@@Ittiz if we're not careful we'll end up with one of those bizarre nursery rhymes on our hands, and thoughty2 will have to make a vid 50 years from now trying to gleam it's origins... 😄
@@huskiehuskerson5300 I've been living in isolation since before it was "trendy", my ocd has ocd now, think Hemsworth on steroids and you get the picture. so yeah, much... You good?
Just the thought of fusing a nuclear bomb myself with my own hands makes me become overtaken with a sense of anxiety and doom, like the uneasy feeling you get when you're up high on something, where it feels like the depth is trying to pull you forward into it, that's how I feel when I think about it. I would bet most of the scientists who worked on nuclear bombs had a high level of stress throughout their lives.
If they had detonated that shit underground, they could've moved the tectonic plates or awakened some ancient shit that'd being upon the apocalypse 👀👀👀
*Or any big ass apes to fight with it!!* I mean-why *bother* having a government, if we don’t even get to occasionally reap those kinda awesome, yet accidental Kaiju rewards of all their “cool toys” we pay for?! 🤷♀️😁
There’s a theory that the reason why alien sitings went up during the atomic age was because of the nuclear tests. It’s rumored aliens live under the oceans.
@@angelgjr1999 that's makes since if we're gonna go with the "aliens live underwater" route. Imagine vibing with your civilization like normal and intense shockwaves start thundering through the upper ocean and "sun light" somehow reaches the abyssal plain.
America just wanted to bomb the bikini atoll so we could have Bikini Bottom. Gotta respect the fact that we will destroy our own planet just to have the story of Spongebob.
The bomb was reduced in yield due to two reasons afaik. 1. The survival of the pilots and 2. Reduction of material thrown into the atmosphere by the detonation. Being detonated at 4 miles as it was, made it one of the “cleanest” detonations carried out. Had they gone with 100 Mt it would have lifted vast amounts of irradiated dust into the air.
The "Keep calm, and carry on" really got me... Love it... So dark, no hope, all faith is forgotten... but hey, something was worse... :) Keep calm and 42 on :)
@@evilmaxi8925 I have been involved in several cults, both as a leader and a follower. You make more money as a leader but have more fun as a follower.
"How I learned to stop worrying and love the Bomb!" A movie more historically known as "Dr Strangelove" is a classic film to see. Not just featuring Peter Sellers in 3 different roles, but also George C Scott, which caused him to never again work with its director Stanley Kubrick!
*It’s interesting* to see how we had to nerf the destructive capabilities of these nuclear weapons ever since the 60’s. _Some progress wouldn’t be for the best._
The reason for why our nukes have gotten smaller might surprise you. It's because the accuracy is better. Back when maybe you'd hit the target, maybe it lands 50 miles away, the solution was to make bombs huge and have multiple war heads that would spread out. Who cares about hitting the target when one ICBM can take out an area the size of a smaller state? Once ICBM targeting became more precise, they decided it would be better to only nuke the enemy's important targets and not necessarily render the planet completely uninhabitable.
@@lucifersatan4611 you do know that the earth is destined to be destroyed right? The sun wont last forever you know. Humans wont be able to do anything about that.
@@ressljs Not sure it was just accuracy. If you need to be hundreds of miles away , well that limits it's battlefield usefulness, where you can use the bomb and not harm your own side. Plus a victory is not much good if you can't take advantage of the spoils of war and instead must wait thousands of years. So they started working on short lived (comparatively) high radiation weapons that would kill all the pesky enemy but leave a lot of infrastructure in place which would then be available to use in a far shorter period.
Another thought-provoking video, thank you. How about a follow-up celebrating the frightening number of individuals who have literally saved the world over the last 60 years or so years by variously refusing to "push the button"? People we all owe our lives to but almost nobody is aware of. People who were mostly punished for not ending the world!
It's possible. The four craters seem to be precise. One large and three small. Could've been a scatter bomb of nukes. First hit threw the other three up and allowed the planet to rotate before they fell back. But who really knows?
Used to? I get what you're saying but saying that a race of aliens destroyed themselves and just assume that those aliens where humans is kind of stupid
Thoughty2, I prefer going to the Appalachian Mountains, they are amazing. The scenic vistas with views that are amazing, you can see for miles and the farms look like small models. The small waterfalls some which are fairly high. The streams are full of trout some which have native Brook Trout.
Imagine being a deer or other animal that was just far enough away to survive the blast. That had to be just about the most horrible deaths imaginable. One second you're fine and eating grass or something, the next second you're blind, deaf, and on fire. If the radiation didn't manage to kill you somewhat quickly you'd spend the next few days in immense pain, slowly dying from the wounds, dehydration, and hunger, all the while you'd have no idea what happened.
It doesn't matter! This is about the Tsar bomb, not TNT. The most important thing, is that the information is pitched at a level that virtually everybody understands. Not everybody has the benefit of intellect and/or background conducive to further, let alone higher education. Those of us who do, should count our blessings. There is no place for intellectual snobbery in this day & age.
Thoughty2's estimate of the cost of antimatter was off by a couple of orders of magnitude. It's actually worth about $62.5 *trillion* a gram. I'll leave it up to the readers to educate themselves on the difference between a million, a billion, and a trillion. If you're thinking, "I can imagine that," you have no idea.
@@LazyLoonz- A lot, a thousand times a lot, and a million times a lot. A million seconds is a little over 11 and a half days (11 days, 13 hours, 46 minutes and 40 seconds). A billion seconds is about 31 years. And a trillion seconds is 31,688 years.
@@heiseigojifan2713 in the first movie, they show how they dropped an ATOMIC BOMB on Godzilla, and it didn't seem to affect him much. The explosive power of an A Bomb is...strong. So yeah, I'm QUITE sure Godzilla is REALLY DAMN STRONG.
Wasn't the yield halved out of fear of igniting the atmosphere, and then after it was dropped, further proving that a 100MT bomb would have done some irreparable damage to our planet, if not worse?
The Trinity Site test was the one where they where worried about setting the atmosphere on fire. And that is KIND OF a misunderstood fact of the era by us today; the American Government, the people working on the bomb, and most physicists knew based on all their independent calculations the explosion wasn't anywhere close to setting the atmosphere on fire (I think the average chance of setting the atmosphere on fire was less then 1% in the peer reviewed calculations). But since it was listed in the official probable outcome calculations when the general public heard there was even a possibility the media and arm chair experts ran with it to try to get the Government to cancel the Trinity test. Remember before CERN brought the LLC online and "everyone" was worried "we could accidently create a Universe that would destroy ours" or "they might make a blackhole that would swallow our solar system"? When in reality no-one that actually was working on the LLC or understood what the LLC could do was worried about this since the official calculations showed and explained how unlikely it actually was either of these things could happen. But still arm chair experts and non-scientific publications went nuts for over a year before the LLC came online and sparked actual petitions and government inquiries that almost shutdown the LLC before it was finished. Pretty much that is what happened with the Trinity Test petitions; people not smart enough to understand what is actually happening needing to have a say is a sad reality that repeats it's self over and over again in history. -Before the first train was put on a track; "experts worried" moving that fast would suck the air out riders lungs... even though a horse could potentially go fast then the first trains. -Before and even into the early years of electric generators "experts warned" people of vapours from electric outlets... I actually forget if they thought the electricity carried the fumes of the fuel the generator burned or if it was ozone vapours which only occur around open arks or electricity -Before self serve at Gas Stations become common place across North America; "experts said" pumping your own gas was highly dangerous due to risk of explosions and fires if you pump wrong... it actually was in the very early days of gas stations until they learned how to ground out cars and pumps, but the fear kept on so strong that literally every time a state or province changed the laws to allow self service (even in 2010 when the last place in North America changed) people in those places petitioned the change for fear of blowing themselves up pumping gas -When the Potato first came to Europe "English authorities advised" potatoes where poisonous and could cause serious illness or even death... this was because The Virgin Queen Elizabeth ordered a feast made entirely of potatoes when and the cooks served mostly the plant part which is poisonous rather then the tubers that are safe to eat and everyone at the feast got SUPER sick several courses in (side note: think of how gross that would have been hundreds of people in the same hall being sick after eating nothing but greens and potatoes) which lead to almost all of Europe avoiding the potato until the French King Antoine pretty much tricked people into eating them during a famine
@@CartoonHero1986 Potatoes can kill, if they're green. You sneer at people in past ages for being worried about safety, yet we have to be. You could also mention how aerosols and fridges ended up destroyed much of the ozone layer (although I have a sneaking suspicion all these nuclear tests will turn out to have been a factor one day)... Or how a medicine created to cure morning sickness produced babies with stunted limbs. Or how a pesticide for bugs ended up decimating the bird population by thinning the shells of their eggs. Or how agrichemicals and plastics are affecting human fertility and may play roles in breast/prostate and testicular cancer. And so on and so on. We are screwing things up, because we didn't look at the little possibilities. If there was a 1% chance it could set the atmosphere on fire, that is actually a high risk. It may sound like a small one, but it's higher than your odds of being struck by lightning... If you want to sneer at anything, sneer at some of thr BS that's been promoted about the Big Bug over the past year, and how willing people are to give their freedoms away permanently over it in the so called "Νεω Νοrmαl".
@@ragingreviews5186 no need Lee Mossup.... Lee Mossup already did it. (I know it was a non intentional, computer generated double post, but I wanna be funny too, psychopathic totalitarian dictator-damnit.)
I can't decide if these videos are more informative or more entertaining to me. But there are definitely megatons of both. Thanks for putting such great content out there.
8:17 Trinitrotoluene, 15:50 Chicxulub - for the high quality videos we are treated to here, I didn't expect such cringey pronunciations. Gonna have to work on those mate!
The U.S. calcs are wrong, too. In 2020, total U.S. primary energy consumption was equal to about 9.8e19 joules. One megaton is 4.2e15 joules. So the US uses about 2.3 gigatons of TNT equivalent per year, or about 64 megatons per day. So a pathetic little czar bomba wouldn't even last a day. :-)
Alan Guth goes into his local physics shop for some supplies. "Do you have any antimatter?" he asks. "We have 1 gram left," says the shop assistant. "But the price has recently increased due to its rareity." "Don't worry about the price," says Alan Guth. "I'll take the lot." "That'll be 62 million dollars please," says the shop assistant, handing over a magnetic container. Alan Guth shrieks. "And they say inflation is just a theory."
Ironically, you can do more damage with a group of much smaller nukes spread out over a larger area, but close enough to leave few unaffected gaps. That's true even if the total megatonnage is far smaller than the single bomb. Much of the energy produced by a lone nuclear weapon goes uselessly up angles away from the earth.
Fun fact about the tsar bomb? It was supposed to have a yield of 100 megatons but the scientists were afraid such a blast could potentially ignite the earth's atmosphere, turning it into a mini sun. And so, at pretty much the last minute, the bombs yield was lowered to 50 megatons.
What kind of spaceship had they needed to fly a 100megaton bomb to the test site when a 50 megaton bomb was almost impossible at that moment if they hadnt modded the plane to do so?
@@86_E30_Blondie don't know...you'd have to ask the crazy Russian's of the time...probably build a rocket as Ricardo suggested or build a stationary platform and assemble the bomb on site on said platform. But again, to really know you'd have to ask someone that worked on the project...🤷🏼♂️
@@DMBlade4 Never, not once have heard that the Moon is older than the Earth. Both are 4.3 Billion years old, if I remember correctly. And a planet hitting the Earth is considered the leading explanation of the formation of the Moon.
@@Foolish188 The moon is indeed older than the earth. An estimated 200 million years younger. The moon is made up not of oceanic crust, which is what would make our moon roughly the same age as earth, but by mantle material. Meaning the moon already formed while earth was still scorching and mostly molten.
@@Geheimnis-c2e Say what? The moon is older than the Earth, an estimated 200 million years YOUNGER? The Earth and Moon were formed from the remains of the Earth and Thea after the collision. Oh, and mantle material gets dredged up on Earth in tectonic events. It's definitely NOT a spaceship.
My dad was on a flight test of a Convair 880 that day. They didn't realize they were flying through the radiation cloud. When they got back, they had to let the airplane stand on the runway for 3 days before the radioactivity in the engines cooled down. (My brother was born the next year.)
So.. Germany was like, "Hans, let us build the biggest tanks and other weapons of war" and Russia thought, "you think you can out do us? HA. King bomb, building sized bell, coming right up." Edit: it helps to read it in each country's respective accent in your head.
@@Foolish188 I have always heard poops, you're the first one I've heard say burps lol. One of the ideas proposed was actually airtight cow diapers to collect the gas and poop.. they ultimately decided against it because the bags would explode or spontaneously combust when they would get hot enough in the sun.
My granddad's Army unit was sent into Hiroshima about 5 days after it was nuked, with no protective gear btw. Out of all the bloody horrible combat and fighting he endured, the sights in Hiroshima haunted him till old age. After the war he became a preacher for life. He brought back a Type 44 carbine rifle, pistol, and sword, all Japanese made and with the emperor's seal "Mum" on them. We still have those items in the family. We have a picture of him in Hiroshima with a bunch of children that survived and the city looks like a landfill was bulldozed flat.
Don't forget the UK!! They used an island to test nuclear weapons as well. A somewhat larger and more well-known and populated island, however. I give you...Australia!
anti matter bombs would be the bee's knees, but imagine an anti matter ship! would gravity have the opposite effect on anti matter so it falls away instead of towards?
Hey!!! I did it !! I finally found one of his videos that show his tongue touch his teeth to make the "th" sound in thoughty 2 !!!!!! Proving at last that he really is saying thoughty 2 and not forty 2 .. if he were saying 42 his lip would touch top teeth!!! Aaha! 🥳😋
Nóvaya Zemlyá Novaya the 1st syllable stressed (of the three) Zemlya the 2nd syllable stressed (of the two) like 1) novelty or caviar , and like 2) ajar or locate Btw, the name means a New Land. Andréy Sáharov (1syl, 2 syl) like 1) delay and 2) buchelor btw, sahar is sugar, so Saharov is like Sugarov =)) (for those who study this language)
Hey, you should mention your podcast quickly at the beginning of your video, it'll get way more exposure then a quick mention at the end. Love your content, just followed you on Spotify now
One thing important to know about anti matter, it is not the anti matter itself that as a hi cost but it is maintaining the matter suspended in gravity, even if we find a way to produce large amount of anti matter, storage will still be a big issue to solve.
had to pause the vid to say this. I keep hitting the notification bell, because somehow it keeps getting unclicked. I keep hearing about this happening to viewers of the political and fandom channels that I watch, but its never happened to me with those. but for some reason youtube refuses let me get notifications for your vids. You sir, are one of the best.
To protect against nuclear radiation, we can hide under Thoughty2's mustache.
😁😁😁😁
🏆 you've earned this Sir, for the most epic comment! 🤣😎
You mean under that San Francisco slobber sweeper?
Under the shelter of 3000 copies of Stick a Flag In It books
If it's a dirty bomb rather than just a plain old thermonuclear weapon, I'm heading to Tom Sellek's moustache.
Thank goodness, I've been chanting "thoughty2 where are you" all day under my breath, thank you and I love your channel!
"I've got another clue for you now"
@@Ittiz if we're not careful we'll end up with one of those bizarre nursery rhymes on our hands, and thoughty2 will have to make a vid 50 years from now trying to gleam it's origins... 😄
OCD much
@@huskiehuskerson5300 I've been living in isolation since before it was "trendy", my ocd has ocd now, think Hemsworth on steroids and you get the picture. so yeah, much... You good?
@@ana_derol no I just contracted ocd, i didn't know it was this contagious
"Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap." -Albert Einstein
They like to die in other ways xd
Unoriginal comment
@@nonical1429 we are more stupid because we use our intelligence to destroy ourselves.
@@eXcalibre_ original answer
@@nonical1429 very smart
That is by Tsar the most interesting video I've watched today.
Same
Thoughty2 is the bomba
Are you tsarcastic?
with all that heat did we accelerate climate change
Did you say "That is by *Emperor* the most interesting video I've watched today"?
What this English.... Thing is even supposed to mean, foreigner?
"I only drink organic cyanide." lol. Thoughty is so funny.
*vegans be like:*
But I do
Wait, so you drink non-organinc cyanide?
@@finallychangedmyname3614 that doesn't taste as good, in fact it tastes horrible
Who's thoughty? Is he like Joe Rogan?
Just the thought of fusing a nuclear bomb myself with my own hands makes me become overtaken with a sense of anxiety and doom, like the uneasy feeling you get when you're up high on something, where it feels like the depth is trying to pull you forward into it, that's how I feel when I think about it. I would bet most of the scientists who worked on nuclear bombs had a high level of stress throughout their lives.
Very true
To tell the truth I'm surprised we didn't find any Godzillas... Yet.
If they had detonated that shit underground, they could've moved the tectonic plates or awakened some ancient shit that'd being upon the apocalypse 👀👀👀
*Or any big ass apes to fight with it!!*
I mean-why *bother* having a government, if we don’t even get to occasionally reap those kinda awesome, yet accidental Kaiju rewards of all their “cool toys” we pay for?! 🤷♀️😁
There’s a theory that the reason why alien sitings went up during the atomic age was because of the nuclear tests. It’s rumored aliens live under the oceans.
By the title I thought this was about Democrats.
@@angelgjr1999 that's makes since if we're gonna go with the "aliens live underwater" route. Imagine vibing with your civilization like normal and intense shockwaves start thundering through the upper ocean and "sun light" somehow reaches the abyssal plain.
America just wanted to bomb the bikini atoll so we could have Bikini Bottom. Gotta respect the fact that we will destroy our own planet just to have the story of Spongebob.
Makes perfect sense that you'd get weird sentient sponges and shit with radiation levels like that
“Who lives in a pineapple under the sea -
*JOHN CENA!!!* 🎶🎵
worth it🤣
Respect
This ain't even the Tsar Bomba's final form yet. They had to reduce its planned yield because they wanted the pilots to actually survive the test.
Yeah cause it is hard to find dudes that dont mind dying for progress.
@@SirLuciferMachada lol
@@SirLuciferMachada Slightly more brainwashing and you will have kamikaze or jihad bomber.
@@vladimirseven777 That is true, regrettably
The bomb was reduced in yield due to two reasons afaik. 1. The survival of the pilots and 2. Reduction of material thrown into the atmosphere by the detonation. Being detonated at 4 miles as it was, made it one of the “cleanest” detonations carried out. Had they gone with 100 Mt it would have lifted vast amounts of irradiated dust into the air.
The "Keep calm, and carry on" really got me... Love it... So dark, no hope, all faith is forgotten... but hey, something was worse... :) Keep calm and 42 on :)
When the USA randomly invests $93000000000 ($93000 Million) into a random “experiment”: wait a minute…
I see you have joined the cult
@@evilmaxi8925 I have been involved in several cults, both as a leader and a follower.
You make more money as a leader but have more fun as a follower.
@@prophetofthesingularity dude it’s a joke referencing out pfp
@@prophetofthesingularity gimme
@@prophetofthesingularity I want in
My day is not complete without a shot of Thoughts 2. You are by far the most interesting and entertaining person on TH-cam. Thanks Aaron.
"don't you just hate it when your nuclear yield gets cut in half?"
Yes, because it means I can't breed as many Kaiju.
On THIS Friday the 13th I learned of a new thing to be afraid of LOL! Thanks Aaron!
Well, at least Jason Vorhees doesn't seem quite so horrifying anymore.
Who in the blood clot is Aaron? You mean Thoughty2? You big straw you... Sook! 🤭
You should know about Asteriods.
Well, he rarely fails to deliver! Especially around holidays. ☠️
It's ARRAN, not AARON.
"Heey thoughty 2 here"
It"s like music to my ears.
forty 2*
@@PeanutImperium the name of the channel is 'thoughty2', not forty-two.......why would he call himself forty-two??
So true
@@nostalgia3979 his age
@@coltkillergaming5685 still doesn't make sense for him to call himself that.
"How I learned to stop worrying and love the Bomb!" A movie more historically known as "Dr Strangelove" is a classic film to see. Not just featuring Peter Sellers in 3 different roles, but also George C Scott, which caused him to never again work with its director Stanley Kubrick!
Gentlemen! This is the War Room! There's no fighting in here!
I had heard that George actually felt it was his finest performance. ?!
*It’s interesting* to see how we had to nerf the destructive capabilities of these nuclear weapons ever since the 60’s.
_Some progress wouldn’t be for the best._
Humans will destroy themselves. I’m just watching.
@@lucifersatan4611 it's because of you satan
The reason for why our nukes have gotten smaller might surprise you. It's because the accuracy is better. Back when maybe you'd hit the target, maybe it lands 50 miles away, the solution was to make bombs huge and have multiple war heads that would spread out. Who cares about hitting the target when one ICBM can take out an area the size of a smaller state? Once ICBM targeting became more precise, they decided it would be better to only nuke the enemy's important targets and not necessarily render the planet completely uninhabitable.
@@lucifersatan4611 you do know that the earth is destined to be destroyed right? The sun wont last forever you know. Humans wont be able to do anything about that.
@@ressljs Not sure it was just accuracy. If you need to be hundreds of miles away , well that limits it's battlefield usefulness, where you can use the bomb and not harm your own side. Plus a victory is not much good if you can't take advantage of the spoils of war and instead must wait thousands of years. So they started working on short lived (comparatively) high radiation weapons that would kill all the pesky enemy but leave a lot of infrastructure in place which would then be available to use in a far shorter period.
Really glad you have shared all these years of information. I’ve seen every episode twice. Thank you great entertainment for my mind. Al USA
"Mother Russia must build biggest bomb ever. It is destiny!"
The bomb is nothing compared to Democrats.
Another thought-provoking video, thank you.
How about a follow-up celebrating the frightening number of individuals who have literally saved the world over the last 60 years or so years by variously refusing to "push the button"?
People we all owe our lives to but almost nobody is aware of. People who were mostly punished for not ending the world!
That's why they're building a thing called Skynet and the Matrix at the same time.
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I’m convinced this is what happened when humans used to live on Mars
Wait what?
That will be a bit of probability
It's possible. The four craters seem to be precise. One large and three small. Could've been a scatter bomb of nukes. First hit threw the other three up and allowed the planet to rotate before they fell back. But who really knows?
Used to? I get what you're saying but saying that a race of aliens destroyed themselves and just assume that those aliens where humans is kind of stupid
@@LazyLoonz people are actually thinking I’m serious? Wow 😭
Thoughty2, I prefer going to the Appalachian Mountains, they are amazing. The scenic vistas with views that are amazing, you can see for miles and the farms look like small models. The small waterfalls some which are fairly high. The streams are full of trout some which have native Brook Trout.
@rD mooD2 yep they are, wild Brookes are even better.
Couldn't complete the evening without a good story and a nice glass of fine port!😉
Single malt for me.
Modelo Lime ChelAda beer here.
Here is Texas and I'm whiter than Toughty2. Try it, is my point!
im on local brewed barley and hops
"I prefer rum. Rum's good."
@@LeumazDnazor yup, nothing like a nice glass of Rum and a few large ice cubes. Drink up before they melt.
"And I say Disco, because Disco can't die" Best quote from Thoughty2 so far!
As for disco, I’m with Jello Biafra on this one. Club culture is today’s version of Weimar era cabaret.
Original title: The truth behind the biggest nuclear weapon ever built
Edit: Thank you so much for all the likes I never got so many
Imagine him not changing it later lol
i was here lol
Indeed. I confirm this to be true lol
Confirmed.
Why would he change it, what is wrong with the title
It's dreadfull to think of all the trees wildlife ,creatures insects and rare plants that were destroyed during these nuclear tests. Shameful.!
But think of all the new elements extremely briefly created!
@@curbyourshi1056 and all the glass created...
Imagine being a deer or other animal that was just far enough away to survive the blast. That had to be just about the most horrible deaths imaginable. One second you're fine and eating grass or something, the next second you're blind, deaf, and on fire. If the radiation didn't manage to kill you somewhat quickly you'd spend the next few days in immense pain, slowly dying from the wounds, dehydration, and hunger, all the while you'd have no idea what happened.
Looking forward to your wise information, smoothing voice, and terrible pun based jokes. Keep up the great content lad. ☘️🍺👍
14:15 "disco can't die" lmao
Worth a Nuclear War if it would end Disco.
@@Foolish188 Nah, it's always going to be staying alive, staying alive.
Best feeling ever when you see a thought2 notification
8:13 tri-nitro-toluene It has 3 nitro groups on it as you should remember from A level chemistry.
lol the way he said it was cringeworthy
If he did a level chemistry
I lol'ed at that ! haha
It doesn't matter! This is about the Tsar bomb, not TNT. The most important thing, is that the information is pitched at a level that virtually everybody understands. Not everybody has the benefit of intellect and/or background conducive to further, let alone higher education. Those of us who do, should count our blessings. There is no place for intellectual snobbery in this day & age.
Man I've been subscribed to this channel for over 6 years, and I will always hear "heh 42 here." And he looks so much younger on his videos.
Love to listen to your educational programme. Love it especially how you put it over .thanks .💕💕
Listening to this while playing Fallout 4 is very interesting and satisfying
6:58
"A crater more than a mile long and 70 meters deep"
So we're talking in imperial or metric here? 😁
Thoughty2's estimate of the cost of antimatter was off by a couple of orders of magnitude. It's actually worth about $62.5 *trillion* a gram. I'll leave it up to the readers to educate themselves on the difference between a million, a billion, and a trillion. If you're thinking, "I can imagine that," you have no idea.
Alot compared to even more and also even more.
@@LazyLoonz- A lot, a thousand times a lot, and a million times a lot. A million seconds is a little over 11 and a half days (11 days, 13 hours, 46 minutes and 40 seconds). A billion seconds is about 31 years. And a trillion seconds is 31,688 years.
One million seconds is 11 days. One billion seconds is 31 years. This is a difference between the two numbers which seem so close.
And yet it still failed to kill Godzilla.
Radiation only makes him more powerful, so the A bomb only made him more powerful when the dropped it onto him
@@heiseigojifan2713 in the first movie, they show how they dropped an ATOMIC BOMB on Godzilla, and it didn't seem to affect him much. The explosive power of an A Bomb is...strong. So yeah, I'm QUITE sure Godzilla is REALLY DAMN STRONG.
Excellent video as always. You have a great sense of humour and even the animations continually improve.
Wasn't the yield halved out of fear of igniting the atmosphere, and then after it was dropped, further proving that a 100MT bomb would have done some irreparable damage to our planet, if not worse?
The Trinity Site test was the one where they where worried about setting the atmosphere on fire. And that is KIND OF a misunderstood fact of the era by us today; the American Government, the people working on the bomb, and most physicists knew based on all their independent calculations the explosion wasn't anywhere close to setting the atmosphere on fire (I think the average chance of setting the atmosphere on fire was less then 1% in the peer reviewed calculations). But since it was listed in the official probable outcome calculations when the general public heard there was even a possibility the media and arm chair experts ran with it to try to get the Government to cancel the Trinity test.
Remember before CERN brought the LLC online and "everyone" was worried "we could accidently create a Universe that would destroy ours" or "they might make a blackhole that would swallow our solar system"? When in reality no-one that actually was working on the LLC or understood what the LLC could do was worried about this since the official calculations showed and explained how unlikely it actually was either of these things could happen. But still arm chair experts and non-scientific publications went nuts for over a year before the LLC came online and sparked actual petitions and government inquiries that almost shutdown the LLC before it was finished. Pretty much that is what happened with the Trinity Test petitions; people not smart enough to understand what is actually happening needing to have a say is a sad reality that repeats it's self over and over again in history.
-Before the first train was put on a track; "experts worried" moving that fast would suck the air out riders lungs... even though a horse could potentially go fast then the first trains.
-Before and even into the early years of electric generators "experts warned" people of vapours from electric outlets... I actually forget if they thought the electricity carried the fumes of the fuel the generator burned or if it was ozone vapours which only occur around open arks or electricity
-Before self serve at Gas Stations become common place across North America; "experts said" pumping your own gas was highly dangerous due to risk of explosions and fires if you pump wrong... it actually was in the very early days of gas stations until they learned how to ground out cars and pumps, but the fear kept on so strong that literally every time a state or province changed the laws to allow self service (even in 2010 when the last place in North America changed) people in those places petitioned the change for fear of blowing themselves up pumping gas
-When the Potato first came to Europe "English authorities advised" potatoes where poisonous and could cause serious illness or even death... this was because The Virgin Queen Elizabeth ordered a feast made entirely of potatoes when and the cooks served mostly the plant part which is poisonous rather then the tubers that are safe to eat and everyone at the feast got SUPER sick several courses in (side note: think of how gross that would have been hundreds of people in the same hall being sick after eating nothing but greens and potatoes) which lead to almost all of Europe avoiding the potato until the French King Antoine pretty much tricked people into eating them during a famine
@@CartoonHero1986 Potatoes can kill, if they're green. You sneer at people in past ages for being worried about safety, yet we have to be. You could also mention how aerosols and fridges ended up destroyed much of the ozone layer (although I have a sneaking suspicion all these nuclear tests will turn out to have been a factor one day)... Or how a medicine created to cure morning sickness produced babies with stunted limbs. Or how a pesticide for bugs ended up decimating the bird population by thinning the shells of their eggs. Or how agrichemicals and plastics are affecting human fertility and may play roles in breast/prostate and testicular cancer. And so on and so on. We are screwing things up, because we didn't look at the little possibilities.
If there was a 1% chance it could set the atmosphere on fire, that is actually a high risk. It may sound like a small one, but it's higher than your odds of being struck by lightning...
If you want to sneer at anything, sneer at some of thr BS that's been promoted about the Big Bug over the past year, and how willing people are to give their freedoms away permanently over it in the so called "Νεω Νοrmαl".
@@thursoberwick1948 let me pic that 🎤 up for you lol
@@thursoberwick1948 let me pic that 🎤 up for you lol
@@ragingreviews5186 no need Lee Mossup.... Lee Mossup already did it.
(I know it was a non intentional, computer generated double post, but I wanna be funny too, psychopathic totalitarian dictator-damnit.)
I can't decide if these videos are more informative or more entertaining to me. But there are definitely megatons of both. Thanks for putting such great content out there.
8:17 Trinitrotoluene, 15:50 Chicxulub - for the high quality videos we are treated to here, I didn't expect such cringey pronunciations. Gonna have to work on those mate!
Never understood why people nitpick about how names are pronounced. Big deal 🙄
As always, your videos are excellent. Can’t get enough. Getting caught up to the pre-mustache days 😀
8:44 has incorrect math. It was supposed to be 1 megaton of tnt could power a home for 100,000 years and a 30 megaton for 3m million
or 1000y and 30000y if u american
@@oneknowwhatsup because our houses are bigger?
@@derekderek2570 No. Our dicks.
@@oneknowwhatsup If u dumb, maybe. Derek is correct, although it's probably more like 150 thousand and 4 million.
The U.S. calcs are wrong, too. In 2020, total U.S. primary energy consumption was equal to about 9.8e19 joules. One megaton is 4.2e15 joules. So the US uses about 2.3 gigatons of TNT equivalent per year, or about 64 megatons per day. So a pathetic little czar bomba wouldn't even last a day. :-)
Alan Guth goes into his local physics shop for some supplies.
"Do you have any antimatter?" he asks.
"We have 1 gram left," says the shop assistant. "But the price has recently increased due to its rareity."
"Don't worry about the price," says Alan Guth. "I'll take the lot."
"That'll be 62 million dollars please," says the shop assistant, handing over a magnetic container.
Alan Guth shrieks. "And they say inflation is just a theory."
America didn't nuke islands cause they hate Islands...
They were trying to create Spongebob
Watching this is comforting given the current circumstances with Russia and their threats.
"What is the answer to the question? The huge question about life, the universe, everything?"
"42"
But what’s the question?
Nearly done with "Stick A Flag In It" and I must say it has been a fantastic audio book, well worth the purchase.
that antimatter container is even more explosive when you consider the "air" (also made of matter), not just the walls....
Vacuum
Good afternoon, thank you for all of your educational videos. Have a good day!
Ironically, you can do more damage with a group of much smaller nukes spread out over a larger area, but close enough to leave few unaffected gaps. That's true even if the total megatonnage is far smaller than the single bomb. Much of the energy produced by a lone nuclear weapon goes uselessly up angles away from the earth.
But the fear factor isn't the same, thus bigger is better 😎
@@davidg.3406 True. When Rodan or Godzilla emerge, they'll be much larger. But I still think 5 smaller Godzillas would do more damage.
Fun fact about the tsar bomb?
It was supposed to have a yield of 100 megatons but the scientists were afraid such a blast could potentially ignite the earth's atmosphere, turning it into a mini sun. And so, at pretty much the last minute, the bombs yield was lowered to 50 megatons.
What kind of spaceship had they needed to fly a 100megaton bomb to the test site when a 50 megaton bomb was almost impossible at that moment if they hadnt modded the plane to do so?
@@86_E30_Blondie they probably woulda had to build a rocket
@@86_E30_Blondie don't know...you'd have to ask the crazy Russian's of the time...probably build a rocket as Ricardo suggested or build a stationary platform and assemble the bomb on site on said platform. But again, to really know you'd have to ask someone that worked on the project...🤷🏼♂️
Great video, keep the good work. If may
correct a detail, the currently price of antimatter is $62.5 trillion per gram, not $62 million.
I love your explanations. It’s very entertaining.
Wouldn't the biggest explosion in earth history be the impact of another planet that created our moon?
@@DMBlade4 Never, not once have heard that the Moon is older than the Earth. Both are 4.3 Billion years old, if I remember correctly. And a planet hitting the Earth is considered the leading explanation of the formation of the Moon.
@@DMBlade4 The Moon is strange. Too strange.
*points gun fingers at full Moon*
@@Foolish188 The moon is indeed older than the earth. An estimated 200 million years younger.
The moon is made up not of oceanic crust, which is what would make our moon roughly the same age as earth, but by mantle material. Meaning the moon already formed while earth was still scorching and mostly molten.
@@Geheimnis-c2e Say what? The moon is older than the Earth, an estimated 200 million years YOUNGER?
The Earth and Moon were formed from the remains of the Earth and Thea after the collision. Oh, and mantle material gets dredged up on Earth in tectonic events. It's definitely NOT a spaceship.
Literally in love with this guy
I was just watching his Shakespeare video when I got the notification.
Oppenheimer said, "I'm a fucking bastard" when he saw his first bomb go off in that desert.
its all over when yellow stone decides to blow
My dad was on a flight test of a Convair 880 that day. They didn't realize they were flying through the radiation cloud. When they got back, they had to let the airplane stand on the runway for 3 days before the radioactivity in the engines cooled down. (My brother was born the next year.)
Fun stuff! Did they have to decontaminate your dad when he got off the plane?
So.. Germany was like, "Hans, let us build the biggest tanks and other weapons of war" and Russia thought, "you think you can out do us? HA. King bomb, building sized bell, coming right up."
Edit: it helps to read it in each country's respective accent in your head.
Russians outdone them in Command and Conquer game, what's that double cannon tank name?
Well that was a real blast. Thank you. Hi from Oz.
"Tsar bomba" in English would mean "Emperor of Bombs", not "King of Bombs".
Bomb Emperor
Bomb Lord
Bomb my ass 😅
@@megagay5937 In Russian Tsar means Emperor.
@@amb4367 i wanted to say same! They do'nt understand what is Tsar... But yes,exactly,in english that would mean "emperor".
Love your educational/informational videos!!
And rumor has it Russia is currently employing a more powerful weapon. Go to wikipedia and look up Status-6 Oceanic Multipurpose System.
Fantastic video as always Mr Thinky2.
6:52 and people today are worried about cow poops impact on the environment 😂
Cow burps, not poops.
@@Foolish188 I have always heard poops, you're the first one I've heard say burps lol. One of the ideas proposed was actually airtight cow diapers to collect the gas and poop.. they ultimately decided against it because the bags would explode or spontaneously combust when they would get hot enough in the sun.
"Our very strength incites challenge. Challenge incites conflict. And conflict... breeds catastrophe."
- Vision (Captain America: Civil War)
Reminds me of an old saying: "I like my women like the US likes the Pacific ocean, with no Bikini Atoll"
🤣🤣🤣so funny. 👍
It's been about 5 days of non stop thoughty2 videos, and I couldn't be happier😊
My granddad's Army unit was sent into Hiroshima about 5 days after it was nuked, with no protective gear btw. Out of all the bloody horrible combat and fighting he endured, the sights in Hiroshima haunted him till old age. After the war he became a preacher for life.
He brought back a Type 44 carbine rifle, pistol, and sword, all Japanese made and with the emperor's seal "Mum" on them. We still have those items in the family.
We have a picture of him in Hiroshima with a bunch of children that survived and the city looks like a landfill was bulldozed flat.
Island atolls: *exist*
Soviets and Americans: *so you have chosen death*
China, who just brought the world the gift of Covid, are busily construction dozens of underground silos for nuclear-tipped ICBMs.
I am sorry, but this joke's format is completely worn. I can see holes from wear in this sometime before the funny meme template.
Don't forget the UK!! They used an island to test nuclear weapons as well. A somewhat larger and more well-known and populated island, however. I give you...Australia!
One of the best people on youtube. Knowledge is the fruit of life!!
That's because the person in charge of picking the location had Napoleon syndrome.
I like your videos right away, cause I know it's a good one
1 1/2 kg of antimatter is the standard medium yield photon torpedo[Star Trek]
Love your videos, dude.
water at 55000 degrees? i dont even need to ask if its F or C to know thats terribly wrong ;-)
Yeah, gonna call BS on that one.
lol exactly my thoughts as well. I think he slips things like that into the videos just to see if people are paying attention.
@@okidoke4822 that could be.. he IS a cheeky little bastard.. ;-)
one of the things that I must do before I die is to sit down with Arran and have a chat over a glass of wine , I know he loves good wine
anti matter bombs would be the bee's knees, but imagine an anti matter ship! would gravity have the opposite effect on anti matter so it falls away instead of towards?
"Gravitational interaction of antimatter - Wikipedia" en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_interaction_of_antimatter
Reminds me of that old joke '' I've invented a substance that will dissolve anything it comes in contact with but I cant find anything to keep it in .
Hey!!! I did it !! I finally found one of his videos that show his tongue touch his teeth to make the "th" sound in thoughty 2 !!!!!! Proving at last that he really is saying thoughty 2 and not forty 2 .. if he were saying 42 his lip would touch top teeth!!! Aaha! 🥳😋
SO good to see you! 👏
One thing I've learned about Russia is they really really like their bombs 😂
Nóvaya Zemlyá
Novaya the 1st syllable stressed (of the three)
Zemlya the 2nd syllable stressed (of the two)
like 1) novelty or caviar , and like 2) ajar or locate
Btw, the name means a New Land.
Andréy Sáharov (1syl, 2 syl)
like 1) delay and 2) buchelor
btw, sahar is sugar, so Saharov is like Sugarov =))
(for those who study this language)
“Disco is not dead! Disco is life!”
- Mystery Men
I would live a feature on the “Mankini Atolls”
Disco can’t die - that might have just made my week!
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Seems you're first
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this gentleman’s videos are always very superb, thank you
First!
Edit: seems im second
Probably not idk
@@KptSickly i think i was 2nd, by 2 seconds haha
I think 3rd
Idk I'm seeing second
Hey, you should mention your podcast quickly at the beginning of your video, it'll get way more exposure then a quick mention at the end. Love your content, just followed you on Spotify now
Ah yes two of my favorite things, thoughty2 and documentaries about tzar bomba❤
Loved it and find the podcasts great 👍🏼
One thing important to know about anti matter, it is not the anti matter itself that as a hi cost but it is maintaining the matter suspended in gravity, even if we find a way to produce large amount of anti matter, storage will still be a big issue to solve.
They just need to build the accelerators on Jupiter and store the antimatter at its Lagrange points.
Hey Thoughty2! What editing system do you use for your vids?
My rest and relaxation is looking at your mustache and listening to your videos while I work.
Hi thoughty2. Thanks for all the great videos....but what happened to your podcast? Would love to hear some new episodes :)
Original title: why this nuclear weapon was the thiccest chonky boy ever built.
had to pause the vid to say this. I keep hitting the notification bell, because somehow it keeps getting unclicked. I keep hearing about this happening to viewers of the political and fandom channels that I watch, but its never happened to me with those. but for some reason youtube refuses let me get notifications for your vids. You sir, are one of the best.
love seeing Dan from the Slow Mo Guys in that clip of cereal about 10 minutes in
Just found your channel! 🙏 You’re making me laugh whilst educating me 🤣🤣🤣🤣.