In late 2022, a video of an apparent nuclear accident spread rapidly on Twitter and Tumblr. Was it modern history’s first “viral” nuclear accident? Or was it faked for the lolz? This [HALF-LIFE HISTORY] attempts an investigation.
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*Thanks for watching.* This was a slightly different [HLH] -- one where we attempted the first investigation of an incident -- so I hope you enjoy it. As always, I tried my best and I take these stories very seriously. I hope that shows. There's a fine line to walk between educating and fear mongering, meme-ing and investigating (as you can see from my merch). *NOTE:* A few of you have emailed me that the Tumblr account in question was posting some clear anti-LGBTQ rhetoric in their messages shown here. Obviously, I in no way support this or the accounts, and was unaware at the time of recording.
Kind of reminds me of David Hahn. I read the book, "The Radioactive Boy Scout," some years ago. I wonder if they'd ban this book from schools, it's one that NEEDS to be out there as a cautionary tale, perhaps with some of the techniques redacted, anyway.
I admired your investigative process my man! I want to ask, since it’s so crazy, what was your first reaction when you saw it led to Rye’s rather…interesting account?
30 seconds
@@justaguy6100 For years after I'd read that story in an old Reader's Digest I wondered what ever became of Hahn. I thought he would've gone on to become a nuclear researcher or something, but unfortunately due to depression after the incident he kind of fizzled out. Such a shame.
@@ShumaiAxeman True. Bright kid that overran his brilliance, and sadly paid a price for most of his life, and subsequently became a fentanyl statistic, apparently.
I am terrified of radioactivity. Not in an anti-nuclear-power kind of way, but in a "staying clear of shit like this" kind of way.
That's the correct response. I ain't having my skin melt off any time soon
I think you mean, you have the correct and appropriate reaction and feeling towards radioactivity.
I used to have nightmares about radioactivity as a child. Crazy!
Yeah it's a terrifying thought that something can be so dangerous to you and completely invisible until after you're already royally screwed. As a power source, we've seen from this channel time and again that it can be handled perfectly safely, in fact safer than some other more common power sources, but as a potential danger to encounter in the wild, it's particularly terrifying because you'll never know it hit you until after the fact. Just walking by a 'Drop and Run' tube without seeing it there is enough to put your life in danger.
I've known people who were terrified of electricity that still use light switches. The unrestrained power of a natural force is always scary, but the utility can be safe and common place
"I searched iFunny's website" This constitutes a hazardous exposure far more deadly than any demon core
At least he didn’t have to go into collective since it was in featured for a while.
@pleaseuseOdysee Darwin predicted all of this, you know, ALL OF THIS. Let the fools take their rewards.
@@jeaton1224happy to say ive been off the app for two weeks now
Ifunny is the superior social app
I took in a lungful of air like a drowning man when he said the word ifunny
So you're telling me people thought this was real because of the film grain being introduced on the camera sensor due to the radiation, but then in the second follow up video at 2:42 when he uses the Geiger counter to prove high radiation, nobody noticed that there was no film grain this time? (Even though the lid was open again?)
Finally, someone with brain
I'm less concerned that people were fooled than some nuclear safety expert who didn't notice this.
@@bartink and even after all that obvious bs u still convinced that he's a Real nuclear safety expert? now u sounds like a real concern to me
@@homeland1128 what do you mean that there is not any real safety nuclear experts?
So you're telling me when I watch a random video I have to go watch the entire series and subscribe to every single video they make? maybe people only saw one video and never saw the follow up, as what usually happens with viral videos.
The most normal STEM major
YOUR PROFILE SCARED ME OH MY GOD
@@campingdev5233 all these years I finally got someone :)
@@campingdev5233 same lol
I never thought static would be so scary
That made me shudder...If it's not a staged effect it is sheer terror inducing vibes. Caesium is nasty stuff
*click click click click click click* man, this meter is making some funny sounds!
@@manboy4720 why would you think it's funny?! it's high amounts of radiation that's being detected by that Geiger counter, and high means you should NOT be expose by what it's detecting or you'll face surgeries like this guy did that is easily avoidable in the first place.
Scotch tape will make a crapton of xrays when its unrolled quickly. Its not dangerous, but it is unsettling. Action Lab has a good video on it. Theres a bunch of other youtubers that have captured it on camera too.
My man never played Slenderman
It's rare indeed to have "I searched through NRC documents for an orphaned source of deadly radiation" and "I slid into a rubber pony's DMs for an interview" in the same video.
I was watching this video at work, Kyle started saying "pony play fetish" and it was at that moment the manager decided to start listening and ask me "what's a demon core?" I gotta stop watching videos on speaker...
Lol tru
@@warped_rider Rotfl! It's moments like that which convince me we are entertainment for someone or something, somewhere.. Whether reality show for aliens or personal comedic ant farm for God or a God, whoever or whatever it is, we must provide them w some funny moments I feel 😂
@@patricknez7258 Perhaps this unintentional humour is proof of the whole "Universe is a simulation" theory?
😂
I just want to say "she metal on my gear till its rising" is an incredible username
True, lets make out But only if you want to
I like how Lucas was all like “Yeah, bro. People sell Caesium at the side of the road all the time.”
They sell WHAT casually?!!
I'm sure that in 1985, plutonium is available at every corner drug store.
@@thegardenofeatin5965 crazy
If you see your camera go crazy like that when filming something, you probably don't wanna be near that thing.
You just know a 4channer would use it as a buttplug.
high-level radiation is known to fuck up electronics very easily. it will literally melt circuit boards and wires on the inside.
unless it's just lasers and the dipshits running the venue thought it'd be funny to level them at the crowd
So basically ghost hunters are half right?
@@RedRavenRulerlol that's pretty far fetched
I can easily see how "strange warm rock", "glowing sand" or "pebbles that mess with my camera" would go absolutely viral both on Social Media and in the local area...until it's too late. Especially now that knowledge of what nuclear accidents look like is starting to fade from the public consciousness
Don’t forget about glowing dust. Or salt.
That's basically what happened in Goiânia, if I remember the story well, it was a powder used in X-ray machines or something like that, people took the powder that sparkled and kept messing with it, I don't know if it's true, but I heard say that there was a guy who powdered his dick with the powder and had sex with his wife, and another who gave it to his daughter to play with
I also heard that there was a guy who kept running away from the quarantine zone and pissing on the light and power poles there, leaving them irradiated, causing them to have to be replaced
lol fukishima says what about me everyone always forgetting about me.
I thought it was just Dragon sand from the Eyes of the Dragon!
hi! surgical tech here! skin grafting isn't usually that perfectly rectangular, this looks more like a donor site rather than a recipient site. the rectangular shape comes from the dermatome which is a straight blade and would explain the shape. also, recipient sites would have a "fish net" appearance to them for recipient sites even when healed it is still noticeable in majority of scarring
It's a phalloplasty scar the OP ripped from a bottom surgery database to shit on trans people
It is a donor site. That photo is from a phalloplasty, revealed by the OP going on to talk about a "mystery surgery" that "41%" of people dont survive. The OP is a transphobic POS, and the whole "41%" is the sewer slide rate of trans people. OP is just trying to fear monger about Gender-Affirming care, and used the radiation thing to try and scare people.
it's definitely a phalloplasty donor site. i'm not a surgeon or anything but i am a trans man that's spent hours looking at pictures of scars just like that one.
@foogriffy My guy really tried to pass his phalloplasty pics off as radiation damage. A good a use as any for them I suppose.
@@joe____apparently his account was found to be filled with anti-lgbtq content, so i’m guessing it was someone else’s phalloplasty scars and he used it in order to show the “horrors” of gender affirming surgery by passing it off as a surgery necessitated by a radioactive injury
Kinda crazy how you went down a rabbit hole just to figure out a kink account posted the video mad props to you for figuring it out gained your self a sub
Someone needs to send this to "mainstream media" so they can see what real journalism looks like. Well done, Kyle.
They wouldnt know what real journalism was if it slapped them in the face
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Real journalism doesn’t sell. Mainstream follows the most amount of money and actual investigation like this being short and sweet? They’d be fired for trying to air this.
@@theonewhouploadsnothing1704 Exactly! Nobody wants actual facts, they just want the next source of hype and/or outrage.
after watching the internet historian's documentary on Floyd Collins i realized they've been like this since the 1800s.
The thought of peeking into a container and seeing a tiny little pebble but knowing that seeing it could mean death is terrifying to me. Its like you looked into Medusa's eyes and then had months to think about your quick dumb mistake as you turned to stone
@@cobaltchromee7533 I'd always assumed you were dead once you were turned to stone, I meant it like the process of turning to stone took months
@@Weazle13XIII I was surprised to see that someone misinterpreted what you said. Maybe you could add "instead of the usual seconds" or "instead of the myth-accurate seconds" right after the end of "your quick dumb mistake". (Although, maybe I misinterpreted it too, but in a different way)
@@cobaltchromee7533 this is exactly what OP means. Medusa kills instantly. Here it’s as if you looked at her but you turn into a stone very slowly, with no effect at first. Hence slowed down version of dying - you gazed at a pebble, instead of gazed at Medusa 💁🏻♀️
As you felt your body start to change as it dies and the cells aren't replenished, while expelling your own guts as they fall apart, knowing that your skin sliding off like a wetsuit was only the beginning... It would be a rough few weeks
@CobaltChromeE it was an analogy my guy, I know Medusa kills you instantly, but I'm talking about the topic of the video, I wasn't exactly trying to be lore accurate
The first half kept me engaged, the second whiplashed me so hard I had to step away
long story short its fake
THANK YOU u just saved me so much time
Read this after 15min of watching fml
"some guy in the flea market parking lot" already sounds made-up, its like "hey i bought this thing under suspicious circumstances but i am absolutely not suspecting anything at all"
Thank god
At least it was a good video. Chill
The scariest thing about radiation to me is just how delayed the damage is, and how many of the effects that would warn off an educated person would instead draw attention from the ignorant. People "playing" with radiation without understanding they are killing themselves is horrifying. In some ways the viral video does a better job about showing such a realistic scenario than any demon core memes. As it shows how small and innocuous an orphan source can be.
Absolutely, and it has happened quite a few times. Just look at the Goainia incident, a little girl playing with glittery sand... Horrible.
To be fair, you can replace 'radiation' with 'lead' in that sentence and it'd not really change a thing. Same with 'asbestos' and other happy joy fun things you absolutely don't want to mess with.
@@MayaPosch True but lead and asbestos don't really do anything to make them stand out. They don't make someone who is clueless actively want to mess with it, like something that glows in the dark or messes with cameras would.
What's scary is; how inevitable it is, there's almost nothing that can be done and it makes the victim suffer, almost like torture, from just a seemingly harmless and painless entry.
It's Lovecraftian horrifying stuff. Cthulu drives you mad just looking at him, radiation rots you just for being too exposed to it, and bar for "too exposed" is really low.
I don't care whether it is fake or not, prior to my degree in physics, I was trained in nuclear density testing using Caesium-137 pellets. My immediate reaction was to wince and try to run away when he looked inside and the camera became distorted. In Australia a Caesium pellet was lost in January of 2023 and it became a national incident for good reason. Radiation is scary! It is invisible, you can be exposed without realising it, and many encounters end in an early death. However, the biggest problem with it is that it doesn't kill instantly and the road to death is excruciating. 💀
Yeah I'm currently studying nuclear physics and watched a fellow student brick their phone by playing with a radioactive pellet emitting alpha radiation. Edit we were wearing protective suits and they somehow snuck their phone through
I remember that, did they ever find it?
@@NoPrefect Haha yeah, they eventually found it. It took a couple of weeks and a lot of people. 😅
And that phone became contaminated by said rad exposure
These people are insane.
it's crazy that after a physicist told you gamma rays can pass through a hand you went and believed a containment expert who referred to it as a "sniff test"
Yep, this video is so shit useless. How is noone aware xdxdxdxd
Theres many tests with stupid names, plus a contamination expert is a level higher in this degree
In the creators defense, high energy beta rays can be partially shielded by tissues. Partially, which is why the camera slightly cleared up. But, i still know its fake
I've never been so happy for a creator NOT to include a photo, as I am that you didnt include that welder's injuries.
"I think everyone understands its fake" Meanwhile, Kyle's informant was like "YEP 100 PERCENT REAL DEFINITELY NOT FAKE" lmao. Good on you Kyle putting in the effort to make sure people see that it is a fake though.
Well, the guy was a nuclear expert, not a photoshop expert, so he's at least understandably concerned.
offtopic but nice pfp
Spoilers!!!
@@MeanBeanComedy stop reading the comments and watch the video and u wouldn’t be spoiled
@@kadenk9298 I do both.
When Kyle does his quiet serious voice, I pay extra attention. So imagine how shocked I was to hear serious Kyle talk about pony play in an orphan source video. Strange world we live in.
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Thank you for the warning
Boy, this comment sure was confusing until most of the way through the video.
Pony play is serious business, apparently.
I recently heard the story about the few hunters somewhere in Eastern Europe who found a thing that projected warmth and they slept by it. Turned out it to be the core of an old Soviet era nuclear generator that someone had pilfered. The eventual cleanup crew could only as individuals be within the vicinity of it for like 20 seconds(?) before rotating out. I can't imagine walking by something like that in the woods and never knowing. Just stand in the wrong place, at the wrong time, for a few seconds too many. Edit: lol literally a video available on this channel. Nuclear Bonfire.
For anyone who doesn't want to watch 12:48 seconds of the video to get the actual answer IT'S FAKE
Kyle, thanks for spending hours of your time to research this thoroughly! Thinking that someone could just post a video about an orphaned source and _putting their hand right on it_ is absolutely terrifying.
I figured the video was fake. I've seen radiation "grain" effects on digital cameras and it's usually more sparkly. Also, I figured if the video was real, this story would end up on the news in a week or so after I first saw it on Tumblr.
This exactly, but I bet some people would :(
Recalling the story about the "Nuclear Boyscout," I wouldn't be too surprised.
@@Bacopa68 i dont like how rye was thinking everybody knowing it was fake, he's way too optimistic to think people are that smart... I mean he even fooled someone as educated as Kyle or even higher. On the topic of finding him, I'm surprised there wasn't a 4chan campaign to find him from just his hand shape and stuff on the table
Read about the Goiânia accident. This happened. Even a lot worse
In defense of Lucas, the Nuclear Contamination Expert, he's probably seen shit like this all the time that's 100% legit, so he probably has plenty of reason to have no doubts at all something as stupid as that can actually happen... which in itself is a terrifying thought.
Hmm
Yep, reminds me of the houseMD episode where the kid picks up the radioactive piece from a junkyard his dad works at and dies as a result, which is almost certaintly based off any amount of actual cases where someone takes something radioactive, with no idea of its horrific dangers. this certaintly happens often enough for it to be a recognized issue
@@ungabunga7879 Almost certainly based on the Brazilian incident
@@TastiLead never read anything about it, but a good amount of stuff in the show is based off real incidents so, yeah
Yeah, dumb shit just kind of happens sometimes
The credits gave me the chills... "Until next time." I wish there wouldn't have to be one.
What i've just seen is awesome. Honestly, what a rollercoaster! From the fear of this actually being an event that happened... To hearing a kinky leather guy talk about his nuclear background Great video dude, i enjoyed watching it a lot.
My first reaction was "theres absolutely no way someone would give themselves radiation poisoning for the lulz" but I remember I had the exact same thoughts about people eating tide pods back when that was a thing
Clout is one hell of a drug, and modern humans are addicted.
Theres a sad, viral 4 chan post about a russian Stalker who was chasing radiation and secured some old RAW uncased radiation sources from soviet era systems. Posted an image with his geiger counter going extremely hot along side it, and then vanished. And unfortunately what was in the image was verified. I forget the exact number, but it was the kind of "you wont be alive next month" level of nukage. Everytime I see it, its a mix of memes and just sombre realisation that that dude is certainly dead.
it was only a handful of teenagers that actually ate tide pods, and then a fucking tidal wave of news coverage making it out to be some epidemic
I used to operate a cyclotron in a nuclear medicine pharmacy and we had cesium-137 and cobalt-60 sources that were in trace amounts. Regardless of them being reasonably "safe", we had to do rigorous spot checks throughout the day, everyday, to make sure this stuff was still contained. This story was scary as hell, glad it's fake.
What’s it like working in a nuclear medicine pharmacy? Sounds interesting. Are you a pharmacist, pharmacy tech, or something else?
@nicksurfs1 I was a cyclotron tech/operator (which is basically a circular particle accelerator). It was incredibly interesting, but because of the short half-life of f-18 (radioactive fluorine, used in PET scanning) it had to be made 3rd shift to be ready for hospitals in the morning. Takes a toll on you.
@@_ElisDTrailz no you weren't
They should have jailed the person. There’s numerous laws that would allow for it.
@@XenocideNeckerchief How would you know? Do you know these person?
This takes "the toxicity of social media" to a whole new level.
The most terrifying thing is "experts" like this. 7:47
Hey, experts can be fooled, no ones fool proof. Plus the traning set is probably more general in the contamination experts set, plus he likley had to assume based on the camera fuzz since Im not sure why he would be constantly aware of something as obscure as camera fuzz near ration
The horse mag in the background was a clue nobody looked at twice. Fake videos are usually something I don't find funny, but this man upgraded it to an art.
the person who uploaded this video originally is a horse-themed degen the mag isn't really anything extraordinary or out of character for this guy if anything the entire video was out of character
@@ExceptionallyUndersizedThanos “Horse-themed degen” Is this English?
@@randomjunkohyeah1 degenerate
@@randomjunkohyeah1 yes
@@randomjunkohyeah1 "degen" being short for "degenerate" or "degeneracy"
I was an industrial radiographer. We used Iridium 192 and during training we were told the horror stories of people like that guy whom put a source into their pocket. Like the Yanago incident.
what is so dangerous about this? its just little dots
@@sirgeorgioalastrata4104 go test it and find what’s so dangerous. Tell us what happens afterwards.
@@sirgeorgioalastrata4104 current industrial radiographer. If you’re at the point holding this and having some sort of digital video affect your losing a body part or probably getting cancer in the short to mid future. Your allowed 5R legally a year as a radiographer. Most company’s allow only 350MR a month short of the 500mr your allowed legally a month. It’s potent enough basically to make a dirty bomb that could kill a city, with the radioactive fall out. The sources we use for industrial stuff like weld inspection, or radiographing concrete to take a look at concrete stress cables could range from selenium, iridium or cobalt. Cobalt sources or insanely radioactive, the housing for them is a couple hundred pounds of pure depleted uranium or other dense metals. You hand crank the source out and run like the wind.
@@D9526328443789 if you can't explain why just stfu lmao
@@sirgeorgioalastrata4104 The radioactive particles can be absorbed by human tissue and react causing DNA damage. This will make it so that the cells cannot reproduce and thus this has been described as rotting from the inside out. It's horrific.
The noise really does look like fake noise added by editing software. When you add a small amount it just looks like legit film grain, but adding more and more you start to see shapes in the noise, which you can see in the video.
3:59 The horse magazine on the table makes so much more sense now ;)
This incident, real or not, is just another example showing us that we need to start educating people about radioactivity and nuclear power. Also Kyle's serious voice is scary.
I agree. Instead the popular media, especially here in Germany, teaches us that radioactivity is scary and nuclear waste will kill us all, if the NPPs don't explode first like Chornobyl. The children in German schools are being forced to read 'The Cloud', which is a book that contains basically all anti-nuclear power lies you can imagine, leading to the people rather accepting having a few more thousand people die due to burning coal each year than letting NPPs run longer. There's also a lot of fearmongering about cesium-137 in the forests from Chornobyl, even though the dose you can acquire from even mushrooms isn't any concern. But hey, radiation is scary :)
Absolutely.
Like it or not, it is the inevitable next stage of human civilization, as we demand more and more energy sources. Hush hush about it and think it's just for the scientific people is definitely harmful. The unknown produces fear.
You give humanity too much credit. People even when properly educated will tend to do dumb and dangerous things because they just can.
A lot of people do things for the lols
Did Kyle just become a journalist? Hearing about a story, wondering about its validity and then hunting for the truth, following leads, locating a source, interviewing the creator of the original story and then publishing the story for people to see... Yeah I think that qualifies Kyle as a journalist, hell thats more work then the media does now a days. Well done sir. 👍
He's in fact a science journalist.
Im a journalist now too
@@blahblahgdp Do a journalism for us plz
Actually, Journalist dont do that. They run with the headlines and assume their fact for clicks. Kyle in fact did not do that and I appreciate him for it.
@@AmocideB No no Kyle did what journalists are supposed to do. These "journalists" now a days are little more then propaganda peddlers
Great investigating! I really enjoyed the video - thank you!
"Atomically twisted wounds" is a new terrifying phrase that now exists.
Pretty bitchin' band name too.
Last month or so on Reddit, a user posed a photo of two strange metal objects he had found in the estate of a late relative, asking what they where. They were quickly identified as naked radiation sources, but so old that they were not THAT dangerous. I think the OP sought medical care (with no injuries recorded) and that the sources were taken care of by authorities.
Hot damn that's some Western States shit
So the halflife on those must have been quite high to not post danger anymore
@@Ikxi yes, in theory. But in fact - they can be still dangerous, even after 20-30years and it is very depends of a radioactive material
@@Ikxi High? You mean low, a long halflife would be dangerous for a longer period
@@Renoh74nooooo, low half life means it decays faster, which means you get exposed to more radiation in less time.
Immediately knew it was fake because that camera static wouldn’t have gone away if he put his hand over it, Gamma radiation can pierce through 6 feet of concrete and 1 foot of lead, even that container wouldn’t realistically be thick enough to prevent the radiation from escaping.
Thank you for updating my knowledge with this absolutely essential bit of information
Definitely one of those “I’ve seen enough fake tumblr stories to have significant doubts, but holy shit this could be monumentally serious” reactions when I saw the video. Thanks for doing the due diligence, Kyle!
If the radiation is significant enough to effect the video, it'd also be impacting the memory and CPU equally. A crashed camera makes no video.
It was obviously fake IMO, you just add a cheap video effect and that's it
@@spvillano Not necessarily, there have been examples of invisible radiation affecting the CMOS sensor while still making usable video data. It really depends on the intensity, direction of the source, location of the camera's memory and CPU, and whether or not those electronic components are protected by metal shielding. I imagine alpha or beta radiation would not ruin the camera, but gamma may.
@@mitchellspanheimer1803 metal shielding is even worse, especially with beta. Remember, Cs-137 is a 0.5 Mev beta source and a 0.6 Mev gamma source. Bremsstrahlung radiation will be emitted by metal when a particle impacts the metal atoms, which can then ionize a path through the chip itself. Some plastics would be far more effective in protecting the circuitry than metal. In space, one faces mostly protons and beta, along with x-ray and a touch of gamma, all save the EM generating bremsstrahlung radiation from the spacecraft hull. Thankfully, one doesn't have neutrons or protons to really foul the camera in the case of Cs-137, but damage from gamma should be minimal to absent at that energy level. As a hint, thunderstorms can generate gamma in the 100 Mev range, we don't see cameras failing from that. Pair production is quite unlikely at that flux and energy level. Oh, another tidbit, I-131 is used in nuclear imaging, had such testing done for my thyroid. It puts out around 0.364 Mev, which goes clean through the body to be easily detected. The Cs-137 is harder by a little, but magically was blocked by a hand that should've only barely attenuated some of the beta and not a lick of the gamma. Were such an offer real and I ran into it and could verify it as a source of some type, I'd buy it and call a friend who's a nuclear health physicist to verify by a proper survey. Then, if it was something like Cs-137, call the NRC and the military installation he works at to see who wanted to take custody of the damned thing. Better to get it off the street and market and into proper custody than pray it doesn't turn up used in some terrorist attack or irradiating a neighborhood. I'd also get the tag number of the seller and if possible, the VIN from the dashboard. The NRC would certainly want to have a conversation as to where such a hazardous source originated.
I can appreciate the fact that the person behind this was actually willing to answer your questions about it for the sake of getting a clear understanding. Good on you for both bringing attention to the facts and the morals regarding the scenario, as it definitely falls into that gray area.
Yeah, though the voice distortion made the final conversation a little hard for me to follow, unfortunately. Also rather unnecessary, given it wasn't the person's actual voice.
Just like me
@@hughcaldwell1034 for me it was very helpful as im too lazy to read. so rather necessary
yeah and I got a new fetish out of it so big plus there
@@michahogelo I meant the distortion on the voice was unnecessary, not the voice itself. I'm blind, so for me the audio really was necessary - I wouldn't use "necessary" in your case, if you're admitting it was pure laziness.
As soon as I saw the fuzz, I instinctively said “CLOSE THAT LID IMMEDIATELY!”
My question is how did this random sketchy guy get nuclear capsules
I sincerily think that Kyle's Half life serie should be seen in school. They're highly educative, easy to understand, and Kyle's voice and delivery carries just the right amoubnt of seriousness.
I agree. If I had seen some of these videos in high school physics it would have been super cool
Well said
Maybe cut out the part about them being a pony play account and this video is very school friendly
Are you crazy? The teachers' unions would go batshit. To teach kids is not their goal anymore.
As part of my modern physics course, I showed my high school students the Demon Core video.
I think we should take a moment to realize just how scary it is that Kyle was able to dig up that much information on a person to track them down about a video they had posted years ago. Reminder to be safe with what you post online!
If RyePony hadn't still been active enough on Twitter to answer a DM, or had chosen not to answer, I think the trail would've gone cold for good there, and I'm satisfied with that. Though the metadata scrape didn't turn up the kind of identifying or locating information Kyle was hoping for, it's still a good reminder to consider turning off location tagging on your own photos and videos.
That is a good point from a privacy and security standpoint, though in this case, I believe that this information was used in a positive way. If you're really looking for good information about how to make your devices more secure and private, there are youtubers like TheHatedOne and Mental Outlaw that go way more in depth than just "get a VPN." I highly recommend those two channels, there's a lot of knowledge between them, and they both explain things so even people without a background in IT can understand.
If you enter the public square, you're accountable for what you say and do there.
i mean... yes, always, but what he found is the account that posted the video on twitter. Nothing about the person
digital footprint
i have a nuclear accident every time i eat a triple-cheese pepperoni pizza
The warmth, it tickles.
Radioactivity is one of the few truly terrifying existential threats in my mind. If you stumble across something (or worse don’t even see the object) and are around it for even an hour, you could very well die and there is nothing to be done about it.
The mind comment is most prescient: Statistically, this isn't going to happen - and yet...
There are a lot of chemical threats out there that are just as deadly as radioactivity and most of them don't give any perceptible indication of smell or taste that they're present. Unless you're line-of-sight and quite close to a radioactive source you're almost always safe, not so much for being near a leak of, say, phosgene. The US Chemical Safety Board posts videos on chemical and industrial plant accidents, what went wrong and what the results were. They're a useful rebuttal resource if anyone ever suggests to you that some business is "over-regulated".
This and Prions are my two ‘it’s probably fine but I’m still going to worry’ fears lol
It is only terrifying if you are irrationally afraid of it. At worse you can get a Geiger counter or similar cheap instruments and voilà. Now compare that to real, commonplace poisons that you can't detects and that are actually slowly killing you.
Death from radiation really just means "forced suicide," no point in dying that painfully.
The thing that stood out to me was Kyle's nuclear contamination friend seemed convinced despite the previous expert saying that gamma radiation would go right thru your hand. I would expend a nuclear contamination expert to know this...kinda worrying.
Agreed
I don't recall Kyle saying the two sources talked to each other or had been told what the other said. Assuming both interviews were blind to each other, (benefit of doubt) there are many types of experts and they're not all schooled or trained the same way. The video fellow, for instance, (don't remember his name, sorry,) might be one of just a handful of people doing the kind of work he does, so his knowledge of the video interaction _may be_ relatively unique. I don't know/remember Lucas' history beyond being one of the Chernobyl tour guides that Kyle worked with. His experience with contamination and accidents may be limited to larger, more newsworthy events. I don't know the schooling of either person. Nuclear science has a broad range as any other energy subject, but unfortunately a shallow history due to public phobia preventing energy from being more prevalent. There aren't _that_ many experts out there for this stuff and Kyle's level of academic and journalistic knowledge on the subject is rare, despite him not knowing "everything." (Hence deferring to others on specific details.) Just because info is out there, doesn't mean everybody does or needs to know it. Lots of people doing jobs only have the info they need to do their particular job at that particular company, plus a little more they pick up from coworkers. Even very technical jobs don't always directly rely on one's schooling. ETA: It is worrying that the info can be compartmentalized so much because the knowledge base is relatively small for how important and potentially dangerous nuclear science is. I'm not saying that's not a problem, just that it's not necessarily a fault or deficiency of any given person in this broad field. If anyone is to blame, society and people like coal lobbyists are worthy of scrutiny. We need more people doing nuclear jobs, because we need more nuclear power. (And yes, more study of it to know all the weird crap that can happen when things don't go right.)
Cs-137 is primarily a Beta emitter, and beta can easily be attenuated by a hand. I also don't believe it is correct that gamma radiation is needed to create the static effect in a camera, as anything that interacts with the sensor in the camera at a high enough energy is basically going to turn that pixel white.
@@VoltisArt To add to the defense of Lucas, I wouldn't be suprised if Dr. Seltzman needed to look up what type of radiation Cesium-137 produces. Also, a small correction: Dr. Seltzman (as far as I know) wasn't interviewed. A screenshot email from him was part of the tumblr thread.
One was speaking from the perspective of evidence, while the other was speaking on the believability of the post. Evidence wise, the guy thought it was clearly impossible for it to be real. On the side of "believability" making an assumption that something is real just because "who would go so far to fake this?" is a realllly bad approach, especially when looking at things on the internet.
This video harkens back to the 2000 Samut Prakan Cobalt 60 incident in Thailand. Fascinating read. Horribly painful injuries and 3 dead due to ionizing radiation from exposing the Source. Incidentally the Cobalt 60 rod that was the source of the radiation exposure was clearly marked with what was at the time considered to be the universal descriptor for radiation along with the phrase (in English) Drop and Run.
The video with the meter (Geiger counter?) had none of the static. I didn't catch that until you had done the entire dive into finding the dude and the original video.
I think the fact that it was done well enough to make people question: "is this a fake?" is the worrying part of this meme. I remember seeing it blow up on Imgur and even I wasn't sure if it was legit or not. I am glad that it is a fake, but to Rye Pony's point, it has sparked a broader discussion about orphan sources and the need to be careful of them out in the world. I am grateful that both you and Plainly Difficult do cover and discuss these accidents in order to educate the masses on how dangerous they can both be, and how innocent they can look if you are not paying attention.
I think Plainly Difficult does just too much disaster porn.
I mean, i just assume people don't get a hold of orphan sources aside from 4chan
@@angrydragonslayer might wanna watch the whole video then. He talks about how plausible it is to find them abandoned.
we're about to hit the age of AI produced CGI, governments are going to explode if people don't start to get a handle on the fact that video's are not proof without additional supporting evidence
@@Hamstray Why else do we watch it? He has a second channel about recording music with some good tunes.
As someone who’s been trained with adobe premire and after effects, i have to say that the radiation grain effect is INCREDIBLY easy to make, its kinda concerning to me that something i can do in two or three clicks could fool the world like this
wait- how was the world fooled?? I'm pretty sure nobody in the biden administration or any of our NATO partners took it seriously, i neglected to see even one article reporting on it in the real news media like WAPO or the TIMES, so if people were fooled it was just kids and gullible people on social media, right? I mean "fooling the world" would require the world being aware that this even happened, and it was completely a new thing for me, and i'm even more addicted to social media than anyone in my family(who also had no idea this even happened)
Is not fool the world but is better to be safe then sorry and if it even smells like radioactive material run away.
@@dish9849 So no more bananas then?
Sure but it looks fake af
@@eg0zb what looks fake
when he said " I wonder if there's any other way to help me" I knew it was a play at a gofundme. I also imagine they got shaken up by someone saying they shouldn't be making this shit up.
Anytime one is analyzing something as being real or fake, if you ever hear them say something like "why would they do it in the first place" or "what's their motivation for faking it" you know they are Mulder-they want to believe. Confirmation bias will win and you will never come to a logical answer. I love that Kyle kept digging. And I love more that this was 10 mins in Premiere and so many thought it was real lol.
After Australia's recent "orphan source" incident (it "fell" out of a truck convoy carrying equipment) - I've become a LOT more aware of the potential dangers of these things. Love the video, Kyle. I just wish more actual journalists would exercise at least a modicum of the due diligence that you do.
Oh Aussies
Some sources say we were creating an orphan source every 3 days back in 2021
He had more time than your average journalist, and could make good use of it. That is the crux of modern information. You recieve an endless stream of it, and even deciding which of all that is supposed to become part of your output, takes more time than you have to do your work. As a result, the quality of journalism deteriorates, and this in turn makes the work of common journalists so superficial that the confidence in what they are doing, is declining as well. With dire consequences to our political landscape.
I remember thinking "yeah some dumbcunce are gonna find it, play with it and die from rad sickness"
At least it was out the back of bumfuck nowhere 🤣🤣🤣
The most worrying fact in this entire case is the nuclear physicist saying that orphaned sources are often found at flea markets... Even if the video was fake, enough orphaned sources are out there to convince an expert that it might as well have been real 😰
Yeah, returning to that point would have made an excellent conclusion. Yes the video was fake, yes it educated people, yes it may have also been slightly harmful for a variety of reasons, but the true horror is that it's an apparently highly plausible story.
If I were a betting man I would say in most cases it comes in the form watches. As they used radium paint as luminescence for decades. Toys are another source but they are incredibly rare. It could also tritium if you are looking for it in the form of gun sights and there are a few watch companies that use tritium tubes for luminescence. My point is yes you can find orphan sources at flea markets. What you won't find are hunks of cesium in homemade containment units.
Could a cesium pellet have been sourced from the inside of an old x-ray machine? If so, think of how many x-ray machines there are, and therefore how common this threat could be.
Often means almost never.
thats what terrified me too... crazy. that new 100$ bill tho...... eek
This felt a little different to your usual schtick but i quiet liked it. you always have good presentation
Great video. I appreciate your hard work.
All I'm saying is: I knew nothing about Orphan sources, and I'm the kind of person who would buy something like it for some unfathomable reason. So: at least for me, this video has legitimately made me aware of a danger. I had no idea you could actually buy something like that.
I'm the kind of idiot who buys oddities, and I don't frequent flea markets, but yeah...
Bro same, I buy weird random stuff all the time from places like that. I had no idea that could actually happen
I am the *exact* type of person who would find something like this and be like "is there anything cool inside?" and open it.
Buying it is one thing, the scarier thing is occasionally its possible to literally find something like this at the roadside or hiking.. fairly rare to find a source that way for sure but far from impossible
well, it's highly illegal
A nuclear accident went WHAT
The viruses are nuclear now??? 😳😳😳
Viral, but not in a virus way
THEY'RE GOING VIRAL NOW???!!!
Wait til a virus goes nuclear, you'll lose your sh1t
Venereal
well done Kyle
Goosebumps. I hope and pray I never see a cobalt-60 drop & run IRL.
Yeah, after seeing the surgery scars and then the "41% suicide" comment it was pretty clear to me the person was just a troll. Also, I love how the most replayed moment for this video was when Kyle mentioned "Pony Play" for the first time. Love it.
yeah it was fairly obvious at that point 💀💀
Came here to say this. I think it deserves some more attention because it’s just glaringly obvious to me, as a trans person, that the phallo scar image poster is probably not op but also just a transphobic troll. “after I’ve done this to myself […] walking around looking like a freak”, “41% of people who go through this surgery don’t make it long term”, “makes you wonder if there’s another way to help me”…. Like come on!!! That’s definitely just a terf being an ass off the back of a viral post just for the sake of it, no f*ckin shame 🙄
@@Sprite_real_ assuming you’re genuinely asking : - 41% is a figure often touted by transphobes, it’s the suicide rate of trans people. people waving it around often complete wave off the fact that this is inflated by the hostile environment we live in. - “i’ve done this to myself [and I’m a freak now]” is pretty self explanatory. common point among transphobes that trans people are ugly, don’t pass and look disfigured. - “makes you wonder if there’s another way to help me” common argument among gender criticals and terfs ; trans people shouldn’t transition according to them and their point is conversion therapy should be the answer to every instance of gender dysphoria/incongruence. - “I’m just following the science” is just an expansion of the last point, it’s pretty much the idea that “science” got it wrong and trans people are delusional and the scientists working on gender reassignment therapies just don’t want to hurt our feelings and are after the money of what they deem to be an expanding “market” regardless of the fact that many healthcare professionals not only often refuse us healthcare a lot but also make it purposely difficult for us to access it in the first place. this whole idea is often linked with antisemitic conspiracy theories linking trans healthcare to affluent jewish people supposedly funding it. If you’re genuinely curious about how deep this sort of thing goes I suggest Shaun’s video on a british transphobic activist whose relationships within that sphere span closer and closer to antisemites trying to etch themselves into mainstream politics. All these dog whistles serve an important goal of plausible deniability when we point them out. On the surface, it does all seem to be possible coincidences but to a trained eye they are very blatant. I didn’t catch them on my first watch, either, I only noticed it when showing the video to my fiancé and catching the 41% mention and then everything just fell into place. I also noticed the mention of them being a transphobe by a random reddit account on a screen cap a little before that segment.
@@Sprite_real_ the surgery is a photo of a skin graft taken for FTM transitional surgery, and "41%" is a transphobic joke regarding a statistic from a few years ago regarding rates of suicidal ideation among transgender people.
"makes you wonder if _anyone should be doing this at all_ or _theres another way to help me"_ "whatever im just following the science" is a very very nonsensical thing to say about their situation?? it literally only makes sense if you realize what theyre talking about. so genuinely annoying
In a world where people may just be dumb enough to post a real orphan source, I feel like videos such as this one you've made make a major difference in the grand scheme of things. Huge respect to the effort that went into this.
Thankfully, this person was just horsing around.
The thing is, if they don't know its an orphan source, its really not their fault. I can see this happening with a real orphan source that emitted gamma radiation, causing the camera to become fuzzy as it would. Someone with no knowledge of this would think its neat that the item would cause the camera to do this every time it was opened or exposed to the lens. Can you really call them dumb for that? Though in all honesty, there is defiantly people out there dumb enough to do this with full knowledge of what they are about to do and the risks associated, and yet they do it for the clout and 15 minutes of fame. There are prank youtubers who have been shot and killed for "pretending" to mug/rob someone.
@@GerardMenvussa I see what you did there. And I don't think the person who made that video is entirely stable.
@@neuralmute Hay, that's not farrier
@@PilotTed Phone cameras have the capability to determine if they are blasted with radiation, what i don't understand is why is the camera app not programmed to warn people if the thing they are filming or shooting is radioactive... It's fairly easy to determine there is something blasting the sensor and circuitry with beta, gamma or X-rays...
I can't believe someone can make such a big deal out of an obvious shitpost
this is the new content formula waste someones time but make it look pretty
fr, this video could have been 30 seconds had he not wanted to pass all the time he wasted to conclude was everyone already knew onto us "is this video fake?" "well I found the original post and they said it was"
@@Sarcastitonea Did TikTok rot your brain so badly that you'd believe anything people say online without explanations? The detailed process of his research with the proof that what he is saying is true, is exactly what makes the video so interesting to watch. The only way to condense it down into 30 seconds is by leaving out the most interesting parts. Is this video fake? - "It's fake cause this person said so" - Okay, who is that person? - "They're the original poster" - How do we know they are the original poster? - "Their ponyplay account was the first source of the video I found" - How did you find it? - "I reverse image searched an iFunny post" - Why did you reverse image search that? - and so on and forth. By the time you actually properly prove all your claims, you have an entire video again.
@@joao34386 Did TikTok rot your brain so bad that you need every obvious faked video explained into miniscule details? There was never arguing about the fact that this video is a fake. It was bait and idiots like you obviously fell for it and now you need some kind of explanation to feel better about yourself because you feel like a complete idiot. The video above is even worse than the faked video. Because Kyle hill knows that the video is faked but refuses to acknowledge that up until almost the end of the video.
@@joao34386 the funniest part is Kyle is clearly speaking for Rye Pony with a filter on. Identical cadence and sentence structure. Bruh 😂
That was an amazing story and fun video. I wouldnt worry about people faking such, in fact it make people more aware about the danger of orphan sources.
At least one thing that I hope comes out of this is that more people get educated on what an orphan source is and what to do if they find one.
I hope I NEVER need to use this knowledge of what orphan sources are if I'm totally honest
@@al145 Well, personally if someone was like "hey look at this cool sealed, hollow, thick metal cylinder I found" I just... wouldn't screw with it.
@@colbyboucher6391 yeah, that's how you end up as a news article. Like those people that find old WWII bombs in their backyards and stuff.
I do bullet casting to shoot old black powder guns (civil war and earlier) and these lead cylinders from radiation treatments are a common source of good lead for bullets. I've never heard of anyone getting one that was still hazardous in anyway, but I can imagine it happens every now and again.
And at least one person learned what pony play was
It's scary how hard it can be to find out if something is real or not these days. And it's only going to get worse.
If it makes you feel any better, it's always been this hard. We just have mass communication so we as a population can start to see the man behind the curtain. Fun fact: AI machine learning has been used by the US government since the 60's. It's been used on the USS Toledo (SSN-769) submarine for a long time to passively interpret sonar, so who knows what crap was faked in the last 40 years...
The better technology gets at CREATING fakes, the better technology needs to get at DETECTING fakes.
@popdewoze not being literal but it definitely feels like some "I have no mouth and I must scream."
@popdewoze Remember the DCS Ukraine dogfight fakes? yeah...
@@jerryhook5906 We need DS9 type "IT'S A FAKE" detection, otherwise, photo, video and audio evidence becomes useless in a court of law
The way the film grain just bubbles through the footage like a lightning-fast noxious gas made me shudder!
LMAO the life magazine Pony I mean horse in the background plays a whole other level to the video of trolling.
the idea that something that radioactive and is found and sold at flea markets all of the time is genuinely one of the scariest things I'll be thinking about for the rest of my life now
It is not true however, the seller would open the capsule to see if anything of value is inside and they would get sick before they could even take it to the market. It makes absolutely no sense, how do you price something if you don’t know what it even is? Also big searches are conducted when these materials go missing.
"I'll let you have that static rock and funny tube for $20. This other guy said he would take it for $30 though..."
Thanks for putting in the work on this Kyle. It would be terrifying to think an orphan source had killed some dummy and was just sitting on a shelf somewhere.
The video brought awareness to that possibility and radiation saftey needed.
How would he be in legal trouble? He bought something at a flea market not knowing what it was.
Ignorance of the law does not exempt you from it.
You have no idea how relived I am to know this was just done for the funnies
It reminds me about those videos where someone had "holes" in their finger, and for some reason the doctor called the police, trying to drum up drama. Long story shot, it was fake, the pictures used were easy to tell that they were photoshopped.
We do a little trolling
Yeah, this is 100% a story where someone would be dead if it hadn't been faked.
I'm Brazilian and your video on the Goiânia accident made me take a detour on a recent trip to see the city for the first time. To this day, everyone who has suffered from the disaster gets paid 960R$ (194 USD) a month by the government, which, in my opinion, is far from enough to cover even basic needs, let alone medical bills. They want the city to build a memorial about the accident, but it has been denied for years. I passed through street 57 and the only thing that hints to the massive disaster that unfolded there is a small plaque and the stories the residents are willing to share with you. An artist, named Siron Franco, has made two projects about the city and presented them to the mayor's office for aproval, they were both denied. It seems that the idea of a memorial being built five years after the accident took place was just a political strategy to get votes, they never did anything about it.
That incident is memorialized in the textbooks of nuclear science. Memorial or not it will never be forgotten.
@@patrickhenry1249 I'd vote for that; but it'll never pass congress, the house of commons, or whoever makes laws locally; because they themselves would be at risk of being kicked out for lying. Good idea, but impossible to enact, because human nature. Like the argument that Communism could work very well; but human nature prevents it from succeeding, because the wrong people are always in power. I love that Canada claims to be a democracy, but it's a lie. We are so manipulated into voting how they want, that it is anything but a democracy. I'll stop at that before this turns into a virtual nuclear war as politics/religious topics tend to do.
@@patrickhenry1249 I'm with you. We actually had a protest like this a few weeks ago in our city due to pomises that were never completed.
The fact that they did that as a political stunt pisses me off
@@antonioarroyas7662 I know, it's not about publicity though, it's about paying respect to the victims of this accident by giving them something to be remembered for. It may be surprising to anyone who reads this, but most people in my country aren't aware of this tragedy, especially the new generations. It bothers me because it was promised five years after the accident that a memorial was going to be built to honor the victims, and it played a huge role in the elections that follow. It's a complete lack of respect and slap in the face of society.
I knew something was up when the static was absent from the counter video
Damn I’m so glad. Mad props for goin dis in-depth
Rye Pony's "voice" reminded me of the old NurdRage videos so much that I had to go back and watch to make sure it wasn't them.
What had me questioning it was that the static is gray-scale. It seems very odd to me that gamma radiation would elicit the exact same spectral response in the R,G, and B cells of the camera sensor.
My guess is it's completely saturating a bunch of detectors, so the middle of the affected area is white and only the fringes are colorful, but barely noticable due to converdions/size etc
@@KarolOfGutovo Pretty dumb guess since the video confirms that it's a casual hoax lol
Digital cameras do not have unique sensors for RGB. These sensors only pickup "if light is present." They have 3 of the same exact sensor with a colored filter over the one assigned to that color, so that one color goes to one sensor and all other colors do not go to that sensor. It combines the output of all 3 to make a full color image. A filter will do nothing to radiation. Since digital cameras, effects and editing are well understood, this is an easy hoax to make online.
@@freedustin But each colored filter is for one specific sensor. The data from 4 sensors (2 green, 1 blue, 1 red) gets combined into one RGB pixel. If radiation were to activate multiple closeby sensors, the sensors would most often be part of different RGB pixels, leading to colored noise. I see now that it is even more extreme nowadays: there are phone camera's with 4 sensor per color filter patch. So data from 8 green sensors, 4 blue sensors, 4 red sensors, from 2, 1, 1 green, blue red filters is combined into one RGB pixel.
@@kedrednael the sensors are tiny and right next to each other. the radiation will hit them all at the same time producing grayscale results. Also there is the fact that these sensors do not even pick up radiation in this spectrum to begin with. Its likely the radiation is causing electrical interference in the wires at every stage of the device so whatever output happens is just fked up.
As troublesome as the potential incident could be, this kinky person has probably raised awareness of how these objects and their spicy air could very well end your curiosity. Many people will have learnt not to play with this sort of item and what can happen while the fascination may have lead some down a rabbit hole of learning. Something like this meme made into an actual safety advert could have once been a valuable tool ironically before such a meme could be created.
Huh
I don't ever want to read one of these comments again, begone foul soul. Not the stuff about spreading radiation poisoning awareness just everything before that.
Lol you know nothing of the folly of man
Spicy air! 😂
A reblog of that video is actually how I found out about this channel a couple months ago :)
Wow what a well constructed video , thanks
The funny thing is, that meme DID educate me about orphan sources and the danger they pose... I had never heard of them before, had little to no interest in nuclear energy or accidents, but I came across it on Tumblr, the replies lead me to this channel, and now I've watched the Half-Life series and other video essays on similar topics that I never would have thought I'd be interested in.
I don’t think the meme educated me; Kyle’s explication of the meme did, though.
@@nlald well it certainly raised awareness which is what the guy said he thought it would do. Same here- never heard of them before this video and without said meme, this video wouldn't exist.
So memes are not ALWAYS a waste of brain cells!
I was an industrial radiographer in the Air Force, and during radiation safety class, we had to do these case studies on people who had acute radiation exposure for some reason or another, and there was one guy who was using a natural source (basically a radioactive rock in a lead box with a door you can open) to take X-rays. He got confused about which position on the switch was open and which was closed, and he was accidentally leaving the box open while changing the film and nuking the hell out of his hands. By the time he realized his mistake, it was far too late to save his hands and they had to be amputated. The pictures haunt my nightmares.
horrifying. stuff of nightmares. this is why we need education around how harmful radiation is
Dude...😮
blud was making home-made x-ray
Like they where hacked off right there? I'm confused. And dumb
@@toobig7150 No, they started rotting, he had to go to a hospital where they were amputated.
7:00 the static from these "visual artifacts" look just like my visual snow 😅
Honestly I absolutely hate when people run an image through tin eye and when it finds nothing they assume it’s nowhere else, I have MANY MANY times been unable to find an image through tin eye but then using something else find copies from tons of places.
The ending can be interpreted in a far more sinister way than usual here. “I am at least glad that this isn’t history’s first example of social media literally ‘going nuclear.’ Unfortunately, of course, we might not be able to tell if and when it actually does…until next time.”
I start to think about getting radiation detector given number of orphan sources floating around and not just that but amount of just data related radiation from phone and internet antennas. For some just the EM radiation alone from home appliances can cause negative effects to their health, most likely effecting iron in their blood.
@@Hellsong89 Bro. Learn the difference between ionizing and non-ionizing radiation please. Antennas and the internet aren't giving you cancer, it's non-ionizing electo-magnetic radiation. If you're so concerned about getting irradiated, never go in the sun again because it is giving you ionizing radiation, and cancer.
Oh well, nuclear. I mean, we already have influencers. Something less bad than that, such as nuclear accidents is kind of like a point we've already passed. 😉
@@nvelsen1975 just like a kitchen knife, one moment of complacency can be dangerous.
@@Hellsong89 I got a little Geiger counter off of Amazon. Best 100 bucks I ever spent. The only thing it doesn´t measure is FUN. And alpha lol. I wouldn´t worry about phones and stuff though. I have alot of uranium glass and radium clocks, and my levels are still at normal background.
Nuclear materials are scarier if you don't understand them or how easy it is to get around. information keeps everyone safe, even if we don't think it. Thank you Mr. Hill for keeping this series going, its been a big help to begin explaining to others about the subject.
Idk knowing how painfully and decisively radiation can kill me is a lot scarier than ignorance. The only saving grace of knowing this information is now i know i havent come across any dangerous orphan sources in my life, because id already be either dead or crippled if I did.
@@dane1382 well if it is any consolation, you recieve plenty of naturally occuring radiation from space and from the nuclear decay happening under our feet, why its important to have well ventilated basements to prevent Radon build up.
scarier when you understand them, and consider world ending weapon stockpiles, plus every commercial reactor in existence being weaponizable, we've been one decision away from the end at least twice in just a century.
@@MorphingReality humans and this planet are far more resillient than you'd honestly ever give credit for. this is the same planet that's had millenia of ash and fire, volcanic explosions and an asteroid slap it. life finds a way, we find a way.
@@swapertxking on the contrary, i often make the claim that the biosphere is somewhat paradoxically both fragile and resilient in different ways. but civilization doesn't survive nuclear war.
Now I can only see the house magazine I the background of the video lol
0:44 haha Lucas must be new to the internet
I was there during the Goiania incident, I used to live just a few miles away from the site and I very much appreciate how much attention you bring to that event Kyle. Thank you so very much.
One thing to take into consideration while reverse-searching an image, is that most types of changes done to an image will make it impossible to find the original source. Sometimes, cropping an image, reducing its resolution, size, or changing its orientation or mirroring it, will give you 0 results after. As much I'm glad the video is indeed fake, I also found funny to consider that you had to learn about pony play :p
I'm not afraid of the radiation. If it kills me it kills me. I'm afraid of what happens if Kyle joins such a fetish group and decides we need to be involved too.
only issue i'm having with this is that he completely passes over the fact that the original tumblr post stated that the twitter account was fake and not him
@@jeffreykirkley6475 the problem is, orphan sources so abandoned by death makes that form of death communicable, as others then expose themselves unknowingly.
as ml researching adressing this will become less of an issue
The hell is pony play? Edit: Nevermind
The thumbnail had me confused i thought it was the louder with crowder dude