What If You Woke Up 1,000 Times Stronger?

Super strength sounds fun until you hit snooze. What if you woke up 1,000 times stronger and fell through ten floors before breakfast? You can lift an eighteen-wheeler and throw a supersonic fastball, but learning to be gentle might be your hardest challenge. What would you accidentally break first? Drop your “what if” in the comments. Chapters 0:00 Woke up strong 0:19 Too strong for everything 0:52 Faster than sound 1:25 Learning to be gentle 2:01 The Ferris wheel 2:49 The next morning Sources & notes • Adult grip strength peaks at roughly 30 kg for women and 50 kg for men (about 70 and 110 lb; Dodds et al., 2014, PLoS ONE, “Grip Strength across the Life Course”). The video rounds a strong grip to “about a hundred pounds”. • The federal maximum gross vehicle weight for trucks on the U.S. Interstate System is 80,000 lb (FHWA, Federal Size and Weight Regulations, 23 U.S.C. 127). • Average fastball velocity in Major League Baseball is in the low-to-mid 90s mph (MLB Statcast). The speed of sound in air at sea level is about 767 mph (343 m/s; NASA Glenn Research Center). • A typical adult man's standing vertical jump is about 16–20 inches (Topend Sports vertical jump norms). A thousand times that is roughly 1,300–1,700 ft; the Empire State Building is 1,454 ft to the tip. This ignores air resistance, which would reduce the height a lot: that's why the video says “in theory”. • Catching a falling person hurts because of how fast you stop them, not how strong you are: the same momentum stopped over a shorter time means a bigger force (impulse–momentum theorem). Spreading the stop over a long distance keeps the force small. • Fiction: a body a thousand times stronger, bones and tendons included. Real muscles and bones could not scale like this. One Small If — One small change. Every consequence. Subscribe:    / @onesmallif   #whatif #superstrength #animation