To think our largest nuclear explosion isn’t even remotely a tiny spark compared to what the universe can do…

This made me think of how quick and absolutely Gigantic an explosion would have to be if you were looking at the universe from an outside perspective and visually saw a little spark

Assuming that the universe exists as it's explained in this video...

@Wu Tang 80OC earthquake's energy is diluted over a larger area whereas nuclear strike applies its destructive potential in specific area.

The crazy thing is, seeing a supernova from 140 million light years away means it happened when dinosaurs still walked the earth. We are literally looking back in time.

@weefek Figured what out? I'm confused!

@Comm Knights that makes more sense now.

@Kenneth Wallace It's because light needs to travel. The truth is everything we see isn't live action. Every single thing needs travel time to reach our eyes and register in our brains. But it happens too quickly to notice. The further we look away, the longer it took that image to reach our view. So if I could teleport from here to 70 light years away and had a telescope that could see the surface of Earth, assuming the clouds aren't blocking the view, I could witness WWII in 1943 even though the events have already happened, the after image still moves through the cosmos to this day.

Thank you, Dr. My-First-Science-Video-On-Youtube I think most people know that 🤣🤣

@weefek if we can see it then teleport we can be there

3:30 Fun fact: Yes the lead locomotive caught fire that night but, the train was miles from the city, it was parked for the night and it was put out before anything else happened. The explosion was due to the fact that after a couple of hours after the fire was put out the air brakes failed (due to the lead locomotive being shut off because to the fire), and the hand brakes couldn’t hold the weight of the entire train. It rolled uncontrollably all the way to the town and derailed, then exploded.

@Dean Dee it still isn’t finished. Under construction at the moment

This channel doesn't care about accuracy lmao

@Dean Dee sounds like they had a stack of bone meal

It wasn't even a Canadian train!

Not enough hand breaks were set.

I'm so impressed with the care you took to pronounce the names of the cities in this story. It shows a lot of respect and means more than you may realize to those who live there.

it’s sad that the bar for respect is so low. but you’re right— a lot of creators don’t even bother taking two seconds to google the correct pronunciation.

Then they didn't even bother to check any information twice. So much wrongful information here. They said that the tianjin explosion was 2x bigger than the nuke in nagasaki, when the nuke was actually over 770 times larger.

8:02 Hmm.🤔🤔 *Enewetak* 🧐🧐 👀👀👀👀It's actually *Runnit* 👍

@sack me exactly

Over a hundred thousand people died as a result of human action and inaction, pronouncing their city names properly is the least someone could do.

What's truly crazy is that the Tsar Bomba was supposed to be 100 MT but they dialed it down out of fear of destroying the world

@Philipp K okay, you do you, idk

​@Artem4egg _ not really. The third stage just would have been a layer of U238...instead of the lead that was actually used. Even though it would have been tons of U238 it might have been cheaper than the lead, considering it was waste from Uranium enrichment that they already had in huge amounts.

@Artem4egg _ that's communism for ya

My heart goes out too all the people who were harmed in these explosions.

it's all about those thoughts & prayers, man. the internet thanks you for your service

Theirs did too

Fat Man was 21 KILO tons (21,000) equivalent. Tianjin was 27 tons. You're off by about 800 times the what the numbers actually are.

From the time we see it to the time it affects us? Eeeek!! Zero!

@Jason Toddman You are correct in your assumption. Lmao thanks for a good laugh. I remember that game too.

@Chad Swenson Idk which of my comments you refer to but I assume you meant the one about my childhood experience with 'telephone'. 🙂Anyway, thanks.

@Jason Toddman That was funny

I just spent 5 minutes trying to figure out how he got those numbers, I thought I was going insane when those weren't even close

I'm Lebanese, I still remember the day of the explosion. I lived far enough from the explosion, but it was so big that we did hear a huge bang. We first thought it was the lift in our condominium, but not even 5 minutes later, we turned on the news and saw that Italy, France, and every other country learned of the explosion.

@Eric Cartman 😂

@Ace23 they're just big booms.

What a wicked cool explosion God bless those affected, but I love explosions

24:37 The most incredible thing is that that means Betelgeuse already became a supernova but the light hasn't reached earth yet. Every time we look up to the sky we're seeing the past, even the sun as we're watching it as it was 8 minutes ago.

Fun and terrifying prospects.

You can't watch the sun if you value your corneas.

@northsouthpaw last sentence hit hard fam

Everything around you is the past, nothing is the presant, including the distance between neurons in the brain. Have you ever looked at someone and tried to glance away before they saw you looking, you can't.

Everytime i feel depressed i watch videos about the universe and space to appreciate how small and lucky we are to have a planet to live on and how we are still carrying on

I'm feeling so sad for all the people who died from these explosions!

@Kristen Troutman youre so edgy

@A B 2,403

@Kristen Troutman people dying in violent ways or for some war that didn't even involve those innocent people IS a sad thing. You don't have to cry to acknowledge that.

@Kristen Troutman ooo ur so tuff

Its terrifying to think a random explosion can randomly happen any time and kill hundreds to thousands it’s bone chilling to even think about

I feel like the universe likes to remind us it could destroy all of us without even trying

@Adriel Outspoken LMAO... Like which one? The Sun... no wait, Jupiter? No, wait... Saturn? Jesus Christos -- refers to our Sun... FYI

War in Ukraine, especially bombing huge amount ground at pig areas, it could lead to effects those started that earth moving in turkey.. Butterfly effect is not so good theoretical idea, but this is much bigger forces and not that huge distance from Turkey, etc.. I don't say that was only reason, but it could start something what could be in balance years to come. I just play with idea in my head. I think those who investigate these disasters would have better and more clear idea could it be possible..

Good thing God is in control

It will anyway.

I appreciate the cameraman for capturing all of this for us

Bot comment see this comment everywhere its overrated

@Jomar Atendido ur on YouTube pal. Youtubites

@joshclark756 not all

@pzych0p4th1st mistake

@weefek  mmmmh..

15:39 thank the cameraman for jumping into the sun just to get this beautiful shot for us, may he live on

🤦‍♂️

You're not suggesting that some of the images in this video are fake, are you?

Didn't he go at night ??

He’s apparently alive today, but has an extra eye in his forehead.

camera man was Icarus

I cannot fathom the horror it would be to be right beside the first explosion. 😢

Rip to all the people that died in these unfortunate events 🙏

Shoutout to my homie Jupiter for keeping us safe, you’re a real g 💯😤

Explosions seem like art to visible people, but many do not know how many painful stories are hidden behind it.

Very good

@Jessica Sizemore The radiation produced during explosion later creates various problems for humans which suffer from age after age generation after generation.

But to invisible people they are just explosions.

I heard people saying that they could see their own bones during those tests and most of them died from cancer years later even though they were miles away

E for effort

There's a sound of explosion recently in my area where I live and it turns out that a guy just got killed after accidentally lit a cart worth of fireworks who he's looking to sell in the back of his home. It literally destroyed half of his house and one of his neighbor's house side with his body found not far away submerged in a nearby ditch missing one of his arm and a leg. When just a cart worth of fireworks could destroy a house like that, I can't imagine a full building of it and the aftermath of what the victims experienced...

Mt St Helens was a pretty big explosion. The blast generated “about 500 times the force of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. That's fairly impressive

That's only 7.5 megatons TNT. This much devastation is easily deliverable by _just one_ Sarmat rocket within 10 minutes of the launch, with no possibility of interception.

I love science and your videos literally bringing me some sparks. Thank you for making such interesting materials.

You're getting it all wrong there. The TNT equivalent of the Tianjin explosion was around 250 tons. The yield of the Fat Man nuke dropped on Hiroshima was 21 THOUSAND tons of TNT. For comparison the TNT equivalent yield of the Beirut explosion was around 200 tons. In thermonuclear devices the primary detonator is a fission bomb but the secondary is a fusion reaction (not also a fission reaction like you mentioned).

Great job on this video! I really enjoyed watching it and learning something new. Keep up the fantastic work!

I really really really really hope beatlegeus goes supernova in my lifetime. That would be an insane event to witness.

The Tsar Bomba's yield was 50 megatons. 58 megatons was the initial estimate, but it was revised by Soviet scientists in 1991.

I've wondered about the pilots who dropped those nukes, and how much radiation exposure they incurred as they were dashing away.

Regarding those gamma ray bursts, it's mind blowing to think that something that is affecting us today, is the result of an event that happened billions of years ago! Imagine bursts that travel from even further away; they would've been caused by a cosmic event that happened before our solar system even existed!

I cant imagine how the cameraman stay still filming jupiter the long time. Hats off to cameraman

The camera man never dies

You have to wonder if those people that just disappeared and left a atomic shadow..did they feel it or where they just alive and then not makes you wonder

I worked at a National Laboratory that works on Nuclear Weapons. They reviewed the warning sirens which included incoming missle sirens. I worked 1/4 mile away from the plutonium processing TA. We were so close that we were told except for the siren we’d never know. I stopped listening to all sirens unless I was driving. I didn’t want to know, still don’t. I don’t want to survive WW3.

Like a pinch!

I imagine it’s just like getting knocked out, seeing that the explosion travels well more than a fist.

Rip to those who think that a shockwave from an exploding star could kill us

Thanks the camera guys for doing a fantastic job!

People don't realize how much a massive stroke of luck every single day we live is.

@Hooda Gooboy keep living in your fantasy

@Hooda Gooboy its not god its luck

It's not "luck", it's God.

Wouldn’t say a lot scares me but if I ever saw a nuke my whole soul would leave way before I died

When I was in High School (late Eighties) I was hooked and intensely reading a book about nuclear weapons between the US and Russia. It was 267 pages, it took me days to read. Lots of facts and details of nuclear explosions. Title: Freeze by Sen. Ed Kennedy. I live in Los Angeles Ca and During one morning, during the same days I was reading this book, I went outside and Heard a loud boom sound, Extremely loud but far away. I looked up and to my left and far away I saw what appeared to me as mushroom clouds, and the same comment you posted IS what I felt, and I even remember to this day that I felt my bowels loosen up. I thought it was a nuclear explosion. Of course it was just clouds shaped like a mushroom.

your eyes would be gone way before your soul as well

The worst things about the Tianjin and Beirut explosions was the firefighters were the ones who accidentally set of the explosions. The water that got in contact with the Ammonium Nitrate was the catalyst for the explosion.

Thanks for an amazing comforting video! That a disaster can happen any second was exactly what I needed before going to bed🤣

lol that is what im saying

I didn't look up the name for the case containing the Castle Bravo bomb, but it was made of a material that the "experts" believed to be innocuous, but it actually helped to increase the yield of the bomb. The video is here on YT that explains it. Castle Bravo did give us Gojira (Godzilla) so I guess it wasn't all bad. (/sarcasm)

The error made with Castle Bravo were due to shortages in enriched lithium at that time and the use of lithium-7 isotope in the lithium-deuteride secondary stage rather than the usual lithium-6 isotope, scientists thought the 60% lithium-7 isotope used was inert, it was not and caused a 15mt reaction instead of 5mt.

Big words. Big explosion doe

Sounds like one of KH word salads.

Nearly killed the people testing it too because they didn't realize it was 3 times the power they thought it would be.

Rip to all the animals who died in the accident

Very dramatic and breathtaking! Thank you for a great video!

shoutout for our cameraman he/she/it is a legend

Can't believe Brad Pitt couldn't stop that explosion

Or OO 7

YOU SILLY🤣😂👍

It has never been officially reported that many of the railcars were carrying LPG, UN designation 1075, which likely accelerated the fire.

Well the supernova in 1987 Brightened the sky for like half a year almost. That’s gotta be the biggest explosion ever caught on camera.

I think you forgot, for the smaller scale ones the Halifax Explosion. Or also known as the largest man-made explosion before the nuclear bombs and leveling large portions of Halifax. And yes, we possess a photo of it.

@Yunghost12 I think the title of the video is the reason he skipped this one. It wasn't caught on camera

I think that one still counts as one of the 2 or 3 biggest non-nuclear explosions. Perhaps #1.

6:02 just happens so fast it takes less then haf a sec to completly change and explode,its amazing to see. and ya dont mess with nukes leave it alone,and yes lets thank the universe for setting up big planets near us that takes punches we cant take.

I volunteer as tribute. That would be one hell of a light show that I'd record for earth even if I didn't make it back.

I’m feeling sad for the many species that may have been wiped out from these supernova explosions…because if it’s that easy that to wipe us out..and so many threats; man made, natural and space/universal..then I can’t believe that we are the only ones living in the universe.

Check the sci-fi story about the planet of a distant star that went Nova so as to be visible on Earth for Jesus birth. The people knew what was happening and they rejoiced in their honor.

It's mathematically improbable. Were we to be found to the only life, I'd say that's a mark in favor of Gods existence maybe. It would be such a mathematical anomaly It'd be lunacy to contemplate.

Can you imagine how much of that upper part of that darker cloud of deadly chemicals will travel as the winds will carry them?

Wonderful video, thank you. Many facts to hear about.

I remember the lac Megantic explosion. I had stayed a week ag my aunt's house in Quebec. I saw the train on the news and was shocked...

Wait, at 5:19 you state that the China Port Explosion was equivalent to 27 Tons of TNT, and then go on to state it was more powerful than the Atomic Weapons used on Japan, that is incorrect/wrong. The Atomic weapons used on Japan were measured in Kilotons, as in thousands of tons. 15K tons is 15,000 Tons, much, much more than the 27 tons of the China Port explosion.

My best friend died at Lac Megantic disaster. He was in the bar that burned down. MMA has not faced any repercussion. MOFOs placed themselves under insolvability protection.

Hey I remember the solar storm of 2003. I was out trick or treating with my family and cell phones weren't working. Also there was a red blob or aura in the sky. Nobody ever believes me when I tell this story. This confirms I'm not crazy 😀🤪.

What about the Pepcon explosion in the late 80s there was footage of that as well and you can see the shockwave travel and reach the person recording.

You're off somewhat comparing the Tianjin explosion with the FatMan. Fatman's yield was ~20kilotons TNT, and the blast effect is around the same as one Fatman device.

Impressive yet scary !

The power of the sun in the palm of my hand.

I feel bad for all those people :(

20:20 it wouldn't reach us in a matter of days, the star system is 4.2LY away, it would take atleast 4.2 Years for the Supernova's Light to Reach us, And possibly a Few more months for the Full Effect to reach us, since Light would be the fastest thing. i think what they were trying to say is "in a matter of days AFTER the light reaches us" but still it more then likely would be a matter of weeks/months not days.

Eat your heart out, Michael Bay! THESE explosions are far more incredible than anything you put on screen!

Crazy how SAITAMA from "one punch man" series survived and tanked a whole GRB(gamma ray burst) without a single SCRATCH in his body

Screw saying thanks to the camera man. Thank you, you celestial beauty for keeping us safe 😍

If a star went supernova in the vicinity of Alpha Centauri, the shock wave would definitely take many, many years to reach us. Light, takes 4.5 years to reach us from there, so a shock wave would take magnitudes longer.

A supernova does not make sound...

@Eddie Dutch Just more total gibberish this channel comes out with!

@gr3yh4wk1 but he says in a matter of days the shockwave will reach us. That can not be. nothing (we know of) travels faster then light, so no shockwave will go faster. how can the shockwave reach us in days at a distance of 4.2 lightyears. lol

Your implying a shockwave as in a sound wave (travelling at the speed of sound). there's minimal material in space that could transmit a pressure wave. There certainly would not be any kind of sound based shockwave. I'm going back to high school physics here but the main issue would be the radiation, which travels at the speed of light so would be here in a little over four years. That would likely drastically affect the atmosphere.

I know the lac-megantic disaster it started by a runaway train when one of the oil tanks had its airbrake on and started a fire for some reason and later the train was on a runaway eventually crashing in a yard causing a giant explosion

Jupiter has saved us many times! Thank you Lord!

props to the camera guys who we're in the nuclear blast and took one for us.

Remote cameras, on timer's

I love how the thumbnail is not even close to actually big explosions

20:25 damn thats some cool cgi, cant even imagine that kind of devastation, wonder where they got the clip

I miss the kilonova (neutronstar collision) and black hole collisions where several times the mass of the sun is converted to energy. I know, black hole collisions are not caught on camera, but there are images of the kilonova

wait ridddle is right. we all thank the camera man for the amazing spaceshots. but we never asked their names... how dare we

The fact that it caused stroked and heart attacks is terrifying

@Perplexed Wolf I did. I did say. I did say the very thing.

Noooooo, you don't say!?!?!? 😑

You didn’t mention that castle bravo’s unexpected yield was due to its new lithium third stage increasing its efficiency

And conversely they deliberated tamped down the Tsar Bomba, which they initially planned to set at at least 100 MT.

You don't even need to leave earth to have nature beat us out. The explosion from Krakatoa's main eruption circled the globe 7 times! It was something like 100,000 the power of the Hiroshima bomb.

The Tsar Bomba that was detonated was actually a scale model of the actual bomb, about 10% of the supposed size. If they had detonated the full size Tsar Bombe, it may have eradicated all life on Earth's surface through the sheer force of the pressure created, and could've possible cracked the continental plates into bits...

Art is an explosion!!!!

That's a Naruto Shippuden reference

​@Urgen Lama Naruto 😹

Not u Kisame

Deidara

Yo who gave Deidara a phone

went from warheads to astronamy real fast lol

Your videos are amazing! I'm a huge fan of your channel! Riddles solved!

I missed the whole explosion clips. There have been only cuts to watch. When it became interesting and one wanted to watch the whole plume development it has been cutted away. Very disappointing.

That’s how this works mate. Make the laymen think they are figuring out, then they are learned

I stopped watching after the first explosion as the facts were far from accurate

For some of the finest nuclear footage across all the test programs, see an older doc called Trinity and Beyond. Shatner hosts and the soundtrack is terrifying. 👍

Space is so freaking awesome.

If I was in the middle of an explosion I'd be dead

Being native from Quebec province, lac mégantic was a tragedy and a lot of cities around supplied firefighters.

I remember it. Horrible!

Unless people can t even get independently state ,they can you travel to them

The fact that you didn't use a mushroom cloud grapic to depict a mushroom cloud explosion is driving me crazy

🤣🤣🤣

i felt asleep watching this, its not because i dont care about anything this, or it was in some negative way, NO , Just your voice is so calming and i felt like im in cinema 4D and i just passed out. It felt amazing.

finally some quality content

I like to imagine an alternate timeline where the world is destroyed by nuclear tests instead of nuclear war

When Beatleguse explodes it will be visible during the day and will cast shadows at night. Apparently there is some account of a similar explosion in ancient history. An ancient historical account of a star named Jaminga did the same thing.

thanks to the guy who went to jupiter and tested how hot the explosions were

Yep and don't question it.. It's sC1eNc3 - we just believe them and "follow"

who else would want all our pains and struggles to go away with a explosion of galactic proportions

What do you expect when the children find out the match box ? You may think they will learn something from the first BOOOOOM experience,but NO, they rather love to hear it louder than before !

Man, I'm sure glad that those wise administrations of the nuclear age knew precisely what they were ordering with each of the more than a thousand of those detonations 👍 I mean, they'd fess up wouldn't they, if there were wide-ranging long-lasting effects that weren't perceived at the time....because governments are adults, they put aside things like pride and prestige when it comes to the health and wellbeing of those who pay them all so much. 😌

@Kira Clouds 👍 that's just it right there - this trend of delayed-consequences : as long as it's left to the subsequent generation to deal with they know they're safe. It's a very cynical and blatantly self-defeating attitude to operate a whole country under, feels parental. Oh and greedyAF I came across this term someone had coined in the early 80's called 'generational discounting' basically the erosion of both collective memory of eras/events/attitudes/atmosphere and the standards that they held themselves to, between/across generations. I've sorely lacked any grandparents from a young age and have always wondered what they might have had to say 🙍 Nobody reboots a generation better than we do. Memory wiped, reformat, reprogram. Collect 💰. Repeat.

The worn parts weren't the singular culprit for the Lac Magantic crash. The small initial fire was extinguished by firefighters, but they had to cut the trains power in the process. This cut power to the air brakes and, with insufficient manual brakes applied, the train began to roll. So scary that something so insignificant can level an entire town ☹️

Pretty darn interesting. Well put together

You are the best. Keep your head up. As long as you keep moving forward, you will keep your balance.

I believe that, for those who don't know or haven't realised it yet, if a supernova happens X light years away, it means that the explosion happened X years before the present and since it will take X years for the light from that supernova to reach us, it's as if we see this in the future. That means if we were to instantly travel to that spot, at the time we watch it from earth, we would only able to see the aftermath. It's a very fascinating concept but also a very scary one, as, if there is a time where a catastrophe were to happen to a star, a few tens of light years away which may affect us or worse, even if we were able to travel with the speed of light, we would be those few tens of years late to do something to prevent this.

While I lovethe content, I am curious how you get away with not giving credit to the clips you use from movies and archives, either way MORE SPACE STUFF! Lol

Would of been pretty cool to watch these In person

I feel bad for them, hope UNICEF Oxfam and WFP are helping

"Holy crap Lois, this is worse than the time I was on space probe Gallileo"