The Vela Incident: Greatest Nuclear Mystery Ever

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  • @RazorbackPT
    @RazorbackPT 5 років тому +5300

    That stock footage of "scientists" never fails to make me laugh.

    • @Idocracy789
      @Idocracy789 5 років тому +245

      They science good 👍

    • @charlesbliss4860
      @charlesbliss4860 5 років тому +70

      A yikes

    • @pointblank0020
      @pointblank0020 5 років тому +127

      The scientists did science things to find out the truth and made a shocking discovery

    • @TheDirtyBlobfish
      @TheDirtyBlobfish 5 років тому +26

      Hahaha, i thought i was the only one😂😂

    • @electronresonator8882
      @electronresonator8882 5 років тому +37

      I wonder if they actually realize that they're "famous" in internet

  • @theroaria8065
    @theroaria8065 5 років тому +4826

    The UN treaty about not owning nukes is like an age verification check.

    • @LampNTable
      @LampNTable 5 років тому +64

      Now im not jewish but i support jewish people im from the us! Great ally of israel!

    • @scottya2745
      @scottya2745 5 років тому +199

      @@LampNTable Fuck Israel

    • @JP-wj2cz
      @JP-wj2cz 5 років тому +77

      @@whafflete6721 You would think changing the order of powers would reduce the chances of Mutual Assured Destruction. However, that would end the world because Russia has a planet-killing weapon in the case that Russia is destroyed; it sends warheads all over the world as a final response.

    • @JP-wj2cz
      @JP-wj2cz 5 років тому +51

      @@whafflete6721 I'm pro American, but Russia has some Shit I wouldn't fuck with.

    • @hobgoblinhollow4966
      @hobgoblinhollow4966 5 років тому +5

      Uncultured people!! Do you not know Switzerland is the Pharohs house? Where did the Swissie really come from? Blind hatred is first documented by Pharohs priests as a tool to keep truths hidden.

  • @aheinz308
    @aheinz308 4 роки тому +2019

    Everyone: WHO DONE IT!?
    San Marino: They'll never suspect me.

  • @braccounts561
    @braccounts561 5 років тому +1458

    imagine being a fish and a nuclear bomb randomly gets dropped right on top of you

    • @warblerblue
      @warblerblue 5 років тому +95

      That's how sea monsters are created.

    • @allahspreadshate6486
      @allahspreadshate6486 4 роки тому +23

      That'd be handy, I'm starving.

    • @jochen__
      @jochen__ 4 роки тому +14

      Well, F

    • @budakbaongsiah
      @budakbaongsiah 4 роки тому +22

      Summoning Cthulhu in a modern way!

    • @greannysmith
      @greannysmith 4 роки тому +9

      Atomic bomb: mistakes were made
      Atomic bomb has been kicked from the lobby

  • @dandanthedandan7558
    @dandanthedandan7558 5 років тому +2653

    Perfect timing. I just watched the video on what happened if you explode all nuclear bombs at once over on Kurgesagt.

  • @solar_bionic115
    @solar_bionic115 5 років тому +959

    The Vela incident was doof testing his atom bomb inator

    • @jasonswiatkowski9127
      @jasonswiatkowski9127 5 років тому +64

      Good thing Agent P stopped the plot.

    • @htjes82
      @htjes82 4 роки тому +11

      This is by far the best comment.

    • @VincentFarides1776
      @VincentFarides1776 4 роки тому +9

      The light was from when it self destructed.

    • @adityaupasani7584
      @adityaupasani7584 4 роки тому +14

      Doofishmertz Evil Incorporated! Who read it in the tune?

    • @Cħris
      @Cħris 4 роки тому +16

      This is his secret to conquer the… *TRI-STATE AREA*

  • @4ltrz555
    @4ltrz555 5 років тому +3975

    Reallifelore and kurzgesagt upload on the same day, and both the videos are about nuclear bombs. Coincidence?
    I think not.

    • @potatojake197
      @potatojake197 5 років тому +8

      same

    • @Eira_99
      @Eira_99 5 років тому +48

      Also this is only 8 seconds longer.

    • @khoihoangngocanh7824
      @khoihoangngocanh7824 5 років тому +44

      Just like south Africa and Israel, hmmmmm

    • @alexfactory5426
      @alexfactory5426 5 років тому +12

      To be exact; the video was first uploaded on their German UA-cam Channel about 1 moth ago.

    • @muddymooshroom6878
      @muddymooshroom6878 5 років тому +4

      CreeperGuyHQ this has happened before too

  • @remrem9095
    @remrem9095 5 років тому +770

    1:01 A *Typhoon* Was Active In The Indian Ocean?
    Skipper:Kowalski Analysis

  • @ijent3819
    @ijent3819 5 років тому +2454

    "Lets try to nuke a typhoon guys"
    - some secret government with nothing to do

    • @kavikkang9411
      @kavikkang9411 4 роки тому +5

      @Juke JointYou've been brainwashed, seek deprogramming!

    • @kavikkang9411
      @kavikkang9411 4 роки тому +5

      @Juke Joint I am a cold warrior and an Eisenhower republican... an actual American. That's not your "Boogeyman Trump", that idea has been around for decades and comes from scientists. It is a potentially good idea. A nuclear weapon is not nearly powerful as most civilians believe it too be. If a tiny 100-200kt weapon could disperse a hurricane that was about to do millions of dollars of damage too the coast... that would be a GREAT idea and a great thing to do. A single 200kt explosion at sea is nothing, and would stop the hurricane. You've just been brainwashed to be obsessed withy your boogey man Trump, and fooled into believing that he is guilty of the Traitor Obama's crimes. Nope. Bush & Trump = American. Traitor Obama = KGB, using the ways and tactics of Vladimir Lenin. You are a moron who does not know history.

    • @brucesmith54
      @brucesmith54 4 роки тому +45

      @@kavikkang9411
      What you have just said, is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response, were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone here is now dumber for having read it.

    • @kavikkang9411
      @kavikkang9411 4 роки тому +2

      @@brucesmith54 Meanwhile, back here in realty, I am one of the top experts in the entire world in the subject and you are a know nothing civilian who knows absolutely nothing about it. Every word I said is verifiably accurate and true, and you literally don't know the first thing about the subject. Welcome back to reali8ty, know nothing civilian.

    • @kavikkang9411
      @kavikkang9411 4 роки тому

      @@brucesmith54 Oh, and by the way... a nuclear weapon is a firecracker compared to the world ending appocolyptic event ignorant people like you believe it too be. If we set off a 20 megaton nuke in Nevada right now, you wouldn't know it unless the media told you about it. It would have no noticeable effect anywhere outside of the test site. You are an ignorant moron.

  • @sunjaeeeee
    @sunjaeeeee 5 років тому +1106

    Obviously they were trying to see of a nuke can stop the typhoon like duh

    • @The-ct1xq
      @The-ct1xq 5 років тому +12

      RLL made a video on that

    • @sunjaeeeee
      @sunjaeeeee 5 років тому +21

      @@The-ct1xq thats why i said that

    • @The-ct1xq
      @The-ct1xq 5 років тому +1

      🤪

    • @camfg8908
      @camfg8908 5 років тому +13

      I actually had an idea that we could use nukes to destroy huge storms but guys immediately told me I am crazy so I had to admit my idea was really bad

    • @Cycl_ps
      @Cycl_ps 5 років тому +5

      @@camfg8908 It's an idea that has apparently been going around for half a century. NOAA has a page of their website dedicated to debunking it.

  • @davidbarnard1409
    @davidbarnard1409 5 років тому +459

    It was when the first terminator was sent back in time....
    He materialized over the Indian Ocean. It took him another 5 years to walk under water to Los Angeles to kills Sarah Connor

  • @jkerman5113
    @jkerman5113 4 роки тому +1418

    "And an island owned by South afric..."
    Me: it was south africa

    • @puncheex2
      @puncheex2 4 роки тому +40

      Ummmm, actually, the Vela satellite had no directional data for the flash; it could have happened anywhere over about an eighth of the globe, which includes a large piece of Africa and a wide expanse of the southern Indian Ocean.

    • @SofaKingShit
      @SofaKingShit 4 роки тому +130

      Also Israel. Apparently apartheid states stick together.

    • @jkerman5113
      @jkerman5113 4 роки тому +37

      @@baseballworldwide9439 Lmao I was just making a joke about how South Africa developed nukes when they weren't really supposed to but now we're talking about slavery apparently

    • @John1873--
      @John1873-- 4 роки тому +1

      @@YeeterTheFirst do you always speak this much pish on youtube?

    • @YeeterTheFirst
      @YeeterTheFirst 4 роки тому +5

      @@John1873-- Only on Tuesdays

  • @Zachhwithanhnotak
    @Zachhwithanhnotak 4 роки тому +165

    I really did not know that Cuba went to war with South Africa on Angola's behalf. What a bizarre scenario. I love these videos so much, they're all so full of intriguing histories from around the world.

    • @ericv1989
      @ericv1989 2 роки тому +11

      The same here. (BTW, I think Israel and South Africa tested a couple of hydrogen bombs that fateful day.)

    • @GAMEINN-cf8yy
      @GAMEINN-cf8yy 2 роки тому

      Sounds like they tried to blow up a Hurricane🌀Guess it didn't work, IDIOTS!🙄

    • @AA-hg5fk
      @AA-hg5fk 2 роки тому +1

      Completely makes sense in the context of the cold war, as you know Castro was in charge of Cuba at the time

    • @Wither5000
      @Wither5000 2 роки тому +3

      I live South Africa. What happend was that our old Apartheid government was very Pro-America. So, While the Cold War was going on we helped put down communist governments in other countries on behalf of the US. We did have 6 Nuclear Weapons, But they were disassembled. Cuba was Communist so they helped the Angolan Civil War on behalf of the communist.

    • @SilverHayze
      @SilverHayze 2 роки тому

      The Cubans got their arse handed to them. The best thing the old apartheid government did was to dismantle the bombs before handing over control of the country. The ANC would have tried to use them as canoes or something stupid

  • @siristheslayer1923
    @siristheslayer1923 5 років тому +191

    Secretly detonating nuclear bombs
    *SNEAK 100*

  • @micheledeetlefs6041
    @micheledeetlefs6041 4 роки тому +55

    I am married to a South African. My father in law is a retired special forces operative from the country. In SA, they know exactly what it was. Israel, who wasn't supposed to have nukes at the time but was well known to have had them, taught South Africa how to make them. This was a test of their bomb.

    • @piet8803
      @piet8803 Рік тому +2

      I know for a fact we tested a nuke.

    • @fanaticcoder3320
      @fanaticcoder3320 Рік тому

      @@piet8803 SA have nukes? today?

    • @piet8803
      @piet8803 Рік тому +4

      @@fanaticcoder3320 That I can not say for a fact, but we were told that they were dismantled I think in 1993 or somewhere around that time. The west did not like that we became such a powerful country.

    • @chouseification
      @chouseification Рік тому

      @@fanaticcoder3320 no... definitely not. The old (white racist) National Party, which ruled South Africa under their odd "apartheid" (literally "separateness" - i.e. they shall not live with us) regime was the one who developed the nukes, as a threat to their less advanced neighbors who they often got into conflict with, often due to said astonishingly racist policies.
      When it was obvious that the NP wasn't going to remain in power much longer, De Klerk had them dismantled. They were only "Fat Man" type of bombs essentially (~15-50 Kt range, so pretty small), although apparently with a safety system based around filling the inner cavity in the weapon with a metal chain... to arm the weapon, you'd first need to pull that chain out. With it in there, even if firing circuits went off, you'd get a fizzle not a pop.

    • @lukeshacks
      @lukeshacks Рік тому +1

      @@piet8803bro you are the west.

  • @thegreat0220
    @thegreat0220 5 років тому +952

    Nobody got caught because they used Skillshare
    Wait...

    • @tiberiu_nicolae
      @tiberiu_nicolae 5 років тому +25

      Tunnel bear? Nord VPN?

    • @ijh4888
      @ijh4888 5 років тому +7

      incognito mode

    • @chuckky8718
      @chuckky8718 5 років тому +3

      Use CuriosityStream to... uhh...

    • @FIATS76
      @FIATS76 5 років тому +1

      It was caused by aliens after they detonated a self destruct bomb sinking the oil-ore tanker, MS Berge Vanga en route from Brazil to Japan, in the process. It's all there, in the fiction novel A DROP IN THE OCEAN by James Cooke, available on Amazon kindle.

    • @NiteStorm324
      @NiteStorm324 4 роки тому +3

      *SPONSORED BY BRILLIANT*

  • @Spudworm891
    @Spudworm891 5 років тому +24

    This is one of my favourite mysteries/conspiracies, there’s not enough high quality videos about it on UA-cam, which makes me happy that you’re doing it.

  • @troubledspirit3328
    @troubledspirit3328 5 років тому +201

    Unless totally arrogant, the one who farts is usually the first to deny it

    • @pikmaniac2643
      @pikmaniac2643 4 роки тому +10

      I would agree but with the addition of the clause that they are not also the first accused beforehand. Otherwise, it only makes sense, innocent or guilty, that they would be first to deny.

    • @troubledspirit3328
      @troubledspirit3328 4 роки тому +2

      @@pikmaniac2643 Very astute.

    • @Krakatov
      @Krakatov 3 роки тому +1

      Are you suggesting that real life lore was responsible?

  • @TheBunnyYT
    @TheBunnyYT 5 років тому +731

    Don’t let this video distract you from the fact that geico can save you 15% or more on car insurance

    • @stephenhill273
      @stephenhill273 5 років тому +19

      Thanks I almost forgot about that

    • @basicallyme8205
      @basicallyme8205 5 років тому +25

      Need that for my Toyota corolla...

    • @con-job2.037
      @con-job2.037 5 років тому +2

      I was siezing up untill I read this because I needed some car insurance and I couldn't find any
      So... thank you for reminding me.

    • @vendetta3941
      @vendetta3941 5 років тому

      😂

    • @m_i_g_5108
      @m_i_g_5108 5 років тому +2

      Here we have a classic, ladies and gentlemen. One of my favorites if I can say so!

  • @darthsilversith667
    @darthsilversith667 5 років тому +468

    It was clearly the Indian government fighting Godzilla.

    • @flagmichael
      @flagmichael 4 роки тому +26

      Fool! Atomic radiation makes Godzilla more powerful. It's all over the internet.

    • @Clone3A7
      @Clone3A7 4 роки тому +5

      I called it.

    • @diwakarkumar4890
      @diwakarkumar4890 3 роки тому +6

      At that time India didn't have any nuclear weapons.

    • @darthsilversith667
      @darthsilversith667 3 роки тому +11

      @@diwakarkumar4890 That you know about 🧐

    • @monkestronk1227
      @monkestronk1227 3 роки тому +11

      @@diwakarkumar4890 That's what the government wants you to believe. India clearly nuked godzilla

  • @kcharles8857
    @kcharles8857 5 років тому +235

    Wasn't it South Africa? I thought that was generally acknowledged.

    • @ThePatriotzz
      @ThePatriotzz 5 років тому +17

      You are right! It was confirmed by USA.

    • @johnfinnan5383
      @johnfinnan5383 5 років тому +120

      America would have had no reason to protect South Africa's lies, nor would Mandela have a need to protect Apartheid era secrets.
      America has always protected Israeli secrets though.

    • @meesalikeu
      @meesalikeu 5 років тому +1

      John Finnan not always, but lately.

    • @Dawgreen
      @Dawgreen 5 років тому +67

      Wasn't a South African test. It was an Israeli test with assistance from South Africa.

    • @wtfbros5110
      @wtfbros5110 4 роки тому +13

      Plot twist: it was Madagascar

  • @coolingheat5644
    @coolingheat5644 5 років тому +389

    The real question is.... how many *toyota corollas* were destroyed?

  • @OFfic3R1K
    @OFfic3R1K 5 років тому +226

    One question remains. What is the point of having nuclear weapons as a deterrent if they stay a secret even after so many years and consequently fail to deter anybody.

    • @scottmatheson3346
      @scottmatheson3346 5 років тому +44

      We hear you, dr strangelove, but what if it's not actually a secret because everybody knows you have nuclear weapons you are keeping secret from the world?

    • @AJZulu
      @AJZulu 5 років тому +17

      It wasn't really a secret.

    • @ergog634
      @ergog634 5 років тому +76

      Israel maintains a policy of deliberate ambiguity regarding possession of nuclear weapons. Would you be game to try and overrun them and force them to be used? Want to take that bet?

    • @flagmichael
      @flagmichael 4 роки тому +12

      @@ergog634 The most common estimate is they have between 100 and 300 nuclear warheads. Of course, it is anybody's guess.

    • @chakraborty1989
      @chakraborty1989 4 роки тому +12

      That's why the term 'open secret" exist.

  • @Ranger_Dewie
    @Ranger_Dewie 2 роки тому +15

    I have relatives that were in the South African armed forces, both fighting on the borders against communism and in development and production of military technology during this time. Listening to their stories, there is no doubt in my mind it was Israeli/South African Nuclear tests.

  • @Fr4ncM
    @Fr4ncM 5 років тому +736

    Imagine WWIII starting with South Africa nuking Cuba. LMAO

    • @FlatlandsSurvivor
      @FlatlandsSurvivor 5 років тому +99

      Francis Marino that sounds like Hearts of Iron gone wrong

    • @davidbodor1762
      @davidbodor1762 5 років тому +12

      Luckily they;re not at war anymore. It wouldn;t really be funny if that happened.

    • @eggsontoastandtea6356
      @eggsontoastandtea6356 5 років тому +19

      Hoi4 type shit

    • @thorgodofthunder5086
      @thorgodofthunder5086 5 років тому +1

      Well I got some news for you

    • @alphaomega3499
      @alphaomega3499 5 років тому +7

      Many of them fought against Cuban troops in the 70s and 80s in Angola.

  • @idontlikelasagne7211
    @idontlikelasagne7211 5 років тому +247

    Damn both Kurzgesagt and RLL upload a video about nuclear explosions. Coincidence? I hope so.

    • @davidtitanium22
      @davidtitanium22 5 років тому +12

      Incoming nuclear winter confirmed

    • @agungpriambodo1674
      @agungpriambodo1674 5 років тому +1

      maybe they made a nuke together with knowledge from Skillshare

  • @itsdark17
    @itsdark17 4 роки тому +57

    That “Arekibo” pronounciation of Arecibo in Puerto Rico mad eme laugh :)))

    • @sneeka2
      @sneeka2 3 роки тому +5

      That and AparTHeid…

  • @er1115
    @er1115 5 років тому +123

    Chuck Norris farted while swimming across ocean.

    • @petejones4808
      @petejones4808 5 років тому +1

      Chuck Norris maybe?

    • @johnniner7582
      @johnniner7582 4 роки тому +5

      Moses parted a sea. Chuck Norris's ass and gas farted and parted an ocean via nuclear fusion his ass and gas created. Urassium

    • @mrlovely2008
      @mrlovely2008 4 роки тому +4

      Wrong! Chuck Norris walks on water cause the water is too scared to get him wet!

  • @dylvasey
    @dylvasey 5 років тому +443

    This has been solved. It was the South Africans and the Israelites.

    • @Teyrxq8
      @Teyrxq8 5 років тому +76

      The Israelites are not alive anymore, i think you mean zionists

    • @dylvasey
      @dylvasey 5 років тому +65

      @@Teyrxq8 Hahaha ... I've just noticed that. It should have said Israelis ....... Bloody autocorrect!

    • @Thespanglerangler
      @Thespanglerangler 5 років тому +64

      dylan vasey *South Africa and the foreign occupation of Palestine.

    • @dylvasey
      @dylvasey 5 років тому +17

      @@Thespanglerangler I'll roll with that also ha.

    • @albar2989
      @albar2989 5 років тому +15

      @@Teyrxq8 hell yeah, we're here. never left the middle east with constant historical and archaeological record spanning way before you invaded from Arabia. before the Greeks and Romans came to the region, before Cyrus the great was even conceived.

  • @Youre_Right
    @Youre_Right 5 років тому +214

    South Africa and Israeli nuclear test. Solved a long time ago. High levels of Iodine were detected in Australia.

    • @jacobreed7585
      @jacobreed7585 4 роки тому +5

      And where did you learn this information?

    • @Youre_Right
      @Youre_Right 4 роки тому +15

      West Coast Incorporated Google it dunce its all over the internet

    • @jacobreed7585
      @jacobreed7585 4 роки тому +12

      You're Right says that no where and “it dunce”

    • @flagmichael
      @flagmichael 4 роки тому +28

      @@Youre_Right The internet never lies! In any case, it does not address the conundrum of performing such a test: that it would have been much simpler to conduct a secret underground test. Assigning this to Israel requires assuming the Israeli government is incompetent. Their history suggests otherwise.

    • @blackwidowrsa
      @blackwidowrsa 4 роки тому +4

      We had nuclear weapons, they were destroyed before the ANC took over

  • @anandagaire5929
    @anandagaire5929 5 років тому +558

    97% comments : Kurzgesagt Vs RLL
    2% comments : Related to this video
    Remaining 1%: Geico insurance and other bullstack. 😂 😂 😂 😂

    • @FoxyBoxery
      @FoxyBoxery 5 років тому +9

      *GeT y0uR gE!K0 iN$uR@NcE wItH 15% 0fF!!!*

    • @GeniusEngineering
      @GeniusEngineering 5 років тому +8

      This comment is 100% accurate.

    • @benjaminzalepa
      @benjaminzalepa 5 років тому +1

      This comment is all 3

    • @elvato_420
      @elvato_420 5 років тому

      0.001% this comment and its replies :v

    • @TheBunnyYT
      @TheBunnyYT 5 років тому +1

      Let’s go that was my comment!

  • @grmnwolf6765
    @grmnwolf6765 5 років тому +25

    I just talked to my old science teacher, he has a Toyota

    • @lechekiller636
      @lechekiller636 5 років тому +1

      CanadaWolf1272 I needed this information

  • @harter517
    @harter517 4 роки тому +90

    Great videos. All of them.
    For future reference:
    In the South Indian Ocean, it would be a “cyclone”, not a “typhoon”’.
    Typhoons are the term for tropical cyclonic storms in the Northern Hemisphere part of the Western Pacific. In the Indian Ocean and Southern Hemisphere part of the Western Pacific, they are Cyclones. In the Eastern Pacific and The Atlantic, they are Hurricanes.

    • @PremierCCGuyMMXVI
      @PremierCCGuyMMXVI 2 роки тому +8

      Although it’s important to note that technically hurricanes, typhoons, and cyclones are technically the same storm known scientifically as tropical cyclones. A generic cyclone is any low pressure zone. But yeah I see what you mean.

    • @heinzhaupthaar5590
      @heinzhaupthaar5590 2 роки тому

      So, what's the reasoning behind three different names for the same phenomenon?
      Or is it just one of those things that came to be basically by accident/coincidence/whatever and are kept up due to our overwhelming stupidity?

    • @peardude8979
      @peardude8979 2 роки тому +2

      @@heinzhaupthaar5590 People who live in these places historically called the storms different things, so it's easier to change what the storm is called depending on where it is than trying to convince 2 other regions to call it something different.

    • @george.vasilev.reyner1916
      @george.vasilev.reyner1916 2 роки тому

      The question is who gives a shit?

  • @Snapmare_
    @Snapmare_ 5 років тому +8

    _you're making chernobyl jealous_

  • @uweedewee9943
    @uweedewee9943 5 років тому +5

    I love real life lore I have been watching him for almost 2 years now and any time I see his new video I instantly watch it. Thank you for always uploading

  • @drlegendre
    @drlegendre 3 роки тому +41

    It would be interesting to learn whether they intentionally targeted the typhoon, as an experiment to see if it could dissipate or otherwise weaken / divert the storm.

  • @gartrux
    @gartrux 3 роки тому +16

    Fun fact: South Africa had nukes, and they told the world after they got rid of them

    • @forstaken2254
      @forstaken2254 3 роки тому

      Because the soviets where trying to overthrow the Apartheid regime

    • @angusyang5917
      @angusyang5917 3 роки тому +1

      b/c they didn't trust a black government w/ nukes (which is pretty racist, but in hindsight, that was a good thing)

    • @anatoldenevers237
      @anatoldenevers237 3 роки тому +1

      @@angusyang5917 wait why was it a good thing? I don’t know much about this

    • @QWERTY-gp8fd
      @QWERTY-gp8fd 3 роки тому +1

      @@anatoldenevers237 now look at current south africa.

  • @NicWalker627
    @NicWalker627 5 років тому +44

    it is particularly mysterious, isnt it. however, the stock footage of the "scientists" is absolutely hilarious.

  • @davidtacy2594
    @davidtacy2594 2 роки тому +1

    Dude, you’ve grown a lot in these past 3 years, but your stuff has ALWAYS been great. You are a very talented creator.

  • @Ayoosi
    @Ayoosi Рік тому +6

    The Vela 9 incident has long fascinated me.While I was studying nuclear weapons policy in uni, we discussed this a bit. Very strong rumors from ex-intel agents report that it was a test hosted by Safrika and Isreal, like you said. Where it gets interesting is, the test was of an ERW (enhanced radiation weapons), basically a neutron bomb, designed to produce more neutrons than a "standard" nuclear detonation. You cannot generate neutrons on this scale without SOME form of nuclear detonation, which is why the US eventually stopped using ERWs ourselves-- propaganda made them out to be "clean" bombs that only killed living tissue and left everything else, but that's not true and the benefits of the EMP/neutrons don't really outweigh detonating a nuclear device in the first place. Anyway, the rumors state that SA/I used something like an old bank vault built into the ground, an ERW weapon which produces much less residual radation, and conducted the test during a typhoon to suppress/disperse radiation in the air.

    • @fanaticcoder3320
      @fanaticcoder3320 Рік тому

      Still why they couldn't find anything? an ERW should have more radiation levels, right? do you think US were hand-in-gloves with Israel that time?

  • @tiptopdadddy
    @tiptopdadddy 4 роки тому +8

    Israel and SA were collaborating militarily at the time, notably the R4 rifle which was ostensibly an Israeli Galil, among many others.

    • @509Gman
      @509Gman 2 роки тому

      The Israeli Galil is itself a “copy” of the Finnish RK series of rifles, themselves “copies” of the Soviet AKM (which borrowed features from the American M1 rifle [named after its Québécois inventor, John C Garand]). Rifle designs are not great indicators of collusion.

  • @1TakoyakiStore
    @1TakoyakiStore 5 років тому +75

    I wouldn't say this is the greatest Nuclear mystery ever. I would personally give that title to the Banjawarn Station seismic event in Western Australia back in 1993.

    • @marcopohl4875
      @marcopohl4875 3 роки тому +8

      I would give it to the soviet nukes that they... kinda... sorta... lost

    • @UXB1000
      @UXB1000 3 роки тому +3

      Wasn't that the place owned by the Aum Shinrikyo group around that time?
      Maybe they had something to do with it.

    • @Mister_Pedantic
      @Mister_Pedantic 2 роки тому

      What about the nuke that Japan tested in what is now called North Korea?

  • @HTPCYMC
    @HTPCYMC 5 років тому +6

    You can’t detonate a nuclear bomb if it doesn’t exist.

    • @suvi8118
      @suvi8118 5 років тому

      *Kim Jong Un wants to know your location*

  • @ladderking
    @ladderking 4 роки тому +17

    3:22 look at these scientists with their vr goggles and 3d printers

  • @Petriefied0246
    @Petriefied0246 3 роки тому +18

    I'm pretty sure that one of the scientists involved admitted to it and that it was one of a dozen tests that they conducted. They knew about the satellites and had conducted them only on overcast days; the Vela incident was simply an unlucky break in the cloud that made the detonation visible from space.

    • @schnoodle3
      @schnoodle3 3 роки тому +2

      that kind of light isn't going to get blocked by any amount of clouds

    • @Petriefied0246
      @Petriefied0246 3 роки тому +4

      @@schnoodle3 it does actually.

  • @davehendricks4824
    @davehendricks4824 5 років тому +15

    The US jumped in to investigate right away. He who smelt it, dealt it.

    • @goji059
      @goji059 5 років тому +1

      @Adventure Inc lol you're referencing something, that i doubt you were even alive when it happened, and most certainly not on the ship if you were, STFU

    • @kari7403
      @kari7403 5 років тому

      @@goji059 how does that hold relevance? I wasn't alive during Pearl Harbor, and obviously wasn't on any of the ships. Though my great uncle and his brother were. One saved the other, after he was thrown into the burning ocean from the USS Utah. And it's something I wont forget had occurred.

    • @willblack7353
      @willblack7353 3 роки тому +1

      @Dr. Bright Why would they attack us? Where is the motive? Stop making a fool of yourself, it has been confirmed to be an accidental friendly fire incident. If they did it for malicious purposes, they wouldn't have immediately contacted the US embassy. Just... stop.

  • @jamesodom4980
    @jamesodom4980 4 роки тому +3

    This video was sponsored by my right thumb instantly tapping the right side of my screen two times every time I watch one of your videos to skip the inevitable ad.

  • @ComaDave
    @ComaDave 5 років тому +79

    Required reading: "The Samson Option" by Seymour Hersh.
    An historical overview of just how far certain countries would look the other way, while a certain country quietly built an arsenal of a few hundred nuclear weapons, and on occasion...cooperated with another fledgling nuclear power, aka The Vela Incident.

    •  2 роки тому +1

      Good for them 👍

    • @Mister_Pedantic
      @Mister_Pedantic 2 роки тому +2

      @ No more lining up and getting on trains. Never again.

    • @constitution_8939
      @constitution_8939 2 роки тому

      @ ComaDave ---- I read that about 1995 or earlier and why I posted this:
      It Definitely WAS a joint collaboration between S. Africa & Israel and was the test of a Nuclear Artillery Shell. Why did Israel Not want this information disclosed? A very good reason, because Israel is Not supposed to have Nuclear Weapon but it Definitely DOES and was proved by Mordechai Vanunu aka "John Crossman" who is a former Israeli nuclear technician who exposed Israel's Nuclear Weapons Program to the British press in 1986.
      Vanunu was a junior nuclear technician at the Nuclear Research Center at Dimona, Israel who exposed Israel's production of Nuclear Weapons and took 57 photos inside the facility to prove it. Google his name if you want more info on him and his deed's.
      By U.S. Law, Israel who never signed the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty and is in Extreme Violation of it should be, for Any other Country but Israel get's a Pass, suspended from All import of American Arms and money but continues to annually receive 3+ Billion dollars for a country will under 9 million people in whereas the infrastructure of roads, bridges, tunnels and sidewalks that are in Great need of repair and replacement in America go without but the States have No money to take care of these important things in Our Own Country or to help it's own citizen's but 3 Billion can be found Every year to give to Israel who spies and steals more technology secrets from the U.S. than Russia and China combined and sells this technology to China. Israel is No Friend or Ally of the U.S. and is responsible via it's Agent's in Congress of flooding America with millions of Turd World low I.Q. subversives by keeping Our Border's Open and a Lot more to Destroy America than 99% of the population would Ever know or believe. This M.E. Pirhana need's to be cut adrift from America and it's subversive Agent's in Congress Hanged and the Entire Tribe needs to be EXPELLED ASAP before We are a Turd World Nation ourselves!!

  • @mysteriousDSF
    @mysteriousDSF 5 років тому +5

    If I had a dollar every time I saw this footage 3:30 of scientists in a UA-cam video I could buy a fairly decent lawnmower

  • @ILoooooveCamels
    @ILoooooveCamels 5 років тому +46

    Netanyahu accidentally called Israel a nuclear power yesterday lol

    • @ILoooooveCamels
      @ILoooooveCamels 5 років тому +5

      @malikail57 the accident was admitting it

    • @ILoooooveCamels
      @ILoooooveCamels 5 років тому

      @malikail57 no, I could have been more clear 😁

    • @ILoooooveCamels
      @ILoooooveCamels 4 роки тому

      @Cheryl It was always assumed but never confirmed.

    • @thesalandarian3314
      @thesalandarian3314 4 роки тому

      STAHPIIIT nuclear power doesn’t mean you have nuclear bombs

    • @ILoooooveCamels
      @ILoooooveCamels 4 роки тому +1

      @@thesalandarian3314 calling yourself "a nuclear power" does

  • @Durag_sensei
    @Durag_sensei 4 роки тому +8

    These aren’t poorly made videos, I love this channel

    • @isaiahdavis4050
      @isaiahdavis4050 3 роки тому

      If these are poorly made videos, I don't want to be rich!

  • @pijim96
    @pijim96 5 років тому +9

    This was done by South Africa. Remember South Africa had nuclear technology at that time.

  • @udhambains8768
    @udhambains8768 5 років тому +41

    When kurzgesagt and rll both create videos about nukes
    Coincidence I think not

  • @InfiniteInspirationInc
    @InfiniteInspirationInc 3 роки тому +6

    Anyone else here after watching LSM Knockback on Metal Gear Solid 3?

  • @NewbyTon
    @NewbyTon 5 років тому +57

    Michael Bay: [Visible confusion]

  • @David_Gonzalez_
    @David_Gonzalez_ 5 років тому +32

    Arecibo (the name of the observatory in Puerto Rico) is pronounced “A re cee bo” :)

    • @Floridaman1780_
      @Floridaman1780_ 5 років тому +4

      Yeah, he has a very strange and incorrect pronunciation of sorties as well.

    • @edwincamacho8755
      @edwincamacho8755 5 років тому

      R A C BO

    • @Pants4096
      @Pants4096 5 років тому +2

      @@Floridaman1780_ And apartheid. :\

    • @GregBreden
      @GregBreden 5 років тому +1

      Video makers should really check how to pronounce words with odd spellings, there's loads of places online where you can check-up, even UA-cam pronunciation videos. As a UK person I roll my eyes when Americans try to say Leicestershire or Worcestershire.

  • @MatthewBaileyBeAfraid
    @MatthewBaileyBeAfraid 4 роки тому +6

    They don’t seem to be mentioning that another such “incident” occurred in the Early/Mid-80s.
    And.... It WAS Israel/S. Africa. Israel basically had ALL of the Nuclear Scientists it needed (many who worked on the Manhattan Project) to create a nuclear weapon, as well as several sources of fissile materials out of which to make them.

    • @nutyyyy
      @nutyyyy 2 роки тому

      Yes they definitely possess nuclear weapons today and its a pretty open secret. South Africa also developed several bombs.

  • @AverytheCubanAmerican
    @AverytheCubanAmerican 5 років тому +43

    I represented apartheid-era South Africa in a historical security council about the Yom Kippur War in Model UN and my nation secretly sending uranium to Israel for the war was the crisis. Yeah it was interesting that South Africa was developing weapons of mass destruction

  • @JordiVanderwaal
    @JordiVanderwaal 3 роки тому +3

    So, it was a nuclear test, but we still don't know* by whom. Amazing.
    *we "know" but we cannot officially confirm it yet

  • @andrewlyon9292
    @andrewlyon9292 3 роки тому

    I love this channel so much

  • @anyon3577
    @anyon3577 5 років тому +7

    I still feel like RLL, Second Thought and Kurzgesagt are the same person operating on 3 different UA-cam Channel

  • @wallj8720
    @wallj8720 5 років тому +23

    *Kurzgesagt uploads nuclear bomb video several hours earlier*
    Me: clearly kurzgesagt did it.

  • @thatone1280
    @thatone1280 4 роки тому

    Day by Day rllore is becoming my favourite channel

  • @a.h.543
    @a.h.543 5 років тому +150

    Kurzgesagt uploaded on the same day as RLL.
    Coincidence?
    Mysterious?
    Hotel?
    Trivago...

    • @Jdog13425
      @Jdog13425 5 років тому

      LOL

    • @jameslyddall
      @jameslyddall 5 років тому +1

      Oxi Clean this comment is why I love comment sections lol

  • @techy73chy
    @techy73chy 5 років тому +6

    just dropping a quick comment to say arecibo is pronounced air-uh-see-bow, not ar-i-kai-bow. i loved the video on the whole, well researched and presented.

  • @TNT-zv2hk
    @TNT-zv2hk 4 роки тому +1

    1:38 i actually live very close to the airforce museum. Wright Patterson Airforce base

  • @abbysapples1225
    @abbysapples1225 5 років тому +5

    That was a very interesting story. Never heard anything like it

  • @lachlankeddie7
    @lachlankeddie7 5 років тому +16

    Y'all talking about Kurgezat, but HAI already mentioned this ages ago in their piece about Bouvet Island....

  • @sirandrelefaedelinoge
    @sirandrelefaedelinoge 3 роки тому +1

    This was Marvin the Martian testing his *Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator...*

  • @curtis_haring
    @curtis_haring 5 років тому +3

    3:49 I bet one of the reasons the world's top scientists couldn't find an answer to the Vela Incident was because they spend too much time explaining how to use a Mac keyboard.

  • @Retravox
    @Retravox 5 років тому +5

    The video thumbnail:
    Me: _I see what you did there_

  • @Robert_Douglass
    @Robert_Douglass 5 років тому +17

    3:05 Arecibo is pronounced AH-REH-SEE-BOW, not A-RAH-KIE-BOW

    • @czerskip
      @czerskip 4 роки тому

      It felt like needless in my ears…

    • @joeldavid0426
      @joeldavid0426 4 роки тому

      I was gonna say the same

    • @bastard-took-the-name-I-had
      @bastard-took-the-name-I-had 4 роки тому

      I'm pretty sure bad pronounction never harmed anyone directly, just let it be

    • @kevandeg
      @kevandeg 3 роки тому

      *was

    • @CarFreeSegnitz
      @CarFreeSegnitz 3 роки тому

      Now I pronounce it “smoking ruin in Puerto Rico”.

  • @StevenRosario2025
    @StevenRosario2025 5 років тому +21

    Not tryna be a jerk. you put together a high quality product and I just wanted to make sure that you are as factually (and generally) correct as possible.
    The city in Puerto Rico that the facility is in is pronounced "Ah-re-see-boe". Half Dominican, half Puerto Rican here. Can confirm.
    Also, fun fact, that facility was in 007: Goldeneye.
    Keep up the great work!!

    • @ems7623
      @ems7623 3 роки тому

      I remember when I was still young enough to get pronunciations wrong while talking about a topic i otherwise understood very well
      Graduate school hammered that out of me.
      I don't think we can fairly expect UA-camrs to get pronunciations correct when it's not in their native language, sadly. As much as it grates on me, i think i can suffer through it.
      But it's nice when UA-camrs bother to research correct pronunciation like television pros would, isn't it?

    • @509Gman
      @509Gman 2 роки тому

      For England, James?

  • @realzachfluke1
    @realzachfluke1 4 роки тому +20

    I feel like it was just a large meteor breaking up over the ocean. Most of them go undetected, because they explode so far away from life that we miss them, unless a satellite picks them up for us.

    • @christianmiller9934
      @christianmiller9934 9 місяців тому

      Mmm in this case no if it was a meteor it would just be a single flash streak this was a double flash in a circular area plus high levels of iodine were detected in Australia a few days later. Also many have confirmed it was a secret test between South Africa and Israel

  • @qwonkisdaddy2900
    @qwonkisdaddy2900 5 років тому +72

    Fml I thought it said.
    The Vulva Incident: Greatest Nuclear Mystery Ever

  • @psylosopher369
    @psylosopher369 5 років тому +20

    Most wizardry, mystery and magic starts with the letter I and ends with sraël.
    A real nuclear mystery: "Galen Winsor"

    • @soheil527
      @soheil527 4 роки тому

      most probably the Zionists since the US government under AIPAC kowtows to them

  • @ameliuslantea1789
    @ameliuslantea1789 5 років тому +10

    Couldn't it be one of the "lost" atomic bombs which sunk into the ocean and ignited many years later by some event like an undersea-quake?

    • @fortzprod.8096
      @fortzprod.8096 5 років тому

      Amelius 92 hmm that’s actually a good theory.

    • @MJonMBoviM
      @MJonMBoviM 5 років тому +3

      Nukes cant just detonate like other conventional explosives. They work in an entirely different fashion

    • @anonb4632
      @anonb4632 5 років тому +2

      If it was underwater, it wouldn't detonate in this fashion but would look quite different.

    • @blooocki
      @blooocki 3 роки тому +2

      @@MJonMBoviM well the US once accidentally almost nuked themselves.
      They accidentally dropped a nuke out of a transport plane and upon landing 4 of the 5 safeties failed.
      If the 5th had failed it would have exploded.
      So a quake activating it isn't that far fetched.

    • @christianmiller9934
      @christianmiller9934 9 місяців тому

      @@blooockithere wouldn’t have been a flash underwater dummy

  • @Tocsin-Bang
    @Tocsin-Bang 5 років тому +1

    The double pulse was used by the United Kingdom Warning and Monitoring Organisation for detecting nuclear bursts. They used apparatus called AWDREY (Atomic Weapon Detection Recognition and Estimation of Yield). This detected both the optical pulse and low frequency radio (EMP) pulse.

  • @chrisnewport7826
    @chrisnewport7826 5 років тому +28

    I think it was a South Africa/ Israeli endeavor.

  • @locker125
    @locker125 5 років тому +4

    Never heard of the Vela Incident until this video was suggested.

  • @MrChispa06
    @MrChispa06 5 років тому

    It was probably a Secret Agent destroying a Nuclear Launch Pad from an evil villain wanting world domination.

  • @pegeonpera
    @pegeonpera 5 років тому +17

    *MH370* : The greatest _non-nuclear_ mystery ever...

  • @bytefoundry8702
    @bytefoundry8702 5 років тому +8

    Baby seals are tired of being clubbed so they’ve gone nuclear

  • @thokling361
    @thokling361 5 років тому +1

    Intense weather conditions often appear to exist alongside significant charge separation. An electrical discharge would easily present a flash.

  • @equalopportunityoffender1816
    @equalopportunityoffender1816 2 роки тому +8

    Of course Israel liked Apartheid South Africa, it's totally not like they copied their apartheid system to use against Palestinians.

  • @cranjismcbasketball1638
    @cranjismcbasketball1638 5 років тому +7

    4:07 makes me regret watching this at 3 am

  • @nobodyhere9849
    @nobodyhere9849 2 роки тому

    The music in this video is amazing

  • @simulify8726
    @simulify8726 5 років тому +10

    Each country detonates nuclear bomb on earth.
    So earth's answer to humans :
    "Am I joke to you?"

  • @VACATETHE48
    @VACATETHE48 5 років тому +13

    A tropical cyclone? There?
    No.

  • @roydexter6159
    @roydexter6159 3 роки тому +1

    Who done it?
    Surely the penguins were testing their own nukes!

  • @clebo99
    @clebo99 5 років тому +57

    It’s pronounced Air-I-see-bow. Aricebo.

  • @linkin0983
    @linkin0983 5 років тому +29

    3:08 The cringe I felt after how he pronounced Arecibo 😖😖

    • @alexfox1226
      @alexfox1226 5 років тому +5

      Eric Kaibo

    • @raygumm
      @raygumm 5 років тому +1

      SAME.
      Ara-SEE-boh..

    • @amprosk
      @amprosk 5 років тому

      Saaaaaaame wtf

    • @PrezVeto
      @PrezVeto 5 років тому

      I'm guessing he confused it with how he'd heard Maracaibo pronounced.

    • @josephleonard6695
      @josephleonard6695 5 років тому

      * 03:05

  • @starwarzchik112
    @starwarzchik112 3 роки тому +1

    Someone was just transforming into a Titan there.

  • @yumemirai4419
    @yumemirai4419 5 років тому +3

    Why's this at the top of my recommendations today...?

  • @kingjames4886
    @kingjames4886 3 роки тому +2

    I find it somewhat questionable that someone capable of building or somehow obtaining a nuke would think they could just pop one off and no one would notice...

    • @kadennelms8419
      @kadennelms8419 3 роки тому

      Like testing your new machine gun in an apartment building lmao
      Edit: I know it may look bad. I meant, like test firing it out the window into the air in your complex

    • @caniaccharlie
      @caniaccharlie 2 роки тому

      Look up a video on how the Kodak Film company busted the Manhattan Project, quite fascinating!

    • @kingjames4886
      @kingjames4886 2 роки тому

      @@caniaccharlie I've heard of that, quite interesting!

  • @daniels.7266
    @daniels.7266 4 роки тому +1

    1:02 aren’t those storms called cyclones over the Indian Ocean ?

  • @stevesymonds5494
    @stevesymonds5494 5 років тому +4

    This happened near a french island, mystery solved.

  • @LocalCowgirlDez
    @LocalCowgirlDez 5 років тому +28

    If you see this comment, have a good day

  • @GustavoGplay
    @GustavoGplay 4 роки тому +1

    - How do we stop our country from getting smashed by typhoons?
    - how about... We nuke the storm?

  • @NoNo-xh7ru
    @NoNo-xh7ru 5 років тому +5

    They probably just wanted to see if they could get away with it