What happened to Land Submarines?

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  • @AubriGryphon
    @AubriGryphon Před 6 měsíci +2259

    No, the MOST unbelievable part of the Soviet story is that it left an empty tunnel behind it. Where did all those tons of earth and rock go?

    • @JanskiPolanski
      @JanskiPolanski Před 6 měsíci +362

      It becomes diamonds.
      Which shows the true ingenuity of this design.

    • @jefflochner5972
      @jefflochner5972 Před 6 měsíci +72

      Science!

    • @AubriGryphon
      @AubriGryphon Před 6 měsíci +91

      ​@@juanjoseleonvarea2495Perhaps you should listen at 4:05 and try again.

    • @Elmerjordan
      @Elmerjordan Před 6 měsíci +258

      So it somehow compressed and melted countless tons of rock at speed? Conservation of mass would like a word with you.

    • @robertkerr4199
      @robertkerr4199 Před 6 měsíci +37

      @@Elmerjordan It used waste heat from fission to melt the rock.

  • @dansimpson6844
    @dansimpson6844 Před 6 měsíci +1372

    ACME made something similar back in the 1960's. A thin black disk could be laid on the ground and instantly become a tunnel to wherever the operator needed to go. This technology was used extensively to attempt to trap roadrunners.

    • @livinginvancouverbc2247
      @livinginvancouverbc2247 Před 6 měsíci +67

      ACME made those incredible holes which transcended modern physics yet those tiny umbrellas were useless against falling boulders.

    • @Kevan808
      @Kevan808 Před 6 měsíci +32

      Beep beep 🦊

    • @dansimpson6844
      @dansimpson6844 Před 6 měsíci +50

      ACME also experimented with a version that could be applied to the side of a cliff like paint. They had to abandon this since it would sometimes spontaneously produce a speeding locomotive that would run over the person applying the "paint".

    • @ericlotze7724
      @ericlotze7724 Před 6 měsíci +28

      Now i want a parody of this channel, Same serious presentation/british voice, but with ACME stuff lol.

    • @frankfedison5203
      @frankfedison5203 Před 6 měsíci +16

      Don't forget the "tunnel paint". 😅

  • @captain_commenter8796
    @captain_commenter8796 Před 6 měsíci +399

    *“BEHOLD, THE UNDERMINER!”*

    • @spazzey0
      @spazzey0 Před 6 měsíci +10

      *Queue: Michael Giacchino - Consider Yourselves Undermined! (From "Incredibles 2"/Audio Only)*

    • @isaakb
      @isaakb Před 6 měsíci +8

      hahah yes i was scouring the comments for this exact quote

    • @Flightcontrol96
      @Flightcontrol96 Před měsícem +4

      I AM BENEATH YOU, BUT THERE IS NOTHING BENEATH ME

    • @TheAnnoyingBoss
      @TheAnnoyingBoss Před měsícem

      But where is my supersuit

    • @TheGrindcorps
      @TheGrindcorps Před měsícem +1

      Turns out Hamas stole some of these!

  • @doltsbane
    @doltsbane Před 6 měsíci +962

    All you would need is three seismometers and you could track such things even more easily than a submarine.

    • @livinginvancouverbc2247
      @livinginvancouverbc2247 Před 6 měsíci +57

      Thank you! "Undetected"? No Way!

    • @HansTheGreatestApocPlayer
      @HansTheGreatestApocPlayer Před 6 měsíci +76

      yep, but how would you hit them?

    • @Infernal_Elf
      @Infernal_Elf Před 6 měsíci +2

      Absolutely

    • @207KalashBoy
      @207KalashBoy Před 6 měsíci +51

      ​@@HansTheGreatestApocPlayerhave bombers loiter in the sky while tracking it and bomb the piss out of it when it surfaces. Remember, you may not be able to shoot them, but they can't shoot you either, so being able to track them while remaining undetected will almost guarantee a win.

    • @TimeeeTimeeeTimeee
      @TimeeeTimeeeTimeee Před 6 měsíci +21

      @@207KalashBoy what if they just plant some bombs under their targets?

  • @casualwoomy
    @casualwoomy Před 6 měsíci +425

    military really said "worm but bigger"

  • @reggieziet
    @reggieziet Před 6 měsíci +485

    If NOD did not lose from GDI, we would have them as public transport by now!

    • @majormissile5596
      @majormissile5596 Před 6 měsíci +22

      Yeah, but if NOD won, we'd also have tick tanks, so...

    • @reggieziet
      @reggieziet Před 6 měsíci +14

      @@majormissile5596 Yeah but then you could lay in that tick tank with thick rank NOD babe Oxanna Kristos

    • @majordakka5743
      @majordakka5743 Před 6 měsíci +20

      Kane lives!

    • @AAK625
      @AAK625 Před 6 měsíci +12

      This channel needs to comb the Command and Conquer series starting with the TD and see what it can turn up.

    • @aurorajones8481
      @aurorajones8481 Před 6 měsíci +11

      Kane lives!

  • @shariqhasan6220
    @shariqhasan6220 Před 6 měsíci +311

    Soviets had some pretty crazy ideas even though most of them were impractical but still I respect the imagination of their engineers.

    • @cageybee7221
      @cageybee7221 Před 6 měsíci +33

      never underestimate a smart man with the near endless wealth and power of a totalitarian state that covers 1/3rd of the entire earth's non-ocean surface at his back.

    • @loadingnewads
      @loadingnewads Před 5 měsíci +14

      when you see something weird with a word “nuclear after it you will know its origin is 100% soviet union

    • @JosePineda-cy6om
      @JosePineda-cy6om Před 4 měsíci

      Exactly!! Some of those designs could be useful even today!! I always knew ekranoplans would eventually come back, one way or the other, just not in the original Soviet conception... turns out, Iran has now a fleet of these quasi-planes, intended to harass the US warships in the Persian Gulf. Ternary computers have some advantages over binary, and so far nobody's been back to Venus... we need to convince Elon te create a modern Venera to explore Earth's twin, it'd be amazing

    • @j4genius961
      @j4genius961 Před 4 měsíci +1

      @@cageybee7221 Bbbbuuut innovation is impawsible under communism!!!

    • @1opportunist
      @1opportunist Před 4 měsíci

      ​@@cageybee72211/6

  • @brianedwards7142
    @brianedwards7142 Před 6 měsíci +211

    The Mole was my favourite International Rescue machine after Thunderbird 2.

    • @JZsBFF
      @JZsBFF Před 6 měsíci +5

      Ah, Nostalgia.
      😥

    • @yellowbacon69
      @yellowbacon69 Před 6 měsíci +17

      Fellow cultured individual 🍷🗿

    • @Sawer
      @Sawer Před 6 měsíci +1

      @@yellowbacon69 Heyhey!

    • @yellowbacon69
      @yellowbacon69 Před 6 měsíci

      @@Sawer hey!

    • @fredbloggs8072
      @fredbloggs8072 Před 6 měsíci +4

      Mr Hackenbacker succeeded in making this concept work, and everyone else failed.

  • @TheWoblinGoblin
    @TheWoblinGoblin Před 6 měsíci +267

    Considering that boring a tunnel with humongous dedicated equipment inclunding similar machine takes years and costs billions I cannot fathom what kind of stupid went into "military pays for R&D"

    • @Einwetok
      @Einwetok Před 6 měsíci +36

      Never underestimate people in power going down the rabbit hole through ego, or obsession.

    • @GlyphidGuard
      @GlyphidGuard Před 6 měsíci +7

      This reminded me of a quote from a russian comic
      "Oh, it's funny yeah?"
      "THIS IS RUSSIA"

    • @KenFullman
      @KenFullman Před 5 měsíci

      I think it's pretty obvious from the war in Ukraine that what Russia claims to have in millitary hardware is severely exagerated. If Russia's millitary was just half as powerful as it claimed, the Ukraine war would have been over within 3 days. I wouldn't be surprised if even it's nuclear arsenal is just a bluff.

    • @dudermcdudeface3674
      @dudermcdudeface3674 Před 4 měsíci +12

      It takes years and costs billions to do it _safely._ Remember who we're talking about.

    • @7792448
      @7792448 Před 4 měsíci

      Considering how higgs Boson has become, viable technology. To destroy the higgs Boson makes this absolutely a highly probable, and affordable piece of equipment.

  • @ashrithrao06
    @ashrithrao06 Před 6 měsíci +71

    Found And Explained’s alternate title in an alternate universe, “What happened to Water Subterrenes?”

  • @b18c5vtececlipse
    @b18c5vtececlipse Před 4 měsíci +40

    6:55 TNT, which stands for trinitrotoluene, is not the same as black powder. Black powder, also known as gunpowder, is a mixture of potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur. It's historically used in firearms and fireworks. TNT, on the other hand, is a yellow crystalline compound used primarily as an explosive material. While both TNT and black powder are used for explosive purposes, they are chemically different substances with distinct properties and compositions.

    • @Rokenroleg
      @Rokenroleg Před 3 měsíci +3

      Yeah, came here looking for a comment about this - sort of embarrassing scriptwriting for an 'engineering' channel.

    • @user-wz9kt7im2i
      @user-wz9kt7im2i Před 3 měsíci

      @b18c5vtececlipse
      That's what I was going to say!! :P Just kidding. I gave up chemical engineering classes many years ago, but I did know how to spell out TNT from the Halloween comedy movie "Spaced Invaders"

    • @BlooCollaGal
      @BlooCollaGal Před dnem

      @@user-wz9kt7im2i Don't need to know much chemistry to know that black powder =/= self-oxidizing high explosive compound

  • @meetoo594
    @meetoo594 Před 6 měsíci +179

    Something like this would be more practical for going through ice. I think NASA has plans for a small one to melt through miles of ice to get to Europa's subsurface ocean.
    Tunneling through rock at the speed depicted in the video would be impossible not to mention how noisy and easily detectable the mole would be making it useless for offensive military applications.

    • @bsadewitz
      @bsadewitz Před 5 měsíci

      They took it seriously.
      Systems and Cost Analysis for a Nuclear Subterrene Tunneling ... www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/4444905?shem=ssusxt

    • @clueless4085
      @clueless4085 Před 5 měsíci +7

      As soon as I heard that, I thought, "How in the fuck would you transport/carry/implement the fuel for a device that could _melt_ through the earth at anything approaching a reasonable speed?".

    • @redequinox9874
      @redequinox9874 Před 5 měsíci

      And then they discover eldritch like creatures living under europa's surface and then out of nowhere comes along a cult based on clowns.

    • @peceed
      @peceed Před 5 měsíci +9

      @@clueless4085 It is easy part. Cooling is the hard part.

    • @XiaoYueMao
      @XiaoYueMao Před 4 měsíci +3

      @@peceed if its melting through the ice then the ice around it cools it, not efficiently but its good enough

  • @sebastiansochanski
    @sebastiansochanski Před 6 měsíci +79

    Lights at the back of the land submarine is in particular helpful.

    • @jester6408
      @jester6408 Před 6 měsíci +13

      Allows workers behind it to see while putting in tunnel supports

    • @NavyDood21
      @NavyDood21 Před 6 měsíci +5

      Wait, do yall not realize that is not a light? I mean, its a freaking vent for the reactor heat.

  • @manoloorz
    @manoloorz Před 6 měsíci +139

    Took me 7 years to realize that the boring company's name is a pun for tunnel bore machines 😅

    • @dmanduff9108
      @dmanduff9108 Před 6 měsíci +2

      Better late than never...

    • @grandicellichannel
      @grandicellichannel Před 4 měsíci

      Ah yes. The infamous BoringX.

    • @AnonymOus-ss9jj
      @AnonymOus-ss9jj Před 4 měsíci +2

      How is it a pun? Also what did you think was meant by boring? Do you think Musk just named the company "dull" to attract investors?

    • @jesipohl6717
      @jesipohl6717 Před 3 měsíci

      @@AnonymOus-ss9jj Musk's a Midas, everything he touches breaks. His own adult children, all his ex's have abandoned him.
      Check out Adam Something's objective analyses on Musk's companies and ideas.

    • @darviniusb
      @darviniusb Před 3 měsíci

      a bit late, they are out of business

  • @s3p4kner
    @s3p4kner Před 6 měsíci +31

    There was an old 1960's British kids TV show made with puppets called Thunderbirds, everyone age 5-10yrs watched it. As a humanitarian rescue agency with wild vehicles they had a digging machine called The Mole.
    You could have just used footage from the TV show because the concept shown here is that close lol, even down to the scaffold to angle it downwards to get digging.

    • @jonathanmcadams-nx5zp
      @jonathanmcadams-nx5zp Před 4 měsíci +1

      In my day in the 90s we had Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and two characters called Bebop and Rocksteady had a underground submarine with a corkscrew up front and they were my favorite. I had their action figures and the land submarine, got it along with $250 worth of other Turtles action figures and vehicles and weapons for Christmas when I was 8. I am 39 in March.

    • @chriskodama8775
      @chriskodama8775 Před hodinou

      Thunderbirds original was super neat due to models and puppets used. CGI sucks balls compared to practical effects.

  • @juanjoseleonvarea2495
    @juanjoseleonvarea2495 Před 6 měsíci +66

    In the 70s I saw a documentary about constructions of the future in which they showed things that are commonly used in construction today. And one of the ones that surprised me the most was a tunneling machine, which was a giant tungsten tip that was heated to red hot and was capable of melting the earth and digging a tunnel, whose walls looked like rock crystal. It was a fairly large platform, with the operator lowering the metal tip slowly. It would not be unreasonable to think that this system was secretly developed in later years.

    • @dustybricks113
      @dustybricks113 Před 5 měsíci +7

      Newer models look like large bells, and the heat is used to power and propell it forward. There is minimal vibration due to high heat, and when noticed there are assumed to be natural lava tubes.

    • @AMPProf
      @AMPProf Před 5 měsíci

      QUE QUE QUE!!!!! Siiiii lolz hmmm Mucho dineros???

    • @juanjoseleonvarea2495
      @juanjoseleonvarea2495 Před 5 měsíci +3

      @@dustybricks113 Yes, that's what they look like, like lava tunnels, with vitrified rock.

    • @AMPProf
      @AMPProf Před 4 měsíci

      And 20 years

    • @jttech44
      @jttech44 Před 4 měsíci

      @@AMPProf And infinite money.

  • @ErnestJay88
    @ErnestJay88 Před 6 měsíci +17

    I remember watching a movie with this kind of vehicle that can travel towards Earth Core, the movie name os " *The Core* "

    • @paulkepshire5056
      @paulkepshire5056 Před 6 měsíci +5

      Same. If you look closely, you'll see he included a few clips from the film.

    • @scottk3292
      @scottk3292 Před 2 dny

      After I watched that movie years ago, I regretted that I hadn't spent that time cleaning toilets or similar. That movie was just awful.

  • @ian1231100
    @ian1231100 Před 6 měsíci +14

    Actually we have land submarines. They're called TBMs.

    • @JWQweqOPDH
      @JWQweqOPDH Před 6 měsíci +6

      Yes, and they're 100 times slower than nautical/normal submarines.

    • @Pixel22-fs3tt
      @Pixel22-fs3tt Před měsícem

      ​@@JWQweqOPDHand only used in civilian applications and not military

    • @JWQweqOPDH
      @JWQweqOPDH Před měsícem +1

      @@Pixel22-fs3tt TBMs can help build tunnels which can be used for defense. For example, Pyongyang, arguably the most fortified/well-defended city on Earth, has an extensive tunnel network deep under the city.

    • @ajcottrill4949
      @ajcottrill4949 Před dnem

      @@JWQweqOPDHthey also don’t vaporize the occupants

  • @thorstenmuller8222
    @thorstenmuller8222 Před 6 měsíci +12

    As it is impossible for nuclear reactors to explode in a thermonuclear fireball, this story about the test of the Soviet „battle mole“ is obviously not true…

    • @BlooCollaGal
      @BlooCollaGal Před dnem

      It could have had a meltdown without _literally_ exploding.
      They said it was melting solid stone around it, so I could believe the cooling system for the reactor got overloaded.

  • @Kishanth.J
    @Kishanth.J Před 6 měsíci +61

    Could you imagine the civil application for these machines. Like tunnelling transit tunnels or making pipelines.

    • @genericasianperson6405
      @genericasianperson6405 Před 6 měsíci +19

      It's already a thing look up tunnel boring machine

    • @Kishanth.J
      @Kishanth.J Před 6 měsíci +7

      I know TBM exist, but their costly and slow. I was wondering if these machines would be better than the TBM, seeing as they seem faster.

    • @molybdaen11
      @molybdaen11 Před 6 měsíci +5

      "I want a big geothermal energy plant in every major city."

    • @GlyphidGuard
      @GlyphidGuard Před 6 měsíci +1

      ​@@Kishanth.J If we make modifications for these things then it's just going to be the same slow drilling machine we have, but with an undersupervised nuclear reactor

    • @nanonano2595
      @nanonano2595 Před 6 měsíci +13

      @@Kishanth.J they seem faster because they don't exist and you can make it look as fast as you want.
      Digging tunnels is big business worldwide, if there were a better, faster option that could be done with technology from the 60s, it would already be in use.

  • @joshuabessire9169
    @joshuabessire9169 Před 6 měsíci +5

    John Henry: "Underground Boat..."
    DARPA Chief: "You knew?"
    John Henry:"We've had a few run-ins in the past."

  • @qdaniele97
    @qdaniele97 Před 6 měsíci +20

    The best solution would probably be to use a MASER to melt the rock in front of you (that way you directly heat the rock instead of having to heat some part of the vehicle to crazy temperatures), and then use some mecchanical means (like screws and things like that) to push the molten (or maybe just softened) rock around and then behind you.
    But managing the heat trapped in the rock around you would still be a huge problem, probably without solution.
    Maybe the only way arount it would be accepting that the main mode of operation for your vechicle is to mechanically dig through dirt or soft/loose rocks and only engaging the heating device for very short times to help with sections of harder rock (having to move past the heated section, proceed some more mechanically and then wait for a cooldown period each time).

    • @user-sc7fk5ys6x
      @user-sc7fk5ys6x Před 4 měsíci +3

      Thought they would use focused acoustic cavitation to form a precisely positioned fracture in the rock. Remove the fractured piece, ship it out, rinse, and repeat.

    • @7792448
      @7792448 Před 4 měsíci +1

      You need to consider higgs boson..., and what can be done with material that has been eviscerated.
      An example for you is what happened to all of the debris all of the concrete that was collapsed in the twin towers.
      It doesn't have a requirement for excessive heat.

    • @tobik2627
      @tobik2627 Před 3 měsíci +1

      I know you just watched the core 😁

    • @user-wz9kt7im2i
      @user-wz9kt7im2i Před 3 měsíci

      Where is all of that old study the earthworm material we tossed out? :P

  • @brunocesarcerqueira2525
    @brunocesarcerqueira2525 Před 6 měsíci +12

    This vehicle reminded me of the Thanderbirds. If it were truly possible, it would be excellent for building tunnels, underground bases, and deep mining.

  • @clemensdocar3191
    @clemensdocar3191 Před 6 měsíci +11

    Getting massive C&C Tiberian Sun Nod Subterranean APC vibs from it ^^

  • @solarpower09
    @solarpower09 Před 5 měsíci +8

    This may be only rumors... May be not. When I was a kid, there was a competition ran by "Modelist- Konstructor" magazine, for the best design of underground self propelled vehicle, in Soviet Union. I did participate in it as well as thousands and thousands of other kids. Imagine how many designs did they receive and processed. Of course, my design did not take the prise, but now I am a Drilling Engineer and i still have the reply letter from that magazine! 😂

    • @jesipohl6717
      @jesipohl6717 Před 3 měsíci

      Sounds about right for the competence of a 20th and 21st century Russian govt. Honestly, any nation on the security council is pretty similar.

    • @user-wz9kt7im2i
      @user-wz9kt7im2i Před 3 měsíci

      I still have my letter from Van Daniken who wrote "Chariots of the Gods", form the time I was an engineering student. :)

  • @erikvanschie9525
    @erikvanschie9525 Před 6 měsíci +8

    This looks like the drill from the fire nation in Avatar

    • @mill2712
      @mill2712 Před 6 měsíci +2

      Except this baby goes underground too.

  • @TheTeeDay
    @TheTeeDay Před 5 měsíci +7

    As someone who was in underground construction for 10yrs I assure you the second you hit a 56,000psi granite seam you’re “land submarine” would come to a very quick halt.

    • @NeedToBike
      @NeedToBike Před 4 měsíci

      Is that like a pressurised hole in the granite ?.

    • @wastelandwarrior9738
      @wastelandwarrior9738 Před 3 měsíci

      Indeed 😂

    • @TheTeeDay
      @TheTeeDay Před 3 měsíci +1

      @@NeedToBike No it’s just very hard granite. I hit some under the Hudson River in upstate NY and Turned a couple month job into 16mo…..

    • @killman369547
      @killman369547 Před měsícem

      @@NeedToBike No that's how much force it takes to break the rock.

    • @BlooCollaGal
      @BlooCollaGal Před dnem

      For reference: a fully loaded semi-truck weighs about 56,000 pounds.
      That's a lot of PSI!

  • @kahleeb624
    @kahleeb624 Před 6 měsíci +35

    I love the idea of taking something that whilst underwater is practically impossible to find, then putting that in rock where it leaves a perfect trail of the exact path it took.... 😂😂😂
    And this alm9st certainly DID NOT happen. There is a reason that tunnels aren't dug this fast and basically its just not possible. With how 9ften the cutting head would need to be replaced, the amount of earth it would displace if it actually could move at a brisk walking pace co sidering even the most expensive and advance tunnel boring machines today aren't even half that quick. It's just not actually possible on a physics level. First the cutter would disintegrate and melt if it were moving that fast, plus they would have to stop every few inches to back out, change the cutter. Then get moving again. And if something that large really could go through rock that quick it would melt the rock, but would very easily melt the metal on the machine itself.... 😂😂😂

    • @Jedai_Games
      @Jedai_Games Před 5 měsíci +3

      First, rocks have lower melting point than most alloys.
      Second. I don't think we have rights to say what was stupid and in what way. It was previous generations of scientists and engineers, they weren't have our amount of knowledge and experience, as well half of today's technologies.
      Things that today knows every first grader, wasn't so obvious for them. Even more, they was actually the ones who discovered this knowledge.
      Just watch first projects of jet planes, space ships, from both USSR and USA. Amount of mistakes that was made huge. And it almost impossible that everything worked as intended.

    • @user-wz9kt7im2i
      @user-wz9kt7im2i Před 3 měsíci

      Aww ya had to bring physics into it. :)

  • @Ayoosi
    @Ayoosi Před 5 měsíci +13

    I would think that various grades of bedrock and unknown caverns or watertables would be a massive issue. As it is, the drill that cut the tunnel under Seattle took years to finish, so long that we weren't sure the project funding would even survive. And that drill get hung up on a small metal tube that required months of work to remove

  • @riddickraymond7067
    @riddickraymond7067 Před 6 měsíci +8

    It makes sense why the Brotherhood of Nod in command and conquer had them as they took it after the fall the the Soviet union. The game is very well thought out.

  • @gagis99
    @gagis99 Před 6 měsíci +28

    I have one suggestion for you. Try to research the project of the former Yugoslavia, the supersonic plane "NA or YU sonic". I think it would be a good video. Because it shows how much that country was thinking about the future of military aviation at that time, and later with the collapse of the country all those people who worked on the project went to various world airlines. Just one example, they developed voice commands on airplanes, and all that at the end of the eighties.
    I hope to see a good video about this
    Greetings from Serbia✌️

    • @johndee2990
      @johndee2990 Před 4 měsíci +2

      I want to hear more about the Yugo Avro

  • @FRANKMUSIKOFFICIAL
    @FRANKMUSIKOFFICIAL Před 6 měsíci +7

    Warhammer 40k called. It wants its Termite back.

  • @aldaman2725
    @aldaman2725 Před 6 měsíci +4

    Shredder and his foot soldiers used to ride on it back in the 80s.

  • @Keryaken133
    @Keryaken133 Před 6 měsíci +6

    am i the only one who remember that one drill machine "submarine" thing from the end of the incredibles?

    • @paulkepshire5056
      @paulkepshire5056 Před 6 měsíci +4

      The Underminer's "ship"? No, you're not the only one who remembers.

  • @Captain_Tumbleweed
    @Captain_Tumbleweed Před 6 měsíci +8

    Getting strong thunderbirds-vibes when watching this :)

  • @juanelorriaga2840
    @juanelorriaga2840 Před 6 měsíci +2

    This reminds me off seeing the huge burrow machines making new subway lines in Manhattan,NYC extending the 2nd Ave line on the east side.the size of the shafts are just huge in size just jaw dropping

  • @lakesnake2005
    @lakesnake2005 Před 6 měsíci +3

    You could hear and feel that thing coming for miles. Seismographs would trigger alarms long before that. NOT stealthy at all.

  • @Danger_mouse
    @Danger_mouse Před 6 měsíci +16

    While there may be a possibility that a machine like this could be made to work in near liquid permafrost in Russia, as someone who has worked in hard rock mining and tunneling for 20 years, there's no way it could operate at any useful speed or as per the catchy animation at all.
    IF it was possible to use these methods, then every mining company in the world would be using them instead of the slow and laborious drill and blast methods currently in use.
    The best hard rock advance rates in a standard decline mine (6x5.5m) are usually 3 'cuts' per 24hrs of 5-6m advance each.
    Problem no. 2 is what do you do with all the 'spoil', or loosened rock as you advance?
    You can't leave it in the hole ahead of the machine, and you can't 'swim' through it...
    Problem no 3, how do you replace the cutting bits on the drill head while travelling at 7km/h 🤷
    What cutting bits do you use? Most cutting tools on rotary cutter type machines are only good for rock up to 80mpa or there abouts, after which you need to change to drill and blast mining.
    Burning holes through the rock ahead with some kind of magical nuclear laser would melt the machine when you pass through it.
    Never happened 🙂👍

    • @FINMrCurly
      @FINMrCurly Před 4 měsíci

      Maybe it could work if there is pipe inside on it what push rocks soil etc out of it behinds

    • @BlooCollaGal
      @BlooCollaGal Před dnem

      ​@@FINMrCurly Without pumping water into the tunnel to wash out debris the mechanism would be exceedingly inefficient.
      The drill has to cut a path big enough for the whole vehicle, but the conveyor mechanism has to be just a small part of the diameter.

  • @WolfeSaber9933
    @WolfeSaber9933 Před 6 měsíci +17

    With the US design for an underground submarine, using heat isn't just military anymore. Recently, a start up, forgot the name, started using the technology used in fusion reactor research as the source of the heat for the beam to drill for kilometers straight down to get to real sources of geothermal heat for energy. The drill is seen to be a lot cheaper, and way faster, than a mechanical drill, and a lot safer for everyone.

    • @StephenAMG63
      @StephenAMG63 Před 6 měsíci

      Correct Bechtel, a private military contractor was using a nuclear submarine reactor in a under ground boring machine. Someone on the Shawn Ryan podcast brought it up not to long ago.

    • @WolfeSaber9933
      @WolfeSaber9933 Před 6 měsíci

      @@StephenAMG63 That's not what I was talking about.

    • @user-wz9kt7im2i
      @user-wz9kt7im2i Před 3 měsíci

      Bechtel bought the Electronic Warfare company I used to work for long ago. If anyone could do that kind of stuff, I imagine it would include them. @@StephenAMG63

    • @BlooCollaGal
      @BlooCollaGal Před dnem

      Even if you had a nuclear-powered-rock-melting laser, you still have to remove all of that [now molten] material in order to actually _dig a hole._
      We use a big CNC laser cutter at work and it needs a 60PSI jet of compressed nitrogen blowing liquid metal out of the kerf in order to actually *cut* anything.

    • @WolfeSaber9933
      @WolfeSaber9933 Před dnem

      @@BlooCollaGal Not sure what tokamak reactors use to heat the gas, but I doubt it's a laser like what you use.

  • @TheZinmo
    @TheZinmo Před 6 měsíci +33

    That is exactly what the planet needs: Elon Musk with nuclear reactors.

    • @gryph01
      @gryph01 Před 6 měsíci +6

      Yes. His philosophy of build and break it is a little frightening

    • @duelde-consulting6403
      @duelde-consulting6403 Před 6 měsíci

      Musk owned several drilling machines that could travel up to roughly 40.25 kph (25 mph) through solid rock. In 1976 The Guinness World Record-holding fastest tunnel boring machine can cut over 7 meters an hour,

    • @paulkepshire5056
      @paulkepshire5056 Před 6 měsíci

      ​​@@duelde-consulting6403 You are talking complete nonsense to hype up Elon, and here's the proof straight from The Boring Company Wiki:
      Las Vegas Convention Center
      In May 2019, the company won a $48.7 million project to shuttle visitors in a loop underneath the LVCC. Boring of the *first tunnel,* 4,475 feet (1,364 m) long, *began* on November 15, 2019, and *finished* on February 14, 2020, excavating an average of 49 feet (15 m) *per day.*
      Edit: Now you're claiming 7 miles per day to me back at your own comment. Which is it? 25mph or 7mpd? Care to provide a link to back up your ever-changing story?

    • @user-wz9kt7im2i
      @user-wz9kt7im2i Před 3 měsíci

      tbh I believe Musk as much as I believe Putin@@duelde-consulting6403

  • @timtrewyn453
    @timtrewyn453 Před 6 měsíci +6

    I would think the research aided current capabilities in horizontal drilling for oil and gas. Directional boring is a common technique for installing small (

  • @adamang3655
    @adamang3655 Před 6 měsíci +6

    this vehicle is just like the incredible 2 bad guy rob the bank

  • @SHARPSPEED
    @SHARPSPEED Před 6 měsíci +10

    *BEHOLD, THE UNDERMINER!!!*

    • @TheGreyBird71
      @TheGreyBird71 Před 10 dny

      Wouldn’t it be the undergrounder

    • @BlooCollaGal
      @BlooCollaGal Před dnem

      At least the 3rd Underminer comment I've seen and it's getting better every time!

  • @pikapika7936
    @pikapika7936 Před 6 měsíci +3

    0:04 "Behold, the Underminer!" -Underminer

  • @Sir_Uncle_Ned
    @Sir_Uncle_Ned Před 6 měsíci +10

    Why is the drill bit up front spinning the wrong way? Gerry Anderson made the same mistake with “The Mole” in “Thunderbirds” which I suspect the people planning this drew inspiration from

    • @brianedwards7142
      @brianedwards7142 Před 6 měsíci +3

      Brains knew what he was doing. The still of the machine on a scaffold ready to go is from the Doug McClure flick At The Earth's Core (1976).

    • @Sir_Uncle_Ned
      @Sir_Uncle_Ned Před 6 měsíci

      @@brianedwards7142 everything is derivative

  • @cameronkruger4333
    @cameronkruger4333 Před 6 měsíci +3

    Seeing that there are rumors that there is a massive underground tunnel network underneath North America, one would wonder how far it went with the U.S.,

    • @user-wz9kt7im2i
      @user-wz9kt7im2i Před 3 měsíci

      It would take a lot of years to drill tunnel that far. And keeping a vacuum in them to prevent air resistance form stopping the cylindrical shaped fast subway modules .. Engineering and cost and obstacles would be a nightmare. Who knows.

    • @cameronkruger4333
      @cameronkruger4333 Před 3 měsíci

      @@user-wz9kt7im2i it would be interesting to find out, and apparently explain why the pentagon doesn't know how to balance their checkbooks,

  • @remnant4484
    @remnant4484 Před 6 měsíci +4

    *BEHOLD! THE UNDERMINER!*

  • @anwarfirdaus2155
    @anwarfirdaus2155 Před 3 měsíci +2

    If the definition of "land submarine" is "enormous vehicle that move underground breaking through soil and rock", well, its not that rare. Its called Tunnel Boring Machine and it has a speed of, well, several tens of meter per day?

  • @paulmarynissen
    @paulmarynissen Před 6 měsíci +13

    Thermonuclear from a reactor? Everyone’s favourite black powder, dynamite? A little script revision and fact checking wouldn’t go astray. I can tell that a lot of effort is put into these videos, these mistakes do bring down the quality a bit though.

  • @Inset_tomato
    @Inset_tomato Před 6 měsíci +6

    This seems strange but interesting and I love it!

  • @Dwarficus
    @Dwarficus Před 6 měsíci +2

    I look at this and Hell March starts playing in my head.

  • @brianbrwa
    @brianbrwa Před 3 měsíci +1

    In the 1960's, the US had a nuclear drill design, but it left radioactive residue behind it in the walls.

  • @admiralbem7458
    @admiralbem7458 Před 6 měsíci +6

    David Schwarz's airship from the late 19th century should be next!

  • @pimpinaintdeadho
    @pimpinaintdeadho Před 5 měsíci +3

    *A: Elon started The Boring Company*

  • @The-Autistic-Gamer
    @The-Autistic-Gamer Před 6 měsíci +2

    For those like me watching who play Space Engineers, take this concept and build an underground mobile Base!
    I’d do it, but my PC struggles to run space engineers. (Also because of this, I don’t have much practice with building this stuff myself in game)

  • @GhostofJamesMadison
    @GhostofJamesMadison Před 6 měsíci +1

    "we did it we built an underground tunneling machine"
    Great, how fast is it?
    "Uh it goes about 1 in an hour and then cooks everyone inside as soon as the hole is big enough to be a rock oven!"

  • @steveharrison9901
    @steveharrison9901 Před 6 měsíci +3

    And so we now know the movie ‘Battle beneath the Earth’ is actually a documentary. 😁
    This must have been something discussed more than we think, the Japanese model kit companies took the idea and ran with it, I think it was Fujimi. Mole Tanks. Large and small. One even carried a small one-man flying disc for aerial scouting after ‘surfacing’ . Of course these designs were more ‘toys you build’ and were dripping with missile launchers and rotating radar antennas, very impractical and pretty impossible for underground travel. But boy was the box art exciting!
    ETA: wrong company, it was KSN Midori, it was called the Ultra Moguras. There was also the Junior Mogura and the Big Moguras. Oh wow and a King Moguras. I have fallen down a mole tank rabbit hole! 😄 KSN just loved making sci-fi tank toy/models it seems.

  • @Sbv-25
    @Sbv-25 Před 6 měsíci +4

    Straight up like in Metal Slug 5 (the Sandmarine boss)

    • @PlayerE017
      @PlayerE017 Před 6 měsíci

      The difference is the Sandmarine go down on sand not on rocks also Sandmarine design is basically a submarine with treds on the side

  • @jaredspencer3304
    @jaredspencer3304 Před 5 měsíci +1

    Palmer Luckey at Anduril has talked about this idea at length, and has indicated that they've already built working examples and are undergoing testing.

  • @lukagobronidze8417
    @lukagobronidze8417 Před 5 měsíci +2

    6:55 TNT is white yellowish powder/solid but gunpowder is called black powder which was used for explosions before invention of everyones favourite explosive for safe explosion dynamite (also before it was glycerine but it was also very unstable)

    • @BlooCollaGal
      @BlooCollaGal Před dnem

      Nitroglycerine is still the explosive in traditional dynamite, it's just not very popular anymore because modern plastic explosives are so much safer to use.

  • @generalgabrielsatori
    @generalgabrielsatori Před 6 měsíci +5

    Is that the same thing in The Incredibles?

  • @mvgameing7196
    @mvgameing7196 Před 6 měsíci +3

    There is a game called Vocaloid
    Where are you basically going around in a drilling ship like that so I guess it’s pretty fun

  • @vjabonador1067
    @vjabonador1067 Před 6 měsíci +2

    Probably the closest things to these are the TBMs (Tunnel Boring Machine) like the ones they used on the Chunnel.

  • @dannypipewrench533
    @dannypipewrench533 Před 6 měsíci +3

    As a nuclear engineering student, the instant I heard "nuclear reactor" I said out loud, "How the heck do you plan on cooling that thing?"

    • @bradd5112
      @bradd5112 Před 6 měsíci

      9:15

    • @dustybricks113
      @dustybricks113 Před 5 měsíci

      Easy, don't and use the heat to propel you forward in a bell shapped device. Thermal mechanics can be used, if properly implemented.

    • @zabdas83
      @zabdas83 Před 3 měsíci

      ​@@dustybricks113isn't their patents for this?

    • @BlooCollaGal
      @BlooCollaGal Před dnem

      @@dustybricks113 When your bell shaped device collides with a seam of solid granite, then all forward progress is arrested.

  • @jumpy_bunny686
    @jumpy_bunny686 Před 6 měsíci +3

    Behold! The Underminer!

  • @davidvangerner7241
    @davidvangerner7241 Před 6 měsíci +11

    I wonder what it would be like if they became a reality

    • @rfan9340
      @rfan9340 Před 6 měsíci +9

      All you can imagine
      Underground cities, subways, bunkers, tunnels....
      You name it

    • @jonhunter8737
      @jonhunter8737 Před 6 měsíci

      How America makes their DUMBs. But instead of digging out and disposing of the spoil, theirs use lasers to melt the rocks and seal the walls to a glass smooth finish that supports the tunnel.

    • @strikingeagle9855
      @strikingeagle9855 Před 6 měsíci +6

      **TUNNELS**

    • @ccg40
      @ccg40 Před 6 měsíci

      trains

    • @ccg40
      @ccg40 Před 6 měsíci

      subways

  • @jefflochner5972
    @jefflochner5972 Před 6 měsíci +2

    Built by Dr. Evil, stopped by Austin Danger Powers.

  • @anthonywilliams379
    @anthonywilliams379 Před 5 měsíci +1

    a conventional tunnel digger could be improved with the introduction of a reactor to supply power instead of bringing the power down in long cables, but the use case for that would only really be beneficial in say replacing undersea cables and pipelines with ones below the seabed

    • @bztube888
      @bztube888 Před 4 měsíci

      The grid beats any reactor, so it wouldn't be an improvement, it would only make it more mobile.

    • @jesipohl6717
      @jesipohl6717 Před 3 měsíci

      don't worry about disturbing all the life down there, it's not like a majority of the earth's biomass is in the seabed or anything ((sarcasm)).

  • @spaf7835belum
    @spaf7835belum Před 6 měsíci +8

    If these things were in combat nowadays, it would be looked like worms in Transformers-Dark of the Moon due to the developments 😅

  • @reggieziet
    @reggieziet Před 6 měsíci +4

    I can only say one thing about this, and those who know, know: NOD for LIFE! ;)

    • @molybdaen11
      @molybdaen11 Před 6 měsíci

      Peace through power!

    • @DOOT_II
      @DOOT_II Před 6 měsíci

      Kane lives in death!

    • @kundeleczek1
      @kundeleczek1 Před 4 měsíci

      You have lost so many wars and still believ... pathetic.

  • @christmassnow3465
    @christmassnow3465 Před 6 měsíci +2

    Boring through the ground is not boring. Imagine digging metro tunnels, or traveling through the dunes like the sandworm in "Dune"...

  • @RandomVideos66
    @RandomVideos66 Před 4 měsíci +2

    Am I the only one who actually wants to see one of these in real life?

  • @The2ndRateGoblin
    @The2ndRateGoblin Před 6 měsíci +3

    "I am the underminer"

  • @welshpete12
    @welshpete12 Před 6 měsíci +3

    Of the four mines that did not go off and was left in place . One exploded in about ( I think 1950) . By this time it was farm land and luckily no one was killed . It was thought to have been lightning that set it off.

    • @generalolivervonbismarck393
      @generalolivervonbismarck393 Před 6 měsíci

      I wonder if they plan to ever dig down and remove the explosives from those old mines(or evacuate the area above them and blow in place)

  • @user-fc7is6jo2e
    @user-fc7is6jo2e Před 6 měsíci

    Subscribed! I just found your channel and happily subscribed due to this outstanding video.

  • @21babydew
    @21babydew Před 6 měsíci +1

    As someone who deals with rock... its my enemy you dont go through rock at 7km/h id be suprised if it coild go 0.0007 km/h in some rocks and in others even move at all

  • @zx3215
    @zx3215 Před 6 měsíci +7

    Thank you :) I haven't heard of this Leviathan even though I'm Russian :)
    Next I'm expecting a story of an underground air... no - submarine carrier! It could carry naval nuclear submarines from one ocean to another under the ground where no one can detect them! Must come up with some epic name for this monster - like Admiral Kozlov (or would Kirov be more epic?)

    • @willmcgo8288
      @willmcgo8288 Před 6 měsíci +2

      Subterranean Submarine Carrier-- funny!

  • @subnormality5854
    @subnormality5854 Před 6 měsíci +3

    This is just the Underminer from the Incredibles but IRL

  • @harenterberge2632
    @harenterberge2632 Před 2 měsíci

    The Belgian professor Barabas actually invented this. He called his invention the Terranef. It was actually functional and he and his friends used it for many of their adventures!

  • @theyreoutthere.huntinggear
    @theyreoutthere.huntinggear Před 6 měsíci +1

    Avatar did this too. That was cool.

  • @pleb0115
    @pleb0115 Před 6 měsíci +3

    This is just the sandworm from dune with extra steps

  • @matsv201
    @matsv201 Před 6 měsíci +9

    Because material just vanish after the nuclear underground sub passes.. becasue its nuclear.
    This is USSR fan fiction as realistic as 50 shades.

  • @brianedwards7142
    @brianedwards7142 Před 6 měsíci +1

    How about a video about famous or unusual bronze muzzle loader cannons of history?

  • @user-wz9kt7im2i
    @user-wz9kt7im2i Před 3 měsíci +2

    Underground drillers have been making tunnels for the subway systems in American cities. What have they done after the tunnels were done? How about Deep Underground Military Bunkers?

  • @Chris-ok4zo
    @Chris-ok4zo Před 6 měsíci +4

    Wasn't there a game with this kind of vehicle? Forgot the name, but it had something to do with volcanoes.
    Edit: Volcanoids was the name.

    • @molybdaen11
      @molybdaen11 Před 6 měsíci

      Also the "comand and conquer " series and of course planeteer.

  • @Bellett64
    @Bellett64 Před 6 měsíci +3

    Pretty sure Krang had one of these in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon!

  • @jimstrange3475
    @jimstrange3475 Před 6 měsíci +2

    How would that work? It seems you'd be able to hear it or pick it up on those earthquake sensors.

  • @mobilegamersunite
    @mobilegamersunite Před 6 měsíci +2

    "Our heroes of the story...the soviet union" said nobody ever again 😂

    • @mobilegamersunite
      @mobilegamersunite Před 5 měsíci

      @Eugene535 my family is from the USSR... We fought the nazis

    • @mobilegamersunite
      @mobilegamersunite Před 5 měsíci

      @Eugene535 my point is that Russia is acting like the naz-zzis themselves. My gramps is rolling in his grave

    • @mobilegamersunite
      @mobilegamersunite Před 5 měsíci

      Putttler should lead from the front lines

    • @mobilegamersunite
      @mobilegamersunite Před 5 měsíci

      @Eugene535 o, I know...I was there when it collapsed. And it's on its way to collapse again, by the look of things

  • @gabrielb9010
    @gabrielb9010 Před 6 měsíci +4

    How long did it take to animate the ground?

  • @DUBSTEP_KUSH305
    @DUBSTEP_KUSH305 Před 6 měsíci +4

    ITS A CUCUMBER BUT IT MOVES😅 THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID 💀

  • @Graeberwave
    @Graeberwave Před 4 měsíci

    David Graeber gave a great lecture on such “poetic technology.”

  • @majormissile5596
    @majormissile5596 Před 6 měsíci +2

    There was almost certinally some kind of secret Soviet subterranean warfare project, possibly even what this rumor was based off of, but this is an absolutely ridiculous story. In my very unprofessional but somewhat extensive studies of the cold war, I find that if the Soviets or Americans had a project, the others absolutely had tried at least something to copy it. It was insanely hard to keep a project secret, and the earlier in the cold war it is the more likely both sides are willing to invest resources on the slightest suspicions at least looking into what that the other was doing, even if it was just to prove it was stupid.
    This also could have been a project that was never real, but the rumor was used to make thier opponent waste resources, which could mean the soviet project was a rumor (likely more realistic than it evolved to) and the American project was an investigation on the validity of it.

  • @agdraaijer7288
    @agdraaijer7288 Před 6 měsíci +10

    Getting indeed vibes of thunderbirds, teenage mutant ninja turtles and the NOD subterranean APC. That being said, having worked with cutter suction dredgers which cut rock, you have (steel with tungsten inserts) wear parts that need replacement every so often due to abrasion. Tungsten itself is too brittle so a rod of it must be held together with a steel teeth, same goes with TBMs and drum cutters. At some point the soil becomes too hard to economically drill and the cost effective solution is to drill and blast.
    The cut rock needs to go somewhere (it takes up more volume when broken), loose soil, clay and peat have pores and may be pushed aside, not so with solid rock. It's a nice science fiction concept, but that's what it is, fiction!

    • @beaudavis3808
      @beaudavis3808 Před 6 měsíci +1

      Not just them, Nosecone from the Transformers, the Pit Viper from G.I. Joe, and the Magma Mole from M.A.S.K. (Mobile Armored Strike Kommand) all then likely drew inspiration from these things.

  • @linusvogel7769
    @linusvogel7769 Před 6 měsíci +3

    Hey fae could you do a Video about the west german mbb firefly Programm?

  • @anthonywilliams379
    @anthonywilliams379 Před 5 měsíci +2

    self-contained drilling machines like this could make a return on other planets, since underground shelters would allow structures to be made with minimal materials and utilising the ground for shielding from radiation exposure

    • @isoinic4575
      @isoinic4575 Před 4 měsíci

      Also it's where all the oxygen is stored in molecules.

    • @jesipohl6717
      @jesipohl6717 Před 3 měsíci

      it's gonna be so much fun to be a slave on another planet.

    • @user-wz9kt7im2i
      @user-wz9kt7im2i Před 3 měsíci

      hmmmm. As a former engineering student you woke me up. *sigh* I have a personal friend who designed the drill bit for the Mars lander.

  • @Flint1408
    @Flint1408 Před 6 měsíci +2

    Hello! Love your videos!
    Could you make one maybe on the F19 concept and or on the B36 and its variants?

  • @ApokalyptikNM
    @ApokalyptikNM Před 6 měsíci +5

    I can see some flaws to this.. like how do they know where they are going? And imagine you're just drilling through earth and without your knowing there is a Ginormous underground cavern and you just fall.. or you drill right into a caldera.. what's the contingency if the machine breaks down and your thousands of feet below ground..
    This is basically a drilling coffin..

    • @molybdaen11
      @molybdaen11 Před 6 měsíci +1

      Thats basically the plot of "the core" ;)

  • @Bayofthe91st
    @Bayofthe91st Před 6 měsíci +3

    So its a Subterranine ?

  • @user-rm4jd8ep5y
    @user-rm4jd8ep5y Před 5 měsíci

    That was a smooth segue into squarespace

  • @lukaspundzius9293
    @lukaspundzius9293 Před 6 měsíci

    Do this one next with more research on this , in need for part2 mate ;-)