It is amazing to think that a person born before 1903 could have witnessed the first time man had flown in the sky and provided they lived long enough, would have witnessed man's first step on the moon, and in the late 20th century have used the Internet.
My great great (maybe 3 greats? I dont remember) Aunt Flossie was born in 1896, I went to her 100th birthday party in 1996 when I was 11, she lived to 106. Imagine the things she has seen and how drastically her world changed in that time period!
I and my crew had the dubious honor of observing the end of a test launch of one of our ICBMs. When the “warhead” re-entered the atmosphere and we saw the contrail all I could think was “oh, shit!” I didn’t sleep well that night.
It's that jaw-dropping sphincter tightening moment you realise what we are capable of when we pour lots of resources into technologies. The multitude of disciplines coming together to create such things is awesome.
1:55 - Chapter 1 - WWII 4:00 - Chapter 2 - Cold War 4:55 - Chapter 3 - R7 6:15 - Chapter 4 - Atlas 8:25 - Chapter 5 - It's a mad world 10:00 - Chapter 6 - Salt I & Salt II 11:20 - Chapter 7 - ICBMS around the world 13:50 - Chapter 8 - The modern ICBMS 15:40 - Chapter 9 - Enabling the end of the world
France does not have land-based ICBMs. The M51 that was launched from land was only for testing. The bulk of their nuclear force is based in their SSBN fleet, though they do maintain a few nuclear-armed cruise missiles launched from the air.
Submarine based nuclear missiles are the way to go anyways. Almost impossible to detect and destroy submarines so nobody will be able to ensure you don’t nuke them back.
@@davidste60 anything can be tracked or is on the way to become such. The ancient people were suprised to see ships, the medieval people were suprised to see armored to the teeth nights, the 19 or 20th century not sure which people were suprised to see flying objects like planes. Late 20th century people could already see gods golden game. I am so interested to have a movie for a group of ancient and medieval people coming to the current world. It be a hilarious scene to show them how high we can build and show it from Burj Khalifa. Be amazing. An aircraft departing a carrier will be a sick cool thing too.
@linlinö önilnil Not 100% but far better than "almost impossible", which is what I was replying to. US subs have always tracked Soviet/Russian ones in case of an attempted launch, it's why they build and operate them.
The incredible accuracy of ICBMs was, and probably still is, based on something called *inertial guidance,* developed at MIT's Lincoln Labs. You should do a project on inertial guidance. (*The first targets to be destroyed in any future war will be the satellites that supply GPS, so ICBMs must have an independent on-board navigational system that does not rely solely on GPS transmissions.)
Yep and INS systems have an inherent drift rate, not as accurate in most systems as many people might think. They are often constantly updated via GPS in an EGI (Embedded GPS/INS). Development of reduced drift or no drift (if possible?) self contained INS will be critical to a future peer conflict when GPS signals will all be jammed or the satellites themselves destroyed. Apparently there is research on some form of quantum INS with no or almost no drift. A totally self contained INS that needs no external updates. That would be more of a gamechanger than many people probably realize!
That's why both Chinese and Russian GNSS systems use the same frequency as GPS. If a targeted radio wave EMP bomb is to be used on any GNSS system, all die at once. This pretty much safeguards everyone's GNSS as the only nations capable of destroying those satellites are those owning similar systems that are destroyed at the same time.
One of my former bishops worked for Lockheed Martin before his untimely death from SADS. I remember clearly the day when he took our little ward to his favorite public park, pointed at the foothills, and said, "When Armageddon happens, you'll see two mushroom clouds: one over there, and one over there!" His outstretched arm barely moved maybe 10 degrees. When asked why, he explained that one was where he worked, and the other was a nearby aerospace facility that worked even more closely with the military. I wish now that I had taken a picture of him pointing in those two spots, because not a year later he stepped through veil.
@@tomw6947 of course they would think twice... lol. They're not any less human than we are, and that makes self-survival the name of the game. They have their own nuclear arsenal to prevent us from just blanketing them in mushroom clouds, and our nuclear arsenal prevents them from doing the same, otherwise they would have evaporated our seventh fleet protecting japan and by extension taiwan.
@@tomw6947 what they're hoping to do, is the same thing we are, to neutralize our nuclear deterrent, most likely through the development of directed energy weapons, of which they're making some major strides towards. Most major security analysts are cautioning that if we continue at the rate we're going, they will outclass us militarily by 2025-2030.
@@ExarchGaming the US has also been working on directed energy weapons for a while but so far there's no real feasibility for such systems to take out ICBM's. As for them outclassing the US militarily so soon, I seriously doubt that. They have no force projection capabilities outside of their own region, only one carrier which isn't even operational, and nowhere near as advanced aircraft as American 5th generation fighters
@@BichaelStevens There is no racism based on difference because racism is an expression against others, not the difference (everyone is different) That makes people great to work with and I'm strong, I carry the stuff, you're smart and make plans, together , we are building this world . I hope you agree with me on this one ;-)
@@martijndaem4074 but CNN told me we're all equal and we're all one race and you can be whatever you want :( you must be wrong coz you're disagreeing with media >:( /s
It is also impressive on how much the cost to sequence the human genome have gone down. 20 years ago, it would have cost $100 million to do it. Now less than $1000 thanks to next-gen sequencing.
Here's a fun and relevant idea for either a Mega or Side Project: the renovation of the White House for the new president. Every inauguration of a new president involves teams of staff renovating and refurnishing the White House to make way for the new presidential family, a task that must be completed ENTIRELY during the inaugural ceremony leaving them a window of ONLY 4-5 hours
@@barrydysert2974 sorry mate, I can't remember the name too. I watched it back then in the soviet union, no kidding. Edit: thx VoidFace, it's War Games I was scared watching this movie.
Politicians: plan wars and strategy against foreign country; Engineers: invent weapons for the war; Linguists: M.A.D., S.A.L.T. 1 and S.A.L.T. 2, S.T.A.R.T. 1
@@owenshebbeare2999 ... Since you insulted the USA your obviously one of those foreigners that our FBI needs to contact the CIA and NSA and HSA about your past and they'll have the IRS and DEA and ICE run your background check and see if your ass needs to become MIA!!! 🇺🇲🦅🇺🇲🦅😁
1. R U M.A.D.? 2. Feeling S.A.L.T.-y? 3. The S.A.L.T. is 2 real. 4. S.T.A.R.T. to get gud, scrub. Yeah, the world of toxic one-upmanship has never really changed...
I've subscribe to all of your channels Simon....I found your channel to be informative and interesting. Thank you for educating us through your channels. Love you from Mizoram
I knew a guy who lived next door to me, an awesome friend, who used to be assigned to work In an ICBM silo as a mechanic. His stories and information are priceless and contain data that people should know that isn't common knowledge
Fun fact: WD-40 was developed to protect the pressurized fuel tanks on Atlas rockets from corrosion due to condensation buildup on their surface, hence Water Displacement formula 40 WD-40 used on a door hinge: " Am I joke to you?"
The thing that I find incredible, is that Korolev's design for R-7 is pretty much still in use today...even if in highly evolved form. To a large extent, all the triumphs of the USSR's space program, from Sputnik and Vostok to Soyuz and Salyut, all went up on top of various models of Korolev's epically brilliant design. 🖖💯✌
@@ChungusTheHumongous It is what I mean, and he certainly did use elements, and overall form and function of the StG 44 in his design, among others. This is from the Man himself.
I'd just like to publicly say once again, as I have so many times in the past, that us regular American citizens have *absolutely NO hate nor ANY ill-will towards the very good & decent people of Russia!!!* Like myself who was born in the early 1970's -- Us regular American citizens *DO NOT & NEVER HAVE HAD HATRED, NOR HAVE EVER HAD ANY ANIMOSITY TOWARDS RUSSIA NOR ANY OF THEIR PEOPLE!!* Russian people are the very same as us Americans --- Their opinions & attitudes towards us have always only been manipulated by their political leadership in constant attempts to vilify America & her people --- This is *exactly* what has happened to us ALL OF OUR LIVES here in America --- Our political & military leadership have constantly & even CONTINUE TO THIS DAY to attempt to poison our citizenry's thoughts in an attempt to turn our views sour towards Russians with perpetual propaganda. Many of us here in the USA are wise to these wretched tactics undertaken by our own government and other very powerful groups --- and US AMERICANS ARE SO VERY OVER IT!! The American people are so sick & tired of being told that only we & our allies in the world are good & anyone else in the world who won't go along with our fleeting political leadership is bad & evil and must be destroyed. WE ARE SICK OF IT!! Domari Nolo PA III
Well considering the Soviet Union would have been a horrible place to live in the 70's, It would probably be wise to have hated the communist totalitarian government. America wasn't all daises and rainbows, but it was easily a better place to live, hence all the people that fled the USSR for western countries.
I'd just like to publicly say once again, as I have so many times in the past, that us regular American citizens are just stupid idiots who tend to believe everything that is posted on internet by some random troll... Everyone knows that Internet would never lie!
@@anatomicalx9355 I certainly agree with you. The United States of America, is imo, by FAR the best place to live -- not always and we're nowhere near close to perfect, but I wouldn't want to be a lifelong citizen anywhere else!
New start treaty will expire in a month. Let’s hope that there is still time to extend that treaty. If not than the world will be less safe than today. It was sad to watch how so many international treaties regarding weapons limitation were canceled in last few years.
Simon, Im really happy for you, you on visual politics was great and I enjoy it. Im a engineering student, so when you announce the change for this kind of channel, I just love it, please keep up :)
That was Von Braun's original intent, space exploration, but guess what? Governments won't fund expensive scientific exploration, but they will fund expensive weapons programs...go figure.
Its Robert Oppenheimer quoting the sacred Hindu text, the Bhagavad Gita, where Lord Krishna (an avatar of Vishnu) reveals his divine multi-armed form to Arjuna and says the line in order to convince Arjuna to follow through with his Dharma, or sacred duty, as a warrior - which is to fight.
The only "first" the US had in the space race was "man on the moon". Everything else, including first space station, was won by the USSR; but somehow the US are still considered to be the winner? What?
US is winner of cold war. Winner writes history better. Through the cold war wasnt a fair thing. Russia was a far more active participant in both the world wars. Collapsing in the first by taking maybe second harshest pressure and then in ww2 being the side which takes most of the pressure. So US had to compete vs an exhausted state.
Particularly good one this. I spent the 80's having night terrors, living in Plymouth, UK as a kid, laughing at "Duck & Cover" leaflets. It did seem to make you live harder
"There is something about war that drives inventiveness, and for us to make Mega Projects about them" That episode when Simon claims the Nazis made him do it. Heh.
Inventiveness is done in order to get an edge over the enemy. If you are so sure of your win and nobody can bother u then u wont bother changing as in a way adapting to the reality. Historically there are some super good strategies which worked so well for centuries and then the empires fell. Sometimes it was geography too
Americans often say that Soviet military build-up was due to 'paranoia' about the threat from the West. Paranoia, by definition is an irrational fear. The threat from the West was very real and very substantial. The trigger for the 'Cuban' Missile Crisis was the US placement of IRBMs in Turkey, within only 15 minutes of striking distance from Moscow. Later it was this kind of threat that lead to the treaty that banned deployment of IRBMs between the US and the Soviet Union.
I remember going on BBC in 2017 and seeing the headline "North Korean ICBM fired towards Japanese Mainland" or something like that, and my heart skipping a few beats. Probably some of the most intense dread I've ever felt before I realized the headline neglected to say it was on course for the ocean. All that said, (and this is total conjecture) I think we have probably a 50/50 chance of nuclear war breaking out in some form within my generation's (Gen Z) lifetime. I think people feel like since the cold war is over, that most of the threat is gone. But we're just one computer glitch away from annihilation
A very interesting topic, I was thinking at some point we would have rail guns to redirect asteroids over a period of time. I wonder when we'll establish a base on the moon to do these kinds of things.
@@benfrith7060 You wouldn't want to actually blow the asteroid up, but setting off a nuke a distance away from the asteroid would be the most efficient way to deflect it.
@@ianmathwiz7 no it wouldn't be, the best method would be to gently push it over time with a laser or land on it and push it with a booster, they're made from many things from metals to ice to thousands of pieces of loosely compacted stone, breaking one into bits would be a disaster
@@ianmathwiz7 Why wouldn't you want to blow it up? Computer simulations by the Americans and physical scaled down experiments by the Russians both suggest that a nuke in the few megaton range against a asteroid in the few hundred meter range would work. Asteroids tend to be a rock pile bound by gravity not one solid rock, the nuke will disrupt the rock pile. Obviously this option would be the one to take if the option of lots of time was not available, if time was available then deflecting it's course would be preferred, but does present unique challenges. Using a nuke to either attempt to disrupt the rock pile or change the whole asteroid course would be far more simple than attempting a tether to drag it. These asteroids tend to have rotation, trying to drag it with a tether over a long time period would be close to impossible IMO.
"Peacekeeper", named out of pure irony I presume, but I suppose once the flames have died down, and everything on earth has died, it would be a rather peaceful, if desolate, place to be... :P
@@MrTexasDan lol, yeah they've kept the peace by being a threat to life itself.. so people will continuously live with that stress, hovering in the back of their minds. That's not peace, really.. just the threat of "behave or you guys will get a face full of this in the middle of the day, and you won't see family or friends ever again".. seems cold-blooded, because the ones in charge of those things will be tucked into some comfy little hidey hole, while the rest of humanity kills one another for a jar of peanut butter. And did I forget to mention all the mutated people & animals?
Necessity; The "Mother of all invention." The saying goes. But, a whole heck of a lot more is learned through trial and error, (emphasis on the, "error," part,) than simply trying and always getting fortunate or, "lucky." They learned most of what they learned from failure, catastrophic or otherwise. _"Fear, folly, failure, YES! Failure most of all! The greatest teacher failure is!"_ ---Jedi Grandmaster Yoda
Can you imagine the stress being a missle crewman in a bunker, once or twice a month decrypting a message that you hoped was a test, or could be the end of the world. And then they based them in North Dakota. Better than Siberia, I guess?
Request for a Megaproject: Cell phone networks? Not sure how to word it, but with 5G being this next big thing, I find myself increasingly curious as to how the whole structure works.
States we are making bigger and more powerful weapons. Meanwhile, the power of warheads has decreased significantly. Once again measured in kilotons instead of megatonss as they were in the past.
The thing about MAD is if you do disarm then you've just got one country holding the rest of the world hostage without any threat of retaliation. Same thing goes for gun control in every day life, then you've just got one faction that's armed without any fear of retaliation.
MAD was an expensive doctrine, but imagine what would happen if only one country had nuclear superiority. Despite all the paranoia, nuclear weapons have prevented (so far) a third world war. The problem isn't a country with a shitload of nukes, it's a lunatic with one.
Its not a paranoia if its a fact, and the danger is real. Also holding people on gunpoint doesnt mean they become peaceful, or it is an effective way of establishing peace. Finally, any county with a bomb can get a lunartic as a ruler, no matter who they are.
This topic could be nicely split into several sub megaprojects: the SS-18 missile was nothing if not Mega, as was the Titan 2, the SS-24 rail launched missile or the US MX....
@@larryscott3982 Nope...the V2 DID cross the Karman Line into space -- but NOT into orbit (that was Sputnik 1) in 1944. The A4 and V2 were the same thing, just different designations (A4 was Von Braun's numeration, V2 was the Nazi operational one....but they were the same rocket). There was no V4. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MW_18014
France's M51 is used as an SLBM, it's not deployed in silos, as silo-based weapons are seen as the least effective. However, France also has the ASMP-A air-launched nuclear missile.
I just love listening to people ranting about $$, the world wide monetary system is only backed by ideas, power, And reputation. In a moment the power that be can change the system with the snap of fingers .
Building on the theme of missiles, another idea for a megaprojects video is the SLAM, the US nuclear-powered cruise missile from the 1950s that would have been able stay in the air for weeks on end, delivering warhead after warhead to different targets.
Hahaha it was a German arms race funded by the USA and USSR 😂 it's actually amazing if you look at history though, Germany is responsible for an insane amount of the high technology we use. Kind of an oddity. From a historical standpoint, makes me wonder if there was some sort of validity to their "eugenics" studies. At least as far as certain German people being extremely capable.
@@pauld.b7129 i knew a very nice professor who said he considered himself lucky that after WW II the US was eager to bring get people with phds. coincidentally i mentioned him to a friend's mom who said of him "my husband hired him. he's a nice guy...for a *german*" it felt like a portal to another era :-)
The video ends with exactly my thoughts on the matter. The power to end humanity on the hands of a few unstable people is quite the contrast to these hunting with bow and arrows to feed themselves.
The amount of money spent on being ready to wage nuclear war was wasted Simon? have you costed WW2, let alone a conventional WW3 - MAD meant it wasn't fought.
It is amazing to think that a person born before 1903 could have witnessed the first time man had flown in the sky and provided they lived long enough, would have witnessed man's first step on the moon, and in the late 20th century have used the Internet.
Mindboggling to even consider that.. although have you seen the elderly use the internet?? It's a hoot.
My great great (maybe 3 greats? I dont remember) Aunt Flossie was born in 1896, I went to her 100th birthday party in 1996 when I was 11, she lived to 106.
Imagine the things she has seen and how drastically her world changed in that time period!
Really makes you wonder doesn’t it. No way lazy humans did that all by themselves
I and my crew had the dubious honor of observing the end of a test launch of one of our ICBMs. When the “warhead” re-entered the atmosphere and we saw the contrail all I could think was “oh, shit!” I didn’t sleep well that night.
It's that jaw-dropping sphincter tightening moment you realise what we are capable of when we pour lots of resources into technologies. The multitude of disciplines coming together to create such things is awesome.
@@jamesgornall5731 And in some cases terrifying...
My crew and I*
Thats incredible! What a sight to see! Both fascinating and terrifying!
Was this just a reentry of inert warhead reentry vehicles?
1:55 - Chapter 1 - WWII
4:00 - Chapter 2 - Cold War
4:55 - Chapter 3 - R7
6:15 - Chapter 4 - Atlas
8:25 - Chapter 5 - It's a mad world
10:00 - Chapter 6 - Salt I & Salt II
11:20 - Chapter 7 - ICBMS around the world
13:50 - Chapter 8 - The modern ICBMS
15:40 - Chapter 9 - Enabling the end of the world
thanks
Thank you my good sir
We have the finest ICBMs
...in all of North Korea.
Bigly
Please spare my house o great leader
As long as the pilot survives to guide it
That's fantastic the US might think twice about attacking you now
France does not have land-based ICBMs. The M51 that was launched from land was only for testing. The bulk of their nuclear force is based in their SSBN fleet, though they do maintain a few nuclear-armed cruise missiles launched from the air.
Submarine based nuclear missiles are the way to go anyways. Almost impossible to detect and destroy submarines so nobody will be able to ensure you don’t nuke them back.
@@decentish8546 If that were true coutries wouldn't spend billions on hunter-killer submarines.
@@davidste60 anything can be tracked or is on the way to become such. The ancient people were suprised to see ships, the medieval people were suprised to see armored to the teeth nights, the 19 or 20th century not sure which people were suprised to see flying objects like planes. Late 20th century people could already see gods golden game. I am so interested to have a movie for a group of ancient and medieval people coming to the current world. It be a hilarious scene to show them how high we can build and show it from Burj Khalifa. Be amazing. An aircraft departing a carrier will be a sick cool thing too.
@@ivokantarski6220 True but irrelevant.
@linlinö önilnil Not 100% but far better than "almost impossible", which is what I was replying to. US subs have always tracked Soviet/Russian ones in case of an attempted launch, it's why they build and operate them.
The incredible accuracy of ICBMs was, and probably still is, based on something called *inertial guidance,* developed at MIT's Lincoln Labs. You should do a project on inertial guidance. (*The first targets to be destroyed in any future war will be the satellites that supply GPS, so ICBMs must have an independent on-board navigational system that does not rely solely on GPS transmissions.)
Yep and INS systems have an inherent drift rate, not as accurate in most systems as many people might think. They are often constantly updated via GPS in an EGI (Embedded GPS/INS). Development of reduced drift or no drift (if possible?) self contained INS will be critical to a future peer conflict when GPS signals will all be jammed or the satellites themselves destroyed.
Apparently there is research on some form of quantum INS with no or almost no drift. A totally self contained INS that needs no external updates. That would be more of a gamechanger than many people probably realize!
That's why both Chinese and Russian GNSS systems use the same frequency as GPS. If a targeted radio wave EMP bomb is to be used on any GNSS system, all die at once. This pretty much safeguards everyone's GNSS as the only nations capable of destroying those satellites are those owning similar systems that are destroyed at the same time.
One of my former bishops worked for Lockheed Martin before his untimely death from SADS. I remember clearly the day when he took our little ward to his favorite public park, pointed at the foothills, and said, "When Armageddon happens, you'll see two mushroom clouds: one over there, and one over there!" His outstretched arm barely moved maybe 10 degrees. When asked why, he explained that one was where he worked, and the other was a nearby aerospace facility that worked even more closely with the military. I wish now that I had taken a picture of him pointing in those two spots, because not a year later he stepped through veil.
MAD: An absurd idea that worked, keeping us all alive.
It's really the same old idea, just nuclearized.
Only worked because Russia and USA are very similar, china on the other hand is very different and I don't think they would think twice
@@tomw6947 of course they would think twice... lol. They're not any less human than we are, and that makes self-survival the name of the game. They have their own nuclear arsenal to prevent us from just blanketing them in mushroom clouds, and our nuclear arsenal prevents them from doing the same, otherwise they would have evaporated our seventh fleet protecting japan and by extension taiwan.
@@tomw6947 what they're hoping to do, is the same thing we are, to neutralize our nuclear deterrent, most likely through the development of directed energy weapons, of which they're making some major strides towards. Most major security analysts are cautioning that if we continue at the rate we're going, they will outclass us militarily by 2025-2030.
@@ExarchGaming the US has also been working on directed energy weapons for a while but so far there's no real feasibility for such systems to take out ICBM's. As for them outclassing the US militarily so soon, I seriously doubt that. They have no force projection capabilities outside of their own region, only one carrier which isn't even operational, and nowhere near as advanced aircraft as American 5th generation fighters
Suggestion for a Megaprojects video; the human genome project, a fascinating science project
Someone will eventually come here and say that genetics are racist
You mean they aren't? 😅
@@BichaelStevens There is no racism based on difference because racism is an expression against others, not the difference (everyone is different) That makes people great to work with and I'm strong, I carry the stuff, you're smart and make plans, together , we are building this world . I hope you agree with me on this one ;-)
@@martijndaem4074 but CNN told me we're all equal and we're all one race and you can be whatever you want :( you must be wrong coz you're disagreeing with media >:(
/s
It is also impressive on how much the cost to sequence the human genome have gone down. 20 years ago, it would have cost $100 million to do it. Now less than $1000 thanks to next-gen sequencing.
Here's a fun and relevant idea for either a Mega or Side Project: the renovation of the White House for the new president.
Every inauguration of a new president involves teams of staff renovating and refurnishing the White House to make way for the new presidential family, a task that must be completed ENTIRELY during the inaugural ceremony leaving them a window of ONLY 4-5 hours
Interesting game, the only winning move is not to play
wanna play chess?
Nice movie from my childhood 👍
@@MlTGLIED i remember the quote, but not the name of the movie. Help please!:-) 🖖
@@barrydysert2974 WarGames.
@@barrydysert2974 sorry mate, I can't remember the name too. I watched it back then in the soviet union, no kidding.
Edit: thx VoidFace, it's War Games
I was scared watching this movie.
MAD was doctrine? MAD IS doctrine currently, we just ignore it.
Counterforce was toyed with when they had loads of warheads and better accuracy.
I honestly think I could listen to Simon talk about anything for hours.
I sometimes wish he would slow down he's talking speed just a little bit
Thats exactly why business blaze exist
@@danielkron2513 what's that?
@@averagegingernut434 yet another youtube channel from simon, although he is ashemed of it and for good reason
@@danielkron2513 ashamed 🧐
HAH, the Idea of Intercontinental Rock Throwing is just beautiful 🤣
Hadrian’s Wall, that should be a mega project....
I also suggested it for Geographics.
Have fully walked it twice
Yes!
Yes please
They were racist for protecting their boarder. We should tear it down and condemn them.
It’s just a picket fence compared to the Great Wall of China.
How about Simon does a megaprojects video about all his TH-cam channels? Gotta be somewhere between side projects and megaprojects by now
Lol.. that's for his new, upcoming channel: SimonTube.
It seems like Simon's whole life is side projects.
Politicians: plan wars and strategy against foreign country;
Engineers: invent weapons for the war;
Linguists: M.A.D., S.A.L.T. 1 and S.A.L.T. 2, S.T.A.R.T. 1
Banks: profit off of both sides of the war.
The desire to create acronyms isn't limited to Americans, but they sure have made it a rather annoying thing in the English language.
@@owenshebbeare2999 ... Since you insulted the USA your obviously one of those foreigners that our FBI needs to contact the CIA and NSA and HSA about your past and they'll have the IRS and DEA and ICE run your background check and see if your ass needs to become MIA!!! 🇺🇲🦅🇺🇲🦅😁
1. R U M.A.D.?
2. Feeling S.A.L.T.-y?
3. The S.A.L.T. is 2 real.
4. S.T.A.R.T. to get gud, scrub.
Yeah, the world of toxic one-upmanship has never really changed...
So our most advanced ICBM is still running a 16 bit processor? Hot damn
Our current icbm fleet are super old
Well they don't need to run Windows which saves a lot of processing power. 😉
fire up some Sonic 2 or F-Zero!
At least, in 1981, we went from punched hole computer programming tape to magnetic tape
Eight thousand, eight thousand, eight hundred. Lol I caught that.
I thought it was a new number.
Once you hear it you can't unhear it
I was going to mention this in the comments because I didn't think anyone was going to realize what he had said, good ear man! Cheers
8,000-8,800
I've subscribe to all of your channels Simon....I found your channel to be informative and interesting. Thank you for educating us through your channels. Love you from Mizoram
I knew a guy who lived next door to me, an awesome friend, who used to be assigned to work In an ICBM silo as a mechanic. His stories and information are priceless and contain data that people should know that isn't common knowledge
Assigned? What are you a commie
Simon hooked me up with all kinds of new content for my birthday! Wake up to new videos on all of his channels!
I hope it's a happy birthday watching all 11 channels 🎂
Fun fact: WD-40 was developed to protect the pressurized fuel tanks on Atlas rockets from corrosion due to condensation buildup on their surface, hence Water Displacement formula 40
WD-40 used on a door hinge:
" Am I joke to you?"
Every time Simon says "consider subscribing", i try to subscribe more than I already am, and fail miserably.
easy, just find another one of his 500 channels and sub there
@@coreytaylor447 I'm subscribed to all of Simon's channels and I wish there were more.
@@darkmagician2904 impossible, by the time you finish their is another channel
Try Harder! You can do it!
This is now my favourite TH-cam Chanel. Thank you so much for your time and effort.
7:10 Want to know about combustion instability? Look at the development of the Saturn 5's F1 engine.
The thing that I find incredible, is that Korolev's design for R-7 is pretty much still in use today...even if in highly evolved form. To a large extent, all the triumphs of the USSR's space program, from Sputnik and Vostok to Soyuz and Salyut, all went up on top of various models of Korolev's epically brilliant design. 🖖💯✌
Just like Kalashnikov’s design. Also highly evolved but basic principle of operation is the same
@@ChungusTheHumongous And both Korolev and Kalashnikov stood on German shoulders.
@@MrTexasDan I don’t know much about rockets but I do know a thing or two about AKs. No, Kalashnikov did not use German design of that’s what you mean
@@ChungusTheHumongous It is what I mean, and he certainly did use elements, and overall form and function of the StG 44 in his design, among others. This is from the Man himself.
@@MrTexasDan now compare dissasembly of ak,stg44,and ar.Kalashnikov used some elements,but it is not german achievment
The world can only end when the legend, S. Whistler has a new TH-cam channel, 'The Worlds End'. I only believe if Simon has a video about it
my buddy used to be in the airforce and he worked on the minute man underground silos in wyoming
Please do the British V bomber force, Vulcan, Valliant, Victor
Veni, vidi, vici
I'd just like to publicly say once again, as I have so many times in the past, that us regular American citizens have *absolutely NO hate nor ANY ill-will towards the very good & decent people of Russia!!!*
Like myself who was born in the early 1970's -- Us regular American citizens *DO NOT & NEVER HAVE HAD HATRED, NOR HAVE EVER HAD ANY ANIMOSITY TOWARDS RUSSIA NOR ANY OF THEIR PEOPLE!!*
Russian people are the very same as us Americans --- Their opinions & attitudes towards us have always only been manipulated by their political leadership in constant attempts to vilify America & her people --- This is *exactly* what has happened to us ALL OF OUR LIVES here in America --- Our political & military leadership have constantly & even CONTINUE TO THIS DAY to attempt to poison our citizenry's thoughts in an attempt to turn our views sour towards Russians with perpetual propaganda.
Many of us here in the USA are wise to these wretched tactics undertaken by our own government and other very powerful groups --- and US AMERICANS ARE SO VERY OVER IT!!
The American people are so sick & tired of being told that only we & our allies in the world are good & anyone else in the world who won't go along with our fleeting political leadership is bad & evil and must be destroyed.
WE ARE SICK OF IT!!
Domari Nolo
PA III
Well considering the Soviet Union would have been a horrible place to live in the 70's, It would probably be wise to have hated the communist totalitarian government. America wasn't all daises and rainbows, but it was easily a better place to live, hence all the people that fled the USSR for western countries.
I'd just like to publicly say once again, as I have so many times in the past, that us regular American citizens are just stupid idiots who tend to believe everything that is posted on internet by some random troll... Everyone knows that Internet would never lie!
@@watcherit1311 Pretty funny!
@@anatomicalx9355 I certainly agree with you.
The United States of America, is imo, by FAR the best place to live -- not always and we're nowhere near close to perfect, but I wouldn't want to be a lifelong citizen anywhere else!
I won't forgive you for harassing Rocky and Bullwinkle.
Do the perimeter/dead hand system if enough information is declassified
Mutually assured Destruction (M.A.D) Wasting available resources (W.A.R)
New start treaty will expire in a month. Let’s hope that there is still time to extend that treaty. If not than the world will be less safe than today. It was sad to watch how so many international treaties regarding weapons limitation were canceled in last few years.
Treaties are "Paper". Hitler signed one with the British before attacking in WWII!
Simon, Im really happy for you, you on visual politics was great and I enjoy it. Im a engineering student, so when you announce the change for this kind of channel, I just love it, please keep up :)
We got a lot of them 🚀
Loved the recap at the end with Einstein's quote. Killing it Simon, keep them coming!
What can we say but the classic Fallout meme; "War. War never changes."
“The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.” - Carl Sagan
Except gasoline pools are separate and each of them hopes to extinguish enemies matches. (and that is the only reason why number of matches matters.)
Well no, not really. Any substantial nuclear attack would probably be enough to trigger a nuclear winter which would screw over everybody on Earth.
Could you imagine what Robert Oppenheimer would think and how he would feel if he was alive today and saw what his discovery has evolved into?
Simons take th-cam.com/video/kow3Q8Q4V7A/w-d-xo.html
1981 Doc th-cam.com/video/Vm5fCxXnK7Y/w-d-xo.html
He died in 1967. By that point ICBMs had existed for nearly a decade. I think he had a pretty good idea about the direction his discovery was going.
I was an EMT Team Chief for Minuteman. Was always a humbling feeling seeing the bomb and rocket and the it's all powerful destructive power
You should do one on the James Webb Telescope.
this is not Patreon,we are alone here.
Not completely alone, I'd love to see one on JWST...
For side projects, The Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel. 17.2mi long, and it was studied to help show that the Chunnel was possible.
The irony is that with icbms a lot of the technological developments in rockets and space travel would not have been possible
That was Von Braun's original intent, space exploration, but guess what? Governments won't fund expensive scientific exploration, but they will fund expensive weapons programs...go figure.
Here is a side project : the T 54/ 55 main battle tank. Most widely produced tank in history. The AK 47 of tanks.
'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds'
-Robert Oppenheimer
Its Robert Oppenheimer quoting the sacred Hindu text, the Bhagavad Gita, where Lord Krishna (an avatar of Vishnu) reveals his divine multi-armed form to Arjuna and says the line in order to convince Arjuna to follow through with his Dharma, or sacred duty, as a warrior - which is to fight.
Love the music on all of his channels vids.
I’d love to see a video on the Sea Wolf Class submarine.
or it's successor the Virginia class
Great quote to throw in at the end! Love your short, informative videos. Thanks for posting them!
The only "first" the US had in the space race was "man on the moon".
Everything else, including first space station, was won by the USSR; but somehow the US are still considered to be the winner?
What?
Pop culture relevence comes from entertainment value.
The moon landing had that in spades.
US is winner of cold war. Winner writes history better. Through the cold war wasnt a fair thing. Russia was a far more active participant in both the world wars. Collapsing in the first by taking maybe second harshest pressure and then in ww2 being the side which takes most of the pressure. So US had to compete vs an exhausted state.
@@ivokantarski6220 The oppressive style of governace didnt help that exhaustion any😂
That also got me thinking hmm
Man on the moon was a lie, you can't get past van allen rays lol!
Particularly good one this. I spent the 80's having night terrors, living in Plymouth, UK as a kid, laughing at "Duck & Cover" leaflets. It did seem to make you live harder
"There is something about war that drives inventiveness, and for us to make Mega Projects about them"
That episode when Simon claims the Nazis made him do it. Heh.
There isn't something, it's just how war works. Think about it.
Poetic! War sure is neat, right
@@777jones Neat is not a word I'd use.
Inventiveness is done in order to get an edge over the enemy. If you are so sure of your win and nobody can bother u then u wont bother changing as in a way adapting to the reality. Historically there are some super good strategies which worked so well for centuries and then the empires fell. Sometimes it was geography too
Americans often say that Soviet military build-up was due to 'paranoia' about the threat from the West.
Paranoia, by definition is an irrational fear. The threat from the West was very real and very substantial. The trigger for the 'Cuban' Missile Crisis was the US placement of IRBMs in Turkey, within only 15 minutes of striking distance from Moscow. Later it was this kind of threat that lead to the treaty that banned deployment of IRBMs between the US and the Soviet Union.
I will never understand why anyone would want to drop nuclear weapons in a real act of aggression literally no one wins in nuclear war
We don't want to use them, thats the point.
Have you ever heard of WW2? Not every country has nukes to shoot back with.
I was, waiting for Simon to talk about Metal Gears
So yeah nuclear submarines next since we're talking about SLBMs.
We all live in a nuclear submarine, a nuclear submarine!
@@St.Linguini_of_Pesto no because a nuclear subs can survive a nuclear war under the ocean
I remember going on BBC in 2017 and seeing the headline "North Korean ICBM fired towards Japanese Mainland" or something like that, and my heart skipping a few beats. Probably some of the most intense dread I've ever felt before I realized the headline neglected to say it was on course for the ocean. All that said, (and this is total conjecture) I think we have probably a 50/50 chance of nuclear war breaking out in some form within my generation's (Gen Z) lifetime. I think people feel like since the cold war is over, that most of the threat is gone. But we're just one computer glitch away from annihilation
Idea for another more theoretical megaproject: asteroid deflection methods.
A very interesting topic, I was thinking at some point we would have rail guns to redirect asteroids over a period of time. I wonder when we'll establish a base on the moon to do these kinds of things.
Can't you just nuke them? Computer simulations have been done that suggest that it is not entirely Bruce Willis eat you're heart out territory.
@@benfrith7060 You wouldn't want to actually blow the asteroid up, but setting off a nuke a distance away from the asteroid would be the most efficient way to deflect it.
@@ianmathwiz7 no it wouldn't be, the best method would be to gently push it over time with a laser or land on it and push it with a booster, they're made from many things from metals to ice to thousands of pieces of loosely compacted stone, breaking one into bits would be a disaster
@@ianmathwiz7 Why wouldn't you want to blow it up? Computer simulations by the Americans and physical scaled down experiments by the Russians both suggest that a nuke in the few megaton range against a asteroid in the few hundred meter range would work. Asteroids tend to be a rock pile bound by gravity not one solid rock, the nuke will disrupt the rock pile. Obviously this option would be the one to take if the option of lots of time was not available, if time was available then deflecting it's course would be preferred, but does present unique challenges.
Using a nuke to either attempt to disrupt the rock pile or change the whole asteroid course would be far more simple than attempting a tether to drag it. These asteroids tend to have rotation, trying to drag it with a tether over a long time period would be close to impossible IMO.
Simon...another great and informative vid! Excellent job
"Peacekeeper", named out of pure irony I presume, but I suppose once the flames have died down, and everything on earth has died, it would be a rather peaceful, if desolate, place to be... :P
They have kept the peace for a long, long time. Not sure what you don't understand about that fact.
@twocvbloke ahh, and so quiet.
@@MrTexasDan lol, yeah they've kept the peace by being a threat to life itself.. so people will continuously live with that stress, hovering in the back of their minds.
That's not peace, really.. just the threat of "behave or you guys will get a face full of this in the middle of the day, and you won't see family or friends ever again".. seems cold-blooded, because the ones in charge of those things will be tucked into some comfy little hidey hole, while the rest of humanity kills one another for a jar of peanut butter.
And did I forget to mention all the mutated people & animals?
@@St.Linguini_of_Pesto WW3 that our nukes continue to prevent would way worse than a little stress..
I guess it's an improvement over the B-36 Peacemaker.
That "something about war" is fear and money.
Two suggestions: The Pennsylvania Turnpike and FM radio...
Thank you megaprojects I've been looking for good icbm videos.
Leave it up to Einstein to basically sum up humanity for the next 100 years after his death with pin point accuracy.
As he said: Warfare is the science of destruction
@@Manuel-gu9ls no . because a nuclear subs can survive a nuclear world war under the oceans
Nice, glad you did the ICBMs!!! There are old and new ICBM sites near where I live. Some are open for the public to view if requested. Thanks!!
Simon’s fastest talking ever! Hot date tonight, need to finish this video ASAP?
Necessity; The "Mother of all invention." The saying goes. But, a whole heck of a lot more is learned through trial and error, (emphasis on the, "error," part,) than simply trying and always getting fortunate or, "lucky." They learned most of what they learned from failure, catastrophic or otherwise.
_"Fear, folly, failure, YES! Failure most of all! The greatest teacher failure is!"_
---Jedi Grandmaster Yoda
This probably needs to be re-done with an emphasis on hyper-sonics
Just increase video speed to 1.5x 💡
I was under the impression that MAD was still a thing
Suggestion: the Single Integrated Operation Plan
AKA BUH BYE...
Can you imagine the stress being a missle crewman in a bunker, once or twice a month decrypting a message that you hoped was a test, or could be the end of the world. And then they based them in North Dakota. Better than Siberia, I guess?
You get used to it. And it's more like 7 or 8 times per month.
Request for a Megaproject:
Cell phone networks? Not sure how to word it, but with 5G being this next big thing, I find myself increasingly curious as to how the whole structure works.
Damn, that range puts modern ICBMs to shame...80008800km
States we are making bigger and more powerful weapons.
Meanwhile, the power of warheads has decreased significantly. Once again measured in kilotons instead of megatonss as they were in the past.
The thing about MAD is if you do disarm then you've just got one country holding the rest of the world hostage without any threat of retaliation. Same thing goes for gun control in every day life, then you've just got one faction that's armed without any fear of retaliation.
Nowadays it's all about hypersonic missiles. Everyone and their dogs wants it.
So another trillions of dollars will be wasted on those.
Oof, if _dogs_ get their paws on one of those.. they'd be a day late & a dollar short.
Cats already have them. 😼-hissss! meowr.
@@St.Linguini_of_Pesto If the cats is Russia and China you are correct
Love this series. Kinda blows my mind this is free content...
MAD was an expensive doctrine, but imagine what would happen if only one country had nuclear superiority.
Despite all the paranoia, nuclear weapons have prevented (so far) a third world war.
The problem isn't a country with a shitload of nukes, it's a lunatic with one.
Its not a paranoia if its a fact, and the danger is real. Also holding people on gunpoint doesnt mean they become peaceful, or it is an effective way of establishing peace. Finally, any county with a bomb can get a lunartic as a ruler, no matter who they are.
This topic could be nicely split into several sub megaprojects: the SS-18 missile was nothing if not Mega, as was the Titan 2, the SS-24 rail launched missile or the US MX....
Will they say advance civilizations have a way of destroying themselves.
That's last quote by Einstein, if that doesn't give you the chills well I don't know what will
V-2's didn't 'disgorge' the payload they carried, the warhead was an integral part of the rocket.
And not a guided missile
@@larryscott3982 Yep....purely ballistic. It WAS, however, the first man made object to cross the Karman Line into space at 100km altitude.
@@samsignorelli
The V4
@@larryscott3982 Nope...the V2 DID cross the Karman Line into space -- but NOT into orbit (that was Sputnik 1) in 1944.
The A4 and V2 were the same thing, just different designations (A4 was Von Braun's numeration, V2 was the Nazi operational one....but they were the same rocket).
There was no V4.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MW_18014
@@larryscott3982 Pre-set guidance is still guidance, otherwise it wouldn't need an inertial guidance system and steering vanes.
I appreciate your content, great production and I appreciate the research 👍
There has not been a world war since World War II, perhaps MAD isn't so mad after all.
Have they launched your space telescope yet?
But only in a counterintuitive way Which is why it's so MAD.
@@htfcirno2000 Soon. LOL
France's M51 is used as an SLBM, it's not deployed in silos, as silo-based weapons are seen as the least effective. However, France also has the ASMP-A air-launched nuclear missile.
It's weird hearing Warner Von Braun's name with it being invoked by a creation apologist.
Mutually Assured Destruction: The crowning of Nukes as God
Albert Einstein: World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones...
Sticks: Rods from God.
Stones: Asteroid Hurling Mass Drivers.
Dang...
You should do a megaproject on the progress of electricity from its discovery to actually being something useful.
Just sent one down the toilet
i must say you're videos seem to be getting better and better! keep it up!
really enjoy the content you guys make! :D
I just love listening to people ranting about $$, the world wide monetary system is only backed by ideas, power, And reputation. In a moment the power that be can change the system with the snap of fingers .
You forgot to mention that nobody had any interest in space... only blowing up the other. The space race was just a cover to perfect the reentry
"Now i am become death the destroyer of worlds."
famous quote is famous, now give me upvote
Building on the theme of missiles, another idea for a megaprojects video is the SLAM, the US nuclear-powered cruise missile from the 1950s that would have been able stay in the air for weeks on end, delivering warhead after warhead to different targets.
usa: "our germans are better than your germans :-P"
Hahaha it was a German arms race funded by the USA and USSR 😂 it's actually amazing if you look at history though, Germany is responsible for an insane amount of the high technology we use. Kind of an oddity. From a historical standpoint, makes me wonder if there was some sort of validity to their "eugenics" studies. At least as far as certain German people being extremely capable.
Wow, what an original comment. Never heard that one before!
@@pauld.b7129 i knew a very nice professor who said he considered himself lucky that after WW II the US was eager to bring get people with phds. coincidentally i mentioned him to a friend's mom who said of him "my husband hired him. he's a nice guy...for a *german*" it felt like a portal to another era :-)
The video ends with exactly my thoughts on the matter. The power to end humanity on the hands of a few unstable people is quite the contrast to these hunting with bow and arrows to feed themselves.
“USA better calm down, or we’ll bomb the ocean again!”
- Kim Jong Un
They need to be tested.
With those big aircraft carriers sitting there
The best, most graphic and realistic nuclear war movie ever made was the British production "Threads". "The Day After" was just typical Hollywood.
The amount of money spent on being ready to wage nuclear war was wasted Simon? have you costed WW2, let alone a conventional WW3 - MAD meant it wasn't fought.
Simon should watch Neil Halloran's "Fallen of WW II" video, especially the last few minutes.
The Einstein quote at the end was chilling.