The ballot that Theresa LePore designed was called the "butterfly ballot" because of the names appearing on two sides of the paper. As a result she was nicknamed Madame Butterfly. So this chain of events was literally the Madame Butterfly effect!
This story is unbelivable. The irak war, clima change and a lot of horrific stuff in the middle east was because of bush. A president who won because the democracy failed/ not all votes were counted
the introduction of lead into gasoline could also be mentioned. lead-poisoning, even in small amounts, could have some effect on intelligence. Someone somewhere calculated an estimate of the total amount of "iq" lost due to the release of so much lead into the air, and it was massive. A huge setback for millions of people, and the effects are still present today, all due to one inventor's idea of adding lead to the fuel.
A fun side fact is that the inventor leaded gasoline is also the inventor of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) which were one key component, which led to the destruction of the ozone layer.
@@lomiango The ozone layer was not destroyed. The industrial production of CFCs started in the 1920's, causing an average reduction of the ozone layer of 3 per cent. Fortunately, chlorine has “natural enemies” as well, such as methane (CH4). Thanks to them, the natural ozone layer could recover over 50 years, as long as CFCs are no longer used on a global level.
@@THE_funnyalt Northern ireland isn't in britain mate thats just false. Most Scottish people consider themselves Scottish and only Scottish so shut your gob. Mong
@@assholio I can’t believe the sun was in the exact angle for you to see the light spectrum like that in a truck stop bathroom! That really is glorious! Username checks out 🤣🤘
I just love the idea of a large team of doctors with the best equipment, looking at a guy smoking 90 cigarettes a day. All scratching their head “ what could it be?”
@@L.internet8 I have story-papers (like comics but with written stories) aimed at kids and teens from 1902 that make it pretty clear smoking will "ruin your wind". Tobacco companies might have said their brand wasn't bad for you, but nobody was buying it. Still want Malboro, Rothmans and John Player liveries back on F1 cars, though.
Most of the doctors involved were probably raised under the assumption that smoking was healthy. Doctors used to recommend cigarettes as a cure for migraines and stress disorders, schools used to teach kids that smoking was important to attain good health, and almost every sporting event, movie and TV show was sponsored by cigarette companies with slogans like “the cleanest cigarette available” and “makes you feel great”. Assuming that cigarettes caused cancer and heart attacks in the 1950s would have been like assuming that eating fruit and lifting weights gave you tuberculosis. Culture was just so heavily obsessed with the idea that cigarettes were healthy that it seemed impossible that they could be the cause of any cancers or cardiovascular problems.
Factory farming is starting to kill off wild birds en-masse, how about antibiotic resistance too? I think about that biological soup full of antibiotics sitting under salmon farms, nice.
My favorite is the Soviet radar operator that prevented nuclear destruction. Radar picked up clouds as incoming missiles. Brave man took a second to think before firing back. "If they attacked there would be more missiles". I can't remember his name but we owe our lives to that man
Stanislav Petrov, I believe. Soviet satellites designed to detect US missile launches mistook sunlight reflecting on snow in South Dakota for the launch plumes of ICBMs. Petrov refused to follow the doctrine of instant retaliation, and… well, we’re still alive.
@@tesmith47 Cuban Missile Crisis. The B-59, a Soviet conventionally-powered submarine, was being harried by a US Navy force consisting of an aircraft carrier and 11 destroyers. Depth charges were dropped in an attempt to force the B-59 to surface; the captain, unable to communicate with Moscow and believing that war had broken out, wanted to launch a torpedo with a 5-kiloton nuclear warhead at the American force. His political officer agreed, but by chance the B-59 had a third officer aboard, also of captain rank, and because of this all three officers had to agree for the torpedo to be launched. The third officer, Vasily Arkhipov, did not agree. Eventually the B-59 was forced to service because its air supply and batteries were running low; after making peaceful contact with a US destroyer, the submarine contacted Soviet command and was ordered to leave the area. Just months before the Cuban incident, Arkhipov was executive officer on the nuclear submarine K-19, which suffered a radiation accident (cf. the film "K-19: The Widowmaker"). Arkhipov stayed in the Soviet Navy, achieved the rank of vice admiral, and died in 1998, aged 72.
Pain. Am really sad for the woman who did everything right and people still didn't believe her. We all had this happen to us but this is another level of pain
@@kimberlywebster6057 “BuT wItH wOmEn In ChArGe tHeY WiLl sTaRt wArS bEcAuSe ThEy ArE sO eMoTiOnAl” Except, all major wars have been started by men…. And it’s called “the Cassandra effect” you *know* something bad is going to happen but can’t stop it because no one believes you. It’s about a princess of Troy. The Greek god Apollo was struck by her beauty,and provided her with the gift of prophecy, but when Cassandra refused Apollo's romantic advances, he placed a curse ensuring that nobody would believe her warnings. Cassandra was left with the knowledge of future events, but could neither alter these events nor convince others of the validity of her predictions.
The x-raying of pregnant women reminds me of a memoir titled "Stitches." The primary event was the author's surgery to remove throat cancer when he was an adolescent. The cancer was caused by his radiologist doctor father regularly dosing his head and neck with x-rays to try treating his asthma and allergies.
@@Tiosedan yes, but I was referring to the video. the people using xrays back then didn’t know all the harmful effects they cause. This could be similar with light therapy in the future, we might not know the long term side effects now. Just a thought.
A little fun fact about what he said on 27:24 the canned food that was provided for that expedition was later found to contain high does of lead which cause lead poisoning, that’s because the Royal Navy decided to buy their canned goods for the voyage from the lower bidder hence the lead
As a scientist, it´s important to remember that people can manipulate or exclude certain data to make their studies reach basically any conclusion they want. And since we usually start a thesis with a pre-conceived idea/theory, I have seen many great minds go down the path of confirmation bias rather than admitting their theory was way off the mark, basically seeing what they want to see in the data while ignoring the elephant in the room (And let´s not forget that some ignore them on purpose or never intended to do a proper study, just try to prove a theory for the sake of monetary gain)
@@thelastmanonearth2631 i would disagree. I doubt people have been learning much from anything these days. What have "scientists" been so extraordinarily wrong about recently? I'm going to presume your referring to the corona virus- and you're confusing government messaging with scientific consensus. Being as the virus is novel, there is no scientific consensus. The ADA is a govt. agency which has lost much of it credibility thanks to it's own mixed messaging and the corruption of the Trump administration. The virus is real- just not as dangerous as officials make it out to be. Unless your overweight and especially if you're obese.
@@thelastmanonearth2631 All right, steady on. Just because there are scientists that misrepresent their findings doesn’t devalue the profession as a whole.
@@cosmologicalturtle9528 incorrect. The cowardice of the "good" scientists says everything. The moron blaming Trump - who was already out of office before the vaccines even dropped - is another indicator that science is no more scientific than religion, and is followed with the same blind fervor. It's ALL just theology, one way or the other.
Quality stuff, makes me think. Despite the mild existencial crisis, hope to see more. It's simply fascinating how so many problems can be blamed on one thing.
@@Ttegegg It's that piece of can that boost the British Navy to its maximum power. You shouldn't undermine the importance of logistics. We Vietnamese won the war not by forces but by carefully planned logistics, both against the US and France. I do think there is a stretch too. It is the rubber transporting part. I feels like there is risk involved so I wouldn't contribute the can food to it.
@@cloudynguyen6527 nah more on the napalm, is not like it directly leads to the destructive device, say like the gunpowder or a scientist who accidentally helped cause the worst event
Well, if I may put my few cents into this. If nation other than GB were the world naval power they maybe wouldn't have overthrow South America's rubber production or they would have built their own rubber industry somewhere else. And thus Japan wouldn't have created a catalyst for experimenting with rubber. And I think that would be enough to postpone the invention of napalm after the Vietnam war. Or maybe not
Not really. He complains about people eating sugar instead of fat but his own healthy eating info says to eat low levels of fat and sugar. Basically obesity increased because people ate food that contains more calories, due to an increase in fat and sugar. Also fat has more calories than sugar so replacing fat with sugar would reduce calorie consumption and obesity levels.
7:38 I think calling it a blunder isnt justified. The monumental Effect it had on Physics heavely outweigh the 2 Atomic bombings, as a considerable chunk of our day to day life relies on this discovery to begin with. We should rather be glad it happened
UA-cam is the place where nuance is forced to die. Nuance is begging for your help and getting none. If you have studied this, you could give nuance just 5 minutes of your time, and say why and not in black and white language, because that hurts nuance too.
The study of particle and plasma physics eventually led to the development of the field of solid state physics and semiconductor electronics. None of our modern technology would be possible without it. Omitting it in this video is not just an oversimplification, it's a straight up misrepresentation of the topic.
These sort of people think nuclear power is automatically bad, too. "Muh Chernobyl (badly-designed reactor), Muh Fukushima (cost-cutting design and disaster of unforseen scale)" Yeah, well, how about muh entire planet every day, which is what fossil fuels are harming.
@@juan-ij1le That’s like saying that the Haber process was bad because it was used to make explosives. The world u live in was built by particle physics and Haber.
17:37 Fascinating how the tobacco industry slipped under the radar while scientists and gov’t were arguing over fat vs sugar. Devious and evil, yet brilliant.
The tobacco industry has lost countless trillions of dollars in the past 75 years. To say they slipped under the radar is a gross misrepresentation of historical fact. What actually happened was nuclear testing across the country created a rise in cancer cases and the government decided that the industry made so much money, they’d be the fall guys bc they could take the hit. Smoking isn’t nearly as dangerous as the government and its doctors want you to believe.
@@richardtherichard26 holy shit, the level of cope is insane. It's a proven fact that marlboro and other tobacco companies were bribing doctors to publish research that benefits tobacco
These are crazy. But by far the most insane, most tragic blunder in history, if not THE turning point in history, was the story of Henry Tandey: Henry was a private in the British army during WW1. He had served nearly the whole war, and in his memoirs, he said the war had changed him drastically. Seeing death every day made him become desensitized, and if it meant killing the enemy to save his or his comrade's lives, he gladly pulled the trigger. BUT, as the war raged on, and the final days were realized, at the battle of Paschendale, Henry was tasked with observing the trench near a small town in France. After a brutal struggle and intensive shelling, Henry witnessed a lone german soldier crawl out of the trench. He was rugged, bloodied, and tired, and it looked almost like he had accepted his fate staring down at Henry, and Henry with his rifle held at him, lowered it. He saw shooting a man like that was inhumane, he looked as though he had no chance to survive, so why kill him then? He'd later go on to go home, live his life rebuilding, and becoming a husband. Decades later, Neville Chamberlain, in an attempt to prevent a second world war, visited Adolf Hitler's parliament. There, he spotted a painting of the battlefields of Passchendaele, and there stood a lone British soldier, almost glorified. When asked who it was, Hitler replied, "That man came so near to killing me that I thought I should never see Germany again; Providence saved me from such devilishly accurate fire as those English boys were aiming at us." Henry, in a single moment of sympathy and humanity, had become the man who changed humanity and history forever. That fateful day, Henry Tandey, a single private in the British army of millions, had spared Adolf Hitler.
According to the laws of the Weimar Republic, Hitler should have gotten the death sentence for his coup in Munich in '23. But this was in Bavaria, so he got only 5 Years in jail and luxury treatment. So theres that as well.
I'd argue that it was very possible for someone else to take up Hitler's mantle given the circumstances and cultural zeitgeist in post-WW1 Germany. Hitler was merely a figurehead for these sentiments and actions to make manifest. Never forget that behind Hitler was a massive group of terrible men who made it all possible. I don't think it's unreasonable to claim that another different figurehead could have very well been found and/or rose to power
Man, time is such a weird concept. From the present looking back, the gap between 1945 and 1955 feel like a minor span, but 2013 feels like centuries ago from the present
As Einstein famously said, time is relative. To me, 2013 feels like yesterday, but the gap between 2020 and 2023 is enormous. Those 3 years feel like the length of 2010 to 2020
@@broodjekaas820 it's relative to age I think. The 4 years I spent in high school felt longer than the 4 years in college and those 4 years at college feel longer than the 4 years I spent at my first job. In other words, up until 2020, every meaningful 4 year gap of time felt faster and faster as I got older. That trend reversed in 2020 for me where the last 4 years have felt insanely distorted. How that we are in 2024, the years 2020 to 2022 felt extremely long and the "speed of time" in 2023 and now 2024 feel like they are back to light speed. It's already March, friends announcing first and second babies, New jobs etc. Peoples lives are back on track and that speed of change has returned Im remembering trips in 2021 that I took that genuinely feel like 10 years ago, meanwhile the trip I took in 2012 feels like yesterday. One of my friends doesn't even remember one of the star gazing trips we both took last year
people see thier own life spans as unending messes just barely organised by our understanding of time and dates, all the while ignoring the value of the time before themselves. 1780 and 1790 are right next to each other but 2010 and 2020 are worlds apart. Interesting, is it not.
Saying that the discovery of particle physics is unlucky seems arguable, on top of that even if Rutherford didnt end up discovering it someone else probably would have
This is somehting so fundamental to nature it would have been discovered. It might have been after the war and prevented deaths there. But then we enter a purely hypothetical timeline and can't say it would have been better. Radiation, the idea an dknowladge of atoms has given more benefit than people realise. It shaped the modern idea of chemistry, without the confirmation of atoms most of the current systems for measuring compounds wouldn't really be as advanced.
@@ThePLAYER1888 You missed the whole point. The bomb saved lives during the war. Instead of a costly invasion the war was cut short many months, or even years. The bomb allowed the soviet union to be tamed, for a while and ensured freedom to some countries, since they weren''t allowed to dominate the entire Europe after the war. The bomb saved lives!
@@sababugs1125 (following his logic) the invention of canned food delayed the invention of napalm. If the rubber hadnt been brought to Indonesia the allies (or anyone else needing to use rubber on an industrial scale) would have experimented with synthetic alternatives and invented napalm even before WW2 to meet their demand. On top of that I am fairly certain access to healthy, nutritious food that canning brought to millions far outweighs the comparatively small damage napalm has caused (ignoring the convoluted logic that directly ties one man's way of canning food to rubber production in Indonesia)
That fat segment was very validating. My parents always taught that fat was good for you and I and my family were made fun of for it growing up. I'd even argue about it with my friends in middle school, lol.
@@MaxTedium not only have we survived two and a half million years with whatever fat we could get in our diet we have thrived. Get over yourself and try waking up on the right side of human potential tomorrow morning. I know this is going to be hard for you but please try.
@@lestatangel what's your point? Humans historically weren't thriving, they were starving, I doubt they gave a shit about the macros they were consuming. My point isn't even demonizing fats, my point is that no food is just blanket "good" or "bad", not fats nor carbs. The only truly proven factors related to health are not being overweight and exercising regularly, as long as you are doing these it won't matter much were your calories are coming from (provided you don't suffer from any medical condition)
@@MaxTedium I'm 5 ft 10 140 lb full head of long black hair almost to my waist 65 years old and in perfect health. Meat has always been a large part of my diet. Sugar, I barely touch it in any form. That's pretty much my point.
I’m Vietnamese and the end of Burning Soup was… haunting, for a lack of better words. I kept waiting for you to delve into the napalm part, but I suppose letting the facts sink in was just as effective. I remember studying about the Vietnam War and the effects pesticides and napalm has on Vietnamese people, even after the war ended. Horrible burns, deformed people, and much more. History textbooks had their restraints, but the occasional TV segments had journalists paying the victims a visit and you get to see the damage on people that are still moving, breathing and living in the present day. It’s so horrible you wish no other human being should suffer the same fate.
The Vietnam war can be argued to be one of the top three worst things the US has done. We shouldn’t have even been there in the first place since it was a colonial war/revolt war between France and Vietnam. I mean we we’re actually friendly with Ho Chi Min during the Second World War.
I think quite a large and underrated butterfly effect was when the Republic of Genoa sold Corsica to France. If Corsica remained a Genoese colony, Napoléon Bonaparte, who was Corsican, would have never become a French Revolutionary general and therefore never risen to power in France. Even crazier, if Napoléon was somehow elected Doge of Genoa in this alt timeline (which would be unlikely, as no one from the colonies was ever Doge), Italian unification could have happened a lot sooner but under the Genoese rather than the Savoyards
Thank you so much for highlighting the errors of Ancel Keyes! I've been trying to tell everyone about his mistake since I first found out about it four years ago. Even now the NHS still doesn't seem to know this and is STILL pushing the antiquated food pyramid! For covering this subject alone, I've subscribed! Thank you again!
I would say sugar is still being pushed because its addictive as fuck and only destroys lives slowly, so its consequences can be blamed on other things.
I still remember being flabbergasted about suggesting 10-12 servings of bread everyday. I always new that was too much. And now with the research findings on trans fats and how corporations have been saturating fats to make calories less nutritious and more filling and how they attempt to cover up this process, we really need to research and come to our own conclusions about diet and what things big companies and governments are pushing on us.
This video is full of inacurracies and shortcuts by Portarying keyes as responsible of the excessive sugar in industry nowadays and health problems. His work is respected in the medical field and has lead to the meditteranean diet which is basically mainly full grain carbs, vegetables and lastly meat and fats. Why? Because population with the Mediterranean diet has excellent health, that's what keyes observed and studied. (mediteranean = southern france, italy etc, Another example? Japanese diet known for it's outstanding number of old living people , that lives in good health most importantly. Their diet? You guessed it: mainly carbs (white rice, wheat noodles for ramens dishes etc)), secondly vegetables, and a bit of meat and fats (porks, fish etc). Now do you also want a example of fat heavy diet? Mongolian diet: made mainly of meat, fats because of their nomadic (active) lifestyle (they dont eat a lot of carbs because theyre nomads). They have one of the worst rate of heart disease and strokes in the world, with terribly low lifespan. Overall the biggest mistake this video makes is to not makes the difference between simple sugars and healthy carbs. Lastly , health organizations do not recommand eatin everything in equal amount it would imply eating as much protein as carbs which is NOT recommanded. Mediteranean diet has been ranked as one of the "best diet overall" although i dont like such expression by US news and reports and many other health organizations in the world typically in europe (france etc). This mediteranean does NOT recomanded eating as much carbs as fat as proteins, there's still the pyramid that came from keye's work : 1) whole grain carbs 2) veggies and fibers 3) proteins and fats
@@yulian7435You bring up some interesting points however we can sit and cherry pick diets of certain countries around the world all we want, there are countries that eat a lot of carbs, and live for a long time, and there are countries that eat a lot of animal products, and live for a long time. There are many factors that lead to the longevity and low heart attack rates of people around the world.
@@participatoroftomfoolery _it was less so an accident and more so a invention sold without a care as to the consequences_ according to this, it was very conscious ua-cam.com/video/IV3dnLzthDA/v-deo.html
It might be more well known. But go walk down a US city street and ask strangers if they know what's killed more people than anything in history. I'll bet below 50% know it's leaded gasoline. Plus he took a shot at Trump so I won't be watching anymore of his videos anyway.
I don't know why, but I had always assumed that Wilson was an American particle physicist. I'd hardly described his cloud chamber as a blunder, though.What a good job he talked to Rutherford, a nice illustration of the importance of communication for the advancement of science, or indeed any endeavour.
The history we haven't experienced yet (the future) will have to decide if the invention of nuclear energy will outweigh the dangers (mass death, radiation, waste, accidents...) and implications (cold war) of the atom bomb and nuclear reactors. Just like conventional batteries (cobalt slavery, environmental problems with extraction and disposal), i fear it has held us back for progress on hydrogen energy.
@@brmbkl Don't forget all the Nuke waste that will Outlast every nation known to Exist and will likely be a Problem for future people thousands of years later. We literally have plans on how to tell those Future people that this Nuke waste is bad. 😅
Nuclear energy is unbelievably safe. Radiation is at its minimum, mass death from nuclear energy cannot happen unless a reactor goes into a meltdown on purpose. Nuclear waste is easy to discard of and is the least of our worries, and nuclear accidents happen in parts of the world with relatively uneducated people being in control, or the land itself is not suitable to hold it up.
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That napalm one is definitely stretching the concept. Attributing the development of napalm to the patent for canned food is like attributing literally anything else to canned food. But other than that this video was very interesting.
However, you can attribute a lot of things to canned food. Inventions and ideas have always acted as catalysts for developments in world history that lead other developments, just how we can attribute the invention of silly putty to this tinned can mishap, as a lack of rubber during WWII led to the invention of it. If your belief is that napalm eventually would've been developed, sure it probably would've, but it wouldn't have been developed due to these particular circumstances.
@@Df-sl4henapalm is a unique invention in that it uses rubber However similar things to it have existed such as cauldrons of burning tar being used as a weapon in mid-evil times or the supposed Greek fire (which is not entirely implausible as Greeks were thought to have a form of plastics) Or even older, clay firebombs filled with burning pitch. The concept has honestly been around for so long it is very VERY hard to say it's a uniquely American thing. Napalm is a terrible weapon, however it's use was relatively short lived, and I feel agent orange would have much worse lingering effects. There are any number of weapons that have done far more lasting harm than Napalm. That doesn't mean that napalm is a good thing, that just means napalm isn't the absolute worst thing Lastly. The Atomic bomb could also be put in a "this could be worse" category. A single one killed 100,000 people (in its upper estimates). That pales in comparison to various bombing raids and artillery bombardments during the world wars. The Atomic bomb is scary not because it killed more people than ever before, but because it kills so efficiently. Where before Armies were needed to kill millions, now you really only needed 5 guys, an airplane, and a bomb to kill.
@@n8zog584 I'll have to disagree with you on the atomic bomb argument. As just because the number that have been killed by the atomic bomb are currently "minimal", the countless more that can possibly come will beg to differ. (Not to mention the culture shift that occurred as the world moved into the atomic era has had drastic impacts both economically and socially).
James Burke definitely seems to be the inspiration for this video. there's an episode of James Burke's _Connections_ called "Eat, Drink and Be Merry" which talks about how canned food led to the invention of the rocket. (That episode is known for the perfectly timed rocket launch in the background as he's talking. Well worth searching out.)
Regarding the Painful X-Rays section: Something a little similar happened in the field of obstetrics. In in the late 1840s, before John Snow closed the cholera-laden water pipe on Broad Street in London, before Louis Pasteur's experiments, Ignaz Semmelweis was trying to improve maternal mortality, specifically from puerperal fever. Births assisted by midwives had significantly lower mortality rates than those assisted by doctors. As it turned out, the doctors were usually coming directly from an autopsy to deliver the baby. Semmelweis made doctors wash their hands in chlorinated lime water between the autopsies and the deliveries. Mortality went from 18% to 2.2%. Doctors were so offended at the idea that they were not clean, offended that they should have to wash their hands, that they ignored him and continued to let countless women die entirely preventable deaths. All because of blowhard machismo nonsense.
It's always the ego that blinds people from accepting the obvious truth. I spent a couple years using an exercise i had read that Aleister Crowley practised to alter his perception and subvert his ego. Simply for a period of time during the day, several times a week, do not think about yourself in the first person. Consider yourself simply as an unknown creature, with no name. No personality. No point of view. Nothing. It's not easy to exist for several hours in that frame of mind (you obviously have to be away from most other people during that period) but you can exercise, take a long walk, etc... Definitely had the desired effect on me. Screw the ego. The ego is not to be trusted doing our thinking.
I'm confused by it cause Google searches all say that X-rays on pregnant women don't increase cancer chances, but zhis video says the oposite. Hpw can that be?
@@HopeRock425 I am no doctor, however, it is of my understanding that X-Rays focused on the woman's body (arms, teeth, feet, etc.) will do no harm to the fetus; however, X-Rays focused on the belly (and thus, directly aiming to the fetus) can and potentially will cause birth defects, even more so during the sensitive stages of development. It is also good to keep in mind that ever since the start of medicine, medical procedures have advanced unimaginably, thus making it safer nowadays for x-rays to be performed, if they are to be performed out of necessity.
The reduce the history of particle physics and quantum mechanics to "it produced a bomb" is so incredibly simplifying. And to portrait the the cloud champer as *the* nucleation point for it's discovery leaves so much important stuff out.
It's an extremely simplified view of it, to the point I'm not sure it has any meaning at all. So what if this guy hadn't created a cloud chamber? Given that in science, everyone stands on the shoulders of giants, it seems rather likely that someone else might have created one or one of the other ways of examining radiation and particles would have been found. Maybe not that year, but likely soon. Things would have played out differently, but it's not like particle physics would have just stayed in its infancy or would not have been explored at all.
That's the point.... The butterfly effect is actually the culmination of many butterflies flapping their wings, but each part is essential in the current hurricane created
@Yi McShin Not really. What's suggested here is: "Change one little thing and all of history after would be totally different", and I'm saying that it's not really like that, instead it's more like "change one thing and lots of things after it would be slightly different but they'd still all go in generally the same direction, because you only changed one thing, not the whole environment that made that thing likely to happen"
@@SpaceKebab The problem is that the whole framing of the video suggests that if these things had not happened at the moments that they did happen, all of the stuff after it would NOT have happened, because that's what presenting them as CAUSES implies - and that's highly debatable with some discoveries in science. Had they not happened that way, they likely would have still happened, but slightly later, because the groundwork that made them possible was already there, and the whole chain of other stuff that followed may still have happened, if slightly differently. Just look at the many examples of "parallel inventions" in history, where people have independently from each other come up with very similar technologies because they both built up on the same body of existing knowledge. If you take an event that produced a discovery necessary for another event away, but that following event likely still would have happened anyways, can you really call the original event the "cause"?
In my opinion, the largest, most butterfly effect blunder to ever occur was by Leopold Lojka, the chauffeur of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on the day of his assassination. On that day the motorcade Ferdinand was in was bombed, with the device nearly killing him. Once the motorcade arrived at the town hall, they decided to visit those injured by the bombing earlier that day in hospital. To discourage further attacks, the governor of the town (who was also the motorcade) decided to take a longer, alternate route on the way to the hospital. This information was not communicated to Leopold Lojka or the other drivers in the motorcade, so when Lojka took a wrong turn, following the more direct path, the governor shouted that he took a wrong turn. While reversing to perform a u-turn and go back onto the main road, Lojka accidentally stalled the car with an assassin sitting in a nearby sandwich shop, who was there by complete chance, taking his chance to shoot Archduke Franz Ferdinand, killing him. The death of Archduke Franz Ferdinand would start World War 1, which would start World War 2 due to the instability in Germany after the treaty of Versailles. The aftermath of World War 2 as well as the development of nuclear bombs would lead to tensions rising between the US and the USSR, kicking off the Cold War, including many proxy wars from the Cold War like the Vietnam War and the Korean War. The total deaths from these wars totals over 100 million, all because one man took a wrong turn
All of this was going to happen with or without that assassination, the elites made sure that happened to trigger the chain of events, and if it that didn’t happen another would of taken place
Exactly wqhat TheSpecialJ said. Everyone in europe was already expecting a huge war. The empires were bursting at their seams, the powers wanted to have a big war.. it would have happened either way, probably not much different than what we got. The treaty of Versaille is completely to blame for Hitlers emergence. The first time the Nazis were up for election they got like 2 or 3 percent of the vote. In times of economic hardship people always choose the extremes. And the treaty did exactly that.
The sad part about the Rubber one is the fact that The Vietnam War (the war napalm was prominently used in after its discovery) was started after the French were pushed out of North Vietnam, thus losing their rubber plantations. All of this, because of a single patent.
I know a man in my church who served in Vietnam, hoping to hear good efforts he accomplished. He told me that the war was run by rubber companies. Talk about buzzkill.
If Truman had followed Roosevelts policy and not let the French back into Vietnam none of that would have happened. What do your expect from as man who dropped two atom bombs on a defeated country rather than listen to his generals who advised against it!
@@youtubesucks5080 To be fair, he did specify that we can't really attribute all the problems of climate change as a result of Bush being elected, because we don't know what would've happened if Al Gore was.
For the canned food one, I'm surprised you didn't talk about the Franklin expeditions in more depth: those explorations of northern Canada you talked about ended with every member of the expedition dying because of poisoning from their canned food.
Also when he started talking about rubber, I genuinely assumed that it was the Japanese invasion of southeast Asia that was the blunder, since they would not have done that if those colonies did not have any natural resources. This in turn caused them to attack the Allies. When he mentioned gasoline that's when it hit me. Like a freight train.
I just want to bring up something I view as a butterfly effect I thought was interesting. Back in the 1920s, Byron Carter was killed by the hand crank used to start cars, this lead to his friend Henry Leland having a starter you push with your foot created, the first car it was used in was Leland's Cadillac Model 30, problem with the model 30 is that it ran lean, basically what this means is that fuel was over combusting and leading to a piston knock, this lead to him reaching out to Thomas Midgley Jr to create something that would cause it to stop knocking, he tried ethenol, but it was expensive, he tried tullurium, but it was pungent, he finally settled on tetraethyllead, tetraethyllead lead to numerous deaths, generational IQ loss, birth defects, and illnesses. The death of one man, not only lead to the death and illness of many people due to an attempt to try to do some good, but it also lead to one of the most significant global environmental disasters in history. Coincidentally, in the 70s, the EPA regulation to remove lead from road fuels also lead to the death of the classic muscle, and one of the biggest oil protests in history. Just wanted to share, thought it was kind of interesting.
That is indeed very interesting, i never heard about these connections. I wonder how much the overcompensation for accidents or mistakes has made the situation even worse, because instead of people being educated on how not to be dumb, people try to make the world as dumbproof as they can as a legal defence. On a side note, the english language sure is dumb
@@UltraProchy I think that's the biggest thing, I don't think people understand the implications of their actions until it's too late sometimes, because it's just not possible for us to calculate every possible scenario that would lead up to the end of this story. Something interesting that I've noticed, and I'm going to use the scenario of losing loved one, because I have a pretty good understanding of it at this point. When someone loses someone, I've noticed that their initial response is to provide "If" statements, "if I had been there." "If he/she would have left just a few minutes later." "If I had just been there to remind them to take their medicine that night." People always rationalize their losses, and they think that things could have been different, but the reality is, things are how they are, and there is nothing that anyone could have done to change it because it's what time demanded. If not for Byron, it could have been someone else that lead up to this scenario, eventually the inactions of one will lead to the actions another.
UH, no, running lean isn't over combusting. It's higher than optimal oxygen content. That is a function of the fuel delivery system, carburetor or injection. The lead allowed higher compression ratios, more spark advance. It has nothing to do with fuel/air ratios
@@jamesharmon3827 Yes.... It is, but I'm not going to argue with you about it, because judging by your contrarian attitude based on the other comments you've posted to others, regardless of what I say to prove it correct you'll say I'm wrong, the internet has shown me that people such as yourself will disagree or argue regardless of proven factual evidence.
I think it's very strange that leaded gasoline was not banned due to environmental and health effects but rather due to it damaging catalytic converters
This dude put small dashes of meme culture and humor in his videos while also being really informative, 10/10. Hearing a random ass everywhere at the end of time song caught me off guard lmao
16:00, and it’s not from everywhere at the end of time (EATEOT), it’s from AEBBTW, it’s libet’s delay, you might have confused it with libet delay from stage 3 of eateot
Brounker lying to admiral harman to end the pursuit of the Dutch after the battle of lowestoft is quite a rabbit hole for a “interesting blunder that creates what ifs”
@@degeneratemale5386 so no further rabbit hole than a great deal of ships escaping or would this have led to the other Dutch wars because I was trying to read further.
@@2manyballfaces had the Dutch ships not managed to escape, the war could’ve ended there with a English victory. It’s possible there might not be two more wars, and the English wouldn’t have needed to build a bigger navy. Meaning England might never of had its famous royal navy, and who know how much that might change things
This is basically James Burke’s connections for the 2020s. I absolutely love it. How long until a production company picks you up for a full Netflix/bbc series?! Amazingly well put together video and engagingly presented. Happy New year britmonkey!
an interesting fact about the heart attack study: the placement of each country on the graph depends more on the country's criteria for qualifying a heart attack than the average person's diet
Could you please do a video on positive butterfly effects? I’m sure there’s less well known examples but I’m kinda having a crisis seeing all these things that have hurt our world and the quality of life for our generation starting from small or short sighted decisions and that seem insurmountable now thanks to stubbornness and corruption from those above us. Great video however.
I think your missing what should be the real message here- human beings are not the perfectly designed creatures that religious creation fantasy makes them out to be. The human mind was not designed/ has not evolved for the purpose of seeing or even recognizing truth or reality. Quite the opposite.
only example i could think of is probably the nazi doctors. They conducted lots of cruel experiments that im sure helped push investors into putting more money into researching more surgical techniques.
The butterfly effect is good for pointing out what-ifs and thinking of alternate histories. That said, using it to "blame" someone is both incredibly awful and a complete misuse of what the concept entails. The point is that we can't predict it either, so it's an unreasonable standard to think of it in practical terms.
Agreed. Blaming one person for the creation of weapons 50 years later is nonsense. The way this world works, someone would either figure out the same weapons or others equally as destructive. It's what humans tend to do.
The butterfly affect you are referring to is something created by Hollywood for fun plots and it’s a complete misunderstanding of what the term actual means. When the term was originally coined by a meteorologist with the name Edward Lorenz it discusses how small inconsequential events can cause large under lying affects on weather systems. Put more simply that a butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil could set off a tornado in Texas.
No one's blaming anyone, just pointing out how things happened. It's a silly Video, it's not putting the blame for Bush's entire shitty run on Theresa. Heck, he even says it multiple times. He even points out good things that happened. Thinking this video was made entirely to blame awful shit on one person is the kinda black and white way to think that honestly makes shit worse for everyone.
How true. As a Radiographer,from the late 70s, I saw the reduction of irradiation of pregnant women via pelvimetry. This was an X-ray with a measuring device to determine if the mothers pelvis would allow the head of the baby to pass through. These were done on most births. Yikes! Ultrasound was just starting up as well as Computed Tomography. We used lead aprons to shield pregnant bellies as the 80s progressed Great story, thank you!👍
That story about doctors not wanting to admit that they are wrong and they are hurting people just makes my blood boil. Sure, doctors are crucial to us, but not wanting to admit you could be wrong? Too fitting to recent events. Too relevant. You sir, have my attention. And my subscription and like.
@@VitaeLibra I appreciate there's at least someone who doesn't immediately want to start an argument about *that*. Though I'm unsure to how you deem his statement to be false. Sure, if you interpret his statement to be either more than just about the pandemic (e.g. politics) or interpreting this to mean that the general way in which things were conducted was *entirely* wrong, I would also agree that an argument against that could be made. But in the way I interpreted it, I see it as very fitting, as in my country (Germany), it was even publicly admitted that things were done wrongly. Not entirely, of course, but certain things. And it certainly had something to do with doctors not admitting that they could be wrong and that whatever they were talking about could have negative side effects, which was always stated to be entirely false, but in the end, turned out to be true, to a non-zero effect.
It seems like you might not accept evidence that's contrary to what you already believe and this may have skewed your perception of what could have gone wrong over the past few years. Just wanted you to be aware! Have a nice day!@@VitaeLibra
So that "glory" rainbow thing at the beginning...if anybody has ever wondered what one visual looks like on an acid trip...it is exactly that...Its so hard to explain in words to someone thats never tried it, also I'm not condoning any drugs use, but that picture totally captures what the aura-like visuals I experienced looking at others in a party. Totally worth mentioning.
Now, I consider you the best youtuber. Just pure knowledge with no bs. Content-densed videos with insightful knowledge . Literally better than majority of the movies, podcast or Netflix shows. Whenever you upload video, I sit down and enjoy it fully with some snacks. Keep the videos coming.
I don’t think those blunders were that bad. The worst was probably that blunder with sugar it was really avoidable. The canned food blunder probably even saved more lives than killed. Entertaining Video. It’s crazy how impactful some decisions can be even hundreds of years after they happened
The problem wasn't the invention of, it was about who was in charge of what. Dr Doll being famous enough to shut down Steward's investigation, the french way of making patents, the unhealthy diets. They are all because of shitty human behavior (greed, envy, pursuit of fame, pride, gluttony) and yeah they saved lives and whatnot but they wouldn't have been so bad if the people in charge did the right thing (also in the diet case the Dr accepted bribes lol)
The canning bit is one of the best pieces of content I've seen on YT. Subverts your expectations so many times. Excellent writing. The video as a whole was super original which gets harder to find all the time. It is hard to believe this is a 1 man operation. Keep it up and thanks 😀
It's also entirely ridiculous. The idea that rubber production would be confined to Brazil if the French had access to canned food is ludicrous with a better patent system is extremely weak. History shows that attempts to block export of technologies, including plants, for protectionist purposes simply don't work.
17:54 He's not wrong. I remember attending a school field trip to Catalina Island off of Long Beach, and came to notice that people didn't say "Hello!" to each other when passing by. I was raised by my parents to do so as a sign of courtesy and respect, especially to elderly people, who occupied most of Catalina. I remember saying "Hello!" or "Good morning!" when walking past the locals, and they would simply stare back at me with incredulity or confusion. About a week passed and suddenly people started doing the same without a serious expression on their faces. It's honestly sad that time has progressed so much that people have forgotten to at least smile at each other without receiving it as being creepy, or at least wish each other a good day as fellow people. It honestly made me wonder at times if I was raised incorrectly or did I have the wrong idea. I still greet people in the States whenever I see them, but the accuracy in that statement really hits hard.
bro that’s so funny that I saw this comment. I literally live on Catalina, it’s HILARIOUS how you think a school trip is enough time for you to get a scope for people on the island. I definitely think people greet each other and casually smile at each other here way more then long beach or anywhere else i’ve been in in SoCal. With that being said, yeah your right I don’t go around saying hi to every single person I pass, I feel like my voice would hurt from all the people. That’s kind of the reason why it’s kind of reserved for either people you know or people you maybe make eye contact with or have any other casual interaction while walking by. But honestly with this mindset, I’d love to see you walking around at peak tourist season saying hi to everyone you pass, like what?😭 would probably get annoying after a while for your own sake!
Do yiu know how many people you can see at any given moment? Being viet at a simple house party is more than enough, having to bow at every single elder. Now imagine that on a much larger scale. How fun does that seem?
My mom grew up in a household that owned and ran a shoe store in the 50's - 70's, and even that little shoe store in central Wisconsin had an X-ray. Her and her siblings and friends used to go downstairs in the shoe store and X-ray each other all the time to play. It wasn't until it became literally illegal that they finally got rid of it.
14:45 "...people didn't want to admit their doctors were wrong. People trust doctors. They're figures of authority. [...] Meanwhile, doctors don't want to admit they're hurting people. They become doctors to do the exact opposite." The past few years have shown how relevant this is, even though many people won't want to admit it... which confirms the quote.
Let me guess... you're talking about Covid. Listen man, look at all statistics, the populations that died the most of Covid were the ones not taking the vaccine.
Christ, the LaPaul woman and her ballots just gave me the biggest feeling of regret and dread. Have never gotten it in that perspective before. Horrifying.
@@HenrythePaleoGuy Its been a while since i learned this so sorry for the lack of details but im the process of getting my degree i learned of a sort of floatation device that could recycle emissions in the air and essentially cut the load in half in a localized area. I believed each unti would cost roughly 4 million to make at the time of learning about it (2020) and they could be used as a sort of net for long-range emissions defense. Seemed simple enough to implement, but its a matter of drive on the governments behalf - who have something to gain from emission-producing outlets. I will look in my notes and see if i can find more details to leave you with but it’s definitely worth checking out
I feel terrible for her about the hate she received, if this video shows anything its that anyone can end up doing something that has unforseen negative consequences ! And it's not like she did it intentionally or new what the consequences would be
I was under the impression this video was about actual blunders, and not cases that degrees of separation apart from a terrible event, invention, or policy. If that is the formula, then a person who walked in front of Princess Diana's car, which forced her to go inside the tunnel she would crash in is one of the worst blunderers. Something just doesn't sit right.
Right...this video has more in common with the (amazing) tv show "Connections." Early 1990's. About how one seemingly unrelated inventions/decisions had incredible impact down the line. The canned food "blunder" - was using lead solder. This doomed the exploration voyages of the Erebus and Terror amongst many other mass lead poisonings. Will never know how many potential geniuses turned out to be idiots because of this lead.
Well in all fairness, at the beginning the guy practically said it was abt the butterfly effect, which doesn't involve direct mistakes which is what you said you were under the impression of this video being abt
Beautifully written and created video - well done sir. Reminds me of the old 70s BBCTV programme - James Burke’s connections. Definitely time for a relaunch I think! Well done
I think that the one about diet makes great sense as to why it was a huge blunder, but it’s sounds so silly to say that the invention of canned food was a blunder just because it eventually enabled someone else to invent napalm years later. With this logic you could create any narrative about why any human invention is a “HUGE BLUNDER”
It’s definitely one of the more insane things I’ve ever heard because the rest of them are fair (if not abit of a reach) but that one is just nonsensical.
You want to ignore a major aspect of humanity. How hubris and ego undermine our capacity to reason properly. That is the history.of human behavior. The positive things are also important- but we don't learn as much from them.
The first one caused way more incredible leaps in our technology and positive effects on our modern society than negative effects of the atom bomb. It was absolutely not a blunder and this video completely misrepresented the importance and benefits it provided.
@@samg131 while I mostly agree with you- it is in no wise a universally agreed upon opinion. The argument that the accumulation of modern technology has not been an absolute positive for the human species is buttressed by the high levels of deep dissatisfaction many people around the world claim for themselves. While I may not be one of them, my level of happiness has almost zero relevance to all the fancy gadgetry that's available to me. The positives and negatives mostly balance one another out- as far as I'm concerned. There is too much blind trust in comp. tech. doing all functions of govt. and society when the inevitability of hackers, computation errors, power outages, etc...guarantees future breakdowns of every facet of our lives in one way- or at one time- or another, Voting is a perfect example. With paper ballots we're guaranteed to have an auditable election, if one is necessary-instead of fully electronic, where any number of snafus could render an entire election cycle unknowable. (You can add to that the fact that russian hackers -and undoubtedly other interests- have fairly easy access to our election systems and have yet to act on it-an inevitability, knowing geopolitical history and human nature. Having access to the internet is undoubtedly the greatest addition to modern life- yet the loss of newspapers and newspaper reporting that has accompanied it has thrown us almost back into the dark ages- where, despite the knowledge that's at our fingertips, the bulk of society is now more ignorant and conspiracy minded than ever before.
Learning that a capable hardworking female doctor researched the correlation between x-rays and leukemia and was overridden by a male doctor with a greater reputation is infuriating. My mother had leukemia as a child and knowing it very well could have happened because my grandmother got an x-ray after a study had been out for THIRTY YEARS is beyond infuriating. Her having leukemia ruined many aspects of both their lives to this day.
It had nothing to do with sex. There were plenty of renowned and celebrated female scientists. And many of her opponents admitted she did outstanding work, but they felt her conclusion was false. Additionally, if you rewatch the section, she was in a new and untested field of science. Nevermind, there is some issues in her paper. She was linking correlation with causation. Grant it, she wanted it to be stopped for additional studies. She didn't explicitly say that x-ray equaled high cancer per say. So given these elements, and natural bias due to the widespread treatment if X-rays and even a man would be boned. Not everything is sexist.
@Crillian Marvin So u don't think that there is at least a small bit of chance that the majority of society took the other guys work as truth despite it having no controlled variable because he was a man with another achievement? Just because other women had achievements in their fields doesn't mean every man during that time or even women believed a woman more than a man. Also, no, not everything is sexist, but discrimination against a sex does and did happen. Ignoring that or taking that into consideration is quite foolish.
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This video was my introduction to your channel. The subjects of this video and the way the information was presented clearly required a lot of thought and deliberation. You couldn't have left a better first impression so I'm definitely subbing.
This video hits. If anyone wants to try and tell you that one persons actions can’t or won’t make a difference. You might even do it whether you know it or not.
Okay but was i just supposed to find out myself that clouds look absolutely gorgeous through xrays? I'm already a HUGE fan of clouds in general, but to see those individual particle swirls and patterns just made me fall in love even more.
Political science student here, I would like to correct a major mistake in your last part on climate change, specifically regarding the Kyoto protocol. It is true that Clinton signed the protocol, however it was as a simple gesture and the treaty was never even presented to the senate as the senate had already voted unanimiously in rejection of the Kyoto protocol, and the treaty could therefore not be ratified. When Bush teared up the treaty, he simply removed the US signature. Tearing up the treaty was symbolic, but it made no legal difference to the US policies on climate.
Also, even without being a member to the Kyoto agreement, the US went ahead and made more progress in lowering emissions than many of the countries that remained members.
My favorite concept with historical oddities and what ifs, is that if you change something 100 years ago it is entirely possible, even likely, that every single person born from that moment forward is changed.
I see literally nothing of blunder in your first example. It's a good thing he showed the photographs that would later advance physics to what we know today.
i just wanted to inform you (if you didnt already know) that the website "medium" copied your video WORD BY WORD in their article "the butterfly effect". literally WORD BY WORD. considering your video came out before the article did, i'm assuming, they plagiarized your work and not the other way around. I'm not sure if youre aware of this or if you are connected to the website in any way but if you are not: hope you know now. the "funniest" part is, that the whole article is kept behind a pay-wall. so they are literally making people pay money to read your script lmao
#0: I'm surprised it's not been talked about >Some dude is driving in Sarajevo in an open-top car, in 1914 >The driver makes a wrong turn >The dude and his wife are murdered my assassains. *>someone else explain what happens next*
I don't remember how I found this video, but it ended up being in my Watch Later list for a few days, and I am sad I didn't watch it earlier. This video was great, all these meticulously thought out ideas and connections summed up into a call to action too, playing devil advocate throughout. Amazing work and you've won a sub
Wow, only watched the first one and I’m hooked. Great concept, great execution and very impressed by how you were able to link something so innocuous as the starting point of something so horrific and terrifying.
Overall, I think the approach you took for this video was awesome. The information is presented in a manner that is easy to digest. The root of the argument, the ripple effect. Great job
The Butterfly Effect: Any movement in the air, even something as tiny as a butterfly's wing, has an effect on the weather. Larger movements like trees in the wind or aeroplanes have much larger effects. The point is that it is impossible to account for all of them.
So the phrase “Butterfly Effect” is actually named for the Ray Bradbury story “A Sound of Thunder,” in which one of a group of time-traveling hunters steps on a butterfly, altering the future once they return to it. The idea of a butterfly’s wings causing a hurricane is a story that assumedly popped up through people trying to figure out what the saying means.
The term butterfly effect was created by meteorologist Edward Lorenz, the meaning being the second one, that small changes in initial conditions, like the flapping of a butterfly's wings, can have enormous consequences on a chaotic system determined by its initial conditions, such as contributing a hurricane a year later across the planet. The butterfly in Bradbury's story is a neat little coincidence that also demonstrates the effect of small changes on a chaotic system, but is not the actual origin of the term.
I appreciate how your face isn’t plastered anywhere while your narrating. You get it and that speaks volumes. “The little things that f&&@ everything up”
Fun fact most people don't know you can eat chef boyardee pasta right out of the can. This is because it was originally developed as World War II field rations and it is already precooked and completely safe to eat if you crack the can open it. You may prefer it cheated but it's already precooked. The great trick I learned from my time in boy scouts
Amazing content. This is the kind of historical analysis that ive always loved since I was a kid. It reminds me of Vsauce in a way, but more focused. Just like the butterfly effect, even if your videos only reach a handful of people, the impact it can have on each one of us could potentially change the way we act in the future and make us better people. Our generation needs voices like yours. I respect and appreciate the work you put into each video immensely. Much love brother
The Golf segment is inaccurate though. For instance, one of the reason why France manages low CVD events despite moderately high saturated fat intake is that they're very disciplined in using Statins and other cholesterol-controlling medications. If those hadn't been invented, France would likely be at the top of CVD deaths, just like Finland was before they backed down on Sat. Fats usage.
@@kytalksrap He's wrong on the broader picture. Saturated fat from animal sources works in tandem with refined sugar to create the condition for atherosclerotic plaques. The best prevention, outside of medication (statins are very safe to use for the majority of people), is to focus on consuming unprocessed plants like legumes, complete grains, and greens. Some amount of meat shouldn't hinder one's health (esp. fish and non-red meat) unless the disease is in its acute phase.
My personal butterfly story… A friend met me at my house one day we were rollerblading(settle down it was the 90’s and still cool), he came in I insisted we listen to this new Nas song. After the song we then proceeded to go to another friends house where we met up with two other guys. Then we proceeded to skate to the high school for some ledges, and on the way there I was hit by an Astro Van. Blacking out just after impact and awaking on the ground losing the last 20 seconds of my life, when it dawned on me. What if we never listened to that Nas song? We would’ve been past the section of street where the van was. Moral of the story, don’t listen to “Hate Me Now” before rollerblading 🙏🏻
I'd like to share my butterfly story too. Some time around 2018, I had gotten a couple bucks for Christmas, some of which I decided to use on buying the Valve Games pack, which had almost all of the video games made by Valve on Steam for around 5 bucks at the time. Among those games was Half-Life, a game I knew quite a bit about. Eventually, I play through the game and I love it. Shortly after playing the game quite a bit, I decided to make a Twitter account that would be a parody of a Half-Life scientist, where I would pretend to be a scientist in the world of Half-Life, tweeting about wacky hijinks in the facility. After a while of running this account, I become part of a circle of other parody accounts and we all became acquaintances. One of them was a parody account of Gordon Freeman, and we collaborated quite often. Eventually we talk one on one, find we have a lot in common with each other.. Fast forward, after years of talking, we meet in real life and now she's my fiancé.. and I love her to bits :') Funny how the world works.
@@AVI-lh6rm as much as how wholesome your story is, I still find it funny at how during your conquest in Twitter by roleplaying as a HL scientist, there might be times where you accidentally started a full scale rant wars, of course you didn't have any intention to begin with. I just realized at how small this world is and there might be situations where we impact someone's life hugely.
The second story is a truly thrilling and historically important chapter in the advancement of epidemiology and public health as sciences. Omg I am geeking out and fangirling so hard about this rn lol, feels like when I read The Ghost Map for the first time 😆
The ballot that Theresa LePore designed was called the "butterfly ballot" because of the names appearing on two sides of the paper. As a result she was nicknamed Madame Butterfly. So this chain of events was literally the Madame Butterfly effect!
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This story is unbelivable. The irak war, clima change and a lot of horrific stuff in the middle east was because of bush.
A president who won because the democracy failed/ not all votes were counted
This must have been the stupidest ballot paper I have ever seen! Makes me think she did that on purpose….
yeah lets blame her for getting bush in and not bush himself lol (not a criticism of what you said, but its just funny she gets the blame)
@@AkiraSenju5647 just upholding the tradition of blaming women for a man's mistakes :)
the introduction of lead into gasoline could also be mentioned. lead-poisoning, even in small amounts, could have some effect on intelligence. Someone somewhere calculated an estimate of the total amount of "iq" lost due to the release of so much lead into the air, and it was massive. A huge setback for millions of people, and the effects are still present today, all due to one inventor's idea of adding lead to the fuel.
A fun side fact is that the inventor leaded gasoline is also the inventor of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) which were one key component, which led to the destruction of the ozone layer.
This is the one that I expected to see.
@@lomiangothis fact in almost INCOMPREHENSIBLE 🤯🤯🤯
@lomiango that guy is right up there with the Austrian Painter, Stalin, and Mao as having some of the worst impacts on the world.
@@lomiango The ozone layer was not destroyed.
The industrial production of CFCs started in the 1920's, causing an average reduction of the ozone layer of 3 per cent. Fortunately, chlorine has “natural enemies” as well, such as methane (CH4). Thanks to them, the natural ozone layer could recover over 50 years, as long as CFCs are no longer used on a global level.
my man created the machine then said "well your the first man to photograph particles" then walked off back to keep observing clouds. what a gigachad
truly as based specimen, weather homie
based british lad
@@THE_funnyalt Scottish
@@thevis5465 british = entirety of uk
english = england
@@THE_funnyalt Northern ireland isn't in britain mate thats just false. Most Scottish people consider themselves Scottish and only Scottish so shut your gob. Mong
I saw a “Glory” while skydiving. Was totally convinced I was dead heading towards a giant target. Never even heard of those. Honestly… was glorious
I saw a "glory" when I went to a truckstop bathroom.
@@assholio I can’t believe the sun was in the exact angle for you to see the light spectrum like that in a truck stop bathroom! That really is glorious! Username checks out 🤣🤘
@@elihyland4781 lmfao solid response
@@assholio was it in a hole
The biggest historical blunder is when I slipped on a wet floor in front of my crush in seventh grade
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Damn bro, couldn’t be me.
this was as devastating and influential as the agricultural revolution
How will this affect Franklin Roosevelt's legacy
This will surely affect the trout population
I just love the idea of a large team of doctors with the best equipment, looking at a guy smoking 90 cigarettes a day.
All scratching their head “ what could it be?”
They didn't really think about it, especially in a time when people believed that smoking was "good for your health".
@@L.internet8 I have story-papers (like comics but with written stories) aimed at kids and teens from 1902 that make it pretty clear smoking will "ruin your wind". Tobacco companies might have said their brand wasn't bad for you, but nobody was buying it.
Still want Malboro, Rothmans and John Player liveries back on F1 cars, though.
Back in the day the tobacco lobby had an iron grip and slandered you for saying their product causes cancer.
@@youtubesucks5080 They had more control than the East India Company lol
Most of the doctors involved were probably raised under the assumption that smoking was healthy. Doctors used to recommend cigarettes as a cure for migraines and stress disorders, schools used to teach kids that smoking was important to attain good health, and almost every sporting event, movie and TV show was sponsored by cigarette companies with slogans like “the cleanest cigarette available” and “makes you feel great”.
Assuming that cigarettes caused cancer and heart attacks in the 1950s would have been like assuming that eating fruit and lifting weights gave you tuberculosis. Culture was just so heavily obsessed with the idea that cigarettes were healthy that it seemed impossible that they could be the cause of any cancers or cardiovascular problems.
There are almost certainly some huge blunders going on right now. We just won't know what they'll end up being until later 👁️
Factory farming is starting to kill off wild birds en-masse, how about antibiotic resistance too? I think about that biological soup full of antibiotics sitting under salmon farms, nice.
Possibly the war on drugs
@@Kallivdh biggest waste of time and resources
If you’re talking about covid, gtfo
@@tokugawahisaka07 quit yo whining
My favorite is the Soviet radar operator that prevented nuclear destruction. Radar picked up clouds as incoming missiles. Brave man took a second to think before firing back. "If they attacked there would be more missiles". I can't remember his name but we owe our lives to that man
Stanislav Petrov, I believe. Soviet satellites designed to detect US missile launches mistook sunlight reflecting on snow in South Dakota for the launch plumes of ICBMs. Petrov refused to follow the doctrine of instant retaliation, and… well, we’re still alive.
There was a second incident like this with a Russian submarine
He prevented a nuclear holocaust so now we have to deal with the existence of furry porn. Huge blunder imo
@@tesmith47 Cuban Missile Crisis. The B-59, a Soviet conventionally-powered submarine, was being harried by a US Navy force consisting of an aircraft carrier and 11 destroyers. Depth charges were dropped in an attempt to force the B-59 to surface; the captain, unable to communicate with Moscow and believing that war had broken out, wanted to launch a torpedo with a 5-kiloton nuclear warhead at the American force. His political officer agreed, but by chance the B-59 had a third officer aboard, also of captain rank, and because of this all three officers had to agree for the torpedo to be launched. The third officer, Vasily Arkhipov, did not agree. Eventually the B-59 was forced to service because its air supply and batteries were running low; after making peaceful contact with a US destroyer, the submarine contacted Soviet command and was ordered to leave the area.
Just months before the Cuban incident, Arkhipov was executive officer on the nuclear submarine K-19, which suffered a radiation accident (cf. the film "K-19: The Widowmaker").
Arkhipov stayed in the Soviet Navy, achieved the rank of vice admiral, and died in 1998, aged 72.
stan petrov, emp lemon made a great vid on him
Pain. Am really sad for the woman who did everything right and people still didn't believe her. We all had this happen to us but this is another level of pain
Yup. The world would be a better place if women were taken as seriously as men are.
@@kimberlywebster6057 Except Theresa LePore
@@kimberlywebster6057 “BuT wItH wOmEn In ChArGe tHeY WiLl sTaRt wArS bEcAuSe ThEy ArE sO eMoTiOnAl”
Except, all major wars have been started by men….
And it’s called “the Cassandra effect” you *know* something bad is going to happen but can’t stop it because no one believes you. It’s about a princess of Troy. The Greek god Apollo was struck by her beauty,and provided her with the gift of prophecy, but when Cassandra refused Apollo's romantic advances, he placed a curse ensuring that nobody would believe her warnings. Cassandra was left with the knowledge of future events, but could neither alter these events nor convince others of the validity of her predictions.
@@kimberlywebster6057 yup, so much has gone unacknowledged and unused just because of who it came from.
@@mist5372 haha there's always exceptions
The x-raying of pregnant women reminds me of a memoir titled "Stitches." The primary event was the author's surgery to remove throat cancer when he was an adolescent. The cancer was caused by his radiologist doctor father regularly dosing his head and neck with x-rays to try treating his asthma and allergies.
I wonder if “light therapy” that is used today for similar reasons, will cause illnesses in the future
@@m.donez8 Isn't light therapy just getting light on your skin and eyes? It even has a filter to help with the harmfull rays . . .
@@Tiosedan yes, but I was referring to the video. the people using xrays back then didn’t know all the harmful effects they cause. This could be similar with light therapy in the future, we might not know the long term side effects now.
Just a thought.
@@m.donez8You are going to get more bad effects going out into the sunshine!!!
@@m.donez8we are pretty versed on the effects of light. No light therapy can compete with a few minutes in the sun.
A little fun fact about what he said on 27:24 the canned food that was provided for that expedition was later found to contain high does of lead which cause lead poisoning, that’s because the Royal Navy decided to buy their canned goods for the voyage from the lower bidder hence the lead
Such a fun fact.
And the cans were damaged, so it completely defeated the point of canning it to keep it fresh
Yeah I thought I remembered something about lead in the canned food. Thought that the blunder had something to do with that.
@@tiredboardOye m8 the lead tins open nice and easy like innit
British officer “I’ll take it!”
The lids were soldered on instead of welded. Solder contains lead.
A young aspiring painter from Austria getting his art school application rejected would prove to be a massive blunder worth 80M+ lives…
He served in the German army in ww1 and was almost killed by a British soldier but the soldier didn’t shoot him and they both went their separate ways
@@jangofett9083 I almost forgot about that! That’s probably the bigger fumble too.
@@jakeguerras_fan he actually nearly died once before that when he was gassed in the trenches but managed to survive that too
@@invisible_empire Wait… that was an insult?
Oh…
@@invisible_empire Nah I thought it was a compliment my bad
As a scientist, it´s important to remember that people can manipulate or exclude certain data to make their studies reach basically any conclusion they want. And since we usually start a thesis with a pre-conceived idea/theory, I have seen many great minds go down the path of confirmation bias rather than admitting their theory was way off the mark, basically seeing what they want to see in the data while ignoring the elephant in the room
(And let´s not forget that some ignore them on purpose or never intended to do a proper study, just try to prove a theory for the sake of monetary gain)
And now we have two years of evidence of exactly that.
Yeah I think we've all learned a LOT about "science" the past few years. We learned even more about the integrity and bravery of "scientists."
@@thelastmanonearth2631 i would disagree. I doubt people have been learning much from anything these days.
What have "scientists" been so extraordinarily wrong about recently?
I'm going to presume your referring to the corona virus- and you're confusing government messaging with scientific consensus. Being as the virus is novel, there is no scientific consensus. The ADA is a govt. agency which has lost much of it credibility thanks to it's own mixed messaging and the corruption of the Trump administration.
The virus is real- just not as dangerous as officials make it out to be.
Unless your overweight and especially if you're obese.
@@thelastmanonearth2631 All right, steady on. Just because there are scientists that misrepresent their findings doesn’t devalue the profession as a whole.
@@cosmologicalturtle9528 incorrect. The cowardice of the "good" scientists says everything. The moron blaming Trump - who was already out of office before the vaccines even dropped - is another indicator that science is no more scientific than religion, and is followed with the same blind fervor. It's ALL just theology, one way or the other.
In a sea of content this is refreshingly unique. Keep doing what you do. This is great.
Quality stuff, makes me think. Despite the mild existencial crisis, hope to see more. It's simply fascinating how so many problems can be blamed on one thing.
Idk the can is a bit of a stretch.
@@Ttegegg It's that piece of can that boost the British Navy to its maximum power. You shouldn't undermine the importance of logistics. We Vietnamese won the war not by forces but by carefully planned logistics, both against the US and France. I do think there is a stretch too. It is the rubber transporting part. I feels like there is risk involved so I wouldn't contribute the can food to it.
@@cloudynguyen6527 nah more on the napalm, is not like it directly leads to the destructive device, say like the gunpowder or a scientist who accidentally helped cause the worst event
Well, if I may put my few cents into this. If nation other than GB were the world naval power they maybe wouldn't have overthrow South America's rubber production or they would have built their own rubber industry somewhere else. And thus Japan wouldn't have created a catalyst for experimenting with rubber. And I think that would be enough to postpone the invention of napalm after the Vietnam war.
Or maybe not
Not really. He complains about people eating sugar instead of fat but his own healthy eating info says to eat low levels of fat and sugar. Basically obesity increased because people ate food that contains more calories, due to an increase in fat and sugar.
Also fat has more calories than sugar so replacing fat with sugar would reduce calorie consumption and obesity levels.
1:04 I like how in this section each segment shows something like explosions or a golf course and the final one label catastrophic is just Florida.
7:38 I think calling it a blunder isnt justified. The monumental Effect it had on Physics heavely outweigh the 2 Atomic bombings, as a considerable chunk of our day to day life relies on this discovery to begin with. We should rather be glad it happened
UA-cam is the place where nuance is forced to die. Nuance is begging for your help and getting none. If you have studied this, you could give nuance just 5 minutes of your time, and say why and not in black and white language, because that hurts nuance too.
The study of particle and plasma physics eventually led to the development of the field of solid state physics and semiconductor electronics. None of our modern technology would be possible without it. Omitting it in this video is not just an oversimplification, it's a straight up misrepresentation of the topic.
@@gl4ce what about the bomb
These sort of people think nuclear power is automatically bad, too.
"Muh Chernobyl (badly-designed reactor), Muh Fukushima (cost-cutting design and disaster of unforseen scale)"
Yeah, well, how about muh entire planet every day, which is what fossil fuels are harming.
@@juan-ij1le That’s like saying that the Haber process was bad because it was used to make explosives. The world u live in was built by particle physics and Haber.
17:37 Fascinating how the tobacco industry slipped under the radar while scientists and gov’t were arguing over fat vs sugar. Devious and evil, yet brilliant.
"slipped". They bribed their way through until they couldn't
The tobacco industry has lost countless trillions of dollars in the past 75 years. To say they slipped under the radar is a gross misrepresentation of historical fact. What actually happened was nuclear testing across the country created a rise in cancer cases and the government decided that the industry made so much money, they’d be the fall guys bc they could take the hit. Smoking isn’t nearly as dangerous as the government and its doctors want you to believe.
@@richardtherichard26 holy shit, the level of cope is insane. It's a proven fact that marlboro and other tobacco companies were bribing doctors to publish research that benefits tobacco
It is brilliant...dangerously so.
not that cigarettes should be banned anywway
These are crazy. But by far the most insane, most tragic blunder in history, if not THE turning point in history, was the story of Henry Tandey:
Henry was a private in the British army during WW1. He had served nearly the whole war, and in his memoirs, he said the war had changed him drastically. Seeing death every day made him become desensitized, and if it meant killing the enemy to save his or his comrade's lives, he gladly pulled the trigger. BUT, as the war raged on, and the final days were realized, at the battle of Paschendale, Henry was tasked with observing the trench near a small town in France. After a brutal struggle and intensive shelling, Henry witnessed a lone german soldier crawl out of the trench. He was rugged, bloodied, and tired, and it looked almost like he had accepted his fate staring down at Henry, and Henry with his rifle held at him, lowered it. He saw shooting a man like that was inhumane, he looked as though he had no chance to survive, so why kill him then? He'd later go on to go home, live his life rebuilding, and becoming a husband.
Decades later, Neville Chamberlain, in an attempt to prevent a second world war, visited Adolf Hitler's parliament. There, he spotted a painting of the battlefields of Passchendaele, and there stood a lone British soldier, almost glorified. When asked who it was, Hitler replied, "That man came so near to killing me that I thought I should never see Germany again; Providence saved me from such devilishly accurate fire as those English boys were aiming at us."
Henry, in a single moment of sympathy and humanity, had become the man who changed humanity and history forever.
That fateful day, Henry Tandey, a single private in the British army of millions, had spared Adolf Hitler.
only 28 likes for this assignment?? jeez, take mine good sir
According to the laws of the Weimar Republic, Hitler should have gotten the death sentence for his coup in Munich in '23. But this was in Bavaria, so he got only 5 Years in jail and luxury treatment.
So theres that as well.
Not as bad as George bush for sure 🙂
I'd argue that it was very possible for someone else to take up Hitler's mantle given the circumstances and cultural zeitgeist in post-WW1 Germany. Hitler was merely a figurehead for these sentiments and actions to make manifest. Never forget that behind Hitler was a massive group of terrible men who made it all possible. I don't think it's unreasonable to claim that another different figurehead could have very well been found and/or rose to power
The thing whether hitler is dead or live someone will take his place and do the same thing
Man, time is such a weird concept. From the present looking back, the gap between 1945 and 1955 feel like a minor span, but 2013 feels like centuries ago from the present
As Einstein famously said, time is relative. To me, 2013 feels like yesterday, but the gap between 2020 and 2023 is enormous. Those 3 years feel like the length of 2010 to 2020
Time is slowing down @@cheetah219
@@cheetah219I mean, you just remember way less of 2013 than 2 years ago
@@broodjekaas820 it's relative to age I think. The 4 years I spent in high school felt longer than the 4 years in college and those 4 years at college feel longer than the 4 years I spent at my first job.
In other words, up until 2020, every meaningful 4 year gap of time felt faster and faster as I got older. That trend reversed in 2020 for me where the last 4 years have felt insanely distorted.
How that we are in 2024, the years 2020 to 2022 felt extremely long and the "speed of time" in 2023 and now 2024 feel like they are back to light speed. It's already March, friends announcing first and second babies, New jobs etc.
Peoples lives are back on track and that speed of change has returned
Im remembering trips in 2021 that I took that genuinely feel like 10 years ago, meanwhile the trip I took in 2012 feels like yesterday. One of my friends doesn't even remember one of the star gazing trips we both took last year
people see thier own life spans as unending messes just barely organised by our understanding of time and dates, all the while ignoring the value of the time before themselves. 1780 and 1790 are right next to each other but 2010 and 2020 are worlds apart. Interesting, is it not.
Saying that the discovery of particle physics is unlucky seems arguable, on top of that even if Rutherford didnt end up discovering it someone else probably would have
This is somehting so fundamental to nature it would have been discovered. It might have been after the war and prevented deaths there. But then we enter a purely hypothetical timeline and can't say it would have been better.
Radiation, the idea an dknowladge of atoms has given more benefit than people realise. It shaped the modern idea of chemistry, without the confirmation of atoms most of the current systems for measuring compounds wouldn't really be as advanced.
It's such a fundamental force of nature that the discovery was inevitable with the rate of science progression at the time.
@@ThePLAYER1888 You missed the whole point. The bomb saved lives during the war. Instead of a costly invasion the war was cut short many months, or even years. The bomb allowed the soviet union to be tamed, for a while and ensured freedom to some countries, since they weren''t allowed to dominate the entire Europe after the war. The bomb saved lives!
Canned food too probably
@@sababugs1125 (following his logic) the invention of canned food delayed the invention of napalm. If the rubber hadnt been brought to Indonesia the allies (or anyone else needing to use rubber on an industrial scale) would have experimented with synthetic alternatives and invented napalm even before WW2 to meet their demand.
On top of that I am fairly certain access to healthy, nutritious food that canning brought to millions far outweighs the comparatively small damage napalm has caused (ignoring the convoluted logic that directly ties one man's way of canning food to rubber production in Indonesia)
That fat segment was very validating. My parents always taught that fat was good for you and I and my family were made fun of for it growing up. I'd even argue about it with my friends in middle school, lol.
There is good and bad fat. You can’t really control the good fat. The fat I can see is bad.
Fat is not "good" for you, neither is sugar or carbs.
"Good" is exercising regularly and not eating too many calories. That's it.
@@MaxTedium not only have we survived two and a half million years with whatever fat we could get in our diet we have thrived. Get over yourself and try waking up on the right side of human potential tomorrow morning. I know this is going to be hard for you but please try.
@@lestatangel what's your point? Humans historically weren't thriving, they were starving, I doubt they gave a shit about the macros they were consuming.
My point isn't even demonizing fats, my point is that no food is just blanket "good" or "bad", not fats nor carbs.
The only truly proven factors related to health are not being overweight and exercising regularly, as long as you are doing these it won't matter much were your calories are coming from (provided you don't suffer from any medical condition)
@@MaxTedium I'm 5 ft 10 140 lb full head of long black hair almost to my waist 65 years old and in perfect health. Meat has always been a large part of my diet. Sugar, I barely touch it in any form. That's pretty much my point.
I’m Vietnamese and the end of Burning Soup was… haunting, for a lack of better words. I kept waiting for you to delve into the napalm part, but I suppose letting the facts sink in was just as effective.
I remember studying about the Vietnam War and the effects pesticides and napalm has on Vietnamese people, even after the war ended. Horrible burns, deformed people, and much more. History textbooks had their restraints, but the occasional TV segments had journalists paying the victims a visit and you get to see the damage on people that are still moving, breathing and living in the present day. It’s so horrible you wish no other human being should suffer the same fate.
The Vietnam war can be argued to be one of the top three worst things the US has done.
We shouldn’t have even been there in the first place since it was a colonial war/revolt war between France and Vietnam. I mean we we’re actually friendly with Ho Chi Min during the Second World War.
@@Nostripe361 To be fair the US was also friendly with Stalin during WW2.
@@worldcomicsreview354 the us sold the Germans trucks as well though
If there's money, there's the US.
@@Miles26545 we sold a lot more trucks to the USSR
I think quite a large and underrated butterfly effect was when the Republic of Genoa sold Corsica to France. If Corsica remained a Genoese colony, Napoléon Bonaparte, who was Corsican, would have never become a French Revolutionary general and therefore never risen to power in France. Even crazier, if Napoléon was somehow elected Doge of Genoa in this alt timeline (which would be unlikely, as no one from the colonies was ever Doge), Italian unification could have happened a lot sooner but under the Genoese rather than the Savoyards
what if franz ferdinand didn't take a wrong turn
a timeline without napoleon seems impossible to predict
Italian unification would've happened way latter you mean..
True
@@kronos_1337. what if stalin became a priest
Thank you so much for highlighting the errors of Ancel Keyes!
I've been trying to tell everyone about his mistake since I first found out about it four years ago.
Even now the NHS still doesn't seem to know this and is STILL pushing the antiquated food pyramid!
For covering this subject alone, I've subscribed!
Thank you again!
I would say sugar is still being pushed because its addictive as fuck and only destroys lives slowly, so its consequences can be blamed on other things.
I still remember being flabbergasted about suggesting 10-12 servings of bread everyday. I always new that was too much. And now with the research findings on trans fats and how corporations have been saturating fats to make calories less nutritious and more filling and how they attempt to cover up this process, we really need to research and come to our own conclusions about diet and what things big companies and governments are pushing on us.
This video is full of inacurracies and shortcuts by Portarying keyes as responsible of the excessive sugar in industry nowadays and health problems. His work is respected in the medical field and has lead to the meditteranean diet which is basically mainly full grain carbs, vegetables and lastly meat and fats. Why? Because population with the Mediterranean diet has excellent health, that's what keyes observed and studied. (mediteranean = southern france, italy etc,
Another example? Japanese diet known for it's outstanding number of old living people , that lives in good health most importantly. Their diet? You guessed it: mainly carbs (white rice, wheat noodles for ramens dishes etc)), secondly vegetables, and a bit of meat and fats (porks, fish etc).
Now do you also want a example of fat heavy diet? Mongolian diet: made mainly of meat, fats because of their nomadic (active) lifestyle (they dont eat a lot of carbs because theyre nomads). They have one of the worst rate of heart disease and strokes in the world, with terribly low lifespan.
Overall the biggest mistake this video makes is to not makes the difference between simple sugars and healthy carbs.
Lastly , health organizations do not recommand eatin everything in equal amount it would imply eating as much protein as carbs which is NOT recommanded. Mediteranean diet has been ranked as one of the "best diet overall" although i dont like such expression by US news and reports and many other health organizations in the world typically in europe (france etc). This mediteranean does NOT recomanded eating as much carbs as fat as proteins, there's still the pyramid that came from keye's work : 1) whole grain carbs 2) veggies and fibers 3) proteins and fats
@@yulian7435hi sugar lobbyist.
@@yulian7435You bring up some interesting points however we can sit and cherry pick diets of certain countries around the world all we want, there are countries that eat a lot of carbs, and live for a long time, and there are countries that eat a lot of animal products, and live for a long time. There are many factors that lead to the longevity and low heart attack rates of people around the world.
I can't believe you didn't mention putting lead in gasoline quite possibly THE biggest mistake any person has ever made
It wasn't without knowing, it was knowing and deliberate.
@@ajax700 it was less so an accident and more so a invention sold without a care as to the consequences
@@participatoroftomfoolery _it was less so an accident and more so a invention sold without a care as to the consequences_
according to this, it was very conscious
ua-cam.com/video/IV3dnLzthDA/v-deo.html
Because that's really really well known
It might be more well known. But go walk down a US city street and ask strangers if they know what's killed more people than anything in history. I'll bet below 50% know it's leaded gasoline. Plus he took a shot at Trump so I won't be watching anymore of his videos anyway.
I don't know why, but I had always assumed that Wilson was an American particle physicist. I'd hardly described his cloud chamber as a blunder, though.What a good job he talked to Rutherford, a nice illustration of the importance of communication for the advancement of science, or indeed any endeavour.
The history we haven't experienced yet (the future) will have to decide if the invention of nuclear energy will outweigh the dangers (mass death, radiation, waste, accidents...) and implications (cold war) of the atom bomb and nuclear reactors.
Just like conventional batteries (cobalt slavery, environmental problems with extraction and disposal), i fear it has held us back for progress on hydrogen energy.
@@brmbkl Don't forget all the Nuke waste that will Outlast every nation known to Exist and will likely be a Problem for future people thousands of years later. We literally have plans on how to tell those Future people that this Nuke waste is bad. 😅
Nuclear energy is unbelievably safe. Radiation is at its minimum, mass death from nuclear energy cannot happen unless a reactor goes into a meltdown on purpose. Nuclear waste is easy to discard of and is the least of our worries, and nuclear accidents happen in parts of the world with relatively uneducated people being in control, or the land itself is not suitable to hold it up.
This video was so well done and informative. This is the EXACT type of video that carries UA-cam every day. This should be recommended to everyone everywhere. Thank you so much for this phenomenal content and teaching me a bunch of stuff i didnt know. This video could not be any more up my alley. I absolutely ate up every single morsel of this video
That napalm one is definitely stretching the concept. Attributing the development of napalm to the patent for canned food is like attributing literally anything else to canned food. But other than that this video was very interesting.
Also the idea that tinned food wouldn't find its way to Britain in a century if it was patented and popularized in France instead is also a stretch.
However, you can attribute a lot of things to canned food. Inventions and ideas have always acted as catalysts for developments in world history that lead other developments, just how we can attribute the invention of silly putty to this tinned can mishap, as a lack of rubber during WWII led to the invention of it. If your belief is that napalm eventually would've been developed, sure it probably would've, but it wouldn't have been developed due to these particular circumstances.
@@Df-sl4henapalm is a unique invention in that it uses rubber
However similar things to it have existed such as cauldrons of burning tar being used as a weapon in mid-evil times or the supposed Greek fire (which is not entirely implausible as Greeks were thought to have a form of plastics)
Or even older, clay firebombs filled with burning pitch. The concept has honestly been around for so long it is very VERY hard to say it's a uniquely American thing.
Napalm is a terrible weapon, however it's use was relatively short lived, and I feel agent orange would have much worse lingering effects. There are any number of weapons that have done far more lasting harm than Napalm. That doesn't mean that napalm is a good thing, that just means napalm isn't the absolute worst thing
Lastly. The Atomic bomb could also be put in a "this could be worse" category. A single one killed 100,000 people (in its upper estimates). That pales in comparison to various bombing raids and artillery bombardments during the world wars. The Atomic bomb is scary not because it killed more people than ever before, but because it kills so efficiently. Where before Armies were needed to kill millions, now you really only needed 5 guys, an airplane, and a bomb to kill.
@@n8zog584 I'll have to disagree with you on the atomic bomb argument. As just because the number that have been killed by the atomic bomb are currently "minimal", the countless more that can possibly come will beg to differ. (Not to mention the culture shift that occurred as the world moved into the atomic era has had drastic impacts both economically and socially).
James Burke definitely seems to be the inspiration for this video.
there's an episode of James Burke's _Connections_ called "Eat, Drink and Be Merry" which talks about how canned food led to the invention of the rocket. (That episode is known for the perfectly timed rocket launch in the background as he's talking. Well worth searching out.)
Regarding the Painful X-Rays section:
Something a little similar happened in the field of obstetrics. In in the late 1840s, before John Snow closed the cholera-laden water pipe on Broad Street in London, before Louis Pasteur's experiments, Ignaz Semmelweis was trying to improve maternal mortality, specifically from puerperal fever. Births assisted by midwives had significantly lower mortality rates than those assisted by doctors. As it turned out, the doctors were usually coming directly from an autopsy to deliver the baby. Semmelweis made doctors wash their hands in chlorinated lime water between the autopsies and the deliveries. Mortality went from 18% to 2.2%.
Doctors were so offended at the idea that they were not clean, offended that they should have to wash their hands, that they ignored him and continued to let countless women die entirely preventable deaths. All because of blowhard machismo nonsense.
It's always the ego that blinds people from accepting the obvious truth.
I spent a couple years using an exercise i had read that Aleister Crowley practised to alter his perception and subvert his ego.
Simply for a period of time during the day, several times a week, do not think about yourself in the first person. Consider yourself simply as an unknown creature, with no name. No personality. No point of view. Nothing.
It's not easy to exist for several hours in that frame of mind (you obviously have to be away from most other people during that period) but you can exercise, take a long walk, etc...
Definitely had the desired effect on me.
Screw the ego.
The ego is not to be trusted doing our thinking.
I'm confused by it cause Google searches all say that X-rays on pregnant women don't increase cancer chances, but zhis video says the oposite. Hpw can that be?
@@HopeRock425Have you tried searching for leukaemia specifically? Because cancer can mean various things
@@HopeRock425 I am no doctor, however, it is of my understanding that X-Rays focused on the woman's body (arms, teeth, feet, etc.) will do no harm to the fetus; however, X-Rays focused on the belly (and thus, directly aiming to the fetus) can and potentially will cause birth defects, even more so during the sensitive stages of development.
It is also good to keep in mind that ever since the start of medicine, medical procedures have advanced unimaginably, thus making it safer nowadays for x-rays to be performed, if they are to be performed out of necessity.
reminds me of how doctors with bloody hand were considered a symbol of pride despite it causing MANY diseases
The reduce the history of particle physics and quantum mechanics to "it produced a bomb" is so incredibly simplifying. And to portrait the the cloud champer as *the* nucleation point for it's discovery leaves so much important stuff out.
It's an extremely simplified view of it, to the point I'm not sure it has any meaning at all. So what if this guy hadn't created a cloud chamber? Given that in science, everyone stands on the shoulders of giants, it seems rather likely that someone else might have created one or one of the other ways of examining radiation and particles would have been found. Maybe not that year, but likely soon. Things would have played out differently, but it's not like particle physics would have just stayed in its infancy or would not have been explored at all.
That's the point.... The butterfly effect is actually the culmination of many butterflies flapping their wings, but each part is essential in the current hurricane created
@Yi McShin Not really. What's suggested here is: "Change one little thing and all of history after would be totally different", and I'm saying that it's not really like that, instead it's more like "change one thing and lots of things after it would be slightly different but they'd still all go in generally the same direction, because you only changed one thing, not the whole environment that made that thing likely to happen"
has nobody watched the two first fucking minutes of the video the whole point is the butterfly effect
@@SpaceKebab The problem is that the whole framing of the video suggests that if these things had not happened at the moments that they did happen, all of the stuff after it would NOT have happened, because that's what presenting them as CAUSES implies - and that's highly debatable with some discoveries in science. Had they not happened that way, they likely would have still happened, but slightly later, because the groundwork that made them possible was already there, and the whole chain of other stuff that followed may still have happened, if slightly differently. Just look at the many examples of "parallel inventions" in history, where people have independently from each other come up with very similar technologies because they both built up on the same body of existing knowledge.
If you take an event that produced a discovery necessary for another event away, but that following event likely still would have happened anyways, can you really call the original event the "cause"?
In my opinion, the largest, most butterfly effect blunder to ever occur was by Leopold Lojka, the chauffeur of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on the day of his assassination. On that day the motorcade Ferdinand was in was bombed, with the device nearly killing him. Once the motorcade arrived at the town hall, they decided to visit those injured by the bombing earlier that day in hospital. To discourage further attacks, the governor of the town (who was also the motorcade) decided to take a longer, alternate route on the way to the hospital. This information was not communicated to Leopold Lojka or the other drivers in the motorcade, so when Lojka took a wrong turn, following the more direct path, the governor shouted that he took a wrong turn. While reversing to perform a u-turn and go back onto the main road, Lojka accidentally stalled the car with an assassin sitting in a nearby sandwich shop, who was there by complete chance, taking his chance to shoot Archduke Franz Ferdinand, killing him. The death of Archduke Franz Ferdinand would start World War 1, which would start World War 2 due to the instability in Germany after the treaty of Versailles. The aftermath of World War 2 as well as the development of nuclear bombs would lead to tensions rising between the US and the USSR, kicking off the Cold War, including many proxy wars from the Cold War like the Vietnam War and the Korean War. The total deaths from these wars totals over 100 million, all because one man took a wrong turn
"Always stick to the plan"
Takes wrong route: "uh oh"...
All of this was going to happen with or without that assassination, the elites made sure that happened to trigger the chain of events, and if it that didn’t happen another would of taken place
In the defense of that poor driver...Europe was a powder keg, and all sorts of events could have started World War 1.
Exactly wqhat TheSpecialJ said. Everyone in europe was already expecting a huge war. The empires were bursting at their seams, the powers wanted to have a big war.. it would have happened either way, probably not much different than what we got. The treaty of Versaille is completely to blame for Hitlers emergence. The first time the Nazis were up for election they got like 2 or 3 percent of the vote. In times of economic hardship people always choose the extremes. And the treaty did exactly that.
world war 1 would’ve happened anyway, the assassination of the archduke is largely irrelevant lol
The sad part about the Rubber one is the fact that The Vietnam War (the war napalm was prominently used in after its discovery) was started after the French were pushed out of North Vietnam, thus losing their rubber plantations. All of this, because of a single patent.
@@corylong5808 yeah, that seemed like such a reach to me tbh
@@hoovertino what did?
That's the whole point....you find one thing searching for another
I know a man in my church who served in Vietnam, hoping to hear good efforts he accomplished.
He told me that the war was run by rubber companies.
Talk about buzzkill.
If Truman had followed Roosevelts policy and not let the French back into Vietnam none of that would have happened. What do your expect from as man who dropped two atom bombs on a defeated country rather than listen to his generals who advised against it!
You are genuinely my favourite youtuber. Nobody makes content as captivating, well made, and somehow familiar and "home grown", as you.
100%
agreed
The last part about climate change is badly researched and full of half truths.
@@youtubesucks5080 To be fair, he did specify that we can't really attribute all the problems of climate change as a result of Bush being elected, because we don't know what would've happened if Al Gore was.
I like his somewhat unique take on things like politics, and his pragmatism
For the canned food one, I'm surprised you didn't talk about the Franklin expeditions in more depth: those explorations of northern Canada you talked about ended with every member of the expedition dying because of poisoning from their canned food.
Lead poisoning in fact
@@component9008 Yep, if I remember correctly lead was used to seal the cans, and then leeched into the food.
@@omnitroph1501 yeah another comment mentioned it so thats how i know
Also when he started talking about rubber, I genuinely assumed that it was the Japanese invasion of southeast Asia that was the blunder, since they would not have done that if those colonies did not have any natural resources. This in turn caused them to attack the Allies.
When he mentioned gasoline that's when it hit me. Like a freight train.
@@omnitroph1501they attempted to seal the cans they didn’t succeed
I just want to bring up something I view as a butterfly effect I thought was interesting.
Back in the 1920s, Byron Carter was killed by the hand crank used to start cars, this lead to his friend Henry Leland having a starter you push with your foot created, the first car it was used in was Leland's Cadillac Model 30, problem with the model 30 is that it ran lean, basically what this means is that fuel was over combusting and leading to a piston knock, this lead to him reaching out to Thomas Midgley Jr to create something that would cause it to stop knocking, he tried ethenol, but it was expensive, he tried tullurium, but it was pungent, he finally settled on tetraethyllead, tetraethyllead lead to numerous deaths, generational IQ loss, birth defects, and illnesses.
The death of one man, not only lead to the death and illness of many people due to an attempt to try to do some good, but it also lead to one of the most significant global environmental disasters in history.
Coincidentally, in the 70s, the EPA regulation to remove lead from road fuels also lead to the death of the classic muscle, and one of the biggest oil protests in history.
Just wanted to share, thought it was kind of interesting.
That is indeed very interesting, i never heard about these connections. I wonder how much the overcompensation for accidents or mistakes has made the situation even worse, because instead of people being educated on how not to be dumb, people try to make the world as dumbproof as they can as a legal defence.
On a side note, the english language sure is dumb
@@UltraProchy I think that's the biggest thing, I don't think people understand the implications of their actions until it's too late sometimes, because it's just not possible for us to calculate every possible scenario that would lead up to the end of this story.
Something interesting that I've noticed, and I'm going to use the scenario of losing loved one, because I have a pretty good understanding of it at this point.
When someone loses someone, I've noticed that their initial response is to provide "If" statements, "if I had been there." "If he/she would have left just a few minutes later." "If I had just been there to remind them to take their medicine that night."
People always rationalize their losses, and they think that things could have been different, but the reality is, things are how they are, and there is nothing that anyone could have done to change it because it's what time demanded.
If not for Byron, it could have been someone else that lead up to this scenario, eventually the inactions of one will lead to the actions another.
UH, no, running lean isn't over combusting. It's higher than optimal oxygen content. That is a function of the fuel delivery system, carburetor or injection. The lead allowed higher compression ratios, more spark advance. It has nothing to do with fuel/air ratios
@@jamesharmon3827 Yes.... It is, but I'm not going to argue with you about it, because judging by your contrarian attitude based on the other comments you've posted to others, regardless of what I say to prove it correct you'll say I'm wrong, the internet has shown me that people such as yourself will disagree or argue regardless of proven factual evidence.
I think it's very strange that leaded gasoline was not banned due to environmental and health effects but rather due to it damaging catalytic converters
This dude put small dashes of meme culture and humor in his videos while also being really informative, 10/10. Hearing a random ass everywhere at the end of time song caught me off guard lmao
I don't think it was done for the meme, as much as how much study was behind the EATEOT album. It's basically mentioned anywhere where dementia is.
Timestamp?
16:00, and it’s not from everywhere at the end of time (EATEOT), it’s from AEBBTW, it’s libet’s delay, you might have confused it with libet delay from stage 3 of eateot
@@anonymoustaco8959 16:12
And my ears perked up as soon as I heard the song from ALCATRAZATTACK
Brounker lying to admiral harman to end the pursuit of the Dutch after the battle of lowestoft is quite a rabbit hole for a “interesting blunder that creates what ifs”
tell me more
I'm listening
Short answer: English admiral makes a mix up in communication, and let’s the entire Dutch navy escape during a battle in the second anglo-Dutch war.
@@degeneratemale5386 so no further rabbit hole than a great deal of ships escaping or would this have led to the other Dutch wars because I was trying to read further.
@@2manyballfaces had the Dutch ships not managed to escape, the war could’ve ended there with a English victory. It’s possible there might not be two more wars, and the English wouldn’t have needed to build a bigger navy.
Meaning England might never of had its famous royal navy, and who know how much that might change things
This is basically James Burke’s connections for the 2020s. I absolutely love it. How long until a production company picks you up for a full Netflix/bbc series?! Amazingly well put together video and engagingly presented. Happy New year britmonkey!
Would love a whole series of these connections style things
Man, I loved Connection as a kid. An updated version of the show would be great and Britmonkey would make a great host.
What a amazing documentory, Watch it on the Internet Archive, as you mention it's very close to this video
@@vintagestuffguy1998 in an Adam Curtis kind of style, which this reminds me of. Excellent idea
Totally agree to my ear there is a certain similarity in the voice/delivery too
an interesting fact about the heart attack study: the placement of each country on the graph depends more on the country's criteria for qualifying a heart attack than the average person's diet
Could you please do a video on positive butterfly effects? I’m sure there’s less well known examples but I’m kinda having a crisis seeing all these things that have hurt our world and the quality of life for our generation starting from small or short sighted decisions and that seem insurmountable now thanks to stubbornness and corruption from those above us. Great video however.
I promise you the advancements of particle physics and canned food has helped and saved far more lives than it's harmed
I think your missing what should be the real message here- human beings are not the perfectly designed creatures that religious creation fantasy makes them out to be.
The human mind was not designed/ has not evolved for the purpose of seeing or even recognizing truth or reality.
Quite the opposite.
only example i could think of is probably the nazi doctors. They conducted lots of cruel experiments that im sure helped push investors into putting more money into researching more surgical techniques.
Its far worse than he paints it but there are nice people and fun stuff all around us. Focusing on things we can control helps.
Well, that's life 🤣
The butterfly effect is good for pointing out what-ifs and thinking of alternate histories. That said, using it to "blame" someone is both incredibly awful and a complete misuse of what the concept entails. The point is that we can't predict it either, so it's an unreasonable standard to think of it in practical terms.
Agreed. Blaming one person for the creation of weapons 50 years later is nonsense. The way this world works, someone would either figure out the same weapons or others equally as destructive. It's what humans tend to do.
Well said. This is a reason studying history should not be judged through a modern lens.
The butterfly affect you are referring to is something created by Hollywood for fun plots and it’s a complete misunderstanding of what the term actual means. When the term was originally coined by a meteorologist with the name Edward Lorenz it discusses how small inconsequential events can cause large under lying affects on weather systems. Put more simply that a butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil could set off a tornado in Texas.
@@karstengregory8613 I understand that. Which is why I made the comment that I did. The video kinda explains it but then fails to properly use it.
No one's blaming anyone, just pointing out how things happened. It's a silly Video, it's not putting the blame for Bush's entire shitty run on Theresa. Heck, he even says it multiple times.
He even points out good things that happened.
Thinking this video was made entirely to blame awful shit on one person is the kinda black and white way to think that honestly makes shit worse for everyone.
How true. As a Radiographer,from the late 70s, I saw the reduction of irradiation of pregnant women via pelvimetry. This was an X-ray with a measuring device to determine if the mothers pelvis would allow the head of the baby to pass through. These were done on most births. Yikes!
Ultrasound was just starting up as well as Computed Tomography.
We used lead aprons to shield pregnant bellies as the 80s progressed
Great story, thank you!👍
I tried a search but found most modern studies say it's relatively safe. Do you know what changed? I can't believe it's all a mistake on either part.
That story about doctors not wanting to admit that they are wrong and they are hurting people just makes my blood boil. Sure, doctors are crucial to us, but not wanting to admit you could be wrong? Too fitting to recent events. Too relevant. You sir, have my attention. And my subscription and like.
@@VitaeLibra I appreciate there's at least someone who doesn't immediately want to start an argument about *that*.
Though I'm unsure to how you deem his statement to be false. Sure, if you interpret his statement to be either more than just about the pandemic (e.g. politics) or interpreting this to mean that the general way in which things were conducted was *entirely* wrong, I would also agree that an argument against that could be made.
But in the way I interpreted it, I see it as very fitting, as in my country (Germany), it was even publicly admitted that things were done wrongly. Not entirely, of course, but certain things. And it certainly had something to do with doctors not admitting that they could be wrong and that whatever they were talking about could have negative side effects, which was always stated to be entirely false, but in the end, turned out to be true, to a non-zero effect.
It seems like you might not accept evidence that's contrary to what you already believe and this may have skewed your perception of what could have gone wrong over the past few years. Just wanted you to be aware! Have a nice day!@@VitaeLibra
Are you a cooker?
Having too much pride and being arrogant due to your position as a physician. Pride is truly a double-edged sword.
You don't need to be smart to be a doctor
You know it's a good day when you don't just get a BritMonkey video, but a 40 minute BritMonkey video. Truthfully one of the highlights of each year.
"Congrats you helped us make nukes"
"But I just wanted to make pretty circle rainbows :( "
So that "glory" rainbow thing at the beginning...if anybody has ever wondered what one visual looks like on an acid trip...it is exactly that...Its so hard to explain in words to someone thats never tried it, also I'm not condoning any drugs use, but that picture totally captures what the aura-like visuals I experienced looking at others in a party. Totally worth mentioning.
learn to timestamp d bag...
Crikey
My favourite channel I've found this year.
Thanks for this informative content.
Now, I consider you the best youtuber. Just pure knowledge with no bs. Content-densed videos with insightful knowledge . Literally better than majority of the movies, podcast or Netflix shows. Whenever you upload video, I sit down and enjoy it fully with some snacks. Keep the videos coming.
Extremely simplified, don't forget you're being entertained not educated.
@@feba33 pretty sure it can be both
Sure, I love BritMonkey content
Actually, the last part about climate change was about 50% bullshit, phrased in a purposefully misleading way.
I don’t think those blunders were that bad. The worst was probably that blunder with sugar it was really avoidable. The canned food blunder probably even saved more lives than killed. Entertaining Video. It’s crazy how impactful some decisions can be even hundreds of years after they happened
The problem wasn't the invention of, it was about who was in charge of what. Dr Doll being famous enough to shut down Steward's investigation, the french way of making patents, the unhealthy diets. They are all because of shitty human behavior (greed, envy, pursuit of fame, pride, gluttony) and yeah they saved lives and whatnot but they wouldn't have been so bad if the people in charge did the right thing (also in the diet case the Dr accepted bribes lol)
I'm wondering how the X Ray woman was a blunder. Surely it was that Richard Doll guy who blundered?
@@aceman0000099 Yea. That's the point.
Lets be honest, the election one was VERY bad
@@Yaboibarel yes so bad that people still think it’s not a big deal
The canning bit is one of the best pieces of content I've seen on YT. Subverts your expectations so many times. Excellent writing. The video as a whole was super original which gets harder to find all the time.
It is hard to believe this is a 1 man operation. Keep it up and thanks 😀
It's also entirely ridiculous. The idea that rubber production would be confined to Brazil if the French had access to canned food is ludicrous with a better patent system is extremely weak. History shows that attempts to block export of technologies, including plants, for protectionist purposes simply don't work.
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He's not wrong.
I remember attending a school field trip to Catalina Island off of Long Beach, and came to notice that people didn't say "Hello!" to each other when passing by.
I was raised by my parents to do so as a sign of courtesy and respect, especially to elderly people, who occupied most of Catalina.
I remember saying "Hello!" or "Good morning!" when walking past the locals, and they would simply stare back at me with incredulity or confusion. About a week passed and suddenly people started doing the same without a serious expression on their faces.
It's honestly sad that time has progressed so much that people have forgotten to at least smile at each other without receiving it as being creepy, or at least wish each other a good day as fellow people. It honestly made me wonder at times if I was raised incorrectly or did I have the wrong idea.
I still greet people in the States whenever I see them, but the accuracy in that statement really hits hard.
bro that’s so funny that I saw this comment. I literally live on Catalina, it’s HILARIOUS how you think a school trip is enough time for you to get a scope for people on the island. I definitely think people greet each other and casually smile at each other here way more then long beach or anywhere else i’ve been in in SoCal. With that being said, yeah your right I don’t go around saying hi to every single person I pass, I feel like my voice would hurt from all the people. That’s kind of the reason why it’s kind of reserved for either people you know or people you maybe make eye contact with or have any other casual interaction while walking by. But honestly with this mindset, I’d love to see you walking around at peak tourist season saying hi to everyone you pass, like what?😭 would probably get annoying after a while for your own sake!
We still do that in The Netherlands! At least where I'm from and other small towns. But even in bigger cities, (most) people respect that!
It's more of a rural thing, doesn't really happen in or around cities or towns.
Do yiu know how many people you can see at any given moment? Being viet at a simple house party is more than enough, having to bow at every single elder.
Now imagine that on a much larger scale. How fun does that seem?
My mom grew up in a household that owned and ran a shoe store in the 50's - 70's, and even that little shoe store in central Wisconsin had an X-ray. Her and her siblings and friends used to go downstairs in the shoe store and X-ray each other all the time to play. It wasn't until it became literally illegal that they finally got rid of it.
Ultimate blunder in modern day history is that nobody noticed "Florida" at the "Catastrophic"-Level. 01:04
Mad props for using the Kevin MacLeod song "The Cannery" on the bit about cans. It's always been one of my favorites.
14:45 "...people didn't want to admit their doctors were wrong. People trust doctors. They're figures of authority. [...] Meanwhile, doctors don't want to admit they're hurting people. They become doctors to do the exact opposite."
The past few years have shown how relevant this is, even though many people won't want to admit it... which confirms the quote.
Let me guess... you're talking about Covid. Listen man, look at all statistics, the populations that died the most of Covid were the ones not taking the vaccine.
Christ, the LaPaul woman and her ballots just gave me the biggest feeling of regret and dread. Have never gotten it in that perspective before. Horrifying.
it's insane how much could well have been different. Just means we have to continue to fight back in the present.
@@HenrythePaleoGuy Its been a while since i learned this so sorry for the lack of details but im the process of getting my degree i learned of a sort of floatation device that could recycle emissions in the air and essentially cut the load in half in a localized area. I believed each unti would cost roughly 4 million to make at the time of learning about it (2020) and they could be used as a sort of net for long-range emissions defense. Seemed simple enough to implement, but its a matter of drive on the governments behalf - who have something to gain from emission-producing outlets.
I will look in my notes and see if i can find more details to leave you with but it’s definitely worth checking out
I feel terrible for her about the hate she received, if this video shows anything its that anyone can end up doing something that has unforseen negative consequences ! And it's not like she did it intentionally or new what the consequences would be
I was under the impression this video was about actual blunders, and not cases that degrees of separation apart from a terrible event, invention, or policy. If that is the formula, then a person who walked in front of Princess Diana's car, which forced her to go inside the tunnel she would crash in is one of the worst blunderers. Something just doesn't sit right.
Right...this video has more in common with the (amazing) tv show "Connections." Early 1990's. About how one seemingly unrelated inventions/decisions had incredible impact down the line.
The canned food "blunder" - was using lead solder. This doomed the exploration voyages of the Erebus and Terror amongst many other mass lead poisonings. Will never know how many potential geniuses turned out to be idiots because of this lead.
Well in all fairness, at the beginning the guy practically said it was abt the butterfly effect, which doesn't involve direct mistakes which is what you said you were under the impression of this video being abt
Beautifully written and created video - well done sir. Reminds me of the old 70s BBCTV programme - James Burke’s connections. Definitely time for a relaunch I think! Well done
I think that the one about diet makes great sense as to why it was a huge blunder, but it’s sounds so silly to say that the invention of canned food was a blunder just because it eventually enabled someone else to invent napalm years later. With this logic you could create any narrative about why any human invention is a “HUGE BLUNDER”
It’s definitely one of the more insane things I’ve ever heard because the rest of them are fair (if not abit of a reach) but that one is just nonsensical.
Please do part 2 this was very interesting. I’ve never heard of the infamous canned food patent story
I would be interested in looking into the reverse scenarios where blunders turned into potentially amazing advances in the human race
You want to ignore a major aspect of humanity. How hubris and ego undermine our capacity to reason properly.
That is the history.of human behavior.
The positive things are also important- but we don't learn as much from them.
The first one caused way more incredible leaps in our technology and positive effects on our modern society than negative effects of the atom bomb. It was absolutely not a blunder and this video completely misrepresented the importance and benefits it provided.
@@samg131 while I mostly agree with you- it is in no wise a universally agreed upon opinion.
The argument that the accumulation of modern technology has not been an absolute positive for the human species is buttressed by the high levels of deep dissatisfaction many people around the world claim for themselves.
While I may not be one of them, my level of happiness has almost zero relevance to all the fancy gadgetry that's available to me.
The positives and negatives mostly balance one another out- as far as I'm concerned. There is too much blind trust in comp. tech. doing all functions of govt. and society when the inevitability of hackers, computation errors, power outages, etc...guarantees future breakdowns of every facet of our lives in one way- or at one time- or another,
Voting is a perfect example. With paper ballots we're guaranteed to have an auditable election, if one is necessary-instead of fully electronic, where any number of snafus could render an entire election cycle unknowable.
(You can add to that the fact that russian hackers -and undoubtedly other interests- have fairly easy access to our election systems and have yet to act on it-an inevitability, knowing geopolitical history and human nature.
Having access to the internet is undoubtedly the greatest addition to modern life- yet the loss of newspapers and newspaper reporting that has accompanied it has thrown us almost back into the dark ages- where, despite the knowledge that's at our fingertips, the bulk of society is now more ignorant and conspiracy minded than ever before.
You think the Florida hanging chads thing is the number 1 mistake? Incredibly stupid my man. And when I say stupid I mean affected
@@dionmcgee5610 You know, I started reading this comment from a pretty skeptical position, but you really came around. Thank you for sharing.
Learning that a capable hardworking female doctor researched the correlation between x-rays and leukemia and was overridden by a male doctor with a greater reputation is infuriating. My mother had leukemia as a child and knowing it very well could have happened because my grandmother got an x-ray after a study had been out for THIRTY YEARS is beyond infuriating. Her having leukemia ruined many aspects of both their lives to this day.
It had nothing to do with sex. There were plenty of renowned and celebrated female scientists. And many of her opponents admitted she did outstanding work, but they felt her conclusion was false. Additionally, if you rewatch the section, she was in a new and untested field of science.
Nevermind, there is some issues in her paper. She was linking correlation with causation. Grant it, she wanted it to be stopped for additional studies. She didn't explicitly say that x-ray equaled high cancer per say. So given these elements, and natural bias due to the widespread treatment if X-rays and even a man would be boned. Not everything is sexist.
@Crillian Marvin So u don't think that there is at least a small bit of chance that the majority of society took the other guys work as truth despite it having no controlled variable because he was a man with another achievement?
Just because other women had achievements in their fields doesn't mean every man during that time or even women believed a woman more than a man.
Also, no, not everything is sexist, but discrimination against a sex does and did happen. Ignoring that or taking that into consideration is quite foolish.
@@setofreakinkaiba8553 None. If you understood the scientific method and read her works.
Lol. Triggered again.
@Crillian Marvin To eliminate all probability from a vast human population tells me all that I need to know about this conversation.
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This video was my introduction to your channel. The subjects of this video and the way the information was presented clearly required a lot of thought and deliberation. You couldn't have left a better first impression so I'm definitely subbing.
This is great content, hats off to you and your team for all the research put into this
Didn’t know there was a team
He didn't put any research into this. Going through a wiki article isn't researching. He didn't verify anything.
@@youtubesucks5080 GTFO W/ that bullshit.
@@youtubesucks5080 Nice bait
This video hits. If anyone wants to try and tell you that one persons actions can’t or won’t make a difference. You might even do it whether you know it or not.
Okay but was i just supposed to find out myself that clouds look absolutely gorgeous through xrays? I'm already a HUGE fan of clouds in general, but to see those individual particle swirls and patterns just made me fall in love even more.
Political science student here, I would like to correct a major mistake in your last part on climate change, specifically regarding the Kyoto protocol.
It is true that Clinton signed the protocol, however it was as a simple gesture and the treaty was never even presented to the senate as the senate had already voted unanimiously in rejection of the Kyoto protocol, and the treaty could therefore not be ratified. When Bush teared up the treaty, he simply removed the US signature. Tearing up the treaty was symbolic, but it made no legal difference to the US policies on climate.
Also, even without being a member to the Kyoto agreement, the US went ahead and made more progress in lowering emissions than many of the countries that remained members.
My favorite concept with historical oddities and what ifs, is that if you change something 100 years ago it is entirely possible, even likely, that every single person born from that moment forward is changed.
BritMonkey, Mark Felton and Mr. Mitchell History make the best history content!
@@johh55 Probably a bot or something
@@johh55 so far it does look like a good and historically correct channel.
Felton is a joke who has been caught making shit up many times.
Hey don't forget the armchair historian and oversimplified
New thumbnail goes hard! Last one was obviously more creative, but sometimes simple really is best
To be honest this is probably one of the best videos I have seen recently. Wonderful job on the video!
The storytelling is always superb, amazing video, my guy!
I see literally nothing of blunder in your first example. It's a good thing he showed the photographs that would later advance physics to what we know today.
It created the recipe for nuclear bomb tho
@@reganharvan quite irrelevant. A discovery of a physical phenomenon is detached from whether it will be used for good or for bad.
@@FrostDirt no.. no it's not..
@@PossessedPotatoBird why not? Is the discovery of DNA bad because it's used in some bad way?
@@FrostDirt the level of knowledge gained beats out the level of destruction in that case
i just wanted to inform you (if you didnt already know) that the website "medium" copied your video WORD BY WORD in their article "the butterfly effect". literally WORD BY WORD. considering your video came out before the article did, i'm assuming, they plagiarized your work and not the other way around. I'm not sure if youre aware of this or if you are connected to the website in any way but if you are not: hope you know now. the "funniest" part is, that the whole article is kept behind a pay-wall. so they are literally making people pay money to read your script lmao
Clicked on the video expecting to watch 10 mins or so. Ended up staying for the entirety, some of the best content on this site for sure
#0: I'm surprised it's not been talked about
>Some dude is driving in Sarajevo in an open-top car, in 1914
>The driver makes a wrong turn
>The dude and his wife are murdered my assassains.
*>someone else explain what happens next*
16:12 this music sounds familiar but I just cant remember where I heard it, almost like the memory of where I first heard it is just burning away
it's funny just how much an effect Xrays have had on history accidently considering X-rays were also only discovered by accident
I don't remember how I found this video, but it ended up being in my Watch Later list for a few days, and I am sad I didn't watch it earlier. This video was great, all these meticulously thought out ideas and connections summed up into a call to action too, playing devil advocate throughout. Amazing work and you've won a sub
Broo, the same thing happened to me. This video was sitting in my WL list
Wow, only watched the first one and I’m hooked. Great concept, great execution and very impressed by how you were able to link something so innocuous as the starting point of something so horrific and terrifying.
Overall, I think the approach you took for this video was awesome. The information is presented in a manner that is easy to digest. The root of the argument, the ripple effect. Great job
Photographing particles and invention canned foods truly were HUGE BLUNDERS
Brutal Job I love how you explain The historical perspective of little things that got big consequences
what a creative and niche yet still very entertaining video, keep making this type of content it's amazing
ive never been this early to a britmonkey video, its always going to be a good one
Well done. I've watched a few of your videos and found them very informative. Keep up the good work.
The Butterfly Effect:
Any movement in the air, even something as tiny as a butterfly's wing, has an effect on the weather.
Larger movements like trees in the wind or aeroplanes have much larger effects.
The point is that it is impossible to account for all of them.
During that Eisenhower section I somehow forgot that literally every piece of film I have ever seen him in, he is smoking the fattest cigar possible
So the phrase “Butterfly Effect” is actually named for the Ray Bradbury story “A Sound of Thunder,” in which one of a group of time-traveling hunters steps on a butterfly, altering the future once they return to it. The idea of a butterfly’s wings causing a hurricane is a story that assumedly popped up through people trying to figure out what the saying means.
The term butterfly effect was created by meteorologist Edward Lorenz, the meaning being the second one, that small changes in initial conditions, like the flapping of a butterfly's wings, can have enormous consequences on a chaotic system determined by its initial conditions, such as contributing a hurricane a year later across the planet. The butterfly in Bradbury's story is a neat little coincidence that also demonstrates the effect of small changes on a chaotic system, but is not the actual origin of the term.
@@lulzdragon7339so False Etymology?
The flapping of a butterfly’s wing causing a hurricane actually comes from an old Japanese folk saying.
@@Kitsu_Wormmore like false entomology!
I appreciate how your face isn’t plastered anywhere while your narrating. You get it and that speaks volumes. “The little things that f&&@ everything up”
The first one isn't even a mistake. It's a bloody miracle!
Fun fact most people don't know you can eat chef boyardee pasta right out of the can. This is because it was originally developed as World War II field rations and it is already precooked and completely safe to eat if you crack the can open it. You may prefer it cheated but it's already precooked. The great trick I learned from my time in boy scouts
"He wanted to create a glory for himself..."
I'm already getting Greek Tragedy vibes from this story
Honestly those pictures from the cloud in a bottle thing are amazing kinda wonder how they would look with modern stuff
Amazing content. This is the kind of historical analysis that ive always loved since I was a kid. It reminds me of Vsauce in a way, but more focused. Just like the butterfly effect, even if your videos only reach a handful of people, the impact it can have on each one of us could potentially change the way we act in the future and make us better people. Our generation needs voices like yours. I respect and appreciate the work you put into each video immensely. Much love brother
The Golf segment is inaccurate though. For instance, one of the reason why France manages low CVD events despite moderately high saturated fat intake is that they're very disciplined in using Statins and other cholesterol-controlling medications. If those hadn't been invented, France would likely be at the top of CVD deaths, just like Finland was before they backed down on Sat. Fats usage.
@@DrummerDucky I think its more about the bigger picture
@@kytalksrap He's wrong on the broader picture. Saturated fat from animal sources works in tandem with refined sugar to create the condition for atherosclerotic plaques.
The best prevention, outside of medication (statins are very safe to use for the majority of people), is to focus on consuming unprocessed plants like legumes, complete grains, and greens.
Some amount of meat shouldn't hinder one's health (esp. fish and non-red meat) unless the disease is in its acute phase.
I bet u will forget about video in a month or so
@@DrummerDucky you must be fun at parties
My personal butterfly story…
A friend met me at my house one day we were rollerblading(settle down it was the 90’s and still cool), he came in I insisted we listen to this new Nas song. After the song we then proceeded to go to another friends house where we met up with two other guys. Then we proceeded to skate to the high school for some ledges, and on the way there I was hit by an Astro Van. Blacking out just after impact and awaking on the ground losing the last 20 seconds of my life, when it dawned on me. What if we never listened to that Nas song? We would’ve been past the section of street where the van was. Moral of the story, don’t listen to “Hate Me Now” before rollerblading 🙏🏻
I'd like to share my butterfly story too.
Some time around 2018, I had gotten a couple bucks for Christmas, some of which I decided to use on buying the Valve Games pack, which had almost all of the video games made by Valve on Steam for around 5 bucks at the time. Among those games was Half-Life, a game I knew quite a bit about. Eventually, I play through the game and I love it. Shortly after playing the game quite a bit, I decided to make a Twitter account that would be a parody of a Half-Life scientist, where I would pretend to be a scientist in the world of Half-Life, tweeting about wacky hijinks in the facility. After a while of running this account, I become part of a circle of other parody accounts and we all became acquaintances. One of them was a parody account of Gordon Freeman, and we collaborated quite often. Eventually we talk one on one, find we have a lot in common with each other..
Fast forward, after years of talking, we meet in real life and now she's my fiancé.. and I love her to bits :') Funny how the world works.
@@AVI-lh6rm absolutely wild man
happy for you
@@AVI-lh6rm as much as how wholesome your story is, I still find it funny at how during your conquest in Twitter by roleplaying as a HL scientist, there might be times where you accidentally started a full scale rant wars, of course you didn't have any intention to begin with. I just realized at how small this world is and there might be situations where we impact someone's life hugely.
The second story is a truly thrilling and historically important chapter in the advancement of epidemiology and public health as sciences. Omg I am geeking out and fangirling so hard about this rn lol, feels like when I read The Ghost Map for the first time 😆
"I've studied 5,000 people. How many have you studied?"
"One, your mum, very thoroughly."