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[@angrydemonproductions4361]

Assuming that the manhole cover didn't hit anything, it passed the moon in under 2hrs, passed Pluto in about 3 1/2 yrs and is currently about 1/5th the way to Alpha Centari 😂😂😂

[@Jcornman24]

I did the calculations last night, it would be about 1000AU away from the earth, which is right about at the edge of the Oort cloud, the Oort cloud goes from 1000-5000AU. It's also further than voyager 1 and moves way faster An Astronomical Unit(AU) is the distance between the Earth and the Sun

[@gacrux-ni7hw]

Imagine if unknowing scientists found it years later and assumed that a non-naturally-occuring piece of metal is some alien tech and goes crazy over it

[@raymurray3401]

The crazier part about this is the fact that 150k mph is the minimum amount of speed they calculated. So for all we know it could’ve actually been moving at a drastically higher speed.

[@AmericansLearn]

fingers crossed

[@kasimirri]

I calculated that it would have traveled 0.35% of the distance to Alpha Centauri

[@FlyingDishwasher]

Commanding officer: "Listen up soldiers! I need 5 volunteers for a job." Random Soldier #5400: "What's the job about, sir?" Officer: "Great question, soldier! I need 4 more volunteers!."

[@AmericansLearn]

heehhehee

[@raymurray3401]

From what I’ve learned those emergency drills they do in schools where they duck underneath a desk or in the hallway was primarily to reduce the risk of serious injuries from debris and shattered glass by putting a solid object between yourself and the potential danger. So during the Cold War they knew 100% if a nuke detonated nearby it was guaranteed death but if it didn’t hit close enough to actually kill you the debris it sent flying could still cause serious harm. But unlike an explosion debris can be much more easily countered by simply having enough solid objects in its way and by curling up in ball you not only make yourself a smaller target and should anything hit you it’ll be less likely to hit anything vital.

[@Freedom_Half_Off]

Thanks for posting ... I tried to expound but the platform doesn't seem to agree that people should be better educated

[@susanruan3663]

I learned this because I went to school in California and it's still taught to protect yourself from earthquakes. Can't do anything about the ground saking, but the things raining down on top of you during the quake can be shielded against if you get underneath something. I didn't find out it was taught in the rest of the country in case of nuclear war until I was an adult.

[@chazo1367]

Turning the planet into a gun sounds VERY American....

[@SgtAwesome97]

To give some sense of time, that manhole cover entered space at the SLOWEST, 0.0248 seconds

[@isaacvincent8443]

Actually 'Duck and Cover" IS a solid suggestion in either a Nuclear or Conventional bombing survival situation. While it wouldn't likely save those in the 'Blast or Firewave' zones, [Though in Japan dozens or even hundreds of civilians survived being at the edge of those zones because they got under enough material and then made there way rapidly away to safer areas] it does help protect you from receiving physical wounds, like glass in the eyes, stone or metal shards, lessens possible blunt force damage... and several other possible negatives. Admittedly many of those Survivors would later die of cancer or other health issues that can come from moderate radiation damage, but for some those deaths only came late in life and from reports give by those Survivors the majority were happy to have lived good life's and most had become parents or even grandparents. So if you should ever be in a similar situation, such knowledge and quick action can save your life. Unfortunately it has become popular to scoff at such information and I fear many wouldn't know what to do, to become a Survivor themselves. Seconds can count, in such situations.

[@04m11]

I volunteer when my 1st ask for some volunteers. He said good to go, stand to the side Marines, and then told the rest of the platoon to clean the Squad Bay and sent us volunteers away

[@ImprovmanZero]

that is how you fix that problem

[@matthewlaird5235]

The crazy thing is once it gets into space, there is no friction. If that thing made it out of earth’s atmosphere, it is flying through space at Mach one hundred and fuck, until it collides with something. There is a good chance that that thing is speeding through space at this very moment.

[@joshuawillingham6363]

Assuming it didn't collide with anything I wonder what the odds are it's *very* far past Pluto's orbit by now, or has stabilized into an orbit around the sun or another body in the solar system depending on what direction it was launched in.

[@dontshanonau1335]

That's not true either. Particle winds, gravity wells, and so on, all influence the movement of objects without having them collide with "solid objects".

[@theshaydedlotus3128]

He didn't mention this, but if it is a comfort to anyone, Genie is the only nuke in the US arsenal that DIDN'T need Congressional or Presidential authorization to be used. Meaning, there was a non-zero chance of this thing potentially seeing service. It didn't, as it was slated as a national security measure, so it could only be used in US airspace, but it could've. Of course, genie was, to my knowledge, discontinued because better systems became available. But I think that it is fascinating, because Genie does show a small part of how the US planned to conduct a nuclear war. If the nukes are detonating overhead and high enough, soldiers on the ground would be unscathed and could conduct standard operations on the ground against an enemy who's air support had just experienced what it's like when the Sun flies too close to them.

[@dontshanonau1335]

Incorrect. Davy Crockett and the nuclear artillery munitions wouldn't have required any kind of authorisation.

[@chazo1367]

@@dontshanonau1335 Yeah that's why they got discontinued I think, you can't give the grunts access to nukes and complete discretion on when to use them, especially with the Crockett that would've been jeep mounted.

[@theshaydedlotus3128]

​@@dontshanonau1335 Nope. Davy Crockett still required permission. However, chain of command would count as permission if necessary.

[@trentthehehim3936]

It’s cool. We’re ( Star Wars Fans) still waiting for the universe to continue after the prequels. There hasn’t been ANY Star wars movie or tv show since the prequels. Canon is STILL canon. Luke still teamed up with Darth Bane and whooped a Force Gods ASS. It’s fine. It’s FINE!

[@vapors4villains]

5:20 “No, you stay down there, you beautiful idiots!” 😂 Love it. Thanks for sharing!

[@IzzyManDude]

Hey Kit, cool fact, the Marines you saw in the trenches during one of the "shots" in the operation were used as way to play on this theorized idea called the "Nuclear Army Doctrine." This doctrine was the idea that of what would happen if we had our troops fight on a nuclear, radioactive battlefield, of course, in the case that nukes were used like conventional weapons. So, yeah. Also, I thought Marines love big booms. I thought they love them because it stimulates their crayon loving brains. Is that not the case, Siiirrr? Hmmm? 😏

[@coffeefiend5913]

When I was a school kid we had "tornado" drills. We went into the main hallway that had no windows and sat down with your back to the wall. Then you put your head between your knees and clasped your hands over the back of your neck. This was to keep you from major injuries do to flying debris. The strange thing is that this was also how you would protect yourself if a nuke was inbound. In fact the first time I remembering doing this drill it was a bomb drill. However, some students got scared and so the drill was renamed.

[@jasonlengyel1104]

When the manhole cover hits something, it's going to hit hard

[@alexfischer7876]

25:29 It should be "Take that, Khrushchev!"

[@JohnFromSC]

My dad, Army infantry in Vietnam, always told me to never be first, never be last and to never volunteer.

[@anthonystevens7594]

Oh i can answer that one, the desk thing was to instill fear. 👹

[@dc4457]

Kind of the opposite really. It was to convince kids that if a nuke went off, you would be fine if you obeyed the rules. Same as the rules for civilians "wait a few minutes for the radiation to subside, then go out and help fight fires because you are totally safe"😊

[@benji5320]

I mean, ducking in cover in like a basement might work if your house or building is in the range of the shockwave, but outside the range of the fireball and thermal pulse. You’re pretty SOL if you’re in range of those, but having some sort of cover could potentially save you from the shockwave. You would just have to pray that it would then be in good enough condition to keep out all the poisoned rain and wind for the next 2-3 days.

[@unknownp1506]

They say what goes up must come down, but i dont think that manhole cover got the memo

[@Jawmax]

Really hope to see your reaction to the Fat Files video on Paublo Escobar's cocaine hippos.

[@ImprovmanZero]

if they ask for volunteers it means it isn't safe enough to order

[@somthingbrutal]

there is a great documentary about the american nuclear weapons program called Trinity and Beyond: The Atom Bomb Movie. well worth checking out

[@dontshanonau1335]

I don't know why people always omit this (well, anti-German nationalism...), but the first man-made object in space was a German A-4.

[@mobiuscoreindustries]

Well this is the first object potentially sent into outer space. This is because the manhole cover had reached serval times the escape velocity of earth. The A-4 was the first object to reach orbital altitude, however it did not reach orbital velocity nor acheive a stable orbit. And it would take quite a while longer for humans to send an object outside the orbit of earth.

[@ChadTalos]

Now I understand why the the stereotypical evil mad scientist is popular in media, because we had them in real life. Man the scientists in the 50s,60,70,and 80s were having the best time in their live except their subjects

[@TrojanRabbit521]

Yeah in the 70’s & 80’s we’d have disaster training every semester. There were drills for fire/tornado & nuclear war. I’m an X-ray tech and experiments & snake oil salesman gets pretty crazy. They used x-rays to see how well shoes fit in department stores. Not 1 snapshot it could be continuous for people to see their toes wiggle! No shielding either so they shared radiation with everyone in that store. The government likes to use it’s employees as Guinea Pigs.

[@kondomonster]

When I was in the Navy, a Lpo would ask us for volunteer for a Working Party. I trought the wanted to celebrate something or have some fun during working hour. Boy was I wrong. Plane washes arent very much fun.😊

[@iKvetch558]

One thing that Fat Electrician is a little bit off on is that the Germans put the first manmade object in space with the launch of a V-2 rocket to an altitude of 176 kilometers on June 20, 1944. So no matter what happened to the manhole cover, it was definitely never going to be the first manmade object in space. It is also possible that he is just thinking that the manhole cover would have gone into orbit, which it would not have...but it just proves he is still human and can make mistakes. LOL

[@mobiuscoreindustries]

Nah he specifically states as the first object sent into outer space, which is objectively correct as to send something outside the orbit of earth you need to exceed its escape velocity and it did so by serval times. The A4 while it was the first object to reach the altitude of space, it never reached even orbital velocity nor a stable orbit. He did make the mistake to compare it to sputnik while a more apt comparaison would have been something like Venera 1 in 1961.

[@iKvetch558]

@@mobiuscoreindustries Except outer space is not a thing...there is space, which starts at 100km, and there is orbit...there is no such thing as outer space. There is the idea of getting beyond the "Earth/Moon" system, but that is nothing like what he said...so the technical definitions that he has learned are not quite correct. No big deal...and I am sure Fat Electrician would freely admit that he made an oopsie on it, if it was actually possible to let him know about it.

[@devilreject6878]

hollywood is ruining all scifi stuff, they are just about done with star wars and have already said warhammer is the next thing they wanna do, and tried to get henry caville "probably spelled his name wrong" to play a part in it but he turned it down... so brace yourself warhammer is gonna get ruined next... :(

[@matthewlaird5235]

I can’t wait for this election to be over. These political adds are getting old.

[@brandonmercer499]

And I can't even report the adds. If i could, I would report them as 'inappropriate'

[@raymurray3401]

Honestly they wouldn’t be as bad if they were actually about what each candidate intends to do should they win rather then being nothing but insults, accusations and slander aimed at their opponent.

[@brandonmercer499]

@@raymurray3401 I just get ads from the democratic party saying 'there is still time, undecided voters like you can...' right before I skip it.

[@JamesGMunn]

Reaction to a reaction to a video??

[@scottbivins4758]

Throwing a goodbye Joe party? Hell yeah sounds like good party😂😂 but that don't mean I want the VP to become president. I want dude who got 34 felonies and just survived assassination attempt.😂

[@yambo59]

I really enjoy trying to pay attention to the story while someone constantly interrupts with pointless goofy comments masquerading as a reaction

[@GuiltyFaT]

Then go and watch the original vid This is a reaction, as in his opinion

[@Pterodactylus548]

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[@AmericansLearn]

I have a video for that already--Lauren for sure on the Chicago Reacts channel watched it.

[@benji5320]

I mean, ducking in cover in like a basement might work if your house or building is in the range of the shockwave, but outside the range of the fireball and thermal pulse. You’re pretty SOL if you’re in range of those, but having some sort of cover could potentially save you from the shockwave. You would just have to pray that it would then be in good enough condition to keep out all the poisoned rain and wind for the next 2-3 days.