The Physics Experiment That Ruined Australia

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@mortenrl1946 Жыл бұрын

"They churned up the soil with a tractor" - Sounds like they plowed the plutonium into the ground so it would be near impossible to do a real cleanup. I might not be the smartest person to ever grace the planet, but even I can tell that's the opposite of securing the site. Something smells ಠ_ಠ

@jeffreywilliams5093 Жыл бұрын

You've transitioned from being a student of science to a student of the science of teaching science. I'm really happy you're doing this work. Thanks.

@Skibbityboo0580 Жыл бұрын

The earth: "Here is a source of relatively clean energy to last you until you master fusion!"

@mayflowerlash11 Жыл бұрын

Such a sweet gentle voice, delivering a chilling deadly story. Thanks Tibees, you have reminded me of faint memories of Maralinga and Montebello, I will find out more.

@ThreenaddiesRexMegistus Жыл бұрын

A friend’s father was a naval officer in the 1950s and witnessed the Montebello tests. He died at an unusually early age. They really didn’t consider the potential effects these trials may have had on military personnel and the public at large in those days. Much of the human cost was overlooked or concealed in the time-honoured fashion.

@UpLateGeek Жыл бұрын

Thanks for covering this. I knew that they did tests, but I had no idea of the scale of them, or their disastrous impact on the environment and people. It really shows how little the people in charge of this cared about the risks involved, let alone mitigating any possible negative affects.

@1337flite Жыл бұрын

I'm convinced my Nan, my Grandpa, my Aunty died of cancer probably related to the Maralinga testing. I don't know many people of their age group that died of anything but cancer.

@JOAOPEREIRA-nu5rw Жыл бұрын

Another excellent show. Did not know of these nuclear tests in Australia.

@neilgerace355 Жыл бұрын

Good on you for mentioning the Monte Bello Islands tests, because most reports made in the Eastern States ignore them completely.

@cerealport2726 Жыл бұрын

Mark Oliphant led a very interesting life, and, while, on paper, may have been a British subject (as all Australians were until 1949), he was born and raised in Adelaide, Australia. He was the co-discoverer of Tritium, and Helium 3, plus he did a lot of work on microwave RADAR. Another one of those relatively anonymous but valuable players in the scientific world.

@ajs1998 Жыл бұрын

Awesome video! Thank you so much for covering this. I didn't know Britian tested nukes in Australia. In my school in the US, we had like a half semester to learn about WW2. We talked very little about the nuclear bombs, and not at all about the scientists or the tests. Certainly not about the innocent people that we killed. It sucks that history is written by the winners, and the winners suck too.

@evawilliammusic Жыл бұрын

Thank you for covering this topic!! Something every Australian knows happened but few know the full extent of. Very enlightening

@glenneric1 Жыл бұрын

I need a 2 hour ASMR sleep video by Tibee.

@johnclements6614 Жыл бұрын

As someone from the UK I was aware of this many years ago. It makes me very sad.

@5678efgh3 Жыл бұрын

This was a really good video... I would honestly binge watch historical videos such as these made by you... it was very well done and on a topic I knew very little about... great work!

@codewizard58 Жыл бұрын

My father was in the RAF and we were posted to Australia in 61-64. My dad was a radar engineer and I believe mostly worked on the Woomera test range. I understand he worked on missile and flight radar, so that would have been at the end/ after the times in this video. My memories are that we lived in newly built housing in Elizabeth Downs. Started at the new primary school. Fun to compare our photos with modern google street views.

@tomgidden Жыл бұрын

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@azzajohnson2123 Жыл бұрын

We were taught this in school in 1998 in Tasmania, very little now get taught this sort of thing.

@DarkIltis Жыл бұрын

I actually watch Tibees because her voice calms me down in times of stress.

@charlesyurek5813 Жыл бұрын

Wonderful of you to do this video. And it reminds me of a film shoot in which a major USA star , John Wayne, who was a Mega-star in the US , and most of a film crew, we're exposed to radioactivity when they were filming a movie about Genghis Khan . I think a lot of them came down with cancer. Also , I'm not much for games, and I quit the first episode of that cross New Zealand game video series, but I enjoyed your trailer at the end of this video about that--- video miniseries , so I think I'll give that another try . The rest of it looks more interesting in terms of your trailer. well done