What If the 1908 Tunguska Asteroid Hit Earth Today?

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[@shokeya]

If all those "theoretically" events would happen, NY would be the most dangerous place to live. Because it most picked a place for those comparisons.

[@endangeredpuff-shroom6191]

I guess

[@ariscool7028]

I'm not in New York :)

[@juzoli]

No, it is just a place the most people can relate to.

[@InquisitorThomas]

I mean to be fair Fictional New York is probably numb to this kinda shit already. “Oh we’re being attacked by Aliens again? Cool.”

[@oscario9405]

@@juzoli not for non Americans, it’s a bit annoying whenever I watch movies AND ITS JUST FUCKING AMERICA

[@y337]

The Tunguska meteor probably: “Come onnnnn give me Rome….. WHAT?!? How did I get SIBERIA?!?!?!?

[@justinlopez9270]

LMAO

[@hattruck8607]

Good one

[@arandombirdflying3242]

Rise Of Kingdoms Really Have Bad Ads

[@livethefuture2492]

well its the bigger target...you're more likely to hit the vast expanse of siberia, than a tiny spot on the italian peninsula.

[@felixhekster]

This is golden lmao 😂 Underrated

[@NathanCorleone]

You can’t have a real life lore video without using Hiroshima as a size reference

[@61rampy65]

I thought Toyota Corolla's were the standard RLL reference.

[@warefairsoda]

you can if it is incorrectly applied

[@pamady276]

Well because Hiroshima and Nagasaki was the only one biggest bomb that human created to target population.

[@thenumberofsnakes5244]

@@pamady276 Not true, the Tzar Bomba was. They wouldn’t have made it unless it was for war

[@bingle96]

@@thenumberofsnakes5244 you could say that about any type of bomb. What I think he means is that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the only ones actually used against people, not just tested.

[@Nebula-lr3ie]

Russia: exists Asteroids: idk why but he looks like a perfect target

[@pencilvulture]

Well, I mean, Russia is ginormous

[@tommatom3513]

cause russia is thicc

[@livethefuture2492]

because russia is the largest country in the world, it comprises 11% of the surface of the earth.

[@davitharutyunyan8330]

@Chris Jok shut up bot

[@davitharutyunyan8330]

Well just think like this If a name ends with "a" in their national language the country is she For example they call Russia "Rossia" so it's she Also just call them "it", why you argue

[@CanadaBricks]

Remember kids, a meteor can’t crash near you without your permission. Just say no, and they will be forced to crash elsewhere

[@coconatsu9079]

Period! Consent is important

[@grassgrow030]

@IMAGINE F cjdhxhxjxhxnxizbzb kiddo detected

[@AbhijayAgarwal]

@@coconatsu9079 That's how vaccines work, they send a telepathic message to the virus to not infect the cells and the virus gets this message a little later, and once it does, politely leaves the human body alone

[@abdiabdi3225]

@@AbhijayAgarwal exactly it definitely isn't your body acting as the American military when oil and the middle east are involved.

[@mightycannon1512]

@@abdiabdi3225 best comment ever

[@oxolotleman7226]

Imagine just waking up one day and finding out that Luxembourg or a major city was completely decimated while you were sleeping.

[@JustLewKas]

And it actually destroyed a little point of your house

[@ChadRazorback]

So like the people who woke up on August 7th, 1945?

[@Phntm-lh4tu]

I live there so please no

[@PugnaciousProductions]

@@snackler6102 I wouldn’t call the trade center a major city.

[@twicethegalo]

1940

[@vesh]

I wonder if in the future, we'll have the technology to intercept it

[@LeventK]

But it won't happen in near future

[@yoldza]

And Hirosima isn't genocide 😂

[@cozdod019]

Whats up checkmark

[@petruska111]

Its scary but what even is more terrible is the climate change what is really in near future if we don't do anything against it

[@Saif-ge2et]

Bruh the last place that I expect you to comment in is reallifelore LOL

[@sbmapping8607]

"the day when we celebrate the glorious taste of chicken wings." couldn't agree more

[@Sub4CarClips]

Every day is chicken wing day

[@robthetraveler1099]

8:58 A few minutes wouldn't have made a difference, but if the meteor had struck several hours earlier (due to the earth's rotation), it would have obliterated the Russian imperial capital of St. Petersburg.

[@hihi-nm3uy]

@@natashagupta4691 thanks for your meaningful contribution. edit: and thanks for deleting your meaningful contribution~

[@prplt]

but the earth is actually flat and motionless 😂

[@robthetraveler1099]

@Your Nightmares Come True Oops, you're right! Although landing in an ocean presumably would have caused a massive tsunami...

[@trollfacegaming1111]

@@prplt please dont start this karen

[@FrenchCelt]

The Earth isn't sitting still in space while it rotates. A few minutes earlier or later and it might have missed Earth completely. Don't forget, Earth is traveling around the sun at 30,000 meters per second, or 18.6 miles per second. The radius of Earth is 3,958 miles, the distance of which will be traversed in 3.54 minutes. That's enough distance to cause the asteroid to just barely miss.

[@payrysdoscs4903]

"The Tunguska asteroid caused the biggest explosion in recorded human history at the time" *Krakatau noises* Edit: 407 likes wth?!

[@ameybirulkar7503]

Tambora was even bigger

[@fanteasy7399]

Krakatau was the loudest, Tunguska was the most devastating, like a nuclear bomb

[@matheussanthiago9685]

@@fanteasy7399 kakatoa had dozens od thousands of human causalities Tunguska only devastated wood and deer

[@checcmac8693]

@@fanteasy7399 Mount tambora is more devastating because there is no summer

[@noahbody9875]

@Your Nightmares Come True A whole movie says it is.

[@dvid6202]

9:25 is everybody gonna ignore this perfect transotion to chicken wings?

[@JuanTonSoupXP]

“What if we lived in the Harrison Bergeron dystopia”

[@2SEXY]

That’s a story...... for onother....what if.

[@cocacola4blood365]

The system would immediately collapse under the weight of its own stupidity, if the HG men are handicapped (which they weren't) and almost immediately collapse if the HG men work handicap free.

[@cocacola4blood365]

On second thought, it would look like today, only with more stupid (which is very hard to imagine). Moral of the story, there is no bottom limit.

[@ronmaximilian6953]

If?

[@ModernRedneck13]

Hmm... This must be an inside joke between you and the 182 people who liked your comment

[@abrarasif8215]

The ad transition is the BEST I’ve seen yet

[@spacexstuff6752]

I like how he went from devestating asteroid impacts to delicious chicken meals

[@spheredude6003]

what

[@Kyuubiboy321]

illustrating how easily we could roast chicken with asteroid impacts, however, you'll need HELLOFRESH to have it delivered correctly with only minimal casualties along the way!

[@saf_timalsena_]

1:29 Dinosaurs: Welcome to the party

[@calebbabcock5687]

I live in Ontario and I remember the day the Chelyabinsk astroid hit. My mom was waking my brothers and I up for school and as I was laying in bed waiting for my brother to get out of the shower when we all heard a big rumbling boom. We all thought it was some sort of aircraft carrier or something until we found out it was the astroid.

[@neonlight1214]

Jeesh it reached that far? We in south east Europe didnt hear anything

[@shuriksvoboda6883]

Strange. I was much closer to Chelyabinsk (in Ufa, about 400 km west of Chelyabinsk) and no bang was heard.

[@lenoviukas5590]

How the FUCK did you hear thst

[@mdza]

@@lenoviukas5590 because of the asteroid path

[@AcuraTSX-nv5zr]

No way, that's 10000km away. Maybe if it was a 300m wide instead of 17m...

[@ihavetowait90daystochangem67]

Russia was the first country to go to space because their tired of space going to it

[@woodduck2178]

As they say "in Russia you don't need to go to soace , space will go to you".

[@trollinape2697]

@@woodduck2178 soace

[@Ominousbean2024]

Haha

[@avatar94100]

this needs way more likes 🤣

[@SergioAbarca9]

You win the internet!!

[@jonas1015119]

Its always fun when meal prep sponsors make people actually film themselves cooking the food, especially with channels that dont usually appear on camera

[@professorlabs]

o man i live right outside the butterfly...gotta love nyc being the default mass destruction index map 😅

[@gabrielmoralesgonzalez6471]

8:40 I thought he was going to say a "Miracle", but he said "Incredible lucky historical twist of fortune to the human species"... that is something I would like to say someday to sound smarter and more intelligent.

[@cattcuthbertson586]

Is fear of impending meteors a good enough excuse to skip work?

[@muchachosauce7399]

Let’s both try it, let me know how it goes 😂🤷‍♂️

[@netherwolves3412]

@@muchachosauce7399 how did it go

[@muchachosauce7399]

@@netherwolves3412 I lost my job, house and my wife took the kids

[@netherwolves3412]

@@muchachosauce7399 lmao

[@ryanyeager3258]

Here's a little trivia tustom blast of 1908. If was referenced in the movie Ghostbusters by Ray Stantz. Well technically he said 1909 in film but I just think that was Dan Aykroyd get the year wrong on set.

[@rickytran2378]

smoothest transition to a paid advertising i have ever seen, bravo my friend.

[@piggwu]

50,000 deer used to live here. Now it’s a ghost town

[@CoGames_]

Cool new edit style!

[@lexibroadbent1467]

THAT SPONSOR WAS CLASSSS

[@JumpStart_YT]

jesus christ, the transition to the hello fresh was smooth.

[@RioRioBeast]

These sponsor transitions are hella fresh

[@offsetgavboi6921]

Plot twist: the meteor actually is the one who knocked down the twin towers

[@renez9193]

A rock from space appears Russia: nervously sweating

[@brianaguilar5920]

Someone get the camera man to stop it, he never dies!

[@Skitz1o1]

Dear God! Not Luxembourg! Good thing he has a reassuring arm. She’s always been there for him.

[@________M________]

10/10 transition from content to sponsor

[@hysteria697]

Me sitting comfortably in Minneapolis thinking a meteoroid halfway across the country would have no affect on me 😂

[@PhoenixRiseinFlame]

This is incredibly fascinating, I had no idea about 1908 Tunguska asteroid.

[@Callum0027]

RealLifeLore always know how to tie in those sponsorships💯

[@jonzy123]

It's cool how, in the Transformers universe, the Tunguska event was caused by Shockwave landing on Earth. In 1919, whilst in stasis lock (a coma for transformers), he was captured by the Siberians and kept underground and frozen until he was woken in 2012, before the events of the third Transformers movie.

[@Blackvegetablethe2th]

if the meteor had hit syberia today, wouldn't that trigger the death hand (Russia's automated nuclear launch) ?

[@guitarskill]

No, there's a timer on the death hand for no contact from the government, if Moscow is fine then it won't go off. More importantly, it also gives those manning the system in a bunker under Mount Kosvinsky Kamen final say on whether it goes off.

[@blizzard1198]

I don't think a nuclear bomb an destroy something that stuff and big and even if it did it would shatter it into big boulders around the city destroying lot's of buildings and the explosion and shock waves of the atomic bomb and asteroid would cause more destruction and the forget about the radiation in the city

[@josedefreitas8366]

What if happened today: Krakatoa eruption Santorini eruption Lisbon Earthquake Vesuvius eruption Typhoon Tip (different place affected and/or landfall)

[@Animelover15]

Anyone else here from FateGo? No? Just me? Okay

[@jasss1560]

There used to be a Tunguska drink and it was my whole childhood

[@jamesdeininger3759]

Legendary ad transition 😂

[@VULGARxRM]

It's important to remember that we have ways of diverting asteroids and meteors now, and it would be easy to tell if one like the Tunguska asteroid if, where and was going to hit any place of significance.

[@biif-ok9pc]

Idea: what if the hunnic empire reunited today

[@prabhakarv4193]

Very nice and informative.

[@codyconnor6981]

Humanity: Has ICBM’s Space about to yeet a giant rock at us: That’s cute.

[@salilbhatnagar]

Russia: exists Meteors: it’s free real estate!

[@adammcnamara5032]

You should do a video about what happened lake peingeur in 1980, crazy stuff.

[@asmodeus0454]

_"Somewhere really nasty like New York City..."_ That's not very nice to poor old N.Y.C.

[@oberonpanopticon]

Strange, I remember hearing that literally no one witnessed the Tunguska event. Like, nobody even noticed it for like 20 years until some expedition happened to stumble upon the area. Maybe it’s the Mandela effect or something.

[@ltsgobrando]

Did you just say Castle Bravo was a successful test? That's just not the case. It was the very first lithium deuteride bomb created, and it was a pretty big wakeup call for the US. The short(ish) version is that they were trying to create higher yield fusion bombs. Deuteride bombs (deuterium based fusion bombs) had been successfully detonated and with an output of order of magnitude or two, so they continued up to lithium. For nuclear physics reasons (I'm just too lazy to sit here for 4 hours typing it out) the geometry is important both atomically and macroscopicaly to make it explode and so they decided their approach with be a 40/60 split of lithium-6 and lithium-7. The lithium-7 was expected to absorb a neutron, turn into lithium-8 which has a half life of about a tenth of a second before it decays into beryllium-8. A tenth of a second might as well be a trillion years compared to a nuclear detonation so they figured it would actually capture neutrons, and so would marginally decrease the bombs yield. What they found out the hard way was that lithium-7 doesn't like high energy neutrons. Instead of absorbing them and carrying them off the neutron simply shatters the lithium-7 into helium, tritium, and another neutron. That reaction releases about 1/4the the energy of the lithium-6 fusion, but it also releases a neutron (increase the net number of reactions) and tritium (which readily undoes fusion, and it releases more energy than deuterium plus a neutron). Since there were so many extra neutrons flying around even the fission fule was affected. Typically the vast majority of the fissile material is just blown away in a fusion bomb. There's just so much energy that it's rocketed apart before much can react. Of the 64kg of uranium that Little Boy contained it was only about a banknote's weight that leveled Hiroshima... well SHRIMP had a hell of a lot more neutrons flying around in it so more uranium was consumed. Basically they got everything wrong. Their 5mT bomb turned out to be a 15mT bomb, and a lot of personnel were positioned way too close.

[@rumpustime5460]

If it happened today, in less than 6 months later you wouldn't be allowed to bring it up without offending someone and you wouldn't be allowed to post pictures of large rocks on Facebook

[@balongaboy]

That smooth as transition

[@AnunnakiWarrior88]

I just wish you used Florida as a reference instead of new york

[@cumradej]

Asteroids: (sees Russia) Asteroids: I know where we’re dropping bois

[@minight1711]

Hollywood Asteroïds: ..but... but... I wanted to visit New York😭

[@jman036]

Nobody: RealLifeLore: absolute Khaossss

[@korvithd1773]

As a matter of fact, Tunguska lies on the same latitude as St. Petersburg.

[@O-sa-car]

Please use customary as well as metric units in your videos - it makes it hard to visualize what you're talking about

[@DXX559]

If this was gonna happen again I would simply intervene.

[@charliededes5185]

how does this man manage to slip in the sponsor so smoothly

[@tilltheworldendskeep]

Should’ve done an analysis of what would happened if it hit in the ocean. Would it cause tsunamis?

[@loretta_3843]

I remember seeing pictures of all these flattened and trees, in Siberia, when I was a kid and I always found it creepy.

[@kennystrawnmusic]

We’ve got archaeological evidence of an event similar to Tunguska that occurred in the heavily populated ancient Levant - from Tell-el-Hammam (AKA Sodom and Gomorrah). The event literally blew structures clean-off their foundations and *flash-fired* mudbricks on the foundations themselves. To do that, you’d need temperatures in excess of 6000°F. Other archaeological evidence - anomalously high levels of iridium in the burn layer, shocked quartz, and nanodiamonds, among other details - pretty much confirm that the event described in the Bible as “fire from the sky” was in fact a Tunguska-like air burst event occurring over a developed city.

[@hareecionelson5875]

If the Tunguska had hit near moscow or some other large European city, it could have changed the lead up to the First World War.

[@BlackS232]

0:48 lol the window company would have the time of there life

[@GKitz211]

Asteroids teach us that life can suddenly end. We should cherish life in every second.

[@Savvysnek]

Sure the Tunguska event would be bad if it happened to New York, but that's nothing compared to the sheer destruction wrought by millions of children playing SimCity each year.

[@michaelsayaki3135]

Well, my eternal suffering would've ended today if that thing hit the earth.

[@uku5840]

What I really wanted to know was, if these tunguska magnitude events happen once a thousand years. What are the other events in human history, what civilizations throughout human history have legends of places being completly vaporized? And do any of them bear evidence of being the real deal?

[@uku5840]

Before anyone says it. I know the Oceans cover 70% of the surface. However almost all coasts have cities so you could more or less extend the coastlines of every inhabited landmass by 30km. And I'll bet you that's quite a bit above the 20% I need.

[@goldiekoi935]

Cool information

[@thanlianachhakchhuak1499]

Anyone here after scientists discovered the Asteroid 2023 DW?

[@lobomorunga1]

And, If the dog didn't stopped for a crap, he would'a caught the rabbir.

[@samya.s]

this was hit on my birthday! (June 30)

[@Dave-gd9zu]

People in Florida would think that this is just a normal day

[@LiminalQueenMedia]

If we can maintain whatever negotiations with the asteroids and meteors to keep hitting the world ocean, siberia, antartica, and the Arctic we'll be fine.

[@CoolGuyPlays1]

4 million subscribers and yet it sounds like you’re talking through a logitech webcam

[@Povilaz]

Well if the Tunguska asteroid hit today, Russia would definetly use the spores to reanimate the dead.

[@843Reboot]

kinda scares me. i live within the red circle in new york city, i'd definitely been incinerated lmaooo

[@leoanathetiger6814]

What's with meteors mostly hitting Siberia? Like, everytime I hear of a meteor hitting somewhere, it's always Siberia

[@q12aw50]

Because Siberia is big

[@jeffrycrap5185]

The thing is if i remember correctly that this meteor had it onely struck at one or two hours erlyer (or later dont remember for sure anymore) it would have hit saint Petersburg most likely completely wiping it off the map which led some scientists a few decades latereven to consider the possibility that the meteor was acctually a nuclear bomb sent by an unknown alian species in the faild attempt to nuke saint Petersburg. its kind of scary but also intersting to imagine what had happend if the meteor had struck erath just a an hour or so earlier catchin the planet at just the right positon to impact at saint petersburg the capital city of one of the worlds superpowers at the time giving the russian empire the last and most devestating blow imaginable probably killing the zar and at least several millions of its inhabitants as well as its industrie and arguably most important city. Just one hour diffrence in the impact could have prevented any russian state we know from our history after 1908 from ever existing and any alternative russian state to be surverly weakond. it would also set the rest of the world in a state of shock and trauma for probably decades since never bevore had there been something so devestating wiping out so much with absolutely no warning in one single blow. how would people have reacted if in 1908 saint petersburg one of the worlds largest and most important cities would have been eveporized by an unknown and unpredicted event like this. how would it shape the worlds minds. It might have led to a religious revival since people might have seen the onely explenation in the wrath of god. many christian groups acctually predicted the end of the world to be somehwer areound that time. at the same time it might have also caused the temporary litriture to feature a very distopian and fearfull theme. the russians would probably be scared from this event for centuries

[@noahpage7459]

Here we go…. First the Haiti video.. then the Afghanistan video… Y’all get ready for an astroid strike in the coming weeks

[@Daniel-Strain]

The remote location of Tunguska may turn out to be a curse, because if it had affected us more we might take asteroids more seriously today. Now that we are overdue for a big one, we would have been better prepared to do something about it earlier.

[@symmetrie_bruch]

theres actually a bit of derivative video about tunguska in this advertisement

[@gl15col]

They didn't say anything about this being possible or likely. They are just comparing the effect from a lightly populated area as opposed to a highly populated area. Just a little mental workout, not a freaking prediction.

[@annoying_something]

Pretty sure some people would still end up denying its existence…

[@Bigman-re5wt]

I live in NY and it would suck if that happened

[@K4113B4113]

What if it fell right into an ocean? Would the tsunamis be more devastating than the impact that the meteor has on the ground?

[@ChineduOpara]

*Thanos* approves of this video.

[@talals7029]

How the video about meteoroids and asteroids ends up with chicken wings is a mystery !!

[@Abyss-Will]

Any explanation for the butterfly pattern?? Maybe mountains blocking the shockwave??

[@dannyverhamme7970]

The map of Luxembourg shown to estimate the destruction scale of the Tunguska Asteroid is not of Luxembourg. Luxembourg looks very different. I think it is important that the details are correct. If that is not the case, it undermines the credibility of the whole video.

[@tyrannosauruszeppelin2205]

Given how the ''impossible to conquer Afghanistan'' video was uploaded just a few weeks ago and Afghanistan now is conquered by the Taliban, the 1908 Tunguska Asteroid will hit Earth over a few weeks.

[@metroidnerd9001]

Well, that video was talking about how it's impossible to conquer Afghanistan from the outside. The Taliban conquered it from the inside.

[@justinbeaver8015]

What if all countries united

[@FjordTrotter]

A 20-metre diameter asteroid weighs 13,000 tonnnes? A fully loaded frieght train that is almost a mile long weighs about the same. How do you do your math?? Or what is it made of, kryptonite??

[@chronenojysk5107]

1908: In England: *Hears a loud bang* “What was that?” “Eh, probably a factory exploded” “Hmmm fair enough”

[@KiboCae]

Oy! Who said you could talk? I ain't paying you to talk! In fact I'm not paying you at all! Now get your arse back in the blast furnace.

[@stevencarr5294]

Talk about it over a cuppa later old chap

[@djmace9029]

*Hears a loud bang* “Eat too many Brussels sprouts again dear?”

[@loln8195]

@@KiboCae y! Who said you could talk? I ain't paying you to talk! In fact I'm not paying you at all! Now get your arse back in the blast furnace.

[@daerdevvyl4314]

“Oy” is a character in Stephen King’s Dark Tower series. He’s described as being like a cross between a dog and a raccoon.

[@smaras]

Movies: Asteroid hitting US Reality: Asteroid hitting *Мать Россия*

[@takashi.mizuiro]

lol

[@coolxg4357]

@@takashi.mizuiro

[@kerelasfinest4496]

😑

[@aarontoussaint8364]

If it hits land, 1/9 chance

[@akxri447]

loooool

[@ComicalRealm]

We'll just cover earth in paper, it beats rock, remember.

[@MrBeast60o0]

BIG BRAIN

[@realpeel]

R.I.P Trees if we do that

[@cabbageboi6365]

The biggest problem now is the ocean

[@darthmop1]

not enough trees left in order to make that much paper

[@phantomlord5707]

@@cabbageboi6365 what does frank ocean have to do with this?

[@The__Internette]

Damn that meteor killed santa's whole crew

[@andyb2028]

Yeah and now his crew works in the magical land of China

[@venesea]

pLEASE-

[@manuelramirezwork]

@@andyb2028 oh so that's why it says "Made in China"

[@TheColonialTeaCup]

thats what I said lol

[@dudethebagman]

Is that where the legend of the flying reindeer came from? Actual flying reindeer?

[@Ridz149]

No one: God every 60 years: “let’s play Russian roulette.”

[@Ridz149]

Russian… get it 😏😏heh

[@grownman9984]

“ Lets Throw nukes at a singular person! “

[@jahh69420]

God does good things the devil does bad things it’s not god it’s the devil

[@ddgaxelnilsson7855]

@@jahh69420 No, god can also do bad things, he created humans (in the books)

[@Ridz149]

@@jahh69420 sometimes god does bad things to see how we react

[@fraserhenderson7839]

"thousands of dead reindeer carcasses..." it would be worse if they were living carcasses.

[@ChineduOpara]

My thoughts EXACTLY 😅

[@acoolerhandle]

I think those are called zombies.

[@843Reboot]

santa punching the air rn

[@normang3668]

You're literally describing the music video for All Nightmare Long by Metallica.

[@thomasthumim7630]

The Shockwave the Heat was too strong