This Nuclear Device Lost in the Himalayas Could Destroy India

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[@patricksarama4963]

I hate it when I accidentally lose my seven plutonium cores on top of a five mile tall mountain

[@ishanchegu]

its 5 miles tall, 5 miles= 8 km, =8000 metres; nanda devi height = 7816m

[@gamerf3643]

@@ishanchegu it was a joke r/woooosh

[@I_am_a_human_not_a_commodity]

Remember, if you forget a number or have spelling errors, someone will come after you lol

[@FranktheDachshund]

@@gamerf3643 what was the joke?

[@gamerf3643]

@@FranktheDachshund OP made a joke about not liking losing their items in a location as if it happens regularly, which is funny as this doesn't occur very often and the video is about this very topic. All the OP did was say the wrong height. Although it's nice to know the real height, I could've searched for that online, but I guess it's there for the lazy people. This is a joke, it doesn't need to be fact-checked. It's funny, and that's all that matters. If you get the joke you get it. If you don't, you don't, so you ask. I hope you understand well now. Or might not. In that case I can't help you, so it's better off asking OP what the joke was.

[@ReclusiveEagle]

Teacher: "Where's your homework?" Me: "I lost it" Teacher: "You're lying" Me: "So the CIA can lose 2 nukes and 8 plutonium cores but I'm expected to take care of a piece of paper like my life depended on it"

[@nuclearcatbaby1131]

The CIA is lying. They can detonate those simply by firing neutron beams to that area.

[@TheTophatGuy]

@@nuclearcatbaby1131 'neutron beams'

[@marsovac]

@@nuclearcatbaby1131 you think that would the only problem in the premise of the story/mission? The Himalaya are much more distant to China than an average military satellite is. So listening to those communications did not need anything there, they already had satellites to achieve the same goal.

[@Ten0chtl1]

Touche'

[@lesigh1749]

@@TheTophatGuy They could reverse the polarity of the neutron flow.

[@SandeepSingh-hp7pe]

Yes...my uncle who still lives...was a member of this crew from indian counterpart. He was a young IB ( an IPS) officer. And he stil narrates and in fact we use to hear this as one of our bedtime stories from him.As of now we still ask this incidence from him...he lives in Dehradun

[@probablynotfbi9440]

Anyone else remember the days when youtube didn't drown you in ads while while watching a video?

[@ikhan9478]

Pay for KZbin premium no ads

[@Luka_3D]

Laughs in premium (Or you can get an adblocker just fwi)

[@allanshpeley4284]

Insert generic joke about getting youtube premium

[@grahameward362]

Ad block bruz

[@Unbound_Selrahc]

I recall the days of little ads, now they’ll drown you in them, I started paying for premium just because of how much I watch, but it is bullshit how much they’ve increased the amount.

[@ebk_savage]

US Government: “Quick think of a really subtle name for our top secret mission.” CIA: “Operation Hat.”

[@newbilpun8944]

Operation HAT: Half Assed Title

[@buddyguy4723]

High altitude telecommunications.

[@nelsonx5326]

Operation Hate.

[@scottcantdance804]

He mentions that Americans would have stood out like a sore thumb in 1960s India, but that's not really true. The hippie trails from Europe, through Central Asia and down into India and Southeast Asia were going full blast in the sixties and seventies. You could have brought a busload of Americans in there, and as long as you covered them with beads, they didn't shave or cut their hair, and made sure that they smelled like hashish and patchouli, they would have fit right in.

[@DeclanMBrennan]

It just occured to me that it may have been called that because of "Top Hat" and the mission being to the top of the world. But they must have been mad as hatters to attempt it.

[@kennychilders8261]

Hearing about this stuff makes you wonder how many crazy things we'll find out about in like 50 years

[@kiwibonsai2355]

Twin Towers 🤫

[@jordant993]

@@kiwibonsai2355 haha I was thinking that been building 15 years an i still don't know how that fell perfect

[@riteshyeddu9186]

Yeah

[@thebush6077]

@@jordant993 I mean it's already been debated to death and the how/why has been pretty well known for a while but ok

[@Shadow77999]

ikr, imagine all those declassified archives coming out one by one

[@M1551NGN0]

As an Indian commenting 2 years after this video was released, I'm so thankful to you to add to my insecurities and worries because of this video

[@amodmishra3030]

Oh I am watching this video today too

[@BonnieOhneClydex]

Dw bro, does not only make u worrie. I mean, imagine this thing "blowing" up. Into the River, the whole world would be fucked sooner or later. I guess we atleast dont have to worrie about the U.S blowing it up xD, since they would screw themselfes.

[@M1551NGN0]

@@BonnieOhneClydex i mean the world is gonna sooner or later blow itself up due to all the wars happening so i wouldn't be surprised. But radiation poisoning is definitely the worst death one could ever get

[@rohansharma201]

Lol

[@victorbitter583]

@@BonnieOhneClydex It's not a bomb. You can't blow it up. It's a very dirty battery.

[@gustavopaez2444]

I always like the way you tell these stories, its pretty interesting and amazing, thanks for doing it.

[@radio9632]

I remember reading this on the internet, that after further studies from multiple prominent researchers, it has been found that it's actually caused by Scrat, the squirrel form Ice Age.

[@satyarthprataprai6693]

Yes, finally the truth unfolds. Lol

[@xskrish]

LMAOOOOOOOOO

[@deezimmo4814]

There were other "devices" lost or misplaced in forests around Russia, they were used as power sources in remote settings. There have been reports, not recent, of hunters finding these small devices and sleeping next to time to keep warm; they would wake up in the morning with burns and other terrible side effects (possibly death as a result of their injuries later on). Moral of the story: if you find a small odd looking device that quietly generates its own heat while walking in the forest, run away.

[@nathanb011]

"Oh, weird, a mysterious warm box in the middle of the forest. I should sleep next to it!"

[@himonsonowal3269]

Daimn i want to make out there

[@eekee6034]

@@nathanb011 Sounds like you have no idea how cold it gets. Siberian cold is the stuff of legends!

[@Unbound_Selrahc]

I recall reading a story about a group that goes around and recovers said devices, and it detailed several stories about them. It’s kind of crazy, but I’m sure Germany has the same kind of nonsense. They had so many hidden bunkers, and facilities underground and tucked away, we still haven’t found them all. Can’t speak for nuclear devices, but I know a lot of their experiments go undiscovered.

[@bhav7539]

This reminds of that climber case from Russia

[@karanpagare8669]

Watching this guy after years! Love the experience!

[@jemmrich]

Interestingly radioisotope thermal electric generators were often used to power unmanned light houses until they were eventually decommissioned in fear of people looting for nefarious reasons. We still use RTGs today to power satellites and rovers as seen in the documentary The Martian. Another tidbit is that there are an estimated 35,000 cremations along the Ganges each year with many not cremated but weighted down with stone and pushed into the river.

[@Guru_1092]

The Martian wasn't technically a documentary, as it's fictional. Otherwise, good points. I was thinking an RTG as well.

[@marcosdenizatrailhiker2037]

Well, that gives the Ganges its flavor

[@martineldritch]

Blow up and irradiate the tropical paradise of Bikini Atoll, check. Litter Earth's formerly pristine orbit with countless metal wires, check. Lose Plutonium in the pristine alpine valley that is the source of the Ganges river, check. Ah the Cold War...

[@AJ-jq3hm]

Bruh you forgot the creation of radical Islamic terrorism.

[@varyokh]

lol i WISH those were the only things we humans have done wrong

[@loke6664]

They almost nuked Savannah too, 5 of the 6 fail-safes failed when they accidentally dropped the bomb, it was a miracle that the US didn't nuke themselves there. And God only knows how many nukes US and Soviet Union truly have lost, we only know of a couple but it isn't unlikely they lost a lot more. And that is not counting lost nuclear submarines.

[@JohnDoe-ox5ni]

Frigging wonderful .From pristine tropical paradise to relatively unexplored untouched by man mountains ..looks like a good place to place some deadly invisible cancerous death for thousands of years .Good work guys .Its goes to show you are never alone..Big foot probably took it home as a central heating devise ..We haven't seen them since,!is it me or is it hot in here and why is all my hair and teeth falling out and we can't stop shitting throwing up blood.Toasty innit.Blooming marvellous it warms you from the inside out .

[@Wtfukker]

aye its a yeti radiator now

[@mskmagic3877]

I remember reading a story about how climbers of Mount Kailash in the Himalayas reported that their finger nails and hair grew faster on the mountain, which is something that could be caused by radiation. Interestingly India doesn't allow anyone to climb that mountain anymore.

[@surajprakash3181]

Interestingly, mount Kailash now lies in China:)

[@blackjackbanker2359]

@@surajprakash3181 interestingly, it lies in Tibet.

[@surajprakash3181]

@@blackjackbanker2359 😢 Unfortunately, Tibet won't separate from China without a mass murder of a million+ people.

[@lp115lp]

Isn't Mt Kailash in Pakistan?

[@YTworld-69]

@@lp115lp please look the maps properly.

[@ThisGoesCrazy]

Channels like like are what makes information fun to listen to and also learn. I never find your videos boring

[@MrGranitealchemist]

9:32 hey that’s my town! That climb is called Saigon and is very very hard lol

[@saumyagairola7332]

My father narrated me this story while we were traveling last year. I am from Shivalik Himalayas.

[@davidgraham2673]

Your father has excellent timing.

[@vikasit_vikas]

@@davidgraham2673 😂😂😂

[@sortacoolfacts4148]

I’d love to visit the Himalayas someday. I heard that the Hindu God Shiva also lived in the Himalayas, is that true?

[@ArghyadeepPal]

@@sortacoolfacts4148 Yes he is associated with the Kailasa mountains, found in Tibet. But sadly they are currently under Chinese control. Kailasa is in fact one of the names of Shiva

[@sortacoolfacts4148]

@@ArghyadeepPal that’s interesting, so Shiva & Parvati both lived there?

[@huxley3043]

i love how he says ~it might sound crazy~ to allege that America / the CIA has done something stupid and reckless in another country 😭😂

[@darkshado124]

Yeah, like that one experiment on trying to teach a dolphin to speak using heroine. Snirk*

[@scootydad8093]

In all fairness we did watch communism kill >100,000,000 people

[@suryaananth2744]

ever heard of MK Ultra?

[@bobograndman]

@@scootydad8093 completely unrelated but ok lol

[@SilverStarHeggisist]

I think we're still the only country to accidentally drop a live nuke over our own country. And still has one of those nukes still lost.

[@bobzelley5100]

This case was a subject of a lecture in my structural geology class in 1982. Our professor had been a consultant in the investigation.

[@gazzacroy]

i really enjoy your videos and love your humour. top stuff fella :)

[@indianflippingart9593]

The same river is literally 200 metres away from my house..you scared the shit out of me for the rest of my life now

[@prithvisingh4479]

So that's how it cleanses your sins away! By radiation

[@user-fi4wn3te8v]

is that sarcasm?

[@user-fi4wn3te8v]

im asking that question to the person who said the radiation thing

[@Foolish188]

Considering how polluted the river is, you have way bigger problems.

[@indianflippingart9593]

@@Foolish188 not in the part I live. I love very near to the himalayan villages...this is a small town in the river BHAGIRATHI. Which is like a part of Ganges...but the pollution starts from a city named haridwar which is 250Km away from here.

[@venominblx9333]

This KZbinr is underrated. He puts together very enjoyable 15 minute videos about some random but interesting topic and averages 100-400k views. I feel like it should be 10x that with the quality of the videos

[@natearmstrong8340]

1-400 in the first day or two, by the time i watch most have 1M+ at least the topics that interest me.

[@iamthebroker]

He is indeed very good. Excellent research and presentation style is nice straight forward and simple tempered with his subtle dry humour. I like it a lot. His topics, as you say are surprisingly interesting despite somewhat obscure. Good stuff!

[@8b8b8b]

He often cover topics he is not qualified to discuss and does not consult a qualified person for peer review, causing a few cases of misinformation

[@Chroniknight]

@@8b8b8b I would say this is mainly what holds home back. It's fun, but you have to take it with a box of salt

[@rymc420]

@@8b8b8b nah, you’re just a complainer

[@calidreams5379]

Hopefully they will invent something that can somehow detect plutonium long range in the near future so they can find and properly dispose. Maybe detect from satellite? They must have an approximate area to search. It would be catastrophic if it leaked.

[@chemistryscuriosities]

From Wikipedia- (Plutonium-238 has a half-life of 87.7 years and emits alpha particles. It is a heat source in radioisotope thermoelectric generators, which are used to power some spacecraft. Plutonium isotopes are expensive and inconvenient to separate, so particular isotopes are usually manufactured in specialized reactors.) That being said it’s lost a lot of its radioactivity (almost a whole half-life), which equals less heat emissions. I don’t think it would have the ability to melt that much snow in the first place.

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

"Why does saying two bombs one satellite make me feel queasy?" Hold up I thought this was a PG channel

[@hugemango2011]

Ya thought

[@Sir.Craze-]

@Straight brown Male lolololololololololololololololol. That's red pilled to you? God what an absolutely strange world xD

[@Titi-lq1tj]

Ok

[@elbob099]

Atleast it wasn't somthing to do with a screwdriver or a jam jar 🤢🤢

[@ilovemetalmusic310]

'Hold up I thought this was a PG channel ' Last mistake you ever made. Edit: This'll age like milk.

[@WitchidWitchid]

That must have been fun to hear... "Okay boys, looks like you are going to have to carry it by hand all the way to the top."....

[@fajaradi1223]

Without telling them that they may get a nut cancer in the future

[@ihateyou3976]

They're not lazy freeloaders like you so it wouldn't be a problem for them.

[@WitchidWitchid]

@@ihateyou3976 Thats right... While they get overdosednwith radiation while risking their lives and doing the heavy work... I'll just sit back in one of my my private.jets collecting the funding for the project while getting high with a bevy of the hottest dames in town...

[@224L]

@@ihateyou3976 I don’t think not wanting to carry a nuke up a giant mountain is free loading but have fun paying people’s unemployment check out yo tax money anyway :)

[@GTAVictor9128]

I wonder if Death Stranding was at least partly inspired by this.

[@SpookyRedz]

Keep up the good work ; Thoughty

[@targaryenXoolf]

today is 8th year of me and Thoughty2. i love you man. you are family now. thanks for being there always. i use you for relaxing my anxiety. i have watched few videos atleast 20 times. i love you man

[@siyangqiu1]

The part about recruiting climbers reminds me of Armageddon - recruiting miners and teaching them to be astronauts.

[@g0d_iz_gamer]

hahaha true

[@lp115lp]

'miners'? Don't you mean oil derrick 'roughnecks'? I worked alongside some in OK

[@gamertaglupethegod8832]

Drillers*

[@BiggieBig_]

Should’ve thought astronauts how to drill instead lol

[@missourimongoose7643]

Honestly I'd trust Alex with a nuke, dude climbed el cap freehand lol

[@Stephan1988]

So back then in Cold War times whoever had an amazingly stupid idea against the opponent they just did it.

[@Sir.Craze-]

Lol. I could see how you would think so. And... A bit, I guess. But, you should look into the cold war more. They did any crazy shit based on the most cutting edge and unusually insane science and engineering of the time. Crazy by our standards, maybe. On the other hand. I don't see why putting a listening device on a huge mountain overlooking an enemy is an amazingly stupid idea anyways. A pretty big long shot. But if it works, pretty smart.

[@scottcantdance804]

@@Sir.Craze- Yeah, you can look at any period of scientific innovation and find crazy ideas that didn't pan out. People tend to look at the Cold War like it was unique, but the most unique aspect of it that drove some of the weirdest and most out there stuff was probably the fact that for the first time ever there were two superpowers vying for global dominance, and both were armed with a variety of weapons that could cause Armageddon in different ways. Even going to the moon was considered an unrealistic, space cadet idea, right up until the Soviets put the first man in space. At that point, Wernher von Braun must have been jumping up and down in excitement because he knew that the US government would finally ask him to work on his lifetime goal with full funding and support.

[@mikeoxmall3847]

That about sums it up perfectly!!

[@JohnDoe-ox5ni]

@@mikeoxmall3847 I can't wait until we get our next bit of crazy far out tech that the guys in white coats don't totally understand more are interested about the longterm.But just say seems to work. OK .Batteries you don't need to recharge ...Tick ...Next.

[@dudeinoakland]

You ever read Spy vs. Spy in Mad magazine?

[@WilliamRWarrenJr]

It's been fun watching you calm down and --quit being so frothy at the mouth-- mature into your delivery. I just upgraded my notifications to "all" -- really good episode! Thanks!

[@paulust.shavukah633]

Your take on the frozen hikers being used as landmarks up mount Himalayas would be interesting.

[@lorcan-quinlan-boyle]

Thoughty2: the world-class walker perfectly on the knife edge between an excellent promotional title and clickbait.... 😉

[@brahseph2066]

42*

[@alfredthecucumber9757]

@@brahseph2066 you tried to correct someone but you were just wrong

[@tobiaslundgren4587]

@@alfredthecucumber9757 technically not, 42 is the answer to everything

[@Jesus_Iced]

@@alfredthecucumber9757 This old chestnut. Somebody has missed the joke again 🙄.

[@ashleybriggs1618]

Or is he a hazelnut?

[@therealzilch]

Oh man. Another thing to worry about I've never heard of. Thanks.

[@michealnash753]

are you a decendant of william wallace? im part scottish myself

[@therealzilch]

@@michealnash753 Yes, I have Scottish ancestors on my father's side.

[@0kh0b07]

Get over yourself

[@therealzilch]

@@0kh0b07 ?

[@0kh0b07]

@@therealzilch of course you HAVEN'T heard about it

[@abubakarkhalid7148]

Amazing job thoughty as always keep it up ❤

[@PizzaTHutt]

The playback speed button was without a doubt implemented for this channel specifically. Popping one of these on after a Simon Whistler marathon and I couldn't possibly handle it at slower than 1.5.

[@_caspian_4474]

9:08 "I don't climb. I mainly just stand here and look cool" 🤣🤣😂

[@sortacoolfacts4148]

Sounds just like me 😎 haha

[@RohitChhatryVlogs]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@f87115]

Mitch hedberg joke :)

[@chitskirits]

Some of the stuff the Americans did to keep the "world safe" is mind-boggling

[@randomeastasian347]

Blame the CIA.

[@garrettstandish2722]

@@randomeastasian347 we all blame it on the cocaine we were all on during the Cold War. Shit was wack.

[@garrettstandish2722]

@Josiffrank I mean cocaine is mainly to blame. And it’s also one hell of a drug.

[@dco1019]

yeah, its pretty cool dumb stuff.

[@justamanwithsomesoup3352]

Yeah we’re pretty fucking stupid. This is coming from an American.

[@dbspecials1200]

Of course it could be a problem for future generations. the issue is in the containment. it was to be used to power a device, it was not properly contained and sealed for safe long-term disposal storage, like we see in deep underground placements. the material is probably in it's original cartage floating suspended in a layer of ice, or lodged into a rock crevasse. or, perhaps someone planned to steal that radioactive material all along.

[@abhishakesharma18]

Sir .. recently got stuck to your stuff across different categories...from quick sand to db Cooper ..to Japanese solider still fighting nww2..to a corpse who caused Nazis the war..n greatest sniper ever ... coming from India .. would like to suggest a topic considering your interest in Himalayas something about mysterious Kailash mountain...why still it's not conquered or nothing much known about it except for religious pious seclusion

[@Ciberxcreator]

If I ever invent a time machine I may need to go back in time and snag that plutonium. Just to make sure it doesn't cause any problems in the future... Wait... Maybe I already did.

[@jesseroel8362]

What if you did go back in time and tried to snag it and in the process lost your life in the storm and actually caused the plutonium to get lost in the first place. PARADOX!

[@allangibson2408]

The isotope used in American RTG’s is Pu238 - utterly useless for nuclear weapons as it doesn’t emit neutrons - it is an alpha emitter. Just don’t eat it - plutonium is chemically toxic and ingested plutonium can also cause cancer. The polonium used in Russian RTG’s is far more dangerous however.

[@Foolish188]

A much safer source of plutonium for your time machine than getting it from the Libyans.

[@zanedomke8148]

Sorry man, beat you to it. It's been my microwave for the past 8 months.

[@PIERRECLARY]

Check your balls for lumps!

[@347firedude]

No better way id rather spend my bathroom break, than be serenaded by thoughty2

[@nekoschar6170]

Same brooooo

[@rojalrijal6529]

Same here. 😂😂

[@kermi4]

42

[@mikebar42]

That's a thought #2 💩

[@leonardogarcia2506]

I’m literally doing the same. I seen your comment as I was about to wrap up my time in the bathroom, since I have 15 minutes till my actual break. I laughed way too hard at it!😂

[@Dr.White_PHD]

Damn your videos are so intriguing.

[@moblinmajorgeneral]

6:17 Thanks for reminding me I'm from Northern North America where we get the other one with shades.

[@florancegardinar9658]

You forgot to mention that area is on a highly volatile earthquake fault-line that's waking up right now?

[@meh.h]

It keeps getting better

[@KingDerpy13]

*GOODBYYYYE INDIA!*

[@sunnyboynfs]

@@KingDerpy13 India is much bigger then just Himalayas

[@barnabydinosaurroadsafetyp3457]

oh dont worry nobody for 2 miles in any direction -

[@aaronl9958]

@@KingDerpy13 gg ez

[@stevenwilson5556]

It's really hard to get a bunch of plutonium to explode, that requires critical mass of highly reactive isotope which if it existed in that box would have already decayed well below any dangerous threshold decades ago. The heat given off from this device might have a local impact but not enough to cause sudden flooding.

[@motubkchod3758]

Hmm if it's lost in India, Then probably someone dismantled it and sold the pieces. They are genius at it 😁

[@asimpleman6464]

Some skilled men 😂

[@zd4583]

What if russian and Chinese agent bought it's pieces from thief market

[@asimpleman6464]

@@zd4583 kzbin.info/www/bejne/fWG0fpiKn8h9eqM 😉

[@shubhamdubey1732]

@@zd4583 Indians are smart they make it's copies and sell it first

[@wretfsfvd]

well people from nearest neighbor Nepal smuggle raw uranium from India

[@glorygloryholeallelujah]

*”Nuclear device lost...”* _Is definitely one of the most terrifying 3 word combinations-ever._ 😳

[@thegrimviolet9497]

And yet america has heard them so many times, the country is quite literally littered with lost nukes.

[@fatallyfatcat5274]

Lol. All after USSR disbanded they lost a few dozen nukes as well.

[@allangibson2408]

The Russians have lost dozens of RTG’s - they were used to power aircraft navigation aids in Russia. Unlike the American ones those are dangerously radioactive and 20 minutes exposure can be lethal.

[@fatallyfatcat5274]

@@allangibson2408 No. Russia lost literral nukes when they where disbanding their bases in Eastern Europe in the 1990s. The point and evaporate target kind, whole, ready to use nukes.

[@allangibson2408]

@@fatallyfatcat5274 The Strontium 90 RTG’s that were lost in Russia are known to have killed... bellona.org/news/nuclear-issues/radioactive-waste-and-spent-nuclear-fuel/2015-11-foreign-funds-have-almost-entirely-rid-russia-of-orphaned-radioactive-power-generators

[@dariogutierrez6716]

This is the most interesting video I have seen this year so far. Imagine losing a nuclear battery.

[@vaisakhkm783]

From the mobile phone.....

[@lp115lp]

Remember when that pager satellite exploded and all the pagers in the northeast stopped working? Some of the plutonium cells which powered it fell into a local man's backyard. ARMY nuke crews arrived and scooped them up to take them away. (Newburgh NY area)

[@sadfacereview3591]

as a person who "lost" dvd-rw drive in small 2 room apartment for months I can imagine that.

[@Sol-os5pk]

@@lp115lp I haven’t heard of this story. You got a link, this sounds interesting

[@Daniel-lm6pj]

Hey Thoughty2, small chance you'll see this. But Im watching this from the future and as much as it made sense when you wrote this script, saying "this year" in an educational video that is still fun to watch, might be better off just being the year it happened at. (Disclaimer: Im not criticizing anything, just giving an opinion on a small detail that I thought would help the quality of the videos)

[@perrygillmore3074]

Love how he says glacier and it sounds like glass e ear

[@lendog1721]

Should be on mainstream TV this man , better than most presenters.

[@tool46296]

Nah they would just ruin him. Just like they ruin everything else.

[@asahearts1]

Who watches TV anymore? Sadly KZbin is trying to turn itself into cable.

[@lendog1721]

@@asahearts1 whats cable?

[@VuurBarbaar]

what is an. tv? you mean that old granny tube?

[@asahearts1]

@@lendog1721 I think it's some kind of one way telegraph.

[@flagmichael]

There's always an Arquillian Battle Cruiser, or a Corillian Death Ray, or an intergalactic plague that is about to wipe out all life on this miserable little planet, and the only way these people can get on with their happy lives is that they _do not know about it!_ - Agent Kay, Men in Black

[@jahmah519]

Yup, this subliminal message is very much accurate, only that this aint a miserable little planet, its the Ark with some miserable people.

[@therealuncleowen2588]

Deliver the Galaxy or Earth will be destroyed. Sorry.

[@disasterdinosaur2925]

The galaxy is on orion's belt

[@gabict8866]

I even came over an info pointing that India had recently credited Russia with a big amount of money. Could be this the reason of indian Apocalipse? Go figure!...

[@ryanbauer3680]

"Arquillian battle rules, kid. First we get an ultimatum, then a warning shot, then we have a galactic standard week to respond." "A galactic standard week? How the hell long is that?" "One hour."

[@Praharshkstudios]

Thanks a lot

[@claycassin8437]

Based on their cringe worthy recruitment video they just released, I doubt the CIA could even find Nanda Devi today, much less a plutonium device.

[@henryhooker1579]

I was rolling on the floor when I saw that

[@aslychair3096]

What are you two talking about? it sounds great lol.

[@allangibson2408]

Based on the CIA’s past performance, I doubt they found it in the 1960’s...

[@anonomuse9094]

FBI is worse. Instead of investigating the cyber attack on our missile defense system, their investigating Trumps taxes. Even though he's in the clear.

[@miguelnascimento2847]

@Jess Red that you for letting me know about this. Pure cringy gold

[@ricksanchez5845]

42: 2 bombs 1 satellite Me: *stops eating chocolate pudding*. I am not hungry all of a sudden

[@baactiba3039]

Please explain this to me

[@oatmealman1586]

@@baactiba3039 there's an 'adult film' named two girls one cup.

[@sussy_6998]

@@oatmealman1586 quite possibly the greatest film of our generation.

[@I_am_a_human_not_a_commodity]

@@sussy_6998 What visionary screenplay. Such an understated gem.

[@oatmealman1586]

@COMMANDO 10 of course, I just don't want to let on to the mischievous nature of it.

[@smokeo007]

Those may sound silly but why not use one of the cores to power a sled to get them to the finish line? Unless it was take too much to encase it for safety

[@mphilipk]

Absolutely incredible!….

[@iworms]

It's not as bad as it seems. This is Plutonium-238, and its risk profile was analyzed in depth in 1991 by the American Institute of Physics. Key takeaways are, skin contact and ingestion represent minimal cancer risk, while inhalation has higher risk for cancer. That's good for the Nanda Devi case because inhalation is the least likely exposure vector.

[@nobiledigitale]

Finally someone who pointed that out. Pu-238 is not the stuff they build nukes with.

[@runeodin7237]

How do you inhale plutonium (from a solid device)

[@andrewstanley7574]

How did they test ingestion.. Also why

[@iworms]

@@runeodin7237 In theory, time and environment can strip some powder away, and if that is airborne it can be inhaled. In this particular case, that risk is practically zero.

[@iworms]

@@andrewstanley7574 The material can leak into water and food chain, hence the ingestion concern.

[@AlmostEthical]

The plutonium stash is a bit like Sauron's ring of power. While it is currently lost in nature, if it emerges, an apocalypse could follow.

[@samsunguser3148]

It must be disarmed in the pits of idk

[@someone-vg9pq]

All of the rivers fricking raditaed

[@CrabTastingMan]

The conclusion was expected. If the device COULD melt miles of entire glaciers to flood cities, then 14 men and porters could not have carried a device that hot in the first place. And if somehow the heat radiated off the device was getting hotter over the decades, the locals would have seen just their local mountain rise in temperature for years, not have a sudden glacier meltdown.

[@AlmostEthical]

@@CrabTastingMan Good points, if not as much fun as Sauron's Plutonium Stash of Power :)

[@jigold22571]

On the way to Meru vis vi Kalish were lost cores to accelerate the subduction.Surprised they didn't take over the Potala..

[@Erizo_]

"the sanctuary" Interesting

[@paddlefaster]

It's hard to imagine the Ganges River getting any more polluted than it already is.

[@tonyb8660]

lol

[@smartbaba1321]

Who told you? Ganga is getting clean then before.

[@justice4549]

Over 370 miles of the Ganges is considered to be ecological dead zones lol

[@bhavyagupta5173]

@@smartbaba1321 LOL, who told you? Only very few areas are getting clean. Every city in the way dumps waste in the river. It can never be clean until people stop littering it.

[@MegaMalfurion]

throw in a nuclear device and we'll see Ninja Turtles climbing out of that river

[@SilverFox-qr1ci]

Nice one Thoughty. I see that you are a graduate of Jeremy Clarkson's school of "In the world" pronunciation and enunciation. Well done!

[@myview5840]

James Mays fashion sense

[@SilverFox-qr1ci]

@@myview5840 LMAO!

[@daldre8710]

"they're really bloody big" in combination with his expression got me good. but dang bro what the heck were they thinking. it seems paranoia got them good.

[@Frank20101978]

The length of shadow the Cold War casts is mind boggling

[@walterfechter8080]

The Abominable Snowman announced he will be moving from the Himalayan mountains to snow-capped mountains in Australia.

[@altonb93]

He found the plutonium and has changed his name to The Abombinable Snowman

[@raclark2730]

Maybe he will settle down with a nice Yowie girl.

[@MostDopeGamer775]

Actually, he found the device and declared his own country. He has the power now. The mad man.

[@BenTvHowman]

I just drove past the turn off to the Snowy Mountains today while driving from Sydney to Melbourne

[@cakdwik2050]

No, the night king will go down soon

[@eheboi9278]

Me living close to the ganga *chuckles * I am in danger ehe

[@GuinessOriginal]

I’d worry more about coronavirus mate

[@_Mentat]

You might want to check it out with a geiger counter; just saying...

[@CIA_Killed_JFK]

Id worry about all the tannerys dumping toxic waste into the Ganga... fucking disgusting

[@3kashm3]

Save the turtles! An i oop

[@eheboi9278]

@@CIA_Killed_JFK best thing, early in the morning you'll see people taking a dump in the river and then in the evening you'll see the same people taking a bath in it 💀

[@brownmuta7537]

So they just waited out a blizzard at camp for several months? Honestly I'm betting they lodged it in ice in a cave near their camp, not thinking about the fact that it constantly gives off heat. I mean when they go back several months later it could be hundreds of feet down the mountain or down an ice filled cavern

[@koenth2359]

The plutonium shown is Pu-238 and is used as a thermal energy source. Nowadays much wanted as a thermal energy source for far space missions. Warhead-cores are Pu-239. The 238 isotope generates much more heat than 239. It is inconceivable that the decay of Pu 239 is melting vast amounts of ice. A quantitative back -of -the envelope calculation: Let a warhead-core consist of 6 kg Pu-239 This is 25 moles, or 3E24 atoms. Pu 239 has a half life of 24125 years, so formula for the amount remaining is 3E24*e^(-9.1E-13 t) where t is measured in seconds. The number of atoms decaying per second then is 3E24*9.1E-13=2.7E12. The energy per decay is 5.2MeV = 8.3E-13J, so the decay power is 2.7E12×8.3E-13 = 2.24 W. The decay heat of a nuclear 239-Pu core is capable of melting ice at a rate of just over half a litre per day. A similar calculation gives a power of 537 W/kg for Pu-238, which is about equal to solar energy per square meter. 1 kg of Pu-238 produces enough decay heat to melt 139 kg of 0°C ice per day. Even with 40 kg of this stuff (about what would remain today of a possible original 60 kg), it is impossible that the energy of Pu decay is enough to cause floodings. A very serious concern however is the radiation of the Pu, should it contaminate water, esp drinking water.

[@Ryedor]

Gotta wonder ... what other nuggets of destruction are hangin' around the planet that we still don't know about ? Scary stuff.

[@MasaokaKun]

I once heard that the USSR had a plan in case the eventual war with the USA was lost: detonate a ship full of nuclear bombs (or something like that) in the middle of the Pacific ocean. Supposedly they never got around actually building the thing... but who fucking knows.

[@zacharymerrill8359]

@@MasaokaKun with everything going on in the world we’ll probably have a nuclear war in the next 50 years

[@connorjohnson4402]

@@MasaokaKun The Cold war era was just crazy we came up with some apocalyptic level shit a bunch of bombs in the pacific wouldn't do much really why do you think we nuked the crap out of bikini atoll and other tiny islands for testing? I think they had a plan to dirty bomb the west coast or just spread radioactive material from a submarine but don't quote me but a good example would be the big stick rocket check it out in this video kzbin.info/www/bejne/eourgIGHdrKJapo

[@hosmerhomeboy]

Probably a few. Plus there's the ones the planet just has already. And the ones that could come from space.

[@rahulmenon4357]

US Army dropped a hydrogen bomb near Savannah, Georgia. Never found it. I think there are 42+ "missing" Nukes.

[@SurrealSoda]

That moustache could destroy the himalayas.

[@belacoak5796]

Who some guy with out a mustache?

[@NightBazaar]

The moustache of doom sweeps across the entire mountain range quickly turning it into rubble.

[@ipsygypsy16]

In case you're interested, it is I who destroyed your 42 likes.

[@alonzodrake6461]

may i know if there's a lost TSAR bomba cuz that bomb has an area of effect of 300 miles

[@paulden3158]

Thoughty has the most intriguing story topics

[@trifectaofchris]

How has this not been made into a major Hollywood blockbuster yet? Also you've been smashing it with these past few uploads, excellent quality.

[@pivkemrzli2297]

hollywood produces only woke garbage movies these days... i somewhat doubt they would make a movie about some guys putting on a "black face" to fool the commies lol

[@trifectaofchris]

@@pivkemrzli2297 Fair point, but it would be a sick premise. Actually forget Hollywood, Bollywood should make this movie since a lot of Indian cinema is over the top anyways.

[@subhadramahanta452]

@@trifectaofchris they'll make everyone dance and turn it into a love story🤦‍♀️

[@BigDatsquatch]

@@pivkemrzli2297 So edgy

[@eddiemunster4094]

Broken Arrow is the name for a lost Atomic weapon!

[@PHANTOMS969]

what hes actually saying: "hey Thoughty2 here." My brain: "Hey fourty-two here."

[@40KoopasWereHere]

Yep... that's likely the point. He's probably playing on the number 42, which was the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy whose author was English.

[@pomtubes1205]

Glad to know that people still have this exact sentiment 5 years later

[@zaidrumman1178]

SAME HERE

[@noname-yt7uf]

He did say 42 he has a speech impediment that means he can't pronounce his "Th". Usually people from southern England pronounce Th as F, as in Free instead of three.

[@40KoopasWereHere]

@@noname-yt7uf As your icon suggests... no

[@joonatanlindqvist900]

When its 2 am but you have to find out what can destroy india in Himalaja

[@guitarandmore69]

The last thing I expected from you in this video was a two girls one cup reference. Lol

[@user-jf7dd1eo3b]

😀

[@cheesyvin8078]

XD lmfaoo

[@LacyJacy]

Southern china, you mean?

[@Atul_Thakur97]

same here bro

[@sirjared1159]

Impostor?

[@xd_ecksdee2157]

Run.

[@harleymumbulo69]

2 bombs 1 satellite. You earned the like brother. Lol

[@krushnakekan181]

I don't understand can you please explain it to me

[@_vla]

Even the profile picture matches your accent

[@krushnakekan181]

@@_vla was that for me?

[@realstealthninja]

@@krushnakekan181 please do not Google it.

[@SadForLyf]

Andy fcking Biersack??

[@maschwab63]

Don't forget the Decay. Look how much the Pioneer and Voyager probes have had to shut down, and they used newer cores.

[@revvedupsceneries]

I have been to the basecamp of that mountain (Nanda Devi)

[@sethw2825]

I love the idea of losing a super weapon Scientist 1: hey Dave I’ve been looking but I can’t find the nuclear weapon. Scientists 2: ... Scientist 1: Dave?

[@nathanmorris4981]

I had wiped two girls one cup from my brain, thanks for bringing it back

[@Jernofenz]

aaaaa

[@RustyNeverSleepz]

This reminded me I gotta go poo

[@Jernofenz]

@@propio2957 dont look it up.. it's very bad

[@Josh_Gates]

@@Jernofenz Ok Thanks Was about to search about it

[@Jernofenz]

@@propio2957 its very disgusting .. ... dont google it..... warning.. dont click read more its (edit:) nah.. I gotchu.. dont google it

[@mastermine1117]

did anyone else notice he used a duracell battery when making a reference to the energizer bunny?

[@benjaminandersen1097]

that device would surely have melted its way to the bottom of the ice layer, which is apparently a huge dept, and likely rest there safely for as long as there is ice and glacier on top

[@eddyadityapradhan7960]

Big love to Thoughty2 and everyone else watching this from Indian side of the Himalayas! Stay safe yall 🇮🇳🇮🇳

[@gerald4027]

I sent you $500 in gift cards to fix my computer viruses and it is still broken.

[@dv9239]

No

[@dv9239]

No

[@CrabTastingMan]

The conclusion was expected. If the device COULD melt miles of entire glaciers to flood cities, then 14 men and porters could not have carried a device that hot in the first place. And if somehow the heat radiated off the device was getting hotter over the decades, the locals would have seen just their local mountain rise in temperature for years, not have a sudden glacier meltdown.

[@gsd2404]

Thanks 🙏

[@alexvaraderey]

I thought that this sounded completely mental, but then remembered that it was 1950's/1960's CIA.

[@nathanb011]

*it was the CIA Time irrelevant

[@joegastly6166]

I can't believe they were this stupid to believe anyone could pull such a Godly feat. It's a Godly feat just getting to the Sanctuary and then they have to climb a giant fucking mountain? Impossible!

[@granddaddykaddy1788]

Still the same old CIA unfortunately. Why ~85% of the US population still blindly trusts the government and that they have nothing but our health and well being in mind when they make decisions is mind boggling to me

[@johnywhy4679]

14:59 You should have described the "apocalyptic scale". No idea what that means.

[@TheDemonarta]

It is ludicrous to think that this sort of device could ever cause a nuclear explosion, even if such material was in the water stream due to its high density it would not travel far and would merely sink to the bottom of any river/lake

[@rvxn]

Discovery channel did a documentary about this. However, Thoughty 2 always brings something new.

[@Yargenshmoler]

"man, the snow is getting pretty harsh, what if we just" *leaves device that constantly produces heat at the top of a large mostly frozen mountain that is almost impossible to access expecting it not to just melt and slide down/away*

[@honkhonk8009]

Hindu moment

[@geophiery4636]

Well, gee wiz i didnt know small amounts of heat could melt a whole bleeping mountain. Wtaf is wrong with ppl has c physics is not that hard.

[@Yargenshmoler]

@@geophiery4636 lol im pretty sure the tundra weather kept the box cold, its called 🌟 a joke 🌟

[@davidford3115]

For the sake of argument, if the flood was caused by the Plutonium, would it not have left a radiation signature? Plutonium does cause a Geiger counter to tick after all. So does the radioactive decay products.

[@pouncepounce7417]

@@davidford3115 Not really. While the thing generates heat and radiation and that radiation makes some atoms around it to become radioactive themself, most of that stuff has a very low lifespan so the result is very hard to meassure downstream with dispersion and all. If the case cracks and the actual material inside leaks out though, that you can measure, that stuff was especially choosen because it has a long lifespan. If it generates enough heat to actual cause flooding by any measure i doubt, given it had to be handled by people directlky to get there in the first place...

[@IBaitman]

I'm just wondering, what if they used the plutonium cores to stay warm and the guy who got testicular cancer actually sat on the box for quite a while

[@davidweikle9921]

42: goes on and on about the potential pollution that could be caused by refined nuclear materials in the River Ganges Overlooked by 42: the absolute state of the Ganges

[@tekulve2968]

After the cores were lost the plan was renamed to operation ASS HAT.

[@deepskywalker66]

Recovery Operation.

[@Foolish188]

Free Hat!

[@sohanm3051]

Not only CIA was present in Operation Hat Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW), and Indian Army's mountain climber were also present

[@swapnilshinde714]

Are you sure R&AW existed back then?

[@rider4334]

@@swapnilshinde714 Nope, RAW was formed 3 years later

[@swapnilshinde714]

@@rider4334 yup

[@whattheysayk9558]

Today is 3/1/2022 as I watch this I can feel something big is about to happen in America and the world soon

[@winnkey]

This needs to be made into a movie.

[@henryhernandeez6111]

The US military's rather nonchalant handling of its most dangerous toys was not limited to foreign countries. In fact, seven of the 11 nuclear warheads that are officially missing were lost at home in the USA.

[@Isaacmantx]

That is what happens when you keep dozens and dozens of them flying 24/7 during most of the cold war. Russia had many of the same situations.

[@latterdaydude6125]

@F Trakk Jimmy Hoffa’s ghost says they’re not under there with him.

[@john-paulsilke893]

If I gave you $10 million and a decade to make any of these lost Nukes detonate you would be 10 years older and $10 million poorer. It’s simply impossible. It’s like the bs propaganda about Chernobyl or any other power plant exploding like a nuke. U238 and U235 are completely different substances and if it was that easy we wouldn’t make nukes but instead simply drop Plutonium and Uranium from airplanes instead of creating the Manhattan Project and spending trillions on making such devices.

[@thegrimviolet9497]

@@john-paulsilke893 it isn't that the sunstances themselves are that dangerous, it is the fact that they are fitted into explosives that make them dangerous, as for nuclear power plants exploding, it again isn't the substance but how it is being used that makes it dangerous, hence why most places moved away from nuclear power.

[@john-paulsilke893]

@@thegrimviolet9497 nuclear power is far less polluting then almost any other form of electrical generation. The problem is the public is poorly educated on the subject. Hydro requires massive damns which produce tremendous co2 in their construction. Wind is pathetic. Solar works at beat 1/2 the time and requires massive acreage and rare earth metals only found in China and Southern Africa and is produced by slave labour. The secondary products from nuclear energy are so maligned that they are viable for reuse in any significant way. Coal and petrochemical fired generation plants pollute way more fallout then all the worlds nuclear power plants by many orders of magnitude and also create greenhouse gases in insane amounts and poison their environments. Obviously we need Geo-thermal but we aren’t quite there yet as far as exotic materials go, (but if we can swing it, the world becomes a massive battery we can tap for almost unlimited power).

[@HollowVortex]

Couldnt you just use thermal imaging and geiger counters to find the device? or just use a camera from the air with thinner filters?

[@bismarckrathod5890]

Shhhhh you are not suppose to say that

[@rickseifert5139]

I agree mate , with the technology now available that's incorporated into satellites it should be pretty easy for them to find , unless the climbers were being watched and their precious cargo was seized as soon as the USA team left the country or area.

[@CarsCatAliens]

Absolutely, thanks for the deep thought ..

[@nihalbhandary162]

The boxes are lined with lead and stuff, any radiation it gives off is weak. And it is mostly covered in god knows how many meters of ice. Water is an excellent radaiton absorber, which makes it virtually impossible to locate it. Maybe someone using a metal detector will be more heloful.