Cruel Bombs

Command And Control book: www.amazon.co.uk/Command-Contr...
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general info about nuclear weapons and testing: www.theatlantic.com/infocus/20...
www.cddc.vt.edu/host/atomic/nu...
Nevada nuclear test footage: www.nv.doe.gov/library/films/t...
AMAZING channel with HD restored historical nuclear footage: / atomcentral
Edgerton detonation photos: roamaboutmike.com/2013/02/15/r...
Amazing shot of nuclear weapon test. notice it occured nearly past the horizon! i.imgur.com/BX2Cx.jpg
shot from Nagasaki: www.wired.com/science/discover...
North Carolina incident:
www.newsobserver.com/2012/07/0...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_Gol...
Nuclear boyscout documentary: • Video
Kokura spared:
www.nytimes.com/1995/08/07/wor...
elisson1.blogspot.co.uk/2008/0...
Feynman text: www.nytimes.com/books/first/f/...
Hiroshima bonsai: www.bonsai-nbf.org/site/japane...
Nuclear effects
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_...
isotopes put into atmosphere by nuclear testing have allowed historians to detect art forgeries: physicsworld.com/cws/article/n...
The flag of Bikini Atoll has an interesting story: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_...

[@LucIndustries]

"Clouds are nice right?" "Yes, Michael. Yes they are." "What about nuclear mushroom clouds?" "Goddamnit Michael"

[@dvot0075]

Not again

[@plusk343]

no, ...... no, PLEASE

[@whenyougodown228]

Not. Fucking. AGAINNNNNN.

[@sketchyseagull8263]

1

[@cubedude8690]

Carllll

[@nickitaaytac8131]

Somehow Vsauce video quality is timeless.

[@lorinczadrienjeno4839]

It really is. And I also love that as the years went by the videos got longer and longer

[@xraystudios3693]

holy f*** only now I realize this is 2013

[@ns.kha29]

@@lorinczadrienjeno4839 LOL

[@Nate-ge3ii]

@@lorinczadrienjeno4839 is that shit still under nc mane

[@wilmerlindell1472]

Ya its soo weird

[@ricky12105]

Can’t believe it’s been 9 years since this video first aired. Time flies. Very relevant this month with the release of Oppenheimer. I will be forever grateful for your work Michael!

[@atc_nth]

I came back to this video specifically because I just saw Oppenheimer, to see if there was anything I might see in a new light after the movie and after several years of personal growth. Clearly I'm not the only one, pretty cool

[@ujfujf422]

im not even a movie fan so aint gonna watch it, glad it came back into my reccomended though, vsauce is 100% in the top creators in youtube just for how timeless and amazing his videos are, i still rewatch the ones i watched as a kid

[@RealNameNeverUsed]

Michael doesn’t age one bit

[@vintagememelord8168]

I think YT recommended me this vid, again, by coincidence..

[@figg9417]

@@atc_nth the visual of the nuclear bomb was kind of underwhelming it looked like you know your normal Hollywood explosion, but the movie is not about the bomb it's about Oppenheimer

[@novakonstant]

Vsauce replayability is incredible. I remember watching this video when it was released 8 years ago and its still top notch content even today.

[@fuffoon]

I concur.

[@kdubs928]

All of his videos are

[@spidscorp4523]

Yeah, its my like 3rd time watching this

[@Nah_Bohdi]

​@@spidscorp4523 THIRD?! Noobie, begone!

[@idrilzorc8789]

"Honey I got cancer again." "Omg, that neighbor's kid, he's doing it again!"

[@ultimateinternetman4335]

This takes place in the future where there is a simple cure to cancer.

[@ultimateinternetman4335]

@Vance Jacobs Yes, but I'm talking about the more serious kinds of cancer that we can not cure at the moment.

[@eeeeeeeeee802]

Its because of that damn phone

[@YuriLifeLove]

@@homedepotgaming774 Hey... I'm going to say that...

[@willm1019]

1000th like

[@hashbrownz1999]

This is the kind of video you can watch and then just kind of sit and do nothing for the next 10 minutes after watching

[@orgasmingmcnuggets9505]

ive zoned out for jalf an hoir after watching a 2 minute of video

[@henrycastillo3702]

+Bassi im sure you did.

[@caasinosral8748]

+Bassi what video

[@orgasmingmcnuggets9505]

+Henry Castillo i just realised i fucked up that the english in that comment

[@orgasmingmcnuggets9505]

Caasi Nosral a car video

[@jayde4872]

Imagine hearing a plane just, loitering above your city for an hour, then later finding out one of your neighbors cities gets nuked

[@loggernamy]

And that you were supposed to be killed but the clouds had a funky day

[@Shywolf2]

Oi, he dropped the bloody sun mate, didn’t he?

[@brekkoh]

if you are in a war for that long, hearing planes overhead is probably so constant there is no way to decipher one from the next

[@keithsargent6963]

Makes a pretty good case against attacking the US Navy.

[@CryptoNWO]

I legit come here and watch this video once a month (if not more) Michaels presentation in this video is chilling

[@MrKevin-wu8re]

fuck off, stop using bots and make actual fucking content

[@Shaheryar-WebDev]

Crypto Nwo I Love Ur Content❤

[@digital1235]

Yo the person with an arg that nobody is aware of

[@billant2]

Ahh the good old videos before all the silly "shorts" of late for the short short span folks. lol By the way, at 4:04 it's hard to believe that they never found the uranium rich secondary. I would thing that a Geiger would have gone off the scale even buried in the ground. smh

[@joshfisher2316]

So we have bombs that can blow up entire states but I can’t play music on KZbin while the app is closed

[@robin_birdie_]

Damn right. Google, burn in hell!

[@rishabhkumar4027]

So sad

[@alncdr]

Use premium or KZbin vanced

[@solartea_]

@@robin_birdie_ [This message has been removed]

[@robin_birdie_]

@@alncdr yeah, like it's not enough that we all watch ads in the middle of the video like it's a freaking TV. Of course, no. We all also should be tortured by the lack of some basic player features and crippled multitasking.

[@snejk_6448]

A war doesnt determine who is right, only who is left.

[@realsteppa6568]

Snakexploit wise

[@AM23.]

Beautiful

[@aam_hm2267]

Cod 4?

[@velkro1112]

-Every cod deathscreen

[@Rajkumar-xp2gx]

haha

[@hoummusic]

Someone should make a movie out of this.

[@physicsisawesome696]

And they did it.

[@rambokills2750]

Omg lmao😂

[@user-mt2uc8ip8i]

@@physicsisawesome696name?

[@dontspikemydrink9382]

​@@user-mt2uc8ip8iidiot

[@The_BIG_salad]

​@@user-mt2uc8ip8i Night at the Roxbury

[@starwatcherusa]

I just saw Oppenheimer, and I am dismayed at the ramifications of the bomb that movie points out. The fact that only a little over 1% of the Uranium 235 in Little Boy blew up just points out how unfathomable the destruction of a nuclear weapon is, and how dangerous it is for humanity to have it.

[@masterhacker7065]

and yet they are infinitely better than a world without nuclear weapons because we would have obliterated ourselves as the cold war would have gone hot as fuck

[@spoompls42069]

"We can build a weapon that mimics the furnace of our sun and the winds of Neptune, and yet we can't predict the weather more than a few minutes ahead of time." -Vsauce 2013

[@samuelrooke9910]

666OmegaLuma

[@icydickpimp]

He's right though

[@heatherhewitt8254]

Wowza

[@dominicfrench1435]

666OmegaLuma it's easy to destroy.

[@14YoungShadow]

It's always easier to destroy than create.

[@jordansosmoove6253]

*”This is only 1.34% of my power”*

[@-TakingSomeLs]

If it exploded at full power, it'd have been 1.124 MEGATONS

[@VictorbrineSC]

0.7 grams of fission material is not only the same mass as a dollar bill, but also as a butterfly... a butterfly that destroyed an entire city...

[@elgordobondiola]

@@VictorbrineSC boom, butterfly effect

[@elgordobondiola]

Imagine how destructive 50% would be

[@rowdy41]

@@elgordobondiola imagine 100% lol why 50% it prob be destroyed a lot

[@cubball]

Vsauce is THE KZbin channel. I can watch either the video that was released 9 years ago or a few months ago and be equally entertained, even though I watched all those videos numerous times

[@thatbirbfriend2180]

Hey Vsauce! Just wanna say that I really enjoy your content I’m glad you’re a part of KZbin

[@vintagememelord8168]

:)

[@em_011]

(:

[@karthik4773]

From this episode i figured Michael's dad had him when he was 25

[@bryandoesasmr7033]

This is a very weird research but ok

[@0777coco]

weird to think my dad was born only two years after his yet i'm only 19. get your game up, father.

[@calebmurray4438]

Isn’t that kind of old for an infant?

[@pedrolucasrodriguespedrolu816]

mmmmm I tought his mother gave birth to him.

[@UltimateEntity]

Thats normal

[@masonbrown9155]

Just imagine being a citizen of Kokura (the 1st pick for the nuke) and finding out that you and all your family/friends' live's were spared because of some clouds

[@halithegreat3240]

yeah but then imagine ur husband and kids just took a trip to nagasaki on that day

[@masonbrown9155]

HaliTheGreat :(

[@halithegreat3240]

Stephen H. Im a nerd lol i dont go to parties

[@rinmiroku5635]

HaliTheGreat You should because you would tell hilarious jokes.

[@MarvelousSquad]

I once read that there was this man who survived the Hiroshima bomb and then fled to Nagasaki, and we all know what happened there after a few days lol

[@Skyhighuv22]

Revisiting this after watching Oppenheimer 🫠

[@evastraughn9703]

Me too

[@hoola_amigos]

#MeToo

[@chachoDev24]

Time to visit this video again.

[@Milkra]

"Here's something you can try at home: build a nuclear reactor" Thank you Michael, very cool.

[@stgeorge5862]

*FBI WANTS TO KNOW YOUR LOCATION* 😂

[@greypersoninagreybackround3279]

But they’re are nuclear thing detectors so you can’t do it :(

[@messiona]

Gamer George more like CIA

[@AAvfx]

Thanks

[@thetau4866]

@@greypersoninagreybackround3279 some kid actually made a Nuclear Reactor.

[@frostypotatoking5663]

"These people are making up random quotes i didnt make" -Albert Einstein

[@antony1103]

"The problem with quotes on the Internet is that it is hard to verify their authenticity." ~ Abraham Lincoln

[@sirlunchbox5125]

“Eh I don’t really know why people think I have wooden teeth xd” -George Washington

[@lolno6975]

"Lol" -Mahatma Gandhi

[@dahl2525]

Frost IsNotHot thy tis speakith thy truth telling of thy eve

[@gabrielgarcia9822]

Why am I used for so many inspirational posters? - Nikola Tesla

[@jiffy6969]

I miss the type of background music vsauce had before, it would really make me feel somber and powerless. It really set it that existential dread feeling

[@spencerdrums9776]

This seems an appropriate time for this to get recommended again

[@AnoNYmous-bz2ef]

Science is a tool for creation and destruction, it's the hand that decides which.

[@someguy9227]

Now, let's look at the US, Russia, and North Korea...

[@forgetfuldullahan5468]

+Some Guy well, if it's up to those three, we are utterly fucked.

[@indeed6598]

Russia's not that bad, Putin might not care for anything outside his country but at least he knows what he is doing...

[@BallistaBomber]

Vsauce - 2013

[@andrespato4]

+

[@mechabubba]

"Heres something you can try at home; *build a nuclear reactor."* Hold the fuck up, Michael.

[@toraw4tv1]

hey wassup clorox not a big fan but u guys all the smell the same I like Kroger brand

[@whitecloudbleach2778]

Hey, I've finally found you! You're my 32nd cousin, right?

[@brysonmerrell575]

wait... it was buried in Utah!? that's where I live!

[@arachnid1483]

about as safe as drinking you

[@gordonlo1284]

+Bryson Merrell explains the unnatural shape of your skull.

[@karanagarwal1056]

Who else came here after oppenheimer

[@Bitzue]

anyone else here after watching Oppenheimer?

[@towelofmadness3078]

4:24 “Ferb, I know what we’re gonna do today.”

[@gramozcela1834]

New episode exclucive on netflix

[@gavinisdie]

Knowing Them, they'd Probably make it SAFE, for it then to be destroyed by doof's Inators and Extreme Disaster Would Insue

[@sirjgn4868]

@@gavinisdie Well, considering Doof's stuff inadvertently wipes away all traces of their inventions no need to worry too much

[@justiceofbook]

Makes me proud to be a Boy Scout Never mind he looks like a straight crack head

[@JXGTXR]

underated comment

[@paigerenee4173]

"The enemy has, for the first time, used cruel bombs." chills. so many chills.

[@thebondofunity]

And so so very very sad. Especially because they are very real

[@quepacho64]

Honestly, knowing unit 731 existed and was significantly overseen by Hirohito himself at the time, those words sound quite hypocritical nowadays

[@politedog4959]

@@quepacho64 yeah, never forget that Japan was the aggressor in that war, and commited unspeakable crimes against humanity in China and other places on par with Nazi Germany. You cant naturally assume that all Japanese civilians were okay with this (though there also werent any significant resistance movements like in Germany), but if you would have been okay with nuking Nazi Germany, you have to also be okay with the nukes on Japan. In the end, these bombs ironically probably saved millions of American, Japanese and maybe Soviet lives

[@Bell-ih5ln]

Cruel even for war

[@submarinoflotador4532]

As always, the USA tries to justify the murder of civilians. At that time saying that it was necessary to end the war, and now cataloging civilians as "unarmed combatants."

[@bobbo3722]

I am become VSauce, Michael here

[@_thekonrad]

Coming back after Oppenheimer

[@enceladus32]

Oopsie-daisy moments with nuclear weapons lol just dropped a nuke on accident boss is so gonna fire me

[@EchoEdema]

OOPS! I think a bird hit the bomb bay. Wanna check it ou- *Massive explosion is heard from below* S**t, I'm sooo fired.

[@wiertara1337]

We would all be fired by the fires of the thousand suns.

[@franghiskhan5227]

If this is Metal Gear Solid 3, The Boss wouldn't be mad that you fired the nuke, because The Boss gave you the nuke in the first place.

[@AstarasCreator]

I hope at least the end of the world doesn't start with some idiot saying "Oops".

[@elephantwarrior53]

It has happened before. We dropped some in Spain and North Carolina.

[@ctosr6479]

Welp, I gotta go stock up on my Fusion Cores.

[@Johnbrowningmusic]

God, give me the blesses.

[@elferson]

How are you top comment (at the time he only had 3 likes)

[@filbert541]

I got a word for a settlement that need your help

[@shared29]

I give you 200 caps for one

[@Johnbrowningmusic]

Pedro Cruz fallout reference, nice

[@user-ei1bu6yo4m]

who came back after seeing Oppenheimer?

[@Paul20661]

Here after Oppenheimer ☢️

[@Th30th3rJ0J0]

How to survive a nuke: Step 1: Be the cameraman.

[@realsteppa6568]

ゴ「Caffeinated Otaku 」ゴ underrated comment

[@noedits7082]

You don’t know what to tell you but cameraman are invincible

[@canariopintado9929]

I believe that God is no match against cameraman

[@gnusmas6226]

Step 2: Go in the fridge

[@Th30th3rJ0J0]

@@gnusmas6226 Nice Fallout reference.

[@DJTileTurnip]

Ok nuclear reactors are cool and strong but what about a Charged Creeper?

[@projectretro8243]

DJ Tile Turnip DONT YOU DARE DROP THE CHARGED CREEPER HE CAN DESTROY EARTH

[@JoshuaS-ur7jm]

Awww man

[@greenmachine537]

@@JoshuaS-ur7jm Awww Man... I was about to say that

[@shabeenahussain8013]

Don't come to my house creeper

[@fabryz3378]

The charged creepers are charged with Plutonium and Uranium 235, he are the powerfull nuclear bomb in the universe

[@NoName-li4jo]

Watching this again after watching Oppenheimer. Ig I missed Feynman in the movie. Was he in the movie or not???

[@phreakindly]

He was, played by Jack Quaid.

[@jahzielv]

This one hits different after watching Oppenheimer…

[@theradioman5182]

When your eagle scout project is a n u c l e a r r e a c t o r.

[@masonmunkey6136]

your local neighborhood irradiator

[@xeranuphia]

lol I remember that

[@Secter84]

Lil asshole giving ppl cancer

[@harrietharlow9929]

LOL.

[@prussianmapping9149]

@@Secter84 SHUT THE FUCK UP BITCH

[@rileybski]

Aliens: AYO TIM LOOK AT THIS! THEYRE FIGHTING THEMSELVES LMAOOOO

[@zafarinc]

Lol

[@user-zr5wm8so6p]

Shame.

[@bradleyweiss1089]

Quit nuking yourself...Quit nuking yourself... Quit nuking yourself

[@hairyputter5363]

@@bradleyweiss1089 are you talking to yourself?

[@lord_moist]

Well we must fight someone

[@digbick69420]

Perfect video after watching Oppenheimer

[@D3ltus]

It's the eerie background music instead of the curious one that makes this video stand out, it inflicts doom on you

[@okashaarshad2371]

Whoops, I accidentally dropped my n u c l e a r w a r h e a d

[@undead379]

OH FU- *instantly vaporized*

[@SL_RivviN]

Hiroshima be like: ah shit, here we go again.

[@chunkytomatosoup1826]

Whoops, I ac- (nuclear detonation)

[@funnymeme1847]

Great, man. Now I gotta find another nucleus

[@HazelnutButtercup]

Oof

[@Lavendeer201]

"Trolls regenerate health when wounded, but are susceptible to fire" - Skyrim Loading Screen (2011)

[@miguelroa808]

Ah good to see men of culture in here

[@Nova-vk5qb]

Lavendeer, I see you everywhere

[@tomrowell1558]

Thank you Lavendeer, very cool!

[@prophetofbeans6781]

"Are you one of them Skyrim-for-the-Nords types?"

[@skyfox585]

I deasass never knew that they regenerated health or that normal trolls were susceptible to fire. Thx homie

[@redtex4]

Here after Oppenheimer button:

[@oreokush5393]

Christopher Nolan's outchere takin notes.

[@PedroSantos-ru9uw]

" Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap " ~Albert Einstein

[@nutcrackerreal100]

King Graveth he signed the letter for approval, the bomb was necessary

[@wolfy1398]

“I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” Albert Einstein.

[@ritujain3705]

Well how do Einstein know may be they construct it if they can

[@bautistamercader4737]

@King Graveth he make discoveries in quantum phisics that were use to do te bombs he didnt do them directrly

[@palathaxx]

Pedro Santos But gorillas go to war with each other and kidnap/kill members of their own species (Not me misunderstanding guerrilla warfare; there has been an actual war between gorillas, look it up). Ants develop strategies to invade other ant hives so they can kill them or take them slave.

[@deicidemaul]

"oopsie daisy moments with nuclear weapons" *Jesus christ*

[@stario5895]

Whoops, almost dropped a world ending supply of nuclear weapons!

[@jacobdavis5518]

There's human mistake combined with nuclear ferocity. Yup yup.

[@jackbright2125]

@@jacobdavis5518 Fortunately we made them pretty difficult to set off. You know, because you *really* don't want one of those things going off on accident.

[@cursedshark7125]

Today on pew news...

[@hachikiina]

@@cursedshark7125 "there is no news today, hence we're extinct" said the 100 million guy

[@jpfizzle1]

Algorithm knew I just saw Oppenheimer

[@debug8377]

saw this right after watching oppie

[@auryle]

Yea dude same, great movie. Literally got recommended to me after watching oppenheimer lmao

[@jumbojunk2681]

Jokes aside, I think this is one of my favourite VSauce videos. I especially love the quote "We have weapons that can mimic the winds on Neptune and the furnace of the Sun, yet we cannot predict the weather in half an hour's time" (paraphrasing, the actual quote is different). That along with the story of Kokura and how it was spared, and the classic old Micheal ramblings turning into a cohesive narrative complemented beautifully by Jake Chudnow makes this video an absolute mind joy to watch

[@jamesfratner3190]

Without a doubt my favorite. I've watched it over and over and over again

[@tacosauce8279]

No cap

[@tomatoversace3427]

Good comment. No jokes about the loss of human life. I agree friend.

[@tortugatech]

I come back to this episode from time to time... Definitely gives me the chills

[@clag1109]

great comment this is also one of my favs, but I have a minor complaint. wouldn’t you be paraphrasing here since you admit the actual quote is different?

[@Kanerade]

How to survive a Nuclear Bomb: Step one: Travel to the nearest cloudy town

[@charrua007]

That won't work

[@danly9794]

Big countries like the U.S or Russia could just use an ICBM missile to carry a nuke and it can travel through thunderstorms and clouds.

[@queueuof]

and then cover yourself in oil

[@asies8905]

@clixkedz_sean lmaoooo

[@zhonglikun2924]

@TRISTAN OXLEY okay ........wtf??

[@girlkisser]

this video is poetry to me i think.

[@ar333b]

i am become death... or am I? *VSauce music*

[@ambarkranti3350]

" I never said this " - Albert Einstein

[@yusha1059]

"Fuck off past Einstein, yes i did" -Albert Einstein

[@aperson5740]

@@yusha1059 "Shut up Einstein, I didnt say anything" -Albert Einstein

[@gaygekko]

I mean, he probably didn't, considering his first language was German and not English...

[@chicxulub2947]

@@gaygekko He did say "spooky action at a distance." xD

[@gaygekko]

@@chicxulub2947 Oh okay, didn't know that :D

[@123superpokemon1999]

And to think, a good portion of the citizens of Kokura probably woke up that morning thinking, "Damn, wish it was a clear day today."

[@Deadly_Laser]

Probably not. US has been bombing Japan with *regular* bombs for quite a while, so I suppose clouds were a good thing for the people either way.

[@TheRealRusDaddy]

CrypticG "man i hate all this traffic" - some Japanese guy that day

[@darksidehero]

Kokura was an untouched city like Nagasaki, the citizens proably thought the US couldn't reach them.

[@AaronKaiMCDNLD]

or someone is having a bad day because it's cloudy, you'll never know he's probable thinking "Fuck this Weather"

[@shira_yone]

Wait people complain about cloudy days?

[@jevetts]

The blue lights in the background behind Michael are look like the smoke trails you see in videos of nuclear weapons tests, great little detail

[@pralenkaman8105]

has this been recomended to you guys after seeing oppenheimer as well?

[@mightymonty3129]

man i hate it when i accidentally plutonium my planet

[@jackharvey1273]

LOL

[@theworldoverheavan560]

Lol

[@xxxdumbnamexxx904]

*Seinfeld plays*

[@Anatoli_Punto]

*Curb your Enthusiasm song starts to play*

[@flaminmongrel6955]

Lol

[@samuellatta6774]

I love his comparison of a nuclear explosion to pissing your pants.

[@axorandom]

America loves pissing in Japans pants

[@UncensoredGunEnthusiast]

@@axorandom Hol up

[@Wyi-the-rogue]

Okay, but that is what you do when you see one

[@therealanthonity]

when you plutonium your pants

[@jeffjohnson6167]

@@therealanthonity is plutonium stored in the balls?

[@ctdieselnut]

I consider myself very lucky to have found this channel. Every vid is a gem, and is highly re-watchable.

[@sparfelll4740]

9 years after the publication this video is still right

[@coolgoyim1133]

Druggy: "what you're addicted to?" David: "I like smoke detectors"

[@compositeembryo7186]

*SNORT*

[@rr_gaming4954]

@Mike Hunt He needed the small amount of radioactive material that is located in smoke detectors

[@doubleunifierh25jndborigin23]

​@Mike Hunt Anything radioactive can be used either as a reactor or a bomb. A radium nuke is possible, and a copernicium reactor is possible; the only thing you're seeking for to make a nuclear bomb is something unleashing heat from radiation, slowing it down and extracting energy out of it (by using turbines for example) makes it a energy producing device that technically works using radiation, = nuclear plant/reactor.

[@taboocheesehead5812]

"Except for your pants are the planet and the P is plutonium" -Vsauce, 2013

[@medexamtoolsdotcom]

They don't abbreviate it Pee-yew for nothing.

[@JeAn-mn2ve]

That makes no sense along w everything u idiots do...good no one with a fucking brain had a running legit start...lol

[@yourwaifuisbad9217]

Je An r/wooosh

[@CaveyMoth]

Are you telling me that this sucker [the p] is nuclear?!

[@assainwolf5704]

And p is also for penis. I am here to ruin your day

[@zeezoux]

Who's also here after watching Oppenheimer?

[@strongbrownguy2233]

This man is a goat

[@user-bm2rt5xn6k]

is he a man or a goat?

[@CryptoNWO]

“We can build a weapon that mimics the furnace of our sun and the winds of Neptune but yet we can’t predict the weather more than a few minutes ahead of time” … this sentence scares me every time. Look at how he’s shaking before he says it

[@harshvardhan4766]

yoo

[@daflotsam]

Yeah but that was in the forties. Not true today.

[@AtharvaTonpayTheTwistyGeek]

@@daflotsam It hasn't gotten any better. We can still only predict the weather a few days in advance

[@GamingEpicPaul87]

@@daflotsam we cant predict the weather 100% accurately a few minutes in the future

[@Ashish.1.1]

5:53 if anyone needs

[@CorBY_SchmorBY]

Yes but, How powerful is a Creeper explosion??

[@MICKEYISLOWD]

Why has almost every U tube video got a Minecraft reference...? I swear grown men make many of these comments and give away their infantile secret lives. Personally I get my fix watching Rainbow with Zippy and Bungle!!!

[@InitiateDee]

Well considering that uppon death creepers drop 0 to 2 gun powder, and by knowing that one TNT block requires 5 of those, we can simply calculate it. To know how much tnt is in a single block we need to have a rough estimate of how much sticks are there, and how big are they. So we take a TNT block, look at its texture and we get a number. 16 sticks. By knowing how big is a Minecraft block (1 m), we have a estimate that there are 16 tnt sticks that each are 1x0.25x0.25 meters big. So a very, VERY rough estimate on my part would be that one creeper explosion is an equivalent to the explosion of 1 to 6 sticks of TNT that are 1x0.25x0.25 meters big. How much that is in Newtons or in explosion radius I have no idea ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

[@CorBY_SchmorBY]

UnfortuneLess Are you Vsauce himself

[@InitiateDee]

*You may never know*

[@connorking984]

@@InitiateDee no, you have to use the size of the actual blast. How much dirt was removed and how much tnt would be required for an equivalent crater.

[@drowzy_rick2718]

Who’s here after Oppenheimer

[@Zhiphr]

This video be hittin different now

[@commercio3564]

You crane vs rush uh

[@avidcloud1721]

Micheal: 0.7 grams of uranium, that less than the weight of a me: dollar micheal: *banknote* the replies have been turned into a horrid warzone for some reason. enter with caution.

[@SonoftheBread]

He is a man of science. A banknote is accurate because a $1 bill does not weigh more or less than any other banknote (maybe $100 weigh more cause of the plastic strip).

[@maxzak5169]

Hahaha idiot has no friends and wants his life to be important but it isn't

[@emperorpalpatine5559]

Max Zak Bruh.. you saying that shows the importance of your life... well I mean.. the lack there of.

[@emperorpalpatine5559]

AvidCloud Taunt that Max dude if you’re gonna insult him.. works better.

[@maxzak5169]

@@emperorpalpatine5559 xD OK little kid, whatever helps you sleep at night xD 'there of' XD

[@thelasttrylobane5603]

Why do michael’s videos always give me a sense of impending doom..

[@whimsy5623]

Probably cause the nukes

[@kenkenowo420]

Because he is the god of chaos

[@Jason-of5bj]

because this piece of shit is pushing the fear narrative that google likes to promote

[@the_nautillus9176]

@@Jason-of5bj There's always that guy in de back...

[@saturn1907]

The music combined with his facial expressions and how he talks and moves his body

[@vaingloriouszebra1839]

Anyone came here after Oppenheimer?

[@septicfx2824]

Yes

[@mariajoselopez5614]

I've come back to this video after watching Oppenheimer, and I haven't been able to sleep properly since then

[@musicmixxer9815]

[Kokura news anchor]: Alright guys. Today is going to be a bit cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s and highs in the mid 80s. [Citizen]: God damn it, another gloomy day...

[@00maniacmanny00]

That was fuckin hilarious you should get top coent

[@flipflops7345]

MusicMixxer i dont get it im retarted

[@alexandraleian212]

Malik Ogletree It's basically a joke about how the people of Kokura are complaining about cloudy weather but that cloudy weather is what saved their lives

[@LongDongSilver420]

MusicMixxer [Nagasaki news anchor]: Todays forecast is hot and shitty, with continued bouts of hot and shitty, and a pissy weather front moving in from the north. And highs in the mid 15 millions. [Citizen]: God damn it, the gloomiest day...

[@RoliPoliOli00]

Hahaha. 15 millions I get it ;)

[@uowemelol]

“lol” -US GOVERNMENT

[@domz6867]

"pog" -someone idk, a redditor probably

[@mere_serendipity8275]

"Лол" -RF government

[@Andrew-mg6ue]

@@mere_serendipity8275 as long as the Chinese stay quiet on the subject I’m ok with it😂

[@BubblingOnion]

"Wtf" -Austin

[@vedanshbudhia8148]

"Fuck" - Hiroshima Government

[@slash6660]

Oppenheimer when the bomb he specifically designed to destroy entire towns actually destroys entire towns

[@ii3bood173]

Recommended after Oppenheimer

[@StopItGarrison]

I'm gay

[@hitarthjoshi3198]

​@@StopItGarrison😂😂😂

[@StopItGarrison]

@@hitarthjoshi3198 Thank you

[@osu28fan]

"To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell" This hit me really hard.

[@Trentstone121]

It's a bullshit way for his ilk (feynman and company), to shirk the responsibility they bear for hundreds of thousands of lives. It was a key to hell. Heaven is closed right now. Please come back in 15 millenia.

[@quocvietophu1627]

@@Trentstone121 Heaven machine broke

[@adambasinger6239]

@@Trentstone121 The science that produced nitrogen based fertilizers, which massively boosted crop yields saving millions, if not billions, of lives over the past century or two was intended to create Tnt. The science worked on by his ilk now powers millions of homes and could be the stop gap we need to save the climate, along with many other things. The process that created the nuclear bomb was an absurdly secretive one, in which only a few at the top actually knew what was being worked on, and those who knew wanted to end the biggest war in all of human history. Several of those who worked at that top were jewish refugees who fled the gas chambers of Nazi germany and wanted them stopped. Or who wanted to end the war and saw this as the only way they could do it. History is not as simple as you make it out to be, and neither are their actors.

[@Trentstone121]

@@adambasinger6239 you are very talented at spewing their rhetoric. Thank you. It changes nothing.

[@adambasinger6239]

@@Trentstone121 Oh sorry, I'll just sit here not dying of the plague cause vaccines, on the internet, in a house with air conditioning, with a car outside. But yeah, fuck science. Also, as a historian, you do realize that there were already fire bombs galore going off in Japan yeah? Fires that consumed whole cities. Fires that consumed far more than died in the nuclear bombs. Those bombings stopped that. And instead of just saying those two attacks lost us our keys to heaven, maybe think about what it means to trade 1 life for 3, and how we talk about the 1 we lost. History is compicated.

[@jdgomez775]

I wonder if the People of Kokura know that a cloudy day saved them?

[@dylanconn8758]

Violet: It’s a wonderful day to go to the beach. Trolley Conductor: It’s grey and cloudy. Violet: That’s what makes it wonderful.

[@funnymeme1847]

Egg Salad count Olaf bouta’ drop some warheads to gain the inheritence

[@bjornragnarsson8692]

Jorge Gomez they do. They celebrate it every year.

[@YungBoiEscobar]

Call that Kamikaze

[@phantomaviator1318]

@@dylanconn8758 actually it'd be Nii-San

[@flippyjunior1267]

Just saw Oppenheimer, I imedietly thought about this video

[@bradleymoseley7552]

Actually one of my favourite videos ever, watched it maybe 10 times. Keep coming back over the years

[@RANDOMstuffanimation]

5 minute crafts "How to build a nuclear bomb"

[@prozaccc]

Using toothpaste and hot glue*

[@ezekielpantoja7573]

Yeet Em don’t forget the coke bottle

[@Bullshit_Media]

Wich is fake and dangerous. And draged out to 10 minutes for extra adds. And clickbait. And shit.

[@Bullshit_Media]

@leon resanovic yes, see my comment on the comment for my thoughts on them xD

[@Krisztian08]

@@prozaccc lol that actually sounds like something 5min crafts would do

[@craigandtinagibson1558]

Phil Swift in 1945 to Japan "To show you the power of America, I sawed this atom in half"

[@barneystorer1092]

nice.

[@Haxxer82]

That genuinely made me laugh

[@elektroduck446]

That joke is actually perfect

[@coleglassner449]

Nuclear Fision. We need to use that for eco energy, or Fusion, that works. Perfect source of energy.

[@christiangarza8122]

Sees Hiroshima and Nagasaki: THAT’S A LOT OF DAMAGE!

[@connormichalec]

Vsauce is just one of those channels that will remain locked in the memory of youtube forever

[@Mindmartyr]

Coming back to this after Oppenheimer.

[@migitri]

"A strange game. The only winning move is not to play." WOPR, _WarGames_ (1983)

[@daniel-andersson]

*How about a nice game of chess?*

[@SebaGames1]

Just like The Game

[@dookie3453]

Seba fuck you 😭

[@nickkohlmann]

- Switzerland since 1912 -

[@MrSilentsmoker713]

I just seen that quote not to long ago on a video on youtube...it was about a tetris game or simulator that's stopped playing once losing was inevitable and paused...man that's not accurate but it went something like that

[@teeezy5862]

Rip Vsauce all he does is KZbin red videos now :(

[@ianmilligan8305]

Go check a channel called DONG, he's over there now

[@kristofevarsson6903]

He stated in a DONG video very recently that he's been wrapped up in the DONG schedule but has still been editing together a video to put here on his actual Vsauce channel. No worries, it'll be here soon.

[@teeezy5862]

Ian Milligan you’re the goat

[@teeezy5862]

Vela Edvardsson thank you

[@TraderTravels]

oooh yay one video a year.

[@davidicke2415]

Thanks Michael from 9 years ago. Command and Control by Eric Schlosser has become one of my favourite books lately, especially the Audible version because of the amazing narrator Scott Brick.

[@wyattsimison6895]

Micheal is an artist, nearly a decade later and his videos are still masterpieces

[@vintagememelord8168]

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[@theamphibinator]

“The war situation has not necessarily developed to Japan’s advantage” - Emperor Hirohito

[@emiliianoportillo1311]

Advisor: Dude come on we just got annihilated and their are deserts were Hiroshima and Nagasaki used to be.

[@giantrunt]

Technically the truth

[@bounzl4200]

If i lived at that time in Japan and heard this i would be like “No shit Sherlock”

[@theoldcavalier7451]

Hoi4

[@kierancowface]

hoi4 gang, what is your favourite division template out there, no paritcular requirements. Mine is 19 infantry and 1 heavy tank/modern tank. The armour you get is ridiculous and against an enemy with little hard attack, it is hilariously effective as a 40 width infanty, if a little costly.

[@andrewjames889]

**drops warhead** 2:37 “oopsie daisy”

[@ketch10]

Andrew James kaboom

[@TheMrKeksLp]

*America did an oopsie*

[@deathbycognitivedissonance5036]

@@TheMrKeksLp Everybody makes mistakes. It's no big deal. Sheesh

[@randomdude9135]

@@deathbycognitivedissonance5036 Yeah, but one should accept his mistakes and ask forgiveness for it. Otherwise he'll be an arrogant dumbass. I hope USA and other countries who've done oopsies have done that.

[@xarachne8473]

Japan got oopsied

[@JosephSalas07]

Oppenheimer just showed in cinemas and this was suggested by youtube.

[@dankaztec6296]

Sometimes I get sad and come back to these old videos. It reminds me that things aren't always bad. It reminds me that just like the excitement of seeing a new upload nearly 10 years ago what ever I'm going through, too shall pass.

[@johnwea1100]

"and P stands for plutonium" Me: weird analogy, but sure "Eureka comes from ancient Greek!" me: wait, wha- how did we get here

[@om3g4z3r0]

+John Wea Sounds like you are either too smart to be here or getting at that level, this vsauce guy focus on one subject then starts filling it with random shit to give you the illusion of learning. In this episode we learned: Bombs are bad Science made bombs But science is gud.

[@I-02]

+TheHueisOver™ I just listen for the random trivia. Like how only 1.38% of uranium is actually fissiled in a fission bomb.

[@colegilliam2379]

+TheHueisOver™ I'm used to it, so I don't question it anymore.

[@meljXD2]

this show isn't really to teach, it's more like him sharing his thoughts and rambling on and on, not really sticking to any type of subject.

[@i_notold8500]

Yeah, and that equals about 7 grams, the weight of a $1 note. Which in turn tells you how much plutonium you actually need to make the bomb.

[@UDGyt]

Ten years ago and the video quality remains superb

[@anmolkaushik1824]

A great video as always! Just a slight correction, the city where the second bomb was to be dropped is not Kokura but Kitakyushu city in Fukuoka prefecture. Kitakyushu has a Kokura Ward close to where most of the industrial plants were setup, like the National (Nippon) Steel Mill while also having a pretty important port. What a lucky city it is! I have lived there, in Nagasaki too, and have also visited Hiroshima. Sadly, the latter two cities didn't share that same luck and the damage was incomprehensible. Let's hope such fate never befalls anyone, anywhere.

[@delwoodbarker]

"One in a million happens eight times a day in New York City," -- Penn Gillette.

[@whishiwhooshi5783]

That is the dumbest quote I've ever read.

[@zukacs]

Theres is a rogue wave so big that it crushed huge ships like chop sticks, people believed it was a legend told by generations, not long ago they found proof of it. Chance of this wave is like one in 10 trillion, but in so many waves as we have in oceans it happens almost all the time

[@schrodingerskatze6192]

@@whishiwhooshi5783 How is it dumb?

[@electronoob7428]

Suzy Lu's Forehead as dumb as your profile picture

[@franchufranchu119]

9 out of 10 times, a 1 in a million possibility happens.