Can’t believe it’s been 9 years since this video first aired. Time flies. Very relevant this month with the release of Oppenheimer. I will be forever grateful for your work Michael!
I came back to this video specifically because I just saw Oppenheimer, to see if there was anything I might see in a new light after the movie and after several years of personal growth. Clearly I'm not the only one, pretty cool
im not even a movie fan so aint gonna watch it, glad it came back into my reccomended though, vsauce is 100% in the top creators in youtube just for how timeless and amazing his videos are, i still rewatch the ones i watched as a kid
@@atc_nth the visual of the nuclear bomb was kind of underwhelming it looked like you know your normal Hollywood explosion, but the movie is not about the bomb it's about Oppenheimer
@@quepacho64 yeah, never forget that Japan was the aggressor in that war, and commited unspeakable crimes against humanity in China and other places on par with Nazi Germany. You cant naturally assume that all Japanese civilians were okay with this (though there also werent any significant resistance movements like in Germany), but if you would have been okay with nuking Nazi Germany, you have to also be okay with the nukes on Japan. In the end, these bombs ironically probably saved millions of American, Japanese and maybe Soviet lives
As always, the USA tries to justify the murder of civilians. At that time saying that it was necessary to end the war, and now cataloging civilians as "unarmed combatants."
Jokes aside, I think this is one of my favourite VSauce videos. I especially love the quote "We have weapons that can mimic the winds on Neptune and the furnace of the Sun, yet we cannot predict the weather in half an hour's time" (paraphrasing, the actual quote is different). That along with the story of Kokura and how it was spared, and the classic old Micheal ramblings turning into a cohesive narrative complemented beautifully by Jake Chudnow makes this video an absolute mind joy to watch
great comment this is also one of my favs, but I have a minor complaint. wouldn’t you be paraphrasing here since you admit the actual quote is different?
A great full length video instead of those silly "shorts" for the short attention span folks. lol By the way, at 4:04 it's hard to believe that they never found the uranium rich secondary. I would think that a Geiger would have gone off the scale even buried in the ground. Scary stuff.
@@billant2 I'd believe it was shielded so well in the combination with the soil covering it, it was not possible to find. In time as the shielding decays it will be found, I would hope they installed some permanent Geiger detectors around the possible vicinity of its location.
“We can build a weapon that mimics the furnace of our sun and the winds of Neptune but yet we can’t predict the weather more than a few minutes ahead of time” … this sentence scares me every time. Look at how he’s shaking before he says it
Thats the kind of quiet terror that I don’t think anyone on the planet should be subjected to, regardless of their ideology or whatever their government has done.
Just imagine being a citizen of Kokura (the 1st pick for the nuke) and finding out that you and all your family/friends' live's were spared because of some clouds
I once read that there was this man who survived the Hiroshima bomb and then fled to Nagasaki, and we all know what happened there after a few days lol
Vsauce is THE RUclips channel. I can watch either the video that was released 9 years ago or a few months ago and be equally entertained, even though I watched all those videos numerous times
"We can build a weapon that mimics the furnace of our sun and the winds of Neptune, and yet we can't predict the weather more than a few minutes ahead of time." -Vsauce 2013
I just seen that quote not to long ago on a video on youtube...it was about a tetris game or simulator that's stopped playing once losing was inevitable and paused...man that's not accurate but it went something like that
I just saw Oppenheimer, and I am dismayed at the ramifications of the bomb that movie points out. The fact that only a little over 1% of the Uranium 235 in Little Boy blew up just points out how unfathomable the destruction of a nuclear weapon is, and how dangerous it is for humanity to have it.
and yet they are infinitely better than a world without nuclear weapons because we would have obliterated ourselves as the cold war would have gone hot as fuck
What is this new to you? Almost everyone alive today has lived in the shadow of the bomb. It dictated 70 years of Cold War across the planet. And the bombs in Oppenheimer are incredibly small in comparison to the thermonuclear weapons we have today. Learn some history. Nuclear weapons are still a terrifying reality in modern conflict and we’re only getting close to a point where a country like India or Israel will use one.
@lookoutforchris it's been a reported phenomenon that there's a difference between people born before/around and after the atomic bomb. Dan Carlin has a podcast episode about it. People remember/talked about life before the bomb and how there was less Existential dread. People born after a certain point don't notice the guillotine hanging over their head because it's always been there. The people who remember/talk about life before the bomb are getting older and fewer.
@Mike Hunt Anything radioactive can be used either as a reactor or a bomb. A radium nuke is possible, and a copernicium reactor is possible; the only thing you're seeking for to make a nuclear bomb is something unleashing heat from radiation, slowing it down and extracting energy out of it (by using turbines for example) makes it a energy producing device that technically works using radiation, = nuclear plant/reactor.
@@jacobdavis5518 Fortunately we made them pretty difficult to set off. You know, because you *really* don't want one of those things going off on accident.
@@UCannotDefeatMyShmeat I imagine people didnt take well to being poisoned and he probably committed to the craft out of isolation or to prove himself correct.
the number of rads he was exposed to degraded his cellular structure, I imagine he was mentally damaged because of the exposure and thus why he continued pursuing his experiments
I feel so conferrable knowing that there are the remains of a bomb, with more strength of all explosives combined, sitting under the soil of the state I live in...
It's a bullshit way for his ilk (feynman and company), to shirk the responsibility they bear for hundreds of thousands of lives. It was a key to hell. Heaven is closed right now. Please come back in 15 millenia.
@@Trentstone121 The science that produced nitrogen based fertilizers, which massively boosted crop yields saving millions, if not billions, of lives over the past century or two was intended to create Tnt. The science worked on by his ilk now powers millions of homes and could be the stop gap we need to save the climate, along with many other things. The process that created the nuclear bomb was an absurdly secretive one, in which only a few at the top actually knew what was being worked on, and those who knew wanted to end the biggest war in all of human history. Several of those who worked at that top were jewish refugees who fled the gas chambers of Nazi germany and wanted them stopped. Or who wanted to end the war and saw this as the only way they could do it. History is not as simple as you make it out to be, and neither are their actors.
@@Trentstone121 Oh sorry, I'll just sit here not dying of the plague cause vaccines, on the internet, in a house with air conditioning, with a car outside. But yeah, fuck science. Also, as a historian, you do realize that there were already fire bombs galore going off in Japan yeah? Fires that consumed whole cities. Fires that consumed far more than died in the nuclear bombs. Those bombings stopped that. And instead of just saying those two attacks lost us our keys to heaven, maybe think about what it means to trade 1 life for 3, and how we talk about the 1 we lost. History is compicated.
@@alncdr yeah, like it's not enough that we all watch ads in the middle of the video like it's a freaking TV. Of course, no. We all also should be tortured by the lack of some basic player features and crippled multitasking.
First words of video: "Hey Vsauce, Michael here; Every cloud has a silver lining." Last words of video: "how we find and use keys is up to us." Video: IS ABOUT NUCLEAR BOMBS
The air force bought the land so nobody could steal the core so you don't have to worry. If it makes you feel better, there have been 32 broken arrow incidents (accidents involving nikes on american soil) and none have resulted in deaths from nuclear contamination.
@@maxthexpfarmer3957 accidents happen. The military did a great job at cleaning up and ensuring that the core was separate from the bomb. This is also over more than 50 years, most of which was the cold war.
@@n1njachikin What if someone trespasses that land and detonate it. Of course the air force would try to stop them, but there is still a chance someone could manage to stealthily get in or at least brute force their way in and detonate it before the air force can kill them.
"We can build a weapon, that mimics the furnace of our Sun and the winds of Neptune, but yet, we can't predict the weather more than a few minutes ahead of time" -Michael Stevens -Vsauce
Why has almost every U tube video got a Minecraft reference...? I swear grown men make many of these comments and give away their infantile secret lives. Personally I get my fix watching Rainbow with Zippy and Bungle!!!
Well considering that uppon death creepers drop 0 to 2 gun powder, and by knowing that one TNT block requires 5 of those, we can simply calculate it. To know how much tnt is in a single block we need to have a rough estimate of how much sticks are there, and how big are they. So we take a TNT block, look at its texture and we get a number. 16 sticks. By knowing how big is a Minecraft block (1 m), we have a estimate that there are 16 tnt sticks that each are 1x0.25x0.25 meters big. So a very, VERY rough estimate on my part would be that one creeper explosion is an equivalent to the explosion of 1 to 6 sticks of TNT that are 1x0.25x0.25 meters big. How much that is in Newtons or in explosion radius I have no idea ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
@@deathbycognitivedissonance5036 Yeah, but one should accept his mistakes and ask forgiveness for it. Otherwise he'll be an arrogant dumbass. I hope USA and other countries who've done oopsies have done that.
hoi4 gang, what is your favourite division template out there, no paritcular requirements. Mine is 19 infantry and 1 heavy tank/modern tank. The armour you get is ridiculous and against an enemy with little hard attack, it is hilariously effective as a 40 width infanty, if a little costly.
A great video as always! Just a slight correction, the city where the second bomb was to be dropped is not Kokura but Kitakyushu city in Fukuoka prefecture. Kitakyushu has a Kokura Ward close to where most of the industrial plants were setup, like the National (Nippon) Steel Mill while also having a pretty important port. What a lucky city it is! I have lived there, in Nagasaki too, and have also visited Hiroshima. Sadly, the latter two cities didn't share that same luck and the damage was incomprehensible. Let's hope such fate never befalls anyone, anywhere.
He stated in a DONG video very recently that he's been wrapped up in the DONG schedule but has still been editing together a video to put here on his actual Vsauce channel. No worries, it'll be here soon.
Just imagine. One day, there were two guys looking out their windows and complained about the weather. One was a citizen of Kokura, who was hoping for a sunny day, the other one was Charles Sweeney, who had to make a detour to drop his damn bomb. Also the guy enjoying the nice weather over Nagasaki. Damn.
@@katzenware what are you talking about tornadoes are beautiful? It's a shame that they destroy but really anything in the universe can kill an destroy...
I never thought I’d get old enough to tear up at the start of a vsauce video because I remember being in seventh grade coming home and watching this hot off the press
Pedro Santos But gorillas go to war with each other and kidnap/kill members of their own species (Not me misunderstanding guerrilla warfare; there has been an actual war between gorillas, look it up). Ants develop strategies to invade other ant hives so they can kill them or take them slave.
We haven’t. It’s only been 80 since it’s creation. What if a country with nukes is on the verge of collapse and invasion. They will become desperate and ignore all the rules of war.
In Palomares, Spain, two nukes felt from the b-52 into the sea. To show that "everything was ok" the USA ambassador and the Spanish minister of turism went to the beach and swam
And to this day its still irradiated, so much plutonium was scattered that to remove it all would be incredibly expensive. So what does the United States of Assholes do, well, nothing ofcourse. Because why would they, its only a nuclear accident on the sovereign soil of an ally who didn't ask for its overflight with nukes, let alone to have them dropped on their land. And to this day the US has refused to pay out any compensation to the people of Palomares, assholes.
Theres is a rogue wave so big that it crushed huge ships like chop sticks, people believed it was a legend told by generations, not long ago they found proof of it. Chance of this wave is like one in 10 trillion, but in so many waves as we have in oceans it happens almost all the time
Americans built bombs, they were able to control their magnitude. But on that day it was the clouds that changed everything: if the Weather was different, no one knows what could've been different. If maybe some other place could've been the target, or the bomb fails or maybe in the event of failure, America returns with another bomb, or EVEN if it's possible for history to play out differently, n o o n e knows. But we do know that, that day, who would live and who die was decided by the clouds.
sorry but there has to be a huge crash before the game is patched (We are ran by Blizzard servers here). Don't worry the next version will involve cockroaches since they can live through all the radiation.
I come back to this video at minimum twice a year. I’ll never be able to get over how well you produced all of this content. Thank you michael and the vsauce team, again, from the bottom of my heart.
@@heyyo2828 Oh we will NEVER get bombed here in NC. No way, no how. Impossible. I bet $10,000 we'll not get bombed. And they definitly won't drop an atom bomb on Asheville. Know how that would be SUCH a shame? Am I right? Nah, we'll never see radioactive fallout. No siree!
Me: *is having a rough time* Michael: Cheer up, every cloud has a silver lining! Me: Thanks for being here Michae- Michael: Except for nuclear mushroom clouds, which have a lining of Strontium-90, Caesium-137 and other radioactive isotopes
Just so you know, clouds don't matter anymore when it comes to dropping bombs or missiles on populated areas. We (and THEY) have much more precise aiming systems now than we had during WWII. It's no longer a matter of the bombardier looking through his bombsight and saying "There it is! Bombs away!"
+John Wea Sounds like you are either too smart to be here or getting at that level, this vsauce guy focus on one subject then starts filling it with random shit to give you the illusion of learning. In this episode we learned: Bombs are bad Science made bombs But science is gud.
Micheal: 0.7 grams of uranium, that less than the weight of a me: dollar micheal: *banknote* the replies have been turned into a horrid warzone for some reason. enter with caution.
He is a man of science. A banknote is accurate because a $1 bill does not weigh more or less than any other banknote (maybe $100 weigh more cause of the plastic strip).
[Kokura news anchor]: Alright guys. Today is going to be a bit cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s and highs in the mid 80s. [Citizen]: God damn it, another gloomy day...
Malik Ogletree It's basically a joke about how the people of Kokura are complaining about cloudy weather but that cloudy weather is what saved their lives
MusicMixxer [Nagasaki news anchor]: Todays forecast is hot and shitty, with continued bouts of hot and shitty, and a pissy weather front moving in from the north. And highs in the mid 15 millions. [Citizen]: God damn it, the gloomiest day...
Somehow Vsauce video quality is timeless.
It really is. And I also love that as the years went by the videos got longer and longer
holy f*** only now I realize this is 2013
@@lorinczadrienjeno4839 LOL
@@lorinczadrienjeno4839 is that shit still under nc mane
Ya its soo weird
Can’t believe it’s been 9 years since this video first aired. Time flies. Very relevant this month with the release of Oppenheimer. I will be forever grateful for your work Michael!
I came back to this video specifically because I just saw Oppenheimer, to see if there was anything I might see in a new light after the movie and after several years of personal growth. Clearly I'm not the only one, pretty cool
im not even a movie fan so aint gonna watch it, glad it came back into my reccomended though, vsauce is 100% in the top creators in youtube just for how timeless and amazing his videos are, i still rewatch the ones i watched as a kid
Michael doesn’t age one bit
I think YT recommended me this vid, again, by coincidence..
@@atc_nth the visual of the nuclear bomb was kind of underwhelming it looked like you know your normal Hollywood explosion, but the movie is not about the bomb it's about Oppenheimer
This is the kind of video you can watch and then just kind of sit and do nothing for the next 10 minutes after watching
ive zoned out for jalf an hoir after watching a 2 minute of video
+Bassi im sure you did.
+Bassi what video
+Henry Castillo i just realised i fucked up that the english in that comment
Caasi Nosral a car video
Vsauce replayability is incredible. I remember watching this video when it was released 8 years ago and its still top notch content even today.
I concur.
All of his videos are
Yeah, its my like 3rd time watching this
@@spidscorp4523
THIRD?! Noobie, begone!
"The enemy has, for the first time, used cruel bombs."
chills. so many chills.
And so so very very sad. Especially because they are very real
Honestly, knowing unit 731 existed and was significantly overseen by Hirohito himself at the time, those words sound quite hypocritical nowadays
@@quepacho64 yeah, never forget that Japan was the aggressor in that war, and commited unspeakable crimes against humanity in China and other places on par with Nazi Germany. You cant naturally assume that all Japanese civilians were okay with this (though there also werent any significant resistance movements like in Germany), but if you would have been okay with nuking Nazi Germany, you have to also be okay with the nukes on Japan. In the end, these bombs ironically probably saved millions of American, Japanese and maybe Soviet lives
Cruel even for war
As always, the USA tries to justify the murder of civilians.
At that time saying that it was necessary to end the war, and now cataloging civilians as "unarmed combatants."
Jokes aside, I think this is one of my favourite VSauce videos. I especially love the quote "We have weapons that can mimic the winds on Neptune and the furnace of the Sun, yet we cannot predict the weather in half an hour's time" (paraphrasing, the actual quote is different). That along with the story of Kokura and how it was spared, and the classic old Micheal ramblings turning into a cohesive narrative complemented beautifully by Jake Chudnow makes this video an absolute mind joy to watch
Without a doubt my favorite. I've watched it over and over and over again
No cap
Good comment. No jokes about the loss of human life. I agree friend.
I come back to this episode from time to time... Definitely gives me the chills
great comment this is also one of my favs, but I have a minor complaint. wouldn’t you be paraphrasing here since you admit the actual quote is different?
"Here's something you can try at home: build a nuclear reactor"
Thank you Michael, very cool.
*FBI WANTS TO KNOW YOUR LOCATION*
😂
But they’re are nuclear thing detectors so you can’t do it :(
Gamer George more like CIA
Thanks
@@greypersoninagreybackround3279 some kid actually made a Nuclear Reactor.
I legit come here and watch this video once a month (if not more)
Michaels presentation in this video is chilling
fuck off, stop using bots and make actual fucking content
Yo the person with an arg that nobody is aware of
A great full length video instead of those silly "shorts" for the short attention span folks. lol By the way, at 4:04 it's hard to believe that they never found the uranium rich secondary. I would think that a Geiger would have gone off the scale even buried in the ground. Scary stuff.
@@billant2 I'd believe it was shielded so well in the combination with the soil covering it, it was not possible to find. In time as the shielding decays it will be found, I would hope they installed some permanent Geiger detectors around the possible vicinity of its location.
"Clouds are nice right?"
"Yes, Michael. Yes they are."
"What about nuclear mushroom clouds?"
"Goddamnit Michael"
Not again
no, ...... no, PLEASE
Not. Fucking. AGAINNNNNN.
1
Carllll
“We can build a weapon that mimics the furnace of our sun and the winds of Neptune but yet we can’t predict the weather more than a few minutes ahead of time”
… this sentence scares me every time.
Look at how he’s shaking before he says it
yoo
Yeah but that was in the forties. Not true today.
@@daflotsam It hasn't gotten any better. We can still only predict the weather a few days in advance
@@daflotsam we cant predict the weather 100% accurately a few minutes in the future
5:53 if anyone needs
4:24
“Ferb, I know what we’re gonna do today.”
New episode exclucive on netflix
Knowing Them, they'd Probably make it SAFE, for it then to be destroyed by doof's Inators and Extreme Disaster Would Insue
@@gavinisdie Well, considering Doof's stuff inadvertently wipes away all traces of their inventions no need to worry too much
Makes me proud to be a Boy Scout
Never mind he looks like a straight crack head
underated comment
Imagine hearing a plane just, loitering above your city for an hour, then later finding out one of your neighbors cities gets nuked
And that you were supposed to be killed but the clouds had a funky day
Oi, he dropped the bloody sun mate, didn’t he?
if you are in a war for that long, hearing planes overhead is probably so constant there is no way to decipher one from the next
Thats the kind of quiet terror that I don’t think anyone on the planet should be subjected to, regardless of their ideology or whatever their government has done.
Just imagine being a citizen of Kokura (the 1st pick for the nuke) and finding out that you and all your family/friends' live's were spared because of some clouds
yeah but then imagine ur husband and kids just took a trip to nagasaki on that day
HaliTheGreat :(
Stephen H. Im a nerd lol i dont go to parties
HaliTheGreat You should because you would tell hilarious jokes.
I once read that there was this man who survived the Hiroshima bomb and then fled to Nagasaki, and we all know what happened there after a few days lol
"Honey I got cancer again."
"Omg, that neighbor's kid, he's doing it again!"
This takes place in the future where there is a simple cure to cancer.
@Vance Jacobs Yes, but I'm talking about the more serious kinds of cancer that we can not cure at the moment.
Its because of that damn phone
@@homedepotgaming774 Hey... I'm going to say that...
1000th like
How to survive a Nuclear Bomb:
Step one: Travel to the nearest cloudy town
That won't work
Big countries like the U.S or Russia could just use an ICBM missile to carry a nuke and it can travel through thunderstorms and clouds.
and then cover yourself in oil
@clixkedz_sean lmaoooo
@TRISTAN OXLEY okay ........wtf??
Vsauce is THE RUclips channel. I can watch either the video that was released 9 years ago or a few months ago and be equally entertained, even though I watched all those videos numerous times
Why do michael’s videos always give me a sense of impending doom..
Probably cause the nukes
Because he is the god of chaos
because this piece of shit is pushing the fear narrative that google likes to promote
@@Jason-of5bj There's always that guy in de back...
The music combined with his facial expressions and how he talks and moves his body
"We can build a weapon that mimics the furnace of our sun and the winds of Neptune, and yet we can't predict the weather more than a few minutes ahead of time."
-Vsauce 2013
666OmegaLuma
He's right though
Wowza
666OmegaLuma it's easy to destroy.
It's always easier to destroy than create.
And to think, a good portion of the citizens of Kokura probably woke up that morning thinking, "Damn, wish it was a clear day today."
Probably not. US has been bombing Japan with *regular* bombs for quite a while, so I suppose clouds were a good thing for the people either way.
CrypticG "man i hate all this traffic" - some Japanese guy that day
Kokura was an untouched city like Nagasaki, the citizens proably thought the US couldn't reach them.
or someone is having a bad day because it's cloudy, you'll never know
he's probable thinking
"Fuck this Weather"
Wait people complain about cloudy days?
This seems an appropriate time for this to get recommended again
Welp, I gotta go stock up on my Fusion Cores.
God, give me the blesses.
How are you top comment (at the time he only had 3 likes)
I got a word for a settlement that need your help
I give you 200 caps for one
Pedro Cruz fallout reference, nice
When your eagle scout project is a n u c l e a r r e a c t o r.
your local neighborhood irradiator
lol I remember that
Lil asshole giving ppl cancer
LOL.
@@Secter84 SHUT THE FUCK UP BITCH
A war doesnt determine who is right, only who is left.
Snakexploit wise
Beautiful
Cod 4?
-Every cod deathscreen
haha
Hey Vsauce!
Just wanna say that I really enjoy your content
I’m glad you’re a part of RUclips
:)
(:
"Trolls regenerate health when wounded, but are susceptible to fire" - Skyrim Loading Screen (2011)
Ah good to see men of culture in here
Lavendeer, I see you everywhere
Thank you Lavendeer, very cool!
"Are you one of them Skyrim-for-the-Nords types?"
I deasass never knew that they regenerated health or that normal trolls were susceptible to fire. Thx homie
From this episode i figured Michael's dad had him when he was 25
This is a very weird research but ok
weird to think my dad was born only two years after his yet i'm only 19. get your game up, father.
Isn’t that kind of old for an infant?
mmmmm I tought his mother gave birth to him.
Thats normal
"A strange game. The only winning move is not to play."
WOPR, _WarGames_ (1983)
*How about a nice game of chess?*
Just like The Game
Seba fuck you 😭
- Switzerland since 1912 -
I just seen that quote not to long ago on a video on youtube...it was about a tetris game or simulator that's stopped playing once losing was inevitable and paused...man that's not accurate but it went something like that
Someone should make a movie out of this.
And they did it.
Omg lmao😂
@@physicsisawesome696name?
@@YourAvgTorbMainidiot
@@YourAvgTorbMain
Night at the Roxbury
How to survive a nuke:
Step 1: Be the cameraman.
ゴ「Caffeinated Otaku 」ゴ underrated comment
You don’t know what to tell you but cameraman are invincible
I believe that God is no match against cameraman
Step 2: Go in the fridge
@@gnusmas6226 Nice Fallout reference.
I love his comparison of a nuclear explosion to pissing your pants.
America loves pissing in Japans pants
@@axorandom Hol up
Okay, but that is what you do when you see one
when you plutonium your pants
@@therealanthonity is plutonium stored in the balls?
Science is a tool for creation and destruction, it's the hand that decides which.
Now, let's look at the US, Russia, and North Korea...
+Some Guy well, if it's up to those three, we are utterly fucked.
Russia's not that bad, Putin might not care for anything outside his country but at least he knows what he is doing...
Vsauce - 2013
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I just saw Oppenheimer, and I am dismayed at the ramifications of the bomb that movie points out. The fact that only a little over 1% of the Uranium 235 in Little Boy blew up just points out how unfathomable the destruction of a nuclear weapon is, and how dangerous it is for humanity to have it.
and yet they are infinitely better than a world without nuclear weapons because we would have obliterated ourselves as the cold war would have gone hot as fuck
Just wait till you learn about hydrogen bombs
What is this new to you? Almost everyone alive today has lived in the shadow of the bomb. It dictated 70 years of Cold War across the planet. And the bombs in Oppenheimer are incredibly small in comparison to the thermonuclear weapons we have today. Learn some history. Nuclear weapons are still a terrifying reality in modern conflict and we’re only getting close to a point where a country like India or Israel will use one.
@lookoutforchris it's been a reported phenomenon that there's a difference between people born before/around and after the atomic bomb. Dan Carlin has a podcast episode about it.
People remember/talked about life before the bomb and how there was less Existential dread. People born after a certain point don't notice the guillotine hanging over their head because it's always been there. The people who remember/talk about life before the bomb are getting older and fewer.
Druggy: "what you're addicted to?"
David: "I like smoke detectors"
*SNORT*
@Mike Hunt He needed the small amount of radioactive material that is located in smoke detectors
@Mike Hunt Anything radioactive can be used either as a reactor or a bomb. A radium nuke is possible, and a copernicium reactor is possible; the only thing you're seeking for to make a nuclear bomb is something unleashing heat from radiation, slowing it down and extracting energy out of it (by using turbines for example) makes it a energy producing device that technically works using radiation, = nuclear plant/reactor.
man i hate it when i accidentally plutonium my planet
LOL
Lol
*Seinfeld plays*
*Curb your Enthusiasm song starts to play*
Lol
"oopsie daisy moments with nuclear weapons"
*Jesus christ*
Whoops, almost dropped a world ending supply of nuclear weapons!
There's human mistake combined with nuclear ferocity. Yup yup.
@@jacobdavis5518 Fortunately we made them pretty difficult to set off.
You know, because you *really* don't want one of those things going off on accident.
Today on pew news...
@@cursedshark7125 "there is no news today, hence we're extinct" said the 100 million guy
I honestly think this is my favourite vsauce video, I get chills every watch through
5:15 constant exposure to radioactive material and crack
S M O O T H S K I N
Meth
Man why did he continue after that
@@UCannotDefeatMyShmeat I imagine people didnt take well to being poisoned and he probably committed to the craft out of isolation or to prove himself correct.
the number of rads he was exposed to degraded his cellular structure, I imagine he was mentally damaged because of the exposure and thus why he continued pursuing his experiments
I wonder if the People of Kokura know that a cloudy day saved them?
Violet: It’s a wonderful day to go to the beach.
Trolley Conductor: It’s grey and cloudy.
Violet: That’s what makes it wonderful.
Egg Salad count Olaf bouta’ drop some warheads to gain the inheritence
Jorge Gomez they do. They celebrate it every year.
Call that Kamikaze
@@CucuiKingGanondorf actually it'd be Nii-San
5 minute crafts
"How to build a nuclear bomb"
Using toothpaste and hot glue*
Yeet Em don’t forget the coke bottle
Wich is fake and dangerous. And draged out to 10 minutes for extra adds. And clickbait. And shit.
@leon resanovic yes, see my comment on the comment for my thoughts on them xD
@@prozaccc lol that actually sounds like something 5min crafts would do
Revisiting this after watching Oppenheimer 🫠
Me too
#MeToo
I feel so conferrable knowing that there are the remains of a bomb, with more strength of all explosives combined, sitting under the soil of the state I live in...
@Chris Ward conferable
Me too, I live in nc
It’s only the secondary. The secondary can’t detonate without the primary.
You could always move near Yellowstone.
@JKItsMeAlGore the power of the nukes were more than all conventional explosives detenated before that point, not including nukes
Ok nuclear reactors are cool and strong but what about a Charged Creeper?
DJ Tile Turnip DONT YOU DARE DROP THE CHARGED CREEPER HE CAN DESTROY EARTH
Awww man
@@JoshuaS-ur7jm Awww Man... I was about to say that
Don't come to my house creeper
The charged creepers are charged with Plutonium and Uranium 235, he are the powerfull nuclear bomb in the universe
"To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell" This hit me really hard.
It's a bullshit way for his ilk (feynman and company), to shirk the responsibility they bear for hundreds of thousands of lives. It was a key to hell. Heaven is closed right now. Please come back in 15 millenia.
@@Trentstone121 Heaven machine broke
@@Trentstone121 The science that produced nitrogen based fertilizers, which massively boosted crop yields saving millions, if not billions, of lives over the past century or two was intended to create Tnt. The science worked on by his ilk now powers millions of homes and could be the stop gap we need to save the climate, along with many other things. The process that created the nuclear bomb was an absurdly secretive one, in which only a few at the top actually knew what was being worked on, and those who knew wanted to end the biggest war in all of human history.
Several of those who worked at that top were jewish refugees who fled the gas chambers of Nazi germany and wanted them stopped. Or who wanted to end the war and saw this as the only way they could do it.
History is not as simple as you make it out to be, and neither are their actors.
@@adambasinger6239 you are very talented at spewing their rhetoric. Thank you. It changes nothing.
@@Trentstone121 Oh sorry, I'll just sit here not dying of the plague cause vaccines, on the internet, in a house with air conditioning, with a car outside. But yeah, fuck science.
Also, as a historian, you do realize that there were already fire bombs galore going off in Japan yeah? Fires that consumed whole cities. Fires that consumed far more than died in the nuclear bombs. Those bombings stopped that. And instead of just saying those two attacks lost us our keys to heaven, maybe think about what it means to trade 1 life for 3, and how we talk about the 1 we lost.
History is compicated.
The outro always leaves chills down my spine
So we have bombs that can blow up entire states but I can’t play music on RUclips while the app is closed
Damn right. Google, burn in hell!
So sad
Use premium or RUclips vanced
@@robin_birdie_ [This message has been removed]
@@alncdr yeah, like it's not enough that we all watch ads in the middle of the video like it's a freaking TV. Of course, no. We all also should be tortured by the lack of some basic player features and crippled multitasking.
First words of video: "Hey Vsauce, Michael here; Every cloud has a silver lining."
Last words of video: "how we find and use keys is up to us."
Video: IS ABOUT NUCLEAR BOMBS
That's why we love Vsauce!
TheDreRock every cloud has a silver lining is metaphorical and literal. It is metaphorical because it saved that city in Japan...
Ah ...Kokura
TheDreRock Not much gets past you, does it?
TheDreRock The title of the video is CRUEL BOMBS
as a person who lives in North Carolina, my anxiety just shot up after the mention of the part of the bomb that is still stuck in the ground
The air force bought the land so nobody could steal the core so you don't have to worry. If it makes you feel better, there have been 32 broken arrow incidents (accidents involving nikes on american soil) and none have resulted in deaths from nuclear contamination.
@@n1njachikin I'm not sure if that makes me feel better or worse. It seems that we should have rather fewer of those.
@@maxthexpfarmer3957 accidents happen. The military did a great job at cleaning up and ensuring that the core was separate from the bomb. This is also over more than 50 years, most of which was the cold war.
@@n1njachikin What if someone trespasses that land and detonate it. Of course the air force would try to stop them, but there is still a chance someone could manage to stealthily get in or at least brute force their way in and detonate it before the air force can kill them.
@@n1njachikin but the likelihood of that happening is very small.
Perfect video after watching Oppenheimer
"We can build a weapon, that mimics the furnace of our Sun and the winds of Neptune, but yet, we can't predict the weather more than a few minutes ahead of time"
-Michael Stevens
-Vsauce
This is so underrated
Yeah but it is so difficult to predict the weather accuratly
I miss old vsauce :/. New videos aren't as interesting.
atoms are easier to understand than entropy
scroll a bit more and youll see the original comment from 3 years ago
Yes but,
How powerful is a Creeper explosion??
Why has almost every U tube video got a Minecraft reference...? I swear grown men make many of these comments and give away their infantile secret lives. Personally I get my fix watching Rainbow with Zippy and Bungle!!!
Well considering that uppon death creepers drop 0 to 2 gun powder, and by knowing that one TNT block requires 5 of those, we can simply calculate it. To know how much tnt is in a single block we need to have a rough estimate of how much sticks are there, and how big are they. So we take a TNT block, look at its texture and we get a number. 16 sticks. By knowing how big is a Minecraft block (1 m), we have a estimate that there are 16 tnt sticks that each are 1x0.25x0.25 meters big.
So a very, VERY rough estimate on my part would be that one creeper explosion is an equivalent to the explosion of 1 to 6 sticks of TNT that are 1x0.25x0.25 meters big. How much that is in Newtons or in explosion radius I have no idea ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
UnfortuneLess Are you Vsauce himself
*You may never know*
@@InitiateDee no, you have to use the size of the actual blast. How much dirt was removed and how much tnt would be required for an equivalent crater.
**drops warhead**
2:37 “oopsie daisy”
Andrew James kaboom
*America did an oopsie*
@@TheMrKeksLp Everybody makes mistakes. It's no big deal. Sheesh
@@deathbycognitivedissonance5036 Yeah, but one should accept his mistakes and ask forgiveness for it. Otherwise he'll be an arrogant dumbass. I hope USA and other countries who've done oopsies have done that.
Japan got oopsied
Vsauce is just one of those channels that will remain locked in the memory of youtube forever
"These people are making up random quotes i didnt make"
-Albert Einstein
"The problem with quotes on the Internet is that it is hard to verify their authenticity."
~ Abraham Lincoln
“Eh I don’t really know why people think I have wooden teeth xd”
-George Washington
"Lol"
-Mahatma Gandhi
Frost IsNotHot thy tis speakith thy truth telling of thy eve
Why am I used for so many inspirational posters? - Nikola Tesla
" I never said this "
- Albert Einstein
"Fuck off past Einstein, yes i did"
-Albert Einstein
@@yusha1059 "Shut up Einstein, I didnt say anything"
-Albert Einstein
I mean, he probably didn't, considering his first language was German and not English...
@@gaygekko He did say "spooky action at a distance." xD
@@chicxulub2947 Oh okay, didn't know that :D
“The war situation has not necessarily developed to Japan’s advantage” - Emperor Hirohito
Advisor: Dude come on we just got annihilated and their are deserts were Hiroshima and Nagasaki used to be.
Technically the truth
If i lived at that time in Japan and heard this i would be like “No shit Sherlock”
hoi4 gang, what is your favourite division template out there, no paritcular requirements. Mine is 19 infantry and 1 heavy tank/modern tank. The armour you get is ridiculous and against an enemy with little hard attack, it is hilariously effective as a 40 width infanty, if a little costly.
Ok how has this become a hoi4 discussion when that is a real quote. I also play hoi4 so lol
A great video as always!
Just a slight correction, the city where the second bomb was to be dropped is not Kokura but Kitakyushu city in Fukuoka prefecture.
Kitakyushu has a Kokura Ward close to where most of the industrial plants were setup, like the National (Nippon) Steel Mill while also having a pretty important port. What a lucky city it is!
I have lived there, in Nagasaki too, and have also visited Hiroshima. Sadly, the latter two cities didn't share that same luck and the damage was incomprehensible. Let's hope such fate never befalls anyone, anywhere.
Aliens: AYO TIM LOOK AT THIS! THEYRE FIGHTING THEMSELVES LMAOOOO
Lol
Shame.
Quit nuking yourself...Quit nuking yourself... Quit nuking yourself
@@bradleyweiss1089 are you talking to yourself?
Well we must fight someone
Rip Vsauce all he does is RUclips red videos now :(
Go check a channel called DONG, he's over there now
He stated in a DONG video very recently that he's been wrapped up in the DONG schedule but has still been editing together a video to put here on his actual Vsauce channel. No worries, it'll be here soon.
Ian Milligan you’re the goat
Vela Edvardsson thank you
oooh yay one video a year.
Whoops, I accidentally dropped my
n u c l e a r w a r h e a d
OH FU- *instantly vaporized*
Hiroshima be like: ah shit, here we go again.
Whoops, I ac- (nuclear detonation)
Great, man. Now I gotta find another nucleus
Oof
Micheal is an artist, nearly a decade later and his videos are still masterpieces
s
i appreciate thunderstorms a little bit more now
Just imagine. One day, there were two guys looking out their windows and complained about the weather. One was a citizen of Kokura, who was hoping for a sunny day, the other one was Charles Sweeney, who had to make a detour to drop his damn bomb.
Also the guy enjoying the nice weather over Nagasaki.
Damn.
Thunderstorms are actually very beautiful, and perhaps crucial for life...
@@surrealsupercell7217 I'm scared shitless of thunderstorms. Always have been for years now.
@@EthanBoBethan I LOOOOVE thunderstorms. So beautiful and majestic, honestly one of my favorite of God's creations.
@@katzenware what are you talking about tornadoes are beautiful? It's a shame that they destroy but really anything in the universe can kill an destroy...
"Every cloud has a silver lining, except nuclear mushroom clouds" OH. Well that escalated quickly O_o
O_O
every single video from vsause makes me sit back and rethink my entire existance
Me too.
Me three
me four
Me five
Me six
Still great even a full decade along now. Love this channel.
Oopsie-daisy moments with nuclear weapons
lol just dropped a nuke on accident
boss is so gonna fire me
OOPS! I think a bird hit the bomb bay. Wanna check it ou- *Massive explosion is heard from below* S**t, I'm sooo fired.
We would all be fired by the fires of the thousand suns.
If this is Metal Gear Solid 3, The Boss wouldn't be mad that you fired the nuke, because The Boss gave you the nuke in the first place.
I hope at least the end of the world doesn't start with some idiot saying "Oops".
It has happened before. We dropped some in Spain and North Carolina.
"Except for your pants are the planet and the P is plutonium"
-Vsauce, 2013
They don't abbreviate it Pee-yew for nothing.
That makes no sense along w everything u idiots do...good no one with a fucking brain had a running legit start...lol
Je An r/wooosh
Are you telling me that this sucker [the p] is nuclear?!
And p is also for penis. I am here to ruin your day
5:45
When he says, "Where 75,000 people died, instead." I always get chills.
That is so weird!
@Sassy The Sasquatch It's crazy. Many of them never knew what hit them. Suddenly vaporised in a tiny fraction of a second.
75 000 used to live here
Israel Franco why
Imagine your dad or mom dead while visiting the city 😢
I never thought I’d get old enough to tear up at the start of a vsauce video because I remember being in seventh grade coming home and watching this hot off the press
"Heres something you can try at home; *build a nuclear reactor."*
Hold the fuck up, Michael.
hey wassup clorox not a big fan but u guys all the smell the same I like Kroger brand
Hey, I've finally found you! You're my 32nd cousin, right?
wait... it was buried in Utah!? that's where I live!
about as safe as drinking you
+Bryson Merrell explains the unnatural shape of your skull.
" Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap "
~Albert Einstein
King Graveth he signed the letter for approval, the bomb was necessary
“I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
Albert Einstein.
Well how do Einstein know may be they construct it if they can
@King Graveth he make discoveries in quantum phisics that were use to do te bombs he didnt do them directrly
Pedro Santos But gorillas go to war with each other and kidnap/kill members of their own species (Not me misunderstanding guerrilla warfare; there has been an actual war between gorillas, look it up). Ants develop strategies to invade other ant hives so they can kill them or take them slave.
*Drops warhead*
"oh good it didn't go of-"
*BOOM*
America pranks Japan
GONE WRONG
This video be hittin different now
You crane vs rush uh
Realising how close we have come to completely blowing ourselves up really makes me wonder how we have survived so long.
We haven’t. It’s only been 80 since it’s creation. What if a country with nukes is on the verge of collapse and invasion. They will become desperate and ignore all the rules of war.
Caboose!
something something survivor bias
@@amongdae beat me to it lol
@@kyoMcMushy oh god…
In Palomares, Spain, two nukes felt from the b-52 into the sea. To show that "everything was ok" the USA ambassador and the Spanish minister of turism went to the beach and swam
Cosas de Fraga
Then prodeeced to die of ARS
And to this day its still irradiated, so much plutonium was scattered that to remove it all would be incredibly expensive. So what does the United States of Assholes do, well, nothing ofcourse. Because why would they, its only a nuclear accident on the sovereign soil of an ally who didn't ask for its overflight with nukes, let alone to have them dropped on their land. And to this day the US has refused to pay out any compensation to the people of Palomares, assholes.
that was the 15th time america accidentally lost nuclear weapons, no one knows how many the USSR lost
@@kylehopkins7841 did the soviets have nuclear bombers flying 24/7? I think it was the main reason why the US lost so many bombs
"One in a million happens eight times a day in New York City," -- Penn Gillette.
That is the dumbest quote I've ever read.
Theres is a rogue wave so big that it crushed huge ships like chop sticks, people believed it was a legend told by generations, not long ago they found proof of it. Chance of this wave is like one in 10 trillion, but in so many waves as we have in oceans it happens almost all the time
@@BigAl2-u7e How is it dumb?
Suzy Lu's Forehead as dumb as your profile picture
9 out of 10 times, a 1 in a million possibility happens.
Actually one of my favourite videos ever, watched it maybe 10 times. Keep coming back over the years
5:54 Always gives me chills when I see that part.
The city of kokura was saved by the clouds that gives me chills. Lots of People hate clouds but this city was saved by them.
I don’t think anybody hates clouds…
I love clouds, they block out the sun so football practice isn't so hot. also the block me from thermonuclear attacks
Clouds don’t save nuclear attacks now because of nuclear missiles
@@Harxee the Japanese didn't like mushroom clouds
Americans built bombs, they were able to control their magnitude. But on that day it was the clouds that changed everything: if the Weather was different, no one knows what could've been different. If maybe some other place could've been the target, or the bomb fails or maybe in the event of failure, America returns with another bomb, or EVEN if it's possible for history to play out differently, n o o n e knows. But we do know that, that day, who would live and who die was decided by the clouds.
Nukes OP. God nerf plz.
sorry but there has to be a huge crash before the game is patched (We are ran by Blizzard servers here). Don't worry the next version will involve cockroaches since they can live through all the radiation.
BlueBleedStl
Dude I cant change my characters face type ? Bug ? Plz report
You're right it's fucking OP, after them you can't even respawn
Also some cheater called "Jesus" could walk on water some time ago
Oddly Hust Call the admins for the ban hammer is mighty
I come back to this video at minimum twice a year. I’ll never be able to get over how well you produced all of this content. Thank you michael and the vsauce team, again, from the bottom of my heart.
"i peed my pants except p stands for plutonium and pants stand for the entire planet"
*_oh no, i p l u t o n i u m e d m y e n t i r e p l a n e t_*
actually it’s plutoniumeed
*w h o o p s*
If the P stands for plutonium, what's the V stand for ?
@@joeKisonue umm vanadium ?
@@aryyancarman705 Vandium Sause?
This channel is so great man.
New to VSauce. Really amazing stuff here.
Akshay Joshi This is the best channel on RUclips
And it has been since the dawn of man.
Same here
2020 been a ride. Let’s hope North Carolina doesn’t explode too.
Silence, fool! Don't give them ideas!
Don’t you dare jinx it
@@heyyo2828 Oh we will NEVER get bombed here in NC. No way, no how. Impossible. I bet $10,000 we'll not get bombed. And they definitly won't drop an atom bomb on Asheville. Know how that would be SUCH a shame? Am I right? Nah, we'll never see radioactive fallout. No siree!
@@MechanicParker that, that killed me (almost as much as that bomb)
Spoken like a true American. The world would undoubtedly be a better place if North Carolina did explode.
The blue lights in the background behind Michael are look like the smoke trails you see in videos of nuclear weapons tests, great little detail
Me: *is having a rough time*
Michael: Cheer up, every cloud has a silver lining!
Me: Thanks for being here Michae-
Michael: Except for nuclear mushroom clouds, which have a lining of Strontium-90, Caesium-137 and other radioactive isotopes
Hi joe
@@sludgecase Hi jamo
@@rationalrad6950 joe mama
@@Not_Claptrap Jamo mama
@@seyli5803 jomo mamo
What I learned:
Nuclear Bombs are *Bad*
Clouds are *Good*
Eureka comes from Greek
Just so you know, clouds don't matter anymore when it comes to dropping bombs or missiles on populated areas. We (and THEY) have much more precise aiming systems now than we had during WWII. It's no longer a matter of the bombardier looking through his bombsight and saying "There it is! Bombs away!"
Thicc Papa Surprised you didn't just say white Christians are bad 😂
Seems to be what every opportunistic victim is doing
feels bad to read this
vasilis6691 Truth hurts.
Remember when you didn’t have to pay money to watch v sauce
I can watch him still
I have RUclips red
blue _ you’re still paying money
Pepperidge farm remembers
I mean you can still watch him in D!NG
Time to visit this video again.
Phil Swift in 1945 to Japan
"To show you the power of America, I sawed this atom in half"
nice.
That genuinely made me laugh
That joke is actually perfect
Nuclear Fision. We need to use that for eco energy, or Fusion, that works. Perfect source of energy.
Sees Hiroshima and Nagasaki: THAT’S A LOT OF DAMAGE!
"and P stands for plutonium" Me: weird analogy, but sure "Eureka comes from ancient Greek!" me: wait, wha- how did we get here
+John Wea Sounds like you are either too smart to be here or getting at that level, this vsauce guy focus on one subject then starts filling it with random shit to give you the illusion of learning.
In this episode we learned:
Bombs are bad
Science made bombs
But science is gud.
+TheHueisOver™ I just listen for the random trivia. Like how only 1.38% of uranium is actually fissiled in a fission bomb.
+TheHueisOver™ I'm used to it, so I don't question it anymore.
this show isn't really to teach, it's more like him sharing his thoughts and rambling on and on, not really sticking to any type of subject.
Yeah, and that equals about 7 grams, the weight of a $1 note. Which in turn tells you how much plutonium you actually need to make the bomb.
Micheal: 0.7 grams of uranium, that less than the weight of a
me: dollar
micheal: *banknote*
the replies have been turned into a horrid warzone for some reason. enter with caution.
He is a man of science. A banknote is accurate because a $1 bill does not weigh more or less than any other banknote (maybe $100 weigh more cause of the plastic strip).
Hahaha idiot has no friends and wants his life to be important but it isn't
Max Zak
Bruh.. you saying that shows the importance of your life... well I mean.. the lack there of.
AvidCloud
Taunt that Max dude if you’re gonna insult him.. works better.
@@emperorpalpatine5559 xD OK little kid, whatever helps you sleep at night xD 'there of' XD
I am become VSauce, Michael here
Every cloud has a silver lining....
-*except for nuclear mushroom clouds of course.*
Yes, that was indeed in the video.
Alex Folland Incorrect.
lmao, completely funny joke
Hah Duh how could I be so stupid
darth g0ldaR Sod off, Trumptroll
“Except your pants are the entire planet, and the p stands for... plutonium.
EUREKA!”
Plutonium ants
ZOO WE MAMA
URETHRA!
How about in the end we just settle things with a Pokemon Battle or a Game of Chess
+Luciano Martinez I wish. Everything would be much more fun if it was like the world in NGNL.
because if you beat someone stronger than you in Pokémon they can just break your Nintendo and steal your game, and what can you do about it?
But in the world of NGNL, Theft and vandalism is prohibited.
+Luciano Martinez if that was the chase we would have smarter gouverners;)
Because the asians would win everytime... *sigh* everytime.
this is one of the best videos on youtube
[Kokura news anchor]: Alright guys. Today is going to be a bit cloudy, with lows in the mid 60s and highs in the mid 80s.
[Citizen]: God damn it, another gloomy day...
That was fuckin hilarious you should get top coent
MusicMixxer i dont get it im retarted
Malik Ogletree It's basically a joke about how the people of Kokura are complaining about cloudy weather but that cloudy weather is what saved their lives
MusicMixxer [Nagasaki news anchor]: Todays forecast is hot and shitty, with continued bouts of hot and shitty, and a pissy weather front moving in from the north. And highs in the mid 15 millions.
[Citizen]: God damn it, the gloomiest day...
Hahaha. 15 millions I get it ;)
Science is a car and ethics are the signs on the road
Gohan R damn. This shit hit.
Gohan R underrated comment
@@utubebad No, you'd have to pay a fine for that.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO STOP AT THE RED LIGHT!
ROOOOOOOOOCKSAAAAAAAND
From your phone: hey, Vsauce!
From behind you: Michael here!
From inside your head: what if you were completely defenseless?
Nice copy pasta
@@maxwellerobini1603 I do love my copy pasta.
Gabriel Parot mmm copypasta with extra callout comments
This is a horror novel
Vsauce:
**Yeets you out the window**
Just wanted to say that is video was extremely good