Argentina's Secret Nazi Fusion Lab

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[@fredred8371]

Video starts at 1:15

[@byronc7134]

@@fredred8371 thanks mate

[@tpl608]

@@fredred8371 more ads and discussion of ads than USA network TV and that is saying something

[@swxwingalliance]

FYI, 2:03 is wrong. Juan Peron wasn't a dictator, he was elected the three times he was president.

[@tpl608]

@@jackmurfitt1630 or you could watch and listen to another channel. No one is forcing you here. Lighten up Francis.

[@NyQuin]

“I’m German but I also have a lot of Argentinian family” never comes off how they think it does

[@owenmccord5078]

@@alexander-mauricemillamlae4567 lol, like they’re direct descendants of high ranking members of Hitler’s Nazi party; and probably directly reasonable for the deaths of thousands if innocent civilians.

[@mielerodriguez5678]

@@owenmccord5078 Interesting relatives are cool.

[@owenmccord5078]

@@alexander-mauricemillamlae4567 Yeah, I caught the sarcasm. In 2021 surprisingly others might not be aware. I personally can’t vouch for Stalin’s granddaughter’s character, though; can you?

[@owenmccord5078]

@@mielerodriguez5678 Interesting relatives are only cool if one carries on their legacy. In this case, that’s what firing squads are for.

[@JasonW.]

@@alexander-mauricemillamlae4567 yes, but the antiques sold are cursed

[@Swedsman]

Never ask a woman her weight, a man his salary or a German why their grandparents are from Argentina

[@speedymark8517]

Racist

[@darkangel424cod]

@@speedymark8517 stop getting so easily offended by jokes

[@gonefishing167]

People can’t even say a joke these days. It’s sad. No one admires what these horrid people did but some people should just lighten up. The man just told a joke. 👵👵👵👵🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

[@lester3917]

What if I’m Argentinian and my grandparent was German

[@gonefishing167]

Dear Lester, then it would depend on what you were like as a person. Some are proud of their grandparents. You can love someone , as is right, but if you are still proud of what they did, then - no. If you were a good and decent person, - then yes 👵👵👵🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

[@sandhilltucker]

Abe Simpson- "what did you do during the war?" Werner Herzog- "world war 2? I wasn't even born yet!" Abe Simpson- "funny how many of you guys say that these days"

[@michaeltodd2923]

Also abe Simpson- "call me mint jelly cuz im on the lam(b)".

[@SimonVanliew26]

Which was the style at the time

[@mrdethbuzzard4885]

@@SimonVanliew26 The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones.

[@TheFlimTV]

Just like my abuelo Adolfo used to tell me!

[@corso4547]

😂

[@maria369]

I wish i could have met your abuelo

[@awsumaustin7650]

@@maria369 I'm sure you might've seen a video or picture of him before.

[@maria369]

@@awsumaustin7650 I have a collection of videos and pictures of him. 😉

[@Warderler]

you mean grandfather

[@MatiasCampo]

Great video, from a viewer from Argentina! It even includes a bonus minigame "count how many times he butchers all names, even the easy ones"! Dude... Not even one name properly pronounced!

[@canaan5337]

As it turns out the only Fusion reactor supplying energy to earth is that big bright one that comes up every morning and sets every evening.

[@iitzfizz]

Yes nature does it best, we just imitate

[@leechowning2712]

Unfortunately unless we put the panels in space the best efficiency we've gotten so far is not even 10%. It is why we would love to put in orbital power arrays, but then you have to figure out how to transfer it to Earth.

[@arifhossain9751]

@@leechowning2712 There's a theoretical power generation method called the "Dyson Sphere" where you *cover the entire Sun with a giant sphere of solar panels.* I guess that would bump the efficiency up a bit.

[@leechowning2712]

@@arifhossain9751 actually the standard plan is a ring of solar panels circling the equator. It would be pinned by antennas coming down to geosynchronous orbit to transmit power, but would require the world governments to all invest.

[@ask3xd903]

@@arifhossain9751 isn't that a simpsons episode?

[@cylondorado4582]

40's scientists be like, "I could defeat Richter with only 40% of my power".

[@Panthror]

This guy might've done everything wrong, but I always say: Knowing how not to do things eventually leads you to knowing how you should do them.

[@philipweber8013]

I know... Right!???!

[@muffassa6739]

I hate Nazis

[@fridryx8464]

@@muffassa6739 what are nazi's to do with this? He was a scientist in nazi germany it doesnt mean hes a nazi.

[@ITILII]

Sometimes it does, but other times it doesn't....or doing the wrong thing once makes sure you're not around to try again

[@amp7980]

Considering they found much of the equipment wasn't even hooked up. And someone caught a piece out of place giving a false positive, but he just pushed forward anyways says con to me. He was probably rigging for a false positive the whole time.

[@ignaciogottheil6661]

Very cool video! My grandfather was ministry of industry around this time for Argentina. And we are decedents from Germans into the 1800s but we migrated to Arg in 1914...before wwII....not all of us are those Germans, many yes but not all.

[@javierwolfle3593]

My family migrated in the 1920s, I'm 39, and yet I used to work for a Russian guy who kind of blamed me for WWII. He was jus a couple of years my senior, so he didn´t participate in war, yet he loathed me for being of German descent.

[@ignaciogottheil6661]

@@javierwolfle3593 yup normal stereotypes.... or a hasty generalization

[@alzahir]

I LOVE this history tidbit. It's so freaking crazy: Nazis, mad scientists, delusional military dictators... it has it all! Give the Blaze treatment, factboi!

[@elgatoconbolas]

Well, Argentina exports nuclear technology all over the world, including nuclear reactors for research. Richter was the wrong man for the project but the seed was planted there in Bariloche, where Instituto Balseiro (among the finest institutions in nuclear research) is. That institute is where Juan Martín Maldacena got his degree in physics.

[@gensaikawakami341]

Blaze it up!!!

[@majorstorm9]

You may enjoy looking up operation paperclip then as well. Its the reason the US was able to win the space race

[@tolfan4438]

If you just could have found a way to get pirates in there would have been perfect

[@michaelcox5946]

The thumbnail is quite Blaze-ish isn’t it factboi

[@enriquemino9963]

Thanks to the exaggeration, real fusion research was kicked off and now we may yet see it fullfilled

[@emmanuelferpozzi1768]

Another awesome video. One thing. ‘Bariloche’ rhymes with ‘noche’, as in Spanish for ‘night time’. It’s not a French word. You pronounce ‘che’ like Che Guevara’s name. It means ’the people behind the mountain’ Bari, or Vuri, means ‘behind’, ‘che’ means ‘the people’. It’s in one of the native’s languages. Side note, the ‘Che’ in Che Guevara does not have the same etymology.

[@campbellpaul]

I love these videos and their great content. I would like to add also that a "nighttime cinema" style audio output might be in order to moderate your sound level to a median range, as I suffer from tinnitus and have to turn up the volume to understand it well. But then again, I do sometimes use the closed caption with the volume down low, so it's just a suggestion you might want to play with.

[@Sashquatsch]

Richter fusion reactor is being used in the United Kingdom. It was not a scam from my point of view. Reactors the size of half pencil that produce 400º Celcius are being tested and without harmful radiation.

[@kreb7]

Source? And by Who ? I'm curious

[@Sashquatsch]

@@kreb7 I can not give sources other than this: Martin Fleischmann Memorial Project to find the by Who. In case of Richter he probably just made public what he saw in wartime Germany. Currently Richter type devices are being tested but still without excess energy and the costs are too high. The pencil reactors To me the pencil reactor it is a kind of a battery that transforms Hydrogen and electricity to produce heat. To make electricity out of heat is the big problem. No water steam or turbines should be used to make it simple. Siemens placed one question: can it make 1000 degrees C ? So that it could use steam to turn turbines. The answer was, no. 1000 C is could be possible but I have not seen any proof of it. As far as I know the materials used to "hold" Hydrogen melt at much lower temperatures. The Piantelli / Focardi / Rossi device has to be charged with Hydrogen and the amount of energy one can take out is limited plus the resources and energy spent to charge it must be expensive and the device most probably might not give out the amount of energy that was spent charging it. I believe that those that are working in this types of ideas have solved the first problem: starting the effect at will anytime all the time. Understanding the phenomena is the next step. The reason why I think there is something in LENR is when I was working I would find Hydrogen trapped inside cast iron and one way to release this gas was placing the H contaminated iron parts in an oven at 80 degrees for 12 hours. Thinking of it now I wonder what would have happened if I had covered the iron surface with a material that would act like a one way valve and also if this H could be "pumped" until it started to fuse with a little help from electricity. Anyhow I am not a scientist but a very curious person and I love a good story.

[@matthewsermons7247]

12:18 I need to start mixing percentages and fractions more often just to mess with math teachers..... P.S. My mom is a math teacher...... "There are 3 types of people in this world, those that can count and those that can't."

[@CrazyMazapan]

For future reference: in Spanish, the H is silent; the U is pronounced like a W, the CH is always strong CH, and the final E is not silent. Therefore, Project Wemool (Huemul), and BariloCHE. You're welcome.

[@ElInextricable]

In spanish the "U" is pronounced like "U". There is an exception with words like "que" or "quiero" where the "U" is silent, and "Q" is pronounced like "K". If you find an "e" after "u" but no "q" or "g" in sight, that combination do actually sound similar to "w", but that's just a coincidence. The mistake is most likely due to the fact that Castilian spanish refer to "v" as "uve" but thats probably to differentiate "v" from "b" and prevent mistakes ("v" and "u" look kinda similar). Such way to name the letter "v" ended up in "w" as well (uve doble), but that has nothing to do with the spanish pronunciation.

[@TonyBongo869]

Richter? Damn near killed her!……I’ll show myself out…

[@AugustMeteors]

I see what you did there!

[@aerial11]

I'm keeping those pronunciations of "nahuel huapi" and "san carlos de bariloche" close to my heart now. Strangely beautiful.

[@julianfernandezduca2196]

h is silent tho, so arent good pronunciations. I was born there btw

[@arielanibalpastura8137]

Nahuel huapi es una palabra indigena del pueblo mapuche .

[@camichiBichi]

Isla del tigre, no?

[@arielanibalpastura8137]

@@camichiBichi ja no realmente no lo sé lo que significa Nahuel huapi ..pero es en idioma mapuche ..ahora te lo averiguo ..

[@arielanibalpastura8137]

@@camichiBichi si exacto ..""isla del yaguar ''..extraño porque en la patagonia el clima es frío ..y no hay yaguar serían pumas ..

[@caboolian]

I am reasonably sure that this is the first time Simon has used an Olympic champion as a source for an historical video.

[@tomasxfranco]

Well... Simon didn't pronounce 1 name correctly, did he?

[@DiestroCorleone]

Buenos Aires, if I remember correctly.

[@ildzzux]

I absolutely love how informative your videos are. It shows you put in a lot of work and research to make the content interesting and captivating. I am not audially impaired, but sometimes I can't seem to be able to understand what you are saying, as your voice goes low, quieter and assumes a monotone. When you do the longer videos of a script written for you, that doesn't seem to be the case, and I can understand you perfectly throughout the whole video.

[@Chris0nF1re]

The man with the soothing voice is back to tell me some interesting facts.

[@boathousejoed9005]

The content is always interesting but his voice is grating to my ears.

[@alexiseginard3716]

As someone who lives in Argentina i have met multiple people whose grandfather was Nazi

[@SkuLLetjaH]

I once met a cute Argentinian girl in a bar with a German name and last name. When asked she said "yeah, grandpa moved here in the late 40s" as if that doesnt insinuate anything.

[@pathologicaldoubt]

Same with the Italians in Argentina. Many fascist Italians fled to Argentina after the end of the war too

[@christopherreed4723]

Argentina was also, if memory serves, one of the destinations for the Abwehr Ost members and their families that were pulled out of Germany and what became Soviet-occupied territory under Reinhard Gehlen's agreement with Allen Dulles (when he was OSS's Head of Station in Switzerland). The short version of *that* was that Dulles got Gehlen's people out of harm's way - specifically Soviet hands, but also the western Allies' Nazi hunters - in return for Gehlen giving Dulles what was left of his (i.e.: German military intelligence's) networks in eastern Europe. Things got "interesting" when OSS was summarily dissolved as soon as Truman became President. All in all a fascinating "Wild West" period. Pretty sure Chile was another destination, but it never got the publicity that Argentina did.

[@Misaelec7]

This place is full of nazis and perhaps not enough of them considering how things are going lately. I'm from Buenos Aires.

[@gerardomalazdrewicz7514]

@@pathologicaldoubt Italians had a BIG immigratory wave starting in the 1880s (so big, that Buenos Aires' spanish entonation mutated from andalusian to neapolitan).

[@georgefotisdramesiotis9061]

Imagine this article would be about Argentinians hunting and catching nazi and just merging them together, so much better from reality

Actually Juan Domingo Peron was not a dictator, he was a freely elected president of Argentina

[@temporalmadness3756]

Ask any Argentinian why Japan is luckier than Argentina, they'll say "Japan got two atomic bombs, we've got Peron"

[@MangaMaster13]

I read the title and I thought the Nazis were making Gogetas in Argentina. Then, I realized that I was just dumb.

[@TheKe3lz]

They were going for Vegitos initially but lacked the items required

[@matthewsermons7247]

I dunno.... They were known for playing hot, fast, and loose with their genetic experiments... you were prolly on to something....

[@twoheart7813]

Argentina spent 5 billion dollars in todays money on that project, that was a lot of money for a country with less then half the GDP as the US in 1950.

[@kiloton1920]

I went to high school with two kids from a family that came from Argentina and owned bmw dealerships and had white blonde hair and blue eyes and very white skin. I have to say her brother looked like a spitting image of a Nazi soldier and was quite the Aryan specimen, so was she.

[@foxmoulder7724]

Me at the beginning: ohh! Interesting the Nazis were into jazz i guess.

[@lennierofthethirdfaneofchu7286]

This place was featured on a History Channel mini-series. That posited that Hitler escaped Berlin and moved to Argentina. And the crumbling facility was a Nazi attempt to build an A-bomb to win WW III. So much for the History Channel actually presenting history.

[@Diamondtai1]

(16.57) "...in early 1941, construction of the Huemel laboratory was at last completed." That year is not correct.

[@JasonW.]

Perón: Eva made me do it

[@heronimousbrapson863]

And fusion power is still 50 years away (and always will be).

[@justinmartin4662]

I may share the secret with you plebs someday. Don’t despair.

[@neeneko]

yep, just like AI. Though it could be argued that has been growing further and further away.

[@sm3238]

Brilliant ad: "It takes more to learn something than just watching it. To really learn something you actually have to do it." Now, let's learn about secret Nazi fusion experiments. Let's get doing it!

[@jaxb680]

So secret that they have lots of KZbin videos on it so we can learn all about it

[@25jessieg]

A Brit pointing out the Nazi history is Argentina. Let me grab my popcorn.

[@j.a.weishaupt1748]

Yes it is seemingly possible for someone from one country to tell something about another country. Crazy right?

[@GeraldBlack1]

So how do you smuggle a particle accelerator....one particle at a time lol.

[@bremnersghost948]

Argentina with a Nuclear Program and Otto Skorzeny as Perons Bodyguard/Henchman, What could go wrong!!

[@Dank-gb6jn]

You should cover the attempts of X-Energy Nuclear to produce a new type of nuclear reactor and fuel system. Their TRISO-X fuel balls are quite interesting.

[@maxsalmon4980]

So they laughed at him in the university, but he swore to show them? To show them all?

[@HowBizarreStudios]

You butchered several words in this video. I recommend that, whenever you need to pronounce a foreign word, you add the word on screen, that way, people from those countries (like me) will know what you are talking about. Other than that. I was always interested by this, thanks for making a video about it!

[@singletona082]

Now imagine, if you will, a world where this crazed lunatic had actually stumbled on relatively low temperature fusion in spite of himself.... Keep the crazy keep the scandal, but his notes, his apparatus, actually producing scaleable results with better minds able to work out the flaws and harness it.

[@kurtwollermann2210]

absolutely fusion reseach should be promoted

[@NightMotorcyclist]

We live in a world where there will always be the burning of the Library of Alexandria in which society will destroy things of people they don't like or are said to have done wrong or are evil.

[@kurtwollermann2210]

@@NightMotorcyclist unfortunately true and it goes to the realm of basic human nastiness

[@kingmiura8138]

Juan Manuel Fanzio is the most famous Argentinian.

[@gutsygutman2475]

I just realized this was the inspiration for "Cybersix" the Comic and Cartoon. Neat.

[@Cryodrake]

Simon don't do this to me. X3 you tease me with just dipping a little bit into ITER. You really should consider making a video on that because the amount of work that's been put into it is amazing.

[@brandonpark7183]

This video was recommended to me by the algorithm. It said "people who like BrainBlaze also like this". I think that is extremely strange because I'm already subscribed to this channel with the notification bell on.🤔🤔

[@malfaroangel3896]

Isn’t this literally what they used for the plot of Suicide Squad?

[@elijahtalbot1149]

1:13 for anyone who wants to skip the ad at the beginning.

[@gavincleland9010]

I wonder if this was an inspiration for Mr. Awesome, the scientist with a theoretical degree in theoretical physics in Fallout New Vegas

[@tpl608]

More ads and discussion of ads than USA network TV and that is saying something.

[@walterscogginsakathesilver6246]

So much for... fake it till you make it.

[@MinistryOfMagic_DoM]

That is a hell of a business blaze, yes business blaze which is the real and correct title, thumbnail.

[@michaeljefferies2444]

It was a major oversight that he would go through this whole video without mentioning the wild success of Dr. Otto Octavius’ fusion reactor in 2002. Tragically, the power it produced proved too much to contain and nearly blew up New York, killing the good doctor’s wife and driving him insane.

[@Amberwood243]

Simon: someone who has devoted many hours to trying to learn programming and has certainly used the product he is pushing. 🤷‍♀️

[@matthewgambrel568]

I need a video on the Harlan Coal Wars in Harlan Kentucky. Where the US Government bombed there people and had them assassinated. Where they worked with corrupt company’s treating there employees as if slaves and never paying them and starving them!!! Love your videos Simon keep up the work! Your whole team is doing great!!!

[@BluenosedMarsh]

Agreed.

[@josephteller9715]

That's something that someone definitely needs to be done. I know there was a documentary about Harlan and the 1973 Strike but nothing on the events in the 1930s.

[@RCAvhstape]

Raylan Givens and Boyd Crowder approves this post.

[@alw2839]

Can't let those pesky workers realize there value like there great grandfathers did!

[@quasarsavage]

How is Argentina abt the same gdp per capita as mexico like wtf I never though that was true but it is... like brazil tanked since 2014 (abt 80 percent poorer) but did all of South America fail since then also?!

[@pablodavidclavijo4609]

Latin American economy is very dependant of Brazil, but in the case of Argentina, it hasn't grown since 2011 purely by its own merit.

[@ramiropina83]

Argentina has been on an economic crisis for most of the last 80 years. If we are less poor than most of our neighbors is just because we started from a much better position, but it's just a matter of time.

[@GeroG3N]

Argentina was among the 6 countries with the highest GDP per capita until the 1940s. It has been in decline for almost 100 years .

[@SMunro]

Sound based fusion? Sounds like a Keanu Reeves movie.

[@fuckYTIDontWantToUseMyRealName]

I love the percentages these scientists keep giving.

[@dustinandtarynwolfe5540]

I think it's more like bar-ree-low-chay

[@deusexvesania1702]

At least the lake was there before they build the reactor and not just ...came to be afterwards.

[@tristanblack1352]

Simon: ...you can't just learn by listening, you have to do it... (Brilliant Ad) Me: Well I guess it's time to start an Argentinean Nazi Fusion Lab...

[@robertwalker-smith2739]

He was the Lysenko of nuclear physics.

[@thewickedjester7495]

You know how you can tell s scientist is legit? He does one experiment, gets the results he wants, then calls it a day....

[@theturdcurd2382]

Simon Whistler, making all of us that can't grow a full beard look pathetic.

[@jjeherrera]

Very nice video, but I have a comment, though. The neutrons observed by Zeta at Harwell were real, not an artifact of faulty instrumentation. What happens is that they weren't of thermonuclear origin, but the result of beam-target reactions, just as in an accelerator. The problem is that deuterons are accelerated by high electric fields, as a result from what we know as "sausage instabilities", which are like a squeeze of the plasma column. The fault in interpretation, not instrumentation, was found a few months later, when the angular distribution of the neutron yield was measured. There's a great difference between this kind of mistake, and those due to sheer incompetence, like those of Richter, Pons and Fleishmann, and others who would rather prefer not to be mentioned. By the way, there's a book on the subject by Mariscotti, "El secreto de la isla Huemul", which is unfortunately out of print. I asked Mariscotti sometime back in the 1990s if he'd be interested to have it translated to English, but he wasn't.

[@andymouse]

Fusion energy isn't coming on line in 2025 everybody knows it's 30 years away....cheers.

[@Je.rone_]

Great videos

[@22.robertusgunawannugrohob14]

In year 2030 quantum and fusion technology will reach its prime, artificial sun, powerfull supercomputer, and electric fueled vehicle

[@jeffreyhill1011]

15:10 and since that fateful day in 1953 viable fusion power has been a scant 10 years away

[@larsrons7937]

Interesting story. 13:03 "mMost of the scientific instruments weren't even connected." If Richter did believe in his project he didn't believe that he was getting close to achieving succes.

[@malicious217]

Libyan's you say? This explains Doc. Brown in Back to the Future getting his plutonium!

[@h20g]

man theres alot of echo in this room

[@MrJohnnyCrock]

The title should have been "Argentina's Secret Nazi 'Fusion' Lab."

[@eleventy-seven]

Pardon my spelling but the ITER is Tokamak design. The Stelerator is a far more efficient and promising drive. Not at all the same although fusion is the goal.

[@SamVillano]

Azure blue?

[@Chef_PC]

I felt every single one of those pronunciations, Blaze Boi.

[@bananahpolkadot]

Simon you always make my day man

[@seanrichards7421]

Si Man looking Fresh to next 😍 👌 Excellent Mr. Surrey 👌 youre the main course of my youtube menu. Or actually I watch 3 different videos from atleast three of your channels. Well done Whistler 👏

[@sandybarnes887]

What about his 8 others?

[@appalachian420grower5]

Blonde hair blue eyed argentine who speaks fluent german:"this is simply nonsense"

[@F00matt]

Brilliant!!

[@ragoonsgg589]

Lmao, Simon, I hope your KZbin thumbnail guy keeps rotating the "sniffing script" Simon into the videos

[@LoPhatKao]

clearly thats where blazeboi hides his colombian marching powder

[@Andrecio64]

i need a spanish version of this video

[@travisslack4655]

I would be very interested in anything about people who have “perfect pitch”

[@jackpeters6125]

What is a rustling pipe?

[@Buddha23Fett]

Hey my grandpa worked on that! He came from Germany after the war.

[@fredred8371]

Video starts at 1:15

[@MistarZtv]

sounds like an episode of doom patrol

[@bmonteleone48]

only 62,000° F

[@DadJeff-jo7pm]

Not to mention of The Boys from Brazil.

[@d33pNacho]

Any physics graduate in the 40's was worth like a thousand nowadays

[@german1673]

I'm Argentinian and my name is actually Germán

[@cg2383]

7:12 Holy crap thats a lot of chins

[@msba1228]

You chose the wrong sponsor. You should have chosen skillshare. It's way better

[@DanteKenchi]

and a bit farther on the same lake is a house where hitler lived :p

[@1.4142]

I hope we get fusion energy soon

[@regan3873]

I get ambitious but delusional vibes. Doesn’t seem like a con to me.

[@g-low6365]

H in spanish makes no sound