What if You Detonated a Nuclear Bomb In The Marianas Trench? (Kurzgesagt Reaction)
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ต.ค. 2024
- What if we detonated a nuclear bomb in the Marianas Trench? Can't say I've ever asked but after this video, now we know. Subscriber Request from Kurzgesagt.
Original Video: • What If You Detonated ...
Try Audible for Audiobooks: amzn.to/3QMwv2G
Who owns the Marianas Trench? The US. www.nationalge....
When's the last time we detonated a bomb underwater? www.atlasobscu...
IG: @noprotocol_official
Tik-Tok: @nooprotocol_official
Business only, please: noprotocol404@gmail.com
#marianastrench #kurzgesagt #ocean
Water pressure is borderline unimaginable at those depths. The entire atmosphere overhead, up to the edge of outer space, presses down at about 15 psi. That is, a one-square-inch of column of air extended upward contains enough air molecules to accumulate 15 pounds worth of weight. A one-square-inch column of water accumulates the same 15 pounds in only 30-35 feet. "One atmosphere per 10 meters deep." It's why our ears get uncomfortable even at fairly low depths when swimming underwater. So the 11km trench is stacking up the equivalent of 1100x the weight of the atmosphere overhead.
Maybe you want to look up "Operation Crossroads", specifically the "Baker shot" - this was the first underwater test of a nuclear weapon. Great footage.
Thank you! I will do
I love your videos. You are so willing to learn and so learned.
I've always appreciated Kurzgesagt videos. They're pretty clean, simple and communicate science in a simplified and pretty straightforward manner. Love this one and as always your reaction is a go! 😀.
Very true, maybe worth to mention that exactly this is the motto of "Kurzgesagt", which means in german something like "in short" or something similar to "long story short".
@@Hope...M I don't know what this has to do with Elon Musk specifically. This is a genuinely proposed theory for the terraforming of Mars that is based in scientific fact. It isn't the only way, it may not be the best or most feasible way, but it is certainly one of the possible ways.
@@Oxley016 then you probably need to go see what individual on Earth has the ability to colonize Mars before anyone else and who has the incentive to do so. You're telling us things about other ways besides atomic detonation but we already know that. Just go check out a little bit of why this has to do with Elon Musk detonating within the Martian atmosphere. Adios
i feel like if anything this showed me just how much energy is required to cause an earthquake or tsunami. The fact that the most destructive life ending thing we can build at the moment wouldn’t even come close to triggering such an event is pretty wild
You know, its actually understandable. Gabo’s style isn’t for everyone, he’s among my favorite authors but at the same time it’s completely understandable
The bit about the earth being blown out of orbit reminded me of the old TV series "Space:1999", where the moon is knocked out of orbit and sent on a trip through space by a nuclear explosion.
Find almost any conversation about that show and you'll hear why such a thing simply wouldn't happen.
Chief among those arguments is the fact that any blast strong enough to actually move an object of that mass in such a short period of time would likely just shatter it.
The fact is, to move the earth would require a powerful, long-duration explosion that acted like a rocket's exhaust, taking quite a while to overcome inertia.
...but in the end, also blowing the earth's atmosphere out into space long before the planet began to budge .
( That wasn't a problem for the fictional moonbase alpha, in the TV show though, since the moon doesn't have an atmosphere. )
Anyway, thoughts of screwing up earth's orbit with nukes aren't a new or recent thing.
You need at least a million subs
Little fun fact: if you detonate a Tsar Bomb in the Mariana Trench, you would be able to see the sea deepest floor. The light of the Tsar Bomb was seen even from 270 km from the detonation site. That means that even with 11 km of water between you and the detonation, the light would be so intense that the sea floor would became visible from the surface
A submersible is a ROV. Remote Operated Vehicle (a drone) We use them on every offshore drilling rig.
It’s always a good day when I see a new video from you.
Hello, Jose from Puerto Rico. If I'm not mistaken, James Cameron designed that submersible he used to go down the trench. Marvelous piece of engineering, I must say. As for the video, it was quite interesting. But as George Carlin said in one of his pieces, the Tsar Bomba would just be a another mere surface nuisance our Earth just shakes away.
I've never actually watched a Kurzgesagt video before but that was interesting. I'm gonna have to start clicking when the videos pop up in recommended
2:27 neuron _activate_
*raises eyebrow and leans forward*
this is me when I'm learning stuff n things heeheehee
You’re discovering all of the good channels
The last underwater nuclear test was in 1962.
As an old anti nuclear weapons activist, I was already aware of the concept of "tsunami bombs", and the fact that they don't work. During the Cold War, both the USSR and the US looked into this, and concluded that it wasn't feasible. While it was a thought experiment, it wasn't an idle one, and could've become much more, if they'd concluded it would work. Shallower detonations can destroy ships, though; it's hard to float on steam, the shock wave isn't very good for the hull structure, and, while less damaging to coastlines, 30 m surface waves can be more than a little inconvenient.
As the video describes, the issue with "tsunami bombs" is that any gas bubble will collapse, under the pressure at such depths; we're talking about thousands of atmospheres, after all. Since the water quickly recedes back into the cavity, the displacement is countered, and doesn't propagate. Actual tsunamis are created by solid matter permanently displacing water. One might imagine using a nuclear weapon to trigger an underwater landslide, though. Unlike water, rock won't flow right back into the cavity left by the blast, but move permanently. Even then, nuclear bombs aren't really suited for blasting rock, and the water will still dampen the effect, but, even with this, there's still a fairly substantial explosion left; if the rock is already unstable... Note that there's no need to send California into the Pacific, in order to create a tsunami. A much, much smaller slide will do the trick, just fine.
There's no need to worry about the Tsar Bomba, btw. It was a one off experiment; no more than one was ever produced, or ever intended to be produced. The main purpose was to scare the Hell out of Americans, by demonstrating that they no longer held superiority in nuclear bomb design, though it also yielded some scientific results. As a weapon, it was extremely difficult to use (27,000 kg is a bit unwieldy), and a massive overkill for any purpose. A bomb that would take out a city was considered practical. Taking out the suburbs was considered a bonus. Taking out the cows grazing the fields, far into the countryside, was considered excessive.
I think the most interesting video from Kurzgesagt is "The egg - A short story". It's philosophical and will really get you thinking
I really enjoy this channel.
Damn I missed your intro when setting my brightness lower had to start over
Same experience with 100 Years of Solitude. I felt like I was dragging myself to finish that book.
It came so highly recommended & at first I thought it was a language thing so I switched to the original version but realized it’s just not for me. I generally like Márquez though
It would make a huge splash. Thats about it.
Essentially, the world's largest fart bubble.
“I won’t get existential” 😂
Hello!
The thing on which they descend to the maximum depth is called a bathyscaphe.
Humans make an explosion. Earth says hold my beer.
I am guessing you would get some pretty pissed off fish if you did that.
Hi! A submarine is autonomous/independent, and a submersible relies on an external source of air, power, or whatever else.
The higher pressure underneath huge amounts of dirt is what allowed a number of underground nuclear detonations to be relatively "safe". For a while, such explosions were proposed for serious construction excavations (except for that irritating fallout that's disturbed by the later processes.)
ALVIN was the name of the submersible!!!
It's great having someone like her to relax to and watch to forget about the nutcases and their crazy schemes for a time. You're appreciated 🥂
I think the last underwater nuclear weapons test was the French "Amethyste" test in 1996.
The submarine was called Trieste
Interesting that it wouldn't change the earth's rotation. Likely because it doesn't really displace much volume. Unlike the Three Gorges Dam in China that would shift the moments of inertia enough to slow earth's rotation by 0.06 milliseconds and shift the position of the poles .08 inches. There was also an earthquake in Indonesia on 12/26/2004 that decreased the length of a day by 2.68 microseconds.
Man...that's really going to jack w/Leap year in about 8.64E+10 years. Better get that on your calendar now before you forget.
Good humor 😂
you should do movie reactions
The Marianas Trench is owned by nobody, nations' "territorial waters" only extend 3.5 miles from the low water line (aka baseline). It looks like it's within the "exclusive economic zone" (which extends 230 miles from the baseline) of Guam.
Thank you!
7:00 But this was only talking about one bomb. Image if we lined the trench with like 100 of those bombs. Or say encircled Mt. Everest with 200 Tzar Bombas, but when talking about just one in comparison to nature I would agree. I wonder what would happen if we spread out equally every nuclear bomb across the planet and detonated them simultaneously, feel like that would be more devastating than nature.
It's different with tectonic plates because that is solid mass against solid mass. The energy can't get absorbed as well into the land mass like it does in water.
I was just thinking about the warm water, if it would be having influence on weather..
I was fairly sure it's be a damp squib, so to speak, but was surprised (a little) at just how damp a squib they reckon it would potentially be.
I am a bit like you with book,s i hate giving up and have only done so with a few over the many years I have been reading! I think the first book I gave up on (back some 40-odd years) was The King of Elfland's Daughter by Lord Dunsany (?sp) and the most recent (just a month or two back) was Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco - I am more than happy to dilute the ire you may get by admitting I don't like some 'classics' ;)
Reminds me of that George Carlin lecture.
The Problem is, a Hydrogen Bomb explosion can be simply increased by Tritium and Deuterium. The Tsar Bomba had 50 Megatons but thats not the end whats possible. Theoretically you can add more and more Deuterium and Tritium until you have a Doomsday device.
hey, can u please react to "The Battle of Midway 1942: Told from the Japanese Perspective"
It's funny, I didn't particularly like the works of Gabriel García Márquez before I read a few of them translated into my native languages of Danish and German. Before that I had only read English translations. I really loved some of his short stories and espeally "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" in Danish. I wish I was more proficient in Spanish, so I could read it as it was meant to be read. I had the same experience with Tolstoy. I inherited some very old Danish translations of "Anna Karinina" but it was a terrible read (and not fully translated - it just assumed you could read all the French parts). Then I read an English translation which was perhaps even worse, I cannot remember which translation it was, but then I found the translation done by Louise & Aylmer Maude which I not only found beautiful in its prose but also really helpful as it had footnotes on the pages with direct translations of nouns etc, and also an index with much more historical context of time and institutions of late 19th century Tsarist Russia.
I was just writing in another comment I started the book in English & I wasn’t enjoying, yet read that Márquez considered that version a separate work so I switched to the original & realized it wasn’t a translation issue, it just isn’t for me. I still like his short stories very much though!
@@NoProtocol That's just how it is sometimes! I don't know if you read Hesse or Mann, but one is pretty one-to-one and the other is unrecognizable in English. If you enjoy the "magical realism" genre you might enjoy the works of Peter Høeg. I'd say he is light on the magical parts. It mostly feels like postmodern social realism with a tendency towards the psychedelic. The most "magical realistic" book he has written is probably "Borderlines" where especially time and the "Id" is fluid. His most famous book which you might have heard of is "Miss Smillas Feeling For Snow" which is excellent and tragic but more like a really confusing mystery.
I’ve read Hesse. Never heard of Peter Høeg but I do tend to like magic realism so I think it may be right up my alley, thank you! Will have to let you know once I’ve chosen a book
Oh, if you are interested in more about water pressure, videos about sonoluminescence and cavitation can be interesting.
We may be seeing that in the near future :)
There is a channel called 'the slow mo guys' that has a couple of videos of gunfire under water if you want a great visual of that bubble fighting with the water pressure.
They film at up to half a million frames per second. Great stuff.
I couldn't finish it either.
i heard from somewhere that the preassure at the bottom of the marriana trench is like balancing the tip of the eiffle tower on every square inch of the body's surface. just some scale
I was definitely expecting it to enhance the explosion in some catastrophic way cos that's usually how these things go lol
*How Pacific Rim Started....*
While it's terrifying to think about the over 2,000 nuclear tests, they were not all "bombs". Many were done to test the use of different radioactive elements. A lot of work was needed to find the right materials for reactions, and to shield/contain them for nuclear power. Also...yeah...the militaries of the world did their thing.
the sad thing is that nuclear bombs are oversold , the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were flimsily build and the wood and paper housing did burn
but the concrete buildings still stood , including the Hiroshima ground zero building
radioactivity has very little effect medium or long term , wildlife just love it
both Japanese cities were thriving ten years later and still are ,
the bomb effects were less than the fact that Japan was utterly wrecked by conventional bombing and cutting off their food supply
One could argue that there is a rather considerable explanatory gap in the hypothetical scenario. The bomb would quite likely never make it to the bottom of the trench, as it would succumb to the underwater pressure kilometres before reaching it.
Shout out to the San Andreas Fault😂
Pretty sure
Loving your content .
I just wanted to comment on a point in your video and your comment on the subject in the follow up, regarding our place in technology Vs nature, it's absolutely evident,I feel, that one huge 'advancement' in our technology over the past 60 or 70 years of using nuclear technology to power modern life is so easily destroyed by the power of nature and man's failed attempts to recognise the warning signs. Fukushima 🙏
I think the term you're looking for is bathysphere. These are spherical (thus the name), the ideal shape to withstand the greatest pressures, since the 1000 atmospheres of water doesn't have a weak point through which to force its way in.
Hi Jay! The name of the one James used was called “Deepsea Challenger Submersible”. I’ve just looked what a bathysphere is though & it is a type of submersible!
Despite its location, the Mariana Trench is apparently a US national monument. Don't ask me how that works.
International waters are not claimed, they just are.
Peace and love no more wars 😢❤ sent the evil doers to another planet or to he'll they can fight against each other there it's horrible to know we can all die in an instant it's so stupid let people live a life without fear love and hugs Larry Joe 😊
Notification squad!
Good video but still in love with the Lady D :)
Pretty sure, the Mariana Trench (no s) is in international waters, as it is 200 miles away from the nearest islands. But of course, these islands are claimed by the US, as such, they lay claim to the trench and even declared it a national monument in 2005.
Thanks for explaining this!
Have you checked out the what if history channel? I found some interesting watches on that
Vonnegut, "Mother Night" please read it...
Here's a reaction suggestion
Timelapse of the future - by melodysheep
th-cam.com/video/uD4izuDMUQA/w-d-xo.html
It is 29 minutes, so probably a tad long for a reaction video. However, since I got a decent idea of your topics of interest by now, then if not as a reaction video, you'll can at least enjoy it at your own leisure.
Have a nice day to all!
"The Earth is fine, the people are f*****". - George Carlin
Ok, so the trench won't work. How about a bomb in Yellowstone to trigger a super volcano?
you should have a look at melodysheep „life beyond, chapter 2“
Try shooting a bullet through water
I find that what would happen if you detonated multiple nukes several miles up, essentially creating many massive EMPs and possible killing all electronics, more intriguing. Something like that anyway.
"Shout out to the San Andreas fault"
🤣🤣😂🤔🤣
I think Vsauce has a video about what would happen if everyone on earth jumped at the same time. This kinda reminded me of that.
Analytics ✌️😎
Fukushima
2:07 Submersibles are not submarines but submarines are submersibles. The difference between a submarine and a submersible is a submarine has enough power to leave port and come back to port under its own power. A submersible has very limited power reserves so it needs a mother ship that can launch it and recover it.
In common usage by the general public, however, the word "submarine" may be used to describe a craft that is by the technical definition actually a submersible, and by the standard meaning of the word, all submarines are submersibles.
Our tech is barely comparable to what the largest volcanos can do.
Why have you lived in so many places? Military parents? You should do a Q&A :(
The trench falls under maritime law.
Ve seen the future it was desolate but dreams are opposite to reality believe in life the ability to create and destroy is in our DNA
„Kurz gesagt“ is German and means in short/ said shortly 😊
you can not detonate a bomb in the trench as it is 7 miles to the bottom it will crush like a Pepsi can
If you did build a vessel that could deliver a warhead down there, I wouldn't want to know what happened.
We could figure it out
There is no air inside a nuclear bomb.
@@andrewrankin1921 why would you not do it on the east of the uk and the east of america the plate there has a nice place to throw a bomb and cause a big earthquake on both sides of the pond
or just send gas in the air or poison the water
you got other choices .
@@colormedubious4747 what list would that be?
I remember one time I was reading Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond. I don't remember how far I got through it before I gave up and switched to an audiobook. My ADHD gets the better of me at times. Do you ever resort to that, or do you prefer reading?
I usually have one physical reading book & 2 audiobooks (1 Spanish, 1 English) open at a time. I’ve never switched from reading a book to an audio in the middle though. This might be the way to finish though, thanks for bringing it up!
I don’t know Jared Diamond, I’ll Google search him
@@NoProtocol That book won the Pulitzer Prize for explaining why there's disparities between the various civilizations throughout history and does so based on technology, agriculture, etc. rather than eugenics. It was fascinating.
when you say submersible are you meaning bathosphere?
I wonder what would happen if you denoted the same bomb on top of the ocean? Like if the bomb was just hanging out in a sail boat. I would imagine the energy of the bomb punch into the water was cause mass tsunamis since the pressure is not going to fight back. Also having everything on the surface level would likely make the rains that are carried to the Philippines much worse.
Probably not. The vast majority of the energy would just go into the air, taking the path of least resistence. And I think pretty much nothing you do on the surface of water can cause very big Tsunamis. Tsunamis as I understand it require an event at the sea floor that has the power to move the incredible amount of water thats sitting above it. For instance it could be a sizable chunk of the sea floor breaking away, leaving a vacuum for the water to fall into. And when you move this much water, the ocean takes a bit to equalize back to being level which happens via a series of huge waves. I like the analogy of forcefully kicking a bucket of water from the bottom.
Where’s the link to the original video?
In the description Sky
@@NoProtocol Ah, found it.
We have detonated nuclear bombs in the ocean 20 nuclear bombs were detonated in bikini atoll in early days
Pretty sure this happened many times. Last being 2004. Js
Sponge bob bikini bottom nuclear theory was made because of the Pikinni atoll nuclear bomb test launching place in the pacific ocean
Kyle hill just released a video on surviving a nuke, may be of interest. Edit: you should watch it, it goes over a scientific paper and some stuff, breaks down the actual dangers.
3 titanics? You Brits will use anything to measure. Stones, hands, ships...
I wish they would have covered nukes made for earthquakes and tsunamis. I suppose now I know why they need to be made different, but I'd love to learn more. PS you can't be sure when a nuke was blown up underwater. The timing of Japan is suspicious, they were making Russia, which claims to have tsunami bombs, very unhappy, when their "natural disaster" happened.
I'm her biggest simp 🤷
No I'm Spartacus
@@Joker-yw9hl idk what u mean by that but if u think u can out simp me I beg to differ kind sir
I've studied under the great simps of TikTok
I've travelled the world to receive training from the greatest soy boys this side of mars
U can not hold a candle to my unrivaled thirst for no protocol
@@Joker-yw9hl if she ran me over with her car I would apologize for being in her way
I would pay her just to let me carry her groceries
I would stand outside her window on her lawn and sing to her with a violin until she puts in a long weave n throws her hair down so I can climb up and save her......or calls the police ,🤷 first come first serve
But let's hope for the weave 😒
@@theobserver86 lol you may have won this battle... but not the war!!
@@Joker-yw9hl I shall not go quietly *shakes my fist at the screen*
Something rarely talked about are the early nuclear weapons tests. We talk about the tests afterward but don't spend enough time talking about just how stupid scientists and governments can be during things like arms races. It is absolutely a fact that Oppenheimer et al. believed there was a real possibility that the first bomb, exploded at the Trinity site near White Sands missile range in New Mexico, might have ignited the atmosphere and killed the world. We aren't talking about some non-zero fractional probability, either. A Real Chance they might be ending the world, and they did it anyway, figuring that if not them, the Russians would do it. If anybody is going to end the world, it will be the USA, damn it! It is fascinating that they never even considered proposing an international ban on weaponizing nuclear technology. They thought the chance they were about to end the world was significant, and they did it anyway. Humans are stupid no matter how smart we think we are.
Pistol shrimps do that every day!
Small problem, the bomb mostly likely won’t survive the trip to the trench intact. I guess we could place the bomb in a submersible for the trip, then detonate it.
Well, that was anti-climactic. LoL
i used to be subscribed to that channel . IDK , i had to unsubscribed their videos just became depressing to me. They always ended on a down note. Even if they tried to spin it.
Well, this video pretty much debunked climate change
YES! The marquis de sard. NOT BIG AND NOT CLEVER. Just a dirty man (120 days of sodam of course)