How Thanos Throws a Moon 

*Don’t worry, no spoilers here!* (I WILL IMMEDIATELY BAN SPOILERY PEOPLE. IF YOU NEED TO POST A LIGHT SPOILER, PLEASE INCLUDE LINES SO IT FALLS BELOW "READ MORE") This was a lot of fun, but I did film it before Infinity War came out. I’ve now seen the movie, and this analysis would have to change a bit (I won’t say how!). Still, I think we can learn something interesting. Expect more Infinity War science soon. Thanks for watching! Also, the trailers I’m talking about were exclusive to SDCC and D23, so here are the stills from that scene if you want: ew.com/movies/avengers-infinity-war-exclusive-photos - KH

Forget a moon, Thanos threw a literal black hole at Doctor Strange.

You throw another moon at me.... And I'm gonna lose it.

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He uses the power stone to break it up, space stone to bring the pieces into the atmosphere and throws it at them.

8:19 ...is it just me or is ignoring "fundamental physics like Newton's third law" the Entire Point of the Infinity Gauntlet?

Can you explain the science behind Ben 10's Omnitrix?

spppoooooiiiilllerrrrssss he didn't throw the moon he just threw shards of the moon becoming meteors

2:52 lol "Thanos and the Infinity Gauntlet" sounds like a rock band or something

*So basically Thanos is using the same idea as the Skull Kid from Majora's Mask*

He doesn't throw a moon specifically he uses the power stone to turn it into meteorites and brings that raining down onto the surface of titan to make a full force meteor shower

7:00 - Anyone watching this full screen on a display larger than about 35" diagonal - that line showing how close the moon would have to be is actually *BIGGER* on your screen than it would be in real life.

You know, “for not having seen the movie”, you make an awful lot of accurate references to the film. Like so many finger snaps?

Thronos? Thro no you didn't!

Just saw the movie and it was awesome. Nice timing.

Not a spoiler, but contains information from the movie: When he throws the moon, the moon does not fall as a moon. It falls as a bunch of pieces. So it checks out! Marvel does science things!

*reads title* "he has a infinity gauntlet" question answered

Friendly reminder: when talking acceleration(3:00), you want a lower case g. g: Acceleration due to Earth's gravity = 9.8 m/s/s G: Gravitational Constant = 6.67408 × 10^-11 m^3/kg/s/s Edit: Thanks to DocterOreo for pointing out I originally had 10^11 instead of 10^-11

0:03 "Quill are you making your voice deep?" -Rocket

You look like THOR 😄

If Thanos did do this idea, he would have to use the Infinity Gauntlet to vary the Moon's magnetic field up to a certain point capable of throwing it. This would increase the temperature of impact and increase the pressure of the throwing force

Oh hell yeah. " *No Spoilers* "

DID YA JUST THROW A FOOKIN MOON AT ME?!

Only a trailer to go on, and you completely fricken nail it! Well scienced sir!

Infinity war was epic

Or he could just expand the fabric of spacetime behind the moon and contract it in front of the moon to move it without acting on it directly to avoid all those uneven forces. The alcubierre drive works like that. Edited to correct that name.

"THAT'S A LOTTA DAM-AGE" -Phil Swift

SPOILERS . . . . He has the reality stone...so he can break all laws of physics.😜

@BecauseScience When you were explaining that General Organa was pulling on the ship not pushing herself, it was a little hard for me to see in my head, but the more you mention the Physics of throwing the moon...I think i got it. 👍

Kyle has a fake Gauntlet - it is left-handed

Avengers (2012) *Tony Stank:* We have a hulk Infinity War *Thanos:* I have a moon

Thank you for adding the line about the gauntlet ignoring fundamental physics (8:20). After watching the movie I had a chuckle at what would have happened if it hadn't. Just a tiny little Thanos rocketing off into space, or even better, him reaching for the moon and his arm ripping right off and flying away!

If you are guessing that Thanos is pulling a much closer, much smaller 'moon' down to the ground... it still won't work. The Earth's Moon has a mass of 7.34e22kg and a surface area of 3.79e7 km^2. A thousand times smaller object would be only 3.4km wide, mass 7.34e13kg and have a surface area of 36km^2. The mass to surface area ratio of either object determines how much the pressure you need to apply to the surface. It varies linearly with size - the thousand times smaller object would require a thousand times less pressure to accelerate at the same rate. Is it enough? Not really. The pressure needed to accelerate the Earth's Moon to get to the ground in 10 seconds is 742 MILLION times greater than the maximum strength of the Moon's materials. If you reduce this by a factor 1000, you're still apply a million times too much pressure!

@7:03 0.2m is a bit larger than half a foot (~0.656 foot), but I forgive you because of inferior imperial units :)

spoilers!!!! He had 4 of the stones before the scene were they showed him "trowing" the moon (he did not actually trow the moon, but broke rocks off of it's surface then threw them). He had the reality stone at that time, so he could have even turn the moon into cheese. Thanos did not have the time stone yet at the moon scene sooo.

This show keeps getting better and better :) From the south of the world I thank you Kyle!

You're correct but didn't add in the sudden stopping changing the orbit of the moon. If memory serves the moon orbits the Earth around 2,300 mph. Suddenly stopping it or changing its speed would destroy it. What would be left would be pulled down to impact on the surface, giving the Avengers a REALLY bad second. Enough time to say, "Oh Sh..."

Nice episode Kyle.

thaTS A LOTTA DAMMAGE

You just did a better Job in explaining why tides are influenced by the moon, in like 30 seconds, in a video that was not even about tides, than my teacher in lessons that focused on it. Probs to you, I never understood the exact forces behind that until now.

Hi Kule! Loved the video! Love to get more of the Infinity War hype meshed with the Because Sciencyness of Because Science! One thing I’ve love to add to our fabulous discussion: given an object moving at relativistic speeds would gain relativistic mass, couldn’t Thanos use this by using unknown means vibrating at lightspeed to gain relativistic mass, thereby generating a pseudo gravitational field? If this were to occur, it could be very possible that by generating a pseudo gravitational field, he could hurl an entire planet much like someone swinging a sword in Monster Hunter. As discussed recently in an episode of you’res, the main problem with Monster Hunter is if a person is trying to weild a sword bigger than them, even if they’re somehow strong enough to do so, they would instead twirl themselves over the thing because according to Newton’s Third Law of Motion, the reaction on the smaller mass would appear bigger than the initial larger mass. Sort of like what happens when a gun fires. By doing what I’m describing here, Thanos could conquer this problem by theoretically gaining enough mass to rival that of the moon he is throwing, thereby becoming the gun that shoots the moon-sized bullet. The main problem with this is that by vibrating at these speeds, Thanos would also generate craploads (yes, that’s a sci-fientific term) of kinetic energy. I was unable to find the mass of Thanos himself, so seeing the beefy dude that he is, I assumed the variable of the world record for the heaviest person, set in 2006 at 1235 pounds or roughly 560 kilograms. If Thanos weighed this and moved at 99.99% the speed of light, he would be generating approximately 3.515x10^20 Joules, or nearly the energy consumed by the entire world in 2010. Even his stupidly massive pinkie finger gripping it wrong as he throws the moon could instantly vaporize it entirely! (that’s a small stretch; my actual calculations revealed he could vaporize about a hundred quintillion human beings, which I’m pretty sure is far worse). The upside to this is it could be how he could destroy half the universe with a snap of his fingers; especially if the Infinity Gauntlet and the Stones are linked to his ability to vibrate at relativistic speeds in the first place. Interesting? Check. Long? Double-check. Typos for Kyle Hill to make fun of? Check. Posted in the magic time zone where he actually reads this? Check. OK, that should be everything then ;)

LMFAO!!! 8:13 - 8:16 I'm dying.... That was too funny!! Just like..... Wait for it......SURPRISE LIGHT SABER!!! Or the Alternate version of.... I know this is going to be hard for you guys to understand but.... SURPRISE LIGHT SABER!!! I love it Kyle HIll, you're one funny, interesting, & smart human being.

Exactly one year later of uploading this. Endgame came out. You mad genius

Hey Kyle, i wanted to ask a question about Railguns. I heard that in Warhammer 40k a Railgun was shot at a heavy battle tank, leaving a small entry and exit hole, but due to the speed of the shot created a vacuum that sucked the crew out of the exit hole. Can this happen? Also, if the projectile is shot at near light speeds or even half that speed, when it doesn't impact anything, would it continue to travel in a straight line and due to the curvature of the earth eventually escape earth's atmosphere and continue to travel through space?

The Green Monster from Yo Gabba Gabba dies in infinity war.

He could have just teleported the moon on the avengers.

You need to look at this again now that we have complete scene available.

this is completely off topic and all but i just wanna say that the Dr.Strange movements that you did at the beginning were super on point

Can you talk about how slip space works from halo is it like a worm hole

3:18 "A billion times harder than the Sun pulling on the Earth..." Hold on, doesn't that mean that when Thanos tries to pull down a celestial body with so much 'force', won't he pulling other planets in the system too? Worst case scenario, he can destroy the entire system altogether O_o Edit: It would be hilarious if Hawkeye landed the finishing blow on Thanos. Imagine the mass hysteria that it'd cause :P

I love this channel! Super cool

I love your animator mate. Cheers

While he has 4 infinity gems which control space, power, souls, and reality itself......let’s science the shit out of it!!!!

Saw the movie yesterday, and it's

It is really amazing that this video comes out before Avengers but he knows where was the fight taking place.

That scene was probably my favorite

If Thanos stops the moon to move it towards the Earth, wouldn't it directly rip apart from the instant deceleration? Or is Thanos just modifying the orbital path to make it direct itself to do the impact (he has the Space Stone so maybe he can pull the trick), then is Thanos doing the math in his head to match the orbits? So he would profit the moon's speed to make it boom Earth, maybe not so much force from the gaunlet is needed.

Your eyes are so shiny this vid

This was awesome!

Dude, you have like the best channel ever

I just wanna know how neither Cassini NOR Huygens spotted the civilization on Titan.

KH, did you apply Newton's Third Law and Torque into the earlier calculations that you made into calculating how much force Thanos need to pull the moon to the battlefield?

If you look at the scene closely he doesn’t rlly throw the moon. He simply uses the power stone to break the rocks on the surface on the moon and continues to use the space stone to teleport those small debris to the actual planet itself...still cool tho

"You hit me with another moon and I'm gonna be really pissed"

You mentioned that he has time control power, as well. What if he were to pull the moon very, very slowly, but still quickly relative to the Avengers (or camera, or observer)? What amount of time would a moon-like object need to spend falling in order to impact mostly intact, assuming an either constant acceleration or constant speed? Is this even possible?

Serious question about your videos... How do you find the time to write, film and upload/release a new episode every like 2 days AND make it relevant? Big fan here.

After watching your video, I am even more appreciated on how much attention the film pays to actual physics :D

Best science channel on RU-vid!!

Hi Kyle If the moon would come to be that close to earth (not even that close) wouldn't we all drown first? Because of sea level rising due to the pull of the moon? (Assuming that would happen on earth) Great episode

So this is getting into similar ideas as using the Force to lift massive objects that you've touched on before, but depending on how Thanos exerts his force on objects, wouldn't he either get pulled away by Newton's 3rd Law or, if he used a similar force to somehow anchor himself to the planet, wouldn't he potentially exert enough force to knock it out of its orbit? Also, what would the impact force be if you pulled the moon to a planet in ten seconds? Aren't we talking well beyond extinction level event?

dude you are so good please make an episode after youve seen it!

the end of this was hilarious, "a lot of dam dam" hahahaha

You said 0.2 meters was less than half a foot, but half a foot is 0.1524 meters, so um... yeah... you're wrong. :D

As the moon comes closer to earth, the gravity would start to feel weird, and it would probably mess up some of the heroes' superpowers, right? Like spiderman would be less coordinated and Iron Man would need to adapt to it. Would be fun to see Spider Man in a 0 gravity environement if you ask me :P

That scene had me at the edge of my seat

That scene made the entire cinema viewers went, "woah". It was epic af.

But wodnt if he has the space stone it would be easy for Thanos to just teleport it close to the planet then the moon will automatically fall on the surface due to the plants gravity . Wouldn't it

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This is your best opening ever

great timing! :D Tanos is not throwing the moon, he is pulling it :P

Thanos is too OP. I believe his own genetics play a role in this idea along with the Infinity Gauntlet. Now I think about it, why are Adam Warlock and Thanos can handle the power of the Infinity Stones and not us mortals?

In the real movie, he doesn't actually throw the moon, he breaks up the surface and launches those small peices down

10:20 I like how after he snapped he said "turn itself to dust"

The movie was released on the 25th of April in Australia. This movie was released in Australia ahead of the USA for the first time in forever. Went to see it, it was great.

Well there is no tax on comments. So be it.

He shattered the moon before throwing it...

8:12 the best moment of because science... ever... because science.

Without spoiling anything for anyone - you got it fairly spot on. Having not paid as much attention or detail as to this video as I did to the movie "moment" I believe Thanos uses the power of the power stone to fracture the moon, pulls it down in multiple pieces as meteorites to attack the avengers rather than a whole. So kind of like your second theory of pulling multiple any many pieces simultaneously rather than a single mass.

When he capitalizes the "A" in the monster hunter episode, but its lowercase in this video. Respect us people with OCD.

is titan not a moon? of one of the four gas giants? well, it has an atmosphere, so confusion happens easily... IM A NERD!

I think we are forgetting that he uses the power stone, capable of destroying planets, and the space stone which he used to manipulate space in order to do it almost effortlessly. He did find it kind of difficult, he had a lot of strain on that adorable face of his. But I like the video. Thank you

Which program did you use to create those effect, its amazing. You have to tell me :))

Thanos is very irresponsible. He wants to destroy planets for a girl. My parents taught me, if a girl doesn't like me for who I am ( even a purple son of a #$_&(female dog) the she's not worthy of my black hammer.

He has the reality stone that why he can alter the laws of physics

Might be worth to have a video update about this and also the black hole he threw.

Amazing how on point where your prediction about this scene without seeing it 👍🏻

Alot of dam dam 🤣. Quality content 😋. The sence thr film in EVEN BETTTTER 🤩.

isn't it pronounced Row-sh not Ro-sh??

I liked the way they ended up doing that scene in the movie.

I just saw Infinity War last night and this video did put a smile on my face. :-D