What Unobtainium really is

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In the 2009 film, Avatar, the events of the film are set in motion by the desire to acquire a rare mineral of unfathomable value known simply as “unobtainium”. The unimaginative, seemingly lazy naming of this mysterious substance drew the ire and scorn of several critics, many of whom seemed blissfully unaware that aeronautical engineers and scientists have been talking about unobtainium since the 1950s. So what is unobtainium and who named it?
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@TodayIFoundOut 6 жыл бұрын

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@twinkiesmaster69 5 жыл бұрын

Yes

@jniuhu09lol90 4 жыл бұрын

Lol

@reigngreyson4046 3 жыл бұрын

Aw you look like a baby who is incredibly articulate and very well informed!

@randenrichards5461 2 жыл бұрын

It’s a patent rubber made by the founder of Oakley, while looking for a rubber with a better grip for motorcycles and bicycles. Then it was added to the stems of sunglasses when they started producing those. For the Oakley fans out there😉

@wolfg.1867 7 жыл бұрын

Unobtainium slightly better than hardtogetium.

@Igor-ug1uo 7 жыл бұрын

And even better than impossibletofindium

@harpodjangorose9696 7 жыл бұрын

Igor Not as practical as somewherearoundhereiom

@xcryi 7 жыл бұрын

+Harpo Django Rose That's what my keys are made of!

@harpodjangorose9696 7 жыл бұрын

steve mellon Mine are made of onthefreakingtablewhereyouleftemium.

@TakenTooSeriously 7 жыл бұрын

There seems to be a lot of punium around here.

@GeahkBurchill 7 жыл бұрын

James Cameron has said that "Unobtainium is a room temperature super conductor" which would allow for all kinds of levitation devices. The great irony of the film is that the floating rocks are all Unobtainium and the Human forces never needed to attack the home tree at all. They could have gotten all they needed from a floating mountain.

@hardgay7537 7 жыл бұрын

Not to mention how we see the size of the planet during an establishing shot and the humans only ever fought one tribe. War would've never been a viable option, but the movie needed battle scenes. I always face-palm a bit when I see General Scarface sipping coffee out of white porcelain as opposed to a thermos or travel mug mid battle. It's obvious what Cameron was going for, but it's logistically retarded. TL:DR stupid movie is stupid

@GeahkBurchill 7 жыл бұрын

princessbinas I didn't forget that at all. I think the fact that there is irony in how they chose to obtain 'Unobtainium' is baked into the social/historical commentary.

@expiredlamb2000 7 жыл бұрын

C Lopez maybe avatar 2 will be called " the falling mountains" then. i think that sounds like a cool sequel, even though it will not happend

@shingshongshamalama 7 жыл бұрын

But that would be hurting the earth and all the blue space elves would be sad because you hurt the earth can't you hear the earth crying.

@samwallaceart288 7 жыл бұрын

You're underestimating the average material consumption of America.

@cleitonfelipe2092 7 жыл бұрын

The lack of mention of The Core (2003) made me cry. Virgil was made of unobitanium

@brokenwave6125 6 жыл бұрын

Audrey McMace Wow...a typo...so hilarious. Grow up.

@thomashughes5273 5 жыл бұрын

That movie is why I watched this video

@izzojoseph2 4 жыл бұрын

Ignore the haters. I was gonna post this!

@datura_boof 3 жыл бұрын

Yes

@TheNaz01 7 жыл бұрын

unobtanium is a contextual term. For anyone curious, unobtanium in Avatar refers to a material that is superconductive at room temperature. Such a material would be able to levitate given a constant magnetic field, and this is what you see in the film. We already have superconductors but they must be cooled to a few degrees kelvin.

@azzym8794 7 жыл бұрын

higher temperature super conductors do exist. Not room temp, but not much lower, liquid Nitrogen level I think.

@TheNaz01 7 жыл бұрын

ahh yes, i recently heard about about that as well. its a special alloy i believe

@azzym8794 7 жыл бұрын

TheNaz A mercury barium calcium copper oxide alloy. I worked in the lab. ( U of h )

@azzym8794 7 жыл бұрын

Patrick Geller Yes. Sorry. I admit liquid N2 is also very cold. but also note that it is easily available commercially. unlike liquid helium. So from a lab perspective helium is a whole different ball game altogether. Liq nitrogen is a quite mundane thing.

@Lightningchase1973 7 жыл бұрын

I'd say the name fits very well. 1st. Something likely possible, but really hard to get (yet uninvented). 2nd.: In the movie they found it, but were not able to build it themselves. So a wonderful material, needed everywhere in technology, but supplies being very scarce, lightyears of travel needed... Like titanium in the cold war era... Unobtanium fits well... Older materials would teach a lesson in this case: Technology advances... Soon its Obtanium, and all expenses für stupid planet destroying mines are futile. But even in real world economists proved learning resistant multiple times in similar cases, so the story baseline is not far of the stakes...

@Relfyontour 8 жыл бұрын

Unobtainium is actually trademarked by Oakley - the sunglasses company, they invented it way back in 1975. It is the name for the substance they use on the nose pieces and ear socks of sports glasses. It actually becomes more "sticky" when exposed to moisture ( sweat ) - therefore your glasses are less likely to slip off your face while engaged in sweaty activities.

@dinoschachten 2 жыл бұрын

Okay that's pretty neat.

@azzym8794 7 жыл бұрын

*hair is unobtainium, for this guy*

@TodayIFoundOut 7 жыл бұрын

And for you based on your profile pic. ;-)

@azzym8794 7 жыл бұрын

Today I Found Out Sadly. Yes!

@edlingja1 7 жыл бұрын

Ha! Right back at you dizzy :P

@georgecaplin9075 7 жыл бұрын

Cold!

@KanyeTroll 7 жыл бұрын

Azzy M . His high-powered brain needs to cool off...

@HeatherSpoonheim 7 жыл бұрын

Ima gonna start a company that sources unobtainium - it's going to be tremendous. Serious investment inquiries only, please.

@briangarrow448 7 жыл бұрын

Heather Spoonheim Do you accept Bitcoin?

@HeatherSpoonheim 7 жыл бұрын

Bitcoin yes, Lindens no

@HeatherSpoonheim 7 жыл бұрын

***** This is why my business model demands payment up front.

@cernanwinterfox85 7 жыл бұрын

So... a materials engineering firm?

@HeatherSpoonheim 7 жыл бұрын

***** For now, let's think of it as being a 'financial sector' company.

@paulaclarke3421 7 жыл бұрын

These damned interesting videos plus the high quality of comments has finally worn me down....I've subscribed, ok?

@TodayIFoundOut 7 жыл бұрын

Awesome! :-)

@muffinlecat5062 7 жыл бұрын

Paula Clarke totally agree

@lazaruslong697 7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, to hell with it, i am subscribing too. I have watched most of this channel during last three days anyway. :D

@GenuineBronxite 4 жыл бұрын

ONE OF US ONE OF US

@373323 7 жыл бұрын

Also check the movie Core ... where the entire earth-ship is built from Unobtanium ... i think it predates Avatar

@SuperHornetPilot 7 жыл бұрын

It does predate Avatar by six years.

@daniellekenehan852 7 жыл бұрын

And it makes me just as irate

@outputcoupler7819 7 жыл бұрын

The use of "unobtainium" is much older than both, as it says in the video.

@Sir_Uncle_Ned 7 жыл бұрын

In that case, Unobtanium was able to whitstand insanely high pressures (Up to 3,600,000 times normal sea level atmospheric pressure) and convert the large amount of heat within the core into electricity (Although they still used a nuclear reactor because otherwise they wouldn't be able to deus ex machina the ending) - I would say that has slightly less chance of existing than a room temperature superconductor.

@TheMimiSard 7 жыл бұрын

Avatar was not the only movie to use "unobtainium" in it, the other being "The Core", a movie of very questionable science, but fun to watch if you can ignore that. "The Core" described the metal in question as having an extremely long scientific name so it's inventor called it unobtainium for short.

@cristianverdugogalaz8725 6 жыл бұрын

might of as well called it unnamable tbh

@LunarPogo 3 жыл бұрын

Baby faced Simon. This is priceless

@nathanwardlow1342 3 жыл бұрын

Nearly cringe worthy

@englesledgehammer 7 жыл бұрын

The mineral actually used in the movie looks like Galena (a lead ore). Based on the value of unobtainium and the fact that there are mountains on pandora that like to float around in magnetic vortices suggests that it has some significant electromagnetic characteristics. Most likely unobtanium, in the avatar universe, is a high-temperature superconductor.

@azyfloof 7 жыл бұрын

I was gonna make a chemistry pun, but all the good ones Argon

@maistromann136 6 жыл бұрын

Azayles NaBro, I still got some good ones

@joblogs7487 6 жыл бұрын

comedy gold

@Oliver-ie9jz 6 жыл бұрын

Boo

@sivalley 6 жыл бұрын

Julianus Vatinius Should we barium?

@joseguerra1593 6 жыл бұрын

*quiet clap

@milksheihk 8 жыл бұрын

Unobtanium was also slang used early on in the aerospace industry to refer to titanium, because it was very dificult & expensive to make anything from it because it needs to an oxygen free environment to extract it from its ore (Ilmenite), cast it or hot forge it, but titanium alloys are light, strong, heat, chemical & harsh environment resistant. Inconel series alloys (nickel, copper, iron in varying amount) were also sometimes referred to as unobtanium, they were developed as a cheaper (although inconel is more expensive now) & more available alternative to titanium, Inconel can out perform titanium alloys in most areas except lightness. Oops, should have gotten more than 3:00 in before replying.

@joedavis5121 5 жыл бұрын

don't forget titantalum

@Jeffrey314159 7 жыл бұрын

Onobtanium = Scandium, a sister metal to Titanium, it can only be found in the Ukraine

@Spirit532 6 жыл бұрын

Scandium is pretty obtainable. A gram is around $10-40, depending on your source and quantity. They male Al-Sc alloys for jets and use it for arc discharge lamps.

@justindatkins1234 8 жыл бұрын

it was also in a movie called "the core" pretty decent movie

@adventuresofwillandshelby6013 6 жыл бұрын

Justin Watkins "The Core"? As in... the demon core?

@SilveradoDudeDk 6 жыл бұрын

The only way to save Earth from catastrophe is to drill down to the core and set it spinning again.kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eZ-ijZObv5q6kXk.html

@pegasusted2504 6 жыл бұрын

Yep but it was the Amewrican military that caused the slowing rotation of the earths core by using a subterranean earthquake causing satellite :~)

@pacman52280 6 жыл бұрын

Legend of Peacock, it was a decent film, I agree with you on that, until you think about the real-life physics involved. There's a website that lists movies dealing with physics and grades them on how accurate they are. The Core, according to them, is the worst film ever made, when taking physics into account. Google "bad movie physics" and it should come up.

@pegasusted2504 6 жыл бұрын

but that is only "upto" the level of understanding that we are currently at. Who's to say what we will be capable of doing by the time we have learnt what dark matter and dark energy are and how to detect and use them. Don't forget the universe we know is only 5% of the whole, who can say what will be even in the very short term. :~)

@troman5000 7 жыл бұрын

Sounds like shit Rocky and Bullwinkle are looking for!!!

@jsl151850b 7 жыл бұрын

Upsiedaisium

@TheReviewDude1 7 жыл бұрын

so money is unobtainium? i sure cant seem to get any.

@madzac1000000 7 жыл бұрын

close enough :D

@dubbelzoutrond7809 6 жыл бұрын

1 year on, are you a millionaire yet?

@gurkiratsingh8747 4 жыл бұрын

Have you got more money since?

@morticiamourning9990 4 жыл бұрын

I got hundreds of it like 300

@datura_boof 3 жыл бұрын

Hey how are you doing my dude?

@theldraspneumonoultramicro405 8 жыл бұрын

so they gave avatar a hard time for something that has been around for around 60 years when the movie came out if not more. movie critics - sometimes not very educated.

@cristianverdugogalaz8725 6 жыл бұрын

i mean they kept calling a material they already had discoverd the inside joke term of it, which wouldn't make since in senario where it should of had an actual name, since was already discoverd, an even the mothod to obtain it, thats enough for a cinema sin at least

@Seld6863 6 жыл бұрын

What A long name Yo got there

@Haxxer82 3 жыл бұрын

Well, James Cameron did come up with the story when he was 15 lol.

@Alachia 8 жыл бұрын

love these videos! thanks for making them!

@michaelbarry8666 7 жыл бұрын

I love the channel , you do a great job please keep it up the more I watch the smarter I feel

@bbyllma 7 жыл бұрын

The term "Unobtainium" was used in a 2003 movie "The Core". In the movie, the vehicle they use to drill to the center of the earth is made from "Unobtainium'. Pre-dates Avitar by several years...

@Daniel.Liddicoat 7 жыл бұрын

I always figured Unobtainium was just another name for McGuffium.

@Failedprodegy42 7 жыл бұрын

First time I heard that word was while watching a documentary about the SR71 Blackbird.

@workingclown Жыл бұрын

The first time they said the word "unobtainium" in the movie, some dude laughed and then the whole theater just started laughing.

@technowey 7 жыл бұрын

The term "unobtainium" was used in Clark's Trading Post, a tourist spot in Northern New Hampshire. There was an train ride where fake miners were supposed to be mining it. Their use might predate 1956.

@usarmy500 Жыл бұрын

The wolfman

@ulilulable 7 жыл бұрын

I actually snickered out loud in the cinema when they called the element "unobtanium" in Avatar. About the only thing I remember from the film. :)

@tomasdelatoba7572 7 жыл бұрын

just wanted to post that you guys are awesome, keep up the good work!

@omgitsjuanito 8 жыл бұрын

this videos are awesome!!!

@AJSTITAN14 5 жыл бұрын

My father who was an automotive safety engineer used this word back in the 80s. He was wondering why some bit of gear was so expensive and said "It must be made of Unobtainium." I could tell the comment was facetious but I didn't understand and gave him a puzzled look. "What you haven't heard of unobtainium? It's the metal from the air. They ask us to use it all the time but we can't ever get any so we have to use this heavy steel and aluminum instead."

@ThisShinigami 7 жыл бұрын

"travelling perhaps as high as mach 12" huh, today I found out the speed of sound is a measure of distance

@ThisShinigami 7 жыл бұрын

Besides if it did in fact leave the atmosphere it would technically be at mach infinity wouldn't it?

@q5sys 7 жыл бұрын

You do realize that 'high' can mean more than altitude, right? ie... "The blue car is driving at a higher speed than the green car."

@ThisShinigami 7 жыл бұрын

q5sys that's a comparison... Specifically he should have said traveling with a speed as high as

@q5sys 7 жыл бұрын

+TripleDz idiomatic expressions vary from region to region. The way he said it is something I would commonly hear were I live.

@brokenwave6125 6 жыл бұрын

High = fast. Ever heard of a high speed chase? The cars can go as high as 100 miles per hour.

@danielgehring7437 7 жыл бұрын

Sometimes I watch these videos to learn something interesting. Sometimes watch because I already know and it lets me feel smug and superior.

@briancox2721 7 жыл бұрын

Some of my favorites: unobtainium-i and unobtainium-n. The first has infinite density. The second has negative mass.

@agateplanet 2 жыл бұрын

Prof. Brian Cox ? Lord of physics ?

@SixDasher 7 жыл бұрын

The Core (2003) used the term as well, no doubt the term was coined even long before then.

@thompsonevergreen8006 7 жыл бұрын

SixDasher you do realise that avatar was written in 1970 ish

@hhiippiittyy 7 жыл бұрын

Anthony Ramsey you should teach children.

@yunged 7 жыл бұрын

This is a very good channel often original, always interesting. Well done :-)

@ixamraxi 7 жыл бұрын

In Avatar, unobtainium was a room temperature super conductor... In the movie "The Core", they also had a material called unobtainium, which could efficiently convert heat into electricity and survive temperatures hotter than the core of the earth.

@worldofradiocontrol10 7 жыл бұрын

Amra I never saw Avatar, so when I saw the title of this video, I thought he was talking about the Core.

@Spirit532 6 жыл бұрын

We have that! Peltier elements convert a difference in heat to electricity. Now, the surviving temperatures bit...

@CaptainDirka 3 жыл бұрын

great video, and man you look different 4 years in the future lol

@ardentdrops 5 жыл бұрын

One thing that is missing from this video is the explanation of the use of the word "unobtanium" in Avatar. The character who used the word wasn't speaking literally; the "unobtanium" he was referencing surely was called something else, but he used the term merely to highlight the mineral's value and rarity.

@SomeoneCommenting 7 жыл бұрын

Once they finally found a Unobtainium vein, they proceeded to try to create the Impossiblium alloy ingots needed to build their artifacts.

@maturetranny68patton79 7 жыл бұрын

great with morning coffee, thankyou

@timtaylor7132 3 жыл бұрын

Holy shit boy....you have changed 😂😂😂

@509Gman 7 жыл бұрын

In the plot of "Avatar", it was a room temperature superconducting substance. That's why the mountains could float, interaction with the planet's magnetic field (also why radar wouldn't work in there).

@pchips6300 7 жыл бұрын

his face when saying Pluto XD 5:03

@kazenagi21 3 жыл бұрын

seeing Simon without beard makes me wonder how did he find his wife

@TheBigfrankenberry 3 жыл бұрын

" Is Unobtainium easy to obtain?" Peter Griffin

@lylezarry 7 жыл бұрын

hey guys, thanks for the great videos. and Simons great work for the channel and the TopTenz If I can suggest a good topic? I am currently doing research on a group of photojournalists called the Bang Bang Club. I think it would be pretty interesting.

@JombieMann 7 жыл бұрын

What is that hovering desk toy at 2:33. It says RDA on the base but I can't find anything online.

@alejandrodecorse9437 7 жыл бұрын

I love the thumbnail!

@VAMobMember 7 жыл бұрын

That was one of MANY movie references. The The Core and some Bruce Willis outerspace movie

@andycross3783 3 жыл бұрын

Unobtainium usually listed under the same heading as Expensivium.

@michaelerickson5623 7 жыл бұрын

I first learned about Unobtainium while working at Boeing, applying Toyota style "Lean" Manufacturing concepts to factory infrastructure... where the conversations often turned to the notion of the practicality factor in any design effort. The premise was that any idiot could design some hyper complex system or process out of "unobtainium", but it took some horse sense, and skill to create a straight forward and efficient system, method or process with easily available materials, tools and skills. So it's still a term in use in the real world, or at least in my world.

@terryoconnor5262 3 жыл бұрын

I am so very glad you decided to grow a beard

@pm71241 6 жыл бұрын

This video forgot to mention one important point: The word is a play on the names given to higher elements before they are named properly: Like Tennessine being called "ununseptium"

@wesleyhobbs4797 7 жыл бұрын

I thought scientists, before nerds became cool, called a woman's parts, unobtainium.

@armartin0003 7 жыл бұрын

This is only true in school. However, once they start making that sweet sweet engineer salary - the "woman's parts" that were once unobtainable, somehow become ready in supply.

@philphilips1020 7 жыл бұрын

Adam Martin If an increase in salary is the prerequisite to getting access to unobtainium then I think I'd rather have nothankunium instead.

@mansamusa1743 7 жыл бұрын

Wesley Hobbs lol

@azzym8794 7 жыл бұрын

*Nope! A woman's parts are a dime a dozen*!

@armartin0003 7 жыл бұрын

You guys are so cynical. Don't you know that stability is attractive? By being stable you show that you can finish what you start and that you're reliable. The most physically attractive guy in the world couldn't keep a woman if he was needy, infantile, and unreliable (just look at all the Hollywood stars who constantly get divorced). Getting a degree and a stable job shows a bit about the person who is underneath the skin, and that's what women find attractive. Why would a smart woman commit to a man who they didn't know was reliable enough to stick around to take care of the kids? They wouldn't. That's basic instinct, my friends. Women have basic programming which says, "Don't shack me up if you won't back me up." Ya, there's greed based gold diggers. It's true. But they are a minority and shouldn't be confused with stability instinct. Then again, if you're just looking for girls to f*ck - then I'm sure there's plenty of girls who like that too. However, you better be suave and good looking - something which nerds typically aren't known for.

@atranas6018 7 жыл бұрын

Unobtainium used to be the name of my girlfriend

@princessbinas 7 жыл бұрын

Looks like those critics lack a sense of humor.

@diGritz1 7 жыл бұрын

Another interesting fact about Titanium is that large quantities were needed for the construction of the S R-71 Blackbird. Since the Soviets weren't about to sell it to the US it was acquired through a company based in Canada then shipped to the US.

@wesss9353 7 жыл бұрын

no mention of the core?

@psander5446 7 жыл бұрын

Wes C-W Apparently no.

@biolinkstudios 7 жыл бұрын

No one complain about it XD

@TucsonKhan 7 жыл бұрын

That was my first though. I was like, "Avatar? What do air-benders have to do with science?" But yeah, the Core was a great movie.

@JT_WARCRIME 2 жыл бұрын

Today I Found Out that Simon without a beard is unsettling

@Aztesticals 3 жыл бұрын

Its really weird to think that this guy i watched in 9th grade is also the guy I now watch on business blaze 5 years later

@MrStrikecentral 7 жыл бұрын

And the exact opposite would be called Dimeadoznium.

@jmchez 6 жыл бұрын

So Iron or carbon, then?

@lorekeeper685 5 жыл бұрын

Carbondioxide

@Psiberzerker 3 жыл бұрын

We've also referred to "Ideallium." Pretty much the same theoretical substance but less foccused on being hard to get than the specific parameters (Ideally) we're looking for. In Pipe-fitting, and Industrial Engineering, Ideallium was more often than not some form of Steel. However, we're not just talking about a homogenous billet of some specific mix of iron, and other minerals. You quite often had to surface harden it to hold the gaskets, while keeping it malleable enough in the center to expand and contract under heat an pressure without cracking. So, "Ideallium" isn't really A Material. It's a composite, or mix of materials, not unlike Sword Steels. If it has edge hardness throughout, it will snap in the first hit, but if it doesn't it won't sharpen, and hold an edge. So, you have to differential temper, and so forth so it has the right properties where you need them.

@sparrowthenerd 6 жыл бұрын

I saw the James Webb Telescope mirror on a field trip to Goddard in VA in 5th grade.... it was cool

@turbofiat 6 жыл бұрын

In the old car world, the term unobtainium is basically the opposite. It's a replacement car part that has not been produced in decades and is hard to "obtain" because nobody is producing copies of this part, or used or new old stock parts are in short supply.

@AluminumHaste 7 жыл бұрын

I had always assumed that the unobtanium was just a room temperature super conductor in Avatar

@michealdrake3421 7 жыл бұрын

People also forget that scientists and engineers have a long history of naming thing according to what they look like or some other immediately apparent property. For example, when asked what it was called, the inventor of the computer mouse said he called it a mouse. Why? Because it looked kind of like a mouse with the cord being the tail. Helium is so called because the scientist who discovered it did so while analyzing light coming from the sun. He found the wavelengths that indicated what we now call helium and because they have never been found elsewhere, he assumed that they were generated by an element unique to the sun. So he named it helium, from the Greek Helios, meaning sun. Given these things, and the fact that the element was probably identified by similar scientists, it really isn't a stretch to think that they would name something extremely hard to find but also extremely desirable after the fact that it was hard to come by.

@donovanb8616 7 жыл бұрын

Thank all that is holy that you did your research

@krashd 6 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure about actual physical materials but I know that when ground was broken to start building ITER there were a range of problems not yet solved which were factored in to the design as they built it and researchers at JET and other projects around the world had to make breakthroughs faster than the thing could be built. In fact they still are.

@baneblackguard584 7 жыл бұрын

first place I heard the term Unobtainium was in the movie The Core. It is what Virgil is built out of. it gets stronger and generates electricity under extreme pressures.

@charlesschapers1624 Жыл бұрын

so funny the way Simon looks in these old videos HA HA

@michaelgasperik4319 7 жыл бұрын

in the movie "the core" they constructed at ship able to tunnel thru the earth like a worm but way faster. the entire ship was made of unabtainium. which until today I didn't get that joke. its a pretty good movie, if you like natural disaster films, it's definitely worth watching.

@dell177 7 жыл бұрын

A similar term exists for use at engineering meetings. Unaffordium describes the exact material or part that is necessary to complete a project but is unfeasible because of it's high cost.

@DaveS_shuttle 7 жыл бұрын

I just wanted to correct an inaccuracy in the video. It concerns the X-30 NASP part, more specifically the carbon-carbon statement. It was in fact developed for use on the Boeing X-20 DynaSoar vehicle in the 1960's by Ling-Temco--Vought (LTV, now part of Lockheed Martin). The X-20 never flew but the LTV developed Reinforced Carbon-Carbon (RCC) was used on the nosecap and wing leading edge panels of the Space Shuttle Orbiters. So it predates the X-30 by some 20 years.

@kripvorlund7849 7 жыл бұрын

Unobtanium: An alloy made of the sound of a cat's footsteps, the spittle of a bird, the breath of a fish, the roots of a mountain, the beard of a woman, the sinews of a bear, and a few other bits and bobs.

@felixvasin758 7 жыл бұрын

that john malkovich ad was funny as hell

@warped2875 2 жыл бұрын

Unobtainium, ...not to be confused with Unknownium. Unknownium is that material that you can't figure out what it is actually made out of.

@mattakins3422 Жыл бұрын

Wow...Simon has changed!

@rossthebesiegebuilder3563 7 жыл бұрын

All I know about unobtainium is that it's really easy to get - and that's just because in has "obtain" right in the name.

@jasenmorin4936 6 жыл бұрын

It was also used in the movie "The Core". They use it it make a ship to get to the earth's core.

@maximsaarinen4554 7 жыл бұрын

please do a video on the stalinium

@pidgersg1 7 жыл бұрын

it was also used in the movie, "The Core".

@elmfork52 5 жыл бұрын

Arthur C. Clarke, when asked what the alien spacecraft "Rama" was made of, replied "unobtainium".

@DevilMaster 8 жыл бұрын

I wonder how long it will take for a science fiction movie to feature a substance called "phlebotinum"...

@caydens.1250 7 жыл бұрын

If you keep pressing the back arrow key at the beginning, it looks like he is dancing.

@fstringer1486 3 жыл бұрын

Wow critics didn't know what they were talking.......shocker

@jwizardc 7 жыл бұрын

You forgot the first corollary: Nodeedium. That is what is available, but does not even come close to the project's retirements.

@alainarchambault2331 7 жыл бұрын

Today I found out Unobtainium was an inside joke just as I've always suspected. The only thing I didn't know is just how old this running gag is.

@Blockinstaller12 5 жыл бұрын

Browsing some of my coworkers paperwork, I'd consider punctuation to be unobtainium at times.

@stevenpetifurd5846 7 жыл бұрын

NASA: Constantly doing more, with less budget.

@Lokpyrite 7 жыл бұрын

It was also in the movie "The Core"

@Otokichi786 6 жыл бұрын

"Unobtainium" is a better name than "The Philosopher's Stone" or "Bitcoin.";)

@dabin88 Жыл бұрын

The mineral was also referenced in the 2003 science fiction movie The Core!

@lordshaitan 8 жыл бұрын

All of which does not change the fact that using the term 'Unobtainium' in Avatar was completely stupid, uninspired, and completely dismissive of the meaning of the term in the setting of the futuristic world itself. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that when the screenplay was written, the term 'Unobtainium' was used, which in that context is perfectly acceptable as it was something written for humans in the real world to read, and understand that the material will be of a type theoretically impossible, or yet unobtainable with current technology -- real world. Within the setting of a theoretical universe however, it exists, and is obtainable, with known properties, therefore the material itself would *not* be called such in any real serious manner (shown to be used exclusively to be a humorous/placeholder reference), and still should have been assigned a different term.

@Regolith86 7 жыл бұрын

Yeah...most people who criticized it DID know what it actually referred to, and that's why they criticized it.

@michaelwoodrick7855 7 жыл бұрын

It was also featured in the 2003 movie The Core.

@johne7100 7 жыл бұрын

The first reference I'm aware of was during the Manhattan Project, when it was applied to plutonium. I couldn't point to a source, though.

@Player_Review 7 жыл бұрын

When we _really_ needed titanium for the US space program we used to trade uranium to Russia for titanium. Russia wasn't uranium rich, but was titanium rich, so it was mutually beneficial. Now we actually buy old nukes from Russia and use some of the components in our nuclear reactors, so it helps Russia legitimately get rid of their nuclear stockpile and make some cash on the side.