Cursed Objects That Scientists Fear

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[@sgvincent100]

I’m sitting here eating taco bell while watching a video about a methane gas explosion.

[@BeAmazed]

🤣🤣🤣 warn the neighbors to evacuate the blast radius!!

[@LeviDawgs7744]

@@BeAmazed lol

[@brittanyjones2984]

Hahahaha 🤣🤣🤣🤣 best comment

[@cycrothelargeplanet]

You are watching a video about yourself

[@Engztrom]

Elephant's poop?

[@KatonRyu]

The flash the people saw in the Demon Core incident wasn't actually a real flash of light. It was the Cherenkov effect happening in the fluids of their eyeballs, just to make things a bit more creepy.

[@breakfreak3181]

The visual equivalent of a sonic boom....

[@KenJustice_uk]

that's real horrifying isn't it.

[@afrog2666]

This guy doesn`t know science, OR grammar

[@domvasta]

there probably was a visible flash too, since people outside the room saw it, which is way too far for that many charged particles to travel, likely everyone within the room, who tasted metal and felt the burst of heat, would have had a much more intense blue glow from the charged particles emitting cerenkov radiation inside their vitreous humor

[@ivanjelenic5627]

Wouldnt the radiation ionize the air, giving off some light in tge visible spectrum, too?

[@bbarott]

Regarding the Demon Core, Beryllium is not a tamper, it is a reflector. Tampers are made of heavy materials, lead or depleted uranium. A fission weapon typically contains both a reflector and a tamper.

[@brovid-19]

Um, actually

[@FalcoGer]

@2:30 it's called prompt critical, and no, it would not explode. It would merely irradiate everyone around it.

[@blackhawk15897]

Just to clarify, the demon core wouldn't have blown up like a nuke and leveled Los Alamosa simply from the Tamper fully encasing it without spacers. If that's how it worked, then Plutonium-based fission nukes wouldn't require hundreds of pounds of precisely timed high explosives surrounding it to get the desired results. Instead, what would have happened if the tamper hadn't been knocked off was that the surrounding area would have been irradiated to lethal levels until the core got so hot that it melted through the base holding it and, probably, the ground beneath it as well. At which point, the reaction would stop. The whole facility would have probably still needed to be permanently evacuated and cordoned off, with cleanup crews being sent in once radiation levels dropped to survivable levels, but it wouldn't have turned Los Alamos into a black smear.

[@domvasta]

the core would get hot enough to expand, and then the plutonium atoms would be vibrating too fast and be too far apart from each other for fission neutrons to have a greater than 34% chance of causing another fission, which is necessary for a plutonium fission chain reaction to be self sustaining. Consequently, that's one of the reasons why plutonium has a much smaller critical mass than uranium, each fission emits more neutrons, more neutrons means more potential collisions with nuclei that themselves result in more fissions and thus more neutrons, then you have elements like Cf-251 with a bare sphere critcal mass of 2kg

[@woodworkingandepoxy643]

​@@domvasta I understood none of that but thank you for the explanation

[@ffc1a28c7]

There is a difference between being irradiated and being radioactive. It's would not matter if the core dumped trillions of neutrons on everything; once you remove the plutonium, it is 100% safe.

[@theonetojump]

Exactly. Interesting how it didnt seem weird to the dude telling the story that it did close for a second yet it didnt blow up. These yt docus need to be taken with a grain of salt

[@adhamsmithninercards8133]

If your bones and muscles are decaying and liquefied while you are losing your body functions one by one I think you would be begging for it to reach critical mass and vaporize you into a stain painless compared to being exposed to any unsafe level of rads 😅

[@Seluecus1]

Forgot to mention that all the scientists (working the demon core when it went critical) were demanded to go back to the spots they were standing, as Wells had told them that they were already dead, so they may as well get some more information out of it, such as radiation amount vs distance vs length of time it'd take for each scientist to die from being exposed.

[@Galeigh]

This. Despite the tragedy of it, it's one of best sources of information on radiation poisoning and how fast it disappates away from the source

[@edwardidiot471]

Ida told him to kiss my azz while plunging a knife in his head ending his life a lot sooner, MF kills me then expects me to wanna do some data Da phuck

[@polycrystallinecandy]

@@edwardidiot471 knowing scientists, they probably didn't have to be forced and likely did it gladly

[@Mills141]

They were nazis, commies and socialist that made weapons so I'm thinking were better off.

[@keep_walking_on_grass]

@@Galeighthe employes and fireworkers of the chernobyl desaster is actually the best source ever.

[@ChuckNorrisUltra]

I also called conversing with my ex-mother-in-law, "tickling the dragon's tail". Imagine to my amazement how I wasn't original at all, but the outcomes of either made things a lot worse. Also, Slotin and his trusty screwdriver 100% reminds me of my narcissistic, late uncle who "saved the world" a few times, working at a big chemical company.

[@byuftbl]

I think the thing with the dybuk box is not that it was fake per say, but people related unrelated events to it because of stories they heard. But now, people have put so much energy into thinking it was evil, so that it’s taken on a dark energy of its own, and resides in an actual haunted house, and all this energy of fear is being brought to it. The theory is called the “thought form entity” which is not an actual ghost, rather just an energy brought by all this fear put into this object. Crazy thing is, I visited the museum two days before I broke my ankle misstepping some stairs which I had walked on tons of times before and shouldn’t have fallen in such a manner. I’m pretty sure I stated something to the box that I had never had anything bad happen from seeing it, and didn’t think it really had much power to do that. Two days later I break my ankle. 99.9999% likely a coincidence but definitely weird that happened when it did. Still, I think the box probably isn’t naturally haunted, but now has gathered a lot of negative energy on it.

[@zachariah1990]

Dybuk boxes are associated with witchcraft. What I think is interesting is you don’t understand the history of them and try to explain away it based on a false ideology of science. Are you not aware science is rooted in witchcraft and alchemy? That’s where the roots of it come from. You can call it a coincidence and by your logic then everything related to science is “coincidence”. I think more of the science believers need to study the history of science and it’s satanic roots.

[@diablojones]

No, it’s totally fake. The guy who created the story behind it has came out and said as such. No record of a “dybbuk box” exists prior to his original listing on eBay. It somehow storing “negative energy” is also complete bunk.

[@RCAvhstape]

"No scientists have been brave enough to take the Annabelle doll into a lab for testing." Translates to "No scientist wants to waste his time and risk his credibility on that BS."

[@joedanero5360]

Same conclusion before your comment was read.

[@dhtsoaedsdhtnadi9575]

agreed. also, the female half of the demonologist duo was lorraine, not elizabeth, as is named with graphics in the video.

[@Random-persononyoutube]

Or science just isn't yet ready to explore the other side that many people are terrified to even think about

[@JoriDiculous]

2nd time (at least) "Annabelle" have been featured on this channel. Not even the same backstory, besides the Warren fraudesters.

[@joedanero5360]

​@@Random-persononyoutube You've got brain worms. That magical thinking hasn't contributed to your life or anyone elses in any way compared to STEM. If so, we'd be communicating subconsciously brain to brain right now instead of using this format which was provided to us completely by STEM. There's no magic going on here. As entertaining to you as it may be.....your preferred method of wishful thinking will continue to fail you and others when making decisions as well as affect the rest of us who need to coexist with you. Your type of "wishfull thinking" hasn't had any success.....ever in the history of man ....other than creating a drag on our progress. Among other things, Horoscopes aren't real, your gut lies to you when you start from being misinformed, the miracles of the bible and Koran are stories from peoples far less informed and educated than the society of today. There is no lost great ancient knowledge anywhere.... And reality is not as magical as you would like or need it to be, but I promise it is even more spectacular on the other side. You don't have special knowledge....you are not smarter than most. There are people that are making a lot of money and/or gaining power off of your back by reinforcing your own resistance in ignoring the truth.....and they need you to continue to be ignorant for their own gain regardless of your benefit.....which is negative. Seek what is truth and be honest to yourself first. That will be painfull to begin with as you will be filled with rage for a few years on how much you have been lied to. At the same time you will see the wool that has been pulled over your eyes burn away. Stop thinking you are special or gifted above all else in this moment. You ain't shit. I hope you come back to lol this in a few years with a clearer perspective.

[@deathstrike]

Also as a side note: Anthrax is a Greek word that means "coal" It was described that way because the lungs looked blackened from a person who has died from it. The traditional treatment now is Ciproximine. It's a very powerful antibiotic and had to be given up to a year for inhalation Anthrax. The problem is, is that Anthrax is extremely stubborn, especially a "created" version. It can return in a patient if it is not monitored carefully months, even years later. Their is a vaccine for Anthrax, but it has unpleasant side effects, takes quite a few to achieve immunity, and doesn't last long for protection. But better than nothing.

[@KamiNoBaka1]

Not to mention that the spores of anthrax can live for decades in soil, and even longer on some other materials. They can remain viable for up to 71 years on silk threads. That's why you don't bury livestock that have contracted and died of anthrax, you incinerate them.

[@Orius25]

The anthrax vaccine is considered high risk and is only used in the military. The side effects can be fatal.

[@contumelious-8440]

@@esphaeraspraestans4212said: " Make covid19 look like a lil baby." Yeah? How many did Anthrax kill last year. Annually in the US anthrax kills 5 people. Worldwide, ~3,500. How many did covid-19 get? I don't know the reasons that you say stupid things. I guess it's because you think you already know how the world works and you don't have to actually learn anything. As of now, 7 million people died from covid-19 including my wife. I know it's a joke to you, I assure you nothing has ever been more real in MY life.

[@JoriDiculous]

How about some real scary facts: They estimate arctic permafrost contains around 1.5 million anthrax-infected reindeer carcasses, and the spores may survive in the permafrost for 105 years. And take a dive into the Sverdlovsk incident (2 April 1979).

[@UpAt3.00AM-o_o]

Damn 💀that’s cool to think tht is better than us and is great a just livin

[@dumpmail-xz2qp]

I think the most simple way he could finish the book so quickly is by already have written the pages upfront and keeping it secret from everybody

[@Kalancodragon]

That still doesn't explain the whole "Handwriting stays the same" thing since the time taken would be 20 years either way. That would also be a hell of a long-con for... what? The off chance that you need a get out of jail free card at some unknown point in the future?

[@BirdOfHermes8381]

That clip of Frank shaking his head killed me. Thanks! 👍

[@paweo_ptd]

I made video chapters: 0:00 - Intro 0:36 - Split second mistake 6:41 - Truth or deer 10:33 - Cursed craters 12:41 - Devil in the Detail 16:35 - Rapper's De-fright 18:59 - World's Deadliest Selfie 22:17 - Hollywood Hunting 23:59 - Mars Attacks 25:26 - Guze and Effect

[@Virtuality2022]

pin this guy right now

[@abysmalvoid9136]

Thanks a lot!!

[@blarch2]

and half of them are basically nothing

[@topbuilder3790]

@@blarch2 I love how "global warming" made the ice recede to expose an animal that died 75 years ago... I guess that was just weather 75 years ago?

[@ZenZelos]

You forgot the AMAZING😲😉voice crack @ 27:47 😂😂😂😂

[@dayknowsalchemy]

Quick clarification: it was Dr. Richard Feynman - in asking Slotin NOT to do what he was doing - who actually coined the term, "tickling the dragons tail." Apropos, all the same.

[@johnnada]

It's not unrealistic to think the author of the codex gigs maintained proper hand writing because he had an extreme attention to detail.

[@AbsoRuud76]

Also, it isn't handwriting, it's calligraphy.

[@lawrencenoyman350]

@@AbsoRuud76 Yes they have absolutely nothing to do with each other.

[@FBI-is-watching-you]

I wish my handwriting was that good

[@zachariah1990]

It is unrealistic because again the time needed to write it would be impossible to maintain consistency. Just take the L on it and understand science doesn’t have the answer simple.

[@jessicacossin6282]

"Tickling the dragon's tail..." LMAO

[@brillopad1392]

It actually wasn't "radioactive atoms" that killed Slotin. It was gamma radiation, which is made of extremely high-energy photons.

[@serious.business]

To the layperson, same difference.

[@mrnobody8464]

The iceman Otzi is a little bit of a stretch. A researcher dying of a medical complication some 14 years after the iceman’s discovery? Everybody associated with anything will eventually die if you stretch the time span out far enough.

[@chrislong3938]

It's the same with the King Tut curse.

[@got2kittys]

Especially since Otzi was killed by an arrowhead.

[@TheLiamis]

Yep. an old person crashing and old person dying and 2 people in a high-risk environment dying is just statistics.

[@rome8180]

That's how so many of these so-called "curses" work. It's just frequency bias. Once we start looking for patterns, we'll notice them anywhere. Also, even if 10 people associated with an object died within a week that would still be easily explainable. The world is incredibly vast, and trillions of events happen daily. If you observe enough events over a long enough period of time, some of them are going to be connected in crazy ways. That doesn't indicate that it means anything.

[@yeahhmadd]

Ikr. It's like saying "all the people who worked on the construction of the pyramids of Giza were cursed, as to this day, they are all dead..."

[@ottopartz1]

Fun fact related to the grainy photos from Chernobyl. In 1945 scientists at Kodak surmised that a large nuclear reaction (explosion) had taken place due issues they were having with transporting x-ray film. They found trace amounts of the wrong kind of radiation in their raw materials that would later be named cesium-141 IIRC. They knew about the bomb months before the nuclear explosions in Japan.

[@Haifisch7734]

There were only 3 weeks between Gadget explosion and Hiroshima bomb

[@Doktor_Apokalypse]

The photo of the elephants foot with the weird blurry lights is not caused by the radiation warping the photo, it is because the shutter speed was so low to capture the image in the low light and as the engineer moved around it left a blurry image of him moving. The light trail is his flashlight moving around.

[@JohnSmith-vz8pc]

6:56 It's not "covered" in permafrost, the PF is 10's of cm or metres below the ground, covered by the "Active layer" which goes above zero every summer. Ironically, below the PF is non-frozen soil, that is kept warm by geothermal heat.

[@marcaber6367]

Don't tell them that, it makes all their "man-made climate change" story unbelievable

[@markwarren3535]

They claimed the deer was uncovered by climate change. But if it's 75 yrs old, that means 75 yrs ago that deer was on normal ground level. And was then covered. Seems " climate cycle " is more accurate.

[@ErrollBrantley-pe6eu]

Dude. That guy? Whyyy?

[@simonwaffleman]

There’s a lot of “oops” in the video. I looked up your information and found even more fascinating stuff. If nothing else, the video had you comment, which led me to learning other new things … even with the errors

[@prof.bizzarro]

6:28 "The core was melted down and recast in a new weapon"... Thank goodness, the demon core has been rendered harmless...

[@koreywilliams4570]

Lewis was dead the second he was hit by the radiation. He was a literal ghost. All the cells in his body lost the ability to regerate. Crazy story.

[@zabalaplays.2594]

“Your dog is trash” “What did yiu say!? Get em rufus!” *causes chaos*

[@artor9175]

No, the Demon Core would not level the site if it went supercritical. It would simply melt down while irradiating everything around it. It requires a very carefully symmetric detonation to induce a nuclear explosion. Without the rest of the bomb around it, the core cannot do that.

[@Tigerfire75]

Wasn't that very symmetrical explosion around it possible because fuses the Germans developed during the war? Weren't these fuses, their design, their inventor, and enough uranium powder or such captured aboard a submarine that was supposed to go to Japan? Isn't also true we didn't test that type of atomic bomb before using it because the Germans already had?

[@truescotsman4103]

@@Tigerfire75 Timing the fuses is the key to creating the compression conditions. Can you give me a link to info about this?

[@eatassonthefirstdate]

​@@Tigerfire75 sorry bud, but the first critical reaction in a controlled environment happened in Chicago. not Germany.

[@manubour]

I know it was a different time & security standards weren't the same but that scientist with the atomic core & screwdriver deserves a posthumous darwin award

[@brianmurphy250]

There are a lot of videos about that incident. I believe that most of the guys in that died from radiation. When the flash happened the guy with the screw driver had everybody take a piece of chalk and mark an X on the lab floor to show there positions/distance from the core so that they could study the effects. He joined Madam Curie and the other early scientists who all studied radiation with fatal consequences

[@billyblanco8949]

Agreed,my thoughts as well

[@TexasHoosier3118]

Darwin awards are by definition posthumous.

[@Roxor128]

@@TexasHoosier3118 Not necessarily. The award is for removing yourself from the gene pool. It doesn't require you also remove yourself from the population. As long as you can no longer reproduce, that's enough.

[@xspixels]

all darwin awards are posthumous

[@Bennyboibruh]

“In simpler terms, *big badaboom* “ Had me on the floor laughing

[@deathsnitemaresinfullust2269]

I totally remember them finding the Ice Man back in the early 90's, it was a popular topic for a little while as they tried to figure out whatever they could about him. 😄👍

[@wm437]

The Monk already had been working on the book for several years. It was a secret passion of his for many years. He was very wise in offering to complete a book that was already completed. He bargained for a day because he knew that was an impossible time frame and thus securing the deal. A day later he showed up with a complete book that he had been working on for the last 20 years. A Wise man indeed.

[@i_am_well]

Still does not explain the consistent handwriting. That's a good small piece to wonder about

[@aestheticcruise8807]

The guy who decided to "tickle the dragon's tail" with a screwdriver ended up getting "burned" by the dragon.

[@AmosMantyla]

Walter Tschinkel, the inventor of this technique will forever be one of my heroes.

[@joshlock4627]

Just in the last 800,000 years, there have been eight cycles of ice ages and warmer periods, with the end of the last ice age about 11,700 years ago marking the beginning of the modern climate era - and of human civilization.

[@MickDarkstar1]

What to be learned from the demon core: laziness kills

[@Thornbloom]

Didn't need a radioactive ball to tell you that!

[@hexagonshorts2186]

3:10 Imagine dealing with a nuke using a screwdriver.

[@-_wanderer]

He ended up dying So I don't think that's a good idea

[@theorigamidragon6711]

This guy…

[@ma3stro681]

🤡😵💀

[@FATxAZZxGONExCRAZZZY]

About Herman the recluse. It was not uncommon for monks to dabble in various activities like cheese making, wine making and transcribing texts.. I dont know if this was going on at that time. But if he was a practiced scribe he could possibly have written a draft in the allotted time (which in theory could be close to a full day if the sentence was was dolled out early in the morning), where as the 75kg book could have been a further refined version of the draft + encapsulating the final version in a work of "art".

[@leonytubeciasteczko6661]

11:43 FIRE IN DA HOLE

[@silversurfer3202]

LOUIS SLOTIN : After realizing his fatal mistake, looked up at his fellow scientists and gravely said..."I guess that does it" 😳!!! (ACTUAL QUOTE!!!) ☢️☠️. 😞

[@VergilArcanis]

fun story to the elephants foot: they found an odd variant of black mold causing the structure to crumble. it thrives off of the Gamma radiation in a variation of photosynthesis

[@igrim4777]

That's one man's hypothesis. It's far from being established as fact.

[@Si74l0rd]

@@igrim4777 Extremophiles are common in nature however, especially simpler organisms, so it's a perfectly viable hypothesis.

[@I-Stole-Your-Toast700]

Mold be like: Fuck sunlight, my homies eat dna ruining particles flying through the air

[@VergilArcanis]

@@Si74l0rd even funnier is they think the mold came about as a direct result of the radiation, rather than evolving on its own

[@securatyyy]

In the deep ocean, where light doesn't reach, organisms rely on chemosynthesis instead of photosynthesis. The environment down there is insane. Like thermal vents have their own ecosystems, and whale falls provide an ecosystem as well. I could totally see something adapting to make use of the radiation

[@---nd2yx]

This whole video can be summarized by “Play stupid games, win stupid prizes”

[@DarkPassenger-ql4le]

If anyone is wondering how bad slotins situation was. Radiation causes immediate cell death. He was "litterally" dead the second the incident happened. His body just hadn't registered it yet, hence the little bit of time before the coma.

[@MonsterMacLLC]

What I am most frightened of are contractors who would put housing on top of a radioactive sinkhole full of anthrax...

[@ALPHAMAGASLAP]

Get right with God and nothing is Scary

[@becky2235]

​@@ALPHAMAGASLAPwhich God? There are many?

[@ALPHAMAGASLAP]

@@becky2235 Jesus Christ is your Lord and someday you will have a choice 🙏 As he pulls you from hell, you will be filled with his glory!! I'm positive you have absolutely know Idea what you're talking about and because your mind is young and weak, I will pray for you!! I'm not afraid of death are you?

[@Tyranid_Hive_Mind]

​@@ALPHAMAGASLAPHow does religion relate to contractors putting houses above an anthrax sinkhole?

[@spaceparrot8702]

@@Tyranid_Hive_Mind Easy. Religion nuts are demented and place their entire lives' responisbility in the hands of an imaginary sky daddy. They seek to avoid congitive dissonance by "spreading the word". They think they're doing something good.

[@bobsmith6079]

An interesting footnote to Slotin's death was a paper published saying that his left hand holding the shell also acted as a tamper and if he'd used a handle on the shell he wouldn't have died because not enough radiation would have been produced concluding "he'd died by his his own hand."

[@artisanrox]

omg 💀

[@Svensk7119]

The man didn't have time. He may have died by his own hand, but he also died at his post.

[@ShockInazuma]

Arthur has technically bested the Elephant's Foot. He went to it many times and still lives on to tell the tale.

[@NightRunner417]

Slotin's drama-soaked insanity wasn't just foreshadowed; it was WARNED about. Enrico Fermi, SLOTIN'S BOSS, warned him directly about his reckless approach to playing with the dragon core, saying, "You'll be dead within the year, if you keep doing that." Rumor has it that he was a glutton for attention, adding needless fanfare to an already highly dangerous situation. He got off on doing it the risky way for oohs and ahhs from spectators.

[@titusschulz2137]

Fun fact about the evacuation of pripyet as well, it was filmed. If you watch the footage, you'll notice tiny white flashes. This is because the radiation was so high it was damaging the film. Another fun fact about the elephants foot is that it has its own name, chernobylite. The first samples were taken by the scientist borrowing an ak47 from the local police department and shooting samples off the elephants foot.

[@WelshAmethystGirl087]

I thought it was called corium

[@Baba_Yaga_87]

Either way it looks awesome...

[@martinpahl5652]

It should be mentioned that the same "demon core" that killed Louis Slotin had 9 months before also killed his colleague Harry Daghlian, and Slotin had been involved in calculating his exposure. So he definitely knew what he was letting himself in for.

[@kc5402]

It *was* mentioned. Didn't you watch the video?

[@epicfiredragon0819]

For the first one, I personally nicknamed his strategy, not tickling the dragons, tail, tickling Smog’s tail.

[@DreadPirateRobertz]

You're so awesome

[@ThatOneGirlThatPlays]

The Annabelle story, it would be scientists are not allowed to do tests on it because the ones that want to do tests on it don’t get access to it. The owners simply will not have their myth be broken with test results, or Annabel might be just “kind of sleepy that day” as they would try retconning their way out of it

[@scriptflippa533]

The scientist was definitely proof there's a difference between being educated and being intelligent

[@jesseharvey9067]

Take your 100 iq and become a nuclear physicist.

[@scriptflippa533]

I would but rather not nuclear energy is something I feel we don't have the wisdom necessary to use correctly. Also, going around assuming people iqs usually leaves you looking like the biggest dummy in the room more often than not.

[@timothydamiani]

​@Script Flippa I mean, we have plenty of wisdom on how to use it correctly. Letting the tip of a screwdriver decide whether you live or die just isnt it lol.

[@-RedAfro]

I totally forget that the Demon Core was originally code named Rufus. To this day I still can't swallow that bit with the flathead screwdriver, the boldness of it is utter madness!

[@tubensalat1453]

Can't really say I feel sorry for that guy.

[@Poisondreamer]

Overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer

[@JaneSchoolALT]

Dude i feel sorry for Louis. If that screwdriver would not have fallen out his hand. Some new stuff could possibly have discovered

[@user-rh4wd3bh4p]

He respects our free will to this degree. That is a level of benevolence like no other.

[@brillopad1392]

An interesting fact about the Daghlian criticality; it wasn't the initial prompt excursion that killed him. If he had thought about it and just walked away from the core for a couple days, he would have been alright, though probably more prone to cancer later on. What killed him was the high-energy fission products resulting from the initial criticality, but they would have burned off in a day or so. He got the lethal dose when he carried the core back to the safe it came from. There are instances when it's not good to follow your mother's advice to always put things back where you found them -- at least right away.

[@neillynch_ecocidologist]

Just don't go back to fireworks?

[@Ludak021]

these would be the neutrons, not some magical particles. We know, at least those that went to elementary school, what fission is and how it works. Energy from fission is released as heat and radiation.

[@brillopad1392]

@@Ludak021 It wasn't the neutrons that killed him, it was the gamma. The most the neutrons did was to activate some atoms into isotopes, which would have likely caused problems down the line, but the photons killed him first.

[@oneanotherstudios]

@@Ludak021 who tf teaches nuclear fission to kids in elementary school?

[@brillopad1392]

Correct!

[@-cleoleo-3035]

i’ve heard of the post malone thing. Zak bagans, the museum owner, touched the dybbuk box himself and also had really bad luck after a month of doing so.

[@tymz-r-achangin]

First clip. Even back then, its so hard to believe that scientists were allowed such stupid ability to ignore serious safety precautions.

[@Timbolonius]

The Chernobyl incident was caused because of a reactor flaw that occurred during a safety test. The safety test was for the backup power system in the event of lost power output. If the turbine stopped moving, power would drop and the cooling system wouldn't circulate around the rods, so the test was to make sure the back up generators would kick in fast enough to keep the cooling system going. The plant kept failing the test for reactor #4.

[@ITIsFunnyDamnIT]

I'm surprised James Deans car, the one he crashed that killed him, wasn't brought up on the list of items considered cursed. Seems that everyone who used parts from his crashed car were killed by it in some way.

[@evtaku]

Anything saying scientists have examined and are afraid of it?

[@ultimatewitcherfan6677]

@evtaku the wreckage of the car itself vanished and has never been relocated so scientists can’t test it. That’s probably a good thing because everyone who has touched the car or used parts of it in their cars were later found dead… that’s what I call a cursed car

[@dinosaurpro6592]

All because of a slipped screwdriver. Honestly a Darwin award.

[@faz-member6423]

Man can you imagine how that guy felt?!?! Imagen having your skin melting down from your bones and flesh DAMN

[@dakotareid1566]

@@faz-member6423except that didn’t happen

[@ILIKECATS347]

True

[@adamdixon6326]

Haha basically, should have called it the wedgey thingy in betweeny death technique

[@AdullFiddler-ez7tm]

The toy companies of the era missed a great opportunity. "Demon Core" would have been a perfect name for a game something along the lines of "Time Bomb", if anybody remembers that.

[@glasslinger]

The plutonium ball of course! I had no idea it was so tame but could turn super deadly without any trigger explosives like in a bomb.

[@booster5329]

Thank you for explaining how radiation kills. I was an AF vet who worked on guidance INE on certain missiles that I don't need to name, however no one ever was able to explain it the way you did, thank you.

[@lukazzmatizz4378]

Buddy u so tupid

[@bayardkyyako7427]

Everybody knows radiation kills.

[@f.d.3289]

I always wanted to ask this question, how does it feel to work on weapons of mass destruction?

[@bayardkyyako7427]

@@f.d.3289 Great

[@lukazzmatizz4378]

@@f.d.3289 fantastic

[@kellengro1124]

One thing to note about the robotic camera he said that was used to take a picture of the elephant foot. When they opened the door that sealed the corridor down to where elephants foot had leaked too there counters showed deadly levels of radiation. In order to get a picture of the elephants foot they place the camera that they were going to use for damage. Analysis placed it on a chair and they rolled it down. They took the picture and they pulled the chair back using rope.

[@cambridgemart2075]

On Chernobyl, they did NOT shut down the cooling system, the experiment was to disconnect the grid tie and use the electricity generated by the reactor as it shut down to run the cooling system. It was a non-standard test ordered by the management, supposedly under instruction from the KGB.

[@JazzTechie]

The thing I fear most is being in close proximity to reckless idiots. Louis Slotin reminds me of the times in my life I’ve been the passenger in a car driven by someone with no business being behind the wheel.

[@lonnarheaj]

An interesting detail regarding "curses" causing people to die: unless something dramatically changes, we all still die with or without a curse.

[@Tomyironmane]

On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

[@rebel2809]

wow, an old man died 14 years after finding otzi? it's almost like he was old!

[@cheeseybreezy518]

"we all still die with or without a curse." is the most alt punk album name i've ever heard

[@PanicAtTheBleach3177]

This video shouldn't even mention curses It's about science right curses aren't science.

[@mcspud]

urmom is a curse

[@luisrosado7050]

5:21 welp, thats why you don't tickle any dragons tail

[@theorigamidragon6711]

😂

[@Akakunchannel]

Imagine dying just because your screwdriver slipped.

[@deancalder8799]

The biggest problem with the annabelle doll 1 is that after you touch or insult it anything bad that happens you'll link to it, the only problem is bad things happen everyday to people who've never been near it, you're trying to draw a straight line to the doll not realising that the people there can't possibly go the rest of their lives without anything bad happening.

[@stickybuds420ish]

I really think we need to discuss the definitions of "cursed" and "fear"... Not messing with extraordinarily dangerous things like radioactive substances doesn't make it cursed or you afraid 🤔

[@joshuamarvin7400]

I'd say at this point, those are phrases used to echo a more superstitious time. And a rational person should definitely be afraid of invisible killers. It's just that for the longest time we were scared of ghosts and demons when we really should have been afraid of viruses and radioactive elements.

[@devanshmishra722]

Maybe it was just for clickbait🧐

[@7heplague236]

@@joshuamarvin7400 Hey, just curious if you have any thoughts on the beings some people claim to meet while under DMT use. Do you believe in the possibility of other-dimensional beings? Edit: I do largely agree w your observation btw.

[@Uthael_Kileanea]

Words change over time. My favorite example is that "gay" used to mean cheerful/happy.

[@soulbot119]

you don't get views by using mild language. I'm surprised he didn't put *"TERRIFYING"* in there somewhere like all the other clickbait titles

[@qa4057]

Hell Holes indicate more methane escaping from warming tundra. I've read it is a LOT of greenhouse gas. As the tundra becomes warmer, it would double the amounts of greenhouse gas over a small period of time.

[@random.3665]

Well, in terms of green house effect, methane is about 30 times stronger than CO2. So releasing X amount of methane gives the 30 times the negative effect you would get with X amount of CO2. However, most CO2 currently released into the atmosphere comes from animal farming (mostly cows), not from methane(hydrate) which is melting due to global warming. But if temperature continues to go up, that will change...

[@Bsilly55]

“Santa’s safe…. FOR NOW” sounds like you have a personal grudge

[@jamesb.9155]

Plutonium poisoning is so freaky and unnatural. That blue flash story is so wicked!

[@MrMambott]

The Giant Book ( The Devil and all his Works ) didn't have to be carried,, it floated which is why it had a chain to secure it to the library shelf.

[@melkiorwiseman5234]

Many books were chained to their shelves. Before the invention of the movable type printing press, books were difficult and expensive to make, so people stealing them was a potential problem. They were chained to their shelves simply to prevent people from stealing the books.

[@accalya271]

I'm frightened by the Elephant's foot.. something that can be seen, explained, has a horrific tragic tale behind it and can literally destroy your DNA which makes us unique and well.. us? I'm fascinated but absolutely frightened 😨😵

[@GoldSrc_]

If it makes you sleep better, it's no longer as radioactive as it was when it first formed, but you still don't want to be around it for several minutes. The most dangerous radioactive elements, always have half-lives in the order of seconds and minutes. A random rock on the ground most likely has a half-life in the order of several hundreds of thousands of years. And then there's the cosmic rays, which destroy your DNA every day, but that's not really a problem since your body can repair that amount of damage.

[@RomanKoval-ju6ht]

almost every day you may be do some more frighting. oh, need long explaine/ Everage europian car oner gave 10 000$ to Putin for genocide of sirians chechens ukrainians. Ukraine gave up on West pressure and hang out 2400 thermonuclear bombs + 1000 nuclear bombs. => now 300 000+ ukrainians paid own lives for this mistake. So NO more countries refuse nuclear weapon. So more and more countries will have nuclear weapon. => after 10-20-30 years such lovely organisations like ISIS will get thetmonuclear bombs. and it will be ORDENARY thing: when somebody evaporete nuclear plant by thermonuclear bomb, which easily stored in car so 10-30 yeas and you will enjoy of World of TOTALUS aaaaa Big Brother Watch You Oruel's 1984 - is a baby ..... compare with reality

[@Minecraftpro20166]

that 1st story needs a spot in your darwin award series

[@1337GameDev]

3:40 - I don't think it was blue light.... That's Cherenkov radiation.... which I believe is an interaction with heavy water.....

[@iainbredd2168]

14:23 If the devil’s page is darkest because it was the most viewed, surely the heaven page would also be equally as exposed and be just as dark. I call BS.

[@nekomimicatears]

Which it is.

[@salaciousBastard]

2:42 Enrico Fermi himself warned Slotin that he would be “dead within a year” if he continued "tickling the dragon's tail."

[@JONNIE8OY]

At 17:14 He said 'INHABITATED'. Lol. It must have been the Wine Cabinet Curse. LMAO

[@SanSan.hehehe]

I love how he makes videos like this….. it’s like I’m addicted

[@TEN10HD]

This channel is very addictive... in the last 10 months I haven't missed a single upload 😂😂

[@matthewmichaelson9806]

LMAO Louis Slotin, proves that being a rocket scientist doesn't take you out of the Darwin Award competition!

[@anonimanonim2710]

Anyone else felt tingly and excited at the crater pictures part?😏

[@andrewlanglois6362]

21:59 Arthur is irradiating with electricity in his body. He is in the Guinness Book of World Records for that title.

[@Pr3t4ndor]

6:19 How cute was the radiation sickness? Asking for a friend.

[@Pomeranc470]

He said acute

[@Pr3t4ndor]

@@Pomeranc470 Yeah, he definetly didn't say ugly

[@red.bread.redemption2]

​@@Pr3t4ndor not cute but cute

[@wolfiemuse]

By the by for anyone coming to this video - it’s widely reported that as soon as Louis S saw the blue flash and knocked the tamper over, the first thing he said was “Well. That’s it.”

[@danleonhart1]

Who needs a 3rd atomic bomb when you got Godzilla? That's the true Demon core lol

[@newshodgepodge6329]

I've heard of this Dybbuk box on a few different channels. But this is the first time I've ever heard that Post Malone was part of the chain of events.

[@deadmanrunning6670]

The segment of the bacteria beneath the Russian permafrost is one of the themes of the video game The Talos Principle, but in that case the entirety of mankind is wiped out.

[@stephenhoward6829]

The bomb you showed at 1:32 in conjunction is the wrong type for that core, "Rufus" was designed for a "Fat Man" type, because Pu cores are implosion-type, not the gun-type that the ""Little boy", which you showed used, those used U235.

[@yehao628]

''some things are frozen and should really stay that way'' Greg heffley

[@ascendantindigo271]

I can't figure out how "Herman the Recluse" managed to fit 160 donkeys into that room he was in...

[@erictaylor5462]

Louis did the calculations for everyone who was exposed and came up with the doses for everyone including himself. He knew when he saw that 2100 that he was a dead man, but he was the only one who had a lethal dose. In any case, all of the others in the room died from cancer.

[@holeastroud3899]

8:47 new fear unlocked: never go outside again

[@StudleyDuderight]

The failure of Chernobyl goes so much deeper than what was described in the video.

[@JohanHaagg]

”The Devil is in the Details”. Yes. It is. First of all, the fire did not start in the library, but in the attic above the national hall. And the Codex Gigas was one of many that survived the fire. The fire was started by a chimney that was leaking (for those that dont know, if a chimney is leaking, heat escapes and might set fire to flamable objects. So a dusty attic is ideal). So yeah… details. Many more in that part of the list alone.

[@sverrejansen1873]

1:45 big badaboom

[@lonely_7891]

1:46

[@luuk6555]

Ye it was funny😂

[@Alkaris]

With a name like Slotin, he certainly SLOT IN that flat head screwdriver like it's nothing, and then gave everyone a blast of super critical flash of radiation.

[@thedomainofsealteamaqua]

the lil white be amazed creature is so cute!

[@IslandBlaze8]

Thank You "Be Amazed" for all the wonderful videos over the years but one thing is still missing..... the "amazing" by the cartoon that used to be there in the intro.