The History of Scandium — The Soviet Secret Inside Baseball Bats
Relics & Realms
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The History of Scandium — The Soviet Secret Inside Baseball Bats
In the 1980s, Soviet engineers layered a classified, silvery powder into the nose cones of their deadliest nuclear missiles and the frames of MiG fighter jets. It was a metal so rare the American military could not source enough of it to even run a test. Ten years later, that exact same classified material was swinging through the air in American suburban Little League games. How did the ultimate Cold War military secret become a baseball bat?
⏱ TIMESTAMPS
0:00 The Cold War Secret in the Suburbs
1:40 The Ghost Element on Mendeleev's Table
3:38 Scraping the Swedish Rocks
5:38 A Metal With No Purpose
7:35 The Aluminum Problem
9:31 The Magic Pinch
11:22 The Soviet Uranium Tailings
13:32 Assembling the Unbreakable MiG-29
15:23 The Submarine Missiles of the Deep
17:24 America's Frantic Search for the Dust
19:20 The Collapse of the Iron Curtain
21:25 A Black Market for Space Metal
23:26 The Easton Baseball Bat Revolution
25:13 Swinging Weaponized Aluminum
27:06 The Bicycle Frame Arms Race
28:50 The Supply Chain Paradox
30:50 Extracting from the Red Mud
32:38 Lighting the Hollywood Stadiums
34:30 The Dust That Cannot Be Tamed
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So thankyou for making these docos and I see the picture of Gods Kingdom. Where the boastful American model is a empty lie / where our people look like spolit kids. The American low tax system for example - then requires to people to buy bonds / debt for the lie to function. Unlike the completely realistic Sweedish or Nordic tax systems {thus their governments are not prostituted by default}. So here youve put a light on the Russians where they did the hard graft of producing this metal - then when their system collapsed - the spoilt kids of the west come along like vultures and scoop up. But never want to face the realistic price of reality. Unlike the Nords who struck the right balance.
Gods Kingdom is a literal Kingdom of the nations united under one Kingdom based on truth justice and equity - were there will be no passing the buck - only the bullet onto wrong doers / oppressors exploiters etc....
So thanks for AI doing the digging and rooting around to uncover knowledge that matters!
I look at the world where if socalled civilization is wiped out - and it is foretold - to grab and know as much useful information to put us back on the right track / so what we have learned is not wasted like past cultures wiped out or possibly hidden from us.
The History of Scandium — The Soviet Secret Inside Baseball Bats
Relics & Realms
6,568 views
The History of Scandium — The Soviet Secret Inside Baseball Bats
In the 1980s, Soviet engineers layered a classified, silvery powder into the nose cones of their deadliest nuclear missiles and the frames of MiG fighter jets. It was a metal so rare the American military could not source enough of it to even run a test. Ten years later, that exact same classified material was swinging through the air in American suburban Little League games. How did the ultimate Cold War military secret become a baseball bat?
⏱ TIMESTAMPS
0:00 The Cold War Secret in the Suburbs
1:40 The Ghost Element on Mendeleev's Table
3:38 Scraping the Swedish Rocks
5:38 A Metal With No Purpose
7:35 The Aluminum Problem
9:31 The Magic Pinch
11:22 The Soviet Uranium Tailings
13:32 Assembling the Unbreakable MiG-29
15:23 The Submarine Missiles of the Deep
17:24 America's Frantic Search for the Dust
19:20 The Collapse of the Iron Curtain
21:25 A Black Market for Space Metal
23:26 The Easton Baseball Bat Revolution
25:13 Swinging Weaponized Aluminum
27:06 The Bicycle Frame Arms Race
28:50 The Supply Chain Paradox
30:50 Extracting from the Red Mud
32:38 Lighting the Hollywood Stadiums
34:30 The Dust That Cannot Be Tamed
If this surprised you, subscribe for more hidden histories behind the objects you use every day.
#history #documentary #scandium