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From Kyle Hill. Thanks to Dr. Alex Wellerstein for taking the time to talk to us! Pre-order his new book here: https://a.co/d/a84LrhX The METAL GEAR SOLID series is famous for many futuristic ideas. Nanomachines, AI-generated media, invisible camouflage. But what about nuclear policy? Do nuclear-armed walking tanks make any sense? I got an actual historian…
From Kyle Hill. Go to https://surfshark.com/kyle or use code KYLE at checkout to get 4 extra months of Surfshark VPN! What is the most harmful thing humans ever invented? Many people would say the Kalisnikov and its many variants. Others would say nuclear weapons. But neither of these even come close to the toll on…
From Kyle Hill. In December 2024, top scientists warned that ‘Mirror Life’, the hypothetical opposite of life itself with reversed chirality could pose a new existential threat that could eventually end in the extinction of all life on Earth. This isn’t science fiction, this is a very possible and chilling reality of unimaginable consequences of…
From Kyle Hill. In June 2025 I was not only asked to speak at the International Atomic Energy Agency (!), I got the extremely rare opportunity to tour the INSIDE of a nuclear cooling tower. Join me in Slovakia as we explain the genius engineering of the most iconic structure in the nuclear industry. 💪…
From Kyle Hill. It’s hard to believe but space elevators have been theorized about for over a century. The physics are solid and the concept of these megastructures towering above us is so damn cool. But, there’s one 35,786km problem that’s just about holding us back from living the Halo or Star Wars inspired space…
From Kyle Hill. Kyle chats with Jack Kiraly and Casey Dreier — two policy experts from The Planetary Society — about the recent cuts to NASA’s funding and what that means for the future of science in space. 💪 JOIN [THE FACILITY] RIGHT NOW for members-only live streams, behind-the-scenes posts, and the official Discord: https://www.patreon.com/kylehill…
From Kyle Hill. Thanks to RADIACODE for sponsoring today’s episode! Use the promo code "KYLE" at https://go.radiacode.com/KyleHill for 10% right now! THE DARK KNIGHT RISES is yet another good sci-fi movie from Chirstopher Nolan, but it gets one thing totally wrong: nuclear fusion. Why does a film from a director that consults with Nobel Prize…
From Kyle Hill. On June 13, Israel carried out a major attack on Iran’s nuclear program. 💪 JOIN [THE FACILITY] RIGHT NOW for members-only live streams, behind-the-scenes posts, and the official Discord: https://www.patreon.com/kylehill 👕 NEW NUCLEAR MERCH OUT NOW: https://shop.kylehill.net/ 🎥 SUB TO THE GAMING CHANNEL: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfTNPE8mXGBZPC1nfVtOJTw ✅ MANDATORY LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, AND TURN ON NOTIFICATIONS…
From Kyle Hill. In Russia in 1997, an unfortunate technician answered the question, “what would have happened if the ‘Demon Core’ was never stopped in 1946?” This episode of [HALF-LIFE HISTORIES] explains the counterfactual physics of history’s most infamous criticality accidents. SOURCES: The Criticality Accident in Sarov, IAEA (PDF): https://www-pub.iaea.org/mtcd/publications/pdf/pub1106_scr.pdf A Review of Criticality Accidents,…
From Kyle Hill. No video game series fulfills your desire to rip and tear quite like DOOM. But over the years, ripping and tearing has gotten a lot more epic. In DOOM ETERNAL you even use the BFG to tear into A PLANET. What would it take to do this? How much energy would it…
From Kyle Hill. Thanks again to Constellation for sponsoring this video and for trusting us enough to tell this story correctly. Unit 2 of the Three Mile Island nuclear generating station experienced a partial meltdown in 1979, but what a lot of people don’t know is that Three Mile Island Unit 1 continued to run,…
From Kyle Hill. In February 2025 I got to visit Terrapower, a self-proclaimed nuclear innovation company. In part one of this sponsored series, you saw the science behind turning nuclear waste into cancer medication. Here in part two, we will explore and explain what will be the first next-generation nuclear reactor to operate in the…
From Kyle Hill. A new movement aimed at poisoning A.I. models like ChatGPT has gained traction after hackers have been attempting to trap said models in a never ending ‘Tar Pit’ of nonsense. After reading an Ars Technica interview, I tracked down a hacker developing tools to poison AI training data. Tools such as ‘Nepenthes’…