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ok :D

interesting

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Can we show some respect for these animators? The quality of their work is amazing!

Personally, I think the animation style is the exact same as in other science channels.

Can you link a example, I’m sure there is differences.

Yeah, I love the smove shiny style of the anination

ikr. that definitely was some impressive stuff. The explosions were beautifully animated!

As a brazilian, it was a huge honor to host this event so you all can see. Thanks for the oportunity, and you'rel welcome

You would get obliterated

Atleast the radiation will kill forests before fire do

Thank you for your service! We’re a little jealous that you’ll feel nothing at all while we wait here halfway around the world for our turn.

R.I.P u if ur in Brazil aka South America

@7 year old YouTuber gringos being gringos, probably american. I dont need your RIP dude, im very well, thanks.

"Just to show nature who's boss." -Mankind, 250000 years and counting

Based

Based mankind.

We should always keep our ace a secret just in case mother Earth stop playing by the rule book. Based human

Currently it's 300000 years and counting, but still based human

More like "just to show that Brazil is a piece of-" I would bad been dead if the bomb exploded irl

"But at this point, it really doesn't matter anymore." It's grim when lethal radioactive fallout covering the planet is the least of our problems.

Detonating a billion nukes in the amazon rainforest is probably the most Brazil thing I've heard this month

IM DEAD 💀

@itsmeft24 me to

@itsmeft24 bro lived in the forest

It also seems like a USA thing,i mean,they have the N-word bombs and also the people there hate Brazil for some reason.

The massive crater on the Earth at the outro was a very nice touch indeed, not to mention all the blink-and-you'll-miss-it bits of humor strewn around the video. Keep up the great work! :D

The Land of Ooo be like:

“Let’s put our nuke in the middle of the Amazon, just to show nature who’s boss” *Humanity goes extinct* *Nature survives*

It didn't tho, i mean humanity didn't went extinct

It is EXTREMELY DIFFICULT to kill all of nature, unless you literally destroyed the planet (I don’t mean burning the surface to the ground, I mean literally breaking the planet into dust) and even then nature wouldn’t die immediately thanks to these microscopic creatures called “water bears”

@Q Anon The intelligent life appearing in the video a few million years after had three fingers and a tail. Humanity did go extinct if the only people surviving live in submarines and bunkers.

@K. That was if we mined all uranium on earth and turned it into nukes tho, not the initial all nukes on the amazon

@ONE we cant destroy nature our lives depend on nature

The thing I absolutely love about this channel is their ability to put horrifying events into perspective, like they get down to every detail

Also, the cutesy animations really help lower the level of dread one would feel watching a video like this.

@Connor Jones Duck

@Connor Jones imagine this but with real world looking animation

What if kurgzesart is from an alternate world where all these accidents happened and its trying to educate us to stop it happening again

6:32 At least even if humanity eventually dies out of nuclear war, life on Earth will still find a way to go on. This is slightly heartwarming.

yea that made me feel better

@v loll!

In a billion years our galaxy would have collided with another one, earth would have been engulfed by the sun and so on. Not so heartwarming now is it?

@the war storyteller I know Earth will die at some point, mr. nice guy, but it will take much, much more than one million years.

@the war storyteller life and death, two faces of the same coin. Take gratefully what is bought for you

To think that humans could wipe out litterally everything in a couple minutes is insane.

To be honest it would be hilarious to have a situation where you have to question just why a species chose self destruction by nukes

Putin is as mad as this

Far Cry New Dawn

@brunooadas vs u mean..

Because it was funny to do

Thank you for creating a wonderful video. I am Japanese. My grandpa's friends experienced new clear damages for a long time. such as leukemia, cancer, blindness and infertility. It was terrible to image. Absolutely NO nuclear war should ever happen.

But you guys pour some nuclear water to the ocean🤣

​@Seren AzumaWHICH is filtered, while China releases a lot of unfiltered Radioactive water which causes environmental damages to the Corals, Fish, Planktons, and etc.

That's a pretty intense gender reveal

I like this this is funny

But does green mean it's Shrek?

@Genesis Yes Gesis shrek is gender

ITS A BOOOOOOOYY

Uhh what time did the gender reveal happen in the time of the vid

When he says "The Earths crust rings like a bell" followed by that music, it never fails to give me goosebumps. I understand its purely hypothetical but the thought around that much destruction on that scale (followed with powerful music) Just give me such a feeling of awe.

Yeah it sounds like the beginning of ragnarock when one of the Norse gods blows a horn to signal the end of days

it`s because you were the special sensitive school quiet kid

Thats because the music is picked correctly to manipulate your emotions.

THE GREAT CORNHOLIO Yes. Im glad you realize the video is just manipulating your emotions and your fear is not a genuine one.

I read somewhere a while back that the Chicxulub impact probably rang Earth like a bell.

1200 hours for this 8 minute video? That is insane. I had no idea THIS much work, time and dedication went into a video.. Def earned my like.

Same here 😊

1200 hours divided by the amount of people working on it..

@Jiří Krajňák even if 1200 people worked on it each for an hour, 1200 * 1 is still 1200 hours for one video. Good math there buddy Just because it's a lot of people doesn't mean it's not an insane amount of time for a video, especially only an 8 minute long video that's animated (i.e. they don't have to find locations, hire actors, get props, etc.).

I love how he says it so calmly while the situation is meaning basically all life dying and he doesn't care one bit.

I predict this video will start getting a whole lot more views in the upcoming weeks/months...

I hope not.

@Saeed Ghadiri I REALLY hope not.

it has already started

🙂

I agree

The real danger isn’t an isolated single large detonation, but strategic detonations over the largest population centers. I think fortunately or unfortunately, depending on your perspective I suppose, most of the nuclear war would be limited to the northern hemisphere. Prevailing winds should be favorable for less radioactive fallout in regions south of 30 degrees.

"So, how did they go extinct?" "They blew up the planet just to see what would happen."

To be honest, that isn't the weirdest thing us humans have done.

“I told you they were dumb”

It's reasonable seeming it kills all anti vaxers

Hmm sounds about right

A bird landed on the trigger, thats how it happened.

Thank you for all the work you do. The world is much smarter with videos like this. All of the people on the team definitely deserves to live a happy and fulfilling life on planet earth. Tho wouldn't it be cool to live or even just visit space!

this is the best apocalypse story i've heard in a while. If someone makes a movie out of this story with good vfx and characters,it would be a massive hit

War...war never changes

why on earth would every government plan and agree to detonate every single nuclear warhead in one place? that's the stupidest movie plot i've ever heard of

I mean, this assumes the combination of all the nukes will have the same yield as the sum of its parts. With such a violent reaction a ton of material will just get blown away before it can go boom. Even if the nuke were synced perfectly, you would still have to deal with the explosions’ interference with each other.

'If intelligent life reemerges after this they will eventually find a thin layer of uranium covering the entire earth, along with signs of our civilization and be very confused' - yea I'd imagine it'd be pretty confusing to find there was ancient intelligent life, only to find they blew themselves up for no particular reason.

@random guy I mean, it's more the idea of them finding that we piled all the nukes in one place and blew them up with no discernible reason, not really the capability of doing so.

I honestly think they'd agree that we were attacked by aliens, rather than guess humans are stupid enough to destroy themselves like this

So the fact that this mostly took into account medium yield uranium nuclear fission bombs makes it all the more terrifying when the thought of a high yield hydrogen/thermonuclear fusion bombs enter the chat- because the radiation they spew is no joke, let alone their much better efficiency-

I think the biggest takeaway here is that even if we amassed all the uranium in the entire earth, it would only be *on par* with a space rock. Space rocks are crazy man

Kinetic energy from stellar impacts are crazy.

Menthols That’s exactly how NDT would like to see the Space Force (or currently the Air Force Space Command) develop into. Watched him talk about it on Joe Rogan. A Space Force to clean-up the junk in atmosphere as well as detect and defend from space rocks. Currently, Tyson states space to space warfare would not be possible without technology and understanding of physics. He also pointed out a treaty that requires peace among all nations in space yet he thinks that only goes so far because we need to learn to have peace on Earth before ever thinking peace in Space would be a reality.

e=mc^2........c^2!! kinetic energy is king "space rocks" move fast very fast, as long as they are big enough to survive the atmospheric burn up then they are dangerous and yea nukes have deadly fallout but large 'space rock' literally cause mass extinction events... they can cause all sorts of havoc including dust in the atmosphere blocking out sun light for decades and triggering volcanic/seismic events...

So much for "being boss" Oh those humans Whats especially chilling is the "Life would recover to a more prosperus level than it ever was when humans were still around" ...

Michael Hollinger your use of Joe Rogan and Tyson as credible vetted sources of information baffles me

“It contains the energy of the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs” Oh God “Except it’s also nuclear” OH GOD

“Expect it has an even bigger long term effect”

Take my comment as a grain of salt, the Hiroshima bomb had the power of about 16,000 tons of TNT, multiplied by 10 billion would be.... 160 Teratons of TNT, the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs had about 72 teratons of power, if anything this was over twice as strong

This was a phenomenal masterpiece. Every bit of information made sense and the animations were very satisfying. One fact that surprised me was how Earth would just go back to regular life like having infinite endurance. I couldn't believe that you guys spent 1200 hours to make this one video. I'll definitely see if I can support Kurzgesagt in the future.

1200 hours of work for a 8 minute video? If only 9000 people saw this 8 minute video, the amount of time they collectively spent in watching it would pay its making time! And it was already seen by millions! Pretty good and efficient job would I say!

The winking at Fallout are just priceless. The Power Armor helmet and the Vault’s blast door opening.

They do references like this in every video and I absolutely love trying to spot all of them. I've watched a few today and, aside from Fallout, I've seen Portal, Pokemon, and Ice Climber references

Omg! I was seeking for this tutorial for like, YEARS! Thank you very much! The tutorial it self is so detailed! 🤩💥

"tutorial" what

A teacher from the new species: “So, why did humans go extinct?” Children: “To show nature who's boss”

You sure it’s not supposed to be the children asking the teacher?

@Solivagant I thought like she was just asking them to be sure they learned, I thought it sounded funnier

@ClankyRex Ah, yeah. Makes sense.

No regrets, It's a good tale

I can't stop laughing!!!

Kind of uplifting to hear that even if we made a dedicated effort to destroy it, nature keeps going

6:01 I love that you added the T-45 Power helmet as a nod to the fallout games, but I would've loved to see a rebreather and Geiger counter to symbolize the Metro games as well. Those 2 game series have my undying love when it comes to post-apocalyptic survival RPGs.

dude the very first thing i thought when i saw this is there has to be a fallout refrence somewhere

​@SUCTION CUP MANyeah me too

Olso ofter that theres the vault door from fallout 4

This one made me chuckle quite a bit. Thanks everyone for putting in the hard work!

The fact that humanity's possible extinction weapons is right here with us is terrifying

Someone please correct me if I’m wrong, but won’t it be very difficult to synchronize the detonation of all bombs? If one goes off milliseconds before the rest, it would destroy them before they explode, and would just spew out the core material without it going critical

ARE YOU CRAZY

Make all the bombs the same exact bomb like making all the nuclear bonbs the exact same

Can we just take a moment and acknowledge the amount of effort and high quality each video contains!

It's amazing

idk seems like a lot for the amount of views. i guess they can justify it somehow

Except this video about this totally irrelevant question

well tbh i could do with lower quality animation and such it looks good but.. its just not needed

Mikkel H it is. His video quality encouraged me to subscribe. I love his videos and the quality of them. He should never change it to worse.

I love how they turn numbers and statistics and percentages into beautiful videos! So far they are the only thing that make me hold my breath, especially videos that talk about big things like space and all

I think the most weirdly fascinating part of this video is how intelligent life in like millions of years could figure out what happened.

It's crazy that even with all the power we have we still don't have the capability to make this planet lifeless forever

What would happen at the exact point where the blast wave meets on the opposite side of the planet? Do all points just meet, go through each other and head back to the blast zone where the blast originated?

I imagine they'd get distorted because of all the bumps of the earth at the first time already, so it'd be trying to guess the impact of a butterfly shaking it's wings on a wind current 3 weeks from now, it'd be more or less random and they'd start to intersect each other right away after starting to come back...

The moment that he compared the gigantic pile of bombs to a volcano was the moment it was clear that the earth would be fine even if humanity wasn’t

4:59 “bedrock is vaporized instantly” Steve: *impossible.*

He gonna fall into the void real fast

XD

Yasssss Minecraft

lol

Steve: Wait, that’s *illegal*

The fact that this is possibly what might happen nowadays is scary af

March 1 2022 Russia at war with Ukraine .

We are certifiably boned

Definetly not Even the all nukes stuff probably wont happen

@Mr. Majestic lol don't believe him we are safe rn

This channel is dedicated to explaining cool shower-thought-like questions and it definitely deserves more subs

So just before this I watched Threads, became thoroughly traumatized but not out of the nuclear rabbit hole, so here I am getting the lighthearted stuff before I go to sleep 👍

I hate seeing this even in an animation but it's interesting to learn. Thank you! That's amazing work! 👏

I watched Oppenheimer few days ago and was troubled by the same question few days ago. It helped me cleared my doubts.

This dude's voice is so calm while the whole world is ending.

Yeah

because this isnt his real voice thats why he edited it to be in a nutshell

hhahhaha

🤣🤔

Lol

I love the part about the earth’s crust ringing like a bell. Infrasound meeting gravity waves at its finest.

Hmmm

Imagine being a historian millions of years in the future and trying to decipher why the hell the previous inhabitants decided to nuke themselves

This explosion even vapourized bedrock. Impressive

Thanks Kurzgesagt for having that little bit of a dark, mischievous streak in you that gets you to create these world-ending bits of entertainment. Not everything has to be as serious and pedantic as a nattering lecture. There is plenty of room for some fun as well.

I am curious what would be the impact if this pile was detonated at the bottom of the Mariana’s Trench. I remember your other video the expansion was about 1Km.

I love how the question was answered, then immediately followed by asking what happens if we scale this to absolute absurdity.

Classic Kurzgesagt.

I think he wanted to remind the viewers of what happened to dinosaurs.

At least they answered the question, right? XD the other part is just how you make something interesting on the internet.

@َArtan Behmard Tbh i was surprised that the asteroid was as powerful as like a million nukes more than the other way around

@Ebrahim Jamali speed makes all the difference.

You guys are super! There's just something about your characters that makes me love your videos so much!

Cool analysis. I wish you would have done one more at the height of the world nuclear weapons stockpile in the Cold War which was 4X greater than the one you used (60K weapons).

The idea that the dinosaus actually got hit by something in the range of "the literal biggest possible nuclear bomb on earth" is really something. Poor buggers.

Honestly the best content and everything looks amazing!!!keep up the good work!!

Ok I would love if someone made a simulation game where you could arbitrarily select and nuke (any amount) any part of the earth. Make it as realistic as feasible. Would be such a fun game!

“Would be the equivalent of 3 billion tons of TNT” Don’t do it man that’s gonna crash the server!

lol

The Man on The Moon dude this is a serious situation

lmaooooo

lmao

I think that this is a cool little detail: when they exploded all of the uranium, there was a different bird pushing the button because the first bird got vaporized

Came across "The Egg" by accident, absolutely loved it...your videos are fascinating and SO well done. I'm hooked!

The Egg is such a fantastic novel, and Kurzgeasagt's rendering is a masterpiece. It should be aired on TV worldwide!

The real question is whether or not it would produce any of the elements in the island of stability even if for a short while.

I always love how grounded kurzgesagt is when they talk about nukes, they are the first ones to clarify that you would need a borderline stupid amount of nukes to end civilization.

As a south american time traveler, I can say that both explosions destroyed almost everything.

"Let's say we create 10 billion Hiroshima bombs" Earth: *Resets to factory settings*

Here, have a Comment!

Underrated comment😭

That was a good one U got me

underrated af

very underratted

Many of our viewers have asked us a very serious question; what if we made a big pile of bombs, and exploded every nuclear weapon in the world all at once? - Kurzgesagt, 2019

I got one for you : Imagine all the mountains and mountain ranges in the world would be taken to create ONE massive mountain (and for the sake of this thought experiment we assume that the crust would be able to withstand that massive pressure without giving in ). A mountain so unbelievably big it even puts olympus mons to shame. It is about 5 times as wide as it is high, so the peak would even reach space, that is how massive it is. Now further imagine that at the base of this giant we have a lake that contains all the water on earth combined into this one massive lake, immeasurably deep and longer and broader then our massive mountain even. Now for whatever reason this gigantic mountain would suddenly collapse and fall into our lake. Man that would splash.

all you need to do now is animate it

thank you for spending your time on these wonderful videos

I love how Kurzgesgat talks so commonly about the most powerful weapon ever made by People that can just vaporize every big living organism

Muito bom esses videos.

I can't experience existential dread if I'm amazed by the animation quality.

Imagine that you're the bird.

@Idazmi7 that would be a nice way to go. Unless you're the first bird.

An Nguyen 😹😹😹

@King of flames Still, the thought of it triggers my fight-or-flight instinct.

Dude stop giving tarraists ideas

You make me think about everything on a whole other level. animations are awesome too!

As a Nuclear Physisist, this shakes me to my core...

Now you can experience the dinosaur impact for yourself!

Thank you for making this video and for your hard work

I love how cute these animations explaining our annihilation are

“Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.” *Albert Einstein*

Wait does that mean that there is delicious food waiting for us on the atomic bombs?

@Jonas Spitaels yes u should go for it

funny he'd say that because he's the flippin guy who encouraged the development of the atomic bomb

Yea but america would construct a mousetrap

I think it would be interesting to see where the best and worst place to set off the nukes.

If all the existing nuclear weapons were detonated together, realistically they couldn't all explode at exactly the same time. Therefore, wouldn't most of the weapons be nuked by the other nukes? What happens if you nuke a nuke...? 🤯

I often watch this when I am feeling contempt for people. It brings me some quiet peace.

Can't believe this can now actually happen in real life.

it's unlikely that they would find fossilised humans since humans don't really fossilise already, so when everything is burnt or disintegrated by the bomb, the fallout and/or the radioactive wasteland, gon be pretty difficult

Jesus... imagine the FPS drop

oh god

yeah just think of all the high poly assests it would have to render in

Burns the game and the computer.

Went from 120 FPS to 1 in a split frame.

Fallout 4 left the chat..

It’s so cool to think of all that we have achieved in our past and all that we will achieve in our future 🙃

great job on these videos! I love the animation!

Congrats! There's a chance that we will see it in action anytime.

If anyone was wondering, the final bomb would have a yield of 1.5 quadrillion tons, or 1,500,000,000,000,000 tons, or 1.5 Petatons of tnt. Skipping straight over Giga and Tera tons.

He's speaks with so much calmness,it's like he's telling a very interesting story,he speaks of disaster as if it's fun

*it is*

*BECAUSE.* *IT.* *IS.*

“Bedrock is vaporised” _Wait. That’s illegal._

KingCreeper1026 king creeper 1026

*Grabs Bedrock Buster From MCPE More TNT Addon* What About This?

Lol lol😂

But what about Fred and Barney?!

I knew it.

2:46 I'd like to know what happens to whatever is directly on the opposite side of the earth from the explosion, where the pressure wave meets itself

Maybe a large explosion? Or giant earthquakes causing tsunami?

What would happen if the ring of fire and all other volcanos in the world (including Yellowstone) went off in a massive chain reaction?

imagine being these geologists from the future finding out that the last life on earth just decided to destroy itself

Thanks to the cameraman for recording all of these videos, keep it up! Also what if you just take them and throw them at the moon

Props to the camera man that had to record the entire situation

“Strangely enough we couldn’t find a good source to answer this question to our satisfaction.....so we gathered all the nuclear weapons and are testing it ourselves.”

Cosmic Café strangly enough, right?? Whoops we have to try it noe

Cosmic Café Nukes are fake, research flat eaeth

@R Cook Whats flat eaeth?

R Cook Yeah kuuh where’s the hundreds of footage of nukes from the US and Russia smh my head

that last bomb explosion was.... insane.

I don’t know if you’ll see this, but when I went into the nuke map provided by the link and putted in the 3 billion tons of tnt by converting it to 3000000 kilotons, it said the max input was only 100000 kilotons So I was wondering how did y’all manage to input it in?