It’s also forgetting the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora. The eruption was larger than the Laki eruption, is the deadliest volcanic eruption in recorded history, and caused the year without a summer.
I admire your work, TopTenz, you pump out videos at an incredible rate and they never fail to inform and entertain. Keep up the great work! And Simon...You're the man.
I do remember hearing the theory that the "Spanish" flu actually started at Ft. Riley Kansas among US army recruits undergoing induction and basic training before being sent to France in 1917. As for the Chinese connection, I've never heard that one before, but I don't doubt it.
I was in Joplin just hours after the EF-5 Tornado hit and it looked like an Atomic Bomb had went off. It peeled the asphalt off of parking lots the wind was so strong. It moved a 6 story hospital 2 feet of of its foundation when it took a direct hit.
Yeah the 2011 tornado super outbreak for the most part did not occur in tornado alley. The majority of tornadoes occured in what is reffered to as dixie alley. This area is more southeast than central. With the majority of the tornadoes happening in Mississippi and Alabama.
2011 was a really bad year for tornadoes. An EF5 hit Joplin, MO in late May (it was part of a different tornado outbreak than the one mentioned in the video), and decimated the city. It killed 158 people, injured 1,150 more, and destroyed large amounts of the city including a hospital and a high school. It was the costliest single tornado in US history causing $2.8 billion worth of damage, and was the seventh deadliest tornado in US history. It was the deadliest since 1947.
I remember the 2011 tornadoes. There was all sorts of damage here in Arkansas. I remember seeing a manufactured home that had a large pine tree fall on it. Later on the news I saw it again. There was a 84 year old woman in the house laying in bed asleep when it fell. She didn't make it
2011 was a nasty year for Tornadoes even if you remove the super outbreak. Another outbreak on May 24 produced two EF5s, one of which was the one that leveled Joplin. The other EF5 was near El Reno and caused extreme damage. There were also a couple high-end EF4s, one of which directly hit a "tornado-proof" concrete dome home and severely battered it.
In 2011 there was a tornado that happened in Joplin, Missouri right after a highschool graduation that literally destroyed the entire town. A hospital was destroyed and even a graduation student was sucked out of a car sun roof.....
Sorry if this sounds trivial, but it is widely accepted that Theia hit Earth at an angle rather than head-on. A head-on impact would have most likely obliterated both planets. The impact graphic you used is from a very well done documentary called "How the Earth was Made."
In 4.11 the image in the background of the Permian extinction shows dying dinos, which is inaccurate since dinosaurs did not exist during that period, but rather evolved in the next geological period. Dinosaurs died out 65 m. years ago,
@@lilaclizard4504 The Permian extinction happened 250 million years ago... No dinos were invented yet at that time.. They just appeared right after that extinction...
Two of my paternal grandpa's brothers died from the Spanish flu. Grandpa was 8 at the time. According to my dad, one of Grandpa's brothers got his draft notice for World War I when he was on his deathbed.
I'd say the Little Ice Age was a pretty major natural disaster, or combination of disasters, as it drastically afttected the North hemisphere, and likely impacted on a global scale, it opened the door to famines, and may have contributed to the rapid spread of the bubonic plague, but who knows, maybe you can do a video on it at some point in the future
Mr. Whistler, thank you so much for your scientific topics and footnotes. I appreciate your videos immensely. Please add one small thing to your statements ie: these are some of the biggest "your text here" (and here's the addition...) THAT WE KNOW OF. This statement is the heart and soul of all of my experiments and hypotheses. We know such a small fraction of what is truly in our past. I really appreciated this video. Thank you very, very much.
Oh, Laki! And the great dying! My second favourite volcano and, well. I love all my extinction evens equally, but anything volcano related is always better than anything that isn't! I mean, there's reasons to why I'm becoming a geologist. Oh, but all of the disasters! This video is perfect and beautiful!
Kat as bad as laki was, you’re forgetting that laki wasn’t the sole cause of what happened in Iceland at that time since the grimsvoltin volcano was erupting at the same time. I would’ve switched laki out with Mount Tambora since the Tambora eruption was larger, killed more people, and caused the year without a summer (which had a major impact on culture during the 19th century)
I'm from the United States, in Minnesota specifically, and oh lord, I remember all of those tornadoes. We even had a few here. Ironically, that spring I was in 8th grade and we were actually learning about weather in my science class. And guys, I know that not everyone who watches this video is from the United States, but this was DEFINITELY a significant time period in the United States, and honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if it happened because of climate change. So, yeah, if it happened because of climate change, the tornadoes do affect more than us Americans because the weather around the world is getting more unpredictable. The tornadoes could be pointing to a bigger problem, which is climate change.
I remember Joplin being destroyed (I live in Missouri) and the same storm hit my town and I got pictures of it. We had school canceled when other storms right after predicted to be as bad were coming through.
I've heard, from the PBS/BBC Special programs, named, "The Planets", that the Earth collision may actually have been with the then young Mercury. Earth gained mass, Mercury lost most of its crust and started drifting closer towards the Sun. Finally caught by its gravity, Mercury entered an elliptical orbit, (which it maintains to this day), Mercury has, by satellite mapping and scientific experiments, a thin crust, but a very large core, for its size. This makes sense as the collision with Earth would have stripped away much of its crust. As some of the debris would have combined to become our Moon, this also explains why the Moon rocks are so close to Earth rocks. The entire inner four planets of our Solar System are identical in composition. The outer gas giant planets may have different combinations, but were formed from the same ingredients.
I found it interesting some events weren't on your "10 biggest" list. For example, the meteor strike in the Gulf of Mexico believed to have caused the extinction of dinosaurs... Imagine how different our world would be today if that hadn't happened and the dinosaurs had not gone extinct! Mammals, such as US, probably would have evolved quite differently. There also was the super volcano in what is today Yellowstone. And, speaking of volcanos, there were Krakatoa and Vesuvius. Earthquakes... San Francisco at the beginning of the 20th Century or Mexico City toward the end. There also was the tsunami caused by an earthquake near Indonesia, that killed tens of thousands on several continents. Really you have enough for a list of top 100 or even top 1000!
I expected to hear about more recent disasters, such as Hurricane Andrew and the 9.0 earthquake in Chile in the 60s. I read in the Almanac about the deadliest natural disasters, and the most frequent type of disaster was flood, especially in China. I remember one flood killed approximately 3 million. This list was quite fascinating!
Just the bible story was a myth. Sure, a 500 year old man gathered two of every animal. There are over 9000 species of lizards alone, quite possibly more then. It's a hilarious story.
I remember seeing several small twisters in 2010, but hearing about the massive ones scared the crap out of me! One really strange thing about tornados is that they always seem to have a lot of lightening, but no thunder. Care to do an explaination video on that Simon?
Fun fact, my last name is Simon, and i was paralyzed and lost my family in 84 in a tornado. F5, (not EF5, as it was before the enhanced scale). Ok, maybe not so much of a fun fact, but still. lol. I'm not really an expert in the subject, but usually when you have lightning w/o thunder it's referred to as "heat lightning". I havnt really heard of it being a natural phenomenon related to tornadoes, but most likely the lightning could be quite high up, that maybe we're not hearing the thunder? Thunderstorms do extend quite a ways up into the sky, and given the "energy" in the atmosphere lightning wouldnt be uncommon.
oh trust me.. i have it... but dark sense of humor is one of my coping mechanisms.. i was a month shy of 2 yrs old.. so i didnt know my parents or my sister.. so maybe that helps? *shrugs* i've had 32 years to get over it... or... learn 2 live with it.
that and i have a huge fascination with the thing i fear'd the most now... tornadoes.. *shrugs* and i dont have a hard time talking about my story, so i dont mind sharing. beat's your typical "i got drunk n rolled my car" story as to why i'm in a wheelchair.
I’m sorry but the photo of the T-Rex (tongue out) you guys used in great dying part at 4:15 reminds me so much of my bulldog when he just wants his belly rubbed. His tongue is usually out in the same way too. He just wants belly rubs. Lol I really shouldn’t be joking about it, but I just found the picture hilarious.
The collision hypothesis has already been proposed in 1946 by Reginald Daly in Harvard... after recognizing that the moon was moving away from earth, which can't be be explained purely by rotation rate and centrifugal forces.
I find it incredible that the world's population has gone from about 1.5 billion around the time of the Spanish Flu outbreak, just over a century ago, to about 7.7 billion as of today. That's an over 5x increase in 100 years.
Also funny (well, not really funny) that the Spanish Influenza started in China then, just as this Novel Coronavirus has started there in our time. Of course, given the population of China, I suppose it would be expected.
Best list channel on youtube! Although ill admit, i have a love affair between you guys and list 25. You guys seem to produce content more often and explain each item in greater detail.
Tornado/hurricane damage (with billions cost) or flu pandemics (with millions dead) don't really compare with planetary collisions, massive tectonic shifts, or super-volcanic eruptions. You seem to have confused 2 lists: damages to man & damages to Earth. Focus. But props to your #1 choice. Sort of ballsy on your part. But well warranted if that particular hypothesis is ever found to be accurate
Not really ballsy, was an obvious suck up to Americans :P The boxing day Indian ocean Tsunami would have been better for something of that scale imo, but I would have gone with the Oxygenation of the planet in it's place
My husband and I were caught in a tornado storm while driving to Lubbock, Texas at night. It is all flat as paper in that part of the country, and towns are very far apart, so we couldn't get to any shelter, plus it was pitch black except for lightning. There was debris all over the road and we hoped it had crossed the highway and moved on but the lightning lit up the field next to us and there it was, a giant stalk of dirt with long curling tendrils reaching out and going back. It was practically right next to the car and we were almost blown over. I was so scared I couldn't do anything but hyperventilate while my husband, trying to keep the car on the road was yelling, "did you see It? Is it moving away from us?". I was like, we are going to die! I just about passed out. Never went back to west Texas again.
Ancient Solar System: I’m gonna smack these two planets together! The Sun: No, don’t! You’ll get humans! Ancient Solar System: You can’t tell me what to do Earth: Hullo! Solar System: Oh no.
Simon I’ve been subscribe for years basically seen everything you’ve posted either by myself or with my nieces nephews and younger cousins who love your content especially one of my nieces, when kids were still going to school she would literally tell anyone who would listen what she learned which in a funny way got her placed in AP classes! 👊🏾 Keep doing your thing but you got to talk to @UA-cam Their algorithm is completely messed up, you’re videos and channels from years are suggested but never you’re newer post. Anyone else have this problem? I have to search to find your new post smh 🤦🏿♂️. As much great things you do and as many people you educate, your new videos should be WAY higher on suggestions or you should not have to search so hard. Smh @UA-cam get it together!
Adding those Tornados but not The Black Death = Ridiculous! As for your #1 - Even if that actually did happen it would have been the only reason any of us are here as prior the Earth would not have supported any life at all! So can hardly be considered a disaster!
I have read elsewhere that the greater salinity of the Mediterranean means the water of the Mediterranean is denser than the oceans, which means that there is a constant flow of fresher water from the Atlantic into the Mediterranean and a corresponding deep water outflow of heavier more saline water. This happens at the strait of Gibraltar.
just like to point out that the Siberian traps is not a super volcano that is a completely different classification of volcanic eruption. The actual term is known as a flood basalt eruption.
I'm told the Toba catastrophe of about 75,000 years ago was the largest volcanic eruption (excluding the Siberian Traps eruption) and that as a result of the ensuring "Nuclear WInter" HomoSapiens was made almost extinct leaving only something like 1,000 breeding pairs which resulted in a "genetic bottleneck". I guess you didn't give these in order of the size or import of the catastrophe, the Siberian Trap eruption lasted something like a million plus years, caused the Permian extinction and it took Planet earth something like 6 million years before it could recuperate. No mention of the Medieval Black Death which killed off 1/3 or the human population?
Forgive me, Master Simon, but the most widely accepted reason for the Spanish Flu outbreak being given that moniker is because, unlike most nations of the world during the war, Spain was the first country to publicly release information of the virulence and mortality of the disease that occurred within Spain’s borders. There is in fact some credible information that the Spanish Flu might very well have initially sprouted, if you will, right here in the U.S. at Camp Funston, located at Ft Riley in Kansas, in 1918 on either March 4 or March 11. Within 3 weeks, 1100 men were ill. Unfortunately, men were shuffled around and transported overseas constantly, most likely spreading the deadly disease to Europe.
Re: The Spanish Flu: Some researchers now suspect that many of the deaths can be attributed to asperin poisoning. The drug was new and no standard dosages were established.
How about the explosion which destroyed Minos (volcano Thera) or the 1813 explosion of volcano at Tambora which caused the year without summer worldwide?
PG the impact isn’t supposed, they know it happened and I’m also surprised that it wasn’t mentioned seeing as it was one of the largest known impact events that the earth has ever seen and triggered one of the 5 major mass extinction events
The video misses "The Oxygen Holocaust," when the first photosynthesis added oxygen to Earth's atmosphere, killing most anaerobic life forms.
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Never forget!
It’s also forgetting the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora. The eruption was larger than the Laki eruption, is the deadliest volcanic eruption in recorded history, and caused the year without a summer.
yup, that's what I was thinking when they spoke of "the biggest extinction event in history" um no, that was the oxygenation event
@@lilaclizard4504 the oxygenation event may not have killed off any life, since the deep oceans wouldn't have been effected.
Keep them coming young man, I find your posts enlightening and informative :)
I wish this was made into two episodes, "10 biggest Natural Disasters in Earth History" and "10 biggest Natural Disasters in Civilization History".
Really interesting video TopTenz. Your certainly one of the more informative UA-cam channel's, to watch.
In my opinian i would say
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Broken Bridge I agree with you. They are an amazing channel with their top 10. It’s why I’m subscribed for life
@@blazecrusader100---It's why I subscribed too.
Unknown 5 is another great channel to check out
I admire your work, TopTenz, you pump out videos at an incredible rate and they never fail to inform and entertain. Keep up the great work!
And Simon...You're the man.
The 2011 Tornado outbreak was not centered on "Tornado Alley" it was mostly centered on "Dixie Alley".
I do remember hearing the theory that the "Spanish" flu actually started at Ft. Riley Kansas among US army recruits undergoing induction and basic training before being sent to France in 1917. As for the Chinese connection, I've never heard that one before, but I don't doubt it.
I was in Joplin just hours after the EF-5 Tornado hit and it looked like an Atomic Bomb had went off. It peeled the asphalt off of parking lots the wind was so strong. It moved a 6 story hospital 2 feet of of its foundation when it took a direct hit.
I was in North MS near Smithville and barely got out of there in time before the small southern town was wiped off the map.
Simon you are one amazing speaker/narrator/host!!!!
I really love these types of top tens. They're very interesting and informative :D
Yeah the 2011 tornado super outbreak for the most part did not occur in tornado alley. The majority of tornadoes occured in what is reffered to as dixie alley. This area is more southeast than central. With the majority of the tornadoes happening in Mississippi and Alabama.
I can’t handle the fact that your list doesn’t end with “the great dying”
I'd never heard of a few of these. Great video! People forget how often natural events have precipitated major political upheaval.
As always, great job. This is one of my favorite channels to watch and you do a great job Simon Whistler.
2011 was a really bad year for tornadoes. An EF5 hit Joplin, MO in late May (it was part of a different tornado outbreak than the one mentioned in the video), and decimated the city. It killed 158 people, injured 1,150 more, and destroyed large amounts of the city including a hospital and a high school. It was the costliest single tornado in US history causing $2.8 billion worth of damage, and was the seventh deadliest tornado in US history. It was the deadliest since 1947.
I remember the 2011 tornadoes. There was all sorts of damage here in Arkansas. I remember seeing a manufactured home that had a large pine tree fall on it. Later on the news I saw it again. There was a 84 year old woman in the house laying in bed asleep when it fell. She didn't make it
2011 was a nasty year for Tornadoes even if you remove the super outbreak.
Another outbreak on May 24 produced two EF5s, one of which was the one that leveled Joplin.
The other EF5 was near El Reno and caused extreme damage.
There were also a couple high-end EF4s, one of which directly hit a "tornado-proof" concrete dome home and severely battered it.
That was fascinating. Thanks!
He loved your comment!
In 2011 there was a tornado that happened in Joplin, Missouri right after a highschool graduation that literally destroyed the entire town. A hospital was destroyed and even a graduation student was sucked out of a car sun roof.....
The Siberian traps weren't even a supervolcano. It made supervolcanoes look like pimples.
And the explosion went on for about 1 million years, give or take a few centuries!
Sorry if this sounds trivial, but it is widely accepted that Theia hit Earth at an angle rather than head-on. A head-on impact would have most likely obliterated both planets. The impact graphic you used is from a very well done documentary called "How the Earth was Made."
I love TopTenz!!!!
*And all the other documentaries you guys do!!!
I can learn more from Simon in just 20 minutes than I ever did in high school history classes!
The Spanish Flu started in Kansas
Fantastic work, as always.
Old school Simon. Your content across channels and podcasts just keep improving. I would like to see more science/tech/natural history videos though.
In 4.11 the image in the background of the Permian extinction shows dying dinos, which is inaccurate since dinosaurs did not exist during that period, but rather evolved in the next geological period. Dinosaurs died out 65 m. years ago,
In theory. That's the thing with science, it's TRUE until we prove differently.
@@PNWGuitar No.
Thank you, I was thinking that, too.
There were 2 dinosaur periods you know
@@lilaclizard4504 The Permian extinction happened 250 million years ago... No dinos were invented yet at that time.. They just appeared right after that extinction...
Great geology/history lesson. Thanks.
"Companies involved in oil and gas exploration take special precautions not to trigger another such event" (allegedly)
nah, they do.
they don't want to spend billions cleaning it up, after all. it's a massive cost, a massive PR issue, etc.
I hate living in tornado alley. It’s a nightmare almost every season.
Simon,you're a awesome host.Thanks to you and your team for all the cool videos.
Two of my paternal grandpa's brothers died from the Spanish flu. Grandpa was 8 at the time. According to my dad, one of Grandpa's brothers got his draft notice for World War I when he was on his deathbed.
Simon
Simon.Cheers! Another great presentation.
Excellent work.
Great video !
Great video. Keep em coming!
I'd say the Little Ice Age was a pretty major natural disaster, or combination of disasters, as it drastically afttected the North hemisphere, and likely impacted on a global scale, it opened the door to famines, and may have contributed to the rapid spread of the bubonic plague, but who knows, maybe you can do a video on it at some point in the future
Thumbs up Simon, well done.
I'm from alabama. I remember that day well. It was unreal.
Same. It tore up our area pretty badly.
Same i live not far from were some went through
Mr. Whistler, thank you so much for your scientific topics and footnotes. I appreciate your videos immensely. Please add one small thing to your statements ie: these are some of the biggest "your text here" (and here's the addition...) THAT WE KNOW OF. This statement is the heart and soul of all of my experiments and hypotheses. We know such a small fraction of what is truly in our past. I really appreciated this video. Thank you very, very much.
Great as always
Oh, Laki! And the great dying! My second favourite volcano and, well. I love all my extinction evens equally, but anything volcano related is always better than anything that isn't! I mean, there's reasons to why I'm becoming a geologist.
Oh, but all of the disasters! This video is perfect and beautiful!
Kat as bad as laki was, you’re forgetting that laki wasn’t the sole cause of what happened in Iceland at that time since the grimsvoltin volcano was erupting at the same time. I would’ve switched laki out with Mount Tambora since the Tambora eruption was larger, killed more people, and caused the year without a summer (which had a major impact on culture during the 19th century)
I watch alot of UA-cam. But I watch your stuff the most.
5 years after this video was published, Simon has become the master of youtube :o
Great videos
Wow, 2nd like. My highest score yet!! Love this channel
Great Video!!!
I'm from the United States, in Minnesota specifically, and oh lord, I remember all of those tornadoes. We even had a few here. Ironically, that spring I was in 8th grade and we were actually learning about weather in my science class. And guys, I know that not everyone who watches this video is from the United States, but this was DEFINITELY a significant time period in the United States, and honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if it happened because of climate change. So, yeah, if it happened because of climate change, the tornadoes do affect more than us Americans because the weather around the world is getting more unpredictable. The tornadoes could be pointing to a bigger problem, which is climate change.
I remember Joplin being destroyed (I live in Missouri) and the same storm hit my town and I got pictures of it. We had school canceled when other storms right after predicted to be as bad were coming through.
This top tenz was long but not boring (like the map one oy vie!) I found this extremely interesting. Except of course the FLOOD MYTHS statement.
I've heard, from the PBS/BBC Special programs, named, "The Planets", that the Earth collision may actually have been with the then young Mercury. Earth gained mass, Mercury lost most of its crust and started drifting closer towards the Sun. Finally caught by its gravity, Mercury entered an elliptical orbit, (which it maintains to this day), Mercury has, by satellite mapping and scientific experiments, a thin crust, but a very large core, for its size. This makes sense as the collision with Earth would have stripped away much of its crust. As some of the debris would have combined to become our Moon, this also explains why the Moon rocks are so close to Earth rocks. The entire inner four planets of our Solar System are identical in composition. The outer gas giant planets may have different combinations, but were formed from the same ingredients.
I live in North Alabama where the 2011 Tornadoes came thru and was in the middle of it
Hope everything is semi normal now. That was unreal just to see, can't imagine having been in the middle of it.
Toptenznet Simon you forgot Justin Bieber
As a Canadian.... we're still sorry about that one...
I live in Oklahoma and I remember that
Cool story bro, same here
I found it interesting some events weren't on your "10 biggest" list. For example, the meteor strike in the Gulf of Mexico believed to have caused the extinction of dinosaurs... Imagine how different our world would be today if that hadn't happened and the dinosaurs had not gone extinct! Mammals, such as US, probably would have evolved quite differently.
There also was the super volcano in what is today Yellowstone. And, speaking of volcanos, there were Krakatoa and Vesuvius.
Earthquakes... San Francisco at the beginning of the 20th Century or Mexico City toward the end. There also was the tsunami caused by an earthquake near Indonesia, that killed tens of thousands on several continents.
Really you have enough for a list of top 100 or even top 1000!
I expected to hear about more recent disasters, such as Hurricane Andrew and the 9.0 earthquake in Chile in the 60s.
I read in the Almanac about the deadliest natural disasters, and the most frequent type of disaster was flood, especially in China. I remember one flood killed approximately 3 million.
This list was quite fascinating!
I honestly thought when I saw the dude in the thumbnail that it was V-sauce
If there is historical evidence as well as archeological evidence can we really call it a “flood myth”
The story is the myth.
Just the bible story was a myth. Sure, a 500 year old man gathered two of every animal. There are over 9000 species of lizards alone, quite possibly more then. It's a hilarious story.
"The Great Dying"
Now that's one hell of name...
I remember seeing several small twisters in 2010, but hearing about the massive ones scared the crap out of me! One really strange thing about tornados is that they always seem to have a lot of lightening, but no thunder. Care to do an explaination video on that Simon?
Fun fact, my last name is Simon, and i was paralyzed and lost my family in 84 in a tornado. F5, (not EF5, as it was before the enhanced scale). Ok, maybe not so much of a fun fact, but still. lol. I'm not really an expert in the subject, but usually when you have lightning w/o thunder it's referred to as "heat lightning". I havnt really heard of it being a natural phenomenon related to tornadoes, but most likely the lightning could be quite high up, that maybe we're not hearing the thunder? Thunderstorms do extend quite a ways up into the sky, and given the "energy" in the atmosphere lightning wouldnt be uncommon.
Soli2de your family died and you still say lol? You would think you would have a crippling depression
oh trust me.. i have it... but dark sense of humor is one of my coping mechanisms.. i was a month shy of 2 yrs old.. so i didnt know my parents or my sister.. so maybe that helps? *shrugs* i've had 32 years to get over it... or... learn 2 live with it.
that and i have a huge fascination with the thing i fear'd the most now... tornadoes.. *shrugs* and i dont have a hard time talking about my story, so i dont mind sharing. beat's your typical "i got drunk n rolled my car" story as to why i'm in a wheelchair.
the "lightning" you saw were powerflashes when the tornado blew the telephone pole transformers
human beings surely deserve a spot.
9:29 One of those spots in Mississippi is where I graduated high school.
Watching this during the pandemic is kind of amusing
I'll bet when this video is updated, COVID-19 will be really high on this list.
That is one hell of alot of information for one video. Me thinks a series with more in-depth analysis awaits...
7:18 he said Serbia, not Siberia. xD
I’m sorry but the photo of the T-Rex (tongue out) you guys used in great dying part at 4:15 reminds me so much of my bulldog when he just wants his belly rubbed. His tongue is usually out in the same way too. He just wants belly rubs. Lol
I really shouldn’t be joking about it, but I just found the picture hilarious.
so sitchin's collision is slowly making it's way into mainstream huh... maybe soon we'll need to revisit the sumerian's tablets a bit more carefully??
The collision hypothesis has already been proposed in 1946 by Reginald Daly in Harvard... after recognizing that the moon was moving away from earth, which can't be be explained purely by rotation rate and centrifugal forces.
well looks like the sumerians already knew that in 4000 b.c, that or their story teller was some kind of really good "prophet"!!! XD
Very very informative😏
I find it incredible that the world's population has gone from about 1.5 billion around the time of the Spanish Flu outbreak, just over a century ago, to about 7.7 billion as of today. That's an over 5x increase in 100 years.
Also funny (well, not really funny) that the Spanish Influenza started in China then, just as this Novel Coronavirus has started there in our time. Of course, given the population of China, I suppose it would be expected.
You forgot the worst disaster of all.... WiFi going out!
Best list channel on youtube! Although ill admit, i have a love affair between you guys and list 25. You guys seem to produce content more often and explain each item in greater detail.
Agreed! So many list channels are such ridiculous rubbish! This one's well researched & interesting
Very interesting as usual, but I'd agree with other comments that some included items should not have been and visa versa.
Tornado/hurricane damage (with billions cost) or flu pandemics (with millions dead) don't really compare with planetary collisions, massive tectonic shifts, or super-volcanic eruptions. You seem to have confused 2 lists: damages to man & damages to Earth. Focus. But props to your #1 choice. Sort of ballsy on your part. But well warranted if that particular hypothesis is ever found to be accurate
Not really ballsy, was an obvious suck up to Americans :P
The boxing day Indian ocean Tsunami would have been better for something of that scale imo, but I would have gone with the Oxygenation of the planet in it's place
TopTenz well tornadoes are definitely sucky, very very sucky, so that was a very sucky choice :)
TopTenz congratulations on so many subscribers! 😱
My husband and I were caught in a tornado storm while driving to Lubbock, Texas at night. It is all flat as paper in that part of the country, and towns are very far apart, so we couldn't get to any shelter, plus it was pitch black except for lightning. There was debris all over the road and we hoped it had crossed the highway and moved on but the lightning lit up the field next to us and there it was, a giant stalk of dirt with long curling tendrils reaching out and going back. It was practically right next to the car and we were almost blown over. I was so scared I couldn't do anything but hyperventilate while my husband, trying to keep the car on the road was yelling, "did you see It? Is it moving away from us?". I was like, we are going to die! I just about passed out. Never went back to west Texas again.
Ancient Solar System: I’m gonna smack these two planets together!
The Sun: No, don’t! You’ll get humans!
Ancient Solar System: You can’t tell me what to do
Earth: Hullo!
Solar System: Oh no.
We almost had one of the biggest disasters of all time last night
I wasn't alive 10 months ago. What was it? Did someone google Google?
I’d love to hear more about this collision theory 😱
As soon as I saw his face I was like, "Hey, Vsauce, Michael here."
Simon I’ve been subscribe for years basically seen everything you’ve posted either by myself or with my nieces nephews and younger cousins who love your content especially one of my nieces, when kids were still going to school she would literally tell anyone who would listen what she learned which in a funny way got her placed in AP classes! 👊🏾 Keep doing your thing but you got to talk to @UA-cam Their algorithm is completely messed up, you’re videos and channels from years are suggested but never you’re newer post. Anyone else have this problem? I have to search to find your new post smh 🤦🏿♂️. As much great things you do and as many people you educate, your new videos should be WAY higher on suggestions or you should not have to search so hard. Smh @UA-cam get it together!
Adding those Tornados but not The Black Death = Ridiculous!
As for your #1 - Even if that actually did happen it would have been the only reason any of us are here as prior the Earth would not have supported any life at all! So can hardly be considered a disaster!
Fran Ohmsford the plague was an epidemic not a natural disaster
It should be considered a disaster only if it ended all life, but it certainly had the potential to do so--if it happened now.
@@mulrennanb but he added the spanish flu
Fist size hail???!!! I've heard of golf ball size but that's insane!!!!
I can attest that the Mediterranean water is saltier than Atlantic or Pacific water.
Frank McEvoy why? have you tasted them?
The Fighting Filipino Eagle Yes. I've swum in all three.
Frank McEvoy so you found nemo or dory while swimming all the three huge body's of water?
I have read elsewhere that the greater salinity of the Mediterranean means the water of the Mediterranean is denser than the oceans, which means that there is a constant flow of fresher water from the Atlantic into the Mediterranean and a corresponding deep water outflow of heavier more saline water. This happens at the strait of Gibraltar.
That's because more people pee in it! LMAO
just like to point out that the Siberian traps is not a super volcano that is a completely different classification of volcanic eruption. The actual term is known as a flood basalt eruption.
It is actually a super volcano but the eruption style is different.
Three tornadoes hit down in Massachusetts the same day during that outbreak.
You failed to mention the advent of rock and roll music, which of course caused world wide depravity of which I'm still thoroughly enjoying
I'm told the Toba catastrophe of about 75,000 years ago was the largest volcanic eruption (excluding the Siberian Traps eruption) and that as a result of the ensuring "Nuclear WInter" HomoSapiens was made almost extinct leaving only something like 1,000 breeding pairs which resulted in a "genetic bottleneck". I guess you didn't give these in order of the size or import of the catastrophe, the Siberian Trap eruption lasted something like a million plus years, caused the Permian extinction and it took Planet earth something like 6 million years before it could recuperate. No mention of the Medieval Black Death which killed off 1/3 or the human population?
Steven Torrey Toba was the largest in the past 25 million years, there have been eruptions before that were much larger
Forgive me, Master Simon, but the most widely accepted reason for the Spanish Flu outbreak being given that moniker is because, unlike most nations of the world during the war, Spain was the first country to publicly release information of the virulence and mortality of the disease that occurred within Spain’s borders. There is in fact some credible information that the Spanish Flu might very well have initially sprouted, if you will, right here in the U.S. at Camp Funston, located at Ft Riley in Kansas, in 1918 on either March 4 or March 11. Within 3 weeks, 1100 men were ill. Unfortunately, men were shuffled around and transported overseas constantly, most likely spreading the deadly disease to Europe.
That's one hell of a volcano. 💀
Is #8 the reason why there is a myth about how a monster flooded all of britain?
Re: The Spanish Flu: Some researchers now suspect that many of the deaths can be attributed to asperin poisoning. The drug was new and no standard dosages were established.
How do they know other planets have cores way smaller than Earth's?
Mathematical equations
@@UrbanOutlawsSk8Co What equations and and what data are these equations based on?
Amazing asusual simon
Excellent.
Brilliantly narrated with loads of information crammed in. And not a hint of crummy American psuedo-drama!
Thanks.
nature will humble us all
An interesting follow-up would be a video detailing the outcome if each of these disasters had NOT occurred.
The outburst of Campi Flegreii about 38.000 years ago... I heard it was terrible
I totally slept through those april tornados. Woooooo
No krakatoa mention or the supposed 65m +- year old asteroid impact?
How about the explosion which destroyed Minos (volcano Thera) or the 1813 explosion of volcano at Tambora which caused the year without summer worldwide?
Or the Oxygen Catastrophe.
None of these come close to the Toba eruption 70,000 years ago except tbe Oxygen Catastrophe.
PG the impact isn’t supposed, they know it happened and I’m also surprised that it wasn’t mentioned seeing as it was one of the largest known impact events that the earth has ever seen and triggered one of the 5 major mass extinction events
Owain Shebbeare not true, the Thea impact and the Siberian Traps eruption were FAR larger than toba was
Fun stuff. Just a bit strange that this top 10 list doesn't include many of the most deadly natural disasters in this world's history
Didn't the Joplin tornado take place in 2011? The most expensive tornado on record?