This happened where I grew up in Cameroon. Check lake Nyos disaster. The CO2 killed everything...I mean Everything except plants
I looked it up just now. That was extremely unfortunate. It’s a really shitty way to die. 1,746 people died.
Yes, also local legends show it has happened multiple times across History
Thanks for posting this, I hadn't heard of it. It sounds horrifying :( I hope no-one you know was caught up in it.
@@fragglegoth luckily all of my family was spared from this tragedy. But i know families who were not so lucky and all perished
Dude I've learned from movies to always trust the "crazy" guy. Homeboy obviously knew what he was talking about about lmao
Id be like, Aaw I was just kidding! Lets all take a jetski out to the lake! Ohh mine is outta gas. Imma go to the store!
This is from one of my favorite shows, Scorpion, and it’s about a genius who helps the gub’ment with all kinds of unsolvable things. He had a team of geniuses and a handler.
And this actually did happen to a village - very few survived (like fewer than 5 people) and they still don’t know how they did.
Best survival tactic, you see a bunch of dead things? Get the fuck out of there.
Did this as a kid. Saw a pile of dead crawfish while berry picking, almost as tall as me pale in color not cooked just laying there.... dumped the berries and went home....
The crazy thing about them not believing him is he gave a perfectly good explanation to how he came to his conclusion
Welcome to the world.. people wont listen to the most logically sound option but opt to follow the stupidest one with no second thought..
Because he didn't present any evidence. I mean, I can come up with a pretty logical and well-reasoned argument for the existence of Santa Claus, but that doesn't mean my argument should be believed until I present some real evidence.
@@Commodore22345what could he have used for evidence? Should he have brought them to the water? Where someone would be highly likely to disturb the water’s surface and cause the explosion in front of everyone.
Idk how you can make a logical argument for Santa. I’d love to see you try.
But his explanation was completely logical and he even compared it to a can of soda. Great analogy. The truth is, you can’t stop stupid people from being stupid no matter what you say.
I was once told that if people don’t want to listen to you, don’t bother forcing yourself to help them. Let them figure it out.
That's not useful in emergency situations where lives will be lost in a matter of minutes.
@@avgjoe5969 it's called darwinism, survival of the fittest, it's obvious their brains aren't "the fittest'' around or else their survival instincts would kick in
In this case if you don't listen to some other human panicking telling you a big cloud of carbon dioxide from the lake will kill you(happened before around the world, Cameroon), then that's only your fault, he can't(wont and shouldnt waste HIS valuable time to) pick you up and carry you away against your apparent will 💀
I'd be leaving after they brushed me off, if they wanna die they wanna die, what're you gonna do about it at that point? they made their minds up already and wrote you off as looney, good luck spending time convincing them when you could be running 😂
"Actually, know what, you're right. You guys stay here, I'm heading to the store."
I would have reacted the same 😂 I'd be like screw it. I tried. I'm out
Suddenly thinking of the time in history when you learned about a whole town of people who had just fallen asleep and the cdc of that country couldn’t deduce what scientifically happened. They discovered higher traces of co2 in the people’s blood. The town was small about a few hundred people but the fact that it affected everyone was perplexing considering people were outside and inside. I forget what country is was but this makes me wonder if this was what happened
@@amberg4131Are you talking about the sleeping sickness that affected a bunch of people in two towns in Kazakhstan?
"You know what... enjoy your laugh. I'll be about 5 foot ball fields away and you know.. not dead. Have fun."
"Oh he serious SERIOUS, yall have fun laughing tho, im GOING with them dudes, YO WAIT IM LEAVING TOO!"
If anyone wants to watch this, its a TV series called "Scorpion" and its a damn great show
Walter, you did your best; let the dumb townspeople learn their own lesson. Focus on the ones who believe you and not the ones who doubt you.
He should still try, if he showed them he was right, he won’t even be able to say “told you so”
@@mrplaywenier3638 Somebody could survive and then he would have still someone to tell that to.
i mean i like that hes trying to help but if they arent willing to listen then id just pack up my stuff and leave myself if this was how people reacted to a real threat that could cause severe injury or worse. its the survival of the smartest not the strongest.
It's a TV show. The people that were laughing were his family. They were at his sister's wake and would be walking close to that lake to go to the cemetery.
If it were strangers laughing I could understand just leaving them there.
@@john2willis70 well that guys family are fools to not listen to him and though ive never had a family situation like this before its still a good idea to listen to someone who knows their shit. and and i also get that its for tv drama but the fact is that stuff like this does happen irl, is just sad to think about it and i can only empathize with it
They've been reacting to a genuine threat in this manner. Why do you think they're unaffected by climate change?
@@john2willis70 LMAO, you think that them being family makes a difference.
Fuck them all anyway, if they don't care and just laugh in your face even though you're trying to warn them about mortal danger then no one there takes you seriously.
At this point, you just have to leave and tell them that if they don't leave and half of them end up dead because of the CO² then there is no blaming him.
And if it was my own family members I wouldn't even feel sad that they died, I warned them and they didn't listen, clearly they didn't respect me so I shouldn't respect them either.
All lakes or reservoirs have layers of temperature zones separated by a thermocline. Usually, once a year they "turn over" Before ever getting close to a danger level however. If you ever swam in a lake and noticed a sharp line where the water goes from warm to much colder in a short distance, you have experienced this. I'm not talking about a slow, gradual cooling, but a noticeable difference within a foot or so.
Hijacking for science.
So this is a limnic explosion, which is an incredibly rare phenomenon. I think only three instances have been documented, and volcanic activity was related to two of the three? The thought is that CO2 moves into the bottom of the lake through various processes, Lake Nyos it was magma leaking CO2, but CO2 might also be released from organic materials rotting and sticking around at the bottom of the lake or maybe just an earthquake shifting things around, releasing a pocket of CO2, whatever. Once the CO2 is there, it does actually act like a soda. But these events are rare, they’re mostly associated with volcanos, and are in no way normal lake behavior. If you see dead fish in your lake, it’s more likely to be an issue with water quality or algal blooming. Your lake is unlikely to explode into a suffocating cloud but you should probably do some tests anyway. This has been your public science announcement
Show name is scorpion
Thank you, I was like I know this show I watched it years ago what was the name 😅.
Why is this comment very down below, I had to scroll so much...give him some likes and let it be at the top.
This happened in Africa and killed over 3 hundred people
Yeah, and it is bound to happen again soon because one of the biggest lakes primed for it can't be fixed and thousands live around it.
On 21 August 1986, a limnic eruption at Lake Nyos in northwestern Cameroon killed 1,746 people and 3,500 livestock. The eruption triggered the sudden release of about 100,000-300,000 tons of carbon dioxide.
man u saw that comment bout Nyos lake, did a google search and copy, pasted everything. lol.
He gave them a warning and a well reasoned explanation. If they are too stupid to listen or, at least verify, then they get what they get.
Kinda like trying to tell everyone about Jesus and when He returns! You gave everyone the warning of what happens when one doesn't accept Jesus as Lord!
@deedeefitz7829 Not at all the same. One is a scientific mechanism. The other is a fairy tale made up by people who didn't know where the sun goes at night.
@@deedeefitz7829 Not at all alike. One is a proven and verifiable physical mechanism. The other is a myth made up by people who didn't know where the sun went at night. A few centuries after the supposed events, no less.
You have literal geniuses telling you to evacuate and you laugh like its a joke
"I'mma walk a football field away from you and soon I'll be 6 ft. above you" 🙂
Don’t save them if there not serious about it, save yourself
@@ER_V17Noah did nothing but obey God & build the Arc. God gave the people what they deserved & to us unless we repent of our sin.
Same thing goes for being a "Prepper/Survivalist".
People don't ever think that bad things will happen or happen to them. You're the crazy person till SHTF; then your a GENIUS.
For the mere fact that dude giving a DETAILED explanation of whats gonna happen for me.
A football field away. That's all they had to do was walk a football field away. It would've taken minutes. If I were there, I'd be like "peace out! I'm going on a walk at least a football field away!" Better to be safe than sorry.
@@Venglish-j66 I saw that on other comments. That's crazy. I feel for those people.
@@AleconsIncthats not how that works at all, “genius” its still dangerous and lingering enough. if you know what “lingering” means
@@snombies and it's also gonna be lingering a football field away. Way to miss the point.
I don't care if it's the most outlandish explanation ever. If someone tells me something is about to possibly kill me I'm out, see yall never
The electromagnetic waves from your phone are probably disrupting your brain functions when you sleep next to it.
Ignobblekin thats not even remotly true your spreading old geanmda myths the same people who came uo that ceap think the warth is flat
@IgnobleKin I don't sleep with it next to me. Too much of a chance when I wake up in the middle of the night I'll look at the time and wake myself up
The second guy who mocked him has 0 survival instincts. He's gonna get clapped first💀💀
Now I know how Noah felt.
As a mining engineer currently doing a project about Lake Nyos disaster, i can confirm it is real but there are a lot of criteria a lake must check to do that. Limnic eruptions have only happened twice. Lake monoun and lake nyos. Lake kivu also fits the criteria for an eruption. These lakes are volcanic (maar) lakes, basically a crater and so co2 is building up and usually what triggers an eruption is basically a landslide or volcanic/seismic activity. But you need to have warm and cold water. Like the difference between the temperature will result in an explosion. Basically like a can of soda you shake and then you open. After the disasters, pipes were installed to degass them and prevent future eruptions. Lake monoun killed 37 people and lake nyos killed 1746 and 8000 animals. Basically the gas traveled for 20kilometers before dissolving into the atmosphere. People just fell down, into a coma and then died. There were survivors in the long distances, and only four in the nearby by village because they reached for higher grounds. Because the gas cloud is denser than air.
Twice in recent history yes, but there's a pit in Germany that has evidence of a limnic eruption in the Eocene, and Plutarch reported one in 406BC.
They're very rare, which is why most people have never heard of it and don't know the danger.
But yes like you say it's good the authorities have taken steps to eliminate some of the risk to prevent oversaturation.
Yes ofc! There are others too BC, but I didn’t mention it because there were no casualties. You know people get used to the danger when it happens a lot, like let’s say the graphic images on the cigarette box. But yes unfortunately natural disasters destroy third world countries. The soil in the volcano around Nyos is so rich that people would go back.
I hear the words "something is going to explode" I'll happily go "Screw you guys, I'm goin home."
Honestly, same. Even if it turns out to not be true, just hearing someone say anything remotely as dangerous being possible is enough to make me leave xx
What's more frightening? Something that's meant to explode failing to explode, or something not meant to explode suddenly exploding?
It's a TV series name: Scorpion !
Literally nobody would be laughing or joking in this situation. It is incredibly obvious that he is being serious.
The problem with this world is that smart people are full of doubts, all the idiots are full of confidence.
because if youre smart youre humble enough to know you dont know everything. If youre stupid your intelligence wont grasp past your own bubble
Ok I don't know about you but if someone just said the lake could explode at any moment and give us a good explanation like this I'm leaving as far as possible, I'd rather leave and be lied too then it be true and I stay.
Agree. It happened once when i was a kid for something about a huge earthquake, mybparents wake me up and my siblings in the middle of the night and told us take only things that are valuable and stay outside of the house. We then waited and waited and finally it was revealed that one smartass did a prank. While my parent were furious they also told me that to always take those kind of news seriously even if fake cuz better safe than well...dead
The reason they don't is that they still see him as a kid, coming up with crazy theories(which did happen, just not there). That's why his family doesn't believe him. Notice how Cabe and the rest of the gang believe Walter immediately? They know that he wouldn't say something like that if he wasn't certain.
@@tetsuryuu01I didn't watch it but other people in other comments were saying "Scorpion"....
*Kaboom* “Look who is laughing now”
The question about American Football vs Proper Football pitch is a damn good one because the pitch is a much bigger area.
if somebody starts talking in a panic in scientific terms you know he ain't lying
Glad to see Jason Street walking again man was a hell of a Texas High School football player before the injury
The smart thing to do was to call emergency service. If you know for sure that people are in immediate danger, why waste time on trying to prove that you're right?
Lake overturns are one of the least known, but most dangerous disasters of all time. It’s because they’re completely silent, for the most part, and can release any number of harmful gasses into the atmosphere. It’s like going to sleep one night, and no one wakes up the next day to report it.
That actually happened with Lake Nyos which is located in Cameroon. Killed nearly 2000 people.
We had a water inversion, which is what he's describing, in our pond. All the fish died because they were caught in the CO2.
The TV show is called: Scorpion
What happened? I don’t plan on watching the show I just wanna see people learning a lesson is all
Scorpion was criminally underrated. Seriously upset that it got canceled
well they ruined the end. May be it was because of cancellation.
I loved this show when it was on air. The ending was wack but other than that they’re fun episodes!
People will never believe you when you try to warn them of impending disaster, they'll always laugh and say that its your own imagination.
Happen to my local places. There is a villager warns flash flood at the waterfall when the water gets so low and fish swarms. The visitors of the waterfall fooled them, just for some of them to suffered the repercussion. The villager didnt bet an eye when they asked for help but kind enough to call the fire and rescue team. No life was gone but damaged cars, hurt people and loss of items 😅
It Tv shows name is : Scorpion
Season:3 episode:7
Episode 8, but thanks for letting me know what this was. It was a good two episode watch with some notable actors in it.
For anyone looking, the TV show name is Scorpion season 3 episode 8
Edit: I had put Episode 7 buts it’s actually 8. Thanks for the likes!
Its from.a series called Scorpion. This is Season 3, Episode 8
Show:scorpion (also comes on on channel 22 on Wednesdays)
This actually happened to a village in i think Africa. Everyone went to sleep on a rainy night and didnt wake up the next day.
Yup, in 1986 in Cameroon that happened to lake Nyos. 1746 people were killed
Africa is a Continent with about 54 Countries. So just saying a “village in Africa” is just like saying a town in Europe!
@@mercygborbitey9209 read comments and check replies before you complain. I read about the incident several years ago and the only thing I could remember was it possibly happened in Africa. I know Africa is a continent. You try remembering the specific location of an incident you read about like 10 years prior off the top of your head. Stay safe and stay awesome 💜
And some 3000 cattles. They studied geography afterwards, and installed fountains so that co2 gets dissipated regularly as a aftermath.
“You know what, fuck around and find out I’m leaving” is all he had to say 😂
Sadly you can't say that to family. Other comments are saying they were his FAMILY
The last guy got me crying 🤣🤣
'True true... hey listen why don't you guys go to the lake to check it out... I need to go home and do my taxes'
This once happened here in Cameroon. 1746 people died and 3500 livestock. No joke happened long before i was born, but the story still sends shivers down one's spine.
One of the reasons why Cameroonians rarely organise events beside a lake. 😢
Thanks my Cameroonian sister. Thing is ignorant people usually ignore warnings from smart people until it becomes inevitable and when they get help from the smart people, they go back to being dumb and sarcastic. He was explaining something
Dude, no matter which it is, IT'S A FREAKING HUGE EXPLOSION!
If someone panickes and tells you something it’s best to believe it
Of course the gingers were being mean. They have no souls.
I never before felt more hurt by something, I 100% agree with
- A ginger guy
Does anyone think he should just walk away and let nature take over, survival of the fittest.
This is one of my favorite TV shows I wish they would finish it out
This is a real tragedy that has cause a major extinction event and has cleared out whole towns
*moves out with no warning and let's everyone perish with blissful stupidity*
Edit:
Yall realise this is a joke.. Right?
@@salplayer9198act like you want to live if you want to live, not his responsibility to save them.
@@Sanity_In my point is, will you let them died if your family member and friends is among the stupid. No one with love one will answer yes.
@@salplayer9198 your love ones or friends wouldnt dismiss you like this.
@@soraisekai6382 you say it like stupid family member and friend does not exist.
It doesnt matter what episode or show this was. Because they COMPLETELY FUCKING RUINED THE SHOW BEFORE CANCELING IT!!!
@@Digidestined701 SPOILERS their team split up and one of the couples broke up and the guy got with a different girl in the last episode
See if you tell someone they’re in danger of dying and they laugh that’s when you just save yourself
Ugh, I miss this show so much ❤
Series called 'Scorpion', your welcome
Thank you! I've been scrolling for days trying to find a comments hoping someone asks the question ⁉️😅😂
It happened in Africa, killed everything around it for miles
That’s why I always trust so much random people that are good at what they do. I trust doctors and people like that, cuss even if they don’t know it all, they know more than me and that’s enough for me to trust them instead of just thinking I know better
Used to work at a gas treatment plant.
Came in on my evening shift, and spotted a bunch of dead birds in a certain location.
I had to call everyone to come out.
They ended up shutting plant down, and come to find out, was a massive underground leak H2S
It pays to be smart
Now I know how shikimaru in Naruto when he’s dealing with uneducated people 😂😂😅
I think sasuke uchiha is the only one that matches shikamaru in intellect , during the jigen interrogation though saauke easily understood the karma concept when shikamaru didn't get it at first
@@johnadu-yeboah4906 U see that was adult sasuke who used those tactics but it was mentioned that shikamaru had 200+ iq when he was still a genin
@@johnadu-yeboah4906 i mean in the village apart of the ones who were not affected by omnipotence, shika and sasuke were the only ones who could actually analysis
Tell them the problem they laugh, you ignore and let them suffer you get blamed
I knew a guy who was talking all this big tough guy stuff before Hurricane Katrina in Biloxi about how his dad built his house and it wasnt going anywhere and gow his dad had all these supplies stored up
The water rose up to the attic of his two story house and collapsed eith himand his whole family inside. They all died.
It's called a lymnic eruption. Conditions for it happening are very specific and rare.
Nobody takes it seriously
Until it happens
And when people die, they will still blame the smart people for not warning them more 😂
He saved his family and village, this was service for his sister
“Never mind everybody! You all go down to the lake and watch the pretty bubbles float to the top!
People never take anything seriously these days and it’s crazy
Wrong.........
They would have pulled out their phones and started recording
These days? Dumb people are as old as time. Like the ones that killed the cats in Europe that caused the spread of the plague. The burden killing in China because they thought they were spreading diseases, like the pro people building beach houses and then complain when the water took them, or on the Spanish Flue at the beginning of the 20th century when people didn't want to follow simple contingency rules like wearing a mask, (copy /paste for covid)
it exploded and everybody died
the end
Nobody could ever tell me this, with that level of conviction and I'm not at the very least look into what they are saying. There's no way I can just vehemently ignore it and be like I'm going to go about my day today
On 21 August 1986, one of the strangest and most mysterious natural disasters in history took place at Lake Nyos - a lake formed atop a volcanic crater in northwest Cameroon.
Without warning, the lake released hundreds of thousands of tonnes of toxic carbon dioxide - estimates range from 300,000 to up to 1.6 million - and this silent death cloud spread out over the countryside at nearly 100 km/h (62 mph), suffocating an estimated 1,746 people and more than 3,500 livestock within minutes.
Didn't even believe him after seeing the dead fish🙄 id be oUt of there
"Walter what are you staring at?"
"Walter you don't recognize the bodies in the water look away"
"Walter please"
i read this article before and its true a thousand of people die because they didnt evacuate and dont know about this
This is one of my all time favorite shows. ❤
I might say: you can choose to believe me or not. But I'm getting out of here. Good bye.
“Alright. I’m leaving, yall do whatever”
If anyone wants to find the the series is called : scorpion
That is the series's name
Moral lesson: if someone is making a huge claim and giving a proper explanation even if it doesn't make sense but seems logical, LISTEN
This actually happened at Lake Nyos. It took out an entire community.
Okay but can we talk about the music-
Like music really changes the energy of a scene 😭
Actually exploded not expected
Its all funny until THE LAKE EXPLODES.
People believe the wildest shit and then make fun this guy with actual science backing up what he is warning them to look out for. 😂
I know its a show or movie but the irony.
It’s kinda like how people before the covid pandemic playing Plague Inc were wondering why people kept traveling even when sick. THEN reality struck and we found that it’s not actually that outlandish.
No one will ever listen. Why would they. They only listen when the danger is already there
I heard one Theory about the Burmuda Triangle that methane pockets under the ocean would sometime release huge amounts of gas that ships would sink in the bubbles. A ship or airplane flying above, when air viscosity or water buoyancy changes, everything will sink because they no longer have displacement.
Show name: Scorpion
Thank you, only person who’s not yapping about that shit that happened in Africa
Dumb people will never listen to smart people, until they need help and then they'll beg for help but as soon as the danger is gone they'll go back to ignoring the smart people.
natural selection is definitely working if that's the case
@@uyfhkgc4468
Facts!
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I bet you the survivors will try and put the blame on this guy. "He should've tried harder to warn us! He's an official it's his *job*!"
Dumb people find it funny to laugh at smart people so they don't feel likepoo about themselves