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14:38 unknown Pokémon scroll text reads: “Subscribe to chat history or else Ethiopia will murder you”
"Sometimes hunting accidents happen. Sometimes people get thrown from horses off cliffs…"
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The Titanic was doomed from the start. They looked at the components they salvaged and most of the rivets were faulty.
Unless they were NVG those binoculars wouldn’t have made a difference in complete darkness
There were so many screw ups by the local government that day in Sarajevo in June 1914. It’s almost as if they wanted this to happen, if I was a tinfoil wearing type person, I would see their incompetency as a sign of conspiracy
Mistranslation is so real, multiple mistakes in the translation of my countries founding document led to land wars and general bad blood (New Zealand)
Awesome video for you to react to! You always say “imagine if so and so did this small thing different than that”.
I highly recommend you watch Stephen Kotkin. He teaches about the life of Stalin
7:19 Yes, your doubt is not without sound logic. Binoculars of the era were purely optical, none of the IR/night vision stuff we see in modern day instruments. Which means that even if the lookouts looked though the binoculars, all they would see is a dark circle if they couldn't catch the horizon quickly enough.
And this was also observed when the people who made a documentary about the conditions of the Titanic hired a Coast Guard officer to replicate the conditions that night on a icy lake. The coast guard officer himself said, "Unless you know exactly what you are looking at, all you see in a binoculars of that era (with no night vision aid) is just a dark circle."
Fun Fact: when Stalin died, the Americans intercepted the message that was sent to the Soviet military
The Airman who deciphered and translated the message, and so became the first Westerner to know Stalin had died, was Johnny Cash, the Man in Black himself.
Labienus not backing his boy Caesar
As to metric system: the US is metric by law; all US customary units are defined in terms of (metric) SI units, a process that started in the 1860s
triggers of history avalanches….
I’d say the fine arts institute of Vienna rejecting a certain Austrian with a silly mustache has gotta be up there 😂
I thought he would mention Rommel's birthday party that prevented him from being in Normandy during D-Day. It's debatable if his presence would have made so much of a difference, but probably it would have made the landing harder.
There was an unusually cold parcel of water, recorded by other ships in the vicinity that night.. and there`s a theory that caused the meteorologic phenomena that fools the vision of the horizon by blurring out the low horizon stars… causing the late sighting
Ah yes the British weights and measurements system.
Where we measure…
Pints (Milk and alcohol)
Litres (Other drinkable liquids)
Miles (For longer distances)
Feet (For height of people)
Cm (For measuring other things)
Stones (For weighing people)
KG (For weighing other things)
Ounces (Used by bakers and drug dealers)
20:20– Death of Stalin is such a good movie!
Have you ever considered making a video about the history of Poland?
The binocs would have made a difference since they would allow more light to enter the eye due to the objective collecting more income light than an unenhanced iris could. Anyone who wants to test this irl can use a binoc at night and see more stars with it than without.
Reg. Stalin: Only CCG-Players will get the "defense mode" reference :]
A single monkey bite led to Greece losing the Greek Turkish war and the death of thousands of Greek citizens in Turkey
Whether the binoculars would have helped is questionable. (I agree vlogger). I lean toward the explanation that weather phenomena caused serious visibilty problems (cold current from north hitting warm current (gulf stream) from south. So even on a calm night the lookouts were handicapped. 2. we haven't adopted the metric system because "we stupid".
Not so much of a mistake that led to a disaster, but i think it deserves a spot here:
Khruschev's "We will bury you" speech, as in russian saying "bury you" means "watch you being buried" aka "Communism will prevail and you will collapse on your own, capitalist.". Since the west didnt catch that, they just thought that he was preparing to destroy the americans through war, which escalated the Cold War even further in the 60's.
Binoculars would have helped tremendously. Binoculars are like telescopes, in that they bring more light and detail to your eye. The bigger the aperture the more light and detail that is brought into your eyes. The aperture of the binoculars is much bigger than a person's pupil. It isn't about the magnification, but the ability to bring more light and detail to the lookout. Binoculars would have been a BIG help.
The treaty with Etiopia was not a mistake, that was almost certainly deliberate by the Italians.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand's car driving down the wrong street right to the assassin that was looking for him. ☹️
10:25 Chris, I don't think this is really the root cause. The US customary system has some historical connections to Rome, but really it is most strongly connected with the British imperial system of units which is rooted in both Roman AND Anglo-Saxon historical units of measure. The idea of the metric system came around right around the time of the founding of the USA, but the actual implementation of the metric system in France came after the Consititutional Convention. From Wikipedia: "In 1783, the British inventor James Watt, who was having difficulties in communicating with German scientists, called for the creation of a global decimal measurement system, proposing a system which used the density of water to link length and mass, and, in 1788, the French chemist Antoine Lavoisier commissioned a set of nine brass cylinders (a [French] pound and decimal subdivisions thereof) for his experimental work. In 1790, a proposal floated by the French to Britain and the United States, to establish a uniform measure of length, a metre based on the period of a pendulum with a beat of one second, was defeated in the British Parliament and United States Congress."
I think the reason we did not convert to the metric system was largely because of the inertia behind the imperial system of measure, not because of some philosophical preference to be like the Romans.
If Hitler had not failed the entrance exam to Vienna Fine art gallery. If King Harold Godwinson hadn’t fought the battle with Harald Hardrada at Standford bridge prior to the battle of Hastings. Maybe the men would of been better equipped for the battle of Hastings.
If the Stanley’s had not switched side during the battle of Bosworth. King Richard 111 had won the battle. We would not of had Henry V11 or V111. And we would not of found Richard v11 in a car park.
The Spyro music😍
Pompey (and the Roman Senate) not taking the gold from the Treasury when they abandoned Rome. Caesar marched into the capital and was able to capture the gold and pay his troops. They might have followed him anyway (once they crossed the Rubicon, they knew he was committing treason) but it certainly helped secure their loyalty.
While the language may have made a difference, it's probably the case that the Italians (like other European powers at the time) were looking for an excuse to invade Ethiopia. Provided they could claim they had some justification for an invasion, what the treaty actually said was less relevant.
Today, I learned that Scotland had a Golden Age.
Am I tripping, or is the music in the original video from Kingdom Hearts??
Titanic sank because of brittle steel. Binoculars is bs. Your arguments make since.
I bought some special fertilizer for my community garden. Decided to walk over and deliver it to the head gardener who was working in an orchard. He left to get ladders and while he was gone, I helped out by climbing in some of the trees. I am little and flexible. A bit later, I was on a limb and it snapped. Down I went. Broke my leg. Couldn't fly home because I needed surgery. Missed Xmas and my dad passed away.
Worst mistake ever. Should have never gotten in that tree.
The thing that jumped out at me was the White Ship disaster.
8:00 Occam's razor bro
Fat Electrician had a great video about the metric system vs standard and talked about the pirates.
7:20 The claim I've read is that the binoculars actually make it HARDER to see icebergs on a moonless night with calm seas.
A Maine dairy company has settled a lawsuit over an overtime dispute that was the subject of a ruling that hinged on the use of the Oxford comma. An absent "Oxford comma" will cost a Maine dairy company $5 million.
You know time flies when even one of your favourite youtube channel host's beard turns grey
The channel Ocean Liner Designs explains very well how the binoculars wouldnt really have mattered, among other misconceptions. I'd like to see a reaction to one of his videos someday.
7:35 – This is correct. Binoculars were not used to SPOT icebergs, especially in the calm, cold conditions the Titanic was in that night. Crew on watch did not scan the horizon with binoculars because that actually reduces your overall effectiveness. Once you spotted something, you'd then use the binoculars to inspect it more closely. The binocular things, like you said, is just invented by people who don't understand the actual procedure and they're looking for something/someone to lay blame on.
Another series of mistakes in WW1 that led to disaster was the improper navigation and speed of the Imo in Halifax harbour that led to the collision with the Mont Blanc, a munitions ship, leading to the Halifax explosion. 1782 dead, and at least 9000 injured. The blast is the largest non-nuclear man-made explosion.
Going to Sarajevo on a nationist holiday in the first place.
The failure of the Soviet War against Poland (The Miracle on the Vistula) was partially blamed on Stalin. Stalin siphoned off some troops originally destined for the attack on Warsaw for his attack on White Russians in the area of Ukraine.
In that battle a company of Renault tanks under French supervision were important in the defense. This unit’s overall commander was a young Charles de Gaulle. A squadron of American veteran aviators also fought for Poland, the Kosciuszko Squadron organized and led by Fauntleroy and Cooper (King Kong).