How Cold Fusion Started As A Hoax | Futureproof with Michael Swaim

[@blaineleavitt3600]

$10 says Swaim is not wearing pants in any of these videos

[@briansmithwins]

assless chaps OTOH...

[@dhaval1489]

Make it 20 pants off flip flops on

[@HumbleHerman]

I'll never be able to unthink it now. Gee thanks!

[@hienroxorz]

Don't take losing bets.

[@stakixat572]

Not into losing money like that.

[@enaqtim]

Just a small correction for 0:37: Nuclear Fission is initiated by destabilizing a radioactive nucleus with a NEUTRON, not an ELECTRON. The additional mass from the NEUTRON causes the nucleus to split into two lighter nuclei with stray neutrons to destabilize other nuclei. The process also releases energy in the form of heat and radiation.

[@MrMash-mh9dy]

The firing mechanism in atomic bombs is a bullet tipped with a pellet of radioactive material and the physical impact of the two causes the start of the neutron release. An H-bomb has an outer shell that fissions when the collision strikes, and its neutrons start the fusion reaction. Electron discharge is observed as emp pulse in bombs and in the Cherenkov Effect in reactors, but it has nothing to do with how we capture the energy released as heat in reactors. That's actually a massive correction. He got fission completely wrong there.

[@brentkelly9864]

came to the comments for this. good correction. surprising error in the video. especially that its seemingly animated incorrectly with an electron rather than neutron, as well.

[@alexpoiry3988]

I watched the animation in slow motion to count the nucleons (probably because I'm a beta cuck). I think this is argon-36. I texted my friend at CERN who studies high energy collisions to see if he know about fission in argon using electrons and he said, "It's 2 in the morning, please leave me alone." Anyway, argon-36 is observationally stable, so probably not great for fission.

[@sharkbelly1169]

@@alexpoiry3988I have nothing to contribute besides big ups for posting this. Don’t stop being a science dork beta cuck.

[@DarthTofu2]

Based on this comment, I’m no longer going to take advice on how to conduct nuclear reactions from Michael Swain. He just doesn’t seem as qualified to lead the department if energy as previously suspected.

[@Emanon...]

I'm only watching Cracked because of Swaim. Treat him well. This man is a unique treasure.

[@docbadwrench-cdmg]

Seeing Michael Swaim on Cracked again is great. Because it reminds me that Cracked still exists.

[@bartroberts1514]

Also, that Michael Swaim still exists.

[@brettevans278]

My feelings are mixed. 😂

[@JoshuaFlinn-r5s]

I’m glad I refound Cracked a year ago and re-subscribed. I’ve been waiting for yall to make a comeback!

[@lemuntpicard7482]

Just this one guy and they gonna fire him as soon they get some kind of upticks.

[@MatthewTheWanderer]

I stayed subscribed the whole time, just in case!

[@danielgehring7437]

You know, a fridge-sized unit that powers my whole home doesn't sound all that bad, actually.

[@Anon33467]

Was thinking this. Sounds awesome.

[@bartroberts1514]

A stack of solar panels is about the size of a fridge.

[@CemKalyoncu]

Aerogel is expensive, like tiny pieces of it sold for dollars expensive. Solar is very cheap these days, if they stop politicizing them and putting tarrifs you could buy solars from China at as low as 9¢/W. This is probably just wafer but backing and what not, it should not pass 20 - 30¢. Meaning you could be paying 300$ / kW. We don't have high tarrifs but still with installation it costs about 1000$ / kW in here. Apparently, it is worse in some other places. How dare people save some bucks while saving the planet, right? They need to be able to get money so that they could help their friends in dying fossil fuel business...

[@danielgehring7437]

@@CemKalyoncu The video even said why comparing aerogel and solar is apples vs. oranges. Even ignoring the politics, solar just isn't viable (or even possible) in some areas.

[@bartroberts1514]

@@danielgehring7437 Some areas? Like, underground, you mean? Places the sun don't shine?

[@LedmeisterOnYouTube]

Cold fusion: I'm the king of breakthroughs that turned out to be nothing. Quantum computing: Hold my beer. And don't hold it. At the same time.

[@georgesos]

that was actually funny!😊

[@christopherlundgren1700]

Nothing better at the end of a long day than coming home, flopping down on the couch, and cracking open a nice, cold fusion.

[@macdeus2601]

I suddenly just remembered that cutscene in Starcraft where somebody pulls a beer out of a cooler that's actually a cold fusion bomb.

[@sidhawk]

Cracking open a cold fusion with the boys.

[@kevinmcqueenie7420]

Literally the only reason I am watching anything Cracked branded at this point. But if you want to go and win, I don't know, like, 6 Emmys or something, I mean, I'd be OK with that!

[@Theycallmetomu]

Don't go Michael, we'll miss you if you don't make any more! I can't you lose you again

[@RazielLucifer666]

Goshlightningdarn it's good to have Swaim doing cracked again. I sincerely hope he is never wearing pants.

[@Kidzelda0]

Whatever Swaim is getting paid isnt enough. I am here and will watch the full video only for his sake.

[@HamishJoy]

So wonderful to see you back!!! :)

[@FamousWithoutBrad]

We’ve already achieved cold fusion. A hotpocket is both ice cold in the center, and molten lava hot on the outside once taken out of the microwave.

[@MrOtistetrax]

If there were some way to harness that temperature differential, we’d be all set.

[@Jayk129]

You have to keep making FutureProof, you STILL haven’t done a Sex Robot episode yet!

[@Hydroculator]

Hopefully the delay is because they're still working on the blueprints and instructions that will accompany the video.

[@glennwoodruff6217]

I’m sure Michael is working on how to ensure Sex Robot has a neck.

[@charleswood2066]

In a way, every video with Swaim in it is a sex robot episode.

[@RickJW-OSM]

"Tony Stark was able to build this in a CAVE! With a box of SCRAPS!!"

[@schzztzrz]

Finally swaim is back, I can rise from my hyperbolic time chamber and rule the earth once again

[@zombieslayer689]

S-Soren?

[@morosepapaya]

Liked as soon as you said "Hi Dad!" Amazing as always Mr. Swaim

[@ThatRandomBeatle]

been waiting a WHOLE GODDAMN DECADE for this

[@crankydragon]

Something about this just does not compute.

[@joylesstiger]

Agreed. And it cracked my tv.

[@mattcrakaal1950]

Absolutely.But maybe it's too early for this.I'll have to watch it After Hours

[@MrOncomingstorm]

Best replies

[@Emanon...]

It's not just a fool's hope for clean energy. We choose to believe it's possible, because the alternative is too depressing to consider.

[@zombieslayer689]

After Hours fans will know you were always the cold fusion guy

[@1217BC]

Always happy to see Swaim again

[@Beeyo176]

I'm so wary of putting notifications for Cracked videos on again. I've been burned before. But Swaim...Swim may be the hope I've been looking for

[@juanbazooka]

You are a ray of sunshine on a cloudy day!

[@danielespinoza6640]

Hi Swaim’s dad, can’t wait to watch the movie about you!

[@Bigolddragon]

Sunday got better now that you are here

[@GraemeGunn]

LMAO "Sorry, Jesus."

[@RolandHazoto]

Whoa. This was actually mildly educational

[@alexcappannari8844]

Bringing back Swaim is the only good decision Cracked has made in years.

[@spiv]

would love to see a video on neural interfaces

[@DIAZEXMACHINA]

Smart Swaim is always fun! Do plate tonics! You know, the year without a summer, stuff insurance won’t cover.

[@doubtful6802]

We are so back

[@jayrtfm]

Steven B. Krivit has been writing about cold fusion/LENR for decades. He brings a balanced critical view to people's claimed experimental results. His 2004 book gave a good history of how the original Pons/Fleishman announcement happened.

[@KylarRaynor]

"Soren, you're Really encroaching on my character here.. I'M the cold fusion guy of the group, everyone knows that".. finally came true 😁

[@rayjinflo]

Been watching horror movies with friends this month and this is nice to find after the resulting mini After Hours binge.

[@SepSyn]

Speaking of family members, what happened to Papa Bear the movie? Patiently waiting for it!

[@bigsean8088]

This is the beginning of a new BEGINNING!!!!!!! I feel it.

[@SerialNoYM63]

Gosh darn it.. You did it again Swaim. Great video.

[@ltlbuddha]

Keep making Future Proof until the future gets here

[@rayceeya8659]

Are they bringing back the Cracked KZbin channel? I hope so because it was a ton of fun back about 10 years ago.

[@han090]

They did maybe two years ago. The guy who brought it back left since, but he did a good enough job to bring back Roger and more recently Swaim.

[@EndWellHigh]

I missed you, man!

[@anthonyi2444]

Damn, Ryan George has really let himself go

[@charleswood2066]

*darn

[@adamgrogory]

Don't spoil the BobbyBroccoli video!

[@ReasonableArgumentsBeingMade]

I would like to see Mr Swaim in another episode of Futureproof AND Something Else.

[@ArthurDavis89]

This mf scientist is too funny. The joke about the weed was genius. lol

[@lostbutfreesoul]

I...I feel seen! Now excuse me as I go back to grinder cleaning.

[@gundersongunderson8514]

Hot take: quantum mechanically, cold fusion happens all the time in the universe. In a room-temperature or colder environment, there's definitely somewhere in the vastness of space in which two protons are flying at the right speed and direction that they ram into each other and fuse into helium. This is neither meaningfully predictable nor a useful means of generating power (cf Maxwell's Demon for basically the same solution to generating energy that has innumerable wacky explanations for why this wouldn't violate the laws of thermodynamics), but it's technically what cold fusion means, not just fusion that somehow magically doesn't generate heat or actively makes stuff colder.

[@MrMash-mh9dy]

Hot take on your hot take: Matter and energy cannot be created or destroyed in a closed system still applies. Quarks are the internal structure of atoms, so how could a proton which is atomic, be quantum? I think you don't understand the delineation properly. Quantum is under the atomic, it makes up the atomic, or at least that is what they think they see when they splatter atoms on a detector. They say the electron is quantum, but the proton and neutron are definitely provably atomic. Have you ever really looked up what they are actually measuring or how they do that at a particle accelerator? It's just a pile of filters and they hope they can get one of these quantum particles to stick to the detector to say they detected it. It is like having sixty screens for your window to keep bugs out with just one hole the same size in all of them to let fruit flies in. You can't see the fruit fly. You can only see something came through the hole but not what it was. So how do you truly know it was a fruit fly? That is the problem with quantum theory. You can say it was whatever you want that came through...and it leads to ideas that are not truly based in science. Something like what you say might have happened at the big bang.... with infinite heat and infinite pressure. Laws are laws and theories are theories. You should use your mind to ponder what is real and verifiable and not go down the rabbit hole that is quantum theory. It is sensational bullshit. It always is amazing to me whenever they just have to prove a particle, they always can with these detectors with more energy and more filters. Quantum Theory is a science that has not truly confirmed itself, and don't forget that.

[@jamiewinnett8759]

Good you ate back❤

[@Italianjedi7]

At least Batman called it Reverse Fusion

[@CaribouKH]

Tool in the background brought me back a few decades 😅

[@johnmarshall6684]

Oil is not dinosaurs

[@kpp8349]

Eh, it's dinosaur era plants, ect, so it actually is dinosaurs 🤷‍♂️

[@ExtremeMadnessX]

@@kpp8349 No, the first oil was formed long before dinosaurs even existed.

[@charleswood2066]

Shh.

[@sebastianhernandomunozrubi7131]

What a cool guy is Michael

[@gorrium5027]

Who needs cold fusion when you have regular fusion?

[@Merlincat007]

Yeah I was waiting for him to talk about that!

[@andrebrynkus2055]

You miss the bit about not needing the temperature of the sun?

[@Shell-iq6cx]

Yeah only another 20 years away, and has been for 50 years!

[@HurQlez]

Well now residents in Florida have a reason to stay in Florida. Using humidity to harness energy? I’ll wait while the hurricane floods my home for the 30th time!

[@vegasgeekee]

What kind of hot pockets are we talking? As long the ham & cheese abominations are nowhere to be seen, I down!😜. Bring on Smash Bros🥰

[@anezay4987]

Everyone loves Swaim!

[@robertfourre2008]

To misquote Captain Pikard: Engagement.

[@autumn1546]

CRACK'D IS BACK'T

[@JPgene_]

Stellar Watch As Intended Mostlikely

[@charleswood2066]

Hey, if I could get enough power for my house from a thing the size of a fridge? That sounds pretty good! Can we just do that?

[@Wheeliam_Ironside]

I cannot in any way describe how down i am for hot pockets and smash bros with Michael Swaim!

[@liamconnolly1621]

Of course they’re actually doing something at UMass.

[@natdatil6830]

More like Mr. Poo-sion, am I right?

[@GiubileiFernando]

Don't ask me why, but as a little kid the movie The Saint starring Val Kilmer made me think we were close to figuring out cold fusion. Like it was the obvious next step for science that was just around the corner. (I was 9)

[@nyxnotnicks]

Midwest corn sweats could power the whole country, and that's pretty rad.

[@Mewse1203]

I'm so glad to see Swaim back with Cracked. I used to go to Cracked Every day, and then he and the others left, and now In only go there for stuff like thism

[@sinisterai]

♥ the Swaim

[@LarsBlitzer]

I know I've been online for way, way too long when I can pinpoint which picture of the Pain Series a mass of large pixels a few seconds in is an abstraction of. Fucking SomethingAwful....

[@RolandHazoto]

I definitely did not expect a The Killers reference

[@EllicottCitySewVac]

wait what swaim is back at cracked? How did I miss that

[@DAFLIDMAN]

I live for the amount of star trek references in theses videos

[@edgedg]

Pls do one on dark matter/energy alternatives like MOND and others, as they progress towards insanity.

[@tevincc1]

Fallout show they say they’re using the old electric grid to pump out the power, probably doesn’t go to the whole wasteland.

[@dudeguy3598]

I really was hoping to finally see your after hours recipe for cold fusion.

[@oldcur]

Long live Lateralus.

[@Blackbird_42]

Damn, that's some sharp writing!

[@Pohgrey]

Awesome Bill Hicks/Tool reference! Yeah, I got that...

[@seanmadson8524]

5:25 Zero point energy is not referring to the lowest energy in the universe, this is false. It is referring to the theory that all electrons in the universe are the same electron, moving between the atoms of all matter via some kind of quantum state. If this theory were true (I doubt it), it would mean it is possible to influence this electron by some method. This could lead to infinite energy production, because it would allow us to put as many electrons as we want wherever we want without drawing them from any power source. Its applications would be limited only by whatever machine enabled the process. In summation, it is the opposite of low energy, it is tapping into literally infinite energy.

[@TheMKUProject]

Ayy another mention of Swaim's Canadian girlfriend. How's she doing?

[@Busto]

I am frigging loving Futureproof!!!! See Dizney!! This is how you tap those Memberberries...🧐 As far as that "something else..." If it rhymes with Toes Snot The Flute or Laughter Powers I'm pretty sure we'd be cool with it 😎

[@TyLarson]

I sort of wish the old cracked team and the smbc theater team made videos. Nostalgia makers!

[@MrRavenXavier]

Man I miss these dudes at the diner.

[@MrBmore1911]

One of the Cracked Avengers is back, can we return to "After Hours"? Or the "Spittake"?

[@endplanets]

Great stuff!

[@chefdean7257]

The Saint is an underappreciated masterpiece !

[@chefdean7257]

Hey, Thanks Swaim ! Been loving your internet presence for a decade !

[@romzombie]

Algorithms!

[@BasicDrumming]

Great video.

[@LikeTheBuffalo]

So, Swaim, you'll get back to me about the Smash Bros and Hot Pockets? Swaim?

[@bbuggediffy]

Wtf was that first monologue

[@paineoftheworld]

It was a hello.

[@Starcrash6984]

Awesome, but a little late, given that BobbyBrocolli is already 2 parts into his exhaustive documentary on the subject.

[@HumbleHerman]

Outstanding!

[@simonairey8982]

Engagement for the algorithm

[@Jellycakelap]

But we have achieved fusion ignition.

[@shaider1982]

I think Kyle Hill made a video on this topic a few months ago.

[@Marc83Aus]

Seems We Always Indubitably Meet

[@Mavarik]

Watching this after Bobby broccoli

[@mattc.310]

Like many other things, scalability and cost are the keys

[@ClunFunDun]

I am thankful

[@twig8523]

Sure Would be Awesome If ya Made good on that promise of video games... it'd be just like my Escort Mission slash fic