The Underground City of 1 Million Beneath Beijing
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This guy sure does make good use of his stock footage subscription.
Absolutely
@storyblocks
Lmao
Honestly
It's pretty lazy in my opinion.
This could become a cool movie, imagine the city is nuked without any warning and only the young and poor people survive underground
Underrated Comment
Interesting
If the underground city is built like the above ground one, the people underground don't have much chance, either.
So basically Metro 2033 but it's Chinese instead of Russian? I'm down for that. Metro 2033 was written in 2002, it'd be interesting to have an updated version for the modern US-China Cold War.
Get on this Hollywood! Stop making "Fast and Furious 9" and start making "The Rat Tribe"
That Russia joke sure aged well
Half as interesting cracks more jokes then talk show hosts nowadays
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Soumyadip Mukherjee NO
And they are not funny.
@@sonayyalim cringe
and all just as bad
It's not just Beijing. Virtually every middle sized city in China has expansive underground shopping malls, many of which used to be bomb shelters.
Also a lot of subway systems in Chinese cities are expansion of the bomb shelters
Damn the context of this is so dark when you consider the floods going on. Entire underground cities drowned. I can’t even imagine
Not if their tofu dreg?😂
*This city sounds like the basis of a new dystopian series...*
Serriously. I'm totally not stealing it for a scifi universe...
I Recommend Checking Out On Hong Kong's Poor And Middle Classes' Apartments As Well.
It's A Place Where Real Estate Business Goes Rampant, It's Definitely Another Good Place To Start A New Sci-Fi Dystopian City Where People Sleep On Top Of Each Other In Metal Containers!
**Hums Melodic Tune In READY PLAYER ONE**
China is a dystopia series lol
It shows that the purpose of this video's propaganda has been achieved
HAI: Casually suggests an impending nuclear holocaust
Everyone in 2020 : Yeah that might as well happen
I think it's due for next year after we get a vaccine and everyone thinks things will be alright
@@patrikwihlke4170 I'm waiting for it to happen this year.
@@jessinq702 My guess is at the latest next year before the 100th anniversary if CCP but I hope Xi Jinping thinks better of it.
We reached 2021 already so it'll happen soon
2022 and things are heating up between Ukraine and Russia again so anytime soon.
My fridge might not save me but at least I'll have some snacks while waiting to die.
that will be the best tear infused cereal ever
A fridge saved Indiana Jones from a nuclear bomb.
Your food will be irradiated so it'll last a long time
You’ll become a ghoul and get stuck inside your fridge for 100 years.
@@gavintantleff modify the latch on your fridge so you can open it from the inside
Everyone like to laugh at duck and cover drills, but they were in fact useful and could save lives. Especially back when nuclear weapons were comparatively small. But the main point is not to survive a nuke being dropped on your school, obviously that’s not going to help. But if you’re far enough away to not be incinerated, you might still be close enough to be thrown back by the shock wave, and also hit by flying glass and other debris. Teaching people to take cover rather than stare at the big fire (a thing humans are prone to do) does have safety benefits.
Should've been teaching them how to die
seriously, you don't want to survive a nuclear war
If the eclipse from a few years back means anything, we'll stare at any kind of fire, including the gigantic one in the sky XD
You're 100% correct. Mocking duck and cover is like mocking seatbelts on airplanes. Sure neither helps you in the *worst* case, but in the *most likely* case they save your life
@@kenetickups6146 There is that video that shows how it would be based on what happened after the Dresden massacre which was a firestorm caused by conventional bombing.
@@Secretsofsociety WW2 didn't completely destroy and irradiate the world though
1:00
“Don’t look directly at the explosion”
*shows someone looking directly at the explosion*
Perhaps he was requesting his viewers to not be like that idiot someone watching an explosion directly
But they were wearing sunglasses so they can look at a nuclear explosion.
Ah, how did I miss the sunglasses? This changes everything
@@TheLiamster you can't stop the radiation from entering your eyes with sunglasses
@@pulkitmohta8964 they were joking lol
And you thought your upstairs neighbour was noisy, imagine having millions of people walking above you.
I am sure that the ceiling (which is actually the ground for people above) does a good job at dampening the noise above
1:25 fwiw, duck and cover actually was pretty damn effective. It came directly from studies of the Hiromisha and Nagasaki blasts, which found that basically *any* shielding from debris was a huge boost to the chance of survival. Obviously it wouldn't help if your school was ground zero . . . but that's unlikely to be the case
Anyone else gonna talk about the stock footage of someone literally grilling cheese?
Time stamp?
5:09
Honestly I've seen weirder stock footage
Those little bits of crispy extra fried cheese you get when making grilled cheeses or quesadillas are so good. So why not just fry some cheese? Haha
I just pan fried a piece of Edam cheese and it was actually really good.
“Following total atomic annihilation, the rebuilding of this great nation of ours may fall to you... That’s why we at *Vault Tec* -uh, I mean *Wendover Productions* have prepared these educational materials for you!”
There's a teensy conflict between 'total atomic annihilation' and 'rebuilding'.
Wait it’s all intro?
Always has been.
in the name of everything horny, i demand the sauce of that pfp
@@toobig7150 #me2
Lol you have good taste idk the numbers just google ps5-chan
The videos are just the build up for the ad in the end!
mohasali thanks
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"Ineffectual surviving tips" those tips would have saved a lot of people from glass cuts in Beirut...
the famous nuclear bombing that is the beirut explosion
Smfh, not the same context...
@@phobic1818 definitely the same context. If you see or hear an explosion you get the fuck away from windows.
to be fair, nobody expected that warehouse to explode like a nuke. as far as anyone knew it was just a big fire until it wasn't.
@@cageybee7221 the moment you agree with a angry communist
wait I am confused.
The "President" of china wanted to commercialize the bunkers, but they're illegal to live in?
*Edit because I am getting a lot of responses from people that clearly don't understand:
The bunkers are owned by the government. The government said it's illegal to live in the bunkers. The government then rents out the bunkers to the citizens. How does that work?
*Edit #2: There are 76 replies to this comment with 76 different explanations. Surely none of you are just talking out of your ass, right?
Thought exactly the same, seems there's a gap in his narrative. Bless his heart.
His successor might've made them illegal.
@@syrialak101 but who is renting the apartments? everything is owned by the State
@@TheyCallMePhinq There is limited capitalism
@@TheyCallMePhinq Chinese people...? Who else would be renting them?
We only need to find Lilith to build a full underground city.
Yeah, but then reality's writing will get evern worse
Her and Malachi are all we need
When’s Evangelion 4.0 gonna come out, I’ve been waiting for so long
@@wongijen9167 In like the next decade, if we are lucky
Get ready for third impact boys!
80% - bad jokes, 10% - promotions, 10% - useful information.
Karen right lol
true tho
That’s the formula for these videos
50% Interesting
Honestly this is why I just unsubscribed.
0:29 Uhh... You always make the best intros Sam
This intro aged well...
That intro was a blast!
Just like recent events...
@@SuperEthan154 I see what you did there
Pulkit Mohta it blew up our minds
If only there were a place to survive it 😂
I can start that nuclear thing if you want, I think we can all agree that we’ve had enough of 2020
We already got a huge mushroom cloud a few days ago. Save it for next time bro.
lets gooooo bois
Tigers Wood *supreme dear lider
Nah I’m good, but I would like to get that fat bod
Talkin about nukes by the way ;)
That'll add some spice to the year 2020
0:27
Sam: I say we're well overdue for an exchange of nuclear warheads thing.
Me(knowing about the Indo-China conflict going on): (softly) don't
2020: that.... is an excellent Idea.
The US Navy is in the South China Sea, with nuclear powered vessels. It's gonna get hot if China does anything further
Pulkit Mohta lol warmongering now?
@@pulkitmohta8964 well its even worse then (nuke-wise)
Remember that time when Planes were in a video.
Oh wait wrong channel.
i think you mean bricks
@@abebuenodemesquita8111 no man he means Toyota Corollas
@@abebuenodemesquita8111 The brick video has finally been made! It's a 40 minute special on Nebula ;)
@@Mashal9418 Waste of money
It's impressive that Half as Interesting couldn't find even one video clip of an actual underground Beijing apartment.
The deepest parts of the Moscow and Pyongyang metro systems are also secret bomb shelters... that look like imperial palaces... with trains.
_Sure that this isnt actually my basement?_
No it's mine
no, its **OUR* basement!
That username though! 👏
there are more children in your basement than in the city so yeah
I hope they don't... ehm... store certain chemicals next to that grain storage like a certain other country.
CarthagoMike haha, too late
Liquid Consumer yep, already happened... plus the same thing has happened countless times since 1916 in the US and European countries...
Nehco Oahnait we humans really aren’t good with chemicals, are we?
Search up tainjin explosion
That's aged poorly 0:30
The russian comment has NOT aged well... 😨☠
Listing all the events of 2020
Misses Beirut explosion
Talks about large explosions anyway
This was probably written and recorded before the disaster
Well then explosion is checked off the list so we good
@@AnthonyBrusca true
Not terrorist attack though
3:48 "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo."
That's one of his videos
so theres 1million people living under people in beijing and they dont know
Did you even watch the video?
@@windtalkerslai4055 yes obviously
they know the same way cops don't know there are drugs in high schools
Of course they do, Chinese people aren’t stupid
@@user-re9gj2zd5e are you sure? A chinese dude ate a fucking bat soup and bcause of that, a pandemic started and millions died and more will👍
Pretty smart tbh
Duck and cover is actually extremely efficient survival technique. People are forgetting that most people are not in the fireball region, but further away. With any bomb most people will be in the region where pressure wave and heat radiation are the killers. Duck will dramatically help with the first and cover with the latter. Ie compare how many people are within ~1km radius vs those between 1-20km from epicenter.
It is a very common misconception that "Duck and Cover" was purely for scaring kids.
Kids were drilled that if they suddenly see a huge, bright flash to "Duck and cover".
Why was this important?
Well, if you're in the blast zone of a nuke it is game over for you. If you are outside the blast zone however do you know what causes 70% of all injuries?
Glass.
People see a bright flash and instinctively look at it. The flash is followed by a shockwave that sends glass into your face at the speed of sound.
But if you were taught in school to look away and get under cover you were saved from this.
"He did what Google did to our browser histories and ordered them to be commercialized."
Yeah, I'm surprised Google employees haven't shot themselves after seeing my browser history
How do you know that they didn't?
Ah, the irony of using a Christian cross to signify the death of Mao
No one understands how hard it is to edit until they start doing it lol. I learned that a week ago. It takes hours just for a couple minutes of footage
Not a couple minutes, unless you're a fucking newbie.
Also depends on what type of video. Gameplay footage doesn't take hours. If you're editing a movie with different shots, and different angles, then yes.
And then there's the rendering time.
Mr. Night yeah it does depend on what you are editing. Im thinking more about custom animated text and visual fx
@@modalinterchange8359 A couple of minutes wouldn't take hours to make if you're experienced. 2 minutes? No.
@@modalinterchange8359 he's right but you said you only started 2 weeks ago so that's OK! :)
Kinda bad timing on the explosion and grain warehouse jokes when Beirut just blew up with their national grain storage completely destroyed. But hey that is 2020 for ya.
Or it’s perfect timing
And 75 year marker from Hiroshima
Comedy is just tragedy plus time.
The script for the video was probably written before the Beirut explosion.
Mikel Sopelana Durango Yeah
I grow up in very center of Beijing and live there for 20+ years, Never saw or heard of any underground shelters.... Only the metro is underground...
北京地下城 没人住的
I've actually been to dorms in Beijing. 8 students living in a space of maybe 6m2. It was insane.
This is literally the real life equivalent of the SCP "Unlondon" except it's "Unbeijing"
August 6th, a good day to talk about nukes...
Exactly 75 years after nonetheless.
@@ELUnderwood Good point
True
“7 months into 2020”
August: “Am I a joke to you?”
1:18 Duck-and-Cover provides non-trivial protection from (first generation) nuclear weapons, and blast waves from non-nuclear explosions alike.
"Within a considerable radius from the surface of the nuclear fireball, 0-3 kilometers...ducking and covering would offer negligible protection against...a nuclear explosion. Beyond that range...the main hazard is not from ionizing radiation but from blast injuries and...flash burns to unprotected skin...The explosion's blast wave would take...7 to 10 seconds to reach a person standing 3 km from the surface of the nuclear fireball...thus at the distances that the advice would be most effective, there would be...time to...'duck and cover' against the blast's direct effects and flying debris."
"To highlight the effect that being indoors, and especially below ground can make...Akiko Takakura survived the effects of the 16 kt atomic bomb at a distance of 300 meters from ground zero, sustaining only minor injuries...in the lobby of the Bank of Japan, a reinforced concrete building, at the time of the nuclear explosion...Eizo Nomura survived the same blast at Hiroshima at a distance of 170 meters from ground zero...in the basement of...a reinforced concrete building [and] lived into his early 80s." - Wikipedia
Not arguing that the literature proliferated during the cold war _wasn't_ propaganda designed to promote fear of Communism. But there are contemporary international sources that corroborate Duck-and-Cover as a legitimate defense from dangerous flying debris following an explosion, and to a lesser extent, flash burns. Obviously a lot of things have to go right for this to do you any good in the case of a nuclear attack. But say you find yourself viewing a mushroom cloud billowing up from a port in Beirut through glass windows? Now would be an excellent time to get under something. I say this not to be funny or insensitive, but to encourage others to take this advice seriously; it actually can save your life.
This comment deserves more likes
@@jeffbenton6183 Thanks. I used to be under the impression Duck-and-Cover was a joke myself until I encountered a reddit post about the fact that world governments still have a vested interest in dispelling the misconception in the name of civil defense. I can't find the original post I read, but there is an excellent discussion of Duck-and-Cover and its historical context here: preview.tinyurl.com/Reddit-Duck-and-Cover
Also helps kids feel safer and not freak out. Last thing you want is little kids running around the room
@@BeastinlosersHD Actually I made the connection for the first time today that the Civil Defense drills we did in elementary school were not, in fact, preparation for "tornados." 😂
@@DaimyoD0 Like school shooting drills? In Texas they just called them school shooting drills, at least where I was.
Congrats on making a video that doesn't show a single picture of the thing your video is about.
That's because the Chinese have never released the picture of this thing to the world. I doubt that they have even released the picture to public.
Perhaps the CIA would be having pictures of this underground city.
@@pulkitmohta8964 and no one of the 1 million people living in it ever posted a picture anywhere?
@@Jehty_ no
@@pulkitmohta8964 IQ 85 answer. I typed "underground city beijing" in Google and there were lots of pictures of entrances, the tunnels and the apartments they made there. I guess using Google is too much effort for both you and Sam.
@@Photosounder how do you know that those pictures show the actual underground city? Can you verify those pictures?
I‘m not joking, CZcams crashed right at“We’ve already done the plag...” in the beginning. Scared the crap outta me
0:35 looks like they went with a more direct approach
Now I get it. This is why you are called Half as Interesting. You spend the first half time in trolling yourself and everything else and trying to figure out your humor rhythm. Then the next half, well the first half of that half's half, you spend in defining the topic and the second half of that that half's half you spend on the topic itself. And then the last half of the second half, you talk about skill share or whoever is sponsoring you for the day. Awesome.
Wouldn’t it be easier to say quarter than first half of the first half?
Nuclear war. *starts*
Me on skillshare
“How to survive a nuclear bomb”.
*no results found*
Sam, i love your channels, for a few years now. Love the topics, style and your growth in writing and presentation. If you'd like feedback, I can only say that I am starting to find myself impatient with the number of jokes per second, compared with learning per second, if that makes sense. Similarly, Im starting to feel less and less confident about what IS a joke and isnt, which is concerning. best of luck to your future!
Yeah, the BLM reference made me go "wait, you don't ACTUALLY support that, do you?"
@@TheMohawkNinja ? Systemic racism is real and a big problem...
Regarding what is a joke or isnt I just meant little inane joke, for example, are bombs filled with bombs that release gas a joke or really a thing?? On the flip side, I think mushroom cultivation farms were real, but I'm not 100% sure it wasn't a joke now
@@chakky533 In some parts of the world sure, just not the U.S. like what BLM claims. I mean, I suppose because of social justice movements like BLM, we are seeing systemic racism against white people in the form of affirmative action, college grants that exclusively help PoC, and just general animosity towards whites in general, but that's the only form of systemic racism I can think of from living in the U.S. my whole life. Even then it seems to be fairly tame compared to some of the more obvious examples like how the Chinese are often depicted in Japanese anime and video games.
As for the bombs, those sorts of chemical weapons do exist, at least as a singular bomb that disperses chemical munitions. I'm not sure if cluster-type chemical munitions exist, but they might if that were to help with dispersion of the toxin.
When I young & I visited China in 1979 on a tour they allowed us to visit that underground shelter. I need to dig through the albums to see if I have photos of that place.
Nice video, but the ramblings and jokes at the beginning of each video in order to extend watch time has been getting to be too much recently.
@Black Chandelier Mirage the topics are way more interesting on wendover productions
It's suppose to half-as interesting...
Another CZcamsr thinking they’re some politically scientist with the authority to denounce the Trolls World Tour
"we are well overdue for a nuclear thing" you fucking called it
Well this didn’t age well 😬
5:10
Is this dude just burning cheese directly onto a griddle
Cheesy qwisps
0:27
Ouch that aged poorly
Last time I was that early Half as Interesting had Half a million subscribers .
Congrats for 1.5 M subs.
I love your videos and channel! You make quarantine so much easier!
Who knew I'd actually be needing this in 2022
@1:20 duck and cover seems funny, but actually is surprisingly a huge boost to survivability of a bombing. Obviously it's useful for the explosion part (as years of conventional bombs tell us), but also for the nuclear part too. Look at the postwar research done to interview the survivors at Hiroshima and Nagasaki - turns out getting something keep a roof from collapsing on you is the most predictive factor of survivors
0:29 Erhmmmmmmmmmmmmm about thatttttttttttttt...............
For 6,000,000 people to pass through 90 doors within 10 minutes, they would need the capacity to allow over 110 people per second per door to enter. Those better be some damn big doors, otherwise what’s the point of all that underground space if only a portion of the populace can get inside in time?
Even if they have 30 minutes warning, they’d still need capacity for 37 people per second per door. I think they need a lot more doors. Or they could’ve built a much smaller shelter.
The missiles come flying, the people already living in the underground city lock the doors "fuck off, we're full!"
This aged well...
Ducking and covering is actually a very good idea. First, it keeps you away from windows. Nuclear blasts emit a brief, tremendous burst of radiation. Not talking about the radioactive fallout that causes long-term damage and birth defects. I'm talking about light and heat, (gamma and x-rays too, maybe?) and lots of it. You don't want to be in its path. But also, a nuclear blast has a huge blast radius that falls off with distance. Which means that there's a huge area _outside_ of the epicenter where you're not close enough to get turned into dust, but you are close enough that a bunch of crap can fall on top of you, just like an Earthquake.
I mean, if you've got a bunker, go to the bunker. But if you don't, duck and cover. What's the alternative? Standing naked on the roof? That's for tsunamis!
You forgot the Beirut explosion thing in the intro
This video could not have seen the future better
nobody:
stock clip at 5:10: puts cheese directly on the grill
I didn't know Levi was Chinese.
I mean, those walls are fairly great as well.
It does seem likely that they based the underground sector on this, indeed.
".. He did what Google did to our browser histories, ordered them to be commercialized"
Laughed so hard
He said is this video all intro 🤣
Talking about Russia in the beginning of the video feels a bit odd nowadays tbh. Kinda like a weird foreshadowing.
Why does everyone keep asking half as interesting to make a brick video?
There is a brick video now
It's on nebula
The Brick Façade: A True Crime Story is on Nebula
watchnebula.com
@Tahir Ali: because everytime he makes a video about something "Top Secret" he starts by saying "this video is about... bricks." Then he says some fact about bricks and then says something like 'that should've gotten the CIA to go away' and then launches into the actual topic.
0:28 That aged well.
so I'm Chinese and in the microdistict I live in when I was a child in beijing there is a underground parking lot, and my parents always told me it was originally a hideout for when missile strike and there is also evidence on the entrance that suggest that
but that's not the thing this video talks about (or is it?)
oh yeah and I remembered this that the place where you pay for your heating is also underground and I think that is what this video is talking about because it is designed just as the same as what you would expect on ground
and guys if you want to see what does it really look like follow this link of a baidu search about beijing underground (www.baidu.com/sf/vsearch?pd=image_content&word=%E5%8C%97%E4%BA%AC%E5%9C%B0%E4%B8%8B%E5%AE%A4 ) (it might take a while to load since it's server is in China)
not the best time to talk about explosions and grain storage but still a good video non the less
Bomb goes Brrrrrrrrrrrr
Oof, that intro did not age well
I had to watch Duck and Cover with Bert the Turtle in middle school history class...
Not gonna lie, that missile scare was terrifying. Lots of my friends had a swim meet that morning when it happened pure chaos and fear :(
I was always kinda pissed about how quickly that was glossed over and forgotten about by mainlanders (of which I am one). The trauma of that must have been so intense for so many people, it breaks my heart. By the time we all heard about it, everything was over, so it's easy to skip over the fact that people genuinely thought they were about to take incoming missle-fire.
I also have to imagine that for some, there was an element of generational trauma at play, too. I was raised by my grandparents who both served during WWII, my Pop's Uncle was on the Arizona--and I have a much more intense connection with these things than my friends because I'm less removed. As a child I had to be taught never to go near my Pop when he was asleep, because he had PTSD (not that they ever called it that) and would startle awake and grab my arm. I would hear him yelling in his sleep, also--it was just normal to him and all of his friends. I grew up steeped in his trauma, I have to imagine that many people still living on the islands have very similar experiences to mine, and that would shape their emotional responses to the false missile warning also. 😢
"there's part's of history that don't include the United States"
So, non war related history right?
Jk btw
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@@sgtwnbdg disliked.
your pfp will now give me nightmares
anime sucks
I don't think it's a joke anyway lol
tryxdc, thanks! 🙏 I really care about your opunion
I think the intro of this video around 0:28 didn't age well.
Bruh this video is so polarised my compass is pointing south
Me living in Beijing right now: hol up
Same, never heard of any broke teenagers live under ground
Lmao😂 I’ve been living in Beijing for my entire life and lemme tell y’all : I’m sorry, the “underground city” isn’t big enough to contain millions and NO ONE lives down there anymore. And not a lot of people even know its existence, not to mention to hide down there in minutes after nuke alerts🤷♂️
Yeah, this seems a bit sketchy... plus, he's only showing stock footage... no actual pictures or videos of this supposed bigass underground city.
开局一张图，视频全靠编。。。为了吸粉人家真是啥都能胡诌
The intro joke is already out of date 😶
Nice, you should make one about the underground tunnels in other places too, I hear they are pretty interesting.
Neat info about this exotic area. Thanks for uploading!
In my opinion, I think the jokes should be toned down a little. It's fine to crack a few here and there, but truthfully, a lot of the recent videos have just been tiring to watch and I think it's really distracting from the topic. I appreciate the effort you guys put into this series, and I know that Wendover Productions is usually for more seriously presented videos, but I think the value of HAI is decreased when a large chunk of the video is trying to crack jokes rather than present information.
I agree
the intro was dated even before it went live #beirut
Yeah
No stock footage of the actual shelter and living condition?
This reminds me a story my father told me, Beijing has many bunker so some people from the military converted these bunker as a casino (this was 20 years ago) the inside is very cool and the doors were green, every room is full of people playing majian.
Listening to this in March 2022 is uhhhh. Hm. Not as great
aged like milk
@5:01 - excellent segway into your advert. You got me on that one.
Tech chanels: come up with creative ways to talk about sponsorship
HAI guy: are you challenging me?