Win the Cold War by Nuking the Moon? - Nuclear Engineer Reacts to Blue Jay "How to Win The Cold War"

Original Video ‪@BlueJayYT‬ • How to Win the Cold War

[@tfolsenuclear]

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[@ravinsaber]

How about making your own videos instead of stealing content and riding the coattails of your betters

[@fivepizza4804]

​@ravinsaber what are you on man. You clearly got nothing better to do with your time. I know reaction content is pretty controversial but your not getting the point. In alot of his videos I learn alot. It's not only entertaining but educational as well. Me being interested in anything nuclear I really like his videos. Stop spreading your nonsense and do something actually useful for once

[@ravinsaber]

Then he can educate you without thieving from people with talent and imagination, maybe make his own goddamn videos. No controversy there, but he knows he can't do what they do.

[@fivepizza4804]

​@ravinsaber it's his own way of educating people. Plus, it's not thieving, he credits the original creators.

[@ravinsaber]

That's some bullshit. He's taking views and revenue directly from these creators by uploading the videos they actually worked on in their entirety. He is absolutely stealing these videos so he can make a few bucks off the backs of other people. If you want to be educated then watch the original creators, they actually deserve to earn money for the videos they made because they aren't parasites.

[@MrTommispilot]

There was a saying among western aviators: "Landing on Red Square once - that's the ultimate heroic act!". And then someone just did it.

[@Ananas-280]

The thing i love about history community is its unique reaction videos and that's what reactions was about in the first place You can watch the same video over and over again and feel lile you watching it with a friend that is enthusiastic about same things as you, also the amount of added information from each single person and you hear so many prospectives because as we all know every single person see the world differently That's what "good" reactions is all about not the fake "oh wow" "oh damn i had no idea"... People from all sorts of professions and interested make the same video entirely different Plus you get to know channels and people you never heard of because of a video and possibly change your life and way in one way or another, its fascinating, which I'm glad i got to know your channel because of videos like " history of the entire world I guess? "

[@KaysNewGroove]

30:20 I'm glad that you brought up the point about needing surface detonations to create the level of contamination seen in the Fallout Universe because, as evidence by all the impact craters, like the one in the Glowing Sea in Fallout 4, the nuclear armageddon was primarily made of of surface-detonated bombs. There were a lot of surface detonations, like a lot, and there's even an undetonated bomb in the city of Megaton in Fallout Three, a city that's made around the bomb and using parts from the bomber that crashed. Also, a lot of the mutated creatures weren't created by the radiation, but by people in labs. Cazadores and Nightstalkers are creations of scientists, the Supermutants and their kin are created by the Forced Evolutionary Virus, and there's evidence to support a number of other mutated creatures having existed in some capacity before to the Great War.

[@Roger44477]

Quick correction: The town was made by disassembling aircraft from a nearby airport (that of course isn't anywhere in game), not from the bomber which we have no reason to suspect crashed.

[@KaysNewGroove]

@@Roger44477 Oh really? I knew they used parts from a nearby airport, but I honestly thought it was originally made using parts from the bomber, and that that's where the wings from the gate came from. I guess the wings could have come from any aircraft at the airport, but I guess I just assumed that the bomber crashed for some reason.

[@tasteslikepennies2549]

Quick correction. Nerd

[@johnburn8031]

Fun Fact. Gorbachev did the Pizza Hut advert as he didn't get a pension.

[@toomaskotkas4467]

That's a lie. He had a huge pension (relatively speaking) as the first and only President of USSR and the former head of the Communist Party. His benefits also included the free healthcare for him and his wife until their deaths, government security detail and free usage of the government apartment with the Summer House (Dacha). That's on the top of having a personal "Gorbachev Foundation" - non-profit organization which was funded by the different sources, including the ones which are from the Western countries, i.e. CIA. So yeah, you are talking out of your ass.

[@johnburn8031]

@@toomaskotkas4467 why did you assume I was lying rather than simply mistaken or mislead? I checked and yes, he did receive a pension. However, it wasn't huge. I genuinely believed what I had written was fact. As for his foundation, I don't know enough about it or other benefits he may have received from the government.

[@toomaskotkas4467]

@@johnburn8031 You've said "Fun Fact". A person who is not sure of what he knows doesn't say that. Usually people like that say "I've heard that...". "I am not 100% sure, but...". You were so sure of the anti-Russian propaganda that you've been brainwashed with, you never gave it a second thought before posting.

[@epikmanthe3rd]

​​​@@johnburn8031Because on the internet nobody is mistaken, everbody is acting in bad faith, and youtube comments should be rigorously fact checked as if they were an academic journal before being posted. /s

[@johnburn8031]

@@epikmanthe3rd indeed. I cannot recall where I heard that Gorbachev did the adverts because he didn't get a pension, but it sounded plausible at the time.

[@nunyabiznez8120]

The giant crabs and scorpions also had help from FEV. The Death Claws were a Enclave experiment. Radiation did play part in all of them per the lore.

[@ronmaximilian6953]

Yes, Soviet Union was a paranoid place. My maternal grandfather and his three surviving brothers made it to the Soviet Union from Poland in September 1939 and met up with a dozen or so more Polish Jewish refugees. One of them bought a pair of shoes and trying them on found that they didn't match. He complained about the quality of Soviet workmanship. A few hours later, they were all arrested. Of the 16, only three were known to a survived the gulags and then being thrown into penal units of the Red army. My grand uncle who mined in Kazakhstan died of cancer in 1947. Interestingly enough, the Soviets found uranium deposits near where he had been sent to mine.

[@Utwite]

At the end of the video, Bluejay mentioned the story of the Tupolev Tu22, but other soviet planes also had similar sytems, and taking used plane coolant was actually common among many pilots. Paper skies made a video about this and how they many times used the vodka they collected as currency and extra income for their families. He does alot of videos about ridiculous things that happened in the world of soviet aviation, him being from a state formerly in the USSR and his father being a pilot in the soviet air force. I highly recommend some of their videos if aviation & Cold war antics are something you're interested in.

[@mydailybf1096]

I love your content man, been watching you for ages!

[@michaelbobic7135]

Hi Mr Folse: you don't often make me feel old, but I was in Grad School when Rust made his flight. If you weren't alive at the time, you can't really imagine the fear and hilarity his flight caused. You also got me when you said you heard the Sears catalogue quote in a history class. I heard it on the radio pretty contemporaneously to when it was first used.

[@CyberTomato]

24:00 if you are interested in realistic sci-fi with humans that were in space for generation, i could really recommend a show "Expanse". Also there might be some react content in the show

[@uhhhhgoobus]

Barely watched this guy’s videos and I’m already enjoying everything

[@jamielandis4308]

Harry Turtledove wrote an interesting series of novels about what if the US had used the bomb on the Chinese during the Korean War. The first book is “Bombs Away.” My favorite Cold War commercial was the Wendy’s fashion show commercial.

[@Azrael178]

23:15 the expanse touched upon it. being on earth would be torture to people who were raised on mars or something.they have taken into the account a LOT of things that usually aren't considered

[@michaelbobic7135]

The 1959 Exposition led to a dispute between VP Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev over who made the best appliances. This became the Great Kitchen Debate.

[@zarathean8758]

😂 the yo noid reference 👌👌👌

[@Roger44477]

Hell yea, Mercenaries! I actually co-run a fan discord for the seires with a few hundred members

[@TehSmokeyMan]

Have to recommend "On the 8th day" again (it's on YT), since I'd love to hear your thoughts on it... It's an old documentary (loud intro, careful) but it does raise some interesting points about nuclear exchanges. It's not really the nukes we'd have to worry about, but more the consequences of all the secondary damage...

[@user-nm1eu1xu1j]

"the one with the scouter" is from the spy kids movies

[@thepizzasgone]

Why is blue Jay so God damn funny

[@slimjim132]

Though I love physics and science in a personal setting and wouldn’t want to do it for work watching your videos and seeing you post always keeps my passion alive so thank you Tyler!

[@Ananas-280]

Same honestly I love chemistry and biological and just everything scientific but physics especially but I'd never choose it as a career But I'm thankful there are people who've done this and make you see yourself in a different timeline

[@devron5ssn]

When you mentioned tapping Soviet submarine communication cables you were referencing "Ivy Bells" an intelligence operation so secret it's cover story was classified "Top Secret".

[@oliversherman2414]

The planes running on vodka is the most Russian thing I've ever heard 😂

[@vicroc4]

iirc that kid with the absurd stacked up optic is from the Spy Kids series. Edit: In fact, one of the major challenges of building a spacecraft is making effective but lightweight radiation shielding. Even with Mercury, they were concerned about radiation, though obviously not quite as much as now. IIRC the goal with ISS was to limit exposure to about like living on a mountain peak, but I don't know if any official numbers have been released.

[@duphasdan]

That scene from earlier where it showed a post apocalyptic scenario outside is a continuation from another video that didnt end to well for the world.

[@roberts7531]

You should definately take a look at paper skies, if you liked the last part

[@LuciferAxolotl]

you can ask the ppl stationed on the ISS what the dose rate is, as an engineer you might have more credit to get a real answer, 12 to 28.8 milli rads per day according to forbes

[@steltekx]

You should do the one from Blue Jay on Egyptian mythology

[@hadesdogs4366]

Reminds me of that nazi politician who thought that he’d struck up a deal with the Scot’s for a peace agreement and ally ship and so personally flew halfway across the uk in a stolen scout plane under hitlers very nose…. Only for the plane to run out of fuel causing him to crash land and was subsequently arrested by a farmer and his wife and subsequently spent the rest of the war in a POW prison 😂

[@houjisaifeddine5524]

in the game Mercenaries 2, it might not necessarily have been a TU-22, as a very large number of soviet jets (bombers and fighters) did use the "vodka coolant" the channel Paper Skies did a video recently on this topic, mentionning a few of said jets and how they affected the soviet air force. in fact, he did also make a more in depth video about the super sonic booze carrier as well. he has a very fun video style, and i recommend checking him if you have the spare time

[@Folse]

Folse isn’t a common last name. I wonder how far down the tree we are related, sir. Keep up the good work!

[@tmanknoll9702]

As someone who lives in southern VA and have lived in North Carolina for years, I have never hear the name Carbo for softdrinks so this would be REALLY obsure.

[@Astro-eu1eu]

Alternate history hub did a video about the Berlin blockade possibly escalating

[@Travminer123]

40:10 his name was Mesha Milanich who indeed was a russian jet pilot. The sprite of the jet used was just a traditional jet fighter, funnly enough depending on the size of the airstrike called in, the size of the plane would be bigger or smaller. Very surprised a Nuclear engineer played a game like that lmao. Sad EA ruined the oppertunity for a 3rd game...

[@blackhatfreak]

FEV played a part in the odd creatures

[@RyanMercer]

🤘

[@benb8075]

Funny, ads back then were like yt plugs. 🤣

[@blackhatfreak]

Stellaris has a spy victory I believe

[@ScottLovenberg]

Completely off topic, I need that shirt you're wearing.

[@shipofthesun]

22:59 "What is that, some sort of turtle satellite thingy?" That's actually the Soyez command capsule, still in use today. 25:23 There are two kinds of drinks: Coca-cola, and orange drink. Is it a Coke? No? Orange drink.* 30:00 Waffle House has it's own disaster rating scale. I think "nuclear wasteland" would be a 4, if I'm not mistaken. *disclaimer: I grew up in Atlanta and worked at Coke world HQ in the 90's

[@Merennulli]

Actually, TV ads at the time were a lot like modern KZbin ads. The hosts of the show would often read the ad or even demonstrate the product on set. Including for live broadcasts. John Cameron Swayze was famous for doing live Timex commercials including with a motorboat engine dipped into an oversized fish tank with a Timex watch strapped to the blade to show the water resistance and durability - and on the first live performance it slipped off the blade. As for the drunk Russian pilot...it actually was all the jets. Paper Skies has a great video on Soviet pilot alcohol, and the Soviets used alcohol for coolant and antifreeze in many of their jets. And however it was used, crews and pilots learned how to extract it from their panes. Unlike Americans, they didn't denature (poison) the alcohol to keep people from drinking it.

[@Zach476]

streaming services would probably be better if they made ads using the characters from their shows.

[@Merennulli]

@@Zach476 Yep, it is better but more expensive than just copy-pasting a video file into an ad injection software. I don't know if it makes financial sense, but it would be hilarious if the ad-based streaming services did ads like Oversimplified where one character just broke out into the ad to the dismay of characters around them. The ones that I have seen done successfully nowadays are all content producer ads like Oversimplified, just by traditional media. Like product inserts which have now hilariously become a thing in anime. I really enjoyed "Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill" which was a silly isekai story where the character was cooking wonderful meals for his fantasy monster companions, almost always including real world products as part of the recipe. There was even a Pepsi product placement. Back in the dark ages (80s and 90s) when my family had cable TV, some did have ads that were specific to the network and had characters exclusively broadcast on those networks, but even then it was rare and I think it was intended as cross-promotion of both the shows they were in and the product they were advertising. EDIT: I just realized - none of the streaming services I use anymore except KZbin have ads. And KZbin doesn't have its own characters. Maybe some started doing it after I started paying for Crunchyroll and after I got offended at Hulu continuing to exist on this planet.

[@CosmicAggressor]

The current coninscus in science fiction is that even after the first generation humans born on mars would grow about 40% taller on average and have hangover like symptoms living in earth gravity if they don't get an extra nap or something, also they would need more excerise time to get muscles ready for earth gravity. There is also the coninscus that these mars born would be acomidated to local space flight like we are accomidated to taking a bus to work so they would probobly have a better time bouncing back from high-g and an almost 0 chance of throwing up when exposed to 0g. But of course there is absolutley no way of really knowing for sure until about 10-16 years after the first person is born on mars. Edit because of what you said at 32:00. Lunar syncronus orbit would be a 1 month orbit, which would put the satilite entirley outside of the sphere of influence of the moon. Most orbits around the moon are just high enough to not hit mountains since there is not atmosphere to ruin your day. As a result any plans to actually set off a nuke on the moon would half to assume it is a baren rock with nobody on or near it until at least earth orbit.

[@brianhamel5640]

Looking it up, apparently, astronauts on the ISS are exposed to up to 2000 mSv of radiation in 6 months. Great video as always.

[@rolay7730]

Carbo? Is that real? I haven't found anything about it online.

[@prairiedog2514]

If he reacts to a lot of videos, does that make him a reactor 😳

[@johnniequinn3215]

Don’t worry, he’s not very critical about them.

[@ravinsaber]

No, just a thief with no talent

[@johnniequinn3215]

@@ravinsaber He adds insight and information, and has been a help in finding interesting channels to check out.

[@ravinsaber]

Then he can do so without robbing the people who actually have talent and are actively pissed about him robbing them.

[@johnniequinn3215]

@@ravinsaber Who is actively pissed off?

[@jayde4872]

Damn your fast.

[@meusauc]

Why are you damning his fast?

[@karthikk2683]

😂​@@meusauc

[@blackhatfreak]

The first animals in space were fruit flies and the Americans were the ones who launched the rocket.

[@ArkhamHedler]

30:31 Salted Nukes can cause this type of contamination right?

[@dcolb121]

Mai-thee-us? I think that's supposed to be Ma-THY-us. Not the poster's fault here, though.

[@Gazzxy]

and shersh is back now.. probqably not half as effective as it used to be given the general incompetence. but its back

[@MatterBaby68]

qxir made a couple videos on the pepsi situation. they also gave a away a harrier jet in a lottery. great video

[@OfficialVillagerTranslator]

day 2 of asking tyler to review the entire skibidi toilet series

[@frankensteinmoneymac]

In Soviet Russia, the Noid avoids you!

[@trevorjrooney]

I actually think the diplomatic victory in Civ6 is pretty accurate. People can eventually vote for you to lose diplomatic points, and you get them by voting with others for the same resolves. Getting the diplomatic favor necessary to win a diplomatic game is pretty excessive if you exclude the 6 diplomatic victory points you can get from building Potala Palace and the Statue of Liberty. A real nation behaving angelically enough to win a diplomatic victory really would be able to cross divides and unite the world. So much effort in helping out other civs with natural disasters, working with and protecting city states, sometimes voting against your wants for politcal reasons, a country doing all of that in the real would would be a saint.

[@fractal4284]

It would be fascinating to witness a massive nuclear explosion in space from Earth-a sudden appearance of a large spherical ball of fire, resembling a miniature sun.

[@KaysNewGroove]

I don't think there would be a fireball in space, would there? I'm pretty sure that oxygen is a requirement for that kind of hue, where the detonation in space would likely just be a massive burst of radiation with bits of shrapnel from the bomb being propelled at incredible speeds. It's important to note that there's no atmosphere in space. There's no oxygen to burn, air to ionize or turn to plasma, and no shockwave since that's also a consequence of the atmosphere. The use of nuclear weapons in space would be as targeted destructive forces, now giant explosions that take out fleets. The detonation would generate mass amounts of heat and radiation on any object it hits, but would behave fundamentally differently than in an atmosphere.

[@fractal4284]

@@KaysNewGroove oxygen isn't needed. It's a nuclear reaction How do you think the sunburns lol

[@KaysNewGroove]

@@fractal4284 Burning and creating literal fireball aren't the same thing. The fireball itself is a chemical reaction caused by oxygen, the damage that radiation causes is the burn, and they aren't the same process. And before you say that the sun is a giant fireball, yes, it is, and it also has an atmosphere full of gases that can be ionized and turned to plasma by the intense heat. Space doesn't have anything to turn into plasma.

[@fractal4284]

@@KaysNewGroove I'm just stating & trying to convey that oxygen isn't necessary. Nuclear weapons today. They function by combining chemical explosives to compress the nuclear material, initiating fission. This process releases a massive amount of X-rays, generating immense heat and pressure, leading to fusion.

[@KaysNewGroove]

@@fractal4284 There is no fireball detonation in the vacuum of space. the fire ball is a consequence of the atmosphere. There's a lot of light, blinding light, but no creation or propagation of a fireball. There's nothing to burn and no oxidizer to burn it. There exists a video of a nuclear detonation in space and, if you watch the footage, there is no fireball. There's a blinding flash, followed by a thick cloud of particulate matter, the matter from the bomb itself, but no fireball. This is understood and empirically proven science. You can watch the video at the following link: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gXe7naWka5Kspsk

[@John-ir2zf]

Weird... Stalin sounds alot like biden.

[@toomaskotkas4467]

19:24 A very subtle nazi reference to Russians as "subhumans". I think we all should have a laugh.

[@changingpeopleslivesmoon2993]

Lol

[@toomaskotkas4467]

@@changingpeopleslivesmoon2993 I like how you find it being funny. It actually proves my point.

[@changingpeopleslivesmoon2993]

@@toomaskotkas4467 what point?

[@toomaskotkas4467]

@@changingpeopleslivesmoon2993 My point.

[@toomaskotkas4467]

@@changingpeopleslivesmoon2993 Good job at giving yourself thumbs up.

[@rsvbiker4149]

Alfred the moon hater 😅