The Worst Radioactive Ideas in Nuclear History
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Innovations in science and technology often find uses outside of their original intent, such as with Alfred Nobel's invention of dynamite, and the discover of radiation and nuclear energy are no exception to this rule. In this video, I explore some of the more interesting applications of radiation and nuclear power throughout history! With everything radium products to nuclear weapons for 'peaceful' construction, the atomic era after Oppenheimer had no shortage of radioactive quackery and bizarre nuclear tales. - Komedie
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Plus they JUST had a dev stream showing previews from the new update coming soon. Great video btw!
Edit: So about that radium vibrator...
You should do one about a plan to use bats to burn Japan in WWII in serious it actually the plan.
this is the best birthday gift i could have ever recieved , thanks for the video
Hey! I love to say hello with an High explosive ballistic capped 88mm shell. You cant stop me.
I LUV U BLUE J
In the 1950's, a chemistry set for kids was released named "Atomic Energy Lab" While for kids, the set still included not only uranium, but also gamma, alpha and alpha-beta radiation sources. In the 60 page manual, instructions on how to go about mining more of the stuff was also included. I guess, just in case the kids had lost their originals somehow...
That manual the set came with its really helpful
They don't make them like they used to
In the 1950s they felt kids should learn real world concepts. Real world things are dangerous, and it was up to the parents to teach their children to respect dangerous things. Wasn't until around the 1980s-1990s that western society decided that children needed to be protected from the real world. As such we've had two generations be blind sided by the real world, the dangers therein, and as such... well... everyone can see how that has worked out.
@@thalastianjorus That's...not the same, like, at all. Had parents back then, had any knowledge on what radition can do to the human body, no kids would be let near any of these chemistry sets, unless the parents deliberately wanted to be cruel to the young ones. Or if you think it is ok for little Joe to grow up sterile.
@@abaddon1371 radiation was well understood in the late 50s. When this was a toy.
Gotta say, binging a new channel that you’ve just recently come across, and having then upload a few seconds after you finished one of the older videos, love it.
What happened to Harley? :(
true
I did it for you
@@BlueJayYT Chad BlueJay
Same lol
Dynamite was actually a small revolution to mining as it was the first powerful explosive to be stable enough to be carried casually by miners. Its predecessor, nitroglycerin, was notoriously unstable and killed a LOT of miners who looked at it wrong throughout the years.
Unfortunately, dynamite's famed stability was also very useful for combat applications, as it was much harder for an illiterate conscript scooped out of the poorhouses of London to accidentally kill himself and his entire squad while handling it.
And now dynamite is unstable compared to just about every other explosive available. Progress always makes things obsolete.
@@metarcee2483 it's more that the longer you have dynamite laying around it grows more cantankerous an temperamental. It's only particularly stable and safe to handle for a period after it's produced, someone finds an old stick sneezes and it explodes.
"For every mile of track laid, one Chinese man died."
Speaking of Nitroglycerin, its sad that many immigrant workers across north america died building the railroads of the US and Canada... especially with tunneling through the Rockies which black powder barely made a dent on granite.
@@KirkHermary So, the normal ones were ok?
"The advantage of the SLAM over ICBMs was that it could fly at 500 ft ASL, rendering it invulnerable to interception"
As a modern warfare nerd I'm under the distinct impression that supersonic seaskimmers turned out to be easier to intercept than ballistic missiles, but hindsight is 20/20
Well, this was before radar guided everything that could shave a bat with a single burst at thousand yards...
@MachineMan-mj4gj Unless it had stealth...and was hypersonic...
“Actually, zese mines are in France”
I actually spat out my drink laughing at that.
France Exist
Germans: "And I took that personally."
Same here! It took me a second, but BlueJay never disappoints
i already snort-laughed at the "germanwhisper-germanwhisper-germanwhisper" before that, then came the zese mines and i have to pause the video for a bit lol
Funnily enough it actually took a while for it to be used in warfare since it stayed in Sweden for some time being used for it's intended usage of moving rocks
is there a trend to chjange channel icons into scp foundation ?
(Edit so no one answers me again (plz don't): the top 3 comments all had scp foundation profile pics, thats why)
My high-school chemistry teacher collected "depression era glassware". It did have some wonderful, cheerful colors and only set off the Geiger counter a little bit!
She also admitted to playing with mercury as a child. Gotta love chemical safety standards in the past!
We all played with mercury as children. I still have a bottle of mercury in my shop, maybe 1/2 lb of it.
The tables and surfaces in my chemistry classes were made of black asbestos.
Good stuff, durable, difficult to damage, impervious to fire.
Tbf, mercury is cool AF.
My science teacher had to krazy glue his vial of mercury because students wouldn't stop pouring it out and playing with it so I think people just like playing with mercury.
@@MrShifty1 I can't blame them. Shiny and it moves funny? What child could resist?
Little note:
Maria Skłodowska Curie was actually from poland.
But its nice that you putted her here
During one part of the Cold War the Soviet Union’s doctrine was to nuke an area, them march its troops through that same area. This went as far as inventing a tank that could survive a nearby nuclear explosion.
“A mind-boggling range of 113,000 miles, or 7.16 billion gumballs”
Wow blue, thanks. You totally helped me understand that distance.
OI WHO LET YOU ONLINE
How much is that in bananas or Toyota Corollas?
@@faenethlorhalien 30,000 bananas from my calculations
@@ishaangill717 I probably messed up somewhere but I got ~1,022,857,142 bananas assuming that every gumball is 1 inch, and dividing 7,160,000,000 by 7 inches which is the average banana length.
Its actually around 9.5 billion
2 full videos in less then a week???? AND Sam O’nella’s return???? It must be a miracle
Seems so.
Science is returning to youtube
I'll bet Bluejay worked extra hard to get these videos out faster since Sam O'Nella's return will probably bring more interest to his similar type of videos.
And sam o'nella haven't uploaded yet, it's been a month.
@@dimgus3653 Patience, young grasshopper.
12:23 Wow I was wondering how all those stepdaughters were getting stuck back in the day, had no idea it was a documented phenomenon, thanks Jay!
I used to live in a town that had actually had a test for nuclear fracking specifically for shale. Funnily enough thats the towns claim to fame and no tests were further proceeded. Plenty of natural gas operations are still going down in the town but they seem to avoid one area for some odd reason.
I think the SLAM had two final theoretical modes. One was tipped with a nuclear bomb, but the other was that the missile could just... fly around, continually irradiating farmland and smaller communities for weeks.
Cause 'Merica
Genius
And we can still build it within a week... 😊
Why not both? 😂
As a Polish myself - Marie Curry wasn't French!! She was Polish. She is very important person to Polish heritage, she even discovered and named particle "polon" after Pologne (French for Poland ) 🇵🇱
As a fellow Pole, I'm glad that someone spoke out about it
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Polonio.. kurwa that's true
plus her name wasn't Marie Curie, it was Maria (or Marie) Skłodowska Curie
pzdr z polonii
The second I got to that part I knew there's gonna be several Polish embassies within comments.
If I had a nickel for every youtuber I randomly stumbled across that represents themselves by a static image of a bird I would have 2 nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird it's happened twice.
Just found your channel BlueJay and I'm loving it. Keep up the hilarious and educational work!
Would the other one be Kraut by other chance?
@@konradsartorius7913 Shammy actually, a game reviewer. But I'll have to check Kraut out too, from their channel page they look up my alley as well.
13:20 Irony: Dynamite was intended for moving rocks until the army heard of it. Nukes were intended for mass relocating of inhabitants, so...why dont use them for surface mining.....
Maybe the massive irreparable ecosystem damage!?!?!?
Yeah let’s irradiate the shit out of all the ore while we mine it 😂 Hey how come I can see my hand bones when I hold this steak knife?
One amusingly bad radioactive project that missed the cut, there was once a boy scout who tried to build a home-made Breeder Reactor from smoke detecters, clocks, camping lanterns, and gunsights which almost turned his Michigan suburb into a mini-Pripyat. His name was David Hahn if you're curious.
Yeah, I didn't know how to feel when I first came across his story; it was kinda surreal for me...
Well, when you compare it to multiple ground level nuclear explosions and filling entire food chains with fission products it really doesn't seem too bad.
The funny part was that he was barely a teenager and bulk ordering thousands of smoke detectors and nobody seemed to think that was weird.
Yeah, fucker tried to create another reactor 10 years later by stealing a bunch of smoke alarms. His face was full of radiation sores too
@@alexsis1778 your average American often struggles to put two and two together, they’re used to their government telling them what to think. Plus if you’re making a quick Buck, who cares? That’s the American way
I genuinely thought him talking about the US being a fan of the phrase “all good things come in threes” was going to lead up to the first three nukes: Fat man, little boy, and trinity.
bruh how many comments are you gonna leave
how the hell do you have three comments in the top?
what is wrong with you?
Make more comments please.
recently discovered commenting, have we?
@@bitterjames all good things come in threes
WE'D USE FOUR TWO MEGATON NUKES
6:31 “Blanketing pedestrians with copious amounts of cancer sauce.” - Bluejay
I know the effort must be insanely high, but I love the concept of twi videos on one topic, one focusing on on information, the other on stories. Would be great to see this more often.
Tbh the last one was a bit dry and "normal" for my taste.
Gotta say man, your channel has come a long way. Your comedic timing and writing has improved immensely! Keep it up!
Bros a Yeezer
11:45 you should irradiate your balls NOW!!!
@SkepticDylan ...Man i LOVE this Style of fusing Learning and Fun together. Gives me the Urge to recommend others who mastered this Style, to random People. I wanna name-drop Oversimplified, Hbomberguy, Some More News, Tier Zoo, Madvocate and so many Others but thats often perceived as random-spam.
14:00 - In March, 1971 the URSS they test digging a channel with 3 consecutive underground nuclear explosions. The Pechora-Kama Canal, project abandoned in 1986. Today people fishing the lake create by these explosions.
13:31 Jim yes!
Man i LOVE this Style of fusing Learning and Fun together. Gives me the Urge to recommend others who mastered this Style, to random People. I wanna name-drop Oversimplified, Hbomberguy, Some More News, Tier Zoo, Madvocate and so many Others but thats often perceived as random-spam.
you're now my fave CZcamsr. it's like a mix of casually explained, Sam o Nella, internet historian and over simplified but with your own spin and unique subjects. Bravo Bluejay... you'll have a million subs by this time next year
Perfect description
And CGP grey
Hes only at 550k 😔
Atleast1.7 million doofus
@@Notcleverenoughnah huh
He forgot my favourite nuclear idea, project Orion,(proposed between the 1950’s to 1960’s) which even came into a flying model. The idea was to power rockets using nuclear bombs and shock absorbers. The largest proposal was the super Orion which is a 8 million ton, 400 meter wide interstellar “ark” . And the cool thing is that it could be built by the materials and techniques of the time.
EDIT: I miss remembered the statistic that was my fault for not checking my information. From Wikipedia the entire energy from a launch “is equal to the detonation of a typical 10 megaton (40 petajoule) nuclear weapon as an air burst” or 1/19 of all fission yield from above ground weapons.
I also could have been more clear that I didn’t mean to claim anything about deaths or pollution. In retrospect my comment looks more like I dislike the project, instead I just wanted to highlight how wild of an idea Orion is and how much more lax regulations were back then. Nuclear applications for space exploration is actually my favorite topic, and I’m embarrassed I missed that Orion statistic.
(Here is the original comment for context)
Not to mention it was meant to takeoff from atmosphere, releasing more radiation then all in air nuclear tests combined… per launch!
@@nathanj202 which is insane, imagine seeing hundreds of tiny nukes falling out of the sky
@@nathanj202 That’s incorrect. Firstly, radiation itself isn’t what causes the deaths most of the time. It’s fallout. And secondly, it would cause 1 death per launch at most. Using rockets to lift it above the ground and then detonating the nukes mid air would not realize fallout and basically remove this problem.
I love project Orion.
@@nathanj202 Yah no, NASA actually did the calculations and they came to no where near what you are spouting.
In fact Orion pollutes less than conventional rockets to lift the same amount of mass.
5:31 the time it takes from when the missile passes to when the boom is heard is 3 seconds. Earlier he stated that the missile travels at Mach 3. Nice attention to detail.
That subtle Hawker Typhoon-Tiger reference is gold and underrated. FYI Michael Wittmann (confirmed 138 tank, 132 anti-tank cannon and tank destroyer, 118 other armored and personell vehicle destroyed), the most famous Tiger commanders tank got blown up by a Typhoon fired rocket.
I thought a firefly ended him
I was wondering if you were going to bring up Eben Byers. As his death approached, his brain was so full of tumors that his skull began to crack open and had to be held together with bandages. Worst of all, he hadn't just consumed it himself, he had been giving it away as gifts for years. I can't imagine his horror of realizing that he had given such a powerful poison to friends and loved ones as his own body began to fall apart.
Dw he mightve never found out
He's still not the most irradiated man.
Sounds like a fun guy
His brain tumors fractured his skull from the inside out, and he was still alive??
Is there a source for this?
@@codymoe4986 Not the OP, but this happened because radiation weakens your bones. That's also why his jaw fell off. So your assumption that this would be impossible with a normal skull is correct, but his skull (and all of his bones) no longer had any strength.
12:15 it was so unexpected that I drowned myself with the rice cake and my brother had to do the Heimlitch maneuver
Real
One of my favorites was the M-28, aka the Davy Crockett. This little spicy watermelon was "launched" (range wasn't exactly great for a nuclear weapon) out of small man portable tube. It was so small there weren't any nuclear codes - just the say so of the 5 man crew that operated them. The range was barely enough to prevent the crew that fired them from getting irradiated and, under the right conditions, wasn't actually quite enough. Normal procedure was fire the weapon and run for cover behind a hill. Test results also showed it to be "shockingly inaccurate", exactly what you want for your nuclear weapons. Oh, and the practice "inert" rounds may have contaminated over 12,000 acres.
Ah yes, “shockingly inaccurate”, exactly what I want for a close-range nuclear weapon
By god he's the new cgp grey
The worst ever nuclear tests were done near a spider farm in the USA. The documentary "Eight-legged Freaks" about it was horrifying.
one of the stories I remember hearing about was somehow way less problematic than all of the products mentioned in the civilian section of the video.
See during 1920s they had factory's for everything one such factory in new jersey was in charge of making glow in the dark watches that also showed up during the radium craze. See the girls painted the glow in the dark watch faces themselves and would frequently dab the paintbrushes on the tips of their tongues to keep it wet and pointed to better paint with but they were told the paint was safe because of course they did.. and the job seemed glamourous plus it paid really well for the time so the girls thought nothing of it and continued working.
It started small with fatigue, toothaches and migraines but eventually most of the girls developed some form of health problem or another.. mostly cancer but others developed radium jaw like in the video which is just as horrific as it sounds.
These girls were dubbed Radium girls and they filed a lawsuit in 1927 and it was settled in their favor in 1928 and likely helped push the development of labor laws and safety standards involving hazardous chemicals.. also some of the girls who hadn't died yet volunteered in the 50s to be studied by scientists as they were some of the best know people living with the long term effects of radiation.. something very important to learn about during the cold war as they were learning just how truly devastating the use of nukes were.. and not just for the explosion. The girls volunteered I believe so that others didn't have to suffer like they were.
So lets hear it for the Radium Girls who are one of likely several cases that helped stop the radium craze.
I saw a video about that. One of the ladies was having a tooth pulled and her whole jaw came off. Bet the dentist had some nightmares after that. They also would slightly glow in the dark, making them popular at parties.
Yeah, they were even specifically told to use their lips or tongue to sharpen the brushes as it would save time and material over using other safer methods. "Lip, Dip, Paint" was the motto.
Since it was "safe" for fun they'd paint their nails, teeth and face with radium or take a night on the town with their glowing "lipstick", "Nail Polish", and "Face paint" which made them very popular and was considerd a perk of the job. So everywhere they went, all the the people they danced with, the husband and kids they went home to, etc were also contaminated.
And of course, inhalation and ingestion are the worst ways to be exposed ro radiation. Your body can handle a little bit here and there, we all know about getting an X-Ray, etc. But when you inhale or ingest a radioactive or contaminated substance that source is inside your body the whole time, even getting absorbed by it depending on the isotope. And these girls were painting their mouths with it, taking lunch breaks with their hands and lips covered in it, breathing in dried paint dust, etc.
Of course everyone says "Trust your doctor" these days, but forget why so many are distrusting. In this case for some time doctors, dentists, and researchers complied with requests from the company's to not release their data. Instead after numerous illnesses and deaths, at the urging of these companies doctors instead attributed these to the well known STD Syphilis to smear the reputation of the Radium girls. Girls in other Radium factories in other states would eventually see the newspaper headlines and after confronting employers be told "Radium is safe, those girls were suffering from a viral infection".
While the U.S. Radium case happened in New Jeresy in 1928, In Illinois the case against Radium Dial (different company) wasn't filed until the mid 30's and wasn't finished until 1939. They had to face numerous appeals all the way up until the Supreme Court declined to hear Radium Dials appeal. By then the girls had won 8 times before Radium Dial was forced to pay.
Actually, their main task was painting luminescent dials on aircraft instruments, if I remember correctly.
And their higher ups knew that it was likely dangerous, and ordered them to do it or be punished.
@pyro1047 one of the girls found out her prognosis was fatal *in the courtroom* because it wasn't considered okay to let the patient, especially a female patient, know if they were going to die. As it would make them panic.
Soviets applied nuclear bombs in peaceful projects at least twice. First, the mentioned stopping of gas fires. Second, in order to change some water flows in rivers, which resulted in the emergence of lake Chagan (or nuclear lake): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Chagan As it turned out, even the hydrogen bomb, which was considered as relatively "clear", caused the prolonged contamination of this area. Probably, the US was aware of these consequences and, hence, shut down their similar projects for good.
Like crystals, radioactive elements give off a vibe, its just that theirs is an "Eat shit and die" kind of vibe.
Alfred Nobel created the Nobel Prize because he was ashamed of his invention, when he saw what people was thinking of him he wanted to leave something for the betterment of the world. I say, he redeemed himself quite well.
Redeemed himself from what? It wasnt his fault what his invention was used for.
@@xenn4985 *Discovers fission* , Fission is used for atomic bombs. refuses to elaborate. leaves
@@henriqueferreira5165 I think the funniest part is that you could use atomic bombs productively, for many purposes.
An explosive isn't a weapon, its just an explosive.
@@xenn4985 what, how? even ignoring radiation and the fallout, they would just be tnt on steroids.
@@henriqueferreira5165 You do know that fallout isn't a thing with modern nukes, right? Modern nukes are very clean, you actually have to try to make a modern nuke produce fallout and lasting radiation. Anyways, you answered the question yourself. Where tnt would fall short, nuke would not. Anything from geological applications to space applications. All a hydrogen bomb really is, is a crude fusion device.
8:34 FRENCH power couple?! It's like calling Blue Jay a pigeon
Sure, Marie was technically Polish, but Pierre was French, they worked and published in France, and are universally known as French. It's like being mad at calling Freddie Mercury a British musician, just because he was born in Tanzania.
@@Kamarovsky_KCM So you are telling me that every woman that is in relationship with a guy from another country becomes a member of his nation without any say in that matter, like some sort of object? I'm not gonna lie, it's pretty sexist. You know that this F. Mercury argument is playing against you, right? Like you said he was born in Tanzania, but wasn't Tanzanian - same like with Maria, she was born in russian empire, but she was not russian - the same way she was living in France, but was not French. I know that it might be surprise you, but people don't change nationality the moment they cross border. You are technically a smartass, but are universally knows as closed minded
It got me right there also. And just rolled my eyes. Like seriously?
@@Kamarovsky_KCM do not anger Polish pepole when you are talking about their big awarded scientist. Just, don't
@@Kamarovsky_KCM no matter the case. By being silent and accepting both facts are simply speaking allowing said countries to blatantly rob said nations of pride, integrity and promoting cultural discrimination, with other words, spreading lies and allowing one self to be comfortable ignorant!
I may be very high but learning there’s radium in Dwayne the “Rock” from a blue jay at 4am is a high point in my life. Thank you
Dynamite was quite popular for mining
And actually only had limited use on the battlefield
This is amazing. Blue jays pumping out videos. It’s like Christmas.
16:40 Gotta admit, I didn't expect anyone to find a non-military use for nuclear weapons, but I suppose if anyone was gonna it would be the Soviets. That's a brilliant way to put out gas fires.
The fact that a United States government document proposed the idea of "Civilian use of nuclear bombs" and yet, never went through with it, is just yet another reason I'm convinced we're in the shittiest timeline.
Country so shitty Imagine planting a satellite state you and your buddies to control a region, then go to take care of that state, fund it, invest in it, support it, grow it, so it comes later and deny you from dropping bombs into the desert it stole....
Soviets had the same idea
Or whatever happened to "energy so cheap we won't meter it" ahhhhh broken promises from a corrupt government 😢
"We need a really strong bomb to defeat the red threat!"
"..."
"Jesus christ tommy, not that strong"
,,The unstoppable French power couple, Marie & Pierre Curie"
The one Polish person watching this video(me hopefully :D): But Marie Curie was born in Warsaw
Yes, but by international law, once Pierre had planted his flag in her, she became French territory.
Just to be precise - Marie Skłodowska-Curie was 100% Polish, not just born in Warsaw.
More than 1 Pole watching this 🙃
She was a French citizen so what he said wasn’t incorrect, however she did always retain her “Polishness” throughout her life 😊
@@deedeeramone34 yes she was a french citizen but was a Polish person that was born in Warsaw and just married a french guy. She even discovered new chemical element and called Polon, to honour that she is Polish.
@@cyanide1931 +1
I’m currently an undergraduate in Nuclear Engineering and am happy to see some videos about my field with your humor and style!
I’d love to see a video similar to this one on some of the wild ideas for nuclear applications in space, (Orion, gas and liquid core rockets, or fission fragment engines for example?)
don't forget nuclear salt water rockets!
7:23 god damn~.... those rhymes you just dropped~ 10/10
Alliteration too
15:53 here, have a roasted marshmallow! “Sup”! Wow lol
I love the learning bird. I love all the little edits. At 5:00, the virtually undetectable cruise missile is wearing a box like Snake. It's perfect.
15:29 one of those nuclear fracking tests happened a few miles north of my home town. It didn’t go well. I think it caused a 6.4 magnitude earthquake. Nukes be wacky
My personal favourite was when they put a reactor onboard a B36 Peacemaker to see if they could make a nuclear-powered plane with practically unlimited range. Not that the Peacemaker couldn't drop 87,200 lbs of boomers each on Japan from mainland US if it wanted to anyway.
8:06 has to be one of my favorite bits you’ve done. “Oh shit, that’s right?!”
I was hoping you’d bring up the Soviet use of nuke-mining (arguably mine clearing)
I kinda wish there was more cause it’s wild. But they did successfully use a nuke peacefully, *mostly*
Also the artificial lake from nuke
I am from a town where they did their geological survey using nukes. I mean, it's pretty peaceful until you put the nuke at 500 metres deep instead of 1500 and loose a lake in the process and get radioactive rain pour right over your geological team
Peacefully. Yes. Safely. No.
@@user-cx9nc4pj8w they have enough manpower that a few thousand dead miners are no issue
@@God-ch8lq hey I escaped hell
13:47 the scariest part about this, is that it implies a nuclear bomb cost roughly 1 million dollars each
I mean, when you make several thousands of them, you got to save on costs XD
It's probably like how iPhones technically cost like 50p each, it was the research and development that made them expensive
Nuclear warheads themselves are not especially expensive to make. The main costs are in R&D, and the delivery systems. These wouldn't have required a "delivery system" in the usual sense.
@@matthewgladback8905 I think sorting isotopes by weight would be the most expensive part of the process. That is the step that Stuxnet sabotaged in Iran.
@@jamesphillips2285 acquiring some of the materials is difficult and costly as well. Mining, transportation, safety measures for radioactive parts etc.
the "laundry machines due to mental illness' part killed me.
Ok, that was the best transition to an ad I've ever seen in all my years on YT. I had to pause the video to tell you that. 😂
Wait, I was under the impression that artillery used TNT, which is a completely different compound and dynamite has retained pretty much construction/mining applications
The dynamite/artillery connection is fairly tenuous, but it's closer than it might appear.
Artillery uses two different types of explosives: one to fire the shell at the target, and another to make the shell explode when it gets there.
TNT is suitable for exploding at the target: it has very low sensitivity so it will withstand the shock of being fired from the gun, and it's a detonating high explosive with good shattering effect to damage the target.
However, the "propellant" explosive used to fire the shell at the target must act more slowly, as a non-detonating low explosive. Alfred Nobel invented ballistite specifically for this purpose, about 20 years after his much more famous invention of dynamite. And both contain nitroglycerin (as did his other less famous invention, gelignite).
But that's as far as the connection goes. And anyone capable of safely manufacturing ballistite's other major ingredient, nitrocellulose, could probably also manufacture the nitroglycerin.
I knew they both used nitroglycerin as the active ingredient, but I didn't know the history behind it. That explains why the terms weren't interchanged on Mythbusters.
You had me literally laughing myself out of my chair at the skit around 14:45
"Actually, these mines are in France". I actually started laughing unexpectedly and strangled myself and wound up coughing. Alfred Nobel strikes again.
the script writing for this video was brilliant
I'm glad BlueJay always converts his measurements to gumballs. As we all know, gumballs are objectively superior to all other units of measurement.
Fun Fact:
Marie-Curie was born in Warsaw, Poland on november 7th 1867 and her real second name was Skłodowska. She went to France to study in 1891 because at the time women weren't allowed to go to studies at the time. And also if, I'm not wrong her husband - Pierre Curie died in a car accident when he was riding his bike with Marie on april 19th 1906.
And? France gave her education and development opportunities. In Poland (as it existed then as a dependent state) she could not be admitted to the university. Even in Russia women could study at that time, but not in the kingdom of Poland. Poland was the only one who threw logs under her feet.
@@burkosalw still she kept her Polish citizenship.
@@burkosalw *"Poland was the only one who threw logs under her feet."*
Lol, right. It's not like Russia was in charge of any minutiae of that "kingdom" or anything. Anyone ever told you what "dependent state" entailed?
Bonus points for using the name, which Russia literally removed few years before she was born. Along with severely restricting education in toto. To the point college-esque courses (she participated in) ran by her compatriots were illegal, just like she became a criminal for teaching some kids math.
Further bonus points for missing that she was taught equivalent of STEM *before* college - something that would not happen in France, lol.
But muh logs.
8:35 french
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*triggered pole noises*
KURWA !!! 😡😡😡
Oh what a distinguished little bird with his bowtie and dry wit. Adorable and informative.
Edit: oh God Dr. Delight has a little tophat
5:56 Because the only thing better than one nuclear attack is *several*
I'm rolling here
This is the perfect follow up video with the perfect ending for first time viewers. Absolutely brilliant bluejay
So glad I found your channel last year. The quality of the skits is going up and it looks like you have more fun making them too. With Sam back and Oversimplified still around I like seeing how your style is different from them. Keep it up!
Oh my God, the "Help me step-bro!" line had me cracking up for a solid minute. Thank you!
“This process requires a source of heat”
*Shego intensifies*
I still find it kinda hilarious how radioactive stuff was just _a thing_ you could find if you went to the corner store
“Barbra, remember to pick up the radium wipes, we need to repaint Tommy’s room. I got this crazy deal on some lead paint!”
“Oh honey, I thought you said we were saving up to get some rolls of asbestos to insulate the garage? I thought you wanted to make it cozy for you and your friends?”
“Dear, we can just keep the drinks in our new Frigidaire”
You can still get radioactive stuff its just you'll get put on a watch list for buying hundreds of smoke alarms.
Don't forget the plates with uranium paint ^^
Oh and before the lead paint, someone commercialized a green paint made with... arsenic. It even caused a diplomatic incident recently, because an american diplomat died from arsenic poisoning, he was not poisoned, he just stayed too long in an old green room ^^'
Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if half a century down the line our generation get laughed at for using something highly lethal but are ignorant about it
@@sanga000 Probably not, most things are tested by scienitsts now ^^
@@sanga000 or something we're not ignorant about, but kept using anyway.
I have to say, I would buy radioactive toothpaste from a talking bluebird with a tophat and a pipe. Clearly the radiation works.
0:27 German whisper, German whisper, German whisper
Legend has it, the prisoner is still learning about radiation and nuclear history to this day
8:24 is a good summary of bluejays videos as a whole
5:31 I'm fucking dead 🤣🤣🤣
This is the first video of yours I found and I LOVE your style.
Technically speaking, referring to a radium energy drink as ‘perpetual sunshine’ isn’t entirely inaccurate considering how radioactive the sun is.
I've heard about PLUTO. That was a pretty intense superweapon concept.
I've actually heard about most of these, or similar things, but I just find this kind of history to be fascinating.
I remember finding your channel in some random comment section when you only had about 4 videos and we had a conversation, now you’ve got nearly 500K subscribers and I’m seeing people making reactions to your content. Congrats man, that’s what high quality content does.
They conducted nuclear fracking detonations three times in two different locations, all with the help and guidance of the El Paso Natural Gas company. The product was determined to be a bit spicy. On the plus side we did learn a bit about fracking.
I didnt have to wait 3 months for a new episode? This truly is the golden age
I love this video so much!! Your second wind and renewed method of storytelling and cutaways are phenomenal!
Great job with the ad, first time I’ve enjoyed listening to a CZcamsr talk about there sponser well done 🎉
14:40 Admit it the gunshot sound effects you used here are from Battlefield 1
15:58 killed me lol
I don't know why, but I wouldn't be surprised if Project Pluto was never actually scrapped, and that the US only said that so the Soviet Union wouldn't freak out.
The “14 to 26 thermonuclear warheads” delivery always brings a tear to my eye, partly patriotic partly terrified
Keep up the good work BlueJay! You're amazing
Couldn’t agree more BlueJay, there are only 3 Pirates of the Caribbean movies and theyre all perfect
fun fact, some of those harmless "healing" crystals are actually toxic to people like severely toxic, and rubbing them frequently is how it gets into your system lol
11:12 after this a commercial played where some toys lamented that a little girl could not go to space because she was sick.
More Bluejay?
Yes, please, thank you.
Legitimately one of the funniest videos I’ve watched in months, bluejay posting bangers back to back
this popped up in my recommendations.
laughed and learne a lot
subbed
Honestly your channel is like bite sized Oversimplified and I love it
Another BlueJay video is the best way to start the weekend.
Two videos so soon, yes please! Love this style and your comedic sense.
My favorite nuclear application plan is when the US tried to create a nuclear bomb powered space craft, not nuclear powered, nuclear bomb powered, in short it was a space craft that had a massive slab at the rear, at certain periods the space craft would deploy nuclear bombs which were to detonate at a some distance behind the craft and the released energy would hit the slab and propel the ship forward, forgot the name of the project though.
Проект орион?
That cardboard box on the nuke missle, was the greatest nod to MGS I've seen. Bravo!