Now that you know all about the Tunguska Event check out this video and find out about The Men Who Dropped the Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki: th-cam.com/video/_DZ5tnEPAco/w-d-xo.html
A much more greater such event is being studied by the Comet Research Group of Arizona. It took place over 3700 years ago in the area east of Jericho and north of the Dead Sea in Jordan. The largest city in the Levant at the time was destroyed along with dozens of other towns by what is believed to be a comet or meteorite air burst. The evidence points to an air burst even more powerful than the Tunguska event.
Both the US and Russia have satellites and atmospheric monitors to detect the EM radiation given off by a nuclear explosion. They wouldn't confuse a asteroid impact with a detonation.
In my childhood back in the 1960's, I was a total science and space nerd. I had several of my own theories about things, featuring large among them was that asteroids and comets could and did impact the earth (no doubt largely stimulated from my having witnessed with my own eyes one of those 20 kiloton yearly atmospheric blasts). Part of my evidence for this was that I had somehow learned of the Tunguska event (long before the internet). Sadly, the rest of the world was apparently less well informed and for many years I was told that I was making stuff up or that this was just a fairy tale or the like.
Peter Cohen, I like you think outside the box, this huge event in Siberia, was reported in the British newspapers at the time, and yes people could read a newspaper at 2am, there some golfers in Surrey England, who played a round of golf through the early hours, it was that light, now think what would cause that light to last several days? There is only one contender, and that is a nuclear event, subsequent expeditions to the area, took along a geiger-counter, when it was switched on, they were amazed to see a very high reading, this was over 25 years after the event! I have a book by Arthur C Clarke, called Mysterious World, he describes this event in detail, the blast flattened trees for over 12 miles! The total blast area was 37 miles in one direction, and there was evidence of absolute electro-magnetic chaos, which is confirmation of a nuclear blast, the object was estimated to be traveling at only one kilometre per second, which is hardly the speed of a body from interstellar space, also with nuclear blasts there is associated extremely bright aurora lights, and disturbances in the ionosphere, these are observed on the very opposite side of the Earth from the nuclear blast, in 1908,the British explorer Ernest Shackleton was in the Antarctic at the magnetic opposite side of the Earth from Tunguska, he and his team recorded what now seem the most extraordinary display of aurora lights in the days following the event, so the question is what caused this extremely massive blast?
"The event was largely ignored" while people felt the shockwave in England and were reading the newspaper at night from the glow of the explosion in China.
Another reason the yield of the Tzar Bomba was reduced was because they realised that if they stuck with the original yeild even the plane that dropped it would be unable to escape the blast radius in time.
milksheihk Even with the reduction in its yield the pilot still only had a 50% chance of making it. They even put a reflective coating on the plane to help. Just crazy powerful bomb.
Supreme Bohnenstange no a nuclear bomb will only detonation after a series of steps are followed including detonating high explosives around the pit to compress it to half it's size
Do one about the Halifax explosion in 1917, the biggest man-made explosion before the atomic bomb. (The people of Boston are fondly remembered for sending medical staff and supplies by train, to help the victims while a snowstorm made conditions even worse.)
The chemical explosives that caused the Halifax explosion were said to have had 20% of the power of any of the 3 atomic bombs that ended WW2.....stated shortly after WW2 ended.
You should do one on the Halifax Explosion. That one actually happened near civilization and killed around 2000 people, injuring nearly 10,000 more. It was the most powerful man-made explosion ever until the first nuclear weapons.
Yeah Tesla was an alien from Europe that moved to the United States. Columbus was an alien also, with a U.F. O. an unidentified floating object to the people living in what would later be called South America.
This event didn't attract attention? I would've been pretty fucking curious if I was an early 1900s man, when the most advanced thing available was a butter churn
Russia was poor, and on the brink of revolution. And any scientists were thousands of miles East from rural Siberia. IIRC they only sent out proper investigation in the 50s.
airplanes were really new at that time and I doubt Russia had any. Even if they did they wouldn't use it to survey something like this because it would have been too far away.
Try to keep in mind that odd stories came from every corner of the world, when they did, they were retold in a new version. Today, we have large bombs, at the time, they did not know a large bomb as powerful as that could exist and what it would look like. Imagine the retelling of the story again and again with each new iteration containing the understanding of the person that told it. Make no mistake, the first scientist on the scene thought "it must" be an asteroid. Later it was realized that this is not a good enough answer. Today, as in the past we still do not know what happened, as in the past, science is too primitive to wrap it's head around what happened and shapes an answer based on understanding such as the ice comet scenario. More recent analysis of comets has found comets to be very different from what was thought when the explanation was given, the main difference being that comets are not made of ice. So what caused it? Obviously, we don't know yet. From aliens dumping their trash to god's hiccup, a vacuum attracts any filler, the best we have is that it was an asteroid/ comet that was suddenly very strongly ionized making for a nuclear critical mass level event, (also it should be mentioned that very extreme rapid heating can cause this), We do not know how this is possible, it is just the best we have. Super sonic shock waves, high heat radiative burns, glowing ionized air and other things we understand shape this answer.
Nitpick on Bonus Fact #3: The bomb wasn't named Castle Bravo. The test event was. It was the first explosion of Operation Castle, a series of 7 explosions meant to test air deliverable h-bomb designs. The device in Castle Bravo was called Shrimp and would go down in history as the highest yielding nuclear device tested by the US. The testing sequence was a follow-up to the Ivy Mike experiment (in which a bomb called Sausage, weighing 82 tons, was the world's first H-bomb explosion, using a proof-of-concept liquid deuterium fusion booster which was not practical as a deliverable weapon) meant to test solid lithium deuteride as a fusion fuel. Castle Bravo's Shrimp device was not air dropped but it was the prototype for the Mk-21 bombs, one of which was tested in Operation Redwing Navajo and the rest of which were eventually converted to Mk-36 (bigger yield) and ultimately removed from service in the early 60's.
Thomast Tham Castle Bravo was over bikini atoll. Operations Ivy and Castle were over various other Marshall Islands locations. I don't think any thermonuclear devices were set off over the CONUS. One of the Mk 21's or 36's was detonated undersea a couple hundred miles from San Diego.
I had heard of this event before, but never seen it so thoughtfully explained. I appreciate the research and effort that made this a of high value educational video. This is classroom quality material.
Thanks for translating measure from one system to another. I keep finding videos on this that solely us the Imperial system and really meant little to me. Thanks!
The interesting thing about the nuclear race between America and Russia is that Russia won it with the Tsar Bomba. After this bomb, the US wanted nuclear disarmament between both countries. I say Russia won but at the same time I don't think any country would be victorious using nuclear weapons. It was basically a big expensive pissing contest.
Thomast Tham Not really. Most of your people are dead, most of your land contaminated beyond the possibility of cleaning up, and no one to trade with you. We would set ourselves back about five thousand years in terms of civilization.
Thomast Tham Although I don't like to admit it, I tend to agree. If the whole of humanity were able to light off nukes to gain power, the remaining population would still have that mindset with whatever resources were left. It's strange that humanities greatest threat to survival is its own greed.
monkeyman522 it's usually considered Russia won the arms race and America won the Space Race. interestingly the USA had the technology to go into space 3 to 5 years before the soviets but didn't because they were worried of the soviets reaction
Its wasn't an intentional death ray... It was his free energy and radio transmitter device (Wardenclyffe Tower). He did a test of it before JP Morgan destroyed his project. If tuned properly this would not have happened
Hahaha... yeah. I remember the Star Trek novel "Prime Directive" makes reference to this. They said that a Vulcan scout ship changed the trajectory of the comet so it would explode over a relatively isolated area instead of in the middle of Europe.
In a 1976 book, "The Fire Came By", the authors think that it was really a starship from somewhere else in this galaxy, that was attempting what might have been an emergency landing, but blew up first. Strongest proof of that: At first it was seen headed eastbound over Mongolia. A few minutes later, it was sighted going westbound over Siberia, where it exploded. It HAD to have made a U-turn for that!!!!
the part where no one cared reminds me of an article I read a while back, that details the fact that around 1808/1809, somewhere, a volcano erupted, with an estimated three times more force than the Krakatoa explosion, *and no one knows where it happened* the effects of the eruption on the climate where recorded by several cultures, mostly out of confusion over the unusual weather that resulted, and ice core samples show that there definitely was a massive eruption on the planet that year, but there are no records of any witnesses noticing a violent eruption anywhere.
I know its a little late for this comment. But the link annotation at the end for the video about clothes is incorrect. The link actually goes to another TIFO video about horse statues.
"Today our country shudders in the wake of cataclysmic devastation. Torn by war with a brutal and terrifying enemy, the likes of which we have never seen. This morning, I awoke to the sound of thundering crashes that I thought could only be an earthquake, but as I looked outside I saw their battleships looming over the city. Each one wider than Forbes Field, and each leaving nothing but burning disfigured wreckage in its wake. Former friends and neighbors, now lie in storm drains, limbs twisted in ways I can't begin to describe. This struggle, for the very survival of mankind... this struggle that has now reached across the shores of our homeland. This struggle, ladies and gentlemen, may now be forever lost."
Just think: The 1st nation to deploy a space based rail gun could deploy what is essentially a nuclear bomb anywhere in the world as often as it likes without the radiation since it could replicate this event easily.
Hope you do a story about the people who not only survived the Hiroshima atomic bomb blast and thought they found safety in Nagasaki only to be in a second atomic bomb blast. Interestingly there were an estimated 190 of them. One of the most famous people who survived both bomb recently died. Inspire of being my n both bomb blasts and being badly burned he did not develop cancer and had several perfectly normal/ healthy children.
I genuinely expected this to be about some crazy ass early American just taking a exuberant of TNT and mabye some mixture of other chemicals and lighting that shit xD
abandoned stockpile from a war plus a bunch of ammo and other shit, and i mightve fucked up my conversions from terajoules as thats what it was quoted in in the source. im trying to find the link to it now. cant remember the name of it but read an article on it. the actual explosion of it may have also happened after ww2 but i remember it having something to do with ww1 and a fuck load of explosives under ground. like i said might be off with that one but you could also look at , they arent all man made though.
Yeah, no. There is no way any non-nuclear man-made explosion has exceeded a few kilotons. The largest being equivalent to around 4 Kilotons of TNT. (The Minor Scale test). The largest explosion on Earth that we've witnessed was the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora, being at about 600-800 Megatons. The largest estimated explosion on Earth would be the Cretaceous-Tertiary Event, when a large meteor caused an explosion equal to about 90 Teratons of TNT. The largest explosion ever witnessed by man was Gamma Ray Burst 080319B, in March of 2008. It was estimated at around 2x10^34 tons of TNT...or 10,000 times the weight of the sun. It was actually visible to the naked eye for around 20-30 seconds. The largest estimated explosion ever, aside from the Big Bang, is the Gamma Ray Burst 080916C. Thought to have had an output of 2x10^38 tons of TNT.
like i said mightve been off on conversions, from tera joules to megatons. also never specifically said man made, every yellowstone eruption makes them look tiny.
There are a lot more factors to consider than above. Radiation is a major problem and you have to know how to avoid it. If the bomb went off at ground level there would be lasting fallout but also direct ionizing radiation. Whereas an air burst detonation would cause little fallout or direct ionizing radiation. Also, depending on how much radiation, simply going to a basement may not be enough. I'm not going to go into to details but a little research can go along way. A way to deal with fallout that is left over is iodine capsules (I-131), while it won't enable you to eat anything contaminated it will help your body push out any fallout it absorbs.
***** Most old "nuclear" shelters are worthless, as few actually included lead lining. While concrete does a pretty good job at reducing radiation, it won't do enough if it's not deep enough in the ground (around 10 meters of solid dirt should stop most radiation by itself). Also, you shouldn't bunker down unless you're in the immediate danger zone from ionizing radiation. If that's the case, you need to surround yourself with dense objects in hopes of reducing the amount of radiation that gets to you. Anyone outside of the effected area should try to leave as soon as possible, otherwise they're putting themselves in unnecessary danger. The people in Japan when the bombs hit stayed and dug through the destruction to find survivors. Remember, more eventually died from the radiation than the actual explosion.
OhioCruffler - It seems the British follow a rule that if the last letter of a word is a vowel and the first letter of the next word is a vowel, they put an R in there. So TunguskA Event (vowel-vowel) becomes tungusker, but tunguskA Blast (vowel-consonant) just stays tunguska.
For some unknown reason I was expecting Mr S Whistler to do a Siberian accent whilst reading Mr S Simakoffs statement. (Apologies for the incorrect spelling of the Siberian dudes name)
I wish Simon wouldn't tack on an "r" to words that end in certain vowel sounds. I know it's a British English thing, but it's really annoying to Americans, who have to consciously filter it out.
I have no problem understanding what he's saying. I just find it annoying how his accent adds the "r" sound for no reason. To be fair, I'm equally annoyed by the (American) Boston accent that drops the "r" at the end of words.
timewave02012 I agree. Luckily it's only east coast Americans like this that don't know how to speak. If you hear a Midwest person speak we don't do this. It's one of the reasons there are so many call centers where I live. Lol.
Now that you know all about the Tunguska Event check out this video and find out about The Men Who Dropped the Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki:
th-cam.com/video/_DZ5tnEPAco/w-d-xo.html
A much more greater such event is being studied by the Comet Research Group of Arizona. It took place over 3700 years ago in the area east of Jericho and north of the Dead Sea in Jordan. The largest city in the Levant at the time was destroyed along with dozens of other towns by what is believed to be a comet or meteorite air burst. The evidence points to an air burst even more powerful than the Tunguska event.
It's terrifying to think what would have happened if it landed in the same place during the cold war
Polelek Steam That's true. Maybe the Soviets had believed the explosions was made by the Americans or something, who knowd.
Polelek Steam Probably nothing would have happened... The Soviets were not Cavemen, they would have known it was a Comet.
Or, perhaps, if it exploded over a major Russian city in 2013. Oh wait, that actually happened. Not quite as big, of course....
Both the US and Russia have satellites and atmospheric monitors to detect the EM radiation given off by a nuclear explosion. They wouldn't confuse a asteroid impact with a detonation.
That's the point, who knows how they would react. Both sides could easily act irrationally if this happened to them.
In my childhood back in the 1960's, I was a total science and space nerd. I had several of my own theories about things, featuring large among them was that asteroids and comets could and did impact the earth (no doubt largely stimulated from my having witnessed with my own eyes one of those 20 kiloton yearly atmospheric blasts). Part of my evidence for this was that I had somehow learned of the Tunguska event (long before the internet). Sadly, the rest of the world was apparently less well informed and for many years I was told that I was making stuff up or that this was just a fairy tale or the like.
Peter Cohen wait you saw a 20 kilo ton explosion
Peter Cohen, I like you think outside the box, this huge event in Siberia, was reported in the British newspapers at the time, and yes people could read a newspaper at 2am, there some golfers in Surrey England, who played a round of golf through the early hours, it was that light, now think what would cause that light to last several days? There is only one contender, and that is a nuclear event, subsequent expeditions to the area, took along a geiger-counter, when it was switched on, they were amazed to see a very high reading, this was over 25 years after the event! I have a book by Arthur C Clarke, called Mysterious World, he describes this event in detail, the blast flattened trees for over 12 miles! The total blast area was 37 miles in one direction, and there was evidence of absolute electro-magnetic chaos, which is confirmation of a nuclear blast, the object was estimated to be traveling at only one kilometre per second, which is hardly the speed of a body from interstellar space, also with nuclear blasts there is associated extremely bright aurora lights, and disturbances in the ionosphere, these are observed on the very opposite side of the Earth from the nuclear blast, in 1908,the British explorer Ernest Shackleton was in the Antarctic at the magnetic opposite side of the Earth from Tunguska, he and his team recorded what now seem the most extraordinary display of aurora lights in the days following the event, so the question is what caused this extremely massive blast?
"The event was largely ignored" while people felt the shockwave in England and were reading the newspaper at night from the glow of the explosion in China.
guess people back then have more important thing to attend to XDD
Another reason the yield of the Tzar Bomba was reduced was because they realised that if they stuck with the original yeild even the plane that dropped it would be unable to escape the blast radius in time.
milksheihk Even with the reduction in its yield the pilot still only had a 50% chance of making it. They even put a reflective coating on the plane to help. Just crazy powerful bomb.
Also I heard that the explosion was so big the any increase in size mainly goes into space so does not increase the blast area efficiently.
milksheihk wouldnt a too big bomb just self ignite?
Supreme Bohnenstange no a nuclear bomb will only detonation after a series of steps are followed including detonating high explosives around the pit to compress it to half it's size
@Jeff Jeff yes they also dropped it from a very high alltitude
bonus fact 6: i should stop here but i wont, bonus fact 7: wont stop ever
Do one about the Halifax explosion in 1917, the biggest man-made explosion before the atomic bomb. (The people of Boston are fondly remembered for sending medical staff and supplies by train, to help the victims while a snowstorm made conditions even worse.)
Mark T. Yess 👌
Agreed.
The chemical explosives that caused the Halifax explosion were said to have had 20% of the power of any of the 3 atomic bombs that ended WW2.....stated shortly after WW2 ended.
OK, maybe the 20% estimate is right but it only took 2 atomic bombs to end WW2--one on Hiroshima and one on Nagasaki. @@Marc816
You should do one on the Halifax Explosion. That one actually happened near civilization and killed around 2000 people, injuring nearly 10,000 more. It was the most powerful man-made explosion ever until the first nuclear weapons.
Hi Simon, why was there a DK watermark in the lower right hand corner?
+BobEckert56 "Daily Knowledge" :-)
Today I Found Out Thankee!
donkey kong
Dick Kangz
That was the first answer I planned to give. :)
I don't say it's aliens
But aliens.
Or Nikola Tesla
Tesla was an alien.
did you read leviathan?
Yeah Tesla was an alien from Europe that moved to the United States. Columbus was an alien also, with a U.F. O. an unidentified floating object to the people living in what would later be called South America.
This event didn't attract attention? I would've been pretty fucking curious if I was an early 1900s man, when the most advanced thing available was a butter churn
Russia was poor, and on the brink of revolution. And any scientists were thousands of miles East from rural Siberia. IIRC they only sent out proper investigation in the 50s.
Didn't humans have airplanes in the early 1900s?
airplanes were really new at that time and I doubt Russia had any. Even if they did they wouldn't use it to survey something like this because it would have been too far away.
Try to keep in mind that odd stories came from every corner of the world, when they did, they were retold in a new version. Today, we have large bombs, at the time, they did not know a large bomb as powerful as that could exist and what it would look like. Imagine the retelling of the story again and again with each new iteration containing the understanding of the person that told it. Make no mistake, the first scientist on the scene thought "it must" be an asteroid. Later it was realized that this is not a good enough answer. Today, as in the past we still do not know what happened, as in the past, science is too primitive to wrap it's head around what happened and shapes an answer based on understanding such as the ice comet scenario. More recent analysis of comets has found comets to be very different from what was thought when the explanation was given, the main difference being that comets are not made of ice. So what caused it? Obviously, we don't know yet. From aliens dumping their trash to god's hiccup, a vacuum attracts any filler, the best we have is that it was an asteroid/ comet that was suddenly very strongly ionized making for a nuclear critical mass level event, (also it should be mentioned that very extreme rapid heating can cause this), We do not know how this is possible, it is just the best we have. Super sonic shock waves, high heat radiative burns, glowing ionized air and other things we understand shape this answer.
the most advanced thing was a butter churn? You should look up the Industrial Revolution
the entire Black Ops Zombies Storyline happened because of this event
TheOhhblind - The Resistance one too.
Z M yup
Nitpick on Bonus Fact #3: The bomb wasn't named Castle Bravo. The test event was. It was the first explosion of Operation Castle, a series of 7 explosions meant to test air deliverable h-bomb designs. The device in Castle Bravo was called Shrimp and would go down in history as the highest yielding nuclear device tested by the US. The testing sequence was a follow-up to the Ivy Mike experiment (in which a bomb called Sausage, weighing 82 tons, was the world's first H-bomb explosion, using a proof-of-concept liquid deuterium fusion booster which was not practical as a deliverable weapon) meant to test solid lithium deuteride as a fusion fuel. Castle Bravo's Shrimp device was not air dropped but it was the prototype for the Mk-21 bombs, one of which was tested in Operation Redwing Navajo and the rest of which were eventually converted to Mk-36 (bigger yield) and ultimately removed from service in the early 60's.
Thomast Tham Castle Bravo was over bikini atoll. Operations Ivy and Castle were over various other Marshall Islands locations. I don't think any thermonuclear devices were set off over the CONUS. One of the Mk 21's or 36's was detonated undersea a couple hundred miles from San Diego.
I had heard of this event before, but never seen it so thoughtfully explained. I appreciate the research and effort that made this a of high value educational video. This is classroom quality material.
What about the lights after the event?
james franklin I'm being serious.
james franklin Okay, that is funny. The two extremes (the mundane and the out there) make me chuckle.
Perhaps ionized gas from blast exited the ionosphere or sth like that. In that case it might glow like fluorescent lamp perhaps. It's just a guess.
This seems reasonable; although I would think it would be hard to provide evidence for or against this idea.
Thanks for translating measure from one system to another. I keep finding videos on this that solely us the Imperial system and really meant little to me. Thanks!
The interesting thing about the nuclear race between America and Russia is that Russia won it with the Tsar Bomba. After this bomb, the US wanted nuclear disarmament between both countries. I say Russia won but at the same time I don't think any country would be victorious using nuclear weapons. It was basically a big expensive pissing contest.
Thomast Tham I couldn't agree more.
Nobody wins in a nuclear war. There wouldn't be anything left worth controlling.
Thomast Tham Not really. Most of your people are dead, most of your land contaminated beyond the possibility of cleaning up, and no one to trade with you. We would set ourselves back about five thousand years in terms of civilization.
Thomast Tham Although I don't like to admit it, I tend to agree. If the whole of humanity were able to light off nukes to gain power, the remaining population would still have that mindset with whatever resources were left. It's strange that humanities greatest threat to survival is its own greed.
monkeyman522 it's usually considered Russia won the arms race and America won the Space Race. interestingly the USA had the technology to go into space 3 to 5 years before the soviets but didn't because they were worried of the soviets reaction
good work simon
tesla death ray only test
Mr Jim Nonsense.
I want to believe...
zchen27 Want to believe what?
Paul Austin That Tesla built a working death ray.
Its wasn't an intentional death ray... It was his free energy and radio transmitter device (Wardenclyffe Tower). He did a test of it before JP Morgan destroyed his project. If tuned properly this would not have happened
I half expected the Ancient Aliens guy coming out of nowhere saying, "Aliens"- A.E. guy
XD Mr. Simenov's testimony sounds like it'd be great lyrics for a metal song, lol!
Thats quite a spicy meatball. 3:24
"Crypto! Its the blisk!!!!"
mathew2214 I remember hearing this somewhere??
Tsar Bomba going back through time!
This is great. I love hearing about the Tunguska Event. There's no "r" at the end of Tunguska or Hiroshima, though.
I love this channel! Great brain food!
So many bonus facts... I'm liking this.
this is my favorite TH-cam channel
I remember when the Tunguska Event was a conspiracy theory about aliens :/
What do you mean "was"?
Seth Thomas Because it is commonly understood as a meteorite collision not some absurdly idiotic conspiracy theory.
Some say it was Nikola Tesla that caused it, look it up
Hahaha... yeah. I remember the Star Trek novel "Prime Directive" makes reference to this. They said that a Vulcan scout ship changed the trajectory of the comet so it would explode over a relatively isolated area instead of in the middle of Europe.
Kind of went off on a tangent...
What's the back ground music?
In a 1976 book, "The Fire Came By", the authors think that it was really a starship from somewhere else in this galaxy, that was attempting what might have been an emergency landing, but blew up first. Strongest proof of that: At first it was seen headed eastbound over Mongolia. A few minutes later, it was sighted going westbound over Siberia, where it exploded. It HAD to have made a U-turn for that!!!!
The Russians named thier mobile aa vehicle after this for some reason
ZombieSlayer123four because thats badass
Yeet God how? Didn't people die?
no they didn't
demon soul yeah they did look it up
ZombieSlayer123four no, it was called Katyaushka rockets
Plot Twist: It wasn't a comet but a Nuke sent by an Alien Civilization about a million years ago.!
why isn't there radiation at the crash site then
How many people have been there with a geiger counter?
+Doctor Dalek i read there is radioactive radiation
roodles prease I read there was non-radioactive radiation xD
Sunlight is also called radiation.
the part where no one cared reminds me of an article I read a while back, that details the fact that around 1808/1809, somewhere, a volcano erupted, with an estimated three times more force than the Krakatoa explosion, *and no one knows where it happened*
the effects of the eruption on the climate where recorded by several cultures, mostly out of confusion over the unusual weather that resulted, and ice core samples show that there definitely was a massive eruption on the planet that year, but there are no records of any witnesses noticing a violent eruption anywhere.
Excellent ...
0:18 is that an actual picture of it?!?!
FLASH! BAM! ALAKAZAM!
Needs more subs.
I know its a little late for this comment. But the link annotation at the end for the video about clothes is incorrect. The link actually goes to another TIFO video about horse statues.
does anyone know if there was any detected radiation from the blast? thank you
rockinsteady
well the night sky lit up shoooo
I'm pretty sure he's got the best "british" accent I've ever heard.
You should do one on the world's biggest nuclear bomb test
"Today our country shudders in
the wake of cataclysmic devastation. Torn by war with a brutal and
terrifying enemy, the likes of which we have never seen. This morning, I
awoke to the sound of thundering crashes that I thought could only be
an earthquake, but as I looked outside I saw their battleships looming
over the city. Each one wider than Forbes Field, and each leaving
nothing but burning disfigured wreckage in its wake. Former friends and
neighbors, now lie in storm drains, limbs twisted in ways I can't begin
to describe. This struggle, for the very survival of mankind... this
struggle that has now reached across the shores of our homeland. This
struggle, ladies and gentlemen, may now be forever lost."
Just think: The 1st nation to deploy a space based rail gun could deploy what is essentially a nuclear bomb anywhere in the world as often as it likes without the radiation since it could replicate this event easily.
Hope you do a story about the people who not only survived the Hiroshima atomic bomb blast and thought they found safety in Nagasaki only to be in a second atomic bomb blast. Interestingly there were an estimated 190 of them. One of the most famous people who survived both bomb recently died. Inspire of being my n both bomb blasts and being badly burned he did not develop cancer and had several perfectly normal/ healthy children.
Those soviets were so environmentally conscious😂
We unleashed more destruction in 50 years of nuclear warfare than 1000 years of asteroids and comets.
I thought the Tsar Bomba was reduced in size because the plane wouldn't be able to escape the blast
...and now i am irrationally afraid of this happening where I live.
The tunguskerivent.
It was an Anti-Mater explosion, from the NCC-1701H
Rumor has it, the comet had a twin tail.
Eye witness reports said the object changed direction before exploding in the trees.
holy shit simon turned into a model
I genuinely expected this to be about some crazy ass early American just taking a exuberant of TNT and mabye some mixture of other chemicals and lighting that shit xD
The toongoosker event.
Thanks for another great video. My one pet peeve is the bombs dropped on Japan were atomic not nuclear.
I find it funny that, in terms of power, human nuclear weapons = a big rock.
i thought it was going to be about the Halifax explosion
"Only one mile"
u should nake a vid that explains the difference between asteroids and netiorites
r.i.p my grand dad he was born in 1908
The aliens were testing their artillery, which they must've been developing for their first world war!
there are a lot of things that make both the nuclear events of ww2 look tiny. one was tsar bomba.
bmxriderforlife1234 Point is this was before nuclear weapons
and theres also a dynamite cache that happened before nukes that was larger then this.
abandoned stockpile from a war plus a bunch of ammo and other shit, and i mightve fucked up my conversions from terajoules as thats what it was quoted in in the source. im trying to find the link to it now. cant remember the name of it but read an article on it. the actual explosion of it may have also happened after ww2 but i remember it having something to do with ww1 and a fuck load of explosives under ground. like i said might be off with that one but you could also look at , they arent all man made though.
Yeah, no. There is no way any non-nuclear man-made explosion has exceeded a few kilotons. The largest being equivalent to around 4 Kilotons of TNT. (The Minor Scale test). The largest explosion on Earth that we've witnessed was the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora, being at about 600-800 Megatons. The largest estimated explosion on Earth would be the Cretaceous-Tertiary Event, when a large meteor caused an explosion equal to about 90 Teratons of TNT. The largest explosion ever witnessed by man was Gamma Ray Burst 080319B, in March of 2008. It was estimated at around 2x10^34 tons of TNT...or 10,000 times the weight of the sun. It was actually visible to the naked eye for around 20-30 seconds. The largest estimated explosion ever, aside from the Big Bang, is the Gamma Ray Burst 080916C. Thought to have had an output of 2x10^38 tons of TNT.
like i said mightve been off on conversions, from tera joules to megatons. also never specifically said man made, every yellowstone eruption makes them look tiny.
I couldn't imagine surviving any bomb causing radioactive fallout
There are a lot more factors to consider than above. Radiation is a major problem and you have to know how to avoid it. If the bomb went off at ground level there would be lasting fallout but also direct ionizing radiation. Whereas an air burst detonation would cause little fallout or direct ionizing radiation. Also, depending on how much radiation, simply going to a basement may not be enough. I'm not going to go into to details but a little research can go along way. A way to deal with fallout that is left over is iodine capsules (I-131), while it won't enable you to eat anything contaminated it will help your body push out any fallout it absorbs.
***** Most old "nuclear" shelters are worthless, as few actually included lead lining. While concrete does a pretty good job at reducing radiation, it won't do enough if it's not deep enough in the ground (around 10 meters of solid dirt should stop most radiation by itself). Also, you shouldn't bunker down unless you're in the immediate danger zone from ionizing radiation. If that's the case, you need to surround yourself with dense objects in hopes of reducing the amount of radiation that gets to you. Anyone outside of the effected area should try to leave as soon as possible, otherwise they're putting themselves in unnecessary danger. The people in Japan when the bombs hit stayed and dug through the destruction to find survivors. Remember, more eventually died from the radiation than the actual explosion.
This was a volcano exsplosion!!!🇮🇹
aliens. it was aliens
Why was their light hours later all over the world?
This is mentioned in Ghostbusters. But they said it was 1909.
Reino Djanghardt - They were wrong
It was caused by Tesla testing his death ray.
well at least no chimera virus started there
do the hill 60 explosion
Maybe someone placed 1 million Minecraft TNT blocks.
*OR,* or, or, stay with me here...
Somebody went Super-Saiyan.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence...
Meh, looks more like a SSJ2 transformation.
More watchable if you didn't SPEAK so fast, for FS.
Why do you pronounce "Tunguska" as Tungooster at the the beginning of the video, but a more American Tungusta at the end?
OhioCruffler - It seems the British follow a rule that if the last letter of a word is a vowel and the first letter of the next word is a vowel, they put an R in there. So TunguskA Event (vowel-vowel) becomes tungusker, but tunguskA Blast (vowel-consonant) just stays tunguska.
comet hm ? i had hoped for a primordial black hole
For some unknown reason I was expecting Mr S Whistler to do a Siberian accent whilst reading Mr S Simakoffs statement. (Apologies for the incorrect spelling of the Siberian dudes name)
Only 1,000 times?
So it's only 1/5 as powerful as the Tsar Bomba? And 2/3 as powerful as Castle Bravo?
This has been known since it happened.
Who else first heard of Tunguska from the x files episode of the same name in the 1990s?
I thought this was about tsar Bomba
It was just dubstep trying a new space themed album
It didnt go well
Oki
Explosive.
This was done by Nicole Tesla
He-row-she-mah not he-ro-she-mah...
I know that putting the stress in a word can prove difficult, but "Tzar Bomber"? Srsly? It's Tzar Bòmba
Емил Ефендулов dude its close enough we know what he's talking about and some cultures say stuff differently
Wyatt Barrett We know what he's talking about only because we're familiar with the subject.
The Toongoosker Event
1 in 300 years event and 2 in russia in a century.
"Tungusker"?
I'd say a UFO that crashed, was the culprit.
I wish Simon wouldn't tack on an "r" to words that end in certain vowel sounds. I know it's a British English thing, but it's really annoying to Americans, who have to consciously filter it out.
I have to suspect most American subconsciously adjust the various accents of English, and have no problem understanding what is said.
I have no problem understanding what he's saying. I just find it annoying how his accent adds the "r" sound for no reason. To be fair, I'm equally annoyed by the (American) Boston accent that drops the "r" at the end of words.
timewave02012 I agree. Luckily it's only east coast Americans like this that don't know how to speak. If you hear a Midwest person speak we don't do this. It's one of the reasons there are so many call centers where I live. Lol.
monkeyman522
Somehow the call centers I get, if they aren't in India, are usually in the South, but that's okay too.
Why should he be the one to adjust for you? This is why America is shit.
you the turtle dude?
sounds like ex1rbia is it? not the same without the dry humor.
I would like to know why English people always add an "er" to words that end with the letter "a".
Tesla...
This is the event that Nazi Zombies is based on.
Wait ... so is there more powerfull bombs than nuclear bomb ?
It wasn't a bomb. It was a meteor.
Ohhhhh
KawaiiPem Also, there are many-MANY-nukes, all of them with different stats.Look up 'Tsar Bomba'
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KawaiiPem H-bombs. If you can get an unstable one, that is.
+Pedro Domenech .
it was a nuke. tunguska is said to be radioactive. meteors arent radioactive.
Tesla