What If the 1908 Tunguska Asteroid Hit Earth Today?
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The Tunguska meteor probably: “Come onnnnn give me Rome….. WHAT?!? How did I get SIBERIA?!?!?!?
LMAO
Good one
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well its the bigger target...you're more likely to hit the vast expanse of siberia, than a tiny spot on the italian peninsula.
This is golden lmao 😂
Underrated
You can’t have a real life lore video without using Hiroshima as a size reference
I thought Toyota Corolla's were the standard RLL reference.
you can if it is incorrectly applied
Well because Hiroshima and Nagasaki was the only one biggest bomb that human created to target population.
@@pamady276 Not true, the Tzar Bomba was. They wouldn’t have made it unless it was for war
@@thenumberofsnakes5244 you could say that about any type of bomb. What I think he means is that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the only ones actually used against people, not just tested.
1908:
In England: *Hears a loud bang*
“What was that?”
“Eh, probably a factory exploded”
“Hmmm fair enough”
Oy! Who said you could talk? I ain't paying you to talk! In fact I'm not paying you at all! Now get your arse back in the blast furnace.
Talk about it over a cuppa later old chap
*Hears a loud bang*
“Eat too many Brussels sprouts again dear?”
@@KiboCae y! Who said you could talk? I ain't paying you to talk! In fact I'm not paying you at all! Now get your arse back in the blast furnace.
“Oy” is a character in Stephen King’s Dark Tower series. He’s described as being like a cross between a dog and a raccoon.
Movies: Asteroid hitting US
Reality: Asteroid hitting *Мать Россия*
lol
@@takashi.mizuiro
😑
If it hits land, 1/9 chance
loooool
We'll just cover earth in paper, it beats rock, remember.
BIG BRAIN
R.I.P Trees if we do that
The biggest problem now is the ocean
not enough trees left in order to make that much paper
@@cabbageboi6365 what does frank ocean have to do with this?
Russia: exists
Asteroids: idk why but he looks like a perfect target
Well, I mean, Russia is ginormous
cause russia is thicc
because russia is the largest country in the world, it comprises 11% of the surface of the earth.
@Chris Jok shut up bot
Well just think like this
If a name ends with "a" in their national language the country is she
For example they call Russia "Rossia" so it's she
Also just call them "it", why you argue
Imagine just waking up one day and finding out that Luxembourg or a major city was completely decimated while you were sleeping.
And it actually destroyed a little point of your house
So like the people who woke up on August 7th, 1945?
I live there so please no
@@snackler6102 I wouldn’t call the trade center a major city.
1940
No one:
God every 60 years: “let’s play Russian roulette.”
Russian… get it 😏😏heh
“ Lets Throw nukes at a singular person! “
God does good things the devil does bad things it’s not god it’s the devil
@@jahh69420 No, god can also do bad things, he created humans (in the books)
@@jahh69420 sometimes god does bad things to see how we react
Remember kids, a meteor can’t crash near you without your permission. Just say no, and they will be forced to crash elsewhere
Period! Consent is important
@IMAGINE F cjdhxhxjxhxnxizbzb kiddo detected
@@coconatsu9079 That's how vaccines work, they send a telepathic message to the virus to not infect the cells and the virus gets this message a little later, and once it does, politely leaves the human body alone
@@AbhijayAgarwal exactly it definitely isn't your body acting as the American military when oil and the middle east are involved.
@@abdiabdi3225 best comment ever
Damn that meteor killed santa's whole crew
Yeah and now his crew works in the magical land of China
pLEASE-
@@andyb2028 oh so that's why it says "Made in China"
thats what I said lol
Is that where the legend of the flying reindeer came from? Actual flying reindeer?
"the day when we celebrate the glorious taste of chicken wings."
couldn't agree more
Every day is chicken wing day
9:36 That ad transition was something else… 🤣
So what
If all those "theoretically" events would happen, NY would be the most dangerous place to live. Because it most picked a place for those comparisons.
I guess
I'm not in New York :)
No, it is just a place the most people can relate to.
I mean to be fair Fictional New York is probably numb to this kinda shit already. “Oh we’re being attacked by Aliens again? Cool.”
@@juzoli not for non Americans, it’s a bit annoying whenever I watch movies AND ITS JUST FUCKING AMERICA
_"Thousands of dead reindeer carcasses would later be discovered by scientists littering the area around the explosion."_
Good thing the scientists were there littering, otherwise we'd never have known about the reindeer.
Hope they installed some trash cans now 😂
I like the way you dangle your participle.
@Cosmo Genesis Haha, that is somewhat of an "ATM machine" moment.
@Ladyhawk's Lair Flattery will get you everywhere. 😇
LMAO good one
It’s a crazy coincidence that the asteroid had the same name as the area of earth that it hit. Insane actually.
Woah, it’s like its parents knew👀
Well yes, but actually no.
It's from the category - it's funny that I was born on the day of "my birthday party"🥴🥴🥴🥴
Can't tell if you're joking lmao
It’s named after where it hit
The only caveat being that had it struck a populated region would probably leave us with a robust astroid defense system today.
Not really. Humans have short memories (by geological time scales). And if Republicans are in charge, they will dismantle the asteroid defense program anyway.
I'd take anything to make stonehenge anti orbital system come true
unlikely. these things approach, sometimes seemingly invisibly and without warning, at screaming speeds in excess of 30km/s (we can track large space objects but there's god knows how many which are too small to detect easily, and yet big enough to do plenty of human damage). we don't have the tech to intercept or divert an object travelling at that speed now, in 2021. it's very unlikely that we could have developed it in the 20th century, even with its huge investment in missile tech and space programmes because of the cold war.
@@ChineduOpara Ironic you realize the fact that humans have short memories while beleiving in the false differences between the corporate puppet parties
@@kenetickups6146 The differences are not false. Yes they are minor in many aspects, but major in many *important* aspects (like Social Safety Net, Public Health, and just General *Kindness to Fellow Human beings* ).
They are definitely not "false differences".
But I am sure you'll respond with "what about isms" and straight-up misinformation. As is your Constitutional right!
However understand this: we ALL know that, in spite of all the *bile* you're about to vomit at me, deep down inside YOU KNOW Good vs. Evil. You've been hurt, and you need help, but you don't (or can't) get it right now, so you will *lash out* .
So go ahead, say whatever you want, get it off your chest, I won't argue with you.
I wonder if in the future, we'll have the technology to intercept it
But it won't happen in near future
And Hirosima isn't genocide 😂
Whats up checkmark
Its scary but what even is more terrible is the climate change what is really in near future if we don't do anything against it
Bruh the last place that I expect you to comment in is reallifelore LOL
"Exploded with a force of 12 megatons, which was probably the largest explosion in recorded human history"
The eruption of Krakatoa in 1883 was estimated at ~200 megatons.
Tambora was even more powerful, and Toba was a literal supervolcano.
@Jayo Delaware why people make homes in most dangerous areas either near volcano or in coastal areas even though they can be gone any day
For context this is 150x stronger than the tsar bomba
@@TheDiamondFish Yep. The largest man-made explosion of all time pales in comparison to what nature can do. The Chicxulub asteroid impact (a.k.a. the "dinosaur killer") would've been measured in the hundreds of gigatons.
@@worldprops333
Then there is Toba,
which dwarfed Tambora.
Interesting video and analysis; however, I wish you would have spent more time explaining the impacts if it occurred in the same location today beyond "it would be the same". If it happened in the same location today, there would be widespread reporting of this event worldwide and global air traffic would likely be disrupted. There might be more human impacts as I am sure there are more populated places closer to the Tunguska impact point compared to in 1908.
Also more research in prevention because everyone would know about it - now if you ask people about they might not know. It would have more of a societal and psychological effect than before
And, it would get massive media coverage (appropriately, imho). Possibly even something caught on a phone cell. (Edit - you mentioned coverage - I just went into it a little more).
Plus there's a much bigger city to the south of Tunguska these days; Irkutsk, on the shores of Lake Baikal. There's an awful lot more people there now than in 1908.
The ad transition is the BEST I’ve seen yet
Russia was the first country to go to space because their tired of space going to it
As they say "in Russia you don't need to go to soace , space will go to you".
@@woodduck2178 soace
Haha
this needs way more likes 🤣
You win the internet!!
The Cherbalinsk Meteor is an event I will always remember, just happened to be online late at night and a couple videos popped up, then a few more... I didn't sleep that night just because the huge amount of dash cam and security footage of the event that was being uploaded. It still surprises me that people dont seem to realize we almost had a city wiped off the planet, and it could happen at pretty much any time and we likely won't see it in time to stop it/evacuate with our current detection capabilities.
Honestly more than just a rare asteroid, i suppose that's what a nuclear war would look like...it is effectively what it would look like to see a ballistic nuclear missile reentering the earth.
@@livethefuture2492 thats what i was thinking too
its scary to think that sight could have actually happened. anytime during the cold war, and that could have been the reality for millions of people around the world.
imagine thousands of those streaks and flashes of light, all over the world at the same time.
@@livethefuture2492 damn bro
I wonder if Humanity would have cared a LOT more about natural events like meteor impacts or even global warming if the Tunguska event had happened in a major city. Maybe in the alternate universe where that happened, Humanity got their shit together and they have a much bigger space station, military satellites that are aimed away from Earth instead of towards it, a moon base, and have already made several manned missions to Mars.
9:25 is everybody gonna ignore this perfect transotion to chicken wings?
That's just how strong is Koyanskaya with Memerlin and Lightyaskaya Buster buffs
With the event playing in NA, I'm surprised it took this long and so much scrolling to find even one comment about FGO.
@@jeffreyherrera5069 I know, right? Is disappointing
"thousands of dead reindeer carcasses..." it would be worse if they were living carcasses.
My thoughts EXACTLY 😅
I think those are called zombies.
santa punching the air rn
You're literally describing the music video for All Nightmare Long by Metallica.
The Shockwave the Heat was too strong
Hitting a city is really low in odds. The fact that it hit land at all defied odds enough.
this crossed my mind as well but its still possible
If it hits water It'll still give you a giant tsunami
@@frisianmouve hmm..lets see. Which is worse...a possible tsunami that maybe hits a city which is something that happens all the time today anyway...or, an impact on a city equal to several nuclear weapons...which has never happened
@Natasha Gupta
Shut up bot!!!
@@nightwingaven69 A tsunami would impact every coastline along the ocean the asteroid hit. You're not smart.
everyone is praying that after every 60years the meteorite should just hit the same spot in Russia lol
The subtle yet gradual shift to the sponsors is mind blowing!
Chicken wings!
That was the GOAT transition to the sponsorship. “…And the following day is Chicken wings day!”🤣🤣
Lol for some reason i get triggered by transition comments! lol i agree too tho
Tunguska meteor: *hits Earth*
Earth: "Now that's a lot of damage"
I don't know should I laugh or be worried
Also Earth: For you.
Just use flex tape to fix it lol
Get timo werner to kick the meteor
I SAWED THIS METROPOLIS IN HALF
1:29 Dinosaurs: Welcome to the party
Its always fun when meal prep sponsors make people actually film themselves cooking the food, especially with channels that dont usually appear on camera
thank you real life lore for instilling fear into the general public 🥰
spreading the curse of knowledge
This world goes so far with this stuff that real information is bad
I mean the truth is we still don't know if a meteorite did it. Its widely accepted but people are still trying to prove it. So you know it could've been something else entirely.
You shouldn't worry, because there are no destructive asteroids heading for a direct impact towards earth. We have much better technology today and scientists are always keeping an eye on threats.
Dumbest shit I’ve ever heard
I feel like this would’ve benefitted from looking at how much of the earth’s surface is land, then how much of earth is cities etc. Iirc cities/towns are only about 1% of the earth’s surface, so this makes a huge and devastating asteroid strike likely only once in 100,000 years. Of course, we could get unlucky, but it seems like much less of an issue than climate change, pandemics, etc.
Yep exactly. It wasn't 'lucky' that it hit Siberia because Siberia is huge. Particularly in the early 1900s but even today, population centres only make up a tiny proportion of the Earth's surface.
yeah, this video feels very scaremonger-y
If it hit a city then it would have done animals a big favor
@@blizzard1198 Ok eco guy
Still could be worse.. If said asteroid landed in an ocean a lot more people would have been effected. Basically kilometre sized waves crashing down on any city on the coast. If it happened in the Atlantic Ocean all the cities on the eastern seaboard and Western Europe and Africa would be in for a world of hurt.
Considering the size of the Russian Empire at the time of Tunguska, and the size of Russia today, the odds are greater that any strike on or over land will be within its territory than that of any other country. Conversely, the Vatican or Monaco would be extremely unlikely to be hit.
But it's far more likely that it would explode over an ocean, resulting in comparatively little damage.
Tsunamis?
@@intruder9127 Someone else pointed out that an explosion over the ocean (as the Tunguska event involved an explosion before impact) would have little impact (literally) on a body of water.
The shockwave would hit the water, which at speed would be like it hitting concrete. Think of what it feels like to do a belly flop. The force would then blast outward through the air, gradually losing energy as it would over land.
Any nearby surface vessels would be destroyed or severely damaged, as would land areas within range.
@@JamesPhieffer and every fish within a couple hundred miles would be killed as well. Think of what ecological changes would come of that
@@Joe_Potts I mean… dead fish or dead people? Humans have been killing fish for thousands of years in large scales. Ecological changes would be the least of our worries lol.
Nice remark James
9:10 I will always appreciate the witty transitions to the sponsor. Great video.
8:58 A few minutes wouldn't have made a difference, but if the meteor had struck several hours earlier (due to the earth's rotation), it would have obliterated the Russian imperial capital of St. Petersburg.
@@natashagupta4691
thanks for your meaningful contribution.
edit: and thanks for deleting your meaningful contribution~
but the earth is actually flat and motionless 😂
@Your Nightmares Come True Oops, you're right! Although landing in an ocean presumably would have caused a massive tsunami...
@@prplt please dont start this karen
The Earth isn't sitting still in space while it rotates. A few minutes earlier or later and it might have missed Earth completely. Don't forget, Earth is traveling around the sun at 30,000 meters per second, or 18.6 miles per second. The radius of Earth is 3,958 miles, the distance of which will be traversed in 3.54 minutes. That's enough distance to cause the asteroid to just barely miss.
“What if we lived in the Harrison Bergeron dystopia”
That’s a story...... for onother....what if.
The system would immediately collapse under the weight of its own stupidity, if the HG men are handicapped (which they weren't) and almost immediately collapse if the HG men work handicap free.
On second thought, it would look like today, only with more stupid (which is very hard to imagine). Moral of the story, there is no bottom limit.
If?
Hmm... This must be an inside joke between you and the 182 people who liked your comment
I love how sneakily he inserts his sponsorship at the end of his videos
8:05 This visual makes the shockwaves absolutely terrifying.
“Yes we will be having chicken wings at the same time Tunguska occurs”
Oh wa…
radiation infested chicken wings...
@@fidelcatsro6948 where would the radiation come from?
More like meteor-roasted reindeer.
Fried venison on the house for the entire world. Pull up a chair everyone. Might be a little burnt though...omm nom nom
@@alfonsrasmus4710 📀SERCH ADITYA RATHORE, HE ALSO MAKES INFORMATIVE CONTENT LIKE REAL LIFE LORE
"The Tunguska asteroid caused the biggest explosion in recorded human history at the time"
*Krakatau noises*
Edit: 407 likes wth?!
Tambora was even bigger
Krakatau was the loudest, Tunguska was the most devastating, like a nuclear bomb
@@fanteasy7399 kakatoa had dozens od thousands of human causalities
Tunguska only devastated wood and deer
@@fanteasy7399 Mount tambora is more devastating because there is no summer
@Your Nightmares Come True A whole movie says it is.
It would have been much more interesting to have looked for the area that would have had the most effect to life today and 1908 and to look at the effect of the meteor hitting the sea or a water mass.
This guy has the best ad transitions on youtube.
I like how he went from devestating asteroid impacts to delicious chicken meals
what
illustrating how easily we could roast chicken with asteroid impacts, however, you'll need HELLOFRESH to have it delivered correctly with only minimal casualties along the way!
Everytime RLL (or Bioark; they're the same person) uploads a new video, we celebrate.
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Congrats on getting a heart
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i swear your segways at the end of your videos to your sponsors are sooo good and hilarious.
This was your best sponsor transition yet 🍗
"I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here"
- Arthur C. Clarke
Not because and meteors because of humans if aliens wanna come here they should just kill humans they would be doing the earth and everything creature on this planet a favor
@@blizzard1198 Small brain
@@jadapinkett1656 Ok😐 anyway do you think if I took out the fat from someone's bums I could use it to cook
CLARK WAS RIGHT!!!
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us - Calvin and Hobbes
Modern city getting obliterated:
New York: ah sh*t! Here we go again.
I*
@@lurkag2672 grammar nazi
Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore: yeah don't look at us
Well done, thanks!
Cool new edit style!
RLLs transition to sponsors at the end of the video is always amusing in a good way of course.
We really need to work on developing ways to catch asteroids heading for Earth and put them into a safe orbit where we can mine them to our hearts' content.
Veritasium has a video on it. Apparently we would have to cover the asteroid with foil
i love that all of reallifelore's videos NEED to have a sponsor
That transition to the sponsorship was AMAZING 😂😂
New York: i have a real bad feeling about this
Ikr. They're almost always used as a example, because of how population and important they are, even tho the most population city on Earth is Tokyo.
@@mr.boomguy ik and cities like new delhi bejing and even London are larger
Russia: Not if we have anything to say about it! Quick, deploy those missiles to destroy asteroids- we have them right?
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@@mr.boomguy
Don't forget, we already know what would happen to a city if it was hit by an asteroid, we did it in 1945.
Given the estimated size of the Tunguska meteor, I think it's likely scientists would have been tracking it for at least a couple of years if a meteor of that size was to approach Earth.
It was moving fast per second
@@alexfrommd5140 doesn't matter in space everything travels at mtrs/sec scientist can still track it
It was literally the time of the Russian Empire.
You do know that with our current technology of different nations combined we can only track and watch about 1% of the sky/space for potential threats and those are even only when the conditions are right like when the sun shines upon the asteroid or when the asteroid has a good orbit. So basically when it comes to celestial threats we blind as fuck.
We can only see comets coming our way at one angle at the time. If a giant comet was headed our way, we'd detect it late. And despite what "Deep Impact" showed us, you can't nuke a comet and no weapon on earth is powerful enough to stop a meteor when it enters our atmosphere.
Smoothest transition to your sponsor. Props to you!
8:40 I thought he was going to say a "Miracle", but he said "Incredible lucky historical twist of fortune to the human species"... that is something I would like to say someday to sound smarter and more intelligent.
This dude makes us great content so much so that it seamlessly connects an advertisement at the end of the video. Impressive!
"All of the Manhattan will be incinerated"
- Genos, probably
I remember my grandmother had a book about mysteries in the universe. It must have been about as old or older than she was though. They were absolutely clueless about what happened in Tunguska still. Even went so far as to state it was plausibly a black hole.
That transition into the sponsorship was smooth af
Damn this would heavily affect the stock market
I live in Ontario and I remember the day the Chelyabinsk astroid hit. My mom was waking my brothers and I up for school and as I was laying in bed waiting for my brother to get out of the shower when we all heard a big rumbling boom. We all thought it was some sort of aircraft carrier or something until we found out it was the astroid.
Jeesh it reached that far? We in south east Europe didnt hear anything
Strange. I was much closer to Chelyabinsk (in Ufa, about 400 km west of Chelyabinsk) and no bang was heard.
How the FUCK did you hear thst
@@lenoviukas5590 because of the asteroid path
No way, that's 10000km away. Maybe if it was a 300m wide instead of 17m...
This is incredibly fascinating, I had no idea about 1908 Tunguska asteroid.
That was the smoothest ad transition ever
That was quite the segue - if you're not destroyed by a meteorite, have some chicken wings in celebration!
I love guessing his intros to his videos.
I love guessing his transition to his sponsor
This video is sponsored by *n o r d v p n*
@@felixhekster i love guessing when he's about to sell his dignity :)
@@felixhekster 🏮SERCH ADITYA RATHORE, HE ALSO MAKES INFORMATIVE CONTENT LIKE REAL LIFE LORE
Asteroids: (sees Russia)
Asteroids: I know where we’re dropping bois
Hollywood Asteroïds: ..but... but... I wanted to visit New York😭
There lived a certain meteor in Russia long ago
He was big and rocky and an explosion of flaming gold
Well people look at him with terror and with fear but to asteroid belt chicks he was such a lovely dear
He could burn the woods full of ecstasy and fire
But he was also the kind of meteor Earth would get hit by
LOL
However, an impact like this would be a godsend for window companies around the world
At least it’s better then having the sun blow up
That transition into the hello fresh ad was flawless
The Chelyabinsk meteor was estimated to have caused over $30 million in damage. It is the largest recorded object to have encountered the Earth since the 1908 Tunguska event. The meteor is estimated to have an initial diameter of 17-20 metres and a mass of roughly 10,000 tonnes.
Just make a giant flyswatter, to whack the space rock away!
😂😂😂😂Great idea
bruh
our just ask it nicely!
o man i live right outside the butterfly...gotta love nyc being the default mass destruction index map 😅
That ad transition was smooth
RealLifeLore always know how to tie in those sponsorships💯
RLL, I admire your ability to smoothly transition to the sponsor
Conclusion: the fishing season will be greatly affected
que pro
That smooth as transition
this feels like a grim reminder..
It is insane that this meteor is seen as an absolute catastrophe and still 5 times samller than some nukes
This is one of my favourite meteorite scenarios 😁
Now thats good ad Segway
That was a smooth sponsor transition
We also can't forget about the Itomori Impact Event of 2013.
"Thousands of dead reindeer carcasses".
Well, thank god they weren't living reindeer carcasses. That would have been way creepier. Though admittedly, I would low-key go see a movie about a meteor causing a reindeer zombie apocalypse in Siberia.
What???
@@ameybirulkar7503 "dead reindeer carcasses" is redundant as the reindeer being dead is implied in the word "carcasses"
@@SilvaArmour3000 Oh. Thanks for clarifying!
Center is going to be short a few reindeer this Christmas
@@TheJoeSwanon Santa*
This video deserves more views
Cool information
Is fear of impending meteors a good enough excuse to skip work?
Let’s both try it, let me know how it goes 😂🤷♂️
@@muchachosauce7399 how did it go
@@netherwolves3412 I lost my job, house and my wife took the kids
@@muchachosauce7399 lmao
What if a Tunguska-level meteor impacted the middle of the Pacific? Imagine that tsunami.
It explode in the air so it won't creat a tsunami. Even if it hit the water it's too small too cause large tsunami.
Nothing would happen. Humans have tested bombs as big as 50 megatons. Tunguska was 12Mt. This video contains bs. You can simulate effects of 12Mt bombs in website called Nukemap
Nah fam it is impossible
@@jauho7483 There’s a difference between a 12MT bomb and an air burst explosion of a meteor. They’ve used the size of the damage of the Tunguska event for the New York model, they weren’t just postulating.
That’s the size of the area it damaged. A bomb focused the energy in a smaller area, leading to higher damage in a smaller area.
It's frickin terrifying to think of it having hit in a populated area. Or having it happen now in a populated area. It's humbling.
I can't wait for this !!
I love how he really emphasizes the word CHAOS at 6:32
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I sought of have started missing the old RealLifeLore Thumbnails 😅😂
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This boy has the best product placement that you could ever have
Nice video.