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Bluejay is an awesome channel! And he’s an actual blue jay, so props to him for having a RUclips channel!
He has to have a partner, since, birds don’t have thumbs. Has to be hard to upload, But I love learning from a bluejay.
@@jeffersonott4357 Last time I checked, thumbs are not required to use most technology.
@@LMixir especially a keyboard and mouse. He just pecks those keys all day long
@@jeffersonott4357 Oh, of course, he *must* have someone with thumbs to help, no way a blue jay could do anything by themselves. Such a thumb-centric point of view.
Immediately recognising the sketch of a single photograph from WWI is the most Chris thing I’ve ever seen.
Accurate.
That little quip about the LSAT Target Finder at 7:34 was incredibly hilarious to me. I remember being a preteen when Black Ops 2 came out and both raging over and using that cursed combination. An actual laser LMG with wall hacks.
exactly 💀
yea i noticed that too made me giggle
Maybe I was built different but I never had a problem with the LSAT like it was useful but only in specific instances.. 90 percent of the time you would have seen a enemy anyway.
re;cemetaries, if you've ever been to Greyfriars in Edinburgh, you'll notice that the graveyard is a hill at the "bottom" of the city. That hill is not natural. They ran out of room to dig graves, so they brought more dirt in to bury people within the walls. When you walk through the cemetary, you're literally walking on a hill of corpses.
I was there last summer. Crazy.
Hey Chris! Love your channel so much (subbed thru my different account but commenting with this lmao) and watching them almost everyday! I was laughing so hard from the Gay Bomb cuz I already knew of its existence hahaha
The Gay Bomb was obtained by the Sunshine Project through FOIA in 2007, from the project essentially digging up government information to warn and prevent usage of Bio and Chemical weapons! I'm pretty sure the guys over there who first found out about this wasn't expecting this type of stuff, and surely the folks at AIR cuz it won the Ig Nobel prize as well hahahaha
Love the Fulham kit! Hopefully they can pull off the derby win this weekend
Draining the Mediterranean would be catastrophic lol
So the thing with the Hindenburg was that is was supposed to be filled with Helium. That would have made the desaster impossible and the construction safe. Problem was that the US had set up an embargo that included Helium, which in return made the import too expensive. Eventually it was decided to use the much cheaper hydrogen instead.
I read somewhere if you go to the old churches in areas where it's been established for a long time and you see the ground almost touches the church windows, it's from the cemetery ran out of room so they started burying bodies on top of older Graves thus raising the ground
please do more bluejay reactions, i dont care which but a lot of us love em!
I love it when I find a creator like Blue Jay and think to myself, “I wonder if Chris would enjoy this” then you react to them.
1:20 Everyone knew that hydrogen is flammable, they thought that the cheaper price is worth the risk.
Britian only uses miles for distance and mph for speed.
Jack Rackham makes awesome biographical videos that Chris would love
Some of us are praying that someday soon you'll reach the next level of enlightenment and we'll see you in a Rugby jersey. (Just thought you should know we care.)
Your first comment about having hindsight. Imagine that in the United States farmers were told to use human waste (biosolids) as a fertilizer. Have the EPA endorse it and provide it for free. Only to find out that it may cause major health problems and will contaminate over 50% of the us water supply.
BlueJay: Theres nothing that can just turn any man *gay*
Ryan Reynolds: * *exists* *
Atlantropa: How to utterly destroy two continents with a big wall.
Anyone else heard about that space project that was meant to use exploding nuclear bombs as a form of propulsion? Yet another crazy project idea!
Sometimes someone has to do something so you know what to do.
I would not like a giant death pyramid that's definitely a hotspot for new cults
Check out his video about the Korean DMZ, it’s got history AND it’s funny
I love most of your videos. I know I can't convince you that some of the channels you watch aren't that good, but it would be nice if you could indicate in the title whose video you're reacting to so we know whether or not to click. Thank you.
Captain Hindsight know if you hadn’t done that, this wouldn’t have happened. Captain hindsight is always right.
Fun fact. A Graveyard has a Church on it's ground. A Cemetery does not.
That may have once been true. Today the words are used much more interchangeably. I can show you plenty of churches with burials on their grounds and that ground has signs labeling it a cemetery.
@@VloggingThroughHistory yes I get it, semantics and all that. That doesn't bother me. Just telling you a nifty fact on what constitutes a cemetery and a graveyard.
We need more in the blue jay saga. Three videos is too low.
If I had to guess what he meant by the 'overpopulation problem' post WWI, I'd say he was likely talking about a population that was too large to be supported at the time. I don't have any hard numbers for this but it seems logical that the agricultural industry suffered immensely due to the war, through things like arable land being ravaged by the effects of battle and the loss of able bodied men to grow food. It could also be referring to overpopulation in specific areas like cities where people concentrated in the post war years but that's just speculation.
12:37 idk seems just fine, maybe you just think all Europeans are Belgium? have you considered that buster?
The gay bomb idea was pitched to created a weapon that would weaponize LSD, Ecstasy and a few other party drugs, along with some pheromones and other stuff. It was based off of at the time a common misunderstanding of homosexuality, gay culture and drug use. In gay clubs, there were people who would use psychoactive drugs, and when you combine various chemicals that may lower their inhibitions with people who were in the mood, and sometimes scantily clad, you wind up with many a case of...ahem...brown-chicken-brown-cow. In the 90's, though things were starting to get better for the homosexual community, some states had even lifted their bans on same-sex couples receiving marriage licenses, across the country there was still a lot of misunderstanding homosexuality. In many extremely conservative circles, there was a common belief that the consumption of certain drugs would make you more likely to want to participate in same-sex sexual acts. Fortunately the Pentagon banned it because they didn't want to violate at the time the various treaties and accords on the development and use of chemical weapons, and it's generally a bad idea to expose people who want to kill you to psychoactive and psychotropic drugs.
I got a question Vlogging, IF the CSA successfully left from the US, how do you think their relationship would be?
Would it be like North and South Korea, or more like England and the US are?
It wouldnt be a UK america situation, i can promise you that. Britain's political relationship with the US was always frosty until the 1930s but largely not of huge concern since americas navy was no threat the the RN and so any war would leave the home counties under no threat and leave america at risk of economic ruin if a war took place over canada, which wouldnt at the time be worth it.
The CSA, by geographical nature, poses a serious military threat to the union which would govern relations, like the 1700's issue between russia, prussia, the holy roman empire and poland or for the same time frame as the CSA, germany and france.
Given the western states were not yet part of the union, you have two powerful nations competing over something, recipe for war whether immediate or over the aftermath of a peaceful settlement which rarely turn out to either sides satisfaction.
@@andrewshaw1571 damn good response.
I didn't even think about western expansion.
2:25 "they are one of the weird countries that mostly everything is metric"
Normal Countries:
The United States of America
Myanmar
Liberia
Weird Countries:
Afghanistan
Albania
Algeria
Andorra
Angola
Antigua & Deps
Argentina
Armenia
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Bahamas
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belarus
Belgium
Belize
Benin
Bhutan
Bolivia
Bosnia Herzegovina
Botswana
Brazil
Brunei
Bulgaria
Burkina
Burundi
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada
Cape Verde
Central African Rep
Chad
Chile
China
Colombia
Comoros
Congo
Congo {Democratic Rep}
Costa Rica
Croatia
Cuba
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Djibouti
Dominica
Dominican Republic
East Timor
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Estonia
Ethiopia
Fiji
Finland
France
Gabon
Gambia
Georgia
Germany
Ghana
Greece
Grenada
Guatemala
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Ireland {Republic}
Israel
Italy
Ivory Coast
Jamaica
Japan
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kiribati
Korea North
Korea South
Kosovo
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Latvia
Lebanon
Lesotho
Libya
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macedonia
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Mali
Malta
Marshall Islands
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mexico
Micronesia
Moldova
Monaco
Mongolia
Montenegro
Morocco
Mozambique
Namibia
Nauru
Nepal
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Palau
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Qatar
Romania
Russian Federation
Rwanda
St Kitts & Nevis
St Lucia
Saint Vincent & the Grenadines
Samoa
San Marino
Sao Tome & Principe
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Serbia
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
Somalia
South Africa
South Sudan
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Suriname
Swaziland
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Thailand
Togo
Tonga
Trinidad & Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Tuvalu
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Vatican City
Venezuela
Vietnam
Yemen
Zambia
Zimbabwe
would love your reaction to Woodrow Wilson the worst great president. biographics channel
Blue jay needs a much bigger following than he currently has
Here’s a slightly smaller “crazy” project that’s closer to home. I live in the U.P. of Michigan and remember the Cold War idea called Project Sanguine. The Navy wanted to build a multi-billion dollar underground antenna system in the north woods of Wisconsin (40% of the area of the state). With an 800 mega-watt transmitter, they could communicate with deeply submerged submarines in the event of WWIII. A very downsized version called Project Elf did get built, but it was closed down at the end of the Cold War. The highly secure Elf building sitting out in the middle of nowhere (about 15 miles from my house) is maybe going to be repurposed as a legal marijuana grow facility.
I heard that the Ancient Greeks were bisexual and so they'd fight harder no pun intended for their loved ones in battle
Wouldn't a gay bomb do the same?
I'm guessing it was less it made them fall in love with each other and more it made them uncontrollably sexually attracted to each other. In the long run, you might be right, but it's probably a short term "Drop and invade immediately" kinda thing
Alternate History Hub (Cody Franklin) has published a novel “The Atlantropia Project,” based on the premise that the project was carried out. It’s fascinating and grim. What I found really interesting is that there were layers of alternate history, as propaganda has given the novel’s characters a distorted view of their own world’s history.
Technically it's also mentioned in the Man in the High Castle as one of the project the german did...
If there was a Part 2, BlueJay could talk about Project Habakkuk, where the British were attempting to create a ship made of ice and wood (pykrete).
Not a surprise, didn't the UK had Inflatable tanks around that time anyway? =P
@@ubiergo1978 The British and Americans both used Inflatable tanks for their deception plans for D-Day against The German's in WW2 so that's nothing new.
@@ChrisCrossClash Yes.... Errr... did I said it was new? O.o?
*fire was super effective*
1:30 The Hindenburg was designed for and supposed to be filled with Helium, since that is not flammable. But the US at that time were the only major producer and despite negotiations directly with President Hoover, in the end they refused to export Helium to a Nation that might use the Helium Airships for military purposes in the future.
He kind of glossed over it, but had the Atlantropa project actually happened, it would have turned basically the entire mediterranean "basin" into a giant, inhospitable desert. Basically it would have doubled the size of the Sahara, with climate effects that we can only begin to speculate on for the rest of Europe and the middle east, with temperatures easily eclipsing the hottest temperatures on the planet as we know it. Cody from Alternatehistoryhub actually wrote a novel about it (which I haven't read - not his fault, I read maybe 1-2 novels a year)
UK here. We are wierd we use miles instead of kilometres, but metres not yards generally.
Then its a free for all with feet/inches and centimetres
Nothing weird about that - it's the "stone" thing I have trouble with.
nothing weird about that. people dont realize that americans like yeah we typically use miles and yards (1 yard is basically 1 meter) but when we are doing science we typically use metric
I don't remember where I read or heard it, but I know someone said that draining the Med Sea would not produce arable farmland. The former sea bed would instead turn into a giant salt flat. You would need to fill in the sea with new soil and create a colossal irrigation system.
Building the dam is the easy part.
I've heard that too. I think it was Tom Scott, as he did a short video on the subject years back.
It's basic logic, the Mediterranean isn't fresh water and the water would be leaving via evaporation so all the salt would remain
There's also the issue that it would see everything south of the Alps begin to desertify...
Also if you understand how commerce works, trade is vastly more efficient over water, which means the Mediterranean is a huge economic engine. Draining it would be a catastrophic blow to the economy.
Even though you've never shied away from your Christianity, you've kept religion off this channel, but Useful Charts just started a series on how Christianity formed and all the different sects and how (sometimes why) they broke off.
I think it would be amazing for you to react to that series with your background. Your insight would be incredible and you could do it without preaching. I understand that religion is divisive, but I'm asking as a non believer that is incredibly interested in religious history.
As a Brit, I can definitely confirm if you asked us how far away something was, we would answer using Miles.
In Germany graves also are being reused after a certain amount of time (depending on the region you live in and its size of population). The remaining bones usually will not stay in the grave and are removed before someone new is buried there. I could imagine it's similar in Britain cause some bones (skulls) take very long to decompose and would still need some space.
One proposed project that never made it to fruition but is one I still find incredibly interesting is the plan to install a ton of solar panels in the Sahara, which could theoretically generate enough power to supply the entire world's energy needs. I can't remember the exact details at the moment, but it was very much ahead of its time (stalling out because of the world wars, if I remember correctly).
the Sahara moves quite a bit in terms of sand, they'd have to install them pretty tall so that they dont get covered, probably more like it was an idea that might've worked out but the infrastructure required for it would be insane. Not to mention failure rates of solar panels and the toxic metals required to build them (which can be worse than depleted nuclear energy)
Hey Chris - while you were talking about graveyards in the uk: many of the old churches in highly populated cities appear to be sunken into the ground but in fact the churchyard around rose up due the amount of people being buried there.
I didn't catch it when I watched Blue Jays Channel but that joke about grandpappy looking at the kid actually happened to me. I went to a catholic school and my grandpa was buried in the edge of the church cemetery on a hill overlooking the school. My dad said something very similar.
I still remember the catacombs from the first medal of honor game it was so scary for a little kid back then just to pass that first mission but as I got older, I grew to appreciate what it stands for to remember the dead for so many had been lost in all but name their skulls will never be forgotten. so poetic so powerful what a great place would to visit the catacombs one day.
Overpopulation isnt necessarily where there's no space. if that were the case the US could double it's population and there'd still be space left over. the problem is that there isnt enough services for everyone.
after the great war most of the countries had to deal with the damage to their infrastructure, meaning that there was enough space but not enough houses for people to live in or active farms to feed the people.
Simply put the land couldn't support the population.
When I went to Hong Kong in 2018, I saw some cemeteries that had what looked like little P.O. Boxes for cremated remains. The tour guide said that the density of HK is getting to the point where there is no land left to bury people so they have to start going up vertically.
Speaking of cemeteries, in Spain where my grandparents are from you rent out cemetery space in 30-50 year increments and if you/your family doesn’t renew the space your body gets moved to a communal cemetery that is unmarked and basically just a burial ground and that space gets rented out to someone else.
Hey Chris, I really enjoyed this reaction today and wanted to make a channel suggestion to you. The channel “Jack Rackham” is very informative and professional whilst being exceptionally humorous and witty, and it covers several historical topics that are both obscure and unbelievable. I would strongly suggest checking them out in your free time to see if you are fond of their videos because while they are truly exceptional videos, I am unsure if they are great for reaction content. Whatever the case, I enjoyed todays video and cannot wait for more original content from Europe!
BlueJay is such a underrated channel, so I’m so glad to see you reacting to him.
We don't use kilometres in travel! All our speed limits are in miles, speedometers are predominately in miles and we use miles per gallon.
More Bluejay! He's great
Adding up on the cemetery thing.
In France our cemetery concession are not permanent. Either you have a family crypt that you have to pay a certain fee every decade or you lease a spot for a time (usually, 99 years). When the concession end bodies are dug up and buried in common grounds, and the spot is reused.
That's why you barely see any tomb of people from the 1800s except nobles
10:00 - According to an article I found from The Guardian, information on the Gay Bomb was obtained as part of a Freedom of Information Act request in 2007 by the Sunshine Project, a biological weapons watchdog organization.
i like the Fulham Shirt
The story of the dumb "gay bomb" I think broke out in January 2005 when the website, New Scientist covered it, though the Pentagon tried to play it down.
The ''overpopulation'' problem is tight to the fact that alot of the infrastructures (in some region) got destroyed and displacement of the civilian population made certain place overcrowded...
- Learned english from a cereal box
Interesting that you mentioned Ypres. I have a great great uncle who fought and died in the Battle of Passchendaele in 1917 and I've visited Ypres a few times. It's a beautiful town
Pretty sure the makers of the Hindenburg knew the dangers of hydrogen.
They just had to work with it due to the US helium embargo, and thought their safety procedures were enough.
Out of all these ideas, the pyramid graveyard is definitely the best one.
I would love it being used, it was cool and harmless
Maybe the overpopulation was in relation to how limited resources were in Europe after WWII?
I think you will find that in Britain, we don't use Kilometres at all. Not officially at least. Miles and yards are the standard unit of distance we use here. Why would any self respecting Brit use Kilometers. Its a dastardly French imposition. As is driving on the right, which is why no self respecting British person could ever do that either.
The long gone church of "St Michael and All Angels" in Manchester (the location of the church and it's yard are now a public park), was built in 1780's. This area is known still as Angel Meadow...so if you may have heard about this area in relation to the political ideas of Karl Marx.
Steve what point are you making you may ask.... Well that area had such high rates of poverty and death, that by the 1850's that the tiny cemetery of St Michael had over 60,000 registered burials. The cemetery was such a public heath hazard, that Queen Victoria ordered the cemetery closed and paved over after reading about in the press.
The concerns about health meant that when Manchester council redeveloped the area that they had to employ forensics health equipment to protect the workmen's because to he fear that the soil of the church yard was contaminated by diseases like typhus and cholera.
Not only do we use miles, we use them much more than Kilometres. All road signs are in miles. Cars drive in miles per hour. I see it a lot on the internet that people think the UK is metric. I don't know where they get that idea from lol, like you said we use both systems.
LSAT+ target finder killed me 😂unfortunate VTH didn’t get that one
Love Blue Jay!
Also, have you ever thought about reacting to Puppet History? It's both hilarious and informative. Make sure to start somewhere in Season 1, because some meta lore shows up in later seasons that would be confusing without context.
The principle behind the Gay bomb does not even make sense. Even if you were to somehow make everyone gay, why would they just stop fighting and and start doing it? It's like saying that if you turned half of the soldiers to women, they would just start screwing each other uncontrollably. I guess they thought there is no better time for sex than in a middle of a battle when everyone is shooting at you. And if they planned to use the bomb outside of direct battle, the soldiers can just do the sex and get back to the war in half an hour. 😀 I strongly suspect that whoever came up with the idea was quite homophobic and maybe thought that gays just can't help but attack any man they find attractive on sight. Ridiculous.
Not to mention that if you already have a way to spread the gay chemical, you might as well use something that will kill the enemy soldiers outright. Just drop some mustard gas for god's sake.
Not to mention that making the enemy army all lovers would have most likely increased their morale since they were fighting alongside and for the lives of their loved ones.
Prime example: the Sacred Band of Thebes from ancient Greece, an elite unit of hoplites made up of 150 gay couples. They mopped the floor even with Spartans.
Hi.. Love the Fulham shirt.. 🤓... I am Chelsea 💙🏴💙
Went by Stamford Bridge after going to the Fulham-Spurs game when I was there
Best of luck tomorrow from a Chelsea fan 💙
British people very rarely use kilometres when we talk about distance. All our road signs are still in miles for instance.
While we are metric in the UK our road signs and speeds are denoted in miles. The decision to keep them imperial and not switch to metric was based purely on the cost of changing all the road signs and street markings.
Your uploads have been on fire lately! Next paycheck gonna look at your Patreon, and love you’re from Ohio! Thank you for the educational infotainment!
Appreciate that!
If your gonna visit the patron look at it with a grain of salt, many of the benefits listed on there are not correct at all, if you want to support Chris go for it, but don't expect the all of the benefits listed.
Hallo, Marcel Davis von 1&1, Leiter von 1&1 seit 16 Jahren.
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If you haven’t already reacted to BlueJay’s “The Worst Radioactive Ideas in Nuclear History” video, you totally should. 😁
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10:00 is it bad that all I could think of with this one was Alex Jones' gay frogs?
11:00 If memory serves it wasn't until the 30s that fertilizer was widely used, So the crop yields would've been lower at that time.
I know the Haber process was developed during WWI (1913) but I don't recall when it began being implemented to make fertilizer
The "gay bomb" concept probably came out on an FOI request but really IIRC it was 'discovered' by someone reading the public records on non-classified proposals that the Pentagon releases every budget year and they took it straight to Alex Jones who (of course) ran with it.
Overpopulation in Europe post-WWI: Keep in mind at the time that most agriculture was highly inefficient with bigger yields for the most part depending on large farms AND a large agriculture labor force. Which due to WWI Europe lacked abit of both due to the damage done in WWI. (People actually starving from a lack of food is not a modern problem, we produce way more food than the population can eat. But it's more industrialized now since the "Green Revolution" in the early 60s no nation "has" to face famine or starvation that's more a political thing than anything else)
Atlantropia would have provided more land, (which was to be used for agriculture) but that land would be contaminated with salt, a LOT of salt and the ocean area left in the Mediterranean would have been essentially a 'dead' sea with a high salt level. Was NOT a good idea at all really.
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Outstanding fashion sense in this video 👏👏
Always smile to myself when you mention places in the West Midlands. Being from Wolverhampton, I know most of the places you talk about 😅 keep up the good work!
I was in Coseley, Tipton, West Brom and Birmingham last week!
Fulham fan? Nice
11:14 At this time many european countries had to import food, otherwise they would starve their population. Not sure if even France or Russia were sustainable. Britain certainly wasn't, Italy struggled, Germany was dependent on mostly Poland. Maybe Spain was sustainable bc of smaller population, maybe France was an exporter. Could be this shaped the image of overpopulation. But the biggest culprit is the abhorrend living conditions of the working class. The N a z i, and their precursor, greed for "Lebensraum" didn't came out of nothing.
WHY DO PEOPLE THINK WE USE KILOMETRES?!
Where did this idea come from? Just because we are from Europe doesn't mean we do the same as France.
There’s no way overpopulation was a problem in Europe. Millions died in WW1 and I think overpopulation was the least of their problems or not a problem at all.
Overpopulation after WW1 in Europe could have been compared to their ability to feed people. Perhaps, because so many towns had their male populations devastated, they didn't have the farmers to keep food production going.
In the UK we measure our speed in Miles per hour, fuel economy in miles per gallon (imperial gallons) and distances in miles.... all our road signs are in miles and miles per hour....
Even our bridge heights are in feet and inches...
Seriously though, most other things are in metric... pubs are different though.... Beer is sold in pints but you buy spirts and wine in varying amounts of millilitres.... don't ask...
With regards to "overpopulation" in post-WWI Europe, it was something of a localized overpopulation from a food & living quarters standpoint. Yes, lots of people died, but just as we see with wars today, the number of displaced people is even greater. The entirety of northeastern France had been either flattened by munitions or dug up in tranches, creating an enormous refugee crisis, and one that isn't solved quickly because there were no cities or farms in the area to go back to. Turning a trench line back into farmland isn't as simple as filling in a ditch, after all.
But, because it's western Europe, we can't call it a refugee crisis, so it's "overpopulation".
How DID we find out about a Gay bomb?
It must have been after 2011. Before that you, "Don't ask. Don't tell."
About the overpopulation I think its less about total population but more the mass devistation the war left behind, alot of people with no homes and no way to provide for themselves. I could be wrong but I think its just "All of these people can no longer be in Europe now because most of Europe is destroyed."
The overpopulation in Europe after ww1 had less to do with actual population density, but more with the fact that about 17m people of working age, most of which came from the agricultural sector died, a vast areas of farmland were devastated, infrastructure bearly existed and governments were devastated...
All of that before the invention of modern fertilizers that increased the food production/worker several times were invented
The overpopulation likely had less to do with just "too many people" and more to do with "too many people and not enough homes, food, or clean water." Overpopulation isn't just looking at the number of people. It's a combination of factors such as, housing availability, food access, water, jobs, and other resources that people need to survive.
Okay, okay, let’s just take a second. If the “gay bomb” was actually a real thing, that is one of the funniest/awful things I’ve ever heard of!!!
I think the over population of Europe is more of the services and infrastructure for people declined during WW1. it's the only way i could see over population being problem in Europe in the 1920's.
The United States do not want Germany to have helium. Which is okay in my book. The Germans had no alternative but to use hydrogen for their airships. And you know what happened next...
Over Population isn't about the number of people in an area, dude. It's about the lack of systems to support that number of people in that area.
The documents pertaining to the "Halitosis bomb" (Gay bomb) were released to the Sunshine Project under a freedom of information request.
"They didn't have the safety procedures we have in place. . ." Ah, yes. My favorite invention of the 1980s - safety.