The Real Weapon That Could Destroy New York

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  • @CM_Burns
    @CM_Burns Před 2 lety +854

    To protect against nuclear radiation, we can hide under Thoughty2's mustache.

    • @valleygirlz4491
      @valleygirlz4491 Před 2 lety +1

      😁😁😁😁

    • @rockytoptech1308
      @rockytoptech1308 Před 2 lety +10

      🏆 you've earned this Sir, for the most epic comment! 🤣😎

    • @mickeyminaj7296
      @mickeyminaj7296 Před 2 lety +1

      You mean under that San Francisco slobber sweeper?

    • @sani9046
      @sani9046 Před 2 lety +2

      Under the shelter of 3000 copies of Stick a Flag In It books

    • @downbytheriver501
      @downbytheriver501 Před 2 lety +4

      If it's a dirty bomb rather than just a plain old thermonuclear weapon, I'm heading to Tom Sellek's moustache.

  • @ComicalRealm
    @ComicalRealm Před 2 lety +432

    "Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap." -Albert Einstein

  • @DerrisDerrison
    @DerrisDerrison Před 2 lety +773

    That is by Tsar the most interesting video I've watched today.

    • @cosmik19
      @cosmik19 Před 2 lety +6

      Same

    • @gregbors8364
      @gregbors8364 Před 2 lety +18

      Thoughty2 is the bomba

    • @beastmaster415
      @beastmaster415 Před 2 lety +36

      Are you tsarcastic?

    • @rkevic
      @rkevic Před 2 lety +1

      with all that heat did we accelerate climate change

    • @worldoftancraft
      @worldoftancraft Před 2 lety +3

      Did you say "That is by *Emperor* the most interesting video I've watched today"?
      What this English.... Thing is even supposed to mean, foreigner?

  • @MCsCreations
    @MCsCreations Před 2 lety +117

    To tell the truth I'm surprised we didn't find any Godzillas... Yet.

    • @blackshogun272
      @blackshogun272 Před 2 lety +13

      If they had detonated that shit underground, they could've moved the tectonic plates or awakened some ancient shit that'd being upon the apocalypse 👀👀👀

    • @glorygloryholeallelujah
      @glorygloryholeallelujah Před 2 lety +7

      *Or any big ass apes to fight with it!!*
      I mean-why *bother* having a government, if we don’t even get to occasionally reap those kinda awesome, yet accidental Kaiju rewards of all their “cool toys” we pay for?! 🤷‍♀️😁

    • @angelgjr1999
      @angelgjr1999 Před 2 lety +1

      There’s a theory that the reason why alien sitings went up during the atomic age was because of the nuclear tests. It’s rumored aliens live under the oceans.

    • @kohlweydesign
      @kohlweydesign Před 2 lety +2

      By the title I thought this was about Democrats.

    • @blackshogun272
      @blackshogun272 Před 2 lety +2

      @@angelgjr1999 that's makes since if we're gonna go with the "aliens live underwater" route. Imagine vibing with your civilization like normal and intense shockwaves start thundering through the upper ocean and "sun light" somehow reaches the abyssal plain.

  • @silverhawkscape2677
    @silverhawkscape2677 Před 2 lety +153

    This ain't even the Tsar Bomba's final form yet. They had to reduce its planned yield because they wanted the pilots to actually survive the test.

    • @SirLuciferMachada
      @SirLuciferMachada Před 2 lety +30

      Yeah cause it is hard to find dudes that dont mind dying for progress.

    • @oldarthurmorgan6319
      @oldarthurmorgan6319 Před 2 lety +2

      @@SirLuciferMachada lol

    • @vladimirseven777
      @vladimirseven777 Před 2 lety +3

      @@SirLuciferMachada Slightly more brainwashing and you will have kamikaze or jihad bomber.

    • @gregmchurch
      @gregmchurch Před 2 lety +1

      @@vladimirseven777 That is true, regrettably

    • @tusse67
      @tusse67 Před 2 lety +7

      The bomb was reduced in yield due to two reasons afaik. 1. The survival of the pilots and 2. Reduction of material thrown into the atmosphere by the detonation. Being detonated at 4 miles as it was, made it one of the “cleanest” detonations carried out. Had they gone with 100 Mt it would have lifted vast amounts of irradiated dust into the air.

  • @Curt_Randall
    @Curt_Randall Před 2 lety +338

    "I only drink organic cyanide." lol. Thoughty is so funny.

  • @Frosty_tha_Snowman
    @Frosty_tha_Snowman Před 2 lety +80

    Just the thought of fusing a nuclear bomb myself with my own hands makes me become overtaken with a sense of anxiety and doom, like the uneasy feeling you get when you're up high on something, where it feels like the depth is trying to pull you forward into it, that's how I feel when I think about it. I would bet most of the scientists who worked on nuclear bombs had a high level of stress throughout their lives.

  • @Damngoons
    @Damngoons Před 2 lety +74

    America just wanted to bomb the bikini atoll so we could have Bikini Bottom. Gotta respect the fact that we will destroy our own planet just to have the story of Spongebob.

    • @CreativityCurve
      @CreativityCurve Před 2 lety +6

      Makes perfect sense that you'd get weird sentient sponges and shit with radiation levels like that

    • @Tempusverum
      @Tempusverum Před 2 lety +5

      “Who lives in a pineapple under the sea -
      *JOHN CENA!!!* 🎶🎵

    • @Africanhorror
      @Africanhorror Před 2 lety +1

      worth it🤣

    • @LazyLoonz
      @LazyLoonz Před 2 lety

      Respect

  • @SmolShorkess
    @SmolShorkess Před 2 lety +356

    When the USA randomly invests $93000000000 ($93000 Million) into a random “experiment”: wait a minute…

    • @evilmaxi8925
      @evilmaxi8925 Před 2 lety +13

      I see you have joined the cult

    • @prophetofthesingularity
      @prophetofthesingularity Před 2 lety +28

      @@evilmaxi8925 I have been involved in several cults, both as a leader and a follower.
      You make more money as a leader but have more fun as a follower.

    • @SmolShorkess
      @SmolShorkess Před 2 lety +11

      @@prophetofthesingularity dude it’s a joke referencing out pfp

    • @slayzer4526
      @slayzer4526 Před 2 lety +1

      @@prophetofthesingularity gimme

    • @b.fsmashdub4209
      @b.fsmashdub4209 Před 2 lety +2

      @@prophetofthesingularity I want in

  • @ana_derol
    @ana_derol Před 2 lety +62

    Thank goodness, I've been chanting "thoughty2 where are you" all day under my breath, thank you and I love your channel!

    • @Ittiz
      @Ittiz Před 2 lety +5

      "I've got another clue for you now"

    • @ana_derol
      @ana_derol Před 2 lety +2

      @@Ittiz if we're not careful we'll end up with one of those bizarre nursery rhymes on our hands, and thoughty2 will have to make a vid 50 years from now trying to gleam it's origins... 😄

    • @huskiehuskerson5300
      @huskiehuskerson5300 Před 2 lety +1

      OCD much

    • @ana_derol
      @ana_derol Před 2 lety

      @@huskiehuskerson5300 I've been living in isolation since before it was "trendy", my ocd has ocd now, think Hemsworth on steroids and you get the picture. so yeah, much... You good?

    • @huskiehuskerson5300
      @huskiehuskerson5300 Před 2 lety

      @@ana_derol no I just contracted ocd, i didn't know it was this contagious

  • @therealuth7455
    @therealuth7455 Před 2 lety +72

    The "Keep calm, and carry on" really got me... Love it... So dark, no hope, all faith is forgotten... but hey, something was worse... :) Keep calm and 42 on :)

  • @KittyForman420
    @KittyForman420 Před 2 lety +32

    I’m convinced this is what happened when humans used to live on Mars

    • @Gmod2012lo1
      @Gmod2012lo1 Před 2 lety +1

      Wait what?

    • @sleepyjohn2695
      @sleepyjohn2695 Před 2 lety +1

      That will be a bit of probability

    • @YraExalgaSkgs
      @YraExalgaSkgs Před 2 lety +2

      It's possible. The four craters seem to be precise. One large and three small. Could've been a scatter bomb of nukes. First hit threw the other three up and allowed the planet to rotate before they fell back. But who really knows?

    • @LazyLoonz
      @LazyLoonz Před 2 lety

      Used to? I get what you're saying but saying that a race of aliens destroyed themselves and just assume that those aliens where humans is kind of stupid

    • @KittyForman420
      @KittyForman420 Před 2 lety

      @@LazyLoonz people are actually thinking I’m serious? Wow 😭

  • @nostalgia3979
    @nostalgia3979 Před 2 lety +62

    "Heey thoughty 2 here"
    It"s like music to my ears.

  • @pigi1004
    @pigi1004 Před 2 lety +197

    Original title: The truth behind the biggest nuclear weapon ever built
    Edit: Thank you so much for all the likes I never got so many

  • @scifibri2376
    @scifibri2376 Před 2 lety +148

    On THIS Friday the 13th I learned of a new thing to be afraid of LOL! Thanks Aaron!

    • @bradfordhatch5085
      @bradfordhatch5085 Před 2 lety +1

      Well, at least Jason Vorhees doesn't seem quite so horrifying anymore.

    • @stevenb427
      @stevenb427 Před 2 lety +1

      Who in the blood clot is Aaron? You mean Thoughty2? You big straw you... Sook! 🤭

    • @saturnianrings3920
      @saturnianrings3920 Před 2 lety

      You should know about Asteriods.

    • @jackdurden466
      @jackdurden466 Před 2 lety +1

      Well, he rarely fails to deliver! Especially around holidays. ☠️

    • @A1441
      @A1441 Před 2 lety +1

      It's ARRAN, not AARON.

  • @michaelmccarthy4077
    @michaelmccarthy4077 Před 2 lety +125

    "don't you just hate it when your nuclear yield gets cut in half?"
    Yes, because it means I can't breed as many Kaiju.

  • @supersolomob422
    @supersolomob422 Před 2 lety +14

    14:15 "disco can't die" lmao

    • @Foolish188
      @Foolish188 Před 2 lety

      Worth a Nuclear War if it would end Disco.

    • @sraaju
      @sraaju Před 2 lety

      @@Foolish188 Nah, it's always going to be staying alive, staying alive.

  • @lightkor
    @lightkor Před 2 lety +29

    "Mother Russia must build biggest bomb ever. It is destiny!"

    • @kohlweydesign
      @kohlweydesign Před 2 lety

      The bomb is nothing compared to Democrats.

  • @tessiepinkman
    @tessiepinkman Před 2 lety +6

    "And I say Disco, because Disco can't die" Best quote from Thoughty2 so far!

    • @chrishenniker5944
      @chrishenniker5944 Před 2 lety

      As for disco, I’m with Jello Biafra on this one. Club culture is today’s version of Weimar era cabaret.

  • @Halpin2006
    @Halpin2006 Před 2 lety +13

    "How I learned to stop worrying and love the Bomb!" A movie more historically known as "Dr Strangelove" is a classic film to see. Not just featuring Peter Sellers in 3 different roles, but also George C Scott, which caused him to never again work with its director Stanley Kubrick!

  • @reconghostmedia
    @reconghostmedia Před 2 lety +103

    Couldn't complete the evening without a good story and a nice glass of fine port!😉

    • @comm744
      @comm744 Před 2 lety +4

      Single malt for me.

    • @DriveLaken
      @DriveLaken Před 2 lety +3

      Modelo Lime ChelAda beer here.
      Here is Texas and I'm whiter than Toughty2. Try it, is my point!

    • @surferdess494
      @surferdess494 Před 2 lety +3

      im on local brewed barley and hops

    • @LeumazDnazor
      @LeumazDnazor Před 2 lety +5

      "I prefer rum. Rum's good."

    • @john-paulsilke893
      @john-paulsilke893 Před 2 lety +3

      @@LeumazDnazor yup, nothing like a nice glass of Rum and a few large ice cubes. Drink up before they melt.

  • @metaldetectingengland
    @metaldetectingengland Před 2 lety +34

    It's dreadfull to think of all the trees wildlife ,creatures insects and rare plants that were destroyed during these nuclear tests. Shameful.!

    • @curbyourshi1056
      @curbyourshi1056 Před 2 lety +2

      But think of all the new elements extremely briefly created!

    • @davidg.3406
      @davidg.3406 Před 2 lety +3

      @@curbyourshi1056 and all the glass created...

    • @miniaturemachinist6098
      @miniaturemachinist6098 Před 2 lety +3

      Imagine being a deer or other animal that was just far enough away to survive the blast. That had to be just about the most horrible deaths imaginable. One second you're fine and eating grass or something, the next second you're blind, deaf, and on fire. If the radiation didn't manage to kill you somewhat quickly you'd spend the next few days in immense pain, slowly dying from the wounds, dehydration, and hunger, all the while you'd have no idea what happened.

  • @mheermance
    @mheermance Před 2 lety +11

    And yet it still failed to kill Godzilla.

    • @julesampo1607
      @julesampo1607 Před 2 lety +2

      Radiation only makes him more powerful, so the A bomb only made him more powerful when the dropped it onto him

    • @julesampo1607
      @julesampo1607 Před 2 lety

      @@heiseigojifan2713 in the first movie, they show how they dropped an ATOMIC BOMB on Godzilla, and it didn't seem to affect him much. The explosive power of an A Bomb is...strong. So yeah, I'm QUITE sure Godzilla is REALLY DAMN STRONG.

  • @matthewhenderson6821
    @matthewhenderson6821 Před 2 lety +4

    "What is the answer to the question? The huge question about life, the universe, everything?"
    "42"

  • @thememeestfilmbuff
    @thememeestfilmbuff Před 2 lety +110

    *It’s interesting* to see how we had to nerf the destructive capabilities of these nuclear weapons ever since the 60’s.
    _Some progress wouldn’t be for the best._

    • @lucifersatan4611
      @lucifersatan4611 Před 2 lety +2

      Humans will destroy themselves. I’m just watching.

    • @oldarthurmorgan6319
      @oldarthurmorgan6319 Před 2 lety +1

      @@lucifersatan4611 it's because of you satan

    • @ressljs
      @ressljs Před 2 lety +4

      The reason for why our nukes have gotten smaller might surprise you. It's because the accuracy is better. Back when maybe you'd hit the target, maybe it lands 50 miles away, the solution was to make bombs huge and have multiple war heads that would spread out. Who cares about hitting the target when one ICBM can take out an area the size of a smaller state? Once ICBM targeting became more precise, they decided it would be better to only nuke the enemy's important targets and not necessarily render the planet completely uninhabitable.

    • @pjv9361
      @pjv9361 Před 2 lety

      @@lucifersatan4611 you do know that the earth is destined to be destroyed right? The sun wont last forever you know. Humans wont be able to do anything about that.

    • @damo5701
      @damo5701 Před 2 lety

      @@ressljs Not sure it was just accuracy. If you need to be hundreds of miles away , well that limits it's battlefield usefulness, where you can use the bomb and not harm your own side. Plus a victory is not much good if you can't take advantage of the spoils of war and instead must wait thousands of years. So they started working on short lived (comparatively) high radiation weapons that would kill all the pesky enemy but leave a lot of infrastructure in place which would then be available to use in a far shorter period.

  • @charlesjmouse
    @charlesjmouse Před 2 lety +16

    Another thought-provoking video, thank you.
    How about a follow-up celebrating the frightening number of individuals who have literally saved the world over the last 60 years or so years by variously refusing to "push the button"?
    People we all owe our lives to but almost nobody is aware of. People who were mostly punished for not ending the world!

    • @shitmandood
      @shitmandood Před 2 lety

      That's why they're building a thing called Skynet and the Matrix at the same time.

    • @runninggag
      @runninggag Před rokem

      Putin disliked this comment

  • @racookster
    @racookster Před 2 lety +6

    Thoughty2's estimate of the cost of antimatter was off by a couple of orders of magnitude. It's actually worth about $62.5 *trillion* a gram. I'll leave it up to the readers to educate themselves on the difference between a million, a billion, and a trillion. If you're thinking, "I can imagine that," you have no idea.

    • @LazyLoonz
      @LazyLoonz Před 2 lety +1

      Alot compared to even more and also even more.

    • @racookster
      @racookster Před 2 lety

      @@LazyLoonz- A lot, a thousand times a lot, and a million times a lot. A million seconds is a little over 11 and a half days (11 days, 13 hours, 46 minutes and 40 seconds). A billion seconds is about 31 years. And a trillion seconds is 31,688 years.

    • @11kele
      @11kele Před 2 lety

      One million seconds is 11 days. One billion seconds is 31 years. This is a difference between the two numbers which seem so close.

  • @sipps6557
    @sipps6557 Před 2 lety +4

    My day is not complete without a shot of Thoughts 2. You are by far the most interesting and entertaining person on CZcams. Thanks Aaron.

  • @BruceVial
    @BruceVial Před 2 lety +37

    Looking forward to your wise information, smoothing voice, and terrible pun based jokes. Keep up the great content lad. ☘️🍺👍

  • @llamacraft2454
    @llamacraft2454 Před 2 lety +6

    Best feeling ever when you see a thought2 notification

  • @undergroundironentertainment

    its all over when yellow stone decides to blow

  • @ss...7208
    @ss...7208 Před 2 lety +4

    Man I've been subscribed to this channel for over 6 years, and I will always hear "heh 42 here." And he looks so much younger on his videos.

  • @thomasbrown8468
    @thomasbrown8468 Před 2 lety +5

    Really glad you have shared all these years of information. I’ve seen every episode twice. Thank you great entertainment for my mind. Al USA

  • @NihilistSolitude
    @NihilistSolitude Před 2 lety +9

    Wouldn't the biggest explosion in earth history be the impact of another planet that created our moon?

    • @DMBlade4
      @DMBlade4 Před 2 lety +1

      The moon is a lot older than the Earth, though. Like much older. That's not a very good explanation of its origin

    • @Foolish188
      @Foolish188 Před 2 lety +2

      @@DMBlade4 Never, not once have heard that the Moon is older than the Earth. Both are 4.3 Billion years old, if I remember correctly. And a planet hitting the Earth is considered the leading explanation of the formation of the Moon.

    • @blackshogun272
      @blackshogun272 Před 2 lety

      @@DMBlade4 The Moon is strange. Too strange.
      *points gun fingers at full Moon*

    • @Valigarmanda
      @Valigarmanda Před 2 lety

      @@Foolish188 The moon is indeed older than the earth. An estimated 200 million years younger.
      The moon is made up not of oceanic crust, which is what would make our moon roughly the same age as earth, but by mantle material. Meaning the moon already formed while earth was still scorching and mostly molten.

    • @thhseeking
      @thhseeking Před 2 lety

      @@Valigarmanda Say what? The moon is older than the Earth, an estimated 200 million years YOUNGER?
      The Earth and Moon were formed from the remains of the Earth and Thea after the collision. Oh, and mantle material gets dredged up on Earth in tectonic events. It's definitely NOT a spaceship.

  • @MarkVizion369
    @MarkVizion369 Před 2 lety +1

    "Our very strength incites challenge. Challenge incites conflict. And conflict... breeds catastrophe."
    - Vision (Captain America: Civil War)

  • @Laffy-ix5xy
    @Laffy-ix5xy Před 2 lety +2

    Alan Guth goes into his local physics shop for some supplies.
    "Do you have any antimatter?" he asks.
    "We have 1 gram left," says the shop assistant. "But the price has recently increased due to its rareity."
    "Don't worry about the price," says Alan Guth. "I'll take the lot."
    "That'll be 62 million dollars please," says the shop assistant, handing over a magnetic container.
    Alan Guth shrieks. "And they say inflation is just a theory."

  • @Prayudi__A
    @Prayudi__A Před 2 lety +4

    6:58
    "A crater more than a mile long and 70 meters deep"
    So we're talking in imperial or metric here? 😁

  • @TnT_F0X
    @TnT_F0X Před 2 lety +5

    America didn't nuke islands cause they hate Islands...
    They were trying to create Spongebob

  • @2020goro
    @2020goro Před 2 lety +2

    Wow he uploaded at past midnight here in the UK

  • @Seluecus1
    @Seluecus1 Před 2 lety +36

    Wasn't the yield halved out of fear of igniting the atmosphere, and then after it was dropped, further proving that a 100MT bomb would have done some irreparable damage to our planet, if not worse?

    • @CartoonHero1986
      @CartoonHero1986 Před 2 lety +11

      The Trinity Site test was the one where they where worried about setting the atmosphere on fire. And that is KIND OF a misunderstood fact of the era by us today; the American Government, the people working on the bomb, and most physicists knew based on all their independent calculations the explosion wasn't anywhere close to setting the atmosphere on fire (I think the average chance of setting the atmosphere on fire was less then 1% in the peer reviewed calculations). But since it was listed in the official probable outcome calculations when the general public heard there was even a possibility the media and arm chair experts ran with it to try to get the Government to cancel the Trinity test.
      Remember before CERN brought the LLC online and "everyone" was worried "we could accidently create a Universe that would destroy ours" or "they might make a blackhole that would swallow our solar system"? When in reality no-one that actually was working on the LLC or understood what the LLC could do was worried about this since the official calculations showed and explained how unlikely it actually was either of these things could happen. But still arm chair experts and non-scientific publications went nuts for over a year before the LLC came online and sparked actual petitions and government inquiries that almost shutdown the LLC before it was finished. Pretty much that is what happened with the Trinity Test petitions; people not smart enough to understand what is actually happening needing to have a say is a sad reality that repeats it's self over and over again in history.
      -Before the first train was put on a track; "experts worried" moving that fast would suck the air out riders lungs... even though a horse could potentially go fast then the first trains.
      -Before and even into the early years of electric generators "experts warned" people of vapours from electric outlets... I actually forget if they thought the electricity carried the fumes of the fuel the generator burned or if it was ozone vapours which only occur around open arks or electricity
      -Before self serve at Gas Stations become common place across North America; "experts said" pumping your own gas was highly dangerous due to risk of explosions and fires if you pump wrong... it actually was in the very early days of gas stations until they learned how to ground out cars and pumps, but the fear kept on so strong that literally every time a state or province changed the laws to allow self service (even in 2010 when the last place in North America changed) people in those places petitioned the change for fear of blowing themselves up pumping gas
      -When the Potato first came to Europe "English authorities advised" potatoes where poisonous and could cause serious illness or even death... this was because The Virgin Queen Elizabeth ordered a feast made entirely of potatoes when and the cooks served mostly the plant part which is poisonous rather then the tubers that are safe to eat and everyone at the feast got SUPER sick several courses in (side note: think of how gross that would have been hundreds of people in the same hall being sick after eating nothing but greens and potatoes) which lead to almost all of Europe avoiding the potato until the French King Antoine pretty much tricked people into eating them during a famine

    • @thursoberwick1948
      @thursoberwick1948 Před 2 lety +10

      @@CartoonHero1986 Potatoes can kill, if they're green. You sneer at people in past ages for being worried about safety, yet we have to be. You could also mention how aerosols and fridges ended up destroyed much of the ozone layer (although I have a sneaking suspicion all these nuclear tests will turn out to have been a factor one day)... Or how a medicine created to cure morning sickness produced babies with stunted limbs. Or how a pesticide for bugs ended up decimating the bird population by thinning the shells of their eggs. Or how agrichemicals and plastics are affecting human fertility and may play roles in breast/prostate and testicular cancer. And so on and so on. We are screwing things up, because we didn't look at the little possibilities.
      If there was a 1% chance it could set the atmosphere on fire, that is actually a high risk. It may sound like a small one, but it's higher than your odds of being struck by lightning...
      If you want to sneer at anything, sneer at some of thr BS that's been promoted about the Big Bug over the past year, and how willing people are to give their freedoms away permanently over it in the so called "Νεω Νοrmαl".

    • @ragingreviews5186
      @ragingreviews5186 Před 2 lety

      @@thursoberwick1948 let me pic that 🎤 up for you lol

    • @ragingreviews5186
      @ragingreviews5186 Před 2 lety

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    • @allenclark4235
      @allenclark4235 Před 2 lety +1

      @@ragingreviews5186 no need Lee Mossup.... Lee Mossup already did it.
      (I know it was a non intentional, computer generated double post, but I wanna be funny too, psychopathic totalitarian dictator-damnit.)

  • @danielaustin3650
    @danielaustin3650 Před 2 lety +4

    I was just watching his Shakespeare video when I got the notification.

  • @kirkmorrison6131
    @kirkmorrison6131 Před 2 lety +6

    Thoughty2, I prefer going to the Appalachian Mountains, they are amazing. The scenic vistas with views that are amazing, you can see for miles and the farms look like small models. The small waterfalls some which are fairly high. The streams are full of trout some which have native Brook Trout.

    • @kirkmorrison6131
      @kirkmorrison6131 Před 2 lety

      @rD mooD2 yep they are, wild Brookes are even better.

  • @ThatBoomerDude56
    @ThatBoomerDude56 Před 2 lety +1

    My dad was on a flight test of a Convair 880 that day. They didn't realize they were flying through the radiation cloud. When they got back, they had to let the airplane stand on the runway for 3 days before the radioactivity in the engines cooled down. (My brother was born the next year.)

    • @kensurrency2564
      @kensurrency2564 Před 2 lety

      Fun stuff! Did they have to decontaminate your dad when he got off the plane?

  • @saerbhreathach540
    @saerbhreathach540 Před 2 lety +2

    Fun fact about the tsar bomb?
    It was supposed to have a yield of 100 megatons but the scientists were afraid such a blast could potentially ignite the earth's atmosphere, turning it into a mini sun. And so, at pretty much the last minute, the bombs yield was lowered to 50 megatons.

    • @dikecastle4476
      @dikecastle4476 Před 2 lety

      What kind of spaceship had they needed to fly a 100megaton bomb to the test site when a 50 megaton bomb was almost impossible at that moment if they hadnt modded the plane to do so?

    • @rp-lopez
      @rp-lopez Před 2 lety +1

      @@dikecastle4476 they probably woulda had to build a rocket

    • @saerbhreathach540
      @saerbhreathach540 Před 2 lety

      @@dikecastle4476 don't know...you'd have to ask the crazy Russian's of the time...probably build a rocket as Ricardo suggested or build a stationary platform and assemble the bomb on site on said platform. But again, to really know you'd have to ask someone that worked on the project...🤷🏼‍♂️

  • @Gunnahan
    @Gunnahan Před 2 lety +5

    water at 55000 degrees? i dont even need to ask if its F or C to know thats terribly wrong ;-)

    • @tacticalmattfoley
      @tacticalmattfoley Před 2 lety +2

      Yeah, gonna call BS on that one.

    • @okidoke4822
      @okidoke4822 Před 2 lety +2

      lol exactly my thoughts as well. I think he slips things like that into the videos just to see if people are paying attention.

    • @Gunnahan
      @Gunnahan Před 2 lety +1

      @@okidoke4822 that could be.. he IS a cheeky little bastard.. ;-)

  • @celticviking577
    @celticviking577 Před 2 lety +4

    Listening to this while playing Fallout 4 is very interesting and satisfying

  • @eff9266
    @eff9266 Před 2 lety +2

    Nóvaya Zemlyá
    Novaya the 1st syllable stressed (of the three)
    Zemlya the 2nd syllable stressed (of the two)
    like 1) novelty or caviar , and like 2) ajar or locate
    Btw, the name means a New Land.
    Andréy Sáharov (1syl, 2 syl)
    like 1) delay and 2) buchelor
    btw, sahar is sugar, so Saharov is like Sugarov =))
    (for those who study this language)

  • @SINTD_666
    @SINTD_666 Před 2 lety +1

    Excellent video as always. You have a great sense of humour and even the animations continually improve.

  • @amb4367
    @amb4367 Před 2 lety +17

    "Tsar bomba" in English would mean "Emperor of Bombs", not "King of Bombs".

    • @megagay5937
      @megagay5937 Před 2 lety +2

      Bomb Emperor

    • @megagay5937
      @megagay5937 Před 2 lety +2

      Bomb Lord

    • @davidg.3406
      @davidg.3406 Před 2 lety +1

      Bomb my ass 😅

    • @amb4367
      @amb4367 Před 2 lety +2

      @@megagay5937 In Russian Tsar means Emperor.

    • @leonefurlan137
      @leonefurlan137 Před 2 lety +2

      @@amb4367 i wanted to say same! They do'nt understand what is Tsar... But yes,exactly,in english that would mean "emperor".

  • @orcmanddegormak1031
    @orcmanddegormak1031 Před 2 lety +4

    that antimatter container is even more explosive when you consider the "air" (also made of matter), not just the walls....

  • @ingryrayms5357
    @ingryrayms5357 Před 2 lety +2

    Love to listen to your educational programme. Love it especially how you put it over .thanks .💕💕

  • @Tom_Agnetti
    @Tom_Agnetti Před 2 lety +1

    As always, your videos are excellent. Can’t get enough. Getting caught up to the pre-mustache days 😀

  • @theophrastus3.056
    @theophrastus3.056 Před 2 lety +4

    Ironically, you can do more damage with a group of much smaller nukes spread out over a larger area, but close enough to leave few unaffected gaps. That's true even if the total megatonnage is far smaller than the single bomb. Much of the energy produced by a lone nuclear weapon goes uselessly up angles away from the earth.

    • @davidg.3406
      @davidg.3406 Před 2 lety

      But the fear factor isn't the same, thus bigger is better 😎

    • @theophrastus3.056
      @theophrastus3.056 Před 2 lety

      @@davidg.3406 True. When Rodan or Godzilla emerge, they'll be much larger. But I still think 5 smaller Godzillas would do more damage.

  • @PMA65537
    @PMA65537 Před 2 lety +6

    8:13 tri-nitro-toluene It has 3 nitro groups on it as you should remember from A level chemistry.

    • @busybillyb33
      @busybillyb33 Před 2 lety +3

      lol the way he said it was cringeworthy

    • @ragingreviews5186
      @ragingreviews5186 Před 2 lety

      If he did a level chemistry

    • @outbackchillin5628
      @outbackchillin5628 Před 2 lety

      I lol'ed at that ! haha

    • @jo-hd1kx
      @jo-hd1kx Před 2 lety

      It doesn't matter! This is about the Tsar bomb, not TNT. The most important thing, is that the information is pitched at a level that virtually everybody understands. Not everybody has the benefit of intellect and/or background conducive to further, let alone higher education. Those of us who do, should count our blessings. There is no place for intellectual snobbery in this day & age.

  • @PinePrince
    @PinePrince Před 2 lety +2

    I wonder how much energy will be released from the super volcano under Yellowstone.

    • @dikecastle4476
      @dikecastle4476 Před 2 lety +1

      Probably more that your regular firecracker, just a little guess

    • @PinePrince
      @PinePrince Před 2 lety

      @@dikecastle4476 Maybe just a little more. 🧨 💥 😵

  • @derekderek2570
    @derekderek2570 Před 2 lety +5

    8:44 has incorrect math. It was supposed to be 1 megaton of tnt could power a home for 100,000 years and a 30 megaton for 3m million

    • @oneknowwhatsup
      @oneknowwhatsup Před 2 lety +2

      or 1000y and 30000y if u american

    • @derekderek2570
      @derekderek2570 Před 2 lety

      @@oneknowwhatsup because our houses are bigger?

    • @crazyape968
      @crazyape968 Před 2 lety

      @@derekderek2570 No. Our dicks.

    • @crazyape968
      @crazyape968 Před 2 lety

      @@oneknowwhatsup If u dumb, maybe. Derek is correct, although it's probably more like 150 thousand and 4 million.

    • @crazyape968
      @crazyape968 Před 2 lety

      The U.S. calcs are wrong, too. In 2020, total U.S. primary energy consumption was equal to about 9.8e19 joules. One megaton is 4.2e15 joules. So the US uses about 2.3 gigatons of TNT equivalent per year, or about 64 megatons per day. So a pathetic little czar bomba wouldn't even last a day. :-)

  • @busybillyb33
    @busybillyb33 Před 2 lety +5

    8:17 Trinitrotoluene, 15:50 Chicxulub - for the high quality videos we are treated to here, I didn't expect such cringey pronunciations. Gonna have to work on those mate!

    • @Gielderst
      @Gielderst Před 2 lety +2

      Never understood why people nitpick about how names are pronounced. Big deal 🙄

  • @justmike2944
    @justmike2944 Před 2 lety +1

    Reminds me of that old joke '' I've invented a substance that will dissolve anything it comes in contact with but I cant find anything to keep it in .

  • @MisterFatherSir310
    @MisterFatherSir310 Před 2 lety +1

    Original title: why this nuclear weapon was the thiccest chonky boy ever built.

  • @paulohenrique_bitencourt
    @paulohenrique_bitencourt Před 2 lety +3

    Great video, keep the good work. If may
    correct a detail, the currently price of antimatter is $62.5 trillion per gram, not $62 million.

  • @Frosty_tha_Snowman
    @Frosty_tha_Snowman Před 2 lety +4

    So.. Germany was like, "Hans, let us build the biggest tanks and other weapons of war" and Russia thought, "you think you can out do us? HA. King bomb, building sized bell, coming right up."
    Edit: it helps to read it in each country's respective accent in your head.

    • @haldyordan2316
      @haldyordan2316 Před 2 lety

      Russians outdone them in Command and Conquer game, what's that double cannon tank name?

  • @edbraun383
    @edbraun383 Před 2 lety

    I can't decide if these videos are more informative or more entertaining to me. But there are definitely megatons of both. Thanks for putting such great content out there.

  • @lethrbear32
    @lethrbear32 Před 2 lety +1

    Oppenheimer said, "I'm a fucking bastard" when he saw his first bomb go off in that desert.

  • @21reasons47
    @21reasons47 Před 2 lety +11

    And rumor has it Russia is currently employing a more powerful weapon. Go to wikipedia and look up Status-6 Oceanic Multipurpose System.

  • @Benni777
    @Benni777 Před 2 lety +3

    Island atolls: *exist*
    Soviets and Americans: *so you have chosen death*

    • @theophrastus3.056
      @theophrastus3.056 Před 2 lety

      China, who just brought the world the gift of Covid, are busily construction dozens of underground silos for nuclear-tipped ICBMs.

    • @worldoftancraft
      @worldoftancraft Před 2 lety

      I am sorry, but this joke's format is completely worn. I can see holes from wear in this sometime before the funny meme template.

    • @pamike4873
      @pamike4873 Před 2 lety

      Don't forget the UK!! They used an island to test nuclear weapons as well. A somewhat larger and more well-known and populated island, however. I give you...Australia!

  • @zerogravity4878
    @zerogravity4878 Před 2 lety +1

    when your bored and thoughty2 uploads

  • @TheOtakuFoxBronie
    @TheOtakuFoxBronie Před 2 lety +2

    Nearly done with "Stick A Flag In It" and I must say it has been a fantastic audio book, well worth the purchase.

  • @jenniferwilson7762
    @jenniferwilson7762 Před 2 lety +3

    Hey!!! I did it !! I finally found one of his videos that show his tongue touch his teeth to make the "th" sound in thoughty 2 !!!!!! Proving at last that he really is saying thoughty 2 and not forty 2 .. if he were saying 42 his lip would touch top teeth!!! Aaha! 🥳😋

  • @roboterson
    @roboterson Před 2 lety +3

    Reminds me of an old saying: "I like my women like the US likes the Pacific ocean, with no Bikini Atoll"

  • @double_d_8885
    @double_d_8885 Před 2 lety +2

    Watching this is comforting given the current circumstances with Russia and their threats.

  • @crimsonking9648
    @crimsonking9648 Před 2 lety +2

    Good afternoon, thank you for all of your educational videos. Have a good day!

  • @ronaldfinkelstein6335
    @ronaldfinkelstein6335 Před 2 lety +7

    1 1/2 kg of antimatter is the standard medium yield photon torpedo[Star Trek]

  • @Frosty_tha_Snowman
    @Frosty_tha_Snowman Před 2 lety +3

    6:52 and people today are worried about cow poops impact on the environment 😂

    • @Foolish188
      @Foolish188 Před 2 lety

      Cow burps, not poops.

    • @Frosty_tha_Snowman
      @Frosty_tha_Snowman Před 2 lety

      @@Foolish188 I have always heard poops, you're the first one I've heard say burps lol. One of the ideas proposed was actually airtight cow diapers to collect the gas and poop.. they ultimately decided against it because the bags would explode or spontaneously combust when they would get hot enough in the sun.

  • @thomasbriggs8520
    @thomasbriggs8520 Před 2 lety +1

    Disco can’t die - that might have just made my week!

  • @dramaticcat3150
    @dramaticcat3150 Před 2 lety

    Love your educational/informational videos!!

  • @tracymclaughlinholmes677
    @tracymclaughlinholmes677 Před 2 lety +4

    That's because the person in charge of picking the location had Napoleon syndrome.

  • @TheBub26
    @TheBub26 Před 2 lety +3

    anti matter bombs would be the bee's knees, but imagine an anti matter ship! would gravity have the opposite effect on anti matter so it falls away instead of towards?

    • @paulgoogol2652
      @paulgoogol2652 Před 2 lety

      "Gravitational interaction of antimatter - Wikipedia" en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_interaction_of_antimatter

  • @karensavage5658
    @karensavage5658 Před 2 lety +1

    I love your explanations. It’s very entertaining.

  • @waytoocommon9198
    @waytoocommon9198 Před 2 lety +1

    That was the perfect opportunity to end with "don't panic"

  • @imtragicc_
    @imtragicc_ Před 2 lety +6

    💣

  • @MissJean63
    @MissJean63 Před 2 lety +3

    “Disco is not dead! Disco is life!”
    - Mystery Men
    I would live a feature on the “Mankini Atolls”

  • @BLAzinStRipePiPes10
    @BLAzinStRipePiPes10 Před 2 lety +1

    My dude Thoughty2 lookin' sharp with the blue checked shirt and blue suspenders

  • @Ocodo
    @Ocodo Před 2 lety +1

    "how big, comrade?" "Yes."

  • @g3n3ral1nsanity5
    @g3n3ral1nsanity5 Před 2 lety +5

    One thing I've learned about Russia is they really really like their bombs 😂

  • @adamstolen4965
    @adamstolen4965 Před 2 lety +3

    I love to see them on a screen. Probably not in real life :-)

    • @ana_derol
      @ana_derol Před 2 lety +1

      This sort of thing should have to exist in CGI only, if we had any bloody brains at all... well, dinosaurs, wait for us...

    • @nibbigger5103
      @nibbigger5103 Před 2 lety

      @@ana_derol
      Too many bands locked down In the basement bought 2 flats and a loft extension

  • @cannedmusic
    @cannedmusic Před 2 lety

    This was really interesting and well presented, thanks for this.

  • @twig828
    @twig828 Před 2 lety +1

    "Disco can't die"
    -Thoughty2, 2021

  • @evan5935
    @evan5935 Před 2 lety +4

    First!
    Edit: seems im second

  • @Leafized
    @Leafized Před 2 lety

    My rest and relaxation is looking at your mustache and listening to your videos while I work.

  • @Pr0tOtyPE005
    @Pr0tOtyPE005 Před 2 lety +1

    I like your videos right away, cause I know it's a good one

  • @davidanderson_surrey_bc
    @davidanderson_surrey_bc Před 2 lety +2

    I think Thoughty2 hits a new high in mispronunciation gaffes with his fancy attempt at trinitrotoluene.

  • @jesperjnielsen
    @jesperjnielsen Před rokem

    Hi thoughty2. Thanks for all the great videos....but what happened to your podcast? Would love to hear some new episodes :)

  • @alaaobaid3363
    @alaaobaid3363 Před 2 lety

    one of the things that I must do before I die is to sit down with Arran and have a chat over a glass of wine , I know he loves good wine

  • @blueuclabag
    @blueuclabag Před 2 lety +1

    Love your videos, dude.

  • @markwaylander
    @markwaylander Před 2 lety

    Fantastic video as always Mr Thinky2.

  • @oobeeman
    @oobeeman Před 2 lety +1

    One thing important to know about anti matter, it is not the anti matter itself that as a hi cost but it is maintaining the matter suspended in gravity, even if we find a way to produce large amount of anti matter, storage will still be a big issue to solve.

    • @PMA65537
      @PMA65537 Před 2 lety

      They just need to build the accelerators on Jupiter and store the antimatter at its Lagrange points.

  • @OmniGuy
    @OmniGuy Před 2 lety +1

    I think you can buy one of these on Amazon and have it by tomorrow.

  • @danbasford7456
    @danbasford7456 Před 2 lety

    "La la la tsar Bomba
    La la la tsar Bomba
    To blow shit up now
    Geneva Geneva!"
    You're welcome. Lol.

  • @damedavidfrith55
    @damedavidfrith55 Před 2 lety

    Loved it and find the podcasts great 👍🏼

  • @mangaas
    @mangaas Před 2 lety

    Hey, you should mention your podcast quickly at the beginning of your video, it'll get way more exposure then a quick mention at the end. Love your content, just followed you on Spotify now