Historical Blunders: More Mistakes That Changed the World

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[@Cactusjugglertm]

No chance in hell 😂

[@KC-nd7nt]

You copy 90% of old video and want to get paid for narration? Am I correct ?

[@TheSh4dowgale]

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[@maurapowers3880]

“Unfortunately they were both idiots” is a phrase that proceeds many blunders in history.

[@SoulDelSol]

I used to think people were generally intelligent, wanting to see best in people. However I've since learned from fb discussions and more recently from KZbin threads that most people are incredibly and horrifyingly dumb. It's really quite startling how many imbeciles are out there. I'm very disappointed by this

[@grejen711]

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity - Hanlon's razor.

[@blakemtg47]

Hold my beer

[@gergsmail01]

Precedes 😅

[@RattledPan]

History in school was a guaranteed nap for the next hour, but if history was taught with a breath of fresh air: “Unfortunately they were both idiots” in an instructional reference or in a deadpan statement in a lecture hall would take the event and put it in front of the student alive in the moment. There is never a moment in time that someone isn't doing something stupid, saying "Oops." The laws of averages alone guarantees that every so often, it's a "Oops" that changes the world. I don't know about you but I actually find that sort of comforting...

[@kayleighlehrman9566]

Franz Ferdinand's driver running into Gavrilo Princip after evading the previously unsuccessful assasination attempt

[@Switcharoo12]

That's just freaking too many random parts suddenly somehow connecting. What are the odds‽

[@jacob4920]

@@Switcharoo12 Yeah, this was not stupidity. It was pure bad luck, on so many levels. Though, to be sure, the Archduke even BEING THERE is the mistake that triggered the entire episode in the first place.

[@DrRock1970]

Yeah that's gotta be up there

[@JayM409]

There was a large organized group of people determined to kill the Archduke during his visit. They were spread throughout the routes he was predicted to take. His assassination was almost guaranteed. It was well known how unpopular he was in Sarajevo, so his visit itself was the blunder.

[@jacob4920]

@@JayM409 Yes, but the fact that they almost failed, in spite of all the planning, is noteworthy. In the end, a stroke of bad luck for the Archduke is what did him in. That's not a good plan at all, if you require LUCK to pull it off!

[@ignitionfrn2223]

0:35 - Mid roll ads 2:10 - Chapter 1 - The chernobyl disaster 6:10 - Chapter 2 - The spanish armada 9:15 - Chapter 3 - Splitting the roman empire 11:30 - Chapter 4 - Everyone invading russia in winter

[@katem.3677]

The Classic Blunders: 1) Getting involved in a land war in Asia 2) Going up against a Sicilian when death is on the line 3) Trying to invade Russia in the winter 4) Wearing white after Labor Day

[@phaedrapage4217]

Exception to #4: if it's "winter white" and there's been enough snow, I believe that is acceptable in most societies. Although I still wouldn't take my chances around Beverly Sutphin.

[@raquellofstedt9713]

I don´t know. The Finns in WWII did pretty well in white after Labor day... but thenagain, I don´t think they do Labor day in September.

[@jonathanhill6064]

Number 3 IS number 1. That's the whole point of the joke.

[@terryhoffman9189]

Unless you’re……The Mongols!!!

[@montegrifo]

​@@raquellofstedt9713You can't impress Finns with cold weather.

[@OzymandiasWasRight]

Clips were shown during this video, but if anyone hasnt seen the HBO miniseries Chernobyl its absolutely still worth checking out. (I would also suggest checking out one of those 'what HBO got wrong about Chernobyl' as there are a few inaccuracies, overall its a really well done show)

[@MaesterTori]

Had to pause the video when you mentioned Fukushima. I'll never, ever forget that day. I was living and working just south of Tokyo on 3/11/11, and ended up couch surfing bc my flat wasn't safe following the initial quake. My friend and I watched the live news broadcast, w news choppers flying around and above the plant as the explosions started. At that time, we all believed that the air and water currents would bring any fallout right down on Tokyo, and I remember saying to Clare "that's us done for, then." And she went into her kitchen and opened a bottle of champagne, and we cheers'd the end of the (our) world. It was around 1030 am and a beautiful golden spring day. I still can't talk much more about it than this, all these years later.

[@AG3n3ricHuman]

Dang. I was in Guatemala on a missions trip and we actually felt the quake that far away. We checked the news before the tsunami hit and learned of the quake and that the Fukushima plant had SCRAMed it's reactors but that everything was under control. I was worried about it because I'd read that the plant had a nuclear accident once before. Boy was I right to be worried!

[@MaesterTori]

@@AG3n3ricHuman it was a really hectic few days, and such a powerful quake.

[@roscojenkins7451]

Every historian ever: "Invading russia in winter is a blunder?" Mongels: "hold my beer"

[@kaltaron1284]

"Hold my Airag"

[@stevelee5724]

Good one Rosco. I bet Mongols loved beer too ! 😅 Cheers from New Zealand

[@kaltaron1284]

@@stevelee5724 Once they got to countries that had it. Cheers from Germany.

[@kdynski]

​@@kaltaron1284 Humans have been fermenting grain in water for thousands of years so yes, I think they could get some.

[@kaltaron1284]

@@kdynski They did in the inner Asian steppes? That's news to me.

[@philiphumphrey1548]

The use of gunfire to disable ships instead of ramming was proven 17 years before the Armada at the Battle of Lepanto 1571 (which was probably a more historically important battle for Europe than the Armada). The Venetians pioneered the use of heavy cannons on their galeasses and use them to great effect against the Ottoman galleys, disabling them from a distance. The Spanish took part in that battle on the winning side.

[@jochenstacker7448]

Apparently they didn't learn from that.

[@BadKruser]

Galleasses

[@psycofire93]

Editor friend can we turn the music down a few notches?

[@MagieLamp]

-5 Db pls*^

[@bobmarefka998]

The Soviet RMBK reactor is one of the only, if not only, reactor designs that has a Positive Void coefficiency, where the lack of coolant (water) creates an increase in power. Pressurized Water Reactors, Advanced Cooled Reactors, and Boiling Water Reactors do not have this fatal flaw. They have Negative Void coefficiency designs.

[@katcaparula7898]

This ad read is a true testament to Simon's acting abilities.

[@roscojenkins7451]

Alas I shall never know since I skip ahead

[@kryw10]

The only ufo Simon believes in.

[@Hillbilly001]

Considering Simon tries any sponsors products, he probably isn't acting. Allegedly.

[@cedvelt]

Proof he is a robot

[@aRealAndHumanManThing]

To be honest, I think he's like "well, feels good and moisturizes the skin, I guess". So good enough for him to justify accepting the sponsorship and probably gives a ton of money

[@JimAllen-Persona]

“Never get involved in a land war in Asia” Vizzini- The Princess Bride

[@blaze0rama]

The Spanish Armada also had a little problem with the weather.

[@AvoidTheCadaver]

One book I read alleges that the Spanish king expected God to deliver a miracle to assist the Armada because they were the true Christians

[@trishapellis]

I was taught that aside from the Brits' tactics and such, the Spanish just weren't prepared for the powerful currents and winds in the Channel and some of them were swept up against the cliffs.

[@ongunacaroglu]

Same weather didn't effect the Brits?😮 Curious....

[@mattbillington4602]

Napoleon lost more troops to typhus in the summer offensive than the winter retreat.

[@Inucroft]

there are, alot of growing inconstiances in the script. Are they using ChatGTP?

[@sargonyami4292]

​@@Inucroftyeah also the statements about chernobyl

[@JosephPercente]

Also exposure, starvation, desertion etc.

[@chillindave1357]

Thx for not mentioning my marriage 😂😂😂

[@j.a.weishaupt1748]

I can steel feel the effects of it

[@tinyelephant77]

Lol, same!

[@alwaysflushinpublic]

No problem Harry. Will u be returning to uk soon?

[@the-chillian]

Simon didn't mention the technological innovation that made the English fleet faster and more maneuverable than the Spanish Armada. Up until that time, the prevalence of boarding actions meant that ships needed high "castles" at the bow and stern, to make the ship more defensible. (For a long time, the forward part of a ship was called the "forecastle" -- pronounced focs'l -- even if it didn't really exist as an elevated structure.) English ships, on the other hand, were "race-built" or had been "razeed" after construction, meaning the height of the fore and aft castles had been cut down considerably. This meant the ship's freeboard had much less exposure to the wind, and therefore affected the ships maneuverability much less, than the traditional design.

[@ericmccarty9656]

Lithuania has a museum dedicated to the troops that froze to death on the retreat

[@gumpyoldbugger6944]

Damn, someone else actually gets it. Nuclear energy is risking, but no where near as risky and damaging then fossile fuel powered energy.

[@jyetremlett3071]

Why would you want either? Renewables are cheaper and safer

[@angelaharris53]

@@jyetremlett3071 And wildly unreliable.

[@EllieMaes-Grandad]

@@jyetremlett3071 Not really cheaper, given high installation and maintenence costs , subsidies, and unavailable at night or in conditions of no wind. Apart from that . . .

[@jyetremlett3071]

@@EllieMaes-Grandad yeah it is cheaper look it up

[@namename9998]

@@EllieMaes-Grandad The environmental costs of cutting or burning down forests (wind turbines and solar farms are being installed in forests. What happens if theres a dry season), having to expand even farther rather than living densely, etc.

[@wormyboot]

I appreciate the labeling of AI content. Please don't stop doing that.

[@Makem12]

Napoleon? 1st French empire? I think Charlemagne would like to have a few words with you

[@idmouse]

Lol. Indeed.

[@gunzakimbo]

14:08 There is no way that number can be true for Napoleon unless you mean the actual "Fighting," not the whole invasion. The French started with around 600-700k and by the time they even started fighting the Russians BEFORE they retreated they were already down to 100-150k. The summer was way worse than the winter, that was just the final nail in the coffin of that horrendous journey.

[@berges104]

The control rods needed to manage the positive reactivity coefficient were gone. They lose coolant and thus their moderator. Water flashed to steam and they were royally fucked. Basically they set themselves up for a single point failure and then initiated the failure.

[@Jayjay-qe6um]

"Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness." -- A.J.P. Taylor

[@Willowflat16]

Also worthy of consideration: Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasing Nazi Germany. The Galipoli Campaign. Mao's Four Pests campaign, which led to the starvation of 20-30 million people over 4 years.

[@j.a.weishaupt1748]

He covered the China one in the previous video. Not sure if I can call appeasement a blunder. Yes it didn’t bring world peace as Chamberlain had hoped, but Hitler was gonna Hitler regardless of UK’s policy.

[@PaulXPZ]

@@j.a.weishaupt1748 but appeasement meant Hitler was allowed to Hitler sooner and longer than he would have otherwise

[@cheifDeisel]

Simon has got to be the busiest man on KZbin.

[@linda10989]

My hubby asked how many channels Simon has and I said about 7, lol

[@trishapellis]

@@linda10989 All 10 of them are actually mentioned in the description below every video. He does of course have writers and editors doing a bunch of the work for him - I have the impression that it's just his full-time job now to read these scripts to the camera.

[@jenniferlindsey2015]

Sadly, the people who were relocated as a result of the Fukushima meltdown, are having worse outcomes, mentally, and physically then those who were not evacuated. Some people stayed and are living with high levels of radiation, but are not living with the stress of losing everything they had, and having to start their lives over. It was a very interesting video. I suggest you research it. I think it was a Kyle Hill video.

[@adamdavies6248]

About the same level of background radiation in the 20mile zone as Cornwall UK, interestingly, I didn't know the stat about the differing outcomes, thank you.

[@lilmuon]

There's a difference in those who can't afford to relocate when many things in life cost money, and those who choose to stay for reasons other than that. And if you leave while not being able to afford either situation, it would be best to not return to a dangerous area that risks yours and your family's life. Either way, both are starting lives over again. Not everyone struggles in the same ways...

[@Chris-hx3om]

You also have to realise that most of the relocation was due not to the 'radiation' but to the flooding from the tsunami.

[@dalaanibombina8822]

How is relocating a worse outcome than living with high levels of radiation? Are you some kind of idiot?

[@trishapellis]

As far as I've understood it, the problem here is not the fact that they relocated in and of itself, but the psychological strain placed on these people by their compatriots who treat them like trash because they happened to be inside of a 10 mile radius of Fukushima when the disaster happened, for no real understandable reason. Including their own government.

[@PeterShipley1]

with Chernobyl you completely MISSED a fact about that it was Xenon poisoning, something that prevents reactors from restarting for at least a day and a half.

[@markevans2294]

There were several factors involved. Including the "positive void coefficient" of the graphite moderated, water cooled RBMK reactor. With the formation of steam pockets inside the core increasing both fission and xenon 135 "burning".

[@kmullins1259]

And also the overall mistake of the major design flaw with the graphite tips speeding up the reaction when first inserted. While dyatlov messed up, the whole thing was set up for failure to cut costs

[@jarrenhelme6060]

The biggest missed fact was that the test failed he said it was a success

[@grejen711]

No mention of Thomas Midgley Jr.? Huh. If your talking about unreasoned fear of Nuclear power meltdowns the blame has to lie with a '70s movie with Jane Fonda and her dad. Right after the 3 mile island incident. In Japan the fear stems from the Godzilla movies maybe.

[@Loralanthalas]

That and rich men own oil. Not nuclear.

[@No2Guy]

Video starts at 2:10 , Skip the add 😊

[@duB420Grass]

"International Nuclear Detonations in Japan" - That's an incredibly misleading way to describe those events. lol I'm not gonna say it's kinda disrespectful; I'll let someone else draw that conclusion.

[@klocugh12]

> Nuclear power is much better option PREACH!

[@Loralanthalas]

In Phoenix. Love it.

[@beagleissleeping5359]

How about any man made disaster that happened because the people in charge decided, "We'll do it this way instead because it's much less expensive." Well, maybe not, considering these disasters are still happening because of cost cuts.

[@raquellofstedt9713]

When invading Russia, take note: do NOT forget the winter kit.

[@Metikoi]

Attacking russia in winter is less of a factor than the continual inability of European conquerors to understand just how expendable the rulers of Russia regard the population as and their concomitant willingness to let said starve if the other guy starves too.

[@ewok40k]

Actually both Napoleon and Hitler invaded in June, but the size of Russia meant the fight extended until winter - and into later years in case of WW2.

[@Cloud30000]

Actually he covered that at the end of the video.

[@kaltaron1284]

At least Hitler planed to start quite a few weeks earlier. Not sure about Napoleon.

[@dnkgil]

We are loving these new videos

[@dublkrossr2059]

I dig this narrator because his British accent is good enough for American English to understand. All of his shows are excellent by the way...

[@matthewshannon6946]

England and America - two countries divided by a common language...😅

[@jsa-z1722]

Humans operating nuclear facilities? Recipe for disaster eventually.

[@mattbice9991]

The Spanish Armada is actually even more fascinating in that most of the ships lost were due to poor weather and crashed on Irelands shores with crews largely killed by local armys. It was a multitude of factors that resulted in the English victory from Phillip as a monarch and strategist, the generals following plan over opportunity, poor weather, and the cannons on the Spanish ships being land cannons attached to a boat whereas the english fleet largely had naval cannons. The armada was rewritten as an English victory slowly in the late years of Elizabeth I reign through the 20th century whereas it was largely a stalemate. England attempted some armadas against spain that were equally if not more catastrophic on the basis of sheer military strategy.

[@SirHeinzbond]

the death toll of chernobyl was not only the people at the place when the explosion happened but also the afterward cleaning action, where the SSSR wasted a lot of human personal to clear roofs of debris... okay at that time robotik wasn't a theme but i guess there could have been less deaths if the clearing work would not be this hasted...

[@FortisKnight]

Not to mention the terrible storm the Spanish had the misfortune to encounter as they sailed around the West of England so as to attack from the entrance to the English Channel. A rather costly miscalculation, wouldn’t you think?

[@karenshadle365]

Simon, I imagine you using the Foreo skin care thing. Then I look at you, and I think, where are you using this? Because beard, mustache, eyebrows &etc. .Now I just envision you running it over your scalp, which I must admit seems ever so shiny and smooth.

[@RattledPan]

Wonderful stuff, as always, Simon! You are always a fun ride! I love that in my mind, I buckle into my adventure car, and, um, "Excuse me, sir? Did I hear a loose bolt rattling under my car?" I get Silence, but a glare that said much. "Keep your hands and feet inside the car at all times." Now, as I shoot down into the blackness of whatever the hell you are going to show and comment on let me get back into my lovin' on these great films you and you team put together. I love that you can take the sometimes the oblivious like so much of the other things in our lives that we tune out, and make the blur out of our vision, and twist the image until crystal clear. That's the powerful stuff, eh? The first time I became aware of that fact was when I learned why it is still a law here in the US why all exits of businesses still have a sign that states, "These doors must remain unlocked during business hours." Why? In America, you can tell something horrible led up to signs that are ubiquitous. Pass hugs you your team and get Mrs. Simon to give you a big one. It's amazing what an effect your videos have on the world. I come from advertising. If your story (they use the same terms) is impactful, those viewers just became free advertising, and better yet, they are better salespeople.

[@gary-williams]

Was expecting to see the fall of the Berlin Wall mentioned (Schabowski made a mistake in announcing a policy change).

[@linda10989]

It was an amazing time watching as one country after another left the Soviet Union. And all because of Chernobyl.

[@bobingabout]

There's only 1 empire that has ever conquered Russia in winter. The Mongols.

[@robotnoir5299]

[5:14] Nuclear power is a much better option. * * If you ignore that there are no solutions or even proposed solutions for indefinitely safely storing nuclear waste, and that 75% of US nuclear sites ALREADY leak radioactive material. The way we treat nuclear-waste is like shutting a grizzly-bear in a Japanese paper-house and pretending the danger is gone.

[@phaedrus000]

What most people including you don't seem to realize is that there are different kinds of nuclear waste. The really dangerous kind, the kind that sticks around for thousands of years, that stuff is actually pretty rare. Only a small amount of it is produced by nuclear plants. The majority of nuclear waste is actually not that radioactive. Like the "radioactive material" you mentioned that many plants leak is actually just water with tritium (an isotope of hydrogen) that is barely radioactive. You could take a drink of that water and be perfectly fine. You would receive less radiation from that then you would from eating a banana. But go off, keep scare mongering while the ice caps melt.

[@mikedavey1996]

There is a solution. The problem is people who freak out over any project to store it properly which means it is instead being left in ad hock storage facilities. The vast majority of nuclear waste is low level which is not that dangerous. The rest would fit in an olympic sized swimming pool, sans casings. The most dangerous radioactive material has low half life - meaning it becomes significantly less dangerous in a relatively short period of time. The storage of nuclear waste is a solved problem - the real problem is political. The money put aside by the US nuclear industry for proper storage generates 1.5 Billion dollars a year in interest alone. Obama cancelled funding for the federal side of the equation and the project to store nuclear waste properly has been sitting in limbo ever since.

[@robotnoir5299]

@@mikedavey1996 Are you joking or lying? There is NO SOLUTION, and no proposed solution. I suspect you know this, which is why you didn't specify the solution you claim exists. High Level Nuclear Waste needs to be securely stored for about ONE MILLION YEARS before it is safe. It would be really shoddy to only store it for only say 10,000 or 100,000 years. Yet we store it in pathetic concrete bunkers that would be lucky to last 150 years. It's like wearing your seatbelt as you back out your drive-way, then taking it off to drive from NewYork to California coz "you already did the safety bit". Why even bother? It is 100% guaranteed that MOST of this high-level waste WILL escape containment before the radioactivity has dropped to safe levels. It WILL get into the ground-water, and WILL be a constant nightmare for thousands generations of humans. Just because the bunkers solve the problem for YOUR life-time doesn't mean it's over. The first Homosapians appeared about 750,000 years ago. Just think, that's a shorter amount of time than your ancestors will be haunted by the nuclear waste created in YOUR lifetime. How can you be so cold and un-caring of future humans? Those who were alive today, during the nuclear age, will be the most hated generations EVER. Make no mistake. We're not talking about Carbon here, where the planet has a built-in self-defense mechanism of washing the carbon from the sky to the sea with rain, where it settles on the tectonic plate, and is eventually pushed under the magma. This nuclear waste does real permanent damage, in a way that is totally un-natural, so the planet can't deal with it, even on geological time-scales. BTW, 95% of the total radioactivity produced in the nuclear power process is in High-Level Nuclear Waste, so I don't know why you're trying to gas-light me with assurances that low-level waste isn't that dangerous. Ofcourse it isn't! It only contains 5% of the radioactivity! Low-level waste is just pairs of rubber gloves that someone used for 5 minutes while moving a rod. It's not ACTUAL nuclear-waste. It's stuff that was NEAR nuclear waste for a few minutes. The soil surrounding your HLW bunker is prolly more radioactive than most LLW.

[@robotnoir5299]

@@mikedavey1996 Don't keep it a secret. Specify this solution you're so sure exists. Keep in mind that HLW needs to be safely stored for AT LEAST 100,000 years, but more like 1million years to be sure... and tell me what facility we have for storing something undisturbed for that long? By the way, low-level-waste is stuff like rubber-gloves that were used for 3 minutes to open a valve. Naturally, these things have fairly low radiation compared to a spent-nuclear-rod, so I'm not too worried about that. 95% of radioactivity is in HLW. If you can offer me a solution for the HLW, I''ll happily waive the last 5% of radiation that comes from LLW.

[@Ayrshore]

@@robotnoir5299 covered in many other videos.

[@philiphumphrey1548]

On operation Barbarossa the German army had already been weakened by significant losses in the Polish and French campaigns (that were not the walkovers that many people believe). They also seriously underestimated Russian resilience and ability to keep fighting despite early losses and setbacks. A mistake mssrs Biden and Johnson seem to have repeated not so long ago.

[@barbiquearea]

Not to mention the looses they took in Greece, Crete and North Africa, which was still ongoing.

[@stephansteenberg5790]

Xenon poisoning

[@mentat1341]

How often you think Simon is rubbing his head with that Foreo doohickey? His head is so smoooooooooth

[@saiynoq6745]

4:57 to be 100% honest it’s hard to trust government or local governments atm in USA to not just contract this work to the cheapest bidder but then also cut corners. Maybe other places people would and it would be amazing to use it !

[@Loralanthalas]

I have zero clue what you're trying to say. Arizona runs on Nuclear power. 6th largest city and largest geographic county in the United States. The corruption comes from selling our water to Arabs so they could grow hay and import it back to Saudi Arabia for their damn horses while our government told ITS CITIZENS to stop using water.

[@KangElla1666]

Fukushima gets forgotten because it is illegal to report on it in Japan. When looking for scientific papers about radiation caused by it there are very few papers..and the one I found said that the radiation levels in mushrooms in residential areas nearby was extremely high. The 0 direct deaths thing is most certainly not true

[@RainbowLovingRainbow]

I wonder where all that funding came from for the anti-nuclear energy sects…

[@flecx9767]

One Person has officially died through the Radiation of Fukushima (one of the workers). Overall the Meltdows killed about 1000 people,not because of the meltdown or Radiation, but because of the evacuation. With many old people not surviving the stress and many others through psychological damage and resulting suicide. Much less would have died if many of the regions would have never been evacuated. Since a lot of the different evacuation regions only were contaminated to the equivalent of taking a few CTs in a year.

[@namename9998]

And testing is unreliable because how do you know 0 people didnt have a disease in previous years if no one tested for it. And testing doesnt mean fatal. A lot of people could live normal lives and have thyroid problems and not know about it for 50 yrs.

[@Larry660]

8:50: I believe the phrase is, "God fights on the side with the heaviest artillery."

[@raymondgriffith6532]

LED therapy lmao

[@drewstead316]

Spanish Armada's failures led to the English funding a contest to finding latitude with accuracy in the 1720s which led to the chronometer in the 1760s/1770s, before that it was mostly guess work

[@terrencemoore8739]

Is it just me or is the music playing while he's talking around the 3 minute mark super distracting?

[@SplendidMisanthropy]

Enquiry to Radio Erewan: Could the catastrophe of Chernobyl have been avoided? Answer: In principle, yes. If only the Swedes had shut up.

[@sarapenn9776]

What's wrong with the graphics. A bunch of clips look like they're melting or being distorted in unsettling ways. If AI was used on those clips, whatever goal the effect was supposed to have; it was missed by a mile

[@arisaga822]

It’s not as if Chernobyl handed the oil companies a golden opportunity to crank up the fear pronz of nuclear power to 11, right? They would absolutely never covertly fund activism against it, right?

[@FlorannaRos]

It just shows that neither fossil fuel, nor nuclear are a proper solution.

[@Nightwing690]

You're not very bright are you?

[@CharleyU]

Wind, solar, hydra and geothermal are all better and safer than either fossil fuel or nuclear... and honestly meltdowns aren't actually the biggest issue with nuclear, it's the waste, very few long term viable methods of dealing with it are actually being implemented

[@AG3n3ricHuman]

There was another destroyed armada (actually two of them) that changed the world. In the late 13th century the Mongols tried to invade Japan twice, but a pair of typhoons sank the fleets and saved Japan. The storms came to be called kamikaze (translation: "divine wind"), a term the Japanese later used for their infamous suicide pilots in WW2.

[@quantumrobingaming6667]

chernobyl disaster was a mistake but the mistakes went back far before the plant was even built. Poor design, Soviet cost & corner cutting, lying to operators about how it worked, etc. Shocking levels of incompetence and cover ups before the plant even went on the grid.

[@gabriellejae8128]

I just realised that you sound like Steve (the older brother) from Arthur Christmas and now I can't unhear it

[@Tacko14]

9:18 hang on. The Roman empire stretched all the way up to northern Waddenzee in the Netherlands? Just in a flash, but I saw it alright. That deserves a vid. I thought they stopped at Utrecht and Leiden.

[@satakrionkryptomortis]

dude...aachen has been founded by rome. you think they stopped there??

[@EllieMaes-Grandad]

Borders were never precise lines, with patrols in areas beyond them. Tax-raising on the other hand . . .

[@stuman01]

Survive until winter and have the atlantic convoys re supplying you.

[@cafiend]

It started before Chernobyl. And there’s still the storage problem for nuclear waste and debris from decommissioned plants. Better than fossil fuels but still not great.

[@Larry660]

11:30: Those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat its errors. Those who do learn from the past will find new ways in which to err.

[@barrybarlowe5640]

Just a point: coal can stay in the ground and largely be inert. Oil is a different matter. If left alone, it seeps to the surface creating a perfectly natural "Spill Zone". Pennsylvania, Texas, Oklahoma, California all have areas where oil seeped the the surface and was discovered by humans. Native Americans used it as glue, to waterproof things, as paint... Europeans realized it could lubricate, and burn, and was cheaper and safer than hunting whales into extinction. You should thank petroleum, if you love whales. Oil used to seep out of the seabed in the Gulf of Mexico and along the California coast, and drifts of it regularly darkened the shores poisoning the shallows, killing animals, birds, fish... Oil is a part of the environment. If man did not drill for it, collect it, contain it, and utilize it... You might as well have Exxon Valdez, or the big blowout on that platform in the Gulf, anywhere there is oil, that's what you'll have. And periodically, it even catches fire and burns out miles of tainted land and shores. What fun!! Don't disparage oil. It has its uses and it gives us independence from institutions that would otherwise enslave us through access to inexpensive energy.

[@EllieMaes-Grandad]

* inexpensive energy * Wind, solar, all the subsidised 'green' stuff . . . ?

[@heidinolen873]

Well I, for one, don't wanna live next to a facility that depends on humans to function properly or I lose everything around for 10,000 years. That's a lot of confidence in a species I'd prefer not to grocery shop with. What I'm saying is, concept good, application bad.

[@globalautobahn1132]

I’m not sure Chernobyl qualifies as a “side project” This is certainly was a mega project. Or “mega disaster”. A salute to the very brave liquidators and other emergency responders who gave their lives and health to save Europe and the world from disastrous irradiation.

[@phaedrus000]

I don't want to diminish the heroism of the men who lost their lives in the cleanup, but to imply that the entire world, or even all of Europe, was ever at risk because of Chernobyl demonstrates a high level of ignorance on your part when it comes to nuclear power and radioactivity. It's true that with no containment effort, a larger area would have been affected, but nowhere near _that_ large. That's an unrealistic fear.

[@MrSirlulzalot]

The music 🎶 is exhausting. Thanks.

[@johnwarren892]

He needs to sign up with a beard care company. I need some. Lol

[@mintekal2738]

One of the biggest blunders also has to be the one that saw Berlins walls torn down

[@mitchellforney6109]

LOL just watched this after watching Simon's "Decoding the Unknown" episode that included a bit about the hacking of the Galileo probe launch. I wonder what order he filmed these.

[@0o-0o694]

I just finished watching the first video literally seconds ago and i see this lol

[@manuelacosta9463]

In addition to disease, combat attrition or drowning the other cause for the Spanish Armada's high casualties was the English policy of no quarter to the survivors washed up on shore. A vast majority of those who made it to land were rounded up and executed sometimes en masse.

[@namelesscare7982]

One mistake changed the whole world forever, not just their lives. Sometimes a single blunder ends up with terrible disasters. People learn from errors and take a lesson from it.

[@danielkarlsson9326]

Id say Peter the greats loss of Narwa to Charles 12 was a bigger Blunder then Charles going after Peter.

[@sargonyami4292]

The test was not completed successfully the thing blew up as soon as they started the testphase. And they fucked up in more ways than one they landed in a xenon pit because they run it on low power for so long and than they made more dumb moves. Hell the entire things is pretty much a hoe to blow up a reactor task list. In fact it was void before it even started because the power was to low

[@vbifusful]

There are oversimplified description of what's happened in Chernobyl. It was a coincidence of multiple accidental cases, operators' mistakes and design flaws. All was well-documented. There is no question, how it was happened, but who is to blame? So many people did his usual work and made usual mistakes, that separately was innocent, but in this case it was lead to disaster.

[@wallaroo6510]

British making peace with the American mutineers

[@Elbereth_TV]

the main issue with Poltava was that the cavalry got lost by a few kilometers, sweden had beat russia several times before being outnumbered in greater numbers

[@dawnwilson1529]

Don't mess with Elizabeth!

[@matwyder4187]

That AI generated stuff-of-nightmares at 9:55 is not only disturbing to watch, but this kind of crap undermines the credibility of the entire channel. While nice it's labeled as such for the time being, one can only wonder how much of the source material is based on some synthetic hallucination. We got enough crazy people already, we really don't need this additional source of noise to filter out from the already heavily contaminated streams of information that reach us. OK, I know I have no chance and this is a battle already lost, just felt good to rant about it. Let be what needs be, let the world burn, nobody cares anyways.

[@kaltaron1284]

I mean I can understand its use if there's no other material available but for a time appropriate Roman Emperor?

[@Ulrich.Bierwisch]

It's always interesting to see that don't invade Russia in winter getting discussed without even mentioning WWI.

[@GreatSageSunWukong]

I swear simon's beard gets longer with every video, he's slowly turning into ZZ Top

[@hzaagman8005]

15:00 It wasn't because soldiers were expendable (the German high command was actually very concerned about the army's losses up to that point), but because delivering ammunition and fuel to the front was more important than winter clothing considering the widescale Soviet counter attacks during the winter of 1941-42. There's no point in having your soldiers dressed warmly if they have nothing to fight with. Also bear in mind that getting *any* supplies to the front was difficult because of the poor state of the Soviet road system (even *before* the onset of winter weather) and it makes sense that the Germans prioritized ammunition and fuel over winter clothing.

[@EllieMaes-Grandad]

Then again, all that ammo and nobody to use it. It comes down to balance . . . . pppppp

[@Goldfire-tt3dv]

Dyatlov was most likely a scapegoat just like Bryukhanov. Testimony by surviving Chernobyl staff paints him as a "strict but competent" boss whose orders were not questioned simply because nobody, including Dyatlov, knew any better. Dyatlov himself later stated that he had no way of knowing that even the very numbers for the reactor's operation, the numbers he was basing his decisions on... were a lie. Also, another major way in which Chernobyl changed the world was the collapse of the Soviet Union, which Gorbachev attributes to a large degree on the enormous economic toll caused by the cleanup operation.

[@michaelmccleary337]

To be fair to Charles XII the Swedish winter is pretty insane too. I’d think that the weather wouldn’t be a factor

[@natehill8069]

2:22 It was a test of reactor safety. I knew that. But I have never heard: did it pass the test?

[@robertphillips6296]

The Peter Principle.

[@eddythefool]

Honestly, i also blame the Simpsons for the antagonization of nuclear power, specially the episodes with the three eyed fish.

[@victoriaeads6126]

From the Napoleonic defeat by Russia we get French Bistro! The Russian troops weren't supposed to be getting food while they were out and about (they were probably on duty), so whenever they would order food at local cafes, they would ask for it 'bystro bystro' or 'quickly, quickly.' The term stuck.

[@bunyipdragon9499]

Isn't the waste product from nuclear power the biggest issue with a nuclear reactor ? Yes I sound half informed but am still curious 🤔

[@Kktienlegos]

Check out the nuclear video series by Kyle Hill. One of them discusses how spent fuel can be stored. He also does a great job explaining the science in depth but in an understandable way for us ‘normies’.

[@bunyipdragon9499]

@@Kktienlegos thankyou 💜

[@CharleyU]

very few long term viable methods of dealing with it are actually being implemented though

[@thetankcommander3838]

You know, Simon, when you think about it, people always think about Russia - and Moscow in particular - being unconquerable. Well, how about you look at the story of the only people to take control of Moscow from the Russians and HOLD IT FOR A TIME - THE POLISH. Now that would be a story I would love to see.

[@genoinjian7729]

The places that oil spilled and let nature clean it up ended up thriving with ocean life.

[@tommyrotton9468]

the English had a technological advantage over the Spanish Armada. Up till then, cannons had different sized bores and so needed the crew to pick the shot to fit the bore of the gun. But the English had developed a way to standardise the making of cannons so that they all had the same sized bore and QED all used the same sized shot. This made for faster loading and consistent ranges for powder. This has only been discovered relatively recently (last 30 years?) with deep sea archaeology of period cannons in wreaks. It is believed it was such a top secret invention the process of manufacturing these cannons, the English did not record the break through to keep it secret of manufacture from the rest of Europe.

[@AaronFromGuildford]

US “Spreading Democracy” and “Nation Building” in the Middle East from 2001 to 2021.