Why Don't We Shoot Nuclear Waste Into Space?
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Here in the Kurzgesagt labs we test very important ideas to see what happens when you blow things up or play with black holes. Many of you suggested that we look into an idea that sounds reasonable: Shooting nuclear waste into space. It is one of those concepts that seems like an easy fix for one of the main problems with nuclear energy. But it turns out this idea is not just bad but horribly bad and it gets worse the longer you think about it.
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Isn't it fantastic how a group of people can sit in a room, do obscure research for hundreds of hours, then present a thesis in an animated format for us all to enjoy. This is one of the best channels on the internet.
Agreed. I wear my Kurzgesagt Earth t-shirt with pride and am always delighted when my students recognise the art style.
I don’t think of it as obscure research though. It’s extremely relevant given fossil fuels are a finite resource on the way out.
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@@benjaminhaley5189 Really prove that? Don't use a woke media source either
All for free.
The "not great, not terrible" quote is what makes this channel special.
I had to scroll way too down to see this.
I’d rate it a solid 3.6! (Which happens to be as high as my scale goes)
“Do you taste metal”
@@alexburke5376 You're delusional, go to the infirmary.
You're in shock, you need to go to the infirmary, we just need fresh water to the core
hearing this refined gentleman say "yeet" made my day.
The “Stuff aint cheap” got me crying
Rockets go brrrrr
Some hundred years ago people thought it's a good idea to throw waste into oceans since they're so huge and surely that won't be a problem. Got a similar vibe from this idea
You know what’s way easier than using rockets for dumping? Digging a hole in uninhabitable land (200 meters or so) and burying the waste there
I think he knows because he just watched the video that tells why nuclear waste shouldn’t be blasted into space and also included that burying them underground would be ideal.
Oceans are an ecosystem. The void of space is not. The sun is not.
@@mysteryuser7062 ah yes, bury it and forget. That's definitely a way to avoid finding a real solution. To the OPs point, I'm fairly sure the blowback potential on burying hundreds of thousands of radioactive material on our own Planet is way worse.
@@bossdunkz Scientifically speaking, it is the best solution. The capsules take thousands of years to decay along with the radioactive waste, meaning by the time the capsule is gone, the radioactive waste will no longer be radioactive. Basically just inert metal deposits in the middle of nowhere. Additionally, being buried means that none of its radiation will ever reach the surface or anything. Most radiation cannot penetrate solid materials (solar radiation travels through vacuum for this reason), but gamma rays can because they’re so small and require about one meter of concrete to stop their penetration. Being 200 meters to 1KM deep in the Earth itself means it’s extremely well insulated. As the contents are radioactive, we cannot risk it getting close to any ground water supplies or mineable materials. Geologists can determine what land has no such obstacles, provided it is also uninhabitable for nuclear burial and the location is documented so that no unsuspecting Geologists accidentally digs one up.
I never thought I would hear "Rockets go brrrr" in a Kurzgesagt video but I love it
Sameee! Nice to hear modern internet humor XD
same XD
Glad you love it because I think it's incredibly cringe and will age like dogshit
2:40 Lmao yelling away this mess
Yeah, 笑死，真的笑爛 這科學節目越來越好玩了，字面上的🇹🇼😂👍🇹🇼 6:52
I thought the chicken at 2:54 was crying from the increased electricity bill and it's a hilarious thought.
Lmfao
You too?
Thankfully we humans are capable of more critical thought there. How much of the electricity price is the fuel component? And how much is human costs? and the plant itself? There was a US study that calculated if the price of uranium would double, the price of power would increase by 10% to a whopping 1.42 ct/kWh. Now I AM crying seeing my power bill and the price that I pay to be much much higher than that. About 15 times higher in fact. Price for the consumer, in fact, is mostly taxes and transport cost. The best part? France, who has the highest amount of nuclear plants per capita, has one of the lowest costs of electricity in Europe.
I think your channel is my favorite of all time, educational, witty, beautifully animated and lovingly researched for us, your viewers. You all do a fantastic job! Love from France!
You are called France. That's cool
I love this channel!
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“Most countries are dealing with it by not dealing with it.” This channel is utterly amazing. 😂
Which is simply true. 🤷♀️
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"Experts would call this a huge problem" had me dying
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@@tamnguyen-bl7jf ok
5:24 is the definition of what goes up must come down
I love the music of this one! Had to point it out. "According to scientists: space is big and nobody lives there". Mind = blown Great stuff ^^
"perfect for yeeting away this mess" I almost spit my coffee out
"Experts would call this: *a huge problem*" I love it
Then Godzilla rises out of the ground
What do you expect? It's for dumb audiences, who have low attention span can't understand the topic without cartoon birds on the video :)
"Rackets go Brrrrrrrrrrr" really caught me of guard as well :D
I always love the episodes where Kurzgesagt covers a socially relevant topic
Me too. My favourite is "Loneliness" and "Dissatisfaction"
Yaah they are pretty good at what they do
Did you see the thumbnail of the video?
Whatsoever! If anyone analyse History then its easy to realise that there isn't a SINGLE civilization in human History which hasn't been destroyed / punished /annihilated for their disobedience and sins. Be it - Babylonian, Mesopotamian, Indus Valley civilization, Persian, Roman, Assyrian, etc. etc. However, there could be people who think that this Technologically Advanced Modern Civilization is an exception. We all should wait and see! This is the order of events according to my limited knowledge & understanding :- Collapse of Petro-dollar, Paper monetary system [(cause of WW3) many geo-political conflicts and situations are side reasons /smoke and mirrors] ~ 80% - 90% expected to die ~ Many years of great oppression & injustice, more than even now (probably 7) ~ lsraeI ruling state of the World (obvious) ~ Emergence of Mahdi (r.a.) - A Guided & Just ruler ~ Peace & Prosperity for a while ~ Coming of Dajjal/Antíchrist (their much awaited one-eyed Messiah) in Human form (live for 37 days & will do many miracles & many things) ~ coming of Eesa/Jesus (p.b.u.h.) & killing Dajjal ~ Peace for many years (some say 8-9 years & some 40) ~ Coming of Yajuj and Majuj (a corrupt ancient tribe) in large numbers & much violence & killing ~ Their destruction from an infection / disease on their neck by Allah s.w.t. ~ Peaceful death of all the believers from a breeze from Yemen ~ Destruction of the Kaaba 🕋 (in Mecca, Saudi Arabia) brick to brick by Dhul suwaq qatain (a person with short legs) ~ Dwelling of only Disbelievers and Criminals on Earth ~ The Earth will be cursed coz there will be no one to say La ilaha il Allah (There's no God except Allah) ~ Trembling of Mountains & shaking of the Earth (physical destruction of the World and the Universe). We have been already warned about it! And there is no city but that We will destroy it before the Day of Resurrection or punish it with a severe punishment. That has ever been in the Register inscribed. [Chapter 17 Isra (The Night Journey) : 58] 'That they said (in boast), "We killed Christ Jesus the son of Mary, the Messenger of Allah";- but they killed him not, nor crucified him, but so it was made to appear to them, and those who differ therein are full of doubts, with no (certain) knowledge, but only conjecture to follow, for of a surety they killed him not.' Quran: Chapter 4 An-Nisa (Women), Verse 157.
@@supernatural_forces shut up
I'm so happy how well they broke down the whole try to solve problems by launching it into space ideas, and showed just how crazy and difficult it would be. Plus the tidbit of breaking down that shooting something at the sun is not as easy or possible as people think
the person who suggested this: 👁👄👁
It could’ve been: ➖👄➖
4:50 "The experts would call this a huge problem" 😂 I just love this line 🤣
As much as I agree with the assessment, I am intrigued to learn about the possibility of Lunar Godzilla.
@@zxbc1 radioactive too
I love the penguins reaction to that
I was waiting for someone to say this
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Hearing the narrator go "BRRRRR" has made my vacation that much better. Thank you to everyone at In a Nutshell for your legendary contributions to educational entertainment.
Where the KSP players at?
I’m going to play that clip everytime someone asks me why i love rockets
that was giga cringe i can't take them seriously when they do this
@@AAHAHHHHH I agree with it sounding cringe, thank fuck im not the only one who agrees. I can still take it seriously though.
@@AAHAHHHHH it was for the funny
Kurtzgesagt is awesome! Knowledge in an entertaining and easily understandable format, not to mention all the laughing I'm doing whenever I watch these videos!
Entertaining and informative! Thank you.
Experts would call this a huge problem. Died laughing. Love these videos. Educational and funny
When experts say this would cause a huge problem, they really mean: "dude just dont, because this will lead to catarofic results"
Rockets go… brrrrrrrrrrr
When people are saying that germans don‘t have humor, usually they don‘t know about black humor.
@@andmos1001 Something on that same level of stupidity would be to blow up the moon. Something dumb and impossible that we’re never going to do ever
Dude same. I cried laughing at that part 😂😂
2 thousand hours for your production in insane. The process you take to create these videos deserves a video of its own.
They have one
Near 3 million views in 24 hours! Now that is impressive!
But 2.7m views in 16 hours is also insane. Enjoy the ad revenue lads, its well deserved.
Paging Wendover Productions... "The Insane Logistics of Making Kurtzgesagt Videos"
This is why ads are just not enough. Ads can't scale up. It is not an option to just show 30 ads per video. Why don't we have an option to just pay the equal of around 6 cents.
brings a whole new meaning to what goes up must come down
I love that these videos are formatted the same way as scientific papers, but written in a way everybody could understand.
Kurzgesagt animation has always been AMAZING. But somehow it’s getting even better.
cringe it's always the best
Prolly cos they been making these videos for like 10 years and have their production flow on lock. Always loved the art style though
Rockets go brrrr lmao
somehow? Ofc its ‘improvements’
I could have sworn I've seen this video before though.
The production value of this was 11/10, well done animators
You must be new, all of their videos are this high quality :)
Like always? They've always made videos like this 😆
Welcome, you will like it here.
I've watched for years. They aren't all like this, there is a noticeable and applaudable improvement video after video and this one for me felt like a huge cut above - the team deserves recognition for their improvement.
@@doug8232: You don't gotta lie to kick it... We are cool over here.
I love the cheerful music shown when discussing how to deal with dangerous nuclear waste.
as an artist, i appreciate a lot the effort put into the visuals of the videos of this channel color pallettes are peak simplistic vectorial artstyle both complementing generally interesting concepts i enjoy wantching them
You're incredibly good at explaining this stuff. I clicked on the video thinking "that's an excellent idea" which in roughly 10 minutes turned into "That's the worst idea i've ever heard"
its a very bad idea, i knew from the start because i realised if you shoot nuclear waste into space, you are gonna make space debris and make low earth orbit even more dangerous
You mean the writers are good
I doubt Steve (the guy speaking) does anything other than voiceovers, for kurzgesagt. There's a whole team of nerds behind these videos ;)
@@oofted9038 Steve has done like ~2 scripts before, like for older videos. Philipp does *most* of the scripts. I'm also pretty sure there's another scripter named Lizzy? But pretty much Steve only does the voice overs now, he's not like an official parrot the team. Edit: Ok, I meant to say "part of" but parrot is funnier so I will leave it up.
I already thought it would be a bad idea knowing that space travel is EXTREMELY expensive and accidents are not unavoidable even till this day,but I didn’t even think about the chance of it coming back. What I thought was a bad Idea turned out to be a terrible one.
These videos genuinely have the best animation I’ve ever seen in my entire life
Between the triumphant tune and the line "which is something experts would call, very bad", this video was a masterpiece
“Which experts call: a huge problem”😂😂😂 Nice. Just discovered this channel and absolutely love it!
Excited for you, you have a ton of amazing videos from them that you get to catch up on. Fantastic channel!
Welcome and Enjoy! I wish I had all these to watch again for the first time.
They have stolen the half (if not all) of that from me! Just read my profiles, comments, posts, pictures, as those do!
I would love to be you right now my dude, i would love to watch their videos again for the first time!
“According to scientists, space is very big” Same energy haha
You really hit us with a 'Not great, not terrible' huh. One of the writers probably waited eons for this day
Went to the comments the second I heard that
3.6?
Absolutely fantastic reference in the context of radiation
@@asdaneedsfunds what's the reference?
@@plazma0325 from the HBO chernobyl series
It's sad that channels like yours are so rare. THIS is what videos should be used for!
3:45 I love this stuff. OH GOD THERE'S NUMBERS AND GRAPHICS I'M LEARNING
You might not believe it, but today I asked exactly the same question from my physics teacher in high school and he couldn't give me a convincing answer to it. So, I wrote the question on my palm to search about it later after school, and now, you The Great Kurzgesagt have given me all the information I need about the matter. Thanks a million!
Send your teacher the video or tell him where to find it. Might make good lesson material :)
We all got such moments 😉. Sometimes I get recomendations on youtube on a thing I just talked about with someone. It really feels like they're listining sometimes. But your case where far more wholesome
I dont believe it, why lie to strangers on the internet? Is it an attention thing?
@@ppstorm_ I can't take you seriously with that pfp
broo Istg my physics teacher heckin mentioned this topic too on today's class, couldn't believe my eyes when I saw this video getting posted
5:31 I loved seeing "actually to scale". I enjoy how much effort and detail you guys put into your videos!
Followed by a cheeky, trademarked "not to scale" a few scenes later hehe
@@crisis8v88 and also a “so not to scale !”
The videos these people produce are just on a whole new scale lol.
Great episode!
5:32 The rocket literally burns money. 😂
Thoughts on using an accelerator to shoot material into space. Like the Hadron collider but rather than a loop. Create a shaft starting underground and extending out. As for orbits why not crash it into a large planet on the outer edge of solar system.
All the reasons you mentioned for getting to space were spot on. However, once you got into the space discussion it was quite handwavy. Like our only options were random directions or into the sun? You mentioned to moon but then were like naw, we can't make a mess without any justification there. We also don't have to fly it all the way into the sun, an orbit between us and the sun would be just fine. While reprocessing is definitely preferable, burying it comes with the same issues as orbits coming back. At some point in the future we may forget and stumble upon it. If we get the technology down for cheap orbital insertion (like a space elevator), then this becomes a real feasible technology.
Yea I was also not getting why we couldn't send it to deep space like voyager 1 using the planets to sling shot it along the way. And then the money side, how often does the US spend that much on random bs as it is? We got the money especially if it's the whole world together. The only real issue rn Is just them blowing up on launch.
they explained that if we fired it somewhere between us and the sun theres a good chance the waste will just come back to earth
@@kittygamer4124 aaaand you completely missed my argument. Stating there's a good chance it will come back to earth is not an argument, you need to justify it. By what mechanism would something in a parking orbit between earth and venus get deflected and what is the probability it will come back. This has to be weighed against the real risks of having it buried and forgotten here or having it leak out. As with all things, there is a subtlety in what to do so a simple "it might come back" is not sufficient. According to quantum mechanics you *might* spontaneous jump into the next room, it's not a question of might it's a question of how likely. Likewise, there was no real justification against using the moon. My point is that while there were some good arguments made around cost and energy budgets, the arguments around safety were wishy washing and fear mongering based with no real meat to them.
I think the difference here is more control related rather than how both can come back to bite us While launching debris into space or in a orbit around the sun, another planet we aren't likely to colonize in the future or all the way out of the system, physics can sometimes cause a rare few to come back towards due to a asteroid knocking a rocket in just the right area, or planet orbits lining up close enough to send off launched fuel straight back towards us. Once we launch the fuel outwards, we largely don't have many ways of controlling where said waste goes afterwards, and if it comes back towards us, suddenly we have a new issue to deal with, and it can more easily spread throughout our atmosphere if it hits us Meanwhile the biggest issues for putting nuclear waste underground is space requirements, and human incompetence over time, which we can more easily figure ways around right now. Though I do understand that there are legitimate ways to eventually shunt waste off into space with electromagnetic cannons and similar technologies, trying to do so now leads to us having less control over how we can directly handle it. The arguments are handwavy due to the fact most of it comes down to random chance, but I think people would feel better to have the known of staying away from a specific area than the unknown of one day a object could crash down with enough radioactive potential for a mini Chernobyl
>like a space elevator And banish them from the solar system with a railgun. At the third cosmic speed so that it never comes back.
It dosent matter if these type of videos take weeks or even months to make, the wait is still worth it.
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Koron ciwan aggressively agrees with you
Not for the approximate 153,424.70 people who die each day on earth
@@mitzikolo And the baby need 4 years to see this video
I do love how the announcer casually said Yeeting things into space with such professionalism lol
Also rockets go brrrr
@@vaanivijay6552 Rockets go Brrr sounded awful, it needs some play, it can't be said in a flat tone and sound good. He said it waay to mechanical :)
Not the first time he has said Yeet
@@chrisgames5201 oh I know
@@viciouswaffle I don't know, I could hear his amusement when saying this, although it could be me projecting.
They put so much effort just to entertain us we al should be very grateful
This amazing
It's amazing what you do on this channel its so informative and fun to watch
2:34 "According to scientists, space is big, and nobody lives there." It's the revelation of ground-breaking and monumental discoveries like this that keep me hooked to the videos of this channel. Great work by the amazing geniuses of the Kurzgesagt team, as always.
I chuckled at that one
"Rockets go brrrr" was another good one
"so it seems perfect for *YEETING* away this mess", he said it,the man with the motonone voice said it, LET'S FRICKING GO!!!
Philomena Cunk energy
nobody lives there is a bold argument. we don't know. but since earth in inhabited, there is a BIG chance that other planets are too, OF COURSE, inhabited.
maybe you could do a video about the possibility/usefulness/logistics of Australia digging a canal through itself to help it become more habitable? This channel explains topics like these so well.
That's more reallifelore territory
We're fine living on the coasts rather than geo-engineering the whole outback, lol. It's not like we have a crippling city overpopulation/overcrowding crisis.
Sounds like a good way to lower sea-leval
@@clevergirl4457 actually I think terraforming the continent would provide us with the same ammount of workable land as USA. And we have the immigration to fill it, however.. I get the feeling that a continent of people from all.over the world is likely to fracture and no longer be a continent country.
@@The360MlgNoscoper yea but reallife lore doesnt fact check near as well as these guys, not that reallife lore makes up stuff, its just on some topics they cherrypick which data they want to look at & make very strong claims based on just that. Im sure kurzgesagt has to do the same thing, but at least we know with them they are doing everything they can to stop that kind of data from going out- at least without saying its an opinion first.
nice vid bro
Kudos to Kurzgesagt for shedding light on this critical issue and emphasizing the importance of exploring safer, more responsible methods of nuclear waste disposal. Definitely a wake-up call for us all to prioritize sustainable solutions for managing our planet's most hazardous materials.
The animation style, speech and way of making the audience understand what the concept is / get a grasp of the concept is so perfect ! Love your vids Kurzgesagt
True, the quality is really great
quit meat riding everybody knows this lol. it’s why we are subscribed…
Except for the green goopy imagery that has been fed to people to make them fear Nuclear waste; a perspective scientists are trying to change, and now this channel is actively thwarting by being part of that same problem.
*"understanding what the audience is"* Do you think we all watch TikTok? The *"BRRRRR"* part may sound funny to others, but it's cringe to me.
@@SeraphX2 damn the radiation is made to look green, now it's too scary!!1
Just imagine how many kids and teenagers will be inspired by watching your videos, and decided to take the scientific path. Some of them may become the most successful scientists one day, just by clicking one of your videos today. Thank you Kurzgesagt and see you in the bright future you help created.
Wow so true
Yeah... I'm 17 and can actually feel what you said! 😍
Im 16 and really interested in space. Ive been taking some classes in highschool and i was scared that school would kill my interest in the subject but it hasent and ive actually been learning some new and exciting things that i didnt know.
@@Miniom56785 where are you from? :)
@@adityajaiswal6082 the US
Video appeared on my feed, just came to say. Who would even think of this option 😂 Bet it's a great video looks well animated thats for sure.
my favorite part about the animated aspect of this video, and I'm not even 3 minutes in - is how nonchalantly the little birds are handling the extremely radioactive materials.
I wonder if the 'Rockets go BRRRRRRRRR' was a single take, or it took a couple takes to record that piece with total confidence.
‘Yeeting things into space’ and we love Kurzgesagt for their advanced vocabulary. Thank you for a great video as always!
Rockets go brrrrrr
They should make a video about dynamics of language, and it starts with ancient English, slowly going to modern styles.
Steve should have to put a quarter in a jar every time he says "yeet."
It took me a second to realize that it was indeed what this glorious man said.
The word yeet is just terrible. 🙄
The exception might be a few long lived isotopes like Tc-99 and I-129. Their radioactivity is sufficiently low, that a single failure wouldn't spell disaster. In fact, the hazard they pose is roughly equal to the uranium ore that was used to make them, only in a slightly more concentrated form. If we could achieve 99% succesful launches (as has been achieved by Falcon 9 and Atlas 5), you could accept a few "oopsies" happening, as the total amount of radioactivity in the environment would still be reduced. It would also have the benefit of eliminating the hypothetical "what if it leaks in a bajillion years" argument, assuming you've reprocessed and recycled the transuranics.
love the animations!
It's so cool how they also put in acknowledgements for their sources in their videos now. The effort is absolutely phenomenal
It's for the people who don't know what a video description is
@@VanOri Or people who either download the videos or watch them on devices where the descriptions aren't available. It's a good policy. Their video on the effects of nuclear weapons was rife with what I consider to be factual errors, but I was still very grateful that they posted their sources so I could check them and find the mistakes. How many youtubers go to all that trouble (let alone TV documentaries) just so they might be called out on a mistake? It's fantastic that they do this. Science isn't about not being wrong because that's impossible. It's about being transparent enough that scientists have a better chance to catch each other when they're wrong. The whole point of the scientific method, Popperism, and experiments is that scientists _want_ to be proven wrong, so they have material from which to make even better theories to better explain the world.
@@theprogram863 tl;dr
@@VanOri LMFAO SIGMA
They've been doing that the whole time, I thought. Not that I check their sources but their videos have always mentioned that they have good sources to all their info.
i always love it when you make videos on the topic of nuclear power, cuz i think these videos often do quite a lot to distigmatize their topics. they touch on all the essentials without overwhelming the viewer, and do so in a manner that's very entertaining and keeps people engaged. and the visuals only keep gettin better!
I'm glad it's all about nuclear waste. Carbon is one thing, nuclear waste is so much worse..
While I understand that the waste is somewhat manageable the timeframes involved and the plants themselves are just astronomically more dangerous compared the renewable plants especially if you factor in terrorism.
Yes! Nuclear waste is a real problem, but it's not Cthulu-on-speed-dial the way many anti-nuclear people talk about it. Just having taken the time to point out that 97% of nuclear waste is low or intermediate level waste that is either safe or minimally dangerous made watching the video worth it (a typical "nuclear facility" is a hospital or clinic with an x-ray or CT machine). Also, that burning coal produces nuclear waste as well. Even solar and wind have environmental downsides, especially when you factor in the eco footprint of the batteries. We just climbed out of a pandemic where we spent a lot of time not sensibly weighing costs/benefits/risks and are still paying the price. Nuclear fission has the misfortune of having all the characteristics that arouse the _perception_ of risk, despite having a very low _reality_ of risk.
@@jerryboics9550 Did you watch the entire video? Burning fossil fuels also releases radioactive waste, which actually gets released into the environment way more than with nuclear power plants.
@@jerryboics9550 you obviously didn’t watch their nuclear power plant deaths video
Wow! This was a homerun video. You nailed it on each point and the scientific content explanation was near genius level. A++
😂 keep the comments coming. You have a funny way of expressing yourself
I have a good idea, not a joke: please talk about the upper dimensional states and how they are related to things like time travel, etc.
I swear Kurzegesagt is one of the greatest channels ever! Interesting, educational and fun while at the same time encouraging everyone to make the world a better place.
Yes, their stuff always makes me feel so much better about the world. And it all looks so cute and mesmerizing. So I’m sure everything they say must be true.
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also encouraging people to terraform other planets starting now same thing
Agreed
It's not as great as you think. I remember them talking about the possible ends of the universe, like the big crunch vs big freeze and big rip, and at the end, they actually said they CHOOSE to believe in an infinite series of big crunches and big bangs in an eternal cycle because they considered it to be the most "uplifting". That is antithetical to science, to believe something without evidence because it is the thing you most wish was true. In fact, we have a word for that, it's called religion.
It's nice how we can watch great content like this on KZhead for free. I love this channel!
What do you mean, it's not premium.
@@EugeneOneguine premium meaning "high quality" in this context.
Cost me $20 a month for premium
@jhvmhgkgkgvkgvlhb true, but that has little baring of the quality of individual creators on YT. And I would be shocked if paying for premium reduced the amount of data YT harvests from a user. So that is basically the fundamental compromise we make when we use internet services these days.
@jhvmhgkgkgvkgvlhb that's sort of true,but remember the fact there are many other shitty content out there people even invest more of their data on,which isn't still a good reason,yet, it's KZhead
I love this channel so much…
This is an idea that seems straightforward at first until just a little more thought is put into it and we realize how complicated it is, you know Science.
I always thought shooting something at the sun would be the best way to deal with all the trash, but I didn't know how hard it actually was to aim at the sun! Amazing video as always!!
The worst part is if you miss slightly, you might just slingshot it back towards us.
@@Jarelk do I smell a giant trash ball inbound?
Honestly a better way to deal with most trash is to burn it. As long as it’s filtered properly it’s actually very safe since most of it is burning plastic. Plus it’s a great way of generating power.
Sounds like bs tho Sun has strong gravity And its gonna pull it in Also do u know how fucking big the sun is ? Bs excuse
@@therealspeedwagon1451 well if you want to burn nuclear waste, don’t be my guest and go as far away from me as possible
The little details that go into the video production are amazing. I don't know if every intro is specific to the episode but I noticed the monkey having a radioactive cup of tea at 0:52 and that's incredible!
yeah every monke is specific
Hm ya good job
Yeah! I keep looking at the chimp in the beginning to see what he’s holding in his hand. 😊
The monke give you a hint of what the topic of the video is about if you did not read the title
Every single video has the monkey holding something from the topic of the video u can see it in all of the videos that uses this intro Yes they used to have another intro
this is the most easiest understanding channel instead of listening for hours all you have to do is listen and let your brain swallow it easily
In the beginning of this video, I was like "there's no way it's impossible", but by the end of the video I was like "this might be the worst idea of all time"
"According to scientists, space is huge" Love this one
I appreciate every second of those 2000 hours you've but into this. I usually watch your videos several times and I always recommend your channel to others. You deserve all the recognition you're getting. Cheers, Kurzgesagt
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Corporate art style common L
@@repingers9777 ??
@Re:Pingers unbased
@@repingers9777 kurzgesagt doesn't really look anything at all like corporate minimalism? the only main similarity is a lack of distinct lineart which is very common in many different styles of art and animation. you don't really seem to know what you're talking about
There ought to be uses of the radioactive waste, like new energy generation forms which use the 11,000 tons per year.
the person naming these sections was having a field day 💀
Kudos to the Kurzgesagt crew - you all really crushed this one. The animation, music, and commentary were all on point. 'Rockets go Brrrrrr' had me laughing so hard I started crying.
it wasnt that funny...
@@JoelyRoley As a joke? No. But the fact that it was used in a highly professional video, by the narrator of Kurzgesagt, made it hilarious.
@@Zarglog exactly, as another example imagine watching a nature documentary narrated by Morgan Freeman and then he says in a very serious tone “poopoo peepee” , you would laugh your ass off.
@@soda7998 Exactly. When it's being said from a sourxe you didn't expect, the line is viewed differently. I loved it.
Reddit moment
I love how the music goes from gloriously silly to completely apocalyptic throughout the video.
Well it's sound kinda like gold apocalypse music
@@tatarchan5212 it is
I love your videoos!!! could you make one about normal trash, I always have this discussion with friends.
Your videos are so addictive 😍 i can't afford to help you but i like your videos maybe in future i will buy your products and help you
The amount of time and care this team puts in to these videos is just astonishing, the quality can’t even be matched, I’m really grateful that I get to watch these videos here on KZhead for free
the meatriding is crazy
@@nodub2826 honestly the production value and editing of these is better than any show on cable we grew up watching. And those you had to pay money for. The fact these guys can bring us this content on a free platform with the quality they have is a great thing
@@nodub2826 u good bro! Did the owner of this channel bully u growing up or something?😂 why r ppl not allowed to give props it wasn’t even over the top
NPC ahh comment
I have no idea why Kurzgesagt is so opposed to nuclear (maybe they are invested in wind or solar), but this is one of the dumbest videos they've ever made, and yet they claim it took them 2000 hours. 1) We can already reuse most nuclear waste. This is commonly known, and many countries are already doing it. It's certainly something they would have known if they did 2000 hours of research. 2) I find it bizarre that they included the extra 97% of nuclear waste that's not dangerous and we can handle just fine in their calculations. Seems like you would only do that if you wanted to inflate the projected cost. :thinking: In reality, it would be at least 97% cheaper than what was projected here. 3) In fact, it would likely be much cheaper, since we'd be running off of nuclear energy, which is up to 3 to 10 times more efficient under ANY conditions, cause energy costs to plummet, more than making up for the costs several times over. 4) Nobody was suggesting launching waste into orbit. Seems like the only reason you would add that into the video is to belittle critics. Awfully arrogant. 5) Deep space orbits don't work that way. Launching into deep space would NOT cause it to bend back and come right back for Earth. The Sun does not have that kind of gravitational pull that far out. The only reason anything orbits out there is because of a lack of any opposing motion. The momentum from the rockets would take it right out of the outer orbit and into deep space, where we would never see it again. 6) If we launched it at the Sun, we wouldn't need it to go right in. Orbiting tightly around the Sun and getting gradually closer, is perfectly fine, and still wouldn't affect us in any way. There, Kurzgesagt. This comment didn't take me 2000 hours. It took me 2 minutes. I just saved you 1999 hours and 58 minutes of research on your followup video, where you admit you were totally wrong.
Can we appreciate how much work they put in to these videos just to fit in a meme or two every once in a while?
"Not great... Not terrible." 😂
YES
Rockets go BRRR
Rockets go BRRRR
NGL I was *not* expecting to get this many likes Edit: It keeps going up
2000 hours on a youtube video? respect to The animators,researchers and everyone involved for there hard work
Fantastic video! So much facts! Could your next video be about putting nuclear waste in the ocean and fresh water? Thaaaaaaaaaaanks soooooooooooooooooooooooo much!
I used to work for a University Space Physics Dept, and we had a bit of a panic sending old kit off to be recycled once. We had an item, a cryostat that couldn't get flight certification (I learned all this after the fact) so was earmarked for disposal. So we arranged to pick up a load of old equipment for recycling, and placed it all in a large skip. Then one of the guys from the hardware dept came up to us in a panic, the cryostat had a window made out of Beryllium, which is why it could no longer be flown, because Beryllium is rather toxic. He was therefore rather concerned about how it was recycled, as it needed careful handling and disposal. So we had to suit up and get in the skip to recover it. Luckily, we'd been careful and not just thrown stuff in there. Nuclear waste is of course even worse, being radioactive and toxic.
The evidence is culture overrates Chernobyl and Fukishima. A design that was flawed at conception and the latter was just foolish to build. No reactor or required support equipment shall be under 150 meters MSL. The generators being where they were in 2011 was dismal choice. You must follow the seismic area as well in your engineering. Next generation reactorscdispose of most of these vulnerabilities.
Something similiar happened with thw colbalt-60 disaster in mexico, some random dude bought medical equipment with radioactive elements in it and then disposed it without the proper care The materials of the artifact were reporpused (mostly steel) but everything got contaminated with radioactive particles, thing turns that the radioactive parts of the medical artifact were crushed and a lot of tiny bits scattered all over the country
@@castro.ri_ ouch.
If that beryllium had made its way to a grinder then quite a bit of hazard would’ve been generated, pun intended.
@@SovereignTroll Every industry experiences technical shortfall in dealing with safety and quality, including Nuclear. You can't foresee the effects of events not yet designed and planned for.
The production and research value of each of these videos is incredible and I don’t know how to say thank you enough to the team at Kurzgesagt.
Yeah they always do great (way better then I will ever be)
even funnier when he says things like yeat
@@neby_nebs yeah it's like there trying to stay professional but someone wrote that on the script and they had to say it
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I feel like it would be much more of a possibility if something like the spin launch was used. It would have to be advanced to launch things farther but it could make it much more of a possibility.
I love that yeet is just... a word now. This is an educational channel of insanely high quality and they used the word yeet as an amusing tone-lifter, because it has escaped being a meme into a real actual mcfreaking word.
6:55 I completely died since he sounds so serious.
BRRRRRRR
Did he just say Brrrrrr
People not actually dying go BRRRRRR
I remember watching some of the older videos they created back when they first came out & I'm still shocked at how much the quality has improved over the years. From information gathering to animation & writing, it's insane how much it's changed for the better. The fact it's all done as a passion project makes it even better & I hope they continue this for years to come.
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Really?
The best course of action would be to replace all fission reactors with fusion reactors because it creates a lot less waste.
2000 HOURS?!?! HOW DO YOU EVEN KEEP UP WITH THIS STUFF
7:55 Gotta love that eggplant spontaniously evolving into a devil spider and running off. Kurzgesagt really knows what worries me.
Finally, a Kurzgesagt video without any hint of an existential crisis. I love it!
every time they talk about the unpredictability of orbits and show huge collisions into the earth its an existential crisis lmaooo
Except for the very real crisis that is the nuclear waste that we can't launch into the sun...
@@WatanabeNoTsuna. and the fact that waste from fossil fuels is even worse than that...
How about the part where we suck at risk assessment?
Did we watch the same video? 😅
whoever wrote the music for this should win an OSCAR! so EPIC the script as well, such an iconic video
love these vids ! great king of a learning environment :D ( pookie is a nerd )
"Just dump our junk into space" I love how mother nature (and Kurzgesagt) reminds us that every action has a reaction.
I just love how well spoken he is with his accent and everything And then he says "yeet," "stuff ain't cheap," and "rockets go brrrrrrr." 😂
and "birbs"
@@abandonedaccount123 and "Experts would call this.. a huge problem"
@@emilstvring7577 and "According to scientists, space is big"
according to wikipedia, the narrator's name is Steve Taylor. may i ask, what's unusual about his accent?
@@MusicalRaichu probably an american so he's not used to someone speaking proper english
You could use sky hooks to go a lot farther, could also use mass drivers.
5:12
Amazing a bunch people researching for days is enough to solve world wide problems and galactic expansion
The production of this video is absolutely phenomenal. Especially the background score. It matched the goofiness of certain moments and kept the tone of the video. Amazing work Kurzgesagt, keep it coming!
I know rightt..They are masters of story telling and made it so dramatic and interesting with the background music
Epic Mountain is awesome. Their scores are always on point with the storytelling.
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@@photonicpizza1466 Yeah, it's a filler episode produced in a shorter amount of time with a smaller budget than the other videos.
No disrespect to the channel, but I did not like the score used here. Specifically the stuff from 3:50-4:00 which, skipping around, seems like they looped through much of the video. It did not fit and it took me out of the immersion.
I love how these guys just come up with some of the most insane ideas and make you think about the billions of uses and the impossibility of these ideas
The idea has been around for decades.
You telling me you never thought of this yourself ?
Other topics, how much precious metals and suchlike can we bring to earth from space before it impacts our planet/orbit etc
@@Cosmic_Explorerrr ok but thats not what the OP , so how does your response do anything for the conversation
A kid can easily think of this idea, they only make it more popular and accessible to find them and understand why they won't work
You are the best❤
There was a project that seemed pretty promising. The used up fuel still has a lot of energy in it, just not enough for the big reactors. So... how about we use them in small ones? Small reactors by each city, using used up nuclear fuel to make heat for the city. That would make almost free heat for everybody around, especially during winter, and would ensure the fuel is safely dealt with. After a certain time it would lose even what little energy it had and it would be way safer to deal with. I really liked that idea.