What was 'The Thing'? (Weird Tech)
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Created by Daniel Turner
Narrator:
Chris Kane
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Music Credit
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 (by Liszt)
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Simple History, can you please make a video about the Indonesian National Revolution. Thanks.
Simple History could you make a video explaining and analyzing ww1 aircraft and their technology please? I think it would be great! Love your vids btw
DENMARK WW2
Simple History SRI LANKA SIVILWAR NEXT
U used hungarian rhapsody by liszt god bless you by all the name of the hungarians! Please make a video about the trianon threaty of peace!
USSR: "You have been spying on us!"
USA: *shows the seal*
"No u"
@Troy Calhoun Two superpowers with secret police forces spying on people? No way!
The US dab back
U2 was spying for years as well
It was that moment when they knew......
They're screwed up.
The US used Adana, Turkey to launch countless and various spying missions to different spots around the globe for decades, notably the USSR and Egypt.
Soviets: *Activate U-2 Incident spells card*
US: *”The thing” spell trap card activated*
Yugioh is a dead game.
Sad ;(
*scientists looks at the microphone inside the seal*
scientist1: dafuq is this thing
scientist2: it's a thing
the withering production scientists 3: not a thing, the thing.
Lololololololololololololololol
I read this to the tune of “who lives in a pineapple under the sea”
Its a Thang!!! What Thang is it??????!
Hahahaha lol funny.😂
lol, Russian tech in a nutshell: 'The scientists were baffled by its simplicity.'
xD
Yup , in the space race a special pen was used by nasa cause pens didn't work in space , russia just took a pencil.
@@Bobinarea52 that's a bs story which is unfortunately very widespread.
the regular pencil has been considered by americans too, but the graphite breaking off (conducts electricity quite well) can get dangerous for the electrical equipment.
The "fisher space pen" is used by the russians as well for this reason.
Why make something complicated, when simple works anyway?
@@Bobinarea52 yeah but pencils arent good in space. They are a risk because the graphite bits that come off.
@@Bobinarea52 pencil is worse actually the small pieces of the black thingy ypu write whit will break and float around and damage machines
I like how specific the names of these "things" are.
I see what you did there
Adapper _Dilo perfect, just perfect 👌
Imagine the noises the Soviets must have heard if people were screwing around in the ambassador's office
only virgins would be excited about that.
yeah but it was activated, wasnt always on
@Svenson399 then it would be a bed bug
@@srujan00 LMAO
Great blackmail material
2 videos in a day? You are just the best excellent history channel!
Dominus Robloxer no he is not. Just Another pop culture propagandist
@@appalachiahiker853 explain your logic here. I wanna hear your “deep state conspiracy” bullshit.
I'll challenge him to 3 videos.
@@appalachiahiker853 Please shut up
It was a massive microphone lol.
A microphone that doesn't need electric power but can still produce radio signsls.
And yet it looks quite simple
An rfid chip
I first learned that it was a tiny earbud type microphone carved into the edge, but later heard it was more of an antenne disk
it really is a god dang huge microphone.lollollollol
Soviet: "you have been spying on us!"
USA: *UNO reverse card* "the tides have turned"
No, I am pretty sure that both sides were spying. If you say that only my predecessors were spying, you capitalist pig will be turned into bacon.
Well, I was thinking someone would say this, and I did found it, Uno reverse card
The turn have tabled
Spy VS Spy
Airsoft Ranger always liked Mad
Paul Cate III Me two
*put two spidermans pointing meme here*
the cold war basically
Lmao
i really love your ''simple history'' !
USSR(U2 incident): "you've been spying on us!"
USA: "U2"
Lol
The thing is a movie
True, but this is something entirely different, Vyricxx Vicxx.
Please can you do the Chernobyl disaster
Yes
Add a rasputin video
4 hours ago he commented?
Simple History is that all u said lel!
yes
What many people don't know, the technology for "the Thing" was based on Leon Theremin's works on demodulation of Doppler Reflections, this technology is still strongly present today in laser microphones or laser speed pistols used by police.
Basically explained, when you aim a source of focused radiation(radio waves or laser) on a resonating membrane(radio: an antenna with a microphone, laser: a window or a mirror in the room) the reflected signal will return lower or higher depending on the movement of the membrane. Just like a ambulance not just passing by, but driving forward and backwards by the bystander. This reflections together with the source wavelength can be pretty easily demodulated back to audio.
As always: the genius lies in the simplicity.
One of my relatives actually designed this bug. Léon Theremin. Thankyou very much for bringing this video to us. Its improtant to remember that shit like this was so new at that time no one ever thought of bugs back then. This "thing" created the entire modern spy world of putting bugs evrywere. Shame that such a great achivment is often forgoten.
Is he the guy who created the theremin instrument ?
Do a collab with extra history please!!
Yaasssss
Soviet Union: YOU HAVE BEEN SPYING ON US!
United States: Uno Reverse Card
Soviets confirmed cheeki breeki material
Wow! I love learning about the stuff that has kinda slipped off the radar in history, but I have never heard such a thing as The Thing, in my life, until now of course. Thank you for giving me this knowledge, and you made it simple and easy too understand too. You just earned yourself a knew subscriber!
*_The Ting went skrrrrrra_*
pap pap, ka-ka-ka
skippy kip ka-ka
and a pu-pu-pudrrrr-boom
the thing went *censored by the U.S government*
And a pup pup pum
My family is impressed by how much I’m learning thanks to you (:
*T H E T H I N G*
USSR:You are spying
US:No you
My favorite espionage story is when the Russians bought Xerox machines for all their embassies with a contract that stated only Xerox employees could service them. The CIA would plant cameras in the machines to read anything that was faxed/scanned and would simply send in agents dressed as Xerox employees to service the machines and swap the camera films.
The technology was so new at the time that the normal Russian couldn't tell the difference between the camera and the rest of the machine's inner workings.
I LOVE your history videos they Allways Make me smile
Could you do a video on Vasily Zaystev?
Yes
Who dat?
Natalie Orlando soviet sniper
Natalie Orlando watch enemy at the gates
Simple History chris kyle first
So this is what my mom mean when she say: "give me the thing"
Now this was never taught in world history and the fact that i even know about this up untill now is Simply astonishing! Thank for Sharing this video with us Simple History! :D
imagine just 2 people in the room and they hear rumbling and they look up at the sign
person 1: "Hey do you hear that?"
person 2: "Yeah sounds like rumbling"
the sign: *soviet yelling and arguing*
person 2: "uhh"
Was there a Thing 2?
(Just waiting for someone to get the reference...)
jaden ross 2 cat in the hat **facepalm**
Can you do a history video of George S. Patton
Well this had some *great timing*
The Thing is on display at the National Cryptologic Museum in Ft. Meade, Maryland. If you are ever out there, it is a _fantastic_ free museum with tons and tons of spy stuff.
Could you do one on the afghan soviet war or the French Vietnam war
Incredible history, almost deserves a movie for itself
Yugoslav wars please? Or maybe Croat, Serb and Slovene partisans?
Jona Persic why not both 👌
Heroj Balkana nemogu
I thought of two things.
One was the "The Ting" meme, the other was The Thing, which was an alien of some sort.
Unsurprisingly, it wasn't any of the two aformentioned things.
This channel should have like 10M subscribers. You see they show us with simple cartoon and they explain it so well that we could understand easily. This channel is the first history channel I subscribed to... :D
Did you know that Hugo Boss designed the SS and the SA uniforms?
Yes
Awsome video! Could you do a video about the finnish continuation War?
The background music reminds me of Tom & Jerry 😂
thats because its one of the most famous T&J cartoons, it used that music in a piano battle between Tom & Jerry which won them an academy award in 1947
The Thing was a sci-fi film based on the novel "Who Goes There?". It was adapted into film in the 1950's and then remade in 1982.
You should do a video on the Gulf War.
You are the best. Can you do a video about rommel, afrikakorps or al alamein ?
James Bond - Rommel is confirmed! 😀
Chris Kane aaah yes
Chris Kane your the voice over guy right?
Chris Kane your voice is beautiful
That's me! I recorded Rommel and it's coming!
One of the most purest channels on youtube I stg
The beauty of simplicity and hiding in plain sight
Who guessed what it was before the reveal?
How about covering that time in the '80s when the USA decided to save costs by having their new Moscow embassy built by local contractors? You can't really blame the KGB for filling it with bugs when the opportunity was just handed to them. I do like your posts, keep up the good work.
This was also the first ever device to have wireless charging, electromagnetic waves were generated in a building across the street, the device only needed to be charged about one or two times a year.
Simple history thank you for teaching me a lot of important history and you are the best!
It’s always sus when Soviet’s give the US ambassador a seal of democracy
WHY DOES THE THING A THING?
I never knew about this. Very interesting story!
The best “thing” is that I watch Simple History every upload! :D
Espionage was so cool back then! Now you just hack someone’s email or a server, while drinking coffee at your house.
USSR: "You're spying on our territory!"
US: *Shows The Thing*
US: "No u"
USSR: "Erm..."
I read a lot of time about that, so is really an unexpected but great video!
Talk about the hollow nickel case the rudolf abel case
The thing is in the fantastic four
He is called the thing cause he has no thing(balls)
So we call him the thing
10/10 description
hello
Jemixer 2207 Hi
Russia: YOU'RE SPYING ON US CYKA!
USA: oh really? THEN HOW CAN YOU EXPLAIN THIS THING?!!
Honestly, I didn't expect to be so early. Nor to see such a strange yet cool video that you usually don't do.
DENMARK IN WW2!!! PLEASEEE
Why? They did nothing and were weak. Denmark fell under 6 hours
That would be a minute long video, let me break it down:
8 seconds: intro with sponsorship
22 seconds: “Germany beat them so easily because they were too busy choking on their language”
30 seconds: outro with sponsorship
Ding ding.
The Thing is a very spooky movie.
The painting on the wall at 0:35 is "A bigger splash" by David Hockney.
Hmmm, if I were a totalitarian dictator I'd stick a camera in that thing...
0:50 I'm not disappointed.
Ain't you dead?
"The Thing"
You deserved your 600k subscriber.
USSR: you were spying on us
US: *pulls out uno reverse card*
Notification squad at the ready!
Is this what Sleepy Joe keeps talking about??
Could you maybe do a video on the "war of the bucket" in medieval Italy? It's quite funny.
The Thing is a movie made in the 90’s about an alien shapeshifter in an antarctic research base
Soviet propoganda
What
Simple History Hah I got you to reply for the first time!
GOT EM.
GOT EM GUD
Dead Meme LOL
Well played!
that is so smart and tricky, MOTHER RUSSIA ha!
You didn't mention that "The Thing" was invented by Leon Theremin (inventor of one of the other weirdest pieces of tech ever, the Theremin musical instrument) while in a sharashka (R+D gulag).
Dash Lane? Gee, how did the company come up with that name? Did someone on the way to work randomly see a deer dash across a traffic lane and decide to name it that? lol
first comment
Keeping the discovery a secret until the trial was probably the best move the U.S could've done, the Soviets wouldn't have had any clue how long they knew about it, and if any information they collected was legitimate or fake.
A David Hockney painting - "A Bigger Splash" - 1967 was there as well......before it was painted?
Keep up the good work.
that device was made by Leon Theremin , a very talented inventor and also a creator of termenvox, a musical instrument controlled without physical contact
Simple History + History Matters would be an amazing collab
I would really appreciate it if you guys and gals at Simple History could make some videos about the Boer Wars. I really love your cold war videos, thanks for reading my comment.
I think that that is the most ingenious device that I have ever seen.
Thanks for educating me
I would LOVE to see that conversation.
"Your spying!"
".... So are you why you snitchin"
Lmfao
"The thing" is a shape shifting alien
What Was The Thing? The Thing Was A Huge Monster That Killed People And Now Is A Movie Star Starring In The Movie "The Thing"
I remember seeing this on TV. I don't remember if it was on PBS, or "Mysteries at the Museum," or some other program/channel.
You guys should make a video on the history of the US Army Signal Corps
Woah i didnt know about that thx Simple History!
They should have made the antenna look part of the art design
A well needed and a well done change, keep it up!
LOL, I saw it in the national spy museum, great video.
Very good video
thanks
Can you also make history background of famous ppl like Franklin D Rosevelt, Mandela, etc?