r/HFY TFOS# 667 - Human Power Systems & Desperate Measures (r/HFY Sci-Fi Reddit Stories)

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  • Опубліковано 22 лис 2024

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  • @AgroSquerril
    @AgroSquerril  3 роки тому +38

    Going to be streaming the Booster Opening of 100 boosters for Warhanner AOS TCG. Hope to see you all there, will be a long stream.

  • @Firemind_EX
    @Firemind_EX 3 роки тому +179

    Terrans from the second story: "Aussies, the frick did you release this time from your hell portal?!"

    • @aj_the_infamous1013
      @aj_the_infamous1013 3 роки тому +39

      Ausdies "ain't us mate. Twas them damn probers"

    • @Deconstruction_Administrator
      @Deconstruction_Administrator 3 роки тому +36

      Aussie: Give me a minute, I'll check the list.
      -2 minutes later-
      We let out the Nightmare Snakes, Venomammals, Hell Lizards and several amalgamations of land, sea and air creatures, but it looks like we put down anything that had more than four legs, except for that one millipede-thing, so those spiders aren't ours.

    • @kerilithia
      @kerilithia Рік тому +8

      I don't think these things can be misconstrued for our huntsman spiders. Though I supose it does depend on how big they made them

    • @grogvaughan5649
      @grogvaughan5649 Рік тому +3

      Oi,, was them Kiwi kids.

  • @Aolsucs
    @Aolsucs 3 роки тому +40

    Customer Service Pro tip, if someone is escalated, or really emotional, ask them questions with imperacal answers "What date" "what color" "this location, correct?" It makes most people calm down alot.

  • @lagaul5124
    @lagaul5124 3 роки тому +192

    Why has no one commented on how genius that first story actually was? You literally get a fission reaction and a fusion reaction out of the same system. And its simple. BOOM!....

    • @GabrielHellborne
      @GabrielHellborne 3 роки тому +14

      I'm wondering if that's feasible now.....

    • @lagaul5124
      @lagaul5124 3 роки тому +20

      @@GabrielHellborne It seams like it could be possible. The size of facility would probably be insanely large though. I cant even imagine the cost to make something like this. Whether or not it would be more efficient than plain fusion, I do not know.

    • @calvingreene90
      @calvingreene90 3 роки тому +14

      The problem is that the fission/fusion cores cost a lot more than the electricity we can currently generate from the energy released in a confined detonation. It might be different with a laser triggered core if the lasers are external.

    • @IONATVS
      @IONATVS 3 роки тому +13

      Fission-Pumped Pulsed Fusion was first proposed in the 60s, and pretty much universally declared “feasible, but we don’t want to do it unless we absolutely have to.” Mostly in the context of spacecraft propulsion though, not power generation, because for propulsion you can literally just throw existing H-Bombs out the back of your ship and only need like a 1m thick concrete plate to protect the crew from the blast. So a lot less R&D involved than the plant described in this story-and when the R&D involves doing nuclear tests that have already been banned by several treaties, that’s a hard sell. It is literally the only system we know of where we could build a ship using it today and make an interstellar journey tomorrow...though to do so that quickly we’d need to LAUNCH the thing into space using the same drive, which wouldn’t exactly be pretty for whatever soon-to-be-desert biome we chose as the launchpad.

    • @calvingreene90
      @calvingreene90 3 роки тому +9

      @@IONATVS
      The thing is that the nuclear explosions driving the ship are by definition not tests.
      Concrete is a suboptimal material for the thrust plate. It is too brittle. Steel with water cooling works much better it also provides onboard power.
      The pulse nuclear engine is also lousy for interstellar travel exhaust velocity is too low. You are better off with ion engines. What Orion is actually good for is getting very heavy loads off planets.
      You also want to launch from mid ocean.

  • @michaelbalcom5233
    @michaelbalcom5233 3 роки тому +144

    I can definitely see a masses group of humans moving to the astroid belt once the spiders land

    • @marrqi7wini54
      @marrqi7wini54 3 роки тому

      Beltalowda?

    • @additiveartificer9365
      @additiveartificer9365 2 роки тому

      And maybe drop it in Earth

    • @Amoth_oth_ras_shash
      @Amoth_oth_ras_shash 2 роки тому +1

      @@additiveartificer9365 yes,...but also strapping engines on about half of all other asteroids to send them to ...every..single.. planetoid in control of either the faction at war , or ther associates...
      its the only way to be sure...

  • @condorboss3339
    @condorboss3339 3 роки тому +96

    "No, it's not a Thermonuclear bomb! It's only 50 megatons!" 🤣

    • @Crazylom
      @Crazylom 3 роки тому +12

      Fun fact, Thermonuclear bomb Tsar Bomba actually was estimated to be 95 Megatons at it's full potential, but in last moment someone removed one of it's fusion cores and weakened it.

    • @condorboss3339
      @condorboss3339 3 роки тому +17

      @@Crazylom The Russians did that because they realized the drop plane would not survive if they detonated the bomb at full power.

    • @demondeity9816
      @demondeity9816 3 роки тому +11

      @@condorboss3339 I think the drop plane was hit pretty bad with the blast regardless and was in free fall before the pilots got it stable again.

    • @calvingreene90
      @calvingreene90 Рік тому +1

      A bomb is an destructive device. A 50 megaton fusion core is not a bomb.

    • @patraic5241
      @patraic5241 5 місяців тому +2

      It makes one wonder what he Would consider a bomb.

  • @Roosauec
    @Roosauec 3 роки тому +80

    That's one way to get humans to not worry about the death of their home planet. Get it infested with giant man eating spiders.

    • @RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus
      @RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus 2 роки тому +6

      Sounds like the aliens need to learn to “joy” of the Terran parasite wasp, bloat fly, honey badger and I hesitate to say it . . . Canadian goose. Preferably all genetically altered to live and eat the xeno who thought bio weapons were a cute idea. Let’s see how good of a idea they thought that was after mr.honkers is chasing down their fly and wasp infested off spring for the first time.

  • @archer4728
    @archer4728 3 роки тому +58

    I enjoy the changes, especially the subtle voice pitching change for separate characters

  • @gmradio2436
    @gmradio2436 2 роки тому +22

    When the Terrans find out who covered Earth in super spiders, there will be blood.

    • @RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus
      @RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus 2 роки тому +5

      I say send them Canadian geese and techno orangoutangs in return. Oh and something I’ve only read about called “clown faced butt hornets” found in neo-Australia.

    • @gmradio2436
      @gmradio2436 2 роки тому +3

      The geese are fine, but nothing from any Australia.

  • @eliandervalderen5849
    @eliandervalderen5849 3 роки тому +49

    Yeah that second one woo boy gives a new meaning to arachnophobia

    • @AgroSquerril
      @AgroSquerril  3 роки тому +9

      that and the intro to an interesting creature feature.

    • @eliandervalderen5849
      @eliandervalderen5849 3 роки тому +13

      @@AgroSquerril they better hope that the human survivors don't find out what they did because if they do then the humans will make their species regret everything on the way to Extinction

    • @robertschumacher2707
      @robertschumacher2707 2 роки тому

      @@eliandervalderen5849 Likely by genetically engineering something even worse. Real murder hornets maybe...

  • @Zakvadr1995
    @Zakvadr1995 3 роки тому +12

    Alien race: Genemods spiders
    All of humanity: Dick move my dude.

  • @wildwikedwanderer1208
    @wildwikedwanderer1208 3 роки тому +5

    When humans say “kill it with nuclear fire” WE.FUCKING.MEAN. IT.

  • @ashleycroydon9743
    @ashleycroydon9743 3 роки тому +28

    humans: for spiders no kill like overkill. hahahaha

  • @Kronos9031
    @Kronos9031 3 роки тому +33

    Like the new design with the read along. For our master and the ALGORITHM!

    • @AgroSquerril
      @AgroSquerril  3 роки тому +4

      glad you like , for the algorithm

  • @ATSucks1
    @ATSucks1 3 роки тому +25

    Salt water and nuclear power plants do not mix. If ya use salt water to cool mox rods youre gonna get a thermal forced browns gas reaction. Then BOOM.

    • @KageRyuu6
      @KageRyuu6 3 роки тому +7

      You do know they were literally just setting off hydrogen bombs right?

    • @henrypaleveda7760
      @henrypaleveda7760 3 роки тому +13

      and the salt water was a secondary pool, the primary was presumably farther below. The fact that they were distinguished as two separate pools indicates that there had to be a barrier or partition between them.

    • @spacetechempire510
      @spacetechempire510 2 роки тому +1

      @@henrypaleveda7760 or a vast density deference

    • @henrypaleveda7760
      @henrypaleveda7760 2 роки тому

      @@spacetechempire510 that as well.

    • @patraic5241
      @patraic5241 5 місяців тому

      ​@@henrypaleveda7760The salt water pool was just a shield. Separate from the reactor pool.

  • @unstableproduct
    @unstableproduct Рік тому +5

    Story two is the super-scaled version of "A spider got into my house and now I can't find it. I burned my house to the ground."

  • @seanpeacock4290
    @seanpeacock4290 3 роки тому +9

    I'm more surprised that some humans didn't start keeping them as pets.

    • @RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus
      @RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus 2 роки тому +2

      The Aussies were most likely in space on a new death world that hasn’t even been classified yet.

    • @WE_DONT_LIE
      @WE_DONT_LIE Рік тому +1

      @@RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus no they move Australia to the new world

  • @Kualinar
    @Kualinar Рік тому +2

    Story 2. Terran's next move : Find the source of those spiders and do the same thing they did there... Only on a much grander scale, vaporizing about 1Km deep of the crust over the totality of the surface.

    • @kain7759
      @kain7759 Рік тому +3

      Not only the source, also all of the planets of every coalition that only heared of the culprits existence "its the only way to be sure".

  • @suburbanbanshee
    @suburbanbanshee 3 роки тому +5

    If you returned the earth to a wild state without agriculture, most wild species that live in farmland would die out. A lot of songbirds,.for example.

  • @Bendan
    @Bendan 4 місяці тому +1

    that second story is literally just Earth Defense Force in a nutshell

  • @MiningwithPudding
    @MiningwithPudding 3 роки тому +9

    I remember that first story! It's one of my favorite!

  • @henrypaleveda7760
    @henrypaleveda7760 3 роки тому +5

    getting visions of starship troopers from the end of the second story

  • @hugo231929
    @hugo231929 3 роки тому +18

    Love the change, don't push yourself too hard kay?

    • @AgroSquerril
      @AgroSquerril  3 роки тому +2

      i wont , a slow build up to november levels over the next month is the plan

  • @UNSCrearadmiral
    @UNSCrearadmiral 3 роки тому +3

    2nd story brings a whole new meaning to the I saw a spider meme

  • @Navy89SEALs
    @Navy89SEALs 3 роки тому +4

    "It's the only way to be sure..."

  • @kencarlson2855
    @kencarlson2855 3 роки тому +7

    I really like these changes it makes it very easy to keep up with

  • @ckl9390
    @ckl9390 2 роки тому +1

    What the Human Infrastructure Minister isn't telling him is that the concept was originally developed as a weapon. Essentially as an afterburner on a conventional nuke to increase yield. I wonder if pulsed fusion would work as a power source in reality? The captive underground lake is the key to making it work as a sustainable power source. The thermal mass would moderate the output so it could be captured and converted at a useful rate. I wonder how often they have to fire a pulse?

  • @bluefalconssuck5881
    @bluefalconssuck5881 5 місяців тому +1

    No matter how peaceful, kind or caring an alein species is... If it is Spider-esque, their will be war.

  • @karasuchrono
    @karasuchrono 3 роки тому +6

    Omg. Loved the first story, lol'd in horror at the second.

  • @geoshark12
    @geoshark12 2 роки тому +1

    One of the spiders was later found to be an Australian pet

  • @DEMONOFLOVEANDDEATH
    @DEMONOFLOVEANDDEATH 3 роки тому +7

    Another great Sermon from my favorite Prophet

  • @ryankaiser2702
    @ryankaiser2702 3 роки тому +2

    I don’t know why they didn’t try to invent Cazadores to counteract the bio mutant spiders

  • @tabithachastain6999
    @tabithachastain6999 Рік тому

    I love the 1st story. That science being used for peace

  • @CaptainShield
    @CaptainShield 3 роки тому +2

    Nanites love fusion reactors.

  • @derekdrake8706
    @derekdrake8706 Рік тому +1

    I'm glad humans in the first story were finally able to realize that solar power doesn't work at scale, it gives me hope that one day environmentalists will pull their heads out of their asses.

  • @justsomeguywithahandlebarm2456
    @justsomeguywithahandlebarm2456 2 роки тому +2

    ok as a power system addict this seems very fucking appealing

  • @midgefidget5796
    @midgefidget5796 Рік тому +1

    A a card-carrying lifetime Arachnophobe, that second story shook me to my core. Scariest HFY story yet.

  • @hauntedmedic373
    @hauntedmedic373 3 роки тому +1

    Those mother f*cking aliens did not just make Mutant spiders!

  • @commu-bot60
    @commu-bot60 3 роки тому +3

    Humans would just pice out and leave

  • @hawk3079
    @hawk3079 3 роки тому +1

    I mean in the second story it is the only way to be sure

  • @calvingreene90
    @calvingreene90 2 роки тому

    It is a fusion plant we could build today.

  • @Ash-yh5yn
    @Ash-yh5yn 3 роки тому +2

    Holly crap, I just did some research and... well... pulsed nuclear fusion is an actual thing... a group called First Light Fusion is currently developing a pulsed fusion reactor and were supposed to demonstrate the first reactor in 2019. I don't know if they actually did demonstrate it, but the energy extracted is still rather low. It appears like the energy it takes to make the pellet, contain the reaction, inefficiencies, and trigger the reaction consumes around 2/3 of the power the fusion process creates. But, the prototype they built before their reactor could, in the span of a minute, produce enough power to run a house for a year... For perspective, a normal house in America (where I live) consumes power at a rate of just over 1.2kW (28.9kWh). 1.2kW equates to 1,200 Joules per second. This per year would be a total of 15,189,840,000 joules (15.18984GJ). Now, let's equate this to TNT blast yield. TNT contains the energy of 4.6MJ/kg, so the reactor produces the energy of over 3.302 tons of TNT every minute (0.055 tons per second).
    Put another way, their prototype could power around 525,600 homes. Ok, I'm starting to think that their "prototype" is their actual reactor.

    • @AgroSquerril
      @AgroSquerril  3 роки тому

      nice

    • @chrisdufresne9359
      @chrisdufresne9359 2 роки тому

      The Rough Draft IS the Final Draft. Just taken to extreme levels.

    • @Ash-yh5yn
      @Ash-yh5yn 2 роки тому

      @@chrisdufresne9359 I mean... it's a youtube comment. Do you really expect me to go through it with a fine tooth comb?

    • @chrisdufresne9359
      @chrisdufresne9359 2 роки тому

      @@Ash-yh5yn I was referring to the "prototype" reactor....

    • @Ash-yh5yn
      @Ash-yh5yn 2 роки тому

      @@chrisdufresne9359 ooooohhh, I thought that I messed up my math and you were being sarcastic. Sorry about that, man :)

  • @dragonriderabens9761
    @dragonriderabens9761 Рік тому

    “I didn’t ask how big the room is. I said I CAST FIREBALL!!
    Empowered…at 9th level”

  • @calvingreene90
    @calvingreene90 3 роки тому +1

    The Empire is going down.

  • @hollyferay8131
    @hollyferay8131 3 роки тому +1

    The power story is such geeky fun.

  • @victortahlor4038
    @victortahlor4038 5 місяців тому

    Thank you for the reading

  • @clementchanu8019
    @clementchanu8019 3 роки тому +4

    Good to know your back, keep going

    • @AgroSquerril
      @AgroSquerril  3 роки тому +1

      Kicking A and taking baby steaps!

  • @mutehowl
    @mutehowl 3 роки тому +4

    Ohh hell no your guna unleash bio terror weapons on humanity you best be expecting the same response but made by human based on your fears.

    • @IRMentat
      @IRMentat 3 роки тому +1

      We ARE their fears. Why else resort to arachnophobia as a response?

    • @chrisdufresne9359
      @chrisdufresne9359 2 роки тому +1

      We could just drop some wasps on them in retribution. Or maybe some Murder Hornets.

  • @Maeshalanadae
    @Maeshalanadae 5 місяців тому

    Anyone who says that all that can be known is known, should be sent on their way.

  • @asandrewsilvaw
    @asandrewsilvaw 3 роки тому +2

    Liked the intro

  • @Jason-sm4oc
    @Jason-sm4oc 3 роки тому

    For BobtheDragon
    Also: for the algorithm

  • @greyclydesdale
    @greyclydesdale 3 роки тому +2

    Happy New Year!

  • @KwaterbugBUTCHER
    @KwaterbugBUTCHER 2 місяці тому

    For the Algorithm ,For the Author(s), For the Disembodied voice! For the Squirrel 🐿

  • @chadman3881
    @chadman3881 3 роки тому +1

    This new style is great. great video.!

  • @whowhat4573
    @whowhat4573 3 роки тому +3

    Algorithm be pleased.

  • @drawbyyourselve
    @drawbyyourselve 5 місяців тому

    Isnt it wonderful that we are starting to fuse efficiently in our lifetime?

  • @notafrisbee5907
    @notafrisbee5907 3 роки тому +1

    Liked the changes btw.

  • @jeroylenkins1745
    @jeroylenkins1745 3 роки тому +1

    I don't know if I like it yet.

  • @thenthson
    @thenthson 3 роки тому +2

    For the algorithm!

  • @chipjack2119
    @chipjack2119 3 роки тому +1

    I really like the new look!

  • @patricksean9031
    @patricksean9031 3 роки тому +1

    Happy new year

  • @arakheno4051
    @arakheno4051 3 роки тому +2

    For the Algorithm

  • @douglasjackson295
    @douglasjackson295 3 роки тому +2

    For the seo

  • @paulsim7589
    @paulsim7589 Рік тому +1

    Its only fair you return the favour and give them some of there weapons back 😮 but bigger

  • @tyreecebaker6600
    @tyreecebaker6600 3 роки тому +1

    👍

  • @Killa_Joule2005
    @Killa_Joule2005 2 роки тому

    The second story sounds like my aunt.

  • @ProprietorDoomOf
    @ProprietorDoomOf 3 роки тому +1

    Oh a read along nice.

  • @Amoth_oth_ras_shash
    @Amoth_oth_ras_shash 2 роки тому +1

    its the only way to be sure...
    and nooooooow....for what they consider the only way to be sure the ....creators.. and the knowledge how to remake those monsters... are lost forever hmm...
    aliens.. do you know what the concept of totalwar is ?

  • @icarus745
    @icarus745 3 місяці тому

    Less than 50 mt? Oh my!

  • @lukkaredwolf3534
    @lukkaredwolf3534 3 роки тому +1

    For the algorithm

  • @Shatterwings060
    @Shatterwings060 3 роки тому +3

    I must be one of the few people that doesn't like the new look completely. I prefer if the voice bar be removed or moved some where else. However I may just be complaining up a nothing burger.

    • @AgroSquerril
      @AgroSquerril  3 роки тому +1

      Where would you move it to?

    • @Shatterwings060
      @Shatterwings060 3 роки тому +1

      @@AgroSquerril under the scrolling text or on the opposite side side

  • @mhail7673
    @mhail7673 3 роки тому +1

    4tA Happy New Year!

  • @Scream_Lord
    @Scream_Lord 3 роки тому

    Terran Responce to the Hyper Death Spiders be like: ua-cam.com/video/q0efJJSdPoY/v-deo.html

  • @allenmorgan1007
    @allenmorgan1007 3 роки тому

    FtA, FtA(s), FtDV!

  • @FedralBI
    @FedralBI 3 роки тому +1

    F.T.A.

  • @undrachvrsage
    @undrachvrsage 3 роки тому

    FTA

  • @merlinwizard1000
    @merlinwizard1000 Рік тому

    153rd, 3 September 2023