Friend of mine bought the leftover elliptical section gun metal steel from Bull's "Supergun" for pennies on the dollar and used it to weave a sailboat shaped basket that he then covered with a concrete/acrylic mortar creating a 50' "ferro-cement" schooner which he has sailed twice to South America and the Caribbean. During haulout, the vessel slipped out of it's slings and dropped several feet onto a concrete parking lot. It broke the parking lot. Takes him an entire day to drill a 2" hole through the hull. The boat was chartered for the final scene of Mark Wahlberg"s "The Big Hit" where it can be seen sailing off into the sunset with Marky Mark at the helm, one arm around the leading lady, China Chow. He turned a Weapon of Mass Destruction into an environmentally friendly wind powered yacht.

@dmdebruijn

5 ай бұрын

Incredible tale

@UguysRnuts

5 ай бұрын

@@dmdebruijn I gotta million of 'em.

The South African G5 and G6 still outperform similar 155mm cannons around the world today. Thanks to Gerald Bull, the cannons were instrumental in the Battle of the Lomba, which resulted in America being gifted a crucial piece of Soviet surface to air missile technology captured by South Africa.

Jules Verne proposed this in a novel written in the late ninettenth century. He also predicted that the Americans would build the gun, and that it would be fired from either Texas or Florida.

@am2023

6 ай бұрын

Jules was surely a time traveler or did in fact had access to a chrnovisor it's simple too much of coincidence what he wrote about. Somehow he knew or had contacted someone from the future

@StoneInMySandal

6 ай бұрын

@@am2023Jules Verne followed science publications closely. He received published scientific articles from all over the world and he wrote fiction based on what he read. It’s the same way Michael Crichton (author of Jurassic Park) got his inspiration..

@jerrylev59

5 ай бұрын

@@StoneInMySandal Verne may have gotten the idea from someone else, but he clearly researched it and worked out some of the engineering calculations, published back in 1865 in "From the Earth to the Moon". Bull was apparently the first to try to physically build it, for which he deserves credit, but the idea was around about a century earlier.

My uncle worked with Bull on the South African G5 cannon. Bull was brilliant sad that his technology could not be used to the benefit of all mankind....I think. his technology is much cheaper for putting stuff into space compared to rockets...RIP Gerald

@JohnDoe-vy5hh

7 ай бұрын

@user-ol5sd9jl7v What do you care? You are a bully.

@ianrasmussen9203

7 ай бұрын

Yes ask Nobel how he felt 😮

@The_ZeroLine

6 ай бұрын

@@user-ol5sd9jl7vIf someone claimed to have once taken a walk in the park you’d likely say “no, you didn’t.”

@wijpke

6 ай бұрын

@@user-ol5sd9jl7v what do you know you South African?

@forexexe

6 ай бұрын

First they lied about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq to start a war. When the truth became obvious and no such weapons found in Iraq, they created another lie about a mysterious non existing super cannon. The truth is the West is the Empire of Lies.

With modern advanced meta materials, this tech would be viable for space launches. Guy was a genius, but he forgot the golden rule; leverage is the only real form of currency. If someone's at risk of taking you down, you need multiple redundant dead man switches so the people responsible can never recover from their act.

@Aaron-zu3xn

2 ай бұрын

viable for cargo launches but not people and they literally just reused old oil pipes so it was easier on the budget

@darkhorseman8263

2 ай бұрын

@Aaron-zu3xn Cargo weight is the biggest cost expense for space travel. But yes, G forces would be bad for humans with current technological levels.

Mossad

He was not going to HIS apartment but his mistress's apartment. So much for journalistic integrity.

@plastique45

6 ай бұрын

That doesn't make much a difference to the story, now does it?

6 ай бұрын

Makes all the difference in the world. It says a lot about the man. Truth is in the details.@@plastique45

There's a movie. It stars Frank Langella.

He had a place in the Townships East of Montreal, the scar from cutting the trees up the side of a small mountain are still visible today...

Classic case of “f” around and find out …

Just find out in which direction supergun was aimed, and you'll know who killed him..

@williamrae9954

7 ай бұрын

Epstein's painting crew

@Beecher_Dikov

6 ай бұрын

It was aimed at Israel...no secret who killed him...

@franciscorompana2985

6 ай бұрын

To space.😊

@jamjardj1974

6 ай бұрын

Tel Aviv if I remember correctly?

@franciscorompana2985

6 ай бұрын

@@jamjardj1974 that's not possible. Edit:

An interesting psychological study in a way.. prohibition rarely solves things. If they would have let him build in America or Canada for research only, just the steel development alone is an amazing invention that can be used in anything to increase strength. I really want to know more about this steel!!! Prohibition only plows and fertilizes the land, now ripe for the black market.

It had to be Mossad

@darkhorseman8263

7 ай бұрын

It was Mossad with the approval of the US.

@williamrae9954

7 ай бұрын

Painting division

@S.Edw.J.K.

6 ай бұрын

It was

This show is really awesome. I get to learn alot of histories about scientists n engineers and very smart people on this earth...love it ..

22:00 "He successfully trades arms with South America" while talking about South Africa.

The company I work for, made thousands of valves for his Supergun. They were stopped at the docks, before shipment

As usual, the little guy got held in jail...the truck driver!

Who had the most to loose killed him. A friend of mine developed the breechlock on the G5.

Great

The man was plainly a super genius when it came to physics.. Unfortunately, he was pathetically naive when it came to marketing. From the outset, he should have dispensed with the term 'SuperGun'.. Guns, not unnaturally are associated with death. His apparent aim (pun not intended), was to develop a low-cost launch system for satellites. Approaching the US and stating that this development was not in competition with rockets but simply allied to space ventures, a cost saving alternative, rockets being associated with space travel and unnecessarily expensive for a simple satellite launch; labeling it something along the lines of a Low Orbit Access Vehicle or LOAV.. he may have gained a more sympathetic hearing. I have to have sympathy with the man and disappointment with the lack of imagination demonstrated by his potential clients.

@bexhill8777

5 ай бұрын

there is no "space"...

@notpurrfect6397

3 ай бұрын

Yes. A less ominous name focusing on space would be better. It seems that everyonr else kept calling it a gun.

he was not "brought down by his deadly obsession". He was assasinated by other powers for their own reasons.

While I respect his work to a degree Bull knew the physics would never let them move anything substantial into space. His testing with the US got him 1/10th of the way up with funding which isn't even low Earth orbit. Yes, he made it to "space" but I think people forget the vast distances in the stratosphere. Not sure if people are ill-informed stating that his work could be feasible today but with reusable rockets and nothing indicating success with such a gun doesn't leave me with the same sentiments. Great watch though.

made in Switzerland...so much about our swiss "neutrality" :(

Iraq contracted with Gerard Bull to build three superguns: two full sized 'Project Babylon' 1000 mm guns and one 'Baby Babylon' 350 mm prototype. 😮 Edit: The Tsar Pushka The highest-calibre cannon ever constructed is the Tsar Pushka (Emperor of Cannons), which has a bore size of 890 mm (35 in) and a barrel length of 5.34 m (17 ft 6 in)😅

Great job guys. WMD were indeed found in the 2nd Iraq war and they were they remnants of Gerald Bulls Design. Shown as long metallic cylindrical tubes on news outlets.

WOW this gun is like 15mins from my house!! I never knew the history behind it

Obsessed rogue character.

Project Babylon has been declassified since the late 90s…I wouldn’t call that “newly declassified”

In my opinion, the son will never have his fathers brilliance no matter how much he wants it.

@iamblackthorne

6 ай бұрын

His son has greater brilliance. The son backed off and survived

@petepenn1

6 ай бұрын

@@iamblackthorne Agree, also his son did not have a mystery women to hold him in.

I wonder if he was just naive?

@franciscorompana2985

7 ай бұрын

I remember that everybody knew from national TV. Why should he go to jail in the first place. Those people were already against him. Everybody was talking before he died. It was like they killed a genius the level of Dr. Wernher von Braun. Why?

@adelhartreisig9020

6 ай бұрын

Nah, he was simply a c..., a Canadian, they're all cu...

@StoneInMySandal

6 ай бұрын

Yeah. His personal notes and court testimony are public domain. He was entirely disconnected from political reality and genuinely thought building weapons to fund his personal goal putting payloads in space was not a big deal.

Dr Bull was made a citizen by Act of Congress. Only Winston Churchill and Marquis de Lafayette (a true hero at only 19 years old) have also received this honor. Bull’s wiki page does not mention the fact of his American dual-citizenship. It was embarrassing to the USA to care so much for Bull’s citizenship, only for Bull unable to care less. Unfortunately, his chemistry and erector sets were likewise unable to keep him from the hand he’d bitten. G Bush wasn’t about to let Poindexter cut side deals with Hussein. It’s funny that his wiki page also suggests that his death was possibly robbery-related. Moral of the story: do not cross the CIA Honorable mention: an ordinary street kid from philiadelphia with an average IQ would have known not to try to sell tech to Hussein

@marcusaetius9309

6 ай бұрын

It was Mossad that took him out not the CIA…

I watched video of it being disassembled as it was in place on the side of a hill.

@StoneInMySandal

6 ай бұрын

That was the small, prototype version on the hill. The video you saw is from a 1994 HBO movie called Doomsday Gun staring Frank Langella.

Bull should have known the Israelis weren’t going to let him work for Saddam Hussain.

I’m sure people who watched the movie “Doomsday Gun” would come here to watch this.

Fiddler on the flat Roof 🔭

So... what about firing the gun left - right??

🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀

HMMMM !! PLAYING WITH FIRE !! MICHELLE BULL . SAD ABOUT YOUR DAD'S DEATH . R.I.P. TO A SUPER ENGINEER . MY THEORY U.S.A( C.I. A) / ISRAEL (MOD). FROM, U.K. (2023).

Who aspires to build the worlds largest cannon??

สวัสดีค่ะ

@benseep

8 ай бұрын

🙏

@violagentsch

8 ай бұрын

Hi

I understand that when someone checks your pulse to find out if you're dead what they're actually checking is whether or not your heart is still beating. If the heart stops there is no pulse, for some reason, and so the person can be pronounced dead.

Panhandler

Other countries like north korea, pakistan, and china should have taken his help.

Bull = Horns, MOSSAD .

Why 22k on him?

South Africa was not fighting communism in Angola but killing Namibians fighting for our independence. I don’t feel sorry for him at all. What did he think would happen building a weapon like that?

SCRFE habitat

@Samariapain

7 ай бұрын

Ian Fleming tho 😏

@Samariapain

7 ай бұрын

Shaken not stirred

Who ever did it, everybody benefitted.

@marcusaetius9309

6 ай бұрын

Mossad did it.

Fun Fact: The teacher of Gerald Bull at the University said he was not a very brilliant guy, and who graduates with "Strictly average" grades.

So, Was the Iraq war, weapons of mass destruction etc really about this gun? Iraq’s intentions

@FA-Q20-1

4 ай бұрын

No the supergun happened in 1990 when bull was killed. 😊

Dangerous dream that lead to death

he was incredibly naive and signed his own death warrant

I was told the C I A whacked him

Yeah, i always carry £20,000 around with me on my person......

@williamrae9954

7 ай бұрын

Fleeing money

The first Canuck in history, to be genius level at his craft, yet too intimidated by the language barrier or too greedy to understand that his skill would have been better and more safely utilized in Hong Kong.

And "smart people" say there was no WMD.

@michal31131

5 ай бұрын

Operation Opera They were really close to having nuclear weapons until the IAF stopped it.

If he had only used his fantastic clever brain for something else that could of benefitted mankind in a peaceful way, why is fighting always so vital to mankind

@adelhartreisig9020

6 ай бұрын

That's right, dad

@ariadneschild8460

6 ай бұрын

Weapons manufacture is the biggest business on earth.

@barneyronnie

6 ай бұрын

REDRUM

@bruinschiefs1

6 ай бұрын

He tried, the Canadian government basically blew him off.

What a dumb invention and waste of mind. Did he really have to be warned?

Almost all these episodes allude to possible Israeli involvement in assassinations of scientists, inventors or anyone else aiding a country they had issues with.

0:20 When you say “over 500 feet”, do you mean 599, or 501? 500 feet is NOT two football fields. Do the math. 100 yards = 300 feet. Get it right, or be quiet about it.

Murdered by MI5.

@marcusaetius9309

6 ай бұрын

Mossad

@bernienicol5669

6 ай бұрын

MI5 only deal with internal UK security matters, MI6 deals with UK security matters abroad

@sunrayisdown1690

6 ай бұрын

Ssshole. England is not international!

If you deal with weapons expect to get shot with your own gun....in every sense of the way...

With zero mobility, Baby Babylon would have become the most useless and laughable super giant weapon. The brilliant scientific mind definitely is infested by craziness.

Not brutal as Americans and isreal

how booring is the show man male it interesting stretching and steching it's disgusting wasting peoples time like this

@adelhartreisig9020

6 ай бұрын

You must've found school boring as well, your English is ret....., you c...

@Northcountry1926

4 ай бұрын

don’t watch