TIL if you funneled the water from Niagara Falls through a straw, it would probably destroy the planet.
Also that only 1/3 of the water flows over the falls. The rest is diverted off to make electricity.
Misleading title as per the first part of the video. If you funneled it through a straw, only a small amount would come out due to cavitation. If you turned off cavitation, then yes, you'd have a pressure washer operating at speeds comparable to the speed of light.
Wouldn't we also be under enough pressure to begin fusing some of that hydrogen into helium at that point?
And yet it would still leave the edges of bird shit on my car
Why post a video like this with the timecode at the end? You explicitly have to tell YouTube to do that...
Maybe it was shared through an app. If I share a YouTube video from NewPipe, by default it will add the time code to the URL.
Not necessarily. If they watched the video but clicked away somewhere near the end, yt will remember that position for them. If they later saw it again on their homepage and thought, "I liked that video, I should share that" then the link they have there is going to include the start at end bit. Lots of people do not know, or care, about all the bits of a URL so OP could have been ignorant to the fact that URL they copied would do that, or simply missed it, or not cared even after noticing. But I find all of these more likely than OP specifically added it, as you say.
Newpipe annoyingly does that by default.
"This is the last straw" 😆
god I love xkcd
You know, my favorite thing about that channel is that they both explain why something can't happen, and then go into great detail about how horrible it would be if it did. They fully commit to the questions.
No, I'm not going to click on a yt link for such a topic, but: if it were that easy to destroy the planet, why hasn't it be done - so?
Cuz it's not actually possible to do (as explained in the video), but if you could then shenanigans ensue
Rephrased - If you broke the laws of physics in a very specific way to force the full flow of Niagara Falls into a stream the size of a straw, the energy released would destroy the planet.
If you broke the laws of physics in a very specific way
Oh well, then... I didn't think it was that easy 😂
It might damage the straw too.
And if we have found a way to reinforce a straw, then we will have found a way to reinforce the planet as well. Danger averted.
Difficult to drink from. :(
good news!
Challenge accepted