Gruinard: Scotland's Deadly Anthrax Island



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47 thoughts on “Gruinard: Scotland's Deadly Anthrax Island”

  1. A little interesting fact: after cleaning up the island, the government sold it back to the original owners for the price it was initially purchased for – £500 – as per the agreement.
    Newspaper reports made it sound like the island was being sold for £500 to anyone who would buy.

    The government was inundated by people offering to buy it off them.

    I only know this because the algorithm pushed this video at the same time as it pushed an older one from Tom Scott.

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  2. Wait, is this the same island that Simon released a few videos on a month or so ago? Just how many of these islands does the UK have? I thought the Brits had a little bit more sense than us Americans.

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  3. Gotta love how they only considered that bioweapons don't really care about borders and could easily hit them as well when the project was already quite far along.

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  4. Whilst drunk which was a regular occurrence and during WW2 Churchill ordered a Squadron of Lancasters to prepare for a bombing raid on Germany using the aforementioned Anthrax. Thankfully, General Sir Alan Brooke quietly vetoed the order and Hitler was supposed to be the only Psychopath. People should inform themselves on the Warmonger Churchill actually was.

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  5. Living in the north east England for for my current 31years and i never knew anything like this was just a few hours drive away from me. Love these videos keep up the amazing work.

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  6. The government NEEDS to keep secrets! They HAVE to due to enumerable reasons. Foreign Policy alone should be enough of a reason! Do we want Russia to find out our secrets how about China, ISIS, Iran! I sure as hell don't. There's a time and place for everything!

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  7. all i heard was screw the furure generations that have to live with that shit after. Those terorists sound more like heroes that made goverments taste their own medicine, wich sound fair.

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  8. When it takes threatening the government to clean up their mess WITH their own mess, it's saying something, if only people would send some sewage to the tories today given they've allowed the dumping of it into rivers and coastlines…

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  9. Simon, huge fan of your channels. In particular your "graphics" channels because the length is perfect for my daily commute. It's awesome learning new things everyday with you.

    I have a recommendation for a Geographics video topic. I'm from the United States Great Lakes region and in 1996 we had a tropical storm develop totally over Lake Huron. You can call the episode, "Huroncane." Or don't. Either way consider the topic because it was a super rare weather event that most people likely have never heard of!

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  10. Maybe the space powerstations can fire radiation on the island to kill the anthrax. Space powerstations already send energy back via microwaves to earth, apparently…right when there was a heatwave…hmmmm

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