Thanks for watching! If you celebrate, have an awesome Thanksgiving. Also, I know it sounded like I was calling out celebrities in a climbing competition, and I know that sounded cocky, so let me just clarify: I AM -- kH

“A turtle that’s **only** 5 feet tall”. Lol

I would pay to see you out climb Aquaman.

That "I did extra math for this" was soooo salty, a goddamn mood.

Natural State Kyle is quite compelling. There needs to be a DIscovery Channel-esque documentary of Natural Kyle in his Natural environment rather than the Void or the Because Science Footnote desk.

Show idea: how do the monster from monsters in Monster Inc. turn screams into useable energy?

Hey Kyle .. what kind of sound waves (sounds )does jigglypuff sing out to knock out any kind of organisms which hears the songs

"By definition alternative medicine has either not been proved to work or been proved not to work, do you know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work... Medicine." -Tim Minchin, from his piece Storm

Kyle you didn't clean it up but just put the mug in front of it >_>

Well of course you're a better rock climber than aquaman lol homie doesn't go to those elevations

I'd love to see you all do a rock climbing competion, but I have no trouble believing you'd win Kyle. Leto's in his mid 40s and has gone through enough body changes for roles that he likely wouldn't be able to match the stamina and skill of a much younger and consistent climber. Momoa's got about 30-40 kilos on you, so he'd be moving a whole lot more mass. If he could out climb you, that would be scarily impressive. Still, probably be fun to watch.

That jump on the climb wall... I'm glad I've got a very close friend who climbs too, because that means I can truly appreciate the glory of that jump. Very impressive, Kyle.

All this talking about lasers makes my think of the good ole' imperial lasgun. I remember reading somewhere that a lasgun could blow off a full grown man's arm with a single shot. At the time I thought nothing of it, but after watching this channel, and learning more about lasers and vaporization, that really puts things into perspective.

Charisma is an expression of a force of personality, just because it's a temporary state doesn't mean that it's not genuinely potent. "seeming" charismatic is the same thing as "being" charismatic. I think often charismatic people don't KNOW that they're charismatic because it's an effect you have on *other people*, you don't really experience it yourself directly.

"I should clean that up." You, sir, clean like I do!

In all honesty, Pokemon is still a new thing that the kids are into, to me anyway. As you said, I love Because Science simply due to your creativity and fun that is, sadly, just missing from science classrooms. Your enthusiasm and love for the subject matter are just as wonderful as the way you cover the subject matter itself. My wife & I wish all of y'all and your families, a truly wonderful Thanksgiving!!!

*Dear Kyle, thank you for over 3 years (since I discovered your show on Nerdist) of constant magnificence! You are really an amazing person to have around! Hope you'll always get to have that smile on your face!! Sincerely, 1 big fan!! ^-^*

"What do we call alternative medicine that works? Medicine." I too know of Tim Minchin Kyle. He's one of my people, you can't pull the wool over my Australian eyes!

"I'm a better rock-climber than 99% of the people in the world, and I'll stand by that!" I'd rather you not "stand" and rather "Hold-on" lol.

Today you once again felt like a real person! Thanks for sharing about your life and not being cocky. The science world needs more of that. Have a good thanksgiving man and I also love old slang! ishkabibble remains a favorite of mine.

Kyle I owe you thanks. Your series has restored a childhood interest I had in math and science. With this I have decided to pursue a deeper understanding of math and physics. It's going to be a long journey but you have inspired me. Quantum Physics here I come lol

Man I'm not fluent in English yet, but your pronunciation is so good, with your videos I learn English and science at same time, I love your channel!

The speech at the end was very touching. I think we all could use that in our daily lives. regardless of political or religious views

Turkey to you, Sir! And as someone who also lives in Los Angeles and had a heart transplant (5 years ago on Thanksgiving!) I always feel the need to remind people that medicine is the best medicine...not a home schooled mom with a blog!

Hi kyle, I love your channel a lot and I will probably never stop watching it.

"It's more about HOW we are doing this than the conclusions we are coming to." Now I know how to describe why I watch your content. Well said!

Omg, can't smash that like button hard enough. Best way to remember speed of light. This is why I watch this show. Bringing science to the everyman.

Great work Because Science team!

I love your show kyle!!! keep up the good work!

Thanks to you I was able to explain why Parkour experts can survive falls that would normally break a person. I was explaining to a co worker that if you had the reaction time to roll at the beginning of a fall, extending the duration of the deceleration, you could theoretically survive a fall from any height. Including orbit. It all started when we talked about the old saying that the crash isn't what kills you, it's the sudden stop. I even had to explain that your body and organs continue to move at said speed even though the car itself rapidly or suddenly decelerated.

Hey Kyle, keep up the great work! Love your videos.

Hey Kyle, just wanted to say you're a massive inspiration to me. Your influence reached me in a way that now next September I'm going to university to study a four-year course for a MENG in chemical engineering. Why you ask? Because Science.

Excellent video, thanks.

Kyle, Jarod, and Jason climb-athalon for charity when!?

For the person that commented about Blastoid's water cannon cutting steal, a typical water jet machine does not use water alone. The reason a water jet is able to cut thick steel relatively quickly is because the water is transporting an abrasive grit. A stream of pure water would need a lot more energy to cut steel that a grit water mixture.

When I have a bad day, I see this episode and I get happy again.

thank you Kyle. Always a joy to science with you, however indirectly.

I will have to steal that line about alternative medicine. It made me bust out laughing like a crazy person.

Im Glad you put the blastoise vs steel part in, cause that part from your last video really bugged me. In the pokemon index, it was noted that the 5 INCH cannons (your estimation off 6" inches was pretty close!) can cut through steel! BTW, the pokedex is also available on WOLFRAM ALPHA, a great science resource site!

Hey Kyle, heres a thing. I remember seeing somewhere on another science channel of some sort (SciShow or something, I dont remember at this point) that Darkness is faster then light, if only because it has to exist instantly where light cannot, making it ever so minutely quicker.

Kyle, interesting isn’t pointless! You get us thinking in new and different ways. And thank you for that, alpha nerd.

This correction is for the dragon night who estimates Kyle's SPECIAL stats. In the Fallout universe, SPECIAL stats are limited to a maximum of 10 points each, it's possible to get them higher through the use of mods, but that's cheating. The stats you estimated would have been more at home on a (slightly op) dnd character sheet, but unless we see a "Because Warlocks©®™" spinoff, that's not really relevant here.

happy turkey day! oh and ty for the water punching through steel calculations!

We do love you, Kyle!

That last line is just savage

I loved that line! Alternative medicine that works is called medicine. SO TRUE

The triumphant return of the...SURPRISE LIGHTSABER. It may just be a shirt, but I'll take it. WOOT WOOT

In high school, I remembered the rough speed of light as just shy of (PI*10^8)... worked for me :)

“It’s made by the same people that pay me” You the man 😂🙏💯

Episode idea. This has been on my mind lately. In How to Train Your Dragon, how many Gs is Hiccup pulling when he's flying on Toothless? Is it possible to survive flying to the heights and speeds he does when he's not in a pressurized chamber (such as a fighter pilot inside their jet)? Evidence and info to use can be from either of the two movies, the Cartoon Network TV shows (Riders of Berk & Defenders of Berk), or the follow up Netflix series (Race to the Edge). There's actually a lot of cool stuff in the franchise that would be neat to explore with your kind of work. The creators decided to not include magic in their series and keep things a little more "scientific" when it comes to the dragons. Example: Deadly Nadders shoot magnesium fire, Night Furies shoot plasma, Gronkles fly like bumblebees, etc.

I know I'm a bit late to this, but everyone forgets that the first example of a directed energy beam weapon, like a laser, in science fiction was silent and invisible. In H.G. Wells' The War Of The Worlds, the Heat Ray that the martians use can soften steel, melt lead and crack glass or make it melt instantly. If the beam hits water, that water instantly becomes steam in a cascading explosion, and if it hits a building, the temperature change and maybe pressure change can cause the house to explode. The author described the beam as an invisible hand of death, as if you ran from it, you couldn't know if you were out of its range or if you were in position to dodge it. The first you'd know about it was when your skin and clothes flashed into fire and you passed out from your blood literally boiling. This is much more terrifying than any other interpretation of lasers and it was the first ever version. The most you'd see it is if you looked right at the source, where you may see a flash from the mirror inside the gun, or just the trail of fire it made. The sad bit is that no other version of sci-fi heat weapons, not even in adaptations of Wells' book, have kept this is cos it's "too visually boring" It would actually be cool if you could do an episode on the science of the Heat Ray from the book and the movies! Love the show.

"Stop commenting on my body" hahahaha

this gives a new meaning to blitz warfare + if you concentrate enough light into one point wont it begin to heat up an become visible as a bury beam

I have to say about your point on critical thinking, that I've watched you, this channel, it's consumers and commenters grow and achieve a better degree of critical thinking throughout the run of your show and that really proves that what your doing is helping and paying off in a good way. So thank you Kyle, I hope everyone will strive to mould our generation and the next into a better state of thinking.

The point of the 'give charizard a timescale' comments wasn't to make you use power caluculations, but to give charizard the same restriction you gave the other two: five seconds to do an attack. The sun is effectively UNLIMITED POWER (sorry), so if you didn't give Venusaur the time restriction it would easily dwarf the other two. Since we don't know how long it takes for Charizard to melt a boulder, and there's no 'melt boulder' attack that suggests he can do it in a single move, you're comparing apples to oranges. On another note, Blastoise and other water pokemon can pretty clearly CREATE water (one entry says Blastoise can fill an Olympic swimming pool in seconds), so you could say he dwarfs the other two by creating that much mass-energy according to E = mc^2.

Can you talk about how slip space works from halo

Turkey to you as well, Kyle.

Hey Kyle, or whoever else may be interested. Concerning the whole "hitting empty cans at long distances". I recall an episode of Mythbusters where they tried making a water gun taser, and they ran into the issue of the "beam" of water breaking up after a while. Similarly, the water in tall waterfalls also breaks up on its way down. Planes dumping water over wildfires rely on this physical phenomenon to mist large areas. How would Blastoise be able to propel a pellet or stream of water over any kind of longer distance without the water breaking up from wind resistance and fluid dynamics? Going faster would only serve to accelerate the disintegration of the water projectile. I believe the empty cans are quite safe on their perch.

The most terrifying thing about blinding laser weapons to me is that we have computers that are extremely compact that can detect thousands of eyes per second, and it only takes a few watts of laser energy to blind at some pretty large distances. Put both of those things on a fleet of drones and you can just pass over a city and blind everyone in a matter of minutes. There are hundreds of individual people with the resources to do something like that, not to mention nations and companies. That's absolutely terrifying.

Happy Thursday Gridiron to you. Err(Happy ThanksGiving)!

I'm too old for Pokemon so I didn't understand 1 in 5 concepts discussed here and yet it was still entertaining!

Now explain Gundams Beam Weapons( except Beamsabers as you already did that for lightsabers). Also the company you are being paided by is making a Gundam movie.

if a laser beam was powerful enough to ignite the air it's traveling through, would that create a visible vapor trail.

That SPECIAL stats comment was just really nice

Today we told a ship Captain we don't usually work on Thanksgiving, but we would for his ship. He replied back saying " I don't understand what you mean by work on thanks... The work is on top of the ballast tank." Non Americans are clueless on that

9:30 I can relate to Kyle a lot on that, but in me, it comes out in a very different way. Despite my nerdiness, I am very much an extrovert and very energetic and animated when talking especially with friends, often times, however, when I'm sitting in thought(I use this over lost in thought because I am very aware of my surroundings regardless) I get comments on how I look sad or otherwise expressing a negative emotion when I consciously don't notice any difference other than relaxing my face.

You didn't clean that mess. You just moved the coffee cup. YOU CAN'T FOOL ME THOR!

This is a great channel if for no other reason that you address the complaints you get in the comments. You don't always accept the fact that you made an error but you at the very least acknowledge that people said you messed up. That's way more than any other channel I can think of does. P.s. Yeah, you have a rock climber build. Same as me. All about that power:weight, boi.

More laser stuff: Is it true that some lasers ionize the air in their path, thereby becoming visible and able to carry a current. If so: could twin beams of that sort, connections to an electrical battery work as a tazer? ”Set lasers for stun!” What kind of wavelengths and Watts would we be talking about? Would it make a cool zapping sound? Second, the lasers in Fallout carry enough energy to do serious damage... How much energy does small and large energy cells contain? Shouldn’t they realistically be prone to exploding when they fail? How far are they from present energy storage technology? Thanks for great videos, cheers!

There is an episode of Gargoyles that explains why a red beam is seen: "The laser beam is just for targetting, the actual photons are invisible to the naked eye."

That is well said! Thank you Kyle and everybody making this show possible! Bill Nye and the Mythbusters must be proud!(17:52)

You know from the clips I've seen he is actually really good rock climber, I would love to see some full clips

All things said, I would love a series based all around the Pokemon video, moving through each generation, maybe even with a tournament bracket to see which is the strongest starter Poke'mon overall.

Hey Kyle. Turkey to you (although I'm a brit but live in aus and we have never said that, but I like it). Your last comment about medicine I found very funny because I'm a paramedic and tell people the same thing often. Also, a very funny intelligent comedian Tim Minchin says the exact same thing in a sketch of his.. It's called 'Storm' and if you have a spare 7minutes I think you should youtube it. Great shows always.

Leto, Momoa the challenge has been set! The ball is in y’alls corner.

Thanks for answering my questions! I still think that assuming the boulder-melting can occur in a single attack is an added assumption, but I appreciate you explaining your reasoning. (This is Chewie007, you're play on my username reminded me that I hadn't updated my username on KZfaq to my currently preferred name CodeWookiee - I just fixed that).

Kyle I had the official pokemon handbook (gen 1, so red/blue) that was cannon. IDK what I did with it, but blastoises entry stated "it can pump out hundreds of gallons of water (as much as an olympic sized swimming pool) every minute" I'm assuming when typing the entry they accidentally put "hundreds" vs "hundreds of thousands" , as they were more specific about it being the same volume as an olympic sized swimming pool every minute. Remember this is cannon from gen one. MATH TIME! An official olympic swimming pool has 660,253.09 gallons of water (yes i was surprised by the .09) . Divide that by 2= 330,126 gallons per minute per water cannon(44131 cubic ft), or 5,502 gallons per second, per cannon. Lets assume that the cannons have a 4" internal diameter, to acheive this flow rate ( not counting for resistance) water would have to be shooting out at 5,600 mph (8,213 fps). Since a gallon of water is 8.34 lbs, traveling at 8,213 fps, each gallon should hit with 8,742,467 ft lbs (or 11,853,193 joules) of energy. Doing the ft/lbs calculation to psi you get 60,711 psi (over a full sq ft). ****this is where my math admittedly gets shaky, not sure im using the correct percentages***** a sq ft is 144 sq inches, where as a 4" diameter nozzle would be ~ 13 sq inches. So it puts the full psi into 1/10th the area. If this is the case, blastoise pumps out water @ 607,110 psi, nonstop, for atleast a full minute. 13sq inches in a 4" dia circle x 607,110 = 7,892,430 lbs , or 3,946.21 tons of pressure in a spot the size of your palm, per cannon.

You know what I always asked myself? How are these "Hangar Doors" in Star Wars actually working. Seems like they have a kind of field, strong enough to keep the air inside the space ship. But it lets massive structures pass through, without loosing the ability to still keep the air inside.

You hang with Aquaman and the Joker? No wonder you’re so cheery and science-y, you come from the DCU!

With powerful lasers, even reflections off dust particles in the air can be dangerous. That's the best reason for always wearing appropriate goggles when playing around with them

4:35 if you count the Force Unleashed game then we do see it. Kota was blinded by his own lightsaber when Starkiller pushed it too close to his eyes.

"A laser that could blind you instantly..we never see that..." You're right, we wouldn't. 😀

Mhm that is an interesting thought experiment, you once showed a video clip of someone moving his/her hand through molten metal. If i remerber correctly you pointed out that it didn't harm him/her because there was not enough time for the heat of the molten metal to transfer. But in one of the older videos you said that just turning a lightsaber on would set you on fire, practicaly instantaneous. Wonder how it will go. Also it would be cool if you could make a video for the following topic. ''Would you want to have Lasersight like Cyclops?'' Love the show, keep it up Kyle.

I loved the alternative medicine line, 100% true

Squeeee...I love tricks for 'membering things! You're the best, thanks Keith!

Back it up! Get 'em on the show!

"I'm trying to remain as simple as possible" - Kyle 2018 XD Edit: +1 for the Tim Minchin paraphrase at the end =D

11:23 like fast traveling with enemies near by, you clearly have a mod to fast travel to anywhere even undiscovered places.

How would taking Pokédex entries from other generations mean that we'd have to take those generations' Pokémon into account? I can get that some people may ask about how powerful the starters of other regions are in comparison to each other, but none of the entries for the Gen 1 starters; I checked; have anything to do with other Pokémon. They simply either give a little bit more information, scientifically relevant to its power or not, or rehash the same old information.

I really want to see the follow up video of Jason challenging you to rock climbing

First off thanks again Kyle for making another awesome BS vid! Regardless of favoritism or which Pokemon you think is cooler or better or whatever... Kyle is right in this video "Which Starter Pokémon Is the Most Powerful?" For disclosure I honestly don't care which Pokemon is coolest (I think they're all cool which we can all agree on that to some degree. But which one should we actually choose? I do appreciate Pokemon and have played various games and by no means am I a Pokemon Buff. I always based my decision on personal preference, or which Pokemon I thought related to my style most. Which again we all can relate. But the title of this video isn't which Pokemon is more awesome or cool it's talking specifically about their real life effectiveness measured in Joules. So lets dive into it. Also further disclosure I am not a grammar or fluid writer so please don't point out my spelling and or paragraph form errors. I know it's not good lol. Also in any debate we need to remember to stay focused on one main idea. For example, I could say Star Wars is better than Star Trek and vise versa. Well are we comparing their overall stats? Which we would have to break down very carefully and logically. Or are we just focusing on one element of the two different movie franchises? Further example being... I could say Star Trek has better character development than Star Wars. I could say Star Wars has a far superior sound track. But these details aren't going to determine the overall final debate. That being said all fair arguments here and realize this video doesn't make Charizard the best starter Pokemon. It definitely supports his power and Pokemon of choice in a real world situation. On a side note I would have liked to seen this video redone without the Pokedex supporting Charizard's boulder melting. It just straight up leaves Blastoise and Venusaur at a disadvantage. I know Kyle addresses this in this video but again it leaves the other two Pokemon at an unfair advantage. I know Blastoise and Venusaur's Pokedex Intel is not really anything helpful like mentioned. But If we're trying to get as realistic as possible I would want to see all three really analyzed in the real world. That or realize that a creature like Charizard can posses such a strong chemical in his body to create flames strong enough to melt boulders and what current flame that we know of that posses that heating potential? I would like to have seen a real world example of flame that is used today that can actually cause boulders to melt. Cause by simply giving him Pokedex advantage disrupts the balance. But Kyle also addresses this by using later generation Pokedex for both Blastoise and Venusaur. And they do still fall short. So in terms of Pokedex it still leaves Charizard as the winner in potential energy output. But I want to see a straight up real world adaptation of the three Pokemon without any Pokedex support. Because where would Charizard stand in that video if we just referred to his flame as any regular average flame? Like Charizards body mass and realistically how much flame can he contain in his body at once. Just the way Blastoise and Venusaur were analyzed. So in other words take the degrees of the hottest natural flame. As is this real world scenario if Pokemon were real these creatures are natural and not scientifically altered or created. So even though "Scientists have produced superheated gas exceeding temperatures of 2 billion degrees Kelvin, or 3.6 billion degrees Fahrenheit. This is hotter than the interior of our Sun, which is about 15 million degrees Kelvin, and also hotter than any previous temperature ever achieved on Earth, they say." Well as great as that is it is not natural. Which would look more like.... "How hot does that fire get? Generally, high rise fires burn at about 593 Celsius or 1,100 Fahrenheit. This is not hot enough to destroy metals or earthly-made substances but it is hot enough that these fires cause $8.6 billion dollars in property damage according to FEMA." (Citing from Google and skysaver.com/blog/hot-can-fire-get-skysaver-rescue-backpacks/ and www.livescience.com/614-record-set-hottest-temperature-earth-3-6-billion-degrees-lab.html) Only thing I would have done is changed the title of the video to "Which Starter Pokemon Has the Strongest Energy Output?" Unless you are using the word powerful to just define one of the many attacks that each Pokemon possess in their arsenal. In the first 2:21 minutes into the video the main point here is which Pokemon has the most affect on other objects and stuff. Further more overall energy output of the Pokemon's basic attacks is being looked at. Or signature attack if you will. But overall the title of the video and I think misinterpretation of this debate is not whether one Pokemon is better than the other. It is again simply determining which Pokemon has the most powerful attack. But does not make them the better choice. Regardless of the title of the video Kyle's main point and conclusion is correct. Charizard has the strongest energy output with "one of his attacks" So in terms of comparison and debate all that's being compared in this video is only one of the attacks each Pokemon uses. What's not being compared is their other attacks stats etc.. And for those of you who think Charizard is the most powerful starter Pokemon. You're right he is but only based on again the comparison between one of the many attacks the three Pokemon poses. Charizard still isn't the starter Pokemon you should choose. As Kyle explained this is a previous episode (Episode 74) Published on Feb 25, 2016. In Kyle's other video "Which Pokemon Should You REALLY Choose?" Kyle comes to the conclusion that you should pick Squirtle. Now yes he is comparing their first evolution's and mostly their in game potential. And at the end of the video Kyle does briefly bring up their final evolution stages. And his only comment about Charizard is he looks dope in his dopeness. He still defends Squirtles later forms as having higher potential. Which is true he does look dope. And he does have the strongest attack in terms of energy output. But he is not the best starter Pokemon to choose. So to put this debate to rest (Which it never will as Kyle say's in the video. So overall its up to interpretation and ultimately how we are debating the topic. Kyle I have been watching your videos for years and I absolutely love your channel. I always recommend your show to everyone I know. I know How to Cite an Website in APA just too lazy and lol because I've already been working on this for 2 hours XD If y'all really want me to properly cite I will -_- ......... But the websites are there so yay. Plus I'm sure there is a million different websites that can tell you how hot stuff can get. Example of how to properly site. Structure: Last, F. M. (Year, Month Date Published). Article title. Retrieved from URL. Example: Satalkar, B. ( 2010, July 15). Water aerobics. ... Structure: Last, F. M. (Year Month Date Published). Article title [Type of blog post]. ... Example: Schonfeld, E. ( 2010, May 3).

Love Because Science.

Actually in the anime, pikachu has been shown to destroy an Aztec or Mayan style temple with a single thunderbolt.

Love you Kyle

Dear Odinson I recently rewatched the 'can hulk jump into space' episode and you became hulk a few times but and must have used magic to not be blue so people wouldn't call you thor.

AWSOME chewbacca impression :O

I like the fact that someone found that blastoise can go threw steel but it dosent say the thickness so it could be 1/4 inch to about 1 inch. You would probably need more MPa to go threw thicker steel. Also if pickachu could use thunder well move over charizard, thunder is way more powerfull. Also if we are talking about realisticaly, pickachu probably uses something like the tesla coil in amount of power. Because if pickachu would be huged well that person is dead or there would be a serious hole in the ground.

How Charizard´s calcs would be affected if we assumed the theory about his fire comes from igniting metane inside his lungs? (this theory kinda explains how he die if the tail goes off, beacuse is a escape tube and if it´s blocked there is to much inside him)

"Do you know what they call alternative medicine that works? Medicine." You're a real gem Kyle!

I would love it if you did another episode on Fallout, but focus on an energy weapon (in some ways at least) that not many do: The Gauss Rifle. In my opinion that weapon is one that the Fallout games have done wrong, sure enough with the actual ammo being small pellets of what ever magnetic material, but the energy required to give it momentum should be fairly large, and imo should require not only the normal ammo of the weapon, but also energy cells at the very least.