Throwing her staff from the moon to the earth.. that has to be some Olympic javelin record.

When you realize that your staff is more dangerous than your monsters. *confused unga bunga*

Kyle, it’s awesome to see you come back as much as you can. I know what it’s like to suffer from depression and speaking for myself and the whole Nerdist community, it’s great to see you back every now and then. We’re all behind you and keep up the good fight, you’ll get through this!

Sense Rita Repulsa threw her staff using only her upper-body strength, I'd say that she is more dangerous than any monster that she could create.

To those saying the staff takes longer to travel and the time is just cut out, that might be true for a few seconds but keep in mind she throws it when the battle is going on and never more then a minute at most seems to have gone between when the power rangers are winning vs the monster grows.

Not gona mention how strong Rita has to be??? Do the math on that throwing arm bro.

I didn;t think about it the first time I saw this... But if that staff can turn a 6footmonster to a 60foot monster... What if she just made the staff bigger when she threw it. A 20 foot tall 2 foot wide staff impacting the ground would wipe out all life on earth.

Missing Kyle much because science/nerdiest?

I appreciate that you are using your skills of science to answer the truly important questions in life. Thanks.

what if we redo the calculations from the fact that the staff only penetrated about 3" of loose pebbles? =P

Artist....go fourth and draw a Lord Zed with blood steam coming off him!

Wow, cashing in again on kyle as soon as he uploads?

Last time I was this early, I had a schedule...

I was always “Sabretooth Tiger!” Yes I just did the move too. Haha oddly enough she had the same bday as me 😬

5:50 Well, this is just serendipitous (and remember that the Animaniacs did a parody of Power Rangers, wherein we hear the tail end of a song about serendipity)! This morning in the shower, I thought of this exchange: *Said in an angrily disbelieving tone*:"Goldar, my ear!" *Door opens to reveal Ms. Meir*: "Shalom, everyone!" Yes, it's a long way to go for a bad joke, but, as Toast from Histeria was fond of saying, "Ask me if I care." p.s. For all those playing at home, Nostalgia Bingo!

The next question what is the staff made of. To travel through the Earth's atmosphere at that speed it should have heated up to a glowing red. What metals or composite material deflect heat?

I just love these videos: they give us answers we didn't know we needed but now we have them and everything is better for it. ^^

This is ridiculous, always posting when Kyle does

Forget how powerful the staff is, She can throw the staff from the moon to earth and able to hit the target. (I assume gravity, weather and surely others would alter the direction) If only she played sports.

glad you're still making videos bro

omg, my favorite rerun other than the MCU related ones

WOW! I never knew that her staff was so dangerous! I'm glad she never realized that either!

Dude I just discovered your channel and I love it I’ve watched so many videos you’re the best keep up the interesting content

I mean, I just always assumed it was teleporting with her magic, as she does with her minions all the time. Either that or she throws monsters at approaching light-speed. One of these seem more likely for a witch. Also, Lord Zed just got so much more Metal.

Dude, ive been legitimately asking this question on this page for 2yrs, now to find out I was a year late. No wonder Nate never picked it lol

How does she get her staff back each time? Attraction powers? Those would be pretty dangerous a well...

Nice video, Kyle! Now, calculate how powerful Ohma Zi-O is. I'm curious

I always thought Rita's staff was just a small drone like space ship. She's not hurling the thing when she throws it, she just likes launching it that way. The apparent speed of travel was just film cuts, like how you never see the entire shuttle craft trip on Star Trek. I also figured it was self propelled since it has to get back to her right? If not how many of those things does she have?

As soon as it touches the ground it transfers the energy from its impact to summon whatever she wants. She found a means to convert energy with 100% efficiency.

Yesssss!!! ....im the one that fb mssgd u like 3 years ago asking u to do a video on lord zed!!!! Thank u!!!!

Imagine if she just yeeted her trash at earth. Like you're walking down the street and a Gatorade bottle hits the ground in front of you at mach 3.

4:35 - yeah, it gets to the earth pretty fast... 4:38 - but within the atmosphere it is traveling much, much slower. Like, roughly it's length per second... so about 2.5m/s ? So, it may travel between the moon and earth insanely fast, but once in the atmosphere it isn't. One could even argue that the 'space' views is from her patio on the moon (angled up so you can't see the surface). Leaving it travels the slow speed and arriving it is slow... so either it has a momentary warp that operates after traveling a certain distance after being thrown and allows it to reach earth insanely fast... or it travels at the slow speed to earth and at some point it time travels back in time to line up so it lands at a reasonable time (meaning there are a lot of staves flying towards earth at any given time). And then, how does she get her staff back after? She also can travel between the moon and earth insanely fast as well. So, perhaps her staff is more powerful than her monsters, just for the fact that she could actually teleport anywhere she wanted.

With the monsters being grown, that means she's adding mass to them. For every 2000kg, that's 4,494 times as much energy as the kinetic energy mentioned at 5:38. We don't know the exact mass of the monsters, but they would basically float away like a balloon if it were less than that. The monsters may be an insanely inefficient use of that energy, but her staff is putting off more energy than her 42%c throw.

most informative video

How powerful Rita will be to throw that staff at that speed

I was just thinking of this the other day. Just how fast she threw that staff.

Once you've held tungsten and understood true density all other density becomes irrelevant.

If the staff did impact the ground that hard and leaving the crater that it would, that would help explain all the steam rising from the ground. Gotta switch over to the Japanese Counterpart, kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger, for a moment. Before Rita (aka, Bandora in the Japanese), she chants "O spirits that dwell in the depths of the Earth, bestow your evil power upon " Then throws the staff down, creating the 170 meter deep crater to allow the trapped evil spirits to escape and enlarges the monster. So thanks to science, we know how far not to dig lest we unleash the evil spirits lying dormant in the earth. And the pig monster never grew in the show (one of the few that doesn't). The Rangers defeated it by using their power weapons together in the power blaster mode.

Cool video! I wonder if when Rita's staff hits the ground, would it stick in the ground like on the show? Or would it bury itself deep in the ground because it has a tip on it? Kinda like a bullet?

But if its a perfect tip at the end couldn't it potentially pierce through the earth's crust and bury itself along with making a crater? But i guess it could be the sudden release of energy into the ground that creates the monsters(?)

In the 2017 reboot Rita Repulsa is even more versatile with her staff.

still happy I got noticed by senpai before he left... we miss you Kyle

Moving around and being trailed by a constant mist or fog of blood at all times...? That's the most metal thing I've heard in a long time, and would definitely be awesome for a villain. Maybe a bit extreme for a kid's show, though... though I could see it in an anime...

Damn. This chanell is annihilating my brain cells every day :D How does Ritta girl brings back her staff from earth to moon? xD

The staff is magic based. The staff is moving slow and then appears on each going that same slow speed. It could be possible that it just teleports above the ground and then applies the magic to the master

Thats insane to think Rita created that destructive idea xD

Objection! Any time something in a show or movie is shown moving vast distances in a short amount of time, but the object on screen isn't moving very fast, it is implied there was a time skip between shots. It's not an issue with realism, it's that no one wants to watch something float through the void for several minutes. Rita's staff is clear depicted moving very slowly when it hits the ground, there had to be an intentional time skip.

Hmm...Now I'm curious...Can you guys calculate how powerful a Kamen Rider can be?

Given that some level of magic and loads of alian tech that is in this franchise, maybe the staff absorbs the kinetic build up and then uses that energy to cause the monsters to become giant rather than the staff being able to cause it on its own. We do see the red electricity from the staff's gem create a hole that the giant monster jumps out of.

pretty sure they just have the same upload schedule but who really knows

However Kyle you should fully understand that when there are cuts between takes it is entirely possible for time skips to be done.

All Rita needs to do is just throw a few of her staffs at the earth to get the point across that she ain’t messing about

She could do both things, the staff destroys a lot of things and then it creates the monsters.

Can you do a video on the science of the rangers morphin grid or morphing in general?

Rita Repulsa can throw her staff at 0.473 the speed of light! She's more dangerous than her staff.

This is why i sub

Only problem with this is it's not the staff itself causing damage it's the energy coming off the staff after it touches ground

I love Rita. Only she can make my monster grow.

Question, would making the pole out of osmium change the dmg? If so, how destructive would that be compared to the tungsten one?

Right, Rita’s staff reaches Earth at a fraction of light speed. If she can make that happen, she might as well go down there and punch the megazord herself.

The guys at DeathBattle need you to do the calculations, Kyle.

When you accidentally watch the outro with your phone sideways

She HAS to drop it all the way from the Moon to Earth for the staff to collect enough Potential ENERGY to use it to grow the monster size. -> The type of "magic" she uses does NOT violate Thermodynamics [this is also why Lord Zed always had energy problems with his "Super_Mega_zord" Serpentera]. The Staff collects matter from the air & ground around to re-arrange it as "extensions" of the monster´s body [ efectively building a biological exo-suit around it with "lighting"... just like in "Atack on Titan" ].

@because science I would be curious to see the calculations of what material she would have to have the staff made out of just to make it to earth then redo this equation based on the new mass.

Rita Repulsa has a mean pitch....but the ground where she threw it at must be super-dense because it just penetrated a few inches. Talk about an unstoppable force meeting an immovable object O_O

Maybe lord zed and rita use something like aerogel in a dome to help keep atmosphere on their house. I am not sure if there is a lattice work of other materials to keep it stable for how high the building is. probably use magic to fix it after she hucks the staff through it.

You forget that the only thing that completely destroyed a megazord was the planet buster, according to the 1st red ranger in forever red, zord Serpentera! The fact that the Terrorzord from Turbo might be stronger is scary!

Sorry can I just have a sound bite of Kyle saying "aye aye aye" in that deep af voice please

GO GO SCIENCE RANGERS!!

So, cause Power Rangers, there is apparently atmosphere on the moon. In Lost Galaxy, we see that humans are able to survive on the moon without space gear like helmets or suits. And this is canon to the OG rangers as Lost Galaxy is said to be connected to the OG timeline, despite it being a departure from the orginal series.

One thing about that staff! Wouldn't using it on the Rangers be the best bet? Humans don't scale up very well, so I assume if she just tossed it their way and made them grow. . . It'd be messy to say the least.

If the staff was travelling at these speeds, than it probably won't be like an impact weapon, but it would rather explode to a ball of plasma when it contacted the earth's atmosphere. (Similar to the relativistic baseball in a book "What If")

Rita never created the monsters, Her minion created them.and brought them to life.if memory serves me right.

Kyle, you are also failing to take into account of how dangerous the magic lightning coming from the staff in and of itself, being able to cause massive fissures in the earth's surface just from the staff's point being driven roughly 3" deep into the Earth's surface. Then again, the ranger's zords being summoned cause some rather impressive destruction, themselves. Red Tyrannosaurus? Miles deep fissure. Mastodon? Glacier breaks apart, probably causing massive havoc for sailing ships ocean wide. Pterodon? Volcanic eruption. I don't remember what kinds of chaos the Triceratops and Saber-toothed Tiger create, but it's probably not pleasant. Green Dragon Zord? Godzilla attack at Angel Grove Harbor. Titanus the Brachiosaur or whatever it was? Massive destruction, Cities leveled due to Missiles and Energy beams of various descriptions.

Don't know if you saw the 2nd GI Joe movie Rise of Cobra but they had a space weapon like this. A satellite equipped with a tungsten rod. They would just drop the thing and let gravity do the rest. At least in the movie when it hit the ground it caused a massive earth quake.

Heres a thought for everyone, Kyle included. Would a Jedi, using the force on a person constantly vis a vis mind tricks, eventually cause brain damage? Surely the constant physical changes in the brain from the manipulation by midichlorians would eventually damage it? If this is the case i reckon at least some of the sith used it as a means of data extraction or torture?

Please do a episode on the last episode of Dino Super Charge. Explaining how it's impossible for both dinosaurs and humans to coexist due to the temperature being too hot for us or too cold for them and the dangers of the carnivores

can you make a video about the pentagon ufo sighting?

Please do an episode on Stark nanotechnology

In space there is air in PR universe. This is well established in many seasons and more so PRIS and PRLG!

One thing you're not accounting for is that the staff is more dangerous than the monsters only if the Power Rangers themselves exist. Dropping the staff is a one-time strike, theoretically comparable to, as you lay out in the video, Project Thor, 'rods from god', whatever term you want to give it. But, if Rita summons and gigantifies a monster and there's no feasible way to stop it, that thing rampages for days, weeks, or even months, cutting a swath of destruction that is ultimately far larger than the impact radius of a single hit from a Project Thor-like attack. Best case scenario, humanity dumps thousands of tons of conventional explosives on the monster, and that eventually kills the thing. Mid-line scenario, it requires a nuclear response, which reduces the location of the monster's death into an irradiated wasteland for decades. WORST case scenario, we drop nukes on the monster and it has no effect or even makes the thing stronger, which means we've created radioactive areas, killed more civilians, and STILL have a giant monster stomping around and killing people.

Oh my god, I totally forgot she use to throw the stave..

I think you gone the opposite direction with your logic, the staff hits the earth in 1-2 seconds max from a distance of 300000km, so it was at least flying with minimum 150000km/s speed. so 50-100% of lightspeed, at that speed we can rule out drag, and the staff would most likely pierce the earth, or if it did stop the staff, all that maybe 5kb staff material would be converted into energy, destroying anything in a huge range.

ok so based on your explanation and breakdown of the staff's size and entry etc etc would it me more plausible to say her throwing arm is more dangerous since she has to physically throw the staff through space where momentum is not constant? last i knew everything has to slow down in space. The same result could happen with anything she throws.

did you guys not get the memo kyle's not gonna respond to your questions because he left Because Science/Nerdist all together a few months ago and now has his own channel now called Kyle Hill, links right here kzfaq.info

How much faster would an object fall to earth if the earth didn't have an atmosphere to slow the object down.

So the only thing Rita Repulsa had to do was to throw those staff consecutively.

Is it just me or does BS(because science and the other meaning too) keeps uploading right after Kyle does?

But since this film was shot at such an early time back when video editing was not as great as now. And since you use the time it takes for the staff to hit earth,would it change the way of calculation if it was shot and edit in the current era 🤔

So what I learned is that Rita can really throw

Can u make a vid about how really smart devoe is. Please

hi, can you explain me one thing. How is it that its harder to stop loaded car when you've got more friction because of the increased mass.

You didn't think about the tubes that Lord Zedd has. Those probably help prevent effects you mentioned. 😏

She throws the staff before they morph.. That makes a difference.

The better question is how did she get her staff back

Wouldn't it slow down to terminal velocity once it hits the atmosphere though?

I assumed that there was some traveling between shots...

Her arm would tear off from the throw. Or if not she would be a pretty darn dangerous baseball pitcher. Exploding other team anyone?

How she always gets it back is what I want to know

I was watching Back to the Future 3 the other day and was wondering how you could actually build a refrigerator in 1885 with 1885 components, or a microchip in 1955 with 1955 components... Good idea for an episode? Because if it is I'll keep petitioning for it 😅