Well he did, sort of.... at 8:00 the radiated side of his face stopped aging while the other side aged normally. Guess all we need is a good dose of radiation to stop aging. lol
I believe the leading explanation today for Anatoly's survival is that he didn't absorb 750x a lethal dose, or yes, he would be dead. The idea is that particles were traveling too fast and his flesh a bone simply didn't slow them enough for them to shed more than a fraction of their energy.
Yes, this- with an extremely potent electron beam like that your flesh just doesn't have the stopping power to actually absorb the amount of energy the beam has
I am very late to this but your basically right. The full energy of the particle is only released when it is stopped. Because the beam went right through his head he only received a tiny fraction of that energy. There is an excellent video by Kyle Hill about that very subject.
At 8:00 what's remarkable is that the radiated side of his face stopped aging while the other side aged normally. Guess all we need is a good dose of radiation to stop aging. lol
@@vic5015 Agreed, people should watch that and read up more if interested because dude did not stick his head in a particle accelerator, he walked into a room where the beam exits which are two totally different things. It is impossible to stick your head in one as without all the air drawn out it is incapable of working.
@@jsl151850b Yeah turns out it was. This story bothered the shit out of me for a while so one day I decided to find out what everyone was talking about because I knew there was no way it was true. Turns out it was a room where a bunch of the experiments were setup where the beam exits the machine. They generally have a small mica window which the beam comes out of. Personally I still call bullshit on the dosages of radiation people claim he got because even the most modest particle accelerator is powerful enough to create a glowing beam although suppose bright lights could have dulled it beyond recognition. Given how little other things were working not sure how confident I am the rest of the machine was reaching full power either... hell, they couldn't even fix locks and lightbulbs.
I love how instead of just demanding and implementing safe workplace the Manhattan project guys were like “naw, clearly the only option is to melt this down”
Using screwdrivers to manipulate heavy things is asking for trouble, usually when it slips it just stabs your hand or something, but in the case of the demon core, yeah, that was a big oopsie... :P
There is more to this story I believe. A bureaucratic side, as in they couldn't acknowledge something happened, so he couldn't have any disease or side effects and therefore didn't get any medication or benefits. Something along those lines. A miracle he survived.
What truly amazes me about the last story, as a microbiologist, is that it took a minimum of 250 years for anyone to actually think to use a microscope to see what might be in those pustules that early scientists liked to dismiss. Did nobody ever even wonder if there was something there? It just blows my mind...
And it would have solved the "mystery" right away, since Treponema is a spirochaeta (with a thin, long corkscrew-form) and Neisseria is a diplococcus (two adjacent spheres). So even without really knowing what they see and how it all works, they could just go..."Well, that one looks nothing like that one". Antonie van Leeuwenhoek spottet the first microorganism with his microscope in 1676...100 year before Hunter entered the Royal Society. The same Royal Society that had received more than 190 articles/letters detailing his work from van Leeuwenhoek before his death in 1723. They were right there, archived. Microorganisms were known for quite some time and also that you can use a microscope to see them. I would assume he was an arrogant prick and to high and mighty to dig into the literature. Thus he actually deserved what he got^^
As a microbiologist myself, I think you are full of crap Corrbin, you already know why ppl behaved and thought like that, how the hell are you forgetting some simple ass history? jesus f***ing christ.
I think it's falls into the same answer as people saying, "what would I do without music" the answer being well no one would think that way, because it doesn't exist. Same as the answer to why people didn't think about using microscopes for hundreds of years, because no one knew it was possible so they didn't think about it. For example when faced with a problem you don't apply the things you don't know, you apply what you do. Every now and then there comes someone who thinks ahead like that however.
Simon should do a "Into The Shadows" about Hisashi Ouchi, a man who was accidentally doused with radiation and kept alive for 83 days while his body literally fell apart.
@@j-wa357 In all fairness, that hasn't stopped him from doing the very same thing in the past. So long as it's not repeated on the same channel as before, I think the possibility is open.
I have watched several videos on it, and it is immensely interesting. Look up "the man who died with no DNA", he received so much radiation, that literally all his DNA broke down.
@@GumaroRVillamil yeah, it's really good. Very thorough. Kyle also did a video about the Russian dude accidentally blasted by a high-energy beam from a particle accelerator.
Ah, good. Simon covered the so-called Demon Core and the truly *insane* criticality experments that were done on it. When noted physicist Richard Feynman calls the experiments "tickling the dragon's tail", implying that perhaps he considered the experiments ill-advised , perhaps you *shouldn't* do it!
Remember that at the time, Feynman was a nobody. One of a hundred junior physicists on a project that included some of the biggest names in physics history.
Interestingly the beryllium sphere was not enough to cause the core to go super critical. What pushed it over the edge was actually his hand reflecting back just enough.
Simon I think you did an injustice to what happened with the Schlossen incident. Yes, he was reckless and arrogant. But we have to remember that he redeemed himself in a small way by continuing the science even after he knew he was done for. In the immediate aftermath of the incident, he ordered everyone in the room to freeze. He then made detailed measurements of each witness' distance from the core, each person's position, objects between the witness and the core etc. They were able to use this data to better understand the dynamics of radiation exposure in humans. While this incident was a preventable tragedy, at least they had the presence of mind to find some good in what happened.
Unfortunately, he still acted recklessly and endangered the lives of everyone in the room with him, so how he handled the situation afterwards sort of pales in comparison to that...even if it was good of him and I do feel bad for him. It was his fault anything needed to be done, in the first place. This is just another example of why we have so many safety protocols in any type of lab or workplace, especially those that could potentially endanger the lives of others. Also, Simon didn't write the script, so technically it wasn't him doing anyone an injustice. xD He just reads them.
I always thought that was admirable but what would have been more admirable about it was *not using a flathead screwdriver to work with the core of a nuclear bomb. Jaysus Christie.
I'm positive Russia has heaps of nuclear type accidents, a Russian cook in a nuclear sub used irradiated water to wash up with. I have no idea how the pipes for the water that cooled the reactor down would have gone anywhere near the kitchen area but it did. I'm sure there'd be heaps of other examples that would make for a very interesting show.
I was treated for cancer which was discovered in my nasal passages under a lnear accelerator at Stanford University Hospital’s cancer center. During some parts of the treatment I could “see” blue lights flashing in my vision. I was told it was rare, but that I was seeing Cherenkov radiation. The light is created by high energy beams, in my case, shooting near my optic nerve. Cherenkov radiation is the blue light in the water surrounding fuel rods in most nuclear reactors (I looked it up.).
8:00 I may be wrong but I'm fairly certain that the gentleman in the picture isn't Anatoly, but is rather a man who drove a truck for a living for a very long time, and the damage on the left side of his face is from exposure to the sun. Another quite different form of radiation damage, interestingly.
Not the best day to use a clip of Ned Fulmer (first clip, with the candle) in a video. Today his former friends and colleagues released their video about him cheating on his wife with an employee and that they removed him from the company. So not really someone, you want in your video
I jumped into the comments immediately to see if anyone was going to talk about it. It is kind of funny that this would be in a Simon video, considering how Simon jokes/worries about being canceled over some small mistake. #CancelSimon (Not Really)
@@michaelarroyo02 wouldn't call it small mistake, I mean he was in charge of HR, a clear power imbalance. And cheating on his wife, when he was all about being a family man and always declared 'I love my wife'. That's pretty low. I'm so sorry for his wife and their children.
@@librasgirl08 I meant that Simon’s editor putting the clip of Ned in the video the same week Ned was exposed as an adulterer is a small mistake. What Ned did was absolutely fucking horrible.
Came here to find this comment and add engagement to it to help get the basement gang to see. Considering the stance the Try Guys are taking I can't imagine the whistle boy wanting him there once he knows.
a minor correction on the Last Story: i think it means seemless Latexcondoms since Sheep intestine were a thing and well, also still are, only not that effective against STD and also likely bit to expensive for the Working Class
In the second experiment the others in the room were saved, at least in part, because Harry was leaning over the core and so his body shieled them. This is also way his death was so relatively fast. A number of the scientists also felt that this was punishment, from 'above', for the bombs dropped on Japan. As, As you pointed out, this core had been intended for a third Japanese city. So these two reseachers with diviene pay-back for that.
Interesting stories. Two years ago, I suffered a grand Mal Stroke. After a year in the hospital, and constant therapy, I can tell you, that “uh oh” moment? I can relate. Also, in the book “ time off planet “, about life on board the Soviet space station, the sensation of being “ lit up” by gamma radiation was disconcerting. Thanks, fascinating!
If it's fatal, I'll sign up for it. Also, how quickly people lose respect for the fundamental building blocks of the universe. "The screwdriver is fine, what's the worst that could happen?". If you're not going to do it for you, do it for the people around you...
With Anatoly one would think that the system would shut itself off if you open a part of the accelerator tunnel or so just to keep the beam coherent.. guess the soviets didnt really care?
0:40 - Chapter 1 - The demon core 4:35 - Chapter 2 - Scientist sticks head in particle accelerator 9:00 - Chapter 3 - Doctor gives himself the wrong STD
The 'demon core' experiment accident was 'portrayed' in the film "Fat Man And Little Boy", (Paul Newman, John Cusack, Dwight Schultz), changing the event and victim, to before the two bombs were delivered to Tinian, in the Pacific.
So 'Complex Partial Seizures' is what happens to Jordan Peterson just before he starts talking about whatever it is that's gonna make him burst into tears?
That IS how nuclear FISSION works. Nuclear FUSION is what happens when you down a pint of a Russian Imperial Stout after dropping a shot of Everclear into it and following it up by shotgunning a Four Loko Electric Lemonade. Criticallity occurs within milliseconds.
Anna-Toley not Anat-olee..Simon, your pronunciation on most of your videos are hilarious. Do you do this on purpose? lmao!! love your work, keep it up mate!!
You could possibly include the release of Gypsy Moth because a mother wanted to tidy up her son’s room. Her son trying to breed Gypsy moth with Silkworm Moths had his research thrown outdoors by his dear mother. This was the impetus for agricultural quarantine laws in the US with this researcher as a big proponent of it.
I used to work in a power station where electrical faults cause far more damage (and risk to life) than further down the grid. We NEVER trusted warning lights and NEVER trusted safety earthing systems. Everything was checked and proven electrically dead before a Permit To Work was issued. The Soviet synchrotron accident was a classic case of ignoring even the most basic safety precautions.
How about the "SL-1" small reactor test gone terribly awry near Twin Falls, Idaho?.....three were killed, one impaled to the reactor room ceiling from a control rod, the other two received immediately lethal radiation doses..
For more information on these nuclear related accidents, I highly recommend looking up Kyle Hill's Half-Life Histories playlist. He gives really great breakdowns on the scientific side of the information and the societal/political ramifications of these tragedies. Anatoly, for example, while absolutely miraculous that he survived, the factoid you have regarding the amount of radiation he absorbed is incorrect, and the science to it directly explains how and why he survived. While the beam itself had that much energy, nothing in the body is dense enough to catch/reflect/absorb the beam, and so, in truth, he absorbed a much smaller dose than one would intuitively expect from a beam of that power.
With any large synchrotron particle accelerator, sticking your head (or any other body part) directly into the path of the particle beam is not the only way to get yourself lethally irradiated. In fact, just standing next to it (anywhere inside the circular tunnel housing the accelerator) with the particle beam running can actually be far worse for your health. This isn't an issue with linear accelerators, precisely because they are a perfectly straight line. But as soon as you have to make the particle beam travel in a curved path, it emits "synchrotron radiation", due to the beam constantly changing direction. This radiation can cover almost the entire EM spectrum: The intensity of this emitted radiation is directly proportional to the strength of the particle beam, and inversely proportional to the diameter of the synchrotron or cyclotron. This is partially why the largest circular accelerators (such as the LHC at CERN) have diameters measured in miles, to keep the rate of change of direction as low as possible, to avoid emitting ridiculously intense radiation - because this represents loss of energy and therefore has a negative impact on efficiency. Anyway, if you were to stand in the circular tunnel of the LHC for as little as 5 minutes while it is operating at maximum power, the dose of radiation you would receive would be enough to give you a roughly 50% chance of being dead 24 hours later. Which is why any facility operating a synchrotron will (or at least really, really should) take care to ensure nobody is in the tunnel housing the accelerator before it is switched on. With regards to the "tickling the dragons tail" experiments Louis Slotin was conducting, the "demon core" was not the only way to conduct temporary supercriticality experiments. They also had a device known as the "Dragon Machine", which was essentially a block of enriched uranium (40% U-235, less than half the enrichment required for nuclear weapons) in the shape of a thick-walled tube, oriented precisely vertically a few metres above the ground, with a thin steel wire also running vertically through the middle. For this device the uranium was in the form of uranium hydride - so it would have hydrogen present within the material to serve as an integral neutron moderator. The device was designed so that a smaller solid cylindrical block of uranium hydride could be dropped down through the middle of the larger tube shaped block, using the steel wire as a guide so it would fall through precisely vertically without getting stuck. The size of the blocks of uranium were chosen so that neither block would form a critical mass on its own, but both blocks combined would be a critical mass when the small block was fitted into the hole in the middle of the large block. To conduct the criticality experiment, the small block would be dropped from a sufficient height that it would pass through the middle of the large block at a high enough speed to form a critical mass for only a fraction of a second. The height the small block was dropped from could be varied in order to change the length of time the critical mass would exist for. It was actually this Dragon Machine device which was the originator of the term "tickling the dragons tail", and that term was later co-opted to describe the experiments Louis Slotin conducted using the demon core. The Dragon Machine was in many ways the much safer, more reliable and more easily controlled way of performing temporary criticality experiments. With the demon core, the only safety procedure (which stretches the definition of safety to an absurd degree) was wedging a screwdriver underneath the neutron reflector. With the Dragon Machine, there were numerous safety procedures (the guide wire described above was just one of many) to ensure that the two blocks of uranium could not become jammed together - because if that had ever happened, it would not have been easy to un-jam them, and the consequences could have been far worse than either of the demon core incidents.
Really?! You conduct an experiment under no safety protocols and inadvertently (and unsurprisingly) screw it up. The final result? You get a park in your memory. Looks like a solid win to me
I was a STEM guy. Many of our college lab experiments went very wrong. My wife (also a stem person) sent our professor to the hospital when her experiment went wrong.
When I worked for a short while at a nuclear plant we were taught the STAR system. STOP THINK ASK QUESTIONS REVIEW Apparently two workmen turned off the wrong valve and caused the entire plant to shut down for a day. It cost several million dollars to fix the mistake. So there was an investigation done and it was discovered that one of the workmen was too afraid to ask questions like - is this the right valve? Before you do something think about what you are going to do. Ask questions and make sure what you are doing or going to do will work. So before you stick your head into something like a particle accelerator stop and ask if the device is turned off. Prove to yourself that it is turned off. Review things - do not assume. Whenever I ask for directions or advice on something, I always review what I was told. I want to be sure that I am doing the right thing.
One of the later pictures was of a 17th century setting; possibly Charles I dissolving parliament; a far cry from the actual subject which was some 18th century scientist injecting himself with syphilis. The 17 and 18th centuries were totally different eras in almost every aspect.
Rubber condoms weren’t invented until the mid nineteenth century, but condoms made of animal intestine, bladders or animal skins have been used since Roman times. Fabric or chemical soaked linen was even used (although not to great efficacy).
Simon can you / your writers make a side projects video about the "whistle tip" car exhaust modification. It's the perfect side project vid and includes some of the best vintage memes so even B.B could take it on.
Dear Google censor. You, and that company you work for, are the biggest threat to freedom the US has ever faced. I hope some day you wake up come to realise just how evil what you're doing is.
Just be sure that when you transport yourself you don't have a fly in there with you. / I thought the tickle-me-elmo was done before the bomb drop and not after.
It actually doesn't surprise me at all that the doctor that gave himself syphilis was considered a leading medical mind of his time, especially with the utilization of mercury as a medication. Mercury was used in medications commonly through World War 2 and was actually a potential reason behind Hitler's madness (not including his wicked amphetamine addiction). Mercury is still used in certain medications today, although in a significantly smaller dosage and a different chemical composition that isn't as toxic to human consumption. Honestly you could probably get a pretty long and interesting video on the application of Mercury in medicine through history
We agree that someone who PLAYS with 6 kg of nitroglycerin is totally insane. So, what do you call someone who PLAYS with 6 kg of an explosive that is THREE MILLION TIMES as powerful as nitroglycerin?
So, it seems the moral to all the stories is: scientists should be given an IQ test *before* they are allowed to do any experiments they would like to do.
“There was science to be done and he was needlessly arrogant.” Most polite way I’ve heard this particular train wreck of an experiment described
Anatoly sticking his head in a particle accelerator is a super hero/villain origin story. Pity he didn't get superpowers.
That we know of....
Hey one side of him doesn't age, that's half a superpower 😝
Or did he?
Well he did, sort of.... at 8:00 the radiated side of his face stopped aging while the other side aged normally. Guess all we need is a good dose of radiation to stop aging. lol
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I believe the leading explanation today for Anatoly's survival is that he didn't absorb 750x a lethal dose, or yes, he would be dead. The idea is that particles were traveling too fast and his flesh a bone simply didn't slow them enough for them to shed more than a fraction of their energy.
Yes, this- with an extremely potent electron beam like that your flesh just doesn't have the stopping power to actually absorb the amount of energy the beam has
I am very late to this but your basically right. The full energy of the particle is only released when it is stopped. Because the beam went right through his head he only received a tiny fraction of that energy.
There is an excellent video by Kyle Hill about that very subject.
At 8:00 what's remarkable is that the radiated side of his face stopped aging while the other side aged normally. Guess all we need is a good dose of radiation to stop aging. lol
“But this was the Soviet Union, so he wasn't going to tell anyone what had happened” 😂😂😂
While I can compendium the irony, that it is so prevalent in that culture and has been so costly,
Its just too bloody dismal for a good laugh.
Kyle Hill did a video on this.
@@vic5015 Agreed, people should watch that and read up more if interested because dude did not stick his head in a particle accelerator, he walked into a room where the beam exits which are two totally different things. It is impossible to stick your head in one as without all the air drawn out it is incapable of working.
@@seditt5146 I keep saying this! His head had to be outside the accelerator in the sample test target area.
@@jsl151850b Yeah turns out it was. This story bothered the shit out of me for a while so one day I decided to find out what everyone was talking about because I knew there was no way it was true. Turns out it was a room where a bunch of the experiments were setup where the beam exits the machine. They generally have a small mica window which the beam comes out of. Personally I still call bullshit on the dosages of radiation people claim he got because even the most modest particle accelerator is powerful enough to create a glowing beam although suppose bright lights could have dulled it beyond recognition. Given how little other things were working not sure how confident I am the rest of the machine was reaching full power either... hell, they couldn't even fix locks and lightbulbs.
In Soviet Russia, particles collide you.
Nyet particles are fine.
Not too many volunteers to do that experiment I'm guessing 😆 lol
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That was a perfect joke!
I love how instead of just demanding and implementing safe workplace the Manhattan project guys were like “naw, clearly the only option is to melt this down”
Using screwdrivers to manipulate heavy things is asking for trouble, usually when it slips it just stabs your hand or something, but in the case of the demon core, yeah, that was a big oopsie... :P
I totally would’ve went with a putty knife
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Simon: "There was science to be done..."
GLaDOS: "for the people who are STILL ALIVE."
So he got a hole burned through his head from a particle accelerator and he didn’t get a pension or free anti seizure medication. Wow.
Almost sounds like the US today.
He wasn't commanded or forced to do it, he did on his own. Why would your own stupidity result in financial benefits?
no hole, best look at the kyle hill vid on this, its somewhat more truthful than this effort
There is more to this story I believe. A bureaucratic side, as in they couldn't acknowledge something happened, so he couldn't have any disease or side effects and therefore didn't get any medication or benefits. Something along those lines. A miracle he survived.
Further proving that the USSR wasn't really a socialist country just another poorly run dictatorship.
I love the, " it was the largest particle accelerator in the.....Soviet Union." That pause 😂 well done as always Simon and Co. 💯👍🍻
What truly amazes me about the last story, as a microbiologist, is that it took a minimum of 250 years for anyone to actually think to use a microscope to see what might be in those pustules that early scientists liked to dismiss. Did nobody ever even wonder if there was something there? It just blows my mind...
no kidding lol
And it would have solved the "mystery" right away, since Treponema is a spirochaeta (with a thin, long corkscrew-form) and Neisseria is a diplococcus (two adjacent spheres). So even without really knowing what they see and how it all works, they could just go..."Well, that one looks nothing like that one". Antonie van Leeuwenhoek spottet the first microorganism with his microscope in 1676...100 year before Hunter entered the Royal Society. The same Royal Society that had received more than 190 articles/letters detailing his work from van Leeuwenhoek before his death in 1723. They were right there, archived. Microorganisms were known for quite some time and also that you can use a microscope to see them.
I would assume he was an arrogant prick and to high and mighty to dig into the literature. Thus he actually deserved what he got^^
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As a microbiologist myself, I think you are full of crap Corrbin, you already know why ppl behaved and thought like that, how the hell are you forgetting some simple ass history? jesus f***ing christ.
I think it's falls into the same answer as people saying, "what would I do without music" the answer being well no one would think that way, because it doesn't exist. Same as the answer to why people didn't think about using microscopes for hundreds of years, because no one knew it was possible so they didn't think about it. For example when faced with a problem you don't apply the things you don't know, you apply what you do. Every now and then there comes someone who thinks ahead like that however.
Simon should do a "Into The Shadows" about Hisashi Ouchi, a man who was accidentally doused with radiation and kept alive for 83 days while his body literally fell apart.
He's covered that case on a different channel
@@j-wa357 In all fairness, that hasn't stopped him from doing the very same thing in the past. So long as it's not repeated on the same channel as before, I think the possibility is open.
Hoe is that even possible?
his DNA was obliterated in seconds. probably the worst way to die. absolutely brutal
@@poindextertunes severe acute radiation poisoning is obe of thr mote unpleasant ways to die.
The demon core is a fantastic story. Love that you covered it
Check out Kyle Hill's video about it
I have watched several videos on it, and it is immensely interesting. Look up "the man who died with no DNA", he received so much radiation, that literally all his DNA broke down.
@@GumaroRVillamil yeah, it's really good. Very thorough. Kyle also did a video about the Russian dude accidentally blasted by a high-energy beam from a particle accelerator.
Lots of radioactive incidents on Plainly Difficult too
Plainly difficult and Kyle hill both did awesome jobs on it. And if you haven’t seen Kyle hills Chernobyl series that’s a good one too
Plainly Difficult is one of my favorite channels so I've heard these before, but it was nice to hear Simon et. al.'s take on it.
Ah, good. Simon covered the so-called Demon Core and the truly *insane* criticality experments that were done on it. When noted physicist Richard Feynman calls the experiments "tickling the dragon's tail", implying that perhaps he considered the experiments ill-advised , perhaps you *shouldn't* do it!
Remember that at the time, Feynman was a nobody. One of a hundred junior physicists on a project that included some of the biggest names in physics history.
Interestingly the beryllium sphere was not enough to cause the core to go super critical. What pushed it over the edge was actually his hand reflecting back just enough.
Huh... citation please.
@@seditt5146 can’t remember the exact source but Kyle Hill did a video of the incident going into detail over it all where he goes over that part.
Now, whenever Anatoly becomes angry or outraged, a startling meatmorphosis occurs within him....
Simon I think you did an injustice to what happened with the Schlossen incident. Yes, he was reckless and arrogant. But we have to remember that he redeemed himself in a small way by continuing the science even after he knew he was done for. In the immediate aftermath of the incident, he ordered everyone in the room to freeze. He then made detailed measurements of each witness' distance from the core, each person's position, objects between the witness and the core etc. They were able to use this data to better understand the dynamics of radiation exposure in humans. While this incident was a preventable tragedy, at least they had the presence of mind to find some good in what happened.
He ewas still and idiot. He could have killed thousands, the core was just instants from detonating
Unfortunately, he still acted recklessly and endangered the lives of everyone in the room with him, so how he handled the situation afterwards sort of pales in comparison to that...even if it was good of him and I do feel bad for him. It was his fault anything needed to be done, in the first place. This is just another example of why we have so many safety protocols in any type of lab or workplace, especially those that could potentially endanger the lives of others.
Also, Simon didn't write the script, so technically it wasn't him doing anyone an injustice. xD He just reads them.
We "wise humans" are on occasion, are anything but...
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I always thought that was admirable but what would have been more admirable about it was *not using a flathead screwdriver to work with the core of a nuclear bomb. Jaysus Christie.
@@KaiyaCorrbin Definitely NOT the way to do science.
I'm positive Russia has heaps of nuclear type accidents, a Russian cook in a nuclear sub used irradiated water to wash up with. I have no idea how the pipes for the water that cooled the reactor down would have gone anywhere near the kitchen area but it did. I'm sure there'd be heaps of other examples that would make for a very interesting show.
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@Cancer McAids I learned a lot today, thanks
@Cancer McAids Just saw this, I was totally lied to then. That'll teach me to do some research b4 opening my yap. Thanks for the correction
@@opeeate there’s nothing wrong with being incorrect; just staying incorrect. Everyone should have your attitude toward learning growth.
Damn, dude tanked a particle accelerator with only mildly irritating side effects. What a badass.
The flashing lights in the doorway behind you was very effectual, nice touch👍
Kyle Hill does a wonderfully detailed analysis of the radiation accidents on his channel.
All of these could have been Florida man titles and I wouldn't have questioned it
I was treated for cancer which was discovered in my nasal passages under a lnear accelerator at Stanford University Hospital’s cancer center. During some parts of the treatment I could “see” blue lights flashing in my vision. I was told it was rare, but that I was seeing Cherenkov radiation. The light is created by high energy beams, in my case, shooting near my optic nerve. Cherenkov radiation is the blue light in the water surrounding fuel rods in most nuclear reactors (I looked it up.).
Thanks for your comment I was trying to remember what the blue light was called now I don't have to look it up lol
Doctor gives him self the wrong STD? ....as if there is a right one lol
8:00 I may be wrong but I'm fairly certain that the gentleman in the picture isn't Anatoly, but is rather a man who drove a truck for a living for a very long time, and the damage on the left side of his face is from exposure to the sun. Another quite different form of radiation damage, interestingly.
Yes, came here to say the same - I’ve seen this image a number of times, and it is usually presented with the truck driver story.
Learned that the hard way when I saw the same image on Reddit and tried to correct a someone who was right 🤦🏿
8:03 I saw that photo in a video that said it was a result of UV exposure from a trucker's window.
Not the best day to use a clip of Ned Fulmer (first clip, with the candle) in a video. Today his former friends and colleagues released their video about him cheating on his wife with an employee and that they removed him from the company.
So not really someone, you want in your video
I jumped into the comments immediately to see if anyone was going to talk about it. It is kind of funny that this would be in a Simon video, considering how Simon jokes/worries about being canceled over some small mistake. #CancelSimon (Not Really)
@@michaelarroyo02 wouldn't call it small mistake, I mean he was in charge of HR, a clear power imbalance. And cheating on his wife, when he was all about being a family man and always declared 'I love my wife'. That's pretty low. I'm so sorry for his wife and their children.
@@librasgirl08 I meant that Simon’s editor putting the clip of Ned in the video the same week Ned was exposed as an adulterer is a small mistake. What Ned did was absolutely fucking horrible.
Came here to find this comment and add engagement to it to help get the basement gang to see. Considering the stance the Try Guys are taking I can't imagine the whistle boy wanting him there once he knows.
Just wanted to say Thank You for including a brief explanation of the terms 'critical' and 'super critical'
Don't you just love it when you missed one of Simons videos only for it to pop up on your feed a year later 🤗
These sound like Darwin awards for ‘smart’ people.
HOW MANY CHANNELS DO YOU HAVE
13 and a few he no longer makes content for.
a minor correction on the Last Story: i think it means seemless Latexcondoms since Sheep intestine were a thing and well, also still are, only not that effective against STD and also likely bit to expensive for the Working Class
"Demon Core", sounds like a title for a movie.
It would be a good genre of metal.
In the second experiment the others in the room were saved, at least in part, because Harry was leaning over the core and so his body shieled them. This is also way his death was so relatively fast. A number of the scientists also felt that this was punishment, from 'above', for the bombs dropped on Japan. As, As you pointed out, this core had been intended for a third Japanese city. So these two reseachers with diviene pay-back for that.
Barry Marshal was again left out. “I drank what?”
Interesting stories. Two years ago, I suffered a grand Mal Stroke. After a year in the hospital, and constant therapy, I can tell you, that “uh oh” moment? I can relate. Also, in the book “ time off planet “, about life on board the Soviet space station, the sensation of being “ lit up” by gamma radiation was disconcerting. Thanks, fascinating!
Japan: We'll NEVER surrender!
US: *drops two bombs and THINKS about dropping a third*
Japan: Ok we're good.
If it's fatal, I'll sign up for it.
Also, how quickly people lose respect for the fundamental building blocks of the universe. "The screwdriver is fine, what's the worst that could happen?". If you're not going to do it for you, do it for the people around you...
With Anatoly one would think that the system would shut itself off if you open a part of the accelerator tunnel or so just to keep the beam coherent.. guess the soviets didnt really care?
Soviets _didn't really care_ is their mantra.
It's the USSR of course they didn't care
0:40 - Chapter 1 - The demon core
4:35 - Chapter 2 - Scientist sticks head in particle accelerator
9:00 - Chapter 3 - Doctor gives himself the wrong STD
Well what the hell is the right std?
I love how Slotin's plaque didn't mention WHY "the laboratory was being swept with deadly radiation."
The 'demon core' experiment accident was 'portrayed' in the film "Fat Man And Little Boy", (Paul Newman, John Cusack, Dwight Schultz), changing the event and victim, to before the two bombs were delivered to Tinian, in the Pacific.
"Doctor gives himself the wrong STD", there's a right one?
So 'Complex Partial Seizures' is what happens to Jordan Peterson just before he starts talking about whatever it is that's gonna make him burst into tears?
That's one way of explaining it.... xD
I'm disappointed the nuclear and particle accelerator accidents never produced an Incredible Hulk.
Imagine getting a hole of your brain burned away by a particle accelerator only to survive
*1:46** always thought that nuclear fusion was accomplished by splitting a beer atom with a hammer and a really really sharp chisel*
HA! Love that movie!
Good use of Yahoo Serious. Well done.
Props!
That IS how nuclear FISSION works. Nuclear FUSION is what happens when you down a pint of a Russian Imperial Stout after dropping a shot of Everclear into it and following it up by shotgunning a Four Loko Electric Lemonade. Criticallity occurs within milliseconds.
@@noahbaerveldt8162 *experimental forays into the realm of recreational ethanol...you learn so much from this channel*
Anna-Toley not Anat-olee..Simon, your pronunciation on most of your videos are hilarious. Do you do this on purpose? lmao!! love your work, keep it up mate!!
I guess you can't count the covid response as we are still doing horrifically poorly .... so going wrong, not gone.
I’m still on the control group, doing A-Okay!
Trust me. I know what I am doing.
You could possibly include the release of Gypsy Moth because a mother wanted to tidy up her son’s room. Her son trying to breed Gypsy moth with Silkworm Moths had his research thrown outdoors by his dear mother. This was the impetus for agricultural quarantine laws in the US with this researcher as a big proponent of it.
I used to work in a power station where electrical faults cause far more damage (and risk to life) than further down the grid. We NEVER trusted warning lights and NEVER trusted safety earthing systems. Everything was checked and proven electrically dead before a Permit To Work was issued.
The Soviet synchrotron accident was a classic case of ignoring even the most basic safety precautions.
How about the "SL-1" small reactor test gone terribly awry near Twin Falls, Idaho?.....three were killed, one impaled to the reactor room ceiling from a control rod, the other two received immediately lethal radiation doses..
WoW ! Particle Beam Straight through your Head is amazing ! The tiniest Fraction of your entire Brain 🧠 just removed and fused
What you need is more channels.
Yes! 13 isn't enough lol 😆
2:37 for a second I thought my phone screen had broken.
3:53 Core: "omae wa mou shindeiru"
"Nani"!!!!
all in all, that wasn't just another brick in the wall.
I guess Harry needed more education to place another brick on the wall.
"Doctor gives himself the wrong STD" Another case where every single part of the sentence makes the whole that much better.
WHO TF DROPPED THE SCREWDRIVER
For more information on these nuclear related accidents, I highly recommend looking up Kyle Hill's Half-Life Histories playlist.
He gives really great breakdowns on the scientific side of the information and the societal/political ramifications of these tragedies.
Anatoly, for example, while absolutely miraculous that he survived, the factoid you have regarding the amount of radiation he absorbed is incorrect, and the science to it directly explains how and why he survived. While the beam itself had that much energy, nothing in the body is dense enough to catch/reflect/absorb the beam, and so, in truth, he absorbed a much smaller dose than one would intuitively expect from a beam of that power.
Wow 2 years late to the demon core fad !
With any large synchrotron particle accelerator, sticking your head (or any other body part) directly into the path of the particle beam is not the only way to get yourself lethally irradiated. In fact, just standing next to it (anywhere inside the circular tunnel housing the accelerator) with the particle beam running can actually be far worse for your health.
This isn't an issue with linear accelerators, precisely because they are a perfectly straight line. But as soon as you have to make the particle beam travel in a curved path, it emits "synchrotron radiation", due to the beam constantly changing direction. This radiation can cover almost the entire EM spectrum: The intensity of this emitted radiation is directly proportional to the strength of the particle beam, and inversely proportional to the diameter of the synchrotron or cyclotron.
This is partially why the largest circular accelerators (such as the LHC at CERN) have diameters measured in miles, to keep the rate of change of direction as low as possible, to avoid emitting ridiculously intense radiation - because this represents loss of energy and therefore has a negative impact on efficiency. Anyway, if you were to stand in the circular tunnel of the LHC for as little as 5 minutes while it is operating at maximum power, the dose of radiation you would receive would be enough to give you a roughly 50% chance of being dead 24 hours later. Which is why any facility operating a synchrotron will (or at least really, really should) take care to ensure nobody is in the tunnel housing the accelerator before it is switched on.
With regards to the "tickling the dragons tail" experiments Louis Slotin was conducting, the "demon core" was not the only way to conduct temporary supercriticality experiments. They also had a device known as the "Dragon Machine", which was essentially a block of enriched uranium (40% U-235, less than half the enrichment required for nuclear weapons) in the shape of a thick-walled tube, oriented precisely vertically a few metres above the ground, with a thin steel wire also running vertically through the middle. For this device the uranium was in the form of uranium hydride - so it would have hydrogen present within the material to serve as an integral neutron moderator. The device was designed so that a smaller solid cylindrical block of uranium hydride could be dropped down through the middle of the larger tube shaped block, using the steel wire as a guide so it would fall through precisely vertically without getting stuck.
The size of the blocks of uranium were chosen so that neither block would form a critical mass on its own, but both blocks combined would be a critical mass when the small block was fitted into the hole in the middle of the large block. To conduct the criticality experiment, the small block would be dropped from a sufficient height that it would pass through the middle of the large block at a high enough speed to form a critical mass for only a fraction of a second. The height the small block was dropped from could be varied in order to change the length of time the critical mass would exist for.
It was actually this Dragon Machine device which was the originator of the term "tickling the dragons tail", and that term was later co-opted to describe the experiments Louis Slotin conducted using the demon core. The Dragon Machine was in many ways the much safer, more reliable and more easily controlled way of performing temporary criticality experiments. With the demon core, the only safety procedure (which stretches the definition of safety to an absurd degree) was wedging a screwdriver underneath the neutron reflector. With the Dragon Machine, there were numerous safety procedures (the guide wire described above was just one of many) to ensure that the two blocks of uranium could not become jammed together - because if that had ever happened, it would not have been easy to un-jam them, and the consequences could have been far worse than either of the demon core incidents.
Really?! You conduct an experiment under no safety protocols and inadvertently (and unsurprisingly) screw it up. The final result? You get a park in your memory. Looks like a solid win to me
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Video Idea: Just the opposite of this one: Scientific experiments that went badly that led us in great directions.
I was a STEM guy. Many of our college lab experiments went very wrong. My wife (also a stem person) sent our professor to the hospital when her experiment went wrong.
Lol... Pathetic bullshit like this would keep science from evolving. "Oh no, something might be bad! We have to stop!" GTFO...
Re((re)(re-re)) suggesting: The CANOL project would make a good subject for your show.
Giving yourself both gonorrhea and syphilis? You forgot to mention it also takes all the fun out of it.
Celebrities are toying with the notion of sticking their head in particle excelerators after watching this video.
They say when the core connected, along with a blue flash, a faint trombone could be heard…wop wop.
“Well that does it…”
When I worked for a short while at a nuclear plant we were taught the STAR system.
STOP
THINK
ASK QUESTIONS
REVIEW
Apparently two workmen turned off the wrong valve and caused the entire plant to shut down for a day. It cost several million dollars to fix the mistake. So there was an investigation done and it was discovered that one of the workmen was too afraid to ask questions like - is this the right valve?
Before you do something think about what you are going to do. Ask questions and make sure what you are doing or going to do will work.
So before you stick your head into something like a particle accelerator stop and ask if the device is turned off. Prove to yourself that it is turned off. Review things - do not assume.
Whenever I ask for directions or advice on something, I always review what I was told. I want to be sure that I am doing the right thing.
Props to the doctor for using himself instead of a random victim.
I imagine the lack of wrinkles on the left side of Anatolys face is a result of the paralysis and not that the skin has stopped aging.
One of the later pictures was of a 17th century setting; possibly Charles I dissolving parliament; a far cry from the actual subject which was some 18th century scientist injecting himself with syphilis.
The 17 and 18th centuries were totally different eras in almost every aspect.
I really enjoy the way you present this mind boggling stuff. So thank you sir for your efforts.
This was probably the first time this physicist ever held a screwdriver.
There’s a difference between the science pursued in academia and the physics experiments drunk college dudes pull off every weekend, but not much.
It may seem that the partical collider burnt a hole in the Russian's head, but in reality, he burned the particals.
They called it "The Big Oopsy Doopsie"
Rubber condoms weren’t invented until the mid nineteenth century, but condoms made of animal intestine, bladders or animal skins have been used since Roman times. Fabric or chemical soaked linen was even used (although not to great efficacy).
Proton Accelerator beam pipes are under ultra high vacuum. Can anyone tell me how he managed to get his head in the way of the beam. Cheers. ❤️.
Simon can you / your writers make a side projects video about the "whistle tip" car exhaust modification. It's the perfect side project vid and includes some of the best vintage memes so even B.B could take it on.
I can only imagine his take on Bubb Rubb and "the whistles go WOOOO"
Is that the "upgrade" that makes your car sound like it's yelling, *_"I Wish I Was a Racecar!!"_* ??
Perhaps adding the catalytic convertor as a dovetail.
Those first two examples are Darwin award nominees...
this is why scientists shouldn't be aloud to do anything without aproval from HEALTH AND SAFETY
Dear Google censor. You, and that company you work for, are the biggest threat to freedom the US has ever faced. I hope some day you wake up come to realise just how evil what you're doing is.
Never knew there was another hadron collider. Thanks!
Recent calculations show that his hand over the hole in the top hemisphere made the difference between life and death.
Imagine dropping something and instantly knowing you've now got between 1 and 2 weeks to live. I'm not even gonna say what I would do.....
Kyle Hill half life series covers nuclear disasters. Excellent documentaries.
Kind of uneasy seeing you sitting in front of all that blue light, Simon.
I don't feel like how the Demon Core was cursed and that it had experiments performed on it by an intelligent fool that caused his own death
Just be sure that when you transport yourself you don't have a fly in there with you. / I thought the tickle-me-elmo was done before the bomb drop and not after.
Love these videos of science gone wrong especially anything nuclear
It actually doesn't surprise me at all that the doctor that gave himself syphilis was considered a leading medical mind of his time, especially with the utilization of mercury as a medication. Mercury was used in medications commonly through World War 2 and was actually a potential reason behind Hitler's madness (not including his wicked amphetamine addiction). Mercury is still used in certain medications today, although in a significantly smaller dosage and a different chemical composition that isn't as toxic to human consumption. Honestly you could probably get a pretty long and interesting video on the application of Mercury in medicine through history
We agree that someone who PLAYS with 6 kg of nitroglycerin is totally insane.
So, what do you call someone who PLAYS with 6 kg of an explosive that is THREE MILLION TIMES as powerful as nitroglycerin?
A scientist.
@@XtreeM_FaiL Correction: a DEAD scientist.
You might say that John was a right gonner here.
Don't forget the Monster Study.
So, it seems the moral to all the stories is: scientists should be given an IQ test *before* they are allowed to do any experiments they would like to do.