Dear Blizzard, oh my glob. I just
Excuse me further than that. I just need a cool-down every time I think about a conde a
aka doom fist because I mean
Look at this man. Look at him my God. You know between doom fist and sombra
I'm pretty certain blizzard is trying to force me to side with talon regardless of their goals and motivations
I could use my politics brain to choose the
Later overwatch, the good guys. I mean I know they have ye olli Captain America and a cute English time Lord
But we don't get a lot of exposition that clearly states that they're objectively good
I mean yeah Taylan kills people and they have grim emic grim Dark on their team
But since when was killing people our measurement of goodness. I'm getting off track,point is
Talin is officially team sexy, and they've got my science vote of support
Only like a minute into this and I'm already going off the rails if I keep going to get to the darn point already guys
Are going to hit the comment section full force so enough you can read video titles and comprehend thumbnails
So you already know where I'm going with this doom this doom fist was dropped on over watch it
Oh my God. He is so friggin fun
I'm objectively terrible with him because a between Vidcon the flu taking care of my baby and trying to keep on top of
Science I've been completely strapped for time and haven't been able to play overwatch at all and B
I'm just like the worst at DPS. Just terrible terrible
Regardless that doesn't make punching people into walls and turning their organs into goo
Magically unfun those of you who have been following me for a while know that I have a weird fixation on
Punching in the overwatch world and boy howdy of Blizzard hasn't totally doubled down on that one this time today's
Question is a simple one how possible are doom'd fists powers and while this question is simple on the surface
Let's peel back the layers and look at the physics the answers are way more amazing than I could have ever
Imagined take a second and tell me what you think like the video if you think doom fist is a totally plausible
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The doom fist that we play as a con de algún D mu wasn't the first doom fist hell?
He's not even the second doom fist doom fist is like the dread pirate Roberts the title passed down from badass to badass
along with a sweet-ass super techno gauntlet of Doom Augen G mu was a competitive martial artist and
Executive in a prosthetics company before he lost his arm during the Omni crisis
You know that big war between the robots everyone talks about where bastions turned humans into swiss cheese before overwatch became a thing
Anyway, Tldr Backstory Backstory he fashioned himself a robotic prosthetic arm murder
Deaths the first students that came before him builds an iMmunity to Io cane powder claims the doomed sis Kotlin gets thrown as his flavor
By overwatch literally punches his way out of prison got the gauntlet back ripped off Tracers Chrono accelerator
And what may be the single most savage scene I've seen in a video game story since garel of Rivia Dutch oven a dudes face
Off win against the Sicilian when Des is on the line rejoin callen as one of its leaders and boom here. We are
I always thought it was funny that in an age with pulse rifles and guns capable of making black holes
Genji chooses to use a sword and his brother chooses to use a bow and freakin arrow
But considering doom fist decides to walk around mostly naked
Punching cyborgs girls and mech suits and Captain America in the face over and over until they die
We may have a new contender for completely reckless badass doom fist has several abilities
But we're going to be looking closely at two
Specifically his rocket punch where he charges his fist up flies forward and fits his opponent like a runaway ice cream truck and his ultimate
meteor strike where for some unknown
Reason this Master martial artist jumps into the sky and crashes into the ground
Wrecking anyone who's even remotely close to the epicenter and sending the rest flying
we're going to start with rocket punch because this thing is a
freaking beast at full charge this thing launches doom fist forward twenty meters in a fifth of a second that's a
hundred meters per second or over
200 miles per freaking hour oh
God
Already we're starting to get into some trouble because accelerating up to these speed this quickly means he's going to be pulling over
200 freaking g's holy crap but fine whatever
He's not pulling these g's for too terribly long and from the looks of things dude
Doom fist has replaced parts of his body with cybernetics
So who the heck knows what kind of things his body can tolerate this ain't the bad part not even freaking close?
We are just getting started what I want to know is how
Powerful this thing is yeah, it's capable of one-shotting people
Especially if they get slammed into a wall in the process that really doesn't tell us much you yep?
Yeah, you right there could kill someone in one punch
Well, probably I guess if your arms are really noodley prop probably not my baby
Ain't killing anybody in any amount of punches anytime soon, but the human body is pretty system to hold a trauma
It's remarkably easy to kill a violence carries along with it risk while deaths from punches aren't
Incredibly common, they're not that rare
Anyway, I want to know how strong
The punches I mean when you knock someone into a wall it cracks. It leaves a freaking tiny crater
Isn't that kind of ridiculous?
to answer that we're going to have to crunch the numbers which means we're going to have to bust out two of
over watches resident Rulers Roadhog and
Lucio
Lucio makes an amazing
Ruler these days ever since blizzard patched the game so you could see the radius of his area of effect you can just drop him
Anywhere and get precise as heck measurements
Thanks the fluffy Lord
But why do we need road hog because while we have our distance
Ruler down pat in order to get numbers where the Dam. We're going to need more than distance. We're going to need something to measure
Mass which brings us road hog one of the only characters with a known
Cannon weight during the newscast for Road hog and junk rats trailer briefly ever so briefly they give us road hogs weight
550 pounds or since we're doing science
249 kilograms knowing this and having our super duper awesome Ruler
That is lucio with our powers combined
We can figure out how powerful doom fist is but first
We're going to have to talk about my current favorite field of science for college Tribology is
Basically the study of how things rub against each other, shut up stop your snickering back there, anyway for our intended purposes
We're just going to have to cover the basics now a lot of times when I've talked about the physics of stuff moving in past
Videos I've been calculating the energies and forces in a frictionless environment
It's simpler and for most applications the physics are good enough, but we don't live in a frictionless world
We have trees, air, dirt and just like all sorts of crap everywhere ok, ok so for example
We have a road hog weighing
249 kg just standing there right call back to my ancient, buddy Isaac
Newton and his first law of motion a thing that ani't movin will say not moving until something makes it move now in Newtonian
Models Roadhog actually has two forces working on him
There's a force of gravity pulling him down at a rate of 9.8
Meters per second squared this can be written as a force
Which is just mass times acceleration this gives us two thousand four hundred and forty four newtons now obviously
Roadhog isn't shooting down a bottomless pit of despair
The ground is pushing back up on him with an equal Force which cancels out the force of gravity Ergo
Dude, isn't moving so there's one force of two thousand four hundred and forty-four Newton's pushing down and two thousand four
Hundred and forty four pushing up these two forces together are what's called the normal Force and this is the basic premise behind
Friction doesn't matter much when you're just standing still
But as soon as you start introducing forces that run perpendicular to these they can make a big difference
Topology ,shut up, tells us that objects sliding against each other ,I said shut up, will be affected by these
opposing Forces different objects and surfaces
Have different levels of slip that are dependent upon a ton of Factors. How wet they are ,stop it. How smooth
they are how hard they are all these things can be measured, and they're quantified in what's called the coefficient of
Friction this number is different depending upon which two objects are being rubbed together hence the Co in
coefficient
But basically it represents a percentage of the normal force that must be met in order to accelerate
Something you want to move there are actually two different
coefficients of friction the coefficient for budging which Governs what we'll call the budging Force any coefficient of friction which Governs the
Friction Force you see it takes more energy to get something that's
Stationary to start moving than it does to keep something moving that is already moving so in order for a fist to move
Roadhog at all it has to overcome this budging force
And that's before we even get roadhog up to speed or smash them into walls with Deadly Force
So, what is this budging force well?
We already have a ton of different surfaces to choose from but I'm going to go with the tried and true skin and Road Model
Which is used to measure
How much skin you'll lose if you hit pavement fun this works because I did my testing in li-Jiang tower
Which is a real place well?
Li Jing is anyway the old town of Li jiang has cobbled streets made of unknown stone and before you tribology
Experts out there try to point out the cobble effect forget it
I've got a life to live and I can't just fly off to China and run friction experiment anyway
road to skin gives us a coefficient of budging of
0.85 and point eight for friction meaning just to get road hog moving from his stationary position you gotta hit him with two
thousand and seventy eight newtons and that barely gets in the move just a
smidges of smidges that's basically a professional bodybuilder at peak performance
giving road hog the hardiest shove they possibly can but that's not what our
magnificent doom fist does to road hog
This is the basicest the smallest amount of force necessary to move road hog at all
But that ain't what doom fist does do this freakin destroys
Folks that he hits and we have numbers for that and my God they are
inconceivable
Using Lucios radius is a measuring device and knowing that the radius of his area of influence is 10 metres
We can figure out exactly how fast road hog is moving when it gets hit by doing this and from here pinpoint exactly how hard doom
Fists fists are hitting people conveniently at full power doofus launches road hog forward 10 meters 10
Freakin meters in under a fifth of a second now road hog moves at a consistent speed this entire time
But in reality he would start moving at a speed the instate he is struck by the fist and immediately begin to slow down due to
Friction from Air and from the Street using the power of
SCIENCE we can determine that this initial speed he'd have to be traveling at is
53 meters per second or over a hundred and eighteen miles per freaking hour
Oh crap in order to get all 249 kilograms of man meat that is road hog moving this fast , this quickly Doom fists fists would have to be applying over
300 kilonewtons of Force the Road Hog
That's the kind of force you feel if you got a car accident going over 300 km/h that makes the two
Kilonewtons the budging Force look like a drop of the freaking bucket and remember dude this he ani't a car and while we establish that
he's capable of traveling over 100 meters per second with his fisty fists in order to Impart this much Force in the Road Hog by
Contrast Avoid
Breaking every bone in his own body his fists that gauntlet of hell would have to weigh over a hundred and thirty three
kilograms or over two hundred
Ninety-four freakin pound that's a hell of a lot of weight to have dangling on just one side of your body
How is he not tipping over?
Speaking of tips if dude this landing a road hog with this much force from his fist
He'd find himself about elbow deep in Road hog guts because of one
terrifying thing, pressure
Pressure is Force over an area two
Kilonewton spread over your whole body would probably push you over or at least make you take a few steps back two
Kilonewtons condensed into the space the size of a needle that'll rip through your body like a Frickin bullet area means
Everything and doom fists fist is way smaller than a car measuring the surface of his fist at Roughly
1600 Square centimeters a fist hitting roadog this hard would be in parting
1.26
Megapascals of pressure into road hogs chest this is as much pressure as in the average human bite
Which sure it doesn't sound that intense?
But I want you to do something for me right now bite into your hand
Like it's a sandwich or just think back to the last time you accidentally bit your tongue or cheek or lip while you're eating
It friggin hurts doesn't it now imagine that feeling
Spread out in one square foot in the center of your chest your teeth are
capable of chewing through meat like it's nothing and that's exactly what dooms fists fist would be doing to whomever he hits it with
ripping them open like a
Gutted fish well covering your characters and the entrails of their defeated enemies goes against over watches cartoon aesthetic
That's totally what would be happening, and that's that dimension is ultimate attack. Which is just like just freaky yeah
Doom fists
Ultimate has him jumping into the air and slamming into the ground sending out
Shockwaves of death like he's some sort of freaking hand grenade in human form ignoring again
How this should definitely be turning all his internal organs into goo as he hits the ground at over
166 g's this move is way more terrifying than his mega punch sure his punch is like a weaponized car accident
But if we figure doom fist as roughly as tall as road hog at 2.2. Meters. We can figure
He's hitting the ground at a speed of over 46 meters per second somehow. He doesn't die because
Space Magic but that doesn't mean the effects aren't just the worst road hog if hit Dead center
Flies eight leaders away in a quarter of a second sounds better than getting punched directly then right?
No, because the force that sends him back doesn't come directly from the fist it comes from the seismic waves
caused by the impact
212 kilonewtons of Force coming not from a direct hit but from the energy imparted into the ground using average
soil density of 1,300 kilograms per cubic meter a seismic da with a velocity of 70 meters per second a period of
0.07 seconds an amplitude of a quarter of a meter and a frequency of 87 Hertz which will have to just trust me on because
I'm running out of time would be imparting over
139,000 joules of energy into the surrounding area that's the strength of a frickin meteor hitting the ground meteor strike is freaking right?
but this isn't just a danger to folk caught in the blast radius an impact like this would be creating a
150 decibel sound wave due to the Seismic waves acting like a giant speaker
Condensing the air and creating sound waves. No no not sound waves a shock wave
Anyone within a hundred meters would be at risk for having their eardrum
Bursting this sound would be so loud that have duped this were to land a meteor strike in my town of champaign, Illinois
You'd be able to hear it all the way in London
Canada London the London's the ones the one in Canada Here here - Ramat by 8 in
Minneapolis trump in Washington DC people everywhere from here to Atlanta
Georgia would be opening their doors going what the heck was that is that the communists are we under attack?
- Blizzards credit they give you this ear protection
It's like they knew they thought of everything
Except how to model the bloody guts of tracers insides all over the metal sheen of doom fist gauntlet ow
So there you have it do this far from being a wimp that everyone tolerates
It's probably the single most dangerous
character and overwatch that is if
he can get close enough to you to hit you at all and honestly if we take for granted that he'd need to have a
his internal organs replaced with robot organs in order to survive the impact forces and g-Forces from his fist
surprisingly plausible for uh Superhero or villain
whatever I can't keep track of Tallins misdeeds when there are these beautiful beautiful, abs to consider
Sincerely Austin
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