Game Theory: Spiderman DESTROYED New York! (Spider-Man: Miles Morales)

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maybe get me started a little on this because what the first the camouflage great you got yourself special dna powers from a spider bite that make you invisible cool totally fine with that but why are your clothes able to change too these are dna based powers i'm not asking for streak or man running around town i'm just saying that your dna magic should not be able to cloak your literal cloak gripe number two your bioelectricity is called venom strikes yeah that's not going to get confusing with another character in this franchise oh digression over thank you for letting me get that off my chest anyway thanks to miles's electrocharged venom powers miles succeeds in a battle against rhino where peter fails it's enough to make pete realize that he's quickly becoming obsolete bioelectricity wow gotta be honest little jealous now of course these electrical abilities are useful during combat but to me there's something much more interesting about him throughout the game miles is forced to use his body like a capacitor aka advice that stores up electrical energy sometimes he's sucking the power out of security systems to shut him down or get past electrified barriers sometimes he's powering things up like a battery on two legs with excellent taste in music but without question the most impressive feat we see miles accomplish comes at the end so uh spoiler warning because it's kind of impossible to actually talk about the game's big climactic scene without you know saying everything that happens during that scene so the final mission of the game the battle for harlem features the climactic showdown between our two opposing forces in this corner is roxon a mega corporation that's promising to deliver high efficiency power to all of harlem with their innovative new fuel source called new form what you're standing next to is a new form reactor no points for guessing that new form is actually dangerous someone's gonna care about a few sick people up town or a dead engineer prolonged exposure to it can result in health defects like bone marrow decay and in our other corner is the high-tech terrorist group known as the underground vigilantes that are trying to expose roxanne's evil business practices if you're wondering why the underground is one of the bad guy factions here well their way of sending a message about the dangers of roxanne isn't by you know whistleblowing or contacting the news or anything like that but rather by blowing up a reactor which will actually cause an explosion that destroys all of harlem you're not just gonna destroy roxanne plaza you're gonna vaporize all of harlem after a battle against the underground's leader of the tinker miles finally makes his way to the reactor and in the same way that we've seen him drain the power of electrical devices across the city miles draws the power from the reactor but of course that is a lot of energy and miles as a human capacitor has to do something with it all get them far away i can't hold this in much longer luckily the head of the underground has a last minute change of heart and decides to help miles out by grabbing him and flying high above the city so that when he releases the massive explosive discharge of energy nothing and nobody is close enough to get hurt in the end miles survives so he can return for the sequel harlem is saved and the tinkerer has a heroic final sacrifice but because we never see the body she can always return to the sequel if they feel like it that final cut scene is quite frankly an awesome display of power bravery and self-sacrifice it's also completely useless oh sure it may look all heroic but miles morales completely fails to protect the city in this moment miles completely botches the rescue of new york city and kills millions but to understand why we first need to look a bit closer at the reactor at the start of the game we see a big presentation from roxanne's head of r d simon krieger as we find out this reactor runs on a fictional fuel source known as nuform just one canister of this revolutionary fuel source is enough to supply harlem with clean safe energy for the next 500 years of course new form is actually making people sick meaning it's a threat to everyone in harlem to which i say why would you not build a power plant somewhere else like i don't know middle of the desert that is literally what's done with tons of other real world power plants guess what the existence of power grids make it so that the power plant that supplies energy to all of harlem doesn't actually have to be in harlem in fact tons of people in new york city have their homes powered by electricity that's generated by niagara falls which is like 400 miles away you can even maintain it using the robotic help that we know exists in the marvel universe or heck just use some of the holograms that we see throughout the game roxanne's plan to build their sickness-causing power plant in the middle of a population center is not just evil but let's get real it's just bad business seriously have you looked at real estate prices for new york city a moderately sized commercial building is gonna cost you nearly a billion billion with a b dollars maybe it's time i just quit youtube and become the accountant for an evil corporation probably save them a bunch of money does amazon have any openings since a single canister of new form has enough energy to power harlem for 500 years all we need to know is how much energy harlem consumes in a year and then multiply it by 500. luckily we have ourselves a handy tool for calculating this exact number thanks to vj moddy a professor of mechanical engineering at columbia university this map shows the estimated annual energy consumption of new york city on a granular block by block basis totaling up all of harlem gives us a total of let's see uh carry the one 91 860 megawatt hours per year that means that if a single canister of new form has enough energy to power harlem for 500 years it is packing a total of 45.93 million megawatt hours or to put that in si units which will make it easier for our calculations later 165.3 million gigajoules why are you not impressed oh i know cause those numbers are meaningless i've been doing this for a decade and i still can't automatically see megawatt hours or gigajoules and know whether that's a really impressive number or not so to put those numbers in perspective the amount of energy that miles is absorbing from the reactor is approximately 95 the amount of energy from the sun that hits the earth in one second or five times as much as all the nuclear power plants on earth generate every single day it is 2 625 times as much energy as was unleashed by the atomic bomb that was dropped on hiroshima during world war ii and that is just the energy in a single canister of the stuff at the end of the game we're told that miles has to stop the reactor because if it blows up the resulting explosion would destroy all of harlem you're not just gonna destroy roxanne plaza you're gonna vaporize all of harlem but boy this would go way beyond just destroying harlem the most powerful nuclear weapon ever tested was the tsar bomba which was created by the ussr during the cold war it had an explosive yield of around 243 million gigajoules and well take a look at the mushroom cloud yourself that picture was taken at a distance of 100 miles or 161 kilometers away and you can still see the cloud which itself is 40 miles or 65 kilometers high now what's notable is that this bomb was actually detonated at an elevation of 2.5 miles or 4 kilometers above the ground and it still left a massive crater below it not only that but structures over 500 miles away from ground zero were still hit by the after effects of the explosion to put that in perspective if you detonated that same explosive yield over harlem people as far as north carolina would be feeling it heck people in canada would be feeling it zarbamba actually created a seismic wave in the earth's crust that circled the globe three separate times before it finally dissipated now miles is discharged that sounds gross his electrical explosion isn't quite as powerful as zarbamba his yield is only 68 percent as powerful as you know the most powerful nuclear weapon to ever be tested on earth but it does raise an important point here which is that the tinkerer's simple plan of flying miles uh miles above the harlem city block to insulate the city from the effects of the explosion isn't the magical cure-all that you'd be hoping for so how bad is the damage we're talking about here well in that final scene we see the tinkerer running up the side of a building only to hold miles just slightly above the cloud line the tallest building in harlem is the harlem river park towers 1 2 standing at around 428 feet or 130 meters tall not super high so that's our initial launch point and from there there are technically three layers of clouds low middle and high clouds the lowest layer caps off at six thousand five hundred feet or two thousand meters and considering her launch point is significantly lower than that we're gonna say that this is absolutely the highest height that the tinkerer is able to get using this website nuclearsecrecy.com we can actually see what happens when you detonate a 34 000 kiloton bomb 6500 feet over new york city so did miles manage to save harlem let's find out in three two one detonate nope big nope basically all of harlem is vaporized as it falls within what's called the fireball zone the rest of central new york city is in the heavy blast damage zone where heavy concrete buildings are severely damaged or demolished and fatalities approach a hundred percent goodbye central park goodbye times square goodbye broadway well there wasn't really anything happening there anyway this year and i have hamilton on disney plus so really that one wasn't too much of a loss the entire rest of the city as well as all the surrounding boroughs fall pretty solidly into the moderate damage zone where most residential buildings collapse and fatalities are widespread my conservative estimate looking at this data is that four million people die in the resulting explosion so it was a nice thought tinkerer but you really didn't make that much of a difference but fortunately our friendly neighborhood spider-man survives in the apocalyptic fallout and the fact that he was able to absorb all of this energy into his body is a serious testament to his capabilities as a superhero i mean it's not quite mcu's thor allowing the entire energy of a star to pass through his body but he's doing pretty darn good to give some context a lightning strike has the power of about 10 gigawatts so what miles is experiencing is the equivalent of getting struck by 1 million 180 000 lightning bolts simultaneously so you know what i think i take back what i said maybe miles is actually a better match for thor the god of thunder than i thought and yet new york is apparently still full of street criminals who think they can go toe-to-toe with miles using nothing but their fists maybe that's the most unbelievable part of this game no definitely the fact that the explosion didn't destroy all of new york hard to be a friendly neighborhood spider-man when you just accidentally nuked the neighborhood but hey it's episodes like today's that make me really thankful for our sponsor nordvpn why use a vpn you ask well for one thing a vpn encrypts your online life to ensure that you stay anonymous in fact with nordvpn you get double data encryption for increased anonymity so let's just say there's a hypothetical situation where i i don't know you're doing research on the damage an atomic bomb would do to new york city well that browsing history would stay anonymous well outside the hands of the crying eyes of the men in black looking to track you down or say a much more likely scenario you're doing peer-to-peer sharing and you don't want anyone to 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Channel: The Game Theorists

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Id: uPyGuDG2r-A

Length: 13min 52sec (832 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 09 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/TrageDK]

If there's spoilers for the game, I will not watch it.

[u/tundrat]

500 years worth of fuel sounds really excessive both in-universe and as the premise of the game. O_o
That much energy in a canister of that size, couldn't that become a black hole?
Even about 5~10 years sounds like it'd be good enough.

[u/Walter_Alias]

The biggest problem is that the energy released by a meltdown or explosion isn't necessarily the same as the total electrical energy that would have been generated. For example, if the Uranium-235 in the Little Boy bomb had been run through a nuclear reactor, the total energy would be 2.8 times greater than the bomb. We don't know anything about the Nuform containment or criticality conditions, so I think it's okay to take "vaporize all of Harlem" at face value.

[u/Walter_Alias]

Another thing that MatPat failed to consider is time. A nuclear fireball can reach the temperature of the sun, but it only does so for a matter of nanoseconds. Harmless explosions in rapid succession will never cause damage no matter how many.

A 40 kiloton blast happening at 2km cuts the major damage down to a few city blocks. Therefore, if Miles releases the energy over the course of a few seconds, as opposed to the nanoseconds a nuclear bomb would release it over, it will greatly reduce the damage and damage radius.