The Highest Radiation Dose in Any Human (Who Survived) | Tales From the Bottle
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- Опубликовано: 19 июн 2024
- This man survived the highest known accumulated radiation dose in any human - and he had no clue what was happening to him.
"Albert Stevens (1887-1966), also known as patient CAL-1, was a house painter from Ohio who was subjected to an involuntary human radiation experiment and survived the highest known accumulated radiation dose in any human. On May 14, 1945, he was injected with 131 kBq (3.55 µCi) of plutonium without his knowledge or informed consent.
Plutonium remained present in his body for the remainder of his life, the amount decaying slowly through radioactive decay and biological elimination. Stevens died of heart disease some 20 years later, having accumulated an effective radiation dose of 64 Sv (6400 rem) over that period, i.e. an average of 3 Sv per year or 350 μSv/h. The current annual permitted dose for a radiation worker in the United States is 0.05 Sv (or 5 rem), i.e. an average of 5.7 μSv/h."
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Wow diz sum else.
poor bastard
and no, you need to increase the frame rate and decrease screen time to 1 frame preferably ever 60 frames
Man has a 6 times fatal dose of radiation, lots of his internal organs and outlives the life expectancy of his time, the man is a legend.
absolute mad lad.
You mean he lost lots of his internal organs
and he died OF HEART DISEASE of all things. something kinda normal for elderly
@@ulfrick11 rad lad? :3
@@Mike020389 I was thinking the same thing LMAO
This guy is both the luckiest and unluckiest guy imaginable
Yeah, I agree with you. Many people would have died or gotten severe body reactions from it.
@@JermaineBeatsOfficial no, (almost) everyone would have decomposed in hours with that dosage. the fact that the homie survived with minimal symptoms is fucking miraculous
@@phosphatepod Oh, that is what I meant by "severe body reactions". it is a miracle that a few people survived minimal symptoms, the majority of people would have severe reactions towards radiation (plutonium),
The fact that he survived is a special kind of good. An ambulance is this type of good; it’s good that it’s there, but not good that it needs to be there.
The acute dose was low. He's the highest accumulated dose because he did live so long. It's not even known whether low doses of radiation are even that dangerous. There isn't enough data on long term low level exposure to say whether a linear dose-response relationship exists, or if it's more like a threshold. We have plenty of data on short, intense, exposures and how much of that it generally takes to kill you, but for those who survive they generally live to old age with no lingering ill effects. If you look at other cases of long term exposures like radium girls, the damage was generally from the direct toxicity of radium as a heavy metal, rather than as a radioactive substance. Uranium similarly will destroy your kidneys, not because it's radioactive, but just because it's a toxic metal.
Imagine being injected with plutonium, having a large portion of your organs removed, and dying at the age of 79 because of a HEART disease. I aspire to be like him.
You worded that wrong
nah, I just meant that I aspire to be a chad like him that can shrug off radiation poisoning and die of something completely unrelated at a reasonably old age.
At that point there could be a chance of his heart being one of the ones removed
Really goes to show how much diet matters
heart disease is what a lot of elderly die of even!
He lived to 79 years and never suspected. I would say it was the best case scenario for him. He even believed that he had cancer and was cured.
Sometimes, surviving a close call (even a fake one) can improve your life immensely
Despite what the surgery led him to believe, this man was probably incredibly resistant to cancer. Not only did he never have cancer in the first place, he then proceeded to be subjected to massive doses of radiation, and subsequently failed to develop any tumors whatsoever!
There must be some biogical or genetic element involved there 🤔
My guy took 30 rad-resists and rad-x
It’s a shame he died, those genes would have benefited his children and future family(or families) for a couple of generations
@@tr4shpanda it’s a miracle this guy didn’t turn into a ghoul
...as far as we know.
Sadly, this wouldn't be the last time the government did something this shady; just look at what happened to James Thornwell with that LSD experiment. Like Albert Stevenes, poor James wasn't told or aware what was going on until YEARS later. Unlike Albert Stevens though, his mental health suffered alot from the ordeal.
There was also the Tunguskee experiments
Also don’t forget that there were some germ warfare testing done in the subway..
we definitely need more government control and programs.
@@skibum4207 they knew what they were doing
What they DIDN'T know was what the outcome would be...
Don't start twisting ignorance and innocence it doesn't work
@@skibum4207 You realize that makes it worse, right?
Richard Feynman (Look him up if you don't know him, amazing man) worked on the manhattan project. In his (first) autobiography, he said during the project they had a huge sphere of Uranium (he said it was always warm to the touch) and a huge sphere of gold, BUT they only had one stand (to hold the sphere). Since Uranium was so crucial to the project, they put it on the stand and the gold sphere was used as a prop to hold the door open.
why use a sphere to hold a door
@@iancastelobranco I wasn't there. Even though the 'lols' weren't invented yet, I think it was for the LOLs.
@@iancastelobranco because its funny
I like that some of the smartest people in the world chose to use possibly the worse shape for a doorstop. Definitely for the lols haha
@@zahariburgess3660 sounds plausable, i would do the same
If he lived to 79 after all of that, I imagine had they left him alone, he would have lived to 100 or more.
no
@@frederickdenbosch3742guess not
No heart disease dd him in.
@@HollieMoodie His heart would have been able to do better with a complete set of working organs
fun fact: Pierre Currie (husband of Marie Currie) knew very well that radiation is extremly dangerous and can kill him, but he also had an ampule of (i believe) Rad that he would take to the parties to show off how it "glowed in the dark". Very smart man
Legit! Radium-girls (ie factory workers who painted luminous clock dials etc) used to go out to nightclubs with their teeth painted in hopes to get noticed in the low-lighting 😬🙈
He sounds like a truly vial man
Even extremely smart people are morons outside of their specialty lol We're all just dumb apes at the end of the day
Based
i would have done did it too son
The highest radiation dose by sieverts? mans never experienced the flesh burning power of 3.6 roentgen. For real there are so many ways to measure radiations that it gets confusing to translate it into lethality given conditions, exposure and type.
I figure when the clicking on a device goes to a buzz your pretty much fucked.
The banana equivalent dose (BED), the unit of Grays (J/kg, the unit for absorbed dose), Becquerels and Curies (SI and imperial units for disintegrations over time), etc etc. The presence of so many units which could EASILY be just expressed as what they are in terms of conventionally understood units would make the understanding of radiation safety so much more accessible. It’s ridiculous.
Ehhh not great, not terrible
Sievert is the one that is always used when you are talking about biological damage
Just so you know the different measurements of radiation measure different things. Sieverts measure the raw biological damage of radiation. Other measurements are for more scientific purposes (like chemistry)
OMG! Did anyone notice that needle used to inject the plutonium! It was HUGE! The metal casing around the chamber that holds the dose with a needle sticking out of it is very intimidating especially to anyone terrified of getting shots in general! I’d be out of there!
I had scintigraphy once and that metal coated syringe made me so nervous! And that thing was tiny compared to the monster shown in the video.
@@awetistic5295the only reason for the metal around the syringe is to protect the staff from radiation (since they work with it daily). The syringe is no larger than it would otherwise be when having something injected into the body
@@fridanilsen9983 Yeah, the dose you receive just this one time probably isn't harmful at all. It just looks scary and set off alarms in my brain. But the staff uses many of these syringes daily, it would add up quickly for them without protection.
i would’ve just ran away😂❤️
My mom worked in hospice after college and one of her patients claimed to have helped make the first nuke. He was really distraught about it and one of the last things he did was to give a huge apology, my mom said he died peacefully
Nahh he in hell now i guess, bomb that he made just kill a lot of japanese🥱
He probably had dementia-induced psychosis and guilt because of delusions of grandeur (the delusion being that he was involved in the creation of a nuke).That's much more likely than the alternative of him being some ex-nuclear scientist
@@Daniel_0778u think the creators choose where to drop it lmao
@@bobreee9563bro doesn’t know abt the purpose of the manhattan project💀💀
Scary to know that they did this without them knowing, I’ve heard something like this a ton of times but it’s still more disturbing every time
@@Stevie-J bruh
@@Stevie-J Based and true, but the bootlickers of course won't agree. The FDA weren't planning on releasing the pfizer documents for another 55 years until forced to by a court-order. And Pfizer/Moderna was made immune to liability. And the media was repeatedly exposed for lying about covid and the vaccines.
Anyone that still trusts the state/media after knowing everything they've done for the last 70 years and more has subhuman intelligence.
@@Stevie-J Thats what i wanted to say.
@@Stevie-J Any criticism of the government are just "dangerous conspiracies". Obedience is the safest option.
just know your government can and will do anything they want to you without your consent and all their talks about rights and caring about you is bogus
"The government injected me with plutonium!"
"How do you know? Do you have any proof?"
"I feel it in my bones!"
Imagine Dragons: "Write that down! Write that down!"
In 1945 it was very well known radiation was extremely harmful to human body but it was unknown how bad it could get. So those scientists knew they were risking their lives but simply changing the world was more important for them. Those surgeons who removed his organs knew he didn't have cancer as soon as they opened him up because cancer is so insanely different than normal tissue and no surgeon could confuse them unless they were freaking blind!! So they only removed his organs to make tests on them simply because he didn't die and they couldn't make tests like other subjects. If they can remove a person's organs to only make tests assuming all those people had terminal illnesses or plutonium didn't do anything to them is just being insanely naive i must say..
Same goes for nuclear attacks because in reality Japan tried to conditionally surrender MONTHS before the bombs and there weren't many conditions neither rather the biggest disagreement was full immunity for their emperor. Allies refused it and demanded unconditional surrender from Japanese government. However this could mean their emperor who was seen as holy (Still seen by a lot of Japanese people) could be executed by allies so they refused it. Even after nuclear attacks and brutal murder of hundreds of thousands of innocent people Japan wasn't still surrendering. Until 6 days later when the emperor that allies didn't want to grant immunity intervened to the war first time and broadcasted a radio message, literally begging Japanese people to surrender. After their emperor begged them to surrender thousands of Japanese soldiers began surrendering in every front and only two days later Japanese government as well officially surrendered. The worst of all even if Japan surrendered unconditionally their emperor wasn't held responsible for a single action of Japan so allies could very well grant him immunity at first place then there was no need for nuclear attacks!! Unless US also needed to test this new weapon ofc, in fact both Nagasaki and Hiroshima kept outside of ordinary air raids of US air force so cities wouldn't be damaged and the affects of nuclear bombs could be seen more accurately!! This resulted as people from Tokyo etc which was bombed into ground taking refugee in Nagasaki and Hiroshima thinking those cities were SAFE!! The world is a lot more wicked place than even Qxir is potraying...
Enough to make your systems blow?
There also radiating the hell out of people with over ordering ct scans. The medical field is out of control
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4:35 Age 4??!!! Bro... No.. Just wtf.
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Is it possible you could do a story on Kenny Bräck who’s indycar crash at Texas Motor Speedway in 2003 subjected him to a half second force of 214 gs, thus making him the person to have survived the highest (edit: *Documented-couple people have pointed that out, fair enough) G force ever?
Edit pt 2: Its also fair to point out majority of the injuries he sustained were from the crash itself, not the g force. Still as a whole a video on extreme records of survivability (like Vesna Vulović’s 33,000 ft fall with I believe has already been brought up once) would be a cool topic
214 G's? Jesus did the guy comment on what it felt like? How bad were the injuries from the gravity alone?
This would be a great subject and give Qxir plenty of opportunity to crack jokes about oval racing.
@@thirstyserpent1079 "He suffered multiple fractures, breaking his sternum, femur, shattering a vertebra in his spine and crushing his ankles."
I'm sure he felt fine and was down the pub that weekend. /s
And the fact that his bones from his feet were collected in a bag and handed to him by the track doctor
In 1945 it was very well known radiation was extremely harmful to human body but it was unknown how bad it could get. So those scientists knew they were risking their lives but simply changing the world was more important for them. Those surgeons who removed his organs knew he didn't have cancer as soon as they opened him up because cancer is so insanely different than normal tissue and no surgeon could confuse them unless they were freaking blind!! So they only removed his organs to make tests on them simply because he didn't die and they couldn't make tests like other subjects. If they can remove a person's organs to only make tests assuming all those people had terminal illnesses or plutonium didn't do anything to them is just being insanely naive i must say..
Same goes for nuclear attacks because in reality Japan tried to conditionally surrender MONTHS before the bombs and there weren't many conditions neither rather the biggest disagreement was full immunity for their emperor. Allies refused it and demanded unconditional surrender from Japanese government. However this could mean their emperor who was seen as holy (Still seen by a lot of Japanese people) could be executed by allies so they refused it. Even after nuclear attacks and brutal murder of hundreds of thousands of innocent people Japan wasn't still surrendering. Until 6 days later when the emperor that allies didn't want to grant immunity intervened to the war first time and broadcasted a radio message, literally begging Japanese people to surrender. After their emperor begged them to surrender thousands of Japanese soldiers began surrendering in every front and only two days later Japanese government as well officially surrendered. The worst of all even if Japan surrendered unconditionally their emperor wasn't held responsible for a single action of Japan so allies could very well grant him immunity at first place then there was no need for nuclear attacks!! Unless US also needed to test this new weapon ofc, in fact both Nagasaki and Hiroshima kept outside of ordinary air raids of US air force so cities wouldn't be damaged and the affects of nuclear bombs could be seen more accurately!! This resulted as people from Tokyo etc which was bombed into ground taking refugee in Nagasaki and Hiroshima thinking those cities were SAFE!! The world is a lot more wicked place than even Qxir is potraying...
The story has all the beats of a cool superhero origin. Then he has the audacity to LIVE and return to a normal life. *BULLOCKS*
That's just what they want you to think. I guarantee you he was exposed to Kryptonite. That's the only reason he died
By focusing his energy he could give you cancer.....
This is one of my top five channels, my number two when I want to get my history fix and a big shot of humor. Great job. An early subscriber.
This is pretty scary that people with power can just get away with this and government and military can just say sorry and move on if the people found out.
This case reminds me of Hisashi Ouchi, though he didn't get to the accumulated doze of 64 sieverts over a period of time, he did get a sudden exposure of 17 sieverts which is more then deadly.
His DNA was obliterated and he was kept alive as he melted to death as his skin decomposed
@@neyoid Yeah, for 80+ days, imagine that amount of pain and suffering
@@neyoid he was kept alive due to the wishes of his family, not the doctors. That always gets left out.
@@pfadiva oof
@@pfadiva what also gets left out was that they didn't explain his family how much radiation he was exposed to and how beyond any help he was...fucked up however you put it
The "not being told about it" really is the worst part. If I was diagnosed with a terminal illness and given a 6 month prognosis (even though this one was false), and told that I could undergo an experimental procedure that was unrelated to my illness, but they would give a tidy sum to my family for my efforts (like...mortgage fully paid off levels), I would do it. That is assuming it was all above board and there was escrow and contracts and stuff.
It wouldn't be a good experiment if you died halfway through from other reasons....
and then you get part of your insides removed,then they discover that they had no reason,bruh
Your documentary's are spot on, way better narrarated than most I love your story's. Keep up the great oratorical descriptive presentation's.
Thanks for the educational video St Patrick.
This actual "surprise radiation" happened to my dad's family. Coldwater creek backed up to their house. It flooded often, and my grandpa, a police officer at the time, unknowingly helped guide the direction of nuclear waste to be buried. He died of cancer in 2006 when I was 4.
Oh wow I’m so sorry 💔
I am sorry.
What state is coldwater creek in?
@@savannah-marc planet earth
You have my condolences.
Stevens could also claim to be the first person treated for cancer with radiation. That treatment would become very widespread and is still used till today. Also scientists had a pretty good idea of what radiation did to people. The only thing they didn't know was the exact amounts needed to make people very sick or make them die.
Except he didn't have cancer and calling that a "treatment" is a bit of a stretch lol
@@WouldntULikeToKnow. it was meant as a bit of a stretch. Unnecessary operations and being dosed with radiation is a pretty horrible way to be treated by doctors. Malpractice much?
@@WouldntULikeToKnow. I think that’s the point, they didn’t use radiation to “cure” his cancer, he was injected with radiation and then got surgical treatment for his “cancer” which was actually a benign growth, which means he was “treated” badly by the doctors because of their gross moral negligence.
It's kind of like stabbing someone and calling it "surgery".
Also the first to survive cancer treatment, which is often lethal
Imagine you are an experimental test subject without your consent
Wouldn't be the first (nor last) time in human history 🙃
I like how reasonable and considerate the writing was, great video!
As a person who always asks “What’s in that syringe?” I would have been quite unnerved by the possible contents of that metallic monstrosity.
I simply would have stayed away from it. But I don't let people stick me for any reason other than death being imminent or dental surgery.
Tbf the nurses didn't know either i don't think so that wouldn't work
They would've just lied to you and you would've believed it
@@pauljohnson3851 I'm surprised to find a reply from 38 minutes ago
They would have lied and you would have bought it. Don't pretend otherwise.
Reminds me of a story my Grandfather told me, when he was little his house was being reinstalled with Asbestos. He was 5 or 6 at the time and just played in a pile of the stuff for hours on end, thinking it was snow. And he has never had any trouble breathing or cancer of any kind. He is currently 74!
the fact that any of our grandparents are still alive genuinely bewilders me
When I was a little kid, my parents were concerned about the wall behind our oil-burning stove getting too hot. So Dad went down to the lumber yard with me in tow and had a piece of asbestos sheet cut to size on a table saw while we watched from just a few feet away. He then nailed the asbestos sheet to the wall behind the stove. Dad passed away at 84, and I'm still going strong at 68.
@@Archimedes616 I also grew up in a house with a wood burning stove as our sole source of heat although I'm only 24. And your comment brought back a memory I hadn't had in years of being a kid and feeling the hot bricks under and behind our wood burning stove as well as helping my dad cut wood every fall to get ready for winter. So thx for the flash back down memory lane we moved to a normal modern house when I was 13 and was so happy to have ac and modern heating system but now I look back on those days very fondly.
Some people are just lucky. Don't ask me how.
My understanding with asbestos is that it’s long term exposure that’s dangerous. If you encounter it only a few times, even in really high quantities, it’s unlikely to harm you. It’s the long term exposure, like working with it professionally, that’s the real problem.
Very relevant subject. Thank you.
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- Marty McFly
The amount of work that goes into these videos are insane!! Keep up the good work.
Gubment sun else. I love zienze
In 1945 it was very well known radiation was extremely harmful to human body but it was unknown how bad it could get. So those scientists knew they were risking their lives but simply changing the world was more important for them. Those surgeons who removed his organs knew he didn't have cancer as soon as they opened him up because cancer is so insanely different than normal tissue and no surgeon could confuse them unless they were freaking blind!! So they only removed his organs to make tests on them simply because he didn't die and they couldn't make tests like other subjects. If they can remove a person's organs to only make tests assuming all those people had terminal illnesses or plutonium didn't do anything to them is just being insanely naive i must say..
Same goes for nuclear attacks because in reality Japan tried to conditionally surrender MONTHS before the bombs and there weren't many conditions neither rather the biggest disagreement was full immunity for their emperor. Allies refused it and demanded unconditional surrender from Japanese government. However this could mean their emperor who was seen as holy (Still seen by a lot of Japanese people) could be executed by allies so they refused it. Even after nuclear attacks and brutal murder of hundreds of thousands of innocent people Japan wasn't still surrendering. Until 6 days later when the emperor that allies didn't want to grant immunity intervened to the war first time and broadcasted a radio message, literally begging Japanese people to surrender. After their emperor begged them to surrender thousands of Japanese soldiers began surrendering in every front and only two days later Japanese government as well officially surrendered. The worst of all even if Japan surrendered unconditionally their emperor wasn't held responsible for a single action of Japan so allies could very well grant him immunity at first place then there was no need for nuclear attacks!! Unless US also needed to test this new weapon ofc, in fact both Nagasaki and Hiroshima kept outside of ordinary air raids of US air force so cities wouldn't be damaged and the affects of nuclear bombs could be seen more accurately!! This resulted as people from Tokyo etc which was bombed into ground taking refugee in Nagasaki and Hiroshima thinking those cities were SAFE!! The world is a lot more wicked place than even Qxir is potraying...
amen
the script is just copy and pasted from wikipedia lol
@@colatf2 yeah lmao💀
I saw a car on fire driving on the highway today on the bus.
cool
Did you see ghost rider in the car
The bus that couldn't slow down.
HOT WHEELS!
nice
God, I love your humor and drawings so much.
I love it when Qxir uploads his storytelling is the absolute best!
I know I love the visuals too they are always so creative
This episode blurs the lines between a Tale from the Bottle and a Last Moments. 😱
That was literally my first thought seeing this video pop up in my notifications
Tale from the last bottles?
Last moments from the bottle
He didn't really die from plutonium soo... almost last moments?
Who's last moments would they have been? Nobody died
This dude’s genius IS the cure to cancer
Fun Fact: You can actually break this record, although it will be beaten within seconds of you breaking it!
This guy is like the backstory for Harold. Decades out of circulation, but that’s a Fallout 2 joke…
rip harold
Isn’t that really a fallout 1 joke, because that’s the first game he appears in
I mean, you could modernize it a bit and call it a fallout 3 joke.
Youd be kinda wrong and i think i would hate you for it, but you could still do it.
@@grantluper5168 was it? I thought I remembered him from the 2’ed.
Um, if that’s the case, than thank you for clearing that up, but the man kind of looks like Harold, with less tree and skin issues.
@@galloe8933 Harold was in 1,2, and 3. he was in the kinda dingy and shady area of the hub in fallout 1,same world space as the water merchants,
Unfortunately it actually is very possible to build an atomic bomb with nothing more than public knowledge. A guy named David dobson did it. He did in less than three years. It's actually amazing how few nukes exist when you think about it.
Wasn't there also an experiment the US army did with University students?
The tricky part is getting the fissile (weapons grade uranium or plutonium) material.
Nuclear weapons are fake. I have two videos on my channel that prove this. They're in a playlist called fake nukes if you want to watch them
@@midnightrambler8866 Lucky for us. Imagine the idiots/terrorists that would use it. Just surround it in a high explosive shape charge to suddenly compress it under intense heat and pressure and chain reaction starts in milliseconds.
and he did it in his damn backyard shed too.
Love the channel keep the videos Rolling 😁
Only recently found your channel, but I reckon a video about the north Hollywood Shootout would be interesting. About two heavily armoured bank robbers. Not entirely sure if you’ve done a video on them yet, but if you haven’t, I do firmly believe it’ll do for a interesting video
Little do you know the Manhattan project continued up until the early 70s. Because my father was a victim of radiation poisoning because he was working at Amchitka Alaska where they blew up 3 nuks, called Long Shot, Cankin, and Milrow. He died at 57 of pancreatic cancer. I remember him telling my mother it will be alright, he'll be fine. I HATE our government for doing that to him and many others working at Amchitka.
Hey Qxir, cool video again! just one quick thing, 3Sv over a year is just under 0.01 Sv per day (or 8mSv/day) or about half the yearly limit for flight attendants (20mSv/year). That is roughly 0.3mSv/hour . During a flight, the dose in the plane is about 10 times less, So he experienced the same radiation exposure 10 people would living at 30,000ft for 20 years, which is bad but not as extreme. The body can handle repeated smaller exposure better than one massive dose . You can experience the same (for a few hours) by swallowing 5 sources from a smoke detector which are pretty weak. But don`t do that
Brb, gonna run to Walmart and buy some
Should have read the comment until the end before starting.
My stomach hurts.
Instructions unclear, got 10 smoke detectors stuck up my ass...
Um… I feel funny
Thank you for your accent. I've always wanted to have horrific suffering described to me in detail by Father Dougal.
Daft so & so. No one expects to get irradiated. Suprised it didn't happen all the time....great vids. Cheers.
They did a trial once to see if two relatively average people could design a nuclear bomb given publicly available data. They did so successfully.
It's not hard materials though, is the problem.
So is there essentially a how to guide for building a relatively "simple" nuclear bomb?
Thats where the idea of “dirty bombs” comes from. A terrorist with enough time and resources could design something like that.
If you're talking about the "Nth Country Experiment" then it's not quite "relatively average." The people in question had just received PhDs in Physics before starting the experiment, which is no small feat.
Of course, that was also done in the 60s. We have over half a century and the invention of the Internet between then and now.
MMMMMMMMMMH I do not like that
The one radiation story that I find most interesting was poor Hisashi Ouchi.
Reason for this is mainly the biological reaction the body has to such a high dose of radiation and it ends up being a real scary horror story that's really sad.
If it was not for a odd fascination on nuclear disasters I would not find it as interesting.
Fcked up thing was he was crying and beging to die but the " Doctors " wanted to observe how long they could make him live
@@markusbernard5180 the family want to keep him alive and the Doctors told them that he wasn't going to live.
@@markusbernard5180 euthanization laws in japan prevented them from killing him
@@markusbernard5180 that's a myth
@@markusbernard5180this isn’t true, he at one point said “I’m not a guinea pig” but that was when they had to make him breath with machines and it hurt, but beyond that, he then let them continue when thinking about his son, wife, and family. He couldn’t speak for the majority of his treatment, so the last thing he on record said was an I love you to his wife while they talked about everything going on, he didn’t beg to die like people often push, it’s a false narrative that has absolutely no proof, he survived for his family, and because of his family
this suddenly reminded me of a book i have from the 50's or 60's that is labelled restricted and titled "manual of nuclear defense" and it is a very large red book. i got it from a dumpster from a school's library that was being cleaned out. i suspect it was donated and just kept in the back somewhere until then. it goes over, in detail, the theory of nuclear physics, how a nuclear bomb works and all the different methods of detonation such as ground or aerial and i think under water. it goes over the effects of fallout and radiation exposure. the book also lists a couple planned projects such as project gnome which had not even happened yet. its a really fascinating book and i have not been able to find it online anywhere at all.
Fascinating.
You guys rock.
You'd think it wouldn't be too hard to find terminally ill people that would do the test voluntarily. Tell them its for science, give their families a bunch of money etc.
Yeah, but not telling them or paying them increases the sample size and reduces costs. The ethical choice isn't always the pragmatic one.
@@jordanb2812 I'm near suicidal, and I cannot find research to end my life for neither love nor money. Mind you, I'd rather have money.
What like the Joker?
Reminds me of the book the running man. Not the film but the book by Richard Bachman/Stephen King.
@@noscreadur Go to a millitary base and ask 10000 people. I'm sure they'll help you.
The video of the British soldiers tripping balls on acid is some of the greatest video of all time.
I noticed that one of those patients on the list was Michael Tyson with dermatphagia (Greek for “ skin eating”). I hope he survived. He might go back for seconds.
8:48 gave me relief to see the 4 year old small boy also being terminally ill
... is an amazing sentence to write because the experiments went that far.
Though I will also write that the guy survived the radiation because the danger metrics weren't invented yet
"Tales from the Bottle" is such a gnarly name for these stories!
Another great vid, boss!.
It could be even worse than it looks. They may have known all along that he didn't have cancer and just made it up to have a test subject. Their were few ethics in science and medicine at that time.
You think there are now, when the government does it?
I used to hate this channel.... Not even sure why I watched this video. But towards the end, I had a total change of heart. I now love it. I was suddenly compelled to like, subscribe, and buy merch.... I don't know what came over me.....
Man the doodle people drawings are incredible 👍👍👍👍
3:30 "one chemist accidentally swallowed the stuff. For days after his breath could be picked up by radiation detectors from across the room".
If that's true then anyone who gets external doses would be the same. Whether through the skin or the mouth/stomach, it all gets absorbed, entering the blood stream. So if his breath was irradiated, it was because it was circulating in the blood stream. Not because it coated and remained in the throat and mouth with breathing expelling some of the particles. Besides that, who would "accidentally" drink a radioactive substance?
me
@@prodtheontar I fear you
Safe laboratory practices were probably pretty lax back then. I mean, many artificial sweeteners are discovered because scientists literally tasted them "accidentally", for example.
Well, one time, I made a flavored water. My dad made one too, but when he was half way done with it he put cigarette butts in it. He set it on the counter, and I later set mine -whilst I was around halfway done it- on the counter. I picked up what I thought was my drink, and spit all over the floor after taking a big drink. That could explain why. Probably not, but I just wanted to give a theory. Maybe he just, I don’t know, had liquid Uranium in a water bottle with another bottle with some like green flavored water next to it.
This is genuinely one of my favorite channels! Always super interesting and hilarious and thought provoking
Now give us a video on Hisashi Ouchi and Masato Shinohara. Would be a great, horrifying video.
This is one of the worst human trials I have ever heard. Poor Albert, that man went through a lot.
Thanks for all the videos lately man.
I love your channel for many reasons, but one of them is that I can share them with my dad and brothers and they like them too
Qixr, you never fail to make everything informative and extremely entertaining. I cannot wait to bring this story up randomly and be asked, and I quote, why the actual f*ck I know that. I still use the line “Above the recommended daily intake of bullets” on the daily. Keep it up my guy!!
"18 people, aged 4 to 69"
Nice.
Well, _someone_ had to say it.
I'm only 0:20 in and already this video has me agreeing with it. Like full tilt I was like "yeah I hate when I get irradiated when I wasn't wanting to!" How the hell did you do that? 10/10 intro.
I was just reading up in this story a few weeks ago on Wikipedia after watching Chernobyl. I would way have rather watched this video. So thank you for telling these stories. I’ve binged your show for the last week or so and I’m very impressed and proud of the work you’re doing. Thank you for being Qxir!
Lots of drawings in this one, love the effort man, I was dying at 3:20 "these guys were going wild with plutonium" *one dude just tossing pucks in the air while another is playing hockey with them* 😂
Oppenheimer going top chedder on these clowns and making the AAA Tendies wobble Eh?
The lead based paint, lead leaded gas, and asbestos probably gave him radiation resistance.
this video has been recommended to me for the full 2 years it’s been out, this is the first time I’m watching it lmao
Love your dedication to your channel, keep it up man!!!
2:22 Being a Physicist (Knowing that some of my experiments have resulted in my hair being on fire) I thought "yes". Literally ALL! of the difficulty in a simple U235 design is in the production of U235 which is extremely complicated, but given your scenario of having the material being available the answer is obviously yes and 12 year old could did it by him self. Step one: place the two halves of critical mass together.... Congratulations You have achieve fission!!! (granted you have been atomized into a plasma, but you did succeed in creating what is essentially a nuclear bomb =))
Wouldn't you just have created a very simple and uncontrolled nuclear reactor this way? I would say achieving fission of a significant amount of the nuclear material in a small period of time yielding to a high pulse of energy is the distinctive feature of a nuclear bomb.
No. That would be an atomic bomb
great, i'll test it out in my backyard
Good ole criticality experiments! How radiant you are bathed in blue.
@@SomeGuy-hd4cn The reason it is called a nuclear bomb is because it's energy comes from the decay nucelli. Plus, if you google nuclear bomb it will say in quotations "atomic bomb" technically though nuclear the more accurate name as it is not the atom as a whole that is under going reactions, typically know as chemistry, the phenomenon that cause nuclear fission are under subject of nuclear chemistry.
You can tell by the first picture you showed of him that hed go on to do great things
I absolutely love this channel best of the best
0:12 "you haven't even planned on being irradiated that day-"
Ah yes, because we plan exactly when we get irradiated
I love your videos. Great job on this one
I love your videos keep up the amazing work
NEVER without knowledge or consent!
"One guy even swallowed the stuff"
"Now these guys weren't stupid"
I love your style of storytelling, it's very engaging and charming. Keep it up
Imagine if all the extra radiation caused a gene mutation that was beneficial and allowed him to survive.
And unless he had children after, it likely didn't spread
Every cell in the body is going to get different random DNA damage, not one single mutation. It might do that for his future kids though
The dude in the series Manh(A)ttan played off the exposure accident brilliantly.
Thanks again
Qxir, I've been watching your videos for over a year now - love all of them. Keep up the great work and, speaking of radiation, I'd love for you to do a video on Chernobyl !
Qxir: "How confident are you that you could build a nuke?"
This is the ONE TIME my PhD in Theoretical Nuclear Physics would actually be useful (trust me, it doesn't have a lot of use, post-doc positions and pay suck). Let's just say that there were two courses, Nuclear Fission and Its Applications 1&2, that basically taught this. Tbf they did also teach how to build a fission reactor, so it wasn't _all_ mad scientist territory. There just aren't that many applications for the stuff.
I also suspect that the "You can do it in a world where someone already did it and you can look up as much as you like" aspect would help a great deal in general.
why cant you take that degree and go work at a power plant? design bombs or serve in the navy? would think there's a lot of applications for such a thing
@@comradecommissar1945 i mean those positions dont tend to open up often i would imagine...
@@comradecommissar1945 I'm not from the US, and my country has no nuclear weapons (even if I could get past basic training with my health problems, and I can't). Power plants here tend to want engineers etc., as a PhD in Theoretical Nuclear Physics stuff makes one a researcher in things like calculating the energies in forbidden beta decays and trying to come up with better nuclear shell models. It's _really_ theoretical and has basically no current applications. What I researched would maaaaybe see applications in 50 years, and thus getting anyone to pay for the research now is really hard. I have enough studies behind me to make a bomb, but the people who make those also prefer engineers and application-focused Physicists over anything theoretical.
And there are positions open, just not in my country. If I wanted to move to the US for a post doc I could get one easily, the US has a lot of them because you have nukes and the country is big. The pay would still suck, and I'd have to live in the US which would be a nightmare for me. I don't want to have to live abroad for years to have any hope of getting a position in my country, so I switched fields.
I wonder how it must feel being known for something you never even knew about.
absolutely crazy.
if you haven't done it already, could you do hisachi ouchi? the man who got alot, and i mean alot, of radiation and kept alive for days and tortured with the " last days alive " tag?
i found it interesting and sad, but it gives you and idea of what really high does's of radiation can do
Another excellent video, sir. I've read of many questionable things done by my government, in the name of science, or national security, but i'd not heard of this one. Also, you near made me spit out my beer when you started the subliminal thing. One of the favorite songs of my youth is "Subliminal", by the Suicidal Tendencies. Just wonderful!
Love the "personal" email disclosure at the end! Love the little things; keep it up!
My dad use to x-ray mining equipment cables in Montana back in the 80s. They had a lead lined .50cal ammo can with a very radioactive pellet in it that would be transferred to the x-ray equipment on site. One Friday I guess the rookie kid had been sitting on it in the back of their work Suburban for the whole time they were driving around. Last I've heard, he's either still alive, or died an old man, but he had to do the urine collections and constantly get checked for any new cancer after developing colon cancer. He had to have some stuff removed
I wonder how many crazy experiments have been done in countries where things like this are never made public. 😬😬
Crazy how most people worry so much about their health and safety that they get anxiety. But then you realize how strong the human body can be. This guy survived major surgery back then, working with lead-paint all day, then getting a fatal dose of radiation yet still lived until almost 80 years old.
I'd like to see a video on Kenny Brack, an indycar driver that was exposed to the highest G crash of any person who wasn't liquified on impact.
Also Duncan Hamilton and his co driver who I forget the name of, they won the 24 hours of le mans on day 2 of a hardcore bender. Jaguar tracked them down to a bar the morning of the start of the race, and they had to drive. Seems like a perfect episode of Tales From the Bottle.
it's cuz they jigged when they should have jagged
I wonder if they removed parts that had most of the radiation during the surgery and that’s how he was able to live so long.
Of course none of the subjects died from top secret experimentation.
All of the lead based paint he used probably protected his cells somehow from the radiation!love all of your episodes 😃
Whaaaat?
@@cacaconpatas He was a painter, during a time when lead paint was still used.
Highly unlikely conclusion. Lead paint would have no effect on internal irradiation unless he was eating copious amounts of it, a highly illogical thing to do with any paint, toxic or not.
@@xx_redwood_xx9737 it’s still possible if he was using pigments and mixing his own paint, he could’ve inhaled lead pigment on a regular basis then
I don't think I ever felt so bad laughing while seeing others' misfortune. Great graphics, Qxir!
Besides being an absolute, undeniable legend i think this also shows some of thr power our mind has. I have to believe that the fact this man truly believed hed been miraculously cured of cancer and was 100% fine, even a medical miracle helped him survive the plutonium exposure. Stress and worry can absolutely be contributing factors to how someone does during illness.