From the 40s, all the wayup through the 70s and 80s. And as they were paintingthese cars, excess of it would run off on to thefactory floor plant, and get on pieces of equipment and stuff. It would take about 1000 layers of paint to make about an inch of this material that you're seeing now. But then some workers foundout that you can polish and shape this stuff like actual stone. And so fordite becamesomething of a material, that you could sell,and make into jewelry. Fordite is on the market rightnow, and you can buy some.
But there's a limited amount. Because they changed thesystem that painted the cars, much more efficient, and sonow, there isn't this buildup of excess paint on factory floors. And so fordite is a limited quantity, and it's quite beautiful. A human-made gem, bornout of inefficiency. (laughs) What is, it, baseball? (laughs) Yeah, that's right. Baseball sucks. (bouncy techno music) Hello, and welcome to anotheredition of "Footnotes", the companion show to "Because Science", where I take all of yourcomments, questions, and corrections, and I peel them back like aggregate layers of enamel paint, and then I break some off, and I polish it up intoa stone of science. And then, I tell you what'scoming up on this channel next. Hint, it involves neutron stars, and doing dangerous stuff with it. Who would've thought? But, getting right intoit, in the last episode of "Because Science", wewere trying to figure out what a Darksaber is.
A singular weapon, crafted bythe first Mandalorian Jedi. If it's supposed tofunction like a lightsaber, what makes a darksaber the way it is? How does it have theproperties that it has? In the full episode, which you can watch, if you haven't yet, Isaid that if the Darksaber was a black hole blade,then it would explain the absence of light in the blade, it might explain the glow,the hot glow around the edge of the blade, as somesort of accretion disk, like forms around blackholes, and that accretion disk could be so hot it might,in fact, cut stuff.
Of course, my explanationcreated just as many problems as it attempted to solve, but hey, sometimes you just gotta get ripped apart by intensely strongmagnetic fields, which, what did you have to say? Our first comment comesfrom Neo Spacian Sushi Roll, who says "I have a hypothesisabout how the darksabers work. "They look cool, so it works." That's how things in StarWars works, it's cool. It is inarguable, thatStar Wars, as a franchise, created some of thecoolest sci fi designs, of all time. No doubt that's why they have stuck around for the last couple ofdecades, and they've influenced so much science fiction going forward.
Don't you dare get on camera. Douglas Wallace, ray33,braingasim, and others, say well, for a darksaber, whatabout using antimatter? How would that work? Antimatter is cool, andas you know, in Star Wars, all right, all right,all right, cool rules. But anitmatter would be a pretty bad thing to make a blade that youhold near your face out of. If, for no other reason, then sure, you could contain antimatterinside a magnetic field, like a magnetic trap, sothat it doesn't interact with anything, and itdoesn't, you know, explode. But once you bring that lightsaber into contact with anything,if the blade is made out of antimatter, thatantimatter will react with the matter that ittouches and annihilate, releasing energy accordingto E=MC², and if you had a lightsaber blade's worth of antimatter, and you contacted thatblade with a blade's worth of normal matter, itwould create an explosion large enough to level the city. Unless your whole planet was a city.
Then it would just be part of it. It's a Coruscant joke. But the nerdiest comment at thetime I'm filming this video, I gotta give to Lars vanden Biggolaar, who says: "So what Kyle is saying atthe beginning of the video, "is that lightsabers' colors "are dependent on theirtemperatures, right? "If so, then I have two questions." And I wanna get to your first one. "Could you consider blue lightsabers "to be more dangerous than red ones, "as they seemingly havea higher temperature?
If something is blue orwhite-hot, it is the hottest. And if it is reddish, ororangeish, then it is red hot, but that is necessarilyat a lower temperature. It has to be if it's actinglike black body radiation. So yes, even through thetemperature difference isn't all that much, relatively speaking. You still have thousands of Kelvin, versus thousands of Kelvin,but a Jedi's blue lightsaber, usually wielded by Jedi, right, would be technically physicallyhotter, in our estimation, than a Sith's red lightsaber,and you'd wanna fear the blue one more. Strong the light side of the Force is. And hotter our lightsabers do. They cut that line. I did submit it to Lucas, but he cut it. Don't you dare get on camera. But, Lars, for that veryinteresting point, you are indeed, a super nerd. (yells) But of course, I'm not always right. Sometimes, I'm Kylo wrong.
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So what did I get wrong last week? It's a Star Wars pun. A bad one. Oh, and if you werewatching outside of the time when I published this video,and you want to correct me on something, I'm sure that you do, make sure that you like andsubscribe to this channel, and hit that notificationbell so that you can get all the video notifications,so you can get in there and say oh, but Kyle, (yelling) Our first correction comes fromsuper nerd Infinite Asseem, who says: "Okay, I did someresearch, and I found out "what's much more viablethan a black hole sword. In the Korean tokemak KSTAR,which you can read about, "the plasma here is ablistering 150,000,000° C, "and it isn't visible, becauseit simply doesn't emit light "in the visible spectrum." A darksaber could be that.
Well, Infinite, I do like your comment, but two problems with it. One, just like you said,if it's not emitting any visible light, it wouldn't necessarilylook black, would it? That's something that istaking in all the radiation, like a perfect black body,or like a black hole, like we suggested. And, if you look up footage of tokemak reactors switchingon, and in operation, I'm not totally sure whatyou're talking about. Because I can see a lottahot, hot plasma in there. And I wouldn't wanna touch it. Don't touch it. Don't touch it! Hey. Kevkiller 777 has a correction. He says "Humans breathe oxygen." Citation needed. "Does that mean you breathe helium? "Does that mean you're not from earth?
"Does that mean you'rean alien supervillain "who wants to replace alloxygen on earth with helium?" (gasps) No, that's completely ridiculous. I don't breath only helium. (speaking gibberish) What a weird correction. Another big correction comesfrom doomforzombies who says "The dark saber shouldn't cutthrough a Mandalorian helmet." And in the opening of the episode, I have Boba Fett's helmetbeing cut by a lightsaber, but of course, as youknow, a Mandalorian armor is the only armor inthe Star Wars universe that can repel a lightsaber attack, so it wouldn't necessarilycut through Boba Fett's helmet like that, like I showed,just to illustrate the point of lightsabers cutting stuff. Come on. But the nerdiest correction at the time I'm filming this episode,I'm giving to Adrien, who says "Hey Kyle, love the show. "One quick observation.
"If the light emitted by alightsaber was simply due "to the heat alone of its plasma,as dictated by Wien's Law, "then you could not haveall the colors that we see "in the movies. "You could only add up the colors "from the large wavelengthend of the spectrum "to the smaller wavelengthend, ie red, orange, yellow, "then white, and eventuallyblue for the hottest plasmas. "In the same way there are no green stars, "there could be no green lightsaber." in case you've never thoughtabout this, no there are, in fact, no green stars in the universe. Some stars may look green, to our eyes, after the light passesthrough the atmosphere, but this is an optical illusion. There are no green stars, period. And that's because, ifstarts are emitting light like near-perfect blackbody radiators, as they are, then we can actually characterizehow that light will look in the visible portion of the spectrum. And it just so happensthat even though some stars can emit most of their wavelengths in green light specifically,because they're also emitting red light and blue light, because of how all those colors combine, no stars will ever lookgreen, at least according to the physics here in this universe. And as long as Star Wars isstill in the same universe, if it's just using plasmaalone and temperature like you're saying, Adrien, then there can be no green lightsabers. It would have to be morelike a gas discharge mercury vapor kind of thing going on, but then it wouldn't be hotenough to cut through stuff, and this is a great correction.
So you are a super nerd. (rock music) Had to get that out. And now, moving right alongto this week's episode of "Because Science", you canget this at the Nerdist store. The next episode of "Because Science" is the neutron star slingshot. That's right, in the nextepisode of "Because Science", we are delving into decades-old research, into a kind of gravitational machine, featuring neutron stars,which may end up being the ultimate ininterstellar transportation. (laughs) You thought I was gonnasay somethin' didn't you? Didn't you? But before we get to theneutron star slingshot, please go watch the latestepisode of "Because Science" if you haven't yet, allabout whatever it was, and leave me your best comments,corrections, and questions at youTube.com/becausescience,facebook.com/becausescience, and @BecauseScience onwherever you type that in and you get stuff and it is me. And don't forget, Idon't know who out there needs to hear this, soI'm not gonna say it. (gentle electronic music) (logo buzzes) (logo whirs)
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