ICBMs: Enabling the End of the World

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@navret1707 3 жыл бұрын

I and my crew had the dubious honor of observing the end of a test launch of one of our ICBMs. When the “warhead” re-entered the atmosphere and we saw the contrail all I could think was “oh, shit!” I didn’t sleep well that night.

@jamesgornall5731 2 жыл бұрын

It's that jaw-dropping sphincter tightening moment you realise what we are capable of when we pour lots of resources into technologies. The multitude of disciplines coming together to create such things is awesome.

@phantomechelon3628 Жыл бұрын

@@jamesgornall5731 And in some cases terrifying...

@Nefariously_ignorant Жыл бұрын

My crew and I*

@MattH-wg7ou 11 ай бұрын

Thats incredible! What a sight to see! Both fascinating and terrifying! Was this just a reentry of inert warhead reentry vehicles?

@sadheedhumar1359 3 жыл бұрын

It is amazing to think that a person born before 1903 could have witnessed the first time man had flown in the sky and provided they lived long enough, would have witnessed man's first step on the moon, and in the late 20th century have used the Internet.

@St.Linguini_of_Pesto 3 жыл бұрын

Mindboggling to even consider that.. although have you seen the elderly use the internet?? It's a hoot.

@MattH-wg7ou 11 ай бұрын

My great great (maybe 3 greats? I dont remember) Aunt Flossie was born in 1896, I went to her 100th birthday party in 1996 when I was 11, she lived to 106. Imagine the things she has seen and how drastically her world changed in that time period!

@harryparsons2750 7 ай бұрын

Really makes you wonder doesn’t it. No way lazy humans did that all by themselves

@JPBennett 3 жыл бұрын

MAD: An absurd idea that worked, keeping us all alive.

@davidste60 3 жыл бұрын

It's really the same old idea, just nuclearized.

@tomw6947 3 жыл бұрын

Only worked because Russia and USA are very similar, china on the other hand is very different and I don't think they would think twice

@ExarchGaming 3 жыл бұрын

@@tomw6947 of course they would think twice... lol. They're not any less human than we are, and that makes self-survival the name of the game. They have their own nuclear arsenal to prevent us from just blanketing them in mushroom clouds, and our nuclear arsenal prevents them from doing the same, otherwise they would have evaporated our seventh fleet protecting japan and by extension taiwan.

@ExarchGaming 3 жыл бұрын

@@tomw6947 what they're hoping to do, is the same thing we are, to neutralize our nuclear deterrent, most likely through the development of directed energy weapons, of which they're making some major strides towards. Most major security analysts are cautioning that if we continue at the rate we're going, they will outclass us militarily by 2025-2030.

@yomama629 3 жыл бұрын

@@ExarchGaming the US has also been working on directed energy weapons for a while but so far there's no real feasibility for such systems to take out ICBM's. As for them outclassing the US militarily so soon, I seriously doubt that. They have no force projection capabilities outside of their own region, only one carrier which isn't even operational, and nowhere near as advanced aircraft as American 5th generation fighters

@aussieyank 3 жыл бұрын

France does not have land-based ICBMs. The M51 that was launched from land was only for testing. The bulk of their nuclear force is based in their SSBN fleet, though they do maintain a few nuclear-armed cruise missiles launched from the air.

@decentish8546 3 жыл бұрын

Submarine based nuclear missiles are the way to go anyways. Almost impossible to detect and destroy submarines so nobody will be able to ensure you don’t nuke them back.

@davidste60 3 жыл бұрын

@@decentish8546 If that were true coutries wouldn't spend billions on hunter-killer submarines.

@ivokantarski6220 3 жыл бұрын

@@davidste60 anything can be tracked or is on the way to become such. The ancient people were suprised to see ships, the medieval people were suprised to see armored to the teeth nights, the 19 or 20th century not sure which people were suprised to see flying objects like planes. Late 20th century people could already see gods golden game. I am so interested to have a movie for a group of ancient and medieval people coming to the current world. It be a hilarious scene to show them how high we can build and show it from Burj Khalifa. Be amazing. An aircraft departing a carrier will be a sick cool thing too.

@davidste60 3 жыл бұрын

@@ivokantarski6220 True but irrelevant.

@davidste60 3 жыл бұрын

@linlinö önilnil Not 100% but far better than "almost impossible", which is what I was replying to. US subs have always tracked Soviet/Russian ones in case of an attempted launch, it's why they build and operate them.

@martijndaem4074 3 жыл бұрын

Suggestion for a Megaprojects video; the human genome project, a fascinating science project

@BichaelStevens 3 жыл бұрын

Someone will eventually come here and say that genetics are racist

@phillipcasyey7313 3 жыл бұрын

You mean they aren't? 😅

@martijndaem4074 3 жыл бұрын

@@BichaelStevens There is no racism based on difference because racism is an expression against others, not the difference (everyone is different) That makes people great to work with and I'm strong, I carry the stuff, you're smart and make plans, together , we are building this world . I hope you agree with me on this one ;-)

@BichaelStevens 3 жыл бұрын

@@martijndaem4074 but CNN told me we're all equal and we're all one race and you can be whatever you want :( you must be wrong coz you're disagreeing with media >:( /s

@matthewdopler8997 3 жыл бұрын

It is also impressive on how much the cost to sequence the human genome have gone down. 20 years ago, it would have cost $100 million to do it. Now less than $1000 thanks to next-gen sequencing.

@joshdrexler8773 3 жыл бұрын

The incredible accuracy of ICBMs was, and probably still is, based on something called *inertial guidance,* developed at MIT's Lincoln Labs. You should do a project on inertial guidance. (*The first targets to be destroyed in any future war will be the satellites that supply GPS, so ICBMs must have an independent on-board navigational system that does not rely solely on GPS transmissions.)

@MattH-wg7ou 11 ай бұрын

Yep and INS systems have an inherent drift rate, not as accurate in most systems as many people might think. They are often constantly updated via GPS in an EGI (Embedded GPS/INS). Development of reduced drift or no drift (if possible?) self contained INS will be critical to a future peer conflict when GPS signals will all be jammed or the satellites themselves destroyed. Apparently there is research on some form of quantum INS with no or almost no drift. A totally self contained INS that needs no external updates. That would be more of a gamechanger than many people probably realize!

@bskull3232 11 ай бұрын

That's why both Chinese and Russian GNSS systems use the same frequency as GPS. If a targeted radio wave EMP bomb is to be used on any GNSS system, all die at once. This pretty much safeguards everyone's GNSS as the only nations capable of destroying those satellites are those owning similar systems that are destroyed at the same time.

@brandongaines1731 3 ай бұрын

One of my former bishops worked for Lockheed Martin before his untimely death from SADS. I remember clearly the day when he took our little ward to his favorite public park, pointed at the foothills, and said, "When Armageddon happens, you'll see two mushroom clouds: one over there, and one over there!" His outstretched arm barely moved maybe 10 degrees. When asked why, he explained that one was where he worked, and the other was a nearby aerospace facility that worked even more closely with the military. I wish now that I had taken a picture of him pointing in those two spots, because not a year later he stepped through veil.

@ignitionfrn2223 3 жыл бұрын

1:55 - Chapter 1 - WWII 4:00 - Chapter 2 - Cold War 4:55 - Chapter 3 - R7 6:15 - Chapter 4 - Atlas 8:25 - Chapter 5 - It's a mad world 10:00 - Chapter 6 - Salt I & Salt II 11:20 - Chapter 7 - ICBMS around the world 13:50 - Chapter 8 - The modern ICBMS 15:40 - Chapter 9 - Enabling the end of the world

@donutking4u Жыл бұрын

thanks

@ceejayhaughton7360 7 ай бұрын

Thank you my good sir

@dongiovanni4331 3 жыл бұрын

Interesting game, the only winning move is not to play

@xiro6 3 жыл бұрын

wanna play chess?

@MlTGLIED 3 жыл бұрын

Nice movie from my childhood 👍

@barrydysert2974 3 жыл бұрын

@@MlTGLIED i remember the quote, but not the name of the movie. Help please!:-) 🖖

@V0idFace 3 жыл бұрын

@@barrydysert2974 WarGames.

@MlTGLIED 3 жыл бұрын

@@barrydysert2974 sorry mate, I can't remember the name too. I watched it back then in the soviet union, no kidding. Edit: thx VoidFace, it's War Games I was scared watching this movie.

@_Kirby207 3 жыл бұрын

How about Simon does a megaprojects video about all his KZfaq channels? Gotta be somewhere between side projects and megaprojects by now

@St.Linguini_of_Pesto 3 жыл бұрын

Lol.. that's for his new, upcoming channel: SimonTube.

@brisbaneinsider7139 3 жыл бұрын

It seems like Simon's whole life is side projects.

@Jackisaboss1208 3 жыл бұрын

So our most advanced ICBM is still running a 16 bit processor? Hot damn

@caseyinutah Жыл бұрын

Our current icbm fleet are super old

@phantomechelon3628 Жыл бұрын

Well they don't need to run Windows which saves a lot of processing power. 😉

@doctorjules187 Жыл бұрын

fire up some Sonic 2 or F-Zero!

@daveray44 Жыл бұрын

At least, in 1981, we went from punched hole computer programming tape to magnetic tape

@caphenning 3 жыл бұрын

MAD was doctrine? MAD IS doctrine currently, we just ignore it.

@Reactordrone 3 жыл бұрын

Counterforce was toyed with when they had loads of warheads and better accuracy.

@pigbenis8366 3 жыл бұрын

Eight thousand, eight thousand, eight hundred. Lol I caught that.

@mattmckie6967 3 жыл бұрын

I thought it was a new number.

@BitWalker 3 жыл бұрын

Once you hear it you can't unhear it

@Number-oo8xq 3 жыл бұрын

I was going to mention this in the comments because I didn't think anyone was going to realize what he had said, good ear man! Cheers

@Reactordrone 3 жыл бұрын

8,000-8,800

@tobytheshihpoo 3 жыл бұрын

Hadrian’s Wall, that should be a mega project....

@archstanton6102 3 жыл бұрын

I also suggested it for Geographics. Have fully walked it twice

@theblankettruth 3 жыл бұрын

Yes!

@bearbishop8570 3 жыл бұрын

Yes please

@tetlow2 3 жыл бұрын

They were racist for protecting their boarder. We should tear it down and condemn them.

@madsam0320 3 жыл бұрын

It’s just a picket fence compared to the Great Wall of China.

@cosmicfs1066 3 жыл бұрын

Here's a fun and relevant idea for either a Mega or Side Project: the renovation of the White House for the new president. Every inauguration of a new president involves teams of staff renovating and refurnishing the White House to make way for the new presidential family, a task that must be completed ENTIRELY during the inaugural ceremony leaving them a window of ONLY 4-5 hours

@Sirmellowman 2 жыл бұрын

my buddy used to be in the airforce and he worked on the minute man underground silos in wyoming

@mho... 3 жыл бұрын

HAH, the Idea of Intercontinental Rock Throwing is just beautiful 🤣

@averagegingernut434 3 жыл бұрын

I honestly think I could listen to Simon talk about anything for hours.

@K-Effect 3 жыл бұрын

I sometimes wish he would slow down he's talking speed just a little bit

@danielkron2513 3 жыл бұрын

Thats exactly why business blaze exist

@averagegingernut434 3 жыл бұрын

@@danielkron2513 what's that?

@danielkron2513 3 жыл бұрын

@@averagegingernut434 yet another youtube channel from simon, although he is ashemed of it and for good reason

@mattmckie6967 3 жыл бұрын

@@danielkron2513 ashamed 🧐

@SparkBerry 3 жыл бұрын

Fun fact: WD-40 was developed to protect the pressurized fuel tanks on Atlas rockets from corrosion due to condensation buildup on their surface, hence Water Displacement formula 40 WD-40 used on a door hinge: " Am I joke to you?"

@user-te7rf8ik7z 3 жыл бұрын

Every time Simon says "consider subscribing", i try to subscribe more than I already am, and fail miserably.

@coreytaylor447 3 жыл бұрын

easy, just find another one of his 500 channels and sub there

@darkmagician2904 3 жыл бұрын

@@coreytaylor447 I'm subscribed to all of Simon's channels and I wish there were more.

@DarthBlazer. 3 жыл бұрын

@@darkmagician2904 impossible, by the time you finish their is another channel

@justandy333 3 жыл бұрын

Try Harder! You can do it!

@atticusflanagan-burt1047 3 жыл бұрын

Do the perimeter/dead hand system if enough information is declassified

@matthewdopler8997 3 жыл бұрын

You should do one on the James Webb Telescope.

@xiro6 3 жыл бұрын

this is not Patreon,we are alone here.

@GraemeMoore1 3 жыл бұрын

Not completely alone, I'd love to see one on JWST...

@gingerman5123 3 жыл бұрын

7:10 Want to know about combustion instability? Look at the development of the Saturn 5's F1 engine.

@kimjongun6746 3 жыл бұрын

We got a lot of them 🚀

@nolanbanner5458 3 жыл бұрын

The world can only end when the legend, S. Whistler has a new KZfaq channel, 'The Worlds End'. I only believe if Simon has a video about it

@adamsvoboda9753 3 жыл бұрын

New start treaty will expire in a month. Let’s hope that there is still time to extend that treaty. If not than the world will be less safe than today. It was sad to watch how so many international treaties regarding weapons limitation were canceled in last few years.

@anjetabreymann7179 3 жыл бұрын

Treaties are "Paper". Hitler signed one with the British before attacking in WWII!

@Echo_Mike 3 жыл бұрын

Please do the British V bomber force, Vulcan, Valliant, Victor

@jasonbrown372 3 жыл бұрын

Veni, vidi, vici

@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un 3 жыл бұрын

We have the finest ICBMs

@davidste60 3 жыл бұрын

...in all of North Korea.

@EmazingGuitar 3 жыл бұрын

Bigly

@gianflores4866 3 жыл бұрын

Please spare my house o great leader

@StrangeTerror 3 жыл бұрын

As long as the pilot survives to guide it

@DavyRo 3 жыл бұрын

That's fantastic the US might think twice about attacking you now

@jezrix7257 3 жыл бұрын

This is now my favourite KZfaq Chanel. Thank you so much for your time and effort.

@hooligan3821 3 жыл бұрын

Could you imagine what Robert Oppenheimer would think and how he would feel if he was alive today and saw what his discovery has evolved into?

@woodrow6155 3 жыл бұрын

Simons take kzfaq.info/get/bejne/odWnZrRptpq6Z3U.html 1981 Doc kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jNNlmaapvdSvZ40.html

@decentish8546 3 жыл бұрын

He died in 1967. By that point ICBMs had existed for nearly a decade. I think he had a pretty good idea about the direction his discovery was going.

@benhunter4041 3 жыл бұрын

I’d love to see a video on the Sea Wolf Class submarine.

@woodrow6155 3 жыл бұрын

or it's successor the Virginia class

@sam3kperv 3 жыл бұрын

Mutually assured Destruction (M.A.D) Wasting available resources (W.A.R)

@iKvetch558 3 жыл бұрын

The thing that I find incredible, is that Korolev's design for R-7 is pretty much still in use today...even if in highly evolved form. To a large extent, all the triumphs of the USSR's space program, from Sputnik and Vostok to Soyuz and Salyut, all went up on top of various models of Korolev's epically brilliant design. 🖖💯✌

@sashakazmar6142 3 жыл бұрын

Just like Kalashnikov’s design. Also highly evolved but basic principle of operation is the same

@MrTexasDan 3 жыл бұрын

@@sashakazmar6142 And both Korolev and Kalashnikov stood on German shoulders.

@sashakazmar6142 3 жыл бұрын

@@MrTexasDan I don’t know much about rockets but I do know a thing or two about AKs. No, Kalashnikov did not use German design of that’s what you mean

@MrTexasDan 3 жыл бұрын

@@sashakazmar6142 It is what I mean, and he certainly did use elements, and overall form and function of the StG 44 in his design, among others. This is from the Man himself.

@user-jz2zj5cx2o 3 жыл бұрын

@@MrTexasDan now compare dissasembly of ak,stg44,and ar.Kalashnikov used some elements,but it is not german achievment

@Adinga123 3 жыл бұрын

I've subscribe to all of your channels Simon....I found your channel to be informative and interesting. Thank you for educating us through your channels. Love you from Mizoram

@legionofthedamned157 3 жыл бұрын

'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds' -Robert Oppenheimer

@veerchand8968 3 жыл бұрын

Its Robert Oppenheimer quoting the sacred Hindu text, the Bhagavad Gita, where Lord Krishna (an avatar of Vishnu) reveals his divine multi-armed form to Arjuna and says the line in order to convince Arjuna to follow through with his Dharma, or sacred duty, as a warrior - which is to fight.

@jeeping32810 3 жыл бұрын

Loved the recap at the end with Einstein's quote. Killing it Simon, keep them coming!

@fatmojohara 3 жыл бұрын

For side projects, The Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel. 17.2mi long, and it was studied to help show that the Chunnel was possible.

@scjdg 3 жыл бұрын

What can we say but the classic Fallout meme; "War. War never changes."

@IlluminatiBG 3 жыл бұрын

Politicians: plan wars and strategy against foreign country; Engineers: invent weapons for the war; Linguists: M.A.D., S.A.L.T. 1 and S.A.L.T. 2, S.T.A.R.T. 1

@coolmadmike 3 жыл бұрын

Banks: profit off of both sides of the war.

@owenshebbeare2999 3 жыл бұрын

The desire to create acronyms isn't limited to Americans, but they sure have made it a rather annoying thing in the English language.

@WKRP187 3 жыл бұрын

@@owenshebbeare2999 ... Since you insulted the USA your obviously one of those foreigners that our FBI needs to contact the CIA and NSA and HSA about your past and they'll have the IRS and DEA and ICE run your background check and see if your ass needs to become MIA!!! 🇺🇲🦅🇺🇲🦅😁

@nickdubil90 3 жыл бұрын

1. R U M.A.D.? 2. Feeling S.A.L.T.-y? 3. The S.A.L.T. is 2 real. 4. S.T.A.R.T. to get gud, scrub. Yeah, the world of toxic one-upmanship has never really changed...

@iftogo 3 жыл бұрын

Great quote to throw in at the end! Love your short, informative videos. Thanks for posting them!

@redlindholm8451 3 жыл бұрын

This is one awesome Mega Project you did this time Simon!

@buryitdeep 3 жыл бұрын

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

@heyhoe168 3 жыл бұрын

Except gasoline pools are separate and each of them hopes to extinguish enemies matches. (and that is the only reason why number of matches matters.)

@Tekdruid Жыл бұрын

Well no, not really. Any substantial nuclear attack would probably be enough to trigger a nuclear winter which would screw over everybody on Earth.

@rayb558 3 жыл бұрын

The irony is that with icbms a lot of the technological developments in rockets and space travel would not have been possible

@bchin4005 3 жыл бұрын

That was Von Braun's original intent, space exploration, but guess what? Governments won't fund expensive scientific exploration, but they will fund expensive weapons programs...go figure.

@matthewcombs5387 3 жыл бұрын

Simon...another great and informative vid! Excellent job

@livethefuture2492 3 жыл бұрын

i must say you're videos seem to be getting better and better! keep it up! really enjoy the content you guys make! :D

@pigzard01 3 жыл бұрын

So yeah nuclear submarines next since we're talking about SLBMs.

@St.Linguini_of_Pesto 3 жыл бұрын

We all live in a nuclear submarine, a nuclear submarine!

@michaelmiller5771 3 жыл бұрын

@@St.Linguini_of_Pesto no because a nuclear subs can survive a nuclear war under the ocean

@Jaysin412 3 жыл бұрын

Simon hooked me up with all kinds of new content for my birthday! Wake up to new videos on all of his channels!

@sandybarnes887 3 жыл бұрын

I hope it's a happy birthday watching all 11 channels 🎂

@house_lifeownerstuka6890 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you megaprojects I've been looking for good icbm videos.

@hagdore 3 жыл бұрын

Love your work, Simon.

@MyCatFooed 3 жыл бұрын

I'd just like to publicly say once again, as I have so many times in the past, that us regular American citizens have *absolutely NO hate nor ANY ill-will towards the very good & decent people of Russia!!!* Like myself who was born in the early 1970's -- Us regular American citizens *DO NOT & NEVER HAVE HAD HATRED, NOR HAVE EVER HAD ANY ANIMOSITY TOWARDS RUSSIA NOR ANY OF THEIR PEOPLE!!* Russian people are the very same as us Americans --- Their opinions & attitudes towards us have always only been manipulated by their political leadership in constant attempts to vilify America & her people --- This is *exactly* what has happened to us ALL OF OUR LIVES here in America --- Our political & military leadership have constantly & even CONTINUE TO THIS DAY to attempt to poison our citizenry's thoughts in an attempt to turn our views sour towards Russians with perpetual propaganda. Many of us here in the USA are wise to these wretched tactics undertaken by our own government and other very powerful groups --- and US AMERICANS ARE SO VERY OVER IT!! The American people are so sick & tired of being told that only we & our allies in the world are good & anyone else in the world who won't go along with our fleeting political leadership is bad & evil and must be destroyed. WE ARE SICK OF IT!! Domari Nolo PA III

@anatomicalx9355 3 жыл бұрын

Well considering the Soviet Union would have been a horrible place to live in the 70's, It would probably be wise to have hated the communist totalitarian government. America wasn't all daises and rainbows, but it was easily a better place to live, hence all the people that fled the USSR for western countries.

@watcherit1311 3 жыл бұрын

I'd just like to publicly say once again, as I have so many times in the past, that us regular American citizens are just stupid idiots who tend to believe everything that is posted on internet by some random troll... Everyone knows that Internet would never lie!

@MyCatFooed 3 жыл бұрын

@@watcherit1311 Pretty funny!

@MyCatFooed 3 жыл бұрын

@@anatomicalx9355 I certainly agree with you. The United States of America, is imo, by FAR the best place to live -- not always and we're nowhere near close to perfect, but I wouldn't want to be a lifelong citizen anywhere else!

@Qbgarden 2 жыл бұрын

I won't forgive you for harassing Rocky and Bullwinkle.

@urincubus7222 3 жыл бұрын

Humans have made nuclear weapons but no mouse would ever construct a mouse trap. -Albert Einstein

@3800TURBO 2 жыл бұрын

That "something about war" is fear and money.

@LongDongJohnson0705 2 жыл бұрын

Love the music on all of his channels vids.

@jasperdoornbos8989 3 жыл бұрын

Suggestion: the Single Integrated Operation Plan

@maconp1119 3 жыл бұрын

AKA BUH BYE...

@johnpinckney4979 3 жыл бұрын

Two suggestions: The Pennsylvania Turnpike and FM radio...

@stuckp1stuckp122 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent and chilling video!

@leopardone2386 3 жыл бұрын

Here is a side project : the T 54/ 55 main battle tank. Most widely produced tank in history. The AK 47 of tanks.

@bradhobbs6196 3 жыл бұрын

"There is something about war that drives inventiveness, and for us to make Mega Projects about them" That episode when Simon claims the Nazis made him do it. Heh.

@walangchahangyelingden8252 3 жыл бұрын

There isn't something, it's just how war works. Think about it.

@777jones 3 жыл бұрын

Poetic! War sure is neat, right

@walangchahangyelingden8252 3 жыл бұрын

@@777jones Neat is not a word I'd use.

@ivokantarski6220 3 жыл бұрын

Inventiveness is done in order to get an edge over the enemy. If you are so sure of your win and nobody can bother u then u wont bother changing as in a way adapting to the reality. Historically there are some super good strategies which worked so well for centuries and then the empires fell. Sometimes it was geography too

@thechamp8162 3 жыл бұрын

I will never understand why anyone would want to drop nuclear weapons in a real act of aggression literally no one wins in nuclear war

@Jim-tv2tk 3 жыл бұрын

We don't want to use them, thats the point.

@davidste60 3 жыл бұрын

Have you ever heard of WW2? Not every country has nukes to shoot back with.

@philbredehoft9232 11 ай бұрын

I appreciate your content, great production and I appreciate the research 👍

@bgbc1 3 жыл бұрын

Simon, Im really happy for you, you on visual politics was great and I enjoy it. Im a engineering student, so when you announce the change for this kind of channel, I just love it, please keep up :)

@twocvbloke 3 жыл бұрын

"Peacekeeper", named out of pure irony I presume, but I suppose once the flames have died down, and everything on earth has died, it would be a rather peaceful, if desolate, place to be... :P

@MrTexasDan 3 жыл бұрын

They have kept the peace for a long, long time. Not sure what you don't understand about that fact.

@St.Linguini_of_Pesto 3 жыл бұрын

@twocvbloke ahh, and so quiet.

@St.Linguini_of_Pesto 3 жыл бұрын

@@MrTexasDan lol, yeah they've kept the peace by being a threat to life itself.. so people will continuously live with that stress, hovering in the back of their minds. That's not peace, really.. just the threat of "behave or you guys will get a face full of this in the middle of the day, and you won't see family or friends ever again".. seems cold-blooded, because the ones in charge of those things will be tucked into some comfy little hidey hole, while the rest of humanity kills one another for a jar of peanut butter. And did I forget to mention all the mutated people & animals?

@Jim-tv2tk 3 жыл бұрын

@@St.Linguini_of_Pesto WW3 that our nukes continue to prevent would way worse than a little stress..

@Reactordrone 3 жыл бұрын

I guess it's an improvement over the B-36 Peacemaker.

@ianmathwiz7 3 жыл бұрын

Idea for another more theoretical megaproject: asteroid deflection methods.

@rainerbunn4855 3 жыл бұрын

A very interesting topic, I was thinking at some point we would have rail guns to redirect asteroids over a period of time. I wonder when we'll establish a base on the moon to do these kinds of things.

@benfrith7060 3 жыл бұрын

Can't you just nuke them? Computer simulations have been done that suggest that it is not entirely Bruce Willis eat you're heart out territory.

@ianmathwiz7 3 жыл бұрын

@@benfrith7060 You wouldn't want to actually blow the asteroid up, but setting off a nuke a distance away from the asteroid would be the most efficient way to deflect it.

@mattsmith5421 3 жыл бұрын

@@ianmathwiz7 no it wouldn't be, the best method would be to gently push it over time with a laser or land on it and push it with a booster, they're made from many things from metals to ice to thousands of pieces of loosely compacted stone, breaking one into bits would be a disaster

@benfrith7060 3 жыл бұрын

@@ianmathwiz7 Why wouldn't you want to blow it up? Computer simulations by the Americans and physical scaled down experiments by the Russians both suggest that a nuke in the few megaton range against a asteroid in the few hundred meter range would work. Asteroids tend to be a rock pile bound by gravity not one solid rock, the nuke will disrupt the rock pile. Obviously this option would be the one to take if the option of lots of time was not available, if time was available then deflecting it's course would be preferred, but does present unique challenges. Using a nuke to either attempt to disrupt the rock pile or change the whole asteroid course would be far more simple than attempting a tether to drag it. These asteroids tend to have rotation, trying to drag it with a tether over a long time period would be close to impossible IMO.

@danielmarcus420 Жыл бұрын

Just subscribed to Side Projects. I really enjoy your content!

@agent_meister477 3 жыл бұрын

Fascinating as always 👍

@BIGJATPSU 3 жыл бұрын

Leave it up to Einstein to basically sum up humanity for the next 100 years after his death with pin point accuracy.

@Manuel-gu9ls 3 жыл бұрын

As he said: Warfare is the science of destruction

@michaelmiller5771 3 жыл бұрын

@@Manuel-gu9ls no . because a nuclear subs can survive a nuclear world war under the oceans

@777jones 3 жыл бұрын

Simon’s fastest talking ever! Hot date tonight, need to finish this video ASAP?

@riccardofalcioni8095 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely love this channel! Anything about Project Thor or kinetic bombardment in general coming up?

@ReiverBlue1971 3 жыл бұрын

Particularly good one this. I spent the 80's having night terrors, living in Plymouth, UK as a kid, laughing at "Duck & Cover" leaflets. It did seem to make you live harder

@ericwaltersdorf9202 3 жыл бұрын

This probably needs to be re-done with an emphasis on hyper-sonics

@Shadow__133 3 жыл бұрын

Just increase video speed to 1.5x 💡

@jamesmccullough398 3 жыл бұрын

Request for a Megaproject: Cell phone networks? Not sure how to word it, but with 5G being this next big thing, I find myself increasingly curious as to how the whole structure works.

@RazVanPaulOfficial 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome content! Thanks

@danielwalker8212 3 жыл бұрын

Love this series. Kinda blows my mind this is free content...

@grapeshot 3 жыл бұрын

Will they say advance civilizations have a way of destroying themselves.

@0311Mushroom 3 жыл бұрын

States we are making bigger and more powerful weapons. Meanwhile, the power of warheads has decreased significantly. Once again measured in kilotons instead of megatonss as they were in the past.

@Twelveinchpianist 9 ай бұрын

I knew a guy who lived next door to me, an awesome friend, who used to be assigned to work In an ICBM silo as a mechanic. His stories and information are priceless and contain data that people should know that isn't common knowledge

@harryparsons2750 7 ай бұрын

Assigned? What are you a commie

@avifuellas4736 3 жыл бұрын

Cant believe that its only been like 9 months since your first vid Im not sure if it is but i felt that your content is so good i thought you've been doing it for years

@jameswebb2912 3 жыл бұрын

There has not been a world war since World War II, perhaps MAD isn't so mad after all.

@htfkid2000 3 жыл бұрын

Have they launched your space telescope yet?

@jacobhuff3748 3 жыл бұрын

But only in a counterintuitive way Which is why it's so MAD.

@jameswebb2912 3 жыл бұрын

@@htfkid2000 Soon. LOL

@sikckaputten 3 жыл бұрын

The only "first" the US had in the space race was "man on the moon". Everything else, including first space station, was won by the USSR; but somehow the US are still considered to be the winner? What?

@samuelyoung2671 3 жыл бұрын

Pop culture relevence comes from entertainment value. The moon landing had that in spades.

@ivokantarski6220 3 жыл бұрын

US is winner of cold war. Winner writes history better. Through the cold war wasnt a fair thing. Russia was a far more active participant in both the world wars. Collapsing in the first by taking maybe second harshest pressure and then in ww2 being the side which takes most of the pressure. So US had to compete vs an exhausted state.

@samuelyoung2671 3 жыл бұрын

@@ivokantarski6220 The oppressive style of governace didnt help that exhaustion any😂

@haikalhadzik7744 3 жыл бұрын

That also got me thinking hmm

@inlikearefugee5194 3 жыл бұрын

Man on the moon was a lie, you can't get past van allen rays lol!

@thezirons 3 жыл бұрын

Nice, glad you did the ICBMs!!! There are old and new ICBM sites near where I live. Some are open for the public to view if requested. Thanks!!

@kilroy987 3 жыл бұрын

Well. THIS is a video we needed right now.

@Hobbes4ever 3 жыл бұрын

Nowadays it's all about hypersonic missiles. Everyone and their dogs wants it. So another trillions of dollars will be wasted on those.

@St.Linguini_of_Pesto 3 жыл бұрын

Oof, if _dogs_ get their paws on one of those.. they'd be a day late & a dollar short. Cats already have them. 😼-hissss! meowr.

@vodafoneuser1690 3 жыл бұрын

@@St.Linguini_of_Pesto If the cats is Russia and China you are correct

@LolMarineBunny 3 жыл бұрын

It's weird hearing Warner Von Braun's name with it being invoked by a creation apologist.

@tobystewart4403 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent episode title. It neatly captures the insanity of the situation.

@micbaeloppenheimer7752 3 жыл бұрын

I certainly do enjoy your videos, you do an excellent job, thank you very much have a wonderful day may God bless you !!

@RealRowas 3 жыл бұрын

"Now i am become death the destroyer of worlds."

@Tyler-gv6zf 3 жыл бұрын

famous quote is famous, now give me upvote

@kyleking9417 3 жыл бұрын

Just sent one down the toilet

@daveray44 Жыл бұрын

I was an EMT Team Chief for Minuteman. Was always a humbling feeling seeing the bomb and rocket and the it's all powerful destructive power

@darkerarts 3 жыл бұрын

Fantastic video as always Simon. Can you do a video about the timeline and causes at when the Cold War came closest to world annihilation?

@andrewreynolds9371 3 жыл бұрын

V-2's didn't 'disgorge' the payload they carried, the warhead was an integral part of the rocket.

@larryscott3982 3 жыл бұрын

And not a guided missile

@samsignorelli 3 жыл бұрын

@@larryscott3982 Yep....purely ballistic. It WAS, however, the first man made object to cross the Karman Line into space at 100km altitude.

@larryscott3982 3 жыл бұрын

@@samsignorelli The V4

@samsignorelli 3 жыл бұрын

@@larryscott3982 Nope...the V2 DID cross the Karman Line into space -- but NOT into orbit (that was Sputnik 1) in 1944. The A4 and V2 were the same thing, just different designations (A4 was Von Braun's numeration, V2 was the Nazi operational one....but they were the same rocket). There was no V4. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MW_18014

@Reactordrone 3 жыл бұрын

@@larryscott3982 Pre-set guidance is still guidance, otherwise it wouldn't need an inertial guidance system and steering vanes.

@muznick 3 жыл бұрын

MAD was an expensive doctrine, but imagine what would happen if only one country had nuclear superiority. Despite all the paranoia, nuclear weapons have prevented (so far) a third world war. The problem isn't a country with a shitload of nukes, it's a lunatic with one.

@cancan-wq9un 3 жыл бұрын

Its not a paranoia if its a fact, and the danger is real. Also holding people on gunpoint doesnt mean they become peaceful, or it is an effective way of establishing peace. Finally, any county with a bomb can get a lunartic as a ruler, no matter who they are.

@elcucuy13496 3 жыл бұрын

Would love to see a video on Mediterranean Piracy in the middle ages! Keep it up Simon!

@Casey-bw7lc 3 жыл бұрын

Hey that 'random' town in America is my hometown 🤣 Love your vids. Gotta see the London Bridge one now as it is indeed one of the few interesting things about Lake Havasu.

@mm-yt8sf 3 жыл бұрын

usa: "our germans are better than your germans :-P"

@pauld.b7129 3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha it was a German arms race funded by the USA and USSR 😂 it's actually amazing if you look at history though, Germany is responsible for an insane amount of the high technology we use. Kind of an oddity. From a historical standpoint, makes me wonder if there was some sort of validity to their "eugenics" studies. At least as far as certain German people being extremely capable.

@Tyler-gv6zf 3 жыл бұрын

Wow, what an original comment. Never heard that one before!

@mm-yt8sf 3 жыл бұрын

@@pauld.b7129 i knew a very nice professor who said he considered himself lucky that after WW II the US was eager to bring get people with phds. coincidentally i mentioned him to a friend's mom who said of him "my husband hired him. he's a nice guy...for a *german*" it felt like a portal to another era :-)

@DeabOliver3 3 жыл бұрын

I just love listening to people ranting about $$, the world wide monetary system is only backed by ideas, power, And reputation. In a moment the power that be can change the system with the snap of fingers .

@ericnoriega547 3 жыл бұрын

Next video. I'm surprised with a focus on ICBMs that there was no mention of the Damascus nuclear incident involving an ICBM. Perfect example of how things can go really bad. I found it fascinating when reading about the incident, and it dovetails really well with the design of the rockets that you mentioned in terms of the flexible tanks.