Gadgetory

Bill Nye you've been busy lately saving the world and you're a big fan of science so I thought why not talk about superhero science Yeah right yes superhero science oh sure yeah let's have some fun I wanted to talk about if things are possible or plausible and some of our favorite science fiction so I wanted to start with an iconic you can't do that that stores hammer you can't do it are you empowered Thor flies by spinning it around really fast throwing it and hang it on for the ride you have an intuitive sense of it when you swing a bowling ball or a bucket of water you can knock yourself over you're converting this angular momentum to a linear momentum what about Wonder Woman's lasso it compels people to tell the truth we know that truth serums exist there's no science elasto truth however maybe there is when someone is caught in a lie that's the verb we use right so if you're caught in malaria of truth then you've got to tell the truth when you're caught and alive and you start telling the truth the flash going as fast as he does yes it would have an effect on your body and he has a super suit but I always think about how the fact that his face is not protected and I wonder what would that do to your skin to travel really really really fast for the flash runs at supersonic speeds or near supersonic speeds and his face is unaffected so his face must be stronger than yours and mine what would happen to our faces who watch the guys on the rocket sleds where their faith or a guy's ejected from airplanes who survived it their faces get in blown up by the wind one of my favorite movies The Rocketeer where are we on jetpacks is it still is it possible to have a jetpack and flower we're just going to burn our buds so there is not enough energy in alcohol which is the supposed fuel to draw fly a guy around like that however there are rocket packs that use hydrazine and hydrazine is conventional rocket fuel it's very energetic you don't have to light it you just need a catalyst to start it you got Captain America shield that's a material that absorbs the impact vibranium right so this is a classic second order differential equation the spring depends on how much you compress it how fast the damping depends just on how fast so the more you squeeze it the more it pushes back so vibranium Captain America's shield this really has great damping spider-man okay a material that is condensed enough that can more than flip and and hold the weight of a 15 year old boy well where are we on the science of that some bad guys hey could you do me a favor hold on to that he has the through pible web material that squirts out sticks to buildings and can support his weight and he's so skilled he can make that spiral web pattern just like that are we getting any closer to having that material be real yes so goats have been genetically modified so that their milk produces the proteins of spider webs and I remember when I was working full time as an engineer the Navy was very US Navy was very interested in this material so the very near future may have spiderweb protein material everywhere the same way we have plastic everywhere all right kidding we are busy and important thank you very much for having us and you know watch out for this hammer [Laughter]