Ivan's Hammer, is unironically a great name for a weapon of mass destruction.
@stephen655321
7 ай бұрын
In addition, it's a great band name
@Hugo.Pearce
7 ай бұрын
Yeah , it is pretty metal. @@stephen655321
@henrikmarkus5046
7 ай бұрын
problem is they who use this also live on earth lol so they be destroying themself aswell
@Ajaylix
7 ай бұрын
I was thinking Ivan the terrible's hammer
@ayhanfedai5013
7 ай бұрын
GROND GROND GROND
@overcats5539
7 ай бұрын
Instead of nuclear war we're gonna see nation spells "meteor shower" To each other like a gas station parking lot wizard
@lordtitan3651
7 ай бұрын
irradiated meteor shower
@benadrylcumbersplatch6448
7 ай бұрын
Me after pulling an all nighter learning Eternal Darkness spell: 🥱☝️⚫️
@ivanandriyanov4426
7 ай бұрын
IDK, screaming "I cast a fireball!" as a nuclear silo operator while launching ICBM with 5 MIRVs that will kill millions seems alright for me.
@Flesh_Wizard
6 ай бұрын
"I CAST HAIL OF LEAD!" *A-10 strike*
@kraykyle
5 ай бұрын
It's draco meteor spamming time
@ChIGuY-town22_
7 ай бұрын
Yet we cannot create a decent mosquito repellent...
@TheHiYaku
7 ай бұрын
Imagine!!!
@TheHiYaku
7 ай бұрын
Imagine!!!
@rageraptor7127
7 ай бұрын
Actually we already developed a method to wipe out the species but it hasn’t been used due to ethical and logistical concerns.
@tman8404
7 ай бұрын
fire
@mdhall04
7 ай бұрын
It's called smoke
@davestrider2045
7 ай бұрын
I love how the US was like our enemies might do this so let’s put research money into figuring out exactly how they might do it. They probably aren’t, but we are still gonna make sure we know exactly how much explosive force it would take and where to put it. All important details in case our enemies decide to develop this technology.
@michaelharris8111
7 ай бұрын
While the joke could be the US did it for themselves to use, there are professionals out there who’s job it is to plan for the worst. To know the worst, you need to know the minimum. How much explosive force does it take? Do they have the capacity for that? Do we have a capacity to counter? Could be do the same? Etc
@davestrider2045
7 ай бұрын
@@michaelharris8111 I understand and I'm not necessarily saying they were wrong. All I mean to draw attention to is the long history of countries doing "defensive research" that enhances their offensive capabilities. Whether it is intentional or unintentional it is concerning how a lot of "deterrences" end up escalating tensions more.
@JSPHism
7 ай бұрын
No, we quickly figured it was impossible to make an asteroid hit Earth in a precise location but if an asteroid were in a path to hit earth we can deflect it. NASA's DART mission had nothing to do with weaponizing an asteroid
@CaptainAOrange
6 ай бұрын
Unironically this is this is basically the entirety of The Cold War
@terath7607
6 ай бұрын
Russia really thought it was fooling the Us during the cold war to waste money on dead end investments
@cyberdinedog2097
7 ай бұрын
Marco Inaros has entered chat.
@skateboardingjesus4006
7 ай бұрын
Beltalowda gonna smack da Earther.
@PrintScreen.
7 ай бұрын
Just missing some Martian stealth coating
@Sephiroth144
7 ай бұрын
@@PrintScreen. Don't need in; inners won't see it either way
@starwarfan8342
7 ай бұрын
The Inners will pay for their centuries of slavery and oppression!
@Sephiroth144
7 ай бұрын
@@starwarfan8342 Maybe a century and change; centuries would be a stretch (The colonization beyond Mars began roughly a century before the events in the series start)
@StickWithTrigger
7 ай бұрын
Marco Inaros:”interesting”
@Pandaemoni
6 ай бұрын
Inaros would be angry to hear that this "Ivan" guy is taking any credit.
@speed65752
2 ай бұрын
What a shame we did not get a 7th season. Got COVID, binge watched the first 5 seasons and I was in love at the end of the first episode ever.
@holy_crusaderoftheholyland4713
2 ай бұрын
Ayyy a fellow ace combat enjoyer
@darylteo9983
7 ай бұрын
Inaros' Hammer
@EEEEEEEE
7 ай бұрын
E
@kelbybrewer2038
7 ай бұрын
The bare fact that this has been discussed at such high levels as feasible since the '60s is so insane that I literally don't know how to respond.
@mattjack3983
7 ай бұрын
Why wouldn't it be discussed? Seeing as how asteroid impacts have the potential to literally wipe out life on the planet, and have been responsible for extinctions in our planet's past, it makes sense that this is something that would be discussed at the highest levels of nations' governments. Asteroid deflection has just been discussed, it's also actually been tested on real asteroids too, and determined that it can infact be done.
@Metta33
7 ай бұрын
Search "Rods from God"
@Red_Star_robin
6 ай бұрын
As with most things I think it’s a case of fearing they developed this weapon so they developed their own or their own defenses against this like Project S.T.A.R.W.A.R.S
@dominusbalial835
6 ай бұрын
The world is more vast and more strange that you could probably ever even imagine. It honestly surprises me the things that I hear other people are surprised by. You know the Russian Government still employs psychics? And that there's a body of evidence indicating that it might be a real phenomena? the CIA was into the research as well, as well as other countries? Honestly i'm paranoid the "declassified" documents themselves might be some kind of psy op.
@Galaxy-o2e
7 ай бұрын
Combat in the Expanse:
@jotusaini7886
7 ай бұрын
“Char’s Counter attack”
@ShadowMoon878
7 ай бұрын
The real Operation Meteor!
@heymay724
6 ай бұрын
Siege of A Boa Qu
@Sephiroth144
7 ай бұрын
Glad I'm not the only one who went full Expanse
@MirorR3fl3ction
6 ай бұрын
Marco Inaros furiously taking notes on this one
@s0m3h4x0r
6 ай бұрын
this is some Ace Combat shit
@akikominagawa2075
5 ай бұрын
basically ace combat 04's final mission i am surprised how the sci-fi isn't too over the top at certain times
@Tahllia
6 ай бұрын
The DART program is amazing because of you think about it, all human advancement at its most basic, was made by smashing rocks/things together from all the way to back caveman days
@Tahllia
6 ай бұрын
Particle accelerators? Smashing things together The atom bomb? Smashing things together
@graffriedrichvontanjung2487
7 ай бұрын
Gundam Char's Counter Attack be like
@oscarwarren9709
7 ай бұрын
Zeon has entered the chat:
@gopnikinadidas6333
6 ай бұрын
Axis drop in real life gonna be lit
@stevengreen9536
7 ай бұрын
Reminds me of that scene on Babylon 5. Where the centauri are bombarding the Narn home world with meteors.
@labnab6764
7 ай бұрын
It makes sense, if in the future we would want to save up some ammo of the spaceship, we could just redirect asteroids to bombard a planet
@Roman_History_fan
7 ай бұрын
I wanted to thank you! I am currently studying history at university and you taught me so much!
@kennooo535
7 ай бұрын
Funny how they named it after the russians even though they never even explored this option
@CuriousInquiror
4 ай бұрын
yeah i was wondering when they were gonna get to the part about how it was first proposed by the soviets in the 1950s...
@Mr.KaganbYaltrk
7 ай бұрын
Why did name this Ivan's hammer ? I would be great if it named Democracy bringer
@IHWKR
6 ай бұрын
Apparently, the Soviets didn't take Bruce Willis into account.
@sonicy22
7 ай бұрын
Gundam
@jezusbloodie
7 ай бұрын
These are some of the coolest renders of the DART mission i've seen so far. The subdued impact sound illustrates the scale neatly
@JoseTorres-ry9qe
6 ай бұрын
I seriously thought this was a Warhammer 40k reel. Imagine my fking shock when I realized this was actual theoretics
@tomriley5790
6 ай бұрын
The problem is that it's hugely inaccurate, as DART Showed it's not just deflected it but broken up part of the asteroid - you literally don't know what you're going to get when you hit an asteroid....
@aaronmitchell4053
7 ай бұрын
Much like the idea that the US had of using large metal rods to launch from space at specific targets. Dw about a nuke, just a large metal rod will do it. With a great deal of speed!
@balung
7 ай бұрын
So, its the Expanse.
@johnbilliot1484
2 ай бұрын
Hold up *goes and writes an entire D&D campaign about Ivan's hammer
@garethmcguinness377
6 ай бұрын
Thanks K&G for that waking nightmare I'd never even thought about that lmao
@mihirabhyankar2277
6 ай бұрын
caveman: hurls rock at enemy Modernman: hurls rock at enemy people never change
@wdxawwacawc6910
6 ай бұрын
Ppl also dont realize how small that asteroid was. The rocket was travelling for 6months and hit a target spot smaller than a football field, irs fucking insane
@aldgate
5 ай бұрын
Ivan's Hammer That has to be the hardest weapon name I've heard ever
@FidoZip1988
7 ай бұрын
Man, they really give to much credit to the Soviets
@ShadowMoon878
7 ай бұрын
And the US and Soviets are actually using Nazi scientists....
@bobholly3843
6 ай бұрын
I guess Maxwell's Hammer was already taken by the Beatles
@SultanOfAwesomeness
6 ай бұрын
“As early as 1970” lmfao that’s wild
@Gufupandi09th13
7 ай бұрын
Damn WTF is wrong with them created weapons of this could be the true destroyer of worlds across the solar system
@key2010
7 ай бұрын
I don't think Ivan gets to name this, if Ivan didn't make this , Ivan doesn't get to name shit
@mafumofu986
6 ай бұрын
Imagine aliens watching us direct an asteroid straight at our only planet
@Hackenberg
6 ай бұрын
Larry Niven handled this as "Lucifer's Hammer"
@GanyuSimpingDegenerate
7 ай бұрын
"I will have order"
@cardrabitt1159
6 ай бұрын
Obligatory mention of Marco Inaros
@brick31
7 ай бұрын
That last line is heavy.
@The_Viscount
6 ай бұрын
An asteroid deflection system is meant to change the course of asteroids. How it's used determines if it's a shield or a weapon.
@terencetong4896
4 ай бұрын
That will be a very imprecise weapon
@agypsychild
7 ай бұрын
Yes, in our hubris in developing an asteroid deflection system, we will cause the very thing we tried to prevent.
Comrade Secretary, Comrade General Sephiroth got an idea...
@GroovyMR_RAW
7 ай бұрын
I've played Mass effect, ever since asteroids are weapons in my eyes...
@bittyjupiter3607
6 ай бұрын
This is some Principality of Zeon type shit.
@garetz00
6 ай бұрын
There is a book called Lucifer's Hammer that describes this exact scenario, it was released in 1977.
@stolyartoad8640
6 ай бұрын
The inners will pay!!!!
@Democrities
6 ай бұрын
I love how “the Soviets COULD possibly maybe just maybe might could do something like this sometime in the future.” Is the only excuse our government needed to be like “WE SHOULD DO IT FIRST!”
@NinjaKitty91_
7 ай бұрын
In the Mobile Suite Gundam franchise, an enemy faction ended up using an orbital space station as a weapon of war. They took a massive space station that was in one of Earth's Lagrange points and attached engines to it and sent it to Earth. It was extremely devastating, especially since the space station broke into three pieces. The lore says that it wiped out half of the population, and Sydney was turned into a crater since the biggest chunk impacted the city. Years later they tried it again with an asteroid. Some weird lore related event happened that ended up stopping the asteroid moments before it entered the atmosphere.
@RangerHouston
6 ай бұрын
So this is where Marco Enaros got the idea lol
@barar4583
6 ай бұрын
Two words: Orc Rock Lets Get Wagh-in boiz
@ethioman123
7 ай бұрын
This page is awesome
@mrholyhamburg9916
6 ай бұрын
Just saying but Blackstone fortress also can be use this way.
@foad-esad
7 ай бұрын
We're all screwed.
@mikkitoro8933
7 ай бұрын
Even if we can somewhat control it, I still feel uncomfortable of the thought of trying it. How can we be sure that it will land precisely where it's meant to land?
@the-nameless-dude
7 ай бұрын
Megalith moment
@DeoxTew
5 ай бұрын
Just scrolled past Ivan's Hammer, which the Soviets thought of redirecting a meteor to hit Earth as a WMD method. Pretty sure the naming has something to do with him, lol.
@donaldtrumpscat2443
7 ай бұрын
This is going in my sci-fi superweapons list. Yeet a moon at something at FTL speed and watch it go boom
@Shadow_-cl6nx
2 ай бұрын
They've been making Ork attack moons already, WAAGGHHH
@ayhanfedai5013
7 ай бұрын
GROND GROND GROND cant be the only 1 remember Morgoths hammer Grond
@collaredlynx
7 ай бұрын
char char char dudun-dudun
@demogordon9772
2 ай бұрын
I thought ivan's hammer was a name of an asteroid at the start or a reference to Ivan the Terrible
@rexmundi8154
7 ай бұрын
Two good books about asteroid/ comet / meteorite strikes. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress and Lucifer’s Hammer
@Sheriff_of_this_town
7 ай бұрын
Ivan has had enough
@briankuczynski6884
7 ай бұрын
Calling this a first strike is a hillarious misnomer! The mission of launching a rocket and interacting with an asteroid such that it will strike the earth is much, much longer than the flight time of a regular-ass ICBM fired at an opposing nation's missile silos or population centers.
@westrim
7 ай бұрын
What exactly is a first strike to you?
@briankuczynski6884
7 ай бұрын
@@westrim something that you can surprise an adversary with. There aren't so many NEOs that you could sortie to and rocket launches are pretty hard to miss for intelligence agencies.
@westrim
7 ай бұрын
@@briankuczynski6884 Ah. Well, you could be surprised. A rocket launch is obvious, yes, but a (false) failed probe with no broadcasts is not nearly so easy to track, and could divert course without notice to a rock it can sit on until ordered to propel it towards Earth, which can be with something as simple as a tether catching solar wind depending on the timetable. And then, we wouldn't know the rock is coming without actively checking that area of the sky, which is not a given - most of the NEOs were catalogued and then dismissed, telescope time is not ordinarily tasked with resurveying near Earth areas.
@TechnoMinarchist
7 ай бұрын
Not a first strike against the same planet on you're on. A first strike against other solar systems.
@briankuczynski6884
7 ай бұрын
@@TechnoMinarchist if and only if you're a cheapskate from the Imperium of Man and trying to badly set back the Tau
@commanderpaladin
6 ай бұрын
I ll call it Astroboomer
@vapormissile
7 ай бұрын
Humanity's global masters find this *absolutely adorable!*
@mattjack3983
7 ай бұрын
What are you even talking about?
@vapormissile
7 ай бұрын
@@mattjack3983 the idea that we clown-suit monkeys would be allowed to drop asteroids on each other is cute.
@bigsarge2085
7 ай бұрын
What's a medium-sized asteroid between international rivals?
@kurtberliner7049
2 ай бұрын
The US: "The Soviets could weaponize space rocks oh noo!" Meanwhile the Soviets: "Let's send a satellite to other planets for scientific discoveries"
@andraenicholson3557
6 ай бұрын
*The Principality of Zeon has entered the chat*
@jamesbrewhelm3981
7 ай бұрын
Revelations talk about a firey mountain that is thrown into the sea destroying a third of the ships.
@rodnee2340
6 ай бұрын
Starship troopers.
@wahtx7717
7 ай бұрын
Oh no Ulysses part 2.
@Aj-tu4gv
6 ай бұрын
Use a stargate weapon, like mahabarata weapon
@robbybiddle9236
6 ай бұрын
Why on Earth would anyone consider this as a visible option for a weapon?
@deadspeedv
7 ай бұрын
That is a lot of work for something you could just use nukes on for the same result
@BuySixNow
7 ай бұрын
Consider for a moment that we as a species are deflecting asteroids paths and end up putting it on a trajectory that hits a superior advanced species on another planet, and intergalactic war breaks out.
@OzzieTheHead
7 ай бұрын
As soon as 1970s? Fear-mongering at it's finest
@williambatley1769
7 ай бұрын
Please let it happen ❤
@anolive7535
6 ай бұрын
lol no
@skudrinskis
7 ай бұрын
Saw the "landing" live, I dunno what I expected to see since the camera would be destroyed upon "landing"
@anolive7535
6 ай бұрын
landing? the DART mission was specifically designed to crash into Dimorphos so yeah the camera was destroyed. Was cool to see an asteroid up close though.
@m0nkEz
6 ай бұрын
So... they seriously considered the feasibility of using an unguided weapon to hit a specific point on the surface of a moving, rotating body thousands of miles away from its starting point... They're really just searching for ways to justify their funding, aren't they?
@lanedexter6303
7 ай бұрын
I trust we’ve all read The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress.
@AdmiralDevil
6 ай бұрын
i named dart the kamikaze satellite
@vladimirlenin843
7 ай бұрын
Wait So dart is also a weapon test?
@casekocsk
7 ай бұрын
Of course dropping giant stone on Earth sounds like a nice idea
@whispofwords2590
7 ай бұрын
bro can we not?
@cynicalrabbit915
7 ай бұрын
What I find amusing is the fact that in trying to get a meteor or a small asteroid to be used as a weapon of mass destruction is the fact you can never be more than 20% sure that it would actually hit your enemy. There's an 80% chance that whatever piece of space rock you redirect to hit the earth, that it's probably not going to hit where you want it to. In fact it's very likely you'd take yourself out. The only accurate space weapon would be an inert multiton piece of metal fired from orbit with calculations of 90% accuracy of where it would impact, anything else is wishful thinking.
@grincipher8045
6 ай бұрын
Abaddon the despoiler used this tactic on Cadia 😭😭😭
@JoshNobleman
6 ай бұрын
Thats more like a desperate last decision.
@ivanxd7827
2 ай бұрын
Nice
@Il_Principessa
6 ай бұрын
So the Megalith superweapon is based on real-life
@thschnick
7 ай бұрын
Inaros! Inaros! Inaros! Inaros! Inaros!
@Ayhunt7
4 ай бұрын
What are we intercepting asteroids now????
@RobertHawthorne
7 ай бұрын
It would be very possible to redirect an asteroid toward earth. Not easy, but possible. Redirecting an asteroid toward earth to hit a specific country? That might be as close to impossible as you can get.
@Noorthia
7 ай бұрын
If you have accurate enough measurements and a good enough computer, you could easily do it. The difficulty lies in applying an accurate impulse.
@anolive7535
6 ай бұрын
@@Noorthia no. space is far too unpredictable for a computer to account for every single possible factor to get an asteroid to precisely hit a target. To get the desired result you'd probably have to straight-up attach a rocket to the asteroid to make constant course corrections. At that point why not just use a nuke to achieve basically the same result.
@Noorthia
6 ай бұрын
@@anolive7535 Space is not "very unpredictable". It's empty.
@anolive7535
6 ай бұрын
@@Noorthia Space is very unpredictable and it is not just an empty vacuum. You have to account for a variety of different factors when calculating the trajectory of objects - the main one being gravity. The Sun, planets, moons and other nearby celestial objects tug on an asteroid and alter its orbit significantly. Asteroid orbit may also be affected by solar winds and the 'Yarkovsky effect' by the Sun.
@anolive7535
6 ай бұрын
@@Noorthia Adding to this, the DART mission's target asteroid Dimorphos was observed to have an unusual orbit post-collision. Instead of speeding up as scientists predicted - its orbit was shrinking. This proves that despite their calculations space is too unpredictable too make an asteroid hit a precise target.
@jarekkanios2697
6 ай бұрын
It seems like it is much more an uncle Sam’s hammer than Ivan’s. It is uncle Sam and not Ivan, that came up with the idea and even tested it.
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