coal.
"Become bling, I command you" one of the funniest lines I've ever heard a person speak
What's the science behind the leap of faith and how high could you fall from? (Assassins creed) I WILL ASK THIS EACH EPISODE UNTIL YOU NOTICE ME KYLE
notice me sempai
At the end of most of his videos, Kyle specifically mentions to follow him on twitter and episode ideas can be mentioned there. Yours has me intrigued. I myself actually have two ideas. However, I'm a deployed National Guard soldier with no phone. Therefore a twitter request is out of the question for me, unless there's another way to sign up for twitter without a phone. Good luck in your idea being made a video.
I'm pretty sure you can get on twitter straight from the internet my man
Matt W thanks. I'll check it out
Game theory already did a video on the leap of faith. If you want just the science, game theory should be good enough for you.
His logo DOES really look like the shape of a diamond!!!
"assuming"... that is where c14 etc have faults.
C14 can't be used for dates beyond ~500k, and even under that it can give wild dates that are wrong for known ages.
What about c14 found inside diamonds?
You technically couldn't use number 2 pencils, as they contain clay to harden the lead. However, full graphite pencils are sold at art stores
I really enjoyed the commentary by both Kyle and the guy in the glasses.
10:24 how did Thor know my name???
I’m becoming smarter with every episode.
Soon, I probably will take over the world.
And make number two diamonds.
MaxHP who needs school anymore, everyone should just watch this show to learn.
So would Superman actually need to use his heat vision to apply the heat to all that graphite... or would him “rubbing his hands together” while crushing the graphite within such a small space generate the heat without any other source? Obviously he’d also incinerate any nearby flammable stuff... or people but he’s Superman I’m sure we’d give him a pass for that
Magun BFP Doesnt lots of pressure cause things to heat on their own?
Magun BFP that description makes me think of Superman intently staring into his fist full of graphite and repeatedly crushing it akin to an old timey villain rubbing his hands back and forth forming a plan...
I’m remembering back to high school physics so take it with a grain of salt... but applying pressure exerts energy which has to go somewhere, potentially as sound but usually heat... but if you’re applying all that force into such a small area how hot would it get?
Who’s to say that Superman might not be the Boy Scout he claims to be... “I just wanted to help the guy out... I didn’t know, with all my advanced Kryptonian knowledge, that everything would explode in fire” perhaps he is an old timey villain...
I thought this as well. Even without rubbing his hands together, the heat created from the pressure required to rearrange the carbon into diamond would probably be enough. There's another problem with the heat vision though. As far as I know superman can't selectively heat material on the other side of material. What I mean is, he can't heat the carbon without eye-lazering through his hand first. And if he left a hole to beam his heat vision through, surely the high pressure would squeeze the graphite out.
Scott Roscoe what if he heats it before he starts crushing it? That might work
Diamonds are actually already worthless. There’s a Luxembourgish company that holds a monopoly on the diamond industry and keeps the price artificially inflated in order to make money. Like you said the world is really good at making diamonds, and them coming to the surface isn’t uncommon. But companies that sell them are.
I recently read that graphite is actually a more stable form of carbon than diamond, and that over very long periods of time, diamond can "decay" into graphite. But a lot depends on temperature and pressure as diamonds themselves are so tough.
IM TOM! IT WAS ALL FOR ME!? OMG THANK YOU KYLE HOW SWEET
How many No.2 pencils would it actually take to make a 2 carat diamond?
koimaxx good question!
2 carats is .4 grams... not much. My lazy ass would just use a couple of mechanical pencil refill leads.
Now that you mention it, I realized it would have been a straight conversion since theoretically there wouldn't be any change in mass even it got compressed and heated. Technically it would probably be about 40 pieces of pencil refills. Derp! :P
Could you please do the science of Crysis the game specifically the Nanosuit
Or he could just ask molecule man for some help.
semi awesomatic Wrong universe.
kourtney scruggs Not the point.
Rebmiami Minecraft but it is. He couldn't ask Reese for help if he doesn't exist in his universe. Now, I believe that there's a Molecule Man equivalent in DC, so he does have options.
I mean, he could also hit up a State Alchemist and have them transmutate whatever was required. But then when apply context that's also impossible because there are no State Alchemists in the DC universe.
kourtney scruggs Technically, according to DC comics canon, the Marvel universe does exist, as did the crossover. That is DC canon, so Molecule Man technically exists to Superman. Although, said crossover did not happen in Marvel canon, so DC universe does not exist to Marvel, which means Superman does not exist to Molecule Man. All in all, it's a really weird situation.
While it's not quite the same universe, it is, in a way, the same multiverse, which Supes should have little trouble crossing with someone like the Spectre.
J. Lee Tillery You are my new best friend for taking my best arguement dead out of my mouth. That was awesome. You're awesome.
"Become bling, I command you!" my new favorite saying.
Man I am glad you exist
Great channel. Love the mix of science and comic book characters. Keep it up! 👍
ooh oohh do a video of "scientifically possible" chuck norris facts, that would be amazing
See my above comment made to @ZombieBroKill about episode suggestions. Your idea would be really fun to watch.
There's also the problem with him using heat vision while crushing the graphite. He'd have to encapsulate the material with his hands to crush it properly, but since he's basically completely covering it his heat vision wouldn't be able to heat through his hands to superheat the matter.
Considering all the trouble associated with gathering enough graphite (or whatever) and then converting it to make a diamond, Supes would be better off taking a quick jaunt over to Uranus or Neptune or one of the other "nearby" planets that have diamond rain and just chill there for a second.
Love your videos! Got a question for you; how do Gambit's powers work?
So according to this I'm just a spongy fleshbag of uncompressed diamonds. Neat!
Are you full of pencil leads?
Uncompressed coal. You're not made of graphite
Theodore Minick let him believe in his dreams!
Yeah what GeneralKnife said! Bunch of buzzkills...
Well if we are all carbon based and carbon makes diamonds then that would be true...ish. That also makes the #2 joke accurate as wouldn't our waste have carbon in it?
If your body suddenly stopped being affected by the earths gravity, would you shoot straight up into the air because of the centripetal force from the earth’s rotation?
It would be moreso at an angle but yes
Not staright up, but tangetially if the Earth was only rotating and not revolving around the Sun, if you consider rotation and revolution then you will fly off at some angle but not straight up, just like Lobo Hog wrote.
First consider a feather it is so light it falls slowly because air resists the motion down.
So what your asking is if a person became so light much much lighter then a feather but was still the same size body. Almost like a human balloon.
Well a person would do almost exactly what a balloon does but as long as they don't pop as they get higher they would float up and out of the atmosphere.
Now if you think of it as magic where they retain the mass of a person and are just no longer pulled along by the mass of the earth then they might be affected by wind and air as they are just left behind while the earth circles around the sun.
Yep
Who was that guy that kept invading Kyle's show?.. How did he not notice that?... lol
I believe his name is Dan Cassey, he works with Kyle on various projects like *_MuskWatch_*
After years of seeing both of them daily (however never at the same time) I still can't figure it out. It's weird they don't seem to have any connection but they just randomly pop up in the same place. To be honest I never noticed this but now that you mention it, it's slightly strange. What a mystery.
correct me if I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure this is a joke about the glasses lol
Matt W no it's about that other person that appeared in his video obviously. Did you not notice him; don't know where Kyle was though.
Oh lol I must have been on my phone and just listening haha I feel like an idiot
I once saw an experiment were they put regular peanut butter into a industrial hydraulic press. Afterwards they found tiny microscopic diamond fragments in it.
funnily enough, scientists have formed diamonds out of peanut butter...
Question: Is it true that _detonation nanodiamonds_ are formed in nuclear weapons' _strike-zones_ with abundance of coal?
Considering Hiroshima was mostly woodland , is there a chance for any nanodiamonds to be found there?
Btw HPHT (high-pressure-high-temperature) method is used since 1964 to create artificial diamonds from Graphite rods at 130k atm and 1705 Celsius, where they use impurities like Boron and Nitrogen to get Blue or Yellow gems that look similar to the famous _Hope_ diamond,
so -minisicule- impurities aren't always bad~!
Rew Rose new even synthetic diamonds are being made in China which forced De Beers to find out how to differentiate the two since they are so similar. Also because the synthetic ones are cheap as well.
Notice me Thor sama
You sure it's not Thor-kun?
Thor-chuaaaan.
Lol
I didn't know I needed to read that
Sam Mayes I had to read Thor sama's manga
I absolutly love your videos. Not many people can make science interesting and funny.
A little personal question. I try writing a story and came up with a disease, that over time splits the red colour from the blood. The iron (and whatever else makes blood red) then is excreted with the sweat. Is that scientifically possible and how long could you survive that?
I would recommend reading up on hemoglobin, the circulatory system, and how we sweat to better understand the physiology of the human body. It will help writing your story and building the base of the disease. If you don't have hemoglobin your body cannot transport oxygen, which means you will die.
Casz5 thanks
9:34 does anybody else remember that one scene from the Incredibles where syndrome explained why he used "sitter" instead of "baby sitter"
"What does the 'S' stand for?"
"For.......Sitter! Yeah! Sitter! I was original gonna go with a symbol for 'babysitter', but then I'd be walking around with a big 'BS', and you can understand why I couldn't go with THAT!"
2:30 When Salt has one of the most complex Molecular Structures known to Man. And we use it to make our food taste better.
Btw diamond actually wasn't rare
Who was that guy at the beginning of the episode?
I think he is Dan Cassey , his co-host from *_MuskWatch_*
When it turns out superman can't actually make diamonds out of coal. Also Mr bean could defeat Superman
There 2 problems with this
-Are hands able to apply the pressure evenly enough to make a diamond? I would expect a mixture of graphite powder and diamond powder out of this.
-Can Superman do the squeezing and heating at the same time? Make a gap to let the heat beam through? Or heat his hands to 1000 degrees?
Kyle here is an anime question for you. In One Piece the main character ate a mystical/cursed fruit that gives him a body of rubber and all its qualities without hampering his metabolism. One technique he uses called Gear Second is where he uses his rubbery qualities to dope his muscles with more oxygen than normal. This grants him great speed and more strength but is it possible in any way assuming you could be rubber and alive in the first place. The reason he can do it and not die is supposedly because his arteries, heart, veins, and muscles can handle the strain because of their rubberyness. Could you do a show on this?
Uh, I came here for Kyle. Not some random Nerd in glasses.
Thats not some randonerd! He's Kyle's first-born-clone! (I believe Kyle named him Dan Cassey after his co-host from *_MuskWatch_* )
That can't be a clone, he doesn't look anything like Kyle. He wears glasses, Kyle doesn't. D'uh.
Lay off the glasses nerd! It's his first day on the job!
Can superman make any other jewels than diamond like emeralds
Emeralds are just polluted diamonds mate. They contain chromium, it makes them green. Same with Rubies, amethysts and sapphires.
What are you doing with those glasses discount Thor. . . Oh hey Kyle, have you seen the walking L’Oréal commercial that is discount Thor. He was just here a minute ago. 🤔
Boi wtf
At the end, you said that if Superman went around the world to acquire every pencil an turn the graphite into diamonds, he could kill the market value. The thing is, Da Beers can already do this because they have enough uncut diamonds sitting in a warehouse. By controlling the amount of diamonds that are available to the market, they control the prices.
Majestros, when covering for Superman protecting Metropolis, paid for his breakfast at a diner by crushing pencils and creating diamonds. Seemed someone at DC knew this.
Please do a video on the mobile trace system from mobile fighter G Gundam.
Or anything Gundam really. How about, could Gundam Deathscythe's beam scythe work under water?
I read about a way to make bone into diamond yes you can make your dead grandma or dog into a diamond
Alexandre Charest grandma, forgive me
Already watched this episode a couple days ago, came to give the vid a view and drop a like 👍🏾
Now THAT'S the kind of support I appreciate! Thank you! -- KH
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Regarding impurities would it be possible for Superman to use superspeed to spin his hand like a centrifuge to separate out the pure carbon from the other components in the coal? If so then he could possibly make the diamonds out of coal or maybe even dirt in a two step process.
You can have practically pure carbon without much trouble.
Common table sugar is amazingly pure saccharose. A simple kitchen oven can decompose sacharose
into pure carbon plus water steam . So Superman could get a big rock of sugar and compress
it. The pressure (and resulting heat) would decompose it into Carbon and steam. With more pressure he woul have a diamond.
Kyle, about superpowers you should not want, what about the power of stopping time?
It sound really cool, but the more i think about it, the most catastrophic it becomes.
Instead of stopping, wish for slowing time.
Well, slowing time have almost all of the drawback of stopping time, only less deadly.
well call me a rapist but i would go around humping all the frozen ladies. sorry
TheMetalOverlord
Anything to do with time is better not tampered with, imo.
I agree. I'd be like driving playing golf in a supermarket & then i'd see a frozen hot lady & i'd be like "i could just slip my dick into her a little bit?" but then i'd be edisgusted with myself & shout "NO YOU MUSN'T"
"..but she won't even know....NO YOU MUSN'T....i'd use a condom....NO YOU MUSN'T" like back & forth debating with myself for fucking weeks & then 1 night i get seriously drunk & when i wake up she's bent over with her face in the supermarket till ladies lap & we both wearing sexy lingerie from the clothes department
how much force would be required to send a vacuum like wave that can cut anything through the air from a sword?
that makes no sense.
Love the video as usual!! But, I'm gonna be "that guy" for a second and make the annoying observation that the "lead" in #2B pencils is actually a baked combination or graphite and bentonite clay with a ratio of about 1 to 1... So, more impure than coal...
Please ignore me.
EDIT: I now see that you mentioned that in your pinned comment, so yeah... You're one step ahead as usual. ;-P
lol
Judicious use of his heat vision could likely purify the coal sufficiently to work as a carbon source. The problem is mostly that the pressure method of making diamonds is more complex than just squeezing carbon, even pure carbon. To use pressure and temperature alone on a pure carbon source he'd have to keep the carbon just below its melting point and at that extremely high pressure for a period of time best measured in millennia. Otherwise diamonds would just decay back into graphite as soon as you took them out of the ground. (Which they do, but the decay process is as slow as the creation process would be, so your heirlooms will be around more than long enough to be destroyed by some other means.)
To speed the process up, diamond presses dissolve the carbon in molten metal, which purifies the carbon the last bit it needs, and then pressurize it and expose it to a tiny bit of existing diamond, and that sets of a crystallization kind of like when you touch a supersaturated salt solution. Superman could probably do all that provided his hands are sufficiently non-leaky, but you never see him do anything more than squeezing, which is kind of silly.
From another (german) science study it was said, that you can make diamonds out of peanut butter. So it's not just graphite.
Organisming is now a word
I have a question that might make a good "because science" video. How cold does mr. Freezes gun have to be to be able to freeze people in a matter of seconds?
Ps I love the show and keep up the good work:)
MONDO GECKO Liquid Nitrogen, or a similar fluid.
MONDO GECKO or better yet Men's freeze gun.
Velociraptors of Skyrim Liquid nitrogen would be able to cool someone but it would require lots of fluid and tons of time
I guess it will depend a lot on the distance you're trying to freeze them at. The temperature of whatever you're spraying will be increased slightly by the air for more time depending on how far away they are. Making it take longer to freeze someone further away. Also bear in mind that the minimum temperature anything can reach is about -273.15'C (iirc) absolute zero, so freezing somebody solid will take longer than it does in the movies no matter what.
Someone got into a similar question: th-cam.com/video/kcUDf2rUfoc/w-d-xo.html He is doing the calculation for the Overwatch character Mai but it works the same way
You got a like as soon as you finished 'kiss begins with k....rypton. :) Love it. It makes me sad that the coal thing is total bunk and so completely common at the same time. :( I hope the comic writers are watching! The movie writers too!
Considering it everything has a Lower melting point and turns into gas at lower temperatures Superman could Refine the call in the pure carbon and then crush it into a diamond with heat. Just because it wasn't around back then doesn't mean you can't make it from coal. People are also making diamonds using a low pressure and high heat. Once again just because call wasn't around when diamonds were formed doesn't mean you can't use it as a material base.
You're missing a factor in the diamond (or any other mineral) forming process: Time.
Heat and pressure creates the right environment for minerals to grow over time, a LOT of time. If you add extreme heat and pressure for a short amount of time, you'll only get tiny diamond dust.
Superman can hold a Black Hole. I wouldn’t be surprised if he can make not just diamonds, but melt the diamonds into its own lava.
Diamonds don't melt. They turn into black graphite at high temperatures.
Matter Beam what’s more ridiculous: diamond-based lava, or holding a black hole in both hands with said hands sealing it air-tight?
I don't see how holding a Black Hole air tight would stop it from spagetiifying everything around it, but w/e
"hold a Black Hole"-Not even light can escape a black hole. Even if he is Superman, the atoms on his hand would get ripped of by the gravitational field created by the black hole. Or at least the electrons ionizong Superman... that would be pretty gross.
Holding a black hole is not even a major feat by comic book standards. Even mid tier version of the Hulk have been able to do that and it's a fairly common feat in comics.
Where did he learn all of this science stuff?
Dave Leigh school
Mr Tentacles School doesn’t teach you anything good...
You never paid attention in school then
Mr Tentacles Incorrect... The school system has barely changed since the industrial era, they still have one goal and it is not to make you an intelligent person...
I learned most of the mentioned stuff at school...
Wow! I've got a grey dot on my left hand from being stabbed with a pencil at school when I was about 12/13. :)
Dave Lennon-Copeland same, but i did it to myself :) i guess i wanted a tattoo as a young kid
daveangels - Cool... Pencil dot tattoos! You know, up until this video and your comment, I've never met or known anyone else to have a pencil dot tattoo. Obviously, there must be loads of people with them. :)
Dave Lennon-Copeland yup, and I thought i was the only one nuts enough to try
I, too, have a pencil dot tattoo on my left hand. It is apparently less uncommon than I had previously thought. I was particularly bored one day in grade school and thought to entertain myself by bouncing a short, well-sharpened pencil against the desk. I was able to successfully catch the pencil many times between my thumb and forefinger. Until the time it went into my skin instead.
I got another one in my thigh as well from sitting down with a sharpened pencil in my school shorts -- KH
"Oops. That doesn't make sense."
I AM DED HAHA
Is it possible that superheating coal, or impure graphite, could burn out the impurities like what happens when forging metal. Maybe it would take more work to crush the coal around to expose the impurities to the air so they can burn off but would that work, or would the carbon burn at a lower temperature than the other elements in coal?
4:30 Half life 3 confirmed
hl3 i was looking for it
I can’t believe he made the superman time travel joke. Superman wasn’t turning back the earth’s spin, he was flying faster than light and traveling back in time. So from his perspective the earth was spinning backwards.
It still wouldn't send him backwards in time even if that was what they were going for. He'd end up in the future but in less time than if he stood around just waiting.
The Earth is amazing at making diamonds....so good at it in fact that we had to invent a shortage just to make them valuable.
Regular ash could possibly work to make diamonds, because there are actual real life companies that can make diamonds out of cremated remains of loved ones
Wait wha-
I never thought I'd hear Kyle say my name at the end, because he already used Tommy back when he first started the gag. What a pleasant surprise.