How Aquaman Swims at Supersonic Speed 

3000m/s is over Mach 8 in the air. So, when he jumps out of the water while swimming at top speed he should create unimaginably huge sonic booms as he breaks the air sound barrier by 8x. That could be an attack or superpower in itself. The pressure waves would be ridiculous.

in the movie, there's an explanation of how the atlantean weapons work, something like "turning water into plasma" what if atlantean biology allows them to turn water into energy directly by accessing the energy in the molecular bonds (like the the body stores energy in the atp bonds) or dismantling the molecules themselves, extracting the full E=mc^2 out of it? then it would also explain how in the old comics aquaman had to stay in water often to avoid losing his powers.

If I remember correctly, Russia has supercavitating torpedoes, although they are used as defensive weapons against other torpedoes. They do have another type of torpedo that homes in on ship wakes, making it very hard to use countermeasures like decoys against.

So if Aquaman has gils for water and lungs for air, how does he breathe in a vapor pocket like this? Also can't get the image of Aquaman sucking in water and super accelerating out through him on the other side. A literal human water cannon.

Or as it was vaguely described in a few issues, he doesnt propel himself, the ocean itself pulls him into a current that accelerates him like a fast lane. He is after all the king of the ocean

He doesn't talk to fish he telepathically controls/commands them.

Aquaman can control water to some extent, though not as much as Mira. That means, the coefficient of drag could be different for him. Also there might be a way to redirect the drag into propulsion. Kind of like changing the density of water around him. Low density at front, high density behind.

I have been wondering wheter the existence of this guy causing the producers in holywood to start hiring science professors in order to make their film seems to be more scientific even though it should be magic

Kyle can pull off a badass Aquaman cosplay

Mera says that the Aqua-Torpedo is just fine.

maybe another intersting value could be added to explain his movement through water is Hydrophylic gel reaction with water (see Thomas Cowan)

I was hoping you'd bring out the legendary Dodecahedrodent!!

Hey Kyle, did you just convert the wattage he would need to the calories he would need? Cellular respiration is only 40% efficient at storing chemical energy in food to chemical energy in ATP. 60% is released as thermal energy. He would need even more calories, and he would be really toasty.

Hello Kyle, I wanted to respond to the video about Aquaman's swim speed. I was considering this independently last week. My conclusion went in a similar direction. Ending with cavitation and super cavitation. However I was considering a slightly different application. My thought process was to reduce drag and solve for the speed using a leading cavitation bubble that was only collapsed on the trailing side. Causing the influx of water to carry Aquaman forward into the space behind the front edge of the bubble. Similar the the theoretical "warp bubble" effect from Star Trek or the Alcubierre Drive. Coincidentally I believe this would also allow Aquaman to travel faster the deeper he dove. Since the increased pressure would force the water and Aquaman forward at a higher rate. In theory, he would just have to be able to maintain a standing cavitation bubble around his torso and allow it to collapse from the direction of his legs. Obviously there would be a bit of trailing bubble effect as we see in the source material. It could be that the Atlanteans all have the ability to control water to an extent. Just not as completely as Mera. (who can hold back entire spheres of water at the sea floor etc) Sound plausible? Would likely require WAY less energy than actually forcing his way through the fluid.

5:46 is me when I go for a swim lol

What if aquaman has an atlantean organ that's capable of producing something like fusion energy syphoned from NaCl or H2O in the ocean water? And another system that's able to convert that energy into body calories, translate it into body heat (keeping him from freezing underwater) and use some of the H2O to stay hydrated. It would also allow him to swim via some "magnetohydrodynamic" organ... or brain powers.

Kyle hill: so aquamans power level has to be at least one Us: oh thats not t-- Kyle: Teeerrra Wattt

12min 18sec: The undersea Man, what is up there? Wouldn't it be "what is down there?

Considering Aquaman is a blonde white dude in the comics Kyle is actually a comics accurate looking Aquaman... I can totally see you rocking the orange suit better that Mamoa.

Im a big fan of aquaman. I'm a big fan of these videos. Although, it does somewhat ruin the consept of comics for me, but i would love to see Kyle's thoughts, and opinions on my favorite D.C. super hero. The Green Lantern, and his alien technology power ring.

Cool video but did you ever say the new power output needed with supercavitating flow

Could his DNA be mutated by the power source that sunk and powers their city? #Metahuman

I feel Aquaman saved the DCEU

I still got some issues with the video: 1.- Red Eyes: everybody who has tried to open eyes under the sea knows that Aquaman needs the help of Collyriumman. 2.- Pressure: at that speed, even with supercavitation water drag must make an enormous pressure on eyeballs, how do they don't crunch into his eye sockets? 3.- I am profoundly dissapointed with Kyle...so many jokes about the names of "sticks with multiple terminations" and I didn't hear any with "Deca-dent", bad bad. 4.- In case this comment makes it into the review, my nick is Julwiki, with a hispanic "J" like un Juan or Achmed, the dead terrorist.

Kyle I got a video idea for ya Can flash play guitar at super speed? Would only him be able to hear it? Would he even hear it? I’ve been contemplating this. It’s time for science

He's a hungry boi.

Love this series. So many awesome science and nerd content!

13:44 nought very fast haha

I just realised he kind of looks like the new aqua man

I thought you were going somewhere with like the trident being made of nuclear material and his body being able to absorb it and whether or not that much nuclear material would provide enough power

Cavitation plus he is supposed to be able to control water.

Also take into account that Aquaman was said to be able to go blow for blow with Superman. He really isn't a superhero to mess with.

Finally somebody that agree's that he actualy is fast

9:08 1 ping only🤣✌

Could Aquaman take advantage in some werid comic book way the power of E=mc^2? Using the seawater itself as energy.

perhaps atlantean bodies store geothermal energy or go through chemo-synthesis (like photosynthesis , but replacing sun light with geothermal energy) and use that energy to move through the water quickly. People use geothermal vents to produce 1 GWh using 404 square miles of seafloor and without other civilizations impeding growth rate they could have enough of the ocean floor to get over 1 TWh and if they directed the energy to Atlantis and if their bodies could absorb and store the thermal energy could this take care of the power requirement?

What if he moves the water with his hydrokensis so drag isn’t a variable?

Anyone familiar with the movie The Hunt For Red October knows what magnetohydrodynamic is.

what if aquaman's skin where to be superhydrophobic like water striders or lotus flower are? would that help? what if he could change the texture of his skin (otherwise i don't think he would be able to enter the water in the first place) so that once he is underwater he then starts to repel it creating, i don't know a layer of vacuum around him, but he would make it more repellant behind him then in front of him creating a huge thrust. no need to eat like crazy then. what do you think? ;)

12:07 should have been a thumbnail.

When aquaman comes out of the water, how fast would he go in the air?

i don't know james hetfield really good at math. respect !

What if aqua man uses some kind of waterkinesis to propel his body through the water like a maglev train

Isn't it possible, since Aquaman has complete mastery of the seas, that he is controlling the water to push him along and supersonic speeds?

This makes me wonder about the Flash. Why doesn't the Flash get tired from all that running so fast? How long can he run at superpeed before he does get tired? Where does he get the energy to keep running so much? I know people will give the "Speed Force" as an explanation, but there has to be more to it than just that. The Flash is still a human with a human body that requires biological human needs.

How about hydrokinesis?

QUINDENT. A QUINDENT KYLE

Best episode thus far.... This is going to be the one to get millions to subscribe at once...... #isaiditfirst

Kyle, I have to admit, your staff is very... _decadent._ Because Puns

Fun fact: If Aquaman jumps out of the water at top speed he will go to space. 3km/s is not enough to reach orbit, but a suborbital trajectory to the altitude of couple hundred kilometers is totally possible.

Super hero movie *exists Because science: it’s free real estate

*Thor explaining Aqua man's swimming speed* .....

What about the Flash? Would he theoretically be able to swim faster than Aquaman? Edit: I said _swim._ I know he can run on water like those cute little lizards but I'm interested in the biomechanics of swimming, as if him and Aquaman had a race.

At 3 km/s if he were to jump out of the ocean, orbital mechanics would start to be relevant when tracking his trajectory, and he may have to be careful not to leave the atmosphere by accident.

Great video, loved it! A few thoughts: -A fairer comparison for the energy levels required is nuclear fuels. 1 TW can be provided by the perfect conversion of the fission energy contained in 1.4 kilograms per second of regular Uranium. -MHD propulsion can explain the ability of Atlanteans to produce a force in water without expelling or pushing against it... but it is terribly inefficient! It requires incredibly strong magnetic fields (dozens of tesla) to reach even moderate speeds. -Supercavitation as a way to cheat drag is a very neat solution. It reduces the drag forces involved, but you still have to convert the water in front of you into gas. This is done by accelerating water. When a fluid accelerates, Bernoulli principle means that its pressure drops. When it drops enough, it turns into vapour! -If we take 180 km/h as a reasonable minimum speed for supercavitation (pdfs.semanticscholar.org/b982/d0e36d27ec9c6d8ed0fe358cb72fc2ffef5a.pdf ), then the water in front of Aquaman must first be accelerated to that speed. Aquaman's bubble sheath looks like it is about 0.5 meters in radius. Accelerating a cylinder of water 1 meter wide and 3,000 meters long to 180km/h requires 2.94 Gigawatts. This is likely done radially; Aquaman 'splits the sea' in front of him to travel through vapour channel this creates. -Pushing through the resulting vapour requires a bit more power. The vapour will be at a maximum pressure of 1 kiloPascal or less (a higher pressure than this means the water remains liquid). At the maximum pressure, the vapour has a density of less than 0.01 kg/m^3 (www.engineeringtoolbox.com/water-vapor-saturation-pressure-air-d_689.html ) and the power requirements for pushing through this at 3000m/s are just over 106 MegaWatts. -Altogether, it seems that roughly 3 GigaWatts are required using the supercavitation method. Further heating and accelerating the steam using something like a ramjet would solve the problem of where the thrust comes from without resorting to the complications of an MHD drive.

so he's a drag queen?

Because it's bothering me so much: Trident comes from the Latin so the appropriate multiples of teeth on a spear would be as follows: 5) Quinquedent, not pentadent which uses the Greek 6) Sexadent, not hexadent which is again Greek 7) Septident 8) Octodent 9) Novendent, not nonadent which is Latin but uses the ordinal, which is to say, it's like saying "Ninth tooth" instead of "Nine teeth". 10) Decendent, not decadent which is the Greek again Although, I suppose if you wanted to go Greek with it and use the Greek "dont" instead of the Latin "dent": 3) Tridont 4) Tetradont 5) Pentadont 6) Hexadont 7) Heptadont 8) Octodont 9) Enneadont 10) Decadont

I AM IN AWE...OF HOW KYLE CAN WRITE BACKWARDS, WITH BOTH HANDS...while spewing formulas and theories!! Im serious..this dude amazes me. (It suddenly occurred to me..he is actually writing BACKWARDS)

Why is aquaman explaining how he can swim in water so fast?

How much power does Iron Man's arc reactor generate

If Atlanteans had some sort of control over water, would they not be able to create their own slipstream by 'parting' the water in front of them in a way where it collapses back at their feet, effectively 'squirting' them forward? Not sure if manipulating water is in his power set, as I was never a big DC guy, but I would imagine that, if Atlanteans had some sort of rudimentary powers of water displacement, they could quite easily turn the water density to their own advantage by making a low-pressure pocket or tube right in front of them that sucks them into it like a straw... couldn't they?

This is amazing I'm actually amazed at his speed of mach 2 especially since it's under water this means that Aquaman can technically be classified as a speedster!Yes!!!which Is amazing since most of my fav marvel DV heros are in a way speedsters like Aquaman

_Nothing will stop me from defeating the EEEVIIIIIL!!! NOOOTHHIIIIING!!!_ *~ Mermaidman*

Fun fact. The US and Russia both have supersonic supercavitating torpedoes. I believe that the Russian varianta are actually nuclear tipped, and carry a rather small warhead intended to create a massible bubble under a target ship, and when the bubble expands then immediately collapses, it snaps the ship’s keel, along with any heat and radiation damage it may have incurred.

Why doesn't he just open his mouth: If he moves at 3000 meters per second and has his open mouth, because an open mouth as an area of 1.55*10^-3 m^2 (which i measured by putting a cup in my mouth and measuring it's area), he would consume about 3000*1.55*10^-3=4.65 m^3 of water every second. This weighs about 4.65*997 = 4636.05 kg and according to E=mc^2, this would be about 4.16*10^20 J. He would if he had a perfectly efficent mass to energy converter in his body, he would gain 416 000 000 terra watts, wich is way more than neccesary. Love the show btw. Edit: He could also use a fusion reactor: 4636.05 kg of water would contain about 518.77 kg of hydrogen. I was unable to find out how much engergy you could gain from this, but I have to add that if he did produce a lot of helium, he could fart it out al a method op propulsion

but kyle we have always had the legendary Infini-dent. the legendary SHOVEL

He controls the water He is The avatar

In some sources, Aquaman has the ability to directly control water. Perhaps he's using hydrokinesis to reduce the water's drag. He could even be using it to have the water carry him along at high speed, like forming a high-speed current.

Hay Kyle there was a TV show called Bernard's Watch in the UK which was about a boy who had a watch that could stop time. In the show Bernard gave his watch to a friend and told them that if they run in the rain they would drown as the water would collect to fast in front of the face. What do you think would happen if you could stop time and run in the rain. P.s. Love they show keep it up.

Always loved how well Kyle gets these ideas across and in a fun way! Definitely something we try to channel on our show. Thanks for being an inspiration for people not just to learn about Science, but also to have a go presenting shows and communicating it too!

Versions of aquaman have been able to manipulate water to move and shape as he wants. As such you could argue he is manipulating the water to create a slipstream current of water to carry along at that speed. But that introduces its own fun problems. Imagine the disturbances to the surrounding areas if he was creating such a high speed current . Or if he can manipulate water like this why it's not his primary weapon as well. Your episode on Blastoise showed how much damage moving water at high speeds could cause

I grew up watching old school super friends, in those aquaman had the ability to manipulate the water, not just making large waves, but actually forming the water into spherical projectiles, while under water, and then hurling them at high speed to damage black manta... A form of hydrokenesis if you will, However i that ability was removed back in the original infinite earth crisis, and after the new 52 i remember aquaman got it back, though not in the "throwing water bullets arround" level. I always assumed that he was using this hydrokenesis to swim that fast, by manipulating the water behind him to push, and the water ahead of him to get out of the way. Granted i could just be experiencing a mandella effect here but i want this comment noticed.

I learned more from RU-vid than from school and 80% of thay is from yhis awesome channel. Thx Kyle

Hey Kyle I have a question. How does super stretch actually work?(e.g. Jake from adventure time or Mr. Fantastic)pls answer it!

Does the calculation for Aquaman's marine life genocide include how many fish he would kill by going supersonic? Just knocking on a fish tank can harm small fish. How much more so for a supersonic Aquaman. Also, his ability to not hit fish in his path would go down as his velocity increased. If he went supersonic enough, could he also increase the rate of global warming by doing super-cavitation? Changing that much water into vapor long enough would have to eventually have some environmental effects.

I've heard that Dolphins sometimes swim so fast that they create cavitation bubbles and hurt themselves. So how damn much damage would the shockwave from aquaman do? Because that's safely very, very devastating

I almost gave this a 9/10 because there was no Decadent. But Kyle came through at the very end!

Hear me out. It is shown that Aquaman is stronger in water, aka he gains strength from water. Now, is it possible that he uses water as a power source? Could his body able to harness the energy from the elements in the water, mainly hydrogen, like some kind of controlled, ever-exploding H-bomb? I would like to see the numbers, as in how much of water is necessary to keep up with the energy demand, if this was the case. PS: This theory has some legs to stand on, since we never see him move at those speeds when he is on dry land.

When is MuskWatch coming back? Also great video!

How can black mantua helmet shoot energy beams the second time without over heating?

He gets his power from the ocean. His body is extremely efficient at converting atmospheric pressure into energy. So the deeper he goes the more power he has available. Why do you think Atlantis is so deep?

More (or atleast equally) importantly: How does Aquaman , swimming at super sonic speeds, breathe? (Can he breathe at a relatively insane speed like that? What about seeing and processing information while moving at super sonic speed? )

salt water is a super conductor which means he can draw electricity in and from the water, also what if Atlanteans warp water around them and push them forward reducing the power requirement

Kyle, Atlantean civilization is so decadent... Moreso than that 10 pronged spear in your video, lol. This is why they have super-high caloric meals... lol. Although with the concept of unexplained biology or magic, perhaps it may make sense if Aquaman could actually perform nuclear fission or fusion. If you make the assumption that this is what was happening, (using pure deuterium fusion, into helium, which produces 1 *10^12 J of energy, or 275 million kcal per gram of deuterium) then you get some interesting numbers. First if this was what was happening, the first question is how much deuterium is there in the ocean? Well the best estimate I could find would be 0.0312% of the ocean's mass, which is on the order of 1.4 × 1018 tonnes, you'd get a value of over 43 quintillion tonnes of deuterium, which would seem to be sufficient to support a population of an undersea city for quite some time. Plus, if they're using the same kind of magnetohydrodynamic drive, then this would ALSO make sense, as the Atlantean biology would be supporting something like a tokamak nuclear reactor, and also provide enough heat-energy to keep up their internal temperature even far down in to oceanic depths. Plus if they're extracting the hydrogen from the water around them in order to extract the deuterium, then they'd have lots of extra oxygen left-over to provide super-cavitation gasses, as well as support their regular biological processes. The only big issue is that at these rates, the 1 TW of energy that you were talking about would mean they'd be burning (fusing) about 1 gram of deuterium every second... So, that's a problem, lol.

If my calculations are right ( E = mc××2 -> m = E÷c××2 -> m = 10××12 ÷ c××2 -> m = 0.000111 ) He would actualy burn 1g of matter( if he'd convert it 100% efficient ) in just 10s!!!

So basically Sonic is Aquaman's daddy

They said that discovered a generator capable of infinite energy 2000-3000 years ago. They could already perfect that to provide energy directly to their propulsion cell system...

I love how Thor from Marvel questioning DC heroes

What if Aquaman can somehow use the ocean's extremely high pressure as a source of energy? Can the gravitational force of the Earth in large quantities of water be transformed into energy by Atlantic physiology in some unknown way? I know little about energy transformation but maybe it's something to think about. *My english is very bad, im sorry.

How to fight an Allosaurus, (And Win).

Makes sense, Auqa man is much stronger than superman when you factor this in.

Every time and in each video when Kyle says magic, i get the feeling he doesn't approve of that term, but folks, always remember what Arthur C. Clarke said: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”. If we go back in time to the middle centuries with a cell phone and a projector, being able to film and then play on a big wall something that happened earlier in the day, would pure magic for the people of that time. This theme comes along once more with Kyle's big brother - Thor: “Your ancestors called it magic, but you call it science. I come from a land where they are one and the same.”. So really *magic = science*.

Ok, you need it to be calories what if his cells convert water to energy? It could be like photosynthesis but instead of light but water is the medium.

What if his body converts pressure into energy?

Nope. The first underwater rocket-torpedo(Shkval), that uses copressed air to envelope itself for great speed, was created in 1977 in USSR and goes at 370 km\hr. The modern variant goes at about 1km\s.

Mentions Magnetohydrodynamic drives, but no mention of Red October.....disappointed.

So are you trying to say Supercavitation is the expeditious motion? It really is the fastest way to move throughout the ocean. Magnetohydrodynamics is not a magic potion. Supercavitation is the expeditious motion!

I'm sure you'll probably cover this but incase not, wouldn't supersonic speeds underwater still create a sonic boom, if not louder from the pressure of the water increasing the speed of the implosion. Imagine all the poor dolphins and whales who have super sensitive hearing. RIP our aqua mammalian brothers... :(

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To improve his swimming he would need double jointed limbs as unlike us land animals Whales and Fish have the ability to bend their spines in equal distance in two directions unlike our single motion legs.