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People can’t even say a joke these days. It’s sad. No one admires what these horrid people did but some people should just lighten up. The man just told a joke. 👵👵👵👵🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
Dear Lester, then it would depend on what you were like as a person. Some are proud of their grandparents. You can love someone , as is right, but if you are still proud of what they did, then - no. If you were a good and decent person, - then yes 👵👵👵🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
Great video, from a viewer from Argentina! It even includes a bonus minigame "count how many times he butchers all names, even the easy ones"! Dude... Not even one name properly pronounced!
Abe Simpson- "what did you do during the war?" Werner Herzog- "world war 2? I wasn't even born yet!" Abe Simpson- "funny how many of you guys say that these days"
@@SimonVanliew26 The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones.
@@alexander-mauricemillamlae4567 lol, like they’re direct descendants of high ranking members of Hitler’s Nazi party; and probably directly reasonable for the deaths of thousands if innocent civilians.
@@alexander-mauricemillamlae4567 Yeah, I caught the sarcasm. In 2021 surprisingly others might not be aware. I personally can’t vouch for Stalin’s granddaughter’s character, though; can you?
Very cool video! My grandfather was ministry of industry around this time for Argentina. And we are decedents from Germans into the 1800s but we migrated to Arg in 1914...before wwII....not all of us are those Germans, many yes but not all.
My family migrated in the 1920s, I'm 39, and yet I used to work for a Russian guy who kind of blamed me for WWII. He was jus a couple of years my senior, so he didn´t participate in war, yet he loathed me for being of German descent.
I LOVE this history tidbit. It's so freaking crazy: Nazis, mad scientists, delusional military dictators... it has it all! Give the Blaze treatment, factboi!
Well, Argentina exports nuclear technology all over the world, including nuclear reactors for research. Richter was the wrong man for the project but the seed was planted there in Bariloche, where Instituto Balseiro (among the finest institutions in nuclear research) is. That institute is where Juan Martín Maldacena got his degree in physics.
Considering they found much of the equipment wasn't even hooked up. And someone caught a piece out of place giving a false positive, but he just pushed forward anyways says con to me. He was probably rigging for a false positive the whole time.
Excellent story! THIS is the kind of thing I love to see on this channel. Stuff that may have been very public during their time, but almost completely forgotten since, out of shame or what have you.
I love these videos and their great content. I would like to add also that a "nighttime cinema" style audio output might be in order to moderate your sound level to a median range, as I suffer from tinnitus and have to turn up the volume to understand it well. But then again, I do sometimes use the closed caption with the volume down low, so it's just a suggestion you might want to play with.
I absolutely love how informative your videos are. It shows you put in a lot of work and research to make the content interesting and captivating. I am not audially impaired, but sometimes I can't seem to be able to understand what you are saying, as your voice goes low, quieter and assumes a monotone. When you do the longer videos of a script written for you, that doesn't seem to be the case, and I can understand you perfectly throughout the whole video.
Unfortunately unless we put the panels in space the best efficiency we've gotten so far is not even 10%. It is why we would love to put in orbital power arrays, but then you have to figure out how to transfer it to Earth.
@@leechowning2712 There's a theoretical power generation method called the "Dyson Sphere" where you *cover the entire Sun with a giant sphere of solar panels.* I guess that would bump the efficiency up a bit.
@@arifhossain9751 actually the standard plan is a ring of solar panels circling the equator. It would be pinned by antennas coming down to geosynchronous orbit to transmit power, but would require the world governments to all invest.
Another awesome video. One thing. ‘Bariloche’ rhymes with ‘noche’, as in Spanish for ‘night time’. It’s not a French word. You pronounce ‘che’ like Che Guevara’s name. It means ’the people behind the mountain’ Bari, or Vuri, means ‘behind’, ‘che’ means ‘the people’. It’s in one of the native’s languages. Side note, the ‘Che’ in Che Guevara does not have the same etymology.
Argentina is by far the most developed country in all of South America for a reason. I get stuff shipped from Argentina to California within three days, every single time. I have also had things shipped from Peru and it always takes many weeks if not months if it doesn’t get seized by customs once it hits the us. This is because Argentina had a top of the line airport and a very good international reputation and for very good reason.
12:18 I need to start mixing percentages and fractions more often just to mess with math teachers..... P.S. My mom is a math teacher...... "There are 3 types of people in this world, those that can count and those that can't."
Also it's really impressive the programa Condor, their objective was to create missiles and orbital rockets to send to space, the program sold engines to some Arab countries. The us didn't like this and so they made the program be cancelled day's before the official launch day.
I have a third theory, he was aligned with Perón to steal the money of the country, his plan was that both of them would use the project to gain money (you pay for something and write the report ten times more expensive, or buying ten times the material needed, then you sell it in the blackmarket). That could be a explanation maybe also the good image of a project like that.
Honestly.... I felt sorry for Ricter... He got in over his head and was under so much pressure that after a certain point, there was no turning back.... (Yes, he spun his noose far before that point, unfortunately... I prolly just have a soft spot for Mad Scientists)
Was about to comment that this sounded a lot like the Fleischmann-Pons cold fusion experiment back in the late 80's/early 90's, but Simon & the team mentioned it at the very end. I cannot say that before this video I knew anything about these Nazi fusion experiments, but the parallels between the two seem very striking.
Richter fusion reactor is being used in the United Kingdom. It was not a scam from my point of view. Reactors the size of half pencil that produce 400º Celcius are being tested and without harmful radiation.
@@kreb7 I can not give sources other than this: Martin Fleischmann Memorial Project to find the by Who. In case of Richter he probably just made public what he saw in wartime Germany. Currently Richter type devices are being tested but still without excess energy and the costs are too high. The pencil reactors To me the pencil reactor it is a kind of a battery that transforms Hydrogen and electricity to produce heat. To make electricity out of heat is the big problem. No water steam or turbines should be used to make it simple. Siemens placed one question: can it make 1000 degrees C ? So that it could use steam to turn turbines. The answer was, no. 1000 C is could be possible but I have not seen any proof of it. As far as I know the materials used to "hold" Hydrogen melt at much lower temperatures. The Piantelli / Focardi / Rossi device has to be charged with Hydrogen and the amount of energy one can take out is limited plus the resources and energy spent to charge it must be expensive and the device most probably might not give out the amount of energy that was spent charging it. I believe that those that are working in this types of ideas have solved the first problem: starting the effect at will anytime all the time. Understanding the phenomena is the next step. The reason why I think there is something in LENR is when I was working I would find Hydrogen trapped inside cast iron and one way to release this gas was placing the H contaminated iron parts in an oven at 80 degrees for 12 hours. Thinking of it now I wonder what would have happened if I had covered the iron surface with a material that would act like a one way valve and also if this H could be "pumped" until it started to fuse with a little help from electricity. Anyhow I am not a scientist but a very curious person and I love a good story.
For future reference: in Spanish, the H is silent; the U is pronounced like a W, the CH is always strong CH, and the final E is not silent. Therefore, Project Wemool (Huemul), and BariloCHE. You're welcome.
In spanish the "U" is pronounced like "U". There is an exception with words like "que" or "quiero" where the "U" is silent, and "Q" is pronounced like "K". If you find an "e" after "u" but no "q" or "g" in sight, that combination do actually sound similar to "w", but that's just a coincidence. The mistake is most likely due to the fact that Castilian spanish refer to "v" as "uve" but thats probably to differentiate "v" from "b" and prevent mistakes ("v" and "u" look kinda similar). Such way to name the letter "v" ended up in "w" as well (uve doble), but that has nothing to do with the spanish pronunciation.
You should cover the attempts of X-Energy Nuclear to produce a new type of nuclear reactor and fuel system. Their TRISO-X fuel balls are quite interesting.
On Fleischmann and Pons: neurons from fusion were detected at a few a second. a bit higher than random deuterium fusion. Measurable, but not more than that.
You can relatively easily build something much superior at home. Either a fusor or a stellerator. Neither is going to give you more power than you put in but a great neutron source. Funnily Fusors kinda work like what Richter was trying, it uses high voltage to ignite the fuel. Stellerators could in theor make power like Wendelstein 7X but you can't build that at home.
@@RT-hl4uk They got nowhere near the temperatures a well built fusor can achieve but without a blueprint of what they built it's hard to say if it was complete quackery or at least plausible. It is quite large, fusors and early stellerators where way smaller and fused a lot more atoms. And those are not close to making power.
You butchered several words in this video. I recommend that, whenever you need to pronounce a foreign word, you add the word on screen, that way, people from those countries (like me) will know what you are talking about. Other than that. I was always interested by this, thanks for making a video about it!
I need a video on the Harlan Coal Wars in Harlan Kentucky. Where the US Government bombed there people and had them assassinated. Where they worked with corrupt company’s treating there employees as if slaves and never paying them and starving them!!! Love your videos Simon keep up the work! Your whole team is doing great!!!
That's something that someone definitely needs to be done. I know there was a documentary about Harlan and the 1973 Strike but nothing on the events in the 1930s.
Simon don't do this to me. X3 you tease me with just dipping a little bit into ITER. You really should consider making a video on that because the amount of work that's been put into it is amazing.
This video was recommended to me by the algorithm. It said "people who like BrainBlaze also like this". I think that is extremely strange because I'm already subscribed to this channel with the notification bell on.🤔🤔
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6:58 My brain thought you said Cordova instead of Córdoba. I grew up close to Cordova, Illinois, where there is a nuclear power plant. I had a split second of thinking ‘what a weird coincidence- is there a connection?’ before realizing it wasn’t the same name.
Si Man looking Fresh to next 😍 👌 Excellent Mr. Surrey 👌 youre the main course of my youtube menu. Or actually I watch 3 different videos from atleast three of your channels. Well done Whistler 👏
Now imagine, if you will, a world where this crazed lunatic had actually stumbled on relatively low temperature fusion in spite of himself.... Keep the crazy keep the scandal, but his notes, his apparatus, actually producing scaleable results with better minds able to work out the flaws and harness it.
We live in a world where there will always be the burning of the Library of Alexandria in which society will destroy things of people they don't like or are said to have done wrong or are evil.
Very nice video, but I have a comment, though. The neutrons observed by Zeta at Harwell were real, not an artifact of faulty instrumentation. What happens is that they weren't of thermonuclear origin, but the result of beam-target reactions, just as in an accelerator. The problem is that deuterons are accelerated by high electric fields, as a result from what we know as "sausage instabilities", which are like a squeeze of the plasma column. The fault in interpretation, not instrumentation, was found a few months later, when the angular distribution of the neutron yield was measured. There's a great difference between this kind of mistake, and those due to sheer incompetence, like those of Richter, Pons and Fleishmann, and others who would rather prefer not to be mentioned. By the way, there's a book on the subject by Mariscotti, "El secreto de la isla Huemul", which is unfortunately out of print. I asked Mariscotti sometime back in the 1990s if he'd be interested to have it translated to English, but he wasn't.
I went to high school with two kids from a family that came from Argentina and owned bmw dealerships and had white blonde hair and blue eyes and very white skin. I have to say her brother looked like a spitting image of a Nazi soldier and was quite the Aryan specimen, so was she.
Argentina spent 5 billion dollars in todays money on that project, that was a lot of money for a country with less then half the GDP as the US in 1950.
I once met a cute Argentinian girl in a bar with a German name and last name. When asked she said "yeah, grandpa moved here in the late 40s" as if that doesnt insinuate anything.
Argentina was also, if memory serves, one of the destinations for the Abwehr Ost members and their families that were pulled out of Germany and what became Soviet-occupied territory under Reinhard Gehlen's agreement with Allen Dulles (when he was OSS's Head of Station in Switzerland). The short version of *that* was that Dulles got Gehlen's people out of harm's way - specifically Soviet hands, but also the western Allies' Nazi hunters - in return for Gehlen giving Dulles what was left of his (i.e.: German military intelligence's) networks in eastern Europe. Things got "interesting" when OSS was summarily dissolved as soon as Truman became President. All in all a fascinating "Wild West" period. Pretty sure Chile was another destination, but it never got the publicity that Argentina did.
@@pathologicaldoubt Italians had a BIG immigratory wave starting in the 1880s (so big, that Buenos Aires' spanish entonation mutated from andalusian to neapolitan).
Interesting story. 13:03 "mMost of the scientific instruments weren't even connected." If Richter did believe in his project he didn't believe that he was getting close to achieving succes.
Argentina then was not an impoverished nation. For much of its history, hard as it may be to imagine now, Argentina was one of the richest countries in the world.
Land of Silver is what Argentina means and they had vast quantities of it (which was mostly stolen by Spain as was huge amounts of gold from other parts of South and Central America) but having lots of precious metals doesn't necessarily make a country wealthy as Spain found out
@@noelchignell1048 Argentina had very little silver... The name is based on the name of the Río de la Plata (roughly Silver River) that the Spanish conquistadores navigated motivated by legends of vast silver deposits that didn't exist.
Also the late 19th and early 20th century wealth was from the export of agriculture and especially cow related products. Argentina was on a similar (if not better) position than Canada or Australia, also with a huge immigration. After the 1929 crisis Argentina fell under different dictatorships and constitutional governments that took very bad decisions which leads to our situation today. Although calling Perón a dictator is quite a bold statement (even though I don't like it one bit I would call it an authoritarian democratically elected president at most).
Why would he go for fusion? Je could have easily made a large natural uranium reactor to deliver on his promise of lots of power and evolve that into a light water reactor capable of both power and plutonium production...
your pronunciations werer pretty hilarious, but, yea... this is why im not very proud of being from argentina, people in power in this coutnry make us look terrible in the eyes of the rest of the world.... ...welp.. i've folloed you for eons now! always awesome to see your videos. Cheers from Argentina.
Pardon my spelling but the ITER is Tokamak design. The Stelerator is a far more efficient and promising drive. Not at all the same although fusion is the goal.
How is Argentina abt the same gdp per capita as mexico like wtf I never though that was true but it is... like brazil tanked since 2014 (abt 80 percent poorer) but did all of South America fail since then also?!
Argentina has been on an economic crisis for most of the last 80 years. If we are less poor than most of our neighbors is just because we started from a much better position, but it's just a matter of time.
And today’s minigame is… „How many different project names can the subtitles come up with?“ I haven’t counted them, but the suggestions were wild. Had to come to the comment section to find out what it was actually called. 😁
This place was featured on a History Channel mini-series. That posited that Hitler escaped Berlin and moved to Argentina. And the crumbling facility was a Nazi attempt to build an A-bomb to win WW III. So much for the History Channel actually presenting history.
@@ShinigamiInuyasha777 a ver, era una referencia a los Simpson; pero que hay gente que idealiza a gente que le dió asilo político a nazis, que a mi parecer te descalifica de ser tratado con seriedad
@@ShinigamiInuyasha777 sep, si un montón de paises le dieron asilo a altos cargos nazis y son todos una mierda (sobre todo los que acogieron a las mierdas relacionadas con el holocausto o experimentos en humanos)
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@@fredred8371 thanks mate
@@fredred8371 more ads and discussion of ads than USA network TV and that is saying something
FYI, 2:03 is wrong. Juan Peron wasn't a dictator, he was elected the three times he was president.
@@jackmurfitt1630 or you could watch and listen to another channel. No one is forcing you here. Lighten up Francis.
Never ask a woman her weight, a man his salary or a German why their grandparents are from Argentina
Racist
@@speedymark8517 stop getting so easily offended by jokes
People can’t even say a joke these days. It’s sad. No one admires what these horrid people did but some people should just lighten up. The man just told a joke. 👵👵👵👵🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
What if I’m Argentinian and my grandparent was German
Dear Lester, then it would depend on what you were like as a person. Some are proud of their grandparents. You can love someone , as is right, but if you are still proud of what they did, then - no. If you were a good and decent person, - then yes 👵👵👵🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
Great video, from a viewer from Argentina! It even includes a bonus minigame "count how many times he butchers all names, even the easy ones"!
Dude... Not even one name properly pronounced!
Abe Simpson- "what did you do during the war?" Werner Herzog- "world war 2? I wasn't even born yet!" Abe Simpson- "funny how many of you guys say that these days"
Also abe Simpson- "call me mint jelly cuz im on the lam(b)".
Which was the style at the time
@@SimonVanliew26 The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones.
“I’m German but I also have a lot of Argentinian family” never comes off how they think it does
@@alexander-mauricemillamlae4567
lol, like they’re direct descendants of high ranking members of Hitler’s Nazi party; and probably directly reasonable for the deaths of thousands if innocent civilians.
@@owenmccord5078 Interesting relatives are cool.
@@alexander-mauricemillamlae4567
Yeah, I caught the sarcasm.
In 2021 surprisingly others might not be aware.
I personally can’t vouch for Stalin’s granddaughter’s character, though; can you?
@@mielerodriguez5678
Interesting relatives are only cool if one carries on their legacy.
In this case, that’s what firing squads are for.
@@alexander-mauricemillamlae4567 yes, but the antiques sold are cursed
The WILDEST pronunciation I've ever heard of San Carlos de Bariloche
Jajajaja... spanglish nivel 99.99%
I want to like this video and destroy it at the same time.
Kudos for trying? 🤣🤣👵👵👵🇦🇺🇦🇺
There was a common saying in Argentina when I lived there in the 80's: "Bariloche, donde se cobra hasta el aire." I wonder if it is still common.
Nahuel Huapi me voló la cabeza
Just like my abuelo Adolfo used to tell me!
😂
I wish i could have met your abuelo
@@maria369 I'm sure you might've seen a video or picture of him before.
@@awsumaustin7650
I have a collection of videos and pictures of him. 😉
you mean grandfather
Very cool video! My grandfather was ministry of industry around this time for Argentina. And we are decedents from Germans into the 1800s but we migrated to Arg in 1914...before wwII....not all of us are those Germans, many yes but not all.
My family migrated in the 1920s, I'm 39, and yet I used to work for a Russian guy who kind of blamed me for WWII. He was jus a couple of years my senior, so he didn´t participate in war, yet he loathed me for being of German descent.
@@javierwolfle3593 yup normal stereotypes.... or a hasty generalization
I LOVE this history tidbit. It's so freaking crazy: Nazis, mad scientists, delusional military dictators... it has it all! Give the Blaze treatment, factboi!
Well, Argentina exports nuclear technology all over the world, including nuclear reactors for research. Richter was the wrong man for the project but the seed was planted there in Bariloche, where Instituto Balseiro (among the finest institutions in nuclear research) is. That institute is where Juan Martín Maldacena got his degree in physics.
Blaze it up!!!
You may enjoy looking up operation paperclip then as well. Its the reason the US was able to win the space race
If you just could have found a way to get pirates in there would have been perfect
The thumbnail is quite Blaze-ish isn’t it factboi
Considering they found much of the equipment wasn't even hooked up. And someone caught a piece out of place giving a false positive, but he just pushed forward anyways says con to me. He was probably rigging for a false positive the whole time.
Excellent story! THIS is the kind of thing I love to see on this channel. Stuff that may have been very public during their time, but almost completely forgotten since, out of shame or what have you.
Yes, I think the same, and couldn´t help comparing to Elizabeth Holmes'.
I love these videos and their great content. I would like to add also that a "nighttime cinema" style audio output might be in order to moderate your sound level to a median range, as I suffer from tinnitus and have to turn up the volume to understand it well. But then again, I do sometimes use the closed caption with the volume down low, so it's just a suggestion you might want to play with.
40's scientists be like, "I could defeat Richter with only 40% of my power".
This guy might've done everything wrong, but I always say: Knowing how not to do things eventually leads you to knowing how you should do them.
I know...
Right!???!
I hate Nazis
@@muffassa6739 what are nazi's to do with this? He was a scientist in nazi germany it doesnt mean hes a nazi.
Sometimes it does, but other times it doesn't....or doing the wrong thing once makes sure you're not around to try again
I absolutely love how informative your videos are. It shows you put in a lot of work and research to make the content interesting and captivating. I am not audially impaired, but sometimes I can't seem to be able to understand what you are saying, as your voice goes low, quieter and assumes a monotone. When you do the longer videos of a script written for you, that doesn't seem to be the case, and I can understand you perfectly throughout the whole video.
As it turns out the only Fusion reactor supplying energy to earth is that big bright one that comes up every morning and sets every evening.
Yes nature does it best, we just imitate
Unfortunately unless we put the panels in space the best efficiency we've gotten so far is not even 10%. It is why we would love to put in orbital power arrays, but then you have to figure out how to transfer it to Earth.
@@leechowning2712
There's a theoretical power generation method called the "Dyson Sphere" where you *cover the entire Sun with a giant sphere of solar panels.*
I guess that would bump the efficiency up a bit.
@@arifhossain9751 actually the standard plan is a ring of solar panels circling the equator. It would be pinned by antennas coming down to geosynchronous orbit to transmit power, but would require the world governments to all invest.
@@arifhossain9751 isn't that a simpsons episode?
Another awesome video.
One thing. ‘Bariloche’ rhymes with ‘noche’, as in Spanish for ‘night time’. It’s not a French word. You pronounce ‘che’ like Che Guevara’s name.
It means ’the people behind the mountain’
Bari, or Vuri, means ‘behind’, ‘che’ means ‘the people’. It’s in one of the native’s languages.
Side note, the ‘Che’ in Che Guevara does not have the same etymology.
Argentina is by far the most developed country in all of South America for a reason. I get stuff shipped from Argentina to California within three days, every single time. I have also had things shipped from Peru and it always takes many weeks if not months if it doesn’t get seized by customs once it hits the us. This is because Argentina had a top of the line airport and a very good international reputation and for very good reason.
im argentinian and what are you talking about? we are a shithole
12:18 I need to start mixing percentages and fractions more often just to mess with math teachers.....
P.S. My mom is a math teacher......
"There are 3 types of people in this world, those that can count and those that can't."
Also it's really impressive the programa Condor, their objective was to create missiles and orbital rockets to send to space, the program sold engines to some Arab countries. The us didn't like this and so they made the program be cancelled day's before the official launch day.
I have a third theory, he was aligned with Perón to steal the money of the country, his plan was that both of them would use the project to gain money (you pay for something and write the report ten times more expensive, or buying ten times the material needed, then you sell it in the blackmarket). That could be a explanation maybe also the good image of a project like that.
Honestly.... I felt sorry for Ricter... He got in over his head and was under so much pressure that after a certain point, there was no turning back....
(Yes, he spun his noose far before that point, unfortunately... I prolly just have a soft spot for Mad Scientists)
Richter? Damn near killed her!……I’ll show myself out…
I see what you did there!
Was about to comment that this sounded a lot like the Fleischmann-Pons cold fusion experiment back in the late 80's/early 90's, but Simon & the team mentioned it at the very end. I cannot say that before this video I knew anything about these Nazi fusion experiments, but the parallels between the two seem very striking.
Richter fusion reactor is being used in the United Kingdom.
It was not a scam from my point of view.
Reactors the size of half pencil that produce 400º Celcius are being tested and without harmful radiation.
Source? And by Who ? I'm curious
@@kreb7 I can not give sources other than this: Martin Fleischmann Memorial Project to find the by Who.
In case of Richter he probably just made public what he saw in wartime Germany.
Currently Richter type devices are being tested but still without excess energy and the costs are too high.
The pencil reactors
To me the pencil reactor it is a kind of a battery that transforms Hydrogen and electricity to produce heat.
To make electricity out of heat is the big problem. No water steam or turbines should be used to make it simple.
Siemens placed one question: can it make 1000 degrees C ? So that it could use steam to turn turbines. The answer was, no.
1000 C is could be possible but I have not seen any proof of it. As far as I know the materials used to "hold" Hydrogen melt at much lower temperatures.
The Piantelli / Focardi / Rossi device has to be charged with Hydrogen and the amount of energy one can take out is limited plus the resources and energy spent to charge it must be expensive and the device most probably might not give out the amount of energy that was spent charging it.
I believe that those that are working in this types of ideas have solved the first problem: starting the effect at will anytime all the time.
Understanding the phenomena is the next step.
The reason why I think there is something in LENR is when I was working I would find Hydrogen trapped inside cast iron and one way to release this gas was placing the H contaminated iron parts in an oven at 80 degrees for 12 hours.
Thinking of it now I wonder what would have happened if I had covered the iron surface with a material that would act like a one way valve and also if this H could be "pumped" until it started to fuse with a little help from electricity.
Anyhow I am not a scientist but a very curious person and I love a good story.
I go to Bariloche almost every summer, its funny to hear the story here now haha
I am reasonably sure that this is the first time Simon has used an Olympic champion as a source for an historical video.
Thanks to the exaggeration, real fusion research was kicked off and now we may yet see it fullfilled
The man with the soothing voice is back to tell me some interesting facts.
The content is always interesting but his voice is grating to my ears.
I'm keeping those pronunciations of "nahuel huapi" and "san carlos de bariloche" close to my heart now. Strangely beautiful.
h is silent tho, so arent good pronunciations. I was born there btw
Nahuel huapi es una palabra indigena del pueblo mapuche .
Isla del tigre, no?
@@camichiBichi ja no realmente no lo sé lo que significa Nahuel huapi ..pero es en idioma mapuche ..ahora te lo averiguo ..
@@camichiBichi si exacto ..""isla del yaguar ''..extraño porque en la patagonia el clima es frío ..y no hay yaguar serían pumas ..
I just realized this was the inspiration for "Cybersix" the Comic and Cartoon. Neat.
Simon, that beard is looking quite marvelous. Color me jealous. I never have the patience to grow mine that far out.
Well... Simon didn't pronounce 1 name correctly, did he?
Buenos Aires, if I remember correctly.
For future reference: in Spanish, the H is silent; the U is pronounced like a W, the CH is always strong CH, and the final E is not silent. Therefore, Project Wemool (Huemul), and BariloCHE. You're welcome.
In spanish the "U" is pronounced like "U". There is an exception with words like "que" or "quiero" where the "U" is silent, and "Q" is pronounced like "K". If you find an "e" after "u" but no "q" or "g" in sight, that combination do actually sound similar to "w", but that's just a coincidence. The mistake is most likely due to the fact that Castilian spanish refer to "v" as "uve" but thats probably to differentiate "v" from "b" and prevent mistakes ("v" and "u" look kinda similar). Such way to name the letter "v" ended up in "w" as well (uve doble), but that has nothing to do with the spanish pronunciation.
Imagine this article would be about Argentinians hunting and catching nazi and just merging them together, so much better from reality
You should cover the attempts of X-Energy Nuclear to produce a new type of nuclear reactor and fuel system. Their TRISO-X fuel balls are quite interesting.
omg, for a minute I read the title as "Argentina's Secret Nazi Fashion Lab." Hmm, this could be weird & interesting I thought lol.
That is a hell of a business blaze, yes business blaze which is the real and correct title, thumbnail.
Actually Juan Domingo Peron was not a dictator, he was a freely elected president of Argentina
(16.57) "...in early 1941, construction of the Huemel laboratory was at last completed." That year is not correct.
I read the title and I thought the Nazis were making Gogetas in Argentina. Then, I realized that I was just dumb.
They were going for Vegitos initially but lacked the items required
I dunno.... They were known for playing hot, fast, and loose with their genetic experiments... you were prolly on to something....
On Fleischmann and Pons: neurons from fusion were detected at a few a second. a bit higher than random deuterium fusion. Measurable, but not more than that.
You can relatively easily build something much superior at home. Either a fusor or a stellerator. Neither is going to give you more power than you put in but a great neutron source. Funnily Fusors kinda work like what Richter was trying, it uses high voltage to ignite the fuel. Stellerators could in theor make power like Wendelstein 7X but you can't build that at home.
@@221b-l3t A mention of the fusor would have been better than repeating the outdated lies about Pons and Fleischmann.
@@RT-hl4uk They got nowhere near the temperatures a well built fusor can achieve but without a blueprint of what they built it's hard to say if it was complete quackery or at least plausible. It is quite large, fusors and early stellerators where way smaller and fused a lot more atoms. And those are not close to making power.
And fusion power is still 50 years away (and always will be).
I may share the secret with you plebs someday. Don’t despair.
yep, just like AI. Though it could be argued that has been growing further and further away.
You butchered several words in this video. I recommend that, whenever you need to pronounce a foreign word, you add the word on screen, that way, people from those countries (like me) will know what you are talking about. Other than that. I was always interested by this, thanks for making a video about it!
I need a video on the Harlan Coal Wars in Harlan Kentucky. Where the US Government bombed there people and had them assassinated. Where they worked with corrupt company’s treating there employees as if slaves and never paying them and starving them!!! Love your videos Simon keep up the work! Your whole team is doing great!!!
Agreed.
That's something that someone definitely needs to be done. I know there was a documentary about Harlan and the 1973 Strike but nothing on the events in the 1930s.
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Can't let those pesky workers realize there value like there great grandfathers did!
Simon don't do this to me. X3 you tease me with just dipping a little bit into ITER. You really should consider making a video on that because the amount of work that's been put into it is amazing.
Great videos
Argentina with a Nuclear Program and Otto Skorzeny as Perons Bodyguard/Henchman, What could go wrong!!
The french engineer looks like Michael Caine, remarkable!
Now I need to watch "Overlord" again.
And "azz-hoor?" "Tourist fairy?" that's some perfect Simon, there.
This video was recommended to me by the algorithm. It said "people who like BrainBlaze also like this". I think that is extremely strange because I'm already subscribed to this channel with the notification bell on.🤔🤔
Brilliant ad: "It takes more to learn something than just watching it. To really learn something you actually have to do it." Now, let's learn about secret Nazi fusion experiments. Let's get doing it!
6:58 My brain thought you said Cordova instead of Córdoba. I grew up close to Cordova, Illinois, where there is a nuclear power plant. I had a split second of thinking ‘what a weird coincidence- is there a connection?’ before realizing it wasn’t the same name.
Si Man looking Fresh to next 😍 👌 Excellent Mr. Surrey 👌
youre the main course of my youtube menu. Or actually I watch 3 different videos from atleast three of your channels. Well done Whistler 👏
What about his 8 others?
Ask any Argentinian why Japan is luckier than Argentina, they'll say "Japan got two atomic bombs, we've got Peron"
Now imagine, if you will, a world where this crazed lunatic had actually stumbled on relatively low temperature fusion in spite of himself.... Keep the crazy keep the scandal, but his notes, his apparatus, actually producing scaleable results with better minds able to work out the flaws and harness it.
absolutely fusion reseach should be promoted
We live in a world where there will always be the burning of the Library of Alexandria in which society will destroy things of people they don't like or are said to have done wrong or are evil.
@@NightMotorcyclist unfortunately true and it goes to the realm of basic human nastiness
Very nice video, but I have a comment, though. The neutrons observed by Zeta at Harwell were real, not an artifact of faulty instrumentation. What happens is that they weren't of thermonuclear origin, but the result of beam-target reactions, just as in an accelerator. The problem is that deuterons are accelerated by high electric fields, as a result from what we know as "sausage instabilities", which are like a squeeze of the plasma column. The fault in interpretation, not instrumentation, was found a few months later, when the angular distribution of the neutron yield was measured. There's a great difference between this kind of mistake, and those due to sheer incompetence, like those of Richter, Pons and Fleishmann, and others who would rather prefer not to be mentioned.
By the way, there's a book on the subject by Mariscotti, "El secreto de la isla Huemul", which is unfortunately out of print. I asked Mariscotti sometime back in the 1990s if he'd be interested to have it translated to English, but he wasn't.
Video starts at 1:10
So secret that they have lots of RUclips videos on it so we can learn all about it
Me at the beginning: ohh! Interesting the Nazis were into jazz i guess.
I went to high school with two kids from a family that came from Argentina and owned bmw dealerships and had white blonde hair and blue eyes and very white skin. I have to say her brother looked like a spitting image of a Nazi soldier and was quite the Aryan specimen, so was she.
Perón: Eva made me do it
Argentina spent 5 billion dollars in todays money on that project, that was a lot of money for a country with less then half the GDP as the US in 1950.
422 million dollars of Argentines Government money in the 50s !!! Damn I’m 100 % sure what was needed elsewhere
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Who is this guy? Beard-O Guy - You need to play "M" in the next Bond film. Without a doubt.
Simon: someone who has devoted many hours to trying to learn programming and has certainly used the product he is pushing. 🤷♀️
I wonder if this was an inspiration for Mr. Awesome, the scientist with a theoretical degree in theoretical physics in Fallout New Vegas
Idea for a show. Why do farts smell worse in the shower?
Fusion has been perpetually only a decade away .....for my entire life.
And they never found out what happens when you fuse secret nazis.
bah dum chhzz
They become a Super Saiyan Nazi
Simon: ...you can't just learn by listening, you have to do it... (Brilliant Ad)
Me: Well I guess it's time to start an Argentinean Nazi Fusion Lab...
As someone who lives in Argentina i have met multiple people whose grandfather was Nazi
I once met a cute Argentinian girl in a bar with a German name and last name. When asked she said "yeah, grandpa moved here in the late 40s" as if that doesnt insinuate anything.
Same with the Italians in Argentina. Many fascist Italians fled to Argentina after the end of the war too
Argentina was also, if memory serves, one of the destinations for the Abwehr Ost members and their families that were pulled out of Germany and what became Soviet-occupied territory under Reinhard Gehlen's agreement with Allen Dulles (when he was OSS's Head of Station in Switzerland). The short version of *that* was that Dulles got Gehlen's people out of harm's way - specifically Soviet hands, but also the western Allies' Nazi hunters - in return for Gehlen giving Dulles what was left of his (i.e.: German military intelligence's) networks in eastern Europe.
Things got "interesting" when OSS was summarily dissolved as soon as Truman became President. All in all a fascinating "Wild West" period. Pretty sure Chile was another destination, but it never got the publicity that Argentina did.
This place is full of nazis and perhaps not enough of them considering how things are going lately. I'm from Buenos Aires.
@@pathologicaldoubt Italians had a BIG immigratory wave starting in the 1880s (so big, that Buenos Aires' spanish entonation mutated from andalusian to neapolitan).
Ah yes, as an Argentinian I can confirm the entire video
As an Neuquino I can doble confirm
Can triple confirm
From Bariloche myself, I would fear to call Perón a dictator out loud
@@camichiBichi indeed he was
@@camichiBichi Perón was a dictator, no question about it
Interesting story.
13:03 "mMost of the scientific instruments weren't even connected."
If Richter did believe in his project he didn't believe that he was getting close to achieving succes.
So how do you smuggle a particle accelerator....one particle at a time lol.
Simon you always make my day man
So they laughed at him in the university, but he swore to show them? To show them all?
Argentine Music Man.
Argentina then was not an impoverished nation. For much of its history, hard as it may be to imagine now, Argentina was one of the richest countries in the world.
That was in the 19th century, not the 20th.
Land of Silver is what Argentina means and they had vast quantities of it (which was mostly stolen by Spain as was huge amounts of gold from other parts of South and Central America) but having lots of precious metals doesn't necessarily make a country wealthy as Spain found out
@@noelchignell1048 Argentina had very little silver... The name is based on the name of the Río de la Plata (roughly Silver River) that the Spanish conquistadores navigated motivated by legends of vast silver deposits that didn't exist.
Also the late 19th and early 20th century wealth was from the export of agriculture and especially cow related products. Argentina was on a similar (if not better) position than Canada or Australia, also with a huge immigration. After the 1929 crisis Argentina fell under different dictatorships and constitutional governments that took very bad decisions which leads to our situation today. Although calling Perón a dictator is quite a bold statement (even though I don't like it one bit I would call it an authoritarian democratically elected president at most).
Argentina has always been a nation of impoverished people. It was the elites who got all the wealth. Something similar to what happens on Chile now
A Brit pointing out the Nazi history is Argentina. Let me grab my popcorn.
Yes it is seemingly possible for someone from one country to tell something about another country.
Crazy right?
Do a Megaprojects on the Fusion reactor in France and what the Chinese are doing as well.
Why would he go for fusion? Je could have easily made a large natural uranium reactor to deliver on his promise of lots of power and evolve that into a light water reactor capable of both power and plutonium production...
Juan Manuel Fanzio is the most famous Argentinian.
your pronunciations werer pretty hilarious, but, yea... this is why im not very proud of being from argentina, people in power in this coutnry make us look terrible in the eyes of the rest of the world.... ...welp.. i've folloed you for eons now! always awesome to see your videos. Cheers from Argentina.
You now, I'm pretty sure not every non-Argentinian judges the book by its cover.
Tenemos gente respetable. Guido Suller, Wanda Nara, entre otros.
I love the percentages these scientists keep giving.
15:10 and since that fateful day in 1953 viable fusion power has been a scant 10 years away
So he found work with the Libyans…I wonder if that work entailed a bomb casing full of shoddy pinball machine parts?
Pardon my spelling but the ITER is Tokamak design. The Stelerator is a far more efficient and promising drive. Not at all the same although fusion is the goal.
I felt every single one of those pronunciations, Blaze Boi.
1:13 for anyone who wants to skip the ad at the beginning.
How is Argentina abt the same gdp per capita as mexico like wtf I never though that was true but it is... like brazil tanked since 2014 (abt 80 percent poorer) but did all of South America fail since then also?!
Latin American economy is very dependant of Brazil, but in the case of Argentina, it hasn't grown since 2011 purely by its own merit.
Argentina has been on an economic crisis for most of the last 80 years. If we are less poor than most of our neighbors is just because we started from a much better position, but it's just a matter of time.
Argentina was among the 6 countries with the highest GDP per capita until the 1940s. It has been in decline for almost 100 years .
So much for... fake it till you make it.
And today’s minigame is… „How many different project names can the subtitles come up with?“
I haven’t counted them, but the suggestions were wild. Had to come to the comment section to find out what it was actually called. 😁
This place was featured on a History Channel mini-series. That posited that Hitler escaped Berlin and moved to Argentina. And the crumbling facility was a Nazi attempt to build an A-bomb to win WW III. So much for the History Channel actually presenting history.
He was the Lysenko of nuclear physics.
Sounds like something straight out of the MARVEL "RED SKULL/CAPTAIN AMERICA" Comic Book storyline from "HYDRA"!
Where you think they got the idea from
Sounds like something straight out of the AMERICAN secret intelligence program "OPERATION PAPERCLIP"
Sound based fusion? Sounds like a Keanu Reeves movie.
Simon Templar was able to do it in Russia in 1997.
Brilliant!!
Richter looks like he could have been Elon Musk's dad.
"the regime of argentine dictator Juan Domingo Perón..." Un peroncho va a escuchar eso y le va a explotar una vena
Porque? Escucho a tanta gente decir que no cree en las vacunad y la tierra es plana y no me pasa nada
@@ShinigamiInuyasha777 a ver, era una referencia a los Simpson; pero que hay gente que idealiza a gente que le dió asilo político a nazis, que a mi parecer te descalifica de ser tratado con seriedad
@@ramiritox19 Como Truman?
@@ShinigamiInuyasha777 sep, si un montón de paises le dieron asilo a altos cargos nazis y son todos una mierda (sobre todo los que acogieron a las mierdas relacionadas con el holocausto o experimentos en humanos)
@@ramiritox19 ojala solo hubiera echo eso y nada mas