How Many Dragons Would It Take to Melt the Wall in Game of Thrones? (Because Science w/ Kyle Hill)

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    Game of Thrones has many signature aspects, but dragons and the giant wall are the most iconic of the fire and ice of the story, but which one is stronger? Kyle melts it down on this week's Because Science!
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  • @Nerdist
    @Nerdist  7 ปีที่แล้ว +146

    Game of Thrones' dragons aren't actually dragons. NEW mini-ep over on my Insta (instagram.com/sci_Phile/). Thanks for watching! -- KH

    • @seancarlisi
      @seancarlisi 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      would the oil in the gasoline or if it was diesel instead affect the MJ/Kg produced by the fuel. The flame throwers they are compared to usually verried depending on what was available.

    • @borttormcpe4275
      @borttormcpe4275 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Nerdist maybe try using a different type of fuel they said someone to a flamethrower. I mean it could also be a dual chemical reaction which is a typical thing done by a lot of writers because it's more feasible and separate chemicals being excreted are not actually uncommon so and there are mixtures of chemicals that burn at tens of tens of thousands of degrees so I think you could probably figure it out by that route

    • @prashanthkurella4500
      @prashanthkurella4500 7 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Nerdist why do you need to melt the whole damn wall ?. you just need a corridor big enough for the army to enter ?

    • @amberolds9055
      @amberolds9055 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      yall realise that dragons can produce there own fuel

    • @warningbadjoke
      @warningbadjoke 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Prashanth Flash cause if you melt only a little just for the army they could get ambushed because there is only one entrance

  • @Danspy501st
    @Danspy501st 7 ปีที่แล้ว +583

    Kyle Hill: "It will only take 5..."
    Me: *Thinking.* "Huh? That isnt bad for the dragons"
    Kyle Hill: "Billion to melt the ice wall"
    Me: *Thinking.* "Oh darn"

    • @christina9719
      @christina9719 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Daniel Jensen minute 5:00

    • @Danspy501st
      @Danspy501st 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Why do you me the time on that? Had watched it

    • @phantazmgaming
      @phantazmgaming 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Same

    • @Grizabeebles
      @Grizabeebles 7 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Correction: 5 beeellion dragons

    • @mathchessdnd
      @mathchessdnd 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I think Paulo linked the time for the rest of us who want to watch it again.

  • @RYgamingTV
    @RYgamingTV 7 ปีที่แล้ว +79

    "carry the science" My new favorite quote

  • @chandlerridley8809
    @chandlerridley8809 7 ปีที่แล้ว +135

    Ancalagon the black from middle earth would do a bit of damage, and in the tv show the dragon fire could melt stone! Maybe a bit hotter then the military flamethrowers! Great vid as always man

    • @atk9989
      @atk9989 6 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      ancalagon the black could probably walk through the wall

    • @TheDavidorse123
      @TheDavidorse123 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I'm pretty sure that Dragon could eat the super big dragon that he was talking about in one bite

    • @jordan8086
      @jordan8086 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      call natsu and achonolgia

    • @Gavin-N
      @Gavin-N 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      I was just about to say that!

  • @kaleblathrom2225
    @kaleblathrom2225 6 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    You only need to melt the bottom of a several meter wide section of the wall in order to get through, meaning there is no need to melt the whole wall because a small portion would do the job.

  • @dipgrizzly25
    @dipgrizzly25 7 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    In the realm of GoT, Dragonfire can melt stone. Most stone melts at 1500 C, gasoline burns at 950 C. Dragonfire is far hotter than gasoline, because Gasoline can't melt stone and is only used for visual purposes.

    • @candie1230
      @candie1230 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      deafpool plus, they don't have to melt the entire wall, just one section and then it's over because there's a hole in the wall!!!

    • @MattSSPP
      @MattSSPP 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      except, why would the dragons want to melt a hole in the wall? I feel like the dragons are on the Wall's side in the war against the walkers.
      This was just a thought experiment on melting the entire wall

  • @LordBloodraven
    @LordBloodraven 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I'm curious if you considered Ancalagon from the Tolkien-verse. He was the largest winged dragon to ever exist in the Tolkien-verse and while his exact length and measurements were never recorded, when he was killed in the War of Wrath, his body crashing into the earth destroyed the three volcanic mountains of Thangorodrim and created the massive mountain range that splits Mordor in two (from its Northeast to the Southwest).

  • @bigjohn5717
    @bigjohn5717 7 ปีที่แล้ว +199

    I just saw 1 dragon melt a corner of the wall in like a min.

    • @1Atlkid
      @1Atlkid 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Roronoa Zoro after it ran through the middle of it.

    • @Dead25m
      @Dead25m 6 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Except it didn't melt it, it blew it away

    • @Paintedawg
      @Paintedawg 6 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Melted just enough of it to cause it to collapse under it's own weight.

    • @krinaldoma
      @krinaldoma 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Smart white wakers eh

    • @Blackbirdxd
      @Blackbirdxd 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      not melt

  • @UOweMe
    @UOweMe 7 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Why calculate with the whole wall? They only need to take down enough for some wights to walk through.

  • @Blackheart.735
    @Blackheart.735 7 ปีที่แล้ว +159

    Dragonfire in the series is strong enought to melt stone kinda like they do to harrenhal in aegon conquest
    so.. is that more powerfull that energy released from gasoline them you should recalculate this

    • @deathangellink
      @deathangellink 7 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      confirm 9/11 was made by dragons, dragons fire can melt steel beam

    • @victariongreyjoy7261
      @victariongreyjoy7261 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      carloandre matos I don't think so depending on the type of stone gasoline could be in the range if it's concentrated and used properly

    • @tuseroni6085
      @tuseroni6085 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      but not if sprayed as a flamethrower...a dragon's fire is hot enough to melt stone as a flamethrower, presumably with just air for combustion (either forced from the dragon's lungs or from the air around the flammable substance)

    • @vladicus81
      @vladicus81 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      You don't even need to consider stone though. At least in the show dragon fire reduces people, bones included, to ash within seconds. Gasoline cannot do this.

    • @justingold9240
      @justingold9240 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      If i remember right it reduced the tully's to practically nothing in seconds

  • @ThomasRelaX
    @ThomasRelaX 7 ปีที่แล้ว +133

    Science of flametrowers, not dragonfire :( ?

    • @dawoodsulaiman3230
      @dawoodsulaiman3230 7 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      ThomasRelaX precisely dragons can melt stone like Harren hall

    • @tacobeeznut
      @tacobeeznut 7 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      ThomasRelaX Because dragonfire doesn't exist so a flamethrower is our real world equivalent

    • @xXLiLJokerXx
      @xXLiLJokerXx 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      ThomasRelaX i waa thinking the same thing, shouldn't a denser more energetic form of fuel be used as a substitute? what about a type of combustible corrosive acid? I just feel like gasoline makes for a poor man's Dragon fire.

    • @Nerdist
      @Nerdist  7 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Well one of these is a thing that we have numbers for. We always need good comparisons as starting points! -- KH

    • @xXLiLJokerXx
      @xXLiLJokerXx 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Nerdist but Odinson, we have numbers for thermite.

  • @andreaslois3074
    @andreaslois3074 7 ปีที่แล้ว +125

    "biggest dragon in fiction"
    I think you haven't heard of ancalagon the black

    • @natelandherr5202
      @natelandherr5202 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Hell, even Smaug is fucking huge

    • @natelandherr5202
      @natelandherr5202 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Now that I think of it Acnologia from Fairy Tail might be named after Ancalagon

    • @andreaslois3074
      @andreaslois3074 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      maybe

    • @andreaslois3074
      @andreaslois3074 7 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      i dont think you understand the ridiculous size of ancalagon
      some estimates take him at 213.84 km long

    • @natelandherr5202
      @natelandherr5202 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I understand, I got that far in the Silmarillion. I'm just saying Middle earth Dragons are gargantuan as is

  • @maqywhaq
    @maqywhaq 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I think it could be interesting to alter the heat output of the dragon breath(seem to recall the dragons being able to melt fortifications, or at least begin to fuse/melt steel) to create a more intense heat and how that might hold up...

  • @Aielo98
    @Aielo98 7 ปีที่แล้ว +172

    Do they need to melt all of the wall? can't they just melt a corridor to get to the other side? Even if the corridor is large enough for the whole army to go through, they might be able to do it

    • @Aielo98
      @Aielo98 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Brawling_NL I think they want more than 3 dragons and 3 people on the other side, so they need to make a path for people to pass walking

    • @nicholasprovencher7360
      @nicholasprovencher7360 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I just ran the numbers for a 7ft high (213 cm), 1m wide corridor (sized for a man in armor) through the entire 90m thickness, and it would take 1800L of gasoline to melt that much ice. That's assuming 0C temperature and the wall being 100% ice.

    • @Sagemel
      @Sagemel 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Lucas Aielo there are already multiple tunnels running through the base of the wall

    • @OsvaldoChannel1
      @OsvaldoChannel1 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Nicholas Provencher so giving Kyle's assuptions It would require 1 GoT dragon. that's feasable

    • @Nerdist
      @Nerdist  7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      what -- KH

  • @kawsarhussain5448
    @kawsarhussain5448 7 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Lol, 'Grrr Martin'

  • @MathiasMartinWR
    @MathiasMartinWR 7 ปีที่แล้ว +318

    Or you could break the wall with
    ONE PUUUUUUUUUUUUNCH!!!

    • @shiroenai399
      @shiroenai399 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      okey bruh......

    • @BlaineTog
      @BlaineTog 7 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      You might need to use Consecutive Normal Punches.

    • @amuro5992
      @amuro5992 7 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      na you just need one punch from the "serious series"

    • @201chipin
      @201chipin 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      *One Punch Man Theme Turns On*

    • @scornbass1552
      @scornbass1552 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      One normal punch will be.. OK.
      The impact explosion will also vaporise all the WWs, too.

  • @chalicefuse881
    @chalicefuse881 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    According to my calculations using the same equation taking into account that in the series they melted a corner of the giant wall, and taking the volume of the corner of the wall as 400 meters long, 91 meters wide and 213 meters tall of ice if a single dragon carries 15,000 L of fuel it would only take 3 dragons to melt that corner of the wall.
    For a single dragon it would take just 35,000 L of fuel to take down that portion of the wall. An olympic swimming pool has 2,500,000 L of capacity. Certantly a dragon can carry 35,000 L with some gym trainning

  • @kovacore
    @kovacore 7 ปีที่แล้ว +75

    what if the dragons focus on one part of the wall and melt a hole through it?

    • @uglynerfherder
      @uglynerfherder 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      another happy landing Exactly what I was thinking.

    • @prashanthkurella4500
      @prashanthkurella4500 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      another happy landing I don't understand why the whole wall needs to melted all you need is a 100 - 200 m corridor to get in ?.

    • @louisvictor3473
      @louisvictor3473 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      but that wasnt the question really was it? The proposal wasnt "can dragons significantly damage any part of the wall, even if its only a tiny bit that could be replaced by regular wall materials, constant watch and ballistic weapons", after all.
      Okay, long story short. If you take the second lowest number the video got (cause that one gives you a number relative to a wall fully made of ice) you need 93.75 dragons to completely melt a section of the wall that is 1 meter wide length wise (I.e. 45M dragons/480 000 meters). So, how much damage can three dragons make in terms of making a hole through the wall (I.e. width or depth of the wall remains the same value, you just find the new height)? 6.816 meters (3dragons * 213 meters/93.75dragon) height of that 1m section of the length of the wall, which means 3 beefed up dragons would make any whole with a cross section of an area equal to 6.816m² (e.g. a 2mX3.408m whole will do as well).
      only problem is, fire energy/head dissipates in 3d, not biased towars one or the other direction, so what they would actually acomplish is make a roundish recess on the wall, probably not even half of the thickness due to having heat/energy dissipating also away from the wall.

    • @mutevampire
      @mutevampire 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Let's assume they want to scale it back to a 48 meter breach. That works out to 1/10,000 the length (and similarly the volume) of the wall, so taking the most dragon-favoring scenario of 30,000,000 dragons to melt it in a single pass, it'd go down to 3,000.
      If we allow for multiple passes, things get trickier. The runoff water would need to go somewhere, largely down the sides of the wall and outwards along the ground, where temperatures would re-freeze most of it while the dragons refueled. The net effect would be that the wall would become shorter and the ground higher at a related, but not equal, rate. If we assume 3 dragons at 1 pass per day, they would need around a 2-3 year siege to melt a breach through the wall.

    • @ThrottleKitty
      @ThrottleKitty 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You'd still need thousands and thousands of dragons. You'd have to have like, a perfectly coordinated line of them going in and back out of the hole as one used up it's fire. It'd take like, a month. Plus, where do you think that water goes if you are melting tons of ice inside a small cave? xD It'd be a mess.

  • @dankinlin4744
    @dankinlin4744 7 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    But wait. We see Dany's dragons like melt people with their fire. When Kraznys mo Nakloz is killed in Astapor, Slavers Bay. Surely this means that, although they used gasoline in the flame throwers they use for visuals, the actual dragons fire burns a lot hotter than regular gasoline. I am terrible at maths so I would never be able to work out the actual amount of energy in this dragon fire but I'm sure we all know someone who could work this out. Kyle, I think this may need revisiting.

    • @GundamReviver
      @GundamReviver 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      not just on the side of the dragons either!
      on the side of the wall i dont think he acounted for the dragons energy not being evenly distributed, all at once (a whole butt ton of it would be wasted because of surface contact, ice melting, turning to water, and then superheating to steam, taking energy out of the lance of fire.
      (its also why the allies in WW2 at once point were actually concidering a frozen ice aircraft carrier)

    • @zyxyx6754
      @zyxyx6754 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The rate at which the fire conducts its energy onto the material is irrelevant to the question of how much energy it contains.
      Example:
      A candle that burns for 100000C in 1 second has as much energy in it as a candle that burns for 1000C for 100 seconds."

    • @GoErikTheRed
      @GoErikTheRed 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Zyxyx But if you're trying to melt something that's 20 meters away and you burn very slowly, most of that energy is going to be absorbed by the air and not necessarily transferred to the wall itself.

    • @zyxyx6754
      @zyxyx6754 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      GoErikTheRed which is irrelevant when you're calculating energies.

    • @GoErikTheRed
      @GoErikTheRed 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      But calculating the amount of energy stored within a fuel source isn't necessarily indicative of how much useful work you can actually get out of it. The problem here is specifically how many dragons it would take to burn down the wall, and with regards to that problem it is not irrelevant

  • @diegodamohill
    @diegodamohill 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    No one seems to be pointing out, but i love that you still had smoke coming of your head for a couple seconds in 1:44

  • @thescreengeek8915
    @thescreengeek8915 7 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    just call Tolkien and get one Ancalagon the Black. I mean Jesus, that Dragon was the size of a mountain range..

    • @wowjack8944
      @wowjack8944 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Glaurung is also bigger

  • @Jordan_C_Wilde
    @Jordan_C_Wilde 7 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    No other dragon in fiction you say is big enough ?? I raise you Ancalagon the Black from LOTR ...

    • @joshuahadams
      @joshuahadams 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Jordan C. Wilde count he just give the wall a good whap with his tail and shatter it?

    • @LordAJ12345
      @LordAJ12345 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Who was partially brought down by the eagles. Just more proof that you shouldn't mess with the eagles.

    • @jmhinnen
      @jmhinnen 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Jordan C. Wilde Technically, Ancalagon was featured in the Silmarillion, but it's still Tolkien's mythos, so it counts. :P
      And Ancalagon was my first response to that comment, too. lol

    • @vyasyash834
      @vyasyash834 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      super dragon from dragon ball super find a dragon bigger than that then we talk

    • @streetough
      @streetough 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I was hoping someone brought Dragonball Super Dragon into this.
      Definitely, the biggest Dragon ever seen in fiction.

  • @TheNat20Walrus
    @TheNat20Walrus 7 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    Are there enough Ewoks on endor to over-run the Death Star?

    • @99lum
      @99lum 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Why would you bother when there's a torpedo shaped hole in it that leads straight to the reactor? Once you easily overrun the inexplicably undermanned shield generating base

    • @nibwa4798
      @nibwa4798 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      To get rid of those vermins.....one stone two birds ^^

    • @stevenbrown7042
      @stevenbrown7042 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      I hear ewoks good eating

    • @shardinhand1243
      @shardinhand1243 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      in this scenario is the death star being run by the empire or a competent military force?, if its the empire...
      then yes... yes ewoks could overrun the death star....

  • @benjaminkraftchick2311
    @benjaminkraftchick2311 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you so much for this one! Much needed!

  • @gaboderflinger7854
    @gaboderflinger7854 7 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    What if we give LIGHTSABERS to the Dragons? Huh? huh? HUH?

    • @raven.8073
      @raven.8073 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      that would be quite the surprise.

    • @Daimon-X
      @Daimon-X 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Or Atomic Breath... Where is Godzilla when He's needed most?

    • @jacksonmatysik8007
      @jacksonmatysik8007 7 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      i thought with your profile there was a hair on my screen😂😂

    • @kanepovey2781
      @kanepovey2781 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Gabo Derflinger is

  • @draven2get1
    @draven2get1 7 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    Ok in game of thrones there is a castle where they specifically state that the stone castle was melted by the heat of the dragons fire. Last I checked military flamethrowers so can't do that. So the math is wrong. I would love to see another vid with a updated formula.

    • @kingjonstarkgeryan8573
      @kingjonstarkgeryan8573 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Draven Raziel Also Dany's dragons are not even close to full grown. They still need about 150 years to even be close to the size of Balerion the Black Dread.

    • @thesecomments4777
      @thesecomments4777 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      No. Her dragons are growing unusually fucking fast. It would take far less.

    • @zyxyx6754
      @zyxyx6754 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      I already gave this answer to another comment, but here it is again:
      "The rate at which the fire conducts its energy onto the material is irrelevant to the question of how much energy it contains.
      Example:
      A candle that burns for 100000C in 1 second has as much energy in it as a candle that burns for 1000C for 100 seconds."

    • @rawbagle
      @rawbagle 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Draven Raziel maybe the dragons fire is magical. If it has the heat to melt stone it would be hard to guess how much fire the dragon that did it was putting out, and how big the dragon's firesac was. teehee, sac.

    • @brandonpollard8928
      @brandonpollard8928 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Draven Raziel you don't sound like you know alot just don't like what your hearing

  • @iMartY188
    @iMartY188 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Really glad you made this episode

  • @Randoman590
    @Randoman590 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    God I love the hair on fire jokes, complete with the smoke in the next shot.

  • @djcoleman77
    @djcoleman77 7 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    yo this show is why I subbed this channel

    • @Nerdist
      @Nerdist  7 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      Me too -- KH

  • @deangulberry4756
    @deangulberry4756 7 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Wasn't Ancalagon the black from lotr supposed to be as a big as a mountain I think that's big enough

  • @RandomAmerican3000
    @RandomAmerican3000 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love the fact that you still have the hair smoldering in the scenes after hair gets set on fire.

  • @Tman001100
    @Tman001100 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    In the show, one dragon only needed to PARTIALLY melt one section of the wall to where it crumbled underneath and wasn't able to remain supportive enough to where that section crumbled and created enough of an opening. So, don't have to completely melt it thru..just warm it enough to where it is weakened and crumbles.

  • @Tyche-Love
    @Tyche-Love 7 ปีที่แล้ว +101

    Kyle missed a variable he could have adjusted to bring down the numbers. while gasoline is energy dense and burns hot it's not something dragons would produce internally. we would need to calculate how hot dragon fire is because it's stated as hotter than wildfire and able to melt steel in seconds. fire is not a standard temp and dragon fire burns much much hotter than gas closer to that of termite that gas...
    in sorry Kyle I love you but try again my friend

    • @LoisoPondohva
      @LoisoPondohva 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      The temperature of fire doesn't really matter, considering we have unlimited time. But thermal capacity could be adjusted.

    • @Nerdist
      @Nerdist  7 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      But you understand how we have to do these calculations, right? We have to use as much of what we already know as we can, and minimize making stuff up. Dragons don't exist, neither does their fire, and so I consider it more reasonable to compare their fire to what they use on set rather than a fictional thing I don't where to start with. -- KH

    • @LoisoPondohva
      @LoisoPondohva 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      ***** well, Harringhall is technically in the series, so you could use the fact it was molten. But great job anyways.

    • @thatguy2142
      @thatguy2142 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      well the closest thing to an organic "heat sprayer" is the bombadier beetle. it uses hydrogen peroxide and hydroquinone to spray extremely hot substance on enemies. the substance is roughly enough to boil water...... but id bet it not anywhere close to as efficient as gasoline

    • @thatguy2142
      @thatguy2142 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      also it would be even more dragons because the dragons would be heating it up from a distance so a lot of heat is lost because of that.

  • @MikeMardisR
    @MikeMardisR 7 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    "It would be longer than a dozen 747s and pretty much any other dragon in fiction."
    A dozen 747s would be roughly 2,800 ft. long. While we don't know his exact size and he only officially lives in one sentence in the Silmarillion, Ancalagon the Black was likely at least this big. He was slain by a guy flying a magic sail boat with help from the Eagles. But when he fell, he crushed three mountains each higher than the peak of Everest. Even if he destroyed them by thrashing about and blowing fire everywhere, he still would have had to have been massive to bring down three mountains of that size.

    • @houseofaction
      @houseofaction 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      which is stupid, any creature that large would utterly destroy everything around it simply by flapping its wings

    • @TonyStark-ck3wk
      @TonyStark-ck3wk 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      houseofaction I think you severely underestimate how big Middle Earth is. (Also, Ancalagon's purpose pretty much was to destroy things)

  • @Bowfella
    @Bowfella 7 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Well apparantley it only took one.

  • @Mikakarot23
    @Mikakarot23 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Good vid. Only difference i have is that dragon fire is significantly hotter. They can reduce a full grown, fully armored man to ash is less than a minute. They can melt stone in minutes at most. Their fire is WAAAAAAY hotter than any gasoline fired in that way could be. Still recognize they cant do it easily, but it would definitely take fewer dragons of the flames were hotter.

  • @petertrast
    @petertrast 7 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    But Kyle... do you need to melt the whole wall... or just breach about 100 meters of it? Now we're talking 1/1000th or 50,000 dragons... becoming plausible? :)

    • @skilsors
      @skilsors 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Peter Trast I was thinking that. you wouldn't have to melt the whole wall. Just a good section of it.

    • @Amrotu
      @Amrotu 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      The best bet is just fly over you have dragons

    • @nonprovareafareclick
      @nonprovareafareclick 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Agree, but using Kyle's numbers, 480 meters are 1/1000 of the wall, 100 meters are 1/4800 of the wall. So using the 45 million dragons figure, you would need 9,735 dragons. Maybe breaching a point with a width of less than 90 meters (which is an average) you can reduce that even further. The bottom line is that regardless of how you change the assumptions, it is very very very unlikely that the dragons could make even just a hole in the wall.

    • @thegreatgambeeno
      @thegreatgambeeno 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Amrotu Got one!

    • @nik007delta
      @nik007delta 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      exactly i was facepalming so hard during the second half of the video

  • @omahh94
    @omahh94 7 ปีที่แล้ว +190

    I thought the tittle was going to be "How many dragons would it take to melt steel beams"

    • @curseofgladstone4981
      @curseofgladstone4981 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Omar Luna. dragons breath cant melt steel beams...
      😐😊

    • @wadewilson2286
      @wadewilson2286 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Omar Luna or Wolverine's claws, lol. JK , I love the claw episodes

    • @Walshman223
      @Walshman223 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @Dragon Warhammer No but dank memes can

    • @bullet10002
      @bullet10002 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      1 dragon

    • @kuriaspaul
      @kuriaspaul 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      1 plane apparently...

  • @piggyoinkoink6352
    @piggyoinkoink6352 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    LOL the Taotie from "The Great Wall" just tunneled under the wall while they distracted the army with sieges 😂😂😂

  • @Airwave2k2
    @Airwave2k2 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    6:01 Mainproblem Refreezing - with Temps under 0°C you have by surrounding air a a capacitor which needs to be heated up too, to prevent the "slighly" icewarterslure to not refreez.

  • @tannerratto
    @tannerratto 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    kyle just said "myselves." I'm scared that there are now multiple kyle hills.

    • @tylerhouston69
      @tylerhouston69 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      There are at least 30 Kyle Hills statistically alive right now.

    • @tylerhouston69
      @tylerhouston69 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      29 now, I'm coming for you kyle.

    • @Nerdist
      @Nerdist  7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I saw this and hit my head because it was too late to fix -- KH

    • @raven.8073
      @raven.8073 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nerdist, you're gonna have to hit a lot of your head if there are at least 30 of you.

  • @lenny8275
    @lenny8275 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    What about Ancalagon the Black Death? Wasn't he the biggest dragon? Supposedly many times larger than even Balerion the Black Dread? His size was never specified, but supposedly he was as large as a mountain.

  • @Rolle88_
    @Rolle88_ 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    @Nerdist, I love the Rick and Morty cerial leprechaun joke :-D

  • @FinanceMan
    @FinanceMan 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hahaha I love how you are spontaneously set ablaze. NOOOOOO!!!!!

  • @talkintactics3762
    @talkintactics3762 7 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    The physics of stargates!

    • @aidenarnold4955
      @aidenarnold4955 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      cyle pool please god yes

    • @cathyshepard253
      @cathyshepard253 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yaaaasssss

    • @Angryp0nY
      @Angryp0nY 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Space magic

    • @NPC-nn4qe
      @NPC-nn4qe 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      YEEEESSS!!! FUCKIN' STARGATES; HOW DO THEY WORK!?

    • @jerk1921
      @jerk1921 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      OMFG you guys, its called an 'Einstein Rosen Bridge' and its been a real concept for generations, go look it up!

  • @mattatthome
    @mattatthome 7 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    took 1 my dude

  • @amatersensei2381
    @amatersensei2381 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    There is one dragon that technically is bigger then a a few kilometers - Super Shenron from DBS.
    BTW, love your show, i keep bench watching it while i draw XD. Its a very interesting idea of explaining fiction and fantasy via science, and i really like that kind of concept!
    Keep up the great work! :D

  • @laineyg6
    @laineyg6 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is so interesting, nerdy and funny! Love it!

  • @MisterTingles
    @MisterTingles 7 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    but dragonfire has mythical status on the show/in the books, it can melt stone and be used to forge valyrian steel (and is supposedly also magical and stuff). plain old gasoline stats won't cut it, Kyle. can we try thermite stats or something?

    • @Mae_is_gae
      @Mae_is_gae 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeah, I was thinking that. if wildfire is credited as being second best to dragon fire, and wildfire can melt steel, that's much more that plain old petroleum.

    • @JR-mk6ow
      @JR-mk6ow 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hidrogen (H2) would probably be more realistic.

    • @JudgeKrod
      @JudgeKrod 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      I was thinking the same. Dragon fire is much more powerful than gas fire. Need to seriously ramp up the energy output of the fire. Also, a dragon could drop it's fire load, wait a few days after recharging, and come back. A few dozen over the course of a week or so concentrating on a spot around a mile or so wide. How long would it take? That's the math I want to see. Don't need to take out the whole wall, just enough to get an army through. A mile wide seems reasonable. 24 dragons, thermite property on their fire, military flamethrower capacity, but with a two day recharge. Do that math, Kyle, I'd absolutely love to know that. Seems militarily applicable with a plausible number answer.

  • @matthijsbouma
    @matthijsbouma 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    what about ancalagon, that dragon is super huge

  • @ajd2393
    @ajd2393 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    "carry the science". Best line he has ever said.

  • @Kumomyst
    @Kumomyst 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    7:28 I know of a bigger one. From the light novel series Mondaiji-tachi, a certain dragon was described as being bigger than a mountain range.

  • @1959Edsel
    @1959Edsel 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Time to call in Trogdor the Burninator.

  • @marcuswelby3116
    @marcuswelby3116 7 ปีที่แล้ว +394

    lol I didn't know Thor was a TH-camr

    • @lasarith2
      @lasarith2 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Failure Lord that's what happens when all you do is shout coral and fight Zombies 😉

    • @marcuswelby3116
      @marcuswelby3116 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      lasarith2 Zombie? Where I come from, they're called Walkers.

    • @blazebuscus9894
      @blazebuscus9894 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Why don't you just stab the walkers since they're so slow?

    • @mrswan7745
      @mrswan7745 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Thor's scrawny little brother*

    • @josiahklein70
      @josiahklein70 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Jaxon Duin
      I thought that was Loki...
      ;)

  • @NextStopWilloughby
    @NextStopWilloughby 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The only question this really left me with was how much of the ice would need to melt in order for the wall to start to collapse under its own weight, but then again I'm sure that'd depend on a lot of details the books don't go into.

  • @alexmiddleton9390
    @alexmiddleton9390 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thing is, you might not need to melt the whole wall to ‘defeat’ it. The wall (disclaimer: I have never seen the show or read the books) exists to work as a defensible barrier, so to ‘defeat’ it you’d just need prevent it from fulfilling that purpose, so either you could melt a portion wide enough to allow whoever it is it’s keeping out to pass through it, or melt the defensive features at the top or just burn all of the defenders, in order to facilitate people just building ladders or some sort of ramp over it, or just do enough damage to get thedefenders to surrender and just let people through

  • @rolfgrell4783
    @rolfgrell4783 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Why do you have to melt the entire wall?

  • @thatguy2142
    @thatguy2142 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Kyle hill is best nerdist

    • @Nerdist
      @Nerdist  7 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      I concur -- KH

  • @jamesconlon8429
    @jamesconlon8429 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Was that a Rick and Morty Top Hat Jones reference at the end there hahaha!

  • @Guilherme1s1
    @Guilherme1s1 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nice video, thank you! It would be also interesting to answer how long it would take to melt all the wall, if you consider all of those dragons, or if you consider that they can throw fire without getting empty.

  • @bradduffan1924
    @bradduffan1924 7 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    I don't think you accounted for blue fire (Which is hotter) and undead magic ( Which is unpredictable)

    • @LordDrakath
      @LordDrakath 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      That was ice breath.

    • @dracorules2
      @dracorules2 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      accept ice breath isn't wavy like flames

    • @Bowfella
      @Bowfella 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I don't think the flame is blue because of complete combustion. I think It's blue because of wierd dead ice people ju-ju.

    • @heyits17
      @heyits17 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      What about the fact that the wall is also magic... Magic negates magic maybe? Lol

  • @tailblaze101
    @tailblaze101 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    This is assuming 100% efficiency with the heat transfer from the dragons. Which wouldn't be possible. And I'm pretty sure in one of the episodes it is implied than Dragon fire is a lot hotter than conventional gas fires.

    • @uglynerfherder
      @uglynerfherder 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Philip Mai Not only that, he's saying if they burn the entire wall. Couldn't they just burn a section to get in. (never seen the show)

    • @odinzan
      @odinzan 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They're goal in the show isn't to get through the wall, he just want to know if they could melt the whole thing

    • @phenixslayer21
      @phenixslayer21 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Philip Mai you are correct. Not sure how hot, but dragons melted the stone at Harrenhall. So, pretty dang hot.

    • @jagx234
      @jagx234 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Philip Mai I was wondering this as well. So we would basically need to use lava instead of gasoline for the equations.

    • @bullet10002
      @bullet10002 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      PhenixSlayer so to melt stone you need fire the temperature of lava.

  • @ethansmith2040
    @ethansmith2040 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Towards the end, when he said there's no other dragon in fiction longer than this, I think he forgot about Ancalagon the Black.

  • @Derakil
    @Derakil 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Man I like your videos, you are not trying hard to be funny and it is working out :) its a bit educative and funny :)
    btw you forgot in this particular case that they melted only part of the wall and that the weigh of the unmelted mass above helped in colapsing, how would that work out?

  • @lpmdoza
    @lpmdoza 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    "carry the science"

  • @Hasharin14
    @Hasharin14 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Kelvin? We use the superior Celsius master race in the rest of the world.

  • @tommorrissey5037
    @tommorrissey5037 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Kyle, one small correction to an otherwise awesome video. You said that ice doesn't have the compressive strength to get that thick. However, in the last ice age, didn't we have ice sheets over 2 miles thick in the Northern Hemisphere ? Aren't there ice sheets in Antarctica hundreds of feet thick ? Keep up the good work, love your vids.

  • @caleblee3344
    @caleblee3344 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    7:21 you forget about Ancalagon the Black. "He was so large his falling body destroyed the three volcano mountains of Thangorodrim, the highest peaks in Beleriand." Plus, "Ancalagon breathed fire, which was said to be hotter than any other known flame, hot enough to burn up the Rings of Power"

  • @manticleague4106
    @manticleague4106 7 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    can you do the science of glass slippers?

  • @Teraphas
    @Teraphas 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    biggest dragon I can think of would be Primordius from Guild Wars 2. we have only seen part of his head but based on proportions he would dwarf most things

    • @ladychrya9379
      @ladychrya9379 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      The Elder Dragons from Guild Wars 2 are km long in the lore

    • @lucacanton49
      @lucacanton49 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ancalagon the black, mate.

    • @haydenmcqueen2503
      @haydenmcqueen2503 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Super Shenron, mate

  • @JustinCglass
    @JustinCglass 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is a prime example as to the lack of understanding of numbers that are very big
    This is awesome

  • @j.moonstorm3158
    @j.moonstorm3158 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The biggest problem with this is that dragons in ASOIAF have fire breath so hot, it can pretty much flash melt stones used to make castles that were thought to be unassailable like Harrenhal.

  • @snorlaxsnorlaximus3118
    @snorlaxsnorlaximus3118 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I know ohow much 1 Ancalagon The Black is enough i think ;)

  • @anthonykf99
    @anthonykf99 7 ปีที่แล้ว +69

    IT ONLY TOOK 1 WITH BLUE FIRE LOL

    • @llawiet3367
      @llawiet3367 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That is correct

    • @llawiet3367
      @llawiet3367 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He didnt account for undead flame

  • @Mahawww
    @Mahawww 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    OH. MY. GOD. A complete episode of "Because Science" in which i understood the science.
    Man, i feel smart right now.

  • @linkdude55
    @linkdude55 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    "Carry the.... science"
    I died.

  • @InvisibleSloth10
    @InvisibleSloth10 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    i know your trying to be realistic but dragon fire in both book and show is said to be at least twice as hot regular fire

    • @erbgorre
      @erbgorre 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      the wall isnt just regular ice either tho, so hes making real world assumptions for both. cant really calculate magical fire vs magical ice

    • @Nerdist
      @Nerdist  7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      This is exactly right. It's the line I walk when making the show. -- KH

  • @TheshINYMooSES
    @TheshINYMooSES 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Apparently just one is enough

  • @carmineceraolo5610
    @carmineceraolo5610 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hey! I'm Carmine, from Italy. I esteem the work you do on the TH-cam, dude. It's really awesome! I would love to see a video that explains why seasons work the way they do in A Song of Ice and Fire saga. Maybe it's because their planet is part of a solar system with two stars? If so, how does it exactly work? What if their imaginary land isn't spherical, but simply flat? Hope you do the video. Have a great day ;)

  • @jenniferleebrett5335
    @jenniferleebrett5335 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    I had an experience a few years ago were, wen I woke up, all the clocks in the house were a different times. That includes are 2 cell phones, 3 xbox 360, the microwave and the laptop. They were not stopped, but were all at different times, every thing except the microwave was also connected to the internet. Was curious about, if this could be a time dilation freak moment, or some thing else. Do u have any ideas of what it could be? The biggest time difference was 4 h, 2 were less the an h ( microwave and laptop) from actual time, then the others just varied in the in between. By the way, love your show :)

  • @MrTroodon_Official
    @MrTroodon_Official 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The GOT dragons arent wyverns -_- even using the european dragon to compare.
    Ok so most of the people use the 4 limbs argument to say Smaug and the GOT dragons are wyverns but you cant be more wrong, the number of limbs isnt a diference that actually matters in most of the European countries since only in English, Scottish, and Irish heraldry is a real diffrence while in most Europe it isnt, for example the dragons from the old norse myths look more like giant snakes (some times the numbers of limbs can vary a lot on this ones)more than the classic view of the European dragon with the 6 limbs.

  • @darraghwalsh2730
    @darraghwalsh2730 7 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    do a video on where the matter the doctor needs to get to regenerate a new body comes from

    • @ThrottleKitty
      @ThrottleKitty 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It's not something our science can really explain, sadly. It essentially comes from the time vortex. Time lords are exposed to this vortex excessively in their youth, absorbing huge amounts of energy that is stored within their body, but displaced in time. When they "die" this energy suddenly reappears at that time, repairing them.

    • @darraghwalsh2730
      @darraghwalsh2730 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Throttle Kitty neither are dragons but he explained that preety well

    • @ThrottleKitty
      @ThrottleKitty 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      But I mean, the core to the problem is something that not only doesn't exist in our universe, there is nothing close to an analog for it. I mean, I suppose he could still do a video on it, but it wouldn't be as grounded or scientific as most of them, he would have to make a lot of crazy assumptions!

    • @darraghwalsh2730
      @darraghwalsh2730 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Throttle Kitty we're probably over thinking this

    • @Lightpaladinsoldier
      @Lightpaladinsoldier 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It doesn't matter where the energy comes from, it's still energy regardless of the fact that it's displaced in time. Kyle could do it.

  • @skildren
    @skildren 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Every time Kyle says GRR Martin, all I kept envisioning was Gir Martin.

  • @nateunderwood7819
    @nateunderwood7819 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Tolkien had a dragon that was big enough to do it, one of them was the "Size of a mountain" and it obliterated one when destroyed

  • @ihatenuggets
    @ihatenuggets 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Well how about a dead dragon breathing blue fire ;) BAM problem solved

  • @zerolastone9166
    @zerolastone9166 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    anybody else realize that he has to write/draw everything backwards for it to work.

    • @jamesbizs
      @jamesbizs 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      The only people that thought that, are people that stopped thinking at that thought. Never seen a mirror before have ya? ;)

    • @andrewhatherall915
      @andrewhatherall915 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      notice he is right-hand Ed yet writes with his left? truly talented to draw backwards with your weak hand

    • @kaleblathrom2225
      @kaleblathrom2225 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Zero LastOne there is something call inverting an image

  • @andrewmegill5054
    @andrewmegill5054 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    There are a few problems with the calculations that would need revision. The first is the actual heat of the "blue fire" of the dragon in question, the duration of the use of the breath, the actual size of a hole intended in the wall (which looks maybe 100-150 m long), and the tactic the dragon uses of incinerating in a small area in order to let the mass of ice wall above the melted section to collapse, thereby allowing gravity to actually take down the rest of it within the hole desired. Given these variables, what would be the results?

  • @TheArahnatidOverlord
    @TheArahnatidOverlord 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Sorry for being a slowpoke, but may I suggest a few points?
    1) Assume dragon fuel production/discharge is similar to spitting cobra/bombardier beetle crossbreed, i.e. they constantly regenerate fuel, so it's not "how many dragons to melt the wall", but "how long it takes 1 dragon to melt the wall". Also, this would mean that the fuel is propelled either via muscle contraction around the fuel sack (cobra), gas buildup in mixing chamber (beetle), or redirecting an exhale into the fuel sack-to-maw valve (draconic bio equivalent of perfume bottle with the squeezing ball producing aerosol)
    2) Gasoline is nice, but there are nicer things, like the overused napalm, or something more volatile, like dicyanoacetylene or chlorine trifluoride. Whatever burns the hottest and reacts the most violently with other substances, and is hard to extinguish.
    3) So it all boils down (lame pun, yes) to estimating the volume of a fuel tank organ, fuel replenishing rate, the nurtients required to produce fuel, time needed to find and ingest nutrients, and...ok, a lot of biochemistry and math overall, but it's gonna be fun, because...because science!. Yeah, definitely because science.

  • @TheDastard
    @TheDastard 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Must suck to be wrong...
    :-/

  • @Airvirgo
    @Airvirgo 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    But it only took one dead Dragon

  • @PrachirNathETC
    @PrachirNathETC 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    He used to be a fan favorite, but then he took an arrow to the heart.

  • @maxsalmon4980
    @maxsalmon4980 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Littlefinger wants to keep you guessing, Kyle. So you won't know his secret.

  • @brocraft7457
    @brocraft7457 7 ปีที่แล้ว +282

    Does anyone else just watch this noding their heads pretending they know what theyre watching

    • @MarcosSilva-kv9ej
      @MarcosSilva-kv9ej 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Bro Craft Yes someone gets it

    • @MeoWHamster
      @MeoWHamster 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Bro Craft are you in elementary? i learnt all of this in like 8th grade..

    • @jasperalmoore
      @jasperalmoore 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Usually shaking my head at all the ridiculous dad-style jokes.

    • @Sereomontis
      @Sereomontis 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      No, I'm very honest about not understanding any of what he's talking about.

    • @98Destructo
      @98Destructo 7 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      actually this is highschool physics

  • @GiovanniAuditore
    @GiovanniAuditore 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    SEASON 7 SPOILER!
    I guess one dragon is enough!

  • @Ash-----
    @Ash----- 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    A wall becomes ineffective when there is a breach only in one section provided it is big enough to allow troops to move through. Furthermore, once a crack/breech is made, you can widen the breech. Therefore, you only need to focus the fire one one section of the wall and one dragon might be enough. This maybe possible when considering rapid heating an cooling effects which can crack rocks. The effect of rapid heating and cooling can be increased with greater temperature differences. Hopefully you get what i mean.

  • @paulcoy9060
    @paulcoy9060 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    4:09 "This is fine." A reference to Ricky's shirt from ETC Show.

  • @tedl2711
    @tedl2711 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    You know nothing Kyle Hill

  • @soulsemblance3163
    @soulsemblance3163 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    bigger than any other dragon in fiction I beg to differ Dragon Ball supers Super Shenlong the Golden Dragon is Bigger than galaxies

  • @robertdevito5001
    @robertdevito5001 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    I didn't know there were dragons and ice walls in game of tones. I thought that was just an episode of futurama where fry visits his memory of 12/31/1999 in a controlled dream in order to remember the second half of a planet busting tone, only to realize that the tone emitter is just a niblonian key chain.

  • @nicejungle
    @nicejungle 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Next time, make a vid about how many dragons do you need to put in orbit a Space-X Dragon spacecraft !
    --- Mind blow ---