Why Apollo Astronauts Trained in Nuclear Bomb Craters

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  • Apollo astronauts trained in nuclear bomb craters at the Nevada National Security Site. But why?Thanks Audible! Start listening with a 30-day trial and your first audiobook plus two Audible Originals free when you go to audible.com/veritasium or text veritasium to 500500
    I found this story fascinating because in a way a nuclear bomb crater is more like a meteorite impact site than an impact site itself. Consider: Barringer Crater was claimed to be a meteorite impact site but geologists dismissed it as a volcanic formation. It was only after studying nuclear bomb craters and the minerals found there that geologists concluded the energy and pressures that created Barringer Crater were too high to be from volcanic activity and therefore must have formed from a meteorite impact.
    Special Thanks to:
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    The National Atomic Testing Museum
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    Filmed by Raquel Nuno
    Story and Editing by Derek Muller and Jonny Hyman
    Music and Animation by Jonny Hyman
    Produced by Casey Rentz

Komentáře • 9K

  • @veritasium
    @veritasium  Před 4 lety +2729

    The astronauts were exposed to some additional radiation from visiting the site, but they were about to go to the moon. So radiation was part of the job.

    • @XtreeM_FaiL
      @XtreeM_FaiL Před 4 lety +44

      If you can survive this, you can survive that too and if you can handle that, you can handle those too...

    • @grovemeister04
      @grovemeister04 Před 4 lety +4

      Neat Derek!

    • @talbizle
      @talbizle Před 4 lety +4

      Thanks for the awesome video Derek.

    • @DomWPC
      @DomWPC Před 4 lety +100

      only 3.6 rontegen
      not great not terrible

    • @martiddy
      @martiddy Před 4 lety +9

      @DMoney Industry Yes it was rad...ioactive!

  • @CyclingSteve
    @CyclingSteve Před 4 lety +3500

    Why are you testing nukes underground?
    USGOV: Oh, er, for constructing canals...

    • @Wildefire42
      @Wildefire42 Před 4 lety +244

      There were plans to nuke a canal from the mediterranean to the sahara depression so they weren't the only ones. Using nukes to make an artificial ocean... the 60's were wild!

    • @fahmisa4790
      @fahmisa4790 Před 4 lety +81

      meanwhile in USSR, let's try constructing a nuke lake

    • @fahmisa4790
      @fahmisa4790 Před 4 lety +2

      meanwhile in USSR, let's try constructing a nuke lake

    • @GarrusN7
      @GarrusN7 Před 4 lety +69

      Nukes were seen as legitimate tools for various things other than war. Crazy times.

    • @ralanham76
      @ralanham76 Před 4 lety +20

      @@PoliticalJames awesome let's Nuke some abandoned shores

  • @philo-
    @philo- Před 2 lety +486

    It honestly makes me happy hearing the astronauts of Apollo exclaiming that they found the rocks they wanted. There's something so amazing about the journey and the relief and joy they must have felt. You can hear it in their voices.

    • @Coolgiy67
      @Coolgiy67 Před 2 lety +1

      Nerd

    • @nicolocantaluppi5572
      @nicolocantaluppi5572 Před 2 lety +9

      @@Coolgiy67 You try getting shot into space in a tin can and Land on a rock in the middle of nothing.

    • @robm2907
      @robm2907 Před 2 lety +7

      Think of how happy it makes humans to hear / repeat song lyrics and patterns that they like but takes very little effort to know. It must have made those humans so happy to say speak back and understand the names of the minerals and know what they are, their properties, and any implications it could have for their understanding of the galaxy. Good humans.

    • @Lil.Grandpa
      @Lil.Grandpa Před 2 lety +6

      @@nicolocantaluppi5572 They should too, considering it was probably fake.

    • @pepsi3005
      @pepsi3005 Před rokem

      @@Lil.Grandpa shut up

  • @Rockyers
    @Rockyers Před rokem +14

    0:05
    I like how the subtitles say "Neil Armstrong and Buzz Lightyear set food on the moon"

  • @xxthexcaliburxx
    @xxthexcaliburxx Před 2 lety +2712

    I like how the cold war basically was the US and the USSR bombing themselves to prepare for when the other side decides to bomb them

    • @BZB2000
      @BZB2000 Před 2 lety +178

      Both countries have ridiculously large swaths of uninhabited land, so it’s really not surprising.

    • @HanSolo-iy3eq
      @HanSolo-iy3eq Před 2 lety +140

      "shoot yourself with smaller caliber bullets to build up an immunity to larger bullets"

    • @nenmaster5218
      @nenmaster5218 Před 2 lety +46

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    • @AnakinS86
      @AnakinS86 Před 2 lety +26

      @@nenmaster5218 no way you don’t have Vsauce on there :0 he literally is like the most famous science CZcamsr

    • @nenmaster5218
      @nenmaster5218 Před 2 lety +21

      @@AnakinS86 My friend, that is exactly the Reason why i DONT have him.
      To not be redundant!
      For none of things i choose to recommend the Literally most Famous, cause that's not quite helpful, is it?
      ?

  • @ImAllergicToSkin
    @ImAllergicToSkin Před 2 lety +2285

    “But the Nevada test site provided something... extra”
    Cancer

  • @toddburgess5056
    @toddburgess5056 Před rokem +1

    I love how informative these videos are, it's a real educational channel and for that I am thankful.

  • @KillersFromTheWest
    @KillersFromTheWest Před 2 lety +1

    Super informative, thanks for the great content.

  • @arpanray8480
    @arpanray8480 Před 3 lety +5406

    Cold war expectation:
    USA nukes Russia, Russia nukes USa
    Cold war reality:
    USA nukes USA, Russia nukes Russia.

    • @dirm12
      @dirm12 Před 3 lety +366

      And they were both much happier for that option. Everyone wins!

    • @aarambhverma1550
      @aarambhverma1550 Před 3 lety +105

      *USSR

    • @deltavii7499
      @deltavii7499 Před 3 lety +48

      Mint The USSR and the Soviets are the same.

    • @vedvod
      @vedvod Před 3 lety +54

      Aarambh Verma actually, if you look at the actual agreements and ensuing politics of the 1991 dissolution, Russia *technically* didn’t leave the USSR, and they, in a way, assumed the titles and powers of the USSR (but it “ended” the Cold War, obviously). Therefore, as some (forgot who) political leaders have claimed, Russia and the USSR are technically the same entity, just renamed, the 1991 dissolution was merely a way for Ukraine and everyone still in the USSR to get out, leaving just Russia in the USSR, which, at the time of dissolution, was still inclusive of Russia.
      TL;DR, Russia and the USSR could be legally argued to be the same legal entity

    • @spacefishaviation276
      @spacefishaviation276 Před 3 lety +6

      stolen joke but still funny tho

  • @besmart
    @besmart Před 4 lety +11781

    This is what I call "science for the crater good"

  • @smokebuds30
    @smokebuds30 Před 2 lety +3

    Thoroughly enjoyed the video can sense the excitement and enthusiasm of the host made it a 10/10 for me

  • @losguapos8776
    @losguapos8776 Před 2 lety +1

    Great video man very informative

  • @mikejohnstonbob935
    @mikejohnstonbob935 Před 4 lety +11988

    big plot twist: dinosaurs had nuclear technology and wiped themselves out

    • @sumitshresth
      @sumitshresth Před 4 lety +223

      not dinosaurs but but native Americans

    • @ErebosGR
      @ErebosGR Před 4 lety +346

      Imagine the Demon Core accident but with a T-Rex holding up the beryllium dome with its tiny hands.

    • @damyr
      @damyr Před 4 lety +207

      @@x_x5009 Exactly. Humans are the product of nuclear mutation of dinosaurs. We are all basically T-Rexes and velociraptors... ok, most of people are just stupid gallimimus.

    • @EFSpartan
      @EFSpartan Před 4 lety +55

      Still a valid hypothesis, where there aren't significant evidence that dinosaurs weren't advanced. Even nuclear disasters like Chernobyl would have radiation lasting hundreds of thousands of years, plenty of time in 65 million year span from their great extinction. Any significantly advanced civilization would build things that would recycle and not stay forever like we are doing right now. Would there be traces of humans 65 million years from now?

    • @zamundaaa776
      @zamundaaa776 Před 4 lety +64

      @@EFSpartan just from their skeletons one can see that they were in fact not technologically advanced enough. How advanced their speech was, how much they traveled etc. Besides all that, a T-Rex that handles machines would be absolutely hilarious.

  • @CenarosNL
    @CenarosNL Před 4 lety +620

    Still going strong after all these years. And not a bit of quality loss. Love it man. Thank you.

    • @stefaniasmanio859
      @stefaniasmanio859 Před 4 lety +5

      He is really great! We are very lucky! 🤗❤️

    • @maxl5112
      @maxl5112 Před 4 lety

      Robert Jansen he doesn't mean pixel quality

  • @rebmcr
    @rebmcr Před 2 lety +7

    "I think we found what we came for!"
    That's got to be a contender for 'most satisfying sentence ever uttered'.

  • @francescosaccomanni9024
    @francescosaccomanni9024 Před 2 lety +124

    …Is anyone else also wondering if the sites were still radioactive when the astronauts visited them?

    • @gabedidit7673
      @gabedidit7673 Před 2 lety +16

      Ion even get why the dude who made this video is that close to the crater. I wouldn't be in that state at all

    • @thediplomaticpodcast3399
      @thediplomaticpodcast3399 Před 2 lety +11

      @@gabedidit7673 probably because that was detonated in the 50s? and it’s 2022?

    • @gabedidit7673
      @gabedidit7673 Před 2 lety +1

      @@thediplomaticpodcast3399 hell naw couldn't be me

    • @imdeadinside792
      @imdeadinside792 Před 2 lety +5

      I think I would just be irradiated not radioactive so it would be fairly safe

    • @brandonl.6840
      @brandonl.6840 Před 2 lety +8

      @@thediplomaticpodcast3399 half life of uranium and other radioactive elements in nukes are REALLY long like REALLY long it takes a while for those types of elements to deteriorate

  • @Aaron-kp4zs
    @Aaron-kp4zs Před 4 lety +3184

    When you dig straight down in minecraft and fill the hole with tnt

  • @speed2574
    @speed2574 Před 4 lety +894

    That guy calmingly shutting the fridge door while the nuke's going 5 4 3....

    • @greyarea805
      @greyarea805 Před 3 lety +58

      That's Indiana Jones if he had a crisis before getting in

    • @cravinbob
      @cravinbob Před 3 lety +32

      Cold beer on a HOT day can take your breath away.

    • @idkanameforthis
      @idkanameforthis Před 3 lety

      GIVE ME HATE on my videos ...

    • @notbrick1383
      @notbrick1383 Před 3 lety +1

      @@idkanameforthis no

    • @hiiiiii1.1
      @hiiiiii1.1 Před 3 lety +3

      @@idkanameforthis why are ppl asking for hate on their videos- like what’s the point? Just curious

  • @davidluchsinger7377
    @davidluchsinger7377 Před rokem +25

    I can’t imagine the power needed to excavate a pit that large. Insane.

    • @helloratto8877
      @helloratto8877 Před 8 měsíci +3

      about 1 nuclear bombs worth👍

    • @colbyr7811
      @colbyr7811 Před 5 měsíci

      Compared to the largest nuclear bombs tested they are relatively small. That's the part that inspired shock and awe in me.

  • @Killermonktr
    @Killermonktr Před 2 lety

    man your vids are so lovely

  • @M4rtingale
    @M4rtingale Před 4 lety +717

    2:05 WTF ARE YOU DOING MAN IT'S EXPLODING IN LIKE 5 SECONDS!

    • @vladimirlenin843
      @vladimirlenin843 Před 4 lety +124

      Don't worry.
      He survived in the refrigerator.
      It's lead lined

    • @nemlolrawrlawl2350
      @nemlolrawrlawl2350 Před 4 lety +8

      @@yoyonis6840 That was an actual belief back when these testings were being made. It may have been a pretty terrible scene, but it was accurate to beliefs.

    • @camel662
      @camel662 Před 4 lety +3

      DON'T OPEN THE DOOR YOU FOO-

    • @garryiglesias4074
      @garryiglesias4074 Před 4 lety +4

      This looks like a safe place, moreover I can enjoy some fresh beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerzzzzzffflooooofff....

    • @Aaron-ru6ld
      @Aaron-ru6ld Před 4 lety +2

      Cheese

  • @iamme8359
    @iamme8359 Před 3 lety +738

    “Hey bob”
    “Yeah bill?”
    “What’s this metal thing”
    “I dunno, try hitting it.”
    “Ok-“

    • @vothequyen4972
      @vothequyen4972 Před 3 lety +32

      Oh my god,
      The subtitles said “Buzz Lightyear” instead of Buzz Aldrin 😂

    • @bullymaguire3867
      @bullymaguire3867 Před 3 lety +4

      @@vothequyen4972 WTF dude😂

    • @bonflores8849
      @bonflores8849 Před 3 lety +15

      Did.. did you just use Kerbal names??? Lol

    • @iamme8359
      @iamme8359 Před 3 lety +5

      @@bonflores8849 p e r h a p s

    • @fumesolo6709
      @fumesolo6709 Před 3 lety +1

      @@iamme8359 it can be better

  • @cloudypatch9087
    @cloudypatch9087 Před 2 lety

    Woah this Is so cool and interesting, keep up the great work

  • @darshansidhu2211
    @darshansidhu2211 Před 2 lety

    Interesting knowledgeable videos

  • @galaxchen5942
    @galaxchen5942 Před 3 lety +1668

    "11 of the 12 men visited the site" So the 12th guy just kinda arrived and flew to the moon?

  • @DangerousDac
    @DangerousDac Před 4 lety +3237

    Fun fact: he's closer to Area 51 than anyone wanting to raid it in September :p

    • @LarryFish3rman
      @LarryFish3rman Před 4 lety +149

      They actually give two different tours to this site, one depending on if there is a non-citizen in the group, and another, through a different gate*, if there is only U.S Citizens present.
      *I think.
      That whole area is surrounded by more secret sites than just Area 51. There is a drone facility, an airforce base, and countless other top secret runways and bases than well ever know along with a ton of craters and weapons testing grounds.

    • @MrQhuin
      @MrQhuin Před 4 lety +10

      CZcams algorithm right there buddy

    • @Duncan_Idaho_Potato
      @Duncan_Idaho_Potato Před 4 lety +7

      About 13 miles (21 kilometers) away as the crow flies, according to Google Earth.

    • @megamind6000
      @megamind6000 Před 4 lety +18

      Sep 20: Naruto run

    • @bengersbootlegs
      @bengersbootlegs Před 4 lety +19

      I was gonna say that, its kinda nice having an educated and civil comments section. Its kind of a novelty in 2019

  • @SevenGC89
    @SevenGC89 Před 2 lety +2

    I never really thought about it until watching a video like a month or 2 ago that was saying how scientists were refuting the Chicxulub crater as meteorite impact for a long time because they couldn't find any debris, not yet understanding that the meteor impact vaporizes it completely. After hearing that it makes perfect sense, at least for me most representations of meteors have been in old movies and games, to pick a recent one I played Final Fantasy V, very early on you travel to different meteor sites and all of the "impact" sites have a cone shape with a tail where it hit and dragged. Idk why until now.. maybe I just never gave it much thought but that tail pattern is so illogical especial when the meteorite is still fully intact at the other end!

  • @anuragsapkota6458
    @anuragsapkota6458 Před rokem

    Really good video

  • @Goryllo
    @Goryllo Před 4 lety +6612

    "America is conducting nuclear experiments for the benefit of all Nations..." wow, they really had a great sense of humour in the 60's

    • @christianege4989
      @christianege4989 Před 4 lety +454

      Why? It was a benefit to all nations. The increrase of illnesses due to the nuclear radiation and the from this following increase of illness of the people caused the medical industrie to produce more drugs, increasing these companies sales and therefore amount of tax they have to pay, which then resulted in the governments having more money they could spent for their people.
      So see, the nuclear tests benefited all mankind.
      P.S.: If you can find the irony in this comment, you may keep it.

    • @coin5207
      @coin5207 Před 4 lety +244

      @@christianege4989 by that logic HIV is also a benefit to all nations. How about you get yourself some aids to support your local government

    • @joshuahadams
      @joshuahadams Před 4 lety +73

      It kinda was. There hasn't really been a battle on the scales of Stalingrad or Ypres since August 9th, 1945.

    • @delightfulsunny
      @delightfulsunny Před 4 lety +77

      It did benefit all nations because it ended the WWII. If U.S.A. did drop those two bombs in Japan, imperial Japanese army would have continued their evil doings to no end.

    • @travelinman70
      @travelinman70 Před 4 lety +14

      sounds like a plausible cover story to me!!

  • @vaguelysomething
    @vaguelysomething Před 4 lety +604

    You inspired me to pick physics as my major

    • @pluto8404
      @pluto8404 Před 4 lety +84

      Ah... should have went for lesbian dance theory major. There will be no jobs in physics after we raid area 51 and find nasa's dome projector.

    • @roguemaniac7929
      @roguemaniac7929 Před 4 lety +18

      Poolie and respawn because they used beds

    • @JustanApple96
      @JustanApple96 Před 4 lety +12

      Hey I just graduated with a physics major. Work hard and enjoy it! It's a grand adventure and it doesn't stop even after you graduate.

    • @jackbond5348
      @jackbond5348 Před 4 lety +7

      Carl Sagan said it best
      Confessions of Walking Speech 1.0
      Quote: 'We have created a world that profoundly depends on science and technology, we've also created things so that no-one understands science and technology, we might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces'

    • @megamind6000
      @megamind6000 Před 4 lety

      @@pluto8404 sep 20: Naruto run

  • @soulraider6074
    @soulraider6074 Před rokem

    So that’s where they’ve filmed it! Thanks!

  • @jstnj_
    @jstnj_ Před 9 měsíci

    Amazing video.

  • @costa_marco
    @costa_marco Před 4 lety +1431

    "1m wide, 635 feet" deep... Loving the mixed units. SI FTW! ;)

    • @veritasium
      @veritasium  Před 4 lety +207

      haha, yeah I had other takes with ~200m but this one was better I think...

    • @costa_marco
      @costa_marco Před 4 lety +50

      @@veritasium I understand. It sounds more impressive. By the way, thank you very much for the quality content. Greetings from Brazil.

    • @sugandhakohli
      @sugandhakohli Před 4 lety +22

      @@veritasium Guess that's what happens when you come to the US after living for a while in Australia... :D

    • @Ezio393
      @Ezio393 Před 4 lety +54

      @@veritasium We from the rest of the world have no clue how deep is 635 feet without googling and converting it.

    • @cyrkielnetwork
      @cyrkielnetwork Před 4 lety +25

      @@veritasium How big it is in football fields? ;)

  • @theheeheeman9206
    @theheeheeman9206 Před 3 lety +931

    "I think we found what we came for"
    "Crystalline rock"
    "Yesssirrr"

  • @luiggiphilipi
    @luiggiphilipi Před 2 lety +2

    How do you manage to make one amazing vídeo after another, in such impecable streak???

  • @hikodzu
    @hikodzu Před 2 lety

    Hopefully we soon go back there, I can't wait..

  • @fictionalortrue9898
    @fictionalortrue9898 Před 4 lety +840

    Thanks for being one of the best educational CZcamsrs on this site.

    • @milanstanic5017
      @milanstanic5017 Před 4 lety +4

      here is a reply

    • @sirBrouwer
      @sirBrouwer Před 4 lety +12

      the best educatianal CZcamsrs on this site, are there other sites besites CZcams where you could be a CZcamsr?

    • @aampudia8
      @aampudia8 Před 4 lety +2

      yeah, because youtubers on vimeo suck!!! xD

    • @sirBrouwer
      @sirBrouwer Před 4 lety

      @@aampudia8 if they are on vimeo they are no CZcamsrs. You need to use CZcams in order to be a CZcamsr.
      The description is with in the name.

    • @aampudia8
      @aampudia8 Před 4 lety

      @@sirBrouwer i know... thats why it's really weird to say "the best educational youtubers on this site"..... don't you think??

  • @pillarshipempireemployee0142

    SmarterEveryDay: gets disinfected to _look_ at sealed containers in sealed containers.
    Veritaseum:

    • @johannes8346
      @johannes8346 Před 4 lety +55

      Veritasium: *sneezes* (because he inhaled some of the moon dust)...

    • @egodef1
      @egodef1 Před 4 lety +3

      Bru are you okay dude

    • @777Duble777
      @777Duble777 Před 4 lety +1

      @@egodef1 Oh wow, I guess my phone didn't turn off in my pocket or something, that's scary

    • @DarklyBishop
      @DarklyBishop Před 4 lety +6

      SmarterEveryDay advocates for religion in everyone of his videos so... That kinda negates his scientific mind when he believes in a fairytale. Just sad.

    • @pillarshipempireemployee0142
      @pillarshipempireemployee0142 Před 4 lety

      @@DarklyBishop Oh, I didn't know.

  • @RevKali
    @RevKali Před 2 lety +9

    I’m more mind blown by the craters created by nukes, that’s just insane how power we can create!

    • @davidsaesthetics2280
      @davidsaesthetics2280 Před rokem

      And these was only in kilotons powerlevels just imagine what would happen with a 50 megaton thermonuclear fusion device thats insane !

    • @squidwardo7074
      @squidwardo7074 Před 5 měsíci

      not to mention it took like 10 pounds of plutonium to make that

  • @MKHALH
    @MKHALH Před 2 lety +2

    Look at the captions
    “Neil Armstrong & buzz lightyear”

  • @Bepis13
    @Bepis13 Před 4 lety +2648

    Imagine the moon being covered in lava today, and being able to see it in the middle of the night...

    • @idahomike
      @idahomike Před 4 lety +286

      I know what we could call it... the sun!

    • @cherrybomb9130
      @cherrybomb9130 Před 4 lety +160

      Mike Price It probably wouldn’t be bright enough to light up the sky, however on new moons, quarters, and crescents where we would normally see it dark, it would glow red.

    • @Blackholebirb
      @Blackholebirb Před 4 lety +86

      @@idahomike the sun isn't made out of lava... The stuff on the surface is hydrogen :p and if there was lava it would be under the surface making it magma

    • @sampohlmann1503
      @sampohlmann1503 Před 4 lety +16

      History would be different

    • @alexwaddington6161
      @alexwaddington6161 Před 4 lety +59

      I feel like we can already see the moon at night?

  • @Aziraphale686
    @Aziraphale686 Před 4 lety +707

    I wonder if Tom Scott is angrily deleting a project from his timeline right now lol.

    • @joonasfi
      @joonasfi Před 4 lety +53

      Hehe :) It'd be a weird thing to see an angry Tom Scott! I don't think I've ever heard him angry - just frustrated

    • @enb3810
      @enb3810 Před 4 lety +5

      Damn, I just clicked off of one of his videos

    • @elevander
      @elevander Před 4 lety +36

      They can do similar videos. I enjoyed both Derek’s and Tom’s Chernobyl videos

    • @ThisFish888
      @ThisFish888 Před 4 lety +3

      The sudden influx of space related videos is likely a NASA shill campaign

    • @JalnorTheGreat
      @JalnorTheGreat Před 4 lety +47

      @@ThisFish888 Or maybe there's a big anniversary that's got everyone talking about what happened back then... you know, maybe a nice round number like 50 years?

  • @antsinsidemypants7900
    @antsinsidemypants7900 Před 2 lety +4

    Me and the boys: FIRST ONE TO ROLL DOWN TO THE BOTTOM!

  • @dcamron46
    @dcamron46 Před rokem +5

    Lol I love how bombs are still quantified in terms of TNT or dynamite sticks, as if it’s 1912 and most people know what that ‘feels like’
    Oh man, a thousand sticks of dynamite!? I remember last week when I was excavating that hole near San Fran for gold that was a big blast, so it’s even bigger than that!?

  • @ll-li3dt
    @ll-li3dt Před 3 lety +225

    8:23 its offical. “yessir!” on the moon is the best out of all the yessir memes

  • @shaileshrana7165
    @shaileshrana7165 Před 4 lety +268

    Really interesting video bruh. Love how you structure the story. It takes more effort than it looks.

    • @stevedd9725
      @stevedd9725 Před 4 lety +2

      Yeah, it takes much effort to lie.

    • @JorgeRodriguez-xx8vx
      @JorgeRodriguez-xx8vx Před 4 lety +15

      @@stevedd9725 So stop lying to yourself.

    • @markcollard9326
      @markcollard9326 Před 4 lety

      yeah, moon rocks that were actually independently tested actually ended up being petrified wood. so who lied? google "moon rock petrified wood."

    • @AnselmWiercioch
      @AnselmWiercioch Před 4 lety +6

      @@markcollard9326 rofl.

    • @christianege4989
      @christianege4989 Před 4 lety +10

      @@markcollard9326 Yes, google it!
      Because if you would do that, you would have found out that these wood pieces were a joke by two artists.
      NASA itself NEVER said that they were moon rocks, even more, NASA never even claimed that they have given a moon rock to the dutch museum you are referring to.
      But as always, when it comes to claims that fit the view of you conspiracy believers, you dan't do proper research, but read only the parts that fit into your believes, and then stop research, or even dismiss parts as false. And all just because you want to still believe in your fantasies instead of just admitting you are wrong.

  • @loosejenkins47
    @loosejenkins47 Před rokem

    That shot right at the start showing all of the craters was insane after seeing how big only 1 is and there's over 900!

  • @tylerfb1
    @tylerfb1 Před 2 lety +50

    Apollo, and every US astronaut pilot and mission commander since Mercury, have been test pilots, ie graduates of the USAF Test Pilot school or other service equivalent. Test pilots are not just expert pilots, they have scientific or engineering degrees, and a test pilot school graduate has the equivalent education of a scientific or engineering PhD. They are professional scientists, just on the practical side of aero and astronautics.

    • @kbanghart
      @kbanghart Před 9 měsíci

      ​@@JFlatby
      Right, and NASA civilian Rusty Schweickart (Apollo 9) and NASA civilian Harrison Schmitt, LM pilot on Apollo 17 weren't test pilots. Someone needs to re-read their space race history.

  • @bcbble
    @bcbble Před 2 lety +142

    "Neil Armstrong and Buzz Lightyear first set foot on the moon."
    That's what close captions thinks you said LOL

    • @drewlop
      @drewlop Před 2 lety +4

      I thought you might be pulling a prank but it's true lmfao

    • @drewlop
      @drewlop Před 2 lety +9

      Oh actually the auto-generated captions get it right, so this might be an autocomplete error or just a brain slip from whoever typed 'em in

    • @sahd7950
      @sahd7950 Před 2 lety +3

      I needed to find this so I didn’t think I was crazy

    • @ALWAYSDOINSHI
      @ALWAYSDOINSHI Před 2 lety

      @@drewlop he did it on purpose

    • @gabahoe_gbh1333
      @gabahoe_gbh1333 Před 2 lety +1

      I just noticed on the video it said someone was called "Dick Gordon"

  • @Araknala
    @Araknala Před 4 lety +1480

    They used *PLOWSHARE* when they could have used *SKILLSHARE* .

    • @thiesenf
      @thiesenf Před 4 lety +16

      Or Brilliant... or any of the other 4.3*10^5353465344 craptacular "services"...

    • @Araknala
      @Araknala Před 4 lety +2

      Thiesen or their brain

    • @tymccormick2512
      @tymccormick2512 Před 4 lety +3

      Yesnt

    • @funjoyknowledge3304
      @funjoyknowledge3304 Před 4 lety +2

      And no health care no free higher education no social security lol

    • @thebrotherhoodlc
      @thebrotherhoodlc Před 4 lety +2

      What a lame name for company Plowshare

  • @joedellinger9437
    @joedellinger9437 Před 9 měsíci

    My father was the chief drilling engineer for the Sedan test! I grew up hearing about it.

  • @skendae9152
    @skendae9152 Před 2 lety

    2:05 got me thinking about Nuketown. Back in the good ol days…

  • @MrRogsmart
    @MrRogsmart Před 4 lety +2546

    I learned more about the moon in 13 minutes than I ever learned in school. Keep up the good work.

    • @jasonjr2500
      @jasonjr2500 Před 4 lety +5

      I know

    • @hankfrancoisanimo2688
      @hankfrancoisanimo2688 Před 4 lety +4

      True that

    • @dylanstarzec2099
      @dylanstarzec2099 Před 4 lety +2

      roger smart same

    • @kingsly2275
      @kingsly2275 Před 4 lety +27

      roger smart TBF to school you probably learned more about the moon there it’s just the way they try to get you to learn the information isn’t interesting whatsoever I mean who finds reading facts about the moon through popcorn reading “fun”? For learning to be effective it has to be enjoyable or just shoved down your throat till the point it’s near impossible to forget

    • @lukce7770
      @lukce7770 Před 4 lety +2

      @@kingsly2275 i agree

  • @user-px7kx2gp1b
    @user-px7kx2gp1b Před 3 lety +513

    0:03 Subtitles say "Buzz Lightyear"

  • @abhistraj5732
    @abhistraj5732 Před 2 lety

    Awesome 😎

  • @theknightikins9397
    @theknightikins9397 Před rokem +1

    “Crystal rock!”
    “Yes sir!”
    I love astronauts.

  • @10tothe10088
    @10tothe10088 Před 4 lety +626

    Closed Caption at 0:04: "Neil Armstrong and Buzz Lightyear" LOL

  • @ver.zy21
    @ver.zy21 Před 4 lety +287

    Caption; "Neil Armstrong and Buzz Lightyear first set foot on the moon"
    Woody; What the actual fck?

  • @saidchacon
    @saidchacon Před 2 lety +1

    Subtitles on 0:02 : yeah Buzz Light-year was there as well

  • @guystoner7277
    @guystoner7277 Před 2 lety

    Also went to flagstaff at to sunset crater and meteor crater

  • @JosephSivits
    @JosephSivits Před 4 lety +404

    4:31 if the yellow sign is a historical sign, then the white sign is a historical sign sign

  • @kingjames4886
    @kingjames4886 Před 4 lety +361

    "to determine how homes and household items could be made to withstand nuclear bombs"
    conclusion: they can't. everyone will die.
    "to determine if we can use nuclear weapons to excavate ground for civilian purposes"
    conclusion: we can't. everyone will die.

    • @raniedelfajardo742
      @raniedelfajardo742 Před 4 lety +35

      Conclusion : Bomb was only used to kill people

    • @Void-ng8jz
      @Void-ng8jz Před 4 lety +2

      Best conclusion than nothing👍

    • @Napoleonic_S
      @Napoleonic_S Před 4 lety +4

      wut, did you not see the video? there were some houses that still stood after being blasted, they were right there beside the totally blown away "normal" houses that were right next to them.

    • @kingjames4886
      @kingjames4886 Před 4 lety +1

      @@Napoleonic_S are you sure you weren't looking at a bunker?

    • @AdibasWakfu
      @AdibasWakfu Před 4 lety +18

      fridges are nuclear blast resistant, don't you watch movies?

  • @OmnikTWR
    @OmnikTWR Před rokem

    i like your aviators

  • @nartyiskitury
    @nartyiskitury Před 2 lety

    Great and a piece of science:-)

  • @jamesyang4898
    @jamesyang4898 Před 4 lety +1455

    America: We test nuclear bomb for the benefit of all nations.
    Nations: doubt
    Japan: DOUBT

    • @ZeHoSmusician
      @ZeHoSmusician Před 4 lety +39

      You mean, "Japan: LIES!"

    • @dymytryruban4324
      @dymytryruban4324 Před 4 lety +14

      Actually, Edward Teller suggested to use nuclear explosions in Canadian mining industry. His idea was rejected.

    • @cyberNinja69477
      @cyberNinja69477 Před 4 lety +16

      haha nagasaki go boom

    • @VVayVVard
      @VVayVVard Před 4 lety +21

      To be serious, while military uses are (by definition) not in everyone's best interests, nuclear testing in itself has been highly educational for mankind as a whole.

    • @jamesyang4898
      @jamesyang4898 Před 4 lety +6

      @@VVayVVard Nuclear bombs is made with explosive fisson reaction. And nuclear energy is made with sustained fission. The former needs highly refined uranium, while the latter don't. To benefit the world you will need to research the latter and not the former. And they are very different in scientific nature despite their similarity in both using fission as a energy source.

  • @stuck_around
    @stuck_around Před 4 lety +202

    brady joe and destin seeing moon rocks: wearing full scrubs in pressurized vault and all samples are triple bagged behind glass
    derek: lol so i got this moon dust here im just gonna open the jar n take a look (8:40)

    • @subwarpspeed
      @subwarpspeed Před 4 lety +13

      There are different levels of security and separation. Quite a few rocks were given to nations around the world, I would assume not being in vacuum.
      The ones they can do actual science and publish papers on are provably the secure ones like Destin visited.
      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_and_missing_Moon_rocks

    • @AZOffRoadster
      @AZOffRoadster Před 4 lety +7

      @@subwarpspeed Some sample containers were already contaminated. Damn moon dust is hell on seals.

    • @MGCooley
      @MGCooley Před 4 lety +12

      In Destin's video didn't they say the samples were brought back in vacuum?

    • @Barblooms
      @Barblooms Před 4 lety +2

      They need a LOL button in addition to the like button. Good one!

    • @patrickgragg5602
      @patrickgragg5602 Před 4 lety

      You stupid f******every government that has checked into these moon rocks has found that they came from Greenland you idiots

  • @findingKoronic
    @findingKoronic Před rokem

    exactly 3 years ago, this masterpiece was born

  • @rickey6990
    @rickey6990 Před rokem +1

    Derek:
    "Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin first set foot on the moon."
    Captions:
    "Neil Armstrong and Buzz Lightyear first set foot on the moon."

  • @ingmanni873
    @ingmanni873 Před 4 lety +2983

    Spends millions of dollars to go to the moon.
    What they bring back: Rocc

  • @victoriaeads6126
    @victoriaeads6126 Před 3 lety +112

    I love that these astronauts were so excited about lunar geology. The Apollo program wasn't designed for scientists to be the astronauts, but the people they chose were just the right sort to understand why geology is exciting💜 I also love that we now expect astronauts to be scientists as well as pilots.

    • @slidsilver4461
      @slidsilver4461 Před rokem +3

      So far, only a single scientist has visited the surface of the moon... but that will change in 2025 with the Artemis 3 landings!

    • @1daramano
      @1daramano Před rokem

      Let it something clear for the new generation. The moon landing happened because of the war, NOT because of the science. More than half a million people worked on this project, because of the moon dust ?????

  • @MarcoAdventures
    @MarcoAdventures Před 2 lety

    11:15 That is the happiest person I have ever seen in my entire life.

  • @abhinavsrivatsakingsman5244

    excellent explanation sir I am just 12 yrs old and I understand your explanation perfectly

  • @King_Zog_I
    @King_Zog_I Před 3 lety +150

    Bruh them using nuclear bombs for canals is something 8 year old me would do in Minecraft

  • @sebastianalmanza4756
    @sebastianalmanza4756 Před 4 lety +146

    No one:
    1950s: “Let’s use nukes for construction!”

  • @ChristianJackson47
    @ChristianJackson47 Před 2 lety +4

    Sometimes when I watch science stuff like this, I wonder if we already know everything there WAS to know and at this point we are literally making things up that actually become reality.

  • @GamIngDoge.
    @GamIngDoge. Před 2 lety

    good start on the titles, whoever made them

  • @PBMS123
    @PBMS123 Před 4 lety +252

    3:35 Chagan Crater is located in Kazakhstan, not Russia. It was obviously detonated within the USSR in the 60s, but that is now Kazakhstan.

  • @theodensuhrie7915
    @theodensuhrie7915 Před 3 lety +266

    This desert has GOT to have some interesting critters in it.

  • @zforczek8653
    @zforczek8653 Před rokem

    To practice for the filming the next day.

  • @erikataki1267
    @erikataki1267 Před 2 lety

    Totally makes sense, needed astronaut training stuff. Yeah

  • @Deloooon
    @Deloooon Před 3 lety +366

    8:14 I like how they sound more like children finding special rocks in the playground than actual professionals or scientists

    • @samar5838
      @samar5838 Před 3 lety +14

      You literally did ctrl+c ctrl+v of the other comment

    • @utubejeffo
      @utubejeffo Před 3 lety +17

      They were neither professionals nor scientists. They were pilots. Big kids with expensive toys doing something crazy.......as usual.

    • @mohammed-yw5zm
      @mohammed-yw5zm Před 3 lety +4

      @@samar5838 Oh cOpiEd CoMmEnT OoO

    • @reidgowan2670
      @reidgowan2670 Před 3 lety +19

      @@utubejeffo What do you even mean they weren’t professionals? They definitely seem like being an astronaut is their job.

    • @starstrangledmanwithaplan8148
      @starstrangledmanwithaplan8148 Před 2 lety

      @@samar5838 ok?

  • @mihaiesco490
    @mihaiesco490 Před 4 lety +405

    “100 Km thick”
    Dayummm that’s thicc thicc

  • @shadyshrimp4169
    @shadyshrimp4169 Před rokem

    I learned more in this video than all of my time in school

  • @CosmicPen
    @CosmicPen Před rokem

    I was at Sudan on July 20, 1969.

  • @russdill
    @russdill Před 4 lety +50

    After the sign that has "HISTORICAL SIGN" Is there long enough, does it get it's own historical sign sign?

  • @TarlMarl
    @TarlMarl Před 3 lety +137

    I’m ready to see this again in my recommended the next 8 years

  • @ts4gv
    @ts4gv Před rokem +1

    such a crater would be a cool place to put a giant spiraled terrain-hugging rollercoaster.

  • @ALovelyPassionFruit
    @ALovelyPassionFruit Před 2 lety +1

    These sites are awesome if people haven’t been there. Crazy how you think it’s not that deep then you look at pictures and it’s huge

  • @cadenfisher6455
    @cadenfisher6455 Před 4 lety +64

    Imagine going sledding in one of those

  • @Nurpus
    @Nurpus Před 4 lety +416

    Derek: *1 meter* wide hole
    Derek literally 4 seconds later: *635 feet* deep
    Just pick one or the other, don't do that to my brain.

    • @desp8161
      @desp8161 Před 4 lety +5

      Divide by 3

    • @chankludo1
      @chankludo1 Před 4 lety +5

      Ur dumb.

    • @sealifett8395
      @sealifett8395 Před 4 lety +16

      American so backward

    • @truepotential206
      @truepotential206 Před 4 lety +1

      You need school mate

    • @katief7047
      @katief7047 Před 4 lety +2

      Omg I’m glad I’m not alone. I had to rewatch 3 times to understand what he was trying to say lmaooooo

  • @mignav464
    @mignav464 Před 11 měsíci

    7:07 as laid out in "From the Earth to the Moon"

  • @obxsgbbjjv8362
    @obxsgbbjjv8362 Před 2 lety

    3:33 Veritassium you are wrong, actually Chagan crater is in Semipalatinsk testing site which is located on East Kazakhstan

  • @MuhammadNurbasit
    @MuhammadNurbasit Před 4 lety +264

    next video : Can you swim in Nuclear Test Site

    • @joshuabryk4316
      @joshuabryk4316 Před 4 lety +6

      Atticus Baker not entirely true. You can swim in it to a certain degree because radiation halves every 7cm however if you were to swim down too close to the fuel you would die

    • @chefgiovanni
      @chefgiovanni Před 4 lety +2

      Sure, until you wiggle like a sparkler and then fade out.

    • @notsure6187
      @notsure6187 Před 4 lety

      Can you swim in Lake Karachay?

    • @reidgowan2670
      @reidgowan2670 Před 4 lety

      Me: Going for a swim in the ocean
      Employees at Fukushima:

    • @grayghost0513
      @grayghost0513 Před 4 lety +1

      Your answer is yes you can one time you can do it try it in a radioactive pool and give me your last words via yt Lol

  • @dwightk.schrute8696
    @dwightk.schrute8696 Před 4 lety +57

    1 meter wide hole, was drilled down 635 feet deep ... damn, get your units straight!

    • @AZOffRoadster
      @AZOffRoadster Před 4 lety +1

      Yanks. What can ya do?

    • @Terje1337
      @Terje1337 Před 4 lety

      It’s what’s common to a lot of aviation around the world. Meters in horizontal distance, feet in vertical.

  • @fahadalamsiddiqui7301
    @fahadalamsiddiqui7301 Před rokem +2

    00:03 closed caption (English) says "Neil Armstrong and Buzz Lightyear" 😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @zen9468
    @zen9468 Před 2 lety

    the sharp outro sound is an ear drum torturer, i could hv died yo

  • @HeavySpiral
    @HeavySpiral Před 4 lety +60

    I thought it had something to do with insulating radiation, space radiation testing or something. Never really thought it had that much to do with topography etc.

  • @petshop2097
    @petshop2097 Před 4 lety +903

    But why do meteorites always land in craters? Don't you think that's a bit of a coincidence?

    • @florencewidjaja2081
      @florencewidjaja2081 Před 4 lety +28

      the meteorites created the craters?

    • @robiaharefin6876
      @robiaharefin6876 Před 4 lety +261

      @@florencewidjaja2081 whooooosh

    • @wtflol6969
      @wtflol6969 Před 4 lety +86

      @@robiaharefin6876 This one flew higher over her head than EVEN neil armstrong over the MOON

    • @namamishanker7167
      @namamishanker7167 Před 4 lety +1

      Not necessarily

    • @travelinman70
      @travelinman70 Před 4 lety +67

      that's like asking why tornado's go straight for the nearest trailer park.

  • @Franz_playz
    @Franz_playz Před 8 měsíci

    0:02
    when you put captions on it is buzz light year💀

  • @gameccount0977
    @gameccount0977 Před 2 lety

    i remember a film where something like that was made