What this video is actually talking about is what could survive the RADIATION that results from an atomic bomb. The actual explosion, however, would be extremely hard to resist. Chances are that the fungi and cockroaches would only be able to survive on the very edge of the bomb's explosive radius, and then spread back inward over time.
My first thought: I need to live in a mushroom during a nuclear apocalypse! My second though: We are all going to turn into smurfs! My third thought: Smurfs would be GREAT in a nuclear apocalypse!!
Well, I'm a fun guy, so I'll be okay. I can decompose all night and sunbathe all day. I will sit on dead trees to eat my lunch and on Wednesdays I will go scraping and have buttered mold for tea. Alas I can not reproduce asexually. I just can not get my Celia to fragment no matter how hard I rub it, and my penchant for cross dressing as a mushroom and hanging around compost piles is not helping; all the spores just choke me up and the wild flowers are really depressing. I was thinking of going to a laboratory, but I do not want to become known as the only puffball in the village. So I guess I will just have to settle for being a closet meiotic Fun Guy and not the fully imperfect Fun Guy I feel I should have evolved to be.
very cool clip :) i actually had suspicion that fungi would thrive in a nuclear rich environment and thought it had something to do with the way the break material down but couldn't place exactly why. glad i know :p
+ReZdItalia actually that wouldnt work if you grew it directly in an active reactor as those reach temps over 100 million degrees, in other words, it might be good fried
+Scumbag i believe he meant the Chernobyl Reactor, and either way, reactors don't run at extremely high temperatures. Reactors have many different ays of cooling down, high temps usually mean a nuclear meltdown ;p
My first thought was what this would do to the Sporeggar. I am happy to know that their are a few others out there somewhere that were thinking along the same lines.
WAIT A SECOND! Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Instead of trying to engineer heat-eating-panels, just coat reactors in shrooms and generate electricity from them!
I love Catalyst... thursday nights aren't complete without sitting in front of the box at 8PM, flicking it over to the ABfrigginC and getting my fix of Catalyst. I do hope you do more stuff for them... the roadtrip with Simon and Anja was great! :)
Upper vacuum ultraviolet is ionizing actually. Lower UV isn't typically, but if too much UV radiation can cause skin cancer, quite obviously there has to be some ionizing going on
I KNEW I'D SEEN YOU FROM SOMEWHERE!!! for ages you looked super familiar when I first stumbled upon the channel, now I realise I must have seen you on catalyst
+Mason Mckenrick Depends on where you're from, I don't believe there is an english institution that decides on every pronounciation for everyone. Going by etymology his pronounciation is better.
As soon as Derek said it the first time on the video, it reminded me of Kramer(Seinfeld),... he corrects the others on the pronunciation. "Fun-Guy!"... Hehehe
I do not know if this is a new idea, but we could build non explosive rockets with fungal spores inside of it. So when it hits the drown the spores are released and progressively the fungus will be growing and absorbing the radiation, sunflower also can be used to reduce the radiation amounts on places like Chernobyl. It could be awesome, to make a study about that and analyze the positive impact .
Why no mention of Deinococcus radiodurans, one of the most radiation-resistant organisms known. In addition to being able to survive high levels of ioninzin radiation It can survive cold, dehydration, vacuum, and acid.
Radiation still causes cellular damage and mutation to fungi (also pronounced, "fun-jee" :P ), but for the most part, fungi don't care. Fungi transfer genes horizontally quite readily, so any cell damage that occurs will likely have little impact on the fungus's genome.
Believe it or not, in Hiroshima a man survived the blast despite being a mere 300 meters from the center of the blast. He was in a sub basement of one of the few concrete structures in the city. He was partially buried from the collapse of the building and suffered radiation sickness, but he lived.
The second you see the flash, most won't recognize it. All that do will be silent. They won't bother to get out of their seat, they won't bother to finish their text. They know what's only a few seconds away.
It would be cool if you could combine the characteristics of fungi with other living things to make them immune to the negative effects of radioactivity.
Just because you sense by subconcious he has something 'evil' in mind. It is similar to the 'evil grin' of a kid preparing a prank^^ I also thought: Whats up with him? Until I saw the end^^ Homophobia-Pranks 4tw^^
If I had a balance beam, the kind of scale that tips from one side to the other, depending on the weight on each side. On each side is a beaker, half-filled with water. The sides are in balance. Now, on the left side you submerge a ping-pong ball suspended by a string (the ball is suspended under the water). On the right side, you submerge a steel ball of the same volume as the ping pong ball suspended from a crane ( the steel ball is also submerged in the water, but is suspended from a crane outside the system) Does the balance beam tip to the right, left, or does it remain unchanged?
What about bacteria? Radioactive bacteria have probably evolved to exploit the abundance of radiation deeper underground, such as in underground caverns where radon gas might accumulate.
It actually does, natural selection would contribute to most of the bacteria being wiped out, but due to radiation (the cause of the extinctions of bacteria) they might develop an immunity to radiation.
Well, in the Chernobyl area there is a very low digest rate compared to the rest of the world (fallen leaves that do not digest and dead trees that don't rot). This is mainly caused by the fact that a lot of bacteria actually cannot handle the high doses of radiation and die.
Hey, just curious on how you ended up doing all those shows on the road? That's a fantastic job and I picked my curiosity! Maybe you can do a show about it? Right?
So this explains the bulborbs in Pikmin.. The bulborbs (And many other species of animal/plant/fungi on Earth) started out as normal plant/fungi/animal, but then either absorbed the rads and evolved in the thermonucular disaster (Mushrooms=bulborbs or Puffstools, Plants=pikmin), or they died out (Humans, obviously), or they mutated (ALMOST EVERY BOSS OR ENEMY), or just stayed the same and somehow survived the disaster (The dweevils, the wogpoles, the wollywogs, the spectralids, ETC).
It's good to know that fungi thrives there but I have not seen lichen in any pictures of Chernobyl I've seen. Here in Finland all surfaces show lichen growth in very short time. When ever a new building is built the lichen will cover the base in no time at all. I've asked scintist around the world but no-one seems to know why there are no lichens in Chernobyl.
I have just searched online and found many pictures. I have also found this description under one of the stock pictures from the Zone in Ukraine: "Lichens are abundant in the irradiated zone in Ukraine. After being suddenly abandoned following the Chernobyl disaster, this formerly pristine community has been retaken by nature. (Photo by Claudia Himmelreich/McClatchy DC/TNS)"
The question was: What can survive an atomic bomb? He did answer the question by describing the organisms that have been found to survive such conditions. So, while he might not have listed every possible survivor, he still answered the question and went beyond what was asked by explaining what would happen to the fungi.
It's a giant mushroom! Maybe it's friendly!
+Adnan Ilyas Go give it a hug, Sokka.
+Adnan Ilyas love that anime
+♥♪!? Gaming It's not an anime
Tontete shhhh child, i am the illuminarty, I MAKE THE RULES *insert derpy evil laugh here*
+Adnan Ilyas
Now kids in Africa can enjoy that giant mushroom for their lifetime.
Is this how Mario and the mushroom kingdom was born?
interesting theory, it deserves further investigation.
The Game Theorists
+BlueLaw you sir deserve a emmy
World war 1
+BlueLaw i forgot that someone once said that to me.
You never mentioned a Nokia phone can survive an atomic bomb
They could survive a supernova
you know it is true
William Vazquez You forgot the Nagasaki Arch
Canadioryan You deserve the like.
Canadioryan and Chuck Norris' foot
time to eat some mushrooms
Hi! Verified UA-camr after 5 years.
Your account was deleted.
Sushi is communist cuisine
@@bigmaxmer4902 It's here again
I am become mushroom.
you are an apple
Amen XV I am become apple.
Calamity556 u is cashew
tamer rizq I AM BECOME FOOD
no no u is cashew
I for one, welcome our fungi overlords.
half life 2 reference?
321haiqal Depends on how you interpret it I guess...
+Nobody the Nobody, Well I hear they're pretty Fungis
hahaha, never gets old. Well placed!
What this video is actually talking about is what could survive the RADIATION that results from an atomic bomb. The actual explosion, however, would be extremely hard to resist. Chances are that the fungi and cockroaches would only be able to survive on the very edge of the bomb's explosive radius, and then spread back inward over time.
Somebody: Why does the mushrooms always get invited to parties?… Cause he’s a fungi!
Derek: Wow, that’s very fungi!
"That is disgusting, I cannot believe this."
Then walks in the direction of the man and not the woman.
FAN FICTION TIME
Art of Jamaa Head canons, anyone?
He was probably going to get revenge.
*teens* OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HE GONNA KISSY
It means he is secretly gay
Ship
Won't you take me to... Fungi tooownn.
The last mushroom I encountered had me floating in the stratosphere for 48 hours before I drifted back down. Still feeeling kinda light and airy.
🤣lmfao
So a nuclear apocalypse wouldn't be so depressing afterall especially with all those fungis around to cheer things up
Can't spell fungi without fun
So we'll be both irradiated and high on shrooms. Yay.
I can't say I didn't see that kiss coming from the way he looked at you :P
When i readed your comment I just starred at the woman just for realizing its the man who kiss him 😂😂😂
Someone's in love :P
I'm a hetero man and I'm legit crushing on veritaseum wow
Lol!
these are the role models we need, people like veritasium and vsauce.
Why did the mushroom go to the party at chernobyl? -'Coz he was a fun guy.....
yes...I hate myself a little for that one, too...
Niiiice😂
hes a fun guy but you're not
jk btw
Is anybody having his 9+ year old videos show up in their recommendations alot? I’m lovin this blast to the past
Actually Terminators would survive too
. ,
Reviving the dead
After 4 years
No Wonder They Call Them "Mushroom Clouds" Ah? Ah? I Need Friends...
You don't need friends.
(Being sarcastic)
SKITZ :-: Good one 😂
It's also the exact same joke they did at 0:53. Did you comment before that came up? If so that's quite funny, actually ^^
Rosie Isla I Came Up With It Around 0:17 Then I Heard Him Say It, Afterwards I Was Like "Ahh..."
SincerestLake0 Yea, I Posted It Then A Few Seconds Later I Heard Them Say It
Derek looks like one of the youtubers that have the most fun doing what he does
My first thought: I need to live in a mushroom during a nuclear apocalypse! My second though: We are all going to turn into smurfs! My third thought: Smurfs would be GREAT in a nuclear apocalypse!!
Lol 😂
I got an ad for refrigerator. Thanks, UA-cam.
Whoah, why that 21P symbol huh? Another fangirl?
Totally nah, thats why you have one of those freaks as a profile picture and you just pasted their symbol to your previous comment.
Totally what?
i got and ad for an ad remover. WAT oh the irony
spleaner eyyyy my man indie
Things that can survive Atomic Bomb:
-Nokia 3310
-Chuck Norris
-EMD F40PH
-Keanu Reeves
keanu reeves XDXD
Also Rajnikanth
I always wondered if there was some form of life that could use nuclear energy as a type of food or energy source. Thank you.
Godzilla
@@milkwater1204 Is godzilla a fungus?? New theory
That dude seems to be the embodiment of kindness :3
Well, I'm a fun guy, so I'll be okay. I can decompose all night and sunbathe all day. I will sit on dead trees to eat my lunch and on Wednesdays I will go scraping and have buttered mold for tea.
Alas I can not reproduce asexually. I just can not get my Celia to fragment no matter how hard I rub it, and my penchant for cross dressing as a mushroom and hanging around compost piles is not helping; all the spores just choke me up and the wild flowers are really depressing. I was thinking of going to a laboratory, but I do not want to become known as the only puffball in the village.
So I guess I will just have to settle for being a closet meiotic Fun Guy and not the fully imperfect Fun Guy I feel I should have evolved to be.
That's some brilliant, nerdy, hilarious stuff!
very cool clip :) i actually had suspicion that fungi would thrive in a nuclear rich environment and thought it had something to do with the way the break material down but couldn't place exactly why. glad i know :p
The Term “Mushroom Cloud” has gained a whole new meaning
great channel, subscribed :)
the way he says "fungi" irritates me
fun-gee
Some countries, like America, pernounce (Fun-guy).
howard baxter Isn`t that plural?
No. Fungus is plural, Fungi is singular.
howard baxter Sorry, me is no good do English. :c
Wait, is Simon that guy from Numberphile?
Yes, he's one of the people that do Numberphile.
isn't it obvious? when you look at mushroom clouds and mushrooms, the analogy is so obvious...
Should try growing psychedelic mushrooms in a nuclear reactor... And then eat them lol
+ReZdItalia actually that wouldnt work if you grew it directly in an active reactor as those reach temps over 100 million degrees, in other words, it might be good fried
+Scumbag i believe he meant the Chernobyl Reactor, and either way, reactors don't run at extremely high temperatures. Reactors have many different ays of cooling down, high temps usually mean a nuclear meltdown
;p
+Scumbag reactors don't reach near those temperatures, unless you're detonating a thermonuclear device. the core of the Sun is about 15million ℃
You've never had atomic caps?
0:27 is that Michael ahahaha
damm !!! yesss....🤣🤣🤣🤣
LOL
It is from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ("Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything")
Who is here after 8 years?
Maybe go into detail about which are okay to eat if it were a nuclear apocalypse?
No, hockey pucks will survive.
How many bottle caps would they cost? we could build houses out of them.
+Zippy Fallout reference?
Cecilia Visnick
-_-
Zippy haha, what?
+baileyboy125 Yep, if anyone is skeptical look up Thermite vs hockey puck, yeah hockey puck wins
Nausica of the valley of the wind was right all along!
These Catalyst people seem like *Fun guys*
'Kay, I'mma go drink some bleach now.
so. much. NOPE!
My first thought was what this would do to the Sporeggar. I am happy to know that their are a few others out there somewhere that were thinking along the same lines.
Atomic bomb explosions look like mushrooms... DUN DUN DUN
Really cool!
Check out the end of video.
The guy get's more action than I've seen all year.
0:53 I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE
Ok, my first thought on seeing the title in recommended was literally, "not me...?"
urs is the first comment i say which isnt like 4 - 5 years old
@@ishaansharma8164 i know right!?, and yours is the only one recent too
WAIT A SECOND! Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Instead of trying to engineer heat-eating-panels, just coat reactors in shrooms and generate electricity from them!
1:52 So many years and Veritasium still doesn't have a moment cuter than this one
0:29 seconds... Michael Stevens from Vsauce???
He had too much spit facts
D33r H33r what??
lol.. lookis like him .. ahahah
hahaha......I think he made that representing Michael
I love Catalyst... thursday nights aren't complete without sitting in front of the box at 8PM, flicking it over to the ABfrigginC and getting my fix of Catalyst.
I do hope you do more stuff for them... the roadtrip with Simon and Anja was great! :)
Actually.. Chuck Norris would survive...
No bruce lee will live on
Mouachee Vang thrive you mean?
No he's white he'll die first lol from the radiation exposure
an alternative hypothesis: fungi are attracted to radioactivity to avoid competition
Fallout 3 taught me that.
You just made my day. Well done.
1:51 that smile, he was planning for this his whole life.
Upper vacuum ultraviolet is ionizing actually. Lower UV isn't typically, but if too much UV radiation can cause skin cancer, quite obviously there has to be some ionizing going on
Sigh... it looks like the horror movies got it wrong. Our true new overlord will be Toad from Super Mario Brothers
I KNEW I'D SEEN YOU FROM SOMEWHERE!!! for ages you looked super familiar when I first stumbled upon the channel, now I realise I must have seen you on catalyst
It's pronounced "Fung-guy"
+Mason Mckenrick Depends on where you're from, I don't believe there is an english institution that decides on every pronounciation for everyone. Going by etymology his pronounciation is better.
alrighty, and since you're concerned with pronunciation, remember aluminum is actually pronounced aluminium. americans say it wrong.
incorrect
As soon as Derek said it the first time on the video, it reminded me of Kramer(Seinfeld),... he corrects the others on the pronunciation. "Fun-Guy!"... Hehehe
Not in Australia.
8 years later it has come again
What about Godzilla? You forgot that.
Or maybe a fridge with an archeologist inside it
nice reference
LuigiGames I wonder if he had a mini fridge in his plane?
James Bond It would be a buffet for him since he feeds from radiation.
I do not know if this is a new idea, but we could build non explosive rockets with fungal spores inside of it. So when it hits the drown the spores are released and progressively the fungus will be growing and absorbing the radiation, sunflower also can be used to reduce the radiation amounts on places like Chernobyl. It could be awesome, to make a study about that and analyze the positive impact .
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH mushroom cloud. hah hah. hah. so funny.
182guns MAYBE ITS FRIENDLY!
deathpony698 friendly mushrooom mushy gient friend lets go sokka we need to find aang
deathpony698 I told you to not touch that cactus juice again!
and u are randomley hlusnating on catusjuice and u lick something randomly on a wall sokka i got a natral curitosidy
i laughed so hard when simon kicked in xD
1:52-2:07
Me:
UA-cam:
Me:
UA-cam: *dO YoU wANT tO WAtch tHIS 7 yEaR oLd VideO*
YES IT DOES ANSWER YOUR QUESTION IT SAID WHAT COULD SURVIVE A ATOMIC BOMB AND THEY SAID FUNGI THAT ANSWERS THE QUESTION!!!!
Why no mention of Deinococcus radiodurans, one of the most radiation-resistant organisms known. In addition to being able to survive high levels of ioninzin radiation It can survive cold, dehydration, vacuum, and acid.
So Godzilla is part fungi?
Radiation still causes cellular damage and mutation to fungi (also pronounced, "fun-jee" :P ), but for the most part, fungi don't care. Fungi transfer genes horizontally quite readily, so any cell damage that occurs will likely have little impact on the fungus's genome.
ABC One, BBC One close enough
Its on ABC One
TheVopepigota I know, It's a joke
Believe it or not, in Hiroshima a man survived the blast despite being a mere 300 meters from the center of the blast. He was in a sub basement of one of the few concrete structures in the city. He was partially buried from the collapse of the building and suffered radiation sickness, but he lived.
so we all get tan to survive nuclear fallout?
LOL
8 YEARS AGO?????
Fungi and Chuck Norris will be the only survivors...
What can survive an atomic bomb?
Me: the cameraman who took the video of the explosion.
The second you see the flash, most won't recognize it.
All that do will be silent.
They won't bother to get out of their seat, they won't bother to finish their text.
They know what's only a few seconds away.
Where is this from?
It would be cool if you could combine the characteristics of fungi with other living things to make them immune to the negative effects of radioactivity.
That afro dude made me very uncomfortable and im not even in the same hemisphere as him.
Just because you sense by subconcious he has something 'evil' in mind.
It is similar to the 'evil grin' of a kid preparing a prank^^
I also thought: Whats up with him? Until I saw the end^^
Homophobia-Pranks 4tw^^
Rabijeel wat
Kyle Stamps exactly
Rabijeel right its just a joke hahaha
Kyle Stamps Omg I wish I could like this comment 10 times XD So funny but kinda mean.. but so freakin funny
Certain types of fungus have also been discovered to completely eat plastic and leave literally no waste behind.
Hence the clickers will be born.
If I had a balance beam, the kind of scale that tips from one side to the other, depending on the weight on each side. On each side is a beaker, half-filled with water. The sides are in balance. Now, on the left side you submerge a ping-pong ball suspended by a string (the ball is suspended under the water). On the right side, you submerge a steel ball of the same volume as the ping pong ball suspended from a crane ( the steel ball is also submerged in the water, but is suspended from a crane outside the system)
Does the balance beam tip to the right, left, or does it remain unchanged?
What about bacteria? Radioactive bacteria have probably evolved to exploit the abundance of radiation deeper underground, such as in underground caverns where radon gas might accumulate.
It actually does, natural selection would contribute to most of the bacteria being wiped out, but due to radiation (the cause of the extinctions of bacteria) they might develop an immunity to radiation.
Well, in the Chernobyl area there is a very low digest rate compared to the rest of the world (fallen leaves that do not digest and dead trees that don't rot). This is mainly caused by the fact that a lot of bacteria actually cannot handle the high doses of radiation and die.
My gratitude for your enlightening comments.
no problem
Hey, just curious on how you ended up doing all those shows on the road? That's a fantastic job and I picked my curiosity! Maybe you can do a show about it? Right?
umm Chuck Norris would
So this explains the bulborbs in Pikmin.. The bulborbs (And many other species of animal/plant/fungi on Earth) started out as normal plant/fungi/animal, but then either absorbed the rads and evolved in the thermonucular disaster (Mushrooms=bulborbs or Puffstools, Plants=pikmin), or they died out (Humans, obviously), or they mutated (ALMOST EVERY BOSS OR ENEMY), or just stayed the same and somehow survived the disaster (The dweevils, the wogpoles, the wollywogs, the spectralids, ETC).
You're not giving a legit answer to your video title in 2 minutes
Lol watch the video and try to pay attention and you'll find the answer hidden right in front of you.
So the only things left after a nuclear war will be cockroaches, mushrooms, Chuck Norris and Indiana Jones hiding in a refrigerator.
haha a kiss from real man ;]
It's good to know that fungi thrives there but I have not seen lichen in any pictures of Chernobyl I've seen. Here in Finland all surfaces show lichen growth in very short time. When ever a new building is built the lichen will cover the base in no time at all. I've asked scintist around the world but no-one seems to know why there are no lichens in Chernobyl.
I have just searched online and found many pictures. I have also found this description under one of the stock pictures from the Zone in Ukraine: "Lichens are abundant in the irradiated zone in Ukraine. After being suddenly abandoned following the Chernobyl disaster, this formerly pristine community has been retaken by nature. (Photo by Claudia Himmelreich/McClatchy DC/TNS)"
It didn't answer the question at all, you just stated one fairly well known survivors of nuclear radiation.
The question was: What can survive an atomic bomb? He did answer the question by describing the organisms that have been found to survive such conditions. So, while he might not have listed every possible survivor, he still answered the question and went beyond what was asked by explaining what would happen to the fungi.
All humanity could survive inside a giant fridge
He says fungi wrong...
No. English is just retarded for labelling the other "Fungai" pronunciation as the right one.
Nuclear winter refers to the emissions of large amounts of firestorms smoke and carbon particles into the Earth's atmosphere..
(Fùn-gē)
ITS FÙNÏ
SO PAINFUL TO MY EARS
Will it ever air in uk tv, if not mainstream, maybe on discovery or similar? Hope so looks like you had a blast!
Of course roaches would inhabit a post-nuclear world. RADROACHES!
Mythbusters found out fruit flies live better in radiation better than cockroaches.
wolverine
I remember watching him on the Catalyst several years ago
Must be sexual harassment wednesday...
I saw you on catalyst!! Awesome show.