Vsauce, I’m Jake and bricks and mortar are pretty strong.
It would take pressures 67 times that of our own atmosphere for a brick to start to crumble.
Not only that but to break through a brick wall would require the kinetic energy equivalent
of a bullet fired from an M16 rifle.
Now that we know this the obvious question arises...Could Kool-Aid Man Break Through
a Wall?
So let’s say we have a pitcher, but not just any pitcher, this is a sentient humanoid
pitcher that comes in at 6ft tall.
When scaled to that size the glass would be 3.6in.
Kool-Aid man or KAM for short would also be incredibly heavy.
His dry weight would clock in at 5,800lbs.
But we need to fill him with 607.6 gallons, that’d be 1150 cans of soda, which would
increase his total weight to 11,000lbs.
He would weigh roughly the same as an elephant.
We tend to think of glass as fragile, pretty thin, and that’s because the kind we interact
with, generally, is.
However, glass is surprisingly strong.
It can withstand pressures up to 469 times that of our own atmosphere - 7 times more
than brick - and takes twice as much energy to break.
Since KAM’s glass is 3.6in thick, that would be enough to not shatter when hitting a brick
wall.
In fact, his enormous mass means he’d only need to be going at an average running pace
to have enough energy to bust through said wall.
But let’s talk about his weight for a second - as we know from the square cube law, which
I talked about in my Could Godzilla Exist video, you just can’t scale something up
and expect for it’s legs to be able to support the now incredibly large body.
Lucky for us, since KAM’s legs are made of glass, which can withstand such immense
pressure, his legs could be the diameter of a quarter and his feet the area of 3 postage
stamps and he wouldn’t collapse under his own weight.
So KAM can break through walls, but what about the liquid inside of him?
It is safe to assume that the beverage that fills his body is his blood.
Just walking would cause his insides to slosh around, getting dangerously close to spilling
over.
Crashing through a wall would cause a lot of blood loss.
Humans can lose about 15% of blood without any immediate effects.
The American College of Surgeons happen to have created a handy blood loss scale.
Class I Hemorrhage is 15% blood loss.
Class II is up to 30%, that’s when your skin would lose color and start to feel cold.
Class III up to 40% and by now you’re probably in shock or slowly going unconscious.
Class IIII is anything above 40% blood loss, and things...aren’t looking good.
When KAM breaks through that wall, he would lose about 1/3rd of his blood, a Class III.
He probably wouldn’t be able to finish his “Oh Yeah” tagline before stumbling into
your home, trying to keep himself upright as he swerves around confused and in shock.
Not to mention all the foreign bodies that are now inside of him, because after all,
he did just burst completely through a wall with an open hole on top of his head.
It would probably cause complications - for starters It’s a good way to get an infection.
Also, even though he wouldn’t completely shatter when breaking through walls, his glass
would start to form cracks over time and the fractures tend to grow so not only would KAM
have to worry about the liquid he’d lose from the top, but also the liquid that would
be slowly seeping out of his body due to cracks.
Unless of course he was made of laminated glass, the same stuff that’s used in windshields
and bulletproof windows, which is layers of glass interlaced with plastic that keeps the
layers of glass bonded together even when broken.
So Kool-Aid Man could break through walls, but he’d only be able to break through one
unless he figured out a way to keep his blood in...maybe he should put on a tupperware hat
or he could use the front door.
But if he must burst through people’s homes he’d definitely require aid...just not the
Kool kind...and as always, thanks for watching.