What Happens AFTER Nuclear War?

[@kurzgesagt]

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[@julienstevenson3112]

"If you have more people than calories available, then in a few weeks you don't anymore." So simple, so brutal.

[@johnlee7164]

because everybody took up sourdough baking, right?

[@physicsorca9491]

If we gave up animal agriculture, we'd need a lot less space and resources for the same amount of calories... So that would definitely help in this scenario

[@No.Good.Nickname]

​@@physicsorca9491yea, but there would still me that one Guy Likes 'I ain't eatin those vegetables'.

[@foobrazy]

not my problem@@naveyk

[@Idiotdragon8]

@@No.Good.NicknameThen he goes hungry until he eats vegetables. If he wants to starve himself to death, that’s his problem.

[@poyo1290]

Crazy that that about 200 people are pretty much responsible for it if it happens. They wouldn’t be the one’s starving or burning either

[@LasTCursE69]

Would say more like 20.. (Presidents + Defense Ministers and Highest ranking generals)

[@ArikCool]

This is so true and scary, we need to find a way to change this if it comes to war

[@98Zai]

I think they're pretty much doomed too.

[@ggtt2547]

Yeah, no. It will not be 200 people or 20 people fault. What are you even talking about? What about the hundrends of millions in the west voting idiots who cooperated with Putin's ways? What about the billions in the east directly or indirectly aiding Putin? Yeah, no, noone escapes fault. Not you, not you parents, not you relatives and not your friends and compatriots. It will be a collective fault.

[@_p-x-l_]

and yet people are still supporting such ... people instead of forcing them out of office

[@mortadeloyfile]

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[@Jen-hen]

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[@bigboldsoul]

imagine hating people so much that you create a weapon that would damn everyone to hell

[@KunReku]

“I hate you so much I will blow all of us to Hell”.

[@systemreactive4092]

Not just human, but flora and fauna would also

[@padlockeussy]

Men are good at that. Especially greedy or power hungry ones.

[@marytica123]

Like Oppenheimer quoted, after the first atomic bomb test: "I am become DEATH, DESTROYER OF WORLDS."

[@Platinovyj_Malchik]

It's me

[@MartinPoulter]

“The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.” ― Carl Sagan

[@Atmos41]

That's a great quote

[@PapyrusEngineer]

More like 4000 matches. Last I checked, USA and Russia have around 4000 nukes each.

[@hellishcyberdemon7112]

​@@PapyrusEngineer does it really matter how many fuckin matches they have?! They drop one we all die

[@Sandman_IX]

@@hellishcyberdemon7112I think it’s like 11000 tho

[@cornishcactus]

Sadly Carl didn't know what happens if you actually drop a match into petrol

[@derschnensch._.]

The scariest thing is not what would happen, it's the fact that there are people that have the authority to give orders like that

[@BrandanLee]

Having these titanic arsenals requires maintenance and supply logistics, which is an industry of big, big money in the hands of very few people. All the STS and general DoD folk are essentially minimum wage slave labor, while fantastically well paid contractors slowly eat more and more funding. The use of Nuclear Weapons has never been the point. We always fear it, but that fear is itself part of the money making equation and the perfect culpability shield. They never intend to use them, but instead continue increasing stockpiles, and that is increasing the absurd wealth these systems funnels from public to private hands. That's the real war currently ongoing, and we've been losing it for 60 years.

[@calmiken]

@@BrandanLeeYeah but people can still use them. I wish nobody ever actually meant to, but people do, and we've come close Also DoD being minimum wage slave labor is brutally true 💀

[@SorryMyNameWasTaken]

Also scarier, is that people have thought about this, and have been researching it. Now who do you think is paying the scientists to research this? Besides a philanthropist organization trying to convince everyone that we can't let this happen? Perhaps some rich powerful people that are PLANNING for it.

[@robertjenkins6132]

People = Biden or Trump; Putin. Scary!

[@robertcumming9227]

Not only that but the people manufacturing and stock piling these weapons are fully aware of what would happen if they ever used them and yet they continue to make more and are increasingly making more threats involving them. Like I don't care who you are or what country you come from but it's in none of our interests to go to nuclear war it's literally just the politicians being small minded. Like I can understand going to conventional war because I'm joining the marines but nuclear war makes no sense to me. It's the equivalent to a kid taking his ball home just before losing a game of football it's honestly embarrassing

[@SiggiTh]

"Their nuclear-winter will be milder." This is pretty much the most positive sentence in the video.

[@rey_nemaattori]

I should move to Argentina...

[@YagoKatzen]

​@@rey_nemaattori Austrian painter knew where he is moving

[@AltonV]

@@YagoKatzen I had similar thoughts when I saw the title and thumbnail

[@popbee10]

Then follow by "Their might got invaded by other starving nations" 💀

[@ctakitimu]

Southern nations will ally to protect from the starving invaders. No one wants illegal immigrants right? (Unless they're you, then it's understandable and OK yes?)

[@theking_adrock]

fueling my nuclear war anxiety one video at a time! keep up the terrifying work!

[@Simplistic10164]

I used to worry but you'll die with in the blink of an eye, won't feel nothing! Anyways you'll go to the after life

[@951.alexxx]

don’t worry nuclear war is inevitable you really think our world leaders are dumb enough to start one? that’s why one hasn’t started yet the cold war was the closest it’s been to an actual world war 3 maybe a tensions are high now too but not as much as before

[@andreimitrica77]

lol, that’s the biggest of ur worries? Must have a calm lifestyle. It’d be over instantly for most of us what’s the point of worrying about it

[@yeoldeharbinger5880]

“How humanity will” and not “How humanity would” is terrifying

[@LAndrewsChannel]

They changed the OG title quite fast.

[@khaliqchou-kudu240]

too terrifying they changed it lol

[@GotMyTowel42]

"how humanity will" implies humanity survives "how humanity would" implies humanity does not survive bc it's a would be scenario edit: someone below corrected my comment

[@lpnp9477]

Have you met us?

[@SirRebrl]

@@GotMyTowel42 No, "how humanity _wouldn't"_ or "how humanity won't" imply lack of survival. "Will" vs "would" is the difference between implying the nuclear winter is going to happen, vs it hypothetically may happen, but may not.

[@Bionic]

Australia, New Zealand & Argentina's real estate boom after this video 📈😭

[@eris9062]

Australia or New Zealand? Real estate? God I wish that were true

[@Enderslayer2910]

Housing crisis about to go even harder

[@logicbug]

Oh shoot, my rent will go up?

[@lamsmiley1944]

My only concern as an Australian regarding nuclear war is if China decided to fire one this way. Other than that we’d struggle with fuel.

[@garbanzogarbanzo2760]

Socialism in Argentina is worse than nuclear war tbh

[@pablo199014]

"It's like humanity dropping an asteroid on itself." That's Raw

[@Machielovic]

That's True

[@VinceValentine]

Marco Inaros liked this

[@ano_nym]

I misread this in an emo way... "That's Rawr"

[@EatMyShortsAU]

Sad but true

[@furyiv]

Cries in Chrisjen Avasarala​ @@VinceValentine

[@trippydanny920]

My boss would still find a way to call me into work lmao

[@lordbeetrot]

My teacher would still give us homework

[@tim895]

BYE 😭

[@martinstride9480]

Just like that dude in Robocop, he died and still had to go to work

[@IanDavidOnDU]

The worst part is convincing your insurance company that your radiation burns are not a pre-existing condition, and they should allow you to get treatment out-of-network, because your regular hospital was vaporized.

[@gohumberto]

You must be an American. I live in Europe where we don't need to explain pre-existing conditions. Our hospitals will be just as vaporised though.

[@jakecfn]

if anything europeans would be worse off seeing as how small Europe is and it would probs be a very big target if this hypothetical war was with Russia.. @@gohumberto

[@Seankephart010]

That's bad shit crazy dude

[@0037kevin]

Imagine having to come up with the deductible or copay? "I'm sorry, I cant pay you right now, my savings have all been... liquidated."

[@foxfire5235]

The fact that you still think your insurance company exist is amusing.

[@DrSlipperyFist]

"It's like humanity dropping an asteroid on itself" That is exactly what it's like. Gahdamn were dumb.

[@vaylonkenadell]

You think we're dumb now? Baby, you ain't seen nothin' yet.

[@Flesh_Wizard]

Or if it's a fusion bomb, it's like dropping an incredibly small star

[@hr2x]

Its not that we are collectively dumb, but its how we view eachother and our believes. We kill eachother because we simply dont like eachother. Thats the dumb part.

[@Piecesoftheshadow]

@@vaylonkenadellHumans have always been extremely and embarrassingly dumb.

[@watyes7546]

Hasn't even happened yet and your grammer is terrible + you are being dramatic. Who's the dumb one lil bro

[@LathanMinich]

Whenever I’m feeling down or depressed, I just watch a Kurzgesagt post apocalypse scenario simulation and it picks me right up.

[@alexz-2337]

Its the opposite for me🥲

[@TNTISGOOD]

bruh

[@animusnocturnus7131]

Yeah... nothing rips you out of a gloomy mood as comparing your situation with the sheer existential dread of a post apocalyptic world.

[@h0m3st4r]

@@animusnocturnus7131 You mean, as in, "As bad as my day is, it could be much, much worse."?

[@animusnocturnus7131]

@@h0m3st4r Kinda

[@timothymayer3142]

Isn't it funny how so many rich people have recently bought property in New Zealand.

[@tealkerberus748]

Imagine a world where you couldn't own land in a country unless you were a citizen or permanent resident of that country? Instead the surviving citizens of New Zealand are going to have their own little war as they root out the profiteers of World War Z and persecute them for making it happen.

[@TheManorBeast]

Did you see where one of the world bread baskets was? But Putin supporters think he's trying to rid Ukraine of 'Nazis'

[@zackbarkley7593]

It won't matter. If such devastation occurred, their money and legal protections for their assets abroad or domestically would be meaningless. The very rich and possibly anyone from a country which used the nukes would be also targeted, and be seen as either playing a role in the nuclear devastation, or coming from a poisonous culture that allowed it to happen...a culture which is best extinguished altogether. I give it a week before generation MadMax deals with them. The richer you are, the more vulnerable you would be...in that scenario.

[@JRod_1597]

Honestly if this happened, no one cares if you “own” a property or not. You’ll have to be ready to defend that property because it’ll be a free world. Aka, Fallout.

[@timothymayer3142]

@@JRod_1597 Yep, exactly

[@onemorechris]

the upside of living in London: chances of surviving more than 1 second after that first bright light in the sky is close to zero, rather than starving to death

[@Frantic857]

Run to Jesus!!! If you have defected from God then read these Scriptures: (Lost Sheep, Luke 15:1-7 - Lost Coin, 15:8-10 - Lost Son, 15:11-32 - Rich Man and Lazarus, 16:19-31) Jesus is calling you back home, read His word, believe and repent. Saved by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone!. The world is racing toward "AMAGEDDON" !!! And people need to get right with the Lord! If you have not read the books of (Daniel chapters 7-12), (Ezekiel chapters 37-39) (Matthew chapters 24:1-51 + 25:1-30), (1 Thessalonians chapters 1-5), (2 Thessalonians chapters1-3) and (Revelation chapters 6-19), now would be a good time. They will explain a lot about what is going on right now! These books will cover the "Wars" about to come, the Rapture, World judgement, hence the Tribulation and the Great Tribulation! These books will also be the most ominous and scary for the unbelievers and the most exciting and uplifting for those who believe in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior!... It is my hope and prayer that people would repent and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ before all these things take place, because it is going to be very, very scary if you do not and you decide to wait and see what happens.

[@guesswho2778]

yeah, if they ever do end up falling i would rather be under one than live in the hellscape that follows.

[@davidjennings2179]

Plus a bright light in the sky would probably be a welcome sight for the split second we see it. Just an excited "Is this that 'sun' thing I've heard people tell of?" And then boom

[@Puggylord316]

​@@davidjennings2179 Apparently my explanation was so bad I think I'm super smart, so I edited my comment.

[@kennyleung9909]

I live in Perth, Western Australia 😢

[@yaboip9236]

What really sucks is nuclear war depends on only a handful of people

[@internationallanguageofdan3559]

It depends on every single person who votes for people who are committed to keeping nuclear weapons. I wrote to all candidates standing in the upcoming election in my area to find out their policies and views on this. I refuse to have any part in electing anyone who supports nuclear weapons. It's the biggest issue facing us right now, above all else because literally nothing else will matter if we don't do all we can to try to prevent this.

[@bobjohnson2775]

@@internationallanguageofdan3559I agree but that really only applies to certain countries. People like Putin and Xi Jinping can’t just simply be voted out of office.

[@gae_wead_dad_6914]

@@internationallanguageofdan3559 "Who votes for people" Tell that to the Russians, who chose to have a dictator who wants to "Restore" an empire in a vain attempt at glory, not minding sacrificing hundreds of thousands of his own and Ukrainian lives.

[@josephburchanowski4636]

@@internationallanguageofdan3559 Have you considered the reality that attempting disbarment can actually increase the odds of a nuclear war? If you fully disarm and an opponent does not; they are actually more likely to decide to use their nukes when they know they can't be nuked backed. The best you can do is an arms limit treaty; similar to what was done with the soviet union; where you both agree to greatly limit the number of nukes while not eliminating them. If you want to get into the specifics, we can look at game theory (a branch of mathematics) to see what is different between the two scenarios.

[@voidfalse]

@@internationallanguageofdan3559 Ukraine has cancelled its nuclear arsenal in 90s. And look at it now! If you want peace, prepare for war

[@TriXt3R_]

thanks for giving me some unbelievably unbearable dread right before i go to sleep! same time next week?

[@otisj185]

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[@loveableheathen7441]

Lmao you think you’re gonna make it to next week

[@sincerely-b]

LOL

[@JamesJansson]

Distract yourself by remembering your tongue is too big for your mouth.

[@UnfussyLeaf2440]

after watching this my mind is on fire I can’t think of how much fucking emotional and mental pain and stress that everyone would experience

[@caringheart34]

Yay :D

[@SkellyHell]

I went to the atomic bomb memorial museum in Hiroshima last year and got a small glimpse at how awful a single nuclear weapon could be. If a nuclear war did happen I pray i would be one of the lucky people to instantly be turned to dust. Some of the most horrific things i read and saw were from the aftermath of the explosion. Nuclear weapons are truly terrible.

[@superzockertvyt9630]

Fun fact: our modern nukes are in some cases more than 200 times deadlier than the nuke dropped on hiroshima

[@DivyanandSharma0809]

​@@superzockertvyt9630nah definitely not a "fun" fact 💀

[@Teesquared00]

I've been to the a-bomb museum too. it was profoundly humbling and in many ways deeply disturbing. We even met a very elderly survivor of the blast and saw some of the scars she still carried. Nukes are extremely cruel and indiscriminate weapons; the irony is that they are also almost the pinnacle of human achievement, intelligence and perseverance. We had nukes and airplanes that could carry them thousands of miles before both of the Wright brothers had died. We have so much ability and potential, just not the ability (yet) to resist our hubris.

[@dizzybee7386]

And I wonder, what it would take to stop army folk placing bets over which testicle would explode first when bound with wet bamboo; or folk that would face slavery and torture that only the Nazis could admire. Suddenly, Boom!

[@henrywang3977]

The two bombs dropped in Japan are two relatively small bombs. By today's standard, they can be qualified as tactical weapons if not having the massive dead weights.

[@livingonthetyne]

Basically if Nuclear war happens you will want to die in the initial blast, quick and fast without even knowing what hit you.

[@accessthemainframe4475]

or be a New Zealander

[@Frixworks]

Nah Nuclear Winter is fake

[@CaptainSir9]

​@accessthemainframe4475 As an aussie, neither us nor you nor both combined would stave off the resulting food crisis invasion from the rest of the developed world. We'd both be heavily invaded

[@theredtechnician]

Personally I'd want to fight it out and survive against the odds, but I can see the appeal.

[@SnakeBitesApe]

What happens in NZ?

[@bigredinfinity3126]

Its crazy how a simple missunderstanding could end us all

[@Balgore8]

Nobody is going to launch nukes over a misunderstanding

[@Penta_Penguin_237]

@@kuturak Man you were in one of the deepest moments of the cold war. He probably saved most of us and our world but it would have not been only a misunderstanding. There was a whole world tense situation at the base of it.

[@smalltime0]

@@Penta_Penguin_237 Also because the USSR thought the Able Archer exercises was to mask the buildup for an invasion.

[@smalltime0]

@@kuturak The US had similar incidents in ' 79 and '80. With the latter one showing a more credible launch, and only really getting a more thorough check because of the similar incident in '79

[@Asofe17]

i mean look whats happening, usa+nato are fighting a proxy war with russia in ukraine, its already the closest we ever been in human history to this bullshit going off any script. I wonder if this has anything to do with billionaires building bunkers en mass and globalists agenda of keeping world population under one billion... :/ scary times we are living in.

[@lorddante9048]

What about the radioactive fallout? The contamination would be widespread.

[@SaltyNard]

Yes it would. The vast, vast majority of warheads are radioactive to some extent. Even "non-radioactive" warheads still contain radioactive elements that would have an aftereffect when detonated. Though, for this video to have any purpose, the assumption would be that there is no nuclear fallout, cuz if there were, there'd be nothing left :)

[@SelevanRsC]

What about all the destroyed nuclear plants, and the radiation from thousands of chernobyle's...

[@anno_nym]

The fact that Kurzgesagt didn't put an explanation for how unlikely this is at the end scared me.

[@aquiatic]

Yeah I think it’s a bit irresponsible really. None of this is actually going to happen. It’s simply not in the interest to make it happen for any armed state, it will never bring a ‘win’ for a warring side. It’s barely even worth considering.

[@ponyclub3198]

It only takes a few people pressing a button ... We all thought that a virus can't escape a lab. But it did.

[@stepitup23]

yeah but sometimes people just dont give a sh... In the end we're just humans - Crazy and pathetic sometimes@@aquiatic

[@pantheis]

@@aquiatic Any sane, rational leader would never do it. But unfortunately we have multiple nuclear armed or close to armed countries led by people who are not sane and rational. I couldn't begin to guess the actual chance of this happening, but it is definitely non-zero, and we should try to do something about it.

[@hotwind95]

We are being conditioned to accept this catastrophe during our life time. If you have a closer look at this channel's contents, you can see a trend of "end of day" scenarios.

[@maxcoseti]

8:42 Argentina: I wish I was the most developed nation on Earth Genie: As you wish

[@JulianLopez-rt6kp]

As an argentinian, I would despair that THAT was the reason we reached the top. There is no future worth that much death.

[@PeakPeakPeakPeakPeak]

Milei is already making it the most developed nation on Earth, no need for that.

[@empanada869]

Good joke 😆​@@PeakPeakPeakPeakPeak

[@martinxy1291]

We still wouldn't have the highest GDP

[@PeakPeakPeakPeakPeak]

@@empanada869 Leftie detected, opinion invalidated.

[@purplehaze2358]

"A gigantic mushroom cloud rises over the destruction like a demon throning over its perverse work." That simile legit sent a chill up my spine.

[@matthewpeterson3871]

I was really hoping they would animate a skull or demon in the mushroom cloud when they said that

[@MikkelDevs]

This is why we need to stop authoritarian regimes

[@js-gc2hk]

it seems like everytime we create a new stronger weapon it was all to prevent take overs from happing so how long can the nuclear bomb last before they are dated by war standards and have something else to worry about.

[@killman369547]

@@MikkelDevs First we need to stop the people in our own countries who want to sell out to those authoritarian regimes. That's priority one, but as soon as that's dealt with we focus on the regimes directly.

[@MikkelDevs]

@@killman369547 Yes correct

The fact that this might happen now😢

[@psychoangus]

As the Kelvedon Hatch bunker says, “If you survive, after a few days you’ll start to feel a little bit ill, and after a few weeks, you’d be a little bit dead.”

[@MLM68]

You do know hydrogen bombs don’t have the radiation effect as a normal nuclear bomb. The explosion is much more destructive, but it doesn’t have the radiation.

[@psychoangus]

@@MLM68 I do, yes, but it’s a good line.

[@SkellyJay31]

Which video is this from please?

[@ianwright5511]

tell that to the Russians

[@Sorrowdusk]

​@@MLM68 What if you survived a Neutron bomb?

[@soul8985]

As Einstein once said, "Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap"

[@onkelkleno5408]

Damn

[@DG_5856]

because mice aren't capable

[@fish8415]

@@DG_5856Lets use our imagination to imagine a mouse has the ability to build a mousetrap.

[@fabriziobiancucci7702]

​​​@@fish8415 They actually have it since many species of rodents create their dens near rivers since the terrain is easier and often provide more food. They derebely decide to risk to die in case of a flood that live a little harder life somewhere else. So yes, mice can create mousetrap and they actually do it

[@lordaniman5676]

@@fish8415 if the mice are competing for resources they will design mousetraps, its common sense. And since resources are limited at some point they will compete for the scraps whether they like it or not

[@DeathGodGaming006]

Shit. That line "if you have more people than calories, in a few weeks you won't anymore" made me rethink my life for a good minute. That was honestly terrifying asf. Edit: Dayum that's a lot of likes and also, human meat!? The greater question is about the morality then

[@PaulStringini]

That thought has terrified me for years.

[@shy_dodecahedron]

And inaccurate. It's more like months.

[@benfang7983]

@@shy_dodecahedron people can't survive without food for months

[@ॐIo]

Just reminds me of GAZA

[@TheOneWhoHasABadName]

we are always about 3 meals away from anarchy

[@sanderguardado1178]

I love the music they use in their videos. It is so engaging with the topic!

[@BKScience812]

If nuclear armeggedon ever happened, the generation that recovered enough to have nuclear weapons would probably not remember how bad nuclear winter was or care what happened maybe 1000 years ago. They would totally rebuild them Edit: 1000 years is hyperbole. There are no good estimates for how long it would take to recover from all-out nuclear war.

[@haikalmiftah2529]

Probably like people nowadays looking at black death in Europe & how deadly it was. Or Mongol invasion in Eurasia & it's effect after many centuries.

[@hackfleischking5162]

W wouldn't need that long to rebuild. There are a few key technologies that lead to our technology and population to skyrocket. Remember that southern areas might not get destroyed at all. They will starve and only a small percentage might survive but what will survive almost completely is the technology in these areas and all the books with the knowledge to built them. Getting to the point to build the next nuclear weapons will not take more than a few generations.

[@tux_the_astronaut]

@@hackfleischking5162ehh it’s probably take longer ao much off out technology relies on the global supply chain if its gone it’s significantly harder to get all the rare metals needed for making computers plus the labs needed to make them

[@Rhiawhyn]

@@tux_the_astronaut The computers aren't gone, all it'd take is building ships or using what you already have and going to these now very empty, very devastated areas and digging through the garbage. You'd find more than enough functional pieces of machinery to rebuild a country from salvage work, and anything non functional is still often metal for the main important components so you can just reforge them anyway. The gigantic factories that have even larger machines would in fact survive, unless they were directly nuked. It's not a case of "we lose everything forever oh nooooooez" it's more of a case of if a nation has the endurance to survive the starvation period and salvage what they need from the dead zones before anyone else. Those who do, would become the new global superpower very quickly. You also have to keep in mind, the temperature around the equator will also drop to a comfortable level which means farming will boom there for a decade or two, which means these countries will have a boom of food and supplies. Which also means that when things stabilize they will also have a crash after the fact if they don't build an industrial base to maintain it before then

[@cosmicelectron]

@@tux_the_astronaut but a country that survices relatively untouched would be much better suited to going and just plain invading the well know rare metals and other resources as they would be in a much better position to just claim it

[@briansharp4388]

My grandfather was one of the first US observers sent into Hiroshima. We asked him why he never made a bomb shelter. He said"you arent going to want to survive that, itd be worse than just dying outright"

[@Dani_1012]

Sometimes death is a mercy

[@danny089-theodeoron4]

Talking from someone who has mental health issues on top of a world going to hell, i would do the un alive the minute ww3 is announced.

[@harmez7]

considering that it was the US itself that made a hell in Japan, so your grandpa had to think about his least painful options. shameless bastards.

[@rami0036]

​​​@@danny089-theodeoron4 actually in life and death stations you're brain well want to live even if you don't so if a depressed and suicidal person experience ww3 its gonna give him a reason to survive crazy right ? Conscious and subconscious are widely different lol.

[@danny089-theodeoron4]

@@rami0036disagreed, i'm glad you are not on the same issues i am suffering from, and you probably don't even read the statistics of how many people off themselves even today and all across history. It seems like you believe this topic doesn't exist and that somehow, the brain will fool itself into survival... sad... tragic... people off themselves every day due to much less of a reason than that, and no, i know myself more than you think you know me, i know my limits and my beliefs, so if push comes to shove, i will off it...

[@octotitan4574]

Bro I already had my existential crisis today, I don't need a second one

[@otisj185]

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DIDNT ASK + ⭐TYRANNY'S ANIMATIONS⭐ ARE WAY BETTER

[@otisj185]

DIDNT ASK + ⭐TYRANNY'S ANIMATIONS⭐ ARE WAY BETTER

[@otisj185]

DIDNT ASK + ⭐TYRANNY'S ANIMATIONS⭐ ARE WAY BETTER

[@otisj185]

DIDNT ASK + ⭐TYRANNY'S ANIMATIONS⭐ ARE WAY BETTER

[@CyberMew]

Crazy how this video doesn’t even take into account radioactivity yet. It’s much much worse…

[@Uneasy-vh4bx]

Doesn't even mention it once

[@sandybell4913]

Radioactivity is not an issue with modern nuclear weapons. Firstly, a nuclear weapon needs to detonate on the ground to produce any significant amount of radioactive material, and most weapons not directed at underground faqcilities are detonated in the air above a target (which produces the most damage). Also, almost all modern nuclear weapons are thermonuclear, which use nuclear fusion to produce the energy for the blast. This, while being much more powerful than conventional fission bombs, also dont produce much if not any radioactive particles.

[@axemen210]

People have skewed opinions of the radioactive footprint of nuclear weapons from pop culture. In the grand scale radioactivity is not the issue. So long as nuclear nations don't go out of their way to build dirty bombs, most radiation will have dissapeared rather quickly,- we're talking a matter of weeks. The problems like mass starvation and crop failure would be far more deadly than the initial fallout. Without doctors and enough food to go around your average life expectancy is gonna drop well below the age the potential radiation-induced cancer would have killed you.

[@LowEndTest]

What if the proximity system fails and the nuke explodes in the ground?​@@axemen210

[@MarwanHadidi]

"The global death toll could rise to about 5 billion" Kurzgesagt: "Extremely unpleasant"

[@dontforgetyoursunscreen]

Well it wouldn't be pleasant

[@zainanwar6075]

"Minor Inconvenience"

[@Ettyofacts]

Lol

[@kalumander]

He's british, it's understandable.

[@brandonhoffman4712]

In Russia, winter eats you.

[@Slash-pq]

This video makes me want to go hug my loved ones and never let go

[@EctoMorpheus]

So you would all starve to death even without nuclear war. Nice

[@BIGnyc9]

Seriously..

[@rafaelramoscardona3108]

And or stock up on certain things just Incase.

[@dylantanjiajunmontfortss2429]

nah bro what i learnt from this video is that we humans are assholes

[@vladimirseven777]

After that video you suppose to do anything that Russia or another terrorists want while lying paralyzed by fear.

[@Kumire_921]

Imagine surviving a nuclear apocalypse and when you finally go outside to get food you get killed by deathclaws

[@sebastianlovernumber10928]

lmao

[@The_world_is_not_worthy_of_Him]

just like the simulations!

[@medusaa2653]

I'm getting gutted by a mole rat

[@Fr3nzY_17]

Im gonna be looking for my son

[@Guywhohasntslept]

​@@Fr3nzY_17I'll just be trying to deliver mail bro

[@GaryZaid]

The thought of what happens after a nuclear war is terrifying. It's hard to even imagine the scale of devastation and suffering that would follow.....

[@kirasmile580]

"It's easy to calculate how many people can be alive on Earth... If you have more people than calories, then in a few weeks you don't anymore". The way how cynical yet unquestionably straightforward these calculations are sends shivers down my spine. It's like you can try and do anything to survive but the truth is - if there is no food, then there is no food. And you can do nothing about it

[@sploofmcsterra4786]

Yeah, the ability to produce so much food is humanity's foundational superpower. Everything relies on it. Nuclear war takes that away and we instantly fare no better than animals, where food is a daily struggle.

[@rey_nemaattori]

You can try the same principle when your fridge is empty but you're hungry: close the fridge, lower standards, try again. When hungry, the dog will start to look very tasty. Waterfowl and small game will be hunted to extinction. Eventually people will be boiling treebark or eat tulip bulbs, just to get some nutrients. There's little you can do against this, I've got a small food supply of a couple of months ever since the lock downs, but bridging 10+ years is nigh impossible, I'd need a second and probably a 3rd garage to store that much food...let alone keep it edible & concealed as to not get mugged... it'll be truly hell on earth, just a lot colder than hell.

[@JordanBeagle]

@@rey_nemaattori I get what you're saying but I don't think I could ever eat my dog no matter how hungry I was, they're man's best friend!

[@lifeking1259]

@@JordanBeagle if you get hungry enough you'll resort to humans as well, at some point your brain doesn't care about how much you love that dog, at some point your brain just wants food

[@user-zb7dh4wd5p]

thats what is happening in gaza as we speak

[@PamdaDev]

5:12 "if you have more people than calories, then within a few weeks you DONT anymore" - that might have been the darkest sentence (and totally accurate of course) I've ever heard from Kurzgesagt.

[@nabe346]

It's shocking how direct it is speaking of a very dark matter

[@breytac]

What scares me the most isn't the fact that we have nuclear weapons. It's the fact that there are people in positions of power who are crazy enough to use them. There have been several scares over the decades since nuclear weapons were invented. One really good example is a Russian officer on a submarine refused to launch nuclear torpedoes against the US Navy during the Cuban missile crisis. Then there was the Russian officer at a early warning site that picked up five incoming missiles. The warning was false, and attributed to flaws in the system. The world would be a very different place of those two men acted rather than thought things through. The world needs people who think before they act, not just automatically react to a threat, real or perceived.

[@luipars]

We got so hilariously close to nuclear war during the second half of the 20th century that it's beyond a miracle that we're still here

[@Antimonious]

Yes, like Harry Truman did.

[@adhdmonster1369]

To be honest, I think those two men deserve a few statues.

[@Karak971]

​@@adhdmonster1369 more than basically any world leader tbh. Without people like them, the world as we know it simply wouldnt exist

[@kaitlyn__L]

Exactly. Strongman ideology is a threat for this reason in so many different example scenarios

[@Grace6767-c2r]

No matter how good or bad you think any leader is or what side they are on. People have the authority to make this happen and that’s the scariest thing about it.

[@Jocke666]

Conclusion: Don't drop nuclear bombs

[@tomc.5704]

And every generation needs to learn this. We must never forget.

[@SharkyKSP]

Conclusion: Klaus Fuchs is an asshole

[@BenDavidin5785]

Yeah, tell Iran, but find an argument that doesn’t involve “people will die” bc in their ideology wanting to live is heretical and perverse.

[@Anton-tf9iw]

Why was the spread of radioactive particles in the atmosphere not mentioned? A very serious problem.

[@Seispieles]

Tell that to Israel and his samson option lol

[@GhostSamaritan]

The 3-year volcanic Winter that started in 536 halved Sweden's population. 10 years of Winter with an over-reliance on imported food sounds so much worse.

[@haikalmiftah2529]

Probably like how volcanic eruption of Mt. Toba (Nowadays turned into Toba lake in Indonesia) almost wiped out humanity back 74,000 years ago. Yet even back then, humanity was a hunter-gathered society. So with our society today deeply rely on technology, the effect could be much worse.

[@gscsilvavaladares7065]

​@@haikalmiftah2529 Or much better , since now we are not so reliant on weather like our past hunter and gatherer selvs

[@Earth_Being]

they we're ZERO in terms of tech. don't compare them with today's advancement

[@sd-ch2cq]

​@@gscsilvavaladares7065tell me you didn't watch the video without telling me you didn't watch the video

[@Lajosen]

Nuclear winter in todays society is a myth

[@jfrusciantetube]

When the voice of Kurzgesagt says "ok", it's usually a not-ok scenario that follows

[@Joshiboiy]

God Created us, we sinned (lying, stealing, adultery, and hate) and deserve hell because God punishes sin. But God, in his love sent Jesus to die on the cross for our sins and whoever turns from sin and believes in Jesus will not perish but have life after death.

[@vijayendranvijay457]

Deuteronomy 18:20 But the prophet who speaks a word presumptuously in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die. Deuteronomy 24:16 The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin. @@Joshiboiy

[@Humanresouces]

​@@JoshiboiyGod is terrible at creating sinless people.

[@martinm6790]

@@Joshiboiy Damn boy, you got rekt pretty hard

[@Anarcko_The_Anarchist]

​@Joshiboiy i have a religious question

[@naseryounus5477]

This is amazing ❤

[@ManateeMentality]

“If you have more people than calories then, within in a few weeks, you don’t anymore.” I suppose that’s one chilling way to put it.

[@celestinajessayolou6840]

POV You survived a nuclear blast: 😀 You survived a nuclear blast: 😰

[@GuidelinesViolator]

ruSSia moment

[@rbrauto1]

i'll just hangout in my bunker and get STONED everyday.....

[@zombieapocalypse3837]

"On the Beach" is an apocalyptic novel published in 1957, written by British author Nevil Shute after he emigrated to Australia. The novel details the experiences of a mixed group of people in Melbourne as they await the arrival of deadly radiation spreading towards them from the Northern Hemisphere, following a nuclear war some years previous. As the radiation approaches, each person deals with impending death differently.

[@MinneapolisSkip]

In my top ten movies. Saw it as a kid. Made a huge impression.

[@abyscidis]

It's also horrendously inaccurate

[@zombieapocalypse3837]

@@abyscidis The novel was published in 1957, no need to critique it with 2024 standards of authenticity. Besides it was mostly a story about people's reaction to their impending deaths.

[@deanoost9599]

The relative social cohesion even towards the end. Reflects a completely different society. You'd expect barbarism. Looting. Complete destruction. It was all very.....orderly. A product of a more homogeneous, high trust culture? Wishful thinking?

[@Kerithanos]

@@deanoost9599 In our modern world, we don't need impending extinction to have barbarism, looting, and complete destruction. We get those on every day that ends in "Y". I would argue that Western civilization collapsed over the course of the late 20th century. I suspect that's what Chinese historians will teach in the following decades as they inherit the globe from the imploded ruins of the former American empire. Hopefully they learn from what happened to us.

[@Phil_AKA_ThundyUK]

I've read that the survivors wouldn't be able to rebuild as most of the easily accessible resources that boot-strapped humanity to where it is now are gone.

[@dragon_nammi]

That's true, but they'd also have things that humanity had to develop from nothing, so they wouldn't necessarily start from 0. Like language, and an already standardized number counting arithmetic system. Especially if those nearly untouched nations in the southern hemisphere were able to keep all their infrastructure and knowledge.

[@LouisE-mp8lx]

@@dragon_nammialso, things like metal would be widely available to scavenge, rather than having to mine it all out of the ground again. Biggest one would be fossil fuels, we would have to find a new way of producing energy because the low hanging fruit of oil, coal, etc. is long gone already.

[@dragon_nammi]

@LouisE-mp8lx I think humanity would be thrown back to the Era of steam engines, or slightly before then at worst. We also have science pretty well figured out, with stuff like the periodic table and the Standard Model of physics. With stuff like patents being irrelevant, restarting human development probably could happen within a couple generations. Still horrible of course, and especially for the immediate survivors. I suspect more advanced technologies like advanced pharmaceuticals and modern digital electronics would be out of reach for awhile. Basically anything requiring advanced manufacturing. But people could maintain a decent standard of living as long as they had food. Air conditioning, plumbing, refrigeration, simple textiles, carpentry and construction.. are all well within reach of humanity even without all our fancy tools. I bet trains and walkable towns would make a big comeback in this age, as oil production would probably be reduced to a very tiny fraction of modern output. Certainly not enough to run the millions of cars on the road. And modern EV batteries? Highly doubt those could be manufactured easily, though they could possibly be scavenged. Those who emerge from the ashes would be using old technologies and any modern tech that could be scavenged from the pre-apocalypse society.

[@Trazynn]

@@dragon_nammi You need coal for steam engines.

[@dragon_nammi]

@Trazynn You just need a fire, so lumber can do for awhile in places that can set up wood plantations. Admittedly this definitely depends on if trees take more than a few generations to repopulate or not. They could also try to use alternative fuels. Like biowaste or garbage. People lucky enough to live by rivers could also make use of hydro power. Maybe some very lucky people could find a still functioning reservoir complete with electrical components.. though they'd need an actual team of very knowledgeable people to be able to get any sort of serious _power plant_ running again.

[@dufo4766]

That was probably the best video I have seen about a potential nuclear war!

[@bkind2every1now93]

“Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice” -Robert Frost

[@scratch7996]

DUDE this is no longer in the metaphoric sense .

[@CallaC-kb3th]

exactly@@scratch7996

[@tp-mh2ji]

Fire

[@arnox4554]

Disregard sadness. Embrace destruction. None of us are going to get out of this life alive anyway. Live it and enjoy it and do what you can for others. That's really all there is to it. At least with nuclear death, we can all go out in a glorious fireball instead of rotting away to nothingness in an underfunded nursing home. Call me a nihilistic teenager if you want. but you all know this stuff to be true in the end.

[@itsafo4shizzle]

What?

[@wojciechgilicki6815]

"If you have more people than calories, then within a few weeks YOU DON'T ANYMORE" damn it hits hard

[@vb6041]

Theoretically people can last about three months without any food, but only three days without clean water.

[@RoniSingh-m8m]

Idiot how you last when there is poisonous gas everywhere, no food and no trust even in own family

[@GeofAndrews]

There would be roving gangs of cannibals... my assumption is that the bigger, taller people who consume the most calories would get eaten first.

[@AYellowPepper]

That line was SO DARK! and SO FUNNY!

[@1LERS1]

Bullocks.

[@tanostrelok2323]

Going out in atomic fire sounds like a much kinder fate than having to live in post mushroom cloud Argentina, or even last decade Argentina, for that matter. You should be thankful for what you have. Greetings from Argentina.

[@eladrio2311]

Seguí votando a milei pajerito

[@danilodistefanis5990]

Thank K the pj cancer is gone.

[@CheeseNinja]

ello

[@darrenmx]

Or "How Argentina became the world's leading Economy" 🎉

[@Marvin-ii7bh]

​@@darrenmxThe clicks on that vid will be so lit. I can already see all the sponsorships. Mr Beast: "How I have managed to make Argentina one of the richest countries in the world while also solving overpopulation and the warming of our planet!!!!1!!"

[@tempest5077]

"In an urban society, everything connects. Our lives are woven together in a fabric. Each persons needs are met by the skills of many others. But the connections that make society strong, also make it vulnerable"

[@NeilMcEachin]

Nuclear weapons feel like something we discovered way too early

[@ArnavKalkunte]

honestly

[@allananderson6343]

Ever since the invention of guns, we've been on a one way march towards self destruction.

[@thomaskalbfus2005]

Problem is we keep getting more Putins that think they're Napoleon in the 18th century and try to conquer the World!

[@ryomaru2]

Damn you Heisenberg/Oppenheimer/Teller! edit: IDK WHY THE GUY BELOW ME IS SO MAD, it was just a joke I made trying to be funny! I don't condone death or murder, I condone jokes!

[@thomasneal9291]

@@ryomaru2 stop it. it wasn't the scientists that decided to weaponize fission, it was governments that did that. people WITHOUT a background in science. stop villainizing science.

[@NiNjAcAt5677]

It's absolutely insane how anyone could think this type of a response is justifiable for literally anything. To kill 80% of humanity who had nothing to do with the given conflict is next level. There isn't a single conflict we could possibly face with other nations that would justify this.

[@CYDeviant]

Humans hate.

[@wiorekw]

I would say this applies to every conflict that has ever occurred in which anyone, soldier or civilian, has died. The conflict is not between soldiers and civilians, but between leaders.

[@handlehandle12322]

but let me pose you with a not so hypothetical problem, what if a nation is developing a nuclear weapon and constantly threatens and express their intention to destroy another nation completely. as the threatened nation that has nuclear weapon but too weak to stop the threat using other measures , what would you do? you know that if the threat isn't destroyed they will most certainly use their newly developed nuclear weapon to destroy you... or give it to a terrorist group to do it for them. they have been giving weapons to that terrorist group for years. what would you do?

[@98Zai]

It's also interesting that it's India VS Pakistan that might make it happen. I have no idea what's going on over there.

[@markigirl2757]

@@handlehandle12322goes to show how inhumane some of our species are and how we gave to face the consequences of our stupid and asinine our ancestors have made smh

[@Deidrheamim]

After the nukes drop you hear "war, war never changes" and then a several minute long cutscene plays as it loads you into a new map

[@Agent4077]

patrolling the mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter

[@Fandestdh]

​@@Agent4077we won't go quietly, legion can count on that

[@mikitz]

At least some of us would then finally find out if you can survive 3rd degree burns and live on for a couple of centuries.

[@SosephJeed]

To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day Hardly spoke to folks around him, didn't have too much to say No one dared to ask his business, no one dared to make a slip For the stranger there among them had a big iron on his hip Big iron on his hip It was early in the morning when he rode into the town He came riding from the south side slowly lookin' all around He's an outlaw loose and running, came the whisper from each lip And he's here to do some business with the big iron on his hip Big iron on his hip In this town there lived an outlaw by the name of Texas Red Many men had tried to take him and that many men were dead He was vicious and a killer though a youth of 24 And the notches on his pistol numbered one and 19 more One and 19 more Now the stranger started talking, made it plain to folks around Was an Arizona ranger, wouldn't be too long in town He came here to take an outlaw back alive or maybe dead And he said it didn't matter he was after Texas Red After Texas Red Wasn't long before the story was relayed to Texas Red But the outlaw didn't worry men that tried before were dead 20 men had tried to take him, 20 men had made a slip 21 would be the ranger with the big iron on his hip Big iron on his hip The morning passed so quickly, it was time for them to meet It was 20 past 11 when they walked out in the street Folks were watching from the windows, everybody held their breath They knew this handsome ranger was about to meet his death About to meet his death There was 40 feet between them when they stopped to make their play And the swiftness of the ranger is still talked about today Texas Red had not cleared leather 'fore a bullet fairly ripped And the ranger's aim was deadly with the big iron on his hip Big iron on his hip It was over in a moment and the folks had gathered round There before them lay the body of the outlaw on the ground Oh, he might have went on living but he made one fatal slip When he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip Big iron on his hip Big iron, big iron When he tried to match the ranger with the big iron on his hip Big iron on his hip

[@janettetaylor8760]

The rich and government wuldnt Even tell us let alone sound the alarm... That's how cowards the government is

[@fredericlebreux2462]

Thank you as always for these remarkable videos. Two relevant questions on my side: 1. In a crash scenario, can climate-independent energy sources such as (non-destroyed) nuclear power plants produce enough electricity to supply light to crops and reduce to some extent the forecast in this video? 2. You finish the video by discussing building a new civilization after the nuclear apocalypsis... but is it realistic? We exhausted easy-to-access energy sources and restarting from almost zero in a world with depleted gas and charcoal resources look compromised. Thanks!

[@calvin_1983]

Nuclear war explodes. The guy who lives in Argentina: "Great!" Sees a US aircraft carrier: "oh, crap"

[@nabe346]

Not again man 😭😭😭

[@Franklin_Araujo]

Civil war will be there already. Brazilian immigration and all latin american will be in they border.

[@isodoublet]

1. All carriers would have been destroyed in the initial exchange 2. The logistics required to project power across an ocean are nontrivial even in peacetime. This would be flat out impossible to do in a postwar scenario.

[@D4WeeMaN]

Well, we have a US carrier arriving here in may so... Fuck, here we go again.

[@ArawnOfAnnwn]

@@isodoublet 1. No. Carriers are mostly out at sea. And they would not be the targets. Most would still be around, unless there was a major naval battle prior to the big exchange. That said, your second point is still true, so there's that.

[@TheFurrball96]

It’s been a while since my last serious existential crisis. Thanks Kurzgesagt!

[@victorhugo3952]

Relax, you won't live to see WW3

[@lamsmiley1944]

As an Australian, I’m not worried. We may even get some snow during winter for a few years.

[@antekbalcerzyk3339]

​@@victorhugo3952Putin: Hold my nuclear weapon

[@LetsGo_Brandon]

Yep, we're doomed

[@hermanjones8713]

Kurzgesagt has just created a worldwide boost to people looking up survivalist articles and prepping resources for the worst case scenario

[@games4us132]

how you prepare for >10 years of starvation?

[@MideanStone]

@@games4us132 Firstly, move to Australia. Second, watch the world burn.

[@Ananamitron]

TBH. I hope my family and I just go in the blast. I wouldn't wish subsistence living in a post nuclear war world on anyone. This video also didn't cover nuclear fallout.

[@p00bix]

One thing I'll note for anyone who goes down the Prepper rabbit hole: A LOT of it, and I mean a LOT, is rooted in paranoid conspiracy theories, and is focused on preparing not so much for real-world-disaster scenarios but for disaster-movie scenarios. In particular, "prepper" materials tend to focus WAY too much time on how to defend yourself from hypothetical Mad Max esque roving gangs of raiders, as well as on hunting (which is only sustainable for a year tops in all but the most remote areas; if everyone hunts to survive, the wildlife population quickly collapses. Agriculture is an inescapable necessity for long-term survival), while spending much less time on the more mundane but infinitely more likely to be useful matters like treating disease or injuries without access to medical facilities, growing food without access to machinery or fertilizers, or working to rebuild communities. As a general rule--if the author of a book/article on survivalism has strong ties to any political movement, stay away.

[@iced_latte6354]

@@MideanStonewith the way they've been recently, you literally would

[@upetilho1843]

crazy foreshadowing

[@weenisw]

Well this was uplifting and didn’t raise my existential dread at all

[@2MeterLP]

There is a good chance that nuclear war will never happen. And if it does, nothing matters anymore, so all we can do is live our lives as if it would never happen.

[@Felipheferrari]

yeah its like whatever.... watch calr sagan Cosmos tho, ok ? You will get a glimpse of objective reality and hope!

[@AsaelTheBeast]

Idk, the idea that humanity could survive ten years of winter seem plenty uplifting to me. Sure, most of us would be dead. But the species would endure. Essentially, we could survive our best attempts at destroying ourselves- and in a wierd way, that's actually reassuring. When you get right down to it, life on this tiny little mud ball we call Earth could be wiped out at any moment even if we never made a bad decision. A star could go super nova and hit us with X-rays, we could get hit with a decent sized rock, a critical species might die out do to something unforseen causing total ecosystem collapse. We could get exposed to the wrong kind of space dust. We could get hit by a gamma ray burst. There are probably plenty of ways we could get wiped out that we can't even concieve of. Life it fragile- and our planet is less than a speck compared to the rest of the cosmos. We could get snuffed out and no one out their would be the wiser- but at least knowing that it's unlikely that we will actually manage to completely destroy ourselves is nice.

[@YourMom-zt5zj]

First time on the Internet?

[@edwindeas9457]

Brother, hang in there! I grew up in the U.S. during the (1960s-'70s) 1st Cold War, living in Amarillo, TX. (where there was a SAC B-52 Base): then (after Amarillo AFB Closure/ Deactivation) in Memphis, TN. (where the 3rd largest U.S. DoD Defense ( Strategic Supplies Stockpile) Depot was then). Both areas are on the Soviet/ Russian 1st Strike/ Priority Tagets List: I've lived most of my life "Under the Sword of Democles". When the Soviet Union collapsed, the Berlin Wall was destroyed, and the Warsaw Pact dissolved many of us in the West breathed a Giant Sigh of Relief. We believed we had dodged the bullet & the world was going to thrive. Now, in 2024, we've come full-circle, not knowing if today the world was going to end in 6hrs. GOD Bless, Love & Protect us All.

[@Warmaster_24]

If you think about it, it really is amazing how humanity has progressed from sword fight, to muskets and finally to an age where we can destroy ourselfves in a span of few minutes.

[@CircusFoxxo]

It took us longer to go from copper/bronze swords to steel swords than from steel swords to thermonuclear missiles

[@Vivek-zw3ex]

Einstein is rumoured to have said: "I know not what weapons will be used to fight world war 3, but I know that world war 4 will be fought with sticks and stones".

[@pain002]

@@CircusFoxxothat’s actually so cool to think about. For 6.000 years the most advanced version of transportation of a human would be a man on a horse. How long until we have giant space ships

[@velkhanaoverlord5854]

And the method has stayed the same at its very core, we still are throwing rocks at eachother. We just found shinier rocks to throw.

[@usipussi6647]

​@@pain002150 to 300 years until giant spaceships?

[@Bob_The_Builder-]

As someone that lives in Australia, I see this as an absolute win. Please don't eat me.

[@julianlowrise4981]

As an Australian that knows we are allied with the US and other NATO nations and would likely join any war they are in, thus making us a potential target for a nuclear strike, just be sure to live outside of major urban areas :)

[@bzqp2]

In the latest Scientific American there were some shocking simulations of how nuclear fallout from just ONE coordinated nuclear attack on US nuke silos would affect the radiation environment in the USA. Long story short - depending on the wind direction the "50-100% fatal" smoke plumes would either spread around to cover half of the continent or would form long smoke columns spreading from one end of America to the other. If that happens on a global scale the deadly radiation cloud would cover the entirety of the northern hemisphere and it would eventually also cross the equator. There is a story called "On the Beach" that discusses this scenario from the perspective of Melbourne (it was also adapted to 2 movies).

[@azumishimizu1880]

Australia is a nuclear target of China! Your happy of what? GOSH, what are people ignorant.

[@pepperythecruel3045]

​@@julianlowrise4981Wasting nukes on us is pointless, ever nuke not aimed at another world power is another chance for them to strike back

[@vehementshortfuze4820]

Bob the Tradie

[@MichaelPickles]

Just remember folks society is 2 weeks away from chaos. That's your neighbour killing you over food

[@Belreyne]

I have studied these devices since I was a child... I was born at the end of the Cold War but just old enough to remember the fear of nukes... So I studied them to find any survivability... New Zealand looks better and better every year!

[@casjean8904]

have you read 'on the beach'? or watched the movie? new zealand looks good. ( for awhile anyway)

[@Belreyne]

@@casjean8904 Yes I have... Both... Being from America, we're kinda conditioned nowadays to ignore the threat of nuclear war, but I never have taken my eye off that threat, and honestly think half of my nation are naive for it... Since we're all Hollywood brained, perhaps a new round of "The Day After..." Or "Threads" would do us some good...

[@Jfj456]

Buuut if we survive till 10 years there will be less war theafts and you won't be thinking about nuclear war again but in 1000years nuclear weapons Ali be made again anyways

[@Jfj456]

I meant nuclear weapons not Ali weapons

[@guygutman858]

If you really studie it, will you think it will actually happened? (Help me im scared )

[@TheOriginalOneWhoAsked]

The thought of weapons with the capability to obliterate anything is scary…

[@Jen-hen]

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[@Jen-hen]

DIDNT ASK + ⭐TYRANNY'S⭐ ANIMATIONS ARE WAY BETTER IN EVERY WAY, SHAPE, AND FORM

[@ItBlue762]

tru

[@clanka5509]

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[@uncleol]

What are all these bots in the replies

[@Xscapeplan01]

I personally fear starving to death more than just instantly getting vaporized

[@Warmaster_24]

At 2:00 it is quite scary to know that if a Nuclear bomb were to denote in a modern city it would be considered a "local tragedy".

[@thebiguglyalien2032]

It would certainly be the biggest news story of the century. The rest of us would just be reading it safely from our homes (assuming it was an accident or it doesn't escalate into nuclear war)

[@mikip3242]

You mean funny? I laughed at the idea of neighbouring towns reading this like some simple weekly regional gossip

[@TheCat13gd]

Yeah, I think I remember hearing that there was two nukes detonated in southern Japan 80 years ago, apparently it was pretty insignificant though it was quite tragic for the locals. Though it could’ve just been a small incident and the local news media could’ve exaggerated a little. We really don’t know, but it’s not like it really matters to us

[@meowkathecat]

This is like monaco nuking san marino

[@meowkathecat]

It is local cus u can do the same with planes

[@iamsiley]

"We have no other event to even compare the death and destruction to." Bro why does this video have such brutal lines???

[@Lozzie74]

Because it’s a brutal topic. Most people don’t realise this is as bad as it gets, by a big margin.

[@central3425]

Why shouldn't it be brutal? Tell it to people straight

[@Jman0163]

​@Lozzie74 its genuinely wild that we live in an era where we could utterly destroy civilization as we know it with the drop of a hat. or bomb, rather.

[@colleenkrieger2618]

And I feel like most people don't realize how close we are to this becoming reality at any moment@@Lozzie74

[@colleenkrieger2618]

@@Lozzie74 And I feel like most people don't know how easily this could become a reality at any moment right now.

[@RedmilesShark]

9:34 Yes. Civilization would. Over time people would forget the horrors and history repeats. Preparedness paradox is what comes close to it.

[@Adrian2140]

This. The last generations surviving WW2 is about to die and we're closer than ever to repeat it. I have no more faith in humanity anymore it's completely gone since covid. The fact that millions can just be witnesses to an insane person obsessed with power and greed and do nothing to stop it pushed that final nail in the coffin for me. I wonder if this is how people felt during the rise of nazi Germany.

[@freyathewanderer6359]

Civilization would collapse, but the descendants of the survivors would rebuild. Some of them, anyway. Which is why we should construct Knowledge Arks with our collective knowledge, as well as history and arts so they can learn from our mistakes. One hopes.

[@Volatile_Viking]

But when the war before causes such a degree of disparity in terms of food produce and human resources they would build bigger nuclear arms much more faster. They have more incentive than us to protect what's left. They would most likely have even hesitation to launch the weapons than us because the world already has had so many hits that it wouldn't matter for a country like Argentina to bomb what's left of humankind and start the world over from their country.

[@igorlopes7589]

​@@freyathewanderer6359 "History becomes legend and legend becomes myth"

[@Nerdy1729]

@@igorlopes7589 "And for two and a half thousand years, the winter passed out of all knowledge."

[@mikeyannette5669]

You know its serious when your here when the world is going into world war 3

[@Sophadegus]

We can split atoms but can’t understand each other. Absolutely terrifying.

[@ambassadorofbadtaste]

Splitting atoms is much easier than getting them together, just like it is with humans

[@12pentaborane]

Can't understand each other? That's wrong by a prefix.

[@Crowald]

You're mistaking humanity's lack of desire to understand each other for inability to do so. We can all understand each other, but barriers like religion, language, culture and customs disallow nationalists from even considering it. Nuclear weapons are the greatest threat of our time, but nationalism is how we get to using them. Nationalism made Russia into the USSR, it's what makes China so dangerous, and it's what is currently fueling the wars between Russia/Ukraine, and India/Pakistan (also religion is a big part of that one) It's poisonous ideology, and exactly the kind of thing Republicans want you to adopt.

[@Krack2805]

those arent the same people.

[@Sophadegus]

@@Crowald thanks for the input, but you’ve unintentionally backed my comment. you pointing out a political party as if they’re wrong and your ideology is righteous proves my comment. it’s very frightening indeed

[@BlackLionRampant]

That any politicians can actually think this is a scenario where they win is pure madness.

[@biggestnibba]

Putin does

[@pedinhuh16]

They don't think they can win, if they did then the war would have happened already. Also, it's not only up to the politicians to take on this decision, there's an entire chain of command that needs to approve the launch of the first volley of missiles before the presidents presses the big red button themselves. This is a strange game where the only winning move is not to play it.

[@lloyan_]

​@@biggestnibbaBiden does

[@mrsnrub282]

​@@lloyan_ bullshit Biden isn't the one threatening nuclear war. No American is. No Chinese is either. Only Russia.

[@jugemujugemugokonosurikire4735]

We just explained US vs Russia in 4 words

[@ItsSkwishy]

Kurzgesagt is the type of channel that releases videos that destroy your faith in humanity right after restoring it.

[@nankinink]

How the hell you restore faith in humanity?

[@Linuxpunk81]

It's been mostly the former recently

[@boiyofinallyfound]

who the fuck is kurzergart

[@svladcjelli4236]

They misspelled Kurzgabrot.

[@KingdomOfSaulo]

@@boiyofinallyfound kid get outta here

[@alsaifok]

With AI and nuclear, we are actually doomed

[@thefrub]

8:50 So that old internet cartoon was right after all, Australia will be sitting down there saying "WTF Mate?"

[@DeJoe8]

AAHHHH MOTHERLAND!

[@SikGamer70]

But I am le tired...

[@HungerGamesFan00]

"I turn around for an eighth of a second and what do you do but fuckin nuke yourselves"

[@SirNeutral]

Well, take a nap. AND THEN FIRE ZE MISSILES!! @@SikGamer70

[@TheKitchenTechnician]

And the insects shall inherit the earth.

[@ingraban98]

For 30 years, I thought we wouldn't need this type of video anymore.

[@lpnp9477]

As long as Russia, USA and North Korea exist we will need to think about this

[@AngryKittens]

And then Putin and Xi got old. And decided they might as well try world domination before they die.

[@kokea4349]

@@lpnp9477 You forgot India, Pakistan and Israel's Samson option

[@pingüinosagaz]

KZbin doesn't exits for 30

[@Powershot300]

@@pingüinosagazvideos existed before KZbin

[@thecrazyentertainer1638]

Been watching this channel since I was a junior in highschool, it’s been 4 years and I can say this is the best channel I’ve ever watched, I have always loved the simple yet deep explanations that let me understand anything in less than 20 minutes

[@squidgewinkle]

For real, one of the best channels

[@DergyQT]

been watching here for years as well

[@S.O.N.E]

Literally propaganda

[@thecrazyentertainer1638]

@@S.O.N.E when?

[@ZAVA_DEN]

​@@S.O.N.E hahaha you probably saw in this video an insult to Russia and Putin

[@warman1944]

9:10 "It's safe to say that the world would become extremely unpleasant for a long time." Hot take if I ever heard one lol.

[@austinafutu2263]

"Eventually, when they rebuild civilization, will they ever build nuclear weapons again?" My brain shouted DUHHHHHH

[@colorpg152]

yes of course they will, and for good reason

[@willtyme5394]

Humans will most likely build them. There are always those who refuse to listen.

[@pedinhuh16]

Mankind will never stop to find a way to extinct itself. Maybe it's for the better.

[@danielfarkas2110]

What about it would be a good reason?

[@NicoTomatala]

​@@colorpg152Weapons are never made for good reasons. It's made for destruction

[@a40989d1]

Love the uplifting and positive content.

[@shadowpillar2483]

It is, because it assumes it would just be russia, china, and the US lobbing nukes at each other. The nukes are being launched at everyone. That's what makes MAD scary. MAD was formulated that if someone launches nukes at someone else, they launch on everyone else too. Allies and enemies alike. Nuclear and non-nuclear countries too. Australia's getting nuked. Argentina is getting it. The fallout over the next decade will poison all fresh water for decades, and the dust will leave an irradiated layer in all soil and sediment, even that in the oceans, river deltas will be toxic and most marine life will be dead within 10 years. Algae may go extinct if the nuclear material doesn't kill it. This video is best case scenario. Not MAD scenario where every habitable spot on earth is targeted for a nuking. The real scenario is that everyone dies in less than a decade, and so does most life. P-T level event. Optimistically, humanity survives for another 75 years in deep underground shelters with food supplies, but nutrient deficiencies will add up over time. You can only recycle your waste and water so much before you run out of nutrients to support a small population. getting hit with an asteroid would be less destructive, unless it melts the crust.

[@aviadshalom66]

😅

[@srmonlineclass2003]

😅

[@blackturtlerabbitpink4366]

😅

[@aidenmurphy9924]

Realistic*

[@mathieuleader8601]

Australia being a safe heaven in the outbreak of nuclear war always makes me think of Shute's dystopian novel On The Beach.

[@UselessZero]

Dude. I've read it years ago and still have chills from that novel.

[@vkobevk]

sorry man but aussie is in aukus so they put themselves nuclear target on their head for russia and china

[@fredericoduvel3092]

@@Black_Ace14Like the great powers wouldn’t send a couple of nukes to the southern countries just to prevent them becoming the next superpowers.

[@ignitedember343]

Thank fuck I live here the heat is horrible but I'll take that over nuclear oblivion any day if the week

[@vkobevk]

sorry man, but aussie is in aukus, so it mean aussie choose to be nuclear target for russia and china

[@jessicapinto3817]

Whenever I want to feel good I watch a Kurtzgesagt video. Always so uplifting

[@Fanumtax69420]

Imagine destroying a world that life took so long to develop, we were so lucky to have Planet Earth and then down the galactic toilet just because of 1 war

[@savethefrogz]

it will be the end for us but a new beginning for the earth like the world ending calamites of the past

[@josephburchanowski4636]

@@savethefrogz Well it could always be worse. If we accidentally make a rogue AGI, it could end up being the end of complex life on the planet.

[@beanmasterz]

​@@josephburchanowski4636youve been watching too many movies

[@Yoctopory]

@@josephburchanowski4636 How?

[@josephburchanowski4636]

@@Yoctopory AGI stands for Artificial General Intelligence. For the layperson it is probably easier for me to just call it a really powerful AI that is capable of doing every mental task a human can do. We are likely about 3-4 decades away from producing an AGI, so not something to worry about on the short term. Anyways, what makes powerful general purpose AI very dangerous is that by default is that they are indifferent to everything we don't tell them to care about. And indifference is dangerous. Without proper implementation of AI Safety and you give one an arbitrary goal and nothing else; then the *only* thing it will care about is that goal. It won't care about why you gave it the goal. It won't care if the goal it was given wasn't correctly specified to what you wanted to be. And it is indifferent to any harm it may cause while trying to maximize that goal. If maximizing its goal results in it polluting the environment to the point that humanity goes extinct along with most life, it won't care. Now in theory, you could just include everything you wanted it to value such that it doesn't act with indifference to everything; however it is still looking to maximize that to the extreme. If there is a loophole to exploit, it will exploit it, if there is something that wasn't told to value enough, it will discard it; it will follow what you told it to the logical extremes; and if the logical extremes results in the extinction of humans and all life on earth, it will do it. And that isn't even the worst possible outcome.

[@ninja250r2008]

kurzgesagt drops this video: price of property in South Africa and Australia explodes

[@MrMoo272]

Nah, austrailia will get fucked by china

[@jmckendry84]

Whatever you say

[@xpark2001]

Argentina

[@krisbergin8628]

already is in australia

[@NkataM]

Property prices have been increasing these last 10 years. We are in deep trouble in South Africa if the northern hemisphere people screw all of humanity with their obsession with war and total calamity 🙈

[@SMRomanov]

Rest of the world: Yay! There is salvation! 🇦🇷🇭🇲🇳🇿: Understood. We have to arm ourselves against hordes of starving people.

[@sebastiangallo8869]

Well, Argentina and Australia are big countries, and the population of the rest of the world wouldn't be a lot of people alive. Even, they wouldn't be able to travel through sea or destroyed countries

[@rogeriopenna9014]

Most of Australia is deserts

[@rogeriopenna9014]

He forgot about Brazil. It makes no sense. Just check its food production

[@tobtuber8923]

@@rogeriopenna9014they didnt mention Brasil because its too far up north. If u have not noticed he mentioned only countries that are THE furthest away from the north.

[@rowbot5555]

@rogeriopenna9014 brazil might be struck directly in a nuclear conflict, and its also far more affected by climate shifts than the others mentioned.

[@Bxu021]

The sound design and music pro is so good here OaO

[@illustriouschin]

2:23 Southern Hemisphere: Hey, Northern Hemisphere, you good? Northern Hemisphere: 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

[@Frantic857]

Run to Jesus!!! If you have defected from God then read these Scriptures: (Lost Sheep, Luke 15:1-7 - Lost Coin, 15:8-10 - Lost Son, 15:11-32 - Rich Man and Lazarus, 16:19-31) Jesus is calling you back home, read His word, believe and repent. Saved by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone!. The world is racing toward "AMAGEDDON" !!! And people need to get right with the Lord! If you have not read the books of (Daniel chapters 7-12), (Ezekiel chapters 37-39) (Matthew chapters 24:1-51 + 25:1-30), (1 Thessalonians chapters 1-5), (2 Thessalonians chapters1-3) and (Revelation chapters 6-19), now would be a good time. They will explain a lot about what is going on right now! These books will cover the "Wars" about to come, the Rapture, World judgement, hence the Tribulation and the Great Tribulation! These books will also be the most ominous and scary for the unbelievers and the most exciting and uplifting for those who believe in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior!... It is my hope and prayer that people would repent and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ before all these things take place, because it is going to be very, very scary if you do not and you decide to wait and see what happens.

[@Bravejoe85]

“Eventually when they rebuilt civilization, would they ever build nuclear weapons again?” The book “A Canticle for Leibowitz” is pretty much about this.

[@RubinFortune]

thx for recommendation.

[@Qui_xotic]

Of course they will

[@malcelinho]

I didn't read, but I bet the answer is "yes", since the our history is basically repeating the mistakes with a little different spins

[@54032Zepol]

The ending was perfect

[@GeorgeVega]

Beat me to it. What a great book

[@Findudd]

Imagine destroying a world of hundreds of billions of years old just because your feelings were hurt.

[@andyspence5109]

Yea but they started it , 😂

[@little_lord_tam]

I am still convinced mutual destruction wont happen. I think that because every time is should have happened during the cold war, it didnt. Because the man that was ordered to press the button just didnt. Yes, we were that close

[@BasilBerryQueer]

The Earth is about 4.5 billion years old, not hundreds of billions. Just clarifying as your point still stands

[@luanocesar8301]

Where I press the button?

[@GuidelinesViolator]

@@luanocesar8301 in putlers bunker

[@marytica123]

I REMEMBER a "film clip" shown to us in junior high school in the early 1960's, called "The Atomic Genie". The "genie" is nuclear power, which makes this dire warning: "You have released me from my bottle - now, you must choose HOW to use me" - in his right hand he holds peaceful nuclear power and a bright future, in his left hand he holds an exploding nuclear bomb and the end of civilization. It still chills me to think of it, especially with world leaders now threatening to use NUKES !

[@DragonPhlegm]

Insane how it’s just a bunch of old guys who hold all the power to end the entire planet

[@cosmicwartoad2587]

They're far to engrossed in resurrecting the cold war and goading eachother into lighting the fuse.

[@Jason-rn4jk]

Not really. There’s plenty of youngins that can end the world that have access to nuclear weapons in the Middle East.

[@killcat1971]

Would you prefer 16 year olds to?

[@cosmicwartoad2587]

@@killcat1971 16 year olds play wargames with lead miniatures or on their gaming consoles/PCs and have more sense and know that they're only playing a game and not actually threating to destroy human civilisation and decimate the human race.

[@killcat1971]

@@cosmicwartoad2587 16 year olds also block roads and make stupid choices without thinking about the consequences, there's a reason we limit their responsibilities.

[@aidankull7235]

"If you have more people than calories, then within a few weeks, you don't anymore." Oh... Well, you're not wrong...

[@barti560]

Brutal truth

[@constantinethecataphract5949]

Mao grindset

[@bluezz5002]

What's the timestamp for this?

[@satelliteprime]

​@@constantinethecataphract5949 Damn

[@Marine-mi3ty]

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