These are the Places on Earth You Can't Visit

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@Sideprojects 2 ай бұрын

Go to sheathunderwear.com and use the code “SIDEPROJECTS” to get 20% off your order

@TijgerTim 2 ай бұрын

I HATE boxers...

@danburns4003 2 ай бұрын

What's the women's range like? Do they have 2 pockets either side for the gammon hangers? 😂

@charlesachurch7265 2 ай бұрын

@@Sideprojects I am fighting my enthusiastic expectation of these horrid crotch grabbers

@michgingras 2 ай бұрын

you interupted your snake bit to tell us what underwears you are wearing .... that was a very cheap shot .

@chronosschiron 2 ай бұрын

btw the usa had 6000 liberty ships at wars end and there are only a few left today

@mrcow20 2 ай бұрын

In the 80s, I had an argument with my teacher about the Island of Surtsey. He kept getting the name wrong instead calling it Xerxes and, as a nerdy 7 year old who knew better, I told him straight that he was wrong. A few days later he came to be and apologised, saying I was right and that he was impressed with my geography knowledge. He then gave me an atlas from the 1800s as a thank for you for not giving in. All credit goes to my Wheetabix Wonder World Atlas which I read over and over and over!

@EShirako 2 ай бұрын

Wow, that was a good teacher! And especially that atlas; so awesome!

@RossNaylor-j1q 27 күн бұрын

😂😂😂 xerxes the Persian war monger. your teacher must have been watching 300 before your class, well done for sticking to your guns and I am shocked that the teacher admitted his mistake. nice of him to admit his mistake and give you the confidence to carry on correcting mistakes made by others good work.

@AD-df5tm 2 ай бұрын

"We dont have a good answer but we do have a list" That line could sum up Simons whole career 😂

@allegorx58 Ай бұрын

so you understand humor then 👍

@paulmarynissen 2 ай бұрын

A tomato plant appeared on Surtsey island. They were wondering how it got there until it turns out one of the researchers had taken a dump. Not very careful.

@stevebutchart3638 2 ай бұрын

I was actually surprise they didn't use this fact as a segue into the Seed Vault chapter.

@chrishoule3431 2 ай бұрын

@@stevebutchart3638 I was thinking the same thing

@DFC667 2 ай бұрын

I thought this happened in the Galapagos Islands

@antiisocial 2 ай бұрын

Great video. Thanks simon. Thanks dave. Thanks video editor that I couldn't see the name of because there was a recommended video blocking your name.

@phillwainewright4221 2 ай бұрын

@@antiisocial Jennifer Da Silva and Alan Camarena. If you go through frame by frame you can piece it together

@ettorechiereguini4193 2 ай бұрын

There’s an interesting story about Queimada Grande. A fishermen's boat once stopped at the island to gather some fruit, but snakes managed to sneak onboard and bit the entire crew. When locals discovered the abandoned “ghost boat,” they ventured to the island and, in an attempt to rid it of snakes, tried to set the entire island on fire. The island’s name, Queimada Grande-roughly translated as “Big Burn”-comes from this very tale. I grew up in a town that this island is close, so yeah, that's a lot of tales.

@catherinenegus9094 2 ай бұрын

I bet you look nice in your sheath underwear.

@itsdan722 2 ай бұрын

And a lot of tails

@DenisR-tt1oe 2 ай бұрын

Simon sounds like he has a cold. Good luck Simon and feel better.

@ljfoster 2 ай бұрын

I was just thinking this, too! I didn't even recognize his voice for the first few seconds!

@paddyjoe1884 2 ай бұрын

I have a cold 2 seems to. B a strain going around

@kevinhanegan8900 2 ай бұрын

Same @@ljfoster

@RossNaylor-j1q 27 күн бұрын

Tis the season to be suffering with some type of cold/infection I live in Scotland and I have had a nasty chest infection already hopefully it is the only thing I get over the winter wrap up and keep your distance from people guys

@WayneSaggers 2 ай бұрын

I live not far from the Montgomery. There's currently a very big twist in that particular tale that you might be interested in. A ship that left a Russian port called the Ruby, carrying a cargo of highly explosive fertiliser many times more destructive than the bueirut explosion, which claims to be damaged, but seems to be perfectly navigable around critical infrastructure, is currently moored close enough to the Montgomery to spark a devastating explosion.

@the_basic_painter 2 ай бұрын

Not anymore it's not

@ignitionfrn2223 2 ай бұрын

0:40 - Chapter 1 - Snake Island 2:25 - Mid roll ads 4:00 - Chapter 2 - Richard montgomery 6:15 - Chapter 3 - North sentinel island 9:25 - Chapter 4 - The lascaux caves 11:50 - Chapter 5 - Surtsey island 14:25 - Chapter 6 - Doomsday vault 16:30 - Chapter 7 - Woomera prohibited area

@geoffreyparkinson3495 2 ай бұрын

PS - it is pronounced "Woom" (as in vroom, like a car) "Er" (as in her) "A" (as in ah) it is Australian Aboriginal for a stick used to throw a spear. Oh, and Hello from Adelaide

@samsmith9764 2 ай бұрын

ikr? Simons pronunciation gave me like 1 point of psychic damage every time he said 'woomera' 😅😅

@maxgood42 2 ай бұрын

or 'woom' as in woman , 'er' as in faster and 'a' as in car , and hay ya back at ya from Snowtown.

@arctain1 2 ай бұрын

As someone who was stationed there, I have now developed a facial tick after listening to Simon mispronounce Woomera…

@skydave9317 2 ай бұрын

Typical English speaker putting the emphasis on the second syllable. if the word isn't English, the emphasis is more than likely on the first syllable!

@arctain1 2 ай бұрын

@ - that’s a bit stereotypical

@bryanedwards5909 2 ай бұрын

Part of the Woomera test range, and area called Maralinga is probably off limits as the British exploded 7 nuclear devices there….

@Ghastly10 2 ай бұрын

Yeah Woomera was used as a rocket range by the UK and Australia. With the Maralinga nuclear testing I knew someone who was a part of that and they would tell me what it was like when they detonated a nuclear device, how the sky would change colours when it went off. My dad and I on our holidays in 1985 visited Woomera as the town now open to the public, and we explored the area it was very interesting place.

@gary3696 5 сағат бұрын

I lived in Woomera for close to 2 years, the father of our sons babysitter was an Australian Policeman. His duties included security checks of Maralinga, quit a terrible story about that place. I dearly loved Woomera and it's people, truly wish I could have stayed. The UFOs were more prominent to the North near Purple Downs.

@MrEnjoivolcom1 2 ай бұрын

1:05 Venomous, NOT poisonous.

@archmage_of_the_aether 2 ай бұрын

Have you ever eaten an entire venomous snake?

@Philip-w5l 2 ай бұрын

What is the difference 🤔??? Toe mah toes, toe May toes...

@Beardman56 Ай бұрын

@@Philip-w5lyou can drink venom not poison. If you ingest it and you die it's poison, if it's injected into your bloodstream is venom. Not a single snake is poisonous

@shaz-loves-coffee Ай бұрын

@@Philip-w5lhuge difference 🤦🏻‍♀️ the term venomous is applied to organisms that bite (or sting) to inject their toxins, whereas the term poisonous applies to organisms that unload toxins when you eat them.

@Nothingness00000-o 12 күн бұрын

@shaz-loves-coffee also through inhalation & through the skin eg- some types of Jellyfish, Blue Ringed Octopus. On the flora side, Poison Ivy.

@suzannemenuet947 2 ай бұрын

Watching these videos and then going to Brain Blaze is akin to culture shock 😂😂😂

@bogbupog 2 ай бұрын

For real, the editors really do have a big impact.

@AD-df5tm 2 ай бұрын

The funny thing is BB now is 100x less insane than it was orginally lol

@RankinMsP Ай бұрын

Just seen BB. Thought Simon had gone AWOL 😊 He is more significant than Musk for the internet

@suzannemenuet947 Ай бұрын

@@AD-df5tm Unfortunately, true.

@CC-gg4oj 2 ай бұрын

There is an island like Snake Island in Australia. It's full of King Brown snakes. Same deal as in Brazil, they only can hunt birds.

@Ashtarte3D Ай бұрын

Bit surprised the Cave of Crystals in Mexico isn't on here. It's a breathtaking cave of enormous crystals like something out of Dark Souls. But it's also dangerously humid and light on breathable air so it's off limits to all but the very, very few researches allowed in.

@Gremlack13 2 ай бұрын

John chau wasn’t a tourist. He was a Christian missionary thinking he could bring Christianity to the people. God didn’t protect him.

@IzzyPR2010 2 ай бұрын

His church encouraged him to attempt this and later tried to portray him as a martyr who was trying to bring Christianity to "Satan's last stronghold on Earth".

@simonlb24 2 ай бұрын

This is what happens when you try to force your beliefs on others who have no interest in them. Some will just ignore you. Others are a bit more aggressive and will push back. These guys really didn't want to know.

@markmh835 2 ай бұрын

@@simonlb24-- Well, let that be a lesson to the MAGAts and Project 2025ers who think they are going to take over the USA government to impose their beliefs on the whole country. Liberals own guns too. 🤔🫣😖🇺🇸

@rocketroux5838 2 ай бұрын

John Chau wasn't a tourist. He was an idiot.

@BrilliantDesignOnline 2 ай бұрын

DOH !

@Douguod1 2 ай бұрын

Woomera my home town. Fire across the desert is a great book.

@thelyrebird1310 2 ай бұрын

Woomera was a nuclear test site, as well as having been used for some years as a firing range for various ammunitions, I wouldn't go wandering around there though I have visited the places that is open to the public such as the township near by servicing the facility.

@tfodthogtmfof7644 2 ай бұрын

My Dad was there for a time in the early 70s. He told me it was against the law to be suspected of thinking of attempting to draw a map of the area. So he threw his ruler away because without it he could not draw something so flat and featureless. He also said you had to take a guide to play the golf course because the dunes shifted around regularly and it was a lot like playing in one big giant sand trap.

@user-re6yo7tj5s Ай бұрын

Snake island sounds like a good place to host all of next years multitude of reality ( the irony😂) TV shows.

@NunyaByness Ай бұрын

As a special forces geologist, I have access to all these places.

@Joseph-z7s3b 2 ай бұрын

The most verboten place on earth is the bunker that houses the A.I. construct that is Simon and his various KZbin channels. Many have tried to enter this bunker and they were never seen again. You've been warned.

@smokerjim 2 ай бұрын

Nobody is killed though - they're clapped in irons in the basement, given a glass of water, a slice of bread, some paper and a pencil and told if they want the rations to improve they need to start writing a script ... Stockholm syndrome then does the rest.

@Joseph-z7s3b 2 ай бұрын

@smokerjim Ha! What a grim fate. Writing scripts for The Simon. Remarkable that so few people don't know that The Simon isn't real. The evidence is plain. This big ol' world and nobody has ever crossed paths with The Simon,taken a selfie and posted it with a "look who I got a picture with!" He never makes any references to the outside, daily world either. They messed up my order,or some guy cut me off in traffic... what a dick! I'm slightly afraid though. The Simon is omniscient. If I know,then The Simon knows that I know... I'm leaving. This dialogue never happened. We should get rid of our phones. Or get good at writing scripts....

@hakuda2098 2 ай бұрын

Of course nobody leaves the Simon AI compound. They are all used to keep up the channel. You have no idea on how many brains the channels run. Literally.

@Joseph-z7s3b 2 ай бұрын

@@hakuda2098 Human batteries that power the cult known as Shining Cranium Of The Simon. It's somewhere between The Matrix and Scientology. Now that The Simon knows that we know,I expect an Agent to appear directly.

@hakuda2098 2 ай бұрын

@@Joseph-z7s3bDo not worry. You will be a fine addition to the Simon AI compound. As will I. Do not worry. Do not wor%&#§€%

@o.mcneely4424 2 ай бұрын

I’m sorry, but John Allen Chau was an entitled jackass. He didn’t want to “save” the Sentinelese, he wanted bragging rights. He put a severely vulnerable community at risk just so he might be able to convert them and get the ego boost that would come along with that. They’ve survived tens of thousands of years, and they’ve made their wishes clear. Leave. Them. The fuck. Alone.

@daerdevvyl4314 2 ай бұрын

Since your opinion is the approved one, I can't leave an unapproved rebuttal. Let's just say that I don't believe you're sorry.

@eddiebrown120 2 ай бұрын

You are one of my favorite contributors. Keep 'em coming; and don't change a thing!

@celem1000 Ай бұрын

Woomera was where the Blue Streak (British MRBM) was tested and where the UKs only satellite launch vehicle, Black Arrow, flew from. There are some crashed blue streaks out on the range still (heaps of rust at this point). Blue Streak initially served as the first stage of the ESA Europa vehicle. The Uk pulled out of that project and took its first stage with it to focus on Black Arrow (which didnt even use blue streak), but then cancelled the entire launch vehicle project before the first and only launch even took place. It only flew because it was already on a ship bound for Aus

@lynndonharnell422 Ай бұрын

Pronunciation is a bit off. It's a hard oo sound not a soft one

@bobthecomputerguy 2 ай бұрын

"Why doesn't anyone want to go to snake island?" Oh geez I don't know, real brain scratcher there.

@Stevo59-f4s 2 ай бұрын

I think your information regarding Woomera might be a little outdated Simon. As far as I am aware, the village of Woomera is now publicly accessible. The RAAF base further north of course will be rather restricted. Google streetview allows you to conduct a virtual tour of the area with many relics of times gone by on full view. One might safely assume that if we, the mere publics, weren't allowed to see these items, Google would have likely been instructed to obfuscate them.

@LKSimbalvr 2 ай бұрын

exactly. i've been to Woomera, and it is certainly not a restricted area these days

@froginasock8782 2 ай бұрын

Woomera Village is definitely accessible to the passing public, like any other housing suburb (but 200km in the middle of the desert). It's very historical and worth a visit.

@snarklar 2 ай бұрын

It's kind of amazing how many places that were completely off limits fairly recently, are not anymore

@Jul-66 2 ай бұрын

I honestly never heard of the SGSV being referred to as the "Doomsday Vault". It is very inaccurate to its mission, but it just sounds so heavy metal!🤘

@DEERMOUSE-66 2 ай бұрын

Swedes _love_ heavy metal!

@usarian 2 ай бұрын

I think I read somewhere that there are a network of seed vaults located all over. That they also house labs where they grow certain seeds in order to produce more seeds. And that there is a tightly controlled system via which authorized agencies may make withdrawals and deposits for research purposes

@RocketSurgn_ Ай бұрын

I’ve heard it pretty commonly called that when it comes up in the US, at least. With varying levels of seriousness. It does kind of fit the look of a doomsday bunker, and it’s not too hard to twist the environmental controls/and concept from the more mundane sounding (but still important!) purpose to being about surviving an apocalypse. Lots of people do love thinking about the “end of the world”…

@ollie2sik 2 ай бұрын

It’s actually quite easy to visit Woomera prohibited area, to traverse rds on the range you need to acquire a couple of easily attainable permits.

@michaelcomisse9478 2 ай бұрын

Simon whistler: a million awesome channels, a billion different video volumes :)

@oldtop4682 2 ай бұрын

An American TV show "Treasure Quest" actually spent a few days on and around Snake Island. There's something like one venomous snake per meter there, so not a fun place to visit.

@nickmiller8131 2 ай бұрын

2 species of snakes pictures aren’t native to snake island, one isn’t even native to South America

@bogbupog 2 ай бұрын

I love these videos. Always a worthwhile listen.

@LordMarcus 2 ай бұрын

Never heard about that last one before, but as soon as I saw "Woomera", I knew it had to be Australia.

@donnagray9579 2 ай бұрын

I am old enough to remember Surtsey starting. It's remarkable to think my son may be alive to witness it's disappearance.

@getnohappy 2 ай бұрын

I'd love to know what the sentinel people think of the wider world. It's not like they've had zero contact with other humans, but how have they incorporated giant ships and helicopters into their beliefs?

@snarklar 2 ай бұрын

Yeah I'm very interested in these questions

@user-re6yo7tj5s Ай бұрын

I was talking to random guy at a bar about this recently after a news report about them came on the TV. He said much the same,adding how he thought it was funny that they probably think we fear them enough to stay away, when the reality is that their entire existence is very fragile,the world to them would be terrifying,further adding that a couple of well trained soldiers or one missile could end their entire race in minutes,a grim thought but realistic none the less. We surmised that they probably believe what ever their elders tell them and if those elders know some of the truth of outside technology they won't be sharing it with their people,the explanation will support some sort of long held belief,ominously or otherwise.

@frekihelviti 2 ай бұрын

In Alberta, Canada, we have a 12,000 km² restricted are with military check points and security patrols. It's the Cold Lake Air Weapons Range. CLAWR for short. It's access is restricted to military personel and construction/oilfield workers. Very heavily documented and tracked to prevent acciddents. Construction workers have added procedures for ground disturbance incase of striking undetected munitions with EOD numbers posted incase we find any. They have full size mock missile launche sites, radar stations, airfields, bunkers and more as target practice. Canadas allies from around the world come here to practice. For the comparison 12,000km² is about 9% the size of England. Or a little over half the size of Wales. There are also restricted areas within this restricted area to prevent disturbing the remains of an aboriginal burial sites. One of the coolest things I'd seen here was infact a c130 doing a corkscrew dive firing flares being chased by a fighter jet in a mock evasion exercise. The aircraft I believe have a ceiling of 100 feet or 30.48m for most of this area as construction crews needed permission to build anything in excess of that height like flare stacks or communications towers.

@shaz-loves-coffee Ай бұрын

Australia does not have poisonous snakes, it has venomous snakes.

@J.MacInnes 2 ай бұрын

the fastest way to get people to want to go somewhere, tell them it's forbidden- frequently and loudly.

@beckster181 2 ай бұрын

One reason Woomera is off limits is because it was a nukr test site in the late 40s and 50s and is still unsafe to travel over those areas though there are tourist tours of the area at some times depending on weather and other regulations as it is still an active test range for all the Australian Military assets the only area that might have more unexploded munitions on it than Woomera would be some where like Puckapunyal in Victoria or Shoal Water Training Area in Queensland that have been live firing ranges since world war 1.

@peteravictory 2 ай бұрын

Not correct, woomera was not a nuclear test site, maralinga was, that being 600 desert klm away. Woomera is still a live and experimental site, the site being as large as it is is near impossible to track people so it is far easier to simply say if you are in the area then it is a punishable offence.

@ShikamaruXT Ай бұрын

Omg. The chapter titles have been made by youtube by using voice recognition, which understood 3/4 of the titles, it seems XD Video was stellar, as allways. Simon, you are under my top 10z favorite youtubers ♥

@themotionbrickness 2 ай бұрын

😂 Woomera! The town shown at the start is publicly accessible and you can see the airfield’s runway from the highway. Not exactly Area 51 mate😂

@geoffcunningham6896 2 ай бұрын

and the pronunciation was classic lol

@themotionbrickness 2 ай бұрын

@@geoffcunningham6896😂

@petert3355 2 ай бұрын

@@geoffcunningham6896 Yeah, Woo-mare-ah vs wu-muh-rah. Needed that laugh today.

@kiwihib 2 ай бұрын

@@petert3355 Atomic Bomb area?

@petert3355 2 ай бұрын

@kiwihib Parts of it were. Mostly, it's a missle/rocket test range.

@vexvoltage6456 2 ай бұрын

Can confirm, as a herper, I'd LOVE to go on a research expedition on snake island.

@NarwahlGaming 2 ай бұрын

"Snake Island" sounds like the perfect place for a corrupt Brazilian government to do corrupt government things. _"Stay away!"_ _"Why?"_ _"....snakes?"_

@arthas640 2 ай бұрын

Not that hard to hide stuff like that in Brazil. They're more corrupt then the Americans and can be bribed with far less and its easier to bribe officials with a few greenbacks then it is to deal with an island full of snakes

@GeneralKenobiSIYE 2 ай бұрын

"Back today's episode?" Missed a word there, Fact Boi! 🤣🤣🤣

@xuepingsong5329 2 ай бұрын

Passing through woomera by highway to Coober pedy, there's signs everywhere on the side stating mine fields.

@markmh835 2 ай бұрын

I LOVE Coober Pedy! I've never been there, but I like the name. 😄👍

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@Ric-Phillips 2 ай бұрын

Wasn’t there an Aussie nearby you could have asked how to pronounce Woomera?

@aubreyadams7884 2 ай бұрын

WOM - ER - RAH

@AdamMansbridge 2 ай бұрын

@@aubreyadams7884more woom than wom

@dbiker207 2 ай бұрын

Aussies can't pronounce anything 😂

@TheJaybez 2 ай бұрын

Named after an Aboriginal device used to launch spears. P.S that's me in my profile pic sitting on my mining truck inside the WPA. lol.

@MrGoesBoom 10 күн бұрын

Gotta love how people will look at warning signs or places that are off limits for their own safety....and take it as a challenge to go there anyway. Personal opinion is that that if there's warning signs and you ignore them, you deserve everything that happens to you and no one else should be blamed

@ericclaptonsrobotpilot7276 2 ай бұрын

0:16 space colonies get modern train infrastructure before the US does.

@sahhull 2 ай бұрын

The north sentinelese have a robust immigration policy towards uninvited guests. I wish the UK would adopt the same stance.

@veleriphon 2 ай бұрын

At some point, Earth will experience a catastrophe or other conditions we cannot survive. Space is the next frontier, while our minds are the final frontier.

@ironnordegraf 2 ай бұрын

We definitely need more than a single doomsday seed bunker. That seems really important

@bele2.041 2 ай бұрын

The ordnance contained on the wreck of the Richard Montgomery has no chance of detonation due to the fact that bombs were not shipped with detonators installed. These were screwed in later at airfields and still not even armed until almost on the target . Think of it this way; no detonation occurred when the ship sank and the bombs were tossed all over the ships interior as it sank and settled.

@coolsnake1134 2 ай бұрын

However depending on the composition of the actual explosives used they could possibly get more sensitive as they age meaning spontaneous detonation even without a detonator could happen just because of the change in the chemical makeup. For example Dynamite that was made with nitroglycerin becomes more unstable as it ages because the nitroglycerin crystallizes.

@bele2.041 2 ай бұрын

@coolsnake1134 The ordnance most likely filled with RDX. This composition has low shock sensitivity and most likely would degrade, not become more likely to detonate after 80 years in salt water.

@dingerr9994 2 ай бұрын

If the Richard Montgomery were to explode it would cause £millions of improvements to Southend. 😂

@brigidsingleton1596 Ай бұрын

Sheppey might be a tad upset though...!!

@BrilliantDesignOnline 2 ай бұрын

What about Simon's basement? It is like a roach motel, writers check in, but they can't check out...

@73amxman98 19 күн бұрын

West Sister National Wildlife Refuge is an island on Lake Erie with any and all visitation strictly prohibited. It's managed by the US Fish & Wildlife Service and the US Coast Guard. Although it was once occupied due to a lighthouse on the island, it's been off limits for decades due to the unique species of wildlife residing on the island. Step foot on the island and you'll be spending some time in a US Federal Penitentiary somewhere.

@mothmagic1 2 ай бұрын

I can't understand our obsession with space exploration when we don't understand enough about Earth at the moment

@brigidsingleton1596 Ай бұрын

Ask Richard Stockton Rush...he wanted to be an astronaut...then when he wasn't selected he decided to dive deep into another realm... How to make fish food by conning millionaires to part with their money... 😢😢😢😢 😠

@lesliekilgore648 2 ай бұрын

i've heard/read about Woomera more than once as a NASA/international space programs' "fan". just like their quote that Simon used... they launch alot of rockets into space from there. basically, it's Cape Canaveral USA for the Southern Hemisphere. it was one of the lowest priority alternate landing sites for the US Space Shuttle during its lifespan. Woomera was a JIC crap weather covered the entirety of the US primary and alt landing sites for the Space Shuttle... the weather 'here' in the US would have been... well... days' long thunderstorms with high winds and possible hail risks.

@LaraKim 2 ай бұрын

Woo, my family and I are in from Adelaide. My father worked at Woomera launching rockets back in the 60s.

@mhult5873 2 ай бұрын

So, while walking many steps a day for 14 days in a row I got bad abrasions at a certain area of the body. Maybe I should try Sheath? Thank you for another great, as always, great video. Br

@Snagprophet 2 ай бұрын

How could you not include Lord Miles's adventure on snake island wearing a suit of armour to protect him from the snakes?

@TheJaybez 2 ай бұрын

P.S I use to work within the Woomera prohibited Area, on an Iron Ore mine, only needed a federal police and defense force clearance. But we couldn't just go wandering around.

@hoyks1 2 ай бұрын

I was trying to work out where this Woomera place was. Woom-or-ah. Its Australian, we always find the easiest way or saying stuff.

@martythemartian99 2 ай бұрын

Number 4, the Lascaux Caves. We had something similar in Australia till mining company Rio Tinto declared the caves were dangerous, and blew them up. I still don't know why nobody was sent to jail for this crime.🤬

@martythemartian99 2 ай бұрын

@@WaffleExplosion99 On average, about 20,000 years. The art Rio Tinto destroyed was 46,000 years old. Double the age of Lascaux.

@d1j16 2 ай бұрын

The reason no one was punished: Money.

@bearcatracing007 2 ай бұрын

They destroyed with permission from the original land owners! Fixed it for you

@martythemartian99 2 ай бұрын

@@bearcatracing007 That is the biggest lie I've heard. Original owners were fighting for the caves preservation.

@bearcatracing007 2 ай бұрын

@@martythemartian99 the truth doesn't become a lie just because you don't like it! #facts

@MJC-yo5kj 2 ай бұрын

Hyperion is my favorite restricted place, the tallest tree in the US (maybe world idk), and unlike most things in America it hasn’t been turned into a tourist attraction. Actually nobody knows exactly where it is but there is a zone that is off limits to enter where Hyperion is located

@evolvedego673 Ай бұрын

To answer your question in the very beginning, an old friend of mine said something that feels very true; as a species, we have to survive, and reality is that this planet can only sustain life for so long and in order to ensure the survival of the human race from extinction, we HAVE to get off this planet and find a new world that we may inhabit before we are wiped off from human errors, asteroids, apocalyptic volcanoes, etc cetera.

@robinwells5343 Ай бұрын

Britain also has a seed vault aiming to contain every seed on earth within the next 20 years or so. Already has many extinct species too

@MrSirlulzalot 2 ай бұрын

There are so many scammer, political, and, I guess, general purpose bots here. What is going on? 😂❤

@superdrummergaming 2 ай бұрын

13:50 Is that the "very specific research team?" How do I join them? They're adorable.

@coppertopv365 21 күн бұрын

5:38 just set off a small Charge, to attempt to detonate the un-exploded ordinance. The Water will hold back most of the force. To further help, set up lexan glass screens underwater, around the site. An warn residents, an businesses in a 1 mile radius there will be some construction going on an there will be some demolitionan explosives used, and detonate after Midnight. If most of the ordinance is rendered useless after all these years in water the charge might be the only thing set off. Short of trying to set off a Charge, pump in some Concrete into the ship.

@shimozu92 Ай бұрын

The lascaux caves can even be viewed in VR as well!

@SimonBrisbane 2 ай бұрын

“Woo-mera” 😂 It’s actually pronounced “woom-era” but as one syllable.

@Me64034 2 ай бұрын

I like that they enjoyed it for a bit before telling someone

@sturmhardteisenkeil1906 2 ай бұрын

I hope nobody mistakes it for a TT-challenge and proclaims "Hold my beer!"

@cyberbogart 2 ай бұрын

Great content as always. Even i havent finished the video yet. I know its epic.

@Bethelaine1 2 ай бұрын

I saw replicas at a museum in Bordeaux. It was amazing.

@jliller 2 ай бұрын

Woomera is also home to an observatory that was originally a Baker-Nunn telescope camera site used for tracking satellites.

@brandonvasser5902 2 ай бұрын

If making an uninhabitable rock in space, habitable, is destroying nature then thats a pretty pretentious notion.

@nevillefraser8827 2 ай бұрын

1. woo-mer-uh 2 A-bombs were carried out at Maralinga and Emu Field, not Woomera. 3. At its height the range extended to around Exmouth Gulf in WA, about 1900 miles, connected in part by a highway known as the Gunbarrel Highway, it was so straight.

@Kaledarkwind6151 Ай бұрын

These were all interesting for sure. The doomsday Vault one i found a bit more interesting though. I think that it might have been the inspiration for one of my favorite games Horizon zero dawn.

@backcountry164 2 ай бұрын

After generations, the Sentinelese are essentially "the Hills Have Eyes", Indian Ocean version...

@SantaFe19484 2 ай бұрын

Crazy stuff!

@SethWestmore 6 күн бұрын

Re: Sheath ad - What if you're a grower not a show'er, they seem to be cutting out a large piece of the market!!!

@johntakolander8613 20 күн бұрын

Ilooked up North Sentinel Island on Google Earth and there seems to be villages and clearly visible roads (maybe footpaths) on the island. Clever people!

@DorsenFirebeard 2 ай бұрын

Poisonous snakes?

@allancarey2604 2 ай бұрын

So a critical reason why Woomera was restricted was due to English nuclear weapons tests. The areas are only just starting to be cleared.

@TheItalianTrash 2 ай бұрын

I recently had a dream that "God" told me that the one true religion is the mysterious unknown one worshipped by the few hundred people on North Sentinel Island. Who would have guessed?

@hitchmille 2 ай бұрын

🤣

@ceffydriver 2 ай бұрын

WOOM ER RAH. I'm actually surprised that Simon didn't do a quick youtube search on the place before mentioning it.

@DeutschlandGuy 2 ай бұрын

We "can't visit" the center of the earth... but we "may not visit" these other places. There is a difference. (We'd expect you, of all people, to know that, Simon.) 🤣😂

@AlgorhythmKid Ай бұрын

That open door bothers me so much.

@Maffy-h 2 ай бұрын

I'd say more and more obsessed with war and death at the moment than space

@LcHR21212 2 ай бұрын

Simons pronunciation of Woomera is interesting to say the least

@kelvincannon3675 2 ай бұрын

They never talk about how they can leave the “North Sentinel island” whenever they want, & if they left that island to commit a heinous crime on/the nearest village, only to return to the “North Sentinel islands” refuge, they’d have automatic immunity… …& or those who’ve succeeded John Allen Chau, & or are now reaping the benefits of immunity as a foreign “North Sentinel islander!”