How Realistic Is Spider-Man's Web Slinging Antics?
When Spider-Man made his own webbing in his high school chemistry class, he was smart to try to mimic spider silk. After all, the real stuff is pound for pound, stronger than steel. He also seems to have improved upon it, using what looks to be carbon nanotubes to provide even more strength and flexibility, just like scientists are investigating in real labs today.
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How Realistic Is Spider-Man's Web Slinging Antics?
Now all we need is an awkward high schooler that got bitten by a radioactive spider to make a Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man
True, but we need someone to steal those notes to mass produce C nano treading.
I'll do it y'all.
You'll die if you got bitten by a radioactive spider. Your DNA will decay.
@@Pij23 yeah either it won't be radioactive enough or so radioactive that you will get cancer
No problem.😋
Now talk about Tony Stark making a whole steel armor from a pile of scraps.
Oof that callback in far from home though
someBODY lmao 😂. And the sad thing is That was his stronger suit. It didn’t even get dented when 7mm bullets from a turret.
Sorry sir..im not tony STANK!!
J Foster nope it’s not his weakest suit dumbass. It survived a huge explosions and huge bullets firing at hundreds of miles per hour. Lmao I’ve seen some of his suits break way easier.
Lmaooo
Well don’t start freaking out when I start swinging from buildings
You'll be the one freaking out when your arms literally rip out of your body.
Lol
@@beachder woosh
We still need to worry about g forces while we swing through the air.
Luigi I can handle it
if he actually sell his silk thread at several degree of quality, he won't be that poor, he can even become the CEO of Spider-silk corp.
The only problem is the solubility, his webs dissolve in an hour... But of course that could be removed if possible
@@ryebread117_ When Doc Ock took over Peter's body in Superior Spider-Man, he actually did that. And now Spidey is so rich he is a CEO.
Thats what i was thinking
@@yosepht7941 if you really watch the movie, you would know they are not dating
ryebread07 He’s a genius thats not a cheap way he can just create something since he’s a genius
Insider-Spider-Man is realistic *Batman-am i joke to you*
UNO Did you really just say BATMAN IS THE MOST UNREALISTIC... HAVE YOU HEARD OF SUPERMAN???
@@uno9331 Batman doesn't have super strength and he is the most unrealistic hero, wow wow !! Hats off to you !
@@uno9331 you for sure didn't read batman comics
🤣😂
@@uno9331 he is a genius lmao
To be fair if peter had used fishing line instead of spider webbing as his inspiration then we would’ve called him Fisherman-man
Watch the full video bruh they weren’t serious in the beginning
2k Demiks I know why would I take Fisherman-man seriously anyways
Marvellizor 99 LOOK, ITS *fishermanman*
Fisherman could hook you're skin and that would hurt
ricardo cuevas fisherman can't hook sand man because he made out of sand
Actually, he was able to figure it out cause the spider who bit him was actually a engineered radioactive spider that gave him a lot more knowledge about web structures just like an average arachnid.
GohariJoules lolwut
@@vitelspring there's a episode of the 90s Spider-Man cartoon where Spidey hangs out with a little girl who's a big fan of his. He explains how he came up with the web fluid. Pretty much like this comment said, he tells the girl that the spider that bite him instinctivly gave him the knowledge to make web fluid.
micpere1991 i highly doubt that’s canon though.. unless somebody could cite a source?
micpere1991 i highly doubt that’s canon though.. unless somebody could cite a source?
@@vitelspring can't remember the exact issue, but early on in the ultimate spider man comic run, he says the same thing. Spider bite made him somewhat more versed in web making
*Sticcy and Thicc* just as all webs should be
Sticky and thick I guess you. Sticc and thicc isn't funny anymore it's stupid.
@@alexandersebela370 It isn't funny for you
@@alexandersebela370 idiot who told you to care?
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Dude PG13
More like the most shocking thing is that Peter isn't an instant gazillionaire
I believe he is somewhat of a rich 'Elon Musk' type guy in the comics. Got his own big company and everything.
@@MasalaMan thats when he was an adult. Watch Raimi's origin film to see what it was like in the comics.
I think there was a time he tried to patent it as an adhesive only to be turned down when the company took issue with its biodegradability, even when Peter sweared he could tweak the formula to make it last longer. Supposedly it's not as far fetched in real life as companies could and would turn down genuinely innovative stuff for stupid, short-sighted, or petty reasons, only for the creator to go elsewhere.
@@NobodyC13 Nobody is talking about him working for a company here. his stuff is so revolutionary he could actually start his own & his stuff would DEFINITELY sell well, so much so that it'd seem dumb if he were to work for others instead.
He underestimates himself
I don't know if we should trust the word of this Doc Ock lookin dude
Why isn’t this yet in top comments gosh darn it 😭😂😂
@@itsrazvinotrizvi coz you are an asshole
@@silverspear7216 What did he do?
@@silverspear7216 wtf dude
He has the power of the sun in the palm of his hand
Spooder silk is actually extremely strong, so good choice on his part Worth it
Hammer Addiction4u How do you comment on every video I watch
@@done4195 I know right
Too bad it's stickiness isn't as strong.
yooo i forgor about ya
Fact: Spiderman’s webshooters are designed to prevent others using them. The palm switch requires 65 pounds of pressure to press and must also receive a lightning-quick double-tap from the users middle and third fingers. This system prevents non-superpowered individuals from firing his webs.
Ned go brrr
Scientist: it's not made for swinging on buildings Me: PETER PARKER WAS ABLE TO BUILD THIS IN A CLASS, WITH A BUNCH OF CHEMICALS!
@@qtr6322 woah, you're grumpy
suits me what would you do if I told you it’s a joke like brah it’s a joke
suits me someone didn’t watch Ironman 😮
Well Im sorry but im not peter parker
@@sirmackavelli1819 good one😂
1:09 that's Doctor octopus stop playin
IKR he reeeeeaally sounds like the Spider-Man ps4 version of Otto
@@qtr7e he even looks like one
I literally had a dream last night where I was Spider-Man swinging across the city
Me every night
Lol
Nathan Leung SAME LIKE OMG
Kinda like MLK
I wish I have that dream
PETER PARKER WAS ABLE TO MAKE THIS IN A SCIENCE CLASS!!! WITH A BUNCH OF HIGH SCHOOL CHEMICALS!!!
@@krisp3926 *_That was the scientist's reply to Obadiah Stane when Stane told him that “TONY STARK WAS ABLE TO MAKE THIS IN A CAVE! WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS.”_*
Nervously replying: *I'm not Peter Parker, sir*
Bro that guy from Iron Man came back in Far From Home it was cool asf
KRISP!!! 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️ L
KRISP!!! r/woooosh
Keeps calling him scrawny but he’s a ripped high schooler that can almost hold a half ship to get
Well, it still doesn't change the fact that his build isn't that of Dwayne Johnson. He can be muscular, but he will be scrawny until he puts on a couple more pounds
He IS scrawny though. his muscles are denser, more flexible & durable than an average human's, but he definitely doesn't look buff. hell, he ain't anywhere even near looking ripped in the comics if i remember correctly. he's just slightly more muscular than your average teenage twig.
I’d rather be like peters, not ripped, just really strong
@@FalconWindblader he really isn't if he beat a wrestler with his superhuman strength.
I wouldn't call spiderman scrawny
Spider Boi miles morales plus he has super strength
Outwardly he is tho. his muscles are denser, more flexible & durable than that of a normal human, but he ain't looking anything like Captain America. hell, if i remember correctly, Tom Holland looks more well-built than Peter Parker in the comics.
Falcon Windblade no
The Great CooLite He's usually about average or above average size in the comics and is super defined. Right now (ASM Vol 5), he's drawn as being pretty buff, visibly bigger than most grown men but not necessarily huge. Sometimes (mostly in the 80s) he's depicted as genuinely ripped with a similar build to Captain America at Cap's beefiest Just look up McFarlane Spider-Man, he's jacked af. Him being scrawny is mostly just the VERY early comics and more recent interpretations. Ultimate Spider-Man popularized the idea of him being a skinny, awkward teenager, which is why you see him as really small in more recent versions (especially if he's a teen). I personally prefer him to look bulkier and taller than average but nothing like a body builder. That's why I'm kinda disappointed that they have Tom Holland look so short; it's impossible to take him seriously when even MJ is visibly taller than him. I can't see Tom Holland believable playing an adult Spider-Man unless they spend a lot of time making him actually look like an adult.
Falcon Windblade No way. He looks more built than than Red-Black suit Ditko Spider-Man from the first comics and maybe a little more built than Ultimate Spider-Man, but he's WAYYY skinnier than most artistic interpretations of Spider-Man in the comics. Spider-Man in the main comics is usually depicted as not much smaller than Captain America or even the same size a decent amount of the time.
In Peter Parker's defense: He's just too much of a genius.
A lot of people seem to forget that one of Peter Parker's main traits is that he's a super genius
genius yes, super genius no. super genius is like tony stark, dr doom, henry pym, t'challa, reed richards.
@@willwilliamson9580Spider-Man has an iq of 250
2mm thickness of Spider Web can hold a Polar bear...woah..
😂 u believe that bullshit
Vivid Skiies “That bullshit” just got certified and explained by a professional.
@@stephonhaydes2166 Science is crazy 🙄
@@Alexis-zj7gg y'all done got baited
@@OZZOZZ has nothing to do with race... That guy's just a dumbass
the spider that bit peter supposedly gave peter the knowledge of how to make the webbing he uses
Me After Watching The Video: Since Silk is real, I can become Spider-Man.... I got this.. *straight up in the Hospital*
Gojifan Production’s lmao
You can swing on it...but if it gets jammed your dead
Peter : oh my back oh my back 😖
So ur typing this in the hospital
SpideyTrends you cant cause your arms will most likely be ripped away lmao
0:19 spider silk is actual several times stronger than steel when scaled to human size, it's also extremely elastic, durable, and can have compression properties depending on how its stored. It can also stick to almost any surface allowing for web slinging. He didn't use fishing hooks or steel wire because it can't stick to surfaces and unlike spider webs its difficult to store in compact spaces and Its not that elastic. If there is any substitute to spider webbing is a mixture of carbon nanofiber and reinforced rubber. Common sense and research would tell you that...
Stan Lee: you know I'm something of a scientist myself
I think the unrealistic part is not how strong the webbing is, but how consistently it sticks to whatever he's shooting at. Just because the silk itself is very sturdy doesn't mean it will always have strong adhesion to Spider-Man's surroundings.
There must be some added component that acts as a glue, dispensed briefly at the moment of firing so that it coats the tip of the strand. Spiders actually produce a secondary "spider glue" that they attach to specific parts of their web, which they continuously upkeep, those being the points of connection to the structure they've attach their web to, and the areas meant to catch prey. The dry parts of their web is the path they traverse around, as they are not immune to their glue. In an experiment where scientists were able to artificially produce a supply of spider glue, they found it could resist 910 pounds per square inch of force.
I was born with the ability to shoot sticky webs from my body
Her: he could have used fishing line. Me: hangs on fishing line. Line: snaps (Insert pikachu meme)
Insert thanos meme
Okay, that's pretty cool but i have to get off youtube to fight vulture and rhino! Cya
I need a spider to bite me first
Unrealistic but what they don't consider is that peter's shown to be a literal genius, possibly as smart as or maybe even smarter than tony, its completely understandable to see someone like him, even in a movie to create something like this.
Good vid new sub 👍🏾
He's not using any variation of carbon nanotubing. His silk dissolves in around 2 or so hours. They're chemically based.
FlakeyJakey dude true af i didn’t even think of that
Imagine a universe where everything has to be' annoying because of physics and you can't get superpowers - A superhero
Even if somehow Web Shooters become a reality that doesn't automatically imply that any normal fit person can just start web slinging, you would also require tremendous resilience such as Spidey
Props to the scientist for being chill with talking about Spider-Man’s webs
One day, this guy will become Doc. Oc.
And there will be a spiderman
Next stop, What material is Venom made of!!!!?
Non Newtonian fluid
Ferofluid with shear thickening properties.
Alien fluid
@@puffypuppy692 black noodles
☺ thank you so much for this video
What I love about spiderman is that he has powers perportional to a spider. Meaning that his powers is just that of a spider, but amplified to fit the size of Peter Parker. That's right, the craziest thing about spidermans powers is that it's shockingly realistic.
Technically Peter Parker figured out the formula for spider webbing because of his encounter with the spider that bit. Because of his smart intellect of science and chemistry before the spider and after he was bit he was given insight about the formula because of the spider DNA in his body.
You should do a video on what the world would be like without shadows!
Thanks, this is useful for research on the web shooter I want to make for a project.
@Octavio Baldovino never finished, never started
Great video! Unfortunately we'd need super strength to be able to web swing like Spidey. Also damn I'm surprised I understood most of this. Thank you Chemistry! Also I'm in high school and not to mention, he's literally genius level intelligent. Literally smarter than Reed Richards (at the point where Reed was the same age)
This is so iron man like of him, i love it.
So, with all of this being said, if scientists manage to replicate the web shooters... We could *almost* have a real life Spider-Man
i heard someone said that making the webs spin make it stronger so i can use that to make it even stronger but hard to pull though
thanks for the info
Me: *grabs radioactive spider Radioactive spider: “you know your probably gonna die if I bite you” Me: “I missed the part when that’s my problem”. Radioactive spider: *bites me Me: *dies immediately
One property of the webs that this video missed is that the webs dissolve after a while (otherwise he’d leave a mess every time he’d swing around New York). Would the carbon nanotubes dissolve as well like an hour later? Because from how they were described in the video, I got the feeling that they don’t dissolve. I wonder what material can be the same tensile strength as the webbing but also dissolve later.
The graphics in this video 🔥!
I love ur voice BTW😍
In recent films Tom Holland... what about uhhh comics and Andrew Garfield and shows
That’s not recent, that’s Homecoming not FFH. 😂 But this was interesting and informative nonetheless.
Well they could've been talking about how he was JUST in Spiderman FFH but ofcourse there's not much footage for it and the movie prior has all the we making scenes etc
Phoenixxgg yeah but they were talking about the scene in homecoming where he made the webs in his high school.
THICCCCXX
@@ol1mar same universe....? It's a continuation, we know that as a fact.
@@DTux5249 I litterally have no idea what your point is since we all bloody well know it's the same universe and that doesn't make a difference
Even if someone was able to create the webbing, no one would be able to swing like Spider-Man
Wow, this stuff is really interesting!
Vulture: *cuts through web with basic knife*
I've been called stupid in 68 languages. Let's just say🙄
good video these spider man is amazing
This is really cool.
So you say in the furture i might become spiderman without being bitten by a spider😲
You still need spider sense super strength super agility and sticking to walls
Spiderman could CONFIDENTLY swing between buildings LESS because he has spider silk-like threads, & MORE because he is frickin' agile, strong & nimble... & also because he could survive a ten-story-tall falls & just feels sore from it...
No if u tried swinging like spiderman u would die
You'll be saying hi to the g force
@@leaf3889 Not if you don't swing like a lunatic, or if you had a stabilizer for your organs that protects from stuff like that
So basically it’s possible but you need someone with steel arms😭
Dr Oct hehe
*glances at bucky*
1980s: in the future we’re gonna have flying cars and teleportation devices! 2020: Real life Spider-Man!
I want a video explaining or just even showing what realistic webslinging would look like. Where spiderman would have to shoot his webs in order to travel. Explanations going into stuff like "he's moving in this direction at this speed, so shooting a web to where it sticks over here would make him now move in this other direction, so to compensate he throws his weight out like this to set up a change of direction, but that wouldn't do enough, he would still go careening into the building his web is attached to , so what he does is shoots 2 lines right after each other in rapid succession that pull him to a better position for a long swing where he will cover more ground with the large ark." I want people to talk about this for a change.
No wonder i always fail making it causing 50 injuries of bones and bruises
“In the recent film” Is 2 years ago recent...
Wow This video sounds amazing 😍 and the stuff can use for helping people like the police force
Great video
1:54 hello friends and welcome to another video. If you know you know.
The man with glasses looks an sounds just like a real life stereotype 😂
We just need a smart man with a suit
So now we know how to make Spider-Man webbing and a suit that’s stronger than Kevlar to go with it! Awesome!😎
ok but explain how he climbs through his suits.
His pricks poke through the material that’s the simple answer
@@uno9331 wait he has *what*
@@750tiprogamer in the comics, old movies and cartoon series, the spider bite gives him these tiny hairs or 'pricks'. This is like how a real spider would 'stick' to walls. Also, the suit is pretty thin but opaque and can insulate well.
@@750tiprogamer pricks, anything wrong with that
Haven't watched the old movies in years and not a big comic fan so yeah. Thanks
How realistic are those squinting eyes tho?
Noobmaster69 yeah it was trending.
@Noobmaster69 they arent as thin and streamlined and they're not linked to his actual expressions
@@d11asian Somebody else made them using motion sensors
Pretty realistic. They work like the shutters of a camera and his mask probably has facial movement sensors so the eye pieces can move with his actual eyes
@@d11asian check cavin creation in instagram ,he made them work according to his eye movement
Awesome video ❤️🕷😍🕸
science is amazing
if spiderman was realistic, he would be shooting out silk out of his butt
Butt shooters
Wasting paper like a pro
This THIS GIVE ME HOPE
Wow that's so cool
“Scrawny kid”
Recent? that was back in *_2017_* Try harder
I was afraid of far from home spoilers lmao
Tima Tilek **HARDER**
From where did you get that web fluid notes
As he is swinging around, wouldn't most of his blood down to his feet and legs, because he is swinging around from building to building causing him to pass out from the absence of blood circulation in his head??
MR.SKELLY BONES when you walk around why doesn’t your blood go to your legs? Because your heart pumps blood to everywhere in your body regardless where you are
If you swing a bucket with a bit of water in it around, gravity will push the water to the bottom of the bucket. Pretend spiderman is the bucket. It will have the same effect.
MR.SKELLY BONES veins aren’t as open as a bucket though
*then how come if I smack a spiderweb it breaks immediately?!*
Because the diameter of spider thread in the wild is only 1/40 of hair's diameter
Daniel Wilianto that why I like them,it makes them easier to snack on
When i ask is it realistic, i mean is it possible to swing and jump like the way he does keeping in mind we have a thing called gravity?
Dominik Holdas its possible if u have super strength
ignoring that your arms would rip out of there sockets, sure
That’s the thing super strength is what we have also known as adrenaline, meaning some of his power could be coming from adrenaline meaning when we stops cars if we were able to figure out the technology he uses then that means we could stop cars with webs meaning we don’t need super strength just adrenaline because enough adrenaline we could lift up to 1000 pounds so if we could learn how to control adrenaline then yes we most likely could swing and most likely be able to stop cars with webs
@@saintsfps5348 also your arm may not go out of socket due to the fact if you control your arm and not lets yourself yank and try to point your weight upward such as jumping you could swing like Spider-Man
And also as they mentioned in the video the webs can hold up to 40,000 pounds alone
Very interesting so if I somehow got carbon nano tube thread and spliced it with a web would it be strong?
wait we need this
*People who want webs* *Taking notes*
Is the metric system a joke to you?
This is so cooooool and amazing 😱
Video idea 💯
Who the F doesent know that spider silk is OP?!?
Lizzy Studios / ᗰIᑎᑌᔕ people who way 901 pounds
A high schooler doesn’t have carbon nanotubes they are extremely EXPENSIVE
VicSclips nerd
Justin M lmao
Justin M dude I’m just kidding, also haven’t I’ve seen you before. And nerds are cool 😎.
Holy shit we can go from driving to swinging to work.
OMG! AY! THIS IS REALLY COOL!
Wow I'm actually 1st here lol. Also nice vid 👍
Spooder silk is stronger
Also what about the way it sticks to everything in this video you told us about how strong it is but what about stickyness
A tee-shirt than can absorb bullets sounds awesome.