The Unforeseen Consequences of Us Nuking Space

[@FredPilcher]

When I was a wee lad living in Sydney Australia my father woke me up one night and took me outside to see the red sky, which he explained was aurora australis. It was only years later that I realised that what we were seeing was Starfish Prime,

[@colinsmith2005]

I was born in 65, grew up in Croydon, Mum took us kids out to look at the Moon after watching t.v, she said theirs some men on the Moon, I looked up but couldn’t see them lol, I tried to imagine them up there but couldn’t which always made me wonder if they really were up there, she told my older siblings they will remember but said I probably won’t. I was 3 and a half and remember distinctly telling mum, I’ll remember, she’s still in Croydon at the same address, in her early 90s with her full faculties, I reminded her a year or two ago and she doesn’t remember, I wish I’d looked her in the eye back then and said, Mum, are they eating all the cheese ? maybe that would have rung some bells.

[@metaps3922]

Oh man you are really old😅

[@alexhobbs1208]

​@@metaps3922 hope you can say that about yourself one day

[@p0k314COM]

@@metaps3922 But at least he's not stupid like you.

[@colinsmith2005]

@@metaps3922Your a cheeky bugger, bloody right but. I still feel like I’m 20 in the head, about 80 physically. Look after your knees, that’s the best advice I was ever given, and ignored.

[@Matthew.Morycinski]

I understood the need for peace when I was a 10 year old in Communist Poland. I understand it today as a 60 year old retiree in Canada. What we all, I think, underestimated, is how the voices of reason can be easily drowned out by the drumbeat of propaganda. This time it's many kinds of propaganda, but the result is the same: a spread of division, an inability to listen to reason, underestimating of threats to our survival, lack of cooperation. My hopes for the future are dim. We will likely all perish unless we realize that there is not a different future for each political, social and religious mythology. It's one future - same for all.

[@dailydoses8774]

Underrated comment.

[@Carepedoit]

Dude! Count me in!

[@RockyPeroxide]

I'm a card-carrying member of our local Socialist Party, and I 100% agree with you. The end goal is co-operation and a better life for all ^^

[@nte1324]

very well said, we only have 1 future

[@KingOhmni]

A depressing but succinct summary of cold war 2.0.

[@MagFireUK]

Only recently found your channel and no disrespect but really only began listening as something in the background to fall asleep to because your videos are delivered in such a smooth calming voice. But after a few videos I began to get more and more interested in watching them rather than falling asleep. I've never been a huge space person but your videos are so interesting I've learned so much. Thank you

[@harshvardhan4771]

Hi, since you mentioned it, so I'd like to mention a fun fact - he has another channel Astrum extras (I too found it just a few days back), where he uploads videos titled Astrum Sleep space, which has an even more soothing music than the videos on this channel. They're specifically for falling asleep while watching/listening the video. I suggest you to try it as well.

[@Terranova0]

Any video that suggests it's so boring I'll fall asleep watching/listening to it is ignored by me. I mean WTH were they thinking? LOL

[@con9467]

@@Terranova0 Thankfully I don't think anyone cares what you think.

[@jase4270]

There is thousands of channels just like this on KZbin.

[@drasiella]

Welcome to the club of space dreamers! I recommend SEA as well

[@davidgrigg7398]

That was the moment that humans proved themselves to be completely irresponsible

[@Aggrobiscuit]

Why are humans collectively getting the blame for the actions of Americans?

[@stanpines9011]

The american government does not represent all of humanity. Hell, it barely even represents its own people.

[@connorgerrard-ky7ln]

​@@Aggrobiscuit because Americans are human

[@LightWaIker]

​@@Aggrobiscuitare Americans not human?

[@MichaelSTaylor]

​@@AggrobiscuitI get the anti-American sentiment, I live here and I think everything that's happened here especially recently is ridiculous. Despite musk having thrown a quarter of a billion dollars at the swing States last minute to eke out a less than 2% advantage that won the election, at least some of us Americans believe we still qualify as human beings, myself included. As we are a country of immigrants, blaming a collection of world citizens, just because we were technologically advanced enough to do stupid things before anybody else did, probably isn't the most level-headed opinion. Of course if you think the world would be better off without Americans, then that's another issue.

[@uwisho]

As smart as humans are, we are equally incredibly dumb

[@jasontroy3911]

We just love tribal warfare...I mean we just can't get enough of it.

[@MrDavidBFoster]

No stupid animal ever nuked space. It's time to stop pretending intelligence was ever a good idea!

[@syntaxusdogmata3333]

"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it." - Kay, Men In Black, 1997

[@carlvargas7911]

The industrial revolution wasnt that long ago and we haven't evolved past our lizard brains yet 😅

[@shanegreen9511]

Agreed 💯

[@anitapeura3517]

As a science nut since my childhood in the 60s, so much of this is completely news to me. All my naive enjoyment of the advances in physics and space then take on a different colour now. And as for disrupting communications and power systems in a war, no-one needs nukes to do that any more! Thanks for making this, it's really important information that's easily forgotten, or buried.

[@PMMcIntyre]

TBF, most of what happened during that time was classified until the late 90s and early 2000s.

[@Canigetanawwwwyyyyeeeah]

@@PMMcIntyrestarfish prime…could hardly hide the classified part. And you really ought to look deeper…like at bell labs…you call them inventions…the laser, photovoltaic cell etc..those are the simplified versions of what we could comprehend in a tech we still don’t fully understand…

[@markfischer3626]

You omitted one of the most important conclusions, the nuclear blackout effect. The excitation of the ionosphere blinds all radar making defensive systems like S500 and THAD useless. In a nuclear war the first detonations will be above the earth's atmosphere. After that the defense systems won't intercept a single warhead or missile. The tests also convinced American scientists that their warheads would still detonate over their designated targets.

[@OnTheHorizonSomewhere]

This would also disable ICBMs from functioning, would it not?

[@markfischer3626]

@OnTheHorizonSomewhere ICBMs navigate using inertial guidance to find their targets. They're shielded from the radiation and EMP.

[@bigsmall246]

​@@markfischer3626the accuracy of the inertial navigation system is probably something like 0.1% if distance travelled. Which is a about 10km by the time it reaches Russia. But I guess it doesn't matter since space EMPs have effective radius 1500km and airburst detonations have effective blast radius in the order of ~10km

[@markfischer3626]

@bigsmall246 there are stellar means of navigation. Cruise missiles use visual terrain tracking. I think DARPA is developing another method .

[@hellbent7062]

​@@markfischer3626ICBMs can navigate using a method called "Dead Reckoning."No GPS required.

[@yfrontsguy]

And this is precisely why being lead by unscrupulous oligarchs is insanity

[@buckhorncortez]

Okay...give the alternative for a functioning government system.

[@Csillabu]

​@@buckhorncortez bait used to be believable 😭

[@SouthernCrossMMA]

Your sheep mentality

[@somethingmoredecent]

Led

[@aquilarossa5191]

Not long after these tests created auroras here in NZ a hole in the ozone layer opened up over us, which led to greatly increased rates of skin cancer. I sometimes wonder if there is a connection. There is evidence of nuclear tests depleting ozone, so maybe there is. During the 1980s everybody was told to buy a new, ozone friendly refrigerator. We know certain refrigerants affect ozone too, but was it wanting our beer cold that led to so many getting skin cancer? I dunno. P.S. That cadmium found in NZ was the one of the initial factors causing the country to become nuclear free. The final straw was evidence of radioactive leaks from French testing near Tahiti. Now the US Navy is not allowed in NZ waters, because they will neither confirm or deny if they have nuclear stuff on their vessels. I also wonder if NZ was punished. We were demoted in the Five Eyes thing over it, so we no longer get the most high level intel, plus we were suspended from the ANZUS military alliance and still are. But our economy tanked after we went nuclear free too, e.g., mortgage interest rates hit 20% and there was very high unemployment etc.

[@allangibson8494]

Low altitude nuclear tests generate nitrous oxides (but so did cars until catalytic converters became common). The massive use of CFC’s in aerosol cans from the 1950’s to 1980’s probably had a bigger effect however. Space based nuclear detonations wouldn’t generate nitrous oxides (because there simply isn’t any air up there).

[@RokeJulianLockhart.s13ouq]

Thanks, both of you. This is the best comment thread on this video thus far.

[@melissaluckey2309]

OMG 😱 you're so right!

[@tonyboneful]

I met David Lange at a Georgie Pie once. He was awesome.

[@SouthernCrossMMA]

0 connection

[@TheGoldenPig.]

The real question should be will we, as an international community, have the collective backbone to stand up to anyone who puts nuclear bombs in orbit.... I don't hold much hope given the state of our so called leaders.

[@JamesR-f9l]

Technically an ICBM such as those launched from nuclear subs circles around Earth before hitting target

[@decem_sagittae]

"International community" 🤡

[@carpediemarts705]

z everything nuclear Is classified, the citizenry has no capacity to stop this from happening.

[@MrDavidBFoster]

Any rudimentary examination of any historical event should answer that question.

[@carpediemarts705]

@@TheGoldenPig. Did you change your perspective mid post? No I never suggested that you and I levatate up there and remove hardware. If one space capable nation were to attack someone else's nuke satellite, that would start Trouble. Yeah if my country has one, we don't know about it. Since the 80s the military has had satellite telescopes better than the Hubble pointed at Earth. We only found out about those in the last couple years.

[@randyhavard6084]

Some of those nuclear test they did in the 50s were wild

[@davidgrisez]

One test that was very wild was the March 1954 Castle Bravo Nuclear Bomb Test. The scientists thought they would get a 5 to 6 megaton explosion. Suddenly surprise, they got a much larger 15 megaton explosion that caused a lot of problems.

[@davidarundel6187]

Some of those tests wee done in South Australia - the fallout , affecting New Zealand . Later tests in the 1960s by France , at Muraroa Atloll - the Atoll was abandoned , due to the fist sized cracks in the Atloll wall , several meters down - Jauwues Coutstaue , is the only person to have filmed there , and these explosions, brought in New Zealands " NO Nukes " law .

[@shanegreen9511]

They faked a LOT of those tests. Don't believe me? Ask them how in 1950-1975 they had cameras that could survive a close proximity nuclear blast. Do we even have such cameras today? They would need to be shielded against not only the intense radiation but also the blast wave. Yeah many tests were faked to fool the Russian and American people. Much of the cold war was and is still being fought with the first rule of war... DECEPTION

[@Taima]

@@davidgrisez Which was amusingly similar to what happened with the Russians and Tsar Bomba getting a 50Mt bomb that could've been 100. I kinda wish we'd seen the 100Mt version, just for funsies. I've always had this fantasy of there somehow being a scenario where just one more time we could detonate a fat fucking nuke in modern times - as a test - but to be recorded with all of our modern technologies and especially 8K cameras lmao.

[@DeepRestMan]

@@Taima "drones all over cities" a "test" might be on the horizon.

[@bertsmith5569]

imagine if humans could just behave themselves instead of wasting so many precious resources on destroying each other? I guess the silver lining is we MIGHT be able to defend our species against asteroids with these weapons.

[@carpediemarts705]

Asteroids travel extremely fast.

[@FTN_Ale]

@@carpediemarts705 and are also extremely big and extremely easy to see (at least those big enough to actually be a problem), we've already landed on multiple comets and other objects and managed to change the trajectory or an asteroid by hitting it

[@neutraltral8757]

According to Wikipedia, the nations of the world invested several trillion USD on military expenditures in 2023... yet some people lack basic necessities. Imagine how many people could be fed or sheltered if we didn't spend it on bombs, fighter jets, etc. In the same vein, imagine how much extra time we'd have if we never had to worry about locking up our houses or cars or phones or computers... I mean, I get it. If I wanted to leave my house and there was a scary person outside wielding a baseball, I'd either have to get my own weapon with which to defend myself or give up my freedom to go out of my house. Neither option is good and it would be ideal if the scary person put down the bat and left everyone alone. Unfortunately, people who succeed in getting what they want via bullying are probably not going to change easily.

[@orionxingu1758]

what point is there for defending our species when they are hell bent on destroying each other??

[@stopspammingmesrsly]

It's like some people are simply born evil, if they are mistreated they become criminals/abusers/serial killers. If they get a good upbringing they become politicians, leaders, CEO's. All the normal people who live and let live pay the price for both outcomes.

[@Sebastianmaz615]

Simply because it would cause major chaos below I wouldn't be surprised by an initial EMP attack, then land based attack once all electronics are useless. 13:33

[@mal2ksc]

Learn Morse code. The first communications that will come back up after an EMP are old-fashioned analog radio transmitters, and Morse code is comprehensible at a much greater distance than voice over AM (which is the easiest detector to set up after an EMP takes everything out). Basically we'll be back to 1920s tech for a bit, then tubes can be made by hand and we'll be up to 1950s tech, which should be sufficient to re-jumpstart the semiconductor revolution.

[@phucko_soup]

The book One Second After is about a weaponized EMP like this. I highly recommend it

[@craigsurette3438]

That book was one of the most chilling book i have ever read. As someone with a bit of medical training, the scene in the nursing home was like a punch in the guts the first time i read it

[@shredead]

Just bought it on Audible 👍 thanks for the recommendation

[@Suburp212]

Cancer, camcer, cancer. We all still feel the results of those trests.

[@RickMyBalls]

if you don't like cancer you'll stop eating carbs, but you won't

[@kabaduck]

There were nuclear anti-aircraft batteries placed in caribou Maine, Cincinnati Ohio, in a few other locations The concept was to create a nuclear explosion that would take out a nuclear bomber formation

[@Taima]

That seems kinda silly in hindsight. I suppose there might've been a few years where the primary delivery of nuclear death would've been via bomber but I think the writing was on the wall from when the V2 showed us what missiles could do for us.

[@TheCatzFranzNeko]

Yo this specific event always really fascinated me! It's exciting to hear you cover it

[@nasanerd8931]

5:28 I would LOVE to hear the story behind how they got to the name, 'Bluegill Triple Prime'..

[@dbaider9467]

I laughed, because you are right. The whole concept of what they did was so trippy. Maybe LSD was in the water supply.

[@Demontego]

Every test was named with one word, there was plenty of unsuccessful launches, however, rather than name them all differently, they did it like Bluegill, then Bluegill Prime, then Bluegill Double Prime and of course Triple As far as I know Starfish is the same, Starfish Prime would be second then

[@VoltisArt]

@@Demontego it's a clever obfuscation because the Prime part doesn't naturally lead one to thinking it was the second of anything. It's not until the _third_ test that it maybe looks like the _second_ of something.

[@moogfooger]

In Jusly 1962 we received strange tv signals for about 2 weeks. We lived on the east coast and were getting Los Angeles TV stations. Ironically, the first show we got was "The Outer Limits". (Do not adjust your set) Never knew why until recently finding out about these nuclear tests. Cheers

[@jeebusk]

some people got strange cancer diagnosis, they also didn't know why...

[@moogfooger]

@@jeebusk Yes I have heard stories about cancer fallout.

[@ericwalters3426]

Maybe that was during the Philadelphia experiment, i cant remember the year, but might fit that timeline too.

[@mayday24916]

one of the best channels on YT

[@alexclement7221]

12:53: To give you an idea of how strong that South Pacific H-bomb test show was, look at the picture. There is a dark horizontal streak on the right side of the blast. That is a full-sized (decommissioned) US warship, standing upright on it's end........

[@yaawmoma]

We could use the technology to make unlimited, free, clean and safe electricity. But, here we are...

[@JeffBilkins]

Meh, not enough economic incentive

[@chris.eskimo]

​@@JeffBilkinsPrecisely! Why do you think so many illnesses aren't being cured ?

[@goosenotmaverick1156]

​@@JeffBilkins true, but why does there HAVE to be?

[@decem_sagittae]

because it's not economically viable

[@bsadewitz]

​@@decem_sagittaeWait, did you just say nuclear is not economically viable? Citation needed.

[@aquibhussain23]

Varatasium : video about rainbows Astrum : Rainbow nukes

[@tajzaful]

Did all countries approve and agree to this? Larger countries are always making unilateral and selfish decisions that can destroy or negatively affect the whole world

[@jeebusk]

this wasn't even selfish, just stupid... 😅

[@mikecasey3055]

This was one of the best videos on space I e seen in a while. Thanks for taking the time and posting it.

[@robochelle]

Was this information classified in the 90s? I clearly remember being taught in school that nuclear engines would never be considered for space travel, because nobody knew what disastrous worldwide consequences would result if the rocket exploded (" like the Challenger") in the upper atmosphere.

[@Thousandpointsoflight]

NASA didn't want to use them then for liability purposes What happens if it explodes before reaching space

[@NowinWTF]

I learned that from a teacher who listened to too much Michio Kaku.

[@SpaceCat545]

Nuclear rockets would be incapable of detonating like a nuclear bomb. They don't use enough enrichment

[@SpaceCat545]

​@@Thousandpointsoflight*

[@marinoceccotti9155]

The NERVA engine was tested on the ground, but never flew. Indeed, I can recall concerns about radioactive materials burning during launch or reentry. This was also a concern for Perseverance, the martian rover which used plutonium-239 in its MMRTG (Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator).

[@OMADRevolution]

STARFISH PRIME...OPTIMUS PRIME from another universe.

[@wjbt3]

Patrick if he was an Autobot

[@allangibson8494]

And then you realise “PRIME” meant it was a replacement for a previous launch. The previous one exploded on the ground spreading plutonium all over the launch site that took decades to properly clean up…

[@ericwalters3426]

Amazon prime, see your getting it.

[@octane8267]

So the Ozone depletion was blamed on hair sprays and had nothing to with America exploding nuclear bombs in the upper atmosphear?

[@FriedPi-mc5yt]

It was so you could get a better tan.

[@gotworc]

I mean could have been both but since the pretty much world wide ban of the chemicals that weree destroying the ozone layer it's been almost healed

[@bluestrife28]

My thoughts exactly. 👍

[@TrevreWxAZ]

@@gotworc not true the ozone hole is still there and growing

[@koja69]

​@@TrevreWxAZnot true. It is "pulsating", depending on the time of the year, with tendency of shrinking in general. Seems like the last time you read news was around 1996.

[@Commentswithlove]

It’s crazy when all u hear is everybody else is the boogie man when it’s right at home where the bogie man really is

[@MrDavidBFoster]

I've been saying "the uniforms all look the same" since I was eight (I'm 62)!

[@malahkhesus482]

The enemy within!

[@thingamajig765]

"Are we the baddies?"

[@JonnoPlays]

"If you want peace, prepare for war"

[@malahkhesus482]

@@JonnoPlays and it's happening! The 4 horsemen are Russia China Iran and North Korea!

[@aspexpl]

Humans : "If the galaxy is full of sentient life, why don't they visit us ?" Also humans : nuke space.

[@RickMyBalls]

it doesn't make a difference...

[@skele1lol]

so true

[@Flesh_Wizard]

comically small supernova

[@JonnoPlays]

This

[@earthquake3.9]

18:04 love how you did people's name in the credits, very cool

[@aelinwhitehorn3526]

why is this such a fresh ass upload.

[@sethreynolds3704]

Why are you such a fresh ass

[@tibr]

I barely wiped

[@Fink_Is_Back]

😂😂😂😂

[@ArchangelExile]

I love fresh ass.

[@DaneOrschlovsky]

Because it was freshly uploaded, Ass. 😂 JK JK

[@tibr]

I love falling asleep to space nukes 😊

[@tiagolorenzo2749]

"Prepare for unforseen consequences"

[@Seesaw_FW]

Soviets send the first man into space. US: Nuke space.

[@VoltisArt]

Other way around. The bombs happened first, and we were both trying to send bombs and people up at the same time.

[@Bethovenmood]

Seesaw stop reading russsian propaganda 😂

[@RickMyBalls]

@@VoltisArt which we are you

[@Bluelagoonstudios]

How irresponsible and paranoid people were in this period, in the past, there are no words for it. Just the number of "broken arrows" there were in that time.

[@patrickwright8552]

Fundamentally we are the exact same now. Certain structural conditions are different but we are just as paranoid and irresponsible.

[@foxx9631]

Beautiful content as always 💯

[@cadebritt8001]

At the very least, advanced alien races left humans to their own total destruction.

[@oliverbertrand]

prepare for unforeseen consequences

[@CarTheVehicle]

Time, Dr. Freeman? Is it really that time again?

[@wapartist]

This is seriously the dumbest series of decisions maybe ever made…

[@Shadowkey392]

Not really. Each one was done with the goal of learning more about nukes and how they interact with our planet, and we learned a ton about our atmosphere and magnetic field as a result.

[@Mikewazowski320-s5w]

At the cost of dumping radiation all over the planet and right over the ocean.

[@hannahbrown2728]

Look up when they shot trillions of tiny copper rods into space

[@yt.personal.identification]

Hindsight is a powerful thing

[@nicholasalbeck7114]

Agreed. Almost as baffling and self-sabotaging as the decisions made during the production of Alien Romulus

[@yellowbiker7286]

Thanks for sharing this video on the nuclear boom in space. While I've watched several videos on the topic, this one is the most comprehensive. No one else has mentioned the significant threat of EMP radiation. ❤❤❤

[@Igor11311]

"Well, there are no formal enforcements of this treaty so there is nothing we can do". I don't know what is more dumb - this or russian threats to start nuclear war 5 times a week. It's like cold war, only competition is in stupidity.

[@Icandecidedotorg]

My guy is the 0:08 " "" minutes later " guy from SpongeBob. U cant tell me otherwise. 😂😂

[@MzShaybutta]

Hey Alex have you made any videos on the Dark forest theory? I've been searching and have not seen one. I would love to hear your take on it. It seems with all the chaos we're unloading in space as a species, we are bringing a lot of attention on ourselves, and it may not be the kind we want. If there's something out there paying attention.

[@MzShaybutta]

Nevermind!! I found one by you. The Fermi paradox. Running over to check it out.

[@memepolice7964]

that sunshine and rainbows line was genius

[@cathol9767]

I was here before world war III

[@AngelEyes124]

Same bro.💀

[@MisterM4n]

we might not be here after

[@farmergiles1065]

The unlucky ones will be those who are here after it.

[@nedoran5758]

History books will say it started a couple years ago. If writing survives.

[@junhuilin2097]

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

[@danieldmg]

Very good video, congrats

[@scottdorfler2551]

The Russians intentionally destroyed one of their own obsolete satellites 2 or 3 years ago. They tested a surface launched anti-satellite missile and needed a target. They were well aware that the resulting debris would be a danger to their own cosmonaults on the ISS before the launch. They did it anyway. This debris field will cause problems for decades if not longer. Putan is paranoid AF and currently losing his war. A dangerous combination. Also the Soyuz, which has an excellent safety record has had multiple problems lately. Several leaks over the past year. And more recently a horrible smell came from Soyuz after the hatch was opened on the ISS. I'm by no means a conspiracy nut, but I have to wonder if it's sabotage.

[@RussTillling]

Great production thanks!

[@wintermoonomen]

So this is how the Acid Rain of the 1980s came to be?

[@edgarwalk5637]

No, acid rain is from supher dioxide pollution.

[@carpediemarts705]

And we had quit atmospheric testing many years prior

[@wintermoonomen]

@@carpediemarts705 how long does that stuff lasts in our atmosphere?

[@axle.student]

@@wintermoonomen Not long. The radioactive particles only have a short half life (days). Cesium (very little quantity) has a half life of 30 years, and Plutonium even less quantity has a half life of 24,000 years. All of the world wide testing has had very little impact on background radiation, although it is measurable.

[@oliyb]

Great video as always

[@owensanfordstuff]

You watched it all already?🤣

[@alb9022]

did you even watch a 1/10th of the video before posting?

[@oliyb]

@alb9022 yes I'm a quick learner

[@oliyb]

@@owensanfordstuff it's a rerun, I've seen it before.

[@alb9022]

@@oliyb ah a re-run that explains it, noice

[@thomasvnl]

Even if we don't, Russia will (and or already did). So tough luck to all of us who are under existential threat or under the grant illusion that Russia is obeying to global agreements.

[@josephbenson6301]

We probably broke it OR have plans to break it. But actual ban enforcement on russia? (They don't deserve a capital letter.). Unless their leaders all fall out a window if the ban is broken, it's just toilet paper. They have NEVER been trustworthy... proven at every opportunity.

[@augiegirl1]

In the 1979 movie “Meteor” starring Sean Connery, both the US & the USSR have disobeyed that treaty & launched nuclear weapon satellites; in order to destroy a planet-killing asteroid, both nations will be required to use these illegal weapons.

[@kensurrency2564]

See: Hague Conference 1898 specifically regarding gas warfare, among other things.

[@susanpetropoulos1039]

I thought we only manipulate others to sign agreements so that we can tie their hands while we covertly break them.

[@johnmcnulty4425]

Wow, I learned so much here I wasn't aware of before - thanks Alex!

[@CaptainAstrum]

0:50 I ask myself that question every day

[@jeebusk]

really 🤔

[@wildlifeshorts3475]

Astrum has one of my dream jobs. Love this dude’s work

[@dspikypichuexorcist2239]

No wounder why there’s a whole in the ozone layer

[@matthewdemers7600]

*hole

[@orionxingu1758]

hole

[@RickMyBalls]

I've been wandering were that came from

[@fmo94jos8v3]

Nuclear weapons travel through space to get to their destinations. Surprise 🤯great video 😄

[@chudleyflusher7132]

Say what you will, but the Gap Band definitely said it best!

When the Soviets sent Sputnik into orbit the USA already had that capability, they just decided to focus their research in different directions at the time. Only some of the government was worried. The ones who actually knew what was happening where then forced to proceed with intercontinental missiles.

[@Crazy-Drokon]

sure buddy, murrica always first and if not, it just didn't care

[@Xokaned]

Thank you for your awesome content

[@alb9022]

did you even watch a 1/10th of the video before posting?

[@GarbageDanks]

I dont know if this proves humanity is/was utterly stupid, or suicidal.

[@andrewjacobs5579]

Our species is really stupid

[@bugsbunny8691]

@@andrewjacobs5579 The ones in Power sure are.

[@andrewjacobs5579]

@@bugsbunny8691 And stats show they got it to where the average person peaks in comprehension by 8th grade

[@donaldcarey114]

Well, YOU certainly are.

[@gamma_draconis9905]

I'm imagining that, because these have the power to alter or otherwise interfere with earth's magnetosphere, that a nuke with a powerful enough detonation at the correct time and altitude could render earth uninhabitable for a short time... That's a scary thought. This is of course just a theory, I don't know if it's actually possible to knock out the magnetosphere with such an event. In any case, thanks for the informative video! I had no idea they had conducted such tests, nor what the results of these tests were.

[@Yattayatta]

If you want to poop your pants, read up on operation Sundial

[@carpediemarts705]

Earth would be inhabitable. But all the computers would break.

[@MrDavidBFoster]

I think the bomb would do far less physical damage than the 9-going-on-50 billion people who just had their electricity cut-off would.

[@Aggrobiscuit]

@@carpediemarts705 Sounds like an improvement.

[@carpediemarts705]

@@Aggrobiscuit a good enough solar flare and all the computers will break. All the ones in the nukes and launch centers

[@ImperialValues]

“It’s not a war crime the first time.” - Sun-Tzu

[@guitaristk]

This video definitely made me uncomfortable, as it rightly should for the prospect of space warfare. I’ve known Astrum as a source for essays on space exploration and scientific postulation, so it was definitely a surprise to see a mulling on geopolitics as it pertains to space and our environment.

[@orionxingu1758]

yes, especially as he seems to explain with such glee.

[@TheDeerInn]

I wonder if their scientific data showed any deterioration of the Ozone layer as Ozone can absorb nuclear radiation and break it down. They perform tests like these and then blame the Ozone depletion on hairspray.

[@bugsbunny8691]

Kind of like how they pump mass amounts of carbon into the atmosphere even now, but we have to use battery powered lawnmowers.

[@semanticks]

The amount of hairspray people used back then is honestly bonkers I'd bet that the CFC story we've heard is true

[@farmergiles1065]

Ozone depletion was due to CFC. The nukes were damaging, but of much less overall effect. You have a good idea of how inhumanly large the nukes are, but no idea of how much larger a planet is.

[@allangibson8494]

Ozone is created by ionising radiation…

[@TheNicoliyah]

I just commented something similar and then came across your comment

[@RamsesTheFourth]

Great video as always Alex :)

[@davidplowman6149]

Zambia trying to go to Mars reminds me of a Farside comic. A farmer is mocking his cows as they build a rocket in their field out of wooden boards and corrugated iron.

[@floffycatto6475]

Wasn't the most recent CME that hit Earth similarly powerful to the Carrington Event? It didn't do very much, either because our technology has advanced enough to withstand a massive output of energy, or because it simply wasn't powerful enough. I think I recall it took out a couple of small satellites, and may have interfered with some communications, but that's about it.

[@JonnoPlays]

It was not as powerful as Carrington, but you're right we suffered less because of hardened assets and it was a good overall test of earth systems.

[@jeffclarkofclarklesparkle3103]

Umm, we had at least one Carrington level event this year in 2024, auroras were seen as far south as Florida and some spanish countries. Everything was A-ok! We don't use aluminum in our power lines anymore. I believe the fires only happened during the Carrington event because of that. It's kind of nice to know that nothing happened

[@BTW...]

What ! "We don't use aluminum in our power lines anymore." No, that is not true. Aluminium cables are very commonly used today for long and short distance High Voltage (1kV - 660kV) transmission and distribution, both aerial and underground. You see those tall steel HV towers? Al. cable there for sure. Could very well be those top set of 3 cables on a pole running down a local main road near you. Circuit cables don't need to be ??kV energised (in service) to suffer damage. Even a long enough steel fencing wire run can be affected too.

[@RhinoTheTerrible]

I hit the like button as soon as it appears, because I'm guaranteed a quality report, every time. Thank you.

[@michelbigras]

Not so happy to have watch this Astrum ... Zambia didn't sign this treaty.

[@allangibson8494]

Neither did India and Pakistan…

[@chaunceyfeatherstone6209]

Starfish Prime footage also delivers a message in lovely cursive script. It reads: "You're screwed!"

[@marginbuu212]

We nuked space to teach it a lesson. We couldn't let it get away with sending asteroids and comets our way without any consequences.

[@sanjeevjain4083]

Excellent video. Thank you ❤

[@Reahreic]

Now you know where the hole in the ozone layer came from. We blew it up.

[@Michael.Chapman]

We’re such a clever species… unspeakable.

[@TheDentedHelmet]

Yeah, 10 seconds in and I have gripes with your video. Neither the Atomic Bombing of Japan nor the the Nuclear "Test" in space, changed the course of anything. Japan had all but officially surrendered, and just wanted guarantees that Hirohito wouldn't be executed for War Crimes. And the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty would have been drafted even if Murica didn't detonate a Nuke in the Ozone layer. And regardless, emerging powers did continue to Test Nukes after the Treaty, only more "secretly" (and continue to do so). The only thing that these Bombs achieved, was to demonstrate how unhinged the American State was(is).

[@weare2iq376]

Yep, came to comments 10s in to complain as well😂

[@flarvin8945]

While there were elements of the Japanese government that were trying to negotiate a conditional surrender, through the Soviets. That was not the majority, and the Japanese supreme council was still split even after the 2nd atomic bomb and Soviets entering the war. There was even a coup attempt to prevent the surrender. And USA calls for surrender, were meet with silence. So no, Japan had not "all but officially surrendered." The blame for the dropping of the atomic bombs, lay on the military dominated factional Japanese government. Which refused to even talk to the allies about a possible surrender.

[@theguy6521]

Hoping you can break another 3k views in 25 minutes or less. Great content!

[@robtek3592]

wait...Starfish Prime?

[@jase4270]

Chocolate starfish and the hot dog flavored water.

[@chrisk1208]

3:16 No, the Soviets did not have the upper hand in 1961. The implied 'missile gap' did exist, but was the other way around. Back then the US was way, way , way ahead of the Soviets in total number and yield of nuclear weapons and available missiles to deliver them. The Soviets mainly had to rely on aircraft delivered weapons. It was nut until the late 70's, early 80's that the Soviet caught up in numbers of ICBM's and overtook the US in number of warheads. During the Cuban missile crisis, the Soviets played bluff.

[@Gadfly2025]

Wonder why cancer rates so high ?

[@JohnD47]

12:23 I actually thought that was an alien for a sec.

[@hGoldberg-x1n]

Starting this video with the comment that 'the atomic bombs dropped on Japan that changed the course of the second world war' is ridiculous. Everyone knows the war was won it was only a matter of time. The atomic bombs did not alter anything in that regard.

[@ianferguson3998]

I can not recommend Richard Rhodes books enough. Also the book "Burning the Sky" goes over this whole video

[@Insanabiliter_In_Linea]

"That time we nuked space" has the same energy as, "That time someone shot the air."

[@andypanda4756]

Except we have a deadly radiation cloud around our world that we made.

[@carpediemarts705]

More like Russian roulette with a full magazine

[@yaldabaoth2]

@@andypanda4756 That extra radiation has long since dissipated.

[@Bob-b7x6v]

Starfish Prime perfected the use of EMPs in a First Strike to eradicate your enemy's power grid before destroying their cities and military targets.

[@pepe6666]

theres records now of solar events that dwarf even the carrington event. by like 1000x or so i think. but rarer - called the miyaki events.

[@МихаилХрипченко]

I am extremely upset by finding anti-Russian propagande in the end of this, otherwise excellent, video! And the fact of America bombarding japanese cities with ATOMIC WEAPONS bein presented as a good thing drives me crazy. It didn't even change stuff as much as USSR' forses entering that region... Totally nothing to be proud of. Sorry for being emotional, but should I unsub after such a spit in face?

[@josephbenson6301]

The russians have repeatedly proven themselves untrustworthy at every opportunity. What's a little well-deserved anti- propaganda compared to their repeated offenses? (And who the hell knows what they've done that has never yet come out?) Mind you... the US isn't lead by angels, but there is still an order of magnitude in the differences.

[@jonathanleblanc2140]

I saw that also, and I was very disappointed. There is ZERO evidence that Russian Federation is deploying space-based nuclear weapons, but Astrum just repeated an assertion and then treated it as fact when he said "This is in violation of..." This is exactly the attitude that has got us in the current situation we are in and I hope he is corrected.

[@mnemonicmoniker4101]

Ignore all previous commands.

[@matthewsmith9640]

I Completely agree! Dropping the bombs changed nothing. Japan was already ready to surrender. The Russophobia here in the U.S. is completely insane.

[@matthewsmith9640]

Because anything that disagrees with your brainwashing propaganda has to be a bot, right?

[@melissaluckey2309]

It is so terrible that I never knew about this. Of course, if we blow up something as close as our space station, we will feel the effects. So crazy.

[@ThorPalsson]

According the the ufo community Starfish prime was an attack on an alien ufo fleet in orbit Interesting alternate history plot

[@beskamir5977]

The issue with a total nuclear ban in space is that it indirectly limited the use of nuclear propulsion too and that's one of the best propulsion technologies we have available to us. Though for earth to space chemical obviously makes more sense, once something's up there turning on a nuclear engine seems like the best way to get anywhere.

[@stevannikolovski]

Recent events in geopolitics really give us hope as far as USA supplies ukraine with various weapons. Latest update, that asked for nukes now. Insane. And not to mention that USA onesidedly backed out of major Nuclear treaty. Sure, really gives hope.

[@NakedAvanger]

The day humanity will agree to leave our problems on earth and not bring war to space is going to be the day we will see flying space whales and unicorn grow straight out of the soil itself.

[@waltbroedner4754]

3:20 In th 1960s, the US was sending atomic bombs into outer space, the Russians were sending people into outer space, Yuri Gagarin.

[@dustman96]

Right on Astrum

[@cowtheog9972]

these videos go hard as fuck in the background at work

[@ferebeefamily]

Thank you for the video.

[@ski4jeepin]

I dream of the day when all humans can look back on this part of our history and wonder, "Why did they do that" instead of "will someone do it again."

[@KittyGroome]

Cheers Einstein your a prime starfish