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I used to think people were generally intelligent, wanting to see best in people. However I've since learned from fb discussions and more recently from TH-cam threads that most people are incredibly and horrifyingly dumb. It's really quite startling how many imbeciles are out there. I'm very disappointed by this
History in school was a guaranteed nap for the next hour, but if history was taught with a breath of fresh air: “Unfortunately they were both idiots” in an instructional reference or in a deadpan statement in a lecture hall would take the event and put it in front of the student alive in the moment. There is never a moment in time that someone isn't doing something stupid, saying "Oops." The laws of averages alone guarantees that every so often, it's a "Oops" that changes the world. I don't know about you but I actually find that sort of comforting...
@@Switcharoo12 Yeah, this was not stupidity. It was pure bad luck, on so many levels. Though, to be sure, the Archduke even BEING THERE is the mistake that triggered the entire episode in the first place.
There was a large organized group of people determined to kill the Archduke during his visit. They were spread throughout the routes he was predicted to take. His assassination was almost guaranteed. It was well known how unpopular he was in Sarajevo, so his visit itself was the blunder.
@@JayM409 Yes, but the fact that they almost failed, in spite of all the planning, is noteworthy. In the end, a stroke of bad luck for the Archduke is what did him in. That's not a good plan at all, if you require LUCK to pull it off!
0:35 - Mid roll ads 2:10 - Chapter 1 - The chernobyl disaster 6:10 - Chapter 2 - The spanish armada 9:15 - Chapter 3 - Splitting the roman empire 11:30 - Chapter 4 - Everyone invading russia in winter
The Classic Blunders: 1) Getting involved in a land war in Asia 2) Going up against a Sicilian when death is on the line 3) Trying to invade Russia in the winter 4) Wearing white after Labor Day
Exception to #4: if it's "winter white" and there's been enough snow, I believe that is acceptable in most societies. Although I still wouldn't take my chances around Beverly Sutphin.
Had to pause the video when you mentioned Fukushima. I'll never, ever forget that day. I was living and working just south of Tokyo on 3/11/11, and ended up couch surfing bc my flat wasn't safe following the initial quake. My friend and I watched the live news broadcast, w news choppers flying around and above the plant as the explosions started. At that time, we all believed that the air and water currents would bring any fallout right down on Tokyo, and I remember saying to Clare "that's us done for, then." And she went into her kitchen and opened a bottle of champagne, and we cheers'd the end of the (our) world. It was around 1030 am and a beautiful golden spring day. I still can't talk much more about it than this, all these years later.
Dang. I was in Guatemala on a missions trip and we actually felt the quake that far away. We checked the news before the tsunami hit and learned of the quake and that the Fukushima plant had SCRAMed it's reactors but that everything was under control. I was worried about it because I'd read that the plant had a nuclear accident once before. Boy was I right to be worried!
Clips were shown during this video, but if anyone hasnt seen the HBO miniseries Chernobyl its absolutely still worth checking out. (I would also suggest checking out one of those 'what HBO got wrong about Chernobyl' as there are a few inaccuracies, overall its a really well done show)
The Soviet RMBK reactor is one of the only, if not only, reactor designs that has a Positive Void coefficiency, where the lack of coolant (water) creates an increase in power. Pressurized Water Reactors, Advanced Cooled Reactors, and Boiling Water Reactors do not have this fatal flaw. They have Negative Void coefficiency designs.
To be honest, I think he's like "well, feels good and moisturizes the skin, I guess". So good enough for him to justify accepting the sponsorship and probably gives a ton of money
The use of gunfire to disable ships instead of ramming was proven 17 years before the Armada at the Battle of Lepanto 1571 (which was probably a more historically important battle for Europe than the Armada). The Venetians pioneered the use of heavy cannons on their galeasses and use them to great effect against the Ottoman galleys, disabling them from a distance. The Spanish took part in that battle on the winning side.
I was taught that aside from the Brits' tactics and such, the Spanish just weren't prepared for the powerful currents and winds in the Channel and some of them were swept up against the cliffs.
One mistake changed the whole world forever, not just their lives. Sometimes a single blunder ends up with terrible disasters. People learn from errors and take a lesson from it.
Simon didn't mention the technological innovation that made the English fleet faster and more maneuverable than the Spanish Armada. Up until that time, the prevalence of boarding actions meant that ships needed high "castles" at the bow and stern, to make the ship more defensible. (For a long time, the forward part of a ship was called the "forecastle" -- pronounced focs'l -- even if it didn't really exist as an elevated structure.) English ships, on the other hand, were "race-built" or had been "razeed" after construction, meaning the height of the fore and aft castles had been cut down considerably. This meant the ship's freeboard had much less exposure to the wind, and therefore affected the ships maneuverability much less, than the traditional design.
@@linda10989 All 10 of them are actually mentioned in the description below every video. He does of course have writers and editors doing a bunch of the work for him - I have the impression that it's just his full-time job now to read these scripts to the camera.
14:08 There is no way that number can be true for Napoleon unless you mean the actual "Fighting," not the whole invasion. The French started with around 600-700k and by the time they even started fighting the Russians BEFORE they retreated they were already down to 100-150k. The summer was way worse than the winter, that was just the final nail in the coffin of that horrendous journey.
The control rods needed to manage the positive reactivity coefficient were gone. They lose coolant and thus their moderator. Water flashed to steam and they were royally fucked. Basically they set themselves up for a single point failure and then initiated the failure.
The Spanish Armada is actually even more fascinating in that most of the ships lost were due to poor weather and crashed on Irelands shores with crews largely killed by local armys. It was a multitude of factors that resulted in the English victory from Phillip as a monarch and strategist, the generals following plan over opportunity, poor weather, and the cannons on the Spanish ships being land cannons attached to a boat whereas the english fleet largely had naval cannons. The armada was rewritten as an English victory slowly in the late years of Elizabeth I reign through the 20th century whereas it was largely a stalemate. England attempted some armadas against spain that were equally if not more catastrophic on the basis of sheer military strategy.
@@jyetremlett3071 Not really cheaper, given high installation and maintenence costs , subsidies, and unavailable at night or in conditions of no wind. Apart from that . . .
@@EllieMaes-Grandad The environmental costs of cutting or burning down forests (wind turbines and solar farms are being installed in forests. What happens if theres a dry season), having to expand even farther rather than living densely, etc.
with Chernobyl you completely MISSED a fact about that it was Xenon poisoning, something that prevents reactors from restarting for at least a day and a half.
There were several factors involved. Including the "positive void coefficient" of the graphite moderated, water cooled RBMK reactor. With the formation of steam pockets inside the core increasing both fission and xenon 135 "burning".
And also the overall mistake of the major design flaw with the graphite tips speeding up the reaction when first inserted. While dyatlov messed up, the whole thing was set up for failure to cut costs
Simon, I imagine you using the Foreo skin care thing. Then I look at you, and I think, where are you using this? Because beard, mustache, eyebrows &etc. .Now I just envision you running it over your scalp, which I must admit seems ever so shiny and smooth.
Wonderful stuff, as always, Simon! You are always a fun ride! I love that in my mind, I buckle into my adventure car, and, um, "Excuse me, sir? Did I hear a loose bolt rattling under my car?" I get Silence, but a glare that said much. "Keep your hands and feet inside the car at all times." Now, as I shoot down into the blackness of whatever the hell you are going to show and comment on let me get back into my lovin' on these great films you and you team put together. I love that you can take the sometimes the oblivious like so much of the other things in our lives that we tune out, and make the blur out of our vision, and twist the image until crystal clear. That's the powerful stuff, eh? The first time I became aware of that fact was when I learned why it is still a law here in the US why all exits of businesses still have a sign that states, "These doors must remain unlocked during business hours." Why? In America, you can tell something horrible led up to signs that are ubiquitous. Pass hugs you your team and get Mrs. Simon to give you a big one. It's amazing what an effect your videos have on the world. I come from advertising. If your story (they use the same terms) is impactful, those viewers just became free advertising, and better yet, they are better salespeople.
Sadly, the people who were relocated as a result of the Fukushima meltdown, are having worse outcomes, mentally, and physically then those who were not evacuated. Some people stayed and are living with high levels of radiation, but are not living with the stress of losing everything they had, and having to start their lives over. It was a very interesting video. I suggest you research it. I think it was a Kyle Hill video.
About the same level of background radiation in the 20mile zone as Cornwall UK, interestingly, I didn't know the stat about the differing outcomes, thank you.
There's a difference in those who can't afford to relocate when many things in life cost money, and those who choose to stay for reasons other than that. And if you leave while not being able to afford either situation, it would be best to not return to a dangerous area that risks yours and your family's life. Either way, both are starting lives over again. Not everyone struggles in the same ways...
As far as I've understood it, the problem here is not the fact that they relocated in and of itself, but the psychological strain placed on these people by their compatriots who treat them like trash because they happened to be inside of a 10 mile radius of Fukushima when the disaster happened, for no real understandable reason. Including their own government.
the death toll of chernobyl was not only the people at the place when the explosion happened but also the afterward cleaning action, where the SSSR wasted a lot of human personal to clear roofs of debris... okay at that time robotik wasn't a theme but i guess there could have been less deaths if the clearing work would not be this hasted...
Well I, for one, don't wanna live next to a facility that depends on humans to function properly or I lose everything around for 10,000 years. That's a lot of confidence in a species I'd prefer not to grocery shop with. What I'm saying is, concept good, application bad.
How about any man made disaster that happened because the people in charge decided, "We'll do it this way instead because it's much less expensive." Well, maybe not, considering these disasters are still happening because of cost cuts.
Not to mention the terrible storm the Spanish had the misfortune to encounter as they sailed around the West of England so as to attack from the entrance to the English Channel. A rather costly miscalculation, wouldn’t you think?
It started before Chernobyl. And there’s still the storage problem for nuclear waste and debris from decommissioned plants. Better than fossil fuels but still not great.
@@kaltaron1284 Also, Hitler wanted the armies to concentrate on getting the Caucasus oilfields but his generals wanted and concentrated on getting to Moscow instead.
@@sirridesalot6652 Hitler changed his mind on where to attack a few time AFAIK and the assault on Moscow was alsmost successful. It was thwarted by weather, poor logistics and Japan. Then they focused more on the south again but were finally halted at Stalingrad. Whether the fall of Moscow would have ended the war is questionable but you just have to take look at a map of the railways of the time to see that it would have been a big blow.
No mention of Thomas Midgley Jr.? Huh. If your talking about unreasoned fear of Nuclear power meltdowns the blame has to lie with a '70s movie with Jane Fonda and her dad. Right after the 3 mile island incident. In Japan the fear stems from the Godzilla movies maybe.
"International Nuclear Detonations in Japan" - That's an incredibly misleading way to describe those events. lol I'm not gonna say it's kinda disrespectful; I'll let someone else draw that conclusion.
Fukushima gets forgotten because it is illegal to report on it in Japan. When looking for scientific papers about radiation caused by it there are very few papers..and the one I found said that the radiation levels in mushrooms in residential areas nearby was extremely high. The 0 direct deaths thing is most certainly not true
chernobyl disaster was a mistake but the mistakes went back far before the plant was even built. Poor design, Soviet cost & corner cutting, lying to operators about how it worked, etc. Shocking levels of incompetence and cover ups before the plant even went on the grid.
Wind, solar, hydra and geothermal are all better and safer than either fossil fuel or nuclear... and honestly meltdowns aren't actually the biggest issue with nuclear, it's the waste, very few long term viable methods of dealing with it are actually being implemented
Spanish Armada's failures led to the English funding a contest to finding latitude with accuracy in the 1720s which led to the chronometer in the 1760s/1770s, before that it was mostly guess work
There was another destroyed armada (actually two of them) that changed the world. In the late 13th century the Mongols tried to invade Japan twice, but a pair of typhoons sank the fleets and saved Japan. The storms came to be called kamikaze (translation: "divine wind"), a term the Japanese later used for their infamous suicide pilots in WW2.
From the Napoleonic defeat by Russia we get French Bistro! The Russian troops weren't supposed to be getting food while they were out and about (they were probably on duty), so whenever they would order food at local cafes, they would ask for it 'bystro bystro' or 'quickly, quickly.' The term stuck.
9:18 hang on. The Roman empire stretched all the way up to northern Waddenzee in the Netherlands? Just in a flash, but I saw it alright. That deserves a vid. I thought they stopped at Utrecht and Leiden.
LOL just watched this after watching Simon's "Decoding the Unknown" episode that included a bit about the hacking of the Galileo probe launch. I wonder what order he filmed these.
Also worthy of consideration: Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasing Nazi Germany. The Galipoli Campaign. Mao's Four Pests campaign, which led to the starvation of 20-30 million people over 4 years.
He covered the China one in the previous video. Not sure if I can call appeasement a blunder. Yes it didn’t bring world peace as Chamberlain had hoped, but Hitler was gonna Hitler regardless of UK’s policy.
Attacking russia in winter is less of a factor than the continual inability of European conquerors to understand just how expendable the rulers of Russia regard the population as and their concomitant willingness to let said starve if the other guy starves too.
It’s not as if Chernobyl handed the oil companies a golden opportunity to crank up the fear pronz of nuclear power to 11, right? They would absolutely never covertly fund activism against it, right?
The test was not completed successfully the thing blew up as soon as they started the testphase. And they fucked up in more ways than one they landed in a xenon pit because they run it on low power for so long and than they made more dumb moves. Hell the entire things is pretty much a hoe to blow up a reactor task list. In fact it was void before it even started because the power was to low
the main issue with Poltava was that the cavalry got lost by a few kilometers, sweden had beat russia several times before being outnumbered in greater numbers
Check out the nuclear video series by Kyle Hill. One of them discusses how spent fuel can be stored. He also does a great job explaining the science in depth but in an understandable way for us ‘normies’.
There are oversimplified description of what's happened in Chernobyl. It was a coincidence of multiple accidental cases, operators' mistakes and design flaws. All was well-documented. There is no question, how it was happened, but who is to blame? So many people did his usual work and made usual mistakes, that separately was innocent, but in this case it was lead to disaster.
Oh, my! They're going to put a tiny thermoisotopic generation cell into interstellar space that will no doubt collide with a neighboring star and be incenerated or remain adrift among the galaxies long after decay completion!
On operation Barbarossa the German army had already been weakened by significant losses in the Polish and French campaigns (that were not the walkovers that many people believe). They also seriously underestimated Russian resilience and ability to keep fighting despite early losses and setbacks. A mistake mssrs Biden and Johnson seem to have repeated not so long ago.
In addition to disease, combat attrition or drowning the other cause for the Spanish Armada's high casualties was the English policy of no quarter to the survivors washed up on shore. A vast majority of those who made it to land were rounded up and executed sometimes en masse.
They recreated what happened at Chernobyl at the site in Idaho. Without the safety cheats the reactor did what it was supposed to. You missed the carbon on the fuel rods btw
Cheap if you do not take into effect a plant with a 50 year life has to guarded for the next many hundreds of years for radiation. Nuclear plants need to be refueled as well plus again the waste! Not to cheap to meter
Wind, solar, hydra and geothermal are all better and safer than either fossil fuel or nuclear... and honestly meltdowns aren't actually the biggest issue with nuclear, it's the waste, very few long term viable methods of dealing with it are actually being implemented
Dyatlov was most likely a scapegoat just like Bryukhanov. Testimony by surviving Chernobyl staff paints him as a "strict but competent" boss whose orders were not questioned simply because nobody, including Dyatlov, knew any better. Dyatlov himself later stated that he had no way of knowing that even the very numbers for the reactor's operation, the numbers he was basing his decisions on... were a lie. Also, another major way in which Chernobyl changed the world was the collapse of the Soviet Union, which Gorbachev attributes to a large degree on the enormous economic toll caused by the cleanup operation.
What's wrong with the graphics. A bunch of clips look like they're melting or being distorted in unsettling ways. If AI was used on those clips, whatever goal the effect was supposed to have; it was missed by a mile
15:00 It wasn't because soldiers were expendable (the German high command was actually very concerned about the army's losses up to that point), but because delivering ammunition and fuel to the front was more important than winter clothing considering the widescale Soviet counter attacks during the winter of 1941-42. There's no point in having your soldiers dressed warmly if they have nothing to fight with. Also bear in mind that getting *any* supplies to the front was difficult because of the poor state of the Soviet road system (even *before* the onset of winter weather) and it makes sense that the Germans prioritized ammunition and fuel over winter clothing.
I’m not sure Chernobyl qualifies as a “side project” This is certainly was a mega project. Or “mega disaster”. A salute to the very brave liquidators and other emergency responders who gave their lives and health to save Europe and the world from disastrous irradiation.
I don't want to diminish the heroism of the men who lost their lives in the cleanup, but to imply that the entire world, or even all of Europe, was ever at risk because of Chernobyl demonstrates a high level of ignorance on your part when it comes to nuclear power and radioactivity. It's true that with no containment effort, a larger area would have been affected, but nowhere near _that_ large. That's an unrealistic fear.
11:48 I think the phrasing 'enslaved' is a touch misleading. He defeated and replaced the Polish king with a puppet ruler. Makes it sound like Augustus II was shipped back to Sweden in manacles and made to do unpaid labour for the rest of his life.
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“Unfortunately they were both idiots” is a phrase that proceeds many blunders in history.
I used to think people were generally intelligent, wanting to see best in people. However I've since learned from fb discussions and more recently from TH-cam threads that most people are incredibly and horrifyingly dumb. It's really quite startling how many imbeciles are out there. I'm very disappointed by this
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity - Hanlon's razor.
Hold my beer
Precedes 😅
History in school was a guaranteed nap for the next hour, but if history was taught with a breath of fresh air: “Unfortunately they were both idiots” in an instructional reference or in a deadpan statement in a lecture hall would take the event and put it in front of the student alive in the moment. There is never a moment in time that someone isn't doing something stupid, saying "Oops." The laws of averages alone guarantees that every so often, it's a "Oops" that changes the world. I don't know about you but I actually find that sort of comforting...
Franz Ferdinand's driver running into Gavrilo Princip after evading the previously unsuccessful assasination attempt
That's just freaking too many random parts suddenly somehow connecting.
What are the odds‽
@@Switcharoo12 Yeah, this was not stupidity. It was pure bad luck, on so many levels. Though, to be sure, the Archduke even BEING THERE is the mistake that triggered the entire episode in the first place.
Yeah that's gotta be up there
There was a large organized group of people determined to kill the Archduke during his visit. They were spread throughout the routes he was predicted to take. His assassination was almost guaranteed. It was well known how unpopular he was in Sarajevo, so his visit itself was the blunder.
@@JayM409 Yes, but the fact that they almost failed, in spite of all the planning, is noteworthy. In the end, a stroke of bad luck for the Archduke is what did him in. That's not a good plan at all, if you require LUCK to pull it off!
0:35 - Mid roll ads
2:10 - Chapter 1 - The chernobyl disaster
6:10 - Chapter 2 - The spanish armada
9:15 - Chapter 3 - Splitting the roman empire
11:30 - Chapter 4 - Everyone invading russia in winter
The Classic Blunders:
1) Getting involved in a land war in Asia
2) Going up against a Sicilian when death is on the line
3) Trying to invade Russia in the winter
4) Wearing white after Labor Day
Exception to #4: if it's "winter white" and there's been enough snow, I believe that is acceptable in most societies. Although I still wouldn't take my chances around Beverly Sutphin.
I don´t know. The Finns in WWII did pretty well in white after Labor day... but thenagain, I don´t think they do Labor day in September.
Number 3 IS number 1. That's the whole point of the joke.
Unless you’re……The Mongols!!!
@@raquellofstedt9713You can't impress Finns with cold weather.
Had to pause the video when you mentioned Fukushima. I'll never, ever forget that day. I was living and working just south of Tokyo on 3/11/11, and ended up couch surfing bc my flat wasn't safe following the initial quake. My friend and I watched the live news broadcast, w news choppers flying around and above the plant as the explosions started. At that time, we all believed that the air and water currents would bring any fallout right down on Tokyo, and I remember saying to Clare "that's us done for, then." And she went into her kitchen and opened a bottle of champagne, and we cheers'd the end of the (our) world. It was around 1030 am and a beautiful golden spring day.
I still can't talk much more about it than this, all these years later.
Dang. I was in Guatemala on a missions trip and we actually felt the quake that far away. We checked the news before the tsunami hit and learned of the quake and that the Fukushima plant had SCRAMed it's reactors but that everything was under control. I was worried about it because I'd read that the plant had a nuclear accident once before. Boy was I right to be worried!
@@AG3n3ricHuman it was a really hectic few days, and such a powerful quake.
Clips were shown during this video, but if anyone hasnt seen the HBO miniseries Chernobyl its absolutely still worth checking out.
(I would also suggest checking out one of those 'what HBO got wrong about Chernobyl' as there are a few inaccuracies, overall its a really well done show)
The Soviet RMBK reactor is one of the only, if not only, reactor designs that has a Positive Void coefficiency, where the lack of coolant (water) creates an increase in power.
Pressurized Water Reactors, Advanced Cooled Reactors, and Boiling Water Reactors do not have this fatal flaw. They have Negative Void coefficiency designs.
This ad read is a true testament to Simon's acting abilities.
Alas I shall never know since I skip ahead
The only ufo Simon believes in.
Considering Simon tries any sponsors products, he probably isn't acting. Allegedly.
Proof he is a robot
To be honest, I think he's like "well, feels good and moisturizes the skin, I guess".
So good enough for him to justify accepting the sponsorship and probably gives a ton of money
The use of gunfire to disable ships instead of ramming was proven 17 years before the Armada at the Battle of Lepanto 1571 (which was probably a more historically important battle for Europe than the Armada). The Venetians pioneered the use of heavy cannons on their galeasses and use them to great effect against the Ottoman galleys, disabling them from a distance. The Spanish took part in that battle on the winning side.
Apparently they didn't learn from that.
Galleasses
Every historian ever: "Invading russia in winter is a blunder?" Mongels: "hold my beer"
"Hold my Airag"
Good one Rosco. I bet Mongols loved beer too ! 😅 Cheers from New Zealand
@@stevelee5724 Once they got to countries that had it. Cheers from Germany.
@@kaltaron1284 Humans have been fermenting grain in water for thousands of years so yes, I think they could get some.
@@kdynski They did in the inner Asian steppes? That's news to me.
The Spanish Armada also had a little problem with the weather.
One book I read alleges that the Spanish king expected God to deliver a miracle to assist the Armada because they were the true Christians
I was taught that aside from the Brits' tactics and such, the Spanish just weren't prepared for the powerful currents and winds in the Channel and some of them were swept up against the cliffs.
Same weather didn't effect the Brits?😮 Curious....
Napoleon lost more troops to typhus in the summer offensive than the winter retreat.
there are, alot of growing inconstiances in the script. Are they using ChatGTP?
@@Inucroftyeah also the statements about chernobyl
Also exposure, starvation, desertion etc.
Editor friend can we turn the music down a few notches?
-5 Db pls*^
Lithuania has a museum dedicated to the troops that froze to death on the retreat
One mistake changed the whole world forever, not just their lives. Sometimes a single blunder ends up with terrible disasters. People learn from errors and take a lesson from it.
Simon didn't mention the technological innovation that made the English fleet faster and more maneuverable than the Spanish Armada. Up until that time, the prevalence of boarding actions meant that ships needed high "castles" at the bow and stern, to make the ship more defensible. (For a long time, the forward part of a ship was called the "forecastle" -- pronounced focs'l -- even if it didn't really exist as an elevated structure.) English ships, on the other hand, were "race-built" or had been "razeed" after construction, meaning the height of the fore and aft castles had been cut down considerably. This meant the ship's freeboard had much less exposure to the wind, and therefore affected the ships maneuverability much less, than the traditional design.
Simon has got to be the busiest man on TH-cam.
My hubby asked how many channels Simon has and I said about 7, lol
@@linda10989 All 10 of them are actually mentioned in the description below every video. He does of course have writers and editors doing a bunch of the work for him - I have the impression that it's just his full-time job now to read these scripts to the camera.
Thx for not mentioning my marriage 😂😂😂
I can steel feel the effects of it
Lol, same!
No problem Harry. Will u be returning to uk soon?
14:08 There is no way that number can be true for Napoleon unless you mean the actual "Fighting," not the whole invasion. The French started with around 600-700k and by the time they even started fighting the Russians BEFORE they retreated they were already down to 100-150k. The summer was way worse than the winter, that was just the final nail in the coffin of that horrendous journey.
Video starts at 2:10 , Skip the add 😊
"Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness."
-- A.J.P. Taylor
The control rods needed to manage the positive reactivity coefficient were gone. They lose coolant and thus their moderator. Water flashed to steam and they were royally fucked.
Basically they set themselves up for a single point failure and then initiated the failure.
The Spanish Armada is actually even more fascinating in that most of the ships lost were due to poor weather and crashed on Irelands shores with crews largely killed by local armys. It was a multitude of factors that resulted in the English victory from Phillip as a monarch and strategist, the generals following plan over opportunity, poor weather, and the cannons on the Spanish ships being land cannons attached to a boat whereas the english fleet largely had naval cannons. The armada was rewritten as an English victory slowly in the late years of Elizabeth I reign through the 20th century whereas it was largely a stalemate. England attempted some armadas against spain that were equally if not more catastrophic on the basis of sheer military strategy.
Damn, someone else actually gets it. Nuclear energy is risking, but no where near as risky and damaging then fossile fuel powered energy.
Why would you want either? Renewables are cheaper and safer
@@jyetremlett3071 And wildly unreliable.
@@jyetremlett3071 Not really cheaper, given high installation and maintenence costs , subsidies, and unavailable at night or in conditions of no wind. Apart from that . . .
@@EllieMaes-Grandad yeah it is cheaper look it up
@@EllieMaes-Grandad The environmental costs of cutting or burning down forests (wind turbines and solar farms are being installed in forests. What happens if theres a dry season), having to expand even farther rather than living densely, etc.
with Chernobyl you completely MISSED a fact about that it was Xenon poisoning, something that prevents reactors from restarting for at least a day and a half.
There were several factors involved. Including the "positive void coefficient" of the graphite moderated, water cooled RBMK reactor. With the formation of steam pockets inside the core increasing both fission and xenon 135 "burning".
And also the overall mistake of the major design flaw with the graphite tips speeding up the reaction when first inserted. While dyatlov messed up, the whole thing was set up for failure to cut costs
The biggest missed fact was that the test failed he said it was a success
Simon, I imagine you using the Foreo skin care thing. Then I look at you, and I think, where are you using this? Because beard, mustache, eyebrows &etc. .Now I just envision you running it over your scalp, which I must admit seems ever so shiny and smooth.
Napoleon? 1st French empire? I think Charlemagne would like to have a few words with you
Lol. Indeed.
I appreciate the labeling of AI content. Please don't stop doing that.
Wonderful stuff, as always, Simon! You are always a fun ride! I love that in my mind, I buckle into my adventure car, and, um, "Excuse me, sir? Did I hear a loose bolt rattling under my car?" I get Silence, but a glare that said much. "Keep your hands and feet inside the car at all times."
Now, as I shoot down into the blackness of whatever the hell you are going to show and comment on let me get back into my lovin' on these great films you and you team put together.
I love that you can take the sometimes the oblivious like so much of the other things in our lives that we tune out, and make the blur out of our vision, and twist the image until crystal clear. That's the powerful stuff, eh?
The first time I became aware of that fact was when I learned why it is still a law here in the US why all exits of businesses still have a sign that states, "These doors must remain unlocked during business hours." Why? In America, you can tell something horrible led up to signs that are ubiquitous.
Pass hugs you your team and get Mrs. Simon to give you a big one. It's amazing what an effect your videos have on the world. I come from advertising. If your story (they use the same terms) is impactful, those viewers just became free advertising, and better yet, they are better salespeople.
We are loving these new videos
“Unfortunately, they were both idiots” Me about my last two braincells
Sadly, the people who were relocated as a result of the Fukushima meltdown, are having worse outcomes, mentally, and physically then those who were not evacuated. Some people stayed and are living with high levels of radiation, but are not living with the stress of losing everything they had, and having to start their lives over. It was a very interesting video. I suggest you research it. I think it was a Kyle Hill video.
About the same level of background radiation in the 20mile zone as Cornwall UK, interestingly, I didn't know the stat about the differing outcomes, thank you.
There's a difference in those who can't afford to relocate when many things in life cost money, and those who choose to stay for reasons other than that. And if you leave while not being able to afford either situation, it would be best to not return to a dangerous area that risks yours and your family's life. Either way, both are starting lives over again. Not everyone struggles in the same ways...
You also have to realise that most of the relocation was due not to the 'radiation' but to the flooding from the tsunami.
How is relocating a worse outcome than living with high levels of radiation? Are you some kind of idiot?
As far as I've understood it, the problem here is not the fact that they relocated in and of itself, but the psychological strain placed on these people by their compatriots who treat them like trash because they happened to be inside of a 10 mile radius of Fukushima when the disaster happened, for no real understandable reason. Including their own government.
the death toll of chernobyl was not only the people at the place when the explosion happened but also the afterward cleaning action, where the SSSR wasted a lot of human personal to clear roofs of debris... okay at that time robotik wasn't a theme but i guess there could have been less deaths if the clearing work would not be this hasted...
I swear simon's beard gets longer with every video, he's slowly turning into ZZ Top
How often you think Simon is rubbing his head with that Foreo doohickey? His head is so smoooooooooth
Well I, for one, don't wanna live next to a facility that depends on humans to function properly or I lose everything around for 10,000 years. That's a lot of confidence in a species I'd prefer not to grocery shop with.
What I'm saying is, concept good, application bad.
How about any man made disaster that happened because the people in charge decided, "We'll do it this way instead because it's much less expensive."
Well, maybe not, considering these disasters are still happening because of cost cuts.
I dig this narrator because his British accent is good enough for American English to understand. All of his shows are excellent by the way...
England and America - two countries divided by a common language...😅
> Nuclear power is much better option
PREACH!
In Phoenix. Love it.
Not to mention the terrible storm the Spanish had the misfortune to encounter as they sailed around the West of England so as to attack from the entrance to the English Channel. A rather costly miscalculation, wouldn’t you think?
It started before Chernobyl. And there’s still the storage problem for nuclear waste and debris from decommissioned plants. Better than fossil fuels but still not great.
Id say Peter the greats loss of Narwa to Charles 12 was a bigger Blunder then Charles going after Peter.
Actually both Napoleon and Hitler invaded in June, but the size of Russia meant the fight extended until winter - and into later years in case of WW2.
Actually he covered that at the end of the video.
At least Hitler planed to start quite a few weeks earlier. Not sure about Napoleon.
@@kaltaron1284 Also, Hitler wanted the armies to concentrate on getting the Caucasus oilfields but his generals wanted and concentrated on getting to Moscow instead.
@@sirridesalot6652 Hitler changed his mind on where to attack a few time AFAIK and the assault on Moscow was alsmost successful. It was thwarted by weather, poor logistics and Japan.
Then they focused more on the south again but were finally halted at Stalingrad.
Whether the fall of Moscow would have ended the war is questionable but you just have to take look at a map of the railways of the time to see that it would have been a big blow.
No mention of Thomas Midgley Jr.? Huh.
If your talking about unreasoned fear of Nuclear power meltdowns the blame has to lie with a '70s movie with Jane Fonda and her dad. Right after the 3 mile island incident. In Japan the fear stems from the Godzilla movies maybe.
That and rich men own oil. Not nuclear.
One of the biggest blunders also has to be the one that saw Berlins walls torn down
"International Nuclear Detonations in Japan" - That's an incredibly misleading way to describe those events. lol
I'm not gonna say it's kinda disrespectful; I'll let someone else draw that conclusion.
Is it just me or is the music playing while he's talking around the 3 minute mark super distracting?
To be fair to Charles XII the Swedish winter is pretty insane too. I’d think that the weather wouldn’t be a factor
Fukushima gets forgotten because it is illegal to report on it in Japan. When looking for scientific papers about radiation caused by it there are very few papers..and the one I found said that the radiation levels in mushrooms in residential areas nearby was extremely high. The 0 direct deaths thing is most certainly not true
Survive until winter and have the atlantic convoys re supplying you.
I just realised that you sound like Steve (the older brother) from Arthur Christmas and now I can't unhear it
I just finished watching the first video literally seconds ago and i see this lol
There's only 1 empire that has ever conquered Russia in winter.
The Mongols.
When invading Russia, take note: do NOT forget the winter kit.
chernobyl disaster was a mistake but the mistakes went back far before the plant was even built. Poor design, Soviet cost & corner cutting, lying to operators about how it worked, etc. Shocking levels of incompetence and cover ups before the plant even went on the grid.
Yeah but when there's an oil leak people can still live in that area. When a nuclear reactor melts down well...we all know how that goes.
Wind, solar, hydra and geothermal are all better and safer than either fossil fuel or nuclear... and honestly meltdowns aren't actually the biggest issue with nuclear, it's the waste, very few long term viable methods of dealing with it are actually being implemented
11:30: Those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat its errors. Those who do learn from the past will find new ways in which to err.
Spanish Armada's failures led to the English funding a contest to finding latitude with accuracy in the 1720s which led to the chronometer in the 1760s/1770s, before that it was mostly guess work
8:50: I believe the phrase is, "God fights on the side with the heaviest artillery."
There was another destroyed armada (actually two of them) that changed the world. In the late 13th century the Mongols tried to invade Japan twice, but a pair of typhoons sank the fleets and saved Japan. The storms came to be called kamikaze (translation: "divine wind"), a term the Japanese later used for their infamous suicide pilots in WW2.
From the Napoleonic defeat by Russia we get French Bistro! The Russian troops weren't supposed to be getting food while they were out and about (they were probably on duty), so whenever they would order food at local cafes, they would ask for it 'bystro bystro' or 'quickly, quickly.' The term stuck.
Was expecting to see the fall of the Berlin Wall mentioned (Schabowski made a mistake in announcing a policy change).
It was an amazing time watching as one country after another left the Soviet Union. And all because of Chernobyl.
The music 🎶 is exhausting.
Thanks.
Enquiry to Radio Erewan: Could the catastrophe of Chernobyl have been avoided?
Answer: In principle, yes. If only the Swedes had shut up.
9:18 hang on. The Roman empire stretched all the way up to northern Waddenzee in the Netherlands? Just in a flash, but I saw it alright. That deserves a vid. I thought they stopped at Utrecht and Leiden.
dude...aachen has been founded by rome. you think they stopped there??
Borders were never precise lines, with patrols in areas beyond them. Tax-raising on the other hand . . .
The irony of Simon peddling a UFO....
LOL just watched this after watching Simon's "Decoding the Unknown" episode that included a bit about the hacking of the Galileo probe launch. I wonder what order he filmed these.
Honestly, i also blame the Simpsons for the antagonization of nuclear power, specially the episodes with the three eyed fish.
Also worthy of consideration:
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasing Nazi Germany.
The Galipoli Campaign.
Mao's Four Pests campaign, which led to the starvation of 20-30 million people over 4 years.
He covered the China one in the previous video.
Not sure if I can call appeasement a blunder. Yes it didn’t bring world peace as Chamberlain had hoped, but Hitler was gonna Hitler regardless of UK’s policy.
@@j.a.weishaupt1748 but appeasement meant Hitler was allowed to Hitler sooner and longer than he would have otherwise
He needs to sign up with a beard care company. I need some. Lol
The places that oil spilled and let nature clean it up ended up thriving with ocean life.
Attacking russia in winter is less of a factor than the continual inability of European conquerors to understand just how expendable the rulers of Russia regard the population as and their concomitant willingness to let said starve if the other guy starves too.
It’s not as if Chernobyl handed the oil companies a golden opportunity to crank up the fear pronz of nuclear power to 11, right? They would absolutely never covertly fund activism against it, right?
It's always interesting to see that don't invade Russia in winter getting discussed without even mentioning WWI.
Thanks.
Attacking the tropical zone without mosquito nets
The test was not completed successfully the thing blew up as soon as they started the testphase. And they fucked up in more ways than one they landed in a xenon pit because they run it on low power for so long and than they made more dumb moves. Hell the entire things is pretty much a hoe to blow up a reactor task list.
In fact it was void before it even started because the power was to low
the main issue with Poltava was that the cavalry got lost by a few kilometers, sweden had beat russia several times before being outnumbered in greater numbers
Isn't the waste product from nuclear power the biggest issue with a nuclear reactor ? Yes I sound half informed but am still curious 🤔
Check out the nuclear video series by Kyle Hill. One of them discusses how spent fuel can be stored. He also does a great job explaining the science in depth but in an understandable way for us ‘normies’.
@@Kktienlegos thankyou 💜
very few long term viable methods of dealing with it are actually being implemented though
Love your vids mr Whistler
There are oversimplified description of what's happened in Chernobyl. It was a coincidence of multiple accidental cases, operators' mistakes and design flaws. All was well-documented. There is no question, how it was happened, but who is to blame? So many people did his usual work and made usual mistakes, that separately was innocent, but in this case it was lead to disaster.
0:03 Nah, screw that mess.
Go big or go home!
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Oh, my!
They're going to put a tiny thermoisotopic generation cell into interstellar space that will no doubt collide with a neighboring star and be incenerated or remain adrift among the galaxies long after decay completion!
The Peter Principle.
On operation Barbarossa the German army had already been weakened by significant losses in the Polish and French campaigns (that were not the walkovers that many people believe). They also seriously underestimated Russian resilience and ability to keep fighting despite early losses and setbacks. A mistake mssrs Biden and Johnson seem to have repeated not so long ago.
Not to mention the looses they took in Greece, Crete and North Africa, which was still ongoing.
2:22 It was a test of reactor safety. I knew that. But I have never heard: did it pass the test?
In addition to disease, combat attrition or drowning the other cause for the Spanish Armada's high casualties was the English policy of no quarter to the survivors washed up on shore. A vast majority of those who made it to land were rounded up and executed sometimes en masse.
They recreated what happened at Chernobyl at the site in Idaho. Without the safety cheats the reactor did what it was supposed to.
You missed the carbon on the fuel rods btw
Cheap if you do not take into effect a plant with a 50 year life has to guarded for the next many hundreds of years for radiation.
Nuclear plants need to be refueled as well plus again the waste! Not to cheap to meter
Wind, solar, hydra and geothermal are all better and safer than either fossil fuel or nuclear... and honestly meltdowns aren't actually the biggest issue with nuclear, it's the waste, very few long term viable methods of dealing with it are actually being implemented
Don't mess with Elizabeth!
Dyatlov was most likely a scapegoat just like Bryukhanov. Testimony by surviving Chernobyl staff paints him as a "strict but competent" boss whose orders were not questioned simply because nobody, including Dyatlov, knew any better. Dyatlov himself later stated that he had no way of knowing that even the very numbers for the reactor's operation, the numbers he was basing his decisions on... were a lie.
Also, another major way in which Chernobyl changed the world was the collapse of the Soviet Union, which Gorbachev attributes to a large degree on the enormous economic toll caused by the cleanup operation.
Russians : The winter is coming
France : 💀💀💀💀
Germany :💀💀💀💀
Something on SMRs would be interesting
What's wrong with the graphics. A bunch of clips look like they're melting or being distorted in unsettling ways. If AI was used on those clips, whatever goal the effect was supposed to have; it was missed by a mile
Statistically speaking someone
watching this video will make one of these historical mistakes....
15:00 It wasn't because soldiers were expendable (the German high command was actually very concerned about the army's losses up to that point), but because delivering ammunition and fuel to the front was more important than winter clothing considering the widescale Soviet counter attacks during the winter of 1941-42. There's no point in having your soldiers dressed warmly if they have nothing to fight with.
Also bear in mind that getting *any* supplies to the front was difficult because of the poor state of the Soviet road system (even *before* the onset of winter weather) and it makes sense that the Germans prioritized ammunition and fuel over winter clothing.
Then again, all that ammo and nobody to use it. It comes down to balance . . . . pppppp
I’m not sure Chernobyl qualifies as a “side project”
This is certainly was a mega project. Or “mega disaster”.
A salute to the very brave liquidators and other emergency responders who gave their lives and health to save Europe and the world from disastrous irradiation.
I don't want to diminish the heroism of the men who lost their lives in the cleanup, but to imply that the entire world, or even all of Europe, was ever at risk because of Chernobyl demonstrates a high level of ignorance on your part when it comes to nuclear power and radioactivity. It's true that with no containment effort, a larger area would have been affected, but nowhere near _that_ large. That's an unrealistic fear.
"LED therapy". LOL !
11:48 I think the phrasing 'enslaved' is a touch misleading. He defeated and replaced the Polish king with a puppet ruler. Makes it sound like Augustus II was shipped back to Sweden in manacles and made to do unpaid labour for the rest of his life.