The Big Problem That Happened After We Nuked Space

[@FredPilcher]

When I was a wee lad living in Sydney Australia my father woke me up one night and took me outside to see the red sky, which he explained was aurora australis. It was only years later that I realised that what we were seeing was Starfish Prime,

[@colinsmith2005]

I was born in 65, grew up in Croydon, Mum took us kids out to look at the Moon after watching t.v, she said theirs some men on the Moon, I looked up but couldn’t see them lol, I tried to imagine them up there but couldn’t which always made me wonder if they really were up there, she told my older siblings they will remember but said I probably won’t. I was 3 and a half and remember distinctly telling mum, I’ll remember, she’s still in Croydon at the same address, in her early 90s with her full faculties, I reminded her a year or two ago and she doesn’t remember, I wish I’d looked her in the eye back then and said, Mum, are they eating all the cheese ? maybe that would have rung some bells.

[@metaps3922]

Oh man you are really old😅

[@alexhobbs1208]

​@@metaps3922 hope you can say that about yourself one day

[@p0k314COM]

@@metaps3922 But at least he's not stupid like you.

[@colinsmith2005]

@@metaps3922Your a cheeky bugger, bloody right but. I still feel like I’m 20 in the head, about 80 physically. Look after your knees, that’s the best advice I was ever given, and ignored.

[@MagFireUK]

Only recently found your channel and no disrespect but really only began listening as something in the background to fall asleep to because your videos are delivered in such a smooth calming voice. But after a few videos I began to get more and more interested in watching them rather than falling asleep. I've never been a huge space person but your videos are so interesting I've learned so much. Thank you

[@harshvardhan4771]

Hi, since you mentioned it, so I'd like to mention a fun fact - he has another channel Astrum extras (I too found it just a few days back), where he uploads videos titled Astrum Sleep space, which has an even more soothing music than the videos on this channel. They're specifically for falling asleep while watching/listening the video. I suggest you to try it as well.

[@Terranova0]

Any video that suggests it's so boring I'll fall asleep watching/listening to it is ignored by me. I mean WTH were they thinking? LOL

[@Constronaut]

@@Terranova0 Thankfully I don't think anyone cares what you think.

[@jase4270]

There is thousands of channels just like this on KZbin.

[@drasiella]

Welcome to the club of space dreamers! I recommend SEA as well

[@Matthew.Morycinski]

I understood the need for peace when I was a 10 year old in Communist Poland. I understand it today as a 60 year old retiree in Canada. What we all, I think, underestimated, is how the voices of reason can be easily drowned out by the drumbeat of propaganda. This time it's many kinds of propaganda, but the result is the same: a spread of division, an inability to listen to reason, underestimating of threats to our survival, lack of cooperation. My hopes for the future are dim. We will likely all perish unless we realize that there is not a different future for each political, social and religious mythology. It's one future - same for all.

[@dailydoses8774]

Underrated comment.

[@Carepedoit]

Dude! Count me in!

[@RockyPeroxide]

I'm a card-carrying member of our local Socialist Party, and I 100% agree with you. The end goal is co-operation and a better life for all ^^

[@nte1324]

very well said, we only have 1 future

[@KingOhmni]

A depressing but succinct summary of cold war 2.0.

[@Gixie-R]

Imagine a leadership set on building better lives rather than set on taking lives.

[@68macun]

What I take away from this is how a willing few could care less about everyone else and having no idea what this could have done, still did it.

[@Ana-bw7gm]

And they do it over and over even with biological testing.

[@Africanchild825]

That is the West for you. Look how many nukes they have tested on the lands of other people. Why don't they test them in their own countries? Evil people.😳

[@PneumaNoose]

OPPENHEIMER FILM SPOILER ALERT This fact is what made Oppenheimer the masterpiece that it is. The realization that a few men, lest a single man, could destroy the world dropped on your brain like a nuke at the very end. It was terrifyingly beautiful. The entire movie was a slow build to that climax-and then nothing-just like the bomb itself. I’ll never get over that film.

[@jodsterf]

yeah and then convince young people the damage to the earth is their fault and why we have to drink with paper straws

[@johnoshaughnessy670]

Same. I can hardly watch this without choking on my own rage.

[@bertsmith5569]

imagine if humans could just behave themselves instead of wasting so many precious resources on destroying each other? I guess the silver lining is we MIGHT be able to defend our species against asteroids with these weapons.

[@carpediemarts705]

Asteroids travel extremely fast.

[@FTN_Ale]

@@carpediemarts705 and are also extremely big and extremely easy to see (at least those big enough to actually be a problem), we've already landed on multiple comets and other objects and managed to change the trajectory or an asteroid by hitting it

[@neutraltral8757]

According to Wikipedia, the nations of the world invested several trillion USD on military expenditures in 2023... yet some people lack basic necessities. Imagine how many people could be fed or sheltered if we didn't spend it on bombs, fighter jets, etc. In the same vein, imagine how much extra time we'd have if we never had to worry about locking up our houses or cars or phones or computers... I mean, I get it. If I wanted to leave my house and there was a scary person outside wielding a baseball, I'd either have to get my own weapon with which to defend myself or give up my freedom to go out of my house. Neither option is good and it would be ideal if the scary person put down the bat and left everyone alone. Unfortunately, people who succeed in getting what they want via bullying are probably not going to change easily.

[@orionxingu1758]

what point is there for defending our species when they are hell bent on destroying each other??

[@stopspammingmesrsly]

It's like some people are simply born evil, if they are mistreated they become criminals/abusers/serial killers. If they get a good upbringing they become politicians, leaders, CEO's. All the normal people who live and let live pay the price for both outcomes.

[@anitapeura3517]

As a science nut since my childhood in the 60s, so much of this is completely news to me. All my naive enjoyment of the advances in physics and space then take on a different colour now. And as for disrupting communications and power systems in a war, no-one needs nukes to do that any more! Thanks for making this, it's really important information that's easily forgotten, or buried.

[@PMMcIntyre]

TBF, most of what happened during that time was classified until the late 90s and early 2000s.

[@Canigetanawwwwyyyyeeeah]

@@PMMcIntyrestarfish prime…could hardly hide the classified part. And you really ought to look deeper…like at bell labs…you call them inventions…the laser, photovoltaic cell etc..those are the simplified versions of what we could comprehend in a tech we still don’t fully understand…

[@SpiritualityBro]

We have the internet now for information ​@@Canigetanawwwwyyyyeeeah

[@markshira7810]

The military industrial complex will eventually wipe out all life on earth. Geoingeneering will be the nail in the coffin for planet earth.

[@derp8575]

Government tried to penetrate the firmament. That was the goal of Fish Bowl.

[@markfischer3626]

You omitted one of the most important conclusions, the nuclear blackout effect. The excitation of the ionosphere blinds all radar making defensive systems like S500 and THAD useless. In a nuclear war the first detonations will be above the earth's atmosphere. After that the defense systems won't intercept a single warhead or missile. The tests also convinced American scientists that their warheads would still detonate over their designated targets.

[@OnTheHorizonSomewhere]

This would also disable ICBMs from functioning, would it not?

[@markfischer3626]

@OnTheHorizonSomewhere ICBMs navigate using inertial guidance to find their targets. They're shielded from the radiation and EMP.

[@bigsmall246]

​@@markfischer3626the accuracy of the inertial navigation system is probably something like 0.1% if distance travelled. Which is a about 10km by the time it reaches Russia. But I guess it doesn't matter since space EMPs have effective radius 1500km and airburst detonations have effective blast radius in the order of ~10km

[@markfischer3626]

@bigsmall246 there are stellar means of navigation. Cruise missiles use visual terrain tracking. I think DARPA is developing another method .

[@hellbent7062]

​@@markfischer3626ICBMs can navigate using a method called "Dead Reckoning."No GPS required.

[@philipcarter8511]

I saw the glow of Starfish prime at age 5 in New Zealand, looking out the window while going to sleep. Really scary for a young child seeing the sky light up like that!

[@pay2000]

STARFISH = THE WATERS ABOVE

[@CCPell]

No you didn't

[@GFWoodchuck]

And we wonder why people remember colder and snowier weather in the late 60s and early 70s.

[@eh7438]

And it's returning to "normal" is global warming, a lie...

[@77Infidel]

That was "global cooling." Scaring people into thinking an ice age was coming. Then global warming. Then "climate change." 🙄

[@conquerunderstanding7517]

If you fire a gun in city limits you go to jail, but the government fires a nuke in the sky over earth and that’s ok. 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@the369truth]

Also extremely irresponsible that those below are unknowingly exposed to radiation fallout.

[@bw2442]

Since they don’t know the outcome I wouldn’t call them scientists, I’d call them madmen and phycopaths

[@BirdCollins-h3h]

Where I live you can, the rule is your not allowed to shoot across the street but totally can empty a drum into your front lawn 🤣🤣🤣

[@theman-pc2ej]

​@BirdCollins-h3h to keep your buisness within the boundary of your property... I like it!

[@brentStuartBrent]

Bringersofdeaththeyarenodifferencethanvonbrownandyusefmangler😮😅😊

[@davidgrigg7398]

That was the moment that humans proved themselves to be completely irresponsible

[@stanpines9011]

The american government does not represent all of humanity. Hell, it barely even represents its own people.

[@connorgerrard-ky7ln]

​@@Aggrobiscuit because Americans are human

[@LightWaIker]

​@@Aggrobiscuitare Americans not human?

[@MichaelSTaylor]

​@@AggrobiscuitI get the anti-American sentiment, I live here and I think everything that's happened here especially recently is ridiculous. Despite musk having thrown a quarter of a billion dollars at the swing States last minute to eke out a less than 2% advantage that won the election, at least some of us Americans believe we still qualify as human beings, myself included. As we are a country of immigrants, blaming a collection of world citizens, just because we were technologically advanced enough to do stupid things before anybody else did, probably isn't the most level-headed opinion. Of course if you think the world would be better off without Americans, then that's another issue.

[@Super61a]

@@Aggrobiscuit why are americans collectively getting the blame for politicians we "elected"? moreover. theres no vetting process for people wanting to do something like this.

[@aquilarossa5191]

Not long after these tests created auroras here in NZ a hole in the ozone layer opened up over us, which led to greatly increased rates of skin cancer. I sometimes wonder if there is a connection. There is evidence of nuclear tests depleting ozone, so maybe there is. During the 1980s everybody was told to buy a new, ozone friendly refrigerator. We know certain refrigerants affect ozone too, but was it wanting our beer cold that led to so many getting skin cancer? I dunno. P.S. That cadmium found in NZ was the one of the initial factors causing the country to become nuclear free. The final straw was evidence of radioactive leaks from French testing near Tahiti. Now the US Navy is not allowed in NZ waters, because they will neither confirm or deny if they have nuclear stuff on their vessels. I also wonder if NZ was punished. We were demoted in the Five Eyes thing over it, so we no longer get the most high level intel, plus we were suspended from the ANZUS military alliance and still are. But our economy tanked after we went nuclear free too, e.g., mortgage interest rates hit 20% and there was very high unemployment etc.

[@allangibson8494]

Low altitude nuclear tests generate nitrous oxides (but so did cars until catalytic converters became common). The massive use of CFC’s in aerosol cans from the 1950’s to 1980’s probably had a bigger effect however. Space based nuclear detonations wouldn’t generate nitrous oxides (because there simply isn’t any air up there).

[@RokeJulianLockhart.s13ouq]

Thanks, both of you. This is the best comment thread on this video thus far.

[@melissaluckey2309]

OMG 😱 you're so right!

[@tonyboneful]

I met David Lange at a Georgie Pie once. He was awesome.

[@SouthernCrossMMA]

0 connection

[@mr.timebombman2230]

That's the reason we are seeing mire and more of these craft. I don't think people realize what effect nukes have on the things we don't see. Same with what Cern is doing. This affects these other beings and dimensions that no one can really comprehend.

[@coralcomet]

Now this I am curious about. Are we tearing the very fabric of our dimension? What are we opening the door to?

[@jonastownsend6546]

I was 11 years old, on Hickam AFB and saw the blast. Listening to the countdown on my handheld transistor radio. 3 2 1 0 the darkness became far brighter than a day at noon. 1 2 3 4 my radio buzzed and burned my hand, dropping on the ground. At my home father and mother watched on the lanai. Her new Hamilton Beach knife sharpener burst the heavy case. EMP was strong.

[@randyhavard6084]

Some of those nuclear test they did in the 50s were wild

[@davidgrisez]

One test that was very wild was the March 1954 Castle Bravo Nuclear Bomb Test. The scientists thought they would get a 5 to 6 megaton explosion. Suddenly surprise, they got a much larger 15 megaton explosion that caused a lot of problems.

[@davidarundel6187]

Some of those tests wee done in South Australia - the fallout , affecting New Zealand . Later tests in the 1960s by France , at Muraroa Atloll - the Atoll was abandoned , due to the fist sized cracks in the Atloll wall , several meters down - Jauwues Coutstaue , is the only person to have filmed there , and these explosions, brought in New Zealands " NO Nukes " law .

[@shanegreen9511]

They faked a LOT of those tests. Don't believe me? Ask them how in 1950-1975 they had cameras that could survive a close proximity nuclear blast. Do we even have such cameras today? They would need to be shielded against not only the intense radiation but also the blast wave. Yeah many tests were faked to fool the Russian and American people. Much of the cold war was and is still being fought with the first rule of war... DECEPTION

[@Taima]

@@davidgrisez Which was amusingly similar to what happened with the Russians and Tsar Bomba getting a 50Mt bomb that could've been 100. I kinda wish we'd seen the 100Mt version, just for funsies. I've always had this fantasy of there somehow being a scenario where just one more time we could detonate a fat fucking nuke in modern times - as a test - but to be recorded with all of our modern technologies and especially 8K cameras lmao.

[@DeepRestMan]

@@Taima "drones all over cities" a "test" might be on the horizon.

[@TheGoldenPig.]

The real question should be will we, as an international community, have the collective backbone to stand up to anyone who puts nuclear bombs in orbit.... I don't hold much hope given the state of our so called leaders.

[@JamesR-f9l]

Technically an ICBM such as those launched from nuclear subs circles around Earth before hitting target

[@exterminans]

"International community" 🤡

[@carpediemarts705]

z everything nuclear Is classified, the citizenry has no capacity to stop this from happening.

[@MrDavidBFoster]

Any rudimentary examination of any historical event should answer that question.

[@carpediemarts705]

@@TheGoldenPig. Did you change your perspective mid post? No I never suggested that you and I levatate up there and remove hardware. If one space capable nation were to attack someone else's nuke satellite, that would start Trouble. Yeah if my country has one, we don't know about it. Since the 80s the military has had satellite telescopes better than the Hubble pointed at Earth. We only found out about those in the last couple years.

[@jjock3239]

In 1958, I was exiting a movie theater at 11pm, on a moonless night, and observed the sky lit up in a manner that looked like an inverted crystal bowl. The white light was so spectacular, that I don't remember seeing any other colors. I was familiar with the colors and patterns associated with the Aroura, but this pattern was quite different. I had never seen anything like this before, and since then, I have not seen a repeat even remotely similar to this incredible event. (I might add, that my career choice, had me spending a lot of time looking at the night sky in all parts of the world).

[@Puzekat2]

I wish you would’ve told us where you were in 1958 that you saw the light.

[@jjock3239]

@@Puzekat2 Vernon, B.C. Lat N 50 deg, 16 min . Long W 119 deg, 15 min

[@firstnamelastname9918]

WOW! Thank you for sharing your story with us here!!! ❤ The stories of those who were there are so potent!

[@collectivided9484]

thanks for sharing, even down to the latitude and longitude! I'm a space scientist, I'll discuss with my colleagues what would produce a white light, my guess is the superposition of many different ionized ionized elements undergoing recombination in the upper atmosphere. And probably a lot of recombination, lots of particles, much more than in the aurora, so it would appear much brighter. It was in the shape of an upside bowl, you said? Like a full circle in the sky? Do you remember the direction it was relative to you? I would expect towards the west, but not sure if it'd be north or south from you. The particle radiation travels along magnetic field lines, so we can do some back-of-the envelope field line tracing. Any other details of that you can recall would be amazing, but no pressure, and no response is even required. Sorry, this is a very interesting event from a scientific perspective, and we don't have anything like it in my lifetime (I hope!).

[@_j_t_p_]

funny you believe him.

[@ianmclaughlin8987]

Did anyone read the US congress hearing back in 2014 about EMP Threats, very good read and upsetting to realize how vulnerable our power grid is.

[@Ana-bw7gm]

You should not worry in US, nobody is going to attack you and therefore you. Considering the past it is the whole world that has to worry about US attacking them.

[@VesproDBA]

Ana has never heard of Islam and it's unquenchable jihad

[@josephososkie3029]

@@Ana-bw7gm. Excuse me but you must think China’s and Iran’s actions are pure, innocent hegemony. Lots of bad actors out there .

[@jaydublis]

So vunerable they had to sign a treaty smh.

[@mila1111]

​@@Ana-bw7gmUS is not invincible

[@genuineimpulse9134]

There have been 2100 nuclear warhead explosions. Seven thousand rockets launched into space....and counting. None of this has done any damage to the planet or the environment. It's my gas powered lawn mower that has to go!

[@SkyQueen-17k]

😂😂😂😂

[@susannebrunberg4174]

Exactly!

[@halocdpsn]

lol they also want everyone to have a cork up your butt to stop gas from escaping lol

[@gayelcollinson252]

Hi g. You may be right. But it seems to have altered the space above us? Can you clarify if you believe it hasn’t. Yes a hand mower it often quicker as well.

[@uwisho]

As smart as humans are, we are equally incredibly dumb

[@jasontroy3911]

We just love tribal warfare...I mean we just can't get enough of it.

[@MrDavidBFoster]

No stupid animal ever nuked space. It's time to stop pretending intelligence was ever a good idea!

[@syntaxusdogmata3333]

"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it." - Kay, Men In Black, 1997

[@carlvargas7911]

The industrial revolution wasnt that long ago and we haven't evolved past our lizard brains yet 😅

[@shanegreen9511]

Agreed 💯

[@northgeorgia7357]

And the government wants to tax me for my carbon footprint gtfoh

[@alexclement7221]

12:53: To give you an idea of how strong that South Pacific H-bomb test show was, look at the picture. There is a dark horizontal streak on the right side of the blast. That is a full-sized (decommissioned) US warship, standing upright on it's end........

[@baldmenwin9591]

Also, that hole in the Ozone that we had... Nobody wants to talk about the long term effects of burning up the sky with many Nuclear burning, up to 60 miles wide. 😮 The largest bomb detonated was the Russian Tsar Bomba, 54megaton, with a fireball of 6.4 miles, and burning of 4000 square miles, found on birds with 3rd degree burns.

[@Raven5431]

​@baldmenwin9591 lol right because massive nukes didn't change our climate any, nothing to see here people move along.

[@miisu]

That's Bker test. Not a h-bomb, just about 20 kt.

[@doggSMK]

​@@baldmenwin9591 it shattered windows in Finland 🤯

[@assininecomment1630]

Huh..? So "nobody wants to talk about the" the ozone layer hole with the atmospheric bomb tests, @@baldmenwin9591. Maybe because what you imagine - not just correlation, but causation, _is incoherent._ • We know where the ozone layer thinned (polar stratosphere), and that ozone depletion (atmosphere). • We understand what caused this. • We made changes to policies related to certain materials (ODS). • The atmospheric and stratospheric ozone issues responded as a result of actions. But _please_ expand on your intriguingly revelatory (tenuous, speculative, baseless) ideas around this. 😃 We'd also love to read further about this, so please share the sources your ideas are based on.

[@shdwbnndbyyt]

What most people do not realize is that the US and northern USSR tests are what created the ozone holes that became a big issue in 1979 or so. Scientists were wondering about the massive ozone depletion areas in the stratosphere that were created from the tests and confirmed by balloon and other stratospheric flights, and so one of the reasons for the mission to measure the ozone from space was to see where they ended up. We now know, based on watching the gas giant planets that weather patterns, holes, etc tend to drift to the polar regions over time. On the earth it takes about a decade or two. Note that I grew up in the 1970's reading about the ozone depletion areas and the design of both Skylab and satellites to measure it. Then about 1975 or 1976, the literature dropped the ozone depletion zone monitoring coverage.

[@jamesstrawn6087]

Which means all our conversions of air conditioning fluids in our cars were seemingly pointless.

[@core3673]

@@jamesstrawn6087 Pointless? Tell that to Greta Thunberg.

[@JoseLopez-tk4tq]

Then, was the public fed a cover story about the ozone holes being caused by releasing certain common refrigerants into the atmosphere? Which government agency could be to blame?

[@Feendog245]

In Australia we were taught that it was due to over use of CFCs, and that if CFCs weren't banned, the hole would have been much larger.

[@danielbisping1230]

I meet one of the super-scientists (not sure what else to call him) in the early 90s. He worked on the 1st computer and on Reagan's Starwars program, just two that were common knowledge. He said that a nuke large enough at just the right altitude would basically cause a species ending event. And was not because of the EMP. They were not sure what would happen and the permanent effects on the atmosphere.

[@Cofffeeeboy]

my dad was stationed in Bosnia a few years after the Cold War as a peacemaker. hearing his stories are absolutely insane

[@johndc2998]

Canadian?

[@moogfooger]

In July 1962 we received strange tv signals for about 2 weeks. We lived on the east coast and were getting Los Angeles TV stations. Ironically, the first show we got was "The Outer Limits". (Do not adjust your set) Never knew why until recently finding out about these nuclear tests. Cheers

[@jeebusk]

some people got strange cancer diagnosis, they also didn't know why...

[@moogfooger]

@@jeebusk Yes I have heard stories about cancer fallout.

[@ericwalters3426]

Maybe that was during the Philadelphia experiment, i cant remember the year, but might fit that timeline too.

[@kamivelasquez3119]

I was born that month. 07/19/1962.

[@hebneh]

Since "The Outer Limits" was not broadcast until September 1963, I can say with assurance that you did NOT view it in July 1962.

[@anguswilliam2141]

Hugely irresponsible. These people should be up on criminal charges.

[@seabournewolf2298]

Only one way to learn things and that’s by experimenting. There was a war going on. You should be charged…with criminal stupidity

[@brad064]

False

[@cressro]

lol. They tried to break through the dome. Epic fail!! 😂😂😂. There’s no way out

[@dabo6285]

One thing I do know when I was a kid a lot was spoken about two tiny dark spots on the sun surface. Currently these have converted to one gigantic spot producing all kinds of solar storms. I have not heard any of these articles speak about investigations on how nuclear weapons affects our sun. People take for granted the sun is a gigantic star and can absorb the impact, but we really don’t know for sure. The truth of the matter if the bomb is dropped on earth, the shockwave shoots out into space with nothing to absorb the impact along the way towards the sun. This is something we should all be worrying about.

[@Suburp212]

Cancer, camcer, cancer. We all still feel the results of those trests.

[@RickMyBalls]

if you don't like cancer you'll stop eating carbs, but you won't

[@qoph1988]

Nah there's not really much risk of that from this type of test

[@wa2368]

@@qoph1988 Nah? Who are you, high school GED?

[@zeleehom]

Thanks!

[@phucko_soup]

The book One Second After is about a weaponized EMP like this. I highly recommend it

[@craigsurette3438]

That book was one of the most chilling book i have ever read. As someone with a bit of medical training, the scene in the nursing home was like a punch in the guts the first time i read it

[@shredead]

Just bought it on Audible 👍 thanks for the recommendation

[@dmo7815]

Free audio book on u tube, “one after” or “one second after “. About a small community in SC struggling to survive after a EMP.

[@manyhammers5944]

@@dmo7815The same communities suffering from the effects of hurricane Helene.

[@davidnecic3391]

It was called operation Fish Bowl, Testing GODS Firament, To See How High Is The Dome Over The Earth.

[@GCYoo]

I was waiting on the woke comments these ppl are lost

[@jammin_J64]

Werner Von Braun was the 1st head of NASA. Part of paperclip. If you think the OP's comment to be woke, I suggest you look into WVB's later life after NASA and why he left. Then look up the publicly available photo of what words he wanted on his final resting place stone. Oh...but that requires effort and it just might shed a different light on your comment. Or...dig deeper into Adm. Byrd and "highjump" among others.

[@edgelite]

☝️

[@ionnottelling8513]

Sir. We found the enemy. And He is...us!

[@chaunceyfeatherstone6209]

Starfish Prime footage also delivers a message in lovely cursive script. It reads: "You're screwed!"

[@TheCatzFranzNeko]

Yo this specific event always really fascinated me! It's exciting to hear you cover it

[@octane8267]

So the Ozone depletion was blamed on hair sprays and had nothing to with America exploding nuclear bombs in the upper atmosphear?

[@FriedPi-mc5yt]

It was so you could get a better tan.

[@gotworc]

I mean could have been both but since the pretty much world wide ban of the chemicals that weree destroying the ozone layer it's been almost healed

[@bluestrife28]

My thoughts exactly. 👍

[@TrevreWxAZ]

@@gotworc not true the ozone hole is still there and growing

[@koja69]

​@@TrevreWxAZnot true. It is "pulsating", depending on the time of the year, with tendency of shrinking in general. Seems like the last time you read news was around 1996.

[@WilliamsThomas-d3m]

All of our best minds combined have us blowing ourselves to smithereens. Brilliant ! They must be so proud of themselves.

[@eddiebeer4516]

They all get their paychecks from somebody. And no, it´s not the government, it is somebody.

[@_skyyskater]

Interesting fact: Operations Starfrish Prime and Fishbowl's greatest contribution to humanity was the movie Goldeneye (1995) many years later. Without them, we would never have gotten Pierce Brosnan as James Bond.

[@yomomma8972]

Or the golden eye Nintendo 64 game

[@aspexpl]

Humans : "If the galaxy is full of sentient life, why don't they visit us ?" Also humans : nuke space.

[@RickMyBalls]

it doesn't make a difference...

[@skele1lol]

so true

[@Flesh_Wizard]

comically small supernova

[@JonnoPlays]

This

[@qoph1988]

If you think we are mean, you should see what kind of sentient life would be capable of designing an interstellar drive, which would represent so much more destructive energy than a nuke. Sentience does not equal kindness and gentleness, in fact it is inversely correlated. What kind of forces would drive an alien species to travel so far? What kind of psychology would that struggle leave within them?

[@GarbageDanks]

I dont know if this proves humanity is/was utterly stupid, or suicidal.

[@ezekielhall7907]

Specifically Americans

[@CalmingWinds]

yep, civilizations always have to build a bigger stick for killing.

[@christianwn]

Some, not all. Put the blame where it belongs.

[@yellowbiker7286]

Thanks for sharing this video on the nuclear boom in space. While I've watched several videos on the topic, this one is the most comprehensive. No one else has mentioned the significant threat of EMP radiation. ❤❤❤

[@normanhechavarria152]

It's naive to think that we can prevent any nation from placing nuclear weapons into space. Human nature says it's impossible.

[@gregdoull1190]

Perhaps not connected, but back in the 50's, before all the nuke testing, we had 4 distinct seasons. Spring, summer ,autumn and winter. Now we can get all 4 in one day. Summer was a few months of warm weather, winters were very cold. Can I put a claim in for ruined summer holidays due to scientists/politicians mucking up the weather ?

[@starozytnawiarasw.onufrego8727]

No claim. Just pay your taxes 😂

[@mayday24916]

one of the best channels on YT

[@yfrontsguy]

And this is precisely why being lead by unscrupulous oligarchs is insanity

[@buckhorncortez]

Okay...give the alternative for a functioning government system.

[@Csillabu]

​@@buckhorncortez bait used to be believable 😭

[@SouthernCrossMMA]

Your sheep mentality

[@somethingmoredecent]

Led

[@skuddingomcwinters6119]

I get your point but you/we also have no choice. Wealthy/powerful/ influential will do what they do, regardless of our votes or thoughts.

[@mikecasey3055]

This was one of the best videos on space I e seen in a while. Thanks for taking the time and posting it.

[@markboccaccio]

Thanks

[@retiredoba2836]

Learning of such idiocy is beyond terrifying. The stupidity of these actions affirm that mankind is not worthy of planet Earth. AI will fair better than Humans.

[@Sebastianmaz615]

Simply because it would cause major chaos below I wouldn't be surprised by an initial EMP attack, then land based attack once all electronics are useless. 13:33

[@mal2ksc]

Learn Morse code. The first communications that will come back up after an EMP are old-fashioned analog radio transmitters, and Morse code is comprehensible at a much greater distance than voice over AM (which is the easiest detector to set up after an EMP takes everything out). Basically we'll be back to 1920s tech for a bit, then tubes can be made by hand and we'll be up to 1950s tech, which should be sufficient to re-jumpstart the semiconductor revolution.

[@Lee_303]

@@mal2ksc very optimistic if centres of industry are also targeted, & no-one of any specific knowledge of micro-electronics survives. We could be talking centuries, not decades & there is also agriculture & breeding of any surviving (mutated?) animals for food to consider. If the WEF survived, would they even allow this?

[@OneofInfinity.]

@@Lee_303 They would own all tech.

[@Bluelagoonstudios]

How irresponsible and paranoid people were in this period, in the past, there are no words for it. Just the number of "broken arrows" there were in that time.

[@patrickwright8552]

Fundamentally we are the exact same now. Certain structural conditions are different but we are just as paranoid and irresponsible.

[@SamuTheFrog]

We right there again, baby!

[@spacecat77]

To be fair the world was having back to back world wars and major wars in the 1900s

[@Farmergirl7]

@@spacecat77has there ever been a period of time when there were no wars?

[@Ana-bw7gm]

@@Farmergirl7 No.

[@tajzaful]

Did all countries approve and agree to this? Larger countries are always making unilateral and selfish decisions that can destroy or negatively affect the whole world

[@jeebusk]

this wasn't even selfish, just stupid... 😅

[@qoph1988]

Stuff like this is literally the only reason you are not currently dying of sepsis in a muddy trench in World War Eleven right now

[@markjohnson4217]

Of course the superpowers HAD to agree because they learned from the space tests that targeting an enemy without also sabotaging one's own nation and perhaps the whole planet was not possible. We still can't shoot Gamma rays in a neat clean line or a nicely contained blob in space. The real issue with the post cold war treaties was the UN security council agreements for non-proliferation of ALL nuclear weapons. For some wierd-assed reason the U.S and several other developed Nations under the Commonwealth decided that it was ok for Western Democratic nations to keep an arsenal on hand just in case some rogue regime starts getting cocky. Its like saying NO GUNS for anyone, except the good guys who own stuff, ok? So here we are 40 years on and everyone has nukes. The U.S should have signed the treaty with Iran in 2016 when it was on the table, but the big orange cowboy balked cause he wanted a big shiny red button. Now one of the most extreme theocratic regimes in the world is being attacked by US/Israeli forces and is ready to retaliate by puling the big pin..

[@craigdombrowski7047]

Added to the deadly radiation belts totally insane !

[@dand8538]

1:52 The Bomb that destroyed Hiroshima (Little Boy) was 15 kiloton, 1.4 megaton, 1400 kiloton is 93 times more powerful than Little Boy.

[@yaawmoma]

We could use the technology to make unlimited, free, clean and safe electricity. But, here we are...

[@JeffBilkins]

Meh, not enough economic incentive

[@chris.eskimo]

​@@JeffBilkinsPrecisely! Why do you think so many illnesses aren't being cured ?

[@goosenotmaverick1156]

​@@JeffBilkins true, but why does there HAVE to be?

[@exterminans]

because it's not economically viable

[@bsadewitz]

​@@exterminansWait, did you just say nuclear is not economically viable? Citation needed.

[@raevn11]

I love how we ban the use of nukes in space, but here on Earth it's perfectly fine 🤦👏

[@jerryhernandez5122]

Because the agenda is not to destroy earth, but only it's inhabitants. Think about that.

[@tiagolorenzo2749]

"Prepare for unforseen consequences"

[@AnonNopleb]

Who can say, who is responsible for this mess?

[@OneofInfinity.]

@AnonNopleb yt won't let me.

[@vm722]

WE ? Like how did I have anything to do with this. Government stupidity did it

[@eddiebeer4516]

Government is not a thing, it consists of a core of very powerful and greedy psychopaths.

[@Rich-fi7kg]

My family moved to Oahu in time to see this. Awesome and Scarry..were still radiating..

[@katiegreene3960]

Insane that we did these experiments that could've destroyed the planet

[@RonDouglasTV]

For anybody who may be interested: "One second after" is a post-apocalyptic fiction series about the aftermatch of a low orbit EMP. The novel is based on research such as this. gripping, and eye opening. Really makes you think what could be in store if things get out of hand...

[@trevorstolz8580]

And we've never had a "Black Death" style decrease in world population. Europeans didn't think it could happen until it did. Imagine literally 33% and in some places 50% of the entire population dying off. Actually, it is,a statistical inevitability now that this is going to happen within in the next three or four decades. Bitlrths per woman are less than 1.8 in most places in the world. In South Korea it's only 0.8. China is,set to lose some 30% of its population, literally hundreds of millions of people within the next few decades. Social welfare will come to an end with too many elderly people and not enough young people to pay for such programs. No one can stop it now. Even if we all started having large families again, it's going to happen. There will be abandoned cities, railways, schools, hospitals. There are many youtube videos on this. Search "population decrease".

[@OMADRevolution]

STARFISH PRIME...OPTIMUS PRIME from another universe.

[@wjbt3]

Patrick if he was an Autobot

[@allangibson8494]

And then you realise “PRIME” meant it was a replacement for a previous launch. The previous one exploded on the ground spreading plutonium all over the launch site that took decades to properly clean up…

[@ericwalters3426]

Amazon prime, see your getting it.

[@SkipMDMan]

My mother worked for one of those three letter government agencies at the time and was part of a group that went to Hawaii. No idea what she was supposed to be doing but she took me along. I can remember watching the explosion and going through a lot of the after effects. It was amazing to my 11 year old self. I have to admit I kept after my mother to get assigned somehow to one of the ground or water based explosions so I could see the mushroom cloud but it never happened.

[@beauxrichards4245]

Probably the same group that decided to dump the world’s garbage in the ocean.

[@robochelle]

Was this information classified in the 90s? I clearly remember being taught in school that nuclear engines would never be considered for space travel, because nobody knew what disastrous worldwide consequences would result if the rocket exploded (" like the Challenger") in the upper atmosphere.

[@Thousandpointsoflight]

NASA didn't want to use them then for liability purposes What happens if it explodes before reaching space

[@NowinWTF]

I learned that from a teacher who listened to too much Michio Kaku.

[@SpaceCat545]

Nuclear rockets would be incapable of detonating like a nuclear bomb. They don't use enough enrichment

[@SpaceCat545]

​@@Thousandpointsoflight*

[@marinoceccotti9155]

The NERVA engine was tested on the ground, but never flew. Indeed, I can recall concerns about radioactive materials burning during launch or reentry. This was also a concern for Perseverance, the martian rover which used plutonium-239 in its MMRTG (Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator).

[@aquibhussain23]

Varatasium : video about rainbows Astrum : Rainbow nukes

[@nicholasmaude6906]

Operation Fishbowl was not the first test-series of ultra-high altitude nuclear tests, there were the Teak and Orange shots of Operation Hardtack (1958) where Redstone MRBMs lofted 3.8MT W39 warheads into space and Operation Argus (1958) were three 1.7KT W25 warheads were lofted by X-17A sounding-rockets.

[@LampWaters]

So the entire time my mother was in the womb nukes r going off overhead 🙆‍♀️

[@anthonynorth-iw5ih]

So now the world as we know it is suffering by these atrocities, it's amazing how we can all be accountable for our every day mistakes but these events get brushed under the carpet, they will put a tax on that we will pay for .fuck em.

[@kahidunn7907]

Mad men. Anyone that thinks a nuclear war is winnable is out of their mind.

[@donofon1014]

First minute !! No the 2 bombs did not change the course of the war. Japan was clearly at its end. The two bombs defined the post war settlements and alliances. The Soviets were denied a say in the post war Japan. Just in time. Carry on.

[@ajkarkos]

Would a planet facing Earth that's 62 light years away have just seen this?

[@alexandercarlson919]

Not sure on the math but yeah observing the earth from that distance you could look into the past with the light taking so much time to get there.

[@martinburford]

And humans are supposed to be intelligent

[@duudsuufd]

Yes, and they are on their way now.

[@ThePaulBrewer]

Is there any studies outlining the effects of this dozen or so high altitude nuclear tests on the atmospheric conditions affecting climate?

[@DocSanders]

Kudos. A VERY Good job. One of the things that happened post 9/11 was the scramble by the FBI and others to remove Nuke Related Books from Public and Private Libraries. Unfortunately, because og the Internet a few other kinds of "destructive devices" like construction of EMP DEVICES the sized of a suitcase were missed...at least initially. Glad we now have tthat covered.

[@jasmith1867]

The nukes used in WWll did not change the course of the war. It just hastened the outcome.

[@DimitarBerberu]

Russian victory in Berlin changed the course of the war. The nukes were the start of the Cold War against the USSR & the US hegemony over the world. Luckily NATO is now defeated by the RF.

[@VicfromOregon]

I beg to differ slightly with the assertion that "no one could have guessed just how intense" the magnetic pulses and gamma rays would become. Anyone doing their homework could have "guessed" with notations on the back of a napkin over lunch. I'd wager that testing the magnitude of the magnetic pulses WAS the primary point for the launch. They were investigating if their new atomic weapon could be used in space. The same logic that let us develop these weapons to be used on Earth followed us into space.

[@aelinwhitehorn3526]

why is this such a fresh ass upload.

[@sethreynolds3704]

Why are you such a fresh ass

[@tibr]

I barely wiped

[@Fink_Is_Back]

😂😂😂😂

[@ArchangelExile]

I love fresh ass.

[@DaneOrschlovsky]

Because it was freshly uploaded, Ass. 😂 JK JK

[@cadebritt8001]

At the very least, advanced alien races left humans to their own total destruction.

[@TOKsin33]

50 years from now the story will be "they continued spraying aluminum iodide without asking or telling the people"

[@robertcampbell6349]

Get back on your meds.

[@humansnotai4912]

Great research and well done for finding this footage. Really informative video. Merry Christmas mate x.

[@pixels303at-odysee9]

Treaties are worthless and temporary. Anyone can pretend to comply with them all the while violate them with zero accountability.

[@user-kn4it6zr9o]

Not just anyone. There's this wee club.

[@Lesley-dp]

Curiosity will eventually kill us all, it's inevitable.

[@Commentswithlove]

It’s crazy when all u hear is everybody else is the boogie man when it’s right at home where the bogie man really is

[@MrDavidBFoster]

I've been saying "the uniforms all look the same" since I was eight (I'm 62)!

[@malahkhesus482]

The enemy within!

[@thingamajig765]

"Are we the baddies?"

[@JonnoPlays]

"If you want peace, prepare for war"

[@malahkhesus482]

@@JonnoPlays and it's happening! The 4 horsemen are Russia China Iran and North Korea!

[@johntripp5798]

I believe they did space nuke tests in the 70’s I clearly remember the sky lighting up with multiple aurora‘s over the island of Oahu as a child about 8 or 9 which would be about 1973-74 , it was like the sky or a huge expanding disk falling upon my family and I that it would force us to the ground! It was either a nuke test or a ufo experience, years later I am the only one in my family that remembers that night. I asked my mom recently if she remembered that night? She told me (Hmmm you wasn’t supposed to remember that ) and then she refused to talk about it. This happened well after sunset on a clear moonlight night.

[@kamakaziozzie3038]

I noticed that China never signed onto the nuclear free space agreement. Unfortunately as time progresses we often forget lessons we learned in the past.

[@dubsar]

Wait until space nukes us.

[@wapartist]

This is seriously the dumbest series of decisions maybe ever made…

[@Shadowkey392]

Not really. Each one was done with the goal of learning more about nukes and how they interact with our planet, and we learned a ton about our atmosphere and magnetic field as a result.

[@Mikewazowski320-s5w]

At the cost of dumping radiation all over the planet and right over the ocean.

[@hannahbrown2728]

Look up when they shot trillions of tiny copper rods into space

[@yt.personal.identification]

Hindsight is a powerful thing

[@nicholasalbeck7114]

Agreed. Almost as baffling and self-sabotaging as the decisions made during the production of Alien Romulus

[@Unko2469]

I was 7 living in Hawai'i and we all saw it the glow lasted about 7 min!

[@HoraceFisher-e7w]

Since we're covered by the dome we only polluted ourselves, Space 🌌 you're funny 🙂

[@arthuroldale-ki2ev]

Insanity , takes many forms !

[@sgt.skibby570]

Humans are so smart and so inept at the same time it’s disgusting.

[@wintermoonomen]

So this is how the Acid Rain of the 1980s came to be?

[@edgarwalk5637]

No, acid rain is from supher dioxide pollution.

[@carpediemarts705]

And we had quit atmospheric testing many years prior

[@wintermoonomen]

@@carpediemarts705 how long does that stuff lasts in our atmosphere?

[@axle.student]

@@wintermoonomen Not long. The radioactive particles only have a short half life (days). Cesium (very little quantity) has a half life of 30 years, and Plutonium even less quantity has a half life of 24,000 years. All of the world wide testing has had very little impact on background radiation, although it is measurable.

[@qoph1988]

What? No. Do you think nukes are made of acid?

[@selay333]

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if we see a nuke used in space again within our lifetime.

[@SkyQueen-17k]

I think they will try to break the Dome again.

[@modolief]

Top notch production values, thanks!!

[@modilevi6053]

They were trying to destroy the dome, operation fishbowl.

[@oliverbertrand]

prepare for unforeseen consequences

[@CarTheVehicle]

Time, Dr. Freeman? Is it really that time again?

[@yawzerdoink-a-sore-as]

Since Japan, over 2,000 nuclear detonations have happened on Earth

[@cooltpmd]

Sanctioned idiocy has unfortunately been common. Every scientist and politician who participated should be in jail. "Wanted to see what would happen to the magnetosphere" is such a scary sentence. Who gave anyone the right to "play" with one of the most important things life needs to survive. I read that many scientists were worried that the colider might create a black hole ... with absolutely no plan of what to do if it did.

[@itwiznaemeitwizumin4655]

And this is why we have one in two people with cancer.

[@tibr]

I love falling asleep to space nukes 😊