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@ekmalsukarno2302

6 жыл бұрын

Simple History, can you please make a video about the Indonesian National Revolution. Thanks.

@m3a2uploads3

6 жыл бұрын

Simple History could you make a video explaining and analyzing ww1 aircraft and their technology please? I think it would be great! Love your vids btw

@mikkelelsignielsen

6 жыл бұрын

DENMARK WW2

@Kawin.

6 жыл бұрын

Simple History SRI LANKA SIVILWAR NEXT

@xxxuselesspricksxxx1481

6 жыл бұрын

U used hungarian rhapsody by liszt god bless you by all the name of the hungarians! Please make a video about the trianon threaty of peace!

USSR: "You have been spying on us!" USA: *shows the seal* "No u"

@salt_factory7566

6 жыл бұрын

@Troy Calhoun Two superpowers with secret police forces spying on people? No way!

@redline841

6 жыл бұрын

The US dab back

@hi-tech_soldier2558

6 жыл бұрын

U2 was spying for years as well

@StarLuke04

6 жыл бұрын

It was that moment when they knew...... They're screwed up.

@fennviktorvich

6 жыл бұрын

The US used Adana, Turkey to launch countless and various spying missions to different spots around the globe for decades, notably the USSR and Egypt.

*scientists looks at the microphone inside the seal* scientist1: dafuq is this thing scientist2: it's a thing

@bluefoxy6478

5 жыл бұрын

the withering production scientists 3: not a thing, the thing.

@aiman_oofed8186

5 жыл бұрын

Lololololololololololololololol

@richieThach

5 жыл бұрын

I read this to the tune of “who lives in a pineapple under the sea”

@Delgen1951

4 жыл бұрын

Its a Thang!!! What Thang is it??????!

@Astania08

4 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha lol funny.😂

Soviets: *Activate U-2 Incident spells card* US: *”The thing” spell trap card activated*

@Kalay0Fox

6 жыл бұрын

Yugioh is a dead game.

@march7036

6 жыл бұрын

Sad ;(

lol, Russian tech in a nutshell: 'The scientists were baffled by its simplicity.' xD

@Bobinarea52

4 жыл бұрын

Yup , in the space race a special pen was used by nasa cause pens didn't work in space , russia just took a pencil.

@Kampfgorillagear

4 жыл бұрын

@@Bobinarea52 that's a bs story which is unfortunately very widespread. the regular pencil has been considered by americans too, but the graphite breaking off (conducts electricity quite well) can get dangerous for the electrical equipment. The "fisher space pen" is used by the russians as well for this reason.

@SharkyMcSnarkface

4 жыл бұрын

Why make something complicated, when simple works anyway?

@MrMrmcook2008

4 жыл бұрын

@@Bobinarea52 yeah but pencils arent good in space. They are a risk because the graphite bits that come off.

@finnishboo4192

2 жыл бұрын

@@Bobinarea52 pencil is worse actually the small pieces of the black thingy ypu write whit will break and float around and damage machines

I like how specific the names of these "things" are.

@adobotachibana732

6 жыл бұрын

I see what you did there

@LAV-III

6 жыл бұрын

Adapper _Dilo perfect, just perfect 👌

Imagine the noises the Soviets must have heard if people were screwing around in the ambassador's office

@Todsor

4 жыл бұрын

only virgins would be excited about that.

@Notmagickal

3 жыл бұрын

yeah but it was activated, wasnt always on

@srujan00

2 жыл бұрын

@Svenson399 then it would be a bed bug

@lasajnae9626

Жыл бұрын

@@srujan00 LMAO

@jarnodatema

5 ай бұрын

Great blackmail material

2 videos in a day? You are just the best excellent history channel!

@appalachiahiker853

6 жыл бұрын

Dominus Robloxer no he is not. Just Another pop culture propagandist

@WhateverItTakes17

3 жыл бұрын

@@appalachiahiker853 explain your logic here. I wanna hear your “deep state conspiracy” bullshit.

@jouketeck717

3 жыл бұрын

I'll challenge him to 3 videos.

@niggleabductor

2 жыл бұрын

@@appalachiahiker853 Please shut up

It was a massive microphone lol.

@Aereto

6 жыл бұрын

A microphone that doesn't need electric power but can still produce radio signsls.

@fulcrum2951

6 жыл бұрын

And yet it looks quite simple

@devintariel3769

6 жыл бұрын

An rfid chip

@TaxPayingContributor

5 жыл бұрын

I first learned that it was a tiny earbud type microphone carved into the edge, but later heard it was more of an antenne disk

@barrydavis9492

5 жыл бұрын

it really is a god dang huge microphone.lollollollol

Soviet: "you have been spying on us!" USA: *UNO reverse card* "the tides have turned"

@someoneontheinternet1317

4 жыл бұрын

No, I am pretty sure that both sides were spying. If you say that only my predecessors were spying, you capitalist pig will be turned into bacon.

@matthewfinn8337

3 жыл бұрын

Well, I was thinking someone would say this, and I did found it, Uno reverse card

@zidniafifamani2378

Жыл бұрын

The turn have tabled

Spy VS Spy

@paulcateiii

6 жыл бұрын

Airsoft Ranger always liked Mad

@rolling-thunder1499

6 жыл бұрын

Paul Cate III Me two

@dickyadhadyanto4986

6 жыл бұрын

*put two spidermans pointing meme here*

@dudududu40

6 жыл бұрын

the cold war basically

@comradeurod9805

6 жыл бұрын

Lmao

i really love your ''simple history'' !

The thing is a movie

@jakubk.584

6 жыл бұрын

True, but this is something entirely different, Vyricxx Vicxx.

USSR(U2 incident): "you've been spying on us!" USA: "U2"

@daheyter4968

3 жыл бұрын

Lol

Please can you do the Chernobyl disaster

@Simplehistory

6 жыл бұрын

Yes

@dylanovandekamp7223

6 жыл бұрын

Add a rasputin video

@americanlemon5990

6 жыл бұрын

4 hours ago he commented?

@iluvu4276

6 жыл бұрын

Simple History is that all u said lel!

@VeXGamingLSRP

5 жыл бұрын

yes

What many people don't know, the technology for "the Thing" was based on Leon Theremin's works on demodulation of Doppler Reflections, this technology is still strongly present today in laser microphones or laser speed pistols used by police. Basically explained, when you aim a source of focused radiation(radio waves or laser) on a resonating membrane(radio: an antenna with a microphone, laser: a window or a mirror in the room) the reflected signal will return lower or higher depending on the movement of the membrane. Just like a ambulance not just passing by, but driving forward and backwards by the bystander. This reflections together with the source wavelength can be pretty easily demodulated back to audio. As always: the genius lies in the simplicity.

Soviet Union: YOU HAVE BEEN SPYING ON US! United States: Uno Reverse Card

Wow! I love learning about the stuff that has kinda slipped off the radar in history, but I have never heard such a thing as The Thing, in my life, until now of course. Thank you for giving me this knowledge, and you made it simple and easy too understand too. You just earned yourself a knew subscriber!

Do a collab with extra history please!!

@renewincelestian5007

4 жыл бұрын

Yaasssss

Soviets confirmed cheeki breeki material

One of my relatives actually designed this bug. Léon Theremin. Thankyou very much for bringing this video to us. Its improtant to remember that shit like this was so new at that time no one ever thought of bugs back then. This "thing" created the entire modern spy world of putting bugs evrywere. Shame that such a great achivment is often forgoten.

@orkkojit

11 ай бұрын

Is he the guy who created the theremin instrument ?

I LOVE your history videos they Allways Make me smile

My family is impressed by how much I’m learning thanks to you (:

Simple history thank you for teaching me a lot of important history and you are the best!

USSR:You are spying US:No you

Now this was never taught in world history and the fact that i even know about this up untill now is Simply astonishing! Thank for Sharing this video with us Simple History! :D

*_The Ting went skrrrrrra_*

@bagelsecelle9308

6 жыл бұрын

pap pap, ka-ka-ka

@c0mm1t68

6 жыл бұрын

skippy kip ka-ka

@Andy-pr1hs

6 жыл бұрын

and a pu-pu-pudrrrr-boom

@tyfgrt73rgyu70

6 жыл бұрын

the thing went *censored by the U.S government*

@alanamccourt5489

6 жыл бұрын

And a pup pup pum

A well needed and a well done change, keep it up!

*T H E T H I N G*

So this is what my mom mean when she say: "give me the thing"

This channel should have like 10M subscribers. You see they show us with simple cartoon and they explain it so well that we could understand easily. This channel is the first history channel I subscribed to... :D

Love ur channel, keep it up!

My favorite espionage story is when the Russians bought Xerox machines for all their embassies with a contract that stated only Xerox employees could service them. The CIA would plant cameras in the machines to read anything that was faxed/scanned and would simply send in agents dressed as Xerox employees to service the machines and swap the camera films.

@theothertoddg

6 жыл бұрын

The technology was so new at the time that the normal Russian couldn't tell the difference between the camera and the rest of the machine's inner workings.

Could you do a video on Vasily Zaystev?

@Simplehistory

6 жыл бұрын

Yes

@natalieorlando6583

6 жыл бұрын

Who dat?

@claytonsullivan9324

6 жыл бұрын

Natalie Orlando soviet sniper

@ElCap1van

6 жыл бұрын

Natalie Orlando watch enemy at the gates

@franzibe5620

6 жыл бұрын

Simple History chris kyle first

Great video love your work

I never knew about this. Very interesting story!

Awsome video! Could you do a video about the finnish continuation War?

Well this had some *great timing*

Whoa! This is wild! Thank you for an awesome video!

I read a lot of time about that, so is really an unexpected but great video!

Incredible history, almost deserves a movie for itself

Can you do a history video of George S. Patton

One of the most purest channels on youtube I stg

never missed a video!

Was there a Thing 2? (Just waiting for someone to get the reference...)

@Michael-if9qj

4 жыл бұрын

jaden ross 2 cat in the hat **facepalm**

Could you do one on the afghan soviet war or the French Vietnam war

I've never been this early before, I love your channel!

Thanks for the great videos

The background music reminds me of Tom & Jerry 😂

@Gojiro7

3 жыл бұрын

thats because its one of the most famous T&J cartoons, it used that music in a piano battle between Tom & Jerry which won them an academy award in 1947

You should do a video on the Gulf War.

Cooool dude keep it up love the content

Did you know that Hugo Boss designed the SS and the SA uniforms?

@Canguro2010

3 жыл бұрын

Yes

Yugoslav wars please? Or maybe Croat, Serb and Slovene partisans?

@imjustheretochatshitlmfao9100

6 жыл бұрын

Jona Persic why not both 👌

@jona5678

6 жыл бұрын

Heroj Balkana nemogu

Saw this video in my feed before going to bed. Nah, sleeping can wait.(Seriously though, I love this channel.)

The best “thing” is that I watch Simple History every upload! :D

You are the best. Can you do a video about rommel, afrikakorps or al alamein ?

@chriskane1

6 жыл бұрын

James Bond - Rommel is confirmed! 😀

@JamesBond-ns8di

6 жыл бұрын

Chris Kane aaah yes

@JamesBond-ns8di

6 жыл бұрын

Chris Kane your the voice over guy right?

@JamesBond-ns8di

6 жыл бұрын

Chris Kane your voice is beautiful

@chriskane1

6 жыл бұрын

That's me! I recorded Rommel and it's coming!

It’s always sus when Soviet’s give the US ambassador a seal of democracy

Awesome video man

great video as always

Notification squad at the ready!

WHY DOES THE THING A THING?

Honestly, I didn't expect to be so early. Nor to see such a strange yet cool video that you usually don't do.

Hey love your channel wish you guys all the best and keep the videos goin as they are always awsome! Here is topic suggestion foto next vids Balkan wars in 90s. Cheers!

USSR: "You're spying on our territory!" US: *Shows The Thing* US: "No u" USSR: "Erm..."

Who guessed what it was before the reveal?

Excellent short video. Do you have any additional information about the frequency that it worked on, or more specifics about how the modulation occurred?

another great video keep it up :)

hello

@lilnut1355

6 жыл бұрын

Jemixer 2207 Hi

Espionage was so cool back then! Now you just hack someone’s email or a server, while drinking coffee at your house.

Keep up the good work.

Can you guys do a video on the crusades? I love your guys videos!!

Ding ding.

The thing is in the fantastic four He is called the thing cause he has no thing(balls) So we call him the thing

@Mothlord03

5 жыл бұрын

10/10 description

Great video !

DENMARK IN WW2!!! PLEASEEE

@liamsitgreaves2479

6 жыл бұрын

Why? They did nothing and were weak. Denmark fell under 6 hours

@BST-ri6gf

5 жыл бұрын

That would be a minute long video, let me break it down: 8 seconds: intro with sponsorship 22 seconds: “Germany beat them so easily because they were too busy choking on their language” 30 seconds: outro with sponsorship

How about covering that time in the '80s when the USA decided to save costs by having their new Moscow embassy built by local contractors? You can't really blame the KGB for filling it with bugs when the opportunity was just handed to them. I do like your posts, keep up the good work.

Yay, another video !

This channel is so awesome

Hmmm, if I were a totalitarian dictator I'd stick a camera in that thing... 0:50 I'm not disappointed.

@GunsNGames1

4 жыл бұрын

Ain't you dead?

"The Thing"

keep doing the good work.Oh wait keep doing the great work.Keep it up

That's fricken awesome. Love these videos.

Soviet propoganda

@Simplehistory

6 жыл бұрын

What

@ZK-ff2ru

6 жыл бұрын

Simple History Hah I got you to reply for the first time!

@vladimiradidas1945

6 жыл бұрын

GOT EM. GOT EM GUD

@VariksTheLast

6 жыл бұрын

Dead Meme LOL

@BackdoorPlumber

6 жыл бұрын

Well played!

that is so smart and tricky, MOTHER RUSSIA ha!

Woah i didnt know about that thx Simple History!

nice video 👏🏻👏🏻

first comment

I need this. This is just amazing

Wow that's crazy. Haha I like the message at the end. I use Dashlane. It's great!

Thanks for educating me

GREAT VIDEO GUYS KEEP GOING THE GOOD JOB

Omgggg this is amazing!!!!

The painting on the wall at 0:35 is "A bigger splash" by David Hockney.

Love this channel so much! Only gave $2 at patreon

A great piece of history

Interessting, this was new for me! :3

Wow that is really cool

Simple History + History Matters would be an amazing collab

I would really appreciate it if you guys and gals at Simple History could make some videos about the Boer Wars. I really love your cold war videos, thanks for reading my comment.

Best channel EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!