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@aaronak2005

4 жыл бұрын

Subscribed :-)

@MrGrievous33

4 жыл бұрын

And Simon’s total KZread takeover continues. Just according to plans.....

@timothybayliss6680

4 жыл бұрын

I have a really hard time believing anyone was starving anymore than they would have been on Bikini. The global population roughly tripled in the 70 years from 1945 until 2015. That did not happen here. A population went from 167 people to more than 5000 in seventy four years. That is more than 30 times higher or roughly 10 times the global average. "Starvation" objectively did not happen. This is a population roughly quadrupled on a generational scale of twenty years. That means every woman had eight children survive and finished having them by the time she was 25, or ten children by the time she is 30. Your smart enough to realize this is not starvation. Complaining they were starving perhaps.

@gumunduringigumundsson9344

4 жыл бұрын

Hey.. at least they made the world of Spongebob Squarepants possible. Never really watched it cuz lack of that on my TV station until torrent and then switched to KZread. Also, you were a treat to listen to this time. YarrBQ! Station!

@nooneyouknow9399

4 жыл бұрын

Hello from Kwajalein ...yes, we have internet here

That moment when you have enough channels to literally sponsor yourself.

@getchasome6230

3 жыл бұрын

If you have only one channel, as long as you're paying for everything yourself, you're self sponsored. Smh

@petenielsen6683

3 жыл бұрын

If he were Linus Sabastian he would probably have to reshoot that part of the video after blurting out the words "speaking of disaster, here's the segue to our sponsor!"

Fun fact: Reard's new swimsuit was so scandalous that he initially couldn't find models willing to wear it, so he had to hire strippers.

@shindari

4 жыл бұрын

Nowadays, just a few decades later, women all over the world can't even imagine going back to something as "conservative" as one-piece suits, unless they're competing in olympic swimming competitions...

@Spartan265

4 жыл бұрын

@@shindari Who cares? It's not really a big deal. Like at all.

@shindari

4 жыл бұрын

@@Spartan265 I agree. Not a big deal either way. I'm not complaining about it. Just highlighting the fact that fifty years was all it took for society to completely reverse ideologies. Jesus. Has the internet really scarred you that badly that you can't tell when someone is highlighting an "ironic twist" on history??

@marilynguinnane4663

4 жыл бұрын

Christopher Merlot -- How funny is that! What a hoot.

@ripsumrall8018

4 жыл бұрын

@@Spartan265 That can be said for 99% of everything.

American Politicians: "Nice islands you got there, be a shame if someone N U K E D I T"

@Akaneblaze1345

4 жыл бұрын

don't know u know now Marine life is suffering because of the radiation their, also the place they call the "DOME" holds Radiation that will leak out Eventually.....killing The pacific and making the climate suffer. before i said the same thing Nukes Blowing up were cool, But now i see how it effects The people who live near their and my mindset really changed afterward.

@umarb7325

4 жыл бұрын

if America is ever defeated, history could very easily remember her as a terrorist state. God knows there are enough atrocities the victor will have to use against her when rewriting the history books

@Prod.DJEvil

4 жыл бұрын

"W O O P S"

@exospaceman8209

4 жыл бұрын

@@umarb7325 the heck are you on?

@tinmanrobby

4 жыл бұрын

@@umarb7325 You mean the United States of America that freed France, England, and Europe from the fascist Nazi's? The Same U.S. that freed China, Indochina, and the whole of the South Pacific including Australia and New Zealand from Imperialist Japan imperialism? You mean the U.S.A that was called on when Dictator Saddam Hussein attacked Saudi Arabia, Israel, and Kuwait? Those American 'terrorists' who fought to free the Earth from terrorists? Yes, you are stupid.

I am from the Marshall Islands, Majuro Atoll. Thanks for telling our story. The US built a big concrete dome that "trapped" most of the radiation in. The US really treated us like garbage. Anyway, live your channels man. Keep it up.

@patsysadowski1546

4 жыл бұрын

I am horrified by this. I’m so sorry.

@pasikhawm7419

4 жыл бұрын

Very veryhorrible! I feel so sorryfor you

@navisoul

4 жыл бұрын

And I thought the Russians and their poisons were bad. xD

@patsysadowski1546

4 жыл бұрын

Biliary Clinton we usually did. The Maralinga Tjarutja people are another victim of that. Britain used Australia’s desire for nuclear tech and as their largest trading partner to get them to agree but they never should have. Clean up projects have been only so effective, I feel for them too.

@Delicious_J

4 жыл бұрын

I couldn't imagine it, you lot were absolutely shat on with no repercussions. Sympathy from lancashire, england.

Spongebob all of a sudden makes sense.

@lukasneuner4760

4 жыл бұрын

I mean bikini bottom is kinda located in a crater...hmmmm... and the houses do kinda look like they're made from sunken ship parts....hmmmm :D

@Server0750

4 жыл бұрын

And now we know why sandey got a 👙

@knightwing5169

4 жыл бұрын

Bikini Bottom is at the bottom of the ocean right net to the Bikini Atoll. Yes, the island you see at the start of each episode is supposed to be the Atoll.

@jenniferhouse1939

4 жыл бұрын

Yess

@xoh-kp6kr

4 жыл бұрын

Yep

The ironic thing is that while everyone knows what a bikini is, probably most people have no idea about the islands it was named after.

@ShethTora

4 жыл бұрын

raven lord I knew about the swimwear and the islands but never connected the two since islands end up named many strange things over the years.

@lucas3918

4 жыл бұрын

Nobody Atoll

@deadfreightwest5956

3 жыл бұрын

G-string theory!

@circleinforthecube5170

2 жыл бұрын

what about spongebob

@eileenharte2176

Жыл бұрын

My god I just watched this to nite it’s unreal is it any wonder why we are living the way this world is today COVID is not a mistake they are still at it don’t no what country put it out there I’m glad I am elderly but fear for my children and grand children probably sound like a head case 📕

My Dad was the XO on LST 1108, the ship that evacuated the Islanders. He did say hat Bikini was close to paradise and Ronjerik was a toilet.

@Sock-Puppet

4 жыл бұрын

What I don't get is, if Ronjerik was a toilet and clearly uninhabited why the fuck bomb Bikini or were the people in charge just trying be massive dicks?

@ianloeb1672

4 жыл бұрын

Sock Puppet they wanted to use them as living test subjects to nuclear fallout to see what would happen

@mrdumbfellow927

4 жыл бұрын

@@ianloeb1672 proof?

@LocTsun

3 жыл бұрын

@@mrdumbfellow927 hey don't ask a tin hat for proof. You should know better

@SoundboyStrange

3 жыл бұрын

@@mrdumbfellow927 The documentary by John Pilger "The Coming War On China" has a section that focuses on the use of the Bikini Islanders as guinea pigs for radiation exposure.

In case your wondering, the Bikinians still exists. They live off of nearly expired canned food. Drumsticks are considered a special occasion food. They get all their news from one satellite dish and only watch movies that were released of VHS. The island is so small that you can walk around it in the afternoon and half of it has to be cleared for a runway. While the people are still around, their culture is dying. A lot of them don't bother with traditional cultivation methods because of the steady food packages. And Sunday mass is generally the only thing that holds together the idea of a group identity. It almost sounds like a prison of some sort. They need all the help they can get.

The scarcest words known to man: "I'm from the US Government, and I'm hear to help."

@AtheistOrphan

4 жыл бұрын

Jon Nunn - Here.

@t-bag1879

3 жыл бұрын

*scariest

@dalanwanbdiska6542

3 жыл бұрын

Nice

@alexanderheinricher346

3 жыл бұрын

Jon Nunn - Late, but totally agreed. When trying to help normal people, it's really, _really_ sad and annoying to have to deal with the fallout (pun not intended) from the manipulative [insert strongly unkind epithet for dishonest behavior] that makes your statement true.

@shannonmcstormy5021

3 жыл бұрын

Propaganda tool of conservatives to try deregulate everything, you know, like the stock market which subsequently led to The Great Recession. It’s not gov that is bad - it’s bad gov that is bad. And mostly that comes from too much money allowed to influence politics, something that currently infects BOTH sides of the aisle.....

"There is nothing to fear, but fear itself." And Stupid. You should be absolutely terrified of stupid.

@xenos_n.

4 жыл бұрын

Humans excel at stupid. I mean, *points to the pandemic*

@williamreininger7546

4 жыл бұрын

John Stevenson I’d like this twice if I could

@johnstevenson9956

4 жыл бұрын

@@williamreininger7546 LMAO

@WarBeasty

4 жыл бұрын

I'd add "Patriotism" to that list of things to fear... Patriotism, the adult version of "School Spirit" that allows governments to commit atrocities without having to worry about its own people holding them accountable for it.

@johnstevenson9956

4 жыл бұрын

@@WarBeasty I'll go along with you there. Blind loyalty does fall under the broad category of stupid.

The japanese fishing boat, Fukuryu Maru, that was irradiated by Castle Bravo, was one of the main inspirations for the 1954 classic, Gojira (that's Godzilla if ya didn't know). I'm honestly a little surprised Simon didn't mention that little factoid.

@cv990a4

Жыл бұрын

Should also have mentioned *why* the boat was affected and why other downstream effects were so profound - Castle Bravo was three times more powerful than expected because some of material in the bomb that was thought to be inert was not. Common lithium (lithium 7) turned out to contribute to the fusion reaction, which was not expected. It's as if you had what you thought was inert material in a normal bomb, but it turned out to be explosive.

@leviwooten3795

Жыл бұрын

SpongeBob is literally based as the sea floor around bikini atoll hence bikini bottom 🤷

This story is so incredibly, incredibly sad.

My grand dad served here and his medical records “burned”... I did research for him and you can find this info but not much more. When he passed his death was listed as cigarettes not the several cancers he had developed...sick a sad sequence of events.

SpongeBob and his city reside at the bottom of that atoll, I can see why. Oh yeah it's all coming together

I visited the Bikini Atoll in 2007 to dive among the wrecks created there by the Crossroads Able and Baker blasts. The dive briefings were rich with the history of atomic testing on the Atoll. When I returned I studied the history of the relationship between the U.S. and the Marshall Islands since then. Sadly, over the decades since we have continued to mess over the people of those islands. We have mostly washed our hands of responsibility. The diving was awe inspiring including the Arkansas, the Saratoga, and the Japaneses battleship the Nagato which launched the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Fun fact:the voice actor of SpongeBob actually said bikini bottom was inspired by bikini atoll and there is also a conspiracy theory that the characters of SpongeBob SquarePants were born by one of the atomic bombs. So gojira (Godzilla) was not the only thing inspired by bikini atoll. Also in the SpongeBob episode:dying for pie. There was a scene at the end of the episode we saw the Castile bravo explosion.

Simon, thanks for making this episode. Before I was born, my parents moved from California to the Majuro Atoll ~ my father got a job flying the *only* plane in the area (people, mail, cargo... whatever). I've heard so many stories of old WWII bunkers/the Marshallese People and can only imagine how surreal it is to fly over the Bikini Atoll. Thanks for adding some more context to this lesser-known area of the globe

@pibbya

7 ай бұрын

Hey, who is your father? My dad started the airline out there so Im just curious who he might has flown with.a

Your writer is incredible and I want him to know he's amazing and deserves recognition, alongside everyone else who helps make these videos a reality.

Why did the cops arrest the nude woman? Because she wasn't wearing a bikini atoll.

@smugumin3448

4 жыл бұрын

Underrated comment

@davidanderson_surrey_bc

4 жыл бұрын

@@smugumin3448 Why thank you, thank you very much. Oddly, I didn't even watch the video. I only called it up because I was inspired to tell the joke, then immediately move on to something else.

@LumbeeNative

3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha stupid

@princessmarlena1359

3 жыл бұрын

🥁 **rimshot**

@JackMoveShawty

3 жыл бұрын

Best comment. Thanks for the joke

Hey Simon just wanted to say keep up with the interesting shows. Love all the series' you guys produced!!

My grandad's ship, the USS Hughes, was there and managed to survive the blast. She became so radioactive they could never scrap her and had to sink her somewhere off California. Always nice to know she's out there rather than scrapped.

@raitchison

4 жыл бұрын

There's quite a few highly radioactive ships sunk not far from San Francisco, the most well known of which is the aircraft carrier USS Independence (CVL-22)

@Balthorium

4 жыл бұрын

They tried to wash them off at Treasure Island San Francisco.

@delboytrotter8806

4 жыл бұрын

Glowing red ?

@danielkron2513

3 жыл бұрын

@@delboytrotter8806 this is not how electromagnetic spectrum works

@david9783

3 жыл бұрын

Tell that to the 3-headed whales.

Love your work Simon, all the channels. Thank you so much for the fantastic shows. Stay safe.

Here from the Megaprojects B-52 video, fantastic channel. I have yet to run into a gripe on any of your channels. All of them are educational and Business Blaze is pretty Amazing too.Thanks Simon and the Simon Whistler team.

Kyle Hill did a video focusing just on the Castle Bravo test and radiation (so very little of the history and other information you have here). Castle Bravo was a fusion Bomb, and part of the issue was the scientists believing that about half the material they used would be "inert" (narrator: it wasnt inert) it caused MAJOR diplomatic scandals with Japan, and the fishing vessel is now deemed safe enough and is on display in a museum in Tokyo

Reasons the military didn’t use the atoll that they sent the islanders to in the first place....

@ericcarpenter3263

4 жыл бұрын

Angl0sax0nknight right?!?! Why use an uninhabited, good for nothing ring of lands. Let’s move people there and test on the good stuff. This stuff embarrasses me for shit my government pulls.

@densealloy

4 жыл бұрын

Mainly for logistical reasons. They need the lagoon to moor the fleet in. One of the reasons for the initial Crossroads operation was to see if the Navy could survive and the effects of an air burst and underwater detonation. There was also a need to house all the personnel while preparing for the experiment. These were 4tth and 5th bomb ever exploded, less than a year since Nagasaki and three years away from the inevitable first Soviet bomb.

@PrezVeto

4 жыл бұрын

Probably that the lagoon wasn't large enough to fit a mock fleet

@39peevedturtles19

4 жыл бұрын

@EmperorJuliusCaesar even if the russian spies didn't leak the bomb blueprints things still would have been shit. the us would have been free to use nukes. countries either had the option to ally with the us and do what they said or oppose the us and risk getting nuked. there would be a good likelihood that nukes would be used knowing the us. but if america's enemy had nukes too, that meant using a nuke was mutually assured destruction: if you nuked someone, you would be nuked too. you didn't have america waving nukes around and making everyone bow down to them, now you had america and the soviets fighting, but not wanting to actually use nukes because that would mean the world's fucked. it's still bullshit that the us military couldn't suck it up and deal with not having as many ships in their nuke test instead of evicting an entire island and making them live on a shitty one. if they knew actually using nukes was bad news why bother testing how many ships they can destroy when you know the soviets will make a bigger one that they're also afraid of using.

@randomdude4669

3 жыл бұрын

@@ericcarpenter3263 pretty much every countries scumy government has done dodgy shit to someone else

I’m glad I found your channel. I love just learning about old war history.

The B-52 part have already been mentioned, so I´ll ignore that. The Little boy bomb over Hiroshima did not have a parachute neither did the Fat man over Nagasaki. These weapons were not big enough to need chutes to allow the drop plane to escape. The shot of of shot able is really of the much more spectacular underwater shot Baker. The vapor dome of shot baker is not steam, but condensation caused by the vacuum behind the expanding shock front. If it was steam, then there would not have been a huge water column in the center of the explosion. It would have all been steam.

@delboytrotter8806

4 жыл бұрын

Phew........thanks prof....

So they moved the people from their island to another remote island that was uninhabited...in order to drop nuclear bombs on the remote island that was originally inhabited. *headdesk*

@jesspavlichenko5745

4 жыл бұрын

But first the islanders begged for their home back /Then/ they nuked it.

@Xanthelei

4 жыл бұрын

My countrymen have never struck me as all that smart throughout history, sadly... I thought the exact same thing. Just bomb the uninhabited, uninhabitable island ffs.

@Sorcerers_Apprentice

4 жыл бұрын

@@Xanthelei I chalk it up more to manipulation and propaganda. Whenever I visit my family in the US and turn on the TV, the news is owned by Corporate America. It's mostly truthful, but is very careful to bend it to a very pro-America, America-centric slant. And of course there's never any historical context given to current events, so here's a bunch of angry foreigners, but there's no explanation of how they're a little pissed that they've had one foreign power or another bombing or invading them for the last 30 odd years. Same for movies. If you want to do anything involving the US Army, the government will give you props and shoot on their bases, if they can approve the script first. Anything mildly critical or that they don't like? No $$$.

@xenos_n.

4 жыл бұрын

@@Sorcerers_Apprentice as an American, I wonder why you would turn on the TV in the first place. I haven't had cable for years. It's great for my brain. ... I also barely watch movies. Just Simon Whistler docs and independent news on KZread for me 😂

@thehistoryguy987

3 жыл бұрын

Sorcerer's Apprentice most of our news companies are not owned by American companies so I don’t know what your going on about

Geographics or Biographics; Simon before his daily cocaine Business Blaze; Simon after his daily cocaine

@ZoomZip

4 жыл бұрын

seriously, like the title will say 1 thing, but Simon talks about like 30 different subjects and i dont even know what the fuck is going on haha. its a good background noise when im cleaning but i cant concentrate on the video cos it just going back and fourth too fast.

@garethbaus5471

4 жыл бұрын

What about Today I Found Out ?

@andrewolson5471

3 жыл бұрын

Allegedly.

@stickiedmin6508

3 жыл бұрын

Today I found out that Shaun Mattice has no clue what cocaine is like . . .

I had a friend in college who was Marshallese. He was one of the friendliest, most polite guys I ever met. That remark about being in God's hands broke my heart. A lot of Marshallese are Christian and take it very seriously. When talking to my friend, he briefly mentioned all his relatives live in one of the Southeastern states. When I asked why the South in particular, he said there's a huge community out there. I now wonder if he may have been Bikinian.

@wanderingangelstudio1359

4 жыл бұрын

I think the state is Arkansas though I'd have to look it up to be sure. Many of the Islanders settled there.

@blazertundra

4 жыл бұрын

@@wanderingangelstudio1359 I think you're right. Arkansas sounds familiar.

The USA 'owes' the people of Bikini.

@xenos_n.

4 жыл бұрын

The USA owes a LOT of people a LOT of things that will never get paid.

@animalia5554

4 жыл бұрын

We do

@silversmoke6

4 жыл бұрын

@Biliary Clinton Well no - mostly, the Americans take. And anything they give they get back 100x in trade or cheap labour.

@Guerochingonpiton

3 жыл бұрын

I live in the biggest population of them outside of the islands. They get free passage from there to the us and the us governments restitution makes up a huge amount of the gdp there. Doesn’t make it right though.

@bluepvp900

3 жыл бұрын

I agree that the US government owes these people, it's a little unfair to look only at the US here, during this time all countries with ability to build nuclear reactors or weapons were laughably irresponsible with them. I th

Yay! I’m so happy you did this video. While it’s not the most positive or happy ones. It makes me a little nostalgic. I lived on Kwajalein until I was 6. Its like a little slice of paradise. Only certain workers and family members are allowed to live there now. They still did missile tests into our lagoon when we lived there but nothing nuclear, thankfully. Maybe the bikini exiles paved the way for us to live there so long. 🥺

@shabmaster7128

4 жыл бұрын

I was glad to see it as well, my wife is from Maj.

@GazMatic

3 жыл бұрын

Bikini 👙

Have you done the Russian testing sight for Tsar Bomba? Keep up the awesome work man. Very informative and entertaining.

Business blaze is Simons best channel for sure! He should do all his channels in that format

Honestly man, I love all your channels but I think Business Blaze is my new favorite.

Interestingly, a friend of mine is married to a princess of a tribe from the Marshall islands. I had no clue there were bomb tests conducted here.. crazy the govt would do this to an inhabited land.

The Bikini Atoll nuclear testing still affects my wife's family. Her maternal grandfather was there during the Baker test, was overexposed to radiation and about 1 year after the test, my late mother in law was born. She was never quite right and passed that legacy down to my wife who is better off than her mother, but suffers from the effects of the radiation passed down through her mother.

@mfreund15448

4 жыл бұрын

Paul Godbey Sorry for your family’s suffering. God bless your family.

@cuckNorris

10 ай бұрын

"never quite right" doesn't mean anything. Also, that's not how the real world works.

@Moses_VII

8 ай бұрын

​@@cuckNorrishow does it work? You mean radiation isn't inherited? It causes mutations, which are inherited, but sexual reproduction is very good at diluting genetic diseases, especially when people are not marrying relatives such as first or second cousins, so that is how the daughter suffered less than the mother.

i was waiting for this one. this has to be one of the most interesting episodes for sure

Thank you for taking my suggested topic and running with it!!!

Time traveling B52. That was an impressive feat of American technology.

The Arkansas was not lifted up into the air by the Baker test. What is visible in films is the "shadow" caused by the hull of the ship blocking water/steam radiating away from the explosion. The vessel was capsized and sank upside down as most battleships do because of their top-weight.

Thank you Simon and everyone at Geo 👍👍

Just subscribed to Business Blaze! Excited to have found another Simon channel, lol!

Wait, is it not where SpongeBob SquarePants lives? 😏

@12skippy21

4 жыл бұрын

Well Google Maps rates The Chum Bucket as 4.9 so ... 😀

@anthonybeervor2265

4 жыл бұрын

That explains the weird mutations of the characters, i guess.

@bcubed72

4 жыл бұрын

@@mycarkeys4499 No, "bikini bottom" is there b/c Sponebob is chock full of adult references.

@roberthickerty390

4 жыл бұрын

If there were no atomic bombs there would be no Spongebob. So who says atomic weapons are all bad?

@Demonetization_Symbol

3 жыл бұрын

@@bcubed72 it may be a reference to both.

You did not mention the most horrific aftereffect of the blasts. The island women gave birth to "jellyfish babies" with no bones and transparent skin. One could see the heart beating through the transparent flesh. They only lived for a few days, but had to be hidden away to avoid a permanent curse on the mother. Others gave birth to blobs of tissue resembling huge bunches of grapes.

@jamesc3953

10 ай бұрын

damn is that true? thats horiffic

@gilzuniga6692

10 ай бұрын

@@jamesc3953very true, you just don’t blast a nuclear weapon and don’t expect consequences….it’s science.

@Moses_VII

8 ай бұрын

​@@gilzuniga6692It is so unfortunate that in the 1940s people were less aware about the big effects of nuclear weapons. Today, we know how far away one can feel the effects of a nuke, and what kind of diseases are caused by radiation.

Great video. I remembered while watching this I read a book about this in high school written from the perspective of an islander. Idk if it was a fictional account or a biography.

Brilliant! Thanks Simon. Really enjoyed your video. Can you also tell us about Novaya Zemlya?

Would you guys mind doing one on Butte, MT? It's an interesting place where the copper kings battled over "the richest hill on Earth"

@nedisahonkey

4 жыл бұрын

And now it's most notable for a giant polluted pit. Definitely would make for a good episode.

@chasegilmond5637

4 жыл бұрын

@@nedisahonkey Especially since it's really close to overflowing. It's kinda pretty though

@bcubed72

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I for one would love to hear about rock-hard Butte drilling... ..of course, I've heard it's a veritable mountain of back-breaking work!

@PrezVeto

4 жыл бұрын

@@bcubed72 Started off quite strong, but weakened a bit in the second inning. I'd give it… a D.

@SuperPITSteelers

2 жыл бұрын

Honestly there's a veritable treasure trove (pun absolutely intended) of Geographics content in just the Montana Rockies much less the entire state. The *massive* Glacial Lake Missoula, the still very massive Flathead Lake (largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi), the various ghost towns (Garnet perhaps most notably), Glacier Park, Fort Missoula, Kootenai Forest and Yaak Valley, Yellowstone (the park not the Supervolcano), Bob Marshall Wilderness, and of course the Bitterroot mountains, Bitterroot Forest, and the High Desert itself, the Bitterroot Valley. And thats just west Montana...

My grandfather was one of the soldiers who had to clean the boats to recommission them after all the animals on them died. He was in a group of men severely effected, and they tested iodine treatments on him successfully. Other men in his group died. To this day, he's 85 years old but he can't get X-rays because he still has the radioactive isotopes in his system, and he breaks out in seasons because they become very active exposed to that radiation. He could not work due to the long term effects, but they held his pension over his head, and he had to fight to get it in court. They were trying to say he had to die and they'd give the pension to his wife. Absolutely backstabbing and unpatriotic of our own system, but he won in court. Him and my Grandma are doing fine right now. He also explained the Foo Fighters that lined up and apparently "watched" the explosions. The military tried to shoot them down, hit them outright with a plane, ballistics, everything you can imagine, and the lights would either move out of the way at inhumane speeds or blip out and flicker back into existence. Eventually, the military gave up, considering the lights were only watching, and after the bombs were dropped, they disappeared. This was super confidential at the time, and there's no reason for my grandpa to lie, but he said he saw them with his own eyes.

@kayvonmansouri

Жыл бұрын

Foo fighters? Please explain

@ARTSIEBECCA

Жыл бұрын

​@@kayvonmansouri 👽

@Moses_VII

8 ай бұрын

​@@kayvonmansouriUFOs. They saw something in the sky like a bright light, tried to shoot it down, it moved tok quickly, they didn't know what it was, and it disappeared. A mystery which can't be solved by science or by conspiracy theories.

Outstanding video as usual

Beggs the question: why instead of relocating the 160 Bikinan's to an "unfriendly" atol, the detonation were not simply done there?

@Moses_VII

8 ай бұрын

Not big enough maybe, or not remote enough.

@JonathanFeil

9 күн бұрын

Not as remote.

I wish you had included information about the health impacts on the Bikini Islanders, like the increased risk of cancers and the 'jellyfish babies' - not nice reading, but I know you don't shy from that and I think it deserves to be more widely known. Thank you for covering this subject.

@nikolasincorporated

10 ай бұрын

That is detailed extensively in the series “Spongebob Squarepants” everyone has seen it and I’m sure its subject to copyright so that’s why its not included here

@Moses_VII

8 ай бұрын

​@@nikolasincorporatedThis is not a joke, fool

A really good video thanks, what about a closer look at Runit island and the servicemen who had to work there?

@Keallei

4 жыл бұрын

Pete D and how Runit Dome on Enewetak Atoll is leaking nuclear waste.

Simon, you gent. You and the crew are keeping this quarantine filled with content and keeping myself (and many others) amused. Entertaining and informative as always!

@NatureWins22

2 жыл бұрын

Amused?

My grandfather was apart of operation crosse roads. I even did a project on it in school. He waw part if it for only the early years after ww2. He was a photographer on the ship and he was also one of the people to go on the ships and and examine the submarines and their damage. I have a card saying what ship he was on and even and orginal photo of one of the bombs.

They should name a set of islands after the politicians involved with this "Nobranes Atol"...

Another good one Simon

I didn't think I'd like Business Blaze at first blush but, now it's one of my favorite channels that Simon does.

B-29, not at B-52.

@delboytrotter8806

4 жыл бұрын

Love shack?

@marshallcrawford2269

3 жыл бұрын

And the image that follows that comment is the Baker Test, not Able!

The worst part of all these nuclear tests, is that there's no decent footage of it cos cameras were shite then. It would be fascinating to see what an actual nuclear explosion looks like, in good quality, from a stable rig aboard a plane/on the ground, decent sound recording etc. If anything, it could help people understand just how powerful nukes really are. Sure, hearing about all the stories and what people say is one thing, but actually seeing it for yourself would put everything into perspective. Imagine HD footage of the Arkansas standing on her bow and flipping over, in the midst of a mushroom cloud, it would be incredible. We could even have different filters to show brighter/darker moments, slow mo footage, everything.

Thank you, you have made our Covid isolation very pleasant in a relative way

The Blaze is wild man, wild! ♡

There area few Marshallese who work for the US DOE that live on Bikini on 3 month rotations. They are raising crops to test how dangerous the food chain still is there. There is also site on Rongelap doing the same work. Rongelap currently has about 40 residents, and they are some of the nicest people I have ever met.

Hey Simon, you should do a video on Newgrange next. It's a massive Neolithic structure in Ireland that's older than the Pyramids (the oldest one being the Pyramid of Djoser at 2600 bc)and Stonehenge(3000bc) being built in 3200 bc. It has a door with a roof box above it that perfectly aligns with the sun on the Winter solstice and a roof so well made that it's still waterproof to this day. Archaeologists are baffled on how these people were able to build such a sophisticated structure before the advent of writing and the crane and how advanced their knowledge of the cosmos and the exact alignment of the sun was. Shows how skilled my ancestors were in construction techniques,lapidary design, mathematical calculations and astronomical observation. And for April fools day you should do a video on Nat Tate and for pride month you should do Judy Garland. Anyway great video, as always. Keep up the good work.

@NatureWins22

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you

Nicely done sir

I knew but never saw your post. Thank you! We need brave

Just one correction, in case no one mentioned it. It couldn't have been a B52 as those weren't introduced until much later. It was a B29 that dropped that 1946 bomb.

Besides the swimsuit Bikini has a few other contributions to pop culture. Namely in a form of a giant radioactive lizard that likes to attack Japan. And a certain sponge who lives in a pineapple

Hi Simon! I really enjoy your videos! Can you do one on Okinawa, Japan?

Gotta say I do love Business Blaze.

no Ship: No Ship ever: Prinz Eugen: *SURVIVES A NUKE*

@petervonfroster8i

4 жыл бұрын

btw 2:58 its Prussian not Russian, "dont forget the SZ (ß)"

@ichich3978

4 жыл бұрын

Price sirvives 2 nukes. Crossroads Able AND Baker

You know, I didn't think I could hate my military/government any more for developing nuclear weapons, but today you proved me wrong, Simon.

@billinct860

4 жыл бұрын

One bright note here... after seeing the power of these things... not one was again used in a war.

@mrdumbfellow927

4 жыл бұрын

To be fair, nuclear weapons probably prevented your Great Grandpas and countless Japanese soldiers and civilians from being killed in a dragged-out World war 2. Japan was not interested in surrendering near the end of the war and US troops were horrified to see so man suicides and kamikaze attacks from young japanese soldiers due to pride. While the atomic bombs killed a lot of people, a ground campaign or conventional bombing campaign to force Japan into submission would have killed even more people, on both sides! So i would say it was reasonable to use, I don't think i could tell a 18yr old soldier to his face that he was going to have to die needlessly because we werent willing to use the bomb.

@thehistoryguy987

3 жыл бұрын

Irondrone4 Yes but these incredible weapons stopped countless wars and deaths based on MAD

perfect channel to talk about coral island!

Great channel and subscibed

“By the time America is done with you, you’ll barely be able to support life at all” This should be written on American money

@thehistoryguy987

3 жыл бұрын

14rs2 Not really considering we do countless aid missions and we did the Marshal plan in Europe

I kept hearing "bikini a$$hole" at times lol. Great video though!

@mandalor45

4 жыл бұрын

Now I can't unhear it

@AIPTutorials

4 жыл бұрын

They evacuated the atoll...

@rockinbarbiee143

4 жыл бұрын

Lol same here!!!! Had a good chuckle every time he said Bikini Atoll

I love they very subtle sound effect of a swoosh when there was a cut and the angle of your head suddenly ended up in a different position.

You should do poveglia island or epping forest. Also Aokigahara Forest would be good too

Castle-bravo was a mistake regarding the Lithium Deuteride fusion source, they wer'nt really sure how much would fuse, So they left it a mixture of two isotopes,Lithium6,and 7 i think,,

@christopherconard2831

4 жыл бұрын

Correct. They knew how the bombs worked, not always the why. Given the potentially dangerous nature of what they were doing, a surprising amount of it was trial and error. Then reverse engineering the mistakes to figure out what they just saw. Today it seems almost insane. But the people working on these projects were far ahead of anything science had done before. So there were few guidelines or warnings.

@CreativeWarrior-

4 жыл бұрын

You got it, Andrew! The Lithium 7 really took off, and produced the unexpectedly high yield!

I’ve never been so disgusted and disappointed in America or humanity in general. So much disrespect towards fellow life.

@michaelslowmin

4 жыл бұрын

@G Walker Oh yeah cuz playing with God and destroying a whole way of life for people and making their home uninhabitable. Is protecting itself. It's easy to justify atrocities when you say it's for self protection. Pretty much every horrible thing nations have ever done has been justified in ways such as these. This is the reality of our nation. Exploiting and destroying those perceived as weak, in the way, or some kind of threat. Our legacy is the blood of the innocent.

@mistersunshine1330

4 жыл бұрын

@@michaelslowmin would you want that or not to exist at all? Your so called veterans that kept us liberated from nazi germany and fellow scientists who kept us ahead of the soviets are the reason you can stand here today away from the remains of tyranny in China and North Korea

@michaelslowmin

4 жыл бұрын

@@mistersunshine1330 Um I'm not sure why you're calling them "so called veterans". They stopped the advance of the Nazis and if they're not veterans I don't know who is. To answer your point about staying ahead of the soviets: Is showing that you could make nukes faster worth the cost of destroying innocent people's way of life? Do you really think that was the difference between whether the US became a soviet state? To me it amounts to nothing more than a flex of military might for it's own sake at the cost of innocent lives. Nothing was gained from this.

@greg9246

Жыл бұрын

It might interest you to know that it wasn't only the Americans who nuking the shit out of the Pacific Ocean, as France conducted 193 nuclear tests from 1966 to 1996 at Moruroa and Fangataufa atolls in French Polynesia, including 41 atmospheric tests until 1974 that exposed the local population, site workers and French soldiers to high levels of radiation. Also, Britain, with the blessing of the Australian government, conducted their own atmospheric nuclear tests during the mid 1950's at a place called Maralinga in the out back, South Australian desert. Effectively, they used the British and Australian servicemen as guinea pigs when they exploded the bombs. The local Aboriginal people near the atomic test sites who were conveniently ignored (l mean they didn't even have the right to vote and weren't counted as Australian citizens-just flora and fauna) suffered mass radiation poisoning also. All of those military personnel and the Aboriginal people who suffered from exposure to the radiation from the atomic tests had to fight for decades to receive compensation from the British and Australian governments, who it seemed callously and deliberately stone walled these people whose health deteriorated until they conveniently died of illnesses caused by the test explosions. Oh yes indeed, all of the post world war 2 powers had some skin in the game, when it came to atmospheric nuclear testing in the Pacific and nearby Australia. I haven't even mentioned the Soviet Union and Communist China with their own equally negligent atmospheric atomic testing either...

Well done..thank you

Have to admit i like the format of both channels.

Next time, tell us about “Topless Island”...

@taninsam7893

4 жыл бұрын

Second it

@debrabryson8502

4 жыл бұрын

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13:25 I've heard of a cubic meter, and I've heard of a ton, but a cubic ton is a new one to me. Does that weigh more than a spherical ton?

@Utubesux

4 жыл бұрын

HaHa Simon...Fogbreathers and their measurements.Explain that one?

@Utubesux

4 жыл бұрын

BTW: how much volume/mass is contained in a Sperical Ton anyway? 🤔

@hogztcp239

4 жыл бұрын

tonne or ton?

@hogztcp239

4 жыл бұрын

@@CashelOConnolly The cubic ton is a measure of volume. It is no longer used in the United Kingdom but seems to be still in use in the United States. And most often used with rawmaterials such as timber, or wheat.

I'm waiting for your video on Enewetak Atoll. It should be interesting.

Love the channel and content u guys make. Wanted to ask if that Russian Compound 19 will be a topic u guys make a infovid on ??

It’s actually a tragedy, Marshall Islanders losing their homes and countless USN and USMC exposed...ntm the environmental damage and the fact that the USN was warned by a memo signed by most of the Los Alamos professors that this would be a disaster

Fun Fact: SpongeBob takes place in the ocean around the atoll and the characters in the show are mutated fish that can now talk.

Nice video, did you mention how Able was off target by 533.4 meters? That's why it sank only five ships and they followed up with an underwater test.

Great video, however did Little Boy have a parachute? Don't recall hearing this before and can't recall it mentioned in the A-Bomb museum in Hiroshima.

I wonder what was used as a justification to use a habited atol as the testruction (sic) site? Wouldn’t it be more reasonable to use another atol where were no people to kick out.

@--enyo--

4 жыл бұрын

Sadly ‘not white’ was probably good enough back then.

@Russo-Delenda-Est

4 жыл бұрын

Kinda wondered on this myself. The United State's territory is ENORMOUS, there must have been other places to test at.

@subjekt5577

4 жыл бұрын

Like the island they tried to send the bikinis to...

@jwenting

4 жыл бұрын

They needed specific wind patterns and currents, as well as specific depth of the lagoon and size of the islands. No doubt they looked for uninhabited atols first, and when they didn't find any took the one with the smallest population.

@mrdumbfellow927

4 жыл бұрын

@@--enyo-- I am hoping you are just joking, because even if the US was super duper racist back then, it still would have been cheaper and quicker to use the uninhabited island if it was an acceptable test-site. So obviously there must have been other considerations to make bikini a better test area. And this is also considering the fact that before dropping the atomic bombs Japan the US dropped pamphlets warning to flee and of a weapon that would destroy their factories and major cities filled with "not white" people. Yeah racism was definitely a thing back then, but this doesnt mean people didn't value all life to a degree.

Does anyone remember "Beanie and Cecil" and the no-bikini atoll? Ah, kids cartoons made for adults, lol... :D

@DivoGo

4 жыл бұрын

Backroad Junkie YES!!!!! I just posted that!!!!🌈✌🏾👍🏾🤣

"Before I tell you about that catastrophe, let me point you to another catastrophe" 😂 ... j/k, I love Business Blaze.

A good follow-up to this would be a video on the below-ground testing that occurred afterward.

I am amazed. I remember the news articles about the nuclear tests/exlplosins on Bikini atom. I never imagined how blithely the American government played with our futures.

hey simon, b 52's didnt yet exist at the time of operation crossroads. : ) otherwise spot on info.

@goatdolphins

4 жыл бұрын

im not the first or last to point it out. lol

Business Blaze is the most enjoyable channel which just happens to be about business.

The previews of Business Blaze are a brilliant idea. That way even if people dont click the link they at least know you do indeed have legs.

you should look into all the underground nuke testing. the desert footage is really fascinating and there was even one test done east of the Mississippi river which never gets talked about. one test in alaska is pretty creepy as you can see all the distant land and a lake literally jump up from the blast..

@beantowner76

4 жыл бұрын

One of the most interesting stories to come out of the underground testing was the possible sending of a steel cap into space. Operation Plumbbob had many tests but Pascal B was a bomb tested in a shaft with a 1 ton steel plate covering the top of it. Upon detonation of the nuclear bomb the plate disappeared and could not be found. They went to check the high speed film to see if they could ascertain where it went but out of the hundreds of frames shot per second the plate only appeared in one of them. It was estimated that the plate was traveling in excess of 150,000mph or more than six times Earths escape velocity. That works out to be roughly 41 miles per second. They theorize that if the plate didn't burn up due to friction upon going through the atmosphere that it is now hurtling through space and could be the furthest traveled man made object ever put into space.

@AtheistOrphan

4 жыл бұрын

scifigunny762 - I didn’t know about those 2 tests. Can you post a link to more info?