Why Did We Test Nukes in Space?

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  • Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
  • At a time when the game of nuclear chicken very nearly got out of hand the superpowers continued to test nuclear weapons in space with both surprising and frightening consequences. In this video we look at why we needed to test nukes in space.
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  • @CuriousDroid
    @CuriousDroid  5 років тому +285

    This is the spin off or part two of a video I did about 9 month earlier which was about the nuclear test grounds and what happened to them ua-cam.com/video/KcTrOGS3TyE/v-deo.html . Only operation Argos was a self contained test series, the others Yucca, Teak & Orange where part of operation Hardtack and Operation Fishbowl which included the infamous "Starfish Prime" and "Bluegill" was the final set of space tests and part of Operation Dominic.
    The naming convention "Prime" was added to tests if the first one failed, so "Starfish Prime" was the second test because the first one failed in some way. If it had more than one failure it would be called double prime or triple prime. Bluegill was actually "Bluegill Triple Prime" as it was the third attempt at getting the test to work.

    • @dulynoted2427
      @dulynoted2427 5 років тому +2

      I thought I read somewhere, there was an attempt to blow a portion of the the Van Allen belt away.

    • @JamesJohnson-re9zw
      @JamesJohnson-re9zw 5 років тому +1

      Curious Droid I have some questions about space travel. Can I ask them here , ? Hoping you could answer them.

    • @ginnyjollykidd
      @ginnyjollykidd 5 років тому +1

      If these high - altitude tests of nuclear bombs caused these reciprocating, high - energy, Aurora - producing phenomena, i wonder what effects they still have today? I wonder if the satellites that run into the range of these phenomena lose telecommunication abilities and can't propagate cell phone signals. Could these phenomena be active in some way today and still cause interference?
      Or even cause interference with microwave radiation itself if the energy is lower, kicking people off the Internet and their cell phones and causing the Internet to misfunction?

    • @marckhachfe1238
      @marckhachfe1238 5 років тому +2

      Fantastic episode mate. Keep up the great work.

    • @vuelee5313
      @vuelee5313 5 років тому

      Was not a test.., have you ever thought of that?

  • @mtheory85
    @mtheory85 5 років тому +1845

    *discovers magnetic fields around Earth*
    "Neat. Let's nuke it."

    • @Warriorcat49
      @Warriorcat49 5 років тому +135

      Kinda like a kid’s instinct to see how far you can bend something before it breaks. XP

    • @ntactime_w3488
      @ntactime_w3488 5 років тому +78

      why i fucking hate people

    • @goldenratio1921
      @goldenratio1921 5 років тому +31

      You mean the dome

    • @squarerootof2
      @squarerootof2 5 років тому +17

      @@goldenratio1921 If you blow the dome away, little Jesus pee would rain all over us. Better just make a small hole somewhere above N.Korea or Afghanistan.

    • @AnexoRialto
      @AnexoRialto 5 років тому +39

      Setting off nukes in low earth orbit wipes out satellites and wrecks electrical grids. Who would have known? Also, all the missile failures with warheads attached. It's a miracle that some poor Pacific Islanders, Australia, or Hawaii didn't get accidentally nuked. Unbelievable idiocy. Lucky thing the USA and Russia are now threatening to build "usable" smaller nukes. Gotta keep up 20th century lunacy.

  • @Brad772006
    @Brad772006 5 років тому +1101

    I love this channel so much. It is what the discovery channel should have been. Thank you for doing what you do.

    • @John-yy1oy
      @John-yy1oy 5 років тому +88

      If this was on the Discovery Channel he would have a two foot long beard, be in a garage in Alaska building custom motocycles for ghosthunters out of parts that may have been designed by ancient aliens.

    • @Jim-xu4mz
      @Jim-xu4mz 5 років тому +52

      It is what the Discovery Channel once was.

    • @no_more_free_nicks
      @no_more_free_nicks 5 років тому +12

      Discovery is the biggest crap that there is ...

    • @diogosantos6899
      @diogosantos6899 5 років тому +9

      Internet > Tv

    • @darioinfini
      @darioinfini 5 років тому +61

      Discovery Channel was once like that. And the History Channel actually had history on it once. And Mtv actually had music videos on it once. True story. I don't know WTF happened.

  • @JonatasAdoM
    @JonatasAdoM 4 роки тому +150

    US and USSR: "If it wasn't me and it wasn't you, who was it then?"

    • @justanuff
      @justanuff 3 роки тому +17

      I always felt like the US and USSR are long lost brothers, but its just a feeling.

    • @Ni9kye
      @Ni9kye 3 роки тому +4

      I don’t like how the word We is used, when humans do realy stupid things

    • @oscodains
      @oscodains 3 роки тому +3

      @@justanuff we are the direct opposite of each other really. Deep down Russia is severely jealous of us. So much so they want to destabilize us so they can become a world power, without actually having to grow.

    • @saqibhussain9795
      @saqibhussain9795 3 роки тому

      It was israel he told that in the video

    • @Ni9kye
      @Ni9kye 3 роки тому

      @@saqibhussain9795 then it wasn’t We was it

  • @thomasmaughan4798
    @thomasmaughan4798 4 роки тому +19

    "Why Did We Test Nukes in Space?" Well, I didn't. That leaves you.

  • @Mo-kv9hg
    @Mo-kv9hg 5 років тому +339

    Best channel ever. You need a greater budget. fantastic quality

    • @rostamr4096
      @rostamr4096 5 років тому +2

      Agreed. Well, researched and excellent presentation.

    • @AceKiller9000
      @AceKiller9000 5 років тому +1

      Great production values

    • @emmettturner9452
      @emmettturner9452 5 років тому +4

      deee dawwwggg He isn’t just talking over a screen capture of the Wikipedia pages.

    • @forcivilizaton5021
      @forcivilizaton5021 5 років тому +2

      We're all telling him "Shut up and take my money!" He really makes great videos.

    • @ronduck2812
      @ronduck2812 Рік тому

      They get billions over what the government puts into budget reports

  • @txkos
    @txkos 5 років тому +365

    Well, that shirt blew out my monitor. I can only imagine what an EMP would do.

    • @milky_wayan
      @milky_wayan 5 років тому +3

      lmfao

    • @jamc666
      @jamc666 5 років тому +3

      looks radioactive to me ... geez. no mirror at home ??

    • @mycroft1905
      @mycroft1905 5 років тому +2

      mesmeric

    • @TUBESPECIFIC1
      @TUBESPECIFIC1 5 років тому +5

      He dressed for the occasion wearing nuclear testing tropical island shirt fashion.

    • @davidsabillon5182
      @davidsabillon5182 5 років тому +1

      I thought it looked like Jupiter 🤔. Funny comment 👍😂

  • @psynchro
    @psynchro 3 роки тому +6

    What an amazing spectacle! Really brought me back half a century. I also really like how you included the background story of nuclear bombs in space to illustrate the features of the shirt.

  • @Maybe1Someday
    @Maybe1Someday 4 роки тому +10

    It still amazes me the timeline of testing nukes. Finding the ability to split atoms or whatever and then we literally try to blow up everything, even space. I still feel "we" are using the energy wrong.

    • @1realtruthrightnow742
      @1realtruthrightnow742 2 роки тому

      Once you realize its not actual humans doing this, but other species trapped here and trying to break our dome to escape it all makes sense. 10 years ago I would have called myself insane. But there is no denying the truth any longer.

  • @cyrilio
    @cyrilio 5 років тому +133

    this was super interesting. Had no idea about any of this. Please make a video about this neutron bomb!

    • @1014p
      @1014p 5 років тому

      cyrilio I can tell you it’s banned unanimously and any known to posses one are welcoming the world to flatten that country. It’s also a very nasty concept of a weapon, but if you needed to purge a plague uncontrollable. It would be a very good solution if humanity was at risk of extinction.

    • @squarerootof2
      @squarerootof2 5 років тому +1

      @@1014p It is at risk. Let's flatten that country right now and all those around it too.

    • @saqibhussain9795
      @saqibhussain9795 3 роки тому +2

      Israel.have those and they do not allow UN teams to inspect them either. But their lobbying in the West keeps them save from.any sanctions or action against them

  • @Sacto1654
    @Sacto1654 4 роки тому +5

    The Soviet _Project K_ tests was actually much more informative in terms of EMP effects because its relatively low altitude of the burst and the fact it took out above-ground power lines, underground power lines and even a power station showed how dangerous EMP could bel.

  • @scottjohnson9912
    @scottjohnson9912 4 роки тому +26

    When I was 4 or 5 years old living in southern California we watched the visual effects from one of these tests . I have never seen anything like it since .

    • @angel-le2xn
      @angel-le2xn 4 роки тому +1

      Scott Johnson what did it look like

    • @suspiciousninja1220
      @suspiciousninja1220 3 роки тому

      sure

    • @stevengill1736
      @stevengill1736 2 роки тому

      I suppose it's not impossible - when was it, that is what test would it have been, can you remember?

    • @scottjohnson9912
      @scottjohnson9912 2 роки тому

      1965 it had many different colored gasses coming from a single point and lasted for about 30 minutes . I remember they announced it on the radio and everyone on our street was watching it.

  • @khamsinshamal7988
    @khamsinshamal7988 5 років тому +153

    Knowing about some of this already, it is still amazing to see all the insanity humanity has produced/invented. We truly are our own worst enemies.
    Thank you for fascinating videos/lectures.

    • @OFFICIAL_VIDEO_AWARDS
      @OFFICIAL_VIDEO_AWARDS 4 роки тому +2

      Agreed. Just a virus.

    • @aldenunion
      @aldenunion 4 роки тому +1

      earths enemy...A Cancer when we show up..

    • @rodneycook345
      @rodneycook345 3 роки тому

      Humanity don't do things like this; only white folks baby, only white folks.

    • @tomfox8137
      @tomfox8137 3 роки тому +3

      @@rodneycook345 Heard about China, India, Pakistan and Middle East desire for Nuclear power?

    • @yannickclaes90
      @yannickclaes90 3 роки тому +2

      These tests also provided a lot of scientific knowledge.

  • @theodor12
    @theodor12 5 років тому +1010

    Thank you so much for using metric! Awesome video!

    • @DavidRamirez-lq2co
      @DavidRamirez-lq2co 5 років тому +9

      @Carlos Saraiva No the UK is allways the oposite of Europe

    • @FPV-wi8fw
      @FPV-wi8fw 5 років тому +17

      @Carlos Saraiva we are a wierd mix of metric and imperial. You learn both systems in school

    • @followthegrow108
      @followthegrow108 5 років тому +19

      Metric is stupid thats why its dying out.

    • @saldownik
      @saldownik 5 років тому +13

      Yeah, nukes should never be measured in megapounds.

    • @gloriousdelta1430
      @gloriousdelta1430 5 років тому +21

      Follow The Grow u know that only 3 countries use the imperial system, and the metric is more logical

  • @Mrjohnboyd1959
    @Mrjohnboyd1959 4 роки тому +5

    That shirt you have on looks like you have been time warped from the '70's. The afterglow it produces is intense.

  • @chrisrohde7696
    @chrisrohde7696 2 роки тому +1

    this has superb footage (not to mention your explanations and descriptions) that I have never seen before. I have spent three winters on night shift watching explosions on youtube. Also you're sense of fashion is something to be reckoned with.

  • @leechowning2712
    @leechowning2712 5 років тому +323

    Folks... The shirt was intentional. The pattern is based on the afterglow.

    • @heartworkbykitty7933
      @heartworkbykitty7933 5 років тому +18

      Lee Chowning
      I know
      It BURNS my eyes
      MY EYESSSS!!!

    • @michaelarmstrong11
      @michaelarmstrong11 4 роки тому +1

      Goes well with the van Allen belt, eh...PS Did any tests like these happen over the Pocono Mtns.during 1969-71? More than just I saw. Local press said something about high altitude weather balloons
      After viewing the last thing I recalled seeing was a red flash .
      Really was something different ...

    • @spankthemonkey3437
      @spankthemonkey3437 4 роки тому

      michael armstrong it was just a military flare going out🤣

    • @dont_give_a_flying_f
      @dont_give_a_flying_f 4 роки тому +2

      Shirt was white originally but was used to collect the beta particles

    • @InFiD3ViL1
      @InFiD3ViL1 3 роки тому +4

      @@michaelarmstrong11 The flash of light you saw in the sky was not a nuclear test. Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus.

  • @hebneh
    @hebneh 5 років тому +168

    I saw the bright, weird aurora colors in the sky from Operation Starfish Prime at the age of 8 in 1962 in Honolulu, Hawaii. It was treated like a big light show to be watched for fun.

  • @darkwarheart
    @darkwarheart 3 роки тому +17

    Why do I feel like he is going to betray me to the queen after explaining this video?

  • @ritchiecooper1941
    @ritchiecooper1941 3 роки тому +9

    Very interesting, i now know why we have holes in our ozone layer, and the cover ups to blame other products

  • @deltabravolima1514
    @deltabravolima1514 5 років тому +186

    Just to see what would happen. That's the logic behind 99% of my life.

    • @timmoore6055
      @timmoore6055 4 роки тому +4

      You mean the ones that start with "Here, hold my beer and watch this!" ?

    • @AmericanIdiot7659
      @AmericanIdiot7659 4 роки тому +1

      @Ray Be kind to others, it goes a long way I keep falling off my bike I almost fractured my wrist for the third time but it was a sprain

    • @justanotherfella4585
      @justanotherfella4585 3 роки тому

      Sounds familiar...

  • @johnd9357
    @johnd9357 5 років тому +31

    My grandfather was on the USS Rendova and got to witness both the Ivy Mike and Ivy King nuclear blasts first hand. The first successful tests of a thermonuclear device by the US. Ever since I learned about that I've been fascinated by anything nuclear.

    • @sansocie
      @sansocie 5 років тому +2

      Lost a friend it think from the Ivy Mike blast. Who gets leukemia after 75. Nuclear Vets......

  • @GraemeMurphy
    @GraemeMurphy 3 роки тому +1

    "Due to equipment issues on the ships none of this data was recorded".
    Welcome to the unknown effects of EMP at that time!

  • @KMCDM
    @KMCDM 5 років тому +40

    Discovery channel can learn some things from you!!

  • @omludas
    @omludas 5 років тому +167

    Would you please make a video on neutron bomb & As always an awesome & interesting video!!

    • @convictjoe
      @convictjoe 5 років тому +11

      Yes please do :)

    • @MetePurphy
      @MetePurphy 5 років тому +5

      Yeah that would be good.

    • @rauladdams5709
      @rauladdams5709 5 років тому +4

      I would watch that, for sure 👍

    • @DaytonaRoadster
      @DaytonaRoadster 5 років тому +4

      Low yield. Lots of radiation
      Everyone dies. There. Done

    • @kdarkwynde
      @kdarkwynde 5 років тому +8

      Technically, a neutron bomb is any nuclear device where the lethal radius of the neutron pulse is larger than the lethal radius of the fireball/blast/thermal components of the explosion.
      All sub-10 kiloton weapons fit that criterion. Additionally, careful design of the fusion stage of "boosted fission" and thermonuclear weapons coupled with using s radiation case that's transparent to neutrons can significantly enhance the lethal radius of the neutron pulse.
      Above 10 kilotons, blast and thermal effects begin to outstrip the neutron pulse, as does the fireball.

  • @_datapoint
    @_datapoint 5 років тому +74

    Where do you find this stuff!?! This is the first I have heard of how nukes could blind radar. Fascinating!

    • @MrBrelindm
      @MrBrelindm 5 років тому +25

      I was a radar technician in the Navy. Radars are transceivers. That is to say that the same radio that transmits a radar pulse, switches from a transmitting mode to a listening mode. This is accomplished by utilizing a blanking pulse at the beginning of transmission mode to turn off the sensitive receiver during the transmitter's pulse.
      Any electromagnetic pulse will overpower a radar's sensitive receiver if it occurs outside of the equipment's internally generated and sychronized blanking signals.
      Since radar information accuracy is highly dependent upon the timing and synchronization of signals, (a radar mile is 12.36 microseconds which is the time it takes light to travel from the transmitter to the target that is one nautical mile away and return to the same antenna) any disruption to the internal radar synchronization will "blind" any radar system.

    • @dredrotten
      @dredrotten 5 років тому +1

      @@MrBrelindm) Whats a Radar Kilometer in microseconds?

    • @shlibbermacshlibber4106
      @shlibbermacshlibber4106 5 років тому

      Red Rooster, speed of light, just under 300,000km/sec
      .001 km or 1m per microsecond

    • @NICEFINENEWROBOT
      @NICEFINENEWROBOT 5 років тому

      @@shlibbermacshlibber4106 shouldn't it be 300 m per microsecond?

    • @shlibbermacshlibber4106
      @shlibbermacshlibber4106 5 років тому

      That would be 300 million km per second

  • @cjc363636
    @cjc363636 6 місяців тому

    Paul, thanks so much for the history on this. Younger people who didn't grow up in the first Cold War (we're in a second one now, arguably) this might help them understand just how un-hinged various chapters of this time period got. And knowing this history as deeply as possible might, just might, help us humans navigate the growing new 'great power' conflicts - and maybe dial down the heat.

  • @bradthurkle7217
    @bradthurkle7217 3 роки тому +6

    No wonder our ozone layer is stuffed and we’re getting fried. Thanks guys.

    • @Biden_is_demented
      @Biden_is_demented 2 роки тому

      When he said they conducted tests at the South Atlantic Anomaly, my spider senses went tingling. So i went to check. The SAA was discovered in 1958, according to Wiki. And the Operation Argus was conducted between August and September of... 1958! Coincidence? Or... they poked a hole up there?
      I find it hard to believe they planned and prepared a highly complex task force to conduct an even more complex test, in an an anomaly they just "discovered" around the same time! Such expeditions usually take years to plan! And they did something this complex, on the spot?? On the back of a napkin? Hardly something you expect from the US Navy. Since i don´t believe in such coincidences, i am led to believe something´s afoot. I expect the dates are wrong. Because if they aren´t... Well... Color me confused!

  • @fastacker2
    @fastacker2 5 років тому +47

    Governments can do this, but I can't use R-22 in my air conditioner. Or use hairspray. or have a Halon fire extinguisher.
    Seems fair. :)

    • @amritpalsidhu6454
      @amritpalsidhu6454 5 років тому

      Haha ryt all tha burden on us

    • @TRUMP_WAS_RIGHT_ABOUT_EVRYTHNG
      @TRUMP_WAS_RIGHT_ABOUT_EVRYTHNG 5 років тому

      Haha! So true!

    • @jonnylake3rd
      @jonnylake3rd 5 років тому +1

      fastacker2 Don’t forget about plastic straws

    • @alexanderditty3459
      @alexanderditty3459 4 роки тому +1

      @@jonnylake3rd just get a trump plastic straw

    • @fanirama
      @fanirama 4 роки тому

      The govt is one of us in there. And they change and keep changing. Hopefully we get term limits in Congress too.
      But here, it's also the combined long lasting effect of millions to billions of you using those sprays which are harmful all around the earth.

  • @tomasbeno4213
    @tomasbeno4213 5 років тому +5

    This is one of your best videos so far! Packed with comprehensive and surprising information. Being a space and physics fan, I really enjoyed it. Thank you :)

  • @tlamn1905
    @tlamn1905 4 роки тому

    Great vid, but the mushroom cloud doesn't need debris, sand etc. sucked into the Hypocentre to form the "Cap" of the Cloud. This is the rising and cooling Fireball going through changes as it interacts with atmospheric layers and conditions. If the Height of Burst allows the Fireball to avoid touching the Surface, varies with Air-Burst HOB and Device Yield, the blast will produce a "Cap" without the "Stalk". If detonated at a lower atmospheric height, an Air-Burst will form a Cap and the Stalk will start growing from the Surface.
    Hope the helps!
    Cheers for the vids!

  • @MarsLonsen
    @MarsLonsen 4 роки тому +6

    Gets his sense of fashion from the first top gear seasons

  • @markpointer2967
    @markpointer2967 5 років тому +14

    As with every CD video, just great...... informative, concise, interesting, very understandable..... my list could go on and on! Thank you to you and your “team” for producing such great content.... Oh, And I almost forgot to say..... your reserve of awesome shirts, seems literally endless!!!! 👍👏🍻

  • @Skukkix23
    @Skukkix23 5 років тому +16

    Absolutely stunning topic and video! Best channel on youtube!

  • @phelyxz
    @phelyxz 2 роки тому

    ... Fascinating! The video too. Not only the shirt. But jokes aside, I learn so much of many of those videos! I enjoy them a great deal. And his idea with the different eccentric shirts is also genius

  • @jroar123
    @jroar123 4 роки тому +2

    This scared the hell out of me. Besides physical damage to hardware of the day, what residual effects are still at play (if any) from these high-altitude detonations?

  • @tommacegan19
    @tommacegan19 5 років тому +226

    I love the information that you're giving us but SWEET JESUS!, our species is absolutely nuts.

    • @sleepingbearffg5008
      @sleepingbearffg5008 5 років тому +8

      I'm embarrassed

    • @Sorestlor
      @Sorestlor 5 років тому +9

      I find myself embarrassed by Liberals and Republicans and people who are neither. AKA Our species is absolutely nuts.

    • @SunriseLAW
      @SunriseLAW 5 років тому +3

      "Sweet Jesus"? He is a long-gone executed Roman convict. But yeah....our species is nuts.

    • @joedirt6212
      @joedirt6212 5 років тому +1

      That’s why we are on top because we take risks

    • @unautrecompte
      @unautrecompte 5 років тому +5

      @@joedirt6212 on top of what exactly?

  • @jedics1
    @jedics1 5 років тому +635

    This story is almost as shocking as that shirt.....

    • @ficheye00
      @ficheye00 5 років тому +9

      I've got a tie that's the same pattern.

    • @xxCrimsonSpiritxx
      @xxCrimsonSpiritxx 5 років тому +6

      you and your first world problems, stop watching the devil wears prada

    • @andersaxmark5871
      @andersaxmark5871 5 років тому +31

      I just threatened my wife that I would buy that shirt. She is so against it that she suggested I buy a new gun as an alternative.

    • @corzahazard444
      @corzahazard444 5 років тому +8

      @@andersaxmark5871 Either you're a lucky man or she intends for your quick demise...Never threaten the missus, rest in peace mate.

    • @markpointer2967
      @markpointer2967 5 років тому +5

      jedics -
      What?!?! That’s an AWESOME shirt!! I’ve got loads of near identical shirts to the ones that Paul (the presenter) wears!! It’s called STYLE pal; it’s why I gets all that poon-tang, ayyeee ;-)
      The laydeez LOVE it, and my homies are WELL JEL

  • @naysmith5272
    @naysmith5272 3 роки тому +1

    Great video. This is almost like Fascinating Horror. Didn't know about the Vela incident before.

  • @135john135
    @135john135 3 роки тому

    When I was a youngster we lived in atlanta georgia, my dad was driving down I-20 toward atlanta. My mom worked at gradey memorial hospital around midnight in a 1965 mustang I was in the back seat with my head layed back looking out the rear window when the whole sky was instantly filled with red clouds boiling down at us. I alerted my dad as I thought we about all die. He saw it but as fast as it was there it had already started to fade. This filled the whole horizon. My father called the meterlogical center and they said it was atomospherical testing but I thought it was nukes. This had to be around 1968 to 1969

  • @DrSpawn
    @DrSpawn 5 років тому +283

    Damn, I wish Varys were a teacher in my university

    • @stevenwilkinson8459
      @stevenwilkinson8459 4 роки тому +17

      @Flearther McPlane Calm down. Being so hateful uses a lot of energy.

    • @stevenwilkinson8459
      @stevenwilkinson8459 4 роки тому +14

      @Flearther McPlane To begin, I believe you misunderstood the original posted comment. He was making a joke referencing a character in a popular tv show, correlating how the host in the video resembles the character. It's not original, several people have made the same joke on other videos but that is besides the point.
      The point I want to make however is about how anything you just said has any relevance to what I or the original commenter said. I replied to you because your comment was unnecessary . It was a needlessly hateful comment directed at somebody, probably a teenager, when all he was trying to do was tell a joke. You obviously misunderstood the context and immediately went in with your own perceived agenda which I'm not contesting. We can talk politics or societal observations if you want but this isn't the original subject matter.
      I can tell from the way you talk that you are likely from the older generation. So please, let the kid be. Show some humility and direct your rhetoric where it is appropriate.

    • @colerounds1429
      @colerounds1429 4 роки тому +3

      @Flearther McPlane lol you are a joke

    • @colerounds1429
      @colerounds1429 4 роки тому +2

      @Flearther McPlane sure man, I dont blindly follow what people see or post and do my own research, you are just crazy man

    • @colerounds1429
      @colerounds1429 4 роки тому +1

      @Flearther McPlane im not religous and just believe what is taught to me because its the norm, but the world is a globe

  • @geoffpilcher2460
    @geoffpilcher2460 5 років тому +89

    Another fascinating vid Paul, really enjoyed. Scary to think they only stopped for concern of satellites and EWR, instead of the effects on life.

    • @nealsterling8151
      @nealsterling8151 5 років тому +4

      Terrifying indeed.

    • @kasuha
      @kasuha 5 років тому +13

      I don't think direct impact on life was substantial with these tests. People nowadays tend to overestimate impact of artificial radiation and neglect radioactive background and cosmic radiation.

    • @merendell
      @merendell 5 років тому +7

      Unless intentionally salted a nuke detonation itself does not produce that much radioactive fallout. Still bad but not uninhabitable for decades bad. If detonated on the ground it kicks up and iradiates tons of dirt and dust causing the really nasty fallout that sticks around for a while.
      It was good data get but I'm glad they stopped as well. Too many risks associated with the things to keep pushing.

    • @lubricustheslippery5028
      @lubricustheslippery5028 5 років тому

      What was the effect on life? Maybe not that much...

    • @ryccoh
      @ryccoh 5 років тому

      We're made up of a lot of water, those high energy electrons could induce in living things

  • @Anotherdaynparadise
    @Anotherdaynparadise 3 роки тому +1

    I was lucky enough to have seen one in Miami Florida many years ago. Thanks so much for this video! I looked for years to confirm what it was but never found any info. I suspected it was a nuke in space since i saw it that night. It was a three stage rocket and then i saw the expansion ring when it exploded.

  • @MitchFlint
    @MitchFlint 3 роки тому +1

    When I was a kid, we lived in Honolulu and witnessed the Starfish Prime test. A countdown on the radio, a bright flash - darkness - then the sky lit up green for several minutes! Since then, study and consideration of nuclear weapons led me to the conclusion that these are not only WMDs affecting politics and people, but are weapons of astronomical proportion. Not only for the life of humankind, but for the life of our planet, they must never be used again. Nuclear weapons are certainly by far the greatest threat we face today and will be for sometime to come.

  • @nobodynemoq
    @nobodynemoq 5 років тому +3

    Great video, as always! I never knew that there were other high-altitude nuclear tests other than Starfish Prime - and then comes Curious Droid showing so much more... Thank you!

  • @TheP3NGU1N
    @TheP3NGU1N 5 років тому +512

    Space nukes... the moment the aliens turned their ships around and said 'yep... they are idiots...'

    • @nealsterling8151
      @nealsterling8151 5 років тому +8

      👍

    • @ShifuCareaga
      @ShifuCareaga 5 років тому +29

      They later got Independence Day on HBO.. and were like "dude, wtf is wrong with these people?"

    • @voidremoved
      @voidremoved 5 років тому +1

      firing shots at jesus magic carpet. got to keep them away so they don't liberate you slaves

    • @lordgarion514
      @lordgarion514 5 років тому +18

      Sadly for us, any aliens that could get here would most likely have such advanced technology that they would consider our nukes to be cute little toys.

    • @94nolo
      @94nolo 5 років тому +15

      Can't eat them. Too many preservatives and high in radiation.

  • @TheRealHusk
    @TheRealHusk 3 роки тому +1

    I was sitting in my bed the other night wondering what would happen if we blew a nuke up in space, and then I find this video without any searching..

  • @lloydevans2900
    @lloydevans2900 5 років тому

    That visual of a nuke exploding in space (at about 5:20 elapsed) was actually used in the first episode of the 2004 Battlestar Galactica miniseries. Near the end of that episode, the ship carrying the president of the colonies (Colonial One, formerly Colonial Heavy 798) was intercepted by a Cylon raider, and sets off an EMP to simulate a nuclear detonation, blinding the Cylons and escaping from the attack. The Galactica monitors this remotely with their DRADIS system (the colonial equivalent of RADAR, more or less), which gives an image of the simulated detonation which looks rather similar to the actual nuke in space detonation.

  • @dazzifoxking1560
    @dazzifoxking1560 5 років тому +5

    Always nice seeing a new Curious Droid video!

  • @jamesweir139
    @jamesweir139 5 років тому +14

    Great content as always! Love the cadence of your voice, too. )

  • @rippedhole9101
    @rippedhole9101 3 роки тому

    My grandfather was a scientist working directly on these projects and it had nothing to do with what you are claiming. I mean the mission names alone should tell you a lot. In very short, they were attempting to break through some form of dome encapsulating us to earth, hence ; Operation Fishbowl, turn the fishbowl up side down and that’s what they failed to break through.

  • @nikorauca1579
    @nikorauca1579 Рік тому +3

    Trying to crack the dome to kill us all, operation fishbowl

  • @steveh1121
    @steveh1121 5 років тому +102

    Did the nuke blast in space create that shirt?

  • @tokyosmash
    @tokyosmash 5 років тому +22

    A new CD video, oh lucky day!

    • @tokyosmash
      @tokyosmash 5 років тому

      Dylan sky Don’t speak ill of the homie Paul 👀

  • @jayc2469
    @jayc2469 Рік тому

    Dude it's Argus, not the UK High Street Retailer haha
    I've loved your uploads for years and been a subscriber for as long but I just stumbled on this one from back then that I'd missed(!)

  • @choda42
    @choda42 4 роки тому +1

    Shirt looks like the Nevada test site. Well played.

  • @MrShiffles
    @MrShiffles 5 років тому +12

    The shirts you wear may be loud and sporadic, but your presentation is calming and deliberate...I salute you and your videos good sir!

    • @gregorydean824
      @gregorydean824 4 роки тому +1

      Give the guy a break. His stylist was sick w/Covid-19. The shirt is a shirt.

  • @Tommyxp420
    @Tommyxp420 5 років тому +3

    I'm glad I'm not crazy and knew they did test nukes in space. Because all the other video I have seen are about "if they did". I guess not knowing it happened already more than once. Great video!

  • @briskstevens8604
    @briskstevens8604 4 роки тому +3

    That shirt is a fission reaction illustration🧨

  • @ChaseTheHeat
    @ChaseTheHeat 3 роки тому

    You bear an earie resemblance to Andrei Chikatilo
    . In tact, there is a famous pic of him wearing a similar shirt. Great content nonetheless

  • @catlee8064
    @catlee8064 5 років тому +31

    Bejesus!!! That shirt!!! It could either cure a headache or cause one....im not sure which!

    • @MacStoker
      @MacStoker 5 років тому +5

      nothing that a slap up binge at mrs miggins pie shop wont fix mlord

    • @catlee8064
      @catlee8064 5 років тому +2

      @@MacStoker Or a visit from the baby eating bishop of bath and wells....

    • @MacStoker
      @MacStoker 5 років тому

      Sany0 haha my all time favourite show along with hitch hikers guide to the galaxy, cheers mate

    • @torrace12
      @torrace12 5 років тому

      Thats a good one!

    • @christianbarboza1074
      @christianbarboza1074 5 років тому

      Cool shirt!

  • @SamSalhi
    @SamSalhi 5 років тому +6

    Fantastic video, such a wealth of information

    • @imodium438
      @imodium438 5 років тому

      nice cgi cartoon profile pic. I bet NASA is very proud of their drawings.

    • @SamSalhi
      @SamSalhi 5 років тому

      ​@@imodium438 Nasa was and remains more credible than a troll like you
      I'm not even sure why you would bother replying to my comment to CD on a topic that doesn't even concern you or NASA!!
      Yet, NASA is still better than you and anyone like you

    • @imodium438
      @imodium438 5 років тому

      @@SamSalhi this video had the same ol' textbook pseudoscience of the spinning ball myth & you called it a wealth of info? Brainwashed 101..... there's no such thing as "space" as you cannot have two pressure gradients next to each other without a barrier (atmosphere next to vacuum w/o dispersing), so we're under some sort of enclosure.
      NASAs credibility = 0 & that equation is still more scientifically accurate than anything nasa has ever put out,
      I'd rather trust a serial killer not to murder again over nasa's fake cgi pictures, lol. Their ball drawings are worse than a 3rd graders refrigerator paintings.... you really need to do your research.

  • @_Jayonics
    @_Jayonics 3 роки тому

    Ur shirts get me every time. You know this guy has 'left this planet' without his feet leaving the floor 😉

  • @nowthatsjustducky
    @nowthatsjustducky 4 роки тому +6

    EMP pulse? Was that named by the Department of Redundancy Department?

  • @TanvirHossain-gd7zn
    @TanvirHossain-gd7zn 5 років тому +3

    Thank you for the History I love the way you Narrated the whole thing plus I really liked your shirt I think it’s cool.

  • @JustinY.
    @JustinY. 5 років тому +395

    We needed to teach those aliens a lesson!

  • @cheezenip2737
    @cheezenip2737 4 роки тому

    This actually worked. Look up Christofilos effect
    . It is responsible for electronics failures in space. The artificial fields only lasted for weeks though. The natural fields are the current concern for engineers.

  • @camilohiche4475
    @camilohiche4475 3 роки тому +2

    Varys is sporting the most stylish of shirts in this video. 👍👍🔥🔥🔥

  • @dennisf1973
    @dennisf1973 5 років тому +4

    And this is why so many people get and got cancer... earth almost ended up like Mars🙄
    Keep producing these insights, great little documentaries!👁👍

  • @danacross3427
    @danacross3427 5 років тому +36

    This video should make all people feel very secure. Isn't it heartwarming to know that the military seems to be in charge of human survival. What could go wrong?

    • @Bryan-Hensley
      @Bryan-Hensley 5 років тому +6

      Not the military, the crazy politicians.

    • @imodium438
      @imodium438 5 років тому +1

      Lighten up...... think positively, maybe some day we'll nuke our earth into a star?? & maybe this is how all the stars were created.

    • @yahikoksm5125
      @yahikoksm5125 5 років тому

      Dont use fluorides for getting high😅

    • @DrWhom
      @DrWhom 5 років тому +1

      Honestly, I think the military are more sensible than the civilians in command. After all, the US military has treated climate change as real for many decades now, and for mist of the time the right-wing stance has been straight denial.

    • @imodium438
      @imodium438 5 років тому +3

      @@DrWhom the military worried about climate change? Hmm... what's really their motive? Worried about climate change but goes to war against other countries for oil? Now isn't that funny :)

  • @richardsauceda6714
    @richardsauceda6714 3 роки тому

    Awesome channel! Subbed after the first minute of this video.

  • @theyassinoo70
    @theyassinoo70 4 роки тому

    This channel is the best. You make a great job

  • @martianingreen
    @martianingreen 5 років тому +66

    Brutal what we do to our planet....

    • @ginnyjollykidd
      @ginnyjollykidd 5 років тому

      And ourselves!
      Nature can get along without us (research Chernobyl today and see the restoration of wildlife and rare species there). It's up to us to quietly and peacefully make our nests in accord with nature.

    • @MrOiram46
      @MrOiram46 5 років тому

      The planet has survived wayyyy worse, like doomsday meteors

    • @ficheye00
      @ficheye00 5 років тому

      @@GoatMen - You seem like such a nice person. Can we hook up?

    • @ficheye00
      @ficheye00 5 років тому +1

      @@MrOiram46 - None of the previous disasters happening to the earth created radiation like that.

  • @aegoni6176
    @aegoni6176 5 років тому +314

    So much to piss off a flat earther here

    • @ShifuCareaga
      @ShifuCareaga 5 років тому +16

      Good!!

    • @aegoni6176
      @aegoni6176 5 років тому +11

      Or better, they send them to space with no return, then they can slowly admire our beautiful earth from space before they extenguish

    • @BxPanda7
      @BxPanda7 5 років тому +1

      @@aegoni6176 that would be brilliant

    • @lutenantsweedpertasa
      @lutenantsweedpertasa 5 років тому

      I love it.

    • @markotik75
      @markotik75 5 років тому +7

      Nah, we’re not pissed off in the slightest. Now that we have proof, we know we are correct and the billions of “Roundists” are wrong. Their loss but as long as nobody comes crying when they get shot at by the people guarding the ice-wall.

  • @pablo7636
    @pablo7636 3 роки тому +2

    holy shit, man, i'm still wondering how are we still here after the cold war, with all the nuke tests goin on everywhere, underwater, in space, on the ground, underground, wtf those people were thinking????????

  • @LSMG2004
    @LSMG2004 4 роки тому

    Thanks for the video! Great work!

  • @IKingRonin
    @IKingRonin 5 років тому +7

    7:06 *This Guy.....*
    Hops up and places a pressure gun into a nuclear warhead,
    *This Guy is a Legend....*

    • @borabingol6797
      @borabingol6797 3 роки тому

      I thought the same. I mean there should have been a blocking or safety mechanism, otherwise... Well probably there wasn’t.

  • @xxCrimsonSpiritxx
    @xxCrimsonSpiritxx 5 років тому +3

    I see that varys had settled down in youtube and made his own channel after the show was over, very nice.

  • @puncheex2
    @puncheex2 3 роки тому

    A remarkably appropriate shirt for the subject at hand.

  • @jordanevers3432
    @jordanevers3432 4 роки тому +1

    Nuclear testing in the upper atmospere , I guess that's one way to try to get outside the atmosphere ? Sounds dangerous as hell though !

  • @schr75
    @schr75 5 років тому +8

    Small correction. @2:55 you say Sputnik 2, but is in fact Sputnik 3.

  • @RCAvhstape
    @RCAvhstape 5 років тому +3

    When Curious Droid and Scott Manley each drop a nuclear vid on the same day.

  • @xXSinForLifeXx
    @xXSinForLifeXx 4 роки тому +4

    Warning shots!
    We dont want those aliens getting cocky we need to show them what we can do.

    • @norml.hugh-mann
      @norml.hugh-mann 3 роки тому

      If they just have the tech to notice they would likely laugh at our galactic equivalent to sticks and stones...when they can turn the entire energy output of a star into a single beam that can literally turn the Earth into plasma....Hell they could just jettison their garbage at relativistic speeds and annihilate half the planet

  • @JackThelRipper
    @JackThelRipper 2 роки тому

    I remember hearing about them testing Nuclear bombs in space but have never actually seen any of this, ty for the video!! It was really informative and I wonder how those phone calls went after they knocked power out in Hawaii

  • @Rhannmah
    @Rhannmah 5 років тому +5

    This was as much fascinating as it was terrifying.

  • @CrusadeVoyager
    @CrusadeVoyager 5 років тому +73

    This caused concern with the universal space federation and aliens came to look at what is happening with us

    • @belindaboro9873
      @belindaboro9873 4 роки тому +4

      I agree. thanks god they are here!!!

    • @antoniospanayiotou8619
      @antoniospanayiotou8619 4 роки тому +3

      We would have blown ourselves apart if not for constant intervention!!

    • @Noname-no5qf
      @Noname-no5qf 4 роки тому +8

      Yeah did you know they have stopped us nuking space multiple times? They are starting to see us a threat

    • @johnwang9914
      @johnwang9914 4 роки тому +2

      Problem is, they probably won't detect it for hundreds to millions of years depending on how far they are.

    • @Bankable2790
      @Bankable2790 4 роки тому +8

      Oh no, not Finland?!

  • @Pinefenario
    @Pinefenario 4 роки тому

    Hey man, nice channel! Anyway, although they don't do nucleair tests anymore. The big power can still calculate and design. Nowadays there are a lot of computers and mobile devices used for personal, business and military use. So do you think they specifically design nucleair bombs for this EMP effect to disrupt the communication and computing capabilities of the enemy. And yes I have seen the James Bond movie about this subject. But my question how serious are these kind of designs?

  • @MatthewSuffidy
    @MatthewSuffidy 5 років тому +1

    Interesting to know the effect of nuclear stuff in space with regards to craft going through them. Nerva, fission pulse rockets, and these tests are a problem.

  • @b062838868
    @b062838868 5 років тому +3

    Blowing up atmospheric nukes should be a science mod in KSP

  • @ericl452
    @ericl452 5 років тому +3

    1973 wants it's shirt back!
    Enjoyed the video.

  • @koneeche
    @koneeche 4 роки тому

    I don't bloody believe it.
    I thought this was posted 12 minutes ago, darn my cursed eyes LOL.
    I was searching up the behavior of nuclear weaponry in space and UA-cam recommended this to me. I think the feds are onto me, mang.

  • @dimtgco1428
    @dimtgco1428 4 роки тому

    This video blew my mind. How little the typical person knows about the military capability is frightening. And this info which must have been classified is so old. I can't imagine what the capability is now that I have not even a close idea must be. This video opened up my eyes a lot wider.

  • @striker851
    @striker851 5 років тому +7

    Makes the gun debate pointless. A dude with an AR can't do anything to a government with this kind of power... And that's 60 years ago.

    • @brokenwave6125
      @brokenwave6125 5 років тому +2

      That doesn't make the debate "pointless" by any means.
      And that's just flawed logic in general.

    • @Bryan-Hensley
      @Bryan-Hensley 5 років тому

      It absolutely does not. The military bases in the USA are unarmed to keep some Soldier from going ballistic and killing a bunch of people. The only ones on base with a loaded gun is the military police. If a militia would form to stop a rogue government, they can overwhelming the bases and take over all of the military equipment.

    • @mrdumbfellow927
      @mrdumbfellow927 5 років тому +3

      Not to mention the hypothetical oppressive government doesn't want to preside over a nuclear wasteland.

    • @Taima
      @Taima 5 років тому +1

      ​@@Bryan-Hensley - I'd like to see a militia magically spring out of the ground overnight and somehow take every military base without the government catching wind of it before it even happens, or before any major traction is gained. That's just fantasy.

    • @Bryan-Hensley
      @Bryan-Hensley 5 років тому

      @@Taima the bases aren't armed. Not much they could do even if they got wind of it. Do you think the military will unleash on it's own neighbors and possibly family even if they could. It's even against the Constitution. I kinda think it's like that on purpose. There's plenty of former military personnel who knows where things are. It wouldn't be hard. That's why the deep state government works so hard at keeping us divided. If just 1 percent of the population United it would be a serious threat to the government. Our founders were concerned about a rogue government taking over.

  • @bababohibo8380
    @bababohibo8380 5 років тому +17

    Never knew Gold-Dust From WWF was so smart

  • @edilbertorivera3467
    @edilbertorivera3467 2 роки тому

    Wait... That last revelation about a possible neutron bomb detonation experiment got me scared. Could you clarify that and make a separate video about it?

  • @howardking3601
    @howardking3601 3 роки тому

    Great video, BTW. I really like your work.

  • @JR6593
    @JR6593 5 років тому +14

    "Price! Do you copy? The silo doors are open! Price, come in!" "Good."

    • @ryanotte6737
      @ryanotte6737 4 роки тому +1

      "Missile launch! Missile in the air! Missile in the air! Code Black! Code Black!"

  • @MachineHeadDissent
    @MachineHeadDissent 5 років тому +5

    Great channel!!!...🤙😎🤘

  • @bobscott117
    @bobscott117 3 роки тому

    Crazy I never heard of these tests. Awesome channel

  • @jperiodchapin
    @jperiodchapin 5 років тому

    I don't know if nukes in space would 'blind' radar but I know your shirt has the ability to bling anyone. It is pretty sweet.