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@chriskatz23553 жыл бұрын
I keep getting closer and closer to each post.....im getting closer
@6stringgunner5113 жыл бұрын
I always thought my brother did. He had the most foul, sinus burning gas ever leaked upon humanity! He would crop dust the unsuspecting and laugh insanely!!! 😁💨💨💨🥵🤢🤮🤮🥵🤢🤮🤮!!!
@almighty39463 жыл бұрын
Just what I needed on Christmas Eve. Thanks Simon
@Amlaeuxrai3 жыл бұрын
remember, kids on the naughty list get their houses shelled with Tabun
@iamnolegend4833 жыл бұрын
My thoughts exactly.
@i-am-evil-morty67103 жыл бұрын
Ew Christmas
@A_Casual_NPC3 жыл бұрын
This isn't even one of Simon's darker channels rofl
@kylarstern76273 жыл бұрын
The past is the worst, come live in the future! Its Christmas day in Australia!
@bobbiecapewell53333 жыл бұрын
Humans: "we've discovered something terrible that can kill and injure hundreds of thousands" Also humans: "let's make it worse"
@fredtaylor97923 жыл бұрын
Also humans: this is horrible, let's not make it worse.
@joshuablair2523 жыл бұрын
To be fair, it was nuclear weapons that ended ww2 and created peace throughout the cold war by mutually assured destruction. Chemical weapons are the worst thing though.
@manupontheprecipice62542 жыл бұрын
@@fredtaylor9792 Also humans: We’ll use it on our enemies. That will never go bad.
@naomihodgson81773 жыл бұрын
Ah yes, Christmas Eve, the best time to learn about nerve agents
@AnimeShinigami133 жыл бұрын
It's a reminder, peace on earth, goodwill toward men. >.< Humans need to care about each other, because the Universe at large does not.
@MandleRoss3 жыл бұрын
While nowhere near as deadly as VX, VR is a pretty potent nerve agent: Visiting Relatives.
@james873673 жыл бұрын
I don't think the team are Christians. Lol. They don't believe in Christmas.
@GazB853 жыл бұрын
Naomi, if you lived in Afghanistan and it was Christmas Eve 1979 😉, it'd of been the perfect time to learn about them!
@ajhubbell37543 жыл бұрын
I was trained in the military as a chemical and biological weapons expert. This is a very good and accurate telling. In our training we watched a lot of horrifying videos on the effects of these weapons. It is quite literally the thing nightmares are made of. When I was stationed in South Korea we were told that Kim Jong Il had 6,000 tons of chemical warheads. That was in 2002. I have heard rumors that his son has raised that number to almost 20,000 tons. Easy to make, fairly easy to deploy and terrifyingly powerful. I hate these things.
@Dang3rMouSe3 жыл бұрын
That video of Chemical Ali's attack on the Kurdish ppl & the Syrian videos are nightmarish. Hell, even the animal testing videos are god awful. I can't even imagine seeing some of the classified videos you may have been exposed to in training. I worked in a level 4 trauma unit of an Emergency Dept in the DC area & we were setup to be one of several primary units to take in casualties if a Chem/Bio/Nuc attack were to occur. We trained w/ help from Ft Detrick military & also govt officials running regular drills while I was there. I just pray we never see a mass casualty event like we prepped & trained for. I agree, weaponized chem & bio agents are truly the stuff of nightmares
@barquerojuancarlos72533 жыл бұрын
What's your opinion of the recent whistleblowers from the OPCW over the use chemical agents in Syria? They condemned the conclusions of the OPCW that Syria used the agents claimed
@maryasuestark52083 жыл бұрын
Ah the Kims, those little rascals.
@silverhawkscape26773 жыл бұрын
Powerful but not as reliable as a bomb. Which we should be thankful.
@lm7_gio3 жыл бұрын
Unless the 20.000 tons that you heard are like Shadam's chemicals. You know, the ones that USA used as an excuse to bomb and take over Iraq and then never found evidence of?
@ksteak273 жыл бұрын
I've been overwhelmed by chlorine just from opening a bucket of pool chlorine tablets and not airing it out before taking a breath. I cannot even imagine what those soldiers must have felt at massive times what I experienced.
@booradley68323 жыл бұрын
If you want to find out, for science or something, pour a gallon of ammonia onto those tablets.
@ksteak273 жыл бұрын
@@booradley6832 Just tidy-up your life insurance details first. :)
@karlstetter95123 жыл бұрын
Same, I was in first or second grade. I was helping my grandfather with the pool opened the bucket with my head directly over it. Faint ly heard my grandfather yelled no to me but it dropped me. Lol first time I had ever been knocked out. Lmao 🤣
@kimberlyweaver12853 жыл бұрын
I messed up bad one time using pesticides. The room wasn’t ventilated well. I began coughing so hard I couldn’t catch my breath. It was hell for a good 15 minutes. I was exhausted and in shock by the end of it. I can’t imagine dying like that. 😢
@QuantumRift3 жыл бұрын
That's how the insects we poison die.
@LannasMissingLink2 жыл бұрын
I get bouts of this every now and then after having covid, though I'm so glad I didn't get symptoms as bad as my mum's cousin who needs a portable oxygen tank at all times now. You don't realise how important your lungs are till they start acting up...
@medusagorgo51463 жыл бұрын
When I was in the army, a set of three atropine shots were the norm. We were instructed that after you use one, it was to clipped to the MOPP gear at the chest so that medics would know how many had been used. I never had much faith in it.
@justacentrist41473 жыл бұрын
My great great grandfather (he was an Irish canadian) was mustard gassed during ww1 while serving in his majesty's canadian armed forces. He survived was hospitalized, recovered, and went on to compleat his service. He survived the war and returned home. Thanks for your service Grampa we will always Remember.
@CephaloG0D3 жыл бұрын
One of my family members was a test subject for nerve agents. His stories are terrifying
@captainhakob8143 жыл бұрын
Sounds like they need to make a you tube channel
@HeretixAevum3 жыл бұрын
@@captainhakob814 I dunno, I think if you talked about that stuff too publicly you'd end up """""comitting suicide"""""
@floo14653 жыл бұрын
@@HeretixAevum suicide by two gunshot wounds to the back of the head?
@Real-Ruby-Red3 жыл бұрын
Sure he was
@delamovies3 жыл бұрын
@@LegendLength you are naive
@GertrudePerkins3 жыл бұрын
Technically speaking, it is more accurate to describe them as Nerve Agents as the majority are liquids in their natural state. Tabun, Sarin and Soman (the G series) are volatile, non-persistent liquids, meaning they vaporise easily at ambient temperatures, becoming gaseous. VG (aka ICI's pesticide Amiton), VE, VM, VR, and VX (the V series) are non-volatile, persistent liquids that remain in their liquid state and do not readily vaporise at ambient temperatures. The V series are mostly a contact hazard, but can also be an aerosol hazard (i.e. droplets suspended in air). The A or N series (the Newcomers or Novichoks), which include A320, A232, A234, and some others, are mostly liquids (although some later variants are allegedly solids that have to be ground into a very fine powder). A234, in particular is a non-volatile liquid that is mostly a contact or aerosol hazard, as it a persistent liquid (like VX) that does not vaporise at ambient temperatures and remains a liquid. A234 was the Chemical Warfare Agent deployed in the attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal. There are also some Carbamates, which are classified as Schedule 1 Nerve Agents, as they also disrupt acetlcholineesterase. I believe these came out of research in the USA, but were not deemed to be militarily as effective as VX. Despite claims to the contrary, it is unconfirmed whether A234 is actually more toxic than VX, because the Russians never produced VX itself but a very close isomer of VX that was not as stable as VX in long-term storage. Regardless, VX remains super-toxic in very small droplets. ALL Nerve Agents are lethal military grade toxicants, regardless whether they are Crude (impure) or Purified. Iraq mostly used impure Tabun in its chemical weapons attacks during the 1980s. The fact it was impure did not effect its ability to inflict mass casualties. However, if a Nerve Agent is purified to more than 95% purity, it lasts longer in long term storage. Impure Nerve Agents degrade more rapidly than purified ones. Tabun was invented as an insecticide by Dr Schrader of I G Farben, until Dr Schrader realised just how lethal it is to humans. Ditto, VG (Amiton) was also invented by ICI as an industrial insecticide, until they realised just how lethal it is to humans. VG was experimented with by scientists at Porton Down, who would eventually synthesize VX based on the original VG insecticide.
@leemichael21543 жыл бұрын
A massive homer Simpson neeeeeeeerrrrrrrrdddddd! (Just a joke I appreciate you know your stuff)
@fredtaylor97923 жыл бұрын
@@leemichael2154 Beat me to it. Lol
@LannasMissingLink2 жыл бұрын
You just wrote an entire thesis on a single mistake in the script! Props, im impressed. But no way am I gonna read it. Still, good job
@jace48173 жыл бұрын
This sure is a perfect topic to get into the holiday spirit!
@moronibragarenzen58993 жыл бұрын
Yeah totally im thinking to have some nerve gas with my duck and while i was buying it i got curios to who made it
@stevechance1503 жыл бұрын
Yes, I was thinking the same thing. Simon, what were you thinking?!
@catatonicbug75223 жыл бұрын
Videos like this should be part of every Jr High student's history class. Quick, to the point, and packed with information. Well done.
@metal4lifewp3 жыл бұрын
That isn't a bad idea.
@LaurieAnnCurry3 жыл бұрын
Macabre though this subject is, thank you fact boi for a Christmas Eve upload. This was a few minutes I gave myself to relax during a busy day.
@delamovies3 жыл бұрын
Nerve gas is very relaxing indeed
@sammyshock72 жыл бұрын
“This video is sponsored by Brilliant, if you really want to learn something you have to do it” Me watching a video on nerve agents: Ummm
Well. I know I AM having some nerve gas tomorrow morning after all the xmas food I'm gonna eat tonight ^^
@JaberYesu3 жыл бұрын
😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂
@jonathanmartin37673 жыл бұрын
Still today, in the US Army, we are trained and evaluated on chemical warfare and atropine style first aid
@iTeerRex3 жыл бұрын
May we never have “psychopaths” in positions of power, for they’ll do unspeakable things, even to their own.
@shawnnewell45413 жыл бұрын
We had one in Trump. May he never get near the White House again.
@Hispanic2A-17763 жыл бұрын
We currently have one in the Whitehouse. He's called Brandon.
@turtle27203 жыл бұрын
I heard of scientific research on the psychology of politicians. Turned out that politicians are slighty more psychopathic than the ordinary citizen...
@Chris-hx3om3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, well there's the problem. It seems psychopaths are the only ones capable of getting into power.
@thehorriblebright3 жыл бұрын
I refer to the Vietnam war.
@Fred1001593 жыл бұрын
I was stationed at Redstone Arsenal, AL in the 70's. They had fields of underground bunkers (where cattle were allowed to graze) and an entire mountain blocked off from any recreational use because a tornado had destroyed the records building and no one was sure which poison gas was stored where. Yay, us!
@katlord5863 жыл бұрын
Atropine is still common to have all over hospitals, especially in OR or ED settings. We stock them in glass preloaded syringes, usually in a 0.1 mg/mL concentration. If it’s in a specialty OR, we’ll stock 0.4 mg/mL vials in the pyxis but only small quantities. **this is in US hospitals and ORs, in case other countries don’t practice this**
@thesquad-airsoftgamingnerf96432 жыл бұрын
Has atropine got any other uses?
@LannasMissingLink2 жыл бұрын
@@thesquad-airsoftgamingnerf9643 I think I remember hearing it in greys anatomy before so must be
@gordonwallin23683 жыл бұрын
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, Simon, from the West Coast of Canada.
@unfortdork3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this holiday post! Disturbing yes, but still appreciated!! Happy Holidays!
@jasonwomack40643 жыл бұрын
I'm watching this while eating deviled eggs. The chemical warfare is about to commence.
@deathisonlythebeginning50983 жыл бұрын
Deviled eggs and potato salad needs tons of mustard.
@jasonwomack40643 жыл бұрын
@@deathisonlythebeginning5098 well played, sir. Lol
@Johnzilla-LordZilla3 жыл бұрын
Your beard is looking stunning my man!! Happy holidays!
@charlotteowens46443 жыл бұрын
Needs trim.
@Gigawolf13 жыл бұрын
It's weird to find out that epi-pens stem from DEADLY NEURO TOXINS
@lemr883 жыл бұрын
How? They are pure adrenaline
@Amlaeuxrai3 жыл бұрын
@@lemr88 (re)watch the video
@kareningram60933 жыл бұрын
@@lemr88 12:37
@kareningram60933 жыл бұрын
Right? Warfare often results in amazing inventions that are used for far better and more peaceful purposes later. Inspiration is a strange thing.
@lemr883 жыл бұрын
@@kareningram6093 thank you!
@deecawford3 жыл бұрын
I love me some Simon documentaries and truths. After the casual Criminalist binge Ive been on, I didn’t think I could take Simon seriously again but yes I can. My hero
@ryanm95663 жыл бұрын
Silly as it may be, The Rock is still one of my favorite popcorn action movies.
@rb42redsuns13 жыл бұрын
Better living, and killing, through chemistry! And, BTW, the second "c" in cyclosarin is pronounced with the "k" sound.
@savagesarethebest72513 жыл бұрын
You mean The voiceless velar plosive
@icerepublic3 жыл бұрын
Terrifying topic. Doing this to other human beings is inexcusable. Absolutely inexcusable. Doesn't matter who did what, where or why. Producing this, using this - is one of the worst crimes against humanity. Period. Considering that here in my home country Germany, million citizens have been killed in factory-style mass executions with chemical gas still sends chills down my spine. What can people do to other people?
@katie1953 жыл бұрын
ask my 1st Gulf War veteran all about Sarin nerve agent. He has had a 24/7 migraine since … permanent nerve end damage. VA pays 100% for PTSD. Nothing for nerve gas damage.
@metal4lifewp3 жыл бұрын
That's pretty fucked up. Bloody va
@kimhohlmayer70183 жыл бұрын
Never tire of your enlightening videos.
@skybluskyblueify3 жыл бұрын
Small correction: you said at ~6:40 it causes "dilation of the pupils", the nerve agent *constricts* them not dilates them. The antidote causes dilation. You had it right in the intro to this video. "frightening symptoms including dilation 06:40 of the pupils and shortness of breath"
@vustvaleo80683 жыл бұрын
also the preferred weapon in the Mobile Suit Gundam series, just pump the thing into the oxygen supply system of a space colony and the job is done.
@padawanmage713 жыл бұрын
I know it;s a bit late, but any chance you could do a quick video of the ‘Christmas Miracle’ during WWI, where both sides stopped fighting and actually had one day of peace?
@padawanmage713 жыл бұрын
Loo never mind, i saw you already did!
@lemr883 жыл бұрын
Hitler lived through a mustard gas attack during ww1 and refused to use chemical weapons firing ww2 because of the agony of those attacks
@iTeerRex3 жыл бұрын
What a humanitarian
@lemr883 жыл бұрын
@@iTeerRex yeah I'm not saying he was. I just find it interesting he thought that chemical weapons were wrong when he used zyklon b to try to wipe out APN entire population
@iTeerRex3 жыл бұрын
@@lemr88 I didn’t say you did.
@CharlesCoderre-yv1cu2 жыл бұрын
Hitler also mistakenly believed that the allies had them also (they didn't) and would out-produce Germany
@realmattpcd3 жыл бұрын
Merry Christmas Simon
@johnthomas24853 жыл бұрын
Yeah, we were trained to inject Atropine and another I can't remember into the thigh, then attach the injectors to the uniform/MOPP suit. We were told to inject no more than 3 of the pairs. Read the label on a can of Raid, it's VX.
@CharlesCoderre-yv1cu3 жыл бұрын
it is nothing of the sort, chemically or functionally
@tkskagen3 жыл бұрын
MERRY CHRISTMAS Josh! 😻
@idanthyrsus68873 жыл бұрын
Stylish assassination. That would get you bonus points in hitman for sure.
@Fox74663 жыл бұрын
Made my morning, remembering Swann cells but had forgotten about the synapses in detail. Thanks
@ATerriblepurpose3 жыл бұрын
Cheers. Thank you as always.
@ghost_curse3 жыл бұрын
I've watched so much Brain Blaze at this point I'm no longer used to Fact Boi being serious
@kirbymarchbarcena3 жыл бұрын
When I said "please pass the mustard", I didn't mean this irritating stuff. -Sausage dealer
@pmgn84443 жыл бұрын
Designed to kill insects, it's a insecticide. So nerve agents are humancides? And on that jolly thought, Happy(?) Holidays?
@samuelblount22013 жыл бұрын
Great video 👍
@TheIronSavior3 жыл бұрын
The Rock is still a classic and a juggernaut of American culture!
@richiesalata58733 жыл бұрын
Someone really loves the holidays. Nerve has Marshal islands Social experiment gone wrong. Don't kill your family today Simon.
@sarahhurst1403 жыл бұрын
Hey you go Simon! Always enjoy your content man!! Happy Holidays!!🎄🎄🎇🎆
@TheLoneTerran2 жыл бұрын
They used to store a ton of VX just up the road from me in Newport, IN. Pretty much guaranteeing that it is on a Russia nuclear strike list. And since Terre Haute down the highway produced and stores a boatload of ammo, and Indianapolis is a super weak chain in the military since apparently all money for military pay flows through Indy at some point. I'm so fucked lol.
@elraviv3 жыл бұрын
13:25 This is unfounded. no one died in Israel from atropine poisoning during the 1991 gulf war! True some have injected themselves when they shouldn't have, but they only had some temporary side effects, and they were fine the next day.
@shawnnewell45413 жыл бұрын
This isn't the best birthday gift I've ever got. Thanks Simon.
@matthewellisor58353 жыл бұрын
Hold on, I need to grab my NAAK before watching the rest.
@sallyintucson3 жыл бұрын
Valium is rarely used today to stop seizures as there are now more efficient drugs. I remember Valium being used in the mid-“80’s so I don’t know when things changed.
@Zappygunshot3 жыл бұрын
Something that bears mentioning was that the military 'volunteers' weren't always made aware of what the tests would entail or what was being administered. Horrific stories of men thinking they were contributing to the development of a medicine against the common cold, being splashed by a few droplets of some unknown substance, and ending up squirming on the floor in uncontrollable convulsions and excruciating pain abound.
@TwattWaffleWhitney3 жыл бұрын
I love how hos personality is seeping into this channel from all his other ones
@biocybernaught35123 жыл бұрын
Comercial ends at 1:16
@ViolentOrchid3 жыл бұрын
As someone who tears down nightshade from my parents trees every year, don't mess around with nightshades. Also, did nerve agents help use find antidepressants?
@silkuk84173 жыл бұрын
I eat lot of tomatoes 🍅 tbf 😬
@tremorsfan3 жыл бұрын
that was some powerful emotion in your voice at the end there.
@zanbaktoo4203 жыл бұрын
I absolutely love all the rock references! Thank you for this great video.
@RobDucharme3 жыл бұрын
I'm just glad Canada didn't respond by inventing ketchup gas. We wouldn't even be sorry..
@alphataco6933 жыл бұрын
keep that beard growing!!
@jimurrata67853 жыл бұрын
Have you done one on the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal, India and its lasting effects?
@DerpyDaringDitzyDoo3 жыл бұрын
Fun fact! After extensive testing the US Army decided the most effective way to counteract Nerve Agent poisoning is with a dose of Atropine, delivered simultaneously with a dose of Pralidoxime, followed by an injection of Diazepam. These are called the ATNAA and CANA shots, and as Simon mentioned they all come in handy autoinjectors you can just stick in your thigh. The Atropine helps to bind to the loose nerve agent so that it can't further effect your body more than it already is. The Pralidoxime acts as a 'super water', which binds to the free side of the AChE before making it detach, so that your nervous system can properly resume the preproduction of new, healthy AChE (Minus the Acetic acid and water, which can lead to dehydration.). And the Diazepam helps fend off any seizures, muscle spasms, panic attacks, and can help keep you awake long enough to get out of the contaminated area. However such a large and sudden dose of Diazepam can lead to short-term memory loss, and so it is necessary to bend the needles of any autoinjections you give yourself and hook them somewhere visible on your clothing, because you may not remember giving yourself the shots later and if someone else gives you further doses it will likely be fatal. (Yes I know these are all super oversimplified to what really takes place, but this is the easiest way I've found to teach it in my classes!)
@barquerojuancarlos72533 жыл бұрын
Correction 17:40 It was just the reverse, as reported UPI (1984). It was the South African forces in the Angolan Civil War that used the chemical agents. The world was outraged at the time condemning their use, except the US, which, along with NATO, had licensed So African gov't to produce them. ...
@Elyseon3 жыл бұрын
Typical USA.
@davidnichols31823 жыл бұрын
Sooo the antidote for being gassed to death is deadly nightshade and mandrake? This sounds like the drug user explaining that he needed the amphetamine to overpower the opioid overdose
@DadJeff-jo7pm3 жыл бұрын
Wow Simon, what a subject for Christmas Eve!
@craigh52363 жыл бұрын
I bet Callum is on a watchlist for his work researching for this video...
@cleverusername93693 жыл бұрын
Merry Christmas to you too, Simon... Jesus.
@IIDave3 жыл бұрын
Simon has been working on his German pronunciation. It’s notably better now than in his earlier videos. 😄
@BigMobe3 жыл бұрын
Florida Man and the Jersey Devil both have something in common now.
@globalgatorguruconsulting28942 ай бұрын
Wow I really needed that info. Was exposed to Sarin in Gulf War...now experiencing disabling issues. Is there info on long-term low dose exposure? Thank you great and informative video
@minxythemerciless3 жыл бұрын
The V series was persistent and more like Mustard gas - but deadlier. If you put the V series into an area it was denied to the enemy but to you as well for a very long period. The G series was very short-acting so put into an area they would kill people at once, but after a few hours or a day, the attacker could move through the area safely.
@JacksonEngineering3 жыл бұрын
Ah yes. Happy Christmas, Simon. You gave us the gift of a gnawing fear in the back of our minds. The best gift of all
@terrilupton38413 жыл бұрын
My grandfather survived a mustard gas attack in WWI. According to my mother, he had many problems for which there was no treatment, so he drank himself into oblivion instead. He died a few years before I was born. This video is the first I've seen about mustard gas. It's horrifying, yet we do need to be aware and educated.
@GIBBO41823 жыл бұрын
8:12 nice cut there…wonder how many times it took to get their name pronunciations right!!!
@Sienisota3 жыл бұрын
They disposed them into oceans...👀
@stevejester56583 жыл бұрын
Here to represent BrainBlaze
@cleverusername93693 жыл бұрын
You legend
@AnimeShinigami133 жыл бұрын
Atropine in Jimsonweed hmm? Gotta remember that if there's ever a chemical attack or spill in my neighborhood. Pretty sure there's a huge clump of dead jimsonweed with it's fruits about two blocks up the street in front of the hardware store. got to double check my field guide. Edit: no it wasn't. Jimsonweed is a member of the Datura family, gorgeous flowers, spiky fruits, about knee high, and it's a potent hallucinogen. XD >.< the funny thing is I've seen this plant near the community garden. We were going to save some of the seeds until we identified it but I think I must have identified the plant and forgotten because I haven't seen it again.
@thedoublek48163 жыл бұрын
Regarding the "hallucinogen" part: basically all plants of the datura family are not only very potent, but at the same time incredibly dangerous, since there is only a very thin line separating the hallucinogenic dosage from the toxic / lethal dosage. Given that the content of the active substances varies from plant to plant, they are extremely difficult to handle for recreational purposes. Also, while the term "hallucinogen" is correct, members of the datura family are no classical psychedelics like Mushrooms or LSD, they are full-blown délirants instead (with the effects leading to a delirious "trip" resembling the extreme side effects of a heavy alcohol withdrawal etc). Even experienced users of hallucinogenic substances (I'm definitely not one of them) strongly advise against trying. It's way too risky and can quickly end in a hospital / ER visit in the best case, psychological and physical damage or even death in the worst case. However, there is also Diphenhydramine (known as Benadryl in the US), an over-the-counter sleeping aid and anti-nausea-medicine, which also features delirant effects and hallucinations being indistinguishable from reality (mostly manifesting in the form of fake spiders and bugs) when used in higher, non-therapeutic doses, albeit many people don't recommend it and the experience is apparently perceived as not really positive or comfortable. It's still safer than datura and similar plants. By the way, Datura is known in Germany under the name "Stechapfel", which roughly translates to "spikey apple" or "prickling apple".
@Mr.InbetweenFX3 жыл бұрын
Please cover the psychedelic "BZ" gas. I know a lot about it, however i wish more people knew about this neat substance. By far the scariest non lethal nerve gas I've ever studied.
@TokyoChopSquad3 жыл бұрын
On the 24th day of Christmas Simon gave to me... Chemical warfare history
@Warhawk763 жыл бұрын
Excellent pronunciations of the acetylcholinesterase and related words. Your pronunciations are not always the best on tough words, but this was great.
@jerometrio26033 жыл бұрын
I think Simon works 3 days a week - 1 for meetings, 1 for shooting, 1 for reviewing.
@dionh703 жыл бұрын
Information like this is one of the primary reasons that I am convinced that humans are eventually doomed. Lots of people with great intentions, trying to counter our inherently destructive nature, but I firmly believe that none of that will make a difference in the end.
@hyperbunnygirl1013 жыл бұрын
Well we are animals. Territorial, tribalistic and violent. Most people ignore or forget about our innate animal instincts.
@Hykje3 жыл бұрын
"This chemical is so dangerous and deadly it's absolutely no safe way to contain it and if you even look at it you will die in an absolutely horrible way." "Oh, nice -let's manufacture a couple of tons of it and stockpile it -it can be useful someday -you never know."
@ufoengines2 жыл бұрын
Read about the idea of sticky sarin where the Germans would hosed down the D- Day supply dumps with it . Would have taken weeks to decontaminate the stuff slowing up the evasion for who knows how long .
@AemondEye3 жыл бұрын
Watching this video just a month after finishing the CNS block in med school 😂
@loerya993 жыл бұрын
Merry Christmas TIFO family
@MildredCady3 жыл бұрын
Please do an episode on other dangerous chemicals. Especially FOOF.
@markzuckergecko6213 жыл бұрын
A Michael Bay movie wasn't 100% realistic? My whole world is upside down.
@owenshebbeare29993 жыл бұрын
Funny how people like to point to flaws into such films, yet the very fact that fiction often takes creative and dramatic licence escapes them.
@markzuckergecko6213 жыл бұрын
@@owenshebbeare2999 I understand that, but a good action movie usually picks a lane, it's either over the top and as ridiculous as possible for the sake of entertainment, or it takes place in "the real world". Internal logic is important for a truly good movie. Michael Bay notoriously does not adhere to this principle.
@Echo4Sierra41603 жыл бұрын
Our atropine injectors have a second side... it injects 2 pam chloride (Pralidoxime) that counters the atropine
@tjwadsworth69673 жыл бұрын
And so timely I might add. Scary Christmas!
@xXxKAMIKAZExXx3 жыл бұрын
First the numbers, now Nova 6
@thomaslanghorst57383 жыл бұрын
Fun fact: Tabu might look pretty different to taboo, the pronounciation is very close to being the same though. So it's neither tay nor ben but simply Taboon how you pronounce Tabun.
@robinmaul46813 жыл бұрын
I was wondering which German word for taboo he was referring to. Thank you for clarifying :D
@jacquestaulard30883 жыл бұрын
One more feather in your cap with this.
@teshlafreeman40403 жыл бұрын
At this point more feather than cap lol
@robbiethemann3 жыл бұрын
This one really cheered me up, thanks Simon!
@blancasonora7143 жыл бұрын
Merry Christmas team ❤
@thehorriblebright3 жыл бұрын
Also: mustard gas is what set of modern chemotherapy and what many compounds used are derived from.
@TheEvilCommenter3 жыл бұрын
Good video 👍
@lonnieclifton83073 жыл бұрын
my eyes are burning just thinking about this stuff.
@_SimpleJack_3 жыл бұрын
Don't you just love the fact that in the theatre if war chemical weapons are illegal but it's not illegal for your government to use them against you and your fellow citizens. Makes you feel special doesn't it?