10:43 and in Chernobyl too, but they didn't bother to do that in Bryanskaya oblast (it's in Belarus, I think). It's a neighboring region that got affected by fallout, so local rural area inhabitants have to grow potatoes to the "full" cycle (where potato skin becomes very thick) and peel it really well. And even then there's a lot more radiation than in "standard" potato. Still edible afaik.
Bryanskaya oblast is in Russia and it's not neighboring region of Chernobyl. Maybe you meant Gomel Oblast? It's neighboriing Chernobyl and is in Belorus
I'd recommend 'the knowledge' by Lewis Dartnell. It's a book about how to rebuild the world after an apocalypse, starting with basics like food and shelter and ending with technological innovation. I really enjoyed reading it, and if ur interested in this video, then you'll probably like it too. Idk, just a suggestion!
@@finndershood5557 dr stone doesn't cover a lot of shortcuts you can take with the resources we'd have though. you can make easy generators by salvaging washing/drying machines for their motors, and simply finding the best way to spin them in your environment. wind, water, slaves. with that alone, you could have power your first day if thats the priority. from there you can salvage and air-compressor and build basic, but still deadly air-cannons and air rifles for hunting or defense, thought electric farming machinery should be priority #1 so you can support more people for defense/labor, and produce enough food to negotiate out of any potential fights.
In Disney's animated film Atlantis: the lost empire, the expedition team are seen eating meals comprised entirely of bacon grease as it's the only food their cook (Cookie) has to serve them on the long journey. Could the various members of the Atlantis exploration party survive for the duration of their journey eating only bacon grease and remain healthy enough to continue their journey? Has there been a IRL equivelant situation? Common sense may indicate it's improbability but what does the science say? I wholly believe you are the right people for the task of answering these questions. Thank you and good luck.
I so want this to be a food theory! He could extend it to talking about surviving on one single food alone, talk about that guy that ate only mcdonalds for months as an experiment, the girl who only eats chicken nuggets and now gets sick if she eats anything else, and what the effect of only eating one food source has on the body. They could even look into what, if any, single food would be best to survive on if you could only eat one thing. Who knows maybe it will be bacon grease, nothing would surprise me with this show anymore.
Thank you for this info. As a boomer when I was younger, there was no internet so it was harder to find answers. But the biggest road block was all of society. Friends and family would usually discourage you from finding answers to radiation questions. People were afraid if we talked about it then it might happen. So, nobody talked about it. Again thanks.
*"We're running low on supplies. Looks like I'll have to forage for food."* He sounds like a very tired dad, having to go grocery shopping at 6pm on a Saturday
Sunflowers are proven to pull radiation from soil. So plant sunflowers in former garden areas then move 10 ft of topsoil from area you need to use now in mean time
you would think that in radiocative areas like chernobyl, there would be nothing left alive due to the radiation, but in chernobyl particulourly wildlife is actually thriving, there are bears, wolves, lynx, deer, moose, beavers, foxes, badgers, wild boar, raccoons, dogs, the rare russian buffalo, and more than 200 species of birds that have formed their own ecosystem within the Chernobyl disaster area.
If you look at the river monster episode based in chernobyl you actually see that the underwater poplation appears to be heavily affected. It is mainly due to the absence of humans that animals are thriving, but they are all several generations later. This would give them time to develop immunity because natural selection would become 'literally anyone without this mutation dies' instead of 'this one is slightly better. give it a few million years'
The thing that most bothers me about the Fallout series however is that it's been over 200 years since the nuclear exchange. And while things might not be perfectly safe, most of the radiation and fallout from the Great War will have long since been removed from the environment. Nuclear scientists believe that strontium-90 is one of the most dangerous isotopes created from a nuclear explosion, and that has a half life of 29 years. By the time of Fallout 4, 7.2 half lives have passed. That means that 99.7% of the strontium has decayed into zirconium. Radiation shouldn't be an issue really at all by that point.
Some isotopes are still really dangerous like plutonium-239 which has a half life of 24,100 years. So no it could be plutonium-239 (unless it is stated in the fallout wiki or the game that it is strontium-90 or another isotope with a short half life) so I might not be strontium-90 which has a half life of 29 years like you said.
Cole Camara Well the big concern with strontium 90 is that it acts chemically just like calcium so it gets deposited in our bones and teeth. And continues to emit radiation for decades. Everyone on earth today has at least some strontium 90 in their bones and teeth
I think it should be clear that Fallout is everything but scientifically accurate. The whole franchise was based on the idea to combine Fantasy RPG elements with a Post-apocalyptic setting. Super mutants are the orcs, ghoules are zombies, Brotherhood of Steel are the knights and so on. The first Fallout game even had dwarfs.
Tell this to most of grandmas and grandpas. They don't get sick when they cut off a part of fruit/veggie that was directly affected by mold (I mean you can see it). Probably it's because rest of mold that is left isn't enough to cause sickness.
I'd love to see some food theory on food mold! The difference in edible mold, inedible molds, and just how invisible it can be in food. I have a topical allergy to most molds so I'd be curious to see what you come up with for which food molds affect you more just being in the same room as them.
@Sebastian Freeman Do you mean book theory? If so, I’ve thought about that. The reason I don’t think it will be book or read theory is because a lot of books are being made in to films and being covered on film theory. For example, The Hunger Games. He covered that on film theory, although it is also a book. I like your idea and have thought of it myself, but I don’t think it will be the blue bottom right theory channel.
You know what? My tap water comes from an underground stream next to my estate that doesn't go overground from it's source in the Chilterns hill range. I'm good for the next thousand years or so.
@@kirkkek People who buy bottled water are buying prestige/good vibes. People who buy soda are buying taste. Basically they can get away with charging you more for bottled water, so why wouldn't they?
Fun fact: They actually defined the reason for the glow of Nuka-Cola Quantum is Strontium-90. That means that in real life, Nuka-Cola Quantum would literally liquefy your bones. EDIT: Corrected my typo, I originally said Strontium-19.
@@someone857 there's this game series called fallout It's themed with the imagined abilities of futurism groups & 30s-50s where there was no transistor & massive cultural stagnation So it's 'Retro Futurism'¿ Theres a in-game company that makes a cola, Nuka cola, they have a competitor called 'sunset sarsaparilla', Nuka cola has several flavors including classic & quantum Classic is more of a cocoa cola standin & quantum is a 'rare' type item, it's a drink with ionizing radioactive materials, in the times inspired by this game there was common advertising that ionizing radiation would heal & give you vigor, hey it's full of energy!
Nah fam the biggest issue is the winter, which is why I clicked on this video. I did learn a lot about the radiation issue for farming which I'm very thankful for but I still think that the winter is gonna be the hardest part since the avg global temperature will drop anywhere between 5 and 30 degrees Celcius, sources vary wildly.
Honestly, if I was to pick one place to live out the Zombie apocalypse, It would be Alaska. Why? Well, for one thing, Alaska only has around 700k people living in it, making it one of the emptiest states in America, so the chances of an extremely fast spread of the virus would be very very low. The terrain in Alaska is also very beneficial when it comes to surviving the Zombie Apocolypse. Frozen water, in the form of glacier ice, covers some 16,000 square miles (41,000 km2) of Alaska's surface, which would hinder Zombies ability to roam free. Alaska also has 39 mountain regions, splitting up the land which also makes it hard for the Zombies to get from one place to another quickly. And the Zombies would have a lot of land to cover! Alaska is the largest American state in terms of landmass, containing over 100,000 sq miles of area, so the chances of having your state swarming in Zombies is a lot smaller than if you tried hiding out in, say, Rhode Island. Another reason I would choose Alaska of all places is the weather. Average summer temperatures range from 40°F to 60°F (4° - 15°C). Winter temperatures in Alaska range from 0°F / -18°C to -30°F / -35°C from November to March. That is insanely cold weather, especially for humans. Our bodies basically shut down at around 21 C, and Zombies probably won't be going around wearing thick woolen overcoats. Whether or not they're dead or infected, the Zombies are still, at some level, human. If they tried attacking people that were living in the cold environment of Alaska, their bodies would essentially stop working for them due to the cold. Frostbite and exposure would quickly take down most if not all of the infected, leaving the humans who all this time have been holed up safe in their bunkers and igloos completely safe from the undead. So, you make the call. Feel free to meet up with me when the apocalypse begins, so we can make the trip in numbers and hopefully wait until all of the Zombies either can't infect enough people, deteriorate due to cold and exposure, or practically shatter their bodies falling off of a mountain or getting crushed by a glacier. And who knows? Maybe we can bring MatPat along so we can better understand our undead enemies! (I guess MatPat'll be headed to Ontario, Canada instead of us, but we'll show him!)
One minor point is if someone who was wearing a coat gets bit it's unlikely the zombie would take off the coat, so some could be wearing thick coats. Though they would definitely die of exposure eventually.
@@rosewhipple9923 Good point, and while some Zombies could be wearing snow gear, let's not forget that there are still weapons lying around that can deal with such instances!
Exactly what I was thinking. Like you could plant Sunflowers first and let them grow before planting crops. There must be enough canned foods left so that you won't starve
Yes and no. The amount of time it would take and the amount of times having to replant them would make it pointless. Plus as the plants die you have to immediately remove them from the ground to keep it from leaking back in.. We're talking 50 years plus and thats only 100 miles or more from the blast area... Any closer would take thousands of years...
food theory intro easter eggs i noticed: nyan cat flying around, matdonalds, freddy's on left, bendy's, theorybucks coffee, bobs burgers, peanut butter jelly time banana, stay puft man, pizza planet truck, all on outside inside of matdonalds: avengers, rick and morty and kermit sipping tea on left , on right simpsons and kronk and plankton inside of kitchen: kevin spilling chili, gordon ramsay screaming there are more these are just subtle ones i noticed
I also saw the krusty crab from spongebob, lard lad dounuts from the simpsons,violet from charlie/willy wonkas chocolate factory, the burger king king gaffiti ing, all outside
Other things I noticed is blown up Violet Beauregard rolling down a hill and the start And also on the Special Offers sign inside one of the things says CACTUS JUICE: It'll quench ya refrencing Avatar The Last Airbender
J F This comment has me very curious. Are you graduated or in a place that elected not to have school start yet? (Or in a country that has a very different school schedule than most of the American/European schools.) I’m long graduated so I’m always curious what other adults do lol
Honestly if the topsoil is any concern to you, I’d recommend going into a basement of a nearby home (assuming you live in a place that allows basements) with a pickaxe and break that concrete flooring and doing any semblance of farming down there, and if light is a concern of yours. No worries there either, there are lights that will work to help cultivate plans within the confines of your home
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They emit non ionising radiation so it wouldn't be a fair comparison. You could talk about us eating plants which have gotten hit by ionising radiation emitted by the sun.
microwave is non ionizing along with infrared and radio waves, it emits frequencies lower than light and you dont see light hurting you so... you get the idea.
@@erinstacyamoin6442 If i recall correctly it isn't dangerous because radiation, but rather dangerous because the frequencies that microwaves emit have a tendency to boil water, and because humans have quite a bit of water, _they don't pair well_ , and also microwaves are tuned to have a higher like energy that does the danger part, otherwise at low energies it would be safe I could be wrong but thats what i think at least
A microwave is literally just A LOT more powerful WIFI (2.4GHz electromagnetic radiation), it isn't dangerous unless you put 1,5KW of it in a 10dm^3 box
@Latatod ah, well, in that case, thanks for the correction. So then it would mean environmental hazard is more likely rather than the microwave oven cooking you?
I really love MatPat’s videos on all his channels, but I *really* wish they had captions. Not only are the auto-generated ones absolutely horrid, but sometimes they’re not available! It just makes it a lot harder :((((
that's because youtube removed community captions (fans can make captions for the video) so only the uploader (Team Theorists) can add their captions and they are already too busy.
@@TheGameChallenger I know it’s just, as someone hard of hearing, even with headphones on and the volume up it can be really hard to figure out what they’re saying. The visuals usually help it’s just a lot harder.
Fun fact, a year after Chernobyl, farmers in Wales reported that their newborn sheep were glowing, purely because of the wind-swept fall-out from Chernobyl.
It kinda makes sense that ionising radiation is safe to “cook” food but dangerous to humans since fire is dangerous to humans but safe to cook food with.
Except that fire mostly emits infrared and visible light, which are both non-ionising. Personally, I'd say that plants, growing in sunlight high in UV radiation, which is ionising, are a better example. Just wanted to make clear that fire is totally safe from a radiation standpoint :) Unless some scholar is about to school me. I tried to look it up but I can only find that fire emits thermal radiation, which is warmth.
Tsukote Amie You’re definitely right, but I think the point of the original comment was to bring up a good comparison (that isn’t one to one as you proved) for people that still didn’t really get it. (Like me)
@@greyham181 Yes, I know that that was the point, but I was afraid that if it was meant for people who didn't get it yet it might cause misconceptions about the radiation coming off of fire.
@@WhiffleWaffles yeah, radiation actually tapers off pretty quickly. In order for an atom to emit gamma rays et. al, it has to decay, aka, loose energy. The more radioactive something is, the faster it decays into stable (i.e. non-radioactive) isotopes. Even just a few decades would be enough to leave everything mostly fine, and the fallout games all take place centuries after the fact.
Bro the introduction skit was to funny “it tastes like radioactive chicken, it is radioactive chicken, oh sorry about your leg, huh don’t worry I got plenty” just to funny😂
I feel like an important part of growing crops was overlooked - water, or more specifically rain. During the time we are waiting for the fallout dust to settle rain will have time to fall on the ground and "help" that radioactive dust to seep in deeper into the ground, and depending on how big the explosion was and how close you are it might take years for you to be able to go outside, and by that time there will be no saving that farm land (not to mention that rain in general will be radioactive and will constantly fall on the top of the soil over and over again which will not help the crops we are trying to grow) The only solution that I could think of was using per-packaged soil from shops or factories and stuff, soil that has not been outside and was irradiated, and then growing food indoors where the rain cant fall on it (also using seeds from packages and not from wild fruits and vegetables).
Water is not gonna make the dust seep in much deeper than it would naturally get. 15 inches of the top is a lot of soil. Also rain will actually make the dust settle faster and get it out of the air which means after a few rainfalls the rain wont be radioactive anymore simply cause the dust has settled.
@@ruukinen unless it's fallout 4 with the glowing sea anyway. If that were the case, why not have an inside farm? We already do it and it adds the possibility of making a multi tiered farm.
Partially right. That's why most will recommend removing the first 18-24 inches of topsoil. However the bigger issue comes from uncovered water wells or any way for the fallout to enter the water table. Once that happens, you're done.
radiation sickness is a horrible way to die, no one wants to go like that. Atlas survival bunkers has a video on how to make yourself a $700 bunker, I suggest you look into it
what about rain? doesn't rainwater let fallout particles seep deeper into the soil? ^^ apologies if thats a dumb question, it just bugged me and i was too lazy to google :P
I was in Germany when Chernobyl had its meltdown, so I got exposed to a lot of fallout (as did we all over there) and didn't even get superpowers! I feel cheated.
@@mariomeza3514 No? That would be absolutely ludicrous if Putin dropped nukes anywhere. USA would immediately fire back, and then it would be the end of the world. No winners, everyone loses. And no one wants that, not even Putin
That would take knowing how much gas you have for the back-up generators for the freezers. you could put fresh food in there for a year but then after that it comes down to expiration of canned items. 1-2 years, 4-5 if you don't mind some poisoning. If you chose a superstore type location you could use the garden equipment stores of mulch to start composting to produced safe soil to start producing your own food from seeds in the store.
Honestly this is a loaded question because due to panicking in a death situation superstores would be the first targets to hoarding so they’d do doubt be sucked dry from its food and necessities in a few days tops. What the comment above stated though if the superstore has gardening equipment you’d be able to get good crops from the amount of fertilizer and maybe a green house if you’re lucky
That would depend on how large the store is and what percent of items in that store can be eaten. Even then, some foods may last longer than others/have more servings. Also, does the store have anything you can cook with? Raw meat doesn’t taste great. Ideally, you would want to eat things that spoil the fastest first. If I had to take a guess based off of my local Fred Mayer’s, I would say... Maybe 5 or 6 years if all the coolants and things stayed on inside the store, and maybe like a year or 2 if everything stopped working in there.
MatPat: Is eating food that's been hit by radiation safe? Microwave: *starts to sweat* Edit: guys ik that microwaves emit non-ionizing radiation, I'm just joking. Also, the next person who hates on Tristan Dreemurr is gonna catch these hands. Don't be mean to the memes.
This was even more informative than I expected. Do I expect to actually use the information? No, probably not, but knowing both how to identify and not to worry about radiation sanitized food is helpful.
Most radioactive debris has a half life in minutes hours or days. Its the basis for the rule of 7. The primary concern is the bio-volatile fission product daughters radioiodine and radiocesium that are the most likely byproducts of fission of Uranium 235, they are what you were talking about at the roughly 8 min 30 second mark These isotopes have half lifes long enough that it takes roughly 30-40 years to fully decay. In the Pripyat area for example the only place there is any RS and RC left is in some mycellium, they no longer find it in the fish and animals. So have non perishable stores, use aquaponics indoor, store bags of pre fertilized soil, and make sure you can make it 40 years and it stops being a problem.
Does water have a flavor? Well I think yes you just can’t determine that flavor think of when you drank filtered water. It definitely had a taste to it. Does this have anything to do with the video? Nope But it’s interesting to think about, and confusing to some. What do you think? Is it the temperature? Where it is from? Or are you just internally screaming because of a UA-cam comment? Based on the comments I’ve read I think it has to do with 1. Water minerals 2. Where it is from 3. Possibly temperature
I don't know if this aged well, or badly. It's the kind of thing you want to know, but never have to use, so does it age better if we never have to seriously think about using it, or does it age better if nuclear war starts to feel like a real possibility?
use the plants, grow them, remove the plants to a storage/hole you dug and you've removed some radiation from a location. ( only if you want to remove very small amounts of radiation after scraping)
You could also use sunflowers since they accumulate the radiation and store it in their bodies so you can pull them out when they die and remove even more radiation from the soil
"Radiation can cause cancer" "radiation can end cancer"
Radiation: I play both sides so no matter what, I come out on top
Lol thats to true
“I play both sides so no matter what I com out on *top* ” *top* soil
Can you put a comma after the what please? Kinda confused me lol
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How bout an episode on the “wait 30 minutes after eating to swim” rule
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I agree with this man
Oh and the 5 second rule
@@sofiqyu I agree with you too, but I don't believe it, although have heard of it
"What's SAFE To Eat After Nuclear Fallout?"
I'm assuming uranium doesn't follow the 5 second rule
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You are very smart, Just Some Guy without a Mustache.
Your losing your touch I've seen many videos without your comments
@@wannabefriends9944 hey
How are you everywhere
10:43 and in Chernobyl too, but they didn't bother to do that in Bryanskaya oblast (it's in Belarus, I think). It's a neighboring region that got affected by fallout, so local rural area inhabitants have to grow potatoes to the "full" cycle (where potato skin becomes very thick) and peel it really well. And even then there's a lot more radiation than in "standard" potato. Still edible afaik.
Bryanskaya oblast is in Russia and it's not neighboring region of Chernobyl. Maybe you meant Gomel Oblast? It's neighboriing Chernobyl and is in Belorus
@@Crabentos perhaps, I remembered "Bryanskaya" for whatever reason.
@Unknown Commenter maybe it is indeed Bryanskaya Oblast, Russia. It is still pretty close to Chernobyl, but not neighboring
“You can farm plants on radiation, but you can’t eat them”
Now that’s a Double Baltic
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i know this. it's in my head. i just can't remember where it comes from
@@Luigi-. another episode of food theory its the mcdonalds monopoly one
I'd recommend 'the knowledge' by Lewis Dartnell. It's a book about how to rebuild the world after an apocalypse, starting with basics like food and shelter and ending with technological innovation. I really enjoyed reading it, and if ur interested in this video, then you'll probably like it too. Idk, just a suggestion!
Or just... read/watch Dr stone
Finders Hood I ten billion percent agree.
@@finndershood5557 the Dr Stone methods implies that you remember an encyclopedic amount of stuff though...
@@finndershood5557 dr stone doesn't cover a lot of shortcuts you can take with the resources we'd have though. you can make easy generators by salvaging washing/drying machines for their motors, and simply finding the best way to spin them in your environment. wind, water, slaves. with that alone, you could have power your first day if thats the priority. from there you can salvage and air-compressor and build basic, but still deadly air-cannons and air rifles for hunting or defense, thought electric farming machinery should be priority #1 so you can support more people for defense/labor, and produce enough food to negotiate out of any potential fights.
Just watch the 100
In Disney's animated film Atlantis: the lost empire, the expedition team are seen eating meals comprised entirely of bacon grease as it's the only food their cook (Cookie) has to serve them on the long journey. Could the various members of the Atlantis exploration party survive for the duration of their journey eating only bacon grease and remain healthy enough to continue their journey? Has there been a IRL equivelant situation? Common sense may indicate it's improbability but what does the science say?
I wholly believe you are the right people for the task of answering these questions. Thank you and good luck.
Honestly, maybe but would absolutely destroy your stomach and guts if you're lucky if I had to make a guess
Scurvy would become a real problem I assume. There's a reason sauer kraut and other methods of preserving vegetables and fruit were invented.
I so want this to be a food theory! He could extend it to talking about surviving on one single food alone, talk about that guy that ate only mcdonalds for months as an experiment, the girl who only eats chicken nuggets and now gets sick if she eats anything else, and what the effect of only eating one food source has on the body. They could even look into what, if any, single food would be best to survive on if you could only eat one thing. Who knows maybe it will be bacon grease, nothing would surprise me with this show anymore.
Ohh yeah I love that movie
@@roonkolos Don't forget about gout, eating always meat is dangerous.
Thank you for this info. As a boomer when I was younger, there was no internet so it was harder to find answers. But the biggest road block was all of society. Friends and family would usually discourage you from finding answers to radiation questions. People were afraid if we talked about it then it might happen. So, nobody talked about it. Again thanks.
Ah yes... head in the sand syndrome... a very dangerous issue that affects every single generation
MatPat: "Do you know what ionizing radiation is?"
Me: "The thing that killed Michael Myers? Heck ya."
And Superman too.
@@ianthecoolthief6226 doesn't superman recharge from ionizing radiation?
BUT IT HASN'T KILLED ME DAMNIT
He should theorize on if it's possible to use a pancake as a plate (AMERICAN DAD)
Ayyyyy callbacks
*"We're running low on supplies. Looks like I'll have to forage for food."*
He sounds like a very tired dad, having to go grocery shopping at 6pm on a Saturday
That's VERY specific hahahah
Well matpat is a matdad so...
This aged well
Matpat: Basically everything you hated to eat as a kid
Me who liked cauliflower as a kid: *"they called me a madman"*
Me who liked all of these: *Same*
omg i like cauliflower and im 11
@@litterdees24 I’m 8 and I like it btw how was middle school?
same
@@litterdees24 I’m 8 and i like it
Sunflowers are proven to pull radiation from soil. So plant sunflowers in former garden areas then move 10 ft of topsoil from area you need to use now in mean time
*10in.
@peasant8246 hmm I thought 10ft but I got that from a 50smanual
Which is why it's the national flower of Ukraine
@@VEXALL44 no joke
@@wilsonpaul3599 litterly no joke search it up
I can’t wait for your final channel: Conspiracy theory
#same
No, in my opinion, it should be "Book Theory".
spots theory
The likes are too good to be liked
Hes gonna debunk the meaning of life lmao
you would think that in radiocative areas like chernobyl, there would be nothing left alive due to the radiation, but in chernobyl particulourly wildlife is actually thriving, there are bears, wolves, lynx, deer, moose, beavers, foxes, badgers, wild boar, raccoons, dogs, the rare russian buffalo, and more than 200 species of birds that have formed their own ecosystem within the Chernobyl disaster area.
Turns out the most harmful thing to animals isn’t radiation but humans.
@@toxic_razz6423 You're more right than you know
If you look at the river monster episode based in chernobyl you actually see that the underwater poplation appears to be heavily affected. It is mainly due to the absence of humans that animals are thriving, but they are all several generations later. This would give them time to develop immunity because natural selection would become 'literally anyone without this mutation dies' instead of 'this one is slightly better. give it a few million years'
@@lnheritance all animals got birth defects due to the radiation, but because of breeding it only lasted a couple of years.
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“ Oh sorry about your leg”. “Ah don’t worry I got plenty”.
Me: *Starts drinking unsee juice*
What’s that?
@@GlitterGlueGoji Moonshine
Make sure that unsee juice didn't have any radioactive fallout particles in it!
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@@GlitterGlueGoji When you see something so cursed you drink that.
One year later and this information is more relevant than ever....
This tip is gonna be really useful for the apocalypse next month
I think it will be in December not October
I'm not even funny. 50 likes the what?
What do you mean by: Apocalypse
There is not gonna be a apocalypse
If people keep saying there will, then there will be an apocalypse
*THE WHAT!!!???*
The WHAT ?!?!?!?!?!??!
The... WHAT
The thing that most bothers me about the Fallout series however is that it's been over 200 years since the nuclear exchange. And while things might not be perfectly safe, most of the radiation and fallout from the Great War will have long since been removed from the environment. Nuclear scientists believe that strontium-90 is one of the most dangerous isotopes created from a nuclear explosion, and that has a half life of 29 years. By the time of Fallout 4, 7.2 half lives have passed. That means that 99.7% of the strontium has decayed into zirconium. Radiation shouldn't be an issue really at all by that point.
Over on The Game Theory, he was a theory that kind of addresses this. :)
Some isotopes are still really dangerous like plutonium-239 which has a half life of 24,100 years. So no it could be plutonium-239 (unless it is stated in the fallout wiki or the game that it is strontium-90 or another isotope with a short half life) so I might not be strontium-90 which has a half life of 29 years like you said.
Cole Camara Well the big concern with strontium 90 is that it acts chemically just like calcium so it gets deposited in our bones and teeth. And continues to emit radiation for decades. Everyone on earth today has at least some strontium 90 in their bones and teeth
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I think it should be clear that Fallout is everything but scientifically accurate. The whole franchise was based on the idea to combine Fantasy RPG elements with a Post-apocalyptic setting. Super mutants are the orcs, ghoules are zombies, Brotherhood of Steel are the knights and so on. The first Fallout game even had dwarfs.
Plants that are good at dealing with radiation: sunflowers, hemp, seaweed
Plants will be good when the zombies come
Normal weed
@Hunter Ansorge yes
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0:00 I love the fallout vault-tec reference.
So, unlike mold, cutting out the radioactive part makes it fine.
Hmm but radiation and mold spreads the almost same way
But... its all radioactive...
Well radioactive parts do not reproduce in your body like mold so ya
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Tell this to most of grandmas and grandpas. They don't get sick when they cut off a part of fruit/veggie that was directly affected by mold (I mean you can see it). Probably it's because rest of mold that is left isn't enough to cause sickness.
I'd love to see some food theory on food mold! The difference in edible mold, inedible molds, and just how invisible it can be in food. I have a topical allergy to most molds so I'd be curious to see what you come up with for which food molds affect you more just being in the same room as them.
Would be interesting
I have been in a lot more years later in my career as you know it was my first
Yess!!
im convinced he’s gonna start “life theory”
i'm betting conspiracy theory
Maybe Health Theory lol.
T-T
@Sebastian Freeman no
@Sebastian Freeman Do you mean book theory? If so, I’ve thought about that. The reason I don’t think it will be book or read theory is because a lot of books are being made in to films and being covered on film theory. For example, The Hunger Games. He covered that on film theory, although it is also a book. I like your idea and have thought of it myself, but I don’t think it will be the blue bottom right theory channel.
Plants: growing in radioactive soal
Also plants:this is fine
Matpat: irradiated food is safer
Health Department: WrItE ThIs DOWN
#RIP Charles also ture
This is the greatest class
plan
Mattpat: The way 2020 seems to be going, some of this information might be useful sooner than you may think
2022: Allow me to introduce myself
Need to start preparing
Ye
@@pest2133 same ;-;
War is coming
Plus baba vangha said there’s going to be a nuclear war
There's actually a movie that captures all of this food stuff. It's called "the day after" and it shows all of the top soil scraping things like that.
War never changes
real
True
Austin: how to find water in a nuclear apocalypse
Matpat: how to find food in a nuclear apocalypse
Is there a link to Austin's water?
Are they planning something
Something's wrong I can feel it
You know what? My tap water comes from an underground stream next to my estate that doesn't go overground from it's source in the Chilterns hill range. I'm good for the next thousand years or so.
Daniel Irwin did you even watch the video?
At the end of 2020, no matter what the apocalypse looked like, everyone who survived it will know MatPat's name.
Let's all go stay with him I think that's the best idea
@@wandamaximilf3324I believe in this plan
I would like to join
It would be cool if you said “now let’s dig” in when you started the theory
^
oh yeah that would be cool and catchy phrase for a show like this
Dig into the radioactive soil
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@@alaiaomanu6318 We all know it’s not
Who else is here in 2024 watching after the Fallout?
Who else here after nuclear war?
Who is here after the nuclear winter ☢️☢️❄️❄️
Wait, this video has 3 years ?????
If someone from like a year ago saw they would be going crazy
theory: how about why carbonated water is more expensive than soda?
Heck normal water is more expensive than soda. A bottle of coke is 80 cents and water is an euro and 20 cents. A 40 cent difference
it isn't in the UK.
Possibly because they want you to spend more money on soda so they make it cheaper so you'll buy more of it
@@kirkkek People who buy bottled water are buying prestige/good vibes. People who buy soda are buying taste.
Basically they can get away with charging you more for bottled water, so why wouldn't they?
TMHedge thats because there is no soda in the uk
Fun fact: They actually defined the reason for the glow of Nuka-Cola Quantum is Strontium-90. That means that in real life, Nuka-Cola Quantum would literally liquefy your bones. EDIT: Corrected my typo, I originally said Strontium-19.
I misread that as scrotium well
Can't crawlout through the fallout now, can yah?
Tastes like science!
I’m confused what Nuka Cola is.
@@someone857 there's this game series called fallout
It's themed with the imagined abilities of futurism groups & 30s-50s where there was no transistor & massive cultural stagnation
So it's 'Retro Futurism'¿
Theres a in-game company that makes a cola, Nuka cola, they have a competitor called 'sunset sarsaparilla', Nuka cola has several flavors including classic & quantum
Classic is more of a cocoa cola standin & quantum is a 'rare' type item, it's a drink with ionizing radioactive materials, in the times inspired by this game there was common advertising that ionizing radiation would heal & give you vigor, hey it's full of energy!
Man, this stuff gets everywhere, it's worse than glitter
Radioactive glitter would be the worst invention known to man.
Nah glitter is still worse to pick up
No. Nothing is worse than glitter...
YES, FORBIDDEN GLITTER
Radiation is literally impossible to grab
Nah fam the biggest issue is the winter, which is why I clicked on this video. I did learn a lot about the radiation issue for farming which I'm very thankful for but I still think that the winter is gonna be the hardest part since the avg global temperature will drop anywhere between 5 and 30 degrees Celcius, sources vary wildly.
Honestly, if I was to pick one place to live out the Zombie apocalypse, It would be Alaska. Why? Well, for one thing, Alaska only has around 700k people living in it, making it one of the emptiest states in America, so the chances of an extremely fast spread of the virus would be very very low. The terrain in Alaska is also very beneficial when it comes to surviving the Zombie Apocolypse. Frozen water, in the form of glacier ice, covers some 16,000 square miles (41,000 km2) of Alaska's surface, which would hinder Zombies ability to roam free. Alaska also has 39 mountain regions, splitting up the land which also makes it hard for the Zombies to get from one place to another quickly. And the Zombies would have a lot of land to cover! Alaska is the largest American state in terms of landmass, containing over 100,000 sq miles of area, so the chances of having your state swarming in Zombies is a lot smaller than if you tried hiding out in, say, Rhode Island.
Another reason I would choose Alaska of all places is the weather. Average summer temperatures range from 40°F to 60°F (4° - 15°C). Winter temperatures in Alaska range from 0°F / -18°C to -30°F / -35°C from November to March. That is insanely cold weather, especially for humans. Our bodies basically shut down at around 21 C, and Zombies probably won't be going around wearing thick woolen overcoats. Whether or not they're dead or infected, the Zombies are still, at some level, human. If they tried attacking people that were living in the cold environment of Alaska, their bodies would essentially stop working for them due to the cold. Frostbite and exposure would quickly take down most if not all of the infected, leaving the humans who all this time have been holed up safe in their bunkers and igloos completely safe from the undead.
So, you make the call. Feel free to meet up with me when the apocalypse begins, so we can make the trip in numbers and hopefully wait until all of the Zombies either can't infect enough people, deteriorate due to cold and exposure, or practically shatter their bodies falling off of a mountain or getting crushed by a glacier. And who knows? Maybe we can bring MatPat along so we can better understand our undead enemies!
(I guess MatPat'll be headed to Ontario, Canada instead of us, but we'll show him!)
Incredible! This is like totally amazing! He should really do a video on it!
One minor point is if someone who was wearing a coat gets bit it's unlikely the zombie would take off the coat, so some could be wearing thick coats. Though they would definitely die of exposure eventually.
@@rosewhipple9923 uP
@@rosewhipple9923 Good point, and while some Zombies could be wearing snow gear, let's not forget that there are still weapons lying around that can deal with such instances!
@@JELLIS-wq4zu I respect that
Fun fact: in the fallout lore becoming a goul is from taking in to much radiation and gouls are immortal and don't have hunger
Ghouls actually come from a strain of Forced Evolutionary Virus in Fallout lore
Edit: nevermind
@@ignoidisniger8183 well I did not know that lmao thanks for saying
@@fabriciomoyano6742 no problem
@@ignoidisniger8183 is fev responsible for all mutations in fallout not only super mutants and ghouls but animals?
@@jakobnance5277 just look at the fallout wiki
Me: nah i don't really need to watch this one
Also Me: but what if...
Lukata yeah that’s the exact thing that I thought
Me just have breakfast: *I dont need it I dont need it I dont need it I NEED IT*
Same
yes
V-sauce music
I’m gonna miss this guy😢
Same I miss him already😢 love from mexico
One thing matpat missed is using sunflowers to help pull the radiation and heavy metals out of the soil because of there hyperaccumulators-plants
Exactly what I was thinking. Like you could plant Sunflowers first and let them grow before planting crops. There must be enough canned foods left so that you won't starve
I was today yrs old when I learned this...
I learned it from Daybreak. NETFLIX, WHY DID YOU CANCEL IT?!
Yes and no. The amount of time it would take and the amount of times having to replant them would make it pointless. Plus as the plants die you have to immediately remove them from the ground to keep it from leaking back in.. We're talking 50 years plus and thats only 100 miles or more from the blast area... Any closer would take thousands of years...
SUNFLOWER FIELD TIME
I really wanna see something like “Which Houses to go to During Halloween” or “Is Planning your Halloween Route worth it?”
Yeah or how to get as much candy as possible quicker
2020 I had a idea everyone put on gloves make goodie bags then setting them in your drive way for trick or treaters to come pick up
@@maikol1433 no way, some jerk kid will take all of them
Now I need to see the video about the haloween candy.
Heres how: break in, murder house owners, steal candy, make the excuse that you're a furry, escape
0:04 helo lil guy:)
food theory intro easter eggs i noticed: nyan cat flying around, matdonalds, freddy's on left, bendy's, theorybucks coffee, bobs burgers, peanut butter jelly time banana, stay puft man, pizza planet truck, all on outside
inside of matdonalds: avengers, rick and morty and kermit sipping tea on left , on right simpsons and kronk and plankton
inside of kitchen: kevin spilling chili, gordon ramsay screaming
there are more these are just subtle ones i noticed
I also saw the krusty crab from spongebob, lard lad dounuts from the simpsons,violet from charlie/willy wonkas chocolate factory, the burger king king gaffiti ing, all outside
Other things I noticed is blown up Violet Beauregard rolling down a hill and the start
And also on the Special Offers sign inside one of the things says CACTUS JUICE: It'll quench ya refrencing Avatar The Last Airbender
DO YOU EVER SLEEEEEEEP!?!?!?!?!?!?!
imagine this: 'Matt-Pat is your virtualschool teacher"
@Arigato Senpai but you have to do homework about making a theory as well as using math and everything to prove it.
Dooooopppppppeeeeeeeeeee
You have school? Lol, not me
J F This comment has me very curious. Are you graduated or in a place that elected not to have school start yet? (Or in a country that has a very different school schedule than most of the American/European schools.) I’m long graduated so I’m always curious what other adults do lol
and he understands hardships
“Boring and easy solution” I was sure he was gonna say have a garden growing in your vault.
Honestly if the topsoil is any concern to you, I’d recommend going into a basement of a nearby home (assuming you live in a place that allows basements) with a pickaxe and break that concrete flooring and doing any semblance of farming down there, and if light is a concern of yours. No worries there either, there are lights that will work to help cultivate plans within the confines of your home
Fun fact: If you’re ever lost in space then bring lays bags with you, you’re now supplied with food and oxygen.
True
They don't have oxygen they contain nitrogen
@@IshaanOP07 r/wooooosh
@@IshaanOP07 r/woosh
@@IshaanOP07 r/wooooosh
This video feels more like “Guide to surviving the apocalypse in 20 min” than a regular food theory
Yeah, I feel like there's not really a lot of theorizing in this channel.
That being said, I *love* it.
He didn’t tell us about water
13 min, 20 is overkill
Yeah. Speaking of which, where's Austin's 2nd fallout video?
I-I don't even know anymore, is everything just a theory, is everything a lie
The whole 2020 is just a theory. ;)
My haters throw rocks at me and it hurts. I hope they don't throw The Rock at me because I like him as an actor. GAGAGAGAGA!!! I am funny!!! For more amazing jokes you have to visit my YT site, dear nell
Everything is cake
watson:EVERYTHING IS FAKE! I AM FAKE!
6:48 I don't have to shave, I can just wait until my hair falls out
With the Fallout series being out, this popped up on my recommended and I thought it was new
I NEED a "Matthew, that IS radioactive chicken" shirt nOw
Or stickers!
I request a theory on what the perfect food/dish is. Like something you could eat for the rest of your life, gaining all important nutritions etc.
Potato, no joke
20 20 Atla reference?
Milk
GOD, Acacia's main course!
All this talk about your irradiated food, and you didn't mention microwave ovens.
They emit non ionising radiation so it wouldn't be a fair comparison. You could talk about us eating plants which have gotten hit by ionising radiation emitted by the sun.
microwave is non ionizing along with infrared and radio waves, it emits frequencies lower than light and you dont see light hurting you so... you get the idea.
@@erinstacyamoin6442
If i recall correctly it isn't dangerous because radiation, but rather dangerous because the frequencies that microwaves emit have a tendency to boil water, and because humans have quite a bit of water, _they don't pair well_ , and also microwaves are tuned to have a higher like energy that does the danger part, otherwise at low energies it would be safe
I could be wrong but thats what i think at least
A microwave is literally just A LOT more powerful WIFI (2.4GHz electromagnetic radiation), it isn't dangerous unless you put 1,5KW of it in a 10dm^3 box
@Latatod
ah, well, in that case, thanks for the correction.
So then it would mean environmental hazard is more likely rather than the microwave oven cooking you?
Fun fact in the pacific Northwest we have a mushrum that can help with radiation and the slowing down of tumors
Pretty sure the cave fungus in FO3 is used to treat radiation.
Teacher: What do you want to do when your older
Child: I want to be a soil scientist
Isn't that what botanists are?
Hmmm
@@vonn7891 im pretty sure botanists study plants, soil scientist are a subpart of geology i think
I think botanists specifically study medicinal plants.
Liam Devaun nope, there’s a subpart for it tho
I really love MatPat’s videos on all his channels, but I *really* wish they had captions. Not only are the auto-generated ones absolutely horrid, but sometimes they’re not available! It just makes it a lot harder :((((
I'll see if I can steal his scripts
that's because youtube removed community captions (fans can make captions for the video) so only the uploader (Team Theorists) can add their captions and they are already too busy.
@@TheGameChallenger I know it’s just, as someone hard of hearing, even with headphones on and the volume up it can be really hard to figure out what they’re saying. The visuals usually help it’s just a lot harder.
@@stickbugorozzie6371 agh that sucks man, hope you get better somehow.
@@TheGameChallenger UA-cam as always, fucking up the community
"What's SAFE To Eat After Nuclear Fallout"
Me: *softly* dont..
Lol
MatPat: "what's safe to eat after nuclear fallout? Me decades ago as an immature teenager: "p*ssy
@@Werewolf914 *no*
I will literally.
Bruh me too
6:44 it’s kind of cursed when he shaved his hair because the hair is still there but it’s the same colour as his skin and it’s just cinda weird
Fun fact, a year after Chernobyl, farmers in Wales reported that their newborn sheep were glowing, purely because of the wind-swept fall-out from Chernobyl.
Glowsheep
And then, the glowshroom and the glowstone.
@Nigel Lush No No, wait till ye' see me roach icecream from that episode from Phineas and Ferb.
@@ILoveCat03 Then Glow Squid In Minecraft
@@dogwithdrugs61 then the wi- uhm, new blind mob of the kinecraft caves.
It kinda makes sense that ionising radiation is safe to “cook” food but dangerous to humans since fire is dangerous to humans but safe to cook food with.
Except that fire mostly emits infrared and visible light, which are both non-ionising. Personally, I'd say that plants, growing in sunlight high in UV radiation, which is ionising, are a better example. Just wanted to make clear that fire is totally safe from a radiation standpoint :)
Unless some scholar is about to school me. I tried to look it up but I can only find that fire emits thermal radiation, which is warmth.
@@ThePeaceluffer ehm neeeeerd
Tsukote Amie You’re definitely right, but I think the point of the original comment was to bring up a good comparison (that isn’t one to one as you proved) for people that still didn’t really get it. (Like me)
@@greyham181 Yes, I know that that was the point, but I was afraid that if it was meant for people who didn't get it yet it might cause misconceptions about the radiation coming off of fire.
@@ThePeaceluffer very true, and I value both the comment and your reply.
Movies/Games when they get mentioned in a theory: It’s free real estate
Also fast food places:
@@Jords250 also curses:
🌹🌹🌹
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technically, in the time frames fallout is dealing with, everything would be safe by the time you leave your bunker.
Even though it was global?
@@WhiffleWaffles yeah, radiation actually tapers off pretty quickly. In order for an atom to emit gamma rays et. al, it has to decay, aka, loose energy. The more radioactive something is, the faster it decays into stable (i.e. non-radioactive) isotopes. Even just a few decades would be enough to leave everything mostly fine, and the fallout games all take place centuries after the fact.
Therapist : Don’t worry radioactive brooklyn mobster chicken doesn’t exist
Radioactive brooklyn mobster chicken :🍗
^with many leggs
It was supposed to be a ghoul. They have a gravelly voice
"Eh, Don't worry."
-Radioactive Chicken
I’m blind so thanks for letting me know what happened
I subbed
@@kimmikat4205 thinks!
I have to sub for the deja vu
@Rusto how dare you
I love how Steph is just there at the beginning. More Steph in Theories please!
Bro the introduction skit was to funny “it tastes like radioactive chicken, it is radioactive chicken, oh sorry about your leg, huh don’t worry I got plenty” just to funny😂
Omg just yesterday my boyfriend and I were talking about this subject 😂 how coincidental! I love this channel already ❣️
Cool
i hope matpat sees
Meet the Spy
Plot twist. They work for Google and make videos based on subscribers conversations
Pog
Theory: Does Capri-Sun REALLY Have No ADDED SUGER?
Stupid Theory YUP
Love this
He should theorize on if it's possible to use a pancake as a plate (AMERICAN DAD)
I like my products sweetened with Uranium
SUGER
S U G E R
I am writing a piece on a post-apocalyptic world full of radiation so this is perfect thanks!
Sound very interesting 😊
you mean.. real life?
Metro 2077
just play fallout and ta da new ideas
I'd just highly suggest keeping a chicken pen and a seed vault in your bunker. Don't forget soil and UV lamps for the plants.
I need a MatPat Theory: How Matthew Robert Patrick trick our brain to like his videos.
Its mastering the various arts for several Years!!!!
(if you like minecraft you'll get this joke) you have a stack of comments
Well it’s just a theory a (game/film/food) theory and cut
That’s the only reason we like his videos
LOL
I suppose at the time when he made the reply zeta bashtani had 64 likes (a stack)
I feel like an important part of growing crops was overlooked - water, or more specifically rain. During the time we are waiting for the fallout dust to settle rain will have time to fall on the ground and "help" that radioactive dust to seep in deeper into the ground, and depending on how big the explosion was and how close you are it might take years for you to be able to go outside, and by that time there will be no saving that farm land (not to mention that rain in general will be radioactive and will constantly fall on the top of the soil over and over again which will not help the crops we are trying to grow) The only solution that I could think of was using per-packaged soil from shops or factories and stuff, soil that has not been outside and was irradiated, and then growing food indoors where the rain cant fall on it (also using seeds from packages and not from wild fruits and vegetables).
Water is not gonna make the dust seep in much deeper than it would naturally get. 15 inches of the top is a lot of soil. Also rain will actually make the dust settle faster and get it out of the air which means after a few rainfalls the rain wont be radioactive anymore simply cause the dust has settled.
@@ruukinen hehe
@@ruukinen uP
@@ruukinen unless it's fallout 4 with the glowing sea anyway. If that were the case, why not have an inside farm? We already do it and it adds the possibility of making a multi tiered farm.
Partially right. That's why most will recommend removing the first 18-24 inches of topsoil. However the bigger issue comes from uncovered water wells or any way for the fallout to enter the water table. Once that happens, you're done.
"post-apocalyptic waistband" is a fantastic pun
It is indeed.
Gonna be useful THIS year
"You're a soul scientist? That sounds so cool!" No, no. A soil scientist. "Oh..."
oh you're a soil scientist? name every soil
Soul...? Such a thing doesn’t exist
I mean, that means you can study ecology, pollen, microfossils, Moon, Mars, and meteorite samples... :P
Eliza Wulf extraterrestial rocks you should’ve said extraterrestrial rocks m8
Drinking challange: drink every time he says "radiation"
i have a bottle of water with me so i’m actually doing that challenge!
mrhandsome 1 shut up
@@T1tanwyd How about hot water? Preferably microwaved.
Kevin R. What about boiled
I did this, I legit saw the cloud man in the sky
Lol keeps should have sponsored this when u said “hope your hair grows back”
Oleg Taranov not the vid that you linked
this is crucial information now thank you mat pat
I’m actually terrified of anything like this happening even though sometimes I feel like I wanna die I don’t wanna go like this
To quote a song from the 50's "I'll be runnin'; and a-jumpin and a-skippin' and a-bumpin'
When they blow me to smithereens"
Nah i think it would be fun
radiation sickness is a horrible way to die, no one wants to go like that. Atlas survival bunkers has a video on how to make yourself a $700 bunker, I suggest you look into it
Someone: *eats my finger* oh sorry
Me: naw it gud, I got more
But does it grow back?
When you eat your whole leg it won't grow back I think only in radiovate
@@sureshdsouza8767 this is fallout... Everything grows back
*Kira Yoshikage enters the chat*
@@ladysssa6914 fun fact: kira,s death is technically his dream cuz he died getting grabbed by hands
Matpat: You don't want to eat radioactive food.
Me: And miss out on my chance to become a superhero? I think not.
I don't want to risk life to get random superpower
Well how am I supposed to become a superhero if I don't swim in nuclear waste?
@@mrcabloopy it says here you have radioactive poisoning
Must have been because you swam in radiation
What in God's name where you trying to prove
Miguel Castillo I was trying to get super powers to fight the Griffins
I see you're a man of culture
what about rain? doesn't rainwater let fallout particles seep deeper into the soil? ^^
apologies if thats a dumb question, it just bugged me and i was too lazy to google :P
I was in Germany when Chernobyl had its meltdown, so I got exposed to a lot of fallout (as did we all over there) and didn't even get superpowers! I feel cheated.
f
You seriousL
ok but
are you ok
Dam not even an extra had or 2?
How old were you when it happend
Little did we know, how useful this could be…
True
Could you state what happened for the people in the future? Ah whatever we might not have a future anyway
@@01kkp60 Ooof
@@01kkp60 the start of ww3
@@mariomeza3514 No? That would be absolutely ludicrous if Putin dropped nukes anywhere. USA would immediately fire back, and then it would be the end of the world. No winners, everyone loses. And no one wants that, not even Putin
Food theory idea : how long you could you survive in a locked supermarket just using the food in there?
huadjlk;a
@@taralamlam1961 ;-;
Someone actually made a video on this. I don't remember who, but I know their character is called Arnold.
Edit: Yeah Meet Arnold
That would take knowing how much gas you have for the back-up generators for the freezers. you could put fresh food in there for a year but then after that it comes down to expiration of canned items. 1-2 years, 4-5 if you don't mind some poisoning. If you chose a superstore type location you could use the garden equipment stores of mulch to start composting to produced safe soil to start producing your own food from seeds in the store.
Honestly this is a loaded question because due to panicking in a death situation superstores would be the first targets to hoarding so they’d do doubt be sucked dry from its food and necessities in a few days tops. What the comment above stated though if the superstore has gardening equipment you’d be able to get good crops from the amount of fertilizer and maybe a green house if you’re lucky
That would depend on how large the store is and what percent of items in that store can be eaten. Even then, some foods may last longer than others/have more servings. Also, does the store have anything you can cook with? Raw meat doesn’t taste great.
Ideally, you would want to eat things that spoil the fastest first.
If I had to take a guess based off of my local Fred Mayer’s, I would say... Maybe 5 or 6 years if all the coolants and things stayed on inside the store, and maybe like a year or 2 if everything stopped working in there.
Thank you for everything matpat
MatPat: Is eating food that's been hit by radiation safe?
Microwave: *starts to sweat*
Edit: guys ik that microwaves emit non-ionizing radiation, I'm just joking. Also, the next person who hates on Tristan Dreemurr is gonna catch these hands. Don't be mean to the memes.
@Dragon born r/wooosh
if your microwave is sweating, you might have some extra problems....
@@Joe_Potts good point
OH NOES
Microwave: starts to beep
Matpat really be out here saving everyone’s lives
This was even more informative than I expected. Do I expect to actually use the information? No, probably not, but knowing both how to identify and not to worry about radiation sanitized food is helpful.
@@taralamlam1773 Stop. This won't help promote this, if that's what you're trying to do.
Most radioactive debris has a half life in minutes hours or days. Its the basis for the rule of 7. The primary concern is the bio-volatile fission product daughters radioiodine and radiocesium that are the most likely byproducts of fission of Uranium 235, they are what you were talking about at the roughly 8 min 30 second mark These isotopes have half lifes long enough that it takes roughly 30-40 years to fully decay. In the Pripyat area for example the only place there is any RS and RC left is in some mycellium, they no longer find it in the fish and animals.
So have non perishable stores, use aquaponics indoor, store bags of pre fertilized soil, and make sure you can make it 40 years and it stops being a problem.
Me: -gets an add for nuclear safety-
Also me: OH NO OH NO OH NO
From what
Me too...
What was said nuclear safety ad about?
ME TOO WHAT
same i wonder why
Random theory: Matpat can see into the future and he’s preparing us for the end
Theorist theory?
WE SHOULD START A CULT IN HIS HONOR
@@reapermaster1233 YEAH, A DOOMSDAY CULT!
Honestly that's the stupidest thing that can be found at the bottom of dumb theories ideas
Well maybe he can’t see his own future otherwise he wouldn’t use final as much as he does
Does water have a flavor?
Well I think yes you just can’t determine that flavor think of when you drank filtered water. It definitely had a taste to it.
Does this have anything to do with the video? Nope
But it’s interesting to think about, and confusing to some.
What do you think?
Is it the temperature?
Where it is from?
Or are you just internally screaming because of a UA-cam comment?
Based on the comments I’ve read I think it has to do with
1. Water minerals
2. Where it is from
3. Possibly temperature
I think that would be a great theory !
Water does have flavor if you added salt and pepper
Yep
Yeah and also when you add water to for example milk you can taste that there's water
Water tastes like water.
Watching this again only a month into the Russian Ukraine war while Putin is lowkey threatening nukes, really makes for a different vibe.
I don't know if this aged well, or badly. It's the kind of thing you want to know, but never have to use, so does it age better if we never have to seriously think about using it, or does it age better if nuclear war starts to feel like a real possibility?
It ages better if the information becomes more useful and relevant
@@Phuskooz yes
Ukraine vs Russia war be like:
Deep thoughts with the deep
“Things that are left out in the sun don’t cause sunburns”
Yeah, but they can cause burns
Sunburns are radiation based which is why you can get sunburns when it’s cold and snowy. Those burns are thermal based.
@@chloeinenglish9743 that's the joke
@@chloeinenglish9743 I mean, if you wanna be really technical, those burns are caused by heat radiation.
@@somerandomgamer8504 I literally don’t remember commenting this
@@somerandomgamer8504 if you want to be even more technical, that’s conduction heat not radiation heat.
I love that the chicken sounded like a drug dealer when he said he had plenty off legs
use the plants, grow them, remove the plants to a storage/hole you dug and you've removed some radiation from a location. ( only if you want to remove very small amounts of radiation after scraping)
You could also use sunflowers since they accumulate the radiation and store it in their bodies so you can pull them out when they die and remove even more radiation from the soil
This title is so specific yet i feel like i've been wondering this question my whole life.