There's a documentary about the North Koreans attempt to build one. Fortunately they were thwarted by Pierce Brosnan in a very cool invisible Aston Martin.
@@IshijimaKairo Oh wow! I actually had no idea! The only thing I knew about Wolfenstein is that it sort of inspired Doom, which went on to cause the entire FPS genre as we know it.
@@ernofnx The same might be said of burning an enemy's ships before they were able to engage. Knowing an enemy's weakness has long been essential to success, has it not?
G'day, Not really. Night Attacks require very bright Moonlight. Or Electric Torches & LED Headlamps, or Night Vision Gigglies...(!) to enable the partipating Officers to read their Maps before & during - and then to count the Survivors afterwards and so to calculate their Dead. In the absence of Artificial light...; Only Losers fight, At night... Y'see...(?) ! Such is life. Have a good one... ;-p Ciao !
There is a plan to link some of the Shetland islands with tunnels. The Faeroe islands have 3 already. Linking North Atlantic islands with undersea tunnels has to be a Megaproject.
@@megaprojects9649 We should repurpose a mad man's idea, scale down this weapon of mass destruction, that's aimed down at Earth to vaporize cities, and create a smaller Lens Satellite aimed outward onto Solar Sails!😁✌
1:30 - Chapter 1 - Nazi Weapons 2:35 - Chapter 2 - Archimedes & the death ray 5:25 - Chapter 3 - A dark shadow appears 6:25 - Chapter 4 - The space station 8:30 - Chapter 5 - The sun gun 9:25 - Chapter 6 - Could have it worked ? 10:00 - Chapter 7 - Znamya 2 11:10 - Chapter 8 - A mirror to enslave them all
Chapter 9 stellasers Chapter 10 take the solar system apart to make a Nicoll-Dyson beam to threaten any aliens for a bunch of light years with destruction if they don’t dye their hair blond and start using weird symbols. Chapter 10 profit??? Edit: Also see Issac Arthur’s channel for someone who doesn’t think small like that Hitler fella
@@andrewCNC905 A nuclear bomb is kind of like a star for a very short period of time tbh. At detonation it becomes hotter than the core of our sun and starts a fusion reaction - which is what happens in stars
They were brainstorming. That's how they came up with the buzz bomb and some of those wacky plane design we've seen. Werner von Braun was certain aiming higher than ballistic missiles as he developed the V2. On its first successful use he's said to have said "The rocket performed perfectly. It just came down on the wrong planet."
@@adamlewellen5081 LOLIMON! (Laughing Out Loud In [the] Middle Of [the] Night!) Maybe this will make viewers think about it and get the reference. Good one!
Archimedes did not use mirrors to set ships on fire. He used mirrors to heat copper pipes up which had munitions plugging the one end and then they plunged in water which would violently vaporize, expand and cause the munitions to be accelerated down pipe. He made steam cannons that were heated by focusing the sun. www.livescience.com/8383-study-archimedes-set-roman-ships-afire-cannons.html
"If i was to tell you Adolf Hitler was the type of child that used to burn insects with magnifying glasses, would you be surprised?" - YES! I would be surprised. Hitler was very fond of animals and a champion for animal rights.
Megaproject suggestion: The Red River Floodway - it was the second largest earth moving project ever at the time (completed in 1968, larger than the Suez Canal, only the Panama Canal was larger). The Red River runs north along the very flat basin of what was once Lake Agassiz, which means spring meltwater often drains into still frozen water, ice complicates everything. On the same river the US chose not to build a floodway in Grand Forks resulting in tragic flooding and fires there in 1997 (Hell and High Water as they called it). It cost ~$500,000 in today's dollars and saved $40 billion in flood damage so far. And the best part -------- it was completed on time and under budget! That alone should qualify it as a stand out in this series ;).
Need a video on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel 17.6 miles long, 12 miles (19 km) of trestle, two one-mile-long (1.6 km) tunnels, four artificial islands, four high-level bridges, approximately two miles (3.2 km) of causeway, and 5.5 miles (8.9 km) of northeast and southwest approach roads crossing the Chesapeake Bay and is one of the 7 engineering wonders of the modern world.
@@RCAvhstape I’ve got to say when I was little waking up from an overnight fishing trip on the pier that’s off of one of the islands to that sea breeze and a beautiful sunrise, one of my favorite memories as a kid. The pier should be reopening in 2022 so I’ll finally be able to take my kids out there since we recently moved back to the area.
Elon Musk pulls out his phone, rings a secret number and says. "Order 66" Suddenly all the Starlink satellites move together and join up into a giant Sun Ray Gun.
Some guy built a car in the 1970s that was powered by a Rolls Royce Merlin. And slapped a Rolls Royce grill and Spirit of Extacy on it (before he was sued by Rolls Royce).
Dont big it up too much. The RR Merlin was what was available at the time, it was OK, but not the be all and end all. In civil service after the war, it was a complete dog whose servicing requirements were way above the competing American big radials. Its only virtue at that time was the massive numbers available thanks to government funded production during a time of national emergency.
"Lick a banana; it tastes like a banana! Lick a blueberry; it tastes like a blueberry! Lick a Nazi space station; it tastes like salt!" ...sounds about right.
With the Archimedes 'death ray' people never mention how unpleasant it would to be the crew on the ship and just focus on whether the light could start fires. Imagine trying to put out fires caused by flaming arrows, if you get temporary blindness whenever you look vaguely in the direction of the place you're attacking. I could imagine the story starting when some soldiers realised they could sort of reflect the sun off their shields and used it to dazzle the crew of a nearby enemy ship. The ship was then successfully burned using more conventional means.
@@ahsenkhan5386 I suppose, he didn't believe the the Ratte was a real concept ethier untill I showed him a textbook that had technical drawings and specifications. I couldn't find a book that had details of the Sun Gun that wasn't filled the nonsense occult/magic stuff the Third Reich wasn't actually involved with (kills the credibility for a mental weapon concept when the next page over says they also tried to summon demons to make their armies invincible).
@@stevenbenicarti4135 Sure, not eveything on UA-cam is factual accurate, but Simon Whistler's channels have a load of writers who actually bother to fact check. Plus if a detail is suspect he makes it clear that's the case.
I would love to see you guys cover the Puget Sound artillery defenses from ww1 and ww2, they were started at the tail end of the 19th century to protect the Bremerton Naval shipyard, and other naval assets in the region, they cost over $220 million dollars in today's money, but never saw combat. It's a really interesting story and one I encourage anyone to look into
Perhaps the salvaging of the Costa Concordia would make for a good mega project. Or if it isn't long enough; a side projects on the largest salvage operations in history. I'd love to see either.
The Sun Gun sounds like a plan thought up by Dr. Evil (Austin Powers' nemesis/long lost brother). I know Simon, you've never watched any film in the Austin Powers' franchise.😉🧐
One of the hotel/casinos in Las Vegas had (or maybe still has) the same problem. They had to essentially cordon off a large area in front of it every day.
2:54 You don’t displace a weight of liquid equal to the weight of the object being submerged. The VOLUME is displaced. You can figure out weight easily without displacement.
As for the Archimedes death ray, I think it may have been a possibility when you take into account that building in london, the Walkie Talkie, that was melting car bodies with reflected sun. SO if a building can melt car parts I am sure they could have set fire to wood.
10:14 oh man, you just solved a weird mystery I've had since 2nd grade. My teacher told our class about this and encouraged us to get up early in the morning to look for this 2nd moon of light. We're in Canada, so no wonder i didnt see anything 😆
The amount of friendly fire with this gun had it worked would have been insane. They'd need to some way to cover the mirror as it was traversing as otherwise it'd be zapping everything around the target as well as the target as soon as the sun was even near the right position. Granted I'm sure the Nazi's weren't really that bothered about friendly fire, but it'd get tiresome having rebuild have a conquered country because you zap'd one rebellious town.
6:29 Nope, a German V2 reached the Karman line on october 3rd, 1942, 118miles, to be precise. Americas first manned spacemission (mercury 7) just reached 116miles. Sputnik was the first man made object to reach orbit. That's probably what you meant. Orbit. I know it's grammarnazi-ish but i hope i could supply you with a fun fact :D Guten Tag. Edit: 8:15 Wrong, The Wernherr von Braun design buero had plans for a multi stage rocket during wartime. They knew the physics and what to do. The Rocket-equation was out for a few decades at this point. The price maybe was too low. But just for the launch, i'd say it's not far away from the truth. Also keep in mind they were useing slave labour from camps. They were not humanitarians or even good people, they were just very good engineers who didn't talk shit. I think this is evident by now. You can take their words serisouly.
I remember reading a story proposal from Lester Dent about using such a device for a Doc Savage villain's weapon in one story, it came with a short outline of the early phase of the story and getting Doc involved in it. I think the proposal was from the 30s.
A member of Von Braun's team, Kraft Ehricke, championed his "Lunetta" and "Solletta" concepts for just such orbiting mirrors for illumination of northern latitudes in winter in the Sixties and Seventies.
6:11 Hmm nazis, who we're up to no good Started making kristallnacht in my neighbourhood I got in one little putsch and my mom got scared And said, you're moving with your aunty and uncle in Belgrade
Re Archimedes: He discovered two related concepts- a floating object displaces its mass in (water), a sunk object displaces its volume in (water). The latter let him determines whether the mass of gold in the kings crown had been diluted with lesser metals. The crown had the tight mass for the purported gold, but submerging if let the true volume be measured and density of the material calculated (mass per unit volume). This let Archimedes compare density of pure gold with density of the suspect crown
Hey Simon, we need more snacks in the office. We ran out, and I don't wanna deal with trying to take Danny's shrooms. You still haven't put my bullwhip back by the way... Im starting to think you don't want me secretly living in your empty office...
Futurama did this EXACT thing, in the episode where all the robots are on an island and they use a mirror to focus the Sun's rays to try kill them all. It fails but still, they did do it.
Hey Simon, when talking about Archimedes, you said the weight of an object when it's the mass of an object that can be measured by water displacement. Small but important error. Good video nonetheless, well done!
I feel like a good intuition to understand this is to think about an object being submerged in water in zero/low gravity. It still displaces the same volume of water, but the weight being displaced is very different
Not a war vehicle, device, etc. but do a video on the prelude FLNG ship. 1600ft long and $10-$13 billion US price tag. When they connected the 8th chain to the seabed, they considered it “storm safe.” There are 16 chains...
Absolutely superb video ( but what else would we expect ),...apparently, though, Werner Von Braun’s ( Hitler, and then NASAs darling ), V ( ‘ vengeance’ ) 2 rocket actually holds the record for being the first man made object to cross into space, beyond Earths atmosphere, crossing the so -called Karman Line in 1944....
Sorry, but it really isn‘t a megaproject. It is an awesome plane and a very capable weapon system, but it was a cheap solution and it was never a game changer in a war. But it be something for „today I found our“ about the freakishly large main gun on the A-10.
Giant mirror in space revisited? I seem to remember an article in maybe popular mechanics back in the 70s of a proposal to build a giant mirror in space. This is during the Vietnam war era. The idea of this giant mirror was to illuminate the battlefield much brighter than moonlight. The mirror would be manufactured or built out of mylar reflective material. (Think Echo satellite). The mirror diameter would be about 1/4 of a mile. I never quite understood of how this thing would be steered.
I vaguely remember that article. _IF_ memory is serving me right, there was supposed to be a relatively lightweight aluminum ring around the edge of the mirror with small rockets to steer it.
Well, they regularly have solar plants that use heliostats aimed at a central central focus like "power towers". It just takes a certain amount of coordination.
There is a rumor floating around based on CONTRACTS and the fact that PG&E is now bankrupt, plus specifications papers that the electric company had contracts with a company that had SOLAR panels either satellite based (or some surmise more likely helium balloon based) which converted the rays to microwaves up above the cloud layers, then beamed them supposedly to collectors in the desert. Something went wrong and instead of steadily and safely simply converting the microwaves to safe power nicely conducted along power lines like normal for some reason the new electric power source set off smart meters causing a couple of years worth of house and business fires. Notably in Butte County and town of Paradise, Novato, CA, Napa CA etc. Not once, but sometimes twice. Which meant people collected on their insurance, rebuilt and had it happen again. Insurance refusing to pay out the second similar occurrence. And a huge spike in homelessness. And PG&E now bankrupt from lawsuits. Gee, how similar to a death ray can you get? People died in their homes!!!
There was a plan in the 60's to generate electrical power with a space-based solar cell array & then transmiting that power to an earth based antenna. It was tested with an earth bound radar sending focused power to an antenna a few miles away. It worked fairly well and there is a video on this somewhere. Imagine this as a weapon - microwave oven-ing your enemy!
@Cattibingo I maintain he’s an alien from men in black. His sole purpose is to make a compendium of earthly knowledge. Only when that’s complete can he leave earth.
Imagine something like this being used to start wildfires... You could target every dry forest in the US on the same day, starting a thousand fires in each, wildfire response is economically taxing and often requires backup from other towns. It becomes much scarier when you think of the damage a few natural/accidental fires have done to Australia and California, now picture those fires being used as a weapon of war. Start the fires on invasion day to cause chaos in the enemy's territory, they should burn out before your own troops reach them, plus it clears massive areas of forest so it's more difficult for defenders to lie in ambush.
Assuming that WW2 would not have interrupted things, it would have taken them until the mid 1950s to develop all the relevant technologies and to build it.
@@dsnodgrass4843 That's because WW2 came along and stopped all relevant research. And then throughout the 1950s both the u.s. and the u.s.s.r. had to start from nothing and do a lot of work just to catch up to where the germans were in their rocket science in 1940. Skylab is the result of everything having been restarted a decade later. And even then, the u.s. didn't initially want to spend much on expensive proposals from a german scientist. So again, had WW2 not come along (and had it been a high-priority project), it would have taken them until the mid 50s.
You should do Grand Coulee dam in Washington state. One of the largest concrete structures in the world and the largest powerplant in the United States. It also creates a huge amount of water to irrigate the central Washington desert and created Lake Roosevelt.
There's a documentary about the North Koreans attempt to build one. Fortunately they were thwarted by Pierce Brosnan in a very cool invisible Aston Martin.
This sounds like something you'd take out in a Wolfenstein game.
Funny, because it WAS in Wolfenstein!
@@IshijimaKairo Oh wow! I actually had no idea!
The only thing I knew about Wolfenstein is that it sort of inspired Doom, which went on to cause the entire FPS genre as we know it.
@@Attaxalotl They were both created by the same people even.
@@IshijimaKairo Oh. That makes a lot of sense actually.
Also, Quake! lol
If Syracuse's defending army utilized a death ray based off of solar power... Um... a sensible invader might attack them at night...?
Top comment😂😂
I believe In ancient times it was considered warfare especially attacks during night to be cowardish hence it was rare.
@@ernofnx The same might be said of burning an enemy's ships before they were able to engage.
Knowing an enemy's weakness has long been essential to success, has it not?
G'day,
Not really.
Night Attacks require very bright Moonlight.
Or Electric Torches & LED Headlamps, or Night Vision Gigglies...(!) to enable the partipating Officers to read their Maps before & during - and then to count the Survivors afterwards and so to calculate their Dead.
In the absence of
Artificial light...;
Only Losers fight,
At night...
Y'see...(?) !
Such is life.
Have a good one...
;-p
Ciao !
Just wait for a cloudy day.
One mirror to rule them all
One mirror to shine on them
One mirror to bring the sun
And in its light to fry them
7/10
Gandalf the White Supremacist
Rammstein tune plays " ...HIERRR KOMMT DIE SONNE...
@@158-i6z Nazis weren't white supremacists.
They were GERMANIC supremacists that viewed everyone that didn't have 100% germanic D-N-A as trash
There is a plan to link some of the Shetland islands with tunnels. The Faeroe islands have 3 already. Linking North Atlantic islands with undersea tunnels has to be a Megaproject.
Sounds interesting, will look into it.
@@megaprojects9649 would you be interested in creating a Vid about The Thunderwell??
@@megaprojects9649 We should repurpose a mad man's idea, scale down this weapon of mass destruction, that's aimed down at Earth to vaporize cities, and create a smaller Lens Satellite aimed outward onto Solar Sails!😁✌
1:30 - Chapter 1 - Nazi Weapons
2:35 - Chapter 2 - Archimedes & the death ray
5:25 - Chapter 3 - A dark shadow appears
6:25 - Chapter 4 - The space station
8:30 - Chapter 5 - The sun gun
9:25 - Chapter 6 - Could have it worked ?
10:00 - Chapter 7 - Znamya 2
11:10 - Chapter 8 - A mirror to enslave them all
Your the real Hero Gothem needs.
I have no idea who you are, or why you spend time doing this. But you are clearly an absolute legend.
Somebody wants a job
Chapter 9 stellasers
Chapter 10 take the solar system apart to make a Nicoll-Dyson beam to threaten any aliens for a bunch of light years with destruction if they don’t dye their hair blond and start using weird symbols.
Chapter 10 profit???
Edit: Also see Issac Arthur’s channel for someone who doesn’t think small like that Hitler fella
@@megaprojects9649 This dude is like the more bookish cousin who tallies the memes on Business Blaze.
Hitler: "Ve shall burn you wif da sun!"
Merca: We'll make our own sun.
Just think: if the Manhattan project had produced the atom bomb sooner they could’ve saved Hitler the expense of a bullet.
imagine comparing a fucking star to
a pitiful bomb
@@andrewCNC905 A nuclear bomb is kind of like a star for a very short period of time tbh. At detonation it becomes hotter than the core of our sun and starts a fusion reaction - which is what happens in stars
fuck yeah
@@Zindawg02 fusion vs fission, tomato tomato i guess
"You see that thing in the sky? Make it a gun"
-some SS general, probably
Pretty much every general sees something and thinks it how can it be used to kill people
when Pervitin hit you too hard
U.S.A. in 1945: we did it, we're going to call it a nuclear bomb😎👍
(Team america theme starts playing)
Florida be like: LAUNCH THE TACTICAL BALLISTIC ALLIGATOR
Also imagin what would have happened, if someone told the Nazis what a Dyson swarm is 😂
"Hitler Wanted a Death Star"
"Its more Star trek"
Im triggered beyond what words can describe.
They were brainstorming. That's how they came up with the buzz bomb and some of those wacky plane design we've seen. Werner von Braun was certain aiming higher than ballistic missiles as he developed the V2. On its first successful use he's said to have said "The rocket performed perfectly. It just came down on the wrong planet."
They were brainstorming, yes. But on meth
I learned about this concept of a satellite mirror deathray in a documentary called Die Another Day
you can learn more about the space nazis in the documentary "iron sky"
@@bullzebub I'd like the Götterdämmerung ship to be discussed next on this channel.
Not _Diamonds are Forever_ ?
@victor bruun Goldeneye used EMP's.
@@wwoods66 You're right but I grew up with Pierce Brosnan as Bond so Die Another Day was more fresh in my mind.
Everybody gangsta till Nazis start roasting us like ants
This is fake as shit
if that name sound vaguely familiar to you, you get zero points because Archimedes is super super important and famous lol XD
You mean the death laser from the sky in Fallout New Vegas 😂
He would screw you..
@@adamlewellen5081 LOLIMON! (Laughing Out Loud In [the] Middle Of [the] Night!) Maybe this will make viewers think about it and get the reference. Good one!
Archimedes did not use mirrors to set ships on fire. He used mirrors to heat copper pipes up which had munitions plugging the one end and then they plunged in water which would violently vaporize, expand and cause the munitions to be accelerated down pipe.
He made steam cannons that were heated by focusing the sun.
www.livescience.com/8383-study-archimedes-set-roman-ships-afire-cannons.html
@@adamlewellen5081 clever. Archimedes screws still popular in agri irrigation
"If i was to tell you Adolf Hitler was the type of child that used to burn insects with magnifying glasses, would you be surprised?" - YES! I would be surprised. Hitler was very fond of animals and a champion for animal rights.
Megaproject suggestion: The Red River Floodway - it was the second largest earth moving project ever at the time (completed in 1968, larger than the Suez Canal, only the Panama Canal was larger). The Red River runs north along the very flat basin of what was once Lake Agassiz, which means spring meltwater often drains into still frozen water, ice complicates everything. On the same river the US chose not to build a floodway in Grand Forks resulting in tragic flooding and fires there in 1997 (Hell and High Water as they called it).
It cost ~$500,000 in today's dollars and saved $40 billion in flood damage so far. And the best part -------- it was completed on time and under budget! That alone should qualify it as a stand out in this series ;).
Need a video on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel 17.6 miles long, 12 miles (19 km) of trestle, two one-mile-long (1.6 km) tunnels, four artificial islands, four high-level bridges, approximately two miles (3.2 km) of causeway, and 5.5 miles (8.9 km) of northeast and southwest approach roads crossing the Chesapeake Bay and is one of the 7 engineering wonders of the modern world.
As someone who grew up seeing the bay bridge out my back window i concur
And 100% absolutely terrifying to drive across when you have a fear of the see
The best is that when you are in the middle of the bridge in even slightly poor weather you cannot see land in either direction.
@@RCAvhstape I’ve got to say when I was little waking up from an overnight fishing trip on the pier that’s off of one of the islands to that sea breeze and a beautiful sunrise, one of my favorite memories as a kid.
The pier should be reopening in 2022 so I’ll finally be able to take my kids out there since we recently moved back to the area.
It was also a plot point in Die Another Day.
That was the worst bond film ever imo!
I give you Icarus!
@@cfcblue8 Hammer of Dawn 2.0
It sounds like something from a Wolfenstein game.
@@Ukbrummie Not even close to that accolade XD.
(literally every film since was worse)
So this is where Gustaf Graves learned how to build and weaponized Icarus
Elon Musk pulls out his phone, rings a secret number and says. "Order 66"
Suddenly all the Starlink satellites move together and join up into a giant Sun Ray Gun.
Simon. Take a look at Rolls Royce merlin, figure it all out and toss a video. Don't forget to enumerate the number of crafts this thing went into.
Including the up until that point mediocre P51 Mustang.
I'll take a look into it :)
Some guy built a car in the 1970s that was powered by a Rolls Royce Merlin. And slapped a Rolls Royce grill and Spirit of Extacy on it (before he was sued by Rolls Royce).
Dont big it up too much. The RR Merlin was what was available at the time, it was OK, but not the be all and end all. In civil service after the war, it was a complete dog whose servicing requirements were way above the competing American big radials. Its only virtue at that time was the massive numbers available thanks to government funded production during a time of national emergency.
I absolutely love Marvin the Martian and his appearance here, lol
The music was pleasingly cheerful for such a crazy topic
Just call him Prometheus.
@@bigchunk1 q⁰
Love the use clown-inspired music for the "Was it possible" section.
When was this I need to know
Edit: 9:20
Toward the end.
8:00 they wanted to build the station out of *SODIUM METAL* ?
sounds like a great idea
"Lick a banana; it tastes like a banana!
Lick a blueberry; it tastes like a blueberry!
Lick a Nazi space station; it tastes like salt!"
...sounds about right.
With the Archimedes 'death ray' people never mention how unpleasant it would to be the crew on the ship and just focus on whether the light could start fires. Imagine trying to put out fires caused by flaming arrows, if you get temporary blindness whenever you look vaguely in the direction of the place you're attacking. I could imagine the story starting when some soldiers realised they could sort of reflect the sun off their shields and used it to dazzle the crew of a nearby enemy ship. The ship was then successfully burned using more conventional means.
I'm sending a link to my brother for this video. I have been telling him for 20 years that this was a real concept and he never believed me.
I don;t blame him
SOme of the things from Bias proganda rubbish
Whats next Nazi made stargate
@@ahsenkhan5386 I suppose, he didn't believe the the Ratte was a real concept ethier untill I showed him a textbook that had technical drawings and specifications. I couldn't find a book that had details of the Sun Gun that wasn't filled the nonsense occult/magic stuff the Third Reich wasn't actually involved with (kills the credibility for a mental weapon concept when the next page over says they also tried to summon demons to make their armies invincible).
Yes..a UA-cam video is perfect proof, if only UA-cam had existed forever...... we'd be so advanced by now🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@stevenbenicarti4135 Sure, not eveything on UA-cam is factual accurate, but Simon Whistler's channels have a load of writers who actually bother to fact check. Plus if a detail is suspect he makes it clear that's the case.
it is not a farfeched idea to say that the roswell debris could have been from some failed nazi project.....
Love to see a Megaprojects on the Bagger 288. That thing is/was a monster!
"You're not a dish. You're a man."
Exactly. Bring on the Death Star.
A way to counter that weapon: put a massive amount of reflective material on the ground and say, “right back at ya, you sun of a gun!”
I would love to see you guys cover the Puget Sound artillery defenses from ww1 and ww2, they were started at the tail end of the 19th century to protect the Bremerton Naval shipyard, and other naval assets in the region, they cost over $220 million dollars in today's money, but never saw combat. It's a really interesting story and one I encourage anyone to look into
Perhaps the salvaging of the Costa Concordia would make for a good mega project. Or if it isn't long enough; a side projects on the largest salvage operations in history. I'd love to see either.
I am not interested in germans.
Uh what?
@@inquisitorgunnar3451 u know what I mean
@@bobcatthekittykat1075no, i don't. Are you drunk?
@@inquisitorgunnar3451 I know its u. U r using the word Concordia
The Sun Gun sounds like a plan thought up by Dr. Evil (Austin Powers' nemesis/long lost brother).
I know Simon, you've never watched any film in the Austin Powers' franchise.😉🧐
It sounds like something a Bond villain would d... oh wait, never mind. lol
@@TalesOfWar The James Bond films, "Diamonds Are Forever" and "Die Another Day".
He has done it again, another channel.
Absolute Madlad...
The “Walkie Talkie” skyscraper at Fenchurch Street in London proves that it works. “Mythbusters” are unfortunately not legit anymore.
To be fair, they were using a bronze disc, not a poorly designed window.
One of the hotel/casinos in Las Vegas had (or maybe still has) the same problem. They had to essentially cordon off a large area in front of it every day.
Cue title music..."Diamonds are forever...they are all I need to please me...they can stimulate and tease me..."
2:54 You don’t displace a weight of liquid equal to the weight of the object being submerged. The VOLUME is displaced.
You can figure out weight easily without displacement.
As for the Archimedes death ray, I think it may have been a possibility when you take into account that building in london, the Walkie Talkie, that was melting car bodies with reflected sun. SO if a building can melt car parts I am sure they could have set fire to wood.
10:14 oh man, you just solved a weird mystery I've had since 2nd grade. My teacher told our class about this and encouraged us to get up early in the morning to look for this 2nd moon of light. We're in Canada, so no wonder i didnt see anything 😆
The amount of friendly fire with this gun had it worked would have been insane. They'd need to some way to cover the mirror as it was traversing as otherwise it'd be zapping everything around the target as well as the target as soon as the sun was even near the right position.
Granted I'm sure the Nazi's weren't really that bothered about friendly fire, but it'd get tiresome having rebuild have a conquered country because you zap'd one rebellious town.
This sounds like something Mr. Burns would come up with on the Simpsons.
Great vid Simon! Been a huge fan for years keep up all the great work. Was this project ludicrously brilliant or brilliantly ludicrous.
waiting for a megaprojects video of the Bismark and tirpitz that were real weapons
6:29 Nope, a German V2 reached the Karman line on october 3rd, 1942, 118miles, to be precise.
Americas first manned spacemission (mercury 7) just reached 116miles.
Sputnik was the first man made object to reach orbit. That's probably what you meant. Orbit.
I know it's grammarnazi-ish but i hope i could supply you with a fun fact :D
Guten Tag.
Edit: 8:15 Wrong, The Wernherr von Braun design buero had plans for a multi stage rocket during wartime. They knew the physics and what to do. The Rocket-equation was out for a few decades at this point.
The price maybe was too low. But just for the launch, i'd say it's not far away from the truth. Also keep in mind they were useing slave labour from camps.
They were not humanitarians or even good people, they were just very good engineers who didn't talk shit. I think this is evident by now. You can take their words serisouly.
Mega Project suggestions: Benban Solar Park, Aswan High Dam, Bar Lev Line and Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.
The Nazis = "reach for the highest branch, you'll get the bottom branch. Reach for the stars, you'll get to the top branch."
Nobody:
Hitler: "The sun is a deadly laser!"
The sun has killed lots of people, even without being weaponized.
And there will be no blanket🤣🤣🤣
@@Schumanizeda big mirror: face your own light
I remember reading a story proposal from Lester Dent about using such a device for a Doc Savage villain's weapon in one story, it came with a short outline of the early phase of the story and getting Doc involved in it. I think the proposal was from the 30s.
Nazi-Weapon-Video suggestion: horten 229 (stealth fighter), keep up those great videos :D
A member of Von Braun's team, Kraft Ehricke, championed his "Lunetta" and "Solletta" concepts for just such orbiting mirrors for illumination of northern latitudes in winter in the Sixties and Seventies.
clearly Hitler watched to many star wars movies to come up with this idea
teacher: what does your father do?
simon's kid :ummmhh hes a youtuber and has like 1 billion channels
6:11 Hmm nazis, who we're up to no good
Started making kristallnacht in my neighbourhood
I got in one little putsch and my mom got scared
And said, you're moving with your aunty and uncle in Belgrade
Re Archimedes: He discovered two related concepts- a floating object displaces its mass in (water), a sunk object displaces its volume in (water). The latter let him determines whether the mass of gold in the kings crown had been diluted with lesser metals. The crown had the tight mass for the purported gold, but submerging if let the true volume be measured and density of the material calculated (mass per unit volume). This let Archimedes compare density of pure gold with density of the suspect crown
Hey Simon, we need more snacks in the office. We ran out, and I don't wanna deal with trying to take Danny's shrooms. You still haven't put my bullwhip back by the way... Im starting to think you don't want me secretly living in your empty office...
Archimedes was calculating Pi i just eat... Pi
Now that's truly Sun Tzu's art of war.
Thanks
Video idea, Queen Mary vs Normandie. Shipbuilding during the great depression, UK vs France. Both were luxury liners and very luxurious.
Futurama did this EXACT thing, in the episode where all the robots are on an island and they use a mirror to focus the Sun's rays to try kill them all.
It fails but still, they did do it.
Hey Simon, when talking about Archimedes, you said the weight of an object when it's the mass of an object that can be measured by water displacement. Small but important error. Good video nonetheless, well done!
I was wondering if I herd that correctly
I feel like a good intuition to understand this is to think about an object being submerged in water in zero/low gravity. It still displaces the same volume of water, but the weight being displaced is very different
Not a war vehicle, device, etc. but do a video on the prelude FLNG ship. 1600ft long and $10-$13 billion US price tag. When they connected the 8th chain to the seabed, they considered it “storm safe.” There are 16 chains...
Absolutely superb video ( but what else would we expect ),...apparently, though, Werner Von Braun’s ( Hitler, and then NASAs darling ), V ( ‘ vengeance’ ) 2 rocket actually holds the record for being the first man made object to cross into space, beyond Earths atmosphere, crossing the so -called Karman Line in 1944....
Ideas for new videos:
Palmanova
Venice
Messina Strait bridge
Misc Italian renaissance cities: Bologna, Milan, Pavia, Urbino…
European fighter jets: Tornado, Typhoon, Tempest
Leopard tanks
Sup Fact Boy, you gotta do a MegaProjects video on the A-10 Thunderbolt II, aka the "Warthog"
Sorry, but it really isn‘t a megaproject. It is an awesome plane and a very capable weapon system, but it was a cheap solution and it was never a game changer in a war.
But it be something for „today I found our“ about the freakishly large main gun on the A-10.
What a sick idea. Could there be a sun gun up there? Look at all the random wildfires today!
1:54 "left, _riech_ and center"
Hitler: plans space-based weapon to rain down destruction using a death ray.
George Lucas: Write that down, write that down!
A video about the sea dragon rocket concept would be very interesting.
The Archimedes death ray.
Ancient Aliens: It was aliens.
They had a little known side project that was like this but smaller. It was called The Sun of a Gun.
Also, do a video on Die Glocke.
I swear this dude is on every channel
Simon please do the Noord/Zuid-Lijn
Giant mirror in space revisited? I seem to remember an article in maybe popular mechanics back in the 70s of a proposal to build a giant mirror in space. This is during the Vietnam war era. The idea of this giant mirror was to illuminate the battlefield much brighter than moonlight.
The mirror would be manufactured or built out of mylar reflective material. (Think Echo satellite). The mirror diameter would be about 1/4 of a mile. I never quite understood of how this thing would be steered.
I vaguely remember that article. _IF_ memory is serving me right, there was supposed to be a relatively lightweight aluminum ring around the edge of the mirror with small rockets to steer it.
@@michiganengineer8621 Yes, does sound about right.
great video man I think you should do a Tiger 1 German tank video would love to see it and keep up the great work
Well, they regularly have solar plants that use heliostats aimed at a central central focus like "power towers". It just takes a certain amount of coordination.
the V-2 did actually get to space, the Karman line starts at 100 kilometres above earth, and the V-2 reached 174.6 kilometres altitude in 1944.
“Considered by reasonable individuals...”
An adjective I REALLY would not have applied to Hitler, Goebbels, Himmler, or Goering. 😆
Suggestion - Old River Control Structure
I never considered Hitler to be fun enough to be a bond villain
There is a rumor floating around based on CONTRACTS and the fact that PG&E is now bankrupt, plus specifications papers that the electric company had contracts with a company that had SOLAR panels either satellite based (or some surmise more likely helium balloon based) which converted the rays to microwaves up above the cloud layers, then beamed them supposedly to collectors in the desert. Something went wrong and instead of steadily and safely simply converting the microwaves to safe power nicely conducted along power lines like normal for some reason the new electric power source set off smart meters causing a couple of years worth of house and business fires. Notably in Butte County and town of Paradise, Novato, CA, Napa CA etc. Not once, but sometimes twice. Which meant people collected on their insurance, rebuilt and had it happen again. Insurance refusing to pay out the second similar occurrence. And a huge spike in homelessness. And PG&E now bankrupt from lawsuits. Gee, how similar to a death ray can you get? People died in their homes!!!
"Ludicrously brilliant"
or
"Brilliantly ludicrous"
Great show
There was a plan in the 60's to generate electrical power with a space-based solar cell array & then transmiting that power to an earth based antenna. It was tested with an earth bound radar sending focused power to an antenna a few miles away. It worked fairly well and there is a video on this somewhere. Imagine this as a weapon - microwave oven-ing your enemy!
They did this on Die Another Day with the Icarus satellite. I can't believe ya'll didn't clip it Simon.
you should do a megaprojects or geographics on the La brea tar pits!!!
This is the real reason Elon Musk has his own rockets, he's secretly building a death ray to enslave humanity.
I am currently watching this while the Imperial March is playing and eating some wafers.
Damn three Simon videos uploaded this morning. Does he ever sleep?
He can't. He has like 10 channels to feed
Cocaine is a helluva drug...
Well if you live 6h behind in time zone...
@Cattibingo I maintain he’s an alien from men in black. His sole purpose is to make a compendium of earthly knowledge. Only when that’s complete can he leave earth.
Not to mention he has writers, editors, etc working for him both freelance and maybe permanent... He doesn't do it on his own 😂
7:58 They may have been unable to calculate the cost because their accountants were 'unavailable'.
I got the fresh prince of Belair song in my head when you said you were up to no good.
Attention Earthlings: "Begs the question" doesn't mean what you think it means.
Hitler: Hmm, what if...
German Scientist: Hold my bier!!
"to build a series of mirrors but that's even more ridiculous" says the channel that presented the intergalactic solar panel system.
Huh, this reminds me of similar satellite weapons from the James Bond movies, "Diamonds Are Forever" and "Die Another Day".
Imagine something like this being used to start wildfires...
You could target every dry forest in the US on the same day, starting a thousand fires in each, wildfire response is economically taxing and often requires backup from other towns.
It becomes much scarier when you think of the damage a few natural/accidental fires have done to Australia and California, now picture those fires being used as a weapon of war.
Start the fires on invasion day to cause chaos in the enemy's territory, they should burn out before your own troops reach them, plus it clears massive areas of forest so it's more difficult for defenders to lie in ambush.
And I thought the file of "Nazis are desperate and are giving anyone who said they can build a weapon to still win the war" could not get any bigger.
Assuming that WW2 would not have interrupted things, it would have taken them until the mid 1950s to develop all the relevant technologies and to build it.
1970 at least. Remember, we didn't even have Skylab until like 1972.
@@dsnodgrass4843 That's because WW2 came along and stopped all relevant research. And then throughout the 1950s both the u.s. and the u.s.s.r. had to start from nothing and do a lot of work just to catch up to where the germans were in their rocket science in 1940. Skylab is the result of everything having been restarted a decade later. And even then, the u.s. didn't initially want to spend much on expensive proposals from a german scientist.
So again, had WW2 not come along (and had it been a high-priority project), it would have taken them until the mid 50s.
You should do Grand Coulee dam in Washington state. One of the largest concrete structures in the world and the largest powerplant in the United States. It also creates a huge amount of water to irrigate the central Washington desert and created Lake Roosevelt.
Big fan here! please do the Russian TU-95 “Bear”
A space magnifying glass, but we're the ants. Damnit Hitler you mad genius
Simon made another channel? The surprise.