Sarin: The Nazi Nerve Gas

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Source/Further reading:
CDC, basic facts: emergency.cdc.gov/agent/sarin...
Chemical and Engineering news, the Nazi origins of nerve gases: cen.acs.org/articles/94/i41/N...
Guardian, sarin accidents and attacks: www.theguardian.com/world/201...
Washington Post, the discovery of sarin: www.washingtonpost.com/news/r...
Sadam’s gassing of Kurds: www.nytimes.com/2008/03/17/wo...
Attack on Kurds: news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/da...
Kurds return to gassed town: timesmachine.nytimes.com/time...
Long-term effects of Aum poisoning: journals.plos.org/plosone/art...
Sarin in Syria: www.bellingcat.com/news/mena/...
Ghouta attack: www.bbc.com/news/world-middle...
OPCW produces evidence of Sarin use in Syria: www.theguardian.com/world/202...
NYT, Why didn’t Hitler use Sarin gas?: www.nytimes.com/2017/04/12/sc...
Geographics on Porton Down: • Porton Down: Britain’s...
Biographics on Shoko Asahara: • Shoko Asahara: The Cul...

[@Rane7685]

So my KZbin history now shows Ricin, Anthrax and now Sarin. Once novichok and polonium are covered, we can all thank Biographics for getting us added to all the international watch lists lol

[@annemettefrederiksen7751]

And quite possibly the no fly list as well..

[@Otakulifeforme]

@@annemettefrederiksen7751 Actually I mean I don’t think that will happen unless you watched a video like how to make sarin

[@aaronpreston47]

Hey now, don’t forget VX gas.

[@emmas3367]

I saw an interview of navalny talking about what being poisoned with novichok is like. The most memorable thing for me was how he described the sensation as feeling like everything in you is dying/incongruent with life. Chilling stuff Ps- interesting fact: he was watching Rick and Morty when he started to feel the symptoms

[@christianriddick6482]

Lmao yeah but as long as we aren't trying to make it we'll be fine.

[@RevinSOR13]

It is an honor to be on an FBI Watchlist with all my fellow United States viewers.

[@itsdutchintime1907]

I agree. A great honor.

[@mr.niceguy1812]

CSIS in Canada! They sent me pipebomb in the mail!✌❤

[@alrightydave]

Achievement unlocked: Bio-terrorism

[@gdheib0430]

Unless you are searching up how to make the substances then I highly doubt an educational set of videos will get you added to the list.

[@rodmullen64]

@@gdheib0430 .... well that was the next logical step wasnt it?

[@AlcoholicBoredom]

“Before we get started, I just want to say this video is brought to you by…” _Simon holds up small canister_ “Sarin nerve gas!”

[@drboze6781]

Just two drops can kill!

[@Vaterraman]

But it makes the beard oh so soft

[@totallylooney8292]

...I'm glad it wasn't just me who thought that. :D

[@neerajnongmaithem392]

@@drboze6781 so does it mean I can consume one drop ?

[@redneckshaman3099]

I'm addicted to pigger nussy 😃

[@permanentvisitor2460]

I love the transition from a beard oil advertisement to "Imagine a substance so deadly that just a couple of drops is enough to kill you." Hmmm

[@jordanhicks5131]

That's right, beard oil!

[@kaisarion6668]

Sounds like a good advertisement, you know… For beard oil.

[@jonathanj.7344]

Makes you look like your head's on upside down 😅

[@EdwardGregoryNYC]

I used to work with a young woman named Sarin. I thought it was a dark nickname, but she said that her mom - a non-english speaker - thought it just sounded pretty and didn't know what it meant.

[@douggaudiosi14]

Just like the name ISIS beautiful name rolls of the tongue eloquently. Or that mustache you know the one. Simple yet striking. It's a shame these people ruin these trends in society for the rest of us

[@mordankrahen4234]

@@douggaudiosi14 I mean Isis was also the name of an Egyptian goddess, so it's quite likely there have been a number of people names Isis

[@aniquinstark4347]

@@mordankrahen4234 I knew a girl named Isis in high school. This was a few years before the terror group so I have no idea how that worked out for her in the long run.

[@SteamCheese1]

Sarin was a normal Name in many parts of Europe especially in Portugal, Poland, Austria, Spain, Netherlands and Italy. It derived from the Name Sarina and means "Dutchess/ Baroness/ Ruler".

[@imGeistevereint]

What has her not being an English speaker to do with anything ?

[@whyjnot420]

Nerve agents really are their own special kind of terrifying.

[@JustAnotherAccount8]

100%, I don't want to die, but I would choose a bullet or even a grenade in an instant over nerve agents

[@stuglife5514]

@@JustAnotherAccount8 I dunno, guess it depends man. What if the grenade blast doesn’t kill you right away? Just leaves you with a mangled arm and a body full of shrapnel, leaving you to writhe around in absolute agony until you bleed out? What if a bullet catches you in the throat? And you have to suffer with choking on your own blood until you either suffocate or bleed out?

[@BacklTrack]

@@stuglife5514 you'd probably go into shock and not feel it 100%.

[@stuglife5514]

@@BacklTrack Not always. You can get pretty fucked up without going into shock. Most people who take a rifle round to the gut don’t go into right away, and that’s excruciatingly painful.

[@3isr3g3n]

Yeah if you read about the Novichok and VX families they're even more terrifying, because these don't gas off and stay where they are for prolonged time. Oh and they're leagues more toxic.

[@A_Salted_Fishe]

Fun fact: The band Seether was initially named Sarin Gas but changed their name when they got signed

[@sabir1208]

Interesting.

[@GrievousReborn]

According to what I looked up it was not spelled the same it was spelled Saron Gas and they changed it so people wouldn't confuse it with sarin

[@alvinloh5101]

@@GrievousReborn good idea they probably got a few newer fans saying their names wrong and didn't care much until they realised that it could get worse after they get famous

[@crowboy0666]

so ur tellin me we coulda had sarin *and* anthrax

[@MrDlt123]

When conducting military exercises 30 years ago, one of the last-effort ways of detecting gas was to make the lowest ranking member remove their mask so we can observe them. This was almost always protested by the Guinea pig in question. One young guy even said "I hope you guys realize it's gonna be a hell of a lot harder to get me to do this in a real world situation" 😆

[@bradydonovan6180]

They… they still train us to do this. After the CBRN guys test everything and believe it’s good they take weapons from a couple guys of differing body size and have them get out of MOPP. Then wait.

[@eugeniorey4565]

Which military is this SOP?

[@ridesq]

Private Canary.

[@jennymiles8609]

And it’s not always the lowest ranking person. It’s the most expendable. I was never so happy to be a medic in my life lol

[@tomlxyz]

@@jennymiles8609 won't you be the one who then has to deal with said person?

[@ignitionfrn2223]

2:15 - Chapter 1 - Anatomy of a murderer 5:55 - Chapter 2 - Making a monster 9:00 - Chapter 3 - A dangerous game 12:15 - Chapter 4 - The deadly race 15:40 - Chapter 5 - Death from above 18:40 - Chapter 6 - Doomsday dreams

[@danielladwein2570]

Danke! :)

[@Stealthsuit25]

The hero we need

[@whiten9785]

"Doomsday dreams" Sounds quite romantic... 😆

[@Stealthsuit25]

@ConfusedOilPainter no, I watch these videos while doing other tasks that require little attention, but when something more demanding comes along I don't have time to pause. The timestamps are useful to me to restart a segment I missed. Any other questions?

[@painter-midge]

@@Stealthsuit25 same, I listen to these while I design or write, and sometimes I miss some stuff and gotta restart the chapter lol

[@licht2728]

As a kurd, who has seen many of the atrocities that were caused from the chemical attack on Halabja, some of the survivors described the gas smelled like apples, even to this day there are ppl suffering from illnesses caused by the attack

[@arbaz79]

Isent saying gas odourless?

[@jgedutis]

The Kurds need their own country to ensure that doesn't happen again

[@residentevil5681]

@@arbaz79 it could have been inpure.

[@MrKeserian]

@@residentevil5681 from some declassified reports, Iraqi sarin wasn't exactly pure. Likely it was impurities, or the combination of Sarin, Tabun, and Mustard. Interestingly, one of the reasons why Saddam never used Sarin against the coalition in '91 is because he was worried that the US would have a "okay, you want to use nerve gas? Welcome to the American doctorate level course in chemical weapons. Oh? You? You're the test subject." moment. The amount of nasty crap we had stockpiled at the time was frankly terrifying.

[@Bones.x]

😢

[@Flaschenfabrik]

Fun fact: To this day there are areas in Munster which are so heavily contaminated with nerve agents, that they are off limits for anyone

[@lesschattermoresplatter5769]

That’s just a rumor started to keep people from finding their UFO storing area.

[@local_therapist8637]

What like testing grounds or actual places in the city

[@AFGuidesHD]

It is interesting how much worse WW2 could have been, one such case is "what if they actually used Sarin". Perhaps unleashing it on D-Day, arming V2 rockets with it, perhaps even going the full hog and employing it en-masse on the eastern front.

[@_Arminius]

Indeed but here's a terrifying fact: They did have Tabun, also a nerve agent since before WW2 started. It's less potent than Sarin or Cyclosarin but still very lethal. The Nazis kept producing and stockpiling the stuff till the end of the war but never used it. So your scenario isn't far off what could have happened if the war dragged on for longer than it did.

[@juliobrian4757]

Nova 6...

[@annihilation777]

The Germans never used their massive Nerve agent weapons stockpile even when all was lost. The Americans killed civilians, men, women, children and allied POWs with nuclear missiles even while winning the war.

[@ArgentLeftovers]

@@annihilation777 Yeahhhhhh, didn't use. Except on all those Jews they just disappeared. Not to mention POWs. Not to mention things like Goebels. Shut up. War is bad, there are no "good guys". Had the bombs not gone off in Japan, Hirohito and his ilk would have fought on and wiped out their own country in the process. Stop trying to be a hero.

[@ridesq]

@@_Arminius I wonder if they would have used it in Stalingrad if the German soldiers weren’t right there.

[@CaliforniaBushman]

Ahh! My morning dose of tea. And Simon's tales of dismemberment, death, and destruction 😃.

[@RedBear535]

Simons channels really got me through this pandemic. I probably heard his voice daily while I was working and I find it really soothing.

[@mrskywars1237]

Polonium tea?

[@wilsontucker5596]

Love it

[@raviamodernepic]

No kidding. "We can, but should we" needs to be the generally accepted approach to everything

[@ShawnChristopher10101]

I mean I knew this was a Nazi referenced video, buuuuttttt....the fact that Simon says "You guessed it, time to talk about the Third Reich", had the tone of "But of course, you knew this was coming"

[@narmale]

i thought he was going to say the USA...

[@KlaustheViking]

@@narmale I thought Mao’s China

[@C-Dev]

I’m happy to be on an a “Watchlist” with all of you

[@mother-shucker32]

Welcome to the club

[@ryanwilson5834]

First time?

[@lordbabycakes8736]

In my job with the Army that is the final part of our AIT. We suit up in full gear and enter a training facility filled with sarin gas. That is probably the most scared I've been in my whole life, your heart sinks into your stomach and you always feel paranoid its on you. And i am not one to be scared, but i couldnt help myself. I was in there for around an hour, collecting samples, fighting in simulated gunfights, and working in fake chemical bunkers. I was terrified in MOPP 4, I couldn't imagine being a civilian in syria or Iraq desperately trying to clean it off your neighbor after an attack without anything more than a shirt to protect you.

[@bunsenn5064]

About the cholinesterase part, while there are gases like sarin which block the “off” switch, there are also some agents which block acetylcholine, the “on” switch. So if you were to be exposed to one of THESE types of nerve agents, you’d be okay for a minute, but then you’d relax one of your muscles, maybe your arm, or your leg, and realize you can’t get it to contract again. Then, you’d be forced to watch in horror as each muscle, vessel, nerve, and cell in your body eventually shuts off and forgets to turn back on.

[@princessolmeca2933]

Fun fact: Seether had to change their name from Saron Gas when they moved to America from South Africa because of this gas.

[@ohjordyn8312]

Like the band seether? They’re from South Africa??

[@johnnyvivic8730]

@@ohjordyn8312 Yup!

[@ridesq]

And then they named the band after the Veruca Salt song. Very odd move, but not in the bad way.

[@mathewofborg7280]

Definitely on a watchlist now, video was still good though

[@theobozas7417]

worth it.

[@GuntherRommel]

At first I thought you meant you'd put it in a playlist, but my NSA operative sent me a pm. ALLEGEDLY.

[@youtubetroller2451]

@@Walter_Stroud What? This vid was pretty good

[@chrisstieg]

Tasteless, colorless, odorless, dissolves instantly in water... Iocane powder!

[@thejudgmentalcat]

INCONCEIVABLE!

[@seanpurdom6380]

Ahahaha Hahahahaha AhaHahah...... *Falls over dead with a smile*

[@abbysmommy1205]

Never go in against a Sicilian when DEATH is on the line!

[@mother-shucker32]

@@abbysmommy1205 love that quote

[@sabir1208]

Lmao the most well known rule is to never get involved in a land war in Asia. But only slightly less well know is this: never get involved with a Sicilian WHEN DEATH IS ON THE LINE

[@AvB.83]

Being from Münster, I was shocked for a moment to hear that we had a production plan for Sarin near the town back then, until I realised it actually was not near Münster, but rather near Munster. (Germany city names are a bit of a mess though. I just recently came through the village of Lengerich, about 50 km northwest of the city of Lengerich. Maybe that's the famous german sense of humor...)

[@marcomalandac7510]

"ridding Nazi Germany with one of it's greatest pests, Weeboos" Had to pause my game and listen again to make i heard that correctly.

[@AnthonyTrudeau]

This definitely feels like a megaproject. I think simon gets his video themes mixed up sometimes.

[@billmimms]

I'm VERY impressed with your videos. Your style is very addictive. Being put on a watchlist is the least of my concerns. I have ZERO chemistry experience, but am completely fascinated with the history of all of this. It takes me a LONG time to digest these stories, which fascinates me to how quickly your delivery is on these videos. I spend a lot of time pausing your videos, especially to enjoy your imbued sarcasm. Thanks for the videos.

[@diyonisis7790]

You need more than just atropine. Atropine keeps the body functions going but you need 2 PAM chloride to break the sarin bond from the nerve receptors to resume natural functions

[@sabir1208]

Interesting! The comments are always so informative

[@jonathannash8471]

I'm interested in how this works but don't want to be put on a watchlist. Does atropine function as a substitute to acetylcholinesterase, allowing some acetylcholine to be broken down to resume normal functioning, but 2 PAM chloride is able to displace sarin from the enzyme directly? If so where does sarin bind? Looking at the structures shown in the video it doesn't look much like acetylcholine to bind to the active site, but I'm more chemist that biologist so I'm not too sure on how enzyme specificity functions on a molecular level. My guess is that these agents bind to the allosteric, using the methylphosphate as the binding point, since that remains the same in all three shown.

[@tomjackson1923]

​@@jonathannash8471 As far as I know, Atropine coats the nerve endings and blocks the signalling chemicals in a somewhat brute force way. The issue is that ita possible to overdose on Atropine, too much blocks nerve signals completely.

[@Goo505]

Just found this channel and I have been loving it! Very cool facts and history on some of the worlds most deadly things

[@mbazzy123]

Fantastic job Simon I always enjoy learning from you .

[@BlackPantherFTW]

That beard is something else, Simon. Wish I could grow it like that but it comes in all patchy

[@jflopezfernandez]

Same, homie

[@negativeindustrial]

I suspect Simon has that same issue up top. I’d prefer the top version, myself.

[@mastermason552]

Use blackseed oil😉

[@geoffstemen3652]

Beards take over a month to come in, it really evens out after you trim

[@barrysmith4674]

Get some Test E then, you don’t need to take bodybuilding doses like, 100mg a week will get your beard going 😉

[@JakkHorwikk]

Waking up before the sun can be kind of lonely. Your videos make it a good deal more bearable, beard daddy.

[@timmeh69er78]

My main man your a ledge on the abyss of knowledge. Always love your content from ALL your channels

[@hivemind8817]

can we just stop to appreciate how good Simons beard looks.

[@thejudgmentalcat]

I'm subbed to most of his channels and appreciate his beard on a daily basis

[@christopherberryhill3802]

Love the program and the research you put into it. It's gos perfect with a cup of coffee while sitting on 'the throne'. Haha

[@Me-iq4se]

To my FBI agent: I am simply hyperfixating on historical and modern poisons and toxins. It is not a cause for concern I promise.

[@NebulaHasADigBick]

fr

[@remypetit1791]

You have my sub sir, excellent research and presentation

[@t-rockthekornb7758]

Best Episode To date, my top 5 sure. Keep up the good work. from Canada

[@1986krazy]

Just ordered a bottle of your beard oil the other day. Looking forward to trying it out 👍

[@sabir1208]

You already have a glorious beard

[@griffith5704]

This is great cause in my A&P class we are just going over the chemical mechanics of muscle movement. It's cool to know that there is a gas that kills us kind of like how aceticholinase inhibitors kills bugs

[@goodchessactor]

Very good video. One of the best. Thank you, Mr. Whistler

[@The_Lone_Wolf]

Hey Simon, I enjoy your content, and I was wondering if you had by chance made a video on the other nerve agent mentioned in this video, the nerve agent Soman out of curiosity?

[@rawlahiabetes6969]

Truly scaring that most pesticides are actually nerve agents

[@chrismc410]

Diluted enough not to kill people but insects. Yes, chemically identical to many nerve agents. High enough concentration of the insecticide can kill you as well as them.

[@eugeniorey4565]

Like nicotine....

[@Helmuesi911]

Your beard is absolutely gorgeous.. I hope I have one like yours when I grow up.

[@stevendavidsonrn]

As a person who was exposed to Sarin during the Gulf war, being told that our chemical alarms were going off due to "bug spay" and finally by being down wind of Khamisiyah, I would really love to see one of your documentaries done on the exposures during the Gulf war, the errors leading up to them (Khamisiyah) and the cover ups. It would also be awesome to have long term health effects of these exposures covered.

[@nataliemason4656]

Simon, I love your words. You're seriously hysterical.

[@danicalifornia505]

I love seeing the Business Blaze parts of Simon getting into other channels.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

All the Simons merge

[@NotCollectedNorCalm]

I was in the military as a CBRN specialist and was lucky enough to be in a room with Sarin and VX, very interesting stuff, along with atropine you need diazepam, which is combined in these convenient auto-injectors, in which you carry 3 of, which you need all 3 to save your life, these are often referred to as CANA. Nasty stuff but Sarin has since been superseded by VX and Novichok, the only thing Sarin has going is the high volatility, which makes this nerve agent even more deadly, being able to evaporate from a liquid to a gas at room temperature and thus cause more ways to enter the body and kill you. There are plenty of these nerve agents out there, Nazi Germany made Sarin, Great Britain made VX, it would have been nice if they just weren’t invented but what can ya do sadge xc

[@deadponic117]

Wait VX is a real thing?! Is anything they talk about in The Rock true like how to neutralize a VX rocket you need thermite plasma which is still in the experimental phase??

[@NotCollectedNorCalm]

@@deadponic117 VX certainly exists and Novichok is worse than it, made by the Russians, can't say I know exactly what kind of anti-rocket defenses we have but speculation sounds cool.

[@barrydysert2974]

Love the thumbnail. Most instructive.

[@jeffmccrea9347]

My father worked with Von Braun at Eastman Kodak in Rochester New York in the late 40's and early 50's. He helped design several rockets and missiles like the sidewinder.

[@sabir1208]

Wow, how cool!

[@jeffmccrea9347]

@@sabir1208 Thanks

[@sabir1208]

@@jeffmccrea9347 thank you for sharing. And bless your dad, times def weren't easy back then

[@jeffmccrea9347]

​@@sabir1208 The funny part is my father was allergic to the chemicals to produce and develop photographic film. He once walked through the department that makes the negative film as a short cut to where he was going. The next day, his hands were cracked and raw. He had to get a shot to counteract the allergic reaction and wear cotton gloves for weeks until they healed. It didn't stop him from working but it temporarily affected his manual dexterity and efficiency for a few weeks. His security clearance was high enough that he could have lost it and his job for one defaulted debt. In the eyes of the government, this would have put him at risk of scumbling to the temptation of accepting a bribe to pay it off. My mother handled the household finances and she made sure the bills were paid come hell or high water. It's funny. As I said before, my father was involved with sidewinder and other missile development at Kodak. It's heat seeking ability was top secret at the time to keep the technology out of Communist hands so they couldn't develop counter measures against it. It was actually a simple thing of making canned flares with magnesium powder, white phosphorus and potassium nitrate, put them on a shroud line to be dropped from a fighter jet. When they ignite, they immediately produce an 8,000 degree flash which the heat seeker will follow rather than the 2,000 degree jet engine. Anyway, my older brother, at this time had a subscription to Popular Mechanics magazine. My father came home from work one day and my brother came running down stairs all excited with one in his hand. "Dad, dad. Are you working on this???" There in a Popular Mechanics magazine that anyone could pick up at a news stand was the complete design specifications, plans and theory behind the sidewinder system. After my father changed his underwear, he took the magazine to take it to work the next day. He showed it to his boss who also had to change his underwear. The FBI investigated and found out that someone in a Kodak plant in Tennessee sold the plans to P.M. They are probably buried under Leavenworth prison by now. Unrelated but by coincidence, my brother grew up, got his master's in electronics and went to work for Bell Labs in New Jersey to work on antimissile, missile systems to be sent to Vietnam to counter their Russian made anti aircraft missiles that were shooting down our jets over North Vietnam. Me? I was a heavy equipment operator before I became disabled in 1999 at 44. My hobbies were mechanical and electronics but I'd rather work with my hands. Not too many headaches from thinking that way. I can honestly say that I have never worked in the 21st century. 😂😂

[@sabir1208]

@@jeffmccrea9347 wow. What an extensive history. You guys are the backbone of America realistically. Thank you so much for all your family did. Be blessed.

[@perstaunstrup3451]

A lot of nasty stuff out there. The VX (and other V-series agents) makes Sarin look like amateur stuff. Might be banned but I would not count on it all being destroyed…☠️

[@arbaz79]

Sarin is more dangerous because of its properties being colourless,odourless & tasteless.

[@polycyclic]

@@arbaz79I wonder how they discovered it was tasteless😮😦

[@pucky8231]

it's a good thing the cult's sarin was very crudely made, very impure sarin. Their initial agent was anthrax that they released but the anthrax was not a type that infected humans. You should do a video on them.

[@ridesq]

Seconded.

[@based_croat4191]

Simon can you do biographics on Basshar Al-Assad?

[@Shinji_1943]

This is needed!

[@iamarabicandiloveamericanp7137]

Lol I live in Syria and I can tell everything you want but it will not translate good In English but basically his dad and their people took control over the country in 1970

[@theprettybond159]

Thanks for the video. I love giving myself anxiety.

[@robertharper3754]

The read up on Coronal Mass Ejections and Electro Magnetic Pulse weapons. There have been many studies done that show an EMP attack on the US could wipe out 90% of the population, not from and damage caused by the EMP directly, but from wiping out all our electric infrastructure and the chaos that would follow. A CME of significant magnitude could wipe out electric infrastructure around the world, as well as frying most satellites. The US government has done damn near nothing to prepare for either, as have most governments, they think because the probability is low that it will never happen, but our greatest weakness is our reliance on electricity and the internet so one day an enemy will attack them.

[@CouncilEstatePopMusic]

@18:40 Good ol Uncle Fester!

[@Metallica4Life92]

Of all the photographs you can find of Saddam, you guys used the least flattering one and it is glorious xD

[@clintstewart5545]

still a better guy then bush

[@Metallica4Life92]

@@clintstewart5545 edgy

[@BigChunkOfFuckOffCunt77]

Would have been better to use the after hanging pic...

[@BigChunkOfFuckOffCunt77]

@@clintstewart5545 yeah a mass murdering dictator was way better than an elected offical... hot take. 😐😑😐🙄

[@clintstewart5545]

@@BigChunkOfFuckOffCunt77 they can be elected in america but still war mongers , screw them all

[@willowby23]

Fantastic, informative video Simon!

[@jtrenoweth]

Your channel biographics is so interesting

[@eggseventy4905]

I've done two projects on sarin and similar weapons so I'm excited about this (research projects.)

[@notastone4832]

might wanna not say that on youtube, you might get some men in black coming for a conversation with you just in case lol

[@eggseventy4905]

@@notastone4832 Google told them about the situation years ago and nobody's shown up yet so I think I'm fine

[@chrism1190]

Well presented video. It would be interesting to see one about white phosphorus weapons and use since at least one state has recently used them.

[@dankthegank4315]

02:15 That’s crazy I was just watching that movie, The Sword and the Stone. Classic.

[@andyv16012]

Do a video about the beard competitions they have around the world. Maybe as a Side project?

[@geoffreyentwistle8176]

Now that I think about it, I've subscribed to a channel called "biographics", and so far my favorite episodes have been about, the things that aren't people...

[@HotLunch4011]

Would love to see a biographic episode on Alan Watts

[@seanpurdom6380]

Yes yes yes yes yes yes!!!!!

[@resid3nt3v1l]

Why's that name familiar 🤔

[@ApheeSeven]

I just want to know about Sarin gas but this guy gave me all the knowledge that I never know that I needed.

[@jeremiah1059]

I stopped at a small downtown Roanoke park bench to enjoy a cold beverage and catch up on Simon's videos yesterday and about 2 minutes after I tuned in and began watching this video, I suddenly started hearing the servo motors in the traffic light video monitoring system, at the crossstreet 50 feet away, turning and focusing upon my position. Startled, I got up off the park bench and began walking and again i heard the whirring of the camera servos following me!...am I on someones watchlist now?

[@jessynation8293]

Lol Roanoke……. Mmmmm babes chicken is good.

[@kktvgaming5621]

My American ears didn’t comprehend when you said “respiratory”

[@owenshebbeare2999]

OK, I will give you advice that every American needs: learn English!

[@michael522]

@@owenshebbeare2999 Silence anglo

[@ClareBearBunny]

Could you do an episode on the Ford Pinto?

[@lourens8884]

That thing kills you slowly, every time you look back at your car after locking it and every time you catch someone else glancing at you in traffic

[@seanpurdom6380]

I had an uncle who had a Pinto back in the day. He always left the keys in it so he'd never lose them. And always claimed it was safe to leave the keys in it because it was the one vehicle that NOBODY would try to steal. He had that car for 11 years and the keys were ALWAYS in it. And it was NEVER stolen or broken in to ONCE.

[@christopherlafleur9948]

Is there a video about Wernher Von Braun? If not, please consider making one.

[@jazzombi9680]

this is very interesting. nerve damage is quite similar such as multiple sclerosis and other neurological pain diseases. im currently getting checked for ms because I have severe pain, numbness, dizziness and eye damage. this is so interesting

[@KB4QAA]

JR: Best wishes!

[@TheProtagonistDies]

Simon was born to narrate

[@marc-antoinemarcoux697]

Born with a beard, bald(well this one is expected) and with glasses. Also his first words were '' this birth is sponsored by Baby powder blaze '' '' This cry for a mother is presented by square space, being born is somethiong well stressful, square space will help you manage all your inspirations and become a baby genius''

[@DaveXXX]

@@marc-antoinemarcoux697 there are older videos on channels he's been a part of for many years where he has no beard and it's weird to see

[@marc-antoinemarcoux697]

@@DaveXXX I thought he did that once to proove to Dollar shave club that his beard was real.

[@DaveXXX]

@@marc-antoinemarcoux697 maybe, I'm not sure cause I don't know about that but if you go back far enough on like top tenz channel (I think) you can find earlier videos where he doesn't have a beard

[@marc-antoinemarcoux697]

@@DaveXXX yes that was a joke :P I know its so unreal to see him bald and without a beard. I guess the more channels he have the more his beard is long.

[@yourstruly4817]

A biography about Fritz Haber would be interesting, oh, it's already there

[@JonMI6]

The Great War already has one. They also have another video on the various gases used during the war

[@AirSullivan504]

Joe Rogan enters the chat

[@markkarasik2211]

😎It’s tough to get ahead of Simon and company

[@psilvakimo]

Fritz Haber was honored at his house for developing the deadly gas that was used in WW1. When his wife found out why he was being honored she took her life.

[@tamekkaknuth9612]

I learned a new skill to relax and have fun!! :)

[@BigFellaShorts]

honestly mate, idont even have a beard but im gunna buy that oil just because of how u pitched it to us. honest and quick.

[@howardhiggins9641]

In the 1990's I lived next door to a guy who had been a Panzer Instructor during WWII. He had participated in the march into Paris, at the beginning of the war in his tank. He said that as his column of tanks rolled into the city, they passed many abandoned gun emplacements on the side of the roads into town. He said the Germans saw MANY chemical weapons shells left by the French stacked next to the guns. They were all painted with a distinctive band of color. When I asked him why I'd never heard that before, he said " it's because the victors are the ones who write the history books."

[@governmentgrunt8001]

My father was an NBC soldier at the Tokyo subway gassing, he hated talking about it until I enlisted as a CBRN soldier last year

[@kusaii69]

As the video started i was thinking damn simons beard be looking fresh af , now i know why

[@kouper9635]

The video right above this was “today I found out: what you’re really supposed to do when you land on free parking.”

[@joshuapatrick682]

Nuclear annihilation is scary, but realistically if you’re caught in the blast radius it’s over in a blink. Nerve agents really are the scariest weapon ever made.

[@Jaysin412]

Bout time! Been waiting all morning for Simon to upload

[@sandybarnes887]

Don't forget his 9 other channels 😉

[@Jaysin412]

@@sandybarnes887 they all post around the same time so I just commented on this one since I saw it first

[@altinmares8363]

Please post more videos about -Presocratic philosophers -Thales of Miletus -Parmenides -Empedocles -Anaximander -Anaximenes -Zeno of Citium -Democritus -Herodotus -Cicero

[@EEnde]

9:25 Is it possible to revoke a Nobel peace prize from this man?

[@whiten9785]

No, that's the best part. As it should be.

[@--enyo--]

Could you cover Operation Paperclip and Operation Matchbox on either Side Projects or Megaprojects?

[@bneskylights1152]

The mad lads on Aum Shinrikyo describes it like something out of Warhammer 40k

[@project1175]

Can you make a biographics of Erich von Manstein? I recently watched your other videos of great military figures, I saw Rommel, Guderian, Zhukov, Patton and the likes. Would really want to see him.

[@QUIRK1019]

Mr. von der Linde: "No, I swear the gas was named after me! We tried SARV, SARD, SARL, SARVon, SARDer, SARLin, SARon, SARer, SARin, and then gave up"

[@Eminem12378]

"This is the story of Saren, the rouge Spectre..."

[@ridesq]

I was waiting for this. It’s a shame he didn’t poison anyone in the game though.

[@jorgewashington1469]

Would love some mob bosses biographics

[@Fennec1370]

The only thing with using poisons or nerve agents to kill people is you’d need to use ones that are least expected while balancing lethality and cost

[@aalhard]

You should have included the clemency given to Japanese "scientists"that worked in Manchuria.

[@simonkevnorris]

Yes, the Unit 731.

[@whathell6t]

@@simonkevnorris Also known as Dai Shocker.

[@alreed2434]

Yup just give us you're notes and go on you're way pretty damn sickening that people don't matter. Long as the higher ups have some more info on how to kill and torture people its all good right?

[@aalhard]

@@alreed2434 we all stand on shoulders of tyranny. IBM was the designer and maintainer of the record keeping system used to increase efficiency of the Holocaust. Coke continued in axis States. No one has clean hands, so we ALL must do better.

[@alreed2434]

@@aalhard Yup I don't remember who but without a us corporation the nazis would not have rubber for the tires on anything either. People playing both sides for profit e.t.c. yeah history is quite the mess indeed.

[@Lunar_Atronach]

So like our body's default is "yes pain" and a chemical is what goes "no pain"

[@ericmurray770]

Really good video, I learned a lot

[@moonlightalkemist]

I am living life since 1991 with long- term low- dose exposure to Sarin and cyclosarin. I am still alive but it isn't the most fun life. Thanks for the video, @simonwhistler

[@Metallica4Life92]

are there any longer lasting symptoms you cope with, if you don't mind me asking?

[@NothingOfNoteToSeeHere]

How and why long time exposure? Especially the why?

[@moonlightalkemist]

@@Metallica4Life92 chronic migraines, 40% lung capacity, widespread muscle and joint pain, decreased memory, chronic fatigue, severe GI issues, seizures. I don't hold anyone but myself responsible as I volunteered to serve.

[@moonlightalkemist]

@@NothingOfNoteToSeeHere We were in Kuwait at the end of Desert Storm. No one knew the falling oil droplets were toxic more than just," Breathing oil smoke is bad." We did not have enough gas mask filters to keep them on for more than 24 hours. After the combat was over, many units stayed in the Persian Gulffor security or something. Many of us spent time in the fallout zone of the "superplume" of toxic chemical weapons and the oil fires in Kuwait. We (the troops) were told our chemical alarms were all malfunctioning and there was no danger of chemical weapons.

[@NothingOfNoteToSeeHere]

@@moonlightalkemist Oh, that sounds terrible.

[@kellybarr9167]

I heard him say colourless, odourless, tasteless and my first guess was Iocaine powder.

[@OMGtheEbolaVirus]

Exactly how easy is it to make sarin? It's a two step process with three ingredients and you can get all the things you need to make it from Sigma-Aldritch.

[@loichuahangngay140]

except sigma won’t sell to individuals, they only sell to companies and educational institutions

[@OMGtheEbolaVirus]

@@loichuahangngay140 Fair enough, but as Simon said, there are a lot of recipes.

[@ercor850]

Lol I bet you’re at the top of the watchlist

[@lovecraftfanboy5753]

You should do a video on Gregor Strasser and Otto Strasser.

[@peterelliott7333]

I've seen a video of VX gas tested on someone. And it has a certain soup feeling. Long time back

[@sestorm2159]

You should make a video about Ian Smith! or Gary Plauche both are as intresting as the other

[@fidelio9301]

Gary plauche will be on the casual criminalist.

[@AncestorEmpireGaming]

@@fidelio9301 Gary did nothing wrong. And has earned his place on the Mad Lad’s playlist.

[@fidelio9301]

@@AncestorEmpireGaming I know he didn’t, count dankula already did the madlads so I assume you are referring to that. Not all of the crimes on the causal criminalist are always cases where it’s someone who did something wrong. It’s just an interesting story that belongs on there. He did commit a crime technically but it’s a crime we would all commit. So is it really a crime? Morally I would say no.

[@AncestorEmpireGaming]

@@fidelio9301 yes I was referring to that episode. The courts agreed when they sentenced to him to time served and probation. Sadly he died a few years ago after suffering two strokes.

[@danielladwein2570]

Can we have a video about Novichok?

[@vladconstantinminea]

There are not many things known about it.

[@trevorday7923]

That's a truly professional beard you've got there, Simon 👍🏻

[@ronaldreagonistheman4761]

love your vids

[@YodaSmokes]

Can you do a biographics on Simon Whistler?

[@Kenxclout]

Unfortunately I don’t think it’ll ever happen. I have been asking for at least 4 years

[@YodaSmokes]

@@Kenxclout 🤣

[@savagedarksider5934]

@@Kenxclout Or A video on John L Sullivan.

[@djzrobzombie2813]

How about cardi B .... She was once a stripper

[@WaraxTheThird]

@@djzrobzombie2813 a stripper that would drug men to steal their money. I'm good lol