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[@harrykerr7547]

Immediately recognising the sketch of a single photograph from WWI is the most Chris thing I’ve ever seen.

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

Accurate.

[@L33Reacts]

Bluejay is an awesome channel! And he’s an actual blue jay, so props to him for having a KZbin channel!

[@jeffersonott4357]

He has to have a partner, since, birds don’t have thumbs. Has to be hard to upload, But I love learning from a bluejay.

[@LMixir]

@@jeffersonott4357 Last time I checked, thumbs are not required to use most technology.

[@Seattlesilver]

@@LMixir especially a keyboard and mouse. He just pecks those keys all day long

[@dannybrase1253]

​@@jeffersonott4357 Oh, of course, he *must* have someone with thumbs to help, no way a blue jay could do anything by themselves. Such a thumb-centric point of view.

[@PalmelaHanderson]

He kind of glossed over it, but had the Atlantropa project actually happened, it would have turned basically the entire mediterranean "basin" into a giant, inhospitable desert. Basically it would have doubled the size of the Sahara, with climate effects that we can only begin to speculate on for the rest of Europe and the middle east, with temperatures easily eclipsing the hottest temperatures on the planet as we know it. Cody from Alternatehistoryhub actually wrote a novel about it (which I haven't read - not his fault, I read maybe 1-2 novels a year)

[@jennifersalt3194]

Alternate History Hub (Cody Franklin) has published a novel “The Atlantropia Project,” based on the premise that the project was carried out. It’s fascinating and grim. What I found really interesting is that there were layers of alternate history, as propaganda has given the novel’s characters a distorted view of their own world’s history.

[@jean-philippedoyon9904]

Technically it's also mentioned in the Man in the High Castle as one of the project the german did...

[@cheesecakeee7963]

If there was a Part 2, BlueJay could talk about Project Habakkuk, where the British were attempting to create a ship made of ice and wood (pykrete).

[@ubiergo1978]

Not a surprise, didn't the UK had Inflatable tanks around that time anyway? =P

[@cpj93070]

@@ubiergo1978 The British and Americans both used Inflatable tanks for their deception plans for D-Day against The German's in WW2 so that's nothing new.

[@ubiergo1978]

@@cpj93070 Yes.... Errr... did I said it was new? O.o?

[@painvillegaming4119]

*fire was super effective*

[@drudenae]

That little quip about the LSAT Target Finder at 7:34 was incredibly hilarious to me. I remember being a preteen when Black Ops 2 came out and both raging over and using that cursed combination. An actual laser LMG with wall hacks.

[@mannysapp4089]

exactly 💀

[@i_are_penguin805]

yea i noticed that too made me giggle

[@Sevofthesands]

Maybe I was built different but I never had a problem with the LSAT like it was useful but only in specific instances.. 90 percent of the time you would have seen a enemy anyway.

[@jordanhooper1527]

UK here. We are wierd we use miles instead of kilometres, but metres not yards generally. Then its a free for all with feet/inches and centimetres

[@dougearnest7590]

Nothing weird about that - it's the "stone" thing I have trouble with.

[@chrisvibz4753]

nothing weird about that. people dont realize that americans like yeah we typically use miles and yards (1 yard is basically 1 meter) but when we are doing science we typically use metric

[@soupordave]

I don't remember where I read or heard it, but I know someone said that draining the Med Sea would not produce arable farmland. The former sea bed would instead turn into a giant salt flat. You would need to fill in the sea with new soil and create a colossal irrigation system.

[@Yora21]

Building the dam is the easy part.

[@dustinsavage2832]

I've heard that too. I think it was Tom Scott, as he did a short video on the subject years back.

[@aredjayc2858]

It's basic logic, the Mediterranean isn't fresh water and the water would be leaving via evaporation so all the salt would remain

[@TheAngryXenite]

There's also the issue that it would see everything south of the Alps begin to desertify...

[@Edax_Royeaux]

Also if you understand how commerce works, trade is vastly more efficient over water, which means the Mediterranean is a huge economic engine. Draining it would be a catastrophic blow to the economy.

[@JD-Media]

As a Brit, I can definitely confirm if you asked us how far away something was, we would answer using Miles.

[@zerotohero8993]

In Germany graves also are being reused after a certain amount of time (depending on the region you live in and its size of population). The remaining bones usually will not stay in the grave and are removed before someone new is buried there. I could imagine it's similar in Britain cause some bones (skulls) take very long to decompose and would still need some space.

[@PalmelaHanderson]

re;cemetaries, if you've ever been to Greyfriars in Edinburgh, you'll notice that the graveyard is a hill at the "bottom" of the city. That hill is not natural. They ran out of room to dig graves, so they brought more dirt in to bury people within the walls. When you walk through the cemetary, you're literally walking on a hill of corpses.

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

I was there last summer. Crazy.

[@nadog1011]

I still remember the catacombs from the first medal of honor game it was so scary for a little kid back then just to pass that first mission but as I got older, I grew to appreciate what it stands for to remember the dead for so many had been lost in all but name their skulls will never be forgotten. so poetic so powerful what a great place would to visit the catacombs one day.

[@morbvsclz]

1:30 The Hindenburg was designed for and supposed to be filled with Helium, since that is not flammable. But the US at that time were the only major producer and despite negotiations directly with President Hoover, in the end they refused to export Helium to a Nation that might use the Helium Airships for military purposes in the future.

[@JS-ui5ew]

Hey Chris - while you were talking about graveyards in the uk: many of the old churches in highly populated cities appear to be sunken into the ground but in fact the churchyard around rose up due the amount of people being buried there.

[@ninawatchesstuff]

One proposed project that never made it to fruition but is one I still find incredibly interesting is the plan to install a ton of solar panels in the Sahara, which could theoretically generate enough power to supply the entire world's energy needs. I can't remember the exact details at the moment, but it was very much ahead of its time (stalling out because of the world wars, if I remember correctly).

[@Mrdestiny17]

the Sahara moves quite a bit in terms of sand, they'd have to install them pretty tall so that they dont get covered, probably more like it was an idea that might've worked out but the infrastructure required for it would be insane. Not to mention failure rates of solar panels and the toxic metals required to build them (which can be worse than depleted nuclear energy)

[@kevinorro1]

Speaking of cemeteries, in Spain where my grandparents are from you rent out cemetery space in 30-50 year increments and if you/your family doesn’t renew the space your body gets moved to a communal cemetery that is unmarked and basically just a burial ground and that space gets rented out to someone else.

[@yrnehbocaj2584]

I didn't catch it when I watched Blue Jays Channel but that joke about grandpappy looking at the kid actually happened to me. I went to a catholic school and my grandpa was buried in the edge of the church cemetery on a hill overlooking the school. My dad said something very similar.

[@PackerBacker23]

When I went to Hong Kong in 2018, I saw some cemeteries that had what looked like little P.O. Boxes for cremated remains. The tour guide said that the density of HK is getting to the point where there is no land left to bury people so they have to start going up vertically.

[@generic_name6302]

BlueJay is such a underrated channel, so I’m so glad to see you reacting to him.

[@KeganStucki]

Even though you've never shied away from your Christianity, you've kept religion off this channel, but Useful Charts just started a series on how Christianity formed and all the different sects and how (sometimes why) they broke off. I think it would be amazing for you to react to that series with your background. Your insight would be incredible and you could do it without preaching. I understand that religion is divisive, but I'm asking as a non believer that is incredibly interested in religious history.

[@ozhinz]

been watching your ERB reactions, amazing stuff

[@dennypetrosian8589]

Fantastic way to begin the day. Learning and positive vibes.

[@oliversherman2414]

Interesting that you mentioned Ypres. I have a great great uncle who fought and died in the Battle of Passchendaele in 1917 and I've visited Ypres a few times. It's a beautiful town

[@mako7054]

Your reactions will never get old!

[@AlphaMayle95]

Your uploads have been on fire lately! Next paycheck gonna look at your Patreon, and love you’re from Ohio! Thank you for the educational infotainment!

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

Appreciate that!

[@YourLastM1stake]

If your gonna visit the patron look at it with a grain of salt, many of the benefits listed on there are not correct at all, if you want to support Chris go for it, but don't expect the all of the benefits listed.

[@Spuda1889]

Always smile to myself when you mention places in the West Midlands. Being from Wolverhampton, I know most of the places you talk about 😅 keep up the good work!

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

I was in Coseley, Tipton, West Brom and Birmingham last week!

[@madisonholtze7344]

Love Blue Jay! Also, have you ever thought about reacting to Puppet History? It's both hilarious and informative. Make sure to start somewhere in Season 1, because some meta lore shows up in later seasons that would be confusing without context.

[@nicolasduhaut7331]

Adding up on the cemetery thing. In France our cemetery concession are not permanent. Either you have a family crypt that you have to pay a certain fee every decade or you lease a spot for a time (usually, 99 years). When the concession end bodies are dug up and buried in common grounds, and the spot is reused. That's why you barely see any tomb of people from the 1800s except nobles

[@intoxxy]

Hey Chris! Love your channel so much (subbed thru my different account but commenting with this lmao) and watching them almost everyday! I was laughing so hard from the Gay Bomb cuz I already knew of its existence hahaha The Gay Bomb was obtained by the Sunshine Project through FOIA in 2007, from the project essentially digging up government information to warn and prevent usage of Bio and Chemical weapons! I'm pretty sure the guys over there who first found out about this wasn't expecting this type of stuff, and surely the folks at AIR cuz it won the Ig Nobel prize as well hahahaha

[@sebastiandelacruz3849]

Buuuuurrrruuuuuuuh, the lsat target finder and deployed shield joke was golden 😂 Aaah the good ole days of cod

[@edwardnahanee5287]

The lsat and target finder pic had me laughing so hard lol😭😂

[@ootown]

Hey Chris, I really enjoyed this reaction today and wanted to make a channel suggestion to you. The channel “Jack Rackham” is very informative and professional whilst being exceptionally humorous and witty, and it covers several historical topics that are both obscure and unbelievable. I would strongly suggest checking them out in your free time to see if you are fond of their videos because while they are truly exceptional videos, I am unsure if they are great for reaction content. Whatever the case, I enjoyed todays video and cannot wait for more original content from Europe!

[@stephenparker6362]

Hi, Chris, very entertaining and some novel ideas as well.

[@renato809]

please do more bluejay reactions, i dont care which but a lot of us love em!

[@jackeccleston9841]

I'm from Birmingham so glad to see some west brom love

[@tyleryoung8394]

Love the Fulham kit! Hopefully they can pull off the derby win this weekend

[@Supernova2464]

I love it when I find a creator like Blue Jay and think to myself, “I wonder if Chris would enjoy this” then you react to them.

[@edrivera3089]

I read somewhere if you go to the old churches in areas where it's been established for a long time and you see the ground almost touches the church windows, it's from the cemetery ran out of room so they started burying bodies on top of older Graves thus raising the ground

[@richeybaumann1755]

I love this channel so much, I interrupted my watching of a video about cannibalism to see what you had to say.

[@sonofeast11]

Not only do we use miles, we use them much more than Kilometres. All road signs are in miles. Cars drive in miles per hour. I see it a lot on the internet that people think the UK is metric. I don't know where they get that idea from lol, like you said we use both systems.

[@robbie2138]

Kind of in a similar theme to this video I hink you should react to Lemmino's "bygone visions of cosmic neighbors" where he goes through the history of how we used to perceive other planets

[@carterrayburn6261]

Best of luck tomorrow from a Chelsea fan 💙

[@jarretscerbo1601]

Another great bluejay video is the about the weird uses of radioactive products

[@historyinyourhand1787]

Outstanding fashion sense in this video 👏👏

[@aldbgbnkladg]

In UK I saw road signs with yards! How unsafe when you don't know how long it is... lol

[@darksphere9933]

LSAT+ target finder killed me 😂unfortunate VTH didn’t get that one

[@orwellboy1958]

We don't use kilometres in travel! All our speed limits are in miles, speedometers are predominately in miles and we use miles per gallon.

[@Thraim.]

Out of all these ideas, the pyramid graveyard is definitely the best one.

[@Eric6761]

I would love it being used, it was cool and harmless

[@ConstantSorrow]

While we are metric in the UK our road signs and speeds are denoted in miles. The decision to keep them imperial and not switch to metric was based purely on the cost of changing all the road signs and street markings.

[@thegrimmeater8417]

I got a mental flash bang when Blue Jay said IFunny at 1:51

[@cgy0]

fullham jersey looking wonderful hope they keep doing well

[@gagetolinwrites6845]

I think there's been an ongoing discussion about building a canal from the Black Sea, through to the Caspian. That would be a massive game changer for the Central Asian countries.

[@7shelties]

BlueJay’s video about insane historic duels is a good one that I would like to see your reaction too.

[@Yora21]

Cemeteries in Germany have a default lease time of 30 years, I believe. Unless someone pays to have it extended, the markers are removed and the ground reused. Which in many areas is not enough to fully disintegrate bones. Not exactly sure what the common procedures are to deal with that.

[@murmor6890]

They get put in a communal mass grave.

[@maank2146]

In earlier times they were collected in so called Ossuaries but nowadays they just get put back into the same grave but deeper if they are found when the grave is dug up again. With Urns they are sometimes put in a diffrent spot. Also the lease time depens. For Urns its around 10-20 years while for coffins its 20-30 years.

[@Yora21]

Hamburg decided to deal with their cemetery space problem by designating an absolutely giant area outside the city as the new graveyard. It's now the largest cemetery in Europe and the second largest outside of North America. This place is so big, it has two bus lines that operate entirely inside of it with 25 stops. Still got only room for 1.5 million people.

[@phantomtitan9792]

Awesome video

[@spirosgreek1171]

Really nice reaction! I assume from your shirt you are about to go to britain for a football match?

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

Just came back from seeing Fulham vs Spurs a few weeks ago

[@alexanderandrew6535]

BlueJay crazy historical duels is worth a watch aswell

[@marywest1346]

I went to New Orleans last weekend and learned how they use the mosoleums there. They keep the body in for one year and one day (actual law) and they get naturally incinerated by the summer. When the next family member dies, they removes the ash from the old body and bury the bag of ashes under the mosoleum and put the new body in to start the process over. I had no idea that was how it worked.

[@jdotoz]

Ancient Israelite burial worked similarly; the fresh body would go in a tomb, the squishy bits would decompose, and then about a year later you would collect the bones and bury them in a box called an ossuary. Then the tomb could be reused.

[@ernestchoi4464]

Wacky War Tactics from Bluejay is also interesting. It has the CSS HL Hunley in it. I'm surprised it didn't have the M65 nuclear cannon discussed.

[@stuarttaylor1799]

Primrose Hill is very near to where I live. It is artificial, compiled from the earth when the Reagent's Park canal was built.

[@idahagen9760]

Reusing cemetery spots is quite common. Here in Norway, we can reuse a spot after 25 years and cremation is the norm. You can pay to keep the grave longer though.

[@hydra5879]

i like the Fulham Shirt

[@AA69ist]

More Bluejay! He's great

[@shawn.champagne]

Reaction Recommendation! The collab between Simple History and Epic History TV about the first circumnavigations of the earth! It's a two part series: 1. Ferdinand Magellan - First Circumnavigation of the Earth by Simple History 2. Francis Drake Sails Around the World by Epic History TV

[@meganoob12]

So the thing with the Hindenburg was that is was supposed to be filled with Helium. That would have made the desaster impossible and the construction safe. Problem was that the US had set up an embargo that included Helium, which in return made the import too expensive. Eventually it was decided to use the much cheaper hydrogen instead.

[@andrewshaw1571]

Have you considered Old Britannia for content? Looks a lot into motivations surrounding geopolitics in history, recently he did a good video about chamberlains appeasement.

[@priyan605]

More bluejay! More! ... Please

[@TecDax]

Germany has the same cemetary system, they reuse the graves after 20-40 years (depending on the soil). There are issues with that, since corpses might not be completely decomposed (mostly the bones), but that's what they do. I'd assume many other European countries have similar systems.

[@cosmicthespider7974]

We have grave rentals in us too. Once your buried and your time is up they will move your remains to a common grave and someone else will be buried in your old place.

[@dougearnest7590]

I love most of your videos. I know I can't convince you that some of the channels you watch aren't that good, but it would be nice if you could indicate in the title whose video you're reacting to so we know whether or not to click. Thank you.

[@faeembrugh]

British people very rarely use kilometres when we talk about distance. All our road signs are still in miles for instance.

[@bthsr7113]

Megaprojects did a video on the Atlantropa concept. And in examining the impacts if it had theoretically been built? In a word, Apocalyptic.

[@biropgrules]

atlantropa has potential, but it would require some massive reworking. for one thing, if you want to turn the new land livable in any way, you would need to first turn the Medi into a freshwater sea, which would not be impossible just letting the fresh water from rain, rivers, etc flow into the sea, but damn it would probably take a long ass time. Only once this is done, and the saltwater was mostly gone would the next step of land reclamation, and the subsequent process of turning the land beneath the waves into new, fertile farmland be in any way possible.

[@zacharygrouwinkel1534]

In regards to European cemeteries, I can’t remember the country exactly (maybe Netherlands) my former boss went there and they only give you a space for 25 years and then your body is removed to make room for someone else.

[@zacharyliles8657]

Draining the Mediterranean would be catastrophic lol

[@Gravelgratious]

Jack Rackham makes awesome biographical videos that Chris would love

[@jarrusjenkins]

In the UK we measure our speed in Miles per hour, fuel economy in miles per gallon (imperial gallons) and distances in miles.... all our road signs are in miles and miles per hour.... Even our bridge heights are in feet and inches... Seriously though, most other things are in metric... pubs are different though.... Beer is sold in pints but you buy spirts and wine in varying amounts of millilitres.... don't ask...

[@oldgus01]

Pretty sure the makers of the Hindenburg knew the dangers of hydrogen. They just had to work with it due to the US helium embargo, and thought their safety procedures were enough.

[@kjyost]

Speed limits in Great Britain are in Miles per Hour. When Ireland joined the EU they changed all their signage from miles to km essentially overnight... Almost as impressive as the great Southern Rail gauge switch...

[@rask004]

Anyone else heard about that space project that was meant to use exploding nuclear bombs as a form of propulsion? Yet another crazy project idea!

[@davidcomtedeherstal]

The Catacombs of Paris are actually nothing but the dead of the old Cimetiere des Innocents, that was to vanish for the emergence of the Market Halls of Paris.

[@ATW090]

also please review blue Jay's video about worst idea of nuclear part 2

[@mikecheeseman6292]

Hi.. Love the Fulham shirt.. 🤓... I am Chelsea 💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿💙

[@VloggingThroughHistory]

Went by Stamford Bridge after going to the Fulham-Spurs game when I was there

[@matthewmcbride9741]

You switch from West Brom to Fulham Chris? I feel your pain as Southampton is having a terrible season

[@MrWildReactions]

Nice man

[@TheWipeout32]

"They didn't have the safety procedures we have in place. . ." Ah, yes. My favorite invention of the 1980s - safety.

[@hltco920]

Britian only uses miles for distance and mph for speed.

[@rmg900]

To your question about over population the main issue was food. Ironically the solution was found towards the end of WW2 by accident by the Germans, a hydrocarbon byproduct based fertilizer that dramatically increased agricultural output. Even today it's a major export of major oil producers like Russia.

[@ATW090]

please review drachinifel's mark 14 torpedo, kamchatka and hms bai jo

[@andres20111996]

In Latin America the old cemeteries are like "cities of the dead" full of mausoleums, instead of burying the dead.

[@harveybaker3746]

I appreciate how the “looking energy crisis” arrow hit the UK

[@reygonzalez4719]

I believe alternate history hub had a video that talked about atlantropa. I believe it was a video about topics that he couldn't really make it to an actual video.

[@jstevinik3261]

1:20 Everyone knew that hydrogen is flammable, they thought that the cheaper price is worth the risk.

[@dougearnest7590]

Some of us are praying that someday soon you'll reach the next level of enlightenment and we'll see you in a Rugby jersey. (Just thought you should know we care.)

[@profchaos__]

Will you be reacting to frederick the great extra credits series? Would love to see it!

[@lennartgamer2339]

I see you have your European Football Coach Uniform on.

[@antonincooper346]

it would be awsome if you could do a reaction to The Battle of Fuengirola from History House Productions (love your videos)

[@stuarttaylor1799]

Next time you're in London you must go to Highgate Cemetery.

[@gucci1131]

Love Bluejay