The Highest Radiation Dose in Any Human (Who Survived) | Tales From the Bottle

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  • @Qxir
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    • @roix5543
      @roix5543 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      yesnt

    • @gullysl
      @gullysl 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Love The vids!

    • @gatorermy8204
      @gatorermy8204 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Oklahoma bombing video when?

    • @charlesficherwcoffeebreaks7521
      @charlesficherwcoffeebreaks7521 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wow diz sum else.

    • @Slavicplayer251
      @Slavicplayer251 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      poor bastard
      and no, you need to increase the frame rate and decrease screen time to 1 frame preferably ever 60 frames

  • @pattyboi1868
    @pattyboi1868 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19723

    Man has a 6 times fatal dose of radiation, lots of his internal organs and outlives the life expectancy of his time, the man is a legend.

    • @ulfrick11
      @ulfrick11 2 ปีที่แล้ว +523

      absolute mad lad.

    • @chewy99.
      @chewy99. 2 ปีที่แล้ว +369

      You mean he lost lots of his internal organs

    • @spicywings4614
      @spicywings4614 2 ปีที่แล้ว +846

      and he died OF HEART DISEASE of all things. something kinda normal for elderly

    • @Mike020389
      @Mike020389 2 ปีที่แล้ว +283

      @@ulfrick11 rad lad? :3

    • @jesseraiden4505
      @jesseraiden4505 2 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      @@Mike020389 I was thinking the same thing LMAO

  • @opioidsopinions6550
    @opioidsopinions6550 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15181

    This guy is both the luckiest and unluckiest guy imaginable

    • @JermaineBeatsOfficial
      @JermaineBeatsOfficial 2 ปีที่แล้ว +150

      Yeah, I agree with you. Many people would have died or gotten severe body reactions from it.

    • @phosphatepod
      @phosphatepod 2 ปีที่แล้ว +374

      @@JermaineBeatsOfficial no, (almost) everyone would have decomposed in hours with that dosage. the fact that the homie survived with minimal symptoms is fucking miraculous

    • @JermaineBeatsOfficial
      @JermaineBeatsOfficial 2 ปีที่แล้ว +69

      @@phosphatepod Oh, that is what I meant by "severe body reactions". it is a miracle that a few people survived minimal symptoms, the majority of people would have severe reactions towards radiation (plutonium),

    • @Periwinkleaccount
      @Periwinkleaccount 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      The fact that he survived is a special kind of good. An ambulance is this type of good; it’s good that it’s there, but not good that it needs to be there.

    • @GigsVT
      @GigsVT 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      The acute dose was low. He's the highest accumulated dose because he did live so long. It's not even known whether low doses of radiation are even that dangerous. There isn't enough data on long term low level exposure to say whether a linear dose-response relationship exists, or if it's more like a threshold. We have plenty of data on short, intense, exposures and how much of that it generally takes to kill you, but for those who survive they generally live to old age with no lingering ill effects. If you look at other cases of long term exposures like radium girls, the damage was generally from the direct toxicity of radium as a heavy metal, rather than as a radioactive substance. Uranium similarly will destroy your kidneys, not because it's radioactive, but just because it's a toxic metal.

  • @Xer0280
    @Xer0280 ปีที่แล้ว +2885

    Imagine being injected with plutonium, having a large portion of your organs removed, and dying at the age of 79 because of a HEART disease. I aspire to be like him.

    • @averageminecraftenjoyer9419
      @averageminecraftenjoyer9419 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      You worded that wrong

    • @Xer0280
      @Xer0280 ปีที่แล้ว +76

      nah, I just meant that I aspire to be a chad like him that can shrug off radiation poisoning and die of something completely unrelated at a reasonably old age.

    • @Standard____
      @Standard____ ปีที่แล้ว +12

      At that point there could be a chance of his heart being one of the ones removed

    • @JohnDoe-nc5dt
      @JohnDoe-nc5dt ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Really goes to show how much diet matters

    • @craigdavies2598
      @craigdavies2598 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      heart disease is what a lot of elderly die of even!

  • @imnotgivingmyname2389
    @imnotgivingmyname2389 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8307

    Despite what the surgery led him to believe, this man was probably incredibly resistant to cancer. Not only did he never have cancer in the first place, he then proceeded to be subjected to massive doses of radiation, and subsequently failed to develop any tumors whatsoever!

    • @PixelSubstream
      @PixelSubstream 2 ปีที่แล้ว +551

      There must be some biogical or genetic element involved there 🤔

    • @tr4shpanda
      @tr4shpanda 2 ปีที่แล้ว +828

      My guy took 30 rad-resists and rad-x

    • @friendlyoldpieceofapoppedp711
      @friendlyoldpieceofapoppedp711 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      It’s a shame he died, those genes would have benefited his children and future family(or families) for a couple of generations

    • @brickheadz2865
      @brickheadz2865 2 ปีที่แล้ว +553

      @@tr4shpanda it’s a miracle this guy didn’t turn into a ghoul

    • @metalman_j
      @metalman_j 2 ปีที่แล้ว +67

      ...as far as we know.

  • @lilystonne4108
    @lilystonne4108 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1085

    He lived to 79 years and never suspected. I would say it was the best case scenario for him. He even believed that he had cancer and was cured.

    • @tacitozetticci9308
      @tacitozetticci9308 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      Sometimes, surviving a close call (even a fake one) can improve your life immensely

  • @bon12121
    @bon12121 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1110

    Richard Feynman (Look him up if you don't know him, amazing man) worked on the manhattan project. In his (first) autobiography, he said during the project they had a huge sphere of Uranium (he said it was always warm to the touch) and a huge sphere of gold, BUT they only had one stand (to hold the sphere). Since Uranium was so crucial to the project, they put it on the stand and the gold sphere was used as a prop to hold the door open.

    • @iancastelobranco
      @iancastelobranco ปีที่แล้ว +31

      why use a sphere to hold a door

    • @bon12121
      @bon12121 ปีที่แล้ว +140

      @@iancastelobranco I wasn't there. Even though the 'lols' weren't invented yet, I think it was for the LOLs.

    • @zahariburgess3660
      @zahariburgess3660 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@iancastelobranco because its funny

    • @turbo8628
      @turbo8628 ปีที่แล้ว +89

      I like that some of the smartest people in the world chose to use possibly the worse shape for a doorstop. Definitely for the lols haha

    • @iancastelobranco
      @iancastelobranco ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@zahariburgess3660 sounds plausable, i would do the same

  • @jenneacubero1036
    @jenneacubero1036 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5932

    Sadly, this wouldn't be the last time the government did something this shady; just look at what happened to James Thornwell with that LSD experiment. Like Albert Stevenes, poor James wasn't told or aware what was going on until YEARS later. Unlike Albert Stevens though, his mental health suffered alot from the ordeal.

    • @ToastyNoneofyourbusiness
      @ToastyNoneofyourbusiness 2 ปีที่แล้ว +183

      There was also the Tunguskee experiments

    • @marcusaetius9309
      @marcusaetius9309 2 ปีที่แล้ว +132

      Also don’t forget that there were some germ warfare testing done in the subway..

    • @pluto8404
      @pluto8404 2 ปีที่แล้ว +80

      we definitely need more government control and programs.

    • @melodydantalionmellowastar1990
      @melodydantalionmellowastar1990 2 ปีที่แล้ว +152

      @@skibum4207 they knew what they were doing
      What they DIDN'T know was what the outcome would be...
      Don't start twisting ignorance and innocence it doesn't work

    • @blitzkrieg1098
      @blitzkrieg1098 2 ปีที่แล้ว +81

      @@skibum4207 You realize that makes it worse, right?

  • @antonyzadymiarz2554
    @antonyzadymiarz2554 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3989

    fun fact: Pierre Currie (husband of Marie Currie) knew very well that radiation is extremly dangerous and can kill him, but he also had an ampule of (i believe) Rad that he would take to the parties to show off how it "glowed in the dark". Very smart man

    • @avalonvalley2722
      @avalonvalley2722 2 ปีที่แล้ว +581

      Legit! Radium-girls (ie factory workers who painted luminous clock dials etc) used to go out to nightclubs with their teeth painted in hopes to get noticed in the low-lighting 😬🙈

    • @NotDuncan
      @NotDuncan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +197

      He sounds like a truly vial man

    • @BNJ_SOT
      @BNJ_SOT 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Even extremely smart people are morons outside of their specialty lol We're all just dumb apes at the end of the day

    • @baneblade__
      @baneblade__ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      Based

    • @kylelovell121
      @kylelovell121 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      i would have done did it too son

  • @curiouslyt2123
    @curiouslyt2123 ปีที่แล้ว +125

    OMG! Did anyone notice that needle used to inject the plutonium! It was HUGE! The metal casing around the chamber that holds the dose with a needle sticking out of it is very intimidating especially to anyone terrified of getting shots in general! I’d be out of there!

    • @awetistic5295
      @awetistic5295 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I had scintigraphy once and that metal coated syringe made me so nervous! And that thing was tiny compared to the monster shown in the video.

    • @fridanilsen9983
      @fridanilsen9983 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@awetistic5295the only reason for the metal around the syringe is to protect the staff from radiation (since they work with it daily). The syringe is no larger than it would otherwise be when having something injected into the body

    • @awetistic5295
      @awetistic5295 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@fridanilsen9983 Yeah, the dose you receive just this one time probably isn't harmful at all. It just looks scary and set off alarms in my brain. But the staff uses many of these syringes daily, it would add up quickly for them without protection.

  • @Peterscraps
    @Peterscraps 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2812

    The highest radiation dose by sieverts? mans never experienced the flesh burning power of 3.6 roentgen. For real there are so many ways to measure radiations that it gets confusing to translate it into lethality given conditions, exposure and type.

    • @findantu
      @findantu 2 ปีที่แล้ว +259

      I figure when the clicking on a device goes to a buzz your pretty much fucked.

    • @ace.l.w
      @ace.l.w 2 ปีที่แล้ว +177

      The banana equivalent dose (BED), the unit of Grays (J/kg, the unit for absorbed dose), Becquerels and Curies (SI and imperial units for disintegrations over time), etc etc. The presence of so many units which could EASILY be just expressed as what they are in terms of conventionally understood units would make the understanding of radiation safety so much more accessible. It’s ridiculous.

    • @antiqe4286
      @antiqe4286 2 ปีที่แล้ว +82

      Ehhh not great, not terrible

    • @arkan_k4c582
      @arkan_k4c582 2 ปีที่แล้ว +107

      Sievert is the one that is always used when you are talking about biological damage

    • @rainman2222
      @rainman2222 2 ปีที่แล้ว +121

      Just so you know the different measurements of radiation measure different things. Sieverts measure the raw biological damage of radiation. Other measurements are for more scientific purposes (like chemistry)

  • @ashers1930
    @ashers1930 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1684

    Scary to know that they did this without them knowing, I’ve heard something like this a ton of times but it’s still more disturbing every time

    • @simianto9957
      @simianto9957 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@Stevie-J bruh

    • @imperiumoccidentis7351
      @imperiumoccidentis7351 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Stevie-J Based and true, but the bootlickers of course won't agree. The FDA weren't planning on releasing the pfizer documents for another 55 years until forced to by a court-order. And Pfizer/Moderna was made immune to liability. And the media was repeatedly exposed for lying about covid and the vaccines.
      Anyone that still trusts the state/media after knowing everything they've done for the last 70 years and more has subhuman intelligence.

    • @PatchworxStudios
      @PatchworxStudios 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@Stevie-J Thats what i wanted to say.

    • @TimSlee1
      @TimSlee1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@Stevie-J Any criticism of the government are just "dangerous conspiracies". Obedience is the safest option.

    • @kobold7466
      @kobold7466 2 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      just know your government can and will do anything they want to you without your consent and all their talks about rights and caring about you is bogus

  • @_ghost9
    @_ghost9 2 ปีที่แล้ว +164

    My mom worked in hospice after college and one of her patients claimed to have helped make the first nuke. He was really distraught about it and one of the last things he did was to give a huge apology, my mom said he died peacefully

    • @Daniel_0778
      @Daniel_0778 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Nahh he in hell now i guess, bomb that he made just kill a lot of japanese🥱

    • @-andreiDNA
      @-andreiDNA ปีที่แล้ว

      He probably had dementia-induced psychosis and guilt because of delusions of grandeur (the delusion being that he was involved in the creation of a nuke).That's much more likely than the alternative of him being some ex-nuclear scientist

    • @bobreee9563
      @bobreee9563 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@Daniel_0778u think the creators choose where to drop it lmao

    • @4rs0n1st
      @4rs0n1st 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@bobreee9563bro doesn’t know abt the purpose of the manhattan project💀💀

    • @DannyDevitoOffical-TrustMeBro
      @DannyDevitoOffical-TrustMeBro หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Daniel_0778and the Japanese were responsible for the deaths of countless other innocent people in places like China, where they suffered under cruel colonialism from sadistic monsters given free reign. Our American POWs were put through horrors beyond the normal imagination of a human. Why is it such a huge problem to you that it was the _japanese_ who died because we needed to drop bombs on them to get them to stop, instead of the fact that they had so horribly victimized so many people in the first place?

  • @JBX07
    @JBX07 2 ปีที่แล้ว +726

    "The government injected me with plutonium!"
    "How do you know? Do you have any proof?"
    "I feel it in my bones!"

    • @ChucksSEADnDEAD
      @ChucksSEADnDEAD 2 ปีที่แล้ว +95

      Imagine Dragons: "Write that down! Write that down!"

    • @ggoddkkiller1342
      @ggoddkkiller1342 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      In 1945 it was very well known radiation was extremely harmful to human body but it was unknown how bad it could get. So those scientists knew they were risking their lives but simply changing the world was more important for them. Those surgeons who removed his organs knew he didn't have cancer as soon as they opened him up because cancer is so insanely different than normal tissue and no surgeon could confuse them unless they were freaking blind!! So they only removed his organs to make tests on them simply because he didn't die and they couldn't make tests like other subjects. If they can remove a person's organs to only make tests assuming all those people had terminal illnesses or plutonium didn't do anything to them is just being insanely naive i must say..
      Same goes for nuclear attacks because in reality Japan tried to conditionally surrender MONTHS before the bombs and there weren't many conditions neither rather the biggest disagreement was full immunity for their emperor. Allies refused it and demanded unconditional surrender from Japanese government. However this could mean their emperor who was seen as holy (Still seen by a lot of Japanese people) could be executed by allies so they refused it. Even after nuclear attacks and brutal murder of hundreds of thousands of innocent people Japan wasn't still surrendering. Until 6 days later when the emperor that allies didn't want to grant immunity intervened to the war first time and broadcasted a radio message, literally begging Japanese people to surrender. After their emperor begged them to surrender thousands of Japanese soldiers began surrendering in every front and only two days later Japanese government as well officially surrendered. The worst of all even if Japan surrendered unconditionally their emperor wasn't held responsible for a single action of Japan so allies could very well grant him immunity at first place then there was no need for nuclear attacks!! Unless US also needed to test this new weapon ofc, in fact both Nagasaki and Hiroshima kept outside of ordinary air raids of US air force so cities wouldn't be damaged and the affects of nuclear bombs could be seen more accurately!! This resulted as people from Tokyo etc which was bombed into ground taking refugee in Nagasaki and Hiroshima thinking those cities were SAFE!! The world is a lot more wicked place than even Qxir is potraying...

    • @digressingalice2764
      @digressingalice2764 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Enough to make your systems blow?

    • @micah7685
      @micah7685 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      There also radiating the hell out of people with over ordering ct scans. The medical field is out of control

    • @Dancingonthesun
      @Dancingonthesun 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I wish I could thumb you up twice

  • @freddymars2014
    @freddymars2014 2 ปีที่แล้ว +362

    If he lived to 79 after all of that, I imagine had they left him alone, he would have lived to 100 or more.

    • @frederickdenbosch3742
      @frederickdenbosch3742 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      no

    • @MetalWizard1
      @MetalWizard1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@frederickdenbosch3742guess not

    • @HollieMoodie
      @HollieMoodie 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      No heart disease dd him in.

    • @hueyfreeman707
      @hueyfreeman707 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      @@HollieMoodie His heart would have been able to do better with a complete set of working organs

  • @kaylsx6204
    @kaylsx6204 2 ปีที่แล้ว +70

    4:35 Age 4??!!! Bro... No.. Just wtf.

  • @maddiewhatever441
    @maddiewhatever441 2 ปีที่แล้ว +650

    This actual "surprise radiation" happened to my dad's family. Coldwater creek backed up to their house. It flooded often, and my grandpa, a police officer at the time, unknowingly helped guide the direction of nuclear waste to be buried. He died of cancer in 2006 when I was 4.

    • @iyanubanks100
      @iyanubanks100 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Oh wow I’m so sorry 💔

    • @Birdalotl
      @Birdalotl 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I am sorry.

    • @savannah-marc
      @savannah-marc 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      What state is coldwater creek in?

    • @RagingBrachy
      @RagingBrachy ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@savannah-marc planet earth

    • @muhdaqeel7330
      @muhdaqeel7330 ปีที่แล้ว

      You have my condolences.

  • @TranscendentaLobo27
    @TranscendentaLobo27 2 ปีที่แล้ว +340

    As a person who always asks “What’s in that syringe?” I would have been quite unnerved by the possible contents of that metallic monstrosity.

    • @franny5295
      @franny5295 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I simply would have stayed away from it. But I don't let people stick me for any reason other than death being imminent or dental surgery.

    • @waltuh2.3bviews3secondsago3
      @waltuh2.3bviews3secondsago3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Tbf the nurses didn't know either i don't think so that wouldn't work

    • @pauljohnson3851
      @pauljohnson3851 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      They would've just lied to you and you would've believed it

    • @wio1
      @wio1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@pauljohnson3851 I'm surprised to find a reply from 38 minutes ago

    • @etcetera1995
      @etcetera1995 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      They would have lied and you would have bought it. Don't pretend otherwise.

  • @crispycoincidence
    @crispycoincidence ปีที่แล้ว +24

    "One guy even swallowed the stuff"
    "Now these guys weren't stupid"

  • @indie_keegan
    @indie_keegan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +570

    The story has all the beats of a cool superhero origin. Then he has the audacity to LIVE and return to a normal life. *BULLOCKS*

    • @carpo719
      @carpo719 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      That's just what they want you to think. I guarantee you he was exposed to Kryptonite. That's the only reason he died

    • @udayshahin10
      @udayshahin10 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      By focusing his energy he could give you cancer.....

  • @Dominion69420
    @Dominion69420 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3009

    Is it possible you could do a story on Kenny Bräck who’s indycar crash at Texas Motor Speedway in 2003 subjected him to a half second force of 214 gs, thus making him the person to have survived the highest (edit: *Documented-couple people have pointed that out, fair enough) G force ever?
    Edit pt 2: Its also fair to point out majority of the injuries he sustained were from the crash itself, not the g force. Still as a whole a video on extreme records of survivability (like Vesna Vulović’s 33,000 ft fall with I believe has already been brought up once) would be a cool topic

    • @thirstyserpent1079
      @thirstyserpent1079 2 ปีที่แล้ว +136

      214 G's? Jesus did the guy comment on what it felt like? How bad were the injuries from the gravity alone?

    • @bubbleman2002
      @bubbleman2002 2 ปีที่แล้ว +87

      This would be a great subject and give Qxir plenty of opportunity to crack jokes about oval racing.

    • @JonesySurvived
      @JonesySurvived 2 ปีที่แล้ว +202

      @@thirstyserpent1079 "He suffered multiple fractures, breaking his sternum, femur, shattering a vertebra in his spine and crushing his ankles."
      I'm sure he felt fine and was down the pub that weekend. /s

    • @thegamester1426
      @thegamester1426 2 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      And the fact that his bones from his feet were collected in a bag and handed to him by the track doctor

    • @ggoddkkiller1342
      @ggoddkkiller1342 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      In 1945 it was very well known radiation was extremely harmful to human body but it was unknown how bad it could get. So those scientists knew they were risking their lives but simply changing the world was more important for them. Those surgeons who removed his organs knew he didn't have cancer as soon as they opened him up because cancer is so insanely different than normal tissue and no surgeon could confuse them unless they were freaking blind!! So they only removed his organs to make tests on them simply because he didn't die and they couldn't make tests like other subjects. If they can remove a person's organs to only make tests assuming all those people had terminal illnesses or plutonium didn't do anything to them is just being insanely naive i must say..
      Same goes for nuclear attacks because in reality Japan tried to conditionally surrender MONTHS before the bombs and there weren't many conditions neither rather the biggest disagreement was full immunity for their emperor. Allies refused it and demanded unconditional surrender from Japanese government. However this could mean their emperor who was seen as holy (Still seen by a lot of Japanese people) could be executed by allies so they refused it. Even after nuclear attacks and brutal murder of hundreds of thousands of innocent people Japan wasn't still surrendering. Until 6 days later when the emperor that allies didn't want to grant immunity intervened to the war first time and broadcasted a radio message, literally begging Japanese people to surrender. After their emperor begged them to surrender thousands of Japanese soldiers began surrendering in every front and only two days later Japanese government as well officially surrendered. The worst of all even if Japan surrendered unconditionally their emperor wasn't held responsible for a single action of Japan so allies could very well grant him immunity at first place then there was no need for nuclear attacks!! Unless US also needed to test this new weapon ofc, in fact both Nagasaki and Hiroshima kept outside of ordinary air raids of US air force so cities wouldn't be damaged and the affects of nuclear bombs could be seen more accurately!! This resulted as people from Tokyo etc which was bombed into ground taking refugee in Nagasaki and Hiroshima thinking those cities were SAFE!! The world is a lot more wicked place than even Qxir is potraying...

  • @Nyghtking
    @Nyghtking ปีที่แล้ว +15

    The lead based paint, lead leaded gas, and asbestos probably gave him radiation resistance.

  • @HaydenX
    @HaydenX 2 ปีที่แล้ว +292

    The "not being told about it" really is the worst part. If I was diagnosed with a terminal illness and given a 6 month prognosis (even though this one was false), and told that I could undergo an experimental procedure that was unrelated to my illness, but they would give a tidy sum to my family for my efforts (like...mortgage fully paid off levels), I would do it. That is assuming it was all above board and there was escrow and contracts and stuff.

    • @Alucard-gt1zf
      @Alucard-gt1zf ปีที่แล้ว

      It wouldn't be a good experiment if you died halfway through from other reasons....

    • @craigdavies2598
      @craigdavies2598 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      and then you get part of your insides removed,then they discover that they had no reason,bruh

  • @zanemurcha9742
    @zanemurcha9742 2 ปีที่แล้ว +196

    Reminds me of a story my Grandfather told me, when he was little his house was being reinstalled with Asbestos. He was 5 or 6 at the time and just played in a pile of the stuff for hours on end, thinking it was snow. And he has never had any trouble breathing or cancer of any kind. He is currently 74!

    • @hylacinerea970
      @hylacinerea970 2 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      the fact that any of our grandparents are still alive genuinely bewilders me

    • @Archimedes616
      @Archimedes616 2 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      When I was a little kid, my parents were concerned about the wall behind our oil-burning stove getting too hot. So Dad went down to the lumber yard with me in tow and had a piece of asbestos sheet cut to size on a table saw while we watched from just a few feet away. He then nailed the asbestos sheet to the wall behind the stove. Dad passed away at 84, and I'm still going strong at 68.

    • @justragequit7078
      @justragequit7078 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@Archimedes616 I also grew up in a house with a wood burning stove as our sole source of heat although I'm only 24. And your comment brought back a memory I hadn't had in years of being a kid and feeling the hot bricks under and behind our wood burning stove as well as helping my dad cut wood every fall to get ready for winter. So thx for the flash back down memory lane we moved to a normal modern house when I was 13 and was so happy to have ac and modern heating system but now I look back on those days very fondly.

    • @SouthwesternEagle
      @SouthwesternEagle 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Some people are just lucky. Don't ask me how.

    • @kevmehl
      @kevmehl 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      My understanding with asbestos is that it’s long term exposure that’s dangerous. If you encounter it only a few times, even in really high quantities, it’s unlikely to harm you. It’s the long term exposure, like working with it professionally, that’s the real problem.

  • @drdripransom342
    @drdripransom342 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Imagine you are an experimental test subject without your consent

    • @aurea.
      @aurea. ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wouldn't be the first (nor last) time in human history 🙃

  • @sashak.7186
    @sashak.7186 2 ปีที่แล้ว +443

    This case reminds me of Hisashi Ouchi, though he didn't get to the accumulated doze of 64 sieverts over a period of time, he did get a sudden exposure of 17 sieverts which is more then deadly.

    • @neyoid
      @neyoid 2 ปีที่แล้ว +157

      His DNA was obliterated and he was kept alive as he melted to death as his skin decomposed

    • @sashak.7186
      @sashak.7186 2 ปีที่แล้ว +95

      @@neyoid Yeah, for 80+ days, imagine that amount of pain and suffering

    • @pfadiva
      @pfadiva 2 ปีที่แล้ว +143

      @@neyoid he was kept alive due to the wishes of his family, not the doctors. That always gets left out.

    • @xrefed
      @xrefed 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@pfadiva oof

    • @sashak.7186
      @sashak.7186 2 ปีที่แล้ว +101

      @@pfadiva what also gets left out was that they didn't explain his family how much radiation he was exposed to and how beyond any help he was...fucked up however you put it

  • @bookaufman9643
    @bookaufman9643 2 ปีที่แล้ว +724

    Stevens could also claim to be the first person treated for cancer with radiation. That treatment would become very widespread and is still used till today. Also scientists had a pretty good idea of what radiation did to people. The only thing they didn't know was the exact amounts needed to make people very sick or make them die.

    • @WouldntULikeToKnow.
      @WouldntULikeToKnow. 2 ปีที่แล้ว +95

      Except he didn't have cancer and calling that a "treatment" is a bit of a stretch lol

    • @bookaufman9643
      @bookaufman9643 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      @@WouldntULikeToKnow. it was meant as a bit of a stretch. Unnecessary operations and being dosed with radiation is a pretty horrible way to be treated by doctors. Malpractice much?

    • @Tester-sh1mn
      @Tester-sh1mn 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      @@WouldntULikeToKnow. I think that’s the point, they didn’t use radiation to “cure” his cancer, he was injected with radiation and then got surgical treatment for his “cancer” which was actually a benign growth, which means he was “treated” badly by the doctors because of their gross moral negligence.

    • @somewhatstrange2097
      @somewhatstrange2097 2 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      It's kind of like stabbing someone and calling it "surgery".

    • @LTPottenger
      @LTPottenger 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Also the first to survive cancer treatment, which is often lethal

  • @MichaelClarkJR
    @MichaelClarkJR 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    This is pretty scary that people with power can just get away with this and government and military can just say sorry and move on if the people found out.

    • @egg9206
      @egg9206 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

      you’re so close bro

    • @isbestlizard
      @isbestlizard 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

      "I don't recall saying sorry"

  • @gullysl
    @gullysl 2 ปีที่แล้ว +777

    The amount of work that goes into these videos are insane!! Keep up the good work.

    • @charlesficherwcoffeebreaks7521
      @charlesficherwcoffeebreaks7521 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Gubment sun else. I love zienze

    • @ggoddkkiller1342
      @ggoddkkiller1342 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      In 1945 it was very well known radiation was extremely harmful to human body but it was unknown how bad it could get. So those scientists knew they were risking their lives but simply changing the world was more important for them. Those surgeons who removed his organs knew he didn't have cancer as soon as they opened him up because cancer is so insanely different than normal tissue and no surgeon could confuse them unless they were freaking blind!! So they only removed his organs to make tests on them simply because he didn't die and they couldn't make tests like other subjects. If they can remove a person's organs to only make tests assuming all those people had terminal illnesses or plutonium didn't do anything to them is just being insanely naive i must say..
      Same goes for nuclear attacks because in reality Japan tried to conditionally surrender MONTHS before the bombs and there weren't many conditions neither rather the biggest disagreement was full immunity for their emperor. Allies refused it and demanded unconditional surrender from Japanese government. However this could mean their emperor who was seen as holy (Still seen by a lot of Japanese people) could be executed by allies so they refused it. Even after nuclear attacks and brutal murder of hundreds of thousands of innocent people Japan wasn't still surrendering. Until 6 days later when the emperor that allies didn't want to grant immunity intervened to the war first time and broadcasted a radio message, literally begging Japanese people to surrender. After their emperor begged them to surrender thousands of Japanese soldiers began surrendering in every front and only two days later Japanese government as well officially surrendered. The worst of all even if Japan surrendered unconditionally their emperor wasn't held responsible for a single action of Japan so allies could very well grant him immunity at first place then there was no need for nuclear attacks!! Unless US also needed to test this new weapon ofc, in fact both Nagasaki and Hiroshima kept outside of ordinary air raids of US air force so cities wouldn't be damaged and the affects of nuclear bombs could be seen more accurately!! This resulted as people from Tokyo etc which was bombed into ground taking refugee in Nagasaki and Hiroshima thinking those cities were SAFE!! The world is a lot more wicked place than even Qxir is potraying...

    • @JTA1961
      @JTA1961 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      amen

    • @colatf2
      @colatf2 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      the script is just copy and pasted from wikipedia lol

    • @zaid1169
      @zaid1169 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@colatf2 yeah lmao💀

  • @crazyjoe4247
    @crazyjoe4247 2 ปีที่แล้ว +164

    I saw a car on fire driving on the highway today on the bus.

  • @camarossdriver
    @camarossdriver ปีที่แล้ว +6

    “Are you telling me this thing is NUCLEAR???”
    - Marty McFly

  • @timeless1922
    @timeless1922 2 ปีที่แล้ว +287

    I love it when Qxir uploads his storytelling is the absolute best!

    • @Joaquin__
      @Joaquin__ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I know I love the visuals too they are always so creative

  • @susieweir9847
    @susieweir9847 2 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    Little do you know the Manhattan project continued up until the early 70s. Because my father was a victim of radiation poisoning because he was working at Amchitka Alaska where they blew up 3 nuks, called Long Shot, Cankin, and Milrow. He died at 57 of pancreatic cancer. I remember him telling my mother it will be alright, he'll be fine. I HATE our government for doing that to him and many others working at Amchitka.

  • @darrellcook8253
    @darrellcook8253 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    This is one of my top five channels, my number two when I want to get my history fix and a big shot of humor. Great job. An early subscriber.

  • @galloe8933
    @galloe8933 2 ปีที่แล้ว +179

    This guy is like the backstory for Harold. Decades out of circulation, but that’s a Fallout 2 joke…

    • @Grizzly-Socks
      @Grizzly-Socks 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      rip harold

    • @grantluper5168
      @grantluper5168 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Isn’t that really a fallout 1 joke, because that’s the first game he appears in

    • @Yung-plague
      @Yung-plague 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I mean, you could modernize it a bit and call it a fallout 3 joke.
      Youd be kinda wrong and i think i would hate you for it, but you could still do it.

    • @galloe8933
      @galloe8933 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@grantluper5168 was it? I thought I remembered him from the 2’ed.
      Um, if that’s the case, than thank you for clearing that up, but the man kind of looks like Harold, with less tree and skin issues.

    • @grantluper5168
      @grantluper5168 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@galloe8933 Harold was in 1,2, and 3. he was in the kinda dingy and shady area of the hub in fallout 1,same world space as the water merchants,

  • @deletdis6173
    @deletdis6173 2 ปีที่แล้ว +304

    This episode blurs the lines between a Tale from the Bottle and a Last Moments. 😱

    • @elic1356
      @elic1356 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      That was literally my first thought seeing this video pop up in my notifications

    • @armaslohemadu
      @armaslohemadu 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Tale from the last bottles?

    • @heirapparent4872
      @heirapparent4872 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Last moments from the bottle

    • @thekarnyx
      @thekarnyx 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      He didn't really die from plutonium soo... almost last moments?

    • @Antwon22
      @Antwon22 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Who's last moments would they have been? Nobody died

  • @marydavis8132
    @marydavis8132 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I HAVE JUST FOUND YOUR PLATFORM AND I VERY MUCH APPRECIATE YOUR CONTENT.
    THANKYOU FOR SHARING

  • @Upintheairideas
    @Upintheairideas 2 ปีที่แล้ว +207

    Unfortunately it actually is very possible to build an atomic bomb with nothing more than public knowledge. A guy named David dobson did it. He did in less than three years. It's actually amazing how few nukes exist when you think about it.

    • @prohunter717
      @prohunter717 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wasn't there also an experiment the US army did with University students?

    • @midnightrambler8866
      @midnightrambler8866 2 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      The tricky part is getting the fissile (weapons grade uranium or plutonium) material.

    • @ronshekelson
      @ronshekelson 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nuclear weapons are fake. I have two videos on my channel that prove this. They're in a playlist called fake nukes if you want to watch them

    • @andyroo3022
      @andyroo3022 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@midnightrambler8866 Lucky for us. Imagine the idiots/terrorists that would use it. Just surround it in a high explosive shape charge to suddenly compress it under intense heat and pressure and chain reaction starts in milliseconds.

    • @thecatdragon589
      @thecatdragon589 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      and he did it in his damn backyard shed too.

  • @Neptunium
    @Neptunium 2 ปีที่แล้ว +312

    Hey Qxir, cool video again! just one quick thing, 3Sv over a year is just under 0.01 Sv per day (or 8mSv/day) or about half the yearly limit for flight attendants (20mSv/year). That is roughly 0.3mSv/hour . During a flight, the dose in the plane is about 10 times less, So he experienced the same radiation exposure 10 people would living at 30,000ft for 20 years, which is bad but not as extreme. The body can handle repeated smaller exposure better than one massive dose . You can experience the same (for a few hours) by swallowing 5 sources from a smoke detector which are pretty weak. But don`t do that

    • @startedtech
      @startedtech 2 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      Brb, gonna run to Walmart and buy some

    • @ChucksSEADnDEAD
      @ChucksSEADnDEAD 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Should have read the comment until the end before starting.

    • @bobiswambo
      @bobiswambo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      My stomach hurts.

    • @TheConjurersTower
      @TheConjurersTower 2 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      Instructions unclear, got 10 smoke detectors stuck up my ass...

    • @liplessnavajo4011
      @liplessnavajo4011 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Um… I feel funny

  • @IcyPickleYT
    @IcyPickleYT ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Fun Fact: You can actually break this record, although it will be beaten within seconds of you breaking it!

  • @PoliceTelephoneBox
    @PoliceTelephoneBox 2 ปีที่แล้ว +131

    They did a trial once to see if two relatively average people could design a nuclear bomb given publicly available data. They did so successfully.

    • @molotov666
      @molotov666 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      It's not hard materials though, is the problem.

    • @P7777-u7r
      @P7777-u7r 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      So is there essentially a how to guide for building a relatively "simple" nuclear bomb?

    • @thesauceman8457
      @thesauceman8457 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thats where the idea of “dirty bombs” comes from. A terrorist with enough time and resources could design something like that.

    • @Videokirby
      @Videokirby 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      If you're talking about the "Nth Country Experiment" then it's not quite "relatively average." The people in question had just received PhDs in Physics before starting the experiment, which is no small feat.
      Of course, that was also done in the 60s. We have over half a century and the invention of the Internet between then and now.

    • @andrewgentry2411
      @andrewgentry2411 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      MMMMMMMMMMH I do not like that

  • @1xoACEox1
    @1xoACEox1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +383

    You'd think it wouldn't be too hard to find terminally ill people that would do the test voluntarily. Tell them its for science, give their families a bunch of money etc.

    • @jordanb2812
      @jordanb2812 2 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      Yeah, but not telling them or paying them increases the sample size and reduces costs. The ethical choice isn't always the pragmatic one.

    • @noscreadur
      @noscreadur 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@jordanb2812 I'm near suicidal, and I cannot find research to end my life for neither love nor money. Mind you, I'd rather have money.

    • @johntaranto29
      @johntaranto29 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      What like the Joker?

    • @johntaranto29
      @johntaranto29 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Reminds me of the book the running man. Not the film but the book by Richard Bachman/Stephen King.

    • @u6uggg6hguiuggy
      @u6uggg6hguiuggy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@noscreadur Go to a millitary base and ask 10000 people. I'm sure they'll help you.

  • @Chef_Ramsay
    @Chef_Ramsay 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    This dude’s genius IS the cure to cancer

  • @ImGoingSupersonic
    @ImGoingSupersonic 2 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    "Tales from the Bottle" is such a gnarly name for these stories!
    Another great vid, boss!.

  • @thesitronus
    @thesitronus 2 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    The one radiation story that I find most interesting was poor Hisashi Ouchi.
    Reason for this is mainly the biological reaction the body has to such a high dose of radiation and it ends up being a real scary horror story that's really sad.
    If it was not for a odd fascination on nuclear disasters I would not find it as interesting.

    • @markusbernard5180
      @markusbernard5180 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Fcked up thing was he was crying and beging to die but the " Doctors " wanted to observe how long they could make him live

    • @thegeokiller1529
      @thegeokiller1529 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@markusbernard5180 the family want to keep him alive and the Doctors told them that he wasn't going to live.

    • @kiwi_2_official
      @kiwi_2_official 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@markusbernard5180 euthanization laws in japan prevented them from killing him

    • @piteous2
      @piteous2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@markusbernard5180 that's a myth

    • @kutekrazykat8615
      @kutekrazykat8615 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@markusbernard5180this isn’t true, he at one point said “I’m not a guinea pig” but that was when they had to make him breath with machines and it hurt, but beyond that, he then let them continue when thinking about his son, wife, and family. He couldn’t speak for the majority of his treatment, so the last thing he on record said was an I love you to his wife while they talked about everything going on, he didn’t beg to die like people often push, it’s a false narrative that has absolutely no proof, he survived for his family, and because of his family

  • @mikeythearchangel
    @mikeythearchangel 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The cleverness and likeability of your outro leaves me no other choice -
    You have received
    An extremely rare
    Highly coveted
    +1 “site unseen” sub,
    Because
    That outro
    Is pure gold
    Thank you for making it,
    And this video

  • @whyjnot420
    @whyjnot420 2 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    The video of the British soldiers tripping balls on acid is some of the greatest video of all time.

  • @peurchao6935
    @peurchao6935 2 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    Qixr, you never fail to make everything informative and extremely entertaining. I cannot wait to bring this story up randomly and be asked, and I quote, why the actual f*ck I know that. I still use the line “Above the recommended daily intake of bullets” on the daily. Keep it up my guy!!

  • @sococa8149
    @sococa8149 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Your documentary's are spot on, way better narrarated than most I love your story's. Keep up the great oratorical descriptive presentation's.

  • @braydonattoe2078
    @braydonattoe2078 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Lots of drawings in this one, love the effort man, I was dying at 3:20 "these guys were going wild with plutonium" *one dude just tossing pucks in the air while another is playing hockey with them* 😂

    • @Equinox0709
      @Equinox0709 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Oppenheimer going top chedder on these clowns and making the AAA Tendies wobble Eh?

  • @TheLastArbiter
    @TheLastArbiter 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    This is genuinely one of my favorite channels! Always super interesting and hilarious and thought provoking

  • @MeemingStar
    @MeemingStar 18 วันที่ผ่านมา

    This really makes you think, what other experiments occurred that we have no idea happened?

  • @dhelton40
    @dhelton40 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    It could be even worse than it looks. They may have known all along that he didn't have cancer and just made it up to have a test subject. Their were few ethics in science and medicine at that time.

    • @toomanymarys7355
      @toomanymarys7355 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You think there are now, when the government does it?

  • @SteveFrench_420
    @SteveFrench_420 2 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    3:30 "one chemist accidentally swallowed the stuff. For days after his breath could be picked up by radiation detectors from across the room".
    If that's true then anyone who gets external doses would be the same. Whether through the skin or the mouth/stomach, it all gets absorbed, entering the blood stream. So if his breath was irradiated, it was because it was circulating in the blood stream. Not because it coated and remained in the throat and mouth with breathing expelling some of the particles. Besides that, who would "accidentally" drink a radioactive substance?

    • @prodtheontar
      @prodtheontar 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      me

    • @FatCatCooper
      @FatCatCooper 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@prodtheontar I fear you

    • @notthatcreativewithnames
      @notthatcreativewithnames 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Safe laboratory practices were probably pretty lax back then. I mean, many artificial sweeteners are discovered because scientists literally tasted them "accidentally", for example.

    • @james737er
      @james737er 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Well, one time, I made a flavored water. My dad made one too, but when he was half way done with it he put cigarette butts in it. He set it on the counter, and I later set mine -whilst I was around halfway done it- on the counter. I picked up what I thought was my drink, and spit all over the floor after taking a big drink. That could explain why. Probably not, but I just wanted to give a theory. Maybe he just, I don’t know, had liquid Uranium in a water bottle with another bottle with some like green flavored water next to it.

  • @defeatSpace
    @defeatSpace ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Of course none of the subjects died from top secret experimentation.

  • @Mike-eo5jk
    @Mike-eo5jk 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    I don't think I ever felt so bad laughing while seeing others' misfortune. Great graphics, Qxir!

  • @carterhicks7441
    @carterhicks7441 2 ปีที่แล้ว +125

    Imagine if all the extra radiation caused a gene mutation that was beneficial and allowed him to survive.

    • @radioanon4535
      @radioanon4535 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      And unless he had children after, it likely didn't spread

    • @32BitJunkie
      @32BitJunkie 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Every cell in the body is going to get different random DNA damage, not one single mutation. It might do that for his future kids though

  • @OverHeed
    @OverHeed ปีที่แล้ว +7

    0:35 why does this man look like a really well rendered Scp-106 image. I am not intending any disrespect to him, I am just pointing out this eerie image

  • @MokeEed
    @MokeEed 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I was just reading up in this story a few weeks ago on Wikipedia after watching Chernobyl. I would way have rather watched this video. So thank you for telling these stories. I’ve binged your show for the last week or so and I’m very impressed and proud of the work you’re doing. Thank you for being Qxir!

  • @cookrileyw
    @cookrileyw 2 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    2:22 Being a Physicist (Knowing that some of my experiments have resulted in my hair being on fire) I thought "yes". Literally ALL! of the difficulty in a simple U235 design is in the production of U235 which is extremely complicated, but given your scenario of having the material being available the answer is obviously yes and 12 year old could did it by him self. Step one: place the two halves of critical mass together.... Congratulations You have achieve fission!!! (granted you have been atomized into a plasma, but you did succeed in creating what is essentially a nuclear bomb =))

    • @smps_enthusiast5391
      @smps_enthusiast5391 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Wouldn't you just have created a very simple and uncontrolled nuclear reactor this way? I would say achieving fission of a significant amount of the nuclear material in a small period of time yielding to a high pulse of energy is the distinctive feature of a nuclear bomb.

    • @SomeGuy-hd4cn
      @SomeGuy-hd4cn 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      No. That would be an atomic bomb

    • @Kyogoto
      @Kyogoto 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      great, i'll test it out in my backyard

    • @MistressGlowWorm
      @MistressGlowWorm 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Good ole criticality experiments! How radiant you are bathed in blue.

    • @cookrileyw
      @cookrileyw 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@SomeGuy-hd4cn The reason it is called a nuclear bomb is because it's energy comes from the decay nucelli. Plus, if you google nuclear bomb it will say in quotations "atomic bomb" technically though nuclear the more accurate name as it is not the atom as a whole that is under going reactions, typically know as chemistry, the phenomenon that cause nuclear fission are under subject of nuclear chemistry.

  • @brucecampbellforpresident1393
    @brucecampbellforpresident1393 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Man the doodle people drawings are incredible 👍👍👍👍

  • @ZacharyCusanelli
    @ZacharyCusanelli 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Crazy how most people worry so much about their health and safety that they get anxiety. But then you realize how strong the human body can be. This guy survived major surgery back then, working with lead-paint all day, then getting a fatal dose of radiation yet still lived until almost 80 years old.

  • @nalinea18
    @nalinea18 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Qxir: "How confident are you that you could build a nuke?"
    This is the ONE TIME my PhD in Theoretical Nuclear Physics would actually be useful (trust me, it doesn't have a lot of use, post-doc positions and pay suck). Let's just say that there were two courses, Nuclear Fission and Its Applications 1&2, that basically taught this. Tbf they did also teach how to build a fission reactor, so it wasn't _all_ mad scientist territory. There just aren't that many applications for the stuff.

    • @Taladar2003
      @Taladar2003 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I also suspect that the "You can do it in a world where someone already did it and you can look up as much as you like" aspect would help a great deal in general.

    • @comradecommissar1945
      @comradecommissar1945 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      why cant you take that degree and go work at a power plant? design bombs or serve in the navy? would think there's a lot of applications for such a thing

    • @stella-vu8vh
      @stella-vu8vh 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@comradecommissar1945 i mean those positions dont tend to open up often i would imagine...

    • @nalinea18
      @nalinea18 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@comradecommissar1945 I'm not from the US, and my country has no nuclear weapons (even if I could get past basic training with my health problems, and I can't). Power plants here tend to want engineers etc., as a PhD in Theoretical Nuclear Physics stuff makes one a researcher in things like calculating the energies in forbidden beta decays and trying to come up with better nuclear shell models. It's _really_ theoretical and has basically no current applications. What I researched would maaaaybe see applications in 50 years, and thus getting anyone to pay for the research now is really hard. I have enough studies behind me to make a bomb, but the people who make those also prefer engineers and application-focused Physicists over anything theoretical.
      And there are positions open, just not in my country. If I wanted to move to the US for a post doc I could get one easily, the US has a lot of them because you have nukes and the country is big. The pay would still suck, and I'd have to live in the US which would be a nightmare for me. I don't want to have to live abroad for years to have any hope of getting a position in my country, so I switched fields.

  • @TnT_F0X
    @TnT_F0X 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Imagine you put your grandpa's ashes in your room... and it was plutonium filled bone dust next to your head...
    Thanks Govmint

  • @Connor-vj7vf
    @Connor-vj7vf 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    7:40 his spine has worse problems than plutonium if that's where it is

  • @alger8181
    @alger8181 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Another excellent video, sir. I've read of many questionable things done by my government, in the name of science, or national security, but i'd not heard of this one. Also, you near made me spit out my beer when you started the subliminal thing. One of the favorite songs of my youth is "Subliminal", by the Suicidal Tendencies. Just wonderful!

  • @purplehaze2358
    @purplehaze2358 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "18 people, aged 4 to 69"
    Nice.
    Well, _someone_ had to say it.

  • @mikewinings4120
    @mikewinings4120 2 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    All of the lead based paint he used probably protected his cells somehow from the radiation!love all of your episodes 😃

    • @cacaconpatas
      @cacaconpatas ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Whaaaat?

    • @xx_redwood_xx9737
      @xx_redwood_xx9737 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Highly unlikely conclusion. Lead paint would have no effect on internal irradiation unless he was eating copious amounts of it, a highly illogical thing to do with any paint, toxic or not.

    • @immkk1125
      @immkk1125 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@xx_redwood_xx9737 it’s still possible if he was using pigments and mixing his own paint, he could’ve inhaled lead pigment on a regular basis then

  • @TheBeardedAtheist
    @TheBeardedAtheist 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    I honestly think if you were dying, and they wanted to test a theory I would have signed off on it. Give my life some meaning of some type. I am part of a drug trial for heart transplant recipients. 5 years post-surgery and still going strong. I have to get some test performed called an Alomap test every few months and then a biopsy of my donor heart. They check the results against the old school biopsy and if the results are the same then it is working. Has like a 94% success rate I believe. I never knew I was part of the study until after my transplant was performed. I guess I had signed a ton of paper right before the heart transplant, and I was so nervous I just figured it was the typical "If you die during the procedure your family can't sue us stuff" but overall I am okay with it. If my life is short I just hope what I go through today makes a heart transplant easier in the next few generations where biopsies will no longer be a thing.

    • @curioearth8118
      @curioearth8118 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      you're v brave you know, may you be blessed w every happiness!

    • @moonstruck8245
      @moonstruck8245 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I think terminal patients, particularly those who have already been involved in the military somehow, are often test subjects for various experiments that could result in death - voluntarily, of course, usually with the promise that their funerary costs will be covered and benefits will be given to their families.

    • @shrill1736
      @shrill1736 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      honestly as long as it doesnt cause pain or suffering yeah i can see that

  • @rodmunch6865
    @rodmunch6865 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    One of the realest things I've ever heard was "Science moves forward one funeral at a time". Think about that, especially with the COVID vaccine

    • @SwabcraftCreates
      @SwabcraftCreates ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The "speed of science" must be moving quite fast then with the totally unexplained 15-17% or higher excessive deaths and 15-22% decrease in birthrate in 2021 and 2022 that is definitely not caused by the one major thing that was forced on millions of people.

  • @IamHomeless692.0
    @IamHomeless692.0 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I bet he felt like he was positively glowing. I'll see myself out

  • @butchblaster7073
    @butchblaster7073 2 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    I'd like to see a video on Kenny Brack, an indycar driver that was exposed to the highest G crash of any person who wasn't liquified on impact.
    Also Duncan Hamilton and his co driver who I forget the name of, they won the 24 hours of le mans on day 2 of a hardcore bender. Jaguar tracked them down to a bar the morning of the start of the race, and they had to drive. Seems like a perfect episode of Tales From the Bottle.

    • @JTA1961
      @JTA1961 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      it's cuz they jigged when they should have jagged

  • @Nico_DiAngelo
    @Nico_DiAngelo 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Ok but the actual most radioactive man (who didn’t survive) was Hisashi Ouchi. He died an 83 day long death

  • @m.streicher8286
    @m.streicher8286 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    "You don't even know what you don't know!" Love this line

  • @lifesyphon1
    @lifesyphon1 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Radiation is bizarre. My mom has lung cancer and just had her last round of radiation treatment and the whole building is just incredible. I swear this is absolutely the best time in history to be alive, especially if you have cancer!

  • @JamesFromTexas
    @JamesFromTexas 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Love the "personal" email disclosure at the end! Love the little things; keep it up!

  • @gameplayed6733
    @gameplayed6733 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Doesn’t it suck when the radiation tickles your funny bone and you feel weird after

  • @iloveemeralds4622
    @iloveemeralds4622 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I mean, not having cancer is a pretty good cancer cure to begin with.

  • @Viktor-hn5sr
    @Viktor-hn5sr 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    this happened to my friend John once

  • @crazyshipper7493
    @crazyshipper7493 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I believe that they did know he didn't have cancer, they just went with the flow to test it with a healthy subject.

  • @MagicianStevey
    @MagicianStevey ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Technically, this amount of radiation is the new lethal dose if he survived.

  • @ceejayrox23
    @ceejayrox23 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    LOVE how Qxir can take a subject like plutonium poisoning and make it humorous . Another great video!

  • @adverdo1623
    @adverdo1623 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I love your videos keep up the amazing work

  • @s3dchr
    @s3dchr 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    God, I love your humor and drawings so much.

  • @SWISS-1337
    @SWISS-1337 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    I honestly can not count on two hands (because my hands fell off) the number of times I have been minding my own business, only to be hit by 900 RADs from the sky, out of my normally scheduled lethal doses of radiation.

    • @user-cj4fu8qq9b
      @user-cj4fu8qq9b 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      i can count it on my 3 hands

    • @pluto8404
      @pluto8404 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      i am sorry to hear this, I hope you are doing better. sounds terrible.

    • @jesseraiden4505
      @jesseraiden4505 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      try having seven on one arm, makes jerking the gherkin pretty difficult if you know what I mean

    • @citrusmoth1103
      @citrusmoth1103 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ugh, right? Hope you’re doing okay, I know that must be hard for you. If you need anyone to talk to, I’m here :(

  • @djae6083
    @djae6083 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Qxir, I've been watching your videos for over a year now - love all of them. Keep up the great work and, speaking of radiation, I'd love for you to do a video on Chernobyl !

  • @Т1000-м1и
    @Т1000-м1и ปีที่แล้ว +1

    8:48 gave me relief to see the 4 year old small boy also being terminally ill
    ... is an amazing sentence to write because the experiments went that far.
    Though I will also write that the guy survived the radiation because the danger metrics weren't invented yet

  • @DoctorNemmo
    @DoctorNemmo 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The obvious explanation is that he was a painter during the 30s and 40s, and all the accumulated lead shielded him from radiation

  • @conormcgregorsbrokenleg9847
    @conormcgregorsbrokenleg9847 2 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    I need me a radium girl

  • @big3ye378
    @big3ye378 11 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Did not expect the endorsement of non-consentual experimentation at the end but otherwise cool video

  • @Sk1pppy
    @Sk1pppy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I love your videos. Great job on this one

  • @lakesheppard5466
    @lakesheppard5466 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    You mentioned agent orange near the end of the video, my great grandpas brother was subjected to the stuff in Vietnam, developed brain cancer and did his fairwells to life in the forest as they couldn’t afford treatment. I would very much like to know more about this

    • @stewcountrysongsstew4980
      @stewcountrysongsstew4980 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      In so sorry about your grandfather ...and I can't believe that in the US people that have served their country can't get medical care.. Mind you I can't believe that everyday people don't have free healthcare either ...

    • @sirkianjesse
      @sirkianjesse 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@stewcountrysongsstew4980It is truly wild. Imagine being a politician: sending someone to war and when they come back letting them go homeless without medical care after exposing them to substances that cause medical issues. Damn.
      I don't mind healthcare costs as long as they're affordable though. My country in the EU has healthcare costs, but everyone can afford it and if you can't, that's OK - you will still be treated.

  • @wileycoyote7481
    @wileycoyote7481 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    0:12 "you haven't even planned on being irradiated that day-"
    Ah yes, because we plan exactly when we get irradiated

  • @LTPottenger
    @LTPottenger 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Just made a video about how radiation makes you live longer when it's not acute. Radiation is fascinating stuff.

    • @serialvapist5807
      @serialvapist5807 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      They're not only hiding that fact, they're also hiding the health effects of bleach! I drink the stuff every single day, and the "doctors" still haven't figured out how my insides look like I'm 20 when I'm at the age of 80.

    • @robertthomas5906
      @robertthomas5906 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Fits right in with a little:
      Alcohol
      Coffee
      Chocolate
      sex
      ... and so on
      Make you live longer.

  • @ismaelcasas9676
    @ismaelcasas9676 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Love your dedication to your channel, keep it up man!!!

  • @bejammminz
    @bejammminz 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I like how reasonable and considerate the writing was, great video!

  • @MindinViolet
    @MindinViolet 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    “Out of the blue” is an apt description for being suddenly irradiated, because Cherenkov Radiation, which can be a sign of a nuclear reaction, glows blue.

  • @Ric_enano2019
    @Ric_enano2019 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    1:40 Don’t like the shape of the rocket

  • @CommanderPaulB
    @CommanderPaulB ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The Statement that this guy got the most radiation is a little bit too general:He probably got the most into contact with radioactive material but if we look at the more scientific radioactive energy the guy who got the most radiation was a Russian scientist who’s head got literally perforated by a high energy beam at a Hardrone-Collider.He also had to fight to get himself recognised for treatment.

  • @junepaul7843
    @junepaul7843 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I subscribed to this young man. Love the vids he puts out. Hey man... the kids are alright! Them kids are creators😄