Meteor Crater

[bineees78xx]

@SelGomezRocks100 idiot

[DurskMan]

This was pretty cool to see in person..bigger than I though

[01101100d]

I thought the voice sounded like thunderfoot and then i checked up on your channel and it is lol, cool, nice new channel.

[Nuker1337]

The 'meteor creater' meteor din't explode with the force of 20 megatons, it was significantly smaller at about 4 megatons. If it really was 20 MT, the crater would be a little over 2 km wide, while it in reality is about 1.2 km.

[pyrogamer]

almost half a mile? More like almost 3/5ths of a mile.

[xypowerpop]

i've been there ^^

[delysid111]

I agree. When meteors and comets income a planet, they are sometimes absorbed by the planet. Nutrient supply. Like on Mars, impact craters might generatet dust winds, or so it just seems?.It depends on the viscosity of the clode surface. Sometimes it looks like a droplet in shockwaves.

[footage82]

i have bus ramming inside my head!!

it destroys my head from inside out.... and all my sense is packed into that bus..... if it gets away...

what lil sense i got left is getting away with the bus!!

why is they trying to leave me all the time?!?!

wat should i doo???

[AhSchit]

fire a bullet into the bus. it will be gone forever

[footage82]

but someone told me that i need sense...

why should i destroy it if i need it..?

[TonyBtheEG]

"Maximum security."  lolcatz.

[jesperjesper123]

I think it's wrong to play to see these things I mean the man dident build this the man dident do anyting and I think it's wrong to "own" someting like this aswell it should be free to the world to see!

[nausinora]

Think you'd enjoy flying your plane around Wolf Creek Crater here in Aus, it's just such a stunning place all round.

[roentgen571]

I was there once as a kid...I do remember that nasty wind! I also remember the big meteorite fragment. The simulator and some of the security fence is new to me, though. :-)

[IRiViI]

You have a good tast of music if you ask me xD

And nice job

[KevinSolway]

Tip: a band-aid (plaster) stuck over the microphone of your camera can reduce wind noise.

[JETZcorp]

Tape works, too.

[teslafredde]

the tsar nuclear bomb had the power of aproximately 50 megaton..

great video though

[BenchMarkd]

Yeah but that was a one off just bolstering in the arms race by the Soviets

[JETZcorp]

The actual design called for 100, but they tested it at fifty. It was tested on one of those big arctic islands North of Russia (I know the name, but can't spell it) and the shock wave was nevertheless noticed as far away as Western Europe.

[MaxSafeheaD]

Surely that should be meteorITE crater?

[metabog]

The official name of it is Meteor Crater.

[MaxSafeheaD]

yea ... which is wrong!

[metabog]

Well you can thank whoever named it. It's a private thing anyway, so it's all commercialized and they can name it whatever they want cause most people can't tell a meteor from a meteorite, they just come to see how "awesome" it is and buy crater-shaped paper weights (or something). It's a bit sad.

[MaxSafeheaD]

that is a shame but then if you want to see a really big crater you need google earth/maps - go to: 51.388504, -68.704119

[magick205]

Lake Manicougan. Good one! If you go to fas . org, you'll find an online resource that allows you to examine impact structures on earth. It also is a great resource on planetary imaging.

[MaxSafeheaD]

ah, not seen that site before, thanks very much =D

[humanman65]

"what the car saw.." very cool.

[buzzausa]

woooow

[lehman]

I saw meteor crater when I was younger. awesome place.

[planetmax83]

Thanks for the road trip.

[ADancingWalrus]

It's an awesome sight!

[rochet75]

noooo way there was a com met thsr hit ertrh ???

[sec0f111]

...what?

[DonHoraldo]

I think he meant to say "no way there was a comet that hit earth?"

still mistaken but understandable.

[whiteelefants91]

I live in the Phoenix area and we've been getting a great monsoon this year. Lots of wind, dust storms, thunderstorms, and rain. It really makes 110 degree days seem worth it when you get a storm at night.

[ReverendAtomSmasher]

Love your vids......but you have to get a windscreen my man.

[ranshire]

I'm not sure if "of course they don't tell you the rates to get in" is the correct response. Most privately owned places (zoos and the like) are quite up front about their prices, like on websites. It's "unusual" that they aren't up front about their prices. And thank you for telling us them!

[criskity]

$15? When I was there in 2003 it was "just" $12!

[hgryphon]

Way to destroy all life on earth, Tf00t! ;) Wild simulator...

[DonHoraldo]

2:20 wrong. biggest bomb ever made was the tsar at 50 megatons.

[TheDevi1Child]

biggest bombs we currently stock pile, not the biggest EVER

[DonHoraldo]

he said and I quote. "biggest nukes that man makes is about 5 megatons"

this has nothing to do with current stockpiling or modern construction. there are 15-20mt devices are still around. in fewer numbers but still there.

[TheDevi1Child]

yes but we dont make them anymore because we dont need them, at least we dont make them for the purpose of blowing up a city they are for testing.

[DonHoraldo]

the last U.S. test was in 92

the last U. K. test was in 91

French 96

China 96

India 98

Pakistan 98

the only test in the last 10 years where North Korea's

[TheDevi1Child]

and.... your point is?.......

[DonHoraldo]

that yours was pointless. you said "they are for testing. "

but only N.K. has tested any recently so getting back to the point he said "biggest nukes that man makes is about 5 megatons" this is wrong if you mean currently because they're not made much currently. and historically tons of larger ones have been made.

[TheDevi1Child]

currently as in if we went into a nuclear war they would be the ones made and used specifically because there isn't anything you'd want to blow up that warrants more than 5megatons unless your looking to destroy all life on earth.

[DonHoraldo]

look sir. if you have to do all this hand waving to try to rescue a point then you've already lost. you've gone in three different directions and now try a forth with even less merit. no I'm done with you. assemble a cogent argument next time or don't bother.

[TheDevi1Child]

hahahahhahaha i had no intention of arguing with anyone im just making comments, its rather entertaining to do so on youtube the fact everyone is anonymous (at least most of the time) makes them really come out of their shell and show themselves to be the pricks they really are

[will0ughby]

he said make, not made

[DonHoraldo]

you're splitting hairs. not many nukes are being made today at all.

[oldtaco]

Thanks and safe travels!

[DeemotheAtheist]

awesome

[InModiasWeTrust]

Very nice, T-f00t.  Great storm view from the car!

[anubisx00]

You can try to minimize wind noise by putting some tape, a bandage, gauze, etc over the mic. Basically making a wind screen. It might muffle normal sound a bit, but help with average wind. Great video still!

[bshieldsbb01]

10 years ago I was staying in San Fransisco, and my friend (an archaeologist) gave me a small a goodbye gift.

Its a piece of obsidian carved into a speartip (done by an archaeologist, but by ancient methods).

However the obsidian wasn't produced by volcanism. It was formed At this crater in the intense heat of the impact.

I still have it,and it lies right next to my monitor. That was cool seeing your vid where it came from.

Great vid diary TF00t, thx and happy travels.

[8tripsaweek]

could anybody tell me what music was playing at the end of the video please? thanx

[darbeau1]

Meteor Crater is one of the two places I have been in the world where, while visiting, I heard no sounds. No wind, no people, no cars, no planes, zilch. For about 30 minutes I sat there straining to hear something. All I heard was the beating of my heart and breathing. It was a fantastic experience, and the conditions occurred one other time while visiting India. It was a phenomenal experience, abruptly ended by squealing children racing up the stairs to the viewing platform.

[ChrisJMoor]

Thankyou Thunderfoot - I knew that rocky meteorites essentially form from average solar nebula matter minus the stuff that gets vapourised and carried away in the solar wind, but not iron nickel meterories. So those things are actually the remains of the cores of differentiated bodies that go bluey due to impacts, tidal forces and so forth. Wow...

[RodHullIOnceWasHim]

Why is it that creative minds have an almost equal love of destruction...? I suppose it's all good lol...

[NearVSMello]

Cool!  I was there. I ran that simulator!

[alltheworldsastage]

Several Years ago I was Flying into LA for vacation and I saw this from the sky.... very very cool

[Roywocket]

ThunderFoot

I hope you are a teacher of some kind. I find myself interested things I would othervise find boring. Your love for it really shines through.

You need to get a TV show or something.

[lupine73]

Bingo. I've said the same thing.

Something similar to what they did with that whole "Where The Hell is Matt" video... A company sponsored him and funded his trip.. He picked where he wanted to go and they covered the costs. Imagine what Thunderf00t could do with that kind of opportunity?

[Sweet00th]

i hate that wind sound so much :( . Great video though.

[Bozmatic]

Ive been there and no video/picture, that Ive seen, can really give the awe of such a place. There are other meteors there also (from other places).

I too have felt that very one shown here, It is amazing. I truly recommend anyone remotely able to visit Meteor Crater to do so!

Thank you for the video.

[Vic92084]

The "whirlwind" is a dust devil. We get tons of them in the part of Mexico whence I come.

[BayerLexan]

If you have more than one person, some nice bolt cutters would be cheaper...

[kitas7]

2:16 What about the 57MT Tsar hygrogen bomb tested on October 30, 1961?

[yakovgolyadkin]

He didn't say the biggest ever made, he said the biggest that man makes. As in currently. The largest nukes currently in stockpiles in the world aren't nearly the size of the Tsar.

[DeletedDelusion]

Wow, how old is this crater?

Great video, love the music.

[FishApprentice]

timelapse ftw, awesome video

[Kelrash]

Love the clouds at the end

[jmosler9]

been there... touched that fragment. dad waited in the car because he didn't want to spend the 12 bucks.

[KSGixxer76]

The Blue New Yorker is going to be famous.

[WeedGreenPowerRanger]

The dinosaurs didn't "Die". they evolved.

[legalizemarijuananos]

u mean they had a common ancestor. a trex could not have evolved into anything alive today.

[ccaptorchen]

Trex are now pigeons eating hand out breads from old ladies in the parks... jk.. yeah but you are correct ^.^

[legalizemarijuananos]

haha that meteor did us a favor.

[WeedGreenPowerRanger]

Both, pal. They have a common ancestor, and have evolved into modern animals.

[TamesisNamesis]

anyone no the comparisons to this crater to the craters on the moon?

[WeedGreenPowerRanger]

The russians made a 50 megaton nuke... The Tsar Bomb.

[legalizemarijuananos]

is that big?

[legalizemarijuananos]

that was the meteor that killed the dinosaurs.

[ccaptorchen]

this one is small compare to the one that kill the dinosaurs

[legalizemarijuananos]

i dont think a meteor killed the dinosaurs. it was caused by diseases and volcanoes.

[ccaptorchen]

then the Chicxulub crater in the ocean floors near Mexico that is 110 mile across have some explaining to do =D

[legalizemarijuananos]

110 mile crater...damn thats big. maybe a meteor did kill them.

[ccaptorchen]

seems to be the scientific consensus after the chicxulub crater was mapped out. . if not completly extinct them.. reduce their population so much that a smaller incidents like diseases can wipe them off completly.

[Honakoo]

Man awesome

[lothor1234]

5Kt? Wasnt the biggest Hydrogen bomb ever made the Tsar Bomb and it measured 50Kt but the Russians Scaled it down to 25Kt, and we only made upto a 15Kt.

[charbroiledmonk1033]

no the tsar bomb was planned to be 100Mt but was scaled back to 57Mt.

[BabmerChan]

Imagine the stories people would make up to explain that massive crater back in the old days..

Amazin

[tomiontomion]

thanks again for taking us all along...

[amig90]

Wow, the car sure has an eye for detail.

[eddie2042]

haha at the end, he used Dreamscape. lol it's popular now

[mrlurp]

I visited that crater once as a kid with my parents, it was a lot of fun for a big hole in the ground.

[gonegonego]

It's not the quality,it's the wind =( and there really isn't much you can do about it.

[tomaselvis]

50$ to see a big hole?!?!?

Only a big A-hole would charge that.

[dewduldrawe]

$15 :P

[tomaselvis]

Puhhh...

Got a scare for a moment...

[jsmxwll]

$15, not 50 lol. Still a decent chunk. -Max

[tomaselvis]

My wallet stuck in my throat when I heard 50. ;-)

[Mattson402]

WHAT?! 50. I heard 15. And why do you keep your wallet in your mouth? May I suggest your back pocket.

[tomaselvis]

50 and 15 sound pretty alike. Whatever...

Maybe I'll try your advice with the wallet. :-)

[554466551]

Took me a while to figure out I wasn't looking at my a** but I got there in the end. Awesome impact crater. These vids are the best postcards ever.

[mikefoz]

But what if it was ice? Wouldn't Earth's magnetic field make it split and head towards the poles? Might help in the holy war against Global Warming!

[Xelbiuj]

lol, wasn't that like part 3 in his series?

Dunno but I should watch them again, good for a laugh.

[commodore256]

That was one big ass space rock that made that hole.

[zndprophet]

Oh, and yes, the Kaibab Plateau and the Mogollon Rim are some of the windiest places you'll ever see.

[killingrang]

i've allways wanted to go there :) thanks TF. shame it was so windy as it was kinda hard to hear you at some points.

[zndprophet]

Hell yeah, Thunderf00t is going all over my old stomping grounds! I went to high school in Flagstaff, and plan on moving back soon. The rest of my family has lived there the whole time, ever since we moved out of Kayenta-which is closer to Shiprock.

In Flagstaff, I even live in a neighborhood inspired by the crater. The street names are Lunar, Moonbeam, Stardust, Gemini, etc...

But you know what? I never really went out to the meteor crater. You rarely visit stuff in your own backyard.

[wiyowiyo4]

great stuff, very educating

[Airave]

Loving your journey, TF.

Thanks so much for sharing

your adventures and knowledge

in such in interesting way.

You Rock like a Meteor.

[Libertarianist]

Tsar Bomba, a Soviet nuke was designed to be 100 megatons, they decided later to go with a lead, rather than uranium, damper for the world's sake, which cut back on the fallout tremendously but only reduced the yield to 50 megatons.

The US's biggest bomb was 25 MT.

[KitRae]

They charge you for seeing a big hole in the ground?

[eksiarvamus]

I can't believe it either...is it actually legal to ask money for seeing natural sights??

[KitRae]

It should be, before you know it you're gonna be charged for looking out your window.

[AnimaRaptor]

lol Wow... A 50km meteorite? I really am surprised the simulation didn't just tell you the Earth went pop. :P

[JustAManInAMask]

Damn you TF! How dare you destroy our planet! Very interesting though. Looking forward to a video of the Grand Canyon if your decide to go!

[AlphonsusPeck]

1st to display a lack of a productive life by endlessly watching YouTube videos and commenting "1st" on them.

And I know. I'm not even first. Pathetic, isn't it. :(

[Rhysz1]

Another great update Thundie! Keep us posted, this is great!

Regards,

Rhysz

[tg1one]

Lovly transition from google Earth!

[musicgeniusno1]

That's some crater. :)

[boyweed]

Wow, that's amazing. Your videos are always an inspiration!! Have a good trip.

[theeyeisblind]

holy shit thats a big hole

[ScrewLimbBizkit]

Speaking of VenomFangX's mouth...