The SCIENCE! Behind the Glowing Sea in Fallout 4

[@obliviondeath0987]

When the Sole Survivor looks at the explosion they should have gone blind from how bright it actually is.

[@allemann-vonbord2975]

OblivionDeath09 nuclear blindness isn’t always permanent, depends how close you were to the blast, you can look at one safely wearing special goggles.

[@jadgbanzer9246]

OblivionDeath09 that would make a boring game

[@beartoothWC]

Also in the vault when Kellogg shoots your wife/husband you hear a shell hit the floor even though hes using the .44 which doesnt eject casings upon firing.

[@Kurogumo]

Kellogg was originally planned to use a 10mm pistol. He was ultimately given a revolver instead.

[@damnsonwheredyoufindthis.3830]

Are you trying to take a game like fallout realistically? Almost nothing there makes sense from how the radiation works to mutants to how a big fly can take a 50.cal round and be okay.

[@Epicmonk117]

The symptoms of radiation poisoning aren't all that terrifying: all you do is take a penalty to Strength, Endurance, and Agility. Perception, Charisma, Intelligence, and Luck are unaffected.

[@xxthexboxnoobxx4174]

Epicmonk117 I hate you xD

[@shadowofseattle1338]

And then you become an immortal skinless zombie!

[@nobodyxdel2390]

Mutation mod makes you a sickly bundle of disease

[@HoustonSongz]

Luck may be effected.

[@wilmagregg3131]

@@shadowofseattle1338 or you can get the best of both worlds with the ghoulish mutation like the sole survivor all the beinfits of being ghoul while keeping your skin

[@Barrenge]

What is NOT plausible is the "assload of reactors" comment. An "assload of reactors" would not be a very appreciable amount. How many reactors would you actually be able to fit in the average ass? Not a lot, in fact not even one unless it was a really tiny one.

[@nickdahl203]

Well, the micro fusion power cells, basically a mini reactor, is slightly bigger than a D-Cell battery. And your large intestine is about 5 feet long. So, say about 3'' long each, so 20 nuclear reactors per average human ass.

[@leowantsyoursoul]

LMFAO

[@jimijenkins2548]

That's quitter talk.

[@km5405]

also it would give you some serious ass cancer and radioactive farts

[@The_Diminished]

even 1 ass-inserted reactor would be very fucking uncomfortable. especially if it exploded...

[@jts.97]

I've always hated in far harbor when they're just like "The radiation here is worse than what you're used to in the commonwealth" even though I usually only get about 1-2 rads randomly while I'm wandering around (Not even constant) but in the glowing sea I'm easily soaking up 10-50 depending on my clothes and how close I am to a puddle.

[@calvinware7957]

I put that up to regional rivalry. "oh you commonwealth softies" "you damn islanders and your fog"

[@Electrobyte9797]

@@calvinware7957 That's a good explanation for it.

[@QualityPen]

To be fair, the “deep fog” is just straight-up radstorm similar to the Glowing Sea. The normal Far Harbor fog isn’t dangerous if you’re properly equipped but it is still worse than the normal fog in the Commonwealth. The Far Harbor residents are comparing conditions on their island to conditions in populated Commonwealth areas like Diamond City, not to a nuclear crater and melted power plant. If you’re playing with more realistic radiation mods - such as PIRAD, the fog makes Far Harbor massively more dangerous than the Commonwealth (outside of the Glowing Sea).

[@Portal2Ben]

wow 100 megatons thats alot of lucas sims

[@dinkadinkster9442]

lmao

[@featurelength5086]

+Ben Yare You know what? That's also a lot of Mr Burkes to both kill/take-sweet-sunglasses-from and milk swanky apartment keys from.

[@finipigenmovies]

lol I seriously laughed at that comment! :)

[@Portal2Ben]

Fini oh god and there would be alot of moria browns also known as the devil

[@finipigenmovies]

... Let's blow this shit town up again! GET THE DETONATOR READY!

[@NOICKNOICK]

Not video game related but I would love a video on "How do AT-ATs turn"

[@thebestbuisnesscyan4184]

MAGIC

[@dalitas]

all you need is moving one or two legs slower than the others

[@OnionChoppingNinja]

+NOICKNOICK I assume the special effects guy picks it up and just turns it another way...

[@TheMightySwash]

Not slower, but with shorter strides.

[@HarryS77]

+NOICKNOICK One of the front legs projects out from the chassis. Right? How have I never wondered about this?

[@KillerOrca]

I've heard a nuclear detonation be comparied to "an entire wall of freight trains...on fire".

[@moonscript4675]

Best explanation 10/10 would r8 again

[@zun15]

Killer Orca that’s scary as hell really buts thing into an idea

[@LEGOC-3PO]

It would be awesome if in fallout 5, in the middle of the game an army takes you to Canada and its completely untouched from nuclear devastation, and the characters like "HOW WERE YOU ABLE TO REBUILD??? BECOME A SOCIETY??" and they're like "We didn't rebuild shit!! You think anyone would drop bombs on fucking Canada??"

[@LEGOC-3PO]

+John Lobdell You do recognize a joke when you see it?

[@Snowreaperpwns]

The war was not started between the US and Canada, it was the US and China, you troglodyte. Canada got annexed near the end of the war, when China invaded Alaska.

[@countdookie6987]

or maybe, the Enclave when to the opposite way the BoS did, like in Florida or something. Would be very fucking cool

[@DJ_Fu]

And then they apologize for "flying off the handle like that", and invite you out to some coffee.

[@LEGOC-3PO]

+DJ_Fu haha, they give ya maple syrup and pancakes

[@chase_h.01]

Hey what the hell is keeping the Children of Atom protected in the Glowing sea?

[@svenghoolie]

drugs

[@sevenlexar]

+Chase H My guess is either adaptation or luck. Or nothing, and they die off or become ghouls in the Fallout world, and we just don't see that because that's not how the game's time progression works.

[@zick893]

+Chase H well they have a resistance to it i think well they can still die from gamma gun

[@prismbunny]

+Chase H They probably have a similar gene that causes them have a certain resistance against radiation. The same kind that the main character can get through perks.

[@DeaXi69]

+Chase H Why are there no children of atom ghouls.......why are there no feral ghouls that used to be children of atom and have "ascended"

[@Im_At_Soup]

One thing to add, in the Glowing Sea, in addition to the power station, there is also a nuclear missile base; meaning more potential radiation.

[@noahg7858]

Yes but those nuked stayed safe

[@Im_At_Soup]

There will still be residual leakage though, to contribute to the overall thing.

[@miffedlettuce4787]

Nuked.

[@OttoTheWeim]

@@noahg7858did they though? There are nukes stuck in the mud around the building towers. They aren’t able to be interacted with but there are some nukes out in the open air there.

[@bobjim245]

"is it morning here?" NO FUCKER. ITS HIGH NOON.

[@itshighnoon3097]

Yea BOIII

[@The_Obsessed]

BOI

[@whoathere558]

Now you seem familiar!

[@mrelephant2283]

Howdy

[@ridrexw8069]

*mcree bringles home the pringles*

[@comradekarlvonschnitzelste8218]

Listening to this while doing homework gives you +3 intelligence

[@MonaFlowers__]

Comrade SKYSVR late but lol same

[@A_328FL]

yees

[@azazel1667]

hey why don't we talk about the fact that the fire ball from the initial bomb is detonated In the wrong spot compared to the crater

[@thesimplefellow2558]

This...

[@finipigenmovies]

I KNEW I COULDN'T BE THE ONLY ONE THAT THOUGHT THAT!

[@Mithiasgame]

More than one bomb? We know several hit in almost every major area, including DC, Vegas (All fell at Black Mountain Funnily) and it looks like there's a crater north of the river (The area with all the ghouls) So, probably more than one bomb.

[@techzone1552]

Where is this other crater? Like, what location on the map?

[@Mithiasgame]

DJBrute9 It's East of the Brotherhood's police station, and west of bunker hill, there's a big radioactive crater with a ton of ghouls, and a bit of water in it. However, it is nowhere near as big as the one that made the glowing sea, so if a nuke hit there, it was a smaller one.

[@blackhawks81H]

It's kinda misleading to compare the fallout nukes, and real life nukes either way. Here in the real world, whenever we detonate a nuke, it's an air blast. The ones dropped on Japan, you guessed it, didn't hit the ground, but were set to explode based on an altimeter. Those bombs went off a few thousand feet above ground. An air burst has a much bigger destructive range. It's kinda like line of sight. If you're standing on the ground, you cant see very far. If you're 2000 feet in the air, you can see a lot further. With an atomic bomb, it's the heat, and blast pressure wave that can "see" much further. Just open air to travel through, instead of obstacles on the ground. This also allows the emp to cover more distance, frying all electronics in its path. A group burst bomb, doesn't do as much damage initially, as the ground absorbs a lot of the energy. It also absorbs a lot of radiation, and then all that radioactive dirt, dust, sand, whatever else from the ground where the bomb hit, is thrown high in the air. Less initial destruction, more long term issues, and MUCH more fallout. In the fallout Bible, it explains that not only are all their bombs ground burst, but that they were actually basically "dirty bombs". They had extra nasty radioactive stuff added to them, specifically for the purpose of making wherever they hit radioactive for a long time. It's the exact opposite of how we do things here in the real world, where our bombs are designed for maximum initial destruction, minimal lasting effects. Which is why Hiroshima and Nagasaki are currently thriving, non-radioactive cites, while the glowing sea is, well, the glowing sea.

[@the_furry_inside_your_walls639]

Might also want to add that the bombs dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were prototypes to an extent, and were dropped as a last resort to end a war that would have other wise resulted in far more casualties, where as the bombs in the Fallout universe were fully fledged models meant entirely for annihilation.

[@sandercohen5543]

Not sure why this comment section is full of american propaganda but you hit the nail on the head ^^ Edit: And by "you" i meant "blackhawks81H"

[@sandercohen5543]

Passive-aggressive sarcasm, nothing to be bothered about ^^

[@hazeltree7738]

Thats alotta words

[@thotpatrol9885]

The reason we do air drops and air detonations is because it is resoundingly worse than a ground detonation. By causing the explosion in the air, the shockwave from the bomb destroys more and travels farther. The glowing fireball acts like a miniature sun cooking and burning everything, whereas on the ground, it wouldnt do that it would just cook a 50 foot radius around it.

[@Gussyboy06]

Fun fact: The glowing sea crater was supposedly 3-4 "tactical nukes" which all landed in one spot. This can be seen on the Chinese submarine you can find were the old captain tells you that some of them failed the targeting sequence. This is unlikely though as the tactical are pretty much slightly upgraded mini nukes

[@gbishop1774]

one question in one of the Fallout 3 dlcs when you get abducted by aliens (no joke) you get a view of Earth from space and just about all of Earth is the same brown dust and kinda weird blueish color meaning that the whole world has suffered from being nuked all over the place so my question is why the hell was the rest of the world nuked? I get it U.S. an dc China were unstoppable (except for the nukes obviously) and both countries most likely seized a shit load of territory during the great war when resources were really fucking low but did both countries really take over the entire world? or did one or both countries say "well we're fucked and since we're nuking the shit out of these guys let's nuke the shit out of EVERYBODY ON THE FUCKING PLANET" or did the nukes start and absolutely enormous chain reaction and start meltdowns one by one all over the place which made the whole world almost as shitty as the creation of the honey boo boo series?

[@gbishop1774]

*and China. where did auto correct get "an dc" from?

[@gbishop1774]

*and China. where did auto correct get "an dc" from?

[@TheNoobySpartan]

well wind can carry radioactive debris very far away... I do remember that when Fukushima melted down, they were concerned about ocean currents and wind carrying debris to other countries so I assume that it would be possible for the radiation caused by bombs wiping out 2 major countries to spread to all other continents on Earth.

[@gbishop1774]

+TheNoobySpartan the wind could carry it far but I don't think it would carry it around the entire world

[@101m4n]

To those who may be interested: Neither. The radioactivity wouldn't have killed the plantlife. We consider pripyat to be unlivable, but if you actually go there, it's verdant. Trees plants and nature everywhere. So the pop-culture view of radiation making things green/brown/dead/glowing is totally bollocks (along with many other things concerning radiation, but don't even get me started on that). Anyway, what killed the Plantlife in fallout (thus making the planet brown) would have been the ensuing decades long nuclear winter, and you wouldn't have to drop bombs _everywhere_ for that to happen. Nuking a couple of continents would probably do it. Also, If I remember my lore correctly, the resource wars (that lead up to the great war) decimated the EU, and the ruskies were on the side of the chinese, so yeah. That's most of the worlds landmass already. Not sure about the southern continents though... Another point of interest, the planet actually requires plantlife to process carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere continuously in order to keep the biosphere stable. If all the plants were suddenly killed, then the entire planet _could_ eventually become completely unlivable by way of a runaway greenhouse effect. Initially of course, nuclear winter would blot out the sun, cooling earth down. Alot. But after a while carbon dioxide building up in the atmosphere (no plants to capture it), would warm the place up until the oceans start to evaporate en-masse. This would produce intense tropical storms far worse than anything that we see today (indeed we already see this trend due to climate change), and the water vapour in the air would also act as a greenhouse gas, making the problem even worse. At this point it becomes conjecture, but if things got bad enough, a runaway effect could occur (more heat -> more water vapour -> more heat -> more water vapour -> etc), which would very quickly (on a geological timescale) heat up the planet to a point where nothing could survive. Which is incidentally, also the worst case scenario for global warming. In this case, earth would end up alot like venus. Crushing atmospheric pressure, 400 degree surface temperatures, sulphuric acid rain. So yeah. Bad for just bout everyone, raiders included. Man I ended up writing alot... Mad props if you get through all that...

[@sethraelthebard5459]

Always thought it was cool that the bomb you see in the opening prologue of Fallout 4 is an actual location you can visit. A nifty little insert, and I love it!

[@gavincushnie]

Is it bad that I never thought of that?

[@AmazinglyAwkward]

"What do you compare a nuclear bomb to?" - um, Japan wants to show you their giant lizard

[@rileyrusso8518]

At the exact moment Austin said bombs 5:21 someone set off a firework in the nearby alley. Perfect timing.

[@mr.cup6yearsago211]

Riley Russo well that sounds dangerous.

[@17dyingwhales]

Around 3:20 "What do you compare a nuclear bomb to?" Nuclear Bomb : Deathclaw World : Me when I make a new character

[@randallporter1404]

Explosive diarrhea and one ply bathroom tissues.

[@valbourne1797]

the glowing sea was also a heavy industrial area. As we know from exploring the commonwealth most large buildings have fusion cores charging up in their basement reactors, and that's just for offices and and light industrial. imagine what A power Armour production plant would look like. Imagine the fusion core production plants. it would be rows on rows of small nuclear reactors. if you dropped a bomb on that it would be even worse then the normal ridiculously high number of nuclear reactors strewn about

[@hologrampizza5432]

The bombs in the Great War may have been salted bombs, which use elements like cobalt or gold to create long-lasting radioactive isotopes.

[@RCCentralmain]

I knew Preston Garvey was salty.

[@SoupyMittens]

@@RCCentralmain Another settlement requires your assistance

[@maxcolley8037]

Shoddy: The answer is in the name of the series! Me: 4! Shoddy: fallout! Me: ...oh...

[@bakedhawaii]

*4*

[@bakedhawaii]

4

[@trilobitose]

4

[@trilobitose]

4

[@midd5966]

4

[@thegreatestdepression3679]

When I started playing Fallout 4, I heard something from my friend about the glowing sea in the southwest. I thought, "Oh! It's probably an actual liquid sea of radioactive waste, I'll go visit that giant crater that goes off the map" I proceeded to waltz into the hell of a landscape filled with rad roaches, deathclaws, radscorpions, bloatflies, bloodbugs and stingwings and others at level 7. I had some leather, no power suit, and 5 rad-aways. During which I was talking to my friend about getting 20 rads and asking: "Where is it? I can't find it"

[@daquanrushing5584]

"That is nearly five FUCKING miles of pure unadulterated nuclear rage! Jesus fucking Christ that is not okay!" Is my favorite line out of ANY Fallout related videos.

[@Captainoob]

I didn't expect this sort of content when I first subbed, but I'm so glad that I subbed. These videos are great!

[@krongrah]

+Captainoob Shoddycast: Come for the storyteller, stay for the open letters.

[@ICantMeow]

"oop looks like were out of time" has 2 minutes left

[@hrpang]

Sometimes I wish Shoddy and MatPat would just record in the cupboard together

[@ShaqNasty557]

No. game theory went Downhill since the faf tgeorys

[@ShaqNasty557]

*Theories

[@ShaqNasty557]

**Fnaf Theories

[@mariosonicboom123]

And even then the FnaF theories were the only entertaining thing about the series.

[@vakusdrake3224]

It's also possible that the bombs in fallout were actually designed to spread a massive amount of long term fallout, basically a scorched earth approach.

[@cameronmcallister7606]

One problem The fallout universe use nuclear *fusion* not fission In Fusion, anything lighter than Iron can be fused to create power... and these atoms are somewhat stable...

[@Dynoids]

but not the bombs that went boom on the ground, those must be fission witch is radioactive.

[@cameronmcallister7606]

Dynoids Yes, but his excuse for the glowing sea still being radioactive was reactors that spewed out radioactive material.

[@mnaglich]

if the bombs are up to 700 Kt then they are fission-fusion bombs. Regardless two hundred years would be more then enough time for the radiation to subside.

[@cameronmcallister7606]

Mighty Nag His argument for this was that the reason that the areas was still radioactive was that the hundreds of reactors in the area around the bomb had gone off aswell, but none of these are fission,l all fusion, fusion does not create radioactive isotopes (Well, not many)

[@Paladin_Aurum]

+Dynoids fusion is radioactive, just not dangerously. And there are these junk items called fission batteries. So all of your arguments are invalid.

[@balebcurke2715]

I feel like the Chinese used bigger bombs than 75 kilotons especially considering how far away the bomb was compared to how big the mushroom cloud was to the lone survivor. It had to have been bigger than 100 kilotons especially considering the bombs being thermonuclear and most likely Cobalt spiked "dirty" nukes. Also in the glowing sea there is a reactor that is half underground that you can see had a melt down

[@Godzilla-mq5zv]

Drinking game:take a shot every time Shoddy says "bomb".

[@ToastGamingNCrew]

Because doing the word "fuck" would make us all die from poisoning

[@LRD-P1NEAPPL3]

@@ToastGamingNCrew yes

[@date_vape]

The reason they used smaller bombs is also because of real war-tactics. a 100MT bomb might be 66 times larger than a 750KT bomb in terms of payload, but while the 50MT bomb has a 5 mile blast radius, most of it will just be shot upwards into the atmosphere, resulting in minimal surface damage relative to the payload (approx 8290km^2 thermal blast radius). 66 750KT bombs could thousands and thousands of square miles of land on the surface of the planet. (approx 18,400km^2). Not only is it more efficient in terms of ammunition to release 66 750KT warheads, but it would also be far more practical, cheaper, faster, and all around harder to defend against a massive barrage of quick warheads rather than one massive sluggish payload. It's also a good idea to have a wide-spread arsenal to prevent enemy sabotage. Not to mention real life uses smaller warheads currently for all of these reasons, and no bombs NEAR 50MT even exist now. So it makes sense from a modern-history perspective for Bethesda to go that route.

[@adam1856]

nice fact The More You Know..............

[@adamXcalibar]

+cholrus69 Smaller yield MIRVs are a more efficient use of nuclear materials, aren't they? The Tsar Bomba may be thorough, but it seems wasteful.

[@date_vape]

***** Correct. I was trying to keep it a bit more simple, but that is the way nuclear weapons ended up evolving, distributing the surface area of the blast even further.As well as being much more accurate.

[@date_vape]

+Rougeagent98 Aren't war games fun?

[@toffeesky6227]

+cholrus69 I agree with you, but it's Fallout. I expected to hear stupid yield bombs, like 200-300 Megatons, since hey, in the Fallout universe a nuclear reactor fits in your car, your TV or radio.

[@WhiteWeaseI]

Austin, I'd like to know how devastating the children of the atoms gamma guns would be in combat if they were real. How effective they would be. And what the long term effects of being hit by one would be if it didn't immediately kill you.

[@kekero540]

It's basically a laser rifle there is no difference between pure energy and gamma rays they are the same it would pierce through you if concentrated.

[@WhiteWeaseI]

No difference because they are energy? That's like saying a railgun and a punch are the same because you accelerate a mass to collide with a target to do damage. A laser rifle shoots concentrated light energy that burns and scorches target to do damage. Gamma guns fire bursts of ionizing radiation that knock the electrons off of your DNA and proteins causing mutations and extensive damage on the cellular level of your body causing a slow, horrible cancerous death.

[@thesumofmyfear]

I think they actually chose the smaller bombs so it's more feasible that so much survived. Yeah buildings are mostly ruined, but that still leaves areas of them intact and then some are practically untouched just outside of towns along with bunkers incapable of surviving larger bombs.

[@DefiantPunk0810]

Great, time to play Fallout 4 again for another 2000 hours and give Kellog's spurs another jingle janglin'.

[@phrophetsamgames]

"That will have to wait till next week" Damn I really wanted him to say "But that's a story for another day"

[@82ndarmy]

lol right

[@francez123456789]

What I want to know is: what's the rest of the world like in fallout?

[@Totemparadox]

Fallout 4 China (said in Trump voice) dlc! :D

[@lisa1162]

+Alex Missi Make Fallout 4 great again :P

[@sergeantpanther678]

+Alex Missi *I LOVE THE CHINESE PEOPLE, THEY'RE LOVELY PEOPLE AND I LOVE THEM* (Trump voice)

[@aye_lmao2332]

Congrats on 1 mil you just hit it like 10 minutes ago!!!!

[@himmelblau2126]

rewatching all your old Videos right now! great content even back then.

[@mike796]

dear Dice LA, why does a pistol out shoot a rifle, or why does a sniper rifle shooting the same round as a dmr do 20 more dammage

[@tylermcneeley3136]

Balance

[@ianberryisafagget]

+Big Mike Because it has much more gunpowder and therefore travels much faster. The cases in the cartridge are also different between rifles and pistols, even though the caliber (diameter of the bullet) is the same.

[@delroycampbell5284]

+Big Mike A designated sniper, would have a longer barrel than your standard marksman's rifle. Therefore giving it more muzzle velocity. So basically, the bullet is moving a bit fast.

[@delroycampbell5284]

+I am touching myself He was talking about the same round, not caliber. And muzzle velocity is the short answer.

[@mike796]

I am touching myself I was saying how the pistol out shot the rifle.

[@josienakamura4967]

Ask about how the fuck the armor in dark souls stops us from dying of insane hits or the science behind the FUCKING GIANT AROWS AND BOWS.....pls

[@tribunalcustodian3989]

Magic

[@josienakamura4967]

+Ace of Jake that isent good enough I wanna know so the next time I see those basterd i can say "u physically can't do that" and then watch them stop in shame

[@animehbkscm]

+Josie Neko chan It's impossible, the hits in dark souls would kill you, armor or no armor. And giant arrows wouldn't even fly with those puny bows, you wouldn't be able to draw a bow big enought to make those arrows dangerous.

[@josienakamura4967]

+animehbkscm I know that but what if they had giants or superhuman to use the bow maybe would it be plausible and also how fucking deviating would it be

[@petyrbaelish4245]

+Josie Neko chan Git Gud

[@ZunaZurugi]

I remember when i read first time how nuke reactors work.... i just tought "we're such stoneage cavemen......"

[@benjaminschabel4847]

this time i gonna praise the choice of music of yours. Excellent

[@icarusablaze1831]

The Science behind V.A.T.S please.

[@deathdrummer1019]

+IcarusAblaze a surge of enery that allows someone see at 3000 FPS lol idk just my guess

[@JelliThePilot]

50 megatons? Christ. I dont wanna live here anymore.

[@PugilistCactus]

I'm sure aliens have things much worse.

[@BilboWaggins]

+Pickled Sausages if there are any

[@PugilistCactus]

Konnor Hyde Highly unlikely there isn't.

[@bmouch1018]

The Tsar Bomba was designed to be able to reach 100 megatons

[@stardude692001]

Why does the size upset you? The number of bombs is a much more important indicator than the size of the bombs.

[@efrenespartano]

Thank you for taking the time of making this awesome videos. :') And more importantly, for putting subtitles on.

[@Jmcgee1125]

I love going back to the old videos before the Adpocalypse... So much more fun.

[@richdanyko7128]

How do the portal long fall boots work?

[@blackwoodsecurity531]

+Rich Danyko lemons

[@BoostedPastime]

+Flemme Werfer ^

[@laczodani]

*magic*

[@temperspace]

+Flemme Werfer I demand to see your manager.

[@morgancook4288]

How do interdimensions work? How do magnets work? reasons.

[@Dylan-cj4hh]

Whenever I hear megaton, I remeber all the lives I destroyed

[@KristSnyd]

how could you ;-;

[@Dylan-cj4hh]

zombifiers it was so awesome though, and that free apartment you get if you do it. I couldn't turn it down

[@miffedlettuce4787]

NOBODY DID THAT IN FALLOUT. Monster

[@gordonfreeman8780]

PTSD flashbacks.

[@mr.person1872]

lol you exploded the atomic bomb in megaton? I did to...

[@amediocrefan748]

I love the way you swear.

[@Wafflepudding]

Chernobyl looks nothing like the glowing sea though. The glowing sea is a good location to explore, makes for tense moments with the deathclaws and is fun, but it makes no sense whatsoever. Just enjoy it for what it is.

[@ZXaber78]

Wait a minute Austin, those are NOT fission reactors, their fusion reactors which are completely different and would not create nuclear fallout.

[@samuelwatt1252]

Actually, fusion reactors as just as bad for possible fallout.

[@TheArtikae]

+Samuel Watt You're not making sense. There aren't any radioactive elements in a fusion reactor. It may release radiation, but, then, so do light bulbs and microwaves. Technically speaking, there's nothing to form fallout. Fusion Bombs, on the other hand, do have a fission bomb in the core. That's what starts the fusion.

[@TheBasedDonHoly]

I would like to see Austin try to explain Dark Souls science.

[@gamingninja2842]

i dont think it has yet been mentioned in any videos so far, i personally would like to know if the ghouls being the result mostly of radiation exposure are actually feasible, in other words, could radiation mutate someone into a decrepit and eventually feral mess. additionally in fallout 4, peabodys parents mention ghoulification potentially has something to do with a genetic difference in some people which causes radiation to have that affect. is any of this possible? would be awesome to see this covered in a future video. also love the videos austin (presuming you ever see this comment) keep up the good work.

[@sciverzero8197]

this video deserves a like for explaining 'how meltdowns are not bombs' alone.

[@skriimlord9056]

Why are there scorpions in the East coast?

[@nintindofandarklink]

lmfaooo

[@aterranrepublicgrunt9169]

The Enclave. Play the old fallouts and you'll figure it out.

[@tylg6981]

It's said that they come from pet stores but I like to think they migrated as a post apocalyptic apex predator

[@blackwoodsecurity531]

+Tyl G like how the fire ants escaped the capitol wasteland and made it all the way to the mojave. think about it, colonial flying queens the size of buildings. lol

[@leeking3697]

+Flemme Werfer There was Giant Ants in Fallout 1 and 2, and that is set in Northern and Southern California. Nevada isn't that far away, so it's easier to explain that way

[@Mongoosegoose]

How do people live on pandora?(Borderlands) The sheer massive size would surely crush anything on the surface...Right? And in loo of that, thee environment of pandora is absurd.

[@zax829]

I really like how in the game theorists channel he doesn't swear but this channel is something else...

[@deputychrome5950]

Austin should talk about the vertibird.

[@LUNITICWILL]

why the hell is the video cut short for me? ends at @8:01 with him saying "turns out bethesda, your glowing sea is"

[@ethankula8169]

+LUNITIC WILL tell me if you can fix it

[@robotface74]

+LUNITIC WILL i think that was the point lol

[@crazyash1999]

check the discription

[@milkrun2370]

Anyone else having this video cut off? It just stops at 8:01 for me. I reload the vid and it goes to 11:28 but then goes back to 8:01 when the video finishes loading.

[@ethankula8169]

+Just a dude same

[@crazyash1999]

check the description. :)

[@vortexremix678animationtra7]

To sum it up, the area that was fully destroyed from the immediate blast, the glowing sea, had many nuclear reactors. Because of the chain reaction of radiation traveling extremely fast and causing meltdowns, the glowing sea is extremely radioactive. Also, the amount of radiation buried in the ground causes a lack of plant growth.

[@georgehilty3561]

fun fact, with mervs, you don't need huge bombs like the tzar bomba. actually, any larger then the tzar bomba , the explosion would actually would punch through the atmosphere and into space and expend their energy there. but with mervs, you don't loose that energy and it does even MORE damage overall, and are much harder to intercept. anyways, the point is that the smaller sized bombs are actually pretty realistic.

[@croixrennie892]

HEY AUSTIN!!!! Can you explain how vault people reproduce without resorting to incest? Can a small population's gene pool maintain enough variation after 200 years of isolation?

[@KriegerT]

+Croix Rennie interesting hypothesis. lore wise vaults were made for a population of 1000 people each, mostly at least. in game we have like 20 ppl though :D

[@ZontarDow]

+Croix Rennie Vaults have a sustainable population.

[@MultiDawidus]

+Croix Rennie Well it depends on the Vault in question. For the sake of explaining let's assume a normal vault with no *Additional* changes has 500 males and 500 females. Assuming each 1 male and 1 female produce 2 offsprings, not falling down to incest seems really plausible. Aswell as that as far as im aware the variation factor only comes upto 3 generations so if for 4 generations no incest was performed it should be safe to reproduce.

[@JoeNeutrino]

+Croix Rennie I'd like to see this topic too. In Vault 101 it was established that the population was too small to be sustainable but Vault 81 apparently doesn't have that problem.

[@50ftFrankenstein]

There have been hundreds of island civilizations that lasted for millennia with only a few thousand people. Incest with distant family members was just something that happened.

[@percilenis8464]

It would be cool if you could do an episode on why the concept of zombies makes no fucking sense. For one, if blood stops circulating through the body, muscles will begin to die very quickly, so it makes no sense for shows like The Walking Dead to show zombie heads as functioning. Even if you could theoretically re-start the brain and the heart, zombies would still die just as easily as humans, especially if their central nervous system is damaged.

[@antonfowler6434]

zombies arnt alive so they cant be killed they have to be disabled kind of like a robot destroy the cpu/brain shutting down the body

[@TheMineCats]

+Alex Malinky Well, in the real world, its highly likely that a pathogen takes over the body, or in the case of a chemical or radiation, causes a mutation that would cause extreme aggression. Or, it could be like Plague Inc, where an undiscovered type of disease causes re-animation (which I presume would be done by transferring energy, like starting a heart or Frankenstein)

[@antonfowler6434]

The MineCats you should read world war z it goes into it in a lot more detail

[@michaeljames470]

He's a synth... FOR THE BROTHERHOOD! *pops chems and pulls out laser rifle*

[@leosypher9993]

3:24 - a nuclear bomb is like using a bead blaster 20 cm away from small linken log house A bead blaster is a tank of compressed air with a large valve attached to it, the large valve feeds into a metal pipe that's smashed down on the other end, not enough to seal the pipe, enough so that there's about 1 cm of space up and down, this is used to blast air into a tire so that the bead (part of the tire in contact with the rim) sets onto the rim and seals so that when an air hose is connected to the chuck on the rim pressure will build in the tire instead of air just seeping out. The bead blaster is mainly used on semi truck tires, they don't just seal up on there own like a car tire

[@EntertaningAmerica]

Not to mention its noted that the Chinese bombs (majority that struck the US in Fallout) where very dirty and were ground bursts (which explains the relatively low structural damages. Also, the bombs were more than likely "salted" with cobalt to add that extra umpf to the radioactivity.

[@admiralthrawnbar4899]

Do a video on the science of stealth boys

[@bertrandlecerf2565]

+Daniel Kottcamp Cool one, except it's already pretty well explained throughout every Fallout games; from what I understand, Stealth Boys take light coming on one side of the body and reflect it on the other side, thus creating a "see-through" effect on the wearer. Full explanation here :fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Stealth_Boy

[@uncleweirdbeard86]

I've got one from a game you may or may not have ever heard of. The series is Armored Core, the science I want explored or Kojima particles. The Lure is that they're basically Radioactive, but I'm curious as to just how much energy the particles have if they can be used to generate a force field around a 50 foot tall mech, propel that mech at speeds exceeding Mach 2 in just a matter of seconds, and charge an energy Cannon enough to disintegrate that mech in a single blast

[@TorKelRa]

A lot of people go on about the bomb itself, but the area where the other bombs struck (The Glowing Sea, not the ones that struck Cambridge and other parts of the city) The area of the glowing sea seemed to be a large traffic area, lots of cars and trucks and fuel/coolant stations. It seems to me that was a highway area, considering what powers their vehicles I can only imagine the chain reaction that was caused.

[@alexjungman7656]

Hey Austin, someday I would love if you could do a video on the Witcher mutations. I am really curious to know if the mutations they undergo when they are young are actually feasible, as in we as humans could *theoretically* make our own Witchers.

[@AzrealDarkStar]

why not do a comparison between the fallout universe and the other post apocalyptic game Metro 2033

[@flashman6342]

+Collas80 In a certain sense, Metro is more realistic: Radiation has begun to dissipate by roughly when it should have (2033- The absolute longest Caesium (the longet-lived isotope in an nuke) would last before decaying to nothing is 20 years, and the Nuclear War happened circa 2013).But, then again, it has all the magic shit, much of Moscow still standing, and the Mutants.

[@EverettGuenther]

+flashman6342 Well Moscow is BARELY standing in that game. The magic shit is whatever but still, fairly realistic if you disregard it.

[@flashman6342]

Everett Guenther Moscow is barely standing? I'm sorry, but I don't recall a single patch of nothing. Everywhere (except for the park in Last Light) there are big old buildings. And there's still the Mutants.

[@EverettGuenther]

flashman6342 well all the fuckin windows are busted and shit, theres exsposed rebar and shit, its not glassed but it could all crumble pretty damn easy.

[@symptom3896]

Actually 5 nuklear missles (at least) droped on Boston but stil a good video

[@unsensiblemischeif]

This was one of the most well written vid-... ANYTHING I've ever watched

[@killer1479]

you forgot the nuclear launch site out there too :o with the nukes scattered around the land in crates and such

[@CuongTheAsian]

HOW THE FUCK DO THE CHILDREN OF ATOM SURVIVE IN THE GLOWING SEA...?!

[@sisusl7140]

Rad away? Rad X? They even have Rad in there name for fucks sake

[@olafviktormastermind]

+Xdrumpy But don't the children of atom WANT to bathe in radiation, to feel atom's glow? I'm pretty sure that the leader in fo3 didn't like those products, but idk.

[@talined2716]

I'm just admiring your music. It just matches so beautifully with the script, and it's like the best classical music. Jk, I'm not JUST admiring the music, but I've been thinking about it for a bunch of episodes

[@Wookiewalker654]

I love shoddy cast. Just finished the store teller episodes now I'm here lol

[@swagmund_freud6669]

3:25 We have conceived of anti-Matter bombs which has the potential do destroy the entire planet

[@thermodrilling8882]

to worry about that ever being a thing because it's extremely difficult to contain antimatter it dissipates quicker than you can use it and it cost a lot of money to make a gram I think it cost like six billion dollars to make 3 grams of antimatter and plus it dissipates extremely quickly but if it was cheaper and we had something to store it in yes indeed an antimatter weapon could easily destroy Earth

[@swagmund_freud6669]

wall rider it is possible

[@spiderlillyw]

+wall rider I wasn't even aware that antimatter was proven to be real. I thought it was just a theory, but meh

[@thermodrilling8882]

No it is

[@swagmund_freud6669]

big b0ss It is a theory. That doesn't mean it hasn't been proven. Gravity is a theory and it's been proven.

[@ConnorLundeen]

I just found something quite interesting. I was messing around on NUKEMAP and found, that it would make no sense for the Glowing Sea to be created by the same bomb that destroyed Boston. The explosion is *way* too small. Plus, in the intro, isn't the explosion facing North when you run to the vault? Maybe the nuke that caused the glowing sea came after the initial detonation, but still... Curious...

[@claytonwilson7771]

It's in the correct direction, and it's on top of a nuclear generator

[@ConnorLundeen]

A nuclear generator or even a reactor as the size of Chernobyl still wouldn't account for the damage.

[@ConnorLundeen]

*And* I looked on the wiki. There was only one detonation in Boston.

[@RebelInTheF.D.G]

There's a large crater just outside of downtown Boston to the south, just above Big John's Salvage and below the freeway. I've never been able to figure out what it's from, but its a radiation hotspot. I've always assumed it's a second impact site. Could be a case of the wind carrying the fallout from the second blast towards the impact site of the intro bomb.

[@paynsiclesproductions9316]

Airburst. First one was airburst which has a wider destructive range. Thats the one we see in the intro. Gotta remember the great war was 2 hours, and the world was reduced to cinders in the process. The bomb that made the glowing sea was likely a big, dirty ground burst bomb that hit sometime after we go into 111.

[@ericalbers4867]

There are tactical reasons for using smaller yield bombs. Most of our thermonuclear stockpile is between 100-500kt. Megaton weapons are generally considered a waste. Drop 2 150kt bombs and you'll accomplish more than just a single 1 megaton bomb.

[@that1kidvincent]

At 2:08 the bomb looks like an enraged demon face opening it's mouth to yell at us.

[@LLLadySSS]

We have a lot of nuclear reactors in Belgium 😬 🤯

[@lefishe2258]

@@ragnar0432 no u

[@ragnar0432]

@@lefishe2258 * Shows Uno reverse Card*

[@jwbman]

frank horrigan is a super mutant. they don't have genitalia.

[@luke8169]

they are sterile... not necessarily without genitalia

[@Gecko18045]

depending on fev strain. west coast mutants only have mytosis inhibited their reproductive systems are not destroyed

[@maledwarfwarrior]

+Jwbmanman Further expanding on the sterility, their mutation makes them incompatible with humanity because they don't have the same number of genes. For complicated reasons you need the name number of genes and similar genetics to procreate with another living organism. Supermutants are different enough that they may not meet this second requirement, and the lack of physiologically female mutants (even with female subjects undergoing mutation) may mean that no super-mutant has a complete set of female reproductive systems. With sufficient research a breed capable of self-reproduction may be possible, the Institute in FO4 being one of the only groups capable of doing so. However, it would require far fewer changes to human anatomy and the alteration of female eggs (yes, that is the scientific term. I didn't write it.) to the same level as the female. These mutants would require: Visible gender differences (breasts) Complete reproductive systems adapted for the changes to super-mutant anatomy (A lot of changes) A similar genetic code for a minimum of around 100 individuals, with a certain balance of genders. It would be simpler to give them cloning technology, and reproduce via clones. There are enough smart super-mutants, like Fawkes, to create a large collection of DNA to work with. Jacobstown would be an ideal location to start the project. This would require: Pre-war or post-war cloning technoligy The resources to maintain it through constant use (not much, see vault 108) Personal with the skill required to maintain it (again see vault 108) Sufficient nutrition surplus to feed the clones pre-birth. Considering that teleporters have been found with 3 factions so far across 5 games, two of which suffered hostility from super-mutants, the third never making first contact, a colony of smart super-mutants using this technology to find a cloning bay and start a civilization is so likely I would be surprised if it didn't happen multiple times across post-war USA. That has me thinking... who wants a Fallout 4X? It has incredible potential.

[@RamdomView]

The other reason for using smaller nuclear weapons is that it is simply more efficient in fissionables and hit chance to use many smaller explosions to destroy large soft targets like cities than it is to use a few large explosions. This is because explosions run afoul of the inverse square law in that increasing the yield of bombs will get you diminishing returns in destroyed area. Thus large soft targets get carpet nuked with

[@croder9629]

his characters name is shoddy mcpoop. the hero of the wasteland, shoddy mcpoop. beautiful

[@anthonyhodap1949]

do the science behind the subnautica planet.

[@ultratankie]

Hey Austin, I have a Skyrim science question: Assuming that there's enough lore data to give an accurate answer, is it possible for the eruption of Red Mountain to have caused the Great Collapse in Winterhold 118 years later?

[@wampower6848]

You're onto something

[@TheLadyGrimm]

I love it when you swear. No joke, it actually makes me super happy when you drop cluster F-bombs. Hehe. Bombs. Fallout. Heh.

[@SpottedHares]

Fun fact the Tsar Bomba need a parachute in order to give the flight team enough to to fly out of the blast radius. Even then their safety could not be guaranteed.

[@manacress85]

We should have a fallout game in china that would be cool

[@lockstock106]

+ManacressFilms China is already like fallout

[@manacress85]

+lockstock106 but still with it being nuked and all,

[@MG-_-1471]

+lockstock106 funniest comment lol

[@jonathanbaker8593]

I'm pretty sure in the Fallout universe China was literally nuked to shit and nothing could ever survive there. It would just be a bunch of craters lol

[@deathwatchtrooper4781]

+Mr Stringy China is the amazing vacation spot that is now called "Ghoul Land!".

[@electrok1ll704]

Canadians DO NOT SAY EH AT THE END OF EVERY FUCKING SENTANCE PPL!

[@cozyapustaja8249]

Eh

[@electrok1ll704]

fuck you

[@shaunmitchell9956]

hahaha

[@leesnelgrove3690]

I think he's from Canada eh...

[@mariosonicboom123]

Ok, but as long as we keep the part of Canadians constantly apologizing.

[@fishbones971]

Coming from the future, I must say, those were the days. People could swear on youtube and not be canceled... Ah, I love it! Great vid btw

[@TimReeve93]

Well done, first 8 minutes were top notch.

[@zeppie_]

But if there's no fallout there, why is it so foggy?

[@NeedsMoreBirds]

Why the hell is the video ending at 8 minutes and 1 second on my end..? Before the page is done reloading it says it's a bit over 11 minutes long... and then changes to 8:01.

[@reivercaptain510]

+Astrid King Same, wtf's going on?

[@NeedsMoreBirds]

There should be more to it than this, because it just cuts off...

[@crazyash1999]

check the description. :)

[@Gustave_XIII]

+Crazyash1999 Fuck all that. Seriously? Browser based? How? Why? Is this a recent problem or just some dumb special snowflake occurrence?

[@NeedsMoreBirds]

Crazyash1999 That's such a bullshit bug. This video in this browser? Seems really arbitrary to me.

[@douglasmcintosh464]

i felt like he was gonna say- shoddycast, austin here with they way he started

[@Bigcheese1334]

So it's like covering your house in gunpowder Then being surprised when you drop a match and it all goes up