How Deadly Is Sephiroth's Meteor in Final Fantasy 7 | The Science of... Final Fantasy

Denying the name change of The Sears Tower is definitely a mood for those of us living in and around Chicago. It's not just Illinois residents, I'm a good 45 minutes to an hour away from Chicago on the Indiana side and I do the same.

@@majorasmaskguy_8452 It probably applies to most midwsterners in all honesty. I just know everyone I've talked to or know growing up hete in Illinois refuses to change what we call it.

Definitely

Not even just an Illinois. Pretty much the entire nation still calls it that. They may as well just change the name back.

@@majorasmaskguy_8452 Samsies.

I mean, that's how it's spelled.

Like a mako shark. Seems reasonable tot me.

Is this the Best Theory you could come up with?
Austin, you didnt helped at all with the Big Minecraft Story Theory yet, did you?!

Same!!! The remake honestly bothers me on so many levels!

Considering the game is Japanese, it was extremely likely it wasn’t going to be pronounced MAY-KO.

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No

The Sephiroth Meteor! I'll bet many of us Square Enix Fans would die happy getting killed by a giant sized meteor that science decided to call Sephiroth cus FF7 was part of the childhood of many other scientist possibly. XDDDDDDD

I am naming it quetzalcoatl

@@animevsirl I would love to be killed by a giant space rock nee-san

I'll call mine Isabelle. Like imagine how devistating it would be if we were on the brink of extinction because of an meteor named Isabelle.

Fruity pebbles

Meteor wins

Sun wins

29 april asteroid wins

@@azellzettai1977 it won't hit us
But nice joke

Everyone else loses.

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@@_Seinosuke_ Can you people stop with this Neo-Rickroll?

kawarmy he already added that in the vid so makes no sense for u to mention it again

I like austin more than matpat

@@edouard9687 they re both gone mad, matpat from FIve nights and Austin from everything else.

@@isuream2921 it's a joke based on that part of the vid. take it or leave it :)

@@draconicpeasantsheep I agree, it makes no sense to pick on the original comment. It mentions that Austin commented on it, therefore it's his comment that makes no sense. Irony

um we have a space rock about 2 miles wide making a near pass next month.

@@Mamorufumio Wat?

@@user-dc5dc3qb7z its true

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It was nice knowing you guys

@@aagabe3568 Don't worry too much. A "near pass" in astronomy terms is tens of thousands of miles, if not more

Smae

i ruined the 69 likes im sorry

@@jingjingliang6060 You are forgiven.

Isn't it more a asteroid

It's moving at re-entry speeds

It’s an indestructible magic meteor

This is why you're the one who has to join NASA now

I thought this too as I was watching video, then scrolled down to comment it - you beat me to it by 3 weeks my good sir 😂

Casual Zenshien hey, great minds think alike right? 😂

Now I want The Rock the play sephiroth...

And here i was thinking I was original. Well done, good sir.

you can still type sears tower into google to get directions to it, js

As a Chicago native I can confirm that it is indeed the Sears tower!

Directions to the Willie's tower? I think that's a honorary nameplate used for tax purposes they keep at the Sears tower

so did sears make an off color joke in the 30's and have his name wiped off the tower or what?

@@SneakySolidSnake The Sears company operated out of the tower for decades. They sold their stake in the tower for multiple reasons. Eventually the Willis name came upon it but as it's basically an Icon. So everyone still calls it the Sears tower.

🤣

That's probably the only thing wrong with this channel. They ruin EVERYTHING AND CAN'T JUST ENJOY ANY GAME ON THE FRICKING PLANET!!! But i still watch them regardless.

KAnonKal Al There has not been one hint of them saying they don’t like the game, just theorizing about it.

SmaWasTaken the fact that the time frame is 2:57 is what is hilarious 😂 about this

I found you. I knew I'd find another of culture. Imagine not putting "Mars the Bringer of War, by Gustav Holst Op. 32" in the description.

I was hoping that other people would know it too, as soon as I heard it I got goosebumps.

😱😂😂

Oh no
Here we go again.

Lol ikr?

*A G I A N*

Is this the Best Theory you could come up with?
Austin, you didnt helped at all with the Big Minecraft Story Theory yet, did you?!

@@slevinchannel7589 😐

It is too slow to be deadly.

Me: "I've seen Advent Children I already know...."

majora's moon

Mscape 7777 A meteor of that size would wipe out the earth. This one is a magical meteor that can’t be destroyed by physical means, so earth is doomed.

Bru

Wtf I can’t unsee this

its a child png on google, i thought it was pretty obvious

@@avw5kt
Shh, no one needs to know what happens when that's called out.

Hmm... how bout that. Its photo realistic. Now we know why austin always so angry.

What do you mean? That's how he looks. How dare you make fun of his child sized body!

Omg, i see you everywhere. U won’t know who I am probably but I know who _YOU_ are.

FFVII is the most overrated FF game ever.

You!
This is not a JoJo video!!!!

That's true

Is this the Best Theory you could come up with?
Austin, you didnt helped at all with the Big Minecraft Story Theory yet, did you?!

thats true, but you cant calculate game magic with science

So what you're telling me is that since it is a magical attack, it bypasses all resistances to bludgeoning, slashing, and piercing damage?

@@rockinriver6372 challenge accepted

My thoughts exactly, like 2 minutes into the video. Reminds me of the "Mr. Dark" meteor thing from "The Fifth Element", if that reference doesn't date me enough.

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He literally said that in the opening. And again when he said that the 20 mile wide crater would do it for Sephiroth. The video was about the damage, not if it would work for Sephiroth's needs

to quote the wiki "Holy is the ultimate defense against threats to the Planet, and when summoned, will erase anything that presents a danger. However, this may include humans as well; it depends on Holy and the Planet."
This is explained by Bugenhagen, that old floaty guy in cosmo canyon
so to be fair... Austin didn't even do his homework right. He keeps saying holy failed. Holy did not fail. It decided to erase the threats to the planet.

@@MrMeow-iq7kq I'm really not sure how inflicting a 20 mile wide wound upon the planet's crust would save it. Considering what Holy seems to be capable of, if it really sought to destroy Midgar, as your comment implies, it could probably simply vaporise the city and its inhabitants without dropping a colossal meteor on the planet.
Besides, the video's about the damage the meteor would inflict. All this conclusion gives us is that Holy is on its way to becoming Skynet, but with ecoterrorism instead of machine tyranny. None of this was included in Austin's "homework" in the first place.
Edit: Crap, sorry about the ping, I almost never use KRplus's comment system.

@@Leonilian But Austin does say random things throughout the video like, "the damage wouldn't be fatal, so the life-stream shouldn't have bothered helping Holy stop the Meteor."
So Austin is really contradicting himself or just not self aware that the point of meteor is just to wound the planet, despite having said that in his video. He was likely just reading Sephiroth's plan off of some Wikia, rather than actually using critical thinking about it himself.

SonAlexander You are right. But also the meteor will also destroy most present life.

his last science video before this one was *Apr 2, 2020
* so no

Yeah... I was thinking that too.

Aww yeee
YEEEEEEEEE

In chemistry class we call those 'swear words'

Cries*?

More like "units that nobody else uses because they are fricking stupid and inconsistent and we are way to hip to adapt the units that are used all over the rest of the world"

@@Tribalfan88x chill

Who tf is Cry and where tf is this eagle that you speak of?

Sephiroth is already dead by that point tho

@@Ahourigan kinda meaningless statement. Sephiroth was "dead" after Nibelheim.

@@Ahourigan Sephiroth was dead in nibleheim while his body was destroyed in North Crater but his spirit still wanderer around the planet because Lifestream rejected him.

To make him 'alive' again, he need to manifest his spirit to his clone as you can see in Advent Children and Remake.

@@Ahourigan what the others said. Also, Sephiroth's "mom" Jenova is functionally planet cancer in the form of an evil alien invader and resembles a tumorous growth. Sephiroth is *also* a malignancy to the life stream because he shares Jenova's genetic material.

eliteshyguy88 is ok, im sure he is fine

somehow, at these scales, I don't think it's going to make much difference

Ran Wolf also, smaller planet = less gravity

Plugging in the numbers here: www.omnicalculator.com/physics/free-fall-air-resistance
Weight: 2,940,000,000,000kg
Fall Height: 1.756km
Looks like he did account for air resistance. Terminal velocity would be more like 536,950,193 m/s which is ridiculous.
Of course, these numbers are for a person in freefall. There's a lot more surface area on an asteroid that size...

@@TheTinPotNoob What if the planets core is super dense?

do you mean the house-sized one that went by yesterday?

draxomega u think there is a bigger one coming

Oh thank you so much for this. I was tired of not being controlled by my anxieties, anyway.

@@gabrielperrella gods mad the virus isn't wiping us out so now he's sending an asteroid lol

@@dameonpounders7211 Seriously guys, you gotta stop.

yeah I saw that too when the alert popped up. finally checking on the video now and its been corrected.

Unfortunately, it's been corrected
BUT WE REMEMBER

Probably

They planned one for this month so

No, this will be our warm up, on the last 40 days of the year the ground will make large red glowing cracks from which titans will rise and start eating people. Then, humanity will get overwhelmed and will retreat undergroung(the cracks will be open only when the titans are coming out) end then, at New Year eve, we will be eradicated by a powerful earthquake.

Yeah considering how much the game talks about it it's reasonable to say you were working to be backup for the life stream, if it needed it.

That was literally the plan, to make the lifestream interfere.

Well the whole point of meteor is to cause enough damage to force the lifestream to heal the wound. There is nothing to say that sephiroth or the charecters expect the lifestream to intervene before the meteor even impacts the ground.

Nah, it's full DEM that the Lifestream would mobilize assertively as it did to combat Meteor, rather than only passively repairing after the deed was done. Plot-wise, it's why Aeris' death was necessary, as she is the one who coaxed the planet into assertive action.
They were all super dead. Holy not only failed, it was making matters worse so that Meteor was a threat to the whole planet even without Sephiroth drinking up the Lifestream. Alone, maybe Meteor destroys the climate and kills folks for some centuries but the planet survives.

@@jaeusa160 to which Sephi drinks the Lifestream and attains Godhood, using the dried up Planet as a vessel to seek another world to infest and devour. Funny how his plan horribly destroys world's if left alone.

Me: Looks at dirge of Cerberus and shivers

I liked Dirge of Cerberus lol

Bravely Default: All-powerful crystals self-nukes when internal balance of light and dark is broken.

Me: also casually glances over to Octopath Traveller...

Me: Suddenly remembered the dusty boxes of Chrono series in the basement.

That seems like the most likely explanation, and what I always thought.

not to mention that this is a summon. theres nothing saying that the meteor isnt being propelled by something as well rather than just being pulled by the effects of gravity.

Well that meteor was the size of Texas. Blowing it up from the inside would likely result in smaller meteors that still would be kilometers wide to pepper our planet killing us all.
If a meteor the size of Texas hit us it would likely melt the whole crust and we would of course all die.
The only thing we could do is catch it years early and put rockets on it in an attempt to divert its course enough it would miss us.

I second this.

@@kabloosh699 Wouldn't a better solution be to send bombs to it that will drill into the surface and then explode from the inside? Since the meteor wouldn't be within Earth's gravity, all the pieces of the meteor would scatter in the directions they were pushed. Leaving only a very select few still on a direct course to Earth. The ones that will still be approaching (if they are still fairly large) can be blown up directly long before they reach the planet. Of course all this is assuming that we find the meteor multiple years before it hits us.

@@tommoore2012 It depends on how much you scatter. If any significant portion reaches earth (even if they burn up in the atmosphere), the energy release would boil the oceans and keep lead molten for the next 300 or so years.

@@kabloosh699 Or summon Golbez, since he tanked one of these in Final Fantasy 4 and still defeated it's caster

Oh boy wait till I tell ya scientists think a big boi meteor that was prodicted to miss the earth might get a direct hit.

Cassandra Calder don’t worry we have the space missiles

Shut up.

@@hasthehighground8560
Dude, they tried that with ShinRa No. 26 and that didn’t do *_anything_* to Meteor. And even if it worked, would multiple Boulder-sized meteors moving faster than the speed of sound directly toward Earth really be that much better?

@@justafan9399 Shinra

Have you seen Star Wars Episode IV?

Same here.

holy assisted it...
to quote the wiki "Holy is the ultimate defense against threats to the Planet, and when summoned, will erase anything that presents a danger. However, this may include humans as well; it depends on Holy and the Planet."
This is explained by Bugenhagen, that old floaty guy in cosmo canyon
Midgar was a threat.
Holy is more powerful than meteor from my understanding.

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...But me liking Japan as much as I do, I probably just stumbled upon it when watching Pocky commercials . . . anyways, there's a channel called JapanThing that compiles some japanese commercials, they are pretty funny, so check it out if you have any interest.
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@@lastnamefirstname5295 Yes! That's great. I love you for that.

maybe Austin is bigger than we thought

TactlessC That is what we call a Twonk

It ain't bad. He's a twink because he's a star. Like the song goes. "Twink, Twink, little star. How I wonder.. Oh God! Aerith! Nooooooooo!!!

Yeah but look at his hair. Total bottom. Lol

I had to rewind the video or hear him say it again because I couldn't believe my ears lol

Same, pretty sure that's exactly the reason it wasn't able to perform on its own

Exactly! That's totally correct! By the time meteor entered the world it was too late, Holy was supposed to be unleashed while meteor was still in space. I'm pretty sure that's actually part of the canon story on why Holy wasnt working.

@@jasonbuell7958 Sephiroth was pretty much holding holy back even as Aerith was casting it in the life stream. Thus he had to be defeated first.

ah magic, "a wizrd did it!!"

wait hold up is the meteor actually named meteor wtf

3:04

Austin: proceeds to make a slightly less underwhelming video

It's not pain
IT'S HORROR

Im sure sephiroth will clear up this mistake with austin shortyly.

Is.. Is he allowed to say that???

@@starsiadraws he is a bisexual demon king that I STAN to the end of time

@@scornedrose6808 wait he is?

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I guess you didn't play death stranding? 😂

Gone reduced to atoms

True, although with the opposite conclusion, simply due to scale.

jordan wible there is only a few pepole that has made a simulare statmite and live do you wan't to know what happend to them because i dont and i wouldn't recommend you doing the same

Honest, I had a similar thought, but a different one.
Austin: "Squate Enix will eventually run out of ideas and remake Final Fantasy 7!"
Square Enix: (Remakes Final Fantasy 7 with enough content changes that they might even change the story.)
(This isn't a complaint, I've always wanted to play through FF7, and the remake only makes me want to play through BOTH FF7s.)

People think magic meteors don't be like they is, but it do!!

Not for very long, but pretty much yeah.

If you were bigger than the car sure

Until gravity hits, yeah. You're also significantly smaller than the earth but that's irrelevant