I’d hold my friends hand while on the moon....and watch beautiful earth, thinking of my family and knowing with certainty that my body would be recovered, just space out
During the panic with North Korea in the US in like 2019, I asleep watching RUclips with autoplay on. I woke up to this video while the EAS screen explaining the nuclear missile threat was playing. I freaked out and started sobbing, calling for my mom upstairs. Then I saw Michael’s face pop up and I’ve never been more relieved and absolutely furious in my entire life.
I went through the same exact thing with this video playing in my TV during the North Korea panic in 2019. Michael’s face was both relieving and absolutely infuriating, never been more panicked in my entire life
I would say both. The emergency broadcast really is chilling and is probably a couple million times worse to happen for real but the moon speech is so unimaginably tremendous, profound and literally unmatched in historical significance that I can’t pick.
both are bone chilling,but in different ways. The first one is horrible but you still have hope for life,hope that you can escape. The second one is,as the person above me described, "profound". Knowing that the systems have failed and that youre going to die on the moon,while looking at our beautiful planet. Its beautiful and awe inspiring.
The sirens in my town go off at least once a week for several minutes to upwards of an hour. No one really knows why but now if it really was an emergency, no one would pay it any mind
Vsauce is one prime example of getting views cause of good content and no real clickbait. His ability to explain and compress science with ease is a true talent .🙂
Michel: Is pissed off because he didn't see the launch. Also Michel: *Starts speaking about our mortality, cataclysmic events, uncertainty, nuclear war, and a cold sad and long death of the first humans on the moon*
the last line of the speech he read was a reference to the poem "The Soldier" by Rupert Brooke, which means that the people who wrote this believed that the space race was as real as WWI "If I should die think only this of me, that there's some corner of a foreign field that is forever England."
6:07 jesus…this actually made me feel physically ill. i started tearing up when i heard this alert even though i knew it wasn’t real. fucking wild how much of an impact a sound can have when you’ve been conditioned to expect bad things to happen when you hear it.
I fell asleep to this video last night and was woken up by that terrifying sound. I legitimately thought I was going to be nuked got a fee seconds before realising I'm not even from the US
I'm not american and thus have never heard this EAS in real conditions. Yet the first times I heard it I was terrified. I don't find it scary at all now but I think hearing it in real conditions would freak me the fuck out lol. It's very effective.
@@cyanimation1605 ultra funny XD prank so cool: go to giant big strong party with > 200 people atleast. then hijack the bluetooth speaker and play the alert on it. at first ppl probably confused af. like what? then they hear that there is 4 NUCKES STRIKING IN 15 MINUTES. They panic in the giant crowded party and the entire party goes insane. not only are "4 nukes striking in 15 minutes" but now im stuck in a panicing crowd. people fight to get out and in the process many people die or are injured. then turn off the alert early and say: "its just a prank bro" and im sure everyone will forgive
“Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace, will stay on the moon to Rest In Peace. These men, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, know that there is no hope for their recovery, but they do know that there is hope for mankind in their sacrifice; in ancient days, men looked at the stars and saw their heroes in the constellations, in modern times we do much the same, but our heroes are epic men of flesh and blood.” That’s scary, inspiring, and deep all at once and is my fav group of sentences in a vsauce video
It's a great speech, known also as "the greatest speech never given" Here's the full thing: www.archives.gov/files/presidential-libraries/events/centennials/nixon/images/exhibit/rn100-6-1-2.pdf Edit: I kinda forgot about this but... xkcd.com/1484/
That Random Guy that would be Michael Collins, he was orbiting the moon and would have been able to return to earth, the question was in the capability of the shuttles launch charge which would propel it into lunar orbit allowing Collins to make contact with the craft and then return home.
12:11 the more I think about what we were capable of making more than a decade ago, the more I think I will be alive to see the first extra-solar system expedition and much more crazy things. I love your videos man I can’t stop watching them, thank you for making us dream like that
Werner Von Braun originally intended for the moon mission to be a one way trip. In an interview in a national magazine around 1961 he talked about how heroic a person would be to remain on the moon. His expectation was to accomplish this within 3 years I believe. That was why Kennedy added the "and return him safely to the earth" to his speech a few months later.
Holy. Fucking. SHIT Michael...i was watching this on my tv and i walked away for like 2min and im in the kitchen and all of a sudden i hear the EAS sound and i come out to see whats going on, THEN i hear that 'merica is under attack by not 1, but 4 nuclear missiles, AND THAT ITS NOT A DRILL!! I was sitting there with my jaw on the floor until i saw Michael pop his little head up saying "IF"....god damn it.
Yeah I was thinking about it too, and the thought of just knowing you were alone with one other person on that planet knowing you're not going to get rescued and are just going to be left to die just staring back at the place you came from almost like you could just jump to it but you know you can't and that you're going to die, almost like if death was taunting you. it is disturbing
I honestly don't think they would experience feelings like you described. Of course I too can only guess, but if I was someone who dedicated my entire life to what the speech so beautifully describes as 'truth and understanding', and had been confronted with the fact that I would not be rescued, I just think there would be a certain peace to come over me, along with acceptance and knowing that your entire lifelong dedication has had purpose, great purpose even, which is something a lot of us can only dream of.
The emergency broadcast made me think: _what would you do in the 15 minutes you had left to live?_ Would I seek shelter? Would I call all my friends and family to tell them I love them? Would I watch one last Vsauce video...?
eve couille makes you want to actually build a bunker in your backyard or a field somewhere. I guess all i could do is stay with family. Kinda scary to be in a situation where you cant do anything and its 15mins till you and your entire neighbourhood, town, city, country is wiped off the face of the earth.
you know when there is an incoming disaster and everyone tells people their deepest secrets, and the disaster doesnt really happen? that would be awkward.
what would happen is i would try to call my friends first while on the bus to their houses yet this would take over 15 minutes maybe i would go to one of my other friends house as soon as i would hear that
I'd seek shelter. Survival is possible IF the missile strike is far enough from wherever you are right now. And even IF it is not - I don't fancy going blind from the blast, so shelter it is.
I fell asleep watching vsauce and woke up at 2 am to the sounds of those alarms, followed by an announcement that there were nuclear missiles on their way to the US. You can imagine the kind of morning I had after that.
it gives me shivers it's such a real threat and there is not a lot we could do even if we took shelter. how long would we survive? In a 10×10 concrete shelter. If the blast doesn't kill you, well then you starve or are forced out into the fallout. such a scary thought... keeps up at night sometimes
Redboots 1 Yeah make sure you know what kind of attack is coming because the fallout's time in the atmosphere differs per bomb. nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/ Look at this great Nuke Map that shows the affects of different bombs on the Earth
6:12 the fact this future could exist for us is so unsettling and inconceivable that the mere thought of it is terrifying. the thought that at any moment, you could lose the chance to see anyone you love never take a moment where you exist in peace for granted; you never know what could happen
It’s not that old, and it’s for a reason. I study meteorology and the communication of warning information. That siren sound was designed in the 1930s just after WWI to be the sound that would alert the most people at a time, mechanically. The digital voice sound was originally devised in the 1980s for NOAA Weather Radio for automated updates and weather reports, so meteorologists didn’t have to be doing it 24/7 while transmitting. Every once in a great while, a live person will still go on-air with the weather radio. The last time it was done, was on May 20th, 2013 by the Warning Coordination Meteorologist at the National Weather Service office in Norman, OK to warn people of the extreme severe weather headed toward Moore, OK. An hour later, an EF-5 tornado raked through the town, and he is credited to have saved hundreds of lives.
I cried a bit when I heard "Ancient man used to look to the constellations and see their heroes, and now modern man looks to the stars as well, but instead their heroes are made of flesh and blood." That was easily one of the best sentences in a speech I've ever heard.
I learned that the hard way. A few months ago, I was really interested in his video on creepy things. I tried to close my eyes to sleep, but the smile.jpeg kept on coming up in my head. Like as soon as my vision went black, the image appeared. About five minutes later, I went to the bathroom and used my phone's torch so that I could see my way down the stairs, but I was trying to keep from waking my mom, as she is a pretty light sleeper. For ten to fifteen minutes straight, I could hear the sound of the singing androids in my head and it scared the hell out of me. Also, for some reason, I kept on turning my phone's torch function on and off relatively frequently with only a few seconds in between switching and the sudden appearing and then sudden lack of light scared me, and so did my turning on of the nightlight in the bathroom. I knew nothing and no one else was in the house except for myself, my older brother and my mom, but it still scared the hell out of me. So, yeah. As awesome as his videos are, don't watch them at nighttime, regardless of when you go to bed. It'll set in, trust me.
This is hands down my favorite video on all of RUclips. And I've seen a lot of kickass videos. Seriously. It's the most simultaneously amusing, hilarious, informative, chilling, emotional and thought-provoking thing I've seen on this site, and I think it's fucking awesome as a result. Thank you, Michael!
Imagine surviving a nuclear blast, not knowing about the seed vault, and then generations upon generations later, one of your children or children's children stumble upon this seed vault with every seed in existence in it. That amount of happiness is what I live for.
Sadly, nobody ever remembers the 3rd guy on Apollo 11. Michael Collins. He had to stay in orbit and make the coffee while Niel and Buzz were making history. However, I suppose IF the "worst" happened and Nixon had to deliver his speech, Collins could have returned home alone. What a horrible thing to endure.
“Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace... will stay on the moon to Rest In Peace” I don’t remember the last time I heard such eloquent, powerful words. Honestly I cannot fathom having to deliver those words.
I feel that it might have given Nixon mental trauma to have to convey to the entire population of the United States that our flagship heroes of outer space are to be stranded on the moon and die a lonely death while their families and friends watch helplessly. It would be an extremely dark time for the nation and I am grateful it never happened.
“In ancient days, men looked at the stars and saw their heroes reflected back at them in the constellations. In modern days we do much the same, except our heroes are epic men of flesh, and blood” Genuinely one of the most powerful lines ever written imo
Imagine being on the Moon and looking at the Earth knowing that tens of thousands of people are dying every day. Imagine knowing that tons of species are found extinct, forever, every day.
I love this guy, he has such an amazing way of making anything sound interesting. Hell, he could talk about paper and id watch it non stop. Keep em coming Vsauce, you have a loyal subscriber here!!
@Spinach and Scenery Listen brethren, I can't watch Michael in Netflix on pornhub. My standards are not *that* low. Besides, the video quality there is terrible.
I am amazed at the fact that Micheal, in 13 minutes of video, which I watched in its entirety, doesn't mention a single time to subscribe to his channel. He provides the relevant soruces (the carpe diem is outdated by the way) and he is extremely clear in his explanation. This is quality content. This is the best youtuber I found and the only one I eagerly follow. Thanks Micheal for your inspiring content.
Christian PTV but you no need to worry your television program will be cut off and youll get the warning so you cant really not here it if your kinda honed in on it
You will know, if nuke, flood or tornado as far as I can see, you will here this: rrrrRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
+Pixelater4 There are weekly tests though. So don't be immediately alarmed. If the alarm gets to the point where it says, "please wait for a message from the president of the United States," then go ahead and crap yourself.
11 years later and this video is still fantastic The announcer for cataclysmic threat and the speech about the moon left me with goose bumps This is my second time watching this video, but kids born when this came out will be turning 12 this year…
I literally remember watching this video to the end and yet do not remember seeing the end part about the moon landings. It feels like every time I watch a vsauce video I unlock a new part of it
i just had probably the most horrific feeling in my life. so i was sleeping for like hours, and its 5:30 am at the moment. so i have a chromecast, and like to fall asleep for background noise so i just put on autoplay of done video and let it just go on. i wake up right at the beeping part, to 'the us is being hit by 4 nuclear missles' and i almost puked and cried on the spot. then michaels face popped up
God rewatching vsauce is crazy. The music gives me chills every time. So weird to think that such a random DONG contribution has become such a impact full thing in my life.
Sometimes on the weekend, I get on a youtube playlist and fall asleep while youtube videos keep playing. Last night I learned that not only is it unhealthy, but you can end up waking up to this scaring you on a level you had no idea was possible. I got woken up by the EAS alert and was on my way to wake my family, grab some gear, water, and food from the pantry and load up into the car... When I realized it was fake my adrenaline levels crashed and I just sat down for a while...
@Seamus O, I don't live in a target zone, and I am far from the coasts. I'm more concerned about getting away from heavily populated areas (I live in a town of approx 25,000 people) due to looting, panic, non-radiated hunting/farming grounds, and Martial law.
I bet you're a prepper and you were actually super excited about this finally happening, and you probably felt disappointed when you found out it was fake.
Vsauce My girlfriend and I fell asleep on the couch with one of your playlists on. We woke up to the warning that a nuke was 15 mins from hitting the US. Suddenly, as we were staring at the screen in disbelief, your face came on with the excitedly shouted, "IF". Well played, sir. P.S. You owe me a new pair of underwear.
I swear I was just asleep too, his videos are playing through my Playstation and the sound woke me up and I was scared shitless then all of a sudden...IF. Lol
+Forrest Caudill Oh my god poor guys, I really feel sorry for you it would have shocked me to death. The warning did creep me out and I'm not even living in the US.
+JacktheRah i hate that alarm sound i have cablevision that came on i was like f nooooooooooooooo then i saw what it said it just said weekly test i was like u dicks that was on purpose
dammit Michael. You literally had my heart pounding with that national emergency alert. I was running around getting ready for work when that part of the video started playing. and considering the US airstrike on Iran the other day I was tripping there for like 15 secs... Tryin to give a dude a damn heart attack lmao.
I was in the middle of falling asleep cuz ya know I THOUGHT your videos were soothing to watch while going to sleep and those damn alarms came on and I had a literal panic attack
Michael: What it would look like if a nuclear attack occured against the USA? Michael, minutes later: I ate a stardog in Russia and it looks like it's called *CRAP DOSIS* lol
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I can't imagine being told that I am trapped on the moon and my only two options are starvation or suicide. That is an extremely chilling thought.
I'd just jump off of the Moon and fly through Space and crash into the Earth.
@@CerealExperimentsMizuki you would starve, waayyy before you'd ever hit earth
@@thesandwich7510 r/woooosh
I would probably take the time to think back on my life remembering all the happy moments until the oxygen tank runs out.
I’d hold my friends hand while on the moon....and watch beautiful earth, thinking of my family and knowing with certainty that my body would be recovered, just space out
man that radio warning is horrific
+Shiny Charzaird IKR
+Shiny Charzaird I had a dream about it really happening
you tell me whats scary
Same here. I had the same type of dream a few nights ago. Where I died for like 10 minutes them woke up. Dreams can be fucked up.
+SomeCraZDude *shivvers*
They're called nightmares lol
When you're sad about not being able to see a rocket launch so you make a whole video comforting yourself:
GIVE ME HATE on my videos ... fffffffffffffffff
ruclips.net/video/QM42Vb_ArJE/видео.html
Fuck off both of you
lol
@@rubbishui thanks mate 🥳
During the panic with North Korea in the US in like 2019, I asleep watching RUclips with autoplay on. I woke up to this video while the EAS screen explaining the nuclear missile threat was playing. I freaked out and started sobbing, calling for my mom upstairs.
Then I saw Michael’s face pop up and I’ve never been more relieved and absolutely furious in my entire life.
I am dying. oh my. you remembered your entire life in a matter of seconds
That sounds traumatizing but, honestly, also kind of hilarious...
Nice story bro
real tbh. i'd do the same
lol
"Sir, the launch had to be cancelled."
"Impossible! I made sure they used comic sans this time."
Why did I read that last part like Sarge from Red Vs Blue?
*Cosmic Sans
Thór I think that’s the joke, we all heard him say comic sans when really he said cosmic sans
I think this whole video, is just micheal complainning that he didn't get to watch the rocket launch.
His joke but worse.
The ambience of that emergency broadcast was spine chilling
Neerus YEA FOR REAL
So heart pacing
Check out channels Hainback, AMULETS and my channel lol
hi
Yeah perfect thing to watch at 3am
“Stand by for a message from the president of the United States.”
*Hey! Vsauce! Michael here*
Tyler Godfrey boy, I wish
The world is about to end... or is it?
*low-fidelity vsauce music starts*
Is Vsauce hinting at 2024?
And as always, thanks for listen.
6:24 I love falling asleep to vsauce, but waking up can be the most anxiety inducing panic causing shit. Jesus Christ.
I literally am naming a playlist called without if lmaooo
@@UrdahlcoachingYou never made it
I went through the same exact thing with this video playing in my TV during the North Korea panic in 2019. Michael’s face was both relieving and absolutely infuriating, never been more panicked in my entire life
i thot i was the only one that listened to vsauce while i sleep specifically the older onesss goodnight and stay right
@@Urdahlcoachingstill waiting on the playlist
The moon disaster speech is the most haunting thing I have ever heard.
Bilal Khalid yep
Bilal Khalid yeah
ok chill ok?
not same personally
I find it strangely comforting. It's a beautiful speech.
I don’t know what was more eerie. The emergency broadcast or the speech about the moon.
I would say both. The emergency broadcast really is chilling and is probably a couple million times worse to happen for real but the moon speech is so unimaginably tremendous, profound and literally unmatched in historical significance that I can’t pick.
both are bone chilling,but in different ways. The first one is horrible but you still have hope for life,hope that you can escape. The second one is,as the person above me described, "profound". Knowing that the systems have failed and that youre going to die on the moon,while looking at our beautiful planet. Its beautiful and awe inspiring.
GIVE ME HATE on my videos ... fffffffffffffffff
@@niranjanrajesh8339 totally agree. the part when he said that they would either have to starve to death or commit suicide on the moon hurt the most
Now play the emergency broadcast from other countries; compare and contrast. This way, people of other countries can also feel the eeriness of it.
When you pause the Emergency Alert System but you still hear the sirens
Hol up
Take cover cus it bout to get heated in here...ohhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!
The sirens in my town go off at least once a week for several minutes to upwards of an hour. No one really knows why but now if it really was an emergency, no one would pay it any mind
Something is wrong i can feel it
copied from another vid
The emergency alert gave me shivers and I really hope no government anywhere in the world will need to broadcast that… ever.
Nuclear war is inevitable!
Too late for Japan
@@Desert_guy bro
with trump in office, we're good for 4 years at least
6:47 “Stand by for a message from the president of the United States.”
*Michael pops up*
i didnt notice that
@@jcktmn lol right
Duck
Coincidence?i think not
Michael for president 2020
knew it was him the whole time.
Only Vsauce can get 10M views with the title ‘If’.
Andrew X true xd
Andrew X 10,6M views man....
and then there's the brachistochrone- Only Vsauce can reach top #2 on trending with a thumbnail that IS LITERALLY JUST A LINE ON A BLACK BACKGROUND
Pewdi-
Vsauce is one prime example of getting views cause of good content and no real clickbait. His ability to explain and compress science with ease is a true talent .🙂
Michel: Is pissed off because he didn't see the launch.
Also Michel: *Starts speaking about our mortality, cataclysmic events, uncertainty, nuclear war, and a cold sad and long death of the first humans on the moon*
lmao.
And also... Crapdosis.
michael
If you think he's pissed off, you missed the point of the video.
I know you're joking tho
dont forget the crapdosis
the last line of the speech he read was a reference to the poem "The Soldier" by Rupert Brooke, which means that the people who wrote this believed that the space race was as real as WWI
"If I should die think only this of me, that there's some corner of a foreign field that is forever England."
I feel like this is a personal rant on him being angry cause he didn’t get to see the rocket launch while he was there.
probably is XD
Lmao
Or is it?
then he has an existerntial crisis about probability and consequence
or if it
The fact that the rocket scientists were using Comic Sans still shakes me to this day
I read once that it is very distinguishable for dyslexic people, so probably it is used so that more people can read it easily and quickly.
i know several of my science professors who use comic sans for their course material
(ಥ_ಥ)
Because sans the funny skeleton guy, haha
Sans the skeleton (idk if u know this) likes science
More like cosmic sans
Everyone gangsta until the radio warning plays twice
indeed.
555
IF
GIVE ME HATE on my videos ... fffffffffffffffff
Oich
6:07 jesus…this actually made me feel physically ill. i started tearing up when i heard this alert even though i knew it wasn’t real. fucking wild how much of an impact a sound can have when you’ve been conditioned to expect bad things to happen when you hear it.
Terrifying asf
I fell asleep to this video last night and was woken up by that terrifying sound. I legitimately thought I was going to be nuked got a fee seconds before realising I'm not even from the US
@@guitarmaniac004 right?! it’s such a naturally terrifying sound 😭
I'm not american and thus have never heard this EAS in real conditions. Yet the first times I heard it I was terrified. I don't find it scary at all now but I think hearing it in real conditions would freak me the fuck out lol. It's very effective.
@@guitarmaniac004Lmaoo😭
Even though I knew it we weren't actually under nuclear attack, just listening to those alerts gave me chills...
JoeMom me too omg
JoeMom same
Silent Hill anyone? lol... Also, I live in oklahoma so I just think of tornados when I hear them.
Yeah man, that was some scary shit.
I felt the same way.
Not me crying alone at 10 am over astronauts that never got stranded on the moon.
aww that's adorable lol
okay but if that was me I'd find that cool.
the fake nuke alert though
@@cyanimation1605 ultra funny XD prank so cool: go to giant big strong party with > 200 people atleast. then hijack the bluetooth speaker and play the alert on it. at first ppl probably confused af. like what? then they hear that there is 4 NUCKES STRIKING IN 15 MINUTES. They panic in the giant crowded party and the entire party goes insane. not only are "4 nukes striking in 15 minutes" but now im stuck in a panicing crowd. people fight to get out and in the process many people die or are injured. then turn off the alert early and say: "its just a prank bro" and im sure everyone will forgive
@@Qaptyl I genuinely had a stroke while reading that holy shit bro
@@Qaptyl I don't know which is a bigger crime, your grammar or inciting mass panic
What if someone accidentally sent a text alert saying that Hawaii was under attack? Oh...wait
Totally forgot about that
I still don't believe that was accidental. I think we narrowly dodged a real threat.
Wicha329 Uh-oh. A conspiracy theorist has entered the chat...
Nice👌🏻
What happened
This remains as my favorite Vsauce video as well as the best video in RUclips history.
God, I love it so much.
Dude that speech with the music going on in the background was powerful.
I agree
@@ZanzibarWizard did you forget to switch accounts
I agree
@@Noiii mans really replied to his own comment💀
Noi it was a joke
Somewhere, sometime, someone will be watching this video when real sirens go off for a nuclear bomb, and they won't believe it.
James Cockerham that's so fucking scary
*_No._*
James Cockerham the only reason nukes will be launched from now on is in defence of all humanity
Proger 13 10,i agree totally,sad to know only 20 -25- percent of humans are good....
Chow Tom - As opposed to what??... there is No other option... that statement makes no sense or point.
“Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace, will stay on the moon to Rest In Peace. These men, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, know that there is no hope for their recovery, but they do know that there is hope for mankind in their sacrifice; in ancient days, men looked at the stars and saw their heroes in the constellations, in modern times we do much the same, but our heroes are epic men of flesh and blood.” That’s scary, inspiring, and deep all at once and is my fav group of sentences in a vsauce video
You quoted his quote lmao
djabourbi alli yeah I know, that was the point
It's a great speech, known also as "the greatest speech never given"
Here's the full thing: www.archives.gov/files/presidential-libraries/events/centennials/nixon/images/exhibit/rn100-6-1-2.pdf
Edit: I kinda forgot about this but...
xkcd.com/1484/
What about the third guy who was also on the moon but never left the craft
That Random Guy that would be Michael Collins, he was orbiting the moon and would have been able to return to earth, the question was in the capability of the shuttles launch charge which would propel it into lunar orbit allowing Collins to make contact with the craft and then return home.
12:11 the more I think about what we were capable of making more than a decade ago, the more I think I will be alive to see the first extra-solar system expedition and much more crazy things. I love your videos man I can’t stop watching them, thank you for making us dream like that
Hi
6:46
"Standby for a message from the president of the United States."
*Michael pops up*"Hey vsauce, Michael here."
*Que music*
UltraNerdyGamer who are the moon people? Or, more importantly, will they ever come home? Well, first, we'll need to talk about adflternate universes.
Best comment ever.
VSAUCE 2020
_HAIL VSAUCE! LET HIM TAKE THE PRESIDENTIAL THRONE! *proceeding to wreck some stuff and spread chaos over my neighborhood*
The fact that Aldrin and Armstrong could have been left on the moon to die is just terrifying to think of
If they did, communication would be shut down. But if it did happen, I would order to still have communication, until they die.
Werner Von Braun originally intended for the moon mission to be a one way trip. In an interview in a
national magazine around 1961 he talked about how heroic a person would be to remain on the moon.
His expectation was to accomplish this within 3 years I believe. That was why Kennedy added the "and return
him safely to the earth" to his speech a few months later.
The new Mars mission is also pretty much one way. Just wait for it. These people who leave aren't coming back. For better or worse.
@@DantesInferno96 the spacex ones are 100% coming back, well if they want to anyway
X606 we’re never reaching mars far less live there I think
Just hearing "there are 4 nuclear misses heading for the US" gave me chills and made my heart sink
Right? I got so freaked out a single tear dropped down my face.
Same, and I'm not even from the US dafuk.
Im watching this at 3am and my heart is racing
Great, Now you know the feelings of the millions a moment before they got vapourized.
Jarid Gaming sane
No one else will see this but many of these videos make me want to cry. But i still love them.
I saw this
I saw this
i feel the same way ❤️
I saw this too
The world was different back then. More hospitable in some ways.
Holy. Fucking. SHIT Michael...i was watching this on my tv and i walked away for like 2min and im in the kitchen and all of a sudden i hear the EAS sound and i come out to see whats going on, THEN i hear that 'merica is under attack by not 1, but 4 nuclear missiles, AND THAT ITS NOT A DRILL!! I was sitting there with my jaw on the floor until i saw Michael pop his little head up saying "IF"....god damn it.
Woah.. I was terrified even when I knew in the first place that it wasn't real....
Thank yoooouu!!! You're awesome!
you've just got trolled by Vsauce lol XD
lmao basically
Trollll
Imagine just going all chill in 2119 on the moon and finding a 150 years old astronaut corpse from the precolonial era...
OH NONONONONO I CAN ALREADY IMAGINE THAT
That'd be terrifying.
I can't believe they couldn't get rid of dead bodies on the moon by the 22th century.
Burn Angel the twenty twooth? Tf is that
@@defenderalt7393 It's engrish. Learn it, be more diverse (?)
Bruh, I think you just came up with a synopsis for a future (....?) episode of Battlestar Galactica!
Lowkey pissed his event was ruined
highkey*
Don't worry, clouds have always been party poopers. From rocket launches, to the nuclear bombing of Japan
You think you all are the only one's who are watching me?
Why cant we predict which way winds will shift! xD
Matt Cummings lol
The Emergency Message got me scared and freaked out.
Then the crapdosis made me smile.
And the final moved me.
This content is really extraordinary.
The Nuclear Attack alert, and the Moon Disaster Speech are so incredibly disturbing to think about.
Yeah I was thinking about it too, and the thought of just knowing you were alone with one other person on that planet knowing you're not going to get rescued and are just going to be left to die just staring back at the place you came from almost like you could just jump to it but you know you can't and that you're going to die, almost like if death was taunting you. it is disturbing
+Darth Vader Dang. Thanks Darth Vader. Now I'm gonna be depressed all day... 😬
I honestly don't think they would experience feelings like you described. Of course I too can only guess, but if I was someone who dedicated my entire life to what the speech so beautifully describes as 'truth and understanding', and had been confronted with the fact that I would not be rescued, I just think there would be a certain peace to come over me, along with acceptance and knowing that your entire lifelong dedication has had purpose, great purpose even, which is something a lot of us can only dream of.
I think that's my biggest fear
the nuke attack wouldnt happen unless america provoked russia
Top 10 channel: Top 10 things that would happen in a NUCLEAR ATTACK!
Vsauce: If
Coleman Christy damn I need to do that!
This is more effective clickbait
@@sawyernorthrop4078 not clickbait
I WREK ZE 666 LIKES
Vsauce is the opposite of clickbait.
The emergency broadcast made me think: _what would you do in the 15 minutes you had left to live?_
Would I seek shelter? Would I call all my friends and family to tell them I love them? Would I watch one last Vsauce video...?
eve couille makes you want to actually build a bunker in your backyard or a field somewhere. I guess all i could do is stay with family. Kinda scary to be in a situation where you cant do anything and its 15mins till you and your entire neighbourhood, town, city, country is wiped off the face of the earth.
you know when there is an incoming disaster and everyone tells people their deepest secrets, and the disaster doesnt really happen? that would be awkward.
what would happen is i would try to call my friends first while on the bus to their houses yet this would take over 15 minutes maybe i would go to one of my other friends house as soon as i would hear that
I'd seek shelter. Survival is possible IF the missile strike is far enough from wherever you are right now. And even IF it is not - I don't fancy going blind from the blast, so shelter it is.
eve couille his videos' playtime is short enough to enjoy within 15minutes....so yay?
Am I watching this for the 15th time over the past 10 years? No, it's probably more like 50
Vsauce is my sleeping pill
I cant believe im risking losing a scholarship by staying up late to watch a video named “if”
@Silktank Studios no but thanks for asking
Aren’t we all losing a scholarship by watching this because we could be trying?
@Silktank Studios wtf why did he reply for me 💀💀💀 I did get it ! Ty for asking :)
@@suprm7400 so ummmmm.....did you get it?
@@johncarlofernando1705 i did ! :))
I fell asleep watching vsauce and woke up at 2 am to the sounds of those alarms, followed by an announcement that there were nuclear missiles on their way to the US. You can imagine the kind of morning I had after that.
what happened the morning? did you eat lunch for breakfast?
fuckin awesome
Happened with me too, But in dream, I was fighting with aliens and defeated them going lights speed fast
Sanchit Dixit nice dreaming
I'm gonna take a guess and say that because youre chapstick, it didn't go very well.
SAME I FREAKED THE FUCK OUT
That EAS message is so cool and unsettling at the same time
It scares me tho
There were fireworks going off as I heard the warning so I got nervous as fuck.
Imagine that going, while an air-raid siren was howling in the distance.
it gives me shivers it's such a real threat and there is not a lot we could do even if we took shelter. how long would we survive? In a 10×10 concrete shelter. If the blast doesn't kill you, well then you starve or are forced out into the fallout. such a scary thought... keeps up at night sometimes
Redboots 1 Yeah make sure you know what kind of attack is coming because the fallout's time in the atmosphere differs per bomb. nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
Look at this great Nuke Map that shows the affects of different bombs on the Earth
10 years... Damn....
I juss said that on the is anything real vid..thats crazy..10 yrs though..time flys..
Zamn
That EAS alarm always gives me the chills
Same.
***** Oh god!
those types of alarms are some of my favourite sounds, especially air raid signals.
The Dudeprime same
Realized* and why were you almost nude???? XD
man, that speech from Safire always gets me...
Vid Juracic “In modern times we do much the same, but our heroes are epic men of flesh and blood.” That part was very powerful.
Vid Juracic that’s what you mean
It’s absolutely chilling.
I cried a little when he said that
Ye I almost cried thinking of being one of them knowing that I don’t have long to live😢 and that my last sight would not be anyone from my family😭
That radio warning was bone chilling I hope I never have to hear that in my lifetime
Time stamp: 5:51
Knowing that 2021 is gonna be big bro of 2020 I'm guessing we might have to 😅
@@manya6879 as of Feb 15, 2021 isn't as bad as 2020.
@@thememeguy2135 Just wait
GIVE ME HATE on my videos ... fffffffffffffffff
Me 2,
I skipped it.
6:12 the fact this future could exist for us is so unsettling and inconceivable that the mere thought of it is terrifying. the thought that at any moment, you could lose the chance to see anyone you love
never take a moment where you exist in peace for granted; you never know what could happen
The most horrific thing about the alert system is that it's friggin 2020 and they still use earrape microphone recording from the 1800's
I think you misspelled 80s there buddy
@@mcplumpkin6191 You missed the joke there buddy
Also, the text font ?? _Imagine if they used comic sans_
@@smoothdelgato How? That wasnt even a joke just hyperbole
It’s not that old, and it’s for a reason. I study meteorology and the communication of warning information. That siren sound was designed in the 1930s just after WWI to be the sound that would alert the most people at a time, mechanically.
The digital voice sound was originally devised in the 1980s for NOAA Weather Radio for automated updates and weather reports, so meteorologists didn’t have to be doing it 24/7 while transmitting.
Every once in a great while, a live person will still go on-air with the weather radio.
The last time it was done, was on May 20th, 2013 by the Warning Coordination Meteorologist at the National Weather Service office in Norman, OK to warn people of the extreme severe weather headed toward Moore, OK. An hour later, an EF-5 tornado raked through the town, and he is credited to have saved hundreds of lives.
I cried a bit when I heard "Ancient man used to look to the constellations and see their heroes, and now modern man looks to the stars as well, but instead their heroes are made of flesh and blood." That was easily one of the best sentences in a speech I've ever heard.
6:40 everyone gangsta until the warning doesn’t actually stop
😨
2 minutes until this video and I concluded that it's not smart to watch Vsauce videos before sleep time
B. Kuiper which is exactly why I do this
I was about to fall asleep the nuclear warning came up. Had to turn my lamp on it scared the shit out of me
Well I guess we both fricked up
@@skrillah6259 Me too.
I learned that the hard way. A few months ago, I was really interested in his video on creepy things. I tried to close my eyes to sleep, but the smile.jpeg kept on coming up in my head. Like as soon as my vision went black, the image appeared. About five minutes later, I went to the bathroom and used my phone's torch so that I could see my way down the stairs, but I was trying to keep from waking my mom, as she is a pretty light sleeper. For ten to fifteen minutes straight, I could hear the sound of the singing androids in my head and it scared the hell out of me. Also, for some reason, I kept on turning my phone's torch function on and off relatively frequently with only a few seconds in between switching and the sudden appearing and then sudden lack of light scared me, and so did my turning on of the nightlight in the bathroom. I knew nothing and no one else was in the house except for myself, my older brother and my mom, but it still scared the hell out of me. So, yeah. As awesome as his videos are, don't watch them at nighttime, regardless of when you go to bed. It'll set in, trust me.
That Nixon speech literally gave me chills.
sounds a bit like scp-079 speaking kinda cool tbh, creepy as well
It's almost ceremonial for me to watch this video every couple of months. It's just so damn powerful.
Same
i come back once a year bingewatching michaels vsauce channel, I don't know what he did to me but it worked! "powerfull" is a good term...
OMG SAME
@@naotamf1588 me too 😂😂
Aren't most of Vsauce's video worth a revisit once in a while? 😁
This still is and always will be my favourite VSauce video.
This is hands down my favorite video on all of RUclips. And I've seen a lot of kickass videos.
Seriously. It's the most simultaneously amusing, hilarious, informative, chilling, emotional and thought-provoking thing I've seen on this site, and I think it's fucking awesome as a result. Thank you, Michael!
Right
My favorite too!
People say the ending is sad, but nobody talking about how Micheal missed out on the rocket.
[Cries in isotopes]
And, why isotopes?
i wish he had seen the falcon heavy launch,
FatiTank Drawings mabye he has a thing for isotopes
Cries in comic sans
@@fatitankeris6327 or is it?
Does the emergency broadcast noise scare the hell out of anyone else? I cant be the only one.
You're not the only one
Yes! It scares me worse than the message
Every time there is a freaking snowstorm it sounds like they're announcing the apocalypse.
its all scary..the sound...the message...all of it...I hope it will never come to that
yes that scared the shit out of me. I walked out of my room and came back to that message
Imagine surviving a nuclear blast, not knowing about the seed vault, and then generations upon generations later, one of your children or children's children stumble upon this seed vault with every seed in existence in it. That amount of happiness is what I live for.
@iamafraidofwomen 🤯
Sadly, nobody ever remembers the 3rd guy on Apollo 11. Michael Collins. He had to stay in orbit and make the coffee while Niel and Buzz were making history. However, I suppose IF the "worst" happened and Nixon had to deliver his speech, Collins could have returned home alone. What a horrible thing to endure.
Tony Reusser you know they faked the moon landing, the government even admitted it
It's so disappointing that no-one ever remembers him.
The Flip proof?
The Flip
Lol fake
DidIAskYouM8? I know it was
“Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace... will stay on the moon to Rest In Peace”
I don’t remember the last time I heard such eloquent, powerful words. Honestly I cannot fathom having to deliver those words.
I feel that it might have given Nixon mental trauma to have to convey to the entire population of the United States that our flagship heroes of outer space are to be stranded on the moon and die a lonely death while their families and friends watch helplessly. It would be an extremely dark time for the nation and I am grateful it never happened.
The words were too powerful.
It gave me goosebumps.
"Never have so few given so much, for so many." Churchill regarding the Battle of Britain
Also:
ruclips.net/video/RclaV_3_eOA/видео.html
literally so touching
“In ancient days, men looked at the stars and saw their heroes reflected back at them in the constellations.
In modern days we do much the same, except our heroes are epic men of flesh, and blood”
Genuinely one of the most powerful lines ever written imo
That nuclear attack alert is surprisingly terrifying-
The genuine-ness of it and what it warns of is just so unnerving
@Kewl ADEL use fucking punctuation
@ Yeah, he should've said "Use fucking, punctuation.".
now imagine if some hacker did that on tv lol
This is the most entertaining comment section I have ever seen.
1:55 old RUclips. RIP
And back then that was the new RUclips haha. It's been through a few designs over the years, nostalgic
Old?? If it had the 5 star ratings then that would be old RUclips
Imagine just looking up at the moon and knowing that two people are on it waiting for death how could you sleep?
Even scarier if you had a telescope and could see them running around in agony 😰
@@husseinel-hajj7818 It doesn't work like that but sure
Imagine being on the Moon and looking at the Earth knowing that tens of thousands of people are dying every day. Imagine knowing that tons of species are found extinct, forever, every day.
Duqy Boi You wouldn’t sleep...
TeamAtFort I don’t think Stalin would misspell tragedy.
I love this guy, he has such an amazing way of making anything sound interesting. Hell, he could talk about paper and id watch it non stop. Keep em coming Vsauce, you have a loyal subscriber here!!
Hell yeah man! =)
anthony pizzi yeah vsauce can teach me in 10 mins better than my teacher can teach in 1 week
+micheal asdain Lmao!
+anthony pizzi I didn't like to preserve the number.
It is something that should be cherished.
+anthony pizzi here too.
If Michael hadn't forgot the VSauce password
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 he remembers it when he has to post mind field vids😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@Spinach and Scenery Holy shit, you're right. I'm still buying a month of RUclips premium though.
@Spinach and Scenery Listen brethren, I can't watch Michael in Netflix on pornhub. My standards are not *that* low. Besides, the video quality there is terrible.
@Spinach and Scenery Pornhub is probably the worst site. Would rather get brazzers
@@jollyhazard-3809 uncool
I am amazed at the fact that Micheal, in 13 minutes of video, which I watched in its entirety, doesn't mention a single time to subscribe to his channel. He provides the relevant soruces (the carpe diem is outdated by the way) and he is extremely clear in his explanation. This is quality content. This is the best youtuber I found and the only one I eagerly follow. Thanks Micheal for your inspiring content.
Breaking News: Butterfly sentenced to life in prison for causing natural disasters.
100 thanks riley
Ik you mean Huey
That would actually be a rather short sentence.
"What do you have to say for yourself Mr Butterfly?"
My biggest fear is that one day that alert will come on and I wouldn't be listening to the radio or be watching tv to hear it.
***** and that person will be me
Christian PTV but you no need to worry your television program will be cut off and youll get the warning so you cant really not here it if your kinda honed in on it
You will know, if nuke, flood or tornado as far as I can see, you will here this: rrrrRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Pepe the Frog Today we get alerts through texts too
***** Agreed :D
The anxiety induced by this video is very high.
Same, That EAS scared the bjesus out of me
@@NoyZbokZa Same. I used to be cool with it, got nightmares about it, and now I'm officially scared of the Emergency Alert System now! O_O
This is nothing compared to videos LEMMINO makes...
Really, they make me not want to fall asleep some nights.
@@aidanfitzpatrick-oneill2072 Can you tell me one
@@NoyZbokZa The Great Silence
I'm not speaking with a hint of irony when I say that this is a cinematic masterpiece and it deserves an Oscar. No I'm not kidding in the slightest.
If I saw that message on TV I would die of a heart attack rather than the actual bomb.
+Pixelater4 There are weekly tests though. So don't be immediately alarmed. If the alarm gets to the point where it says, "please wait for a message from the president of the United States," then go ahead and crap yourself.
So what does that mean?
Pixelater4 That means that it's not a test. Oh, and the alarm will say, while playing, "this is not a test." 6:12
Ok thank you
+Unsolved Paradox Does it actually come on TV weekly?
I love how after talking about what a nuclear emergency would sound like Micheal just starts talking about hotdogs
crap dosis.
crapdosis sounds like some weird obscure mental illness from the 1900s
@@mr.stealyourgirl8397 hehe
I feel like Michael was frustrated by the events of his trip and this entire video was made by him ranting to himself on the way home
Who wouldn't be frustrated
11 years later and this video is still fantastic
The announcer for cataclysmic threat and the speech about the moon left me with goose bumps
This is my second time watching this video, but kids born when this came out will be turning 12 this year…
nukes hitting in 15 minutes
* watches 15 minutes of dank memes
If I’m gonna die, I’m gonna die laughing.
@@zenith-boi Amen
Memes that will save me from a nuclear missile
R/dankmemes approves
15 minutes of vsauce*
I was falling asleep when that alert woke me up. I was so scared I couldn’t tell if I was dreaming or not until I figured out what had happened.
Same i just freaked out
That must have been terrifying.
Holy shit
same happened to me, that’s when i turned off autoplay
@@wta1518 i miss you
Is it just me or is this video VERY emotional? It makes me feel all kinds of emotions lol.
Ye... It is
The speech is a good speech.
Mostly lust
@@plat1599 That is quite interesting
Scary
I literally remember watching this video to the end and yet do not remember seeing the end part about the moon landings. It feels like every time I watch a vsauce video I unlock a new part of it
6:46 "stand by for a message from the president of the United States."
(Michael pops up)
**foreshaddowing**
The world would be happier if Micheal became the US president. But everything would be unpredictable cause Micheal.
He would have my vote
“If”
**gets 12.6 million views**
I’m sure he got more views on a video that didn’t even have a title
yes. because it's Micheal
It's not that it's titled "If." It's because it's seven years old, and it's Vsauce.
I’m 400
Metal Gear Fox WHAT YOU MUST BE...👴🏻👴🏻👴🏻
i just had probably the most horrific feeling in my life. so i was sleeping for like hours, and its 5:30 am at the moment. so i have a chromecast, and like to fall asleep for background noise so i just put on autoplay of done video and let it just go on. i wake up right at the beeping part, to 'the us is being hit by 4 nuclear missles' and i almost puked and cried on the spot.
then michaels face popped up
Fanta Soft Drinks God damn it Michael! Scaring people in their sleep.
This happened to me too!!! I was frozen in fear I didn’t know what to do
O rip
LOL XD
Prank'd
God rewatching vsauce is crazy. The music gives me chills every time. So weird to think that such a random DONG contribution has become such a impact full thing in my life.
You mean d!ng 😉
(Remember what michael said "it has ALWAYS BEEN CALLED THIS AND NOTHING ELSE")
@@swarnimvajpai6373 hehe
Sometimes on the weekend, I get on a youtube playlist and fall asleep while youtube videos keep playing. Last night I learned that not only is it unhealthy, but you can end up waking up to this scaring you on a level you had no idea was possible.
I got woken up by the EAS alert and was on my way to wake my family, grab some gear, water, and food from the pantry and load up into the car... When I realized it was fake my adrenaline levels crashed and I just sat down for a while...
You are my favorite person of all time now. XD
You had me at 'family' :'-)
A well deserved thumbs up!
@Seamus O, I don't live in a target zone, and I am far from the coasts. I'm more concerned about getting away from heavily populated areas (I live in a town of approx 25,000 people) due to looting, panic, non-radiated hunting/farming grounds, and Martial law.
I bet you're a prepper and you were actually super excited about this finally happening, and you probably felt disappointed when you found out it was fake.
Vsauce
My girlfriend and I fell asleep on the couch with one of your playlists on.
We woke up to the warning that a nuke was 15 mins from hitting the US.
Suddenly, as we were staring at the screen in disbelief, your face came on with the excitedly shouted, "IF".
Well played, sir.
P.S. You owe me a new pair of underwear.
Forrest Caudill Hahaha, thats funny as F!
I swear I was just asleep too, his videos are playing through my Playstation and the sound woke me up and I was scared shitless then all of a sudden...IF. Lol
+Forrest Caudill Oh my god poor guys, I really feel sorry for you it would have shocked me to death. The warning did creep me out and I'm not even living in the US.
+Forrest Caudill ahahahahah
+JacktheRah i hate that alarm sound i have cablevision that came on i was like f nooooooooooooooo then i saw what it said it just said weekly test i was like u dicks that was on purpose
The only channel if I'm aware of that can title a video the lower case word "if" and pull in 7 million views.
what about the video that didn't have a title
or thumbnail
Even better.
You don't need clickbait when your content is perfect, interesting and mesmerizing
these tittles are made me subscribe to this channel
L
1:04 Bro’s getting philosophical as a coping mechanism for his missed opportunity.
once that classic vsauce music starts playing..
you know ur about to get mind f*cked
JordanBruhh lol
Boooooooong. Doot da doo.
dammit Michael. You literally had my heart pounding with that national emergency alert. I was running around getting ready for work when that part of the video started playing. and considering the US airstrike on Iran the other day I was tripping there for like 15 secs... Tryin to give a dude a damn heart attack lmao.
Well, to be fair, this video was posted years ago.
@@mrmunch5615 that is true but it still didn't stop me from being fooled at first lol
@@mrmunch5615 oh, so because it was posted years ago, it is impossible to be interrupted by an emergency broadcast now?? ¿Wtf?
That kind of stuff is interesting to me
Colaface16 when did I say it was impossible to have an emergency broadcast? Also, who gets one on RUclips?
I was in the middle of falling asleep cuz ya know I THOUGHT your videos were soothing to watch while going to sleep and those damn alarms came on and I had a literal panic attack
Crazy how the alerts would come straight to our phones now.
Me: what is it, doctor
Doctor: it's crapdoses
Holy crapdoses this joke actually made me laugh so hard
Well shit
The rocket was so traumatized by the Comic Sans that it couldn't even take off
Ha, that was comic.
I mean-
_shit you're right_
I have to stop watching these at night. Too unsettling.
Me too, the nuclear warning message really got to me...
Cubemaster
Same
Marley Cameron now Imagine you are listing to cause to sleep in the middle of the night you wake up to a video of a actual warning test
Cubemaster Same.
If... Vsauce never existed, the lives of many would have been drastically different today. Thank you Michael
Michael: What it would look like if a nuclear attack occured against the USA?
Michael, minutes later: I ate a stardog in Russia and it looks like it's called *CRAP DOSIS* lol
Sounds like a disease
im sorry but you have been diagnosed with a serious case of the crap dosis.
That gunshot photo was creepy
loodlebop what photo?
The photo at 4:54.
Shot for shot. Consider it paid
Those eyes pierced my soul
So is your profile pic... mine too
That speech was... unexpectedly devastating. It actually made me cry. It didn't even happen
Vsauces content is so consistent, unique, and original that he got 15 million people to click on a video with the title *if*
standby for a message from the POTUS: "Hey Vsauce! Michael here!"
Kartofflel It would be cool indeed. Michael 2020
Standby for a message from the President of the United States: "Hey Vsauce! Micheal here. When will you die?"
Dylan Truong CGP Grey would do that too.
mrRubiks "Well, according to new information from the US Department of Defense, about 15 minutes." *Sci-fi music starts*
*If* Michael rightfully becomes PotUS