Ivan's Hammer: The Insane Soviet Plan to Weaponise Asteroids
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- Unleash the cosmic drama with "Ivan’s Hammer: A Sneak Super Bomb"! Explore the chilling potential of weaponized asteroids in today’s Astrographics. Could this sci-fi nightmare become a reality? Dive deep into the history, science, and ethics of asteroid manipulation. Watch now!
Delta-V is the change in velocity required to achieve a goal. Remember that while velocity is a vector in 3D space, delta-V is a number or scalar. In delta-V, since V is velocity, you pronounce it as the letter V.
KSP fans are seething every time he says "delta five"
Haha I was about to make the same comment.
@@wtfpwnz0redYUUPPPP! I was about to say something similar lol
lol I instantly thought of ULA's next rocket.
You're making it way too complicated for the smooth brained smooth head.
Hey factboi! I've been listening to you since I found top tenz, eight years ago.
Your content is great, and almost all other educational creators have been faded out of my feed because you now cover so many topics. (Then there's whatever BB is, though I miss the script slaps). The point is that I know this channel isn't doing great, but please keep making content for it, please! Don't let it disappear! Like highlight history, The science of science fiction, etc. Your writing and editing team rock, and that beard is glorious my man! Keep it up!
Seconded! His smaller channels are a lot of fun and I would be sad to see any of them go.
XPLRD apparently is now empty 😢
@@MegaAU didn't a lot of that content get moved to some of his other channels though?
I'm still trying to understand why Simon's channels have different presenters. I'm here to listen to Simon, not anyone else. I feel a little rig pull going on when I click on a top ten and it's NOT that beard man. 😢
@@kwisin1337Because Top Tenz was not Simon's channel, he was a presenter for that channel. I believe it did belong to another person, who sadly passed away, his daughter assumed control of Top Tenz and discontinued working with Simon for some reason she did not disclose. I am honestly not interested in internal politics there. I was watching Simon's stuff since he had no beard and I just continue to enjoy his way of presenting and quality if his work. As of Top Tenz I've stopped watching it, still subscribed though.
"Delta five"
V is velocity, not 5.
um, dude...It-s Delta-Vee (change in Velocity)
"A Saturn-FIVE has lots of Delta VEE."
Marco Inaros approves 👍
Still my favorite hard sci-fi, book and television series to date.
Dammit, I wanted to make that comment!
Marco Inaros: "I, too, like throwing rocks."
For Beltalowda!
cotdamnit me too i wanted to quote The Expanse.
Being a big Stargate fan, I'm surprised Simon didn't mention the episode that dealt with this.
or the expanse that also actually has this happen...
I keep clicking on the videos because of the thumbnail then I realize it's a different channel.... HOW MANY CHANNELS DO YOU HAVE¿! 😂
Welcome to the whistleverse. I can tell your new here. if you enjoy clicking thumbnails of simons face, you've come to the right place.
There’s like 10
And the WhistleVerse is more cohesive than the Marv . . . I mean the LitigiousVerse.
@@gamerjaqi7873more, there is more.
You have two choices. You can choose the blue pill and carry on like nothing has happened. Or .. you can choose the red pill and loose all your hair grow an epic beard and travel with all of us down this glorious road of whistlerdom allegedly. Happy flying
Stop ... Ivan's Hammer time
Can't even remember last time I was this early on a factboy video!
Now I need to re-read "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress".
Gives Crazy Ivan a whole new meaning.
LOL, Yes it does, yes it does.
Ultron be like “write that down write that down!!!!!”
Simon I believe this could be one of your biggest channels
Love the content Simon👍
Didn’t Niven write a book called Lucifer’s Hammer about an asteroid strike?
Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle - 1977. The asteroid was a planet killer, but it just missed, with only some smaller debris hitting Earth. Still wiped out most civilization though. They also wrote "Footfall" in 1985 where hostile aliens attacked Earth with a large asteroid.
Yes, he did! I read that book in high school, back in the early 80's.
I came to the comments section to suggest that book as the inspiration for "Ivan's Hammer," only to find that you'd beaten me to the punch! You rock!! 😆
...And to Simon and Crew: Please keep this channel alive! I know you used to cover some similar topics on GeoGraphics, but having everything space-related on a dedicated channel makes more sense to me. Maybe some 'sponsorship' mentions on some of your better known channels would let some additional interested viewers know that it's here. ...And there's a practically infinite number of interesting topics available.
Oh, and one of David Weber's excellent 'Honor Harrington' book series has the bad guys using an asteroid to wreck Manticore's largest space station with a similar asteroid strike. One of my favorite sci-fi series! ...And Weber actually takes the trouble to get the Science part in his books right!
As always, great video
Delta "V". Say the letter V not the number 5 for this term
I'm sure Simon doesn't care. He doesn't look up pronunciations of anything really.
@@robsquared2 Yeah, but this isn't a pronunciation error, this is a whole other thing. Delta 5 was a rock band from Leeds.
Does anyone actually commonly refer to it as Delta 5? We've never heard that, and it makes no sense.
@@mugemobi no the "v" stands for velocity. So when saying Delta V you pronounce the letter V as the letter not a Roman numeral
@@fattywithafirearm I get that, just wondering if there is some weird nonsensical land that does this anyway. It wouldn't be the first completely nonsense pronunciation I've seen in a dialect.
I know this is basically like pronouncing "solve for x" as "solve for 10"
I love Astrographics 🎉❤
It's "delta vee", (v for velocity), not "delta five."
Modified concepts that utilized large man-made constructions can be seen in Mobile Suit Gundam and its derivatives series, where large space colonies were dropped onto Earth, sometimes right onto population centers.
There was a real idea by the U.S. military that was thought up during the cold war very similar to both of these, except it was just dropping metal rods from space. From the right height with the right materials it would have essentially the same result as a massive explosive without the need for explosives nor risk of radioactive fallout that would result from using nukes.
@@aceundead4750 But for this the rods would have had to keep their synchronicity, which is _very_ difficult in an atmosphere full of turbulences. There is a reason why it never got even tested. All that would reach the surface, would be a jumbled mess of swiveling objects, some of them hot from the friction, some of them arriving much later than others. The impact would be nasty, but a far cry from what had been intended.
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Aerith: *dies*
RIP Science Unbound
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress is a 1966 science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein about a lunar colony's revolt against absentee rule from Earth. The accidentally created A.I.in the novel recommends, "Just throw rocks," using the cargo return to Earth system on the Moon. For those not familiar with the physics, altering an objects path requires delta vee. As several othe rcommentors have pointed out. So many good subjects from Simon, jsut remeber to check his pronunciation ... ALWAYS!
The use of asteroids as impactors was a major plot point of "Starship Troopers" from 1997.
Only in that abomination of a film. I don't think Heinlein mentioned how BA was destroyed. But he did mention that The Arachnids had space travel. Cheers from Tennessee
The book Starship Troopers was published in 1959 …
@@1taiko1 The message is timeless though. First time I read it was around 1974 when I was 14. I was more into the military aspect of it then. I've read it many times since, and as a former Infantryman I get more of the social and political aspects of the book. Just reread it about 3 weeks ago and I'm of the opinion that Heinlein was right. Cheers
Gundam has used them since the 80s
@@Hillbilly001I have not served in the military, but if you mean that citizenship should be earned through service I am inclined to agree.
Simon literally has a channel on every possible subject but I trust him more the the news
it is not Delta Five, it's delta V (letter v) for Velocity
The name Ivan’s hammer is almost certainly a bloggers reference to the theoretical Thor’s Hammer weapon system in which telephone pole sized tungsten rods would be released from space, their kinetic energy upon impact being near that of a nuclear weapon. The name seems to suggest this is the Russian version of Thors Hammer….
Good idea; I hadn't read that one. I think Iaml3j0 probably nailed it though, in his comment about the 1977 book by Larry Niven, "Lucifer's Hammer."
Cheers! 🤑
ASTROGRAPHICS! LET'S GOOOOO! Ooooo, big impactors! Oh, do the Rod from God!
wow, flashback to Lister drunk playing pool with planets.
All the cuts in the editing are making me think of Max Headroom.
The V is not a five, Fact Boi, it's the symbol for velocity 🙂
He has a small brain. Allegedly.
“Statistical Scrotal Effect” is the name of my new band. Of eunuchs.
This episode reminds me of "The Expanse" audiobooks. The narrator kept saying EVA like a name "EE vah" instead of saying it like initials "E-V-A" and "H-U-D" instead of "Hud." Simon's "Delta Five" would have fit perfectly. Ah English, it's a sh:tshow. 😂
The transitions In This channels videos are super jarring, (at least to me). I like the edits in DtU and REALLY l mainly only watch BB for the edits (go Lorelei!), but this channel I have to listen, and not watch.
Does that make me old, or are they as they seem to me?
Yo keep up the good videos.
That is crazy that the soviets was thinking this was a good idea even tho they had city destroying weapons already and possible even interconnetal missiles. Be so much harder try to weaponise astreroids then to just make a better bomb. You think they would have knew that from the start of even thinking about it.
I don't know why I was expecting asteroids with giant guns and missiles hidden in it like a turret version of the Starkiller Base, but I'm mildly disappointed
Delta Vee, not Delta 5.
The stronger sound effects in this video freaked me out at first
Has anyone else mentioned that this idea was in Starship Troopers by Heinlein?
For Beltalowda!
MY PLANS!.... 😱
Tunguska has sometimes been called a rubble pile, enough gravity to hold together inspace but too soft to penetrate the atmospher very far. Solid rock, such as nickle iron meteorites, are the bomb ... pun intended.
Anyone remember the Anime cartoon from the early 80s called Star Blazers?
An alien race was pelting earth with radioactive asteroids and the show centered around the voyage to their planet to defeat them.
Anyway, asteroids as weapons, 1979.
You could always drop a tungsten carbide nail from a geo synchronization orbit.
With this video, it manages to talk about 2 awesome space shows "For All Mankind" and " The Expanse" now I get what was influencing the ideas the writers of those shows. Awesomeness.
The Expanse books are the best.
@Metallic-Sun I've only seen the shows, but I know the books have more details, definitely need to read them.
Oooo! Almost missed this one. So many channels and so much content makes a small brain reel. Allegedly.
I can't believe someone even thinks about such option. What an evil mind at work.
Using multiple H bombs and a massive rocket to go nudge a space rock that may not even make it through the atmosphere actually sounds like a far better use for those H bombs. If there's something evil here it's that they didn't convince everyone to throw their bombs into space for a ridiculous tug of war over a rock.
INCONCEIVABLE VELOCITY
Guys I think I’ve finally found Simon’s last channel. Not sure tho, this guy is a CZcams video making machine.
Literal pie in the sky. It will take decades to setup and more money than currently exists.
I mean, just look at how much damage the Centuari did to the Narn homeworld using Mass Drivers ... chilling!
I’ve heard of a lot of sexual designations, but cis Martian is a first.
Weaponizing astronauts is the name of my garage band
"I worry about people who throw rocks"
A beard, or Dougal from Magic Roundabout sleeping on his face?
Why no sources for any of your info in any of your vids?
delta V!!!! not five.... V!!! As in VEEEEE
Currently binging this channel to try and up the numbers :(
Its not exactly a difficult task 😆
Oh Chicken Little. Careful you're going to scare the kids.
10^-5=tiny fraction.
Small point, had to put my 2 cents in.
There is a very good sci-fi novel called "Lucifers Hammer" about a comet strike.
This would be such a looney thing to try to do. Just absolutely bonkers for so many reasons. If you have the capability of doing this, then you have much easier methods of taking out a city-sized target that are less prone to failure.
It'd just end in MAD anyways.
“UhHhhH iTs dELtA VEEEE” we get it he said it wrong
og Justice League cartoon series fans know of a particular episode where Vandal Savage used a railgun illegaly built on the iss to destroy any target within range drawing on trojan asteroids and tiny moons in orbit around earth or using large satellites and a device to disrupt their orbit in Eureka
Good video but I think I you may need to look into more technical proof-readers.
(clawing at headphones) Delta FIVE? Simon! Play some Kerbal Space Program before you drive anymore glass knives into our brains.
Cis-martian? Really? Really? That shakes me to the core of my mussy Mr beard man.
"Carter, I can see my house!"
Some people will get it.
stargate
@@johnyates9905 Yep
Isnt that how the bugs destroyed bueno aires in starship troopers?
Reminds me The Expanse
Meanwhile! "Sir, we've determined what caused the asteroid to go rogue. Until recently our satellites could only predict the interruption as an object we hadn't seen. It turns out, a planet is inhabited, and they've attacked us."
It's official: we're the baddies now :(
Lucifer's Hammer
Novel by Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven
A great story that covers the idea of a comet that eventually strikes earth and the results.
I’m glad the USSR never met Unluck 😏
"Ivan's Hammer" probably comes from the title "Lucifer's Hammer"-- which was a novel about a comet striking the Earth. The authors were Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle and I recommend it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer's_Hammer
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insted of using asteroids as weapons we should find a way to find astroids better then we can now and then find a way to push them out of the way of earth
…the Rand Corporation in conjunction with the Saucer People under the supervision of the Reverse Vampires…
Midas 22, preparation h?
So putting some power pole sized projectiles in a satellite seems so much simpler and easy. Add a guidance system using gps and a nose made of heavier ceramic composites capable of handling the friction and you would have an accurate city killing weapon. Or the Rods of Gods.
Well there goes my plan…
I find this video intellectually arousing.
The image next to "The First Test Flight" shows an F-15A out of Edwards AFB conducting a (successful) test of the Vought ASM-135 ASAT missile in 1985. The US Air Force started tests of anti-satellite weapons in the late 50s. While the graphic and script likely meant the first USSR tests, that is not clear when coupled with this image. Sometimes no image is better. Just sayin'.
Fun fact, the same security forces that “interrogated” the alleged terrorist are piloting this program.
Ivan the foolishly ambitious!
Someone please educate Simon in the lexicon of mathematics. Triangle V is not Delta five it is Delta Vee, for velocity. It means, Change in velocity or the energy required to change said velocity. I am sorry, but it is painful to listen to. I do love your work though, Simon and the basement team! (Y'all should make a band called Simon and the Basement Team! lol
And we bumped into an asteroid to see if we could change it's course a while back, didn't we?
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Man, I really want this channel to do so well. Keep at it Simon, lobby CZcams some more so they get the trash astrovideos out of the algorithm!
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delta-vee
For the belr!
Everyone knows the beat space Rokks are filled with Orks!
Astrophysique noob saying delta 5 will never not make me chuckle 😂
Did the script have a capital V or lowercase v? Uppercase is used for Roman numerals and velocity is traditionally lowercase, so maybe it was an error on the writer and not on Simon's brain lol
Delta-v? Its v the letter, not the roman numeral.
So . . . putin watches The Expanse?!?
Can you please cover The Thunderwell!? Nuclear steam piston concept launch system/weapon for launching cargo into orbit, destroying asteroids, lol and aggressive Alien Spaceship! czcams.com/video/VonfewfNNfI/video.html 😆👍
-- The steam accelerated Jules Verne capsule, which was suggested by the speed of at least 6 times earth’s escape velocity, achieved by the 10-cm thick, 1.2 m diameter steel cover blown off the top of the 152 m shaft of the 0.3 kt Plumbbob-Pascal B underground Nevada test on 27 August 1957. In that test, a 1.5 m thick 2 ton concrete plug immediately over the bomb was pushed up the shaft by the detonation, knocking the welded steel lid upward. This was a preliminary experiment by Dr Robert Brownlee which ultimately aimed to launch spacecraft using the steam pressure from deep shafts filled with water, with a nuclear explosion at the bottom; an improvement of Jules Verne’s cannon-fired projectile described in De la Terre à la Lune, 1865, where steam pressure would give a more survivable gentle acceleration than Verne’s direct impulse from an explosion. Some 90% of the radioactivity would be trapped underground!
Delta five lololol
These transition sound effects are a little annoying