1:11 - the genius of this video is that that pause is exactly the right amount of time to make EVERYONE check if the video is still playing. It's some of the most impeccable timing i have ever seen.
My connection actually broke at that exact time on this video. Plus the buffering circle was perfectly camouflaged in the white background. I burst out laughing.
@@egodeathwish exactly. In fact,some of the inspiration of this might have been from one of his sad mad and bad glad dreams. I've learned to trust those.
The ending is such a smart, perfect thing. The video starts with "Hey! You're on a rock floating in space" and then he goes to all lengths to describe what that rock is, how it was created and what happened to it... and then at the end the last sentence is "btw where the hell are we?" like now we know even less and are even more confused.
Ummm... 1. the idea is you can loop it there. It makes a perfect loop as the first sentence is an answer to that question. 2. it's not us, the ones who have watched the video, asking that question, but the thing inventor inventor.
I genuinely love how chill your reaction video is, you don't try to correct the video on minor things they've gotten wrong and just sit there to appreciate the comedy. Good stuff
strange. I didn't like that about the video. I feel like he should have paused more and shared opinions on what he thought more. Make the content transformative rather than just showing it uninterrupted in it's entirety. It's almost at the point where he just aped someone else's content. I don't believe he's doing it maliciously, but it wasn't transformative imo.
@@chris72702 it is informative, that's what i think, but the video about earth isn't far off so why would he feel the need to "correct" something that doesn't need it? sure maybe someone like you is just looking for a more detailed explanation on how things work in that video he reacted to, but you're not gonna get that bro, at the end of the day he is "reacting" to the video, not explaining it in every detail on how everything works, and tbh he is informing but also reacting, this is a reaction video not a breakdown video. I mean you can easily search a breakdown of this video if there even is one.
I love that you immediately knew that "The Sun is a Deadly Lazer" was a meme, because it immediately became one after this video went viral. Edit: Y'all, when I say "this video," I'm talking about the original video. You know. The one that 'went viral.' Not the 1000th reaction to it that's been posted on YT since then. Use your critical thinking skills a bit.
There are soooooooooooo many reactions to this video across a variety of personalities, filmed and not, but I love how one specific moment is consistent between every one: They always, _always_ check to see if the video's still running after "That's how every it gets." I did this also my first time.
I wish Toby Fox didn't have wrist and hand pain slowing down his work so much, so he could have some free time to start some silly shit with Bill Wurtz and Louis Cole
In case you were curious about the intermission, it was because he did a "History of Japan" video earlier, so he's referencing that he already covered a lot of history there.
While Colombus was mistaken in thinking it was the indies, he actually knew there was land around where the americas are. He studied the flotsam that was arriving on the coasts of Morroco, and calculated that it was a far bigger quantity than if there was nothing there. His explanation was that the world was smaller than people thought, and since the size of the world is relatively easy to calculate he was taken for an idiot, but he wasn't heading into the ocean without any idea of what he was doing.
He also documented/discovered the "tradewinds" and the "westerlies" that made voyages back and forth to the Americas from Europe much more predictable and safe, and thus profitable.
What other European explorers do you speak of that went before Columbus? I guess the Portuguese could have made trips back and forth, but if so, they do not seem to have told anyone. The Norse did not use the tradewinds or westerlies, as far as I know...their voyages were much more against the prevailing currents and winds, which is probably a big reason why they did not make repeat voyages.
@@iKvetch558 not many repeat voyages may have been attempted but we tend to underestimate how well known those voyages were back then. There is some evidence that those stories were being spread in Italy around the time Columbus was alive. Regardless, substantiating any histoical claim from that long ago is difficult because for every scrap of evidence that survived there is likely much much more that didn't. But I'll admit my biases here. I despise our celebration of Columbus and how our history ignores what kind of person he was. He may have had some expertise but clearly his calculations of the earths size was wrong. He was a brutal dude and even his own family despised him for his cruelty.
@@blakec8549 I definitely will not fault your biases, or argue against your calling out his brutality. Of course, the biggest harm he did...the spreading of European diseases to those who had no defenses against them... he had no real idea about, but you are obviously not wrong about the evils he perpetrated intentionally.
I love the way Bill weaved through the broad strokes of history because it shows a ton of connections that you usually won't look at as much. Especially that line of dominoes that led from the 7-year war over the american revolution to the french revolution.
@@umi2751All wars are directly linked to all other wars, so that's not saying much. Either by interwar circumstances like the WW1 and WW2, or direct wartime actions like how Britain annoyed the US during the Napoleonic Wars, which led to the US declaring war.
@@umi2751 Big talks about common sense when your education system sucks so hard that black people don't know shit about slavery and blame white people for inventing it. I can assure you that 90% of Americans are completely oblivious about stuff that is teached in school everywhere else. You only learn that in school because it's supposed to invoke patriotism in children - which is basically everything the American education is there for - indoctrination.
I would like to welcome and congratulate you for your arrival to this piece of internet history. It's always nice to see someone experiencing something cool for the first time. Also you seem like a pretty cool guy. 👍👍
On your point about starting off with nuclear, solar, and wind energy during the industrial revolution, the issue I see is that the energy yield possible from these sources at the time was significantly less than that available from fossil fuels. I mean we'd been using wind and water power for mills for a long time, but figuring out how to use it to generate electricity and power homes and land transportation was, I think, a bit beyond us back then.
I loved "History of the entire world, I guess". It also made me realize that the school system I went through never taught anything but American history. At a certain age most of what I knew about the rest of the world was from movies and historical romance novels. Some of those authors did a lot of research.
I can't remember if Bill Wurtz himself did this, but there is a "safe for schools" edition to this video that cuts out all the occasional profanity. Really glad a video like this is being shown in schools because, as you touched upon, it's really good at simplifying some insanely complex ideas & theories.
watching this with like 13-15 year olds with the profanity would be fine. europe did rape africa, thats something that we should not sweep under the rug by making it more pallatable to talk about. if it is off putting that is the right way to handle it
Thank you SO MUCH for all of the likes, views, and comments on this video! This has been incredible! If you are interested in seeing my reaction to another one of Bill Wurtz's crazy videos, please check out my reaction to his History of Japan video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oBFcIf4Zbzk.htmlsi=ZMDHHrSVCDTM5WTQ Yes, I was incorrect in saying the United States didn't have a 3rd nuclear bomb and it becoming the Demon Core - I greatly appreciate you all keeping my facts straight! If you are interested in my thoughts on the Demon Core, please check out my reaction to Kyle Hill's video on the subject: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Komj07wzM5E.html
The problem with taking info to the 1800's is you would need to use fossil fuel to even make proper equipment to make sustainable energy sources while at the same time trying not to shot with a musket for being a warlock
@@mrfreetime5177 Given the amount of boiler explosions and lack of safety at the start of the industrial revolution, the idea of starting with nuclear reactors, if we could make them, would've resulted in a LOT of damage to the environment through radiation leaks, or just pumping it straight into rivers and the atmosphere.
My absolute favorite part of this video, at least for me, is that due to its quick pace, even as a history lover, you may make connections between events that you previously thought bared no relevance to each other, if that makes sense. The simplified condensation of history allows you to see the through-line in the timeline you (or I should say I) previously never connected relevance between. As a history nerd, that is a level of geek out I’m embarrassed to admit. 😅 But as a lover of humor above even history/science/sociology/linguistics, I love this video for that alone. And your viewing reaction was perfect 🙂
@@RobinClaassenkinda late, but one realisation I made watching this video at least 30 times is that the Empire of China and the Roman Empire existed in the same time frame for some time and probably knew of each other thanks to the Silk Road. This made me search about it more in depth and discovered they even gave "nicknames" to each other (forgot what the were nicknames tho). Despite this, I don't think there was any "official" diplomats contact.
7:30 I like that Bill Wurtz actually accurately marked where there were some tin deposits during his explanation of bronze. Tin is actually really uncommon compared to other metals, and in the Bronze Age there were only two major tin deposits big enough for the entire Bronze Age Civilization in the Near East: Britain, and Afghanistan. _Neither_ locations were a pleasant breeze to get to, mine tin, and come back, all while still alive.
@@jokitalinda10 Very well could've been, but if it would've been depleted so quickly after the ability to work with it was developed then it wasn't very big and therefore wouldn't have been significant enough to go down in history like the other two. For example, Cyprus was the main supplier of tin for the Bronze Age Civilizations around the Eastern Mediterranean. It had a lot, but at the height of the Bronze Age it simply didn't have enough, hence the demand for tin from places as far away as Britain and Afghanistan. There were some small-time tin mines in places like Spain, but most mining done there was for silver, because Spain is (was) positively silver rich. Silver was so concentrated in Spain that when Carthage lost to Rome in the First Punic War, the Barcid dynasty went to Spain to conquer all the silver mines to pay off both their mercenaries AND the war reparations owed to Rome, and _still_ had enough money to be so rich they basically privately-funded their own campaigns during the Second Punic War.
Fun fact to expand on your piece on WWII not ending just because the US dropped the nukes. Japan and Russia never actually signed a formal peace treaty so technically WWII is still on 🙃 They did sign the Joint Declaration in 1956 where they both agreed to wave reparations and agreed to formalize peace talks in the future but those were never actually conducted.
@@gaminginsomniac4427 That's fair. One could make the argument that when the Soviet Union collapsed all their wars ended. A new government that occupies the same land area doesn't automatically inherit the wars of the past governments.
Yeah, it'd be dang near impossible because the materials and tools required to develop those power sources would require a more readily accessed power source to develop. Coal and oil are a lot easier to work with on industrial scales than wind or solar. You'd need to have already gone through an industrial revolution to even *get* nuclear power. That's basically how all technological development goes. We went with bronze before iron because bronze is easier to work with even though iron is more common.
@@brigidtheirish That's fair. But I think they're be real potential if you could prove environmental damage and show what green energy could look like. Instead of 200 years of dirty energy we could have done the bare minimum amount of coal and oil before immediately beginning the process of transitioning to a cleaner source of energy. Instead Big Coal and Oil got their hooks into society. Now we are struggling to transition even though we have the technology and the knowledge. Just telling the world during the industrial revolution could have changed the mindset of the world to view coal and oil as only temporary boosts rather than an indefinite power source.
@@brigidtheirish reminds me of a sci-fi book I read where a civilization that had a very advanced understanding of physics/technology, and was able to use this knowledge to help a primitive civilization "skip" some of those steps in natural technological development. The main plot point related to this is that they taught them to make radio communication devices without needing traditional electronics (instead using some quantum mechanical effect that's easy to take advantage of, even with primitive tools).
@@vibaj16 Interesting. Did the book go into the possible negative consequences of skipping steps? Because quite a few places on Earth are dealing with being yanked through technological development without the chance to make the accompanying social changes.
I think the best thing about this style is that it doesn't give you time to ask questions, which is usually a bad thing, but for a quick summarization it's absolutely perfect. You can explain the gaps later, but the purpose of this kind of presentation is to get the broad strokes across.
21:42 - That sounds like a hell of a plot for an althistory novel. Subscribed. (There's a line of thought that if society completely falls now and we lose all of our recorded knowledge there isn't enough easily accessible energy to restart civilization on the same tack.)
The pun with the Mongols invading the whole universe was actually really smart if you know what Genghis Khan's name means. It's a title that means ruler of the universe basically, and his real name was Temujin.
The sheer amount of research that the og video took is so impressive by itself, but then to condense it and simplify it to the degree Bill did is absolutely genius work. I wished more professionals recognised the greatness of these kind of videos where coplex topics are explained in a simpler, more engaging way.
7:45 Nah, really, the cradle of humanity in the middle east didn't have tin, they really did import it from traders that traveled all the way from Europe / British isles to make bronze. We know almost nothing about these people tho, but they quit trading tin to Egyptians when the 'Sea People' invaded from the west and caused the bronze age collapse (thanks Egyptians for writing down that war in a pyramid)
Normally I get mad when someone reacting to a video constantly pauses, but this man did it to explain stuff and comment on stuff, so I'm actually fine with this. Keep up the good work man.
Talking is reacting. I actually like when people pause. A lot of people will try to say something over the video, and you see them miss stuff because of it. That's way more frustrating. If you're trying to watch the original video uninterrupted, a reaction video is the wrong place to do that.
But pausing and offering more context, content or opinions is what you're supposed to do. Otherwise you're just stealing content. Watch the original if you want to watch that video uninterrupted.
What a way to engage school kids! This should be shown in every school around the world. It would stimulate the kids to talk about history and politics in a way that is not dry and boring. Absolute gold!
This video is basically Gen Z required watching mainly because of the deadly lazer meme It delivered to us a common brief overview of history and especially of post ironic humour I think there is a similarity of the fast paced, text on screen style from bill wurtz to the way a lot of current day content is made
I will forever love the video cuz it’s virality truly proved how much ppl can enjoy educational media and learning! Bill Wurtz truly mastered how to capture people’s attention and making learning fun. Even some of my teachers, back in high school, liked this video and showed it to us.
As a high school teacher I can say this is something a lot of history teachers love to subtly and unofficially suggest before finals. Due to the language of course "no one" ever does. Maybe a students older sibling suggests it, or someone says out loud "I wish there was a youtube video that could help me study for my AP exam, while actually being funny."
It’s crazy that reactions to this video still consistently get over 1 million views. It really serves as a testament as to how great the original video actually was
My favorite is the 2nd Crusade, where they all went to Jerusalem, realized it was heavily defended, then all went home. End of the Crusade Episode 2: Attack of the Clones.
@@drefk1973 how hard is it to not turn into a pedantic little shit at the sight of a simple misspelled word? Just for that I'm not going to change it. Have fun seething~
I've watched a lot of professionals reactions to this video (because it is my favourite video of all time) and I must say I loved your reaction the most. Simply sitting there and watching you enjoy this masterpiece is so much fun and is exactly what I want to see because it feels like I am showing something I really love to a friend and watch them enjoy it as much as I do. Thank you for making this video it really made me smile!
Hey at 11:09 a bit of a correction to you. Hinduism and Buddhism actually did spread kinda accidentally to SE Asia. Indian kingdoms went there for trade but ended up marrying into royal lineages which increased the influence. There was never an attempt to spread the culture, the peoplr sort of just adopted it out of their own will
Honestly, you have to blast past a whole lot like Bill Wurtz to teach World History in a reasonable amount of time. It is _very_ easy to complain about other countries (Middle East, Africa, & Asia) not being covered, but don't seem to understand the sheer difficulty of having to restrict so much of what matters into a school year. And at the college level, it becomes contained within semesters (and into specific topics if wanting to go in-depth). One reason I believe people have so much difficulty trying to understand that humans evolved from monkeys is the sheer span of time that is involved. For example: Harrison Ruffin Tyler (born November 9, 1928 and currently still alive) is the grandson of John Tyler (March 29, 1790 - January 18, 1862), who served as the tenth president of the United States. Harrison Tyler is currently 94 years old. *[Putting the life of Harrison Ruffin Tyler into perspective (November 9, 1928 to July 12, 2023)]* en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_20th_century#1928 And this is just one person living in America born in the same year as the invention of *_bubble gum._*
If you really wanted to do a true World History course that doesn't have a particular "-centric" label attached in an education system where history isn't the only course being taught (that's just being solely a history major), I can guarantee that covering World History is next to impossible.
Another part of the problem is people thinking that the theory of evolution by natural selection asserts humans evolved from monkeys. I think it's important to be clear that humans and monkeys evolved from a very distant common ancestor.
10:00 I think the thing with Alexander the Great was that he was dying and he was surrounded by the Generals that wanted power, and they said Alexander said the successor should be "Kratistoi" or "to the strongest" but its very likely Alexander actually said "Krateroi" or "to Krateros", who was one of his generals that wasnt there. The people present probably heard him correctly but just pretended to hear the wrong thing so they could have equal chances to become the new head honcho.
24:38 "wouldn't be the end of the world". Silly of me to go questioning the nuclear engineer on nukes... but that's literally what Mutually Assured Destruction means right? Mutual as in everybody, not just the involved nations. Nuclear winter would have devastating consequences on the whole planet, would it not?
Highly destructive for the US/USSR as they would be directly hit. Nuclear winter is complicated, and there is a lot of uncertainty in terms of how much it would do. There are also various levels (it isn’t an on/off switch). Most data shows that it would cause widespread devastation, mainly in the northern hemisphere, but, humanity would survive. So, not “the end of the world”.
I love how history of the entire world I guess just eventually pops up on every single reaction channel and how literally all of them add more context to the greatest RU-vid video ever
honestly now that youre looking at this and im actually thinking about it this is one of the most simplistic yet quite comprehensive world history videos in existence and suits anyone with really bad adhd
21:00 ...Yeah, "what if oil / coal just wasn't a thing" is an interesting question and I think you nailed it. For industrialization to happen _quickly_ at least, you need oil and coal, probably unless you collaborate with other, already industrialized nations pretty carefully. Any nation hoping to "upgrade" looks at first world countries insisting they don't use either and think "but hey, you did, isn't that kinda unfair?"
Yeah discovering nuclear power before the industrial revolution would have likely been a nightmare. Everything from making the fuel to actually using it would cost a lot of lives to radiation poisoning without machines. Those machines also must be made by other machines, since even a 0,05% error in a lot of parts' dimensions, or material uniformity, could make the machine fail. Handmade machines would fail too often or be too simple to operate safely around the radiation
@@olafthebear2327 I do wonder how it would be if we avoided the nuclear teakettle approach, tho. Would LFTR be easier to get started from scratch, for example? Lower tolerances, perhaps? Sadly, I don't know enough about the actual design to say; perhaps there's more trouble buried a layer deeper, in handling the fluoride side of things. :-/
I think a good example to consider is Babbage's analytical engine. Entirely possible on paper, and way ahead of it's time(1837 versus commercial success of tabulating machines in 1924), but even with a massive budget. The tight machining tolerances required meant a lot of the work was rejected, and so the costs ballooned out of control. This impossible stopgap concept was actually something James Webb had to convince J.F.K. of. President Kennedy wanted to build a rocket to send men to the moon on what was basically a shoestring budget(by comparison to what ended up happening) with little to no oversight or trials. Plenty of people throughout history have tried to jump ahead of the curve, but there has to be the body of work to build off of, ex nihilo nihil fit. If someone tries to skip steps to reach a conclusion ahead of time they'll either find out someone else beat them to it, concurrent and forgotten discoveries are fairly common throughout history, or they might take the wrong approach and fall behind due to feasibility problems. There's another option too, they may be staunchly secretive and take their discovery to their grave like Leeuwenhoek and what should have been a hugely beneficial lens manufacturing technique. However he feared his work being considered derivative of Hooke's and chose secrecy instead of progress.
@@Leadvest Same problem with the Antikythera mechanism. It was wildly complex for it's time, like 14th century clockwork trying to track every major celestial body over decades in a single device. It definitely worked in theory... except the degre of uncertainty in it's calculations is estimated to be _massive_ because the gears were all made by hand.
@@Leadvest Ah, yes. The tools to make the tools to make the tools. The progression towards precision is a fascinating subject. I hadn't thought that much precision was necessary in the making of LFTR reactor, but perhaps in the turbine? I am not, obviously, an engineer. ;-]
History of the entire world, I guess is my favorite video in existence. So much unbiased knowledge in a relatively small bite of time, and it is ALWAYS entertaining to watch people react to it. And the funny stuff in it never gets old
Just last month I tried explaining, as an electrical engineer myself too, to a Japanese person how having MORE nuclear energy is better in the long run and on the larger, international world scale, even though having solar panels and wind turbines may make them personally feel better about themselves and their immediate surroundings. Her response was just to tell me that I need to take responsibility of my words. Heck yeah I would, but people keep being scared about even the word "nuclear" so it's quite damn difficult to do anything to take responsibility of in the first place! 😁
Yeah. The actual amount of nuclear waste generated is tiny, and if we wanted to we could continue to harvest energy from the spent fuel in various other ways (such as RTGs and such.) I'm happy to hear that here in Ontario were expanding our nuclear generation capability again.
The sad part is Japan isn't gifted for the natural disasters. They can have typhoons, earth quakes, and that is obviously strongly built inside their culture. It's understandable that given their nuclear history, they tend to avoid it.
@@leflo_ You mean the Fukashima "disaster" where only one person died from radiation while dozens died from the evacuations? That's right, more people died from the evacuations than the actual issue they were evacuating for.
Omae no kotoba wo chanto sekinin! I probably butchered that. You should tell her that more people die daily from coal mining than have _ever_ died from nuclear accidents.
It's a bit of a wild rabbit hole. The reasons for pyramids and ziggurats, the bahgdad battery, the ark of the covenant, apparently it's all aliens. Then evidence of cataclysm. Good luck keeping your brain inside your skull at that point.
By the way, the end of the video asks: "By the way, where the hell are we?" If you restart the video then the Beginning answers that question with: "Hi, you're on a rock floating in space. Pretty cool huh?" Genius Level Ending
Bill Wurtz's previous video (years earlier) was "History of Japan" which is why the intermission is right after hey introduces Japan. It's on the same style and is absolutely worth a watch.
#11:34 the opening line in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms goes something like this. The empire long united must divide, the empire long divided must unite, that is how it has always been
I'm a bit late, but I love your reaction to this video. Your attitude going in is infectious, and really motivated me to watch the video with you to hear your output. Keep up the good work!
21:07 Nuclear would have been disastrous back then, and 'renewables' would have been a pipe dream. Totally on board for Nuclear now though, arguably the 'greenest' (no pun intended) power source available right now.
Nuclear power plants have been fine for over 50 years. We have also known how to recyle nuclear waste and reuse it for more power for over 30 years now. The only reason it never happened was due to politics .
Wind and solar is even greener. The even more important argument is that they are also both cheaper by now (all three power plant systems are subsidized in some countries and less or not at all in others. Factor this in when comparing.).
14:09 From their perspective, it was though: Holy -> because the Pope crowned the Emperor Roman -> because they saw themself as the Roman Empire 2.0 Empire -> again because of the whole "Roman Empire 2.0"-thing. Also, their leader was an Emperor. Also, it's worth noteing that in Germany, it's called "Heiligies Roemisches Reich Deutscher Nation" with a "Reich" being an ambigious word that can refer to many different kind of realms including but not limited to dukedoms, kingdoms and, of course, empires. So it could also be translated as "Holy Roman Kingdom of the german nation".
I continue to enjoy watching people reacting to this video because I enjoy the original so much and because the reactions are so varied. It lets me enjoy it a little bit differently each time. Is there any media you like to do that with? Let me know in the comments.
Hello, I had a question. I was wondering if you can tell us more about your experience being a nuclear engineer. As this is the time of college admissions and there are a lot of people that are wanting to see their future in their career opening up more about your time in school, the life you had during, and your career after would help give more attention to your channel. Also, I would like to know the things said above because they help. Thank you!
This is the first time i see someone with a lot of studies and stuff and be this chill and not being picky about everything! You look like a really nice person to hangout with
