Is Rita Repulsa's Staff More Destructive Than Her Monsters? | Because Science 

Throwing her staff from the moon to the earth.. that has to be some Olympic javelin record.

Kyle, it’s awesome to see you come back as much as you can. I know what it’s like to suffer from depression and speaking for myself and the whole Nerdist community, it’s great to see you back every now and then. We’re all behind you and keep up the good fight, you’ll get through this!

When you realize that your staff is more dangerous than your monsters. *confused unga bunga*

To those saying the staff takes longer to travel and the time is just cut out, that might be true for a few seconds but keep in mind she throws it when the battle is going on and never more then a minute at most seems to have gone between when the power rangers are winning vs the monster grows.

Sense Rita Repulsa threw her staff using only her upper-body strength, I'd say that she is more dangerous than any monster that she could create.

Not gona mention how strong Rita has to be??? Do the math on that throwing arm bro.

Missing Kyle much because science/nerdiest?

I didn;t think about it the first time I saw this... But if that staff can turn a 6footmonster to a 60foot monster... What if she just made the staff bigger when she threw it. A 20 foot tall 2 foot wide staff impacting the ground would wipe out all life on earth.

what if we redo the calculations from the fact that the staff only penetrated about 3" of loose pebbles? =P

I appreciate that you are using your skills of science to answer the truly important questions in life. Thanks.

Wow, cashing in again on kyle as soon as he uploads?

Artist....go fourth and draw a Lord Zed with blood steam coming off him!

Last time I was this early, I had a schedule...

The next question what is the staff made of. To travel through the Earth's atmosphere at that speed it should have heated up to a glowing red. What metals or composite material deflect heat?

I was always “Sabretooth Tiger!” Yes I just did the move too. Haha oddly enough she had the same bday as me 😬

I just love these videos: they give us answers we didn't know we needed but now we have them and everything is better for it. ^^

How does she get her staff back each time? Attraction powers? Those would be pretty dangerous a well...

omg, my favorite rerun other than the MCU related ones

I mean, I just always assumed it was teleporting with her magic, as she does with her minions all the time. Either that or she throws monsters at approaching light-speed. One of these seem more likely for a witch. Also, Lord Zed just got so much more Metal.

Forget how powerful the staff is, She can throw the staff from the moon to earth and able to hit the target. (I assume gravity, weather and surely others would alter the direction) If only she played sports.

5:50 Well, this is just serendipitous (and remember that the Animaniacs did a parody of Power Rangers, wherein we hear the tail end of a song about serendipity)! This morning in the shower, I thought of this exchange: *Said in an angrily disbelieving tone*:"Goldar, my ear!" *Door opens to reveal Ms. Meir*: "Shalom, everyone!" Yes, it's a long way to go for a bad joke, but, as Toast from Histeria was fond of saying, "Ask me if I care." p.s. For all those playing at home, Nostalgia Bingo!

Dude I just discovered your channel and I love it I’ve watched so many videos you’re the best keep up the interesting content

Nice video, Kyle! Now, calculate how powerful Ohma Zi-O is. I'm curious

This is ridiculous, always posting when Kyle does

Yesssss!!! ....im the one that fb mssgd u like 3 years ago asking u to do a video on lord zed!!!! Thank u!!!!

But if its a perfect tip at the end couldn't it potentially pierce through the earth's crust and bury itself along with making a crater? But i guess it could be the sudden release of energy into the ground that creates the monsters(?)

Cool video! I wonder if when Rita's staff hits the ground, would it stick in the ground like on the show? Or would it bury itself deep in the ground because it has a tip on it? Kinda like a bullet?

glad you're still making videos bro

I always thought Rita's staff was just a small drone like space ship. She's not hurling the thing when she throws it, she just likes launching it that way. The apparent speed of travel was just film cuts, like how you never see the entire shuttle craft trip on Star Trek. I also figured it was self propelled since it has to get back to her right? If not how many of those things does she have?

Dude, ive been legitimately asking this question on this page for 2yrs, now to find out I was a year late. No wonder Nate never picked it lol

I was just thinking of this the other day. Just how fast she threw that staff.

WOW! I never knew that her staff was so dangerous! I'm glad she never realized that either!

Question, would making the pole out of osmium change the dmg? If so, how destructive would that be compared to the tungsten one?

Imagine if she just yeeted her trash at earth. Like you're walking down the street and a Gatorade bottle hits the ground in front of you at mach 3.

Maybe lord zed and rita use something like aerogel in a dome to help keep atmosphere on their house. I am not sure if there is a lattice work of other materials to keep it stable for how high the building is. probably use magic to fix it after she hucks the staff through it.

@because science I would be curious to see the calculations of what material she would have to have the staff made out of just to make it to earth then redo this equation based on the new mass.

Damn. This chanell is annihilating my brain cells every day :D How does Ritta girl brings back her staff from earth to moon? xD

Moving around and being trailed by a constant mist or fog of blood at all times...? That's the most metal thing I've heard in a long time, and would definitely be awesome for a villain. Maybe a bit extreme for a kid's show, though... though I could see it in an anime...

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4:35 - yeah, it gets to the earth pretty fast... 4:38 - but within the atmosphere it is traveling much, much slower. Like, roughly it's length per second... so about 2.5m/s ? So, it may travel between the moon and earth insanely fast, but once in the atmosphere it isn't. One could even argue that the 'space' views is from her patio on the moon (angled up so you can't see the surface). Leaving it travels the slow speed and arriving it is slow... so either it has a momentary warp that operates after traveling a certain distance after being thrown and allows it to reach earth insanely fast... or it travels at the slow speed to earth and at some point it time travels back in time to line up so it lands at a reasonable time (meaning there are a lot of staves flying towards earth at any given time). And then, how does she get her staff back after? She also can travel between the moon and earth insanely fast as well. So, perhaps her staff is more powerful than her monsters, just for the fact that she could actually teleport anywhere she wanted.

But since this film was shot at such an early time back when video editing was not as great as now. And since you use the time it takes for the staff to hit earth,would it change the way of calculation if it was shot and edit in the current era 🤔

As soon as it touches the ground it transfers the energy from its impact to summon whatever she wants. She found a means to convert energy with 100% efficiency.

Given that some level of magic and loads of alian tech that is in this franchise, maybe the staff absorbs the kinetic build up and then uses that energy to cause the monsters to become giant rather than the staff being able to cause it on its own. We do see the red electricity from the staff's gem create a hole that the giant monster jumps out of.

Can you do a video on the science of the rangers morphin grid or morphing in general?

Please do a episode on the last episode of Dino Super Charge. Explaining how it's impossible for both dinosaurs and humans to coexist due to the temperature being too hot for us or too cold for them and the dangers of the carnivores

Don't know if you saw the 2nd GI Joe movie Rise of Cobra but they had a space weapon like this. A satellite equipped with a tungsten rod. They would just drop the thing and let gravity do the rest. At least in the movie when it hit the ground it caused a massive earth quake.

Its not exactly related to the video but is something i have always wanted to ask. and see if you had any opinion on it. So considering that as we know nothing about dark energy/matter we would have to assume for now that their is multiple types. Our universe is just one type of matter and our universe works in conjunction with other universes, presuming the universes were layered, but just invisible to others, or this could be other dimensions. as in if we were to progress into the 4th dimension then we would be able to see the other universe interacting with ours. I know not a lot is known about any of those subjects, but i'm just curious what your comment would be. Hope to hear back. ty.

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And to answer for Zedd I think the Rita place got is own atmosphère and air because Magic

With the monsters being grown, that means she's adding mass to them. For every 2000kg, that's 4,494 times as much energy as the kinetic energy mentioned at 5:38. We don't know the exact mass of the monsters, but they would basically float away like a balloon if it were less than that. The monsters may be an insanely inefficient use of that energy, but her staff is putting off more energy than her 42%c throw.

ok so based on your explanation and breakdown of the staff's size and entry etc etc would it me more plausible to say her throwing arm is more dangerous since she has to physically throw the staff through space where momentum is not constant? last i knew everything has to slow down in space. The same result could happen with anything she throws.

did you guys not get the memo kyle's not gonna respond to your questions because he left Because Science/Nerdist all together a few months ago and now has his own channel now called Kyle Hill, links right here ru-vid.com

still happy I got noticed by senpai before he left... we miss you Kyle

hi, can you explain me one thing. How is it that its harder to stop loaded car when you've got more friction because of the increased mass.

If the staff was travelling at these speeds, than it probably won't be like an impact weapon, but it would rather explode to a ball of plasma when it contacted the earth's atmosphere. (Similar to the relativistic baseball in a book "What If")

Could you make a video about how fast you have to be to dodge 9mm and 5.56mm bullets?

Heres a thought for everyone, Kyle included. Would a Jedi, using the force on a person constantly vis a vis mind tricks, eventually cause brain damage? Surely the constant physical changes in the brain from the manipulation by midichlorians would eventually damage it? If this is the case i reckon at least some of the sith used it as a means of data extraction or torture?

Wouldn't it slow down to terminal velocity once it hits the atmosphere though?

Can someone like The Flash be able to see while he's running based on science? When he moves fast does the light move slower to him making him unable to see properly?

However Kyle you should fully understand that when there are cuts between takes it is entirely possible for time skips to be done.

Small Question: How do you throw something from the moon to the Earth? The Objekt to throw would need a Start Velocity which needed to be higher than the gravity of the moon (escape Velocity) and so the Staff had a much more deadly impact, wouldn't it ? Or did I just ignore something ?

I always wanted to know... Does it just teleport back to her after use? Or does she have a bunch of them? Could she just Space Javelin the Power Rangers to death? Can she grow an already grown monster?

pretty sure they just have the same upload schedule but who really knows

What about the staff only puncturing the ground only a few inches...? It slows down somehow

You didn't think about the tubes that Lord Zedd has. Those probably help prevent effects you mentioned. 😏

I don't get it. Are these old unreleased videos, or is he still working with this channel?

I love Rita. Only she can make my monster grow.

Is it just me or does BS(because science and the other meaning too) keeps uploading right after Kyle does?

If the staff did impact the ground that hard and leaving the crater that it would, that would help explain all the steam rising from the ground. Gotta switch over to the Japanese Counterpart, kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger, for a moment. Before Rita (aka, Bandora in the Japanese), she chants "O spirits that dwell in the depths of the Earth, bestow your evil power upon " Then throws the staff down, creating the 170 meter deep crater to allow the trapped evil spirits to escape and enlarges the monster. So thanks to science, we know how far not to dig lest we unleash the evil spirits lying dormant in the earth. And the pig monster never grew in the show (one of the few that doesn't). The Rangers defeated it by using their power weapons together in the power blaster mode.

Can u make a vid about how really smart devoe is. Please

how do we know the staff's weight? The material may be its an alien one so it could be heavier or lighter

Thats insane to think Rita created that destructive idea xD

Hmm...Now I'm curious...Can you guys calculate how powerful a Kamen Rider can be?

Oh my god, I totally forgot she use to throw the stave..

can you make a video about the pentagon ufo sighting?

All Rita needs to do is just throw a few of her staffs at the earth to get the point across that she ain’t messing about

In space there is air in PR universe. This is well established in many seasons and more so PRIS and PRLG!

The staff is magic based. The staff is moving slow and then appears on each going that same slow speed. It could be possible that it just teleports above the ground and then applies the magic to the master

If I remember correctly it looked like her staff increased in size by the time it hit Earth. So wouldn't that change the kinetic force? Also it seems to hit around the same spot.

When you accidentally watch the outro with your phone sideways

I assumed that there was some traveling between shots...

Can magnets can stop a bullet and how much magnetic force or electronic magnetic force to stop in 1 sec or more time and love science and your channel

Sorry can I just have a sound bite of Kyle saying "aye aye aye" in that deep af voice please

Rita Repulsa has a mean pitch....but the ground where she threw it at must be super-dense because it just penetrated a few inches. Talk about an unstoppable force meeting an immovable object O_O

GO GO SCIENCE RANGERS!!

Once you've held tungsten and understood true density all other density becomes irrelevant.

The problem that you have is with the 3 second observation is that the scene is cut so we actually do not see the staff going at the speed that you are calculating. I think it would be better to take the speed from the frame count at the last second before impact. I am sure it is going much slower, but for storytelling it would be a really boring scene seeing a staff falling in the air for the actual time it will take.

Do you flip your videos horizontally when writing?

Hopefully, you all will do an actual Power Rangers video. The theoretical physics of Morphing can get very interesting. Mass source, Multiverse theory, teleportation devices (Morphers).

In the 2017 reboot Rita Repulsa is even more versatile with her staff.

Do one video on how Batman dodges bullets. Is it possible to trick the hand movement of others and not the bullet itself? How much speed must he have?

Kyle, you are also failing to take into account of how dangerous the magic lightning coming from the staff in and of itself, being able to cause massive fissures in the earth's surface just from the staff's point being driven roughly 3" deep into the Earth's surface. Then again, the ranger's zords being summoned cause some rather impressive destruction, themselves. Red Tyrannosaurus? Miles deep fissure. Mastodon? Glacier breaks apart, probably causing massive havoc for sailing ships ocean wide. Pterodon? Volcanic eruption. I don't remember what kinds of chaos the Triceratops and Saber-toothed Tiger create, but it's probably not pleasant. Green Dragon Zord? Godzilla attack at Angel Grove Harbor. Titanus the Brachiosaur or whatever it was? Massive destruction, Cities leveled due to Missiles and Energy beams of various descriptions.

Please do an episode on Stark nanotechnology

What about the energy used to make these human sized monsters into giant monters?

How powerful Rita will be to throw that staff at that speed

I was watching Back to the Future 3 the other day and was wondering how you could actually build a refrigerator in 1885 with 1885 components, or a microchip in 1955 with 1955 components... Good idea for an episode? Because if it is I'll keep petitioning for it 😅

The guys at DeathBattle need you to do the calculations, Kyle.

So is this all old content they hadn't released or did Kyle go back and is doing 2 channels now?

You forget that the only thing that completely destroyed a megazord was the planet buster, according to the 1st red ranger in forever red, zord Serpentera! The fact that the Terrorzord from Turbo might be stronger is scary!

She HAS to drop it all the way from the Moon to Earth for the staff to collect enough Potential ENERGY to use it to grow the monster size. -> The type of "magic" she uses does NOT violate Thermodynamics [this is also why Lord Zed always had energy problems with his "Super_Mega_zord" Serpentera]. The Staff collects matter from the air & ground around to re-arrange it as "extensions" of the monster´s body [ efectively building a biological exo-suit around it with "lighting"... just like in "Atack on Titan" ].