Though without quite the same flair and over-the-top theatricality, and really, isn't that what we love him for?

Ironman was actually heavily inspired by Howard Hughes. Hence his father's name is Howard too.

It’s probably where they got Tony’s “merchant of death” nickname. Tony Stark is a knock off.

Alfred came from poverty tho iron man didn’t

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This is gold

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"they burned my house down.. I WILL BURN THE WORLD DOWN"

Nicholas c yeah that surprised me too!

Nautical mines in the 1800s, though. :-)

For real

A very wide variety of options to buy from him. Building something? Plywood. Need to blow something up? Here is an underwater mine.

I'm sorry I have to tell you this but plywood has been around for thousands of years, you know the Raman scutum it was made of plywood

Yeah if he had not discovered it then someone else would have , am I right .

Journalism is funny like that.

@Simple Creature , give me a citation on that comment.

@Simple Creature Did you miss the fact that mining was one of the initial focuses of dynamite? Mining and clearing ground for roads used dynamite extensively.

It is getting the backing, Money. If the Japanese atomic reactors that are leaking into the Pacific Ocean were of a different type of reaction they would not have blown up. Nuclear Reactions for making weapons grade products are subsidized instead.

Try to find out who invented the tyres...

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And fishing.

you need to see how the world was before, evrything was built around black powder noble changed all of that with nitroglycerin.

It wasn't dynamite that made him the merchant of death. I am from the swedish city of Karlskoga and like 50% of it is named after him. The biggest industry is weapon manufacturing, and Nobel was the one that got it really going.

@rwsthedemonking I'm sorry? Isn't it THE explosive every army put into grenades, shells and HE bombs?

In making such a dangerous thing "safer" he enabled its large scale use for other destructive purposes. No one wants a bomb that is almost guaranteed to kill you and your side before it ever has a chance of approaching an enemy. Before Nobel got into it nitro glycerine was too dangerous for use in war. No doubt he prevented many train, boat, car and factory explosions and the human/industrial cost associated with that. In modern war dynamite has been completely replaced with better.

No, picric acid and, later the more expensiveTNT was used in shells and bombs, as it was more or less impossible to detonate accidentally. Early attempts to fill shells with dynamite usually resulted in a conventional gun exploding violently. 'Dynamite guns' using compressed air to launch a dynamite-filled shell at low velocity had brief and very limited use at the end of the nineteenth century.

History celebrates the worst men. Nobel invents weapons his whole life, but because he donated his wealth, he becomes celebrated even though that wealth was born of death. Cursed wealth bought him Nobelium.

@@newvocabulary go and cry somewhere else

@@newvocabulary because he donated money many scientists all around world became inspired to invent new things for sake of humanity

@@newvocabulary Except dynamite was invented as - and is still used mainly as - a safe method for construction and excavation. That's like blaming Benz when someone runs over you with a car.

@Matt , no dipshit, he specifically designed weapons for the armies of the time.

Evan Fields I agree, absolutely fascinating

Since the rest of the world says "Hold my beer", i guess taht means alot of beer for the inventor to hold... and drink while the rest of the world blows itself up. Good move, Inventor

I mean it worked eventually.

@@fuckyshityfuckshit but America invented nuclear weapons, and used them

@@spikethompson2000 That was during ww2. MAD didn't exist back then.

spikethompson2000 And that was the only time it was used against an enemy.

which people are you referring to?

rodrigo hernandez lets start with recipients from the infamous Nobel Peace prize.. some of which are quite literally the people who incite terror. There are many to mention, with one of the most recent people who did not deserve it being Obama ( before some accuses me of being a “Trumptard”, I do not support Neither the Democratic party nor the republican they are all puppets). For other prestigious prizes such as the Nobel prize for medicine, chemistry or physics I do not have any criticisms whatsoever, those are won by merit.

So you start with the most recent, and leave it at that? Since the answer to Rodrigo's question can only be subjective, why not name some others you feel were not deserving rather than your political ideology, since that was not a part of the question asked, and only seems like a mild excuse for naming the one person that you did.

@@augustortiz Hey again, you said "people" (as in more than one lol) in your comment. could I know about more than just that one (being Barack). Also could you tell me why it is these people are not deserving of the prize. And finally could you provide credible links referring to the actions they took (or are taking) to show the ways in which these people "incite terror" I look forward to a productive discussion

@@rodrigohernandez-rp9qq what did al gore or øbomma do to deserve it?

Meh. Media does the exact same thing today.

H_curly I switch the coffee to beer, but yes I agree

I really liked how he talked about his father too. We don’t hear very often of these stories where the father had a genuinely positive role in the outcome of someone’s life. It’s either, their father was abusive, nonexistent, or never talked about.

Simo Hayha would disagree

@Weedus Exactly! Häyhä was only a soldier while Mannerheim lead the whole army both in the civil war and 2nd world war

and in the begining he couldnt speak finnish cause he was swedish aristocracy.

@@12345678981010 Finnish Swedish aristocracy. Swedish was his mother tongue but he was also fluent in Russian, French and German.

PhoenixofPrometheus He was the commandering chief of the whole finnish army so Simo Häyhä would definetly agree

... and safe demolition.

Hmm, tell that to the people that died during war

@@nosuchthing8 I am talking about quantities. Mining & industrial uses of explosives exceed those used in warfare. That does not make warfare harmless. I am just pointing out that explosives are NOT inherently evil, and are needed for modern society to continue to exist.

@@DavidFMayerPhD yeah we got that. Do you get the point that the mad genius, after he was incredibly wealthy and successful, kept on making more and more dangerous explosives? This whole scenario is reminiscent of a fictional character, Lex Luthor, who constantly complains to Superman that if he had been left alone he would have turned his talents to helping mankind. The ironic thing is that if Nobel had not set up his prize system, he would have been forgotten by now. It's through his own perverse notions of grandeur that we revisit what he did. Plus how many of his own family did he kill? Were they truly accidents? I don't think what drove him to work so hard was his humanitarian streak. He wanted to see as much death and destruction as possible. I don't believe for a minute such an incredibly wealthy person could not secure a wife back then either. I suggest you read the biography of Steve Jobs. He had severe issues too .

@@nosuchthing8 "kept on making more and more dangerous explosives" What were these explosives? What were their principal uses?

Paid by the Central Bank through a trust set up by Nobel before his death . It is not the Bank's money , only distributed by the Central Bank .

Which is why when someone that recieves it says "i won the nobel prize for economics" it's hard to argue with them.

Its this The Swedish Riksbank's award in economic science to Alfred Nobel's memory, commonly referred to as the Economics Prize or (informal / misleading) "Nobel Prize in Economics", is a prize that was established by the Swedish Riksbank 1968 in connection with the bank's 300th anniversary.

that's the one! thanks for telling what I'm too lazy to find out myself

"Not exactly"? Try "not even".. The full name is the "Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences". Basically, the Swedish Central Bank bribed the Nobel Foundation into letting them use Nobel's name. In essence, it was a brazen attempt by bankers/economists to legitimise their craft as a "science". Which it most certainly isn't. To borrow a line, I always find it amusing that the same people who laugh at fortune-tellers take economists seriously.

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@@punkyquah6312 thanks :-)

The first time I heard the story of Fritz Haber I thought it was the most tragic story I'd ever heard. He was a patriot who sacrificed everything to develop a tool to save the lives of his countrymen (which is how he viewed the gas weapons) and ended up dying in exile. His ammonia process was supposed to be a solution to famine but it also prolonged a war. It is also responsibe for earths current population crisis. I've since heard other versions that put him in a less positive light. Whatever the truth, his life would make for an interesting one.

@@myronwilde491 his story is definitely an interesting, especially when you consider the fact that nearly every single person on this planet owes their lives to him. Also, fun fact, his story is so impressive and important that he has a heavy metal song in his name. Father by Sabaton.

imagine the power of the static over that moustache, it can mine bitcoin for itself.

Rocket scientist? Are you sure you don't mean rocket surgeon? I mean, it's not brain science. 😉

1xoACEox1 Unless there is an accidental launch of a nuclear-warhead equipped missile. This apparently has almost happened on more than one occasion.

As long as there is long range rocket capable carrying nukes then politicians will need to think twice about throwing the first rock. Just look at the tiny country of North Korea.

There was also the time the Israelis attacked and sink the USS Liberty and the American thought it was the Egyptians and scramble jets with nukes to bomb Cairo only to have called-off mid way

The human race will be decimated sooner than you imagine, catastrophe is closer than ever. We have the capacity to destroy ourselves utterly even without pathogenic input.

@@HeavySmoker22 It's ironic how we strive to advance as humans only to destroy ourselves at the end.

You really enjoy commas huh

Good catch, but pure nitroglycerin was too unstable to be used with a blasting cap safely.

Si vis pacem,para bellum.

My2t1c the next crazy uncouth bird was pretty hot even by today’s standards

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Big Bertha !

*shows the picture of miscarriaged pokemon*

Simon has form in this area. Troglodytes are fawningly described as physical masterpieces. Go figure. Dude should have gone to Specsavers, maybe a new sponsor.

pardon me... not Statistics, but Economics.