This 30-Enginee Rocket Created The Largest Non-Nuclear Explosion in History

[@epremeaux]

vintage artifact footage does not need "vintage artifact footage" filter to boost it's vintage artifact footage feel.

[@johnpatz8395]

I agree, The only thing I hate more than it being used on new clear footage is it being used on older footage, that is naturally not nearly as good a quality as can easily be done today with even a cheap cellphone

[@petermainwaringsx]

I was going to post something similar. My attention is drawn to the manufactured artifacts.

[@VincentNajger1]

@@johnpatz8395 actually, most old film stock footage is amazingly high quality....where ppl think it fails is thanks to crappy low res digitisation. Space stuff especially used extremely high grade film and the best cameras and lenses. Digital is only just approaching the beautiful quality that film had reached. (It seriously dismayed me and a lot of other people....we had fantastic quality....then dumped it for a 20+ year consumer development cycle for digital cameras, and the media to play it on, which has only recently reached where we used to be 20 years ago in terms of clarity and sheer quality. It has been a long and frustrating wait)

[@jiminitin]

Say that fast 5 times

[@petermainwaringsx]

@@jiminitin 😂

[@randyhavard6084]

The Halifax explosion was the largest non-nuclear explosion. This happened decades before the n1 rocket was even conceived. The figures they they used for the N1 rocket disaster was as if the rocket fuel and oxidizer was perfectly mixed then ignited. This was not a detonation it was a deflagration, it didn't you explode it just burned really fast

[@litmusaero2645]

Wrong. Halifax generated an output of 2.9 Kilotons where N1 generated 6.93. You are partially correct in the last part though, it was indeed more deflagration, but the upper stages didn’t rupture on impact, giving the fuel and oxidizer a sort of pressure vessel to let the shockwave reach supersonic speeds

[@franciscapistrano8650]

@@litmusaero2645 What the hell did I just found, I didn't understand what you both said.

[@dionst.michael1482]

@@franciscapistrano8650 lol your my people

[@heatherschenck5315]

Nerd ha. Good point

[@brendanwood1540]

@@litmusaero2645 That's insane considering the immense scale of the 2015 Tianjin explosions were only 0.256 kilotons of TNT equivalent and the 2020 Beirut explosion was 1.1 kilotons. I'm sure the largest non nuclear explosion was never recorded and involved a volcano, asteroid, or a meteorite. I'd much rather ride one of those storms than the many alternative ways to die.

[@ter8901]

please dont put that pointless red web as an effect. I think I speak for most of us when I say I want just the footage.

[@cfluff6716]

Def not feeling this “red vein filter” for the vintage video clips

[@aaronvenn8660]

I agree could you stop that? It's annoying and cheesy.

[@jonnyjackson6050]

Just commented on that myself.

[@amperzand9162]

The N-1 explosion actually got knocked off the bottom of Wikipedia's list of the largest non-nuclear explosions by the ammonium nitrate detonation in Beirut last year. The problem is that rocket fuel only achieves its full energetic potential when mixed efficiently, which a random explosion does not do.

[@litmusaero2645]

That’s not true, a rocket blowing up would actually be closer to the fullest energy potential than a random blast, as the fuel and oxidizer in the rocket are already in the correct ratios, where a random blast probably has many different chemicals mixed very inefficiently and in the “wrong” ratios

[@keithadams812]

I think both of you are right the answer is definitely lies in the middle

[@Aaron-zu3xn]

"noone was hurt" wasn't there a guy sitting next to this one when it killed them? i've always heard it was a loose bolt

[@OleDonKedic]

I believe it. That Beirut explosion was devastatingly gigantic. So many videos from all different angles too which makes it even more crazy when you see the damage it caused to certain places a decent distance away from ground zero.

[@amperzand9162]

@@Aaron-zu3xn I think you're thinking of the Damascus Titan explosion, where a worker performing maintenance on a missile dropped his socket wrench, breaching fuel and oxidizer tanks and allowing the hypergolic fuel to mix and explode.

[@dmacpher]

Largest non nuclear accidental explosion in history was Halifax Harbour wasn’t it?

[@sjefhendrickx2257]

No! Not everything “ largest” happens or is in USA… Do you resurch!

[@abroamg]

I think it was the Beirut harbour explosion

[@llYossarian]

8:07 - Even this video itself acknowledges that it's only considered ONE of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history... **BONUS** One of the most incredible non-nuclear explosion ever caught on film (Liberty ship SS John Burke being struck by a kamikaze) kzbin.info/www/bejne/nnvGdYmYfZqkac0

[@R.U.1.2.]

@@sjefhendrickx2257 Halifax is in Canada, and it WAS the largest non-nuclear explosion. It leveled the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. An ammunition ship, loaded for the trip to England in WW1, got set adrift and impacted another ship loaded with explosive materials The harbor was in a giant bowl that concentrated the blast. In Beirut there was a gigantic, non-nuclear explosion, that maybe came close to Halifax Harbor, which occurred recently.

[@unclerojelio6320]

@@sjefhendrickx2257 Learn to spell.

[@gingerman5123]

The largest accidental non-nuclear explosion in history occurred in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1917, when two ships (one carrying explosives) collided. That was nearly 3 kilotons of TNT equivalent.

[@theFLCLguy]

He's starting to enter clickbait territory.

[@sjefhendrickx2257]

No. Not in USA is the biggest.

[@kriztlumburt714]

What about the freighter that blew up in Texas City, Texas in the latter 1940’s. I know it was after the ‘bomb’ was created because people nearby at first thought the Soviets dropped a bomb. The ship was full of tons and tons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer for the rice farms in Galveston and Brazoria Counties. Blew the ship’s screw like a mile+ away. A three ton piece of brass flying through the sky is one hell of a piece of shrapnel. Imagine the forces that did that.

[@animalmother5091]

@@kriztlumburt714 It blew out windows in Beaumont over 100 miles away

[@scubaguy007]

That explosion in the seaport not long ago was pretty impressive.

[@mikev2116]

The excessive amount of fake film artifacting is beyond distracting, especially that red veiny thing that pops up every 30 seconds.

[@override7486]

I don't fucking understand what's the point to degrade video quality and make your own upload much more shitty in general. Fuck logic, clear answer to some of the questions or facts and truth to be told. Let's launch Adobe Premiere with all cylinders, and have some meltdown. It's more important ... ://

[@leroyjenkins4811]

@@override7486 Shut up and watch the video. It’s free. You act like you’re paying for a subscription to Netflix or something. This is KZbin. The people that make these videos don’t exactly have access to millions of dollars in production equipment and editing staff. It’s regular people trying their hand at putting information out about things they’re interested in. You’re acting like a spoiled entitled brat. If you don’t like the production quality of the video, why don’t you try making something. I could see you complaining about video quality when you’re paying for a subscription to a streaming service, but that’s not what this is, is it?

[@override7486]

@@leroyjenkins4811 So what, can't complain, give opinion or argument? You're fucking silly. If something sucks, it sucks. There's a reason you have comment section, and thumbs up and downs.

[@linyenchin6773]

Accentuates his role play as he pretends to be stuck in that era, the forced emulation of old school orator speech patterns... except it gets too forced at times, he even threw in the modern mouth-breather mispronunciation of *time( as "time-a-uh" at one point...

[@hover3465]

This reply sections is getting pissed over critism of a KZbin video

[@charlestaylor253]

'Five seconds, flight normal. Ten seconds, flight normal. Fiftee,...BLYAT!!!' 😁

[@ptonpc]

Click bait and red vein effects ruined what could have been a decent tale.

[@ptonpc]

@Daniel Large I used to watch this channel when it didn't do the click bait and effects. YT kept offering this one to me.

[@Krivack]

RE: The documentary footage at 3:56 (a bit of trivia) Facing the camera are Nikolai Rukavishnikov (Russia) on the left, and Georgi Ivanov (Bulgaria) on the right. They were the crew of the Soyuz 33 mission that launched on April 10th, 1979. Their flight was intended for docking with the Salyut 6 orbital station. However, due to a serious engine failure, the docking couldn't be performed. Additionally, their return was put into serious doubt and, in the end, was dramatic and very risky, to say the least. After staying in orbit for just short of two days, they had to re-enter the atmosphere at an extremely steep angle. Moreover, they had to perform a manual landing for the first -- and so far, the only -- time in the history of space flight.

[@ScottGrammer]

The largest non-nuclear explosion in history occurred on the evening of June 17, 1997. It was on that fateful day that my ex-wife made the terrible mistake of eating Taco Bell twice in one day.

[@dougthomson5544]

Hmmm … are you sure it wasn’t you and that is why she left??? 😂

[@Musikur]

It was nice to have a story about the actual program instead of just the single explosion, but there are so many inaccuracies in this relative to the information that I know (statement in the title that it was the largest explosion, inaccurate footage), that it's hard to actually believe the rest of the information.

[@silverkerbal]

It was until Beirut apparently. EDIT: According to some quick reading on Wikipedia Beriut was 6th biggest and the n1 explosion was 8th biggest. Ah well the more you learn.

[@awuma]

Indeed, inaccuracies galore, and much irrelevant footage to pad out the spoken narrative. I see quite a bit of this sort of click-bait on KZbin, where somebody steals bits of other videos, claps them together with an inaccurate narrative and expects the ad dollars to flow thanks to views, clicks and comments, perhaps correctly assuming that viewers don't know any better about the technical subject involved. This should be weeded out somehow.

[@dougthompson1598]

@@awuma trouble is, none of us will know the tricks being played until AFTER we open the video. I wonder if the monetization angle keeps track if a click finishes the video all the way.

[@ericsky26]

Stop mixing in footage of Soyuz rockets and the Saturn V rocket while you’re talking about the N1. The Soyuz especially is nowhere near the size of the N1.

[@amperzand9162]

Problem is there's very little footage of N-1. I guess he could use KSP footage lol

[@ericsky26]

@@amperzand9162 agreed, I would prefer he just used still photographs, diagrams or animations. Its like when Top Gun tries to pass off F-5's as Migs lol

[@AMS51000]

Yes, this is a major complaint for me. There are also some odd claims--that the N-1"was the first rocket to have a functional escape system." I guess that lets out the LES from the Mercury, Soyuz and Apollo, and the Vostok and Gemini ejection seats.

[@Teatime4Tom]

Might want to put an epilepsy warning on that cheesy, flashing red lightning effect. Or stop doing it.

[@h.cedric8157]

Did you get an epilepsy?

[@X-JAKA7]

It's just the old video

[@daos3300]

@@X-JAKA7 it's overlaid filters, not old video.

[@kriztlumburt714]

😆

[@mitseraffej5812]

“ Hold my beer” said SpaceX’s Starship.

[@seanclearwater1633]

Title is clickbait and incorrect. The explosion was ONE of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history but was certainly not the largest. Saying that it was in the title is simply dishonest.

[@jkr9594]

i guess Beirut and Tonga did not let this video age gracefully.

[@ThomasNeal]

Super Heavy sitting in the high bay: Hold my high bay brew

[@dialaskisel5929]

What is with the ugly pulsing red vein film grain all over this? It made me think I had burst a blood vessel due to the amount of alcohol I've been drinking lately.

[@nigeldepledge3790]

Arguably, the Soviet Union lost the space race in 1958, when the USA created NASA. The creation of NASA gave the US a single agency for coordinating and planning all aspects of its non-military space programme : propulsion, guidance, telemetry, aerodynamics, astronaut selection and training, and so on. In the USSR, there were at least five different design bureaux that, although compelled to work together, often came up with different ideas about the best way forward, and always had to prioritise the military applications of their work above the civilian aspects. The early lead taken by the Soviets was a tribute to the political nous of Sergei Korolev, who managed to get all the different bureaux pulling in the same direction despite the competition between them, and despite the abysmally-low level of funding. Vasiliy Michin was Korolev's deputy, and he was extremely capable in that role. However, his assumption of Korolev's mantle after Korolev's death in (I think) 1966 was a poor fit. He wasn't half the politician that Korolev had been, and he suffered under the pressure to perform. I can't imagine what his fate might have been had he told his superiors he couldn't do the job. If he had told his superiors that the timescales were simply unrealistic, he might have soon found himself on a train to Siberia.

[@AlexKarasev]

It is one of the great curiosities and ironies of the early space race, whereby the two great nations have each chosen the INVERSE of their respective political system for how they organized their space exploration: while the Soviets had multiple space design bureaus competing for projects and funding, the Americans created NASA, a centralized agency that deployed public funds towards their multi-year plans.

[@AlexKarasev]

@Paul Mathews Good points, Paul. I feel, space being infinite, there's no "finish line". It's a bit arbitrary (I won't say "ridiculous" out of respect for this magnificent achievement) to draw the line in the sand at manned moon landing, and declare that the end of the "space race". At the time, the Russians were working on a robust unmanned Moon exploration programme (incl lunar orbiters, landers, rovers, soil sample return), space stations, and beginning explorations of Venus and Mars. Manned Moon landing was one of their projects as well, and I suspect it wasn't lost on them, had they won that, the US would simply move the "space race" goal post to manned Mars, which neither nation could afford, and whose astronomical complexity would very likely result in some crew losses by both nations.

[@catman351]

Fun fact: the Apollo F1 incorporated a baffle design that helped distribute fuel evenly across the nozzle as kerosene and lox was pumped into the engine. The Soviets couldn't replicate that design and instead distributed a similar amount of thrust over a series of smaller engines. The problem with that many engines is it likely lead to an unstable design that caused the catastrophe.

[@bartwaggoner2000]

And now SpaceX is using 33 engines!

[@Edax_Royeaux]

The bottom of the R7 rocket is just covered in engine bells.

[@ericmcconnaughey2782]

I think Curious Droid also has a video on this subject. Correction: MegaProjects by Simon Whistler.

[@pseudotasuki]

Let's be honest, is there *any* topic he hasn't covered? He's the only KZbinr I know of who has correctly identified the worst industrial accident in history.

[@onradioactivewaves]

Allegedly.

[@JL-ql2jo]

An explosion isn’t “apocalyptic” if it’s not on the scale of the actual apocalypse… the literal undoing of all things undoable. The lt. colonel who said he witnessed the “end of the world” must have had zero to no imagination lol.

[@jroar123]

Actually the larges explosion was an industrial accident in Henderson Nevada. It made the fuel for the Space Shuttle. When the Challenger accident happen, they didn't stop making the chemical. So they stored it at the plant in giant binds outside. It somehow found a spark and exploded all of the chemical. The blast leveled the plant killing the plant manager and a security guard. The explosion was the same as a 1 megaton bomb. It broke windows on the Las Vegas strip over 10 miles away. I was in the plant next to it and outside. It knocked me on my ass about 10 feet away. I still have hearing lose from the accident.

[@lasse3412]

US also had failed spacecrafts that ended in catastrofe. Challenger and Columbia

[@davidfifer4729]

Correction @2:26: The primary objective of Apollo 9 was to test the Lunar Module (LM), not the Saturn V.

[@ChristLink-Channel]

Yup. But accurate reporting in the channel is not very common...

[@BigArt1970]

There was a lot of Red Communist Lightning all over the 60's! I'm surprised everyone and everything didn't blow up back then. 😳

[@raven4k998]

yeah it's a miracle you could say god what looking out for them that day as rockets are basically bombs ready to go off in a moments notice so for it not to explode when hitting the ground that's kind of amazing

[@my3dprintedlife]

Looks like I see some footage of Energia, potentially with Polyus, and a Saturn V.

[@ConradSzymczak]

yeah, that's the only thing about theses series. I'm sure the story is correct, but the visuals REALLY detract.....

[@pseudotasuki]

He does that all the time. Equal mix of fun and annoying.

[@LamgiMari]

And shots of Gagarin's launch and of Korolev who was dead by that time. Totally random.

[@pseudotasuki]

@@LamgiMari Nah, Korolev didn't die until about 5 years later.

[@LamgiMari]

@@pseudotasuki After Gagarin, but I meant he was dead when the N1 exploded.

[@fobbitoperator3620]

08:39 That "foreign particle" was the partially consumed bashed borscht & pimento loaf sandwich Comrade Yuri Vorshlinkovsky absent-mindedly left sitting on the liquid oxygen thruster coolant line, the previous afternoon. Suffice to say, Comrade Yuri was never seen nor heard from again...

[@bnaivar]

I don't like the cracked film effect.

[@jonnyjackson6050]

None of us do, it's dreadful.

[@R.U.1.2.]

I guess, just don't watch would be the best solution. I enjoy the style and character it gives to the story.

[@illuminateBeats1]

I would be willing to bet that due to it being old film footage that it’s not a editing effect just old recording technology and recording processes that would tend to make video images damaged beyond repair causing complete lose of footage entirely we should consider ourselves lucky the footage even exists still

[@charlestaylor253]

I thought I was having a stroke while watching it...😏

[@darthnihlus]

Stop judging! Who cares you don't have to watch it!

[@the_larsonfamily]

I love the way the narrator narrates

[@knuthamsun6106]

you must also love the smell of a stranger’s vomit mixed with diarrhea

[@josephastier7421]

On the occasions when it flew correctly if momentarily, the N1 fairly leapt off the pad. Problems too numerous to list doomed the program, but the *idea* was sound.

[@jeffsnider3588]

As a retired engineer over time I have seen many "short cuts" taken during design development which result in death and destruction. "We have to save time and money"! Ka-Boom!

[@majorbobbage3356]

The pepcon explosion was larger. They actually stored rocket fuel and had way too much because shuttle flights were paused because of Challenger. They had way more than 30 engines worth

[@rohkofantti8673]

The voice of the narrator is strangely hysterical and unclear at the same time.

[@Redplanetlover]

This was actually only the eighth largest non nuclear explosion. The Halifax harbour explosion in 1917 was 5 times greater.

[@herschelmayo2727]

As far as non-nuclear explosions, the explosion of Krakatoa in 1888 was the largest non nuke, and natural explosion in recorded history, with the possible exception of Santorini.

[@bubba9985]

I have participated in multiple aerospace failure review boards. Usually the cause is simple: FOD, grounding, shielding or latent defect from poor handling.

[@googlesucks1376]

"... Apollo 9 tested the Saturn V..."? Uh - no. The Saturn V unmanned was Apollo 4 which went well. Apollo 5 was unmanned using a Saturn 1B with tests of the Lunar Module in earth orbit. Apollo 6 was another unmanned Saturn V test but suffered from pogoing as well as a second stage engine failure and subsequent shut down of another engine (due to a cross wiring when they tried to shut down the bad engine) so it limped into orbit with only three of the five J2 engines. Apollo 7 was a Saturn 1B and the first manned flight.... The first manned flight of a Saturn V WAS the Apollo 8 mission around the moon. That was interesting since on the return flight Lovell did what engineer Margaret Hamilton feared - entering the wrong sequence of commands in the DSKY which caused the capsule to think it was back on the landing pad. Apollo 9 tested the lunar module docking and extraction from the third stage in Earth orbit. Apollo 10 did the same thing at the moon as well as scouring sites for actual landing. Apollo 11 did the moon landing. Apollo 12 also landed on the moon, but suffered a lightening hit on launch that jeopardized the mission. Apollo 13 suffered a catastrophic failure due to a short in one of the Service Module's O2 tanks when doing a cryo stir. Apollo 14 was the first to land in the lunar highlands. Apollo 15 was the first J mission and the first to use a Lunar Rover. Apollo 16 was a follow on to 15, and Apollo 17 - the last mission to the moon - was the first to have an actual geologist on board. So get your facts straight. I really grow tired of the deluge of crap out there that is just not accurate.

[@avhuf]

Clickbait, this was not the largest non-nuc expl by far. If you'd written largest space explosion, it'd be dead on.

[@calomanny]

... But it exploded on the ground...

[@JFrazer4303]

Aside from range safety charges being set off, and warheads, there has never been an explosion in rocketry. This didn't, Challenger 51-L didn't. None of the SpaceX RUD had. It'd be practically impossible to get an explosive overpressure from these rocket fuels. Maybe in a laboratory or what ever happens in fuel-air or hyperbaric bombs.

[@gapratt4955]

In a stroke W Von Braun's concept of boosters with dozens of engines was proven unworkable. Far to complex to get 30 engines to all work together. American engineers had a hard enough time getting 5 to play nice with each other.

[@Meowface.]

Elon musk and SpaceX would disagree with you

[@daos3300]

tech needed to catch up, the concept was sound

[@davidlang4442]

Time will prove if Musk is wrong on 28 engines.

[@gapratt4955]

My point is when W Von Braun suggested those boosters the technology was not adequate. Technology has come a long way, making most anything possible.

[@daos3300]

@@gapratt4955 you forget von braun was one of those brilliant minds who thinks way beyond the limitations of the present. a visionary, clearly ahead of his time.

[@rawwwrrr4024]

I was watching a few of these Dark whatever channel videos and was always wondering where all the footage came from. After watching this video, it's clear that most of the footage in these videos are just constantly recut, after effected, irrelevant footage probably downloaded from other YT videos. There was very little representation of the 5L rocket. Much of the Roscosmos footage was of Soyuz rockets or altered shots of NASA rockets included what looked like a distant and granular shot of the Space Shuttle's external fuel tank. Not to mention the writing had glaring holes in the story, covered far better by Chris Johnson's reply. The topics are interesting as there undoubtedly countless "dark" stories from the cold war era. But at least get the facts and footage straight. I can understand that a lot of the topics don't really have great available footage, but considering the rate at which these videos are being posted it's clear there is very little research being done. They feel like fan (non)fiction based on incomplete knowledge. The author should probably consider doing collabs or research with notable YT personalities like Scott Manley or Paul Shillito (Curious Droid) who are quite knowledgeable on the space race topics.

[@ChristLink-Channel]

Excellent analysis of a really poor documentary channel. Such a pity.

[@lostson1st]

During the Soviet occupation of Poland there was a joke: - Have you heard? The Russians went into space! - All of them??? - No, one. Gagarin. - So why are you bothering me!!!!

[@dalesfailssagaofasuslord783]

Seems insane to have that many rocket motors on one rocket and not expect one of them to fail.

[@JFrazer4303]

Falcon Heavy has 27.

[@peterfireflylund]

Dales, seen any pictures of SpaceX Starship lately?

[@newforestroadwarrior]

There was a motor control system on the N1 called KORD which was remarkably advanced, but not sufficiently developed as they could not carry out static firing of the first stage. KORD could throttle opposite pairs of engines to control the rocket's path, but was not able to react to unexpected events such as turbopumps failing. The last N1 used a system called S-350 which actually controlled many of the N1's systems besides the engines. The S-350 was used successfully on later missions. History hasn't been kind to Apollo-era Russian space efforts, but it doesn't change the fact they conceived some very good ideas.

[@angadsingh9314]

@@peterfireflylund They have the power of modern electronics on their side tho

[@nathanbryan3192]

Wiley Coyote teared up and his troughs read --- (BEAUTIFULLY)

[@gogrape9716]

The Soviet Inferiority Complex was just massive and it was easy to manipulate.

[@mikedrop4421]

Ironic since they beat us in every single way during the space race except landing on the moon.

[@gogrape9716]

@@mikedrop4421 Always a day late and a dollar short.

[@5had35partan]

Went both ways during the cold war

[@daos3300]

Go Grape the american illusion of superiority was exactly what the soviets played so sweetly, and russia still does. clear evidence is the last 4-5 yrs of US politics. china does it pretty smoothly too.

[@gogrape9716]

@@daos3300 U do not make sense in English. use a different translator...

[@KLRJUNE]

You can read the real story in Boris Chertok's book "Rockets and People" (four volumes). Chertok was one of the founding members of the Soviet space program and presided over the last N1 launch. The book is available for free from NASA in several ebook formats and NASA calls it the definitive history of the Soviet program.

[@ApolloTheDerg]

I may despises the Soviet Union but wow, cool space stuff is always cool in my book.

[@cinderclawz]

Tunguska explosion was far larger

[@aaronbarneslol]

I do like the channels but do really have to use a factually incorrect title as click bait? 🤔

[@MikeOxlong-]

Pretty effing sad, isn’t it? The statement alone is something a 10 year old would be smart enough to recognize and refute... 🤦‍♂️

[@andrewtaylor940]

Actual second by second crystal clear footage of the N-1 launch failure and explosion exists. In fact it’s all over KZbin. Just search for Soviet N-1 explosion. For some reason this Dark5 video includes none of it.

[@ChristLink-Channel]

Probably because this is just clickbait, while those others you mention are serious.

[@cdp200442]

Regardless so much was learned during the space race and many many things were invented because of it that is used today around the world. Wish we had that push today. Elon is definitely a blast from the past..just enjoying every facet of the process.

[@darvinclement3250]

30 engines, what could go wrong? I guess it IS rocket science!

[@Hey_MikeZeroEcho22P]

Hey, 'Darvin Clement', I remembered, when I was viewing a MODEL rocket launch, and this person made a Space Shuttle with SRB's, ALL Homemade before they actually made a kit for it (except for the shuttle, that Was a model). Anyways, she launched the thing and the two-engined SRB each took off in opposite and DETACHED directions with the shuttle engines, All three (3) of them broke off after PRE-detachment of SRBs also going in different directions. Needless-to-say...... it was a Disaster.........then about a few months later CHALLENGER exploded, made me think of that girl's launch.

[@Hykje]

That's why SpaceX only going to use 29.

[@ronaldtartaglia4459]

Why can't you slow down?

[@stuartcollett3252]

Beirut: 'hold my beer'

[@freefall0483]

Enginee!! Engineeeeeeeeeeeee!! Awesome video. Even if the title is misspelled... Love this channel. All the hard work is always appreciated.

[@timgosling3076]

If there is hard work going on it has not spread to the script or the choice of video.

[@DrC294]

I started watching while reading the comments thinking what do they mean red vein filter? Then, It was an oh fuq me moment .

[@dougmc666]

Clickbait? In tons of TNT equivalent Tianjin=400 N1=600 Texas City=800 Beirut=800 Fauld=2000 Halifax=3000

[@Steve-xt4we]

Krakatoa(1883)=200,000,000

[@GonkDroid0923]

He should have said it was man made.

[@jessemiller4685]

You should go outside and touch some grass.

[@Kadeo-ms6qw]

@@GonkDroid0923 still not correct

[@sky_professor3051]

Best clickbait.

[@dba750]

I've seen all that footage in countless documentaries, they're crystal clear. I thought this channel was ok, ........

[@nomienos1841]

ROSCOSMOS(CCP at the time) had some of the craziest ideas and boy do i wish i could've been alive to see some of the shit they made

[@makak228]

Thay can do only talking shit and thief money. No one good project after ussr (except iss). Its nothing, its dead

[@dashingdave2665]

Everyone believe Putin going to bring it all back, lol. Put in back pocket more like it

[@hughpatrick3738]

Best channel on youtube, dont change a thing

[@2006gtobob]

What on earth are the red veins for? Very very disteacting.

[@executivesteps]

I always love the staged video of Korolev speaking into a microphone with the accent light on the studio wall behind him.

[@Capt.Turner]

I'm afraid, you got a lot of details wrong here. Among others the total fuel load of the N1 was in the neighborhood off 2500 tons RP1 + LOX where the 1st stage alone has like 2000 tons of fuel, not just 400 tons. The rocket came down broadside and of course exploded completely. It had a total flight time of about 23 s and did not collapse on the launchpad. Lots of unrelated footage like Saturn V and others while available footage of the 4 N1 missions is missing. There's a lot of room for improvement here.

[@JFrazer4303]

It didn't explode, it had an RUD and rapid combustion but no explosive overpressure shock wave.

[@OleDonKedic]

He gets a lot of info wrong on these videos. He should take more time to research these incidents instead of trying to pump of so many videos on all of their different channels they have. They seem to just want as much money as possible while failing to realize the incorrect info may drive many viewers away. Better research into these incidents, better videos, and maybe pumping out a few less videos per week and I'm sure their income will be similar or more as people will appreciate the correct info. I mean when you're talking about and F-15 but you have an F-14 on screen the while time, it just turns me off tbh. That was just an example but I know I've seen him talk about certain aircraft, yet they have stock footage or pics of a completely different aircraft lmao.

[@desegi-kurioseum]

My flatulence was the biggest non nuclear "explosion"! you could even smell it! 🤣🤣

[@63Jax]

Not sure this was the most powerfull non-nuclear explosion ever, i think it was a fireworks factory.

[@JohnJohansen2]

Or the Beirut harbour explosion?

[@Oakley902]

Halifax 1917

[@MikeOxlong-]

All of you are correct! And there are a fair number more that make the cut long before this actually quite small blast would... Nothing short of total stupidity here, that would’ve been easily researched with the old jazz hands on google... I mean, let’s be real here... a five year old could’ve figured this out very easily!

[@fenchurchmarie5224]

I realize this is a discussion of the N1 rocket.... several points a few seconds of the first Energia with Polyus is shown while the narrator is speaking (the rocket with the black missile looking payload attached to it's side). Amazing that nobody was harmed when this candle got feisty.

[@blueeyeswhitedragon9839]

The rapid fire style of the narrator is on occasion, difficult to understand due to the slurring of "s" and "sh" throughout the narration. Once this starts to be noticed, it becomes quite annoying.

[@bevpotter9938]

@Tip Toe yes better at .75 playback speed.

[@R.U.1.2.]

I find it no problem at all.

[@BumKnuckle]

I'd pay to hear you read an old Penthouse Letter😂

[@CarolineBearoline]

Always love this channel's content

[@jbarnhart2653]

HA. The video is always a joke. 90% of this has NOTHING to do with the N1. My favorite are the "pilots". The N1 got nowhere near manned flight, and there was nobody on board any of the flights. Otherwise all of this is on DOZENS of other channels. INCUuDING "Dark Footage"! Clicked looking for NEW N1 stuff. Forgot which channels this is. LOL.

[@trevorgwelch7412]

NASA only needs 3 big engines 🚀

[@greebuh]

There was nothing artificial about that explosion

[@karlmahlmann]

Interesting how much the N1 resembles the 33-engine super-heavy SpaceX booster. The big difference is that technology has evolved so much since then.

[@cfluff6716]

I swear there’s prob dead Russians on the moon or more likely still floating into the universe abyss.

[@MrGrace]

Right? Because the body wouldnt decompose in space. I think it would be freeze-dried lol

[@yepiratesworkshop7997]

I tend to agree with you on that.

[@datathunderstorm]

Nope. Despite their lack of success with the N1 and the many Space exploration secrets they only released much later, there are no unfortunate abandoned cosmonauts floating in Space or on the Moon. I’ll put this simply; the Russians love their children too and are neither evil, nor monsters. The mistakes they made in Space exploration are all out in the open, and we’re reasonably aware of them. Many hoaxes have been perpetrated by so many trolls down the ages - but they’re as false as the secret Apollo 19 or 20 mission to the moon that literally never was. Disclosure: I spent 5 years studying in the former USSR, speak, read and write Russian fluently and I’m married to one.

[@yepiratesworkshop7997]

@@datathunderstorm Good comment. But please don't bust the myth that in the Apollo-Soyuz meet-up, the Russians brought vodka and we (of course) brought Tang.

[@geoffreylee5199]

With a 2020s computer, it would have had great odds of working.

[@EstorilEm]

False click-bait title lol, there were MANY larger non-nuclear explosions. Halifax was ~5 times more powerful, and even the recent explosion in Beirut was larger.

[@mikepeterson9733]

Yes, but none of the others came close to being narrated by Austin. Worth the click-bait, in my opinion. ;-)

[@Oldbmwr100rs]

There was also the port chicago ammo loading explosion in san francisco bay. Unsure of the explosion tonnage, but it destroyed several ships, piers, rail lines and killed nearly 400 people.

[@EstorilEm]

@@Oldbmwr100rs Yup! It’s interesting that the typical historical channels on KZbin don’t really discuss thay event.

[@R.U.1.2.]

Yes, the Halifax explosion was the most destructive, but, many other explosions have caused mass death and damage. It's just a matter of scale, many people have suffered, at many different times.

[@njm3211]

Don't forget Texas City ship that blew up.

[@randomonlinecat5478]

You sound like you're running away from the exploding rocket 😂😂😂 jokes aside good video. Thanks 🙏

[@hojoj.1974]

Excellent. Thank you!

[@Kadeo-ms6qw]

But it’s objectively not.

[@leokimvideo]

I'm thinking with this video never let the truth get in the way of a good story. The N1 was definitely not the largest non Nuke boom.

[@KertaDrake]

Well, if they left the capsule loose, it might have made it to the moon after being on top of that much force...

[@Sweetthang9]

"Near nuclear" For context: this explosion released somewhere between 2 - 5 TJ of energy. The fission device detonated at Los Alamos on July 16th 1945 produced 100 TJ of energy....the Tsar Bomba, the largest explosion created by man, had an approximate energy release of 210 - 240 PETAjoules. ....near...nuclear.

[@Sp3z]

Teaching (not irony ;) ) of this is that the Soviets never actually came up with a rocket concept of their own that would have worked properly or been used in practice. Even the Soyuz rocket, despite being the most used and one of the safest (these days..) was just an R-7 ballistic missile that was fully based on the concepts developed by German scientists who had worked on the V2 originally and kept working for Soviets after the war, continuing their work. Not that it was much different for Americans, they just got lucky to capture the head of the program to then head NASA and take them to the moon. Everything that both sides achieved in the early space race was ultimately German engineering.

[@darksepheroth4627]

You should look up the definition of irony before you use it again.

[@adzz8012]

Just wait till you find out who wernher von braun is 😂

[@Sp3z]

@@darksepheroth4627 true

[@Sp3z]

@@adzz8012 I did say "Everything that both sides achieved" and "head of the program" referring to von braun specifically :)

[@bipolarspock6145]

That’s pretty much every technological feat of both east and west. All is rooted in something that was acquired after the nazi surrender.

[@MrCtsSteve]

That explosion in Beirut was a real banger 💥

[@Wheelo40]

Great piece. Thank you. Ironically, today, SpaceX employs the “test to destruction and iterate” methodology used so successfully by the Soviets.

[@thetreblerebel]

Soviets had a troubled but highly successful space program. Their probe and satelite

[@wicked1172]

A very powerful rocket and a much more powerful metaphor.

[@petert3355]

Largest non-nuclear explosion is all subjective on what you are classifying as the explosion. If you are talking "Largest ARTIFICIAL non-nuclear explosion" then history is pointing to The Halifax incident as top dog. If you are talking "Largest non-nuclear explosion" then you have to add naturally occurring explosions like volcanoes. That puts Krakatoa in the list in human history and the various super-volcanoes if you are talking Earth History. Basically what I'm saying here..... we need to define our parameters better for claims of largest whatever.

[@pjimmbojimmbo1990]

@2:26 Apollo 9 was the manned test of the LM, the Saturn V had already been flown 3 times prior

[@h.cedric8157]

Hopefully Spacex Starship would not end up like N1 on its Orbital test launch

[@my3dprintedlife]

Those engine clusters are complex

[@ChaJ67]

SpaceX Starship uses LOX/LNG while the N1 primary used LOX/RP-1. RP-1 is a lot like jet fuel where it primarily burns as it is only so energy dense and has a boiling point of 300C. LNG on the other hand is 11x as energy dense as TNT and has a boiling point of -168C or something like that, so it rapidly boils as it comes in contact with air. The main limiting factor with LNG is how quickly it boils off and mixes with the right amount of oxygen to detonate. Elon Musk has stated a rocket failure would still be primarily a fireball instead of primarily an overpressure wave. The N1 was also a much smaller rocket than Starahip / Superheavy. What I have come up with is the size of the overpressure wave is primarily a function of how well the methane ends up mixing with an oxygen source, especially as there are thousands of tonnes of pure oxygen right there and lots of oxygen in the surrounding atmosphere. In other words if the scenario is it can't mix much or at all, such as the vacuum of space, then nothing too bad. If there is lots of opportunity to mix before igniting such as that nuclear missile silo deal in Arkansas back when Clinton was governor that blew the 700 tonne silo door off like tissue paper and sent the nuclear warhead flying off into the distance, than that would be bad when scaling up to Starship / Superheavy size. (Maybe another dark doc episode if not already done.)

[@icollectstories5702]

A key difference is that SpaceX takes the time to test-fire every engine; in the N1 program, they only had time for "sampling" and they never tested the rocket as a whole, so engine connections -- pipes, hoses, wiring -- were never really tested.

[@ChaJ67]

@@icollectstories5702 Yes, I think this is a good point is that SpaceX has destructively tested everything going into the rocket they are going to launch. They know limits. They know procedures. They know advanced computer control systems for rockets with the most flown rocket ever plus previous Starship flights. They know sophisticated computer modeling backed by their destructive testing. And most importantly they know manufacturing, making the machine and various processes to make the machine. They have a huge amount going for them the Russians did not have when they worked on the N1.

[@Duneadaim]

@@ChaJ67 Starship uses pure liquid methane not LNG. There's no ethane (C2H6) in the fuel.

[@brianedwards7142]

In the immortal words of Tweety Bird "Fall down go *BOOM!* "

[@bneyens]

Stop adding those distracting “artifacts” to the video. It’s bad enough without trying to make it “vintage looking”.

[@andie_pants]

Stop demanding people change their channels to suit you.

[@bneyens]

@@andie_pants stop demanding people only make comments you agree with.

[@andie_pants]

@@bneyens You know damn well this has nothing to do with "agreeing" or not. It's about telling you not to bully creators.

[@Kadeo-ms6qw]

@@andie_pants You have a strange definition of bullying, and a great number of the commenters have stated that they don’t like this new effect. It’s called feedback, stop acting like a child.

[@daos3300]

@@andie_pants public forum which openly solicits feedback in the interests of profit, ergo feedback. deal with it.

[@bryantay11]

It’s a bit of a nit, but when listing the hallmarks of Apollo 8, 9 and 10, Apollo 9 was summed up as “testing the Saturn V”. The primary goal of Apollo 9 was deployment and crewed testing of the lunar module in orbit. The Saturn V had already proven itself over the course of the Apollo 4, 5 (unmanned) and 8 (circumlunar orbit) missions. But good work on a nice doc on one of the most interesting and overlooked aspects of the space race.

[@Gaetano.94]

I thought I produced the largest non nuclear explosion on the toilet today after I had some taco bell.

[@Teatime4Tom]

Booooo!

[@BrianAchterberg928]

😆

[@X-JAKA7]

Me too, except I did not eat food, and was in a long traffic jam one time while I had diarrhea, and couldn't stop anywhere during the middle of the traffic jam, and had to wait until I got home. 😰

[@bustinnutsinslutsbutts]

@@X-JAKA7 thats rough homie

[@X-JAKA7]

@@bustinnutsinslutsbutts Yeah, and this was during a winter road trip on the way home.

[@stevej7139]

I actually remember all that , I was fairly young at the time just entering my teens but I was a space enthusiast . At the time though the USSR was the bad guys at least as far as any 13 year old could understand it so when it was cancelled there was a lot of cheering going on . Then we got bored with the moon (I didn't ) and you know the rest ...

[@Hey_MikeZeroEcho22P]

A Great Topic, but............ What if the Soviets, regardless of amount of money spent, and setbacks, continued and did land on the Moon?? What would have happened then???

[@aikimechanic]

Who cares? They didn't.

[@Hey_MikeZeroEcho22P]

@@aikimechanic was hoping for a more Intellectual answer. If pioneers didn't keep going after earlier setbacks .... we would have not gone Anywhere.

[@my3dprintedlife]

There's an awesome alternate history series on Apple TV called For All Mankind where they did send men to the moon.

[@TheHacknor]

Depends on whether they landed before or after the US, realsitically they were never going to beat the US as they had a four year head start over the Soviets. What matters is when the Soviets achieved the landing, if it was done during the latter Apollo program then Congress would be compelled to keep funding the program to Apollo 20. If the landings were done after Apollo it would depend on how much the Soviets did, they had less funding and technology on their side so we can safetly assume they would have done only a handful of missions and then like the US but would have cancelled the program like the US for budget reason. Suistainable lunar exploration was impossible with 20th century technology so other then a few Soviet landing sites little would have changed

[@aikimechanic]

@@Hey_MikeZeroEcho22P You don't say. What if the US never made the Louisiana purchase? I was mocking the waste of time created by asking questions that are futile to answer. Live in the real world. But....."For All Mankind" is a pretty good show.

[@solewindxii]

"Enginee" Ah yes, rroocckkeett

[@stevehunter5505]

What the HELL is it with all the ridiculous red "veins" overlaid on the footage?? If you think it's to enhance it's vintage credibility you are dead wrong !! It's distracting and annoying. Keep it up and you'll lose a subscriber (and from reading other comments re. this "special effect", I won't be the only one).

[@kderouen88]

Jesus Christ dude, take a Xanax and chill out. It’s a KZbin video. Do you speak to people like this in your everyday life?

[@ssssssssssss885]

The largest controlled non-nuke yield was some 4.2-4.3KT TNT equivalent of the Minor Scale test. The largest accident, Halifax explosion at about 3KT.

[@MrBonebus]

in the video, naration "one of the largest-". in the title "the largest-". dont click bait content you are trying to put off as historical information.

[@myfavoritemartian1]

Try and beat the 1908 Tunguska explosion at 8 Megatons. IS the largest non-nuclear explosion. Maybe you were talking man made?