This Nuclear Device Lost in the Himalayas Could Destroy India

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  • @ReclusiveEagle
    @ReclusiveEagle 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6356

    Teacher: "Where's your homework?"
    Me: "I lost it"
    Teacher: "You're lying"
    Me: "So the CIA can lose 2 nukes and 8 plutonium cores but I'm expected to take care of a piece of paper like my life depended on it"

    • @nuclearcatbaby1131
      @nuclearcatbaby1131 3 ปีที่แล้ว +113

      The CIA is lying. They can detonate those simply by firing neutron beams to that area.

    • @TheTophatGuy
      @TheTophatGuy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +439

      @@nuclearcatbaby1131 'neutron beams'

    • @marsovac
      @marsovac 3 ปีที่แล้ว +91

      @@nuclearcatbaby1131 you think that would the only problem in the premise of the story/mission? The Himalaya are much more distant to China than an average military satellite is. So listening to those communications did not need anything there, they already had satellites to achieve the same goal.

    • @Ten0chtl1
      @Ten0chtl1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Touche'

    • @lesigh1749
      @lesigh1749 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      @@TheTophatGuy They could reverse the polarity of the neutron flow.

  • @patricksarama4963
    @patricksarama4963 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2654

    I hate it when I accidentally lose my seven plutonium cores on top of a five mile tall mountain

    • @ishanchegu
      @ishanchegu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +66

      its 5 miles tall, 5 miles= 8 km, =8000 metres; nanda devi height = 7816m

    • @gamerf3643
      @gamerf3643 3 ปีที่แล้ว +82

      @@ishanchegu it was a joke
      r/woooosh

    • @I_am_a_human_not_a_commodity
      @I_am_a_human_not_a_commodity 3 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      Remember, if you forget a number or have spelling errors, someone will come after you lol

    • @FranktheDachshund
      @FranktheDachshund 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@gamerf3643 what was the joke?

    • @gamerf3643
      @gamerf3643 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      @@FranktheDachshund OP made a joke about not liking losing their items in a location as if it happens regularly, which is funny as this doesn't occur very often and the video is about this very topic.
      All the OP did was say the wrong height. Although it's nice to know the real height, I could've searched for that online, but I guess it's there for the lazy people.
      This is a joke, it doesn't need to be fact-checked. It's funny, and that's all that matters.
      If you get the joke you get it. If you don't, you don't, so you ask.
      I hope you understand well now. Or might not. In that case I can't help you, so it's better off asking OP what the joke was.

  • @jdotrdot
    @jdotrdot 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1883

    US Government: “Quick think of a really subtle name for our top secret mission.”
    CIA: “Operation Hat.”

    • @newbilpun8944
      @newbilpun8944 3 ปีที่แล้ว +189

      Operation HAT: Half Assed Title

    • @buddyguy4723
      @buddyguy4723 3 ปีที่แล้ว +117

      High altitude telecommunications.

    • @nelsonx5326
      @nelsonx5326 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Operation Hate.

    • @scottcantdance804
      @scottcantdance804 3 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      He mentions that Americans would have stood out like a sore thumb in 1960s India, but that's not really true. The hippie trails from Europe, through Central Asia and down into India and Southeast Asia were going full blast in the sixties and seventies.
      You could have brought a busload of Americans in there, and as long as you covered them with beads, they didn't shave or cut their hair, and made sure that they smelled like hashish and patchouli, they would have fit right in.

    • @DeclanMBrennan
      @DeclanMBrennan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      It just occured to me that it may have been called that because of "Top Hat" and the mission being to the top of the world.
      But they must have been mad as hatters to attempt it.

  • @SandeepSingh-hp7pe
    @SandeepSingh-hp7pe 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Yes...my uncle who still lives...was a member of this crew from indian counterpart. He was a young IB ( an IPS) officer. And he stil narrates and in fact we use to hear this as one of our bedtime stories from him.As of now we still ask this incidence from him...he lives in Dehradun

  • @deezimmo4814
    @deezimmo4814 3 ปีที่แล้ว +622

    There were other "devices" lost or misplaced in forests around Russia, they were used as power sources in remote settings. There have been reports, not recent, of hunters finding these small devices and sleeping next to time to keep warm; they would wake up in the morning with burns and other terrible side effects (possibly death as a result of their injuries later on). Moral of the story: if you find a small odd looking device that quietly generates its own heat while walking in the forest, run away.

    • @nathanb011
      @nathanb011 3 ปีที่แล้ว +88

      "Oh, weird, a mysterious warm box in the middle of the forest. I should sleep next to it!"

    • @himonsonowal3269
      @himonsonowal3269 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Daimn i want to make out there

    • @eekee6034
      @eekee6034 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      @@nathanb011 Sounds like you have no idea how cold it gets. Siberian cold is the stuff of legends!

    • @Unbound_Selrahc
      @Unbound_Selrahc 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I recall reading a story about a group that goes around and recovers said devices, and it detailed several stories about them. It’s kind of crazy, but I’m sure Germany has the same kind of nonsense. They had so many hidden bunkers, and facilities underground and tucked away, we still haven’t found them all. Can’t speak for nuclear devices, but I know a lot of their experiments go undiscovered.

    • @bhav7539
      @bhav7539 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      This reminds of that climber case from Russia

  • @kennychilders8261
    @kennychilders8261 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2048

    Hearing about this stuff makes you wonder how many crazy things we'll find out about in like 50 years

    • @kiwibonsai2355
      @kiwibonsai2355 3 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      Twin Towers 🤫

    • @jordant993
      @jordant993 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      @@kiwibonsai2355 haha I was thinking that been building 15 years an i still don't know how that fell perfect

    • @riteshyeddu
      @riteshyeddu 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah

    • @thebush6077
      @thebush6077 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@jordant993 I mean it's already been debated to death and the how/why has been pretty well known for a while but ok

    • @Shadow77999
      @Shadow77999 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      ikr, imagine all those declassified archives coming out one by one

  • @radio9632
    @radio9632 3 ปีที่แล้ว +420

    I remember reading this on the internet, that after further studies from multiple prominent researchers, it has been found that it's actually caused by Scrat, the squirrel form Ice Age.

  • @probablynotfbi9440
    @probablynotfbi9440 3 ปีที่แล้ว +244

    Anyone else remember the days when youtube didn't drown you in ads while while watching a video?

    • @ikhan9478
      @ikhan9478 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Pay for TH-cam premium no ads

    • @Luka_3D
      @Luka_3D 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Laughs in premium
      (Or you can get an adblocker just fwi)

    • @allanshpeley4284
      @allanshpeley4284 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Insert generic joke about getting youtube premium

    • @grahameward362
      @grahameward362 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Ad block bruz

    • @Unbound_Selrahc
      @Unbound_Selrahc 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I recall the days of little ads, now they’ll drown you in them, I started paying for premium just because of how much I watch, but it is bullshit how much they’ve increased the amount.

  • @mskmagic3877
    @mskmagic3877 3 ปีที่แล้ว +544

    I remember reading a story about how climbers of Mount Kailash in the Himalayas reported that their finger nails and hair grew faster on the mountain, which is something that could be caused by radiation. Interestingly India doesn't allow anyone to climb that mountain anymore.

    • @suraj.1889
      @suraj.1889 3 ปีที่แล้ว +66

      Interestingly, mount Kailash now lies in China:)

    • @blackjackbanker2359
      @blackjackbanker2359 3 ปีที่แล้ว +156

      @@suraj.1889 interestingly, it lies in Tibet.

    • @suraj.1889
      @suraj.1889 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      @@blackjackbanker2359 😢 Unfortunately, Tibet won't separate from China without a mass murder of a million+ people.

    • @lp115lp
      @lp115lp 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Isn't Mt Kailash in Pakistan?

    • @YTworld-69
      @YTworld-69 3 ปีที่แล้ว +78

      @@lp115lp please look the maps properly.

  • @martineldritch
    @martineldritch 3 ปีที่แล้ว +735

    Blow up and irradiate the tropical paradise of Bikini Atoll, check.
    Litter Earth's formerly pristine orbit with countless metal wires, check.
    Lose Plutonium in the pristine alpine valley that is the source of the Ganges river, check.
    Ah the Cold War...

    • @AJ-jq3hm
      @AJ-jq3hm 3 ปีที่แล้ว +107

      Bruh you forgot the creation of radical Islamic terrorism.

    • @_Caedwyn
      @_Caedwyn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      lol i WISH those were the only things we humans have done wrong

    • @loke6664
      @loke6664 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      They almost nuked Savannah too, 5 of the 6 fail-safes failed when they accidentally dropped the bomb, it was a miracle that the US didn't nuke themselves there. And God only knows how many nukes US and Soviet Union truly have lost, we only know of a couple but it isn't unlikely they lost a lot more. And that is not counting lost nuclear submarines.

    • @JohnDoe-ox5ni
      @JohnDoe-ox5ni 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Frigging wonderful .From pristine tropical paradise to relatively unexplored untouched by man mountains ..looks like a good place to place some deadly invisible cancerous death for thousands of years .Good work guys .Its goes to show you are never alone..Big foot probably took it home as a central heating devise ..We haven't seen them since,!is it me or is it hot in here and why is all my hair and teeth falling out and we can't stop shitting throwing up blood.Toasty innit.Blooming marvellous it warms you from the inside out .

    • @Wtfukker
      @Wtfukker 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      aye its a yeti radiator now

  • @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache
    @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4283

    "Why does saying two bombs one satellite make me feel queasy?"
    Hold up I thought this was a PG channel

    • @hugemango2011
      @hugemango2011 3 ปีที่แล้ว +84

      Ya thought

    • @Sir.Craze-
      @Sir.Craze- 3 ปีที่แล้ว +81

      @Straight brown Male lolololololololololololololololol.
      That's red pilled to you?
      God what an absolutely strange world xD

    • @Titi-lq1tj
      @Titi-lq1tj 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Ok

    • @elbob099
      @elbob099 3 ปีที่แล้ว +73

      Atleast it wasn't somthing to do with a screwdriver or a jam jar 🤢🤢

    • @ilovemetalmusic310
      @ilovemetalmusic310 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      'Hold up I thought this was a PG channel
      '
      Last mistake you ever made.
      Edit: This'll age like milk.

  • @M1551NGN0
    @M1551NGN0 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    As an Indian commenting 2 years after this video was released, I'm so thankful to you to add to my insecurities and worries because of this video

    • @amodmishra3030
      @amodmishra3030 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Oh I am watching this video today too

    • @BonnieOhneClydex
      @BonnieOhneClydex ปีที่แล้ว

      Dw bro, does not only make u worrie. I mean, imagine this thing "blowing" up. Into the River, the whole world would be fucked sooner or later.
      I guess we atleast dont have to worrie about the U.S blowing it up xD, since they would screw themselfes.

    • @M1551NGN0
      @M1551NGN0 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@BonnieOhneClydex i mean the world is gonna sooner or later blow itself up due to all the wars happening so i wouldn't be surprised. But radiation poisoning is definitely the worst death one could ever get

    • @rohansharma201
      @rohansharma201 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lol

    • @victorbitter583
      @victorbitter583 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@BonnieOhneClydex It's not a bomb. You can't blow it up. It's a very dirty battery.

  • @venominblx9333
    @venominblx9333 3 ปีที่แล้ว +515

    This TH-camr is underrated. He puts together very enjoyable 15 minute videos about some random but interesting topic and averages 100-400k views. I feel like it should be 10x that with the quality of the videos

    • @natearmstrong8340
      @natearmstrong8340 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      1-400 in the first day or two, by the time i watch most have 1M+ at least the topics that interest me.

    • @iamthebroker
      @iamthebroker 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      He is indeed very good. Excellent research and presentation style is nice straight forward and simple tempered with his subtle dry humour. I like it a lot. His topics, as you say are surprisingly interesting despite somewhat obscure. Good stuff!

    • @8b8b8b
      @8b8b8b 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      He often cover topics he is not qualified to discuss and does not consult a qualified person for peer review, causing a few cases of misinformation

    • @Chroniknight
      @Chroniknight 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@8b8b8b I would say this is mainly what holds home back. It's fun, but you have to take it with a box of salt

    • @rymc420
      @rymc420 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@8b8b8b nah, you’re just a complainer

  • @AnuradhaRohini
    @AnuradhaRohini 3 ปีที่แล้ว +480

    My father narrated me this story while we were traveling last year. I am from Shivalik Himalayas.

    • @davidgraham2673
      @davidgraham2673 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Your father has excellent timing.

    • @VikiBoy07
      @VikiBoy07 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@davidgraham2673 😂😂😂

    • @sortacoolfacts4148
      @sortacoolfacts4148 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I’d love to visit the Himalayas someday. I heard that the Hindu God Shiva also lived in the Himalayas, is that true?

    • @ArghyadeepPal
      @ArghyadeepPal 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      @@sortacoolfacts4148 Yes he is associated with the Kailasa mountains, found in Tibet. But sadly they are currently under Chinese control. Kailasa is in fact one of the names of Shiva

    • @sortacoolfacts4148
      @sortacoolfacts4148 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@ArghyadeepPal that’s interesting, so Shiva & Parvati both lived there?

  • @siyangqiu1
    @siyangqiu1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +473

    The part about recruiting climbers reminds me of Armageddon - recruiting miners and teaching them to be astronauts.

    • @g0d_iz_gamer
      @g0d_iz_gamer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      hahaha true

    • @lp115lp
      @lp115lp 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      'miners'? Don't you mean oil derrick 'roughnecks'? I worked alongside some in OK

    • @gamertaglupethegod8832
      @gamertaglupethegod8832 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Drillers*

    • @BiggieBig_
      @BiggieBig_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Should’ve thought astronauts how to drill instead lol

    • @missourimongoose7643
      @missourimongoose7643 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Honestly I'd trust Alex with a nuke, dude climbed el cap freehand lol

  • @jemmrich
    @jemmrich 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Interestingly radioisotope thermal electric generators were often used to power unmanned light houses until they were eventually decommissioned in fear of people looting for nefarious reasons. We still use RTGs today to power satellites and rovers as seen in the documentary The Martian.
    Another tidbit is that there are an estimated 35,000 cremations along the Ganges each year with many not cremated but weighted down with stone and pushed into the river.

    • @Guru_1092
      @Guru_1092 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The Martian wasn't technically a documentary, as it's fictional. Otherwise, good points. I was thinking an RTG as well.

    • @marcosdenizatrailhiker2037
      @marcosdenizatrailhiker2037 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Well, that gives the Ganges its flavor

  • @indianflippingart9593
    @indianflippingart9593 3 ปีที่แล้ว +600

    The same river is literally 200 metres away from my house..you scared the shit out of me for the rest of my life now

    • @prithvisingh4479
      @prithvisingh4479 3 ปีที่แล้ว +103

      So that's how it cleanses your sins away! By radiation

    • @user-fi4wn3te8v
      @user-fi4wn3te8v 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      is that sarcasm?

    • @user-fi4wn3te8v
      @user-fi4wn3te8v 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      im asking that question to the person who said the radiation thing

    • @Foolish188
      @Foolish188 3 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      Considering how polluted the river is, you have way bigger problems.

    • @indianflippingart9593
      @indianflippingart9593 3 ปีที่แล้ว +91

      @@Foolish188 not in the part I live. I love very near to the himalayan villages...this is a small town in the river BHAGIRATHI. Which is like a part of Ganges...but the pollution starts from a city named haridwar which is 250Km away from here.

  • @WitchidWitchid
    @WitchidWitchid 3 ปีที่แล้ว +203

    That must have been fun to hear... "Okay boys, looks like you are going to have to carry it by hand all the way to the top."....

    • @fajaradi1223
      @fajaradi1223 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Without telling them that they may get a nut cancer in the future

    • @JovaJovenile-m4j
      @JovaJovenile-m4j 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They're not lazy freeloaders like you so it wouldn't be a problem for them.

    • @WitchidWitchid
      @WitchidWitchid 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@JovaJovenile-m4j Thats right... While they get overdosednwith radiation while risking their lives and doing the heavy work... I'll just sit back in one of my my private.jets collecting the funding for the project while getting high with a bevy of the hottest dames in town...

    • @224L
      @224L 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@JovaJovenile-m4j I don’t think not wanting to carry a nuke up a giant mountain is free loading but have fun paying people’s unemployment check out yo tax money anyway :)

    • @GTAVictor9128
      @GTAVictor9128 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I wonder if Death Stranding was at least partly inspired by this.

  • @ThisGoesCrazy
    @ThisGoesCrazy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Channels like like are what makes information fun to listen to and also learn. I never find your videos boring

  • @lendog1721
    @lendog1721 3 ปีที่แล้ว +107

    Should be on mainstream TV this man , better than most presenters.

    • @tool46296
      @tool46296 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Nah they would just ruin him. Just like they ruin everything else.

    • @asahearts1
      @asahearts1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Who watches TV anymore? Sadly TH-cam is trying to turn itself into cable.

    • @lendog1721
      @lendog1721 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@asahearts1 whats cable?

    • @VuurBarbaar
      @VuurBarbaar 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      what is an. tv? you mean that old granny tube?

    • @asahearts1
      @asahearts1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@lendog1721 I think it's some kind of one way telegraph.

  • @_caspian_4474
    @_caspian_4474 3 ปีที่แล้ว +171

    9:08
    "I don't climb. I mainly just stand here and look cool"
    🤣🤣😂

    • @sortacoolfacts4148
      @sortacoolfacts4148 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Sounds just like me 😎 haha

    • @RohitChhatryVlogs
      @RohitChhatryVlogs 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @f87115
      @f87115 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Mitch hedberg joke :)

  • @huxley3043
    @huxley3043 3 ปีที่แล้ว +935

    i love how he says ~it might sound crazy~ to allege that America / the CIA has done something stupid and reckless in another country 😭😂

    • @darkshado124
      @darkshado124 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Yeah, like that one experiment on trying to teach a dolphin to speak using heroine. Snirk*

    • @scootydad8093
      @scootydad8093 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      In all fairness we did watch communism kill >100,000,000 people

    • @suryaananth2744
      @suryaananth2744 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      ever heard of MK Ultra?

    • @bobograndman
      @bobograndman 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@scootydad8093 completely unrelated but ok lol

    • @SilverStarHeggisist
      @SilverStarHeggisist 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I think we're still the only country to accidentally drop a live nuke over our own country. And still has one of those nukes still lost.

  • @MrGranitealchemist
    @MrGranitealchemist 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    9:32 hey that’s my town! That climb is called Saigon and is very very hard lol

  • @therealzilch
    @therealzilch 3 ปีที่แล้ว +137

    Oh man. Another thing to worry about I've never heard of. Thanks.

    • @michealnash753
      @michealnash753 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      are you a decendant of william wallace? im part scottish myself

    • @therealzilch
      @therealzilch 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@michealnash753 Yes, I have Scottish ancestors on my father's side.

    • @0kh0b07
      @0kh0b07 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Get over yourself

    • @therealzilch
      @therealzilch 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@0kh0b07 ?

    • @0kh0b07
      @0kh0b07 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@therealzilch of course you HAVEN'T heard about it

  • @chitskirits
    @chitskirits 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1733

    Some of the stuff the Americans did to keep the "world safe" is mind-boggling

    • @randomeastasian347
      @randomeastasian347 3 ปีที่แล้ว +100

      Blame the CIA.

    • @DeathcptYuri
      @DeathcptYuri 3 ปีที่แล้ว +97

      @@randomeastasian347 we all blame it on the cocaine we were all on during the Cold War. Shit was wack.

    • @DeathcptYuri
      @DeathcptYuri 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      @Josiffrank I mean cocaine is mainly to blame. And it’s also one hell of a drug.

    • @dco1019
      @dco1019 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      yeah, its pretty cool dumb stuff.

    • @justamanwithsomesoup3352
      @justamanwithsomesoup3352 3 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      Yeah we’re pretty fucking stupid.
      This is coming from an American.

  • @347firedude
    @347firedude 3 ปีที่แล้ว +372

    No better way id rather spend my bathroom break, than be serenaded by thoughty2

    • @nekoschar6170
      @nekoschar6170 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Same brooooo

    • @rojalrijal6529
      @rojalrijal6529 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Same here. 😂😂

    • @PacificEgg
      @PacificEgg 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      42

    • @WhatWhy42
      @WhatWhy42 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That's a thought #2 💩

    • @leonardogarcia2506
      @leonardogarcia2506 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I’m literally doing the same. I seen your comment as I was about to wrap up my time in the bathroom, since I have 15 minutes till my actual break. I laughed way too hard at it!😂

  • @calidreams5379
    @calidreams5379 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Hopefully they will invent something that can somehow detect plutonium long range in the near future so they can find and properly dispose. Maybe detect from satellite? They must have an approximate area to search. It would be catastrophic if it leaked.

  • @lorcan-quinlan-boyle
    @lorcan-quinlan-boyle 3 ปีที่แล้ว +541

    Thoughty2: the world-class walker perfectly on the knife edge between an excellent promotional title and clickbait.... 😉

    • @brahseph2066
      @brahseph2066 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      42*

    • @alfredthecucumber9757
      @alfredthecucumber9757 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@brahseph2066 you tried to correct someone but you were just wrong

    • @tobiaslundgren4587
      @tobiaslundgren4587 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@alfredthecucumber9757 technically not, 42 is the answer to everything

    • @Anonymouseys
      @Anonymouseys 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@alfredthecucumber9757 This old chestnut. Somebody has missed the joke again 🙄.

    • @ashleybriggs1618
      @ashleybriggs1618 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Or is he a hazelnut?

  • @Stephan1988
    @Stephan1988 3 ปีที่แล้ว +199

    So back then in Cold War times whoever had an amazingly stupid idea against the opponent they just did it.

    • @Sir.Craze-
      @Sir.Craze- 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Lol. I could see how you would think so. And... A bit, I guess.
      But, you should look into the cold war more. They did any crazy shit based on the most cutting edge and unusually insane science and engineering of the time.
      Crazy by our standards, maybe.
      On the other hand. I don't see why putting a listening device on a huge mountain overlooking an enemy is an amazingly stupid idea anyways.
      A pretty big long shot. But if it works, pretty smart.

    • @scottcantdance804
      @scottcantdance804 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@Sir.Craze- Yeah, you can look at any period of scientific innovation and find crazy ideas that didn't pan out. People tend to look at the Cold War like it was unique, but the most unique aspect of it that drove some of the weirdest and most out there stuff was probably the fact that for the first time ever there were two superpowers vying for global dominance, and both were armed with a variety of weapons that could cause Armageddon in different ways.
      Even going to the moon was considered an unrealistic, space cadet idea, right up until the Soviets put the first man in space.
      At that point, Wernher von Braun must have been jumping up and down in excitement because he knew that the US government would finally ask him to work on his lifetime goal with full funding and support.

    • @mikeoxmall3847
      @mikeoxmall3847 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That about sums it up perfectly!!

    • @JohnDoe-ox5ni
      @JohnDoe-ox5ni 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@mikeoxmall3847 I can't wait until we get our next bit of crazy far out tech that the guys in white coats don't totally understand more are interested about the longterm.But just say seems to work. OK .Batteries you don't need to recharge ...Tick ...Next.

    • @dudeinoakland
      @dudeinoakland 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      You ever read Spy vs. Spy in Mad magazine?

  • @florancegardinar9658
    @florancegardinar9658 3 ปีที่แล้ว +209

    You forgot to mention that area is on a highly volatile earthquake fault-line that's waking up right now?

    • @meh.h
      @meh.h 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      It keeps getting better

    • @KingDerpy13
      @KingDerpy13 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      *GOODBYYYYE INDIA!*

    • @sunnyboynfs
      @sunnyboynfs 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@KingDerpy13 India is much bigger then just Himalayas

    • @barnabydinosaurroadsafetyp3457
      @barnabydinosaurroadsafetyp3457 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      oh dont worry nobody for 2 miles in any direction -

    • @aaronl9958
      @aaronl9958 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@KingDerpy13 gg ez

  • @crazestyle83
    @crazestyle83 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It's all fun and games until the radiation cooks your nuts 😂

  • @Ciberxcreator
    @Ciberxcreator 3 ปีที่แล้ว +184

    If I ever invent a time machine I may need to go back in time and snag that plutonium. Just to make sure it doesn't cause any problems in the future... Wait... Maybe I already did.

    • @jesseroel8362
      @jesseroel8362 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      What if you did go back in time and tried to snag it and in the process lost your life in the storm and actually caused the plutonium to get lost in the first place. PARADOX!

    • @allangibson2408
      @allangibson2408 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      The isotope used in American RTG’s is Pu238 - utterly useless for nuclear weapons as it doesn’t emit neutrons - it is an alpha emitter. Just don’t eat it - plutonium is chemically toxic and ingested plutonium can also cause cancer. The polonium used in Russian RTG’s is far more dangerous however.

    • @Foolish188
      @Foolish188 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      A much safer source of plutonium for your time machine than getting it from the Libyans.

    • @zanedomke8148
      @zanedomke8148 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sorry man, beat you to it. It's been my microwave for the past 8 months.

    • @PIERRECLARY
      @PIERRECLARY 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Check your balls for lumps!

  • @iworms
    @iworms 3 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    It's not as bad as it seems. This is Plutonium-238, and its risk profile was analyzed in depth in 1991 by the American Institute of Physics. Key takeaways are, skin contact and ingestion represent minimal cancer risk, while inhalation has higher risk for cancer. That's good for the Nanda Devi case because inhalation is the least likely exposure vector.

    • @nobiledigitale
      @nobiledigitale 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Finally someone who pointed that out. Pu-238 is not the stuff they build nukes with.

    • @runeodin7237
      @runeodin7237 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      How do you inhale plutonium (from a solid device)

    • @andrewstanley7574
      @andrewstanley7574 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      How did they test ingestion.. Also why

    • @iworms
      @iworms 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@runeodin7237 In theory, time and environment can strip some powder away, and if that is airborne it can be inhaled. In this particular case, that risk is practically zero.

    • @iworms
      @iworms 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@andrewstanley7574 The material can leak into water and food chain, hence the ingestion concern.

  • @ricksanchez5845
    @ricksanchez5845 3 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    42: 2 bombs 1 satellite
    Me: *stops eating chocolate pudding*. I am not hungry all of a sudden

    • @baactiba3039
      @baactiba3039 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Please explain this to me

    • @oatmealman1586
      @oatmealman1586 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@baactiba3039 there's an 'adult film' named two girls one cup.

    • @sussy_6998
      @sussy_6998 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@oatmealman1586 quite possibly the greatest film of our generation.

    • @I_am_a_human_not_a_commodity
      @I_am_a_human_not_a_commodity 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@sussy_6998 What visionary screenplay. Such an understated gem.

    • @oatmealman1586
      @oatmealman1586 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @COMMANDO 10 of course, I just don't want to let on to the mischievous nature of it.

  • @joonatanlindqvist900
    @joonatanlindqvist900 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    When its 2 am but you have to find out what can destroy india in Himalaja

  • @harleymumbulo69
    @harleymumbulo69 3 ปีที่แล้ว +334

    2 bombs 1 satellite. You earned the like brother. Lol

    • @krushnakekan181
      @krushnakekan181 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I don't understand can you please explain it to me

    • @_vla
      @_vla 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Even the profile picture matches your accent

    • @krushnakekan181
      @krushnakekan181 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@_vla was that for me?

    • @realstealthninja
      @realstealthninja 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@krushnakekan181 please do not Google it.

    • @SadForLyf
      @SadForLyf 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Andy fcking Biersack??

  • @claycassin8437
    @claycassin8437 3 ปีที่แล้ว +374

    Based on their cringe worthy recruitment video they just released, I doubt the CIA could even find Nanda Devi today, much less a plutonium device.

    • @henryhooker1579
      @henryhooker1579 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      I was rolling on the floor when I saw that

    • @aslychair3096
      @aslychair3096 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      What are you two talking about? it sounds great lol.

    • @allangibson2408
      @allangibson2408 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Based on the CIA’s past performance, I doubt they found it in the 1960’s...

    • @anonomuse9094
      @anonomuse9094 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      FBI is worse. Instead of investigating the cyber attack on our missile defense system, their investigating Trumps taxes. Even though he's in the clear.

    • @miguelnascimento2847
      @miguelnascimento2847 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @Jess Red that you for letting me know about this. Pure cringy gold

  • @walterfechter8080
    @walterfechter8080 3 ปีที่แล้ว +152

    The Abominable Snowman announced he will be moving from the Himalayan mountains to snow-capped mountains in Australia.

    • @altonb93
      @altonb93 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      He found the plutonium and has changed his name to The Abombinable Snowman

    • @raclark2730
      @raclark2730 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Maybe he will settle down with a nice Yowie girl.

    • @MostDopeGamer775
      @MostDopeGamer775 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Actually, he found the device and declared his own country. He has the power now. The mad man.

    • @BenTvHowman
      @BenTvHowman 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I just drove past the turn off to the Snowy Mountains today while driving from Sydney to Melbourne

    • @cakdwik2050
      @cakdwik2050 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      No, the night king will go down soon

  • @gustavopaez2444
    @gustavopaez2444 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I always like the way you tell these stories, its pretty interesting and amazing, thanks for doing it.

  • @flagmichael
    @flagmichael 3 ปีที่แล้ว +274

    There's always an Arquillian Battle Cruiser, or a Corillian Death Ray, or an intergalactic plague that is about to wipe out all life on this miserable little planet, and the only way these people can get on with their happy lives is that they _do not know about it!_ - Agent Kay, Men in Black

    • @jahmah519
      @jahmah519 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Yup, this subliminal message is very much accurate, only that this aint a miserable little planet, its the Ark with some miserable people.

    • @therealuncleowen2588
      @therealuncleowen2588 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Deliver the Galaxy or Earth will be destroyed. Sorry.

    • @disasterdinosaur2925
      @disasterdinosaur2925 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The galaxy is on orion's belt

    • @gabict8866
      @gabict8866 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I even came over an info pointing that India had recently credited Russia with a big amount of money.
      Could be this the reason of indian Apocalipse? Go figure!...

    • @ryanbauer3680
      @ryanbauer3680 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      "Arquillian battle rules, kid. First we get an ultimatum, then a warning shot, then we have a galactic standard week to respond."
      "A galactic standard week? How the hell long is that?"
      "One hour."

  • @henryhernandeez6111
    @henryhernandeez6111 3 ปีที่แล้ว +104

    The US military's rather nonchalant handling of its most dangerous toys was not limited to foreign countries. In fact, seven of the 11 nuclear warheads that are officially missing were lost at home in the USA.

    • @Isaacmantx
      @Isaacmantx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That is what happens when you keep dozens and dozens of them flying 24/7 during most of the cold war. Russia had many of the same situations.

    • @latterdaydude6125
      @latterdaydude6125 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @F Trakk Jimmy Hoffa’s ghost says they’re not under there with him.

    • @john-paulsilke893
      @john-paulsilke893 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      If I gave you $10 million and a decade to make any of these lost Nukes detonate you would be 10 years older and $10 million poorer. It’s simply impossible. It’s like the bs propaganda about Chernobyl or any other power plant exploding like a nuke. U238 and U235 are completely different substances and if it was that easy we wouldn’t make nukes but instead simply drop Plutonium and Uranium from airplanes instead of creating the Manhattan Project and spending trillions on making such devices.

    • @thegrimviolet9497
      @thegrimviolet9497 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@john-paulsilke893 it isn't that the sunstances themselves are that dangerous, it is the fact that they are fitted into explosives that make them dangerous, as for nuclear power plants exploding, it again isn't the substance but how it is being used that makes it dangerous, hence why most places moved away from nuclear power.

    • @john-paulsilke893
      @john-paulsilke893 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@thegrimviolet9497 nuclear power is far less polluting then almost any other form of electrical generation. The problem is the public is poorly educated on the subject. Hydro requires massive damns which produce tremendous co2 in their construction. Wind is pathetic. Solar works at beat 1/2 the time and requires massive acreage and rare earth metals only found in China and Southern Africa and is produced by slave labour. The secondary products from nuclear energy are so maligned that they are viable for reuse in any significant way. Coal and petrochemical fired generation plants pollute way more fallout then all the worlds nuclear power plants by many orders of magnitude and also create greenhouse gases in insane amounts and poison their environments.
      Obviously we need Geo-thermal but we aren’t quite there yet as far as exotic materials go, (but if we can swing it, the world becomes a massive battery we can tap for almost unlimited power).

  • @sethw2825
    @sethw2825 3 ปีที่แล้ว +70

    I love the idea of losing a super weapon
    Scientist 1: hey Dave I’ve been looking but I can’t find the nuclear weapon.
    Scientists 2: ...
    Scientist 1: Dave?

  • @glorygloryholeallelujah
    @glorygloryholeallelujah 3 ปีที่แล้ว +175

    *”Nuclear device lost...”*
    _Is definitely one of the most terrifying 3 word combinations-ever._ 😳

    • @thegrimviolet9497
      @thegrimviolet9497 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      And yet america has heard them so many times, the country is quite literally littered with lost nukes.

    • @fatallyfatcat5274
      @fatallyfatcat5274 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Lol. All after USSR disbanded they lost a few dozen nukes as well.

    • @allangibson2408
      @allangibson2408 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The Russians have lost dozens of RTG’s - they were used to power aircraft navigation aids in Russia. Unlike the American ones those are dangerously radioactive and 20 minutes exposure can be lethal.

    • @fatallyfatcat5274
      @fatallyfatcat5274 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@allangibson2408 No. Russia lost literral nukes when they where disbanding their bases in Eastern Europe in the 1990s. The point and evaporate target kind, whole, ready to use nukes.

    • @allangibson2408
      @allangibson2408 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@fatallyfatcat5274 The Strontium 90 RTG’s that were lost in Russia are known to have killed...
      bellona.org/news/nuclear-issues/radioactive-waste-and-spent-nuclear-fuel/2015-11-foreign-funds-have-almost-entirely-rid-russia-of-orphaned-radioactive-power-generators

  • @haspadya
    @haspadya 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The two girls one cup reference was hilarious LMAO

  • @SurrealSoda
    @SurrealSoda 3 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    That moustache could destroy the himalayas.

    • @belacoak5796
      @belacoak5796 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Who some guy with out a mustache?

    • @NightBazaar
      @NightBazaar 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The moustache of doom sweeps across the entire mountain range quickly turning it into rubble.

    • @ipsygypsy16
      @ipsygypsy16 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      In case you're interested, it is I who destroyed your 42 likes.

  • @AlmostEthical
    @AlmostEthical 3 ปีที่แล้ว +129

    The plutonium stash is a bit like Sauron's ring of power. While it is currently lost in nature, if it emerges, an apocalypse could follow.

    • @samsunguser3148
      @samsunguser3148 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      It must be disarmed in the pits of idk

    • @someone-vg9pq
      @someone-vg9pq 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      All of the rivers fricking raditaed

    • @CrabTastingMan
      @CrabTastingMan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The conclusion was expected. If the device COULD melt miles of entire glaciers to flood cities, then 14 men and porters could not have carried a device that hot in the first place.
      And if somehow the heat radiated off the device was getting hotter over the decades, the locals would have seen just their local mountain rise in temperature for years, not have a sudden glacier meltdown.

    • @AlmostEthical
      @AlmostEthical 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@CrabTastingMan Good points, if not as much fun as Sauron's Plutonium Stash of Power :)

  • @alexvaraderey
    @alexvaraderey 3 ปีที่แล้ว +134

    I thought that this sounded completely mental, but then remembered that it was 1950's/1960's CIA.

    • @nathanb011
      @nathanb011 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      *it was the CIA
      Time irrelevant

    • @joegastly6166
      @joegastly6166 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I can't believe they were this stupid to believe anyone could pull such a Godly feat. It's a Godly feat just getting to the Sanctuary and then they have to climb a giant fucking mountain? Impossible!

    • @granddaddykaddy1788
      @granddaddykaddy1788 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Still the same old CIA unfortunately. Why ~85% of the US population still blindly trusts the government and that they have nothing but our health and well being in mind when they make decisions is mind boggling to me

  • @motubkchod3758
    @motubkchod3758 3 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    Hmm if it's lost in India, Then probably someone dismantled it and sold the pieces. They are genius at it
    😁

    • @asimpleman6464
      @asimpleman6464 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Some skilled men 😂

    • @zd4583
      @zd4583 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      What if russian and Chinese agent bought it's pieces from thief market

    • @asimpleman6464
      @asimpleman6464 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@zd4583 th-cam.com/video/G0QMeTjcJDA/w-d-xo.html
      😉

    • @shubhamdubey1732
      @shubhamdubey1732 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@zd4583 Indians are smart they make it's copies and sell it first

    • @wretfsfvd
      @wretfsfvd 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      well people from nearest neighbor Nepal smuggle raw uranium from India

  • @paddlefaster
    @paddlefaster 3 ปีที่แล้ว +622

    It's hard to imagine the Ganges River getting any more polluted than it already is.

    • @tonyb8660
      @tonyb8660 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      lol

    • @smartbaba1321
      @smartbaba1321 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Who told you?
      Ganga is getting clean then before.

    • @justice4549
      @justice4549 3 ปีที่แล้ว +80

      Over 370 miles of the Ganges is considered to be ecological dead zones lol

    • @bhavyagupta5173
      @bhavyagupta5173 3 ปีที่แล้ว +97

      @@smartbaba1321 LOL, who told you? Only very few areas are getting clean. Every city in the way dumps waste in the river. It can never be clean until people stop littering it.

    • @RaiderDave42069
      @RaiderDave42069 3 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      throw in a nuclear device and we'll see Ninja Turtles climbing out of that river

  • @dariogutierrez6716
    @dariogutierrez6716 3 ปีที่แล้ว +118

    This is the most interesting video I have seen this year so far.
    Imagine losing a nuclear battery.

    • @vaisakh_km
      @vaisakh_km 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      From the mobile phone.....

    • @lp115lp
      @lp115lp 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Remember when that pager satellite exploded and all the pagers in the northeast stopped working? Some of the plutonium cells which powered it fell into a local man's backyard. ARMY nuke crews arrived and scooped them up to take them away. (Newburgh NY area)

    • @sadfacereview3591
      @sadfacereview3591 ปีที่แล้ว

      as a person who "lost" dvd-rw drive in small 2 room apartment for months I can imagine that.

    • @Sol-os5pk
      @Sol-os5pk ปีที่แล้ว

      @@lp115lp I haven’t heard of this story. You got a link, this sounds interesting

  • @eheboi9278
    @eheboi9278 3 ปีที่แล้ว +231

    Me living close to the ganga
    *chuckles * I am in danger ehe

    • @StoutProper
      @StoutProper 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      I’d worry more about coronavirus mate

    • @_Mentat
      @_Mentat 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      You might want to check it out with a geiger counter; just saying...

    • @CIA_Killed_JFK
      @CIA_Killed_JFK 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Id worry about all the tannerys dumping toxic waste into the Ganga... fucking disgusting

    • @3kashm3
      @3kashm3 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Save the turtles! An i oop

    • @eheboi9278
      @eheboi9278 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@CIA_Killed_JFK best thing, early in the morning you'll see people taking a dump in the river and then in the evening you'll see the same people taking a bath in it 💀

  • @bobzelley5100
    @bobzelley5100 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This case was a subject of a lecture in my structural geology class in 1982. Our professor had been a consultant in the investigation.

  • @eddyadityapradhan7960
    @eddyadityapradhan7960 3 ปีที่แล้ว +99

    Big love to Thoughty2
    and everyone else watching this from Indian side of the Himalayas! Stay safe yall 🇮🇳🇮🇳

    • @gerald4027
      @gerald4027 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I sent you $500 in gift cards to fix my computer viruses and it is still broken.

    • @dv9239
      @dv9239 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      No

    • @dv9239
      @dv9239 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      No

    • @CrabTastingMan
      @CrabTastingMan 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      The conclusion was expected. If the device COULD melt miles of entire glaciers to flood cities, then 14 men and porters could not have carried a device that hot in the first place.
      And if somehow the heat radiated off the device was getting hotter over the decades, the locals would have seen just their local mountain rise in temperature for years, not have a sudden glacier meltdown.

    • @gsd2404
      @gsd2404 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks 🙏

  • @trifectaofchris
    @trifectaofchris 3 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    How has this not been made into a major Hollywood blockbuster yet? Also you've been smashing it with these past few uploads, excellent quality.

    • @pivkemrzli2297
      @pivkemrzli2297 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      hollywood produces only woke garbage movies these days...
      i somewhat doubt they would make a movie about some guys putting on a "black face" to fool the commies lol

    • @trifectaofchris
      @trifectaofchris 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@pivkemrzli2297 Fair point, but it would be a sick premise. Actually forget Hollywood, Bollywood should make this movie since a lot of Indian cinema is over the top anyways.

    • @subhadramahanta452
      @subhadramahanta452 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@trifectaofchris they'll make everyone dance and turn it into a love story🤦‍♀️

    • @BigDatsquatch
      @BigDatsquatch 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@pivkemrzli2297 So edgy

    • @eddiemunster4094
      @eddiemunster4094 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Broken Arrow is the name for a lost Atomic weapon!

  • @PHANTOMS969
    @PHANTOMS969 3 ปีที่แล้ว +64

    what hes actually saying: "hey Thoughty2 here."
    My brain: "Hey fourty-two here."

    • @40KoopasWereHere
      @40KoopasWereHere 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yep... that's likely the point. He's probably playing on the number 42, which was the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy whose author was English.

    • @pomtubes1205
      @pomtubes1205 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Glad to know that people still have this exact sentiment 5 years later

    • @zaidrumman1178
      @zaidrumman1178 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      SAME HERE

    • @noname-yt7uf
      @noname-yt7uf 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He did say 42 he has a speech impediment that means he can't pronounce his "Th". Usually people from southern England pronounce Th as F, as in Free instead of three.

    • @40KoopasWereHere
      @40KoopasWereHere 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@noname-yt7uf As your icon suggests... no

  • @chemistryscuriosities
    @chemistryscuriosities 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    From Wikipedia- (Plutonium-238 has a half-life of 87.7 years and emits alpha particles. It is a heat source in radioisotope thermoelectric generators, which are used to power some spacecraft. Plutonium isotopes are expensive and inconvenient to separate, so particular isotopes are usually manufactured in specialized reactors.)
    That being said it’s lost a lot of its radioactivity (almost a whole half-life), which equals less heat emissions. I don’t think it would have the ability to melt that much snow in the first place.

  • @nathanmorris4981
    @nathanmorris4981 3 ปีที่แล้ว +381

    I had wiped two girls one cup from my brain, thanks for bringing it back

    • @Jernofenz
      @Jernofenz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      aaaaa

    • @RustyNeverSleepz
      @RustyNeverSleepz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      This reminded me I gotta go poo

    • @Jernofenz
      @Jernofenz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@propio2957 dont look it up.. it's very bad

    • @Josh_Gates
      @Josh_Gates 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Jernofenz Ok Thanks
      Was about to search about it

    • @Jernofenz
      @Jernofenz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@propio2957 its very disgusting .. ... dont google it..... warning.. dont click read more
      its (edit:) nah.. I gotchu.. dont google it

  • @SilverFox-qr1ci
    @SilverFox-qr1ci 3 ปีที่แล้ว +102

    Nice one Thoughty. I see that you are a graduate of Jeremy Clarkson's school of "In the world" pronunciation and enunciation. Well done!

    • @myview5840
      @myview5840 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      James Mays fashion sense

    • @SilverFox-qr1ci
      @SilverFox-qr1ci 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@myview5840 LMAO!

  • @Ryedor
    @Ryedor 3 ปีที่แล้ว +68

    Gotta wonder ... what other nuggets of destruction are hangin' around the planet that we still don't know about ? Scary stuff.

    • @MasaokaKun
      @MasaokaKun 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I once heard that the USSR had a plan in case the eventual war with the USA was lost: detonate a ship full of nuclear bombs (or something like that) in the middle of the Pacific ocean. Supposedly they never got around actually building the thing... but who fucking knows.

    • @zacharymerrill8359
      @zacharymerrill8359 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@MasaokaKun with everything going on in the world we’ll probably have a nuclear war in the next 50 years

    • @connorjohnson4402
      @connorjohnson4402 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@MasaokaKun The Cold war era was just crazy we came up with some apocalyptic level shit a bunch of bombs in the pacific wouldn't do much really why do you think we nuked the crap out of bikini atoll and other tiny islands for testing? I think they had a plan to dirty bomb the west coast or just spread radioactive material from a submarine but don't quote me but a good example would be the big stick rocket check it out in this video
      th-cam.com/video/DZHONQAMV48/w-d-xo.html

    • @hosmerhomeboy
      @hosmerhomeboy 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Probably a few. Plus there's the ones the planet just has already. And the ones that could come from space.

    • @rahulmenon4357
      @rahulmenon4357 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      US Army dropped a hydrogen bomb near Savannah, Georgia. Never found it. I think there are 42+ "missing" Nukes.

  • @ross1972
    @ross1972 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Indian tanning lotions? That sounds like the worlds worst business idea.

    • @s-kazi940
      @s-kazi940 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yah, we already have the deepest, and the most beautiful tans.

  • @Daniel-lx3nh
    @Daniel-lx3nh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    “Batteries with the bunny on them”
    *proceeds to show duracel*

    • @supercomputer0448
      @supercomputer0448 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      They origonally used a pink bunny as their mascot before energizer stole it.

  • @nachtopus4872
    @nachtopus4872 3 ปีที่แล้ว +150

    I love that I can listen to random knowledge shit from a smart-sounding british guy and also hear sex jokes in one video lol

    • @lp115lp
      @lp115lp 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      'British'? You mean 'Australian'?

    • @nachtopus4872
      @nachtopus4872 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@lp115lp lol i forgot

    • @Luka_3D
      @Luka_3D 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      How in hell do you hear an australian accent in him? xD
      He's the most british person I know

    • @nachtopus4872
      @nachtopus4872 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Luka_3D I thought the same but I was corrected...

    • @frazzledazzlem1921
      @frazzledazzlem1921 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@nachtopus4872 it even says in the description that he is british. You were right the first time

  • @sohanm3051
    @sohanm3051 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Not only CIA was present in Operation Hat Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW), and Indian Army's mountain climber were also present

    • @swapnilshinde714
      @swapnilshinde714 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Are you sure R&AW existed back then?

    • @rider4334
      @rider4334 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@swapnilshinde714 Nope, RAW was formed 3 years later

    • @swapnilshinde714
      @swapnilshinde714 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@rider4334 yup

  • @paulust.shavukah633
    @paulust.shavukah633 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Your take on the frozen hikers being used as landmarks up mount Himalayas would be interesting.

  • @sanity.t
    @sanity.t 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    "Two bombs one satellite"
    Unlocked a forgotten memory 💀

  • @jonnaughton
    @jonnaughton 3 ปีที่แล้ว +131

    ‘“The CIA would have to carry it....”
    Sorry, but I have to correct you. The CIA wouldn’t have carried squat. It would have been the Sherpas doing the really hard work 🤣

    • @1337YTuser
      @1337YTuser 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That is racist of you to say. Those Sherpas where obviously guides...

    • @ronniewilliz153
      @ronniewilliz153 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I bet he's right tho but then again they where climbers already so I bet they did help them

    • @1337YTuser
      @1337YTuser 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ronniewilliz153 climbers have always used locals as guides, it's logical

    • @alexjavanainen4259
      @alexjavanainen4259 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Probably not a good idea to let the locals know you have an ultra secret, radioactive project on top of a mountain near them

    • @1337YTuser
      @1337YTuser 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@alexjavanainen4259 why would you tell them that? Just tell them it is some oil finding device, idk, I'm not an American. :D

  • @Shwoob9
    @Shwoob9 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    “Really expensive ones with a bunny” im crying lmfao

  • @targaryenXoolf
    @targaryenXoolf ปีที่แล้ว

    today is 8th year of me and Thoughty2. i love you man. you are family now. thanks for being there always. i use you for relaxing my anxiety. i have watched few videos atleast 20 times. i love you man

  • @giusepperana6354
    @giusepperana6354 3 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    They told them it was gold ... who says those sherpas didnt go up again on their own to fetch it.

    • @Matt-yg8ub
      @Matt-yg8ub 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Bingo.

    • @1dgram
      @1dgram 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      If they figured out how to hook them up then they just got free electricity for life. If not, at least free heat. Of course if they break it open then they likely got death as a reward.

    • @srenkoch6127
      @srenkoch6127 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@1dgram Yep, quite similar to the number of soviet Strontium-based RTGs scattered and forgotten and rusting along the arctic coast (they was used to power automated lighthouses etc).
      Some of those have had the steel protective cage around them broken up (or rusted away).......

    • @CrabTastingMan
      @CrabTastingMan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The conclusion was expected. If the device COULD melt miles of entire glaciers to flood cities, then 14 men and porters could not have carried a device that hot in the first place.
      And if somehow the heat radiated off the device was getting hotter over the decades, the locals would have seen just their local mountain rise in temperature for years, not have a sudden glacier meltdown.

    • @1dgram
      @1dgram 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @sbcontt YT Plutonium-238 is an alpha emitter. Alpha radiation is easily shielded and is safe as long as the shielding stays intact. The reason it's safe is that the shielding absorbs all the radiation. Break that shielding though and get some of that Pu-238 in your body and your body becomes that shielding. If you survive the cell damage then the cancer will probably kill you.

  • @rvxn
    @rvxn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    Discovery channel did a documentary about this. However, Thoughty 2 always brings something new.

  • @r.ryu.gav7287
    @r.ryu.gav7287 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    3:45 When I saw the 2G-1C reference, I instantly headed to the comments, and oh boy it didn't disappoint me lmao xD

  • @ryanbauer3680
    @ryanbauer3680 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wasn't this essentially the bad guy's plot in Mission Impossible 6?
    I mean we've been dealing with the fallout from that damn mustache alone.

  • @Yargenshmoler
    @Yargenshmoler 3 ปีที่แล้ว +86

    "man, the snow is getting pretty harsh, what if we just" *leaves device that constantly produces heat at the top of a large mostly frozen mountain that is almost impossible to access expecting it not to just melt and slide down/away*

    • @honkhonk8009
      @honkhonk8009 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Hindu moment

    • @geophiery4636
      @geophiery4636 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Well, gee wiz i didnt know small amounts of heat could melt a whole bleeping mountain.
      Wtaf is wrong with ppl has c physics is not that hard.

    • @Yargenshmoler
      @Yargenshmoler 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@geophiery4636 lol im pretty sure the tundra weather kept the box cold, its called 🌟 a joke 🌟

    • @davidford3115
      @davidford3115 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      For the sake of argument, if the flood was caused by the Plutonium, would it not have left a radiation signature? Plutonium does cause a Geiger counter to tick after all. So does the radioactive decay products.

    • @pouncepounce7417
      @pouncepounce7417 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@davidford3115 Not really.
      While the thing generates heat and radiation and that radiation makes some atoms around it to become radioactive themself, most of that stuff has a very low lifespan so the result is very hard to meassure downstream with dispersion and all.
      If the case cracks and the actual material inside leaks out though, that you can measure, that stuff was especially choosen because it has a long lifespan.
      If it generates enough heat to actual cause flooding by any measure i doubt, given it had to be handled by people directlky to get there in the first place...

  • @mantis-mike5882
    @mantis-mike5882 3 ปีที่แล้ว +129

    Truth is almost Always stranger than fiction

    • @jimboonie9885
      @jimboonie9885 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      yankee nhỏ

    • @jyotirmayamohanty5723
      @jyotirmayamohanty5723 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It was actually stolen by RAW members. Otherwise it could have been there at same place where the joint Indo-US team had left it. You see..... even the perfectly preserved corpses of soldiers, pilots and climbers are still found in Himalayas after 40 years, some after 15 years.

    • @FUNZUS
      @FUNZUS 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      okay Mrballen

    • @nolan4826
      @nolan4826 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @FUNZUS he’s cool

    • @Raccon_Detective.
      @Raccon_Detective. 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@FUNZUS
      Mrballen is the goat

  • @musicislaw77
    @musicislaw77 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Great content, Arron. Cheers and love from India.

  • @imerence6290
    @imerence6290 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm eagerly waiting.

  • @dfernandez3482
    @dfernandez3482 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    0:36 "glass-siers" is the word of the day 👍

    • @dooder9612
      @dooder9612 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      On absolute history channel one narrator said "brish-ish" as a poor attempt of saying british despite being british

    • @SirZanZa
      @SirZanZa 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That is the correct and official pronunciation of the object in the English language... Glay-Shur is a bastardisation of the pronunciation Glassy-er and one commonly used by no other than yep.. you guessed it.. Americans lol... say it how you want though i don't give a f

    • @dooder9612
      @dooder9612 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@SirZanZa thoughty is very traditional so he often uses traditional words

    • @BipoIarbear
      @BipoIarbear 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Since we invented the language we can use it as we want

    • @SirZanZa
      @SirZanZa 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@BipoIarbear Haha yeah 100% factual

  • @isaacmacias7486
    @isaacmacias7486 3 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    Idk why but I feel like it would be a badass mission to recover a lost box containing astronomically high radioactive balls in the middle of secluded mountains and glaciers to possible prevent the chance of a highly catostrophic disaster to nature

    • @mdsk7623
      @mdsk7623 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Yes we should do it, I've climbed a couple hills in my time.Lets set up a date to start the mission

    • @NickDaGamer1998
      @NickDaGamer1998 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@mdsk7623 I'm down. When?

    • @M0hit1
      @M0hit1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Next mission impossible plot probably

    • @saheel3586
      @saheel3586 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lmao

    • @TNP-
      @TNP- 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      lets actually have this hapen

  • @furanduron4926
    @furanduron4926 3 ปีที่แล้ว +613

    "The world is the problem, the atomic bomb is the answer."
    -Gandhi probably

    • @pie5372
      @pie5372 3 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      Civilization 6 Gandhi 😳

    • @ThatTieDyeGuy
      @ThatTieDyeGuy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      we don't need an atomic bomb, the world needs a Nuclear Bong..... Bombs bring destruction and death, but the nuclear bong brings happiness and brotherhood!! - R. Williams

    • @Suave121
      @Suave121 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@ThatTieDyeGuy a true chad

    • @chinchin4618
      @chinchin4618 3 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      "Send Nudes, not hate"
      - Gandhi, Actually

    • @recentrogue
      @recentrogue 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Gold

  • @thurmar111
    @thurmar111 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Im more likely to believe they left it there with a remote detonator to threaten india if they ever step out of line

  • @pawanbhandari2004
    @pawanbhandari2004 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    I'm from the same state where Nada devi is situated , devbhoomi ( land of lord)

  • @farhanzester6576
    @farhanzester6576 3 ปีที่แล้ว +67

    U.S: "we should stop China from making problems.."
    [A few months later]
    "Opps, we made a problem"

    • @pazmiki77
      @pazmiki77 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I mean they don't FORCE the population to consume the propaganda do they

    • @deepstariaenigmatica2601
      @deepstariaenigmatica2601 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@pazmiki77 they do actually

    • @linuxbasic3399
      @linuxbasic3399 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@pazmiki77 no they just force the population to die by selling a medicine manuctured at $3 at price of $100...

    • @linuxbasic3399
      @linuxbasic3399 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      and a medicine whose patents were made free for the sole purpose of making it less costly...

    • @jah5886
      @jah5886 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      +10 social credit

  • @corey2232
    @corey2232 3 ปีที่แล้ว +67

    Before Title Change: *"Why a Nuclear Device Lost in the Himalayas Could Destroy India"*

    • @lapiswolf2780
      @lapiswolf2780 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Still says that for me.

    • @NeoZ45
      @NeoZ45 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Gandhi at it again

    • @ishanchegu
      @ishanchegu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@NeoZ45 thats where all your GDRs are coming from. lizards eating lost nukes.

    • @robertwilliams450
      @robertwilliams450 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      No more scam calls😉

    • @RXK51
      @RXK51 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@robertwilliams450 fools 🙄

  • @yungflap5465
    @yungflap5465 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The two girls one cup reference😂🤣😂🤣

  • @HollowVortex
    @HollowVortex 3 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    Couldnt you just use thermal imaging and geiger counters to find the device? or just use a camera from the air with thinner filters?

    • @bismarckrathod5890
      @bismarckrathod5890 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Shhhhh you are not suppose to say that

    • @rickseifert5139
      @rickseifert5139 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I agree mate , with the technology now available that's incorporated into satellites it should be pretty easy for them to find , unless the climbers were being watched and their precious cargo was seized as soon as the USA team left the country or area.

    • @CarsCatAliens
      @CarsCatAliens 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Absolutely, thanks for the deep thought ..

    • @nihalbhandary162
      @nihalbhandary162 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The boxes are lined with lead and stuff, any radiation it gives off is weak. And it is mostly covered in god knows how many meters of ice. Water is an excellent radaiton absorber, which makes it virtually impossible to locate it.
      Maybe someone using a metal detector will be more heloful.

  • @blazedgamingkr
    @blazedgamingkr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    The "Stick a Flag in it" audiobook is narrated by Thoughty2 himself. Noice. 😉

    • @wizard_bunny
      @wizard_bunny 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      That sounds like a delicious treat to the ears!!

  • @SupremeVelocity01
    @SupremeVelocity01 3 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    Humanity is like a toddler that found some plutonium fuel rods in a sandbox and is stacking them like a house of cards to show to mommy.

    • @f87115
      @f87115 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Heee yes,,,, remember when people would paint themselves in radioactive paint Bc it glowed and looked cool ,,, those people ,, are all dead now

    • @rajendrarathore1560
      @rajendrarathore1560 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@f87115 you types this quite funny.

  • @jribeye1818
    @jribeye1818 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Lol. Literally watched the lake skeletons earlier today.

  • @curruptedcoffee
    @curruptedcoffee 3 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    The guy who lost the nuke and his group: "where did it go it was just here" they guy at the back of the group who was ment to carry the device: "oh you wanted me to carry it up the mountain... i left it somewhere coz my heands got tired"

  • @mysticflare4434
    @mysticflare4434 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Praying for India , stay strong India 🙏

  • @mehdihassan8316
    @mehdihassan8316 3 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    What a coincidence, I just started my cold war unit in school today.

    • @ipposaur
      @ipposaur 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Ethan Clark 🤣🤣🤣

    • @itsitsits9933
      @itsitsits9933 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      🤣🤣

    • @robertwilliams450
      @robertwilliams450 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Pay attention because the cold war never really ended

    • @itsitsits9933
      @itsitsits9933 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@robertwilliams450 ur misinformed

    • @robertwilliams450
      @robertwilliams450 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@itsitsits9933 its still on-going. If it was over we still wouldn't be spying on each other.

  • @shagirani5518
    @shagirani5518 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What happened to the bomb?
    Us: uh there is a problem, we lost it..
    Hol' up, WHAT????

  • @colonelgraff9198
    @colonelgraff9198 3 ปีที่แล้ว +74

    The last time I was this early I was hauling Plutonium up a mountain

    • @oneshothunter9877
      @oneshothunter9877 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Aha!
      Gotcha'...! 😂

    • @oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164
      @oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Your balls glowing?

    • @flagmichael
      @flagmichael 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Just so you know why it was so heavy, it wasn't the lead box. Plutonium is just short of twice as dense as lead. What does not kill you makes you stronger, right?

  • @Cody-Coyote
    @Cody-Coyote 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Ive watched your content for years and have your audio book. I love your content and I watch through all of your ads lol. Keep up the good content man.

    • @WfxRS
      @WfxRS 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      He’s not going to f*ck you bro

    • @idonthavegoodusernames
      @idonthavegoodusernames 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@WfxRS let a fan be a fan he just likes his channel no reason to be toxic

    • @rea280
      @rea280 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@idonthavegoodusernames Nobody likes brown nosing

    • @BatCostumeGuy
      @BatCostumeGuy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@rea280 Nobody likes your existence either.

  • @BlackSeranna
    @BlackSeranna 3 ปีที่แล้ว +78

    Okay so here I am thinking, “Okay, it’s a good day, let’s see what I can do.” Then I see this from Thoughty2, decide humanity will just end up destroying itself, and so I just end up eating a bunch of brownies to feel better.

    • @CrabTastingMan
      @CrabTastingMan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The conclusion was expected. If the device COULD melt miles of entire glaciers to flood cities, then 14 men and porters could not have carried a device that hot in the first place.
      And if somehow the heat radiated off the device was getting hotter over the decades, the locals would have seen just their local mountain rise in temperature for years, not have a sudden glacier meltdown.

    • @cryptodamus7852
      @cryptodamus7852 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      So fat

  • @bboygmoney
    @bboygmoney 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    For the longest time I thought this channel was called Forty two because of his accent.

  • @LowQualityPigeon
    @LowQualityPigeon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    "Why does saying two bombs one satellite makes me feel queasy"
    Oh god💀

    • @Korisovra
      @Korisovra 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks for that reminder of the 90s and opening random links your "friends" send you lol
      I thought I had suppressed that memory better lol

    • @LowQualityPigeon
      @LowQualityPigeon 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Korisovra sorry you're not allowed to supress that memory 😂. It must be a part of your life

    • @ahnaftahmidshoccho9567
      @ahnaftahmidshoccho9567 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      2 nukes = 1 satellite oof

  • @talusimp7737
    @talusimp7737 3 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    3:42 he didn’t just make a two girls one cup joke
    he just made a two girls one cup joke
    i love this man

    • @AnchovySpice
      @AnchovySpice 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Oh yes, yes he did!

    • @zaidrumman1178
      @zaidrumman1178 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I DIDNT GT THE JOK

    • @SCOMBAG
      @SCOMBAG 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@zaidrumman1178 If you value your sanity, don't ever look up the reference. You're welcome.

    • @harry2110
      @harry2110 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      He also talks about the device blowing its load as well

  • @KarmicVagabond
    @KarmicVagabond 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Spies in the Himalayas: Secret Missions and Dangerous Climbs, by M. S. Kohli and Kenneth Conboy, 2002. University Press of Kansas

  • @oliverhutchinson5039
    @oliverhutchinson5039 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    One of the best channels on YT