The Underground City of 1 Million Beneath Beijing

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  • @alekseykaryachko186
    @alekseykaryachko186 4 роки тому +4902

    This could become a cool movie, imagine the city is nuked without any warning and only the young and poor people survive underground

    • @PerditioTempus2591
      @PerditioTempus2591 4 роки тому +117

      Underrated Comment

    • @penguinpingu3807
      @penguinpingu3807 4 роки тому +42

      Interesting

    • @hardlyb
      @hardlyb 4 роки тому +162

      If the underground city is built like the above ground one, the people underground don't have much chance, either.

    • @jonghyeonlee5877
      @jonghyeonlee5877 4 роки тому +236

      So basically Metro 2033 but it's Chinese instead of Russian? I'm down for that. Metro 2033 was written in 2002, it'd be interesting to have an updated version for the modern US-China Cold War.

    • @Mr.HowardEatsPants
      @Mr.HowardEatsPants 4 роки тому +96

      Get on this Hollywood! Stop making "Fast and Furious 9" and start making "The Rat Tribe"

  • @yadisfhaddad722
    @yadisfhaddad722 4 роки тому +6833

    This guy sure does make good use of his stock footage subscription.

  • @pas7484
    @pas7484 2 роки тому +122

    That Russia joke sure aged well

  • @daniyalkudrati502
    @daniyalkudrati502 4 роки тому +3732

    Half as interesting cracks more jokes then talk show hosts nowadays

    • @sgtwnbdg
      @sgtwnbdg 4 роки тому +2

      ua-cam.com/video/6i5UqHDIa7c/v-deo.html

    • @lilyblacn
      @lilyblacn 4 роки тому +31

      Soumyadip Mukherjee NO

    • @sonayyalim
      @sonayyalim 4 роки тому +132

      And they are not funny.

    • @omniyambot9876
      @omniyambot9876 4 роки тому +25

      @@sonayyalim cringe

    • @sparkdaniel
      @sparkdaniel 4 роки тому +26

      and all just as bad

  • @gcountry100
    @gcountry100 4 роки тому +1023

    HAI: Casually suggests an impending nuclear holocaust
    Everyone in 2020 : Yeah that might as well happen

    • @patrikwihlke4170
      @patrikwihlke4170 4 роки тому +5

      I think it's due for next year after we get a vaccine and everyone thinks things will be alright

    • @jessinq702
      @jessinq702 4 роки тому +2

      @@patrikwihlke4170 I'm waiting for it to happen this year.

    • @patrikwihlke4170
      @patrikwihlke4170 4 роки тому +2

      @@jessinq702 My guess is at the latest next year before the 100th anniversary if CCP but I hope Xi Jinping thinks better of it.

    • @joeboom0697
      @joeboom0697 4 роки тому +2

      We reached 2021 already so it'll happen soon

    • @mme.veronica735
      @mme.veronica735 3 роки тому +4

      2022 and things are heating up between Ukraine and Russia again so anytime soon.

  • @michelterry5445
    @michelterry5445 4 роки тому +1343

    Everyone like to laugh at duck and cover drills, but they were in fact useful and could save lives. Especially back when nuclear weapons were comparatively small. But the main point is not to survive a nuke being dropped on your school, obviously that’s not going to help. But if you’re far enough away to not be incinerated, you might still be close enough to be thrown back by the shock wave, and also hit by flying glass and other debris. Teaching people to take cover rather than stare at the big fire (a thing humans are prone to do) does have safety benefits.

    • @kenetickups6146
      @kenetickups6146 4 роки тому +63

      Should've been teaching them how to die
      seriously, you don't want to survive a nuclear war

    • @RyuuTenno
      @RyuuTenno 4 роки тому +44

      If the eclipse from a few years back means anything, we'll stare at any kind of fire, including the gigantic one in the sky XD

    • @bassett_green
      @bassett_green 4 роки тому +103

      You're 100% correct. Mocking duck and cover is like mocking seatbelts on airplanes. Sure neither helps you in the *worst* case, but in the *most likely* case they save your life

    • @Secretsofsociety
      @Secretsofsociety 4 роки тому +4

      @@kenetickups6146 There is that video that shows how it would be based on what happened after the Dresden massacre which was a firestorm caused by conventional bombing.

    • @kenetickups6146
      @kenetickups6146 4 роки тому +1

      @@Secretsofsociety WW2 didn't completely destroy and irradiate the world though

  • @JasmineJu
    @JasmineJu 3 роки тому +166

    It's not just Beijing. Virtually every middle sized city in China has expansive underground shopping malls, many of which used to be bomb shelters.

    • @arthuryu6602
      @arthuryu6602 2 роки тому +11

      Also a lot of subway systems in Chinese cities are expansion of the bomb shelters

    • @johnwhick7419
      @johnwhick7419 Рік тому +1

      Damn the context of this is so dark when you consider the floods going on. Entire underground cities drowned. I can’t even imagine

    • @Cottonball-gz4cr
      @Cottonball-gz4cr 7 місяців тому

      Not if their tofu dreg?😂

  • @Chalky.
    @Chalky. 4 роки тому +915

    My fridge might not save me but at least I'll have some snacks while waiting to die.

    • @AltraHapi
      @AltraHapi 4 роки тому +13

      that will be the best tear infused cereal ever

    • @peter_smyth
      @peter_smyth 4 роки тому +26

      A fridge saved Indiana Jones from a nuclear bomb.

    • @MrJstorm4
      @MrJstorm4 4 роки тому +4

      Your food will be irradiated so it'll last a long time

    • @gavintantleff
      @gavintantleff 4 роки тому +8

      You’ll become a ghoul and get stuck inside your fridge for 100 years.

    • @MrJstorm4
      @MrJstorm4 4 роки тому +3

      @@gavintantleff modify the latch on your fridge so you can open it from the inside

  • @inxendere
    @inxendere 4 роки тому +813

    "They're almost like college dorm rooms if college dorm rooms were big and affordable" MY SIDES

    • @AxxLAfriku
      @AxxLAfriku 4 роки тому +2

      HELP MY!!! My muscles are too big! I am a big tall man and my muscles are even BIGGER! I use them to get views but they HURT so much!!! Because they are heavy. Do you have any advice, dear inc

    • @uss_04
      @uss_04 4 роки тому +1

      And weren’t filled with bed bugs

    • @nxrada
      @nxrada 4 роки тому

      AxxL copypasta

    • @reinatr4848
      @reinatr4848 4 роки тому

      @@AxxLAfriku spambot

    • @glitterfarts69
      @glitterfarts69 4 роки тому

      I luv ur dp.

  • @TheyCallMePhinq
    @TheyCallMePhinq 4 роки тому +1635

    wait I am confused.
    The "President" of china wanted to commercialize the bunkers, but they're illegal to live in?
    *Edit because I am getting a lot of responses from people that clearly don't understand:
    The bunkers are owned by the government. The government said it's illegal to live in the bunkers. The government then rents out the bunkers to the citizens. How does that work?
    *Edit #2: There are 76 replies to this comment with 76 different explanations. Surely none of you are just talking out of your ass, right?

    • @novohispana
      @novohispana 4 роки тому +184

      Thought exactly the same, seems there's a gap in his narrative. Bless his heart.

    • @syrialak101
      @syrialak101 4 роки тому +239

      His successor might've made them illegal.

    • @TheyCallMePhinq
      @TheyCallMePhinq 4 роки тому +72

      @@syrialak101 but who is renting the apartments? everything is owned by the State

    • @wizardmagic1580
      @wizardmagic1580 4 роки тому +92

      @@TheyCallMePhinq There is limited capitalism

    • @syrialak101
      @syrialak101 4 роки тому +43

      @@TheyCallMePhinq Chinese people...? Who else would be renting them?

  • @maxon1672
    @maxon1672 4 роки тому +348

    “Following total atomic annihilation, the rebuilding of this great nation of ours may fall to you... That’s why we at *Vault Tec* -uh, I mean *Wendover Productions* have prepared these educational materials for you!”

    • @rogerstone3068
      @rogerstone3068 4 роки тому +3

      There's a teensy conflict between 'total atomic annihilation' and 'rebuilding'.

  • @elegantbiscuityt
    @elegantbiscuityt 4 роки тому +561

    Anyone else gonna talk about the stock footage of someone literally grilling cheese?

    • @supernoodle9389
      @supernoodle9389 4 роки тому +9

      Time stamp?

    • @hendrickandreasbenayatanda3748
      @hendrickandreasbenayatanda3748 4 роки тому +33

      5:09

    • @sabersz
      @sabersz 4 роки тому +32

      Honestly I've seen weirder stock footage

    • @Merlincat007
      @Merlincat007 4 роки тому +7

      Those little bits of crispy extra fried cheese you get when making grilled cheeses or quesadillas are so good. So why not just fry some cheese? Haha

    • @BierBart12
      @BierBart12 4 роки тому +3

      I just pan fried a piece of Edam cheese and it was actually really good.

  • @ieyemyeyes
    @ieyemyeyes 4 роки тому +191

    1:00
    “Don’t look directly at the explosion”
    *shows someone looking directly at the explosion*

    • @pulkitmohta8964
      @pulkitmohta8964 4 роки тому +13

      Perhaps he was requesting his viewers to not be like that idiot someone watching an explosion directly

    • @TheLiamster
      @TheLiamster 4 роки тому +3

      But they were wearing sunglasses so they can look at a nuclear explosion.

    • @ieyemyeyes
      @ieyemyeyes 4 роки тому +2

      Ah, how did I miss the sunglasses? This changes everything

    • @pulkitmohta8964
      @pulkitmohta8964 4 роки тому

      @@TheLiamster you can't stop the radiation from entering your eyes with sunglasses

    • @Epic_Aviation
      @Epic_Aviation 4 роки тому

      @@pulkitmohta8964 they were joking lol

  • @gmet12915
    @gmet12915 4 роки тому +103

    And you thought your upstairs neighbour was noisy, imagine having millions of people walking above you.

    • @pulkitmohta8964
      @pulkitmohta8964 4 роки тому +15

      I am sure that the ceiling (which is actually the ground for people above) does a good job at dampening the noise above

  • @ian-roadto0subscribers564
    @ian-roadto0subscribers564 4 роки тому +235

    _"you can use skillshare to learn how to use skillshare"_
    *confused screaming*

  • @mataharii161
    @mataharii161 4 роки тому +155

    *This city sounds like the basis of a new dystopian series...*

    • @DigitalJedi
      @DigitalJedi 4 роки тому +7

      Serriously. I'm totally not stealing it for a scifi universe...

    • @maxplaysgamez-sharesgaming1756
      @maxplaysgamez-sharesgaming1756 4 роки тому +7

      I Recommend Checking Out On Hong Kong's Poor And Middle Classes' Apartments As Well.
      It's A Place Where Real Estate Business Goes Rampant, It's Definitely Another Good Place To Start A New Sci-Fi Dystopian City Where People Sleep On Top Of Each Other In Metal Containers!
      **Hums Melodic Tune In READY PLAYER ONE**

    • @juancena1117
      @juancena1117 4 роки тому +3

      China is a dystopia series lol

    • @jowen9422
      @jowen9422 2 роки тому

      It shows that the purpose of this video's propaganda has been achieved

  • @bassett_green
    @bassett_green 4 роки тому +95

    1:25 fwiw, duck and cover actually was pretty damn effective. It came directly from studies of the Hiromisha and Nagasaki blasts, which found that basically *any* shielding from debris was a huge boost to the chance of survival. Obviously it wouldn't help if your school was ground zero . . . but that's unlikely to be the case

  • @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un
    @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un 4 роки тому +528

    I can start that nuclear thing if you want, I think we can all agree that we’ve had enough of 2020

    • @Romandy13
      @Romandy13 4 роки тому +61

      We already got a huge mushroom cloud a few days ago. Save it for next time bro.

    • @defaultmesh
      @defaultmesh 4 роки тому +7

      lets gooooo bois

    • @rafael_lana
      @rafael_lana 4 роки тому +2

      Tigers Wood *supreme dear lider

    • @Inforadar-y3e
      @Inforadar-y3e 4 роки тому +2

      Nah I’m good, but I would like to get that fat bod
      Talkin about nukes by the way ;)

    • @pulkitmohta8964
      @pulkitmohta8964 4 роки тому +2

      That'll add some spice to the year 2020

  • @jacobross7443
    @jacobross7443 4 роки тому +445

    Wait it’s all intro?
    Always has been.

    • @toobig7150
      @toobig7150 4 роки тому +6

      in the name of everything horny, i demand the sauce of that pfp

    • @yeet3279
      @yeet3279 4 роки тому +1

      @@toobig7150 #me2

    • @jacobross7443
      @jacobross7443 4 роки тому

      Lol you have good taste idk the numbers just google ps5-chan

    • @Rerbun
      @Rerbun 4 роки тому +2

      The videos are just the build up for the ad in the end!

    • @jacobross7443
      @jacobross7443 4 роки тому

      mohasali thanks

  • @prostosergik
    @prostosergik 4 роки тому +491

    80% - bad jokes, 10% - promotions, 10% - useful information.

    • @Levithemechanic
      @Levithemechanic 4 роки тому +7

      Karen right lol

    • @HeelerHouse
      @HeelerHouse 4 роки тому +5

      true tho

    • @Sonaholic
      @Sonaholic 4 роки тому +29

      That’s the formula for these videos

    • @Leeqzombie
      @Leeqzombie 4 роки тому +47

      50% Interesting

    • @Hiphop618
      @Hiphop618 4 роки тому +20

      Honestly this is why I just unsubscribed.

  • @Bobert2020
    @Bobert2020 4 роки тому +181

    We only need to find Lilith to build a full underground city.

    • @kenetickups6146
      @kenetickups6146 4 роки тому +11

      Yeah, but then reality's writing will get evern worse

    • @Eaglefalls14
      @Eaglefalls14 4 роки тому +1

      Her and Malachi are all we need

    • @wongijen9167
      @wongijen9167 4 роки тому +4

      When’s Evangelion 4.0 gonna come out, I’ve been waiting for so long

    • @Bobert2020
      @Bobert2020 4 роки тому +2

      @@wongijen9167 In like the next decade, if we are lucky

    • @HanhLe-oc9mn
      @HanhLe-oc9mn 4 роки тому +3

      Get ready for third impact boys!

  • @Gilanas
    @Gilanas 4 роки тому +107

    "Ineffectual surviving tips" those tips would have saved a lot of people from glass cuts in Beirut...

    • @LolsTheGreatAndPowerful
      @LolsTheGreatAndPowerful 4 роки тому +12

      the famous nuclear bombing that is the beirut explosion

    • @phobic1818
      @phobic1818 4 роки тому +3

      Smfh, not the same context...

    • @TARS..
      @TARS.. 4 роки тому +35

      @@phobic1818 definitely the same context. If you see or hear an explosion you get the fuck away from windows.

    • @cageybee7221
      @cageybee7221 4 роки тому +28

      to be fair, nobody expected that warehouse to explode like a nuke. as far as anyone knew it was just a big fire until it wasn't.

    • @jochemcode4570
      @jochemcode4570 4 роки тому +2

      @@cageybee7221 the moment you agree with a angry communist

  • @flyingnapalm11
    @flyingnapalm11 4 роки тому +63

    0:27
    Sam: I say we're well overdue for an exchange of nuclear warheads thing.
    Me(knowing about the Indo-China conflict going on): (softly) don't
    2020: that.... is an excellent Idea.

    • @pulkitmohta8964
      @pulkitmohta8964 4 роки тому +4

      The US Navy is in the South China Sea, with nuclear powered vessels. It's gonna get hot if China does anything further

    • @nehcooahnait7827
      @nehcooahnait7827 4 роки тому +2

      Pulkit Mohta lol warmongering now?

    • @reinatr4848
      @reinatr4848 4 роки тому

      @@pulkitmohta8964 well its even worse then (nuke-wise)

  • @leoliang7470
    @leoliang7470 4 роки тому +114

    Remember that time when Planes were in a video.
    Oh wait wrong channel.

    • @abebuenodemesquita8111
      @abebuenodemesquita8111 4 роки тому +15

      i think you mean bricks

    • @Karyu24
      @Karyu24 4 роки тому +5

      @@abebuenodemesquita8111 no man he means Toyota Corollas

    • @Mashal9418
      @Mashal9418 4 роки тому

      @@abebuenodemesquita8111 The brick video has finally been made! It's a 40 minute special on Nebula ;)

    • @buzzlightyear6960
      @buzzlightyear6960 4 роки тому

      @@Mashal9418 Waste of money

  • @Redblock
    @Redblock 2 роки тому +5

    0:29 Uhh... You always make the best intros Sam

  • @LeDoctorBones
    @LeDoctorBones 4 роки тому +136

    That intro was a blast!

  • @matthewcecil8552
    @matthewcecil8552 4 роки тому +31

    It's impressive that Half as Interesting couldn't find even one video clip of an actual underground Beijing apartment.

  • @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache
    @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache 4 роки тому +26

    "He did what Google did to our browser histories and ordered them to be commercialized."
    Yeah, I'm surprised Google employees haven't shot themselves after seeing my browser history

    • @reinatr4848
      @reinatr4848 4 роки тому

      How do you know that they didn't?

  • @joermnyc
    @joermnyc 4 роки тому +15

    The deepest parts of the Moscow and Pyongyang metro systems are also secret bomb shelters... that look like imperial palaces... with trains.

  • @MattTheCommenter
    @MattTheCommenter 4 роки тому +72

    _Sure that this isnt actually my basement?_

    • @KSPAtlas
      @KSPAtlas 4 роки тому +3

      No it's mine

    • @livethefuture2492
      @livethefuture2492 4 роки тому +6

      no, its **OUR* basement!

    • @nk6197
      @nk6197 4 роки тому +1

      That username though! 👏

    • @ACE234dm
      @ACE234dm 4 роки тому

      there are more children in your basement than in the city so yeah

  • @kneegga4677
    @kneegga4677 4 роки тому +197

    "there's part's of history that don't include the United States"
    So, non war related history right?
    Jk btw

    • @sgtwnbdg
      @sgtwnbdg 4 роки тому +1

      ua-cam.com/video/6i5UqHDIa7c/v-deo.html

    • @user-ld6is4ni3d
      @user-ld6is4ni3d 4 роки тому +4

      @@sgtwnbdg disliked.

    • @tryxdc
      @tryxdc 4 роки тому +2

      your pfp will now give me nightmares
      anime sucks

    • @maruftim
      @maruftim 4 роки тому +1

      I don't think it's a joke anyway lol

    • @forestcity4217
      @forestcity4217 4 роки тому +3

      tryxdc, thanks! 🙏 I really care about your opunion

  • @theholyjesuschrist7
    @theholyjesuschrist7 4 роки тому +109

    so theres 1million people living under people in beijing and they dont know

    • @windtalkerslai4055
      @windtalkerslai4055 4 роки тому

      Did you even watch the video?

    • @theholyjesuschrist7
      @theholyjesuschrist7 4 роки тому

      @@windtalkerslai4055 yes obviously

    • @lowleypeasentmr.l8836
      @lowleypeasentmr.l8836 4 роки тому +2

      they know the same way cops don't know there are drugs in high schools

    • @ΤΗΞΙηΣΑζΤΞΚδ
      @ΤΗΞΙηΣΑζΤΞΚδ 4 роки тому +1

      Of course they do, Chinese people aren’t stupid

    • @skiney
      @skiney 4 роки тому +1

      @@ΤΗΞΙηΣΑζΤΞΚδ are you sure? A chinese dude ate a fucking bat soup and bcause of that, a pandemic started and millions died and more will👍
      Pretty smart tbh

  • @maltava4534
    @maltava4534 4 роки тому +114

    Kinda bad timing on the explosion and grain warehouse jokes when Beirut just blew up with their national grain storage completely destroyed. But hey that is 2020 for ya.

    • @JKTCGMV13
      @JKTCGMV13 4 роки тому +19

      Or it’s perfect timing

    • @tbird3402
      @tbird3402 4 роки тому +9

      And 75 year marker from Hiroshima

    • @pretzelstick320
      @pretzelstick320 4 роки тому +15

      Comedy is just tragedy plus time.

    • @CityWhisperer
      @CityWhisperer 4 роки тому +12

      The script for the video was probably written before the Beirut explosion.

    • @juliusnepos6013
      @juliusnepos6013 4 роки тому

      Mikel Sopelana Durango Yeah

  • @valentins.2637
    @valentins.2637 4 роки тому +63

    Listing all the events of 2020
    Misses Beirut explosion
    Talks about large explosions anyway

  • @MrPig40
    @MrPig40 4 роки тому +26

    It is a very common misconception that "Duck and Cover" was purely for scaring kids.
    Kids were drilled that if they suddenly see a huge, bright flash to "Duck and cover".
    Why was this important?
    Well, if you're in the blast zone of a nuke it is game over for you. If you are outside the blast zone however do you know what causes 70% of all injuries?
    Glass.
    People see a bright flash and instinctively look at it. The flash is followed by a shockwave that sends glass into your face at the speed of sound.
    But if you were taught in school to look away and get under cover you were saved from this.

  • @Photosounder
    @Photosounder 4 роки тому +151

    Congrats on making a video that doesn't show a single picture of the thing your video is about.

    • @pulkitmohta8964
      @pulkitmohta8964 4 роки тому +16

      That's because the Chinese have never released the picture of this thing to the world. I doubt that they have even released the picture to public.
      Perhaps the CIA would be having pictures of this underground city.

    • @Jehty_
      @Jehty_ 4 роки тому +23

      @@pulkitmohta8964 and no one of the 1 million people living in it ever posted a picture anywhere?

    • @Nuvi
      @Nuvi 4 роки тому

      @@Jehty_ no

    • @Photosounder
      @Photosounder 4 роки тому +20

      @@pulkitmohta8964 IQ 85 answer. I typed "underground city beijing" in Google and there were lots of pictures of entrances, the tunnels and the apartments they made there. I guess using Google is too much effort for both you and Sam.

    • @pulkitmohta8964
      @pulkitmohta8964 4 роки тому +8

      @@Photosounder how do you know that those pictures show the actual underground city? Can you verify those pictures?

  • @CarthagoMike
    @CarthagoMike 4 роки тому +64

    I hope they don't... ehm... store certain chemicals next to that grain storage like a certain other country.

    • @xninewxw7559
      @xninewxw7559 4 роки тому +5

      CarthagoMike haha, too late

    • @nehcooahnait7827
      @nehcooahnait7827 4 роки тому +1

      Liquid Consumer yep, already happened... plus the same thing has happened countless times since 1916 in the US and European countries...

    • @xninewxw7559
      @xninewxw7559 4 роки тому

      Nehco Oahnait we humans really aren’t good with chemicals, are we?

    • @markomclane475
      @markomclane475 4 роки тому

      Search up tainjin explosion

  • @petrkubena
    @petrkubena 4 роки тому +5

    Duck and cover is actually extremely efficient survival technique. People are forgetting that most people are not in the fireball region, but further away. With any bomb most people will be in the region where pressure wave and heat radiation are the killers. Duck will dramatically help with the first and cover with the latter. Ie compare how many people are within ~1km radius vs those between 1-20km from epicenter.

  • @Aintaer
    @Aintaer 4 роки тому +19

    Ah, the irony of using a Christian cross to signify the death of Mao

  • @Infamouswolf83
    @Infamouswolf83 2 роки тому +2

    0:35 looks like they went with a more direct approach

  • @galtur5241
    @galtur5241 2 роки тому +5

    This intro aged well...

  • @modalinterchange8359
    @modalinterchange8359 4 роки тому +47

    No one understands how hard it is to edit until they start doing it lol. I learned that a week ago. It takes hours just for a couple minutes of footage

    • @MrNight-dg1ug
      @MrNight-dg1ug 4 роки тому +4

      Not a couple minutes, unless you're a fucking newbie.
      Also depends on what type of video. Gameplay footage doesn't take hours. If you're editing a movie with different shots, and different angles, then yes.

    • @Rigel7WasAlreadyUsed
      @Rigel7WasAlreadyUsed 4 роки тому

      And then there's the rendering time.

    • @modalinterchange8359
      @modalinterchange8359 4 роки тому

      Mr. Night yeah it does depend on what you are editing. Im thinking more about custom animated text and visual fx

    • @MrNight-dg1ug
      @MrNight-dg1ug 4 роки тому

      @@modalinterchange8359 A couple of minutes wouldn't take hours to make if you're experienced. 2 minutes? No.

    • @Number1FanProductions
      @Number1FanProductions 4 роки тому

      @@modalinterchange8359 he's right but you said you only started 2 weeks ago so that's OK! :)

  • @DaimyoD0
    @DaimyoD0 4 роки тому +11

    1:18 Duck-and-Cover provides non-trivial protection from (first generation) nuclear weapons, and blast waves from non-nuclear explosions alike.
    "Within a considerable radius from the surface of the nuclear fireball, 0-3 kilometers...ducking and covering would offer negligible protection against...a nuclear explosion. Beyond that range...the main hazard is not from ionizing radiation but from blast injuries and...flash burns to unprotected skin...The explosion's blast wave would take...7 to 10 seconds to reach a person standing 3 km from the surface of the nuclear fireball...thus at the distances that the advice would be most effective, there would be...time to...'duck and cover' against the blast's direct effects and flying debris."
    "To highlight the effect that being indoors, and especially below ground can make...Akiko Takakura survived the effects of the 16 kt atomic bomb at a distance of 300 meters from ground zero, sustaining only minor injuries...in the lobby of the Bank of Japan, a reinforced concrete building, at the time of the nuclear explosion...Eizo Nomura survived the same blast at Hiroshima at a distance of 170 meters from ground zero...in the basement of...a reinforced concrete building [and] lived into his early 80s." - Wikipedia
    Not arguing that the literature proliferated during the cold war _wasn't_ propaganda designed to promote fear of Communism. But there are contemporary international sources that corroborate Duck-and-Cover as a legitimate defense from dangerous flying debris following an explosion, and to a lesser extent, flash burns. Obviously a lot of things have to go right for this to do you any good in the case of a nuclear attack. But say you find yourself viewing a mushroom cloud billowing up from a port in Beirut through glass windows? Now would be an excellent time to get under something. I say this not to be funny or insensitive, but to encourage others to take this advice seriously; it actually can save your life.

    • @jeffbenton6183
      @jeffbenton6183 4 роки тому +1

      This comment deserves more likes

    • @DaimyoD0
      @DaimyoD0 4 роки тому +1

      @@jeffbenton6183 Thanks. I used to be under the impression Duck-and-Cover was a joke myself until I encountered a reddit post about the fact that world governments still have a vested interest in dispelling the misconception in the name of civil defense. I can't find the original post I read, but there is an excellent discussion of Duck-and-Cover and its historical context here: preview.tinyurl.com/Reddit-Duck-and-Cover

    • @BeastinlosersHD
      @BeastinlosersHD 4 роки тому +2

      Also helps kids feel safer and not freak out. Last thing you want is little kids running around the room

    • @DaimyoD0
      @DaimyoD0 4 роки тому

      @@BeastinlosersHD Actually I made the connection for the first time today that the Civil Defense drills we did in elementary school were not, in fact, preparation for "tornados." 😂

    • @BeastinlosersHD
      @BeastinlosersHD 4 роки тому

      @@DaimyoD0 Like school shooting drills? In Texas they just called them school shooting drills, at least where I was.

  • @tyleralessio5971
    @tyleralessio5971 2 роки тому +1

    Who knew I'd actually be needing this in 2022

  • @keitoucreations2727
    @keitoucreations2727 4 роки тому +4

    This is literally the real life equivalent of the SCP "Unlondon" except it's "Unbeijing"

  • @Xostrich12X
    @Xostrich12X 4 роки тому +40

    Nice video, but the ramblings and jokes at the beginning of each video in order to extend watch time has been getting to be too much recently.

  • @zackwei9265
    @zackwei9265 4 роки тому +12

    Lmao😂 I’ve been living in Beijing for my entire life and lemme tell y’all : I’m sorry, the “underground city” isn’t big enough to contain millions and NO ONE lives down there anymore. And not a lot of people even know its existence, not to mention to hide down there in minutes after nuke alerts🤷‍♂️

    • @theodeo429
      @theodeo429 4 роки тому +7

      Yeah, this seems a bit sketchy... plus, he's only showing stock footage... no actual pictures or videos of this supposed bigass underground city.

    • @triggerost9023
      @triggerost9023 4 роки тому +2

      开局一张图,视频全靠编。。。为了吸粉人家真是啥都能胡诌

  • @zaneluman7573
    @zaneluman7573 4 роки тому +1

    The best informational UA-cam channels:
    5. The Infographic Show (lame, somewhat informative)
    4. RealLifeLore (strange would be inventions and geography)
    3. Wendover Productions (planes, lots and lots of planes)
    2. Half as Interesting (random stuff, dumb jokes that make you laugh)
    1. Sam O’Nella Academy (random stuff and really frickin hilarious)

  • @maximkad
    @maximkad 2 роки тому +11

    That's aged poorly 0:30

  • @ksoman953
    @ksoman953 4 роки тому +8

    Now I get it. This is why you are called Half as Interesting. You spend the first half time in trolling yourself and everything else and trying to figure out your humor rhythm. Then the next half, well the first half of that half's half, you spend in defining the topic and the second half of that that half's half you spend on the topic itself. And then the last half of the second half, you talk about skill share or whoever is sponsoring you for the day. Awesome.

  • @basedamogus
    @basedamogus 4 роки тому +27

    not the best time to talk about explosions and grain storage but still a good video non the less

    • @rybee3
      @rybee3 4 роки тому +1

      Bomb goes Brrrrrrrrrrrr

  • @WillGeo15
    @WillGeo15 2 роки тому +4

    0:27
    Ouch that aged poorly

  • @JapaneseJesuss
    @JapaneseJesuss 2 роки тому +3

    Talking about Russia in the beginning of the video feels a bit odd nowadays tbh. Kinda like a weird foreshadowing.

  • @lorenzo_contini_7
    @lorenzo_contini_7 2 роки тому +4

    I think the intro of this video around 0:28 didn't age well.

  • @Chris.Pontius
    @Chris.Pontius 4 роки тому +4

    I've actually been to dorms in Beijing. 8 students living in a space of maybe 6m2. It was insane.

  • @starstencahl8985
    @starstencahl8985 4 роки тому +4

    “7 months into 2020”
    August: “Am I a joke to you?”

  • @muraygun
    @muraygun 4 роки тому +30

    August 6th, a good day to talk about nukes...

  • @fchanMSI
    @fchanMSI 4 роки тому +1

    When I young & I visited China in 1979 on a tour they allowed us to visit that underground shelter. I need to dig through the albums to see if I have photos of that place.

  • @runguardian6868
    @runguardian6868 4 роки тому +14

    3:48 "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo."

  • @Maddin1313
    @Maddin1313 4 роки тому +2

    The missiles come flying, the people already living in the underground city lock the doors "fuck off, we're full!"

  • @Aidan_Lawrence
    @Aidan_Lawrence 4 роки тому +3

    In my opinion, I think the jokes should be toned down a little. It's fine to crack a few here and there, but truthfully, a lot of the recent videos have just been tiring to watch and I think it's really distracting from the topic. I appreciate the effort you guys put into this series, and I know that Wendover Productions is usually for more seriously presented videos, but I think the value of HAI is decreased when a large chunk of the video is trying to crack jokes rather than present information.

  • @catsonair9432
    @catsonair9432 2 роки тому +2

    This video could not have seen the future better

  • @rsigibson
    @rsigibson 2 роки тому +3

    This aged well...

  • @jwbowen
    @jwbowen 3 роки тому +1

    Lol, no way you're getting 45 minutes in a one-bedroom apartment for $57 in Manhattan. You might be able to get 10 minutes sitting on the stoop of the building, or maybe 20 minutes leaning against it.

  • @j.k.1198
    @j.k.1198 4 роки тому +17

    I‘m not joking, UA-cam crashed right at“We’ve already done the plag...” in the beginning. Scared the crap outta me

  • @sadHorsey13
    @sadHorsey13 4 роки тому +2

    ".. He did what Google did to our browser histories, ordered them to be commercialized"
    Laughed so hard

  • @letstryeverything6717
    @letstryeverything6717 4 роки тому +4

    Nuclear war. *starts*
    Me on skillshare
    “How to survive a nuclear bomb”.
    *no results found*

  • @you_dare_to_gaze_upon_me
    @you_dare_to_gaze_upon_me 6 місяців тому +1

    As a Beijinger, my community's underground parking lots were transformed from a bunker, where you can still see those heavy steel gates that are capable of keep the nuclear apocolypse out😂

  • @AWormsPurpose
    @AWormsPurpose 4 роки тому +7

    Another UA-camr thinking they’re some politically scientist with the authority to denounce the Trolls World Tour

    • @Jafantant
      @Jafantant 4 місяці тому

      Trolls world tour and Politics dont combine well.

  • @na195097
    @na195097 4 роки тому +2

    For 6,000,000 people to pass through 90 doors within 10 minutes, they would need the capacity to allow over 110 people per second per door to enter. Those better be some damn big doors, otherwise what’s the point of all that underground space if only a portion of the populace can get inside in time?

    • @na195097
      @na195097 4 роки тому

      Even if they have 30 minutes warning, they’d still need capacity for 37 people per second per door. I think they need a lot more doors. Or they could’ve built a much smaller shelter.

  • @bassett_green
    @bassett_green 4 роки тому +7

    @1:20 duck and cover seems funny, but actually is surprisingly a huge boost to survivability of a bombing. Obviously it's useful for the explosion part (as years of conventional bombs tell us), but also for the nuclear part too. Look at the postwar research done to interview the survivors at Hiroshima and Nagasaki - turns out getting something keep a roof from collapsing on you is the most predictive factor of survivors

  • @thomasthedeepminded6550
    @thomasthedeepminded6550 4 роки тому +2

    Not gonna lie, that missile scare was terrifying. Lots of my friends had a swim meet that morning when it happened pure chaos and fear :(

    • @Kimmaline
      @Kimmaline 2 роки тому

      I was always kinda pissed about how quickly that was glossed over and forgotten about by mainlanders (of which I am one). The trauma of that must have been so intense for so many people, it breaks my heart. By the time we all heard about it, everything was over, so it's easy to skip over the fact that people genuinely thought they were about to take incoming missle-fire.
      I also have to imagine that for some, there was an element of generational trauma at play, too. I was raised by my grandparents who both served during WWII, my Pop's Uncle was on the Arizona--and I have a much more intense connection with these things than my friends because I'm less removed. As a child I had to be taught never to go near my Pop when he was asleep, because he had PTSD (not that they ever called it that) and would startle awake and grab my arm. I would hear him yelling in his sleep, also--it was just normal to him and all of his friends. I grew up steeped in his trauma, I have to imagine that many people still living on the islands have very similar experiences to mine, and that would shape their emotional responses to the false missile warning also. 😢

  • @chakky533
    @chakky533 4 роки тому +42

    Sam, i love your channels, for a few years now. Love the topics, style and your growth in writing and presentation. If you'd like feedback, I can only say that I am starting to find myself impatient with the number of jokes per second, compared with learning per second, if that makes sense. Similarly, Im starting to feel less and less confident about what IS a joke and isnt, which is concerning. best of luck to your future!

    • @TheMohawkNinja
      @TheMohawkNinja 4 роки тому +1

      Yeah, the BLM reference made me go "wait, you don't ACTUALLY support that, do you?"

    • @chakky533
      @chakky533 4 роки тому +9

      @@TheMohawkNinja ? Systemic racism is real and a big problem...
      Regarding what is a joke or isnt I just meant little inane joke, for example, are bombs filled with bombs that release gas a joke or really a thing?? On the flip side, I think mushroom cultivation farms were real, but I'm not 100% sure it wasn't a joke now

    • @TheMohawkNinja
      @TheMohawkNinja 4 роки тому +1

      ​@@chakky533 In some parts of the world sure, just not the U.S. like what BLM claims. I mean, I suppose because of social justice movements like BLM, we are seeing systemic racism against white people in the form of affirmative action, college grants that exclusively help PoC, and just general animosity towards whites in general, but that's the only form of systemic racism I can think of from living in the U.S. my whole life. Even then it seems to be fairly tame compared to some of the more obvious examples like how the Chinese are often depicted in Japanese anime and video games.
      As for the bombs, those sorts of chemical weapons do exist, at least as a singular bomb that disperses chemical munitions. I'm not sure if cluster-type chemical munitions exist, but they might if that were to help with dispersion of the toxin.

  • @WaaDoku
    @WaaDoku 4 місяці тому

    2:35 "Mushroom cultivation farm" - I'm gonna steal this to describe any moldy cellar room from now on

  • @markoskaram7167
    @markoskaram7167 4 роки тому +21

    Last time I was that early Half as Interesting had Half a million subscribers .
    Congrats for 1.5 M subs.

  • @desmondding7405
    @desmondding7405 4 роки тому +2

    Is there any sort of evidence of this? I was born in Beijing and lived there for 14 years, and have never seen or heard of anything even remotely associated with this. There’re basements of appartement buildings being rented out as cheap shelters for sure but I’ve never heard of a commercialized bomb shelter. Lol, if any of you know anything tangible about this, enlighten me.

    • @desmondding7405
      @desmondding7405 4 роки тому +1

      Plus, underground market place and living space? If it’s real, It’d definitely be a cool place to check out, lmao.

  • @Gneisenau.
    @Gneisenau. 2 роки тому +5

    0:29 Erhmmmmmmmmmmmmm about thatttttttttttttt...............

  • @EebstertheGreat
    @EebstertheGreat 4 роки тому +1

    A million people don't live in that "underground city" bunker. In the ballpark of a million live _in bunkers_ under Beijing, but most of these bunkers are legally leased by the defense department as living spaces. Presumably some people squat in the underground city, but it can't be that many. It isn't even open right now.

  • @tom_something
    @tom_something 4 роки тому +12

    Ducking and covering is actually a very good idea. First, it keeps you away from windows. Nuclear blasts emit a brief, tremendous burst of radiation. Not talking about the radioactive fallout that causes long-term damage and birth defects. I'm talking about light and heat, (gamma and x-rays too, maybe?) and lots of it. You don't want to be in its path. But also, a nuclear blast has a huge blast radius that falls off with distance. Which means that there's a huge area _outside_ of the epicenter where you're not close enough to get turned into dust, but you are close enough that a bunch of crap can fall on top of you, just like an Earthquake.
    I mean, if you've got a bunker, go to the bunker. But if you don't, duck and cover. What's the alternative? Standing naked on the roof? That's for tsunamis!

  • @ronriesinger7755
    @ronriesinger7755 4 роки тому +2

    Nice touch; a cross over the face of Mao, signifying his death. He had millions of Christians killed or placed in prison before he finally died in 1976. The Cultural Revolution finally subsided with his death and China could then refocus its revolution outwardly.

  • @alexliu6923
    @alexliu6923 4 роки тому +8

    nobody:
    stock clip at 5:10: puts cheese directly on the grill

  • @danem.9402
    @danem.9402 4 роки тому +2

    5:10
    Is this dude just burning cheese directly onto a griddle

  • @skyfall2043
    @skyfall2043 4 роки тому +5

    I have lived in Beijing for 7 years, I can confirm that underground city don’t have poor people live in, even the poorest people in Beijing can afford living in buildings and villages. Any jobs can afford a bedroom. That underground area probably become subways, but definitely no one really lives in there.

  • @joshdoeseverything4575
    @joshdoeseverything4575 4 роки тому +1

    A whole 5 minutes without a single shot from the actual place. You cant talk about the commercialization of a huge underground complex without a single photo of it.

  • @Trolligarch
    @Trolligarch 4 роки тому +9

    Sam I love you but the amount of jokes you're throwing at the video is actually making the video unwatchable. I want to learn about the city underground but jokes every 3 seconds mean I've completely lost track and forgot what the video is about.

  • @nk6197
    @nk6197 4 роки тому +1

    Fun fact: Plague is actually just part of the natural cycle in Colorado each summer they start tracking cases in animal populations then warn people to stay away from said animals and take other small precautions like flea protection. If a human gets it they isolate the case and contact trace. The human is then cured with antibiotics. It kind of sucks sometimes because they close off areas.

  • @tahirali7500
    @tahirali7500 4 роки тому +15

    Why does everyone keep asking half as interesting to make a brick video?

    • @aaronkharbanda
      @aaronkharbanda 4 роки тому +4

      There is a brick video now

    • @aaronkharbanda
      @aaronkharbanda 4 роки тому +3

      It's on nebula

    • @reinatr4848
      @reinatr4848 4 роки тому +1

      The Brick Façade: A True Crime Story is on Nebula
      watchnebula.com

    • @jeffbenton6183
      @jeffbenton6183 4 роки тому +8

      @Tahir Ali: because everytime he makes a video about something "Top Secret" he starts by saying "this video is about... bricks." Then he says some fact about bricks and then says something like 'that should've gotten the CIA to go away' and then launches into the actual topic.

  • @arthurribas3344
    @arthurribas3344 4 роки тому +1

    Tech chanels: come up with creative ways to talk about sponsorship
    HAI guy: are you challenging me?

  • @schnibbelhenry1232
    @schnibbelhenry1232 4 роки тому +15

    I mean I kinda like the jokes in the videos, but it kinda feels like the seriousness is disappearing and the entire video is satirical. Maybe tone down all the jokes a bit?

    • @reinatr4848
      @reinatr4848 4 роки тому

      Well that's HAI aka Wendover but less logistics/aviation and more unfunny jokes

    • @the-letter_s
      @the-letter_s 4 роки тому

      @@reinatr4848 especially the crude anti-russian jokes.

  • @moonlightcocktail
    @moonlightcocktail 4 роки тому +1

    Imagine being born underground and never seeing the sun your whole life

  • @maddie9602
    @maddie9602 2 роки тому +4

    Oof, that intro did not age well

  • @NeverTurnOffTheAmp
    @NeverTurnOffTheAmp 4 роки тому +2

    It's disturbing how he put the assassination of the Iranian general among all the other objectively bad things - with the assassination of a terrorist Islamistic general that is responsible for the deaths of thousands definitely not being a bad thing.

    • @alexpro8843
      @alexpro8843 4 роки тому +2

      Its not about the assasination itslef, but rather the instability it brings.

  • @urbadkid3877
    @urbadkid3877 2 роки тому +5

    Well this didn’t age well 😬

  • @ryanexx5250
    @ryanexx5250 4 роки тому +1

    So many new videos. This is awesome

  • @DanuProductions
    @DanuProductions 4 роки тому +6

    The intro joke is already out of date 😶

  • @KaseyAtkins
    @KaseyAtkins 4 роки тому

    @5:01 - excellent segway into your advert. You got me on that one.

  • @dead-ishchannel6212
    @dead-ishchannel6212 4 роки тому +25

    I didn't know Levi was Chinese.

    • @taimunozhan
      @taimunozhan 4 роки тому

      I mean, those walls are fairly great as well.
      It does seem likely that they based the underground sector on this, indeed.

  • @TianyuQi
    @TianyuQi 4 роки тому +2

    so I'm Chinese and in the microdistict I live in when I was a child in beijing there is a underground parking lot, and my parents always told me it was originally a hideout for when missile strike and there is also evidence on the entrance that suggest that
    but that's not the thing this video talks about (or is it?)
    oh yeah and I remembered this that the place where you pay for your heating is also underground and I think that is what this video is talking about because it is designed just as the same as what you would expect on ground
    and guys if you want to see what does it really look like follow this link of a baidu search about beijing underground (www.baidu.com/sf/vsearch?pd=image_content&word=%E5%8C%97%E4%BA%AC%E5%9C%B0%E4%B8%8B%E5%AE%A4 ) (it might take a while to load since it's server is in China)

  • @KyleLi
    @KyleLi 4 роки тому +3

    0:25 "I say we're well overdue for an exchange of nuclear warheads thing"
    almost, very close.
    *cough*
    lebanon

    • @pulkitmohta8964
      @pulkitmohta8964 4 роки тому

      Reports suggests that it was the Ammonium Nitrate that caused the explosion. I'd say it's better to use Ammonium Nitrate instead of nukes in the event of a war

    • @kenetickups6146
      @kenetickups6146 4 роки тому

      Not every large explosion is a nuke

  • @anselmgademann9407
    @anselmgademann9407 4 роки тому +1

    I'm Chinese, my aunt and uncle LIVE in Beijing
    not even i knew about this This is some of the most Suprising information i'll ever hear