My grandfather, George Yoshitake, was the cameraman for that test. He did grab a baseball cap since it was better than nothing. He was not allowed to be on the film because he was a Japanese American and people were still a bit apprehensive about Japanese working close to nukes. Thank you for covering this story!
Name checks out - Thank you for your Comment - TFE! Give this man some Love. If you have any more stories from your Grandad - we, in the comment section, would love to hear them.
Funnily enough, the manhole cover had not just enough energy to leave earth's orbit it had enough energy to leave the solar system. So potentially, the first man made extra solar object is the nuclear equivalent of a potato cannon.
@@i_basl - >Aliens pick up object hurtling through solar system >"What was that?" >"Metallic object... Origin... unknown. Trajectory suggests it.. Oh. It came from the third planet." >"Did they shoot at us?" >"If so, it's the wierdest kinetic weapon I've seen. Also lot's of radiation from it." >".... Those dumbasses. That's why Earth is a zoo."
It would also be well past Voyager if I remember correctly. The biggest problem is aero thermals. If the blast dimpled the plate, it would self stabalize and survive, if it stayed flat, it would spin like a coin and burn up
My head canon is that during America's nuclear testing, there was a cloaked alien ship up there watching the hot new reality show "Monkeys with Nukes". Then they got smacked with that flying man hole cover, putting the mother of all dents in their nose cone. So they got pissed and went home. And that's why aliens refuse to answer our calls.
My dad worked on air to air missiles for raytheon (as a radar engineer) and their running joke when the radar was being a pain "Screw it w are going back to the Genie - radar:none, manuevering:none, probability of kill:5" "Doesnt probability go from 0 to 1?" "not with the Genie it doesn't"
He said his Dad worked there as an engineer, not that he owned the company. I'm sure the job had good pay and benefits but engineer does not usually equate to "rich AF"
And every time I hear someone call for Universal Healthcare, I just look at how the VA runs and operates, and shake my head. Like "No thanks, I can already see how bad government run healthcare works."
In the early 2000's I met an elderly man at my local dog park. Over time I learned he was in the army in Nevada for one of the nuclear tests where, as he described it, "We hid in trenches as the bomb went off then they marched us forward until the desert turned to glass." Bad enough? After that he was sent to Bikini Island where he got to watch 24 more go off. They'd camp on the atoll at night then board ships during the day when a bomb would be tested. When I met him he had the very rare privilege of getting extremely detailed care from the VA. The reason being they were trying to figure out why in the hell he was cancer free fifty years later.
@@driftr42vods15 I would bet that Genetics has a lot to do with these kinds of situations. The 90 year old that has been smoking 2 packs of cigarettes a day since they were 12 years old. Or the person who has been an alcoholic for 60+ years with zero signs of liver damage.
@@PH_INFO_101yeah I used to know a guy that chain smoked, looked to be in his 50's and was a B-17 pilot as well as a POW in Germany. Made it to his 90's.
I'm going with my theory, that manhole cover rocketed into space and blasted out of the galaxy, taking out an alien battle cruiser and starting a war we don't even know about, yet.
Did u remote view this?? The psychics say this is exactly how it happened. This is amazing. It ruined the game of dominoes. The leaders were mad they spilled the sizzurp. Foreverwar!
@@tylerlundry1906 Theres a meme that Kyle Hill posted a month ago or so that just reads: "Some advanced alien race 2049 lightyears away watching helplessly as a 2000lb manhole cover enters their atmosphere at mach fuck"
Ah yes, the time-honored military tradition of 'volunteering': "I need five volunteers!" "What for, Sarge?" "Good question, Private! Because I need _four_ more volunteers!"
15:50 For anyone who wasn't paying attention to the video and doesn't want to hunt for it. Also for anyone wanting to watch it repetedly... Absolutly great
Nic: "The government had five volunteers stand directly under a nuclear explosion." Me: "At least they had the decency to pick officers..." Nic: "And then they exposed eighteen thousand soldiers to multiple nuclear explosions." Me: "Son of a...!"
My grandfather worked for an oil drilling company after his stint in the Marines, and he drilled some of those holes. He and his buds were told it was for "water wells" and when the company he worked for asked what depth the water was at they were told "don't worry about it".
The fact that has been overlooked here is that, Earths atmosphere gets thinner as you gain altitude so. . . If the “manhole cover “ survived the nuclear blast, it was traveling more than 6 times escape velocity and it would be gaining speed as it passed through the thinning atmosphere. The manhole cover Absolutely made it to outer space and in theory would still be traveling unless it collided with something on its journey. You do a fantastic job Nick , thank you
It wouldn't be "gaining speed," it would be decelerating at a progressively lesser rate (both to reducing air resistance as air is thinner at higher altitudes and reduced gravitational pull as you get further from Earth's center of mass). The more likely scenarios are it melting from heat from said air resistance, or (IMO the most likely) since the shape wasn't aerodynamically stable it would have started tumbling and at that speed the centrifugal forces would have been MASSIVE and it would have torn apart quite violently.
My dad was one of those 18,000 soldiers in that test. I can't remember the year, but it was around 2010 or so he developed colon cancer and went to the VA to get checked out and that was when they found it. He was filling out paperwork for it and they found out he was one of the "Atomic Survivors" and he ended up getting the money, plus 100% VA benefits back paid from 1957 at sergeant's pay. He was treated and was in remission for 6 years before a brain tumor took him from us. I'm about to turn 70 and still remember him talking about it many years ago. He was enlisted at the time but went to OCS and became an officer and sent to artillery. He was one of the first commanders for the Atomic Annie's. Pretty cool until he told me it was so early in the program that they hadn't even received any of the guns yet.
Sorry for your loss. I know what you've gone thru. My father wasn't a part of this operation mentioned in the video. But was at Bikini Atoll. He passed away of pancreatic cancer at the age of 63 in 1994. In fact this is the first time I've got to read or hear anything about another family dealing with a similar experience. Thanks for posting. Nice to know my family isn't the only member of a exclusive club you've never want to join.
Yes that sounds about right the government did some horrible shit trying to figure out what the maximum radiation does is per year before it causes cancer
"Even friction was like... what the fuck was that?" I don't laugh this much when I listen to comedians, plus you get history thrown in. Truly one of the best youtubers out there.
@@TLowGrrreen This makes me curious as to how much damage such an object with that much kinetic energy could actually do. Like, if the Moon just _happened_ to be directly overhead at that moment, how big would the crater be?
@@Genny207 We're talking a flat disk, at best, a couple feet thick... Atmosphere or not... This small piece of metal was thrown into space in less than a second... It wasn't holding together for very long...
As a Scientific/Engineering Photographer, I've met Mr. Yoshitake a few of times before his passing . He was a funny and humble guy. He talked a bit of the atomic tests, it was just another assignment to him.
I heard my grandpa talk about witnessing a nuclear bomb explosion when he was in service (1957), and never thought anything of it. I was asking him this evening about it, and he told us all about it, from the earth shaking shockwave and the radiation badges they wore to make sure they were not severely exposed. He is in great health at 88, so proud and thankful for my grandpa. God bless!
When we were flying back to my grandparents home in Michigan from California we saw a nuke set off in the late 50’s. The pilot said keep the drapes closed on the right side of the plane and I of course had my face plastered to the window. It was amazing, something you never forget. Didn’t affect my eyesight as I’m 72 and still don’t wear glasses.
I knew the man responsible for the timing for the bomb shot from Atomic Annie. The idea was to have an air burst halfway across the flats. This character was so convinced that his timer would work that he observed it from a volcanic ridge or 'hogback' where the shell would land if the timing was off. The timer worked, so he could tell me about it. Ralph was well known for such stunts.
The atomic manhole cover wasn't only the first man made object to reach space. It was also the fastest manmade object ever. It's also still moving at roughly the same speed, so it's also setting speed endurance records on a constant ongoing basis. And it's also travelled further than any man made object, so it holds and continues to set long distance records as well. We, as a nation and a species, really outdid ourselves with that one.
@@Sonick92 space isn't an absolute void, it has straggling gas atoms which still create drag. The faster you go the more drag is created. So that manhole cover's speed would be more of a reverse exponential decline, the test was also done during the day, meaning the cover would be either slingshot by the suns gravity or just go into orbit around the sun and eventually be devoured. So there are two possibilities, the manhole cover got sucked into the sun, or it got slingshot by the sun causing it to rapidly accelerate even faster, which would make it cover even more distance. TL;DR Manhole cover either farther than expected or inside of sun
Depends on the time of day it was done. Early or late daytime means roughly 90 degrees to the sun. Since they were in the desert, in August, I would suspect that they did it at the cooler times. Even at noon though nevada is not directed perfectly at the sun. Would still be like 17 degrees off. Would have sling shot around sun, but I know minimal amounts about orbital mathematics to determine where it would end up. That is IF it made it to space. Steel is strong and malleable, but shells can penetrate it. 2000lbs is not really that much steel. 4ft diameter manhole would only be 4" thick. Whatever came out of that hole could have melted that manhole cover or disintegrated it.
@@vladyvhv9579 "We don't make sense, we make dollars." congratulations, you just summarized the entire US (for better or for worse) in a single sentence
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." now onto the next test, is it cheaper to use a nuclear cannon to send something to orbit and pay for the shielding or is it cheaper to use a rocket to send something to orbit and pay for the fuel? Only one way to find out, and calculators are for nerds
"Dammit, Jim, I'm a doctor! Ask Spock about that manhole cover!" "Perhaps this would more logically be Mr. Scott's bailywick, being essentially an engineering problem?" "Well, Captain, I gave it to the Klingons. Beamed it into their engineering section where it'll be no tribble at all . . ."
@@corryburton9834I mean they were Russian still, they'll put up with a lot so long as they have Vodka, so it was the one thing the USSR didn't really touch.
I have heard stories people would have "watch parties" in those small towns around the testing. As you said kids would be outside playing and every day life would be going down after each test.
My dad had a Team Sergeant in the Marines (59-61) that was part of the testing his name was SGT Chuck Hephner. He lost all his hair by 61 and his only child was adopted due to him not being able to have children. I met Chuck when I was 14 and he talked about how they were given welding googles and how they had to kneel in the trench and he could see the bones in his arms perfectly. Sadly he passed in 2015.
It is highly unlikely to be able to "see the bones" in your arms, that's not how radiation works. X-ray images are made by the X-rays passing through non-dense matter easily (skin, muscle) and being blocked by dense matter (bones) and the "shadows" of those rays causing the image on special photographic film. Wihout the film, there is no image; you can't see the X-rays nor does their passing through objects make said objects translucent to your eyes (which only detect rays in the visible light spectrum).
I love your videos. I showed my Dad, and now we watch them all together. We are both former Navy. I was an Electrician on a Submarine, and he was a Corpsman. I got him one of your "Un-Healthcare" shirts and hats and he loves them. We were both wondering if you would do a "Don't mess with America's boats" themed shirt or hat. I would buy those in a heartbeat.
If you do the math, the manhole cover was traveling at 41.6 mi/s…. Considering it’s approximately 62 miles to get to what’s commonly considered outer space, that means that thing was in space in approximately 1.49 seconds… It should realistically reach Pluto in 879.1 days… or 2.4 years
The Ground Zero 5 didn't get sick because they were not exposed to the fallout because the fallout from a 2kt weapon detonated at 18,000 feet would be a very small amount. The radius of the fireball only be about 145 feet. In an air burst at that altitude, the only fallout would be from the rocket itself, the casing, the motor, the electronics, and the aluminum skin, most of the components would have been vaporized in the detonation. Any fallout generated would have been dispersed very quickly by the wind at 18,000 feet.
Fun fact, recently declassified docs show that after every nuclear test Kodak XRay film 2,500 miles away would be contaminated a few days later by the fallout. They requested that the gov't tell them the date of the tests so they could halt production until after the fallout passed.
I have a black and white picture of my great uncle, standing next to his car, on a desert highway, with mushroom cloud in the background. Must have been upwind because he made it well into his 90s.
My grandfather was one of the head Army Officers for Project Mercury. There are tons of funny things, and scary nightmare fuel that is not public knowledge. As a result, some of the general knowledge is inaccurate. As for the manhole, IF it didn't turn to plasma or disintegrate, actual calculations were for more than two and half the lowest possible speed by photo evidence. The estimated speed was around 375,000 mph! That is roughly 100+ miles per second! The picture has never been released. And yes, weapons possibilities were explored as a result.
I wonder if he will ever cover Donnie Dunagan. Became a Marine at 18, promoted 13 times in 21 years which is a Marine Corps record, youngest Marine Drill Sergeant in history, 3 tours of Vietnam, 3 Purple Hearts, and the original voice of Bambi, and he told nobody, not his wife, not his Marine buddies, nobody, for 50 years
It's hilarious that the parks and rec writers tried to make Ron Swanson a crazy caricature but kept making him one of the most relatable character to the typical American.
Common with many leftist writers. Alan moore in many of his work there is a standin consertive charector thaat is suposed to be unstable and hated by the reader. Nearly every time that charector is the most resonable and/or relatable to the readers.
Quick napkin math: 1 AU is about 98 million miles. Pluto, at most distant, is 49.3 AU from the Earth. 150,000 mph in 24 hours is around 3.6 million miles per day. 365 days (rounded) times 3.6 million is 1.314 billion miles a year, or 13.4 AU per year. This event (rounded to nearest 5) was around 65 years ago. Assuming it had no change in velocity and was not taken by an orbit or destroyed by something else, that thing reached Pluto's distant point around 3 years and is still going. Since the Oort Cloud is around 2000 AU from the Earth at closest, it is still in the solar system, but holy crap has it gone far!
@@Hoop27 🤣🤣🤣 OK, you win the comments section today. Thinking back to the chaos a normal frisbee can make at the neighbour's place I'd be a little concerned about how much shit we'd be in with these neighbours.
@DarryDoo Not at 150,000 mph. Earth's escape velocity is only around 25,000 mph. It was launched at least six times escape velocity, so at least mach 198-ish. It was in low-earth orbit (1,200 miles) in less than a minute at that speed. Keep in mind that 150,000 mph was also the top end of what they could measure, so it was faster than that. And thanks for the compliment, I appreciate it.
If the manhole cover was traveling 190,000 mph, it only takes 17,000 mph to stay in low earth orbit (300miles). I bet the thing passed the moon and kept going. It might come back in a few hundred years.
At 190,000 mph it would reach and pass the moon in about an hour. At mach 195 its about 2 hours. Which is still crazy af. That's probably leaving the solar system. Or at least it's not going to be back in our neighborhood for a damn long time.
Oh no. It's never coming back. The escape velocity of the earth is just under 25,000 mph. That thing was doing seven times what it takes to escape the earth's gravitational pull and go hurtling off into interstellar space. To my mind the only question is if it did this as a single mostly-intact object or as an expanding cloud of molten droplets. The cloud is more likely- but if it was mostly one chunk then Voyager 1 is not in fact the most distant man-made object from earth.
as for the manhole cover, you cant outrun friction, its the exact opposite. either that manhole cover split into a million pieces almost exactly the time it was launched (that proceeded to burn up) or it burned up as a single piece. there is also a possibility that it exploded.
When I was a kid, I rented a 1950s US Military video from the library. And it was shocking and almost funny how *not* concerned they sounded about radiation. They just called it a side effect/by-product but didn't say anything about the danger of it.
If my math is correct that man hole cover moving at 150k miles per hour would have made it the 64 miles into space in 2 seconds, or around the earth 6.02 times in 1 hour.
Standard holes were 8 foot diameter 1/4 mile deep and back-filled with sand, gravel, magnetite, and reinforced concrete. A 1/4 mile from the hole anything living would be jellified. One guy went to sleep in a data-taking skid on shock mounts. No one noticed and he never woke up.
The story goes that during one of the pig tests, they had dug concentric trenches around the tower holding the bomb. They put the pigs in the various trenches and waited, and waited, and waited. The test was postponed for 24 hours do to weather or technical issues. So the guys out there hadn't brought any food for an additional 24 hours, what to do? Oink, oink. The decision was made to do a pig roast. Someone got pretty upset with this and started talking about "theft of government property." Not sure how it turned out.
A missile is just something propelled by a force. It is a term much older than the modern guided systems. It was also used to describe sling throwers, javelins, spears, even arrows can be called a missile.
Other fun fact: that may be one of only 2 audio recording of a nuke detonating. Most nuke sounds in the old reels are sound effects. In reality, they sound like sharp cracks like from a cannon. A really, REALLY big cannon.
Escape velocity of Earth is just over 25,000mph. The manhole cover had 6x the escape velocity of Earth. Voyager I is traveling outside the solar system at 38,000mph. So, assuming a loss of ⅓ of it's velocity by the time it reached space, at 100,000mph, it's still traveling in one direction, at least 2.5x faster than Voyager. If it wasn't intercepted by some other space debris, or the gravitational pull of another planet or moon, that manhole cover has traversed at least 2.5x the distance of the Voyager I probe, which is currently in the Ophiucus constellation, approximately 15 Billion miles from Earth. That means a manhole cover could be around 36 to 38 Billion miles away, IF Voyager and the manhole were launched on the same day (which would take 50 hours to travel at the speed of light). The manhole has a head start though, being launched 20 years BEFORE Voyager, giving it a roughly 730,000,000 mile head start. That puts the first man-made object in space approximately 38 - 39 Billion miles away, or about 1/1000th the distance from one end of the Milky Way Galaxy to the other...or 59 hours at the speed of light. That's insanely hilarious
My grandpa was a marine and in one of those desert tests in the late 50's. He was apart of the first Laser guided missile defense program, and the brass sent his unit to one of the tests because, and I quote, "They wanted us to see what we were preventing."
I did the math. If that manhole cover kept a speed of 100,000 m/hr, as of July 30, 2024 it would have travelled 57,816,000,000 miles, 621.9 astronomical units(sun to earth distance), which is 19 TIMES THE ORBIT OF PLUTO thanks for coming to my TED talk.
I knew a post-WWII veteran who was in the Navy. He said the crew was lined up behind shielding exposing certain parts of the body, and covering others. They were then exposed to a nuclear detonation. He said the military contacted him every 2 years afterward to check on his health. The portion of his body that was exposed was from the knees down. He said at on point a black spot kept appearing on his ankle, but was removed by his VA doctor. This spot reappeared for several years, but eventually stayed gone after the last removal.
At my old high school, they were doing a dry ice experiment in the room downstairs. You know the one, dry ice, plastic bag, big bang, very entertaining. One didn't go off, so they put the bag in one of those metal rubbish cans and put a chopping board over the top of it. The resultant bang ten minutes later left a chopping board sized impact crater in the roof, while the class was taught the lesson of explosion has to go somewhere, and you just made a cannon. The manhole cover is this taken to it's logical extreme. Either the Earth was gonna move, or the cover was, and one of these weighs a lot more. :P
Bought a Henson razor just because of your endorsement, haven't received it yet but to paraphrase "We're not out to make the best razor company, we're out to make the best razor " is something every Capitalist company should strive for, looking forward to it.
Got one a few months ago, simple design and works. First razor that I’ve used in this style, and way better than the multi blade stuff, at least for me.
In 1958 the March of Dimes (originally a charity to fight polio) changed its mission to also fight birth defects. I was born in '57, with missing muscles and twisted joints.
Fun fact- since, by default, they always have the "starting" frame they always have at least 1 frame with the manhole cover in it. The one from just before/moment of the explosion. So if they only ever had 1 frame, then that means the only frame they had of the manhole cover was the one from before the nuke went off. The cover quite literally went from 0 to mach 100 or more close to instantaneously
Yeah I was gonna say they don't need a second frame of it, just base it off how far it traveled in the span of that single frame over the course of 1/1000th of a second cause they know it's starting point
There is a very real possibility that a manhole cover is rapidly moving through space and will probably collide with a planet someday, and literally remove it from existence. That’s nuts.😂
As someone who had a couple of courses in friction and heat. There is an extremely good chance the manhole went so fast that friction didn't have time heat it before it got into the vacuum of space. In the cold vacuum of space, it can not be heated by friction, and the stored energy can't do his thing as there is no medium. Now this is only if it got to space.
I was wondering about that. Also, when I read this, I genuinely laughed. Seeing it in print ..."going so fast, friction may not have had time to act on it..." SEEING that is just so outrageous, it's laughable. Doesn't make it less possible, nor less true, however. Still, lol.
It was traveling at 41.67 miles per second. It would only take 1.49 seconds to reach space at that speed. Assuming it didn't hit anything or get pulled into a celestial object by gravity, then it just kept going in a straight line and has traveled roughly 88,098,300,000 miles in whatever direction it was going.
@@Tar-NumendilI’m a smooth brain when it comes to physics and such but given that this took place in the 50s, at ballpark 50 miles per second, by now, wouldn’t it be much further than that?
@@Sandsquid21 This is how I calculated that; it's been almost exactly 67 years since it happened, there are 8,766 hours in a year, that's 587,322 hours for 67 years, multiply that by 150,000 miles per hour (the minimum speed it could be traveling at) and you get 88,098,300,000 miles. It would take light nearly 5.5 days to travel that distance, whereas it only takes light about 8 minutes to reach Earth from the Sun. For reference that's roughly 947 times the distance between the Earth and the Sun. I saw somebody else say that it's traveled ~112 billion miles, but I don't know how they came up with that number.
My Uncle Joe was part of this and was on disability from this. He had a horrible death directly from being one of these guys. He was part of the group that “stood further out than the guys in the ditch, but we were completely exposed, I wish I had that fucking ditch”. He passed in ‘76, and I remember it because it was the 200th anniversary of our founding and got the toy plane “spirit of ‘76”, I was 10 and didn’t know what a nuke really was until I served as a nuke on submarine duty for 6 years. By far the scariest, most evil weapon ever designed and built. I hate to say it but they’re necessary, I’m just worried if Iran and other countries that want to do us harm ever pull off building one. Mine were the C3 Poseidon missile system, They can’t be recalled like in the movies. When they launch, they will reach their target with incredible accuracy and will destroy everything in their path. What we have now is 100 times more powerful than what I worked on, it’s world ending. Pray for peace.
It seems Iran has recently relayed they have weapons grade enrichment. They've prolly had that for months, if not years. Jus recently spoke on it within the last week. Das swat I heard.
@@thankfullyredeemedmaderigh7436 you probably heard right, seems every country is bound and determined to launch em. We did close outs prepping the missiles for sea/launch and last thing ya did was an REB count and as I’m looking at these warheads on the equipment ring it was…strange. A real “wtf” moment, it got real. Hard to describe the feeling of knowing, in depth, exactly what they would do and it’s tossed around now by “leaders” like zelensky begging that we use them. You CANNOT put that genie back in the bottle. The ones we dropped in WWII were airburst, that’s to kill people and knock down weaker buildings and we saw the results. Imagine surface burst or “bunker buster” types meant to destroy everything at ground level or destroy buried emplacements. That radiation has a half life of centuries, unusable wasteland. The current D5 makes the ones I worked on look like firecrackers. The shitty part is we HAVE to have them for deterrence but in these times it seems like “leaders” know what they do, they just don’t give a fuck. Way back when I was a kid we had “duck and cover” drills in school, was shown where and what a fallout shelter was, people KNEW. I don’t know if it’s a disconnect or apathy but people seem to have forgotten what ends with that type of conflict and NONE OF IT IS GOOD. Sorry for the book.
At 150,000 mph had that manhole cover been aimed perfectly at the Moon, it would have taken less than 2 hours to get there. It would have achieved trans-Plutonian distance in just under 3 years. My head cannon is that it survived and is still rocketing across the universe.
You should do a video on Jon Paul jones. The American naval officer who, whilst on a burning ship told the British the he hadn’t begun to fight then proceeded to dominate them non consensually
You know, there's not too much more satisfying in life than sitting down with a fresh pepperoni pizza, an ice cold beer, and a Fat Electrician video about nukes. Fuckin' 'Murica. Btw, if the 150,000 MPH speed is accurate, that means that the manhole cover was going about 6 times the escape velocity needed to leave Earth's gravitational influence. That day, Earth probably inadvertently attacked an interstellar civilization which will probably start a galactic war tens of thousands of years from now. :D
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Could you do a video on the battle of Brisbane
My grandfather, George Yoshitake, was the cameraman for that test. He did grab a baseball cap since it was better than nothing. He was not allowed to be on the film because he was a Japanese American and people were still a bit apprehensive about Japanese working close to nukes. Thank you for covering this story!
And thank you for coming in to comment, your granddad had some serious balls.
God bless your whole family who are all image barriers of the Only True Father God. Who created us in His Image.
That's a heck of a story to have in the family.
Your grandfather has the ultimate dad lore.
Name checks out - Thank you for your Comment - TFE! Give this man some Love.
If you have any more stories from your Grandad - we, in the comment section, would love to hear them.
Funnily enough, the manhole cover had not just enough energy to leave earth's orbit it had enough energy to leave the solar system. So potentially, the first man made extra solar object is the nuclear equivalent of a potato cannon.
Yep, that's the joke
That is hilariously awesome!
God I love physics!
the aliens entering the milky way only to be vaporised by a manhole cover flying at mach 195
@@i_basl - >Aliens pick up object hurtling through solar system
>"What was that?"
>"Metallic object... Origin... unknown. Trajectory suggests it.. Oh. It came from the third planet."
>"Did they shoot at us?"
>"If so, it's the wierdest kinetic weapon I've seen. Also lot's of radiation from it."
>".... Those dumbasses. That's why Earth is a zoo."
It would also be well past Voyager if I remember correctly.
The biggest problem is aero thermals. If the blast dimpled the plate, it would self stabalize and survive, if it stayed flat, it would spin like a coin and burn up
My head canon is that during America's nuclear testing, there was a cloaked alien ship up there watching the hot new reality show "Monkeys with Nukes". Then they got smacked with that flying man hole cover, putting the mother of all dents in their nose cone. So they got pissed and went home. And that's why aliens refuse to answer our calls.
Lmfao 😂
Nerd detected
Yeah...that sounds bout right
"They irradiated their own planet?"
- Quark 😂
What does alien popcorn look, and importantly, taste, like.
My dad worked on air to air missiles for raytheon (as a radar engineer) and their running joke when the radar was being a pain "Screw it w are going back to the Genie - radar:none, manuevering:none, probability of kill:5" "Doesnt probability go from 0 to 1?" "not with the Genie it doesn't"
That's great.
Oh so yall are rich as FUCK 😂😂
Not hating btw that’s sick
He said his Dad worked there as an engineer, not that he owned the company. I'm sure the job had good pay and benefits but engineer does not usually equate to "rich AF"
@@markagisotelis551 yes he would be rich asf stop arguing with strangers when you are making assumptions lmfao
And us veterans will nod unanimously that the VA will say it’s not service connected.
7:04 he called it haha
I’d even bet they recorded them as not service connected even before the test.
Oh for sure that’s classic VA 😂
They will look at the live feed, look us dead in the eye and say, "I don't see how" while the brass is mid speech thanking you for "volunteering"
And every time I hear someone call for Universal Healthcare, I just look at how the VA runs and operates, and shake my head. Like "No thanks, I can already see how bad government run healthcare works."
In the early 2000's I met an elderly man at my local dog park. Over time I learned he was in the army in Nevada for one of the nuclear tests where, as he described it, "We hid in trenches as the bomb went off then they marched us forward until the desert turned to glass."
Bad enough? After that he was sent to Bikini Island where he got to watch 24 more go off. They'd camp on the atoll at night then board ships during the day when a bomb would be tested.
When I met him he had the very rare privilege of getting extremely detailed care from the VA. The reason being they were trying to figure out why in the hell he was cancer free fifty years later.
"How the fuck does this guy ISN'T GETTING MORE MONEY FROM US???" yeah sounds like the va I know of lmao
Lucky....
so bro basically walked off a nuke... what a legend!
@@driftr42vods15 I would bet that Genetics has a lot to do with these kinds of situations. The 90 year old that has been smoking 2 packs of cigarettes a day since they were 12 years old. Or the person who has been an alcoholic for 60+ years with zero signs of liver damage.
@@PH_INFO_101yeah I used to know a guy that chain smoked, looked to be in his 50's and was a B-17 pilot as well as a POW in Germany. Made it to his 90's.
He said..."SPAWN POINT FOR THE SUN"..
...My brain...DONT TOUCH THE BOATS..
I read that in HLCs voice too
Based
@@ukraineme96”DONT-uh. TOUCH. THA BOTES!”
I need a HLC and Mandatory Funday crossover episode with RahCoons.
We get it!
I'm going with my theory, that manhole cover rocketed into space and blasted out of the galaxy, taking out an alien battle cruiser and starting a war we don't even know about, yet.
Did u remote view this?? The psychics say this is exactly how it happened. This is amazing. It ruined the game of dominoes. The leaders were mad they spilled the sizzurp. Foreverwar!
I'm just picturing in the future we learn about a galactic war that kicked off when some alien leader got hit by a flying manhole
@@tylerlundry1906 Theres a meme that Kyle Hill posted a month ago or so that just reads:
"Some advanced alien race 2049 lightyears away watching helplessly as a 2000lb manhole cover enters their atmosphere at mach fuck"
@@richardmillhousenixon lmao
Lmao, I would laugh if that became lore for independence day movie.....
Ah yes, the time-honored military tradition of 'volunteering':
"I need five volunteers!"
"What for, Sarge?"
"Good question, Private! Because I need _four_ more volunteers!"
"VOLN-TOLD
Ah yes, the old 'Volun-TOLD' trick.
And that sarge would be told... "No. I did not volunteer. You still need 5."
@@shadopard7527 That doesn't work in the military.
Except in this case they were all pretty high ranked officers.
“Even friction was like *’What the fuck what that ?!’* “ killed me.
lmao same, hearing the manhole cover part from this guy made me crack up so hard, imagine seeing that thing actually leaving the atmosphere lol
15:50 For anyone who wasn't paying attention to the video and doesn't want to hunt for it. Also for anyone wanting to watch it repetedly... Absolutly great
@@haydenprice1084 thank you very much lol
My head canon is that the manhole cover was the first (and probably only) nuclear explosively formed penetrator.
funny, but not how physics work, you cant outrun friction.
Life don't always have to be complicated. You see a Fat Electrician video, you watch a Fat Electrician video!
Amen brother
🤙
Damn skippy
Only discovered his stuff last week. Been binging it all since.
Facts
Fun factoid if that manhole cover actually hit something it would equate to getting smacked by about 488 tons of tnt. 🤣
That’s fucking nuts 😂😂
@@MOB64yeah, I think the thing it would hit's new pronoums would be was/were
@@marcleslac2413 no, I think it’s pronouns would be and Cuz there would be nothing left lol
@@CivilizedWarrior makes sense. A queer friend of mine also said, "He's got a point if there's nothing left, past tense wont work."
@@CivilizedWarrior I had a better idea for the manhole cover it be SPEED/POWAHHHHH [Insert jeremy clarkson joke here]
Nic: "The government had five volunteers stand directly under a nuclear explosion."
Me: "At least they had the decency to pick officers..."
Nic: "And then they exposed eighteen thousand soldiers to multiple nuclear explosions."
Me: "Son of a...!"
5 officers that volunteered...and one dude with a suspiciously Japanese name that wasn't told that a nuke was going to go off overhead
@@leojamesclune1730 Pacific Theater 2 Electric Bogaloo
… you just had to open your mouth, didn’t you?
@@leojamesclune1730 It was still U.S. policy to not inform the Japanese of nuclear bomb drops at the time.
In the great words of Adam Savage, "Remeber kids, the only difference between science and screwing around is writing things down!"
Agreed
😂
💀💀💀
And let's not forget, "Failure is always an option."!!
@@TexJester-no8thgood sir, I reject your reality and substitute my own.
My grandfather worked for an oil drilling company after his stint in the Marines, and he drilled some of those holes. He and his buds were told it was for "water wells" and when the company he worked for asked what depth the water was at they were told "don't worry about it".
The fact that has been overlooked here is that, Earths atmosphere gets thinner as you gain altitude so. . . If the “manhole cover “ survived the nuclear blast, it was traveling more than 6 times escape velocity and it would be gaining speed as it passed through the thinning atmosphere.
The manhole cover Absolutely made it to outer space and in theory would still be traveling unless it collided with something on its journey.
You do a fantastic job Nick , thank you
It wouldn't be "gaining speed," it would be decelerating at a progressively lesser rate (both to reducing air resistance as air is thinner at higher altitudes and reduced gravitational pull as you get further from Earth's center of mass). The more likely scenarios are it melting from heat from said air resistance, or (IMO the most likely) since the shape wasn't aerodynamically stable it would have started tumbling and at that speed the centrifugal forces would have been MASSIVE and it would have torn apart quite violently.
My dad was one of those 18,000 soldiers in that test. I can't remember the year, but it was around 2010 or so he developed colon cancer and went to the VA to get checked out and that was when they found it. He was filling out paperwork for it and they found out he was one of the "Atomic Survivors" and he ended up getting the money, plus 100% VA benefits back paid from 1957 at sergeant's pay. He was treated and was in remission for 6 years before a brain tumor took him from us. I'm about to turn 70 and still remember him talking about it many years ago. He was enlisted at the time but went to OCS and became an officer and sent to artillery. He was one of the first commanders for the Atomic Annie's. Pretty cool until he told me it was so early in the program that they hadn't even received any of the guns yet.
Sorry for your loss. I know what you've gone thru. My father wasn't a part of this operation mentioned in the video. But was at Bikini Atoll. He passed away of pancreatic cancer at the age of 63 in 1994. In fact this is the first time I've got to read or hear anything about another family dealing with a similar experience. Thanks for posting. Nice to know my family isn't the only member of a exclusive club you've never want to join.
Yes that sounds about right the government did some horrible shit trying to figure out what the maximum radiation does is per year before it causes cancer
15:48 Even friction was like “What the eff was that?!?!” .☠️
that one made me laugh.
Best line ever!
I started DYING and went straight to the comments 😂
"Myth Buster shit with DOD money" Now that's the coolest thing I have heard all week!
New t-shirt slogan
"Even friction was like... what the fuck was that?" I don't laugh this much when I listen to comedians, plus you get history thrown in. Truly one of the best youtubers out there.
So basically they made the world's most powerful firearm with a nuclear weapon as propellant , and a 2000 lb steel bullet. Murica !
Earth, the original Death Star.😊
@@TLowGrrreen This makes me curious as to how much damage such an object with that much kinetic energy could actually do. Like, if the Moon just _happened_ to be directly overhead at that moment, how big would the crater be?
@@Genny207 One of the other comments mentioned that it would be equivalent to a blast that left a 250ft radius crater and rained debris for 8 minutes.
@@Genny207 We're talking a flat disk, at best, a couple feet thick... Atmosphere or not... This small piece of metal was thrown into space in less than a second...
It wasn't holding together for very long...
Probably scared the aliens away for years.
I love the fact that every episode there is just more guns on the couch
Tax write offs
As a Scientific/Engineering Photographer, I've met Mr. Yoshitake a few of times before his passing . He was a funny and humble guy. He talked a bit of the atomic tests, it was just another assignment to him.
It just HAD to be the Japanese guy.
Did you meet his pet kaiju, Gozira?
If you want to reconnect with his grandson he is apparently in the RUclips chat, should be near the top
I heard my grandpa talk about witnessing a nuclear bomb explosion when he was in service (1957), and never thought anything of it. I was asking him this evening about it, and he told us all about it, from the earth shaking shockwave and the radiation badges they wore to make sure they were not severely exposed. He is in great health at 88, so proud and thankful for my grandpa. God bless!
"Their injuries are not service related" nice touch
When we were flying back to my grandparents home in Michigan from California we saw a nuke set off in the late 50’s. The pilot said keep the drapes closed on the right side of the plane and I of course had my face plastered to the window. It was amazing, something you never forget. Didn’t affect my eyesight as I’m 72 and still don’t wear glasses.
You got super lasic!
Like the ground zero team,
maybe micro dosing radiation has health benifits🤔
Do you have more than 2 eyes?🤣
Never in my life did I think I would get to a place where I'd hear the Chubby Electron Guy saying that the Accuracy by Volume was getting excessive.
I knew the man responsible for the timing for the bomb shot from Atomic Annie. The idea was to have an air burst halfway across the flats. This character was so convinced that his timer would work that he observed it from a volcanic ridge or 'hogback' where the shell would land if the timing was off. The timer worked, so he could tell me about it. Ralph was well known for such stunts.
The atomic manhole cover wasn't only the first man made object to reach space. It was also the fastest manmade object ever. It's also still moving at roughly the same speed, so it's also setting speed endurance records on a constant ongoing basis. And it's also travelled further than any man made object, so it holds and continues to set long distance records as well. We, as a nation and a species, really outdid ourselves with that one.
What's 150Kmph x 67 years?
88,038,000,000 miles
@@Sonick92 space isn't an absolute void, it has straggling gas atoms which still create drag. The faster you go the more drag is created. So that manhole cover's speed would be more of a reverse exponential decline, the test was also done during the day, meaning the cover would be either slingshot by the suns gravity or just go into orbit around the sun and eventually be devoured. So there are two possibilities, the manhole cover got sucked into the sun, or it got slingshot by the sun causing it to rapidly accelerate even faster, which would make it cover even more distance. TL;DR Manhole cover either farther than expected or inside of sun
I think one of the Challenger probes has achieved a higher speed with the solar assist or whatever the maneuver's called.
@@F15EX_Eagle_II obviously there's no way to tell, but short of hitting anything, then I'm positive it's the farthest object in space by now.
Depends on the time of day it was done. Early or late daytime means roughly 90 degrees to the sun. Since they were in the desert, in August, I would suspect that they did it at the cooler times. Even at noon though nevada is not directed perfectly at the sun. Would still be like 17 degrees off. Would have sling shot around sun, but I know minimal amounts about orbital mathematics to determine where it would end up.
That is IF it made it to space. Steel is strong and malleable, but shells can penetrate it. 2000lbs is not really that much steel. 4ft diameter manhole would only be 4" thick. Whatever came out of that hole could have melted that manhole cover or disintegrated it.
This is the American way of developing "common sense".
Did you not watch the F-15 video? This is the USA. We don't make sense, we make dollars.
@@vladyvhv9579 "We don't make sense, we make dollars." congratulations, you just summarized the entire US (for better or for worse) in a single sentence
And making it stick _always_ "costs extra"...
We don't make cents... We make dollars. - Fat Electrician
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
now onto the next test, is it cheaper to use a nuclear cannon to send something to orbit and pay for the shielding or is it cheaper to use a rocket to send something to orbit and pay for the fuel? Only one way to find out, and calculators are for nerds
U.S. Marine here. Best use of Officers I’ve ever seen. I also have a few family members that are down winders. Just remember “the past is the worse”.
I was thinking exactly the same thing when I saw all zeros on the list.
Semper Fi
‘79-‘99
Oof that’s spicy
I was a child in the early 50s living downwind in North Las Vegas. I got my first dose then, but as to getting any good out of officers: brilliant!
At my old age I finally found a use for zero's lol s/f
"Dammit, Jim, I'm a doctor! Ask Spock about that manhole cover!"
"Perhaps this would more logically be Mr. Scott's bailywick, being essentially an engineering problem?"
"Well, Captain, I gave it to the Klingons. Beamed it into their engineering section where it'll be no tribble at all . . ."
I was born in Vegas back in the late 60's. I grew up listening to my folks and their friends talking about nuke parties. It was wild...
U.S. government makes a nuclear potato gun while the the Soviets made a jet that runs on Vodka. The 50s-60s were a...."special" time😐
The WHOLE soviet air force ran on vodka. Hell, the soviet union overall, ran on vodka
Yea you know how I know the soviet union didn't run on vodka??? Because we still got vodka LMFAO
@@corryburton9834I mean they were Russian still, they'll put up with a lot so long as they have Vodka, so it was the one thing the USSR didn't really touch.
@@IridiumRedTheOrigina brack juice be like
(ww2 soviet planes used alcoholic liquid in their bracking system)
And they called that potato gun "The Davey Crockett"
It was the 50's. They probably thought they were going to create X-Men😂
Well sometimes that happens, I mean, read a book
I have heard stories people would have "watch parties" in those small towns around the testing. As you said kids would be outside playing and every day life would be going down after each test.
My dad had a Team Sergeant in the Marines (59-61) that was part of the testing his name was SGT Chuck Hephner. He lost all his hair by 61 and his only child was adopted due to him not being able to have children. I met Chuck when I was 14 and he talked about how they were given welding googles and how they had to kneel in the trench and he could see the bones in his arms perfectly. Sadly he passed in 2015.
It is highly unlikely to be able to "see the bones" in your arms, that's not how radiation works. X-ray images are made by the X-rays passing through non-dense matter easily (skin, muscle) and being blocked by dense matter (bones) and the "shadows" of those rays causing the image on special photographic film. Wihout the film, there is no image; you can't see the X-rays nor does their passing through objects make said objects translucent to your eyes (which only detect rays in the visible light spectrum).
"even friction was like 'what the fuck was that?"" LMFAO
The one guy who actually had sunglasses on just deciding to have a staring contest with a nuke is priceless.
I love your videos. I showed my Dad, and now we watch them all together. We are both former Navy. I was an Electrician on a Submarine, and he was a Corpsman. I got him one of your "Un-Healthcare" shirts and hats and he loves them.
We were both wondering if you would do a "Don't mess with America's boats" themed shirt or hat. I would buy those in a heartbeat.
If you do the math, the manhole cover was traveling at 41.6 mi/s…. Considering it’s approximately 62 miles to get to what’s commonly considered outer space, that means that thing was in space in approximately 1.49 seconds…
It should realistically reach Pluto in 879.1 days… or 2.4 years
Science bitch !
and that was back when Pluto was still a planet. Maybe the manhole cover knocked a chunk off, causing the downgrade?
And that is why aliens don't
like us and they have no home planet
Assuming it held together at all...
@@chipsawdust5816 At those speeds, even fragments would be devastating. Probably more so.
The Ground Zero 5 didn't get sick because they were not exposed to the fallout because the fallout from a 2kt weapon detonated at 18,000 feet would be a very small amount. The radius of the fireball only be about 145 feet. In an air burst at that altitude, the only fallout would be from the rocket itself, the casing, the motor, the electronics, and the aluminum skin, most of the components would have been vaporized in the detonation. Any fallout generated would have been dispersed very quickly by the wind at 18,000 feet.
The brothels of Honolulu after Pearl Harbor. 3 dollars for 3 minutes. A prostitute became rich by shear volume.
They were directly underneath it so they could go anywhere but downwind and not come in contact with fallout at all.
Fun fact, recently declassified docs show that after every nuclear test Kodak XRay film 2,500 miles away would be contaminated a few days later by the fallout. They requested that the gov't tell them the date of the tests so they could halt production until after the fallout passed.
Sooo, between the USSR & USA, we burnt a hole in the Ozone, makes more sense than paint fumes.
What about the overwhelming X-rays, good thing it was a volunteer force of TOP BRASS...
I could listen to TFE for hours.
His rants are priceless, and factual.
“…guys they’re dead.”
Fucking slayed me.
“A spawn point for the fucking sun” is a great moniker for a nuke
"I don't even want to drink raw milk; I'm just mad they think they can tell me I cant"
That's the most Grunt $hit ever!!
"Even friction was like, 'what the fuck was that?"" I completely lost it.
"Scientifically interesting" would make a great t-shirt slogan.
I have a black and white picture of my great uncle, standing next to his car, on a desert highway, with mushroom cloud in the background. Must have been upwind because he made it well into his 90s.
My grandfather was one of the head Army Officers for Project Mercury. There are tons of funny things, and scary nightmare fuel that is not public knowledge. As a result, some of the general knowledge is inaccurate. As for the manhole, IF it didn't turn to plasma or disintegrate, actual calculations were for more than two and half the lowest possible speed by photo evidence. The estimated speed was around 375,000 mph! That is roughly 100+ miles per second! The picture has never been released. And yes, weapons possibilities were explored as a result.
I LOVE when I hear ol Ronnie quoting “I’m with the government…and I’m here to help!” Shit gets me every time…😅
Especially if you know the lead-in line for Ronnie saying that.
The single scariest sentence anyone could ever hear. 😅
I wonder if he will ever cover Donnie Dunagan. Became a Marine at 18, promoted 13 times in 21 years which is a Marine Corps record, youngest Marine Drill Sergeant in history, 3 tours of Vietnam, 3 Purple Hearts, and the original voice of Bambi, and he told nobody, not his wife, not his Marine buddies, nobody, for 50 years
"Oh, well I need to go tell the dinosaurs to stand up and stop being babies!"
...
..."guys, they're dead..."
😂😂💀
I know, classic. 😄
Well timed bathroom break 😂
It's hilarious that the parks and rec writers tried to make Ron Swanson a crazy caricature but kept making him one of the most relatable character to the typical American.
Like The Boys and Soldier Boy, writers intended for you to hate him, but how can you
He was the MOST sane character. Lol
Common with many leftist writers. Alan moore in many of his work there is a standin consertive charector thaat is suposed to be unstable and hated by the reader. Nearly every time that charector is the most resonable and/or relatable to the readers.
Even funnier. If memory serves correct the actor is actually pretty far left himself.
I am shocked that the Dep of VA found those cancer cases to service connected.
Underrated comment
This is why aliens won't return our calls.
Yeah, they saw that nuke and said f___ that. Left us on read lol
Alien on Alpha Centauri "WTF is that?", "OMFG they killed Kenfluxi!!", "This is war".
"you naked ape bastards!"
- Kylefluxi, probably
Quick napkin math: 1 AU is about 98 million miles. Pluto, at most distant, is 49.3 AU from the Earth. 150,000 mph in 24 hours is around 3.6 million miles per day. 365 days (rounded) times 3.6 million is 1.314 billion miles a year, or 13.4 AU per year. This event (rounded to nearest 5) was around 65 years ago. Assuming it had no change in velocity and was not taken by an orbit or destroyed by something else, that thing reached Pluto's distant point around 3 years and is still going. Since the Oort Cloud is around 2000 AU from the Earth at closest, it is still in the solar system, but holy crap has it gone far!
Nah, Jupiter ate it.
@@countvonthizzle9623 fun fact: this is how the storm on jupiter was started
So when the aliens arrive and ask if this is our frisbee we at least now know why. 😁
@@Hoop27 🤣🤣🤣 OK, you win the comments section today.
Thinking back to the chaos a normal frisbee can make at the neighbour's place I'd be a little concerned about how much shit we'd be in with these neighbours.
@DarryDoo Not at 150,000 mph. Earth's escape velocity is only around 25,000 mph. It was launched at least six times escape velocity, so at least mach 198-ish. It was in low-earth orbit (1,200 miles) in less than a minute at that speed. Keep in mind that 150,000 mph was also the top end of what they could measure, so it was faster than that.
And thanks for the compliment, I appreciate it.
If the manhole cover was traveling 190,000 mph, it only takes 17,000 mph to stay in low earth orbit (300miles). I bet the thing passed the moon and kept going. It might come back in a few hundred years.
At 190,000 mph it would reach and pass the moon in about an hour. At mach 195 its about 2 hours. Which is still crazy af. That's probably leaving the solar system. Or at least it's not going to be back in our neighborhood for a damn long time.
Oh no. It's never coming back.
The escape velocity of the earth is just under 25,000 mph. That thing was doing seven times what it takes to escape the earth's gravitational pull and go hurtling off into interstellar space.
To my mind the only question is if it did this as a single mostly-intact object or as an expanding cloud of molten droplets. The cloud is more likely- but if it was mostly one chunk then Voyager 1 is not in fact the most distant man-made object from earth.
I can't help but wonder if anyone ever did the math to plot it's possible trajectory.
@@DKPseude I think I remember seeing the picture. It looked like it was a single piece.
190,000mph would have surpassed the speed of light and turned into energy, creating the mother of all explosions
as for the manhole cover, you cant outrun friction, its the exact opposite. either that manhole cover split into a million pieces almost exactly the time it was launched (that proceeded to burn up) or it burned up as a single piece. there is also a possibility that it exploded.
When I was a kid, I rented a 1950s US Military video from the library. And it was shocking and almost funny how *not* concerned they sounded about radiation.
They just called it a side effect/by-product but didn't say anything about the danger of it.
They all grew up thinking radiation had could have health benefits.
My new favorite quote “even friction was like What the fuck”
Bro I cracked laughing at that
If my math is correct that man hole cover moving at 150k miles per hour would have made it the 64 miles into space in 2 seconds, or around the earth 6.02 times in 1 hour.
150,000 miles in 3600 sec gives 41.6 miles per sec. So to exit earth’s atmosphere of 62 miles, it’d take 1.49 sec!
Moon in less than an hour and a half.
@nb6525 if we say it's been 70 years, it's at around 92 billion miles +/- lol
@@teufelhund9843 For reference, that's roughly 30 times the distance to Pluto.
Standard holes were 8 foot diameter 1/4 mile deep and back-filled with sand, gravel, magnetite, and reinforced concrete. A 1/4 mile from the hole anything living would be jellified. One guy went to sleep in a data-taking skid on shock mounts. No one noticed and he never woke up.
Imagine doing a story about the time a US Navy destroyer ESCORT played chickeb with the Yamato and the Yamato turned around and ran away!
Battle of Leyte Gulf
@@chrisdufresne9359Tathy 3, The most epic naval battery in the US Navy history. (Simply put).
Drachinifel has good coverage of naval stuff; he reads lots of books, talks to survivors and people, museums, does research. Guy loves ships. 🤷♂
@@jwdundon Odds, what are those?
@@jwdundon Taffy* 3
A giant manhole traveling through space at Mach light speed is one way of letting aliens know we exist.
And then they knew not to mess with us!
I like how they are all officers. No way E4 mafia would get dragged into this
I was tearing up laughing at your description when they welded the hole shut and sent the cover to outer space , had me dying 😂
The story goes that during one of the pig tests, they had dug concentric trenches around the tower holding the bomb. They put the pigs in the various trenches and waited, and waited, and waited. The test was postponed for 24 hours do to weather or technical issues. So the guys out there hadn't brought any food for an additional 24 hours, what to do? Oink, oink. The decision was made to do a pig roast.
Someone got pretty upset with this and started talking about "theft of government property." Not sure how it turned out.
Guy who made noise must have been an MP.
You know it's bad manners to invite them to a pig roast, that's cannibalism for them.
I thought you were going to come back in wearing one of those inflatable t-rex suits.
The Genie was an unguided rocket. Missiles, by definition are guided. Trying hard not to be the “buh” guy. But here I am. lol
A missile is just something propelled by a force. It is a term much older than the modern guided systems. It was also used to describe sling throwers, javelins, spears, even arrows can be called a missile.
@@drd675 from the Oxford dictionary, you are correct. From an ordnance standpoint, you are not.
@EODOperator I guess as far as definitions, if it ain't broke...change it anyway. Lol
@@UnknownUsername131 it’s the military way! We just needed a way to define the two for each other.
@EODOperator lmao I get you. Missile and guided missile wasn't working?
8:00 “Nukes increase life expectancy” confirmed
Other fun fact: that may be one of only 2 audio recording of a nuke detonating. Most nuke sounds in the old reels are sound effects. In reality, they sound like sharp cracks like from a cannon. A really, REALLY big cannon.
Escape velocity of Earth is just over 25,000mph. The manhole cover had 6x the escape velocity of Earth. Voyager I is traveling outside the solar system at 38,000mph. So, assuming a loss of ⅓ of it's velocity by the time it reached space, at 100,000mph, it's still traveling in one direction, at least 2.5x faster than Voyager. If it wasn't intercepted by some other space debris, or the gravitational pull of another planet or moon, that manhole cover has traversed at least 2.5x the distance of the Voyager I probe, which is currently in the Ophiucus constellation, approximately 15 Billion miles from Earth. That means a manhole cover could be around 36 to 38 Billion miles away, IF Voyager and the manhole were launched on the same day (which would take 50 hours to travel at the speed of light). The manhole has a head start though, being launched 20 years BEFORE Voyager, giving it a roughly 730,000,000 mile head start. That puts the first man-made object in space approximately 38 - 39 Billion miles away, or about 1/1000th the distance from one end of the Milky Way Galaxy to the other...or 59 hours at the speed of light.
That's insanely hilarious
My grandpa was a marine and in one of those desert tests in the late 50's. He was apart of the first Laser guided missile defense program, and the brass sent his unit to one of the tests because, and I quote, "They wanted us to see what we were preventing."
I did the math. If that manhole cover kept a speed of 100,000 m/hr, as of July 30, 2024 it would have travelled 57,816,000,000 miles, 621.9 astronomical units(sun to earth distance), which is 19 TIMES THE ORBIT OF PLUTO thanks for coming to my TED talk.
I knew a post-WWII veteran who was in the Navy. He said the crew was lined up behind shielding exposing certain parts of the body, and covering others. They were then exposed to a nuclear detonation. He said the military contacted him every 2 years afterward to check on his health. The portion of his body that was exposed was from the knees down. He said at on point a black spot kept appearing on his ankle, but was removed by his VA doctor. This spot reappeared for several years, but eventually stayed gone after the last removal.
Dude, no apologies for dad jokes. Rule number ten in the book of dads. The counsel has ruled on this.
Concur😂
At my old high school, they were doing a dry ice experiment in the room downstairs. You know the one, dry ice, plastic bag, big bang, very entertaining. One didn't go off, so they put the bag in one of those metal rubbish cans and put a chopping board over the top of it. The resultant bang ten minutes later left a chopping board sized impact crater in the roof, while the class was taught the lesson of explosion has to go somewhere, and you just made a cannon.
The manhole cover is this taken to it's logical extreme. Either the Earth was gonna move, or the cover was, and one of these weighs a lot more. :P
i would have never expected a manhole cover to make me spit out my drink and die of laughter, but then again this is The Fat Electrician channel......
The flight of the manhole cover inspired the Orion Project.
They even had a working prototype using conventional explosives.
Bought a Henson razor just because of your endorsement, haven't received it yet but to paraphrase "We're not out to make the best razor company, we're out to make the best razor " is something every Capitalist company should strive for, looking forward to it.
Chick-Fil-A video
Got one a few months ago, simple design and works. First razor that I’ve used in this style, and way better than the multi blade stuff, at least for me.
Guy with a beard selling razors. 😂
I GOTTA DISCONNECT MY BEARD AND CHEST HAIR SOMEHOW!
@@the_fat_electricianAlright Sasquatch, calm down.
@@the_fat_electrician Same here brother. Same here.
Man's got balls too
Some people shave. Some people trim.
In 1958 the March of Dimes (originally a charity to fight polio) changed its mission to also fight birth defects.
I was born in '57, with missing muscles and twisted joints.
Sorry bout that. I'm glad to see that you are hanging in there.
@@jamesblossom-y1u What didn't kill me made me the man I am today.
Fun fact- since, by default, they always have the "starting" frame they always have at least 1 frame with the manhole cover in it. The one from just before/moment of the explosion.
So if they only ever had 1 frame, then that means the only frame they had of the manhole cover was the one from before the nuke went off. The cover quite literally went from 0 to mach 100 or more close to instantaneously
Yeah I was gonna say they don't need a second frame of it, just base it off how far it traveled in the span of that single frame over the course of 1/1000th of a second cause they know it's starting point
There is a very real possibility that a manhole cover is rapidly moving through space and will probably collide with a planet someday, and literally remove it from existence. That’s nuts.😂
i just love the idea that the reason aliens dont invade is because the scout they sent got domed by a man hole cover and they said "fuck that"
“Even friction was like WTF was that” Lol! Gold!
As someone who had a couple of courses in friction and heat. There is an extremely good chance the manhole went so fast that friction didn't have time heat it before it got into the vacuum of space. In the cold vacuum of space, it can not be heated by friction, and the stored energy can't do his thing as there is no medium.
Now this is only if it got to space.
I was wondering about that.
Also, when I read this, I genuinely laughed. Seeing it in print ..."going so fast, friction may not have had time to act on it..." SEEING that is just so outrageous, it's laughable.
Doesn't make it less possible, nor less true, however. Still, lol.
It was traveling at 41.67 miles per second. It would only take 1.49 seconds to reach space at that speed. Assuming it didn't hit anything or get pulled into a celestial object by gravity, then it just kept going in a straight line and has traveled roughly 88,098,300,000 miles in whatever direction it was going.
@@Tar-NumendilI believe we don't actually know how fast it was going, that's just the slowest it could've been going
@@Tar-NumendilI’m a smooth brain when it comes to physics and such but given that this took place in the 50s, at ballpark 50 miles per second, by now, wouldn’t it be much further than that?
@@Sandsquid21 This is how I calculated that; it's been almost exactly 67 years since it happened, there are 8,766 hours in a year, that's 587,322 hours for 67 years, multiply that by 150,000 miles per hour (the minimum speed it could be traveling at) and you get 88,098,300,000 miles. It would take light nearly 5.5 days to travel that distance, whereas it only takes light about 8 minutes to reach Earth from the Sun. For reference that's roughly 947 times the distance between the Earth and the Sun. I saw somebody else say that it's traveled ~112 billion miles, but I don't know how they came up with that number.
I was expecting the manhole cover to be going at Mach F**K , you missed that opportunity haha
My Uncle Joe was part of this and was on disability from this. He had a horrible death directly from being one of these guys. He was part of the group that “stood further out than the guys in the ditch, but we were completely exposed, I wish I had that fucking ditch”. He passed in ‘76, and I remember it because it was the 200th anniversary of our founding and got the toy plane “spirit of ‘76”, I was 10 and didn’t know what a nuke really was until I served as a nuke on submarine duty for 6 years. By far the scariest, most evil weapon ever designed and built. I hate to say it but they’re necessary, I’m just worried if Iran and other countries that want to do us harm ever pull off building one. Mine were the C3 Poseidon missile system, They can’t be recalled like in the movies. When they launch, they will reach their target with incredible accuracy and will destroy everything in their path. What we have now is 100 times more powerful than what I worked on, it’s world ending. Pray for peace.
It seems Iran has recently relayed they have weapons grade enrichment. They've prolly had that for months, if not years. Jus recently spoke on it within the last week. Das swat I heard.
@@thankfullyredeemedmaderigh7436 you probably heard right, seems every country is bound and determined to launch em. We did close outs prepping the missiles for sea/launch and last thing ya did was an REB count and as I’m looking at these warheads on the equipment ring it was…strange. A real “wtf” moment, it got real. Hard to describe the feeling of knowing, in depth, exactly what they would do and it’s tossed around now by “leaders” like zelensky begging that we use them. You CANNOT put that genie back in the bottle. The ones we dropped in WWII were airburst, that’s to kill people and knock down weaker buildings and we saw the results. Imagine surface burst or “bunker buster” types meant to destroy everything at ground level or destroy buried emplacements. That radiation has a half life of centuries, unusable wasteland. The current D5 makes the ones I worked on look like firecrackers. The shitty part is we HAVE to have them for deterrence but in these times it seems like “leaders” know what they do, they just don’t give a fuck. Way back when I was a kid we had “duck and cover” drills in school, was shown where and what a fallout shelter was, people KNEW. I don’t know if it’s a disconnect or apathy but people seem to have forgotten what ends with that type of conflict and NONE OF IT IS GOOD. Sorry for the book.
At 150,000 mph had that manhole cover been aimed perfectly at the Moon, it would have taken less than 2 hours to get there. It would have achieved trans-Plutonian distance in just under 3 years.
My head cannon is that it survived and is still rocketing across the universe.
10:55 Should have went with "Sometimes the only way to find out is to fuck around, and that's science in a nutshell."
Even friction was like WTF was that?
😂😂😂😂
"Even friction was like, 'what the f__k was that!?!' " 🤣
You should do a video on Jon Paul jones. The American naval officer who, whilst on a burning ship told the British the he hadn’t begun to fight then proceeded to dominate them non consensually
You know, there's not too much more satisfying in life than sitting down with a fresh pepperoni pizza, an ice cold beer, and a Fat Electrician video about nukes.
Fuckin' 'Murica.
Btw, if the 150,000 MPH speed is accurate, that means that the manhole cover was going about 6 times the escape velocity needed to leave Earth's gravitational influence. That day, Earth probably inadvertently attacked an interstellar civilization which will probably start a galactic war tens of thousands of years from now.
:D
CHEERS 🍻 because my only difference is I am by the pool having a Lank Shark.
Best line of the month "moving so fast even friction was like 'what the fuck was that'" 😂
This dropped 2 minutes before my lunch break ended
Sorry
It’s was 2 minutes before mine
I got lucky
You're gonna be late back from your lunch break then.
Did you promptly go and take a shit? 😂