Why You Don't Want the Power of Flight 

So basically what I've come to understand is you wouldn't want just one super power. You want them all

"You won't be flying very high" I don't know about other people, but, I consider safely flying 2 miles into the air to be flying pretty damn high lol

Bro Just being able to fly 10 feet from the ground would be an absolute game changer.

This analysis is taking it to the extreme when all we want is to be able to have a nice stroll in the air

"Why You Don't Want the Power of Flight." Said by Thor. Yes of course.

If I could fly like Superman, I would simply stay at a breathable altitude and fly at a manageable speed. There you go, the power of flight made desirable again.

I believe fear of heights dies down really quickly when you can easily levitate off the floor with relative ease

Bro, imagining that I could fly at like 1 km height and go 30 miles per hour to school is still the coolest thing to ever imagine so I would take the superpower 100%

next episode Why you don't want *_W A L K I N G_*

"Right now your body is most likely in contact with some kind kf air, I hope." *sweats nervously*

Nope, I still want that power.

Alot of these super powers need to have other supporting powers to make them work, like flight+invulnerability

Neo is in a computer simulation so he doesn't have to deal with real life issues as he can manipulate the code at will.

he is like a genie that you have to be really really reeaaallllllyyyyyyy specific with

"You may as well just be Iron Man" I'm okay with that

You are basically flying in protective gear when using any motorcycles, bicycles, electric unicycles etc... any open personal transport, so being able to move without it would be so much of an advantage. Of course considering all physical limitations, you wouldn't be able to fly like a superhero but just imagine flying to your local shop or university with a car speed above the houses. Huge time savings even across short distances like few kilometers, huge cost savings because of eliminating a need for any personal transport and lots of new experience

Bro....if i could just go...effortlessly....my lazy would expand. Watch me levitate from the ground to the couch to the kitchen and repeat

This video didn’t change my mind and I still want to fly.

This only considers it as a long distance travel option though. You don't have to stop taking flights or commuting to work, its just a fun little (huge really) novelty=) Just hover around at "floating" speeds, even that would be fun. Take some pictures, take your gf on a ride, reach that top box, dunk on any hoop, never need ladders again, do amazing tricks on a snowboard, etc. the list goes on=D I think people want the power of flight because of the amazing sensation of flying itself, not to travel efficiently.

With all these draw backs I would still prefer flying over speed, I don't want to waste energy, ruin my shoes, and have to go pretty slow.

Look bro I'm just tryna save on gas lol

Fun fact: the mics that pilots use are voice activated so that "uhhhhhh" you hear so often from pilots are them waking up the mic so that it transmits their whole message and doesn't cut off the beginning

>Very serious about science and physics. >Doesnt put fan in face for flying scene.

One aspect I think is cool about flight is that, assuming it wasn't tiring in any way, you could just passively float. It depends on which flight superpower 'model' you're going on, but would be extremely handy in itself. Also I think it would still be cool to go slow. I'm not up to date on laws about flying, but you could probably fly (obviously slowly) at about double the height of an average person (~3.5 metres). This would be incredibly useful for getting through crowds. Last idea, assuming you don't need to be in a specific stance, you could get on a bike or something like that and use your ability to propel yourself forwards. This would be incredibly cost efficient and wouldn't break any laws, and could still be safe, efficient, and effective.

So... As a biker, I don't see any problem with flying as you described it. Flying low? Why would you want to fly over the clouds? Sounds cool, but most cities are located under 2km over the sea level anyway, and you would be actually making travel times longer. How slow? 100km/h? Sounds great. Equipment and weather? Helmet, wind proof water resistant clothing and gloves... Yeah, I wear those everyday. Still better than being stuck in a traffic jam and inhaling exhaust fumes from all those stupid SUVs EDIT: WITH ONLY ONE PERSON IN IT.

05:28 "Right now your body is most likely in contact with some kind of air.... I hope" LOL 😂😂😂😂😂

the kind of flight i fantasize about is more floatation that isnt limited by weight or being conscious or any effort or manipulating gravity and thing i choose with the same bonuses

I think the most realistic way to flight is like the Iron Man. Wearing an special suit, with coordination systems, thermal systems, oxygen supply system, like the comfort of an airplane in a suit form.

I don’t really care about flying fast I just want to fly. I’d be fine if it was 20mph or something.

Hey yo that “floating above the trees at the speed of a car” is *exactly* my dream version of flight good to know that doesn’t have terrible consequences 👌

5:25 Your body is in contact with air... I hope.🤣

Just a quick note on the convective skin cooling thing: downhill skiers can move up to 90mph in some cases, but even average non-olympians can do 60mph on skis pretty easily. They do this in sub-freezing temperatures routinely. At European resorts many runs are several km long and take much more than 2 minutes to descend, even at great speed. Olympic downhill courses, even at maximum human ski speed, sometimes take over 2 minutes to complete. It is extremely rare for anyone to experience ski-induced frostbite, even on exposed face skin. Further, my grandfather got frostbite on his toes in WWII flying missions with open windows, BUT it took many hours of sitting sedentary in those cold aerial temperatures on bombing missions... and only happened because they didn't issue his size (14) insulated flight boots at that time. So, if skiers don't get frostbite on their faces, and bomber crews only get frostbite after hours of sitting still with the wrong boots, I think the danger of frostbite can be fairly easily mitigated with some simple winter gear. Nothing Iron-Man fancy. Its just not the inhibiting factor that you are depicting, unless you are flying around naked up there. Now bird strikes, oxygen, etc. those are much more pressing concerns.

Even given all the restrictions listed, I would still take this power. Having to wear a flight suit and oxygen in exchange for never getting stuck in traffic? I would take that any day. Even if you have to limit you elevation to only a kilometer or two, that is still high enough to easily go over most objects. And flight speed limited to 50-60 kph would still beat just about any conventional travel method simply in terms of being able to fly directly there and not take roads that aren't direct. As for the mid air collisions, staying under a Km or two would have you well under most flight pats, with the exception of flying right next to an airport. With the issue of bird strikes, most people are able to drive safely at 50-60 kph, so I think that avoiding birds wouldn't be too big of an issue. So while you couldn't go speeding through the air at Mach whatever, or easily travel far distances, on a day to day basis, I still think this power would be viable, and very useful, even with the limitations you have listed.

In comicbooks Superman manipulates graviton particles allowing him to fly. Considering he's extremely durable and can go at a fast rate alongside prolonged breathing capacity, the physics behind his form of flight is surprisingly well-written to go with physics in comics.

Everyone thinks the best super powers to have are Flying, Invisibility, Teleporting, Shapeshifting, Stopping Time/Time travel, Mindreading, Strength and Speed. But after thinking about it for awhile, even though stopping time would be great to save lives, I think the best super power to have would be the power of suggestion/persuasion. You simply say something to someone and they immediately do what you said without question.

Looks like Thor is just mad he doesn't have an Iron Man suit.

Uhhh 2 miles or about 10 thousand feet above the ground is high enough for me 😂

I mean I'm not hearing any negatives here, like sure it's pretty useless but you can still use it for some helpful tasks. Like not dying when you fall out a window. Or skipping the lift, or not having to find a crosswalk or bridge ect Basically, I'll take low level flight

Once you have lived in Metro Manila in the Philippines, having flight at even average bicycle speed through the air will be the greatest relief ever.

To be fair, most superheroes who can fly have additional measures to protect them. Superman is invulnerable and doesn't need to breathe. Green Lantern's ring protects him from the elements. Iron Man's suit protects him. Thor is a god, so mortal limitations don't really affect him. Etc., etc. Of course, my favorite "flying" superhero is The Blimp from the Inferior Five. He can't actually fly, he just sort of floats. His teammates usually drag him along with a rope.

Paused at zero seconds, im telling you right now NOTHING you will say will convince me I would not want the power of flight. With safe practice, and small speeds, and low altitudes, it would definitely be safe and definitely worth having.

"That's not really the version of super-flight we see in pop culture." Well, in those pop culture versions, accurate physics don't exist, so I think I do want super-flight!

The Flying Nun never had any issues with oxygen when she flew, but I don't believe she flew up as high as the clouds!

5:11 His hair isn't moving the way it is supposed to when flying, I think this is fake. He wasn't actually flying.

Fly around altitude of 2 km and use a motorcycle suit, you can withstand around 200km/h and since birdstrikes can happen to a motor driver the gear is designed and padded to be able to take highspeed collisions with birds

When we think of flying I always thought it includes everything that would allow you to fly comfortably even in outer space. like a full package deal.

About the skin turning cold - can't you just get a custom suit built for that? You only wear it when travelling long distances because you won't really need it when you just wanna hover 20 ft above the ground and go to your friends' house or running errands

You only need to go high enough to go over trees and buildings... And something like a surfers wet suit would make the temperature “problem” moot. The power of flight would be awesome.

My question is, at what point would the air resistance cause enough friction (like a rocket on reentry) to warm you up enough to counteract the temperature and wind chill? Is that possible?

The kind of flight I'm capable of in dreams and stuff is basically swimming through air. With a bit of a jump and a few strokes, I get to go above my house and look around my neighborhood or whatever environment I'm in (sometimes it's a big grassy field, one time it was a giant cave) from above. I some versions of the dream, I start falling if I stay in one place for too long, so I have to control my descent too. I'd like that kind of flight.

i would still want it. thermal body-suit for the cold and collision, like a steel fitted armor set for going long distances and just a thermal one for short ones. other than that it would be training to make ur flights as safe as possible, training ur stomach, ur head, ur muscles and why not, have a parachute too for the worst case scenario.

This dude flies with an axe(previously hammer) and tells us that flying is dangerous?

So i can lay my dreams of becoming Superman to rest and become a billionaire, genius and philantropist...

I like how after the airport says Kyle left hair ties he comes back with his hair tied 11:21

You did a quagmire there with that pilot announcement eeeeeeeh. 😂

Dude, honestly I just wanted to fly at like 50ft at maybe 30mph

Kyle: "Might as well be iron man" *telekinetic flight + force field enters chat*

As the episode was going along I just kept saying to myself, "Okay, so Iron Man,", "Okay, ya. So Iron Man," And finally, "Yep. Iron Man."

Having flown hang gliders many years ago, I'd love to have the power to fly like that without having to have a glider.

As a motorcyclist, I'm no stranger to wind chill at even 100km/h - compounded if the initial air temperature is already sub-zero (i.e. riding to work on a frosty morning). As to bird strike - motorcyclists have had that, too. One I heard of was lucky in that it hit the bike (and "merely" _demolished_ his coolant system) rather than striking his body. I haven't had a bird strike - _yet_ - but I have had a _bee_ strike... which was enough to forcibly knock my head back when the bee hit my helmet visor at approx. 100km/h. If it had been a sparrow, I would have been knocked off the bike. How do I cope with propelling my frail human body at "merely" 100km/h? By wearing protective clothing to keep me warm against wind chill and somewhat protected from rogue bees and machinegun-like raindrops. I have a full-body outfit including leggings, jacket, boots, gloves and a helmet with a transparent visor so that my body doesn't bear the brunt of inclement weather and inconsiderate insects. This set-up can protect someone from air pressure and wind chill at speeds up to around 360km/h (c.f. 1234.8km/h for the speed of sound) but if you were hit by a bee, let alone a bird, at that sort of speed, it's going to be an issue. At those sorts of speeds, the riders are generally crouched down behind a fairing and a windshield that is forcing most of the incoming air (and bees) past them, anyway, not riding exposed like a person on a "naked" bike. Anything faster than that and you're going to need invulnerability as a secondary super-power or some serious hard armour. Even if you could fly under your own power, you're going to wind up looking like Iron Man if you want to travel at a decent speed or altitude.

How did you solve the icing problem?

This is an example of what TVTropes calls "Required Secondary Powers"

Falcon (or indeed Angel from the X-Men) works within most of these restrictions. He doesn't tend to go that high and it's usually fairly short range so he's not going to need to check weather maps etc. I'm less thoroughly familiar with Angel but there's really only been a couple of times in the comics that Falcon has flown long distances (eg from Arizona to New York). The speed is really the biggest limiting factor and he doesn't break the limits that much compared to characters like Superman who also have superspeed built in. His outfit in the comics does have a history of leaving a fair bit of skin exposed, which is a problem, *but* he actually has a little bit of handwavium built in to his origin story - the Red Skull used a cosmic cube to turn him into a sleeper agent who seemed to be Steve's "ideal partner" with the intention for Sam to turn on him when the secret layers of his personality got triggered, and with the ease that he picked up a lot of things you can read it as the cosmic cube giving him a small level of enhancement as well which could potentially help solve the windchill issue. Granted, he didn't actually fly originally, but he didn't talk to birds originally either, his ability to communicate with birds telepathically developed and got stronger gradually over time. And Angel's a mutant so his mutation could easily just protect him from windchill as well.

I mean, really, any time you're given an option between anything and being Iron Man, you should choose being Iron Man.

I still want flight. 1) Fly slower and lower, say 40 mph and 150 ft 2) wear appropriate clothing. nuff said.

That's right Iccharus, fly slow and low. 😁

I come back and watch this superpower sub-series almost annually 😅

“Flying is also a good superpower because it can save you from falling anywhere or at high places"

Thanks for watching! I knew this was going to be a controversial one, so get nerdy in the comments below. Like I said in the video, I too wouldn't mind the power of flight if I was just floating above the trees at car speeds on the way to work, but that's not really the superhero version of flight, is it? -- kH

Me:starts flying Us government:shoot em down

Dude literally took fun out of flying

you sold me the idea of flight when you talked about frozen pee. Imagine frozen icicles of pee raining down from the sky, slaying man and beast alike. who wouldn't want to have that godlike ability

A lot of your videos assume we get the one single ability we wouldn't want by itself. I'm sure if we had the power of flight our bodies would also adapt to handle flying all over.

I think the hardest part people don't think about is the neck strain. Lay flat and then tilt your head back to look forward constantly. It's not a natural resting position. Our heads naturally look forward from a sitting or standing position. Now factor in the wind resistance further pushing back on your head the entire time and you're going to have one hell of a sore neck in a very short time. You're going to end up looking straight down trying to rest your neck which will prevent you from looking where you're going. If you fly in a sitting or standing position you're going to greatly increase wind resistance; you'll quickly feel like you're in a wind tunnel so you'd need some sort of seat with a clear aerodynamic shell... that would all be dependent on how much additional weight your power can support.

this is what I liked about dragon ball flight in which they made this sphere of aura around them that likely solved most of these issues; they just vaporized the bugs and birds they encountered

Tbh, I get what u mean, but I don’t wanna fly over clouds or go super fast, I just wanna float :D Floating around at normal speeds 🙃 Like 5 mph or so

I swear this guy is crushing my dreams, day by day, with each video I watch😭😭😭😭😭😭

And the bugs, dear God, the bugs. In warm weather, if you were height limited, there would be bugs EVERYWHERE!

I'd still rather have to put on a special suit every time I wanted to fly then have to deal with TSA and the increasingly decreased space we seem to have on flights.

ideals of flying: going wherever you want. realism of flying: not waiting for the pedestrian sign to cross that streetlight slow and steady.

This makes me imagine superman landing with a horrified look on his face and birds splattered all over his body.

If I could fly, I would go just like you've said, at car speed over the trees

"you'll have to fly low and slow" Me: i'm good with levitation

*_Just ride a dragon_*

People really overlook the more mundane benefits that flight would grant. It would affect any and all motion. Never worry about tripping or falling or getting stuck anywhere. Slippery surfaces don't matter because you move yourself independent of your surroundings. You could push way heavier objects because you can just fly-push yourself into them without the limitation of how much force your weight+friction can generate. Fighting is super easy because -you- don't have to dodge and attack. You can just fling yourself around and drop kick everyone from any angle with zero downsides. Don't feel like getting out of bed? Just levitate your blanket burrito self to the kitchen to get coffee and levitate right back. Literally your entire life would become an effortless rainbow cloud dreamland from a physical standpoint. Every movement we will ever make is completely reliant on the 3 laws of motion and flight would let you compeltely ignore the 1st and 3rd. Its broken af

"Big learning curve when you curve without learning." -Socrates

I now have this image in my head of Superman arriving at Lois' place for a date... Covered head to toe in bird parts. 😂

*05:55** "How did you solve the icing problem?"*

Bird strikes are the reason that Superman flies with his fist forward lol

How about telekinesis based flight? Like own atmosphere bubble etc etc

Best part of the video is "you got a barrel of hair ties", then proceeds to have hair style change. Good job you.

You didn't even mention B-U-G-S! 😷 I hate hitting a bug while skating or biking. 😲

I found this video because I recently went Skydiving for the first time and I realized how thick the atmosphere really is. One thing I'm still wondering. At 14,000 feet or under, without temperature being a factor, and without Superman's invincibility, how fast could someone fly before the atmosphere starts tearing the body apart? And what would happen first? Hair ripping out, skin tearing off? Etc?

I'm surprised bugs didn't get a mention. Even "low and slow" is a problem because you could end up with bugs smashed all over your face. Depending on the area, it could be a substantial amount of them, and going "car speed" through them would not be fun. Even if you're Superman, with all the powers to survive the issues mentioned in the video, you're still likely to have bug guts splattered all over you when you takeoff / land in the wrong places. In places without a ton of bugs, you still run the risk of catching a stray one to the face.

About the bird strike, what if it was a 5 ounce bird carrying a 1lbs coconut?

Since you brought up superman and neo, I always imagined the power of flight, just as an extension of the power of telekinesis.

It could still be a very valuable power for a few reasons. The biggest benefit would be that you could safely do things that have the hazard of falling, like working on towers, bridges, caves, buildings, and anything more than 6 feet off the ground; just being able to stop yourself from falling to death or injury in general. Imagine the nice jobs contracting yourself out for projects. Another would be that it's a good thing for a human to have for survival, you could much more easily escape grounded threats..

0:06 See, Kyle’s hair is so strong and luscious it can defy the winds.

"Can't fly higher than 3 km" My mum who screams her lungs out when I climbed up 2 steps of a secured ladder as a kid:

I remain unconvinced. Even with those limitations I want the power of flight. Sounds like the most you'd need is a bomb suit.