What Happens to Wildlife After Nuclear Disaster

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2 ай бұрын

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@user-yn4xc8kt3i Ай бұрын

My dad was hired to run a bioremediation effort on Johnston atole in the early 2000s. Him and his crew realized the radiation contamination was higher than officially recognized. He died of agressively spreading brain tumors within a year of staying on the atole. He was 39. It was later discovered that the US govt knew the radiation levels were dangerous, but covered it up. RIP dad.

@MistaGSpecialEducation Ай бұрын

this is why you should literally never trust the government, you never know what they don’t show you

@ChappyMonster Ай бұрын

aw man, im really sorry for your loss

@trinomial-nomenclature Ай бұрын

It's awful how people study hard and become so skilled in their field that they're asked to run something of this scale, a highly educated and dedicated person and to have this amazing opportunity to help the oceans. Only for the government to lie/omit crucial information that could kill you in a horrific manner because now, now, we can't have the government look bad 😒. I am so sorry for your loss, such a preventable loss for such a brilliant man.

@Thugshaker_thequaker Ай бұрын

I am so sorry for your loss, that is awful.

@sgh2146 Ай бұрын

i understand not publicly recognizing that the radiation levels were so high but not even internally for the people cleaning up??? they essentialy sent that crew to death it is infuriating

@jasepoag8930 2 ай бұрын

Funny that we in the reef aquarium hobby often struggle to grow coral, but it was growing well in a nuclear wasteland.

@szbnahl 2 ай бұрын

Clearly you need to add more plutonium to the tank.

@hersonissoswolf3699 2 ай бұрын

it's wastesea, not wasteland

@infinitemonkey917 2 ай бұрын

One species is thriving. Many others died off.

@jasepoag8930 2 ай бұрын

@@szbnahl some people do dose strontium. Pretty much the same, right?

@leandersearle5094 2 ай бұрын

Ouch.

@EmuEmuchu 2 ай бұрын

SpongeBob transformed from a sea sponge to cleaning sponge

@dominantasmr578 2 ай бұрын

I like what you did there

@mr.badtouch1482 2 ай бұрын

Actually he transformed from a profilatic sponge to a sea sponge to a cleaning spong

@piyushsahurkar9362 2 ай бұрын

Godzilla transformed from an iguana to an atomic monster

@nathanlevesque7812 2 ай бұрын

@@mr.badtouch1482 =_=

@dammdaniel9953 2 ай бұрын

Monkey transform into 🙎🏿‍♂️

@catfission 2 ай бұрын

A lot of people mistakenly assume that dogs in the Chernobyl exclusion zone suffer from mutations because of teratogenesis from radiation exposure. The real cause of deformities in that population is severe inbreeding. Those little guys have an *exceptionally* shallow gene pool 😅.

@TJ-vh2ps 2 ай бұрын

The wolves that received more radiation may have less cancer because of survivorship bias. Perhaps in the high-radiation group, the wolves that were more susceptible to radiation died, while the ones that survived were more resistant to radiation. In the lower-dose wolves, the ones more susceptible to radiation may have survived, but developed cancer. Just speculating wildly, Joan Calamezzo style!

@abyssstrider2547 Ай бұрын

Yeah that's how natural selection works. And why marine animals have special genetic sequences that allow them to have superior regeneration.

@eaar Ай бұрын

You might be right, but wed have to see the sampling methods. Whether or not or how well they sampled the populations before the disaster would be a big factor to that

@xavier4519 Ай бұрын

@@abyssstrider2547i don't see how it's natural selection when to my knowledge cancer susceptibility is not genetically passed, fe i wouldn't hang on to the fact my grandparents smoked and didn't develop cancer as a sign i wouldn't

@abyssstrider2547 Ай бұрын

@@xavier4519 Uhhhhh, smoking is quite different when compared to radiation.

@Shadowbaneado Ай бұрын

@@abyssstrider2547 Actually, cigarettes contain Polonium and other radioactive isotopes 🤓

@ossiantansley6583 2 ай бұрын

Please dont forget the human cost of the Marshall island nuclear tests. Of the Islanders who were displaced, and those affected by the fallout. Levels of cancer and birth defects were extremely elevated for generations. Rare earth just made a very good video series about these people, highly recommend.

@officialdcshepard Ай бұрын

This is also on Nebula! I am a LIFETIME member because there’s just such a breadth of creators that are so knowledgeable. And to be honest they have contributed to my single favorite best nonfiction library in streaming. Examples include Jet Lag The Game, LegalEagle, RealTimeHistory, Tale Foundry, Wendover…

@DonnaChamberson Ай бұрын

Gross, humans are gay.

@mitsunoseikaku2597 2 ай бұрын

We often underestimate the resiliency of life, I mean we got organisms literally living besides active volcanoes and thrive even more after an eruption (its a type of snail) and then there's the tardegrade that can suvive the vacum of space with radiation and all

@YarPirates-vy7iv 2 ай бұрын

Is that the snail with an iron shell? It's metal af.

@NeuroRadX 2 ай бұрын

Yeah, we humans just lack the insight that we are first, a part of nature, and second, a comparatively fragile one at that. Sure, animal and plant species die out all the time, due to human activities or other factors, but only when we ourselves feel the impact of well... nuclear bombs and accidents, do we start to investigate and question it. If, hopefully, we do no Fallout ourselves in a few decades, climate change will be hard enough on humanity as a whole. Humans do not have the capability to quickly evolve for survival in different conditions over just a few generations. Nature will be here in a few 10000 years, humans very likely won't...

@SavageDragon999 2 ай бұрын

A nuclear apocalypses might not be the end of humanity as depicted in movies tbh. Yes it might wipe out 95% of all humans, but those that actually survive by natural selection will have a highly resiliency towards radiation and cancer and will pass that on to their offsprings. Within 500 years, which, frankly, is a blink of an eye in the grand scheme of things, humanity will emerge even more resilient than before.

@honor9lite1337 2 ай бұрын

Comparing it with an AI apocalypse, then humanity would be extinct. @@SavageDragon999

@thenaiam 2 ай бұрын

Life..uh.. You know the rest.

@blender_wiki 2 ай бұрын

Conclusions : humans are more dangerous than any nuclear fallout

@someoneelse5505 2 ай бұрын

>we are the real monsters :O

@durratulaishah3703 2 ай бұрын

Not surprised honestly

@sheilaolfieway1885 2 ай бұрын

shows that we need to be more conservative when we hunt non-food animals..

@CountCocofang 2 ай бұрын

There is a reason humanity is considered the sixth mass extinction.

@Bahador.B 2 ай бұрын

Nuclear fallout comes from humanity, so your ideology is void.

@aliendribble023 2 ай бұрын

What an amazing, well written, and non-dramatized analysis on the subject. Too many channels would try to look for the most shocking evidence, or the most sensationalist perspective on this discussion, but I really enjoyed how you pointed out the many pros, along with cons that come with such a contentious topic.

@HissoriRenda 2 ай бұрын

Real science baby!

@Poolooloo7 Ай бұрын

This whole channel has that, it’s great.

@notfunny3397 Ай бұрын

A little sad they didn't talk much about the human communities affected by the US nuclear tests. There used to be indigenous people living bear bikini atoll, who had their Islands absolutely covered in radioactive dust. Rare Earth has a series on them.

@vamp97 Ай бұрын

The US has historically never cared about indigenous populations :(

@deno9607 Ай бұрын

Agreed but the subject is more about animals and plants biological reactions to the bombs than a geographical social education.

@peachtree2579 Ай бұрын

@@deno9607 considering the fact that humans are animals and play an active role in the ecosystem, I would say its not irrelevant to the core focus of the video.

@user-ti8xn2is9i Ай бұрын

appreciate it

@Mr.Snekofsnex 5 күн бұрын

@@vamp97...Yeah... Wish we were better about that.

@jamesdietz29 2 ай бұрын

This makes me curious about the insect life in and around these radiation exclusion zones.

@Tribrid-zv3nq 2 ай бұрын

Some organisms would adapt to the radiation in the atmosphere. Just not us

@jamesdietz29 2 ай бұрын

@@Tribrid-zv3nq Of course, but I'd like to actually see some of these "adaptations" and their impact on the insect's ability to thrive and on the environment it's self. Maybe I'll Google it and see what turns up.

@coinisinorbit 2 ай бұрын

funnily enough most of the insects we encounter in fallout new vegas are man made, from the cazadors to the night stalkers all are made from gene splicing their mutated genomes

@yanickpunter324 Ай бұрын

Google for bugs in Chernobyl, you'll see. They are disfigured.

@V77710 Ай бұрын

@@Tribrid-zv3nqperhaps humans are not so adept at rapid evolution..or its karma since we are the ones who caused the mess

@JinKee Ай бұрын

i am sick of them putting radiation into the water that turns the friggin frogs black

@AidanDaGreat Ай бұрын

Do you understand that?

@MilesPlayzGaming Ай бұрын

Dude your racist

@eggyx2734 Ай бұрын

dang it...i read that in uncle jones voice kek

@BMarie774 Ай бұрын

Black and gay. 😂

@AlexWalford-jm3mg Ай бұрын

I agree, I want green frogs

@jakepockets4977 2 ай бұрын

Lmfao, haven't gotten through the rest of the video... Just gotta point out a potentially accidental pun. "After the dust settles" was such an apt thing to say when considering the Elephant's Foot dust is some of the most dangerous radioactive whoopsiedoodles we've ever created as human beings. Breathe a couple of those dust particles in and you're gonna have a bad time.

@Flt.Hawkeye 2 ай бұрын

Breathe in enoght and your Bad time ends faster

@1st1anarkissed Ай бұрын

"Aggressively selecting for" can also be understood as "all the other variants died of cancer."

@thegunslinger1363 2 ай бұрын

Look up Stanislav Petrov and Vasily Arkhipov. Those men saved humanity.

@yamahamotocrosskid 2 ай бұрын

Just did, holy crap I wonder how many other times the world has come so close to an end

@mattheide2775 2 ай бұрын

I had forgotten these brave men. Thank you.

@deletdis6173 Ай бұрын

@yamahamotocrosskid The Cuban Missile Crisis A meteor almost hit Earth in the 1800s and it was caught on camera. Among other events.

@indigofenix00 Ай бұрын

In the case of the wolves, maybe they had a similar instance of rapid selection as the frogs, where only the wolves with the most cancer-resistant genes survived in the early years. Now the radiation levels are lower, but they still retain the genes inherited from those survivors, making them more resistant to cancer than normal wolves.

@cooltubes547 2 ай бұрын

“So let us now take our vengeance on this murderous ocean” -people who detonated castle bravo probably

@EmuQuest Ай бұрын

I have become death destroyer of aquatic life

@zachb9026 Ай бұрын

Correction at 15:30 - 100 mGy is the absolute minimum level at which we can see cancer caused by radiation in humans. And even at that level, it increase your risk of cancer by about 1 in 1000 over the course of your life. So instead of having a 40% chance of cancer induction during your life, you'll have a 40.1% chance of cancer induction. So the statement that "Its generally established that exposure of over 100 mGy of radiation in human will cause cancer" is misleading at best. It generally takes a lot more radiation than that to cause cancer on average.

@markedis5902 2 ай бұрын

The world will recover, humans not so much. Nature finds a way.

@LayllasLocker 2 ай бұрын

Humans are also part of the nature. They would recover as well.

@leonfrancis3418 Ай бұрын

@@LayllasLockerYou're missing the point. Our existence is simply our existence. It doesn't make the world go round. If we all dropped děad tomorrow, life would go on, and likely be better in the planet for it.

@deletdis6173 Ай бұрын

Human bad

@leonfrancis3418 Ай бұрын

@@deletdis6173 They can be. It's a choice.

@JVlk-tw6fs Ай бұрын

@@LayllasLocker Nope. Look at 6 mass extinctions. Up to 96% of species die out to create a new "explosion", and repeat the cycle. Also, the 1st mass extinction happened because some organisms polluted everything around. The've killed themselves

@patrickblanchette4337 2 ай бұрын

8:49 This bit sums up Moira’s observations in Fallout 3 perfectly!😊

@manifoldcypher760 2 ай бұрын

Good thing she had the lone wanderer to use as a Guinea pig. Sorry, I meant study.

@BPBomber 2 ай бұрын

Wolves naturally selecting for immunity to radiation mutations. Cool.

@drakob 2 ай бұрын

I'm actually marshallese this just hit me in the feels

@vamp97 Ай бұрын

I’m not American yet I still feel compelled to apologise for what they did to your ancestors. It’s awful.

@RobertHenderson.poopiebear 2 ай бұрын

So glad you followed your creative fire and, created nebula! I'm DEFINITELY going to subscribe! I love your work and wish you nothing but continued success.

@joesaiditstrue 2 ай бұрын

it's like you know exactly what content I wanna watch

@Dellvmnyam 2 ай бұрын

1:12 that sign says "Caution, mines" and has nothing to do with the radioactive pollution but rather with ongoing russian invasion in Ukraine

@MrKZee 2 ай бұрын

+1 also, I couldn't find a sign with text - only symbol, But for anyone who is interested, it should say "Обережно радіоактивність"

@MrKZee 2 ай бұрын

And a side fact that Chernobyl actually was a military zone before the war so in theory there could have been some mines, and the modern sign for mines is actually red square, because it's often installed in "green" places, and the black sign will not be visible. So in theory it could be in Chernobyl, also there are a lot of shots from Chernobyl, So my theory is someone made this photo in Chernobyl and the person who picked it doesn't know Ukrainian language to understand that it's unrelated.

@MrKZee 2 ай бұрын

Checked it again.. I think you are 100% right: the sign is made by using spray paint and stencil - not a soviet era thing and was done because supplying mines sign is not very important. In my defence, before the invasion i've seen a lot of red signs "HALT! MINES!".

@slawasaporogez6581 Ай бұрын

@@MrKZee You are correct. We did warning signs about radiation, but in current circumstances you will be more likely to find warning signs about mines from Chornobyl. It was an occupied area in 2022 after all.

@ob_dowboosh Ай бұрын

1:13 is a war remnant because it says "CAUTION MINES" in Ukrainian. 🇷🇺 soldiers were in the Chornobyl Zone. Some of them were told to dig in the "Red forest" area.

@Randomlyme 2 ай бұрын

life always finds a way

@joystickgames-fb6zh Ай бұрын

16:19 what might`ve happened was that the constant exposure to radiation made a selective pressure, and selected out the wolves that had more effective protective measures against tumor growth, which would allow them to live a little longer in highly irradiated areas. And those genes that protected against tumor growth were passed on.

@alexandrdanko2619 2 ай бұрын

Chornobyl Red Forest is not around exploded plant, it’s just small line (stripe) on north-west from plant, where wind brought huge part of radioactive particles

@LuckyWolfUnleashed Ай бұрын

8:34 Subnautica beat brought me back, and that huge coral.

@gekkiebekkie1000 2 ай бұрын

This was very interesting to other videos previously! I really would like to see more videos on the effect of human behavriour and how nature deal with it. Very good video and so different from the rest so far.

@kortjurgensmeyer5120 2 ай бұрын

15:08 that wolf in the back looks a little special

@whiskeycan529 Ай бұрын

Moon moon!

@theprecipiceofreason Ай бұрын

I'm glad that animals can somewhat withstand our contaminants. I'm sad that the conclusion appears that we are destined to destroy ourselves, in particular.

@LesEllen 2 ай бұрын

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched... but are felt in the heart.

@ruththinkingoutside.707 Ай бұрын

Okay.. @19:31 you sold me on the paleo archeology.. It’s my FAVORITE history phase to binge in any way.. So.. Now I’ll have to see about nebula.. even though I still don’t have a functioning television or computer 😂..

@MrRaposaum Ай бұрын

I got a question. Does radioactivity poisoning, assuming it doesn't kill or debilitate the animal too much, affect their perceived behavior in a critical way? Such as... would those animals be more likely to be aggressive under these effects? For example, we know that some mammal predators, such as wolves or bears, would only attack humans (unprovoked) in specific situations. Would the effects of radioactive poisoning on their brain affect that?

@petrab.7780 Ай бұрын

What you're talking about sounds more like lead poisoning than radioactivity. As far as I'm aware cognitive changes are not a significantly observed effect of radiation exposure, in animals or otherwise.

@kingdrew8888 2 ай бұрын

I believe another thing to consider is the general lifespan of whatever creature is being studied. Some cancers take a while to propagate, and to show their true colors

@MrApplebite100 Ай бұрын

Love your channel ❤

@paddor 2 ай бұрын

Great timing.

@b12- Ай бұрын

you just got one new sub

@EmilyJelassi 2 ай бұрын

Fascinating video!! 😮😊❤ I completely agree.. the streaming giants are incredibly frustrating and annoying! I love your videos. I truly wish I could afford to support you on Nebula... but I always watch your videos here on KZfaq 😊❤

@user-ro7bh4zu8w 19 күн бұрын

Great video.. you earned a new subscriber

@michaelpalmer3438 Ай бұрын

Didn't expect a 5 minute ad at the end.

@rickshawwheelchair Ай бұрын

I have Nebula again. Sad that your co-workers never get any air time until now for 2 seconds😅 Anyway, keep up the good work and I've watched all your Nebula videos, can't wait for more! I studied geology at the University of Kansas but didn't graduate, though it gives me a strong background. I like how you only spend one minute with the basics i already know and then the last 95% is new fun facts i never heard of!

@nghiado9895 Ай бұрын

Well done and well said at 17:25, "... garbage that network TV fed us for decades".

@apexqc04 2 ай бұрын

For the coral reefs could it be that some forms of coral arrive and settle first while others still need time to arrive and recover, like the way flesh flies arrive at a cadaver in a specific sequence, and it's just that we are observing these reefs part way through the process?

@inumber6 2 ай бұрын

What app or software it's used to create animations like that at 9:49 ?

@Floridan-Hawaiian Ай бұрын

The frog getting the pass

@gamingwizard1609 2 ай бұрын

Nuclear fallouts pretty scary huh

@itzhexen0 2 ай бұрын

Not really.

@villager736 2 ай бұрын

@@itzhexen0 I mean if it's bad enough, then yeah..

@mike_nolan 2 ай бұрын

Eh...

@RobertHenderson.poopiebear 2 ай бұрын

Definitely F**KING SCARY! What's REALLY SCARY though is that for four years DONALD GUMP had control and, could have ordered a test and/or an attack.... At almost ANY time! Unbelievable!

@manifoldcypher760 2 ай бұрын

Ask the people exposed to fallout.

@AryanKumar-ng7py 2 ай бұрын

I love your voice and content. ❤

@chrixmarx 2 ай бұрын

the test on bikini atoll got humans too. they all die because of nuclear fallout. lets not forget then.

@ray4237 2 ай бұрын

I love these videos

@AlvaCoffey 2 ай бұрын

How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.

@donjoey22 2 ай бұрын

great video

@FutureAIDev2015 2 ай бұрын

3:51 that number is off by three orders of magnitude by the way

@gibdopaminepls 2 ай бұрын

Just a heads up Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not, in fact, the only bombs dropped on humans. (I'm on 4:30 so if you mention this in the video later, my bad) While unintentional, the Castle Bravo bomb did affect a lot of pacific islanders, due to it being bigger than expected, which were then effectively quarantined and treated as lab rats by the US to study radiation. One scientist remarked "They're more like us than the mice" when asked about it, which paints the picture of how they saw these pacific islanders. If you're interested, a few days back Evan from Rare Earth made a great video of the people of Rongelap Atoll, which were the most affected: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eLyco6dp153LnKM.html

@AlexCFaulkner 2 ай бұрын

How is the frog example quick evolution? Wouldn't that just be rapid natural selection?

@John_Smith_86 2 ай бұрын

I mean, it is true, isn't it? The islanders are more similar to Americans than mice are

@elpito9326 2 ай бұрын

@@John_Smith_86 at the time, they were part of the US (or US-controlled territory). So, politically, they were Americans

@John_Smith_86 2 ай бұрын

@@elpito9326 Right. Politically

@elpito9326 2 ай бұрын

@@John_Smith_86 what are you trying to say?

@aldenconsolver3428 2 ай бұрын

At 16:15 you discuss a gene appearing in a larger number in the wolf population. Is this the P53 tumor suppressor protein gene? Human beings carry one of these genes (elephants carry 20) and its failure is usually associated with tumors. Where could I look into this?

@baldrian22 6 күн бұрын

archaeology is realy intesting, including experimental archaeology that you tried out. i finished my bachelor degree in archaeology half a year ago

@flyingark173 Ай бұрын

Have you ever done a video about cat eyes? I noticed that they seem to have a less responsive pupil and uses vertical "lids" to restrict the light, which makes sense. However, I've noticed that when my 8 month old kitten is in my brightly lit bedroom, he will stare are me with little veritcal slits, but if I entice him to attack my hand playfully, it seems that as soon as he decides to attack these lids open up and his eyes are almost completely black with just a sliver of green around them. I wonder why, and does a cats vision change from normal mode to hunt mode? What is the biology behind that?

@book-obsessedweirdo8677 10 күн бұрын

They actually have surprisingly bad close vision, so its them trying to gather as much information as they can before they pounce (becayse they cant see after the prey gets too close to their face). Its a little more complicated, but that's basically it.

@bruhmoment-yt2zp 4 күн бұрын

The 2 bombs dropped on Japan were not the only ones ever dropped on humans. Australia straight up tested nukes right over where native aboriginals lived with zero regard for their safety and the US exposed their troops to nukes (from a distance) where radiation was so high 1 man recounted seeing the bones in his hands with his eyelids shut from the x rays and almost all of them died of cancer.

@calebbrown6735 Ай бұрын

The black sturgeon found on deadliest catch was crazy.

@Nawenn Ай бұрын

Actually, castle Bravo was not the first fusion warhead tested, that title would go to Ivy Mike.

@kenyarborough812 Ай бұрын

In the introduction, you show a radiation sign in front of some antennas. That's actually not radioactive. It's the Duga array, a radar. The sign is warning the radio wave (not radiation) is dangerous.

@cozmicfreak Ай бұрын

Unrelated but what is the song playing faintly in the beginning?

@Morbidt123 Ай бұрын

Hey! :D What's the music piece that starts playing at 13:40 ? I really like it:)

@B1rakul0us1yflare14 2 ай бұрын

One of the most if not the highest in ranking of human's *dangerous/nature threatening* creations 😥

@critiqueofthegothgf Ай бұрын

this is the best episode on this channel. fucking incredibly informative

@fezduck8659 29 күн бұрын

please someone whats the song in the opening 😭😭😭

@VATIISTA Ай бұрын

Anyone know the song at the start of the video? It sounds soooo familiar

@rafaelcruzs2 18 күн бұрын

That’s one of the most amazing aspects of life. Given enough time and a gradient, it’ll find a way to harvest energy on the other extreme of the gradient, even if it’s ionizing radiation

@Strype13 2 ай бұрын

[1:53] There's an extremely tiny bug crawling around in very close proximity to that frog's eyeball and I hate everything about it.

@gildedbear5355 2 ай бұрын

Not too lessen the impact, or danger, of fallout but just because I've been playing Fallout and because I use levity to deal with stress: Crawl out through the fallout baby!

@jon782 Ай бұрын

castle bravo was not launched, nor dropped, it was detonated on the beach because it was the size of a dump truck. I believe it in part consisted of a tank of a isotope of lithium I think it was lithium 7.

@artawhirler 2 ай бұрын

Excellent video as always! Thanks!

@Dust2709 Ай бұрын

6:00 Water is really good at blocking radiation, so if the water or ground under the corals isn't conterminated and the corals are deep enough, nothing really happends

@TheFerdi265 Ай бұрын

The fact about the rapid evolution of the frogs around Chernobyl is really interesting!

@emom358 2 ай бұрын

Kyle Hill has an excellent video series about Chernobyl and radiation.

@MaxDiscere 2 ай бұрын

Your reference R14 doesn't point to a wolf related study, but something from Sudan. Please correct that I wanna read into it

@RenoReborn 2 ай бұрын

The fallout from nuclear bombs is relatively short lived and disperses pretty quickly, life would recover insanely quickly like nothing happened within a few decades. Nuclear fallout from reactor meltdowns however, that's a much different story.

@4124V4TA-SNPCA-x Ай бұрын

Carpet bombing being not literal but figurative as carpet bombing a whole country by destroying all major cities and military installations.

@theman8209 Ай бұрын

the chemicals in the water are turning the frogs black

@tenntye6064 Ай бұрын

Are you a scientist?

@milkyproduxions Ай бұрын

damn, gay and black?!

@Cornish_Co 2 ай бұрын

3:39 "Surface seawater temperatures reached 55,000°C." How is this possible?

@raybod1775 2 ай бұрын

Blast wave pressure

@Cornish_Co 2 ай бұрын

@@raybod1775 Makes sense. Thanks

@RichardWilliams2015 2 ай бұрын

At the time scientists had no idea about the amplification effect of lithium-oxide metals used in the CASTLE BRAVO shots casing. It basically under goes a process where itself turns into fissile material that adds to the yield by releasing what I like to call an "assload of nuetrons". Modern nuclear weapons are said to have blast temperatures that momentarily rival the core of the sun in temperature.

@Flt.Hawkeye 2 ай бұрын

@RichardWilliams2015 they get much hotter a thing many people seem to overestimate is our sun temperature. The Fusion in the sun happens due to the sheer pressure of gravity and a smaller amount of heat. Sure the sun is hot. But we can easily Beat this temperature by Factors of 10.

@RichardWilliams2015 2 ай бұрын

@@Flt.Hawkeye exactly! The hottest temperatures so far have been generated by CERN smacking sub atomic particles together like in the trillions of billions degrees C

@brians9182 2 ай бұрын

There's a nuclear reactor near-by my home town, maybe an hours drive. There's rumors of crickets that bite and other things.

@AcidicBanana_YT Ай бұрын

that was the smoothest sponsor script ive ever heard of 😭

@RichardIresonMusician 2 ай бұрын

Not sure, but wasn't Ivy Mike the first thermonuclear bomb? Castle Bravo was the largest the US detonated I believe.

@louischarley6775 2 ай бұрын

You said the blast waves travel at 8m/s, why isn't it 300 I e. Speed of sound?

@erikadlloyd5586 2 ай бұрын

Those wolf pups are so adorable 🥰

@pryncecharming2133 2 ай бұрын

Radiation proof wolves. So cool.

@AvalanchCXVII Ай бұрын

3:02 Ivy Mike was the first fusion device.

@Frosty_tha_Snowman 4 күн бұрын

So... we had a pond in our back yard when I was a kid, and there was a jet black bullfrog in it one day, and every day for the next 2 weeks, I went out and tried to catch this bullfrog because it was so cool - in my mind, it was like a shiny Pokémon. I never did catch it, but I have always wondered why in the world it was *so* black. Now I'm concerned, because we had 2 neighbors recently get diagnosed with skin cancer, and my dad and I are having skin issues - some similar, some not. One of the similarities is an abundance of new moles showing up. I should probably buy a geiger meter.

@uccaroo9468 Ай бұрын

03:45 i do believe water can only get up to 100°C before it becomes it's gas format known as steam

@Champdrad Ай бұрын

Just one small correction, coconut crabs do not exclusively eat coconuts. They will eat just about anything including other animals. They often are found eating birds. There is also a video out there of them polishing off an entire pig carcass in less than a week!