Deadly Blast

[tnielsenhayden]

National Geographic gets great footage, but I wish they'd follow the example of documentarians like Ken Burns and David Attenborough, and lay off the overdramatic narration. It's a freakin' 5000 pound bomb! They're talking about the Chicxulub impact and K-T boundary extinctions! Do they think we'll think it's trivial if they don't pile on the the "Oooh, What a Big Deal This Is" narration? Give us credit for more brains than that.

[TPCrisis]

16 people believe the Earth is 6000 years old.

[falloutboy9424]

chuck norris would own that asteroid

[altecl6789]

The video was pretty cool until I realized there was a girl in the bunker. If there's anything that can accompany awesome explosions, it's chicks. Where else are we gonna get our sandwhiches?

[dragonkurt1]

LOL 1:50 we'll need a big bang of our own

[BooteyMasta]

I'd like to be on the moon with a case of beer and weed watching that asteroid hit! Saying "There's no more Kansas Toto"!

[america0wns]

the captions are fucked up

[mbofny]

What a terrifying thought....that an asteroid can hit us, and we can't do anything about it.

[BruceK10032]

If you tried to destroy it with bombs, it would probably not affect it much--depending on what it was made of and how it was structured. The best solution would probably be to divert it into a slightly different orbit. All you'd have to do is change the trajectory a tiny bit to make it miss. You'd need time to do that, though.

[dummynator854]

The photographer just sounds so exaggerated and serious.....

"Oh,beautiful,beautiful"

So annoying

[Daneus05]

psh! if that happens we'll just send bruce willis to blow it up.

[no3ggs4u]

3:20 they lock out the cameraman lol

[schusta677]

HAHAHAH, hes screwed.

[schusta677]

Hahaha Hes screwed. And i love how he pans down to the lock as if to saw " youve got to be shitting me"

[Pitbuller956]

think you morons if they blow it up it gonna turn into little peices and its gonna hit all over.

[OutlawzAKA]

this is just show, they know how bombs works....ask military!!

what amazed me the most is they still don't know what happened the dinosaurs.......WOW.

[oOddkillerOo]

so shockwaves ARE real?

I used to think they were some "effects" in games and etc....

Looks awesome though o-o

[Fahnestock1]

yeah... you some times can feel them after lightening strikes its freaky

[jonjon181]

well how many thermonukes would it take to make this thing nothing but a dust cloud?

[kissmybuttdimple]

they shoud go to iraq and interview some villagers if they are so interested in the after-effects of this kind of INCREDIBLE EVENT.

[Untadaike]

whoa

[Wolverinex29]

The stupid scientist goes "oh that's a crater" No duh you dug one to put the bomb in you idiot!!!

[locosychocrazy1]

NO!!! He dug a hole to but the bomb in! The crater is the effect of the explosion!

[Wolverinex29]

BS!!! This is all in the human imagination...no

way anything like this would ever happen!! We just scare ourselves into thinking it might!! Asteroid that big...haha..give me a break!

[PepsiPope]

HOLY SHIT, RUN!!!

[masterexploder83]

can't get enough of those slo-mo shots. Absolutely gorgeous, and terrifying!!

[akny007]

agreed.

beautiful

thats why I love chemistry :D

[gone2cast]

a future weapon

[onthecuttingedge2005]

back in War II they had built a 40,000lb bunker buster

[jonjon181]

why dont we just shoot our full wad of nuclear weapons at this fucker and blow it to hell?

[globalarte]

Because the kinetic forces that carries will keep it going towards the Earth ,

only now is coming in fragments like a shotgun more dangerous maybe .

[Nirvana4554]

There's this amazing new product called gravity. Blow crap at it wouldn't do anything other than make more little pieces. Haha, well it was a good idea though. Blow it up... lmao. It's the size of DC!!! LOL XD

[blackday97]

to be honest i think this is one of the reasons why a giant meteor is more likely to wipe the face of the earth... I bet if that scientist was given the opportunity to detonate a nuclear bomb just for "the sake of research" he'd do it... "it was a beautiful explosion"....á_á

[kklloopp]

wow that is cool, a sonic boom so strong it can kill a human

[ApexIXMR]

Cool explosion, dumb experiment.

Since when does and outward blast compare to a solid object with a downward force?

[AdroitFilms]

In a sense you are correct,

However,

try to also consider the impact an explosion of such an item. That would cause an outward force. They're measuring the damage capacity for an outward force, then magnifying it to scale.

Downward, could be tested, could be too unsafe though.

[MakeLoveNoBabiez]

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC needs to stop putting fear in people....one minute its 2012 or Nostradmus....now its a "DEADLY BLAST"...its gettin kind of redundant!

[coffee107]

i love how national geographic accually shows the full video, unlike discovery they only show trailers and preview which leave you hanging, it sucks for those who dont have cable

[ethicalbro]

If it does come here to youtube I hope it brings a dictionary to help some of these folks spell!

[Jwjewels06]

dinosaurs never went extinct. They are now known as birds.

[RealisticHat]

They locked the camera man outside the bomb shelter!@

Haha

[Nirvana4554]

Lets be serious here. If there's a giant meteor coming towards Earth, so what? What are we going to be able to do? Absolutely nothing. Live life while we still have it folks.

[farvision]

Nirvana4554, if we detect it soon enough we could deflect it. This is a good reason to be out in space.

[lytrigian]

@farvision And the earlier it's detected, the easier it is. It would only take a small nudge in the right direction if you found it when it was, say, 10 years out. If it's only 1 year out, that's a much harder problem. And at 1 month, nothing to do but get ready for the end.

[farvision]

Right. So having outposts in space watching for such things would give us a big advantage, aside from getting us off the planet.

[lytrigian]

Maybe. We've been doing a reasonable job of finding them from Earth though.

[farvision]

lytrigian, that's good, but we have zero infrastructure do deal with one!

[Nirvana4554]

Well I suppose but this is huge from what I'm understanging. Anyways, what can we do? We can just run into it, that would be useless. Anyways, thanks for your comment I guess.

[drizzledisturbed]

Obama FTW!

[jthrilla921]

wait so deres an astroid krashinq towards earth right dis moment and is goin to hyt on 11/24 ??

[PHDinkickingyourass]

no thats da anniversary when da asteroid that hit da eart hthat killed da dinosaures

[piperpilot26]

classic example of ebonics. its not "dis" its "this" also its not "deres" its "theres"

[K3vinDS]

is this the asteroid thats goin to hit earth in 2036

[xlegionsx]

Impressive, wowowow

[Zuneowner]

HOLY FUCK

[alokmahal]

I hope it happens again.

[Corepred4]

me too, but i hope it lands right on your ass.

[KevinSkater301]

hahahahahaha. KABOOM!

[lightmatu28]

please someone anyone tell me is this true ccause i will cry my ass of

[VladsterHQ]

its true lol jk

[lightmatu28]

well is it or is not true

[VladsterHQ]

i really think it's not but you never know they could be hiding it from us

[lightmatu28]

oh man hope its not fake cause the last game i will play is halo3

[Corepred4]

what a loser, lmao. last thing you wanna do before you die is play a gay ass video game. lol guess family and friends don't mean anything to you.... sad.

[lightmatu28]

no you retard i said i might been playing this game when it happens and i will be with my family

[Corepred4]

no bitch, thats now how it came out and that's now how you meant it.. don't try to change it, loser.

[lightmatu28]

i mean hope its fake sorry

[XXfuCKY0uXX1]

its not

[lich610]

i think its true

but will happen millions and millions of years from now

[farvision]

The dinos were killed by a blast like the one at the start of the video 65 million years ago. Not much to worry about.

[chaosmageneos]

my ex girlfriend called me "The Big Bang" haha

[SocialDeviant77]

thats what your mom calls me.

[chaosmageneos]

so!

[oscardaone]

I love it when things go boom.

[STAINILIIEY]

I lol'ed when the guy suddenly said..."impact" after a long silence.

[214SoUtHDaLLaS214]

could they not blow it out the sky before contact.

[Revengevil7]

if only they did it on water...would be a much more awesome experiment. 5*

[ohshitmanda]

wtf?

is that guy saying that thing is coming soon, already came, or coming later??

i dont get it.

[KimStyle393]

wow you can see the sound waves from the explosion starting from 4:55!!

[Harvckbuffalofan]

A nuke blast would turn the ONE big rock into a thousand smaller rocks---not small enough-- like a shotgun blast and it would make things worse.

[adstout620]

I like when he called it "a beautiful explosion."

[1softkiss]

Magnificent experiment just saw 2012 and it's really spooky to see that the concussion wave is more devastating than the explosion itself it was a movie but very well simulated and seriously gets ones attention. The really spooky thing is it's easy to comprehend.

[13098519]

First off, that chick in the bunker is hot. secondly i dont see what the big deal is.. we are familiar with what majority of asteroids are made up of.. your telling me we cant come up with a "nuke" equivellant to the force of 100 trillion+ tons TNT force? I dont see how that would just not melt the shit out of something like we just saw. what is nasa even for?? americas most expensive hobby? just play with estes rockets or something...

[thesingerperson]

what's the green light at 5:04?

is it like the shockwave breaking the sound barrier or something?

[scorpius319]

it was an alien

[4thkind]

not a good experiment

i mean the Meteor who would or had hit was made of ice and stone , iron i guess but not nitro. so the effect is hard to compare.

a computer simulation should show a more trustful event than this small A-team trick.

[bamboo4tameshigiri]

ha. good excuse to blow stuff up

[KrazyRawb]

Scary stuff

[MizuMage]

Sweet. : )

[xthatoneguyx]

awesome experiment

[sexywilly69]

OMG the begining had me so scared, I thought that crater was on like on it's way now.....

[silentfades]

@sexywilly69 it is arriving 12 12 12 right at lunch time lol

marc in nyc

[venomvsspidey11]

giggity

[restlesspride666]

giggity

[c0ldelement]

aww I wanted to see the crater left by it..

[drago560]

whatever, i hate these little teasers NGC puts on youtube, gets you all into it and makes you watch on tv (which is what they want). But i always miss these shows :(

[lilguda]

this is cool

[JTrizzleFizzle]

You're supposed to be helping us understand our world, not destroy it. =(

[zzz33333]

exactly. this is the dumbest shit i have ever seen.

[Ash122787]

SeCoND MWHAAAAAAAHAAAAHAAAA!!!!

[Adikism]

FIRST!!