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death is better 👻

Me waiting for lag to go away

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

Yeah but Nature con go off with a really BIG BOOM?? Didn't think so..

@ONE nah all you need to do is reduce the planet to magma using ceres

@2024 is the year yes we can

behold asteroids

Kurzgesagt, 2019 : Lets imagine what would happen if we detonated all our nuclear weapons.... Humanity, 2022 : well, let's see !

NOOOOOOOOOOO

@NahhWRLD selfish

Say Ayo if ur in 2022

@SCP-079 Do you want to lose everything you love.

​@DMC america*

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.

To the creative and editing teams: the sound design on this is amazing! Thank you so much!

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

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

Agreed

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@Pegamation Productions report

@Pegamation Productions the animation looks similar but I think the artwork looks unique

the infographics show usually uses stock/pre made character and scenarios, and the animation style is usually looped movement, and the explaining is a little bit more depend on the explanation than visual at times, which kurzgesagt modeler/animator hand draw the pieces they gonna animate which takes more time, so their channel are not so good at pumping videos every few days, which the infographics show are capable of because of the lower effort animation, so they are both unique on their own right your arguments are weak

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.

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.

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

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

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

@Aravind kumar to be fair. Nature is just a concept (of which humans are technically apart of). The entire earth could be vaporized and Nature would still exist on other planets and arguably space itself (even no nature could be considered nature). That said it totally sounds like humanity to try and show the immortal concept we’re little apart of, whose boss.

“And who won that battle?”

It's birds that went exist🤣🤣

@Warthog Goulags only way earth can be destroyed is if it is turned into an astroid by a rock several times larger than it, or when the sun has a super nova event in 5 billion years, destroying every particle in the solar system

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

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

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).

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

So happy this video is #1 on trending. The amount of work that goes into it is amazing.

people are taking notes

Agree x6

Agree x5

@Not Geo Pewdiepie's video: *gets 5.1 million views in 5 hours* YouTube trending algorithm: "nothing to see here, just another kurzgesagt video" I have nothing against kurzgesagt, just saying, sub to pewds.

And close in at number 2 is baking lipstick into a cake

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

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

"Let's suppose humanity decided to mine every bit of uranium on Earth and build as many nuclear bombs as possible." Now that's just a bad idea.

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

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

@Matthew Henry nah i feel like earth should still be able to take that hit. Life would probably never be able to exist again but thats still not massive enough compared to earth.

@LEGENDARY KING007 that's what we call an armour piercing round. Sht would go right through the earth lmao

Nobody's pointing out the fallout reference huh? Lol

Kurzgesagt always gotta be doin this kinda stuff no matter what.

@Cesar Marquez If they did we couldn't have Uranium.

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?

All world leaders need to watch this, seriously!

it's comforting knowing life goes on even if we do die. the earth will continue to exist :)

this channel really good bruh appreciate all the knowledge you all shares

Cockroaches be like: Eh, that was a big storm.

@Swattik Karma ooo

@Chaos oooo

@Nguyễn Ngọc Lan bois???

@xx123gamerxx ???

This doesn't even include thermonuclear weaponry, I'm sure you could combine a lot of this into an even more powerful thermonuclear weapon.

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

I seriously doubt that life —especially intelligent life— would recover after a nuclear Chicxulub

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?

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

@Nafees Hassan so natures bird killed em

@YumYumDuckDuck ypur a human

i'm your 30,000th like

@MRCHOCOTACO well to reproduce of course

One fix for climate change... With the fallout afterwards the Earth would go back to an ice age.

I love how he says “so we can show nature whos boss”

This video is entertaining in a morbid way but also not entirely true. Once you get above 50 megatons or so, the explosion pushes itself out into space faster than it expands laterally on the surface. So there's not much point making them any bigger, even though theoretical designs for even higher yields have been proposed. So that warehouse experiment is bro science and you guys should know that. Now this does not change the other scary fact of the video..

@Eli Etrama The original design of the Tsar bomba was actually a 100 megaton bomb – a three layered bomb, with uranium layers separating each stage. The one youre talking about. But before it was ready to be tested, the three uranium layers that would have helped the bomb achieve its enormous yield that i just mentioned were replaced with layers of lead, which lessened the intensity of the nuclear reaction. The Soviets had built a weapon so powerful that they were unwilling to even test it at its full capacity. Because luckily some of their smart scientists said it wasn't such a good idea. They couldn't guarantee there wouldn't be massiv amounts of fallout and they listened.

The Soviet's Tsar Bomba was 57 megatons denoted on 1961... And Russia intends to make more twice its power (they might've already did). So hopefully what you're saying is right.

What would this look like on the moon? Would the moon be completely wiped from existence or still be floating around in space?

I do wonder if the effects of nuclear winter would be different if the bombs were exploded all over the planet instead of in one place. You know, if M.A.D. plays out?

So basically, the server would lag so much that everyone is kicked out

U play to much Minecraft

🤣😂 when gaming is life

@Solo Power Move *congratulations you made something cringe enough to the point where we might just need to set off all the nuclear weapons at your specific location*

Admit it you clicked this video to find this comment

I mean your not wrong

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

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 can't get over the fact that this video is over three years old now, the memes that spawned from this were hilarious

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

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

Ya only one billion TNT is enough to destroy any Minecraft server that been built

yeah I covered 10000000 blocks with TNT and then bombed it

@Comrade Nate plus how would humas dig out all pf uranium on earth and gather it up in one place? If they managed to do it. Its a dumb thing to do

@Comrade Nate he was joking

You're on the moon, you'll be ok

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

So what would happen if you mined literally all radioactive materials in the world, converted them into nukes and set them off all at once after piling them together?

"The bedrock on the scale of entire mountain ranges will be destroyed" The bomb must be in creative mode

"Ok so let's do the explosion on the one subcontinent that has no nukes. Why? They can't say no, we have nukes."

That's a pretty intense gender reveal

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I found that there are actually 40 trillion tons of uranium in the earthen crust rather than 35 million tons. If you used the energy to fuse all the hydrogen in the world, how much energy would it release?

"Just to show nature who's boss" i love how the narrator uses a documentary-type voice so it sounds incredibly funny

Holy shit I think that's enough destruction craving for the rest of my life.

Sounds like we should bury them quite aways underground and in a distributed manner instead of a concentrated point, so that way there is less material thrown into the atmosphere

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

Welp

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it has

Heck

The YouTube algorithm sure has a good sense of timing.

I found your guys video from a meme, and I am so so glad. These. Videos are amazing, thank you all for posting these kinds of videos for us, even if this one is a year old.

Can you do a video where you show what would happen if every single explosive on earth was detonated?

It really is mind boggling how far we have reached. Only a century ago the best we have is steam power. Now we can make stuff comparable to natural disasters. I can only imagine what we will.achive when we reach Type 1 civilization.

"Just to show nature who's boss." *"I Felt that."*

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

with a hint of excitement too

What do you expect? Crying, screaming?

exactly, this animation is stupid at best.

Lol

"the temperature will drop a few degrees" There you have it, the fast answer to global warming...

“A small crater of about 10km in diameter…”

Thank you for making this video and for your hard work

Fun fact: Although Krakatoa released around 3B tons or 200 megatons of TNT energy, In Indonesia the eruption of Mount Tambora released around 33 billion tons of tnt in energy.

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

oh so all you need to break the earth is by throwing a giant space rock at mach 80 from the atmosphere

@diarykeeper what's not chilling is the fact I ain't seeing it happen lmao

except radioactivity

space rocks

Well said

Would love to know if you could stop global warming with just the right amount of nukes blasting particles into the higher layers of the atmosphere :O

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Are you guys ready for the practical phase of this theory?

I can take it

I have a lot of questions. "This" is my biggest. Thank You, Keep Up The Good Work!😉

I've got a feeling we'll see something like that with our own eye's soon

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

Kraven They enjoy making them, who cares about views when u havin fun

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.

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

Except this video about this totally irrelevant question

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

it makes me happy to know earth itself and life on earth would survive this. it's still terrible though

that last bomb explosion was.... insane.

_" to show nature whos boss"_ *most inspiring sentence ever*

It still amazes me, that the globe istself stays intact. What would it need, to blow up the whole planet?

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

@Ham Solo Well he knew the Nazi's were bad, so he decided, if someone needs a nuke, I suppose America is the better choice.

@PRYDAX yep, its called energy

@Unknown Mice do kill other mice. If they could make mousetraps, they definitely would make them.

@Unknown but, as we have seen in many other species such as dolphins and chimps, intelligent animals will kill eachother, and even unintelligent ones like bugs do too. Mice simply don't have the capability or motivation to do so

@Ben I would think Mice are Intelligent but if you didn't get it it is basically Humans Will try to kill each other while Mice will not kill each

well, this might be inevitable right now :')

This channel... with the voice, animations, topics... ITS SO ADDOCTIVE! One of the best channels on YT ever! And especially the voice. It's like watching the show " how they're made?". Only it's about how to end humanity😅

"Patrolling the mojave almost makes me wish for a nuclear winter"

Hello! Would the explosion of all the nuclear bombs cause a earthquake/affect seismic activity?

When you hear "Bedrock is vaporized", you know that's serious shit.

@crymsonfoxxe oh god yeah

yeah, the void would be open, then its hermitcraft season 8 all over again

@peril and creative mode

bedrock isnt that strong in real life man minecraft has done some things to us

Bedrock irl is actually kinda weak, granite is one of the strongest materials out there

0:12 Strangely enough, we couldn’t find a good source to answer this question to our satisfaction, so we gathered together a few bombs and did it ourselves

One of my absolute all-time favorite illustrations of mutual disarmament agreements with Russia comes courtesy of Mr. Tom Clancy. Jack Ryan describes it like having a handgun with a full clip pointed at your chest. So you have your would-be attacker eject the magazine and take out half. Then they point it at you again. Do you honestly feel safer? Even cutting our arsenals in half wouldn’t begin to make things less catastrophic. I’ll honestly never forget that; and people told me it was a waste of my time to read fiction.

One question that wasn't answered was how would it affect earth trajectory.

"What if we detonate all of the nuclear bombs at once?" Pretty sure Ultron did that in What If.

“It’s enough to build Manhattan using stacks of TNT”. Sounds exactly like something I’d do in Minecraft.

humanity wont be the only thing lost, the PC will be first to go extinct

Sounds like a typical 'Murican unit of measurement. "The lake has a surface of 3'750 time squares and holds up to 6.5 Manhattans of water."

a great place for our nuclear test!

A greifer's paradise. XP

Same

what would happen if mars suddenly went up in a super massive nuclear explosion?

nuclear weapons are meant for alien invaders or earth invading another planet, not the other way around

great job on these videos! I love the animation!

What would happen in a real nuclear war with each continent? Would exist a place where humans could survive?

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

Underrated

@Byron gaming Varela ok then can we still make more powerful nukes and detonate it in heaven

TSAR BOMBA

@Byron gaming Varela hell as humans in the video destroyed earth

This commenter deserves a noble prize.

According to Tsar Bomb experiments you are incorrect in all cases. As shockwave reflected from the Earths surface will shoot plasma ball into space at second to third space velocity.

I always used to think that if I leaned against the wall of our closed during the explosion, I will not get a scratch !

I'm pretty sure that If nations are asked wether to use resources for powering up humanity for thousands of years or creating a large number of nuclear warheads, they'll choose the warheads.

It's a really simple and scary question. It's like the imagination that we use as a kid as a joke. But Kurzgesagt's imagination is really great to be able to really, really, really assume this is real.

"If intelligent life emerges again, it may be able to figure out what happened..." "Yeah, so, based off of the radioactive layers in the soil, it looks like the previous civilization mined all the uranium from the earth and put it into bombs because a YouTube channel told them to."

“Yep, that seems accurate. Congratulations, Dave, you’re getting promoted!”

@Nick Kayfabe After millions of years any hard drives or disks that survived the blasts would have probably decayed to the point they're no longer recoverable

@Nick Kayfabe The internet wouldn't exist, all those wires are going to decay. What is going to survive on various records buried deep beneath the surface of the earth.

lol

Putin: “So far the theory. Let’s test it out”

"Lets drop our nuclear pile in the middle of the Amazon rainforest, just to show nature who's boss"

you know what would be worse than the 2nd pile? if you also mined all of the plutonium on earth to make more nukes.

so all nuclear weapons are as much energy as the energy we release in heat in peace , just from oil consumption in 14 months . (maybe every 150 days from wasted energy of the total energy sources )

Honestly this is some of the best stuff on YouTube in general. The quality is so perfect. Thank you for making such amazing videos

There’s so many ways humans can go extinct It’s becomes being scary

Love how the last second of the countdowns was quiet

There’s a non-zero chance we’re all about to be experts on this topic 🤣😭