The Bizarre Tale of the Spontaneously Exploding Submarines 

This submarine/train contraption sounds ridiculous!

Percentages are very important. Research has shown that once more than 10 percent of your neighbors are Black, the value of your home declines. As the percentage of Black neighbors increases, the property’s value plummets even further

Or you are racist and don’t like black people.

@@4-Methylaminorex this is incorrect the % of black neighbours doesn't decrease the value of a home. What the study you are referring to said was that areas of similar properties had a clear disproportionate price range, the homes and neighbouring properties in black communities were cheaper. Not that the same properties lost value as black neighbours moved into a majority white neighbourhood. What the study aimed to show was that black people were disproportionately affected. What they discovered was that black families were being more money savvy and buying cheaper properties and with a more family focused attitude with the only demand for housing being their descendants that created less demand. Where as white families moved to the city more often and city prices have always grown faster in price.this was in the USA . It's funny they only looked at certain areas. in the UK a similar thing was done but it was Asian communities that saw the boom in greater London

@@addicted2caffeine Correct. However ⚫ are unevolved primitives living amongst modern humans. There's simply no place for them.

@@4-Methylaminorexbooom cooked blacker than your prejudice

Depends on lunch

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Wasn’t this like the fuel used by Russki torpedos?

@dennisyoung4631 Quite a few nations used peroxide in their torpedos.But the russians were the ones who really embraced it to a large degree. One of these cooking off in the forward torpedo compartment is what killed the kursk back in the 2000s

@@Shinzon23 thanks. I wasn’t entirely sure I recalled things correctly.

@@dennisyoung4631the British tried it first, had similar results and swiftly retired them. The Russians embraced them, in typical contrary Russian style - deny a potential major issue until a somewhat expensive vessel and crew were lost. High test peroxide, makes a great mixer for scotch - if your goal is to make it to orbit quickly... If so, mix well, pour onto brass and enjoy the light and sound show.

Sorry - nobody from the Kursk is answering.

I have to blame the loss of Kursk on "Russians", not "hydrogen peroxide". Those torpedoes were very old when placed aboard the Kursk; Russian sailors were scared to death of them, with good reason, and those torpedoes had been 'retired' decades before. But Russia never throws anything away, and somebody (no doubt seeking promotion) decided to try them again, in a big naval exercise the Soviets were about to start. They were "practice torpedoes" so they didn't get any special maintenance or thorough goings-over, they just filled the peroxide tanks and put them aboard Kursk. Thus it was, there was rust inside the torpedoes that nobody thought to look for or remove - and rust is one of peroxide's catalysts. There were further really stupid mistakes made; the Wikipedia article on the loss of Kursk is an eye-opener.

Is that the Widow maker sub?

@@jrmckim No. Kursk admittedly, made many widows 😥 - but Kursk was K-141, an Oscar II class SSGN ( - "SS" = "submarine", "Guided" = it was built to shoot explosive guided missiles at ships, and "Nuclear" - ). The actual 'widowmaker', known to Russian sailors as "Hiroshima", was K-19, the first Hotel-class SSBN ( - only difference being the "B", meaning "Ballistic" = built to shoot thermonuclear ballistic missiles at enemy cities - ). K-19 had no official name BTW, as the Soviets didn't name their submarines back then, and was built a long time ago - it was commissioned in 1960, had so many problems that it wasn't used much, and was scrapped in 1991. K-141 "Kursk" was commissioned in 1994, was one of the last-built and most modern Oscar-II's, and after a horrific accident that blew off its nose and sank it, it was raised off the sea floor, towed back to Murmansk and broken up for scrap. Several Oscar-II class SSGN's are still in service with the Russian navy, but the Hotel's are all long-gone - and very, very happily, neither the Hotels nor the Oscar-II's (nor almost any other submarine in the world) ever fired a shot in anger. 😄

@@jrmckim No, that was K19, Russia's first nuclear sub back in the 60's, it had constant fires and radiation leaks so nobody wanted to serve on it.

An early MadCatz prototype. At least according to several hand scrawled notes recovered from long decayed, acid eaten, journals.

Laughing at the Titan for using Logitech controllers when the 4.3 billion dollar Virginia-class submarines use Xbox controllers...

@@krashdFor the Periscopes...not the maneuvering controls.

​@@krashdyea.... no.

Lmao ​@@Mazorzarch

Isn't that also why the Bismarck was sunk? The Royal Navy was in chase but had lost them, then Bismarck sent a lengthy radio message so the British fleet could triangulate the signal and sunk the ship.

@@urkraft3858 Yep. That was how the Royal Navy located the Bismarck, but that does not answer where the Bismarck was going then. IIRC, the Royal Navy originally calculated that the Bismarck was returning to Norway but they quickly realized that she was going to Brest.

@@FinnishDragon Brest is best.

The third weakness was that the wireless units were not yet able to be directional enough. Because of this, UK/US listening posts were able to intercept and decipher messages constantly.

Doenitz was keen to newer technologies, but grew up in the WW1 era navy and was slow to implement changes. The type 17 took resources and time away from the type 21 or just being so late on modifying the type 9's with snorkels.

Can't find ANYTHING about it online?

I know it was war and all but making people get into a machine like that is pretty evil, the plane i get it, it was desperate and it worked, but the submarines wtf.

Actually it wouldn't do instant serious damage to skin... There are far more reactive things. Like how about substance igniting already oxidized things like sand? Or really anything, including asbestos, bricks and concrete? Just read John D. Clarke's book Ignition! An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants for whole lots of fun. Google for book's name +pdf and you'll find it.

This didn't even mention its "best" features: Peroxide molecule is quite unstable and can decompose spontaneously releasing heat, which increases chance/rate of further decomposing. So if tank can't dissipate heat forming inside it, result is thermal runaway and whole content going up in whoosh or bang with superheated steam and oxygen spread all over the place. And many things can start/catalyze that decomposing. Most transition metals and their compounds do it, lots of organic compounds (splash of peroxide on wool would turn it to flaming torch) ordinary dirt in its various compositions and universal availability. Any randomly named substance has 50-50 (or better) chance to catalyze the reaction. John D. Clarke's book Ignition! An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants has whole chapter from the joys of it. Google for book's name +pdf and you'll find it.

AW 1986-2012. Monitored the Kursk message traffic. Only squadron with hot contact on the Mike....the Komsomolets. Was on a cold pattern looking for him, returned from debrief, only to learn from CNN on AFRTS that he went down.

The scary modern thing: the latest nuclear submarines are just as quiet as diesel-electric subs running on battery power. Reasons: quieter drive systems, better insulation of coolant pumps for nuclear reactors and even quieter propulsion blades, thanks to a shield around the propellers. I believe the USS _Virginia_ class subs have these features.

@@Sacto1654 They still produce a lot of heat.

@@jaapaap123 Ocean is superb heatsink.

@@tuunaes yes, but it's not about practical matters, but about detection.

Wir müssen die Existenz unseres Volkes und eine Zukunft für weiße Kinder sichern

@@captainblacktooth371 Nah I just don't want a world with BP in it, everyone else is fine.

​@@4-Methylaminorex uh you mean British Petroleum? Yeah bp really did a number of the gulf of Mexico.

​@@4-Methylaminorex and yeah I know what you really meant by BP. Just thought I'd fk with you since you're too scared to use the actual words. No race is superior to another. All innocent people deserve to live.

It's closer to 'bort'.

They did end up using it to power the turbopumps on the X-15.

John D. Clarke's book Ignition! An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants has whole chapter from the joys of it. Google for book's name +pdf and you'll find it. In short molecule is unstable and there's exothermic self decomposing going on at some rate. And if you can't keep tank holding peroxide cool, you'll have thermal runaway and whole content going up in big whoosh or bang.

Not just in the 1980s: Some of the newest Swedish "Gotland class" submarines operate in a similar way. They do indeed have a large and very well insulated liquid oxygen tank, and have conventional diesel engines, but they only use those for surface running and do not use the oxygen to run the diesels while underwater. There is actually a pretty good reason for this - if you feed pure oxygen into the air intake of a diesel engine instead of air, it runs far too hot and can even melt the pistons and cylinder heads. The combustion is so much hotter (especially when you take into account the fact that diesels run at high compression ratios) that it is just about impossible to pump enough coolant through the engine to take the excess heat away fast enough. Using aluminium cylinder heads and pistons was tried for this (since aluminium is a much better heat conductor than steel), but that presented an even bigger and more catastrophic problem - when fed with pure oxygen, the aluminium cylinder heads would not only melt but actually burn the metal. This was discovered when the first experimental engine was started up and promptly spat huge clouds of aluminium oxide out of its exhaust pipes, followed shortly by the cylinder head explosively separating itself from the engine block. The Swedish company "Kockums" came up with a much better idea: They retrofitted the submarines with an extra section which housed a large and fairly powerful Stirling engine. This operates a bit like a steam engine, except using air as its working fluid instead of steam - and since it is an external combustion engine, the same charge of air filling the cylinders can be re-used over and over again, so it does not need to take in fresh air from the atmosphere. This type of engine works by exploiting the flow of heat from a heat source to a heat sink, and in a submarine (or in a surface ship, for that matter), the surrounding ocean makes an excellent heat sink. For the heat source, it burns diesel fuel in a continuous combustion chamber, using oxygen from the big tank. The exhaust products are expelled overboard, using an exhaust compressor to do this at depth. The Stirling engines used in Swedish submarines generate 100 horsepower, which is enough to propel the sub to 5 knots submerged. The oxygen tank holds enough to maintain this power level and hence submerged speed for about 2 weeks, and I think some of the boil-off oxygen gas can be used to replenish oxygen for the crew to breathe - though this is a miniscule amount compared to how much the engines use, since the Gotland class is fairly small, with less than 30 crew. It is an incredibly capable submarine though - in war-gaming exercises it has demonstrated the ability to infiltrate American aircraft carrier battle-fleet by stealth, achieving an attack position where it could have sunk the carrier if it had fired a torpedo, without being detected by either the carrier itself or any other ship present. It is therefore fortunate for both Sweden and America that they are allies, so the Americans responded to this by asking the Swedish government if they could borrow one of the Gotland class submarines to find out exactly how they managed this.

The burning question. How do you get a droplet on you in any circumstance that you might think it was water?!?!

Blond bomb-shell takes on a different meaning.

Don't forget the HMS Excaliboom.(Excalibur)

@@loribroadbent8573 That was HMS Excrutiator

Two boats that brought their own depth charges, potentially saving the enemy the trouble.

Overseas* oversees is a very different word

@@cleverusername9369Overseers (verb- they oversee) could also kinda apply, though, given the post war German scientists that went to the US/UK/USSR...

​​@@cleverusername9369 You know some people's phones will "autocorrect" without* people noticing. I have Grammarly on my phone and it tries to "correct" correct words. 😅 * my phone just did it here. I wrote "without" but my phone decided it should be "with" 😑

@@jrmckim Yeah, that's the first thing I turn off when I get a new phone.

It doesn't say it did just says "dissolved crews" you made the implications that it happened... that's on you

@@kingjellybean9795"Dissolved its crew alive" ... might implicate it did exactly that. The guy in the Me 163 also didn't get "dissolved" btw...

Welcome to modern RU-vid and media bro. It worked too. Hate the game not the players in it. Capitalism is the reason for this, not Simon. But keep crying and filling your adult diapers. I'm sure someone will eventually give a fvck 😂🤣

“Thanks for watching!” - Factboy, allegedly.

Really? Thumbs down, then.

Actually the Kursk was refloated & moved to a dry dock. The remains of the forward torpedo room was cut off.

Maybe more like 2 or 3 small ones? They mostly sunk merchant ships as far as I know

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I do, tap in to the Whistlerverse via podcasts while driving, superb

Also, the aesthetic.

Sssshhhhhh, if Elon hears we'll end up with a T-boat (Teslaboot) ---- lol

How do you translate foortwear 😂

The torpedo was also a dummy training torpedo, it didn’t have a explosive warhead, and part of the reason why it exploded. The welds weren’t to a higher grade because it was a dummy torpedo, and the manufacturer didn’t know the danger of peroxide, and that these torpedo needed to be made to a higher standards as a normal torpedo

Bahhaaahahahaa kinda thought it was a gag and would just keep going 😂

Render it down!

No.

Wrong.

Why did you feel the need to make your silly comment? Are you related to Diane Abbott?

No

​@@HerbertTowers hahaha

"Don't stop here, this is bat country!" "I don't want to kill you, I just want to carve a little Z in your forehead!" "Look over there, two polar bears fucking!" One of the funniest and most quotable movies ever.

Surprise!! It didn't actually happen, as so many people are crying about in the comments. "WHY WOULD SIMON LIE TO US?!? WHY??! 😭🥺😥" 😂😂😂 Relax my dudes it's nbd

It’s Kursk, not Kirks

Germans don't even pronounce it like that, it's more like 'bort', definitely not like the footwear 'boot'.