0:20 So Kyle isn't a super villain... He's a _Clone_ of a super villain!

I liked the phrase "Orbital Lawn Dart", if that was the code name it'd never get OLD :P

Real life: “Project Thor” G.i.joe: “Project Zeus” CoD Ghost: “Project Odin”

Thor himself out here explaining how he’s gonna blow up everything. Confession time boys.

You people need to stop assuming kyle is a super villain. He's a regular every day guy, who has totally *NOT* kidnapped my son. He's babysitting him. Can i have my kid back now?

'Slaps rod' "This is a solid metal rod" 'hollow galv pole sound plays'

“What is it dad?” “It’s ODIN”

I remember seeing this in CoD Ghosts, and then realizing that this was an actual concept. Like imagine seeing a telephone pole coming at you.

Would this be better classified as "heavy metal" or "death metal"? I think it probably counts as both.

Footnotes should just start with the back of the chair petting a cat slowly rotating.

Because Science: "Order the Strike." KZfaq: "Copyright Strike?" Because Science: "Wait what n-" KZfaq: "Copyright Strike!" Unsuspecting KZfaqr: *Obliterated*

The perfect anti-Kaiju weapon, after the Jagers of couse.

Ah yes. Kinetic bombardment. My favourite form of lawn dart.

This is getting out of hand. Now there are two of them

"Rods from God" -Virgin Mary

The fact this weapon has a lower yield then a nuke makes its use for more likely and given that launch costs are only getting cheaper together with SPACE FORCE make this quite likely.

I don't see why everyone is freaking out about supervillain Kyle. I think he would make a great overlord for our planet.

Who Will Win ? A Super giant aircraft carrier that costs billions of dollars OR One Speedy telephone pole

G.I. JOE: Rise of the Cobra Project Zeus

I would have called it "heavy metal thunder"

Kyle is basically what Thor would be if he had Loki's personality. Much more successful as a supervillain though

(Explosion) US: "Not it!" Russia: "Not it!" Kyle Hill: "Not ......DAMNIT!!"

In GI Joe, the rods were platinum coated. I know this metal to super heat when heated (which is how a catalytic converter works). Would this, heated by friction from drag, add significant force, as in the heat makes the ground around it explode or something?

He said “it’s cost inhabitative” I say “what is space force?” Why can’t they stick a rocket on the end of that tungsten candle,

kyle is such a super villian he has obviously cloned himself from himself to give himself orders so he can be MOAR EVIL!

So that's who Kyle has been calling He's been calling himself this whole time.

Read " The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress " by Robert E Heinlien.

I would love a Office-like show about henchmen and the scientists of Super Villains, because you just have that energy

He's been calling himself the whole time? Came for the science, stayed for the lore.

"Science Fiction" The term for anything classified beyond top secret.

Your videos are amazing and I appricate all the work you put into making these

"Deadly Metal From Outer Space" would make a great album title.

Guys hear me out. I have an hypothesis that Kyle suffers from multiple personality disorder combined with schizophrenia. Here are the symptoms: - Hallucinations. The void might not be real and is a constant hallucination were he see impossible things. We even have seen several Kyles in the void. - Small seizures. Everytime Kyle gets hurt in the void he recovers in the next scene this could be those small attacks that his brain interpret as physical attacks - Trauma. We have seen Kyle expressing extreme remorse and sadness when talking about losing a girlfriend (captain america episode) or losing a love one (in spiderman episodes). He even starts crying. - Change of mannerisms. As he has said, he is very different when he acts IRL that when he is in the void, he not only become left and right handed between footnotes and episodes he even becomes a way better artist in the void than he is IRL because he was unable to draw as good and he confirm us once that he "draws" all the drawing himself and without help. - Memory lose. Kyle has never been able to tell us how he gets out or in of the void, it might be the jump between personalities - Time lapses. We just saw him talking to himself in a different timeframe meaning that personalities may be independent, also in the episodes of timetravel he is able to talk to himself from the future and past but he is sure timetravel isn't possible. - Compulsive. Maybe the telephone is the way he is able to connect both personalities to become functional (is this a jojo reference?) - Dominant personality. We see super villain Kyle ordering around science Kyle to make world ending projects and defeat superheroes. We may have in our hands a Kyle with 2 personalities were one was created as a cooping mechanic for a past trauma were another more demanding personality orders around to get work done. There may be more symptoms but there has been already 12 minutes and I have to get out of my building.

Everyone: "Hey Kyle, are you a supervillain?" Kyle: "Whaaaaat no hold on I gotta make a phone call..." Kyle: " *E X E C U T E O R D E R 6 6* " Kyle: "Sorry, I was just... ordering a pizza."

Loving the highlights

Thanks for posting this. I knew about this when I worked for General dynamics. Whenever I mentioned project Thor people looked at me like I was crazy. Next project you need to check out is the space laser that can melt rock into lava. A Marine brother of mine mentioned an incident in Afghanistan. The choppers couldn't land in the valley we were in do to high wind. His unit was told to fall back to another valley. He said around midnight there was a flash of light, like a welding flash, and a large explosion. It only lasted few minutes. When they went back to the valley a few days there was an airfield made from what he described as obsidian. Planes where already off loading equipment and supplies. I was to trust that he wasn't FOS, but I haven't found anything online about that airstrip. I've even scanned Google earth for God knows how many weeks looking for anything. Thanks again for posting this, now at least I have a reference to use to prove I'm not Coo Coo kachoo.

This Project Thor idea can be referred to as “Kinetic bombardment”

Wait, so Evil Kyle is always talking to Void Kyle? That canon is getting really complicaded.

So project-thor is a flechette on steroids

"All the bullets are like tiny little Thors" Because Science, 2019

Void Kyle is the R&D department, Desk Kyle is the super villain

Guys it’s not Kyle’s fault, The void has slowly been corrupting him all this time. The real him Has to still be in their deep inside. Everyone chant “ Kyle I love your hair” it will snap him out of it but you have to really believe

Outstanding format.👍

Clarence "Kelly" Johnson of Lockheed had a similar idea. He envisioned using a modified YF 12 to deliver kinetic energy weapons.

6:50 Kyle “ how do I even get reception out here” Me: Um you’re holding a land line?

I finally figured out who Kyle reminds me of. President Zephod Beeblebrox from Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Love the stuff man!

In call of duty: ghosts there was some of this orbital weapons but these where "droped" into earth from orbital stations.

The tapping on that bomb to the Mount Of Olives comes to mind. Terrill TC!

Anyone else noticed dark Kyle and light Kyle? Super villain was wearing a black shirt where science boy was wearing a white shirt

So one could say that the results of an orbital strike would be.....Shocking...? Im sorry that pun was uncalled Thor...

Thanks for sharing. This gives me a lot to think about actually

This bad boy is solid metal takes me to when I worked as a sports environmentalist for the U.S Navy there on Mare Island in Vallejo Ca during the engineering of my 5th semester of college. Terrill TC!

Does this confirm that void kyle is just an AI created by evil Kyle, and Nate is just code for Neuro Activated Telecom Entity?

The third important quality of tungsten: Compared to iridium, uranium, or platinum, it's really cheap.

Fucking love how animated this bro is, keep the awesome videos coming brother!

10:08 Elon's got you covered there

I love how Kyle has taken to the "alleged" supervillain thing and ran with it. Lots of fun. Keep up the great work Kyle.

"Oh you're still here." I'm always watching.

Another reason we haven't implemented this, or any other space based weapon system is international law. We basically treat space as a neutral zone, and even anti satellite weapons are banned under treaty.

He said “knowing is half the battle” I say “ Yo Joe”

I'm a huge nerd when it comes to the cold war, and one of the most important things about Project THOR is not only its cost, but its political ramifications! In 1967 *The Outer Space Treaty* was signed, and it laid out the basic legal framework for international space law. Among its principles it bars states party to the treaty from placing weapons of mass destruction in Earth orbit. This is incredibly important from a political point of view. Placing a weapon in space is literally aiming a gun at every single man, woman, and child on earth... and the weapon holder is effectively threatening the whole world at once. If you go to war with someone, they might want to remove your Orbital Weapons to protect themselves, and when they blow up your THORs, all of that space debris will scattershot across space, *creating a deadly cloud of shattered tungsten,* taking out friendly and peaceful satellites in it's path. This is why placing any weapons in space is *an EXTREMELY BAD IDEA!!!* Not to mention the threat of someone committing a Cyber Attack on your own THORs an then hacking them to attack you instead... or worse... one of your own Allies, sparking a war between you and your best friend!

I love how Kyle started against the super villain thing and was like WFT, now he has just accepted thats what the internet has chosen to be his fate

Bullet analogy was spot on. I grew up shooting black powder(round ball) and rifles.

I remember these in Tom Clancy's Endwar

Hey Kyle. Love the show. Two additional drawbacks to project Thor: 1. Once you build it, and get it up in orbit you have to maintain that orbit forever. If the orbit ever degrades, you drop all the rods on wherever it would fall. That would be a lot of energy. 2. I don't think a "Rod from God" would impart nearly as much energy as it has. Though it contains roughly as much kinetic energy as the MOAB you showed on screen, I think most of that energy would be spent burying the rod deep underground (not in an explosion.) Given that the mass and velocity of the rod is so high, I think it would just punch clean through the target, akin to a bullet through paper. So, while the energy is high, it could be possible to be not very far from the impact site and be relatively unharmed. Additionally, you mentioned Project Thor would be "prohibitively expensive." I did some research to flesh that out a little more. 2018 Price of Tungsten $30,300.00 /metric ton $30.30 /kg Volume of Rod 0.4 m^3 Weight/Cubic meter 19250 kg Weight of single rod 7700 kg Cost of single Rod $233,310.00 Number of Rods / Station 70 Cost of Rods in station $16,331,700.00 Weight of rods in station 539,000.00 kg Cost per kg - Falcon Heavy $1,700.00 /kg Cost of lifting rods into space $916,300,000.00 Total cost of rods - Less manufacturing $932,631,700.00 Cost of station - Half of ISS $75,000,000,000.00 Total cost $75,932,631,700.00 Cost of a battleship $100,000,000.00 Cost of Project Thor: 760 battleships (Accountants can be super nerds, too.)

This makes sense that the person he's talking to would be him self. Its The only person you can trust

Because Science: "It's impractical" Cobra Commander: "Hold my beer"

Thank you for this fine education.

Can we just take a minute to thank for these dark mode videos, they save tonnes of battery

I was really hoping Sci-Kyle would say, "k, love you" and Vil-Kyle would answer back with something like, "love you too. Yes, I'll pick up bread on the way home".

Thank you so much for labeling your measures also as SI (International System of Units) for compatibility with 98.46% of the world.

Jerry Pournelle teamed with sci-fi author Larry Niven to write several successful books. One of these books, FOOTFALL, actually features an alien race using kinetic energy weapons against the forces of Earth in an invasion attempt. Footfall also features the Earth Forces using another theoretical device known as Project Orion, which theorizes using nukes to launch ships into space, and then using them as a type of propulsion once in outer space. It's a cool book!

We had *MUSK* et balls, and now we have *ELON* gated bullets.

Hey Kyle , mother of all bombs is just the nickname for MOAB the acronym actually stands for massive ordnance air burst. They detonate above the ground more like an atomic bomb than the rods from god. Where a rod uses kinetic energy from impact, I believe the MOAB and nuclear bombs use the stacking up of blast waves to increase their power. This is something scientists studied after the Halifax explosion during WW1. Thanks Kyle love the show been a long time fan. Remember a villain can be a hero from a certain point of view. Have fun buddy from a friendly Canadian eh.

You guys should do one on how much pressure would it actually take to use a force choke like with pressurized air or something idk I’m just interested in it if it could somehow be done.

9:14 Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies

"Oh, you're still here?" Because Science is like MCU movies; you should ALWAYS stay until the very end. It may just be everyone eating shawarma, or Kyle crawling under his desk, but it's worth the wait.

A telephone pole sized rod is a blockbuster. A crowbar sized one is a bunker buster. Variety is the spice of life

I genuinely thought it would have been a great idea to use these against Godzilla in the movies. Nuclear warheads was proved useless against them due to them just absorbing the energy from it, but they are not immune against physical damage. And because of how large and easy to track they should’ve been really simple to hit. And time was not the problem, the US army had known about Godzilla since the 80s and warheads had already been tested on it and proved futile.

4:51 carbon sublimes at a temperature higher than tungsten's melting point in atmospheric pressure. Technically tungsten has the highest melting point of any element in 1bar, but carbon remains solid at higher temperatures.

Wait, so the "agency" he calls is also Kyle. Is it a clone? Is it a timey wimey thing where that's the same Kyle but at a different time? Is it a multiverse thing like all the Ricks in the Citadel of Ricks? Is it a quantum thing where as all possibilities of Kyle all exist in the void at the same time? Is it that all of Kyle's alien species just look a lot like him and our optical receptors aren't advanced enough to tell his species apart?

Prohibitively expensive you say? Time to start mining some space rocks.

How small could the rods be and still provide sufficient mass and velocity to do some serious damage?

When I read about this concept in one of Pournelle's book (There Will Be War series), it was called "Thor's Hammer".

"Oh we don't launch it or fire it." "WE DROP IT!"

I tought it was project Odin. Edit:I was thinking on Call of Duty Ghosts.

Jerry was always noting that the original idea came from Heinlein ("The Moon is a Harsh Mistress"). He refined the concept into a deployable weapon.

Salesman: slaps iron pole "this badboy can fit so much destruction inside of it"

I love the idea that there are at LEAST two Kyle's and the one from footnotes has been commanding the Kyle of the Void to Orbital Strike people

"Rated M for Mature" I think we can see just how mature Evil!Kyle is, oh yes…

in a webnovel (lvl 1 skeleton warrior or something like that), a fellow wanted some godly robot dead, but couldn't even scratch it. This fellow had an indestructible sword, but still not enough, so he flew up, put the sword in a levitation field, then kept buffing it to increase its mass. Released the levitation field and flew downwards along the sword to the target, adjusting its trajectory. Upon impact, the robot was instakilled

Speaking of Thor, he always reminds me to to Marvels Thor Because the beard and blond hair mostly

Big metal rods that pierce through everything? *cheers in yondu*

This needs to become canon. That only evil Kyle shows up for Footnotes and Live but the regular show is good Kyle

When I looked at the title, aside from the obvious euphemism, my brain immediately went from that to that same concept Matpat talked about with regards to Call of Duty. Nice to know there's something going on in the ol' gray matter even when I'm not focusing.

Cost to orbit per kg: Space Shuttle $50K, Falcon 9 $2.5K, Starship $10M/100 t = $1K. With 0.4 m^3 of tungsten weighing almost 8K Kg, cost per missile would be $8M. Compare to $2M per cruise missile, but far faster delivery.

00:20 & 6:21 Sooo that’s who Kyle has been calling all of this time!!😱😰 I had faith in him but he is cloning himself a sure sign of a super villain 🦹‍♂️

You guys should do Project Pluto next! Or Ion thrusters cause they're super cool too.

If I was named Pornell I would also become a supervillain

The U.S Air Force report qualified me Air Force Chaplin in 2003 prophetically and then there during my 2015-2018 by way of print out! Terrill TC!