What Could Survive An Atomic Bomb?

[@adnanilyas6368]

It's a giant mushroom! Maybe it's friendly!

[@connorclabaugh9962]

+Adnan Ilyas Go give it a hug, Sokka.

[@sanguine9589]

+Adnan Ilyas love that anime

[@kehlercreations]

+♥♪!? Gaming It's not an anime

[@sanguine9589]

Tontete shhhh child, i am the illuminarty, I MAKE THE RULES *insert derpy evil laugh here*

[@kelvin254kk]

+Adnan Ilyas Now kids in Africa can enjoy that giant mushroom for their lifetime.

[@Calamity556]

I am become mushroom.

[@amenxv6313]

you are an apple

[@Calamity556]

Amen XV I am become apple.

[@tamerr8863]

Calamity556 u is cashew

[@Calamity556]

tamer rizq I AM BECOME FOOD

[@tamerr8863]

no no u is cashew

[@lsupersonicl]

Is this how Mario and the mushroom kingdom was born?

[@boolshmool]

interesting theory, it deserves further investigation.

[@BishBoshBundle]

The Game Theorists

[@nickh8335]

+BlueLaw you sir deserve a emmy

[@SpicyMeatAhBall]

World war 1

[@LSCrazyCabCo]

+BlueLaw i forgot that someone once said that to me.

[@MakeSushi1]

time to eat some mushrooms

[@iamgt2392]

Hi! Verified KZbinr after 5 years.

[@bigmaxmer4902]

Your account was deleted.

[@Keepmovingson]

Sushi is communist cuisine

[@boxinabox6608]

@@bigmaxmer4902 It's here again

[@Canadioryan]

You never mentioned a Nokia phone can survive an atomic bomb

[@williamvazquez9480]

They could survive a supernova

[@williamvazquez9480]

you know it is true

[@MCToxication]

William Vazquez You forgot the Nagasaki Arch

[@luc-405]

Canadioryan You deserve the like.

[@boolshmool]

Canadioryan and Chuck Norris' foot

[@justaway_of_the_samurai]

What this video is actually talking about is what could survive the RADIATION that results from an atomic bomb. The actual explosion, however, would be extremely hard to resist. Chances are that the fungi and cockroaches would only be able to survive on the very edge of the bomb's explosive radius, and then spread back inward over time.

[@jacksonsmith579]

Somebody: Why does the mushrooms always get invited to parties?… Cause he’s a fungi! Derek: Wow, that’s very fungi!

[@azzym8794]

The last mushroom I encountered had me floating in the stratosphere for 48 hours before I drifted back down. Still feeeling kinda light and airy.

[@PrivateerJimmy]

🤣lmfao

[@therealorberon]

Won't you take me to... Fungi tooownn.

[@ianrigdon2491]

I for one, welcome our fungi overlords.

[@321haiqal]

half life 2 reference?

[@ianrigdon2491]

321haiqal Depends on how you interpret it I guess...

[@TerynCate]

+Nobody the Nobody, Well I hear they're pretty Fungis

[@qwert_au]

hahaha, never gets old. Well placed!

[@diggerpete9334]

"That is disgusting, I cannot believe this." Then walks in the direction of the man and not the woman.

[@artofjamaa2090]

FAN FICTION TIME

[@nannerpuss9430]

Art of Jamaa Head canons, anyone?

[@doesitmatter1667]

He was probably going to get revenge. *teens* OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HE GONNA KISSY

[@IslamBenfifi]

It means he is secretly gay

[@maxmascarenhas1086]

Ship

[@ColeChafin]

Is anybody having his 9+ year old videos show up in their recommendations alot? I’m lovin this blast to the past

[@paullufkin4313]

these are the role models we need, people like veritasium and vsauce.

[@hawks1ish]

So a nuclear apocalypse wouldn't be so depressing afterall especially with all those fungis around to cheer things up

[@oneforty1623]

Can't spell fungi without fun

[@joshuahadams]

So we'll be both irradiated and high on shrooms. Yay.

[@emagdali]

I can't say I didn't see that kiss coming from the way he looked at you :P

[@_thee.lee_]

When i readed your comment I just starred at the woman just for realizing its the man who kiss him 😂😂😂

[@emagdali]

Someone's in love :P

[@SebastianSchepis]

I'm a hetero man and I'm legit crushing on veritaseum wow

[@DANGJOS]

Lol!

[@erikmfoss9042]

Why did the mushroom go to the party at chernobyl? -'Coz he was a fun guy..... yes...I hate myself a little for that one, too...

[@preetiraj6906]

Niiiice😂

[@the_haakinton8924]

hes a fun guy but you're not jk btw

[@Gstrangeman96]

Derek looks like one of the youtubers that have the most fun doing what he does

[@wowok3448]

My first thought: I need to live in a mushroom during a nuclear apocalypse! My second though: We are all going to turn into smurfs! My third thought: Smurfs would be GREAT in a nuclear apocalypse!!

[@defnotsoph.]

Lol 😂

[@mustakrakishthebakedtroll2896]

No Wonder They Call Them "Mushroom Clouds" Ah? Ah? I Need Friends...

[@kingsoonkit9234]

You don't need friends. (Being sarcastic)

[@mustakrakishthebakedtroll2896]

SKITZ :-: Good one 😂

[@rosieisla8286]

It's also the exact same joke they did at 0:53. Did you comment before that came up? If so that's quite funny, actually ^^

[@mustakrakishthebakedtroll2896]

Rosie Isla I Came Up With It Around 0:17 Then I Heard Him Say It, Afterwards I Was Like "Ahh..."

[@mustakrakishthebakedtroll2896]

SincerestLake0 Yea, I Posted It Then A Few Seconds Later I Heard Them Say It

[@TheArfdog]

Actually Terminators would survive too

[@robertskelvin8426]

. ,

[@ujjwal2473]

Reviving the dead

[@ujjwal2473]

After 4 years

[@Zorn27]

great channel, subscribed :)

[@eugenbondarev4705]

That dude seems to be the embodiment of kindness :3

[@mustvalge7705]

isn't it obvious? when you look at mushroom clouds and mushrooms, the analogy is so obvious...

[@WesternOhioInterurbanHistory]

Things that can survive Atomic Bomb: -Nokia 3310 -Chuck Norris -EMD F40PH -Keanu Reeves

[@hassaan1670]

keanu reeves XDXD

[@sanatjain4670]

Also Rajnikanth

[@kagakudoragon]

The Term “Mushroom Cloud” has gained a whole new meaning

[@cobracraft7871]

very cool clip :) i actually had suspicion that fungi would thrive in a nuclear rich environment and thought it had something to do with the way the break material down but couldn't place exactly why. glad i know :p

[@stardude692001]

I always wondered if there was some form of life that could use nuclear energy as a type of food or energy source. Thank you.

[@milkwater1204]

Godzilla

[@Wheat_Thinn]

@@milkwater1204 Is godzilla a fungus?? New theory

[@asterisque9252]

Ok, my first thought on seeing the title in recommended was literally, "not me...?"

[@ishaansharma8164]

urs is the first comment i say which isnt like 4 - 5 years old

[@asterisque9252]

@@ishaansharma8164 i know right!?, and yours is the only one recent too

[@djwoodgate]

Well, I'm a fun guy, so I'll be okay. I can decompose all night and sunbathe all day. I will sit on dead trees to eat my lunch and on Wednesdays I will go scraping and have buttered mold for tea. Alas I can not reproduce asexually. I just can not get my Celia to fragment no matter how hard I rub it, and my penchant for cross dressing as a mushroom and hanging around compost piles is not helping; all the spores just choke me up and the wild flowers are really depressing. I was thinking of going to a laboratory, but I do not want to become known as the only puffball in the village. So I guess I will just have to settle for being a closet meiotic Fun Guy and not the fully imperfect Fun Guy I feel I should have evolved to be.

[@thomaskositzki9424]

That's some brilliant, nerdy, hilarious stuff!

[@ilovehertodeath]

You just made my day. Well done.

[@DuGongggg]

0:53 I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE

[@mourgoukos]

an alternative hypothesis: fungi are attracted to radioactivity to avoid competition

[@saubhagyasharma9933]

Who is here after 8 years?

[@robdotcom71]

I love Catalyst... thursday nights aren't complete without sitting in front of the box at 8PM, flicking it over to the ABfrigginC and getting my fix of Catalyst. I do hope you do more stuff for them... the roadtrip with Simon and Anja was great! :)

[@bailey125]

No, hockey pucks will survive.

[@MuffinWrangler]

How many bottle caps would they cost? we could build houses out of them.

[@ceciliavis7556]

+Zippy Fallout reference?

[@MuffinWrangler]

Cecilia Visnick -_-

[@ceciliavis7556]

Zippy haha, what?

[@95TurboSol]

+baileyboy125 Yep, if anyone is skeptical look up Thermite vs hockey puck, yeah hockey puck wins

[@uatu3021]

My first thought was what this would do to the Sporeggar. I am happy to know that their are a few others out there somewhere that were thinking along the same lines.

[@ReZdItalia]

Should try growing psychedelic mushrooms in a nuclear reactor... And then eat them lol

[@scumbag8021]

+ReZdItalia actually that wouldnt work if you grew it directly in an active reactor as those reach temps over 100 million degrees, in other words, it might be good fried

[@mdell3]

+Scumbag i believe he meant the Chernobyl Reactor, and either way, reactors don't run at extremely high temperatures. Reactors have many different ays of cooling down, high temps usually mean a nuclear meltdown ;p

[@kyky2010kyky]

+Scumbag reactors don't reach near those temperatures, unless you're detonating a thermonuclear device. the core of the Sun is about 15million ℃

[@lub3y]

You've never had atomic caps?

[@BearCubster]

Really cool! Check out the end of video. The guy get's more action than I've seen all year.

[@scratchnetwork4961]

Atomic bomb explosions look like mushrooms... DUN DUN DUN

[@Rattacko]

Nausica of the valley of the wind was right all along!

[@MrThebradon2001]

Wait, is Simon that guy from Numberphile?

[@ElGringoCastellano]

Yes, he's one of the people that do Numberphile.

[@xXxBibblexXx]

Maybe go into detail about which are okay to eat if it were a nuclear apocalypse?

[@zKingDave]

the way he says "fungi" irritates me

[@RobertDigitalArtist]

fun-gee

[@howardbaxter2514]

Some countries, like America, pernounce (Fun-guy).

[@Radio_SSB]

howard baxter Isn`t that plural?

[@howardbaxter2514]

No. Fungus is plural, Fungi is singular.

[@Radio_SSB]

howard baxter Sorry, me is no good do English. :c

[@botigamer9011]

1:52 So many years and Veritasium still doesn't have a moment cuter than this one

[@AmSeris]

These Catalyst people seem like *Fun guys* 'Kay, I'mma go drink some bleach now.

[@AMalas]

so. much. NOPE!

[@Mischkovonik]

It is from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ("Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything")

[@matula7894]

Fallout 3 taught me that.

[@netoeythedestroyer8468]

I KNEW I'D SEEN YOU FROM SOMEWHERE!!! for ages you looked super familiar when I first stumbled upon the channel, now I realise I must have seen you on catalyst

[@Sylphiel]

1:52-2:07

[@sohambelge8318]

8 years later it has come again

[@333angeleyes]

Sigh... it looks like the horror movies got it wrong. Our true new overlord will be Toad from Super Mario Brothers

[@supertank215]

i just love your channel

[@spencerpeters5129]

I got an ad for refrigerator. Thanks, KZbin.

[@fandyus4125]

Whoah, why that 21P symbol huh? Another fangirl?

[@fandyus4125]

Totally nah, thats why you have one of those freaks as a profile picture and you just pasted their symbol to your previous comment.

[@fandyus4125]

Totally what?

[@Billy-I-Am-Not]

i got and ad for an ad remover. WAT oh the irony

[@techissus7449]

spleaner eyyyy my man indie

[@alessandrorivera7468]

8 YEARS AGO?????

[@LattiMonstaaa]

0:27 is that Michael ahahaha

[@dimplegupta7184]

damm !!! yesss....🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@ChantHareKrishnaAndBeHappy]

LOL

[@AM-ok5lf]

I do not know if this is a new idea, but we could build non explosive rockets with fungal spores inside of it. So when it hits the drown the spores are released and progressively the fungus will be growing and absorbing the radiation, sunflower also can be used to reduce the radiation amounts on places like Chernobyl. It could be awesome, to make a study about that and analyze the positive impact .

[@pahulsohi]

0:29 seconds... Michael Stevens from Vsauce???

[@brookie1141]

He had too much spit facts

[@pahulsohi]

D33r H33r what??

[@animeempire4878]

lol.. lookis like him .. ahahah

[@sandeepps6013]

hahaha......I think he made that representing Michael

[@Fuzzfrrek]

Hey, just curious on how you ended up doing all those shows on the road? That's a fantastic job and I picked my curiosity! Maybe you can do a show about it? Right?

[@eldong5250]

What about Godzilla? You forgot that.

[@vwh0013]

Or maybe a fridge with an archeologist inside it

[@ducktales1113]

nice reference

[@nicholasgoodfellow5774]

LuigiGames I wonder if he had a mini fridge in his plane?

[@altokarhan9526]

James Bond It would be a buffet for him since he feeds from radiation.

[@peppidesu]

Me: KZbin: Me: KZbin: *dO YoU wANT tO WAtch tHIS 7 yEaR oLd VideO*

[@ohno.6516]

1:51 that smile, he was planning for this his whole life.

[@mikeheinlein3746]

Upper vacuum ultraviolet is ionizing actually. Lower UV isn't typically, but if too much UV radiation can cause skin cancer, quite obviously there has to be some ionizing going on

[@Dylan-hc5sm]

YES IT DOES ANSWER YOUR QUESTION IT SAID WHAT COULD SURVIVE A ATOMIC BOMB AND THEY SAID FUNGI THAT ANSWERS THE QUESTION!!!!

[@ReplacedTea]

I saw you on catalyst!! Awesome show.

[@182guns]

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH mushroom cloud. hah hah. hah. so funny.

[@deathpony698]

182guns MAYBE ITS FRIENDLY!

[@nylahkitty6798]

deathpony698 friendly mushrooom mushy gient friend lets go sokka we need to find aang

[@Lugmillord]

deathpony698 I told you to not touch that cactus juice again!

[@nylahkitty6798]

and u are randomley hlusnating on catusjuice and u lick something randomly on a wall sokka i got a natral curitosidy

[@usmcmech96]

Believe it or not, in Hiroshima a man survived the blast despite being a mere 300 meters from the center of the blast. He was in a sub basement of one of the few concrete structures in the city. He was partially buried from the collapse of the building and suffered radiation sickness, but he lived.

[@kaziiqbal7257]

ABC One, BBC One close enough

[@TheVopepigota]

Its on ABC One

[@kaziiqbal7257]

TheVopepigota I know, It's a joke

[@passedhighschoolphysics6010]

Why no mention of Deinococcus radiodurans, one of the most radiation-resistant organisms known. In addition to being able to survive high levels of ioninzin radiation It can survive cold, dehydration, vacuum, and acid.

[@brodieseymour9178]

Actually.. Chuck Norris would survive...

[@mouacheevang9408]

No bruce lee will live on

[@maxwellsimon4538]

Mouachee Vang thrive you mean?

[@salsanchez4633]

No he's white he'll die first lol from the radiation exposure

[@ryujisimp5835]

So this explains the bulborbs in Pikmin.. The bulborbs (And many other species of animal/plant/fungi on Earth) started out as normal plant/fungi/animal, but then either absorbed the rads and evolved in the thermonucular disaster (Mushrooms=bulborbs or Puffstools, Plants=pikmin), or they died out (Humans, obviously), or they mutated (ALMOST EVERY BOSS OR ENEMY), or just stayed the same and somehow survived the disaster (The dweevils, the wogpoles, the wollywogs, the spectralids, ETC).

[@themarsquatch420]

It's pronounced "Fung-guy"

[@Ildarioon]

+Mason Mckenrick Depends on where you're from, I don't believe there is an english institution that decides on every pronounciation for everyone. Going by etymology his pronounciation is better.

[@errormachine5056]

alrighty, and since you're concerned with pronunciation, remember aluminum is actually pronounced aluminium. americans say it wrong.

[@ellenorbjornsdottir1166]

incorrect

[@atwajesper9434]

As soon as Derek said it the first time on the video, it reminded me of Kramer(Seinfeld),... he corrects the others on the pronunciation. "Fun-Guy!"... Hehehe

[@plusminuscons]

Not in Australia.

[@Terriss0421]

Radiation still causes cellular damage and mutation to fungi (also pronounced, "fun-jee" :P ), but for the most part, fungi don't care. Fungi transfer genes horizontally quite readily, so any cell damage that occurs will likely have little impact on the fungus's genome.

[@petersmythe6462]

WAIT A SECOND! Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Instead of trying to engineer heat-eating-panels, just coat reactors in shrooms and generate electricity from them!

[@MissNirny]

Man these are pretty fun guys

[@greg77389]

Fungi and Chuck Norris will be the only survivors...

[@hasnaaboubakri3321]

I cannot believe you done this

[@cokaneds]

Hence the clickers will be born.

[@AClRCLEOFLlGHT]

Certain types of fungus have also been discovered to completely eat plastic and leave literally no waste behind.

[@lordmcswain1436]

What about bacteria? Radioactive bacteria have probably evolved to exploit the abundance of radiation deeper underground, such as in underground caverns where radon gas might accumulate.

[@paul_chandler3082]

It actually does, natural selection would contribute to most of the bacteria being wiped out, but due to radiation (the cause of the extinctions of bacteria) they might develop an immunity to radiation.

[@VOppeneer]

Well, in the Chernobyl area there is a very low digest rate compared to the rest of the world (fallen leaves that do not digest and dead trees that don't rot). This is mainly caused by the fact that a lot of bacteria actually cannot handle the high doses of radiation and die.

[@lordmcswain1436]

My gratitude for your enlightening comments.

[@paul_chandler3082]

no problem

[@ishaansharma681]

Why is nobody talking about the awesome animation work?

[@dakotagau]

The second you see the flash, most won't recognize it. All that do will be silent. They won't bother to get out of their seat, they won't bother to finish their text. They know what's only a few seconds away.

[@themagicbox-ud8tk]

Where is this from?

[@Samal_ibra]

They were so ready to this

[@Taz_Olson]

So Godzilla is part fungi?

[@deepujoy1620]

If that video was sponsored by audible, then one of the "Brotherhood" novels by John Flanagan would have linked to the part about the land sailers

[@MrBashir999]

umm Chuck Norris would

[@nicholasprice5918]

oh my gosh i love catalyst!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@miniwars123]

so we all get tan to survive nuclear fallout?

[@minecraftgoldenfire8]

LOL

[@chengi2010]

Will it ever air in uk tv, if not mainstream, maybe on discovery or similar? Hope so looks like you had a blast!

[@SuperDarwinFAN]

(Fùn-gē) ITS FÙNÏ SO PAINFUL TO MY EARS

[@SneakyLittleHobbit]

It would be cool if you could combine the characteristics of fungi with other living things to make them immune to the negative effects of radioactivity.

[@andrewb1863]

Of course roaches would inhabit a post-nuclear world. RADROACHES!

[@rileypurcell2159]

I remember watching him on the Catalyst several years ago

[@oliverb1119]

Dat 1:44 wink tho

[@RomanceJones]

i laughed so hard when simon kicked in xD

[@magictheo624]

wolverine

[@topilinkala1594]

It's good to know that fungi thrives there but I have not seen lichen in any pictures of Chernobyl I've seen. Here in Finland all surfaces show lichen growth in very short time. When ever a new building is built the lichen will cover the base in no time at all. I've asked scintist around the world but no-one seems to know why there are no lichens in Chernobyl.

[@pavel9652]

I have just searched online and found many pictures. I have also found this description under one of the stock pictures from the Zone in Ukraine: "Lichens are abundant in the irradiated zone in Ukraine. After being suddenly abandoned following the Chernobyl disaster, this formerly pristine community has been retaken by nature. (Photo by Claudia Himmelreich/McClatchy DC/TNS)"

[@UnholyBahamut]

1:52 :)

[@LumpyBumpyAcidFish]

the trend ive come across the simpler the creature the more radio resistant it is

[@kingufthejungle2427]

He says fungi wrong...

[@Gyroglle]

No. English is just retarded for labelling the other "Fungai" pronunciation as the right one.

[@deborahkirkbride5233]

A young girl survived the nuclear bomb that hit Nagausiki she was located under ground in a shelter with-in ground zero

[@rohittamhankar1058]

he is talking about surviving nuclear radiation not nuclear blast.