Episode 1: Spongebob Squarepants
Episode 2: Pro Wrestling
Episode 3: Stock Car Racing
Episode 4: THE EXISTENTIAL THREAT OF NUCLEAR ANNIHILATION
Episode 5: Super Smash Bros

This man used a Dunkey clip as a metaphor for nuclear weapons

Bravo

So basically, the story of a nobody who saved everybody

Petrov's wife: "He's hiding something, is it another woman?"

Petrov: "For 15 seconds I was responsible for the fate of humanity."

From Spongebob to the Attitude Era, to NASCAR, to Nuclear Warfare

The upward spiral of EmpLemon

From shitposting to intellectual documentaries, you provide the best of content that this degenerate site has to offer.

Today is Mr. Stanislav Petrov's birth anniversary. Thanks for your service to humanity, Mr. Petrov.

"I did what I was trained to do."

Chilling. I believed there was nothing else left to say at that point in the video, so the sudden realization of what that meant really hit hard. Amazing job on this.

Emplemon: Youtube will never have as good production quality as traditional TV.


also Emplemon:

2011 emperor lemon: ADMIRAL ACKBAR'S TRAPTASTIC SEXTRAVAGANZA

2019 emperor lemon: documentary about nuclear energy and the cold war

This is the story of a man named Stanislav. Stanislav worked for a company in a big building where he was employee # 427. Employee # 427’s job was simple: he sat at his desk in room 427 and he pushed buttons on a keyboard. Orders came to him through a monitor on his desk, telling him what buttons to push, how long to push them, and in what order. This is what employee 427 did every day of every month of every year, and although others might have considered it soul rending, Stanislav relished every moment that the orders came in, as though he had been made exactly for this job. And Stanislav was happy. And then one day, something very peculiar happened, something that would forever change Stanislav, something he would never quite forget.

That moment when a YouTube shitposter makes a more emotionally moving, well researched, and engaging mini-documentary than most multi-billion dollar media organizations.

I never expected to hear Dunkey in a documentary about nuclear warfare

Ep. 1: This cartoon is amazing
Ep. 2: This wrestling show is amazing
Ep. 3: This famous racer is amazing
Ep. 4: THE WORLD ALMOST GOT FRICKIN' DESTROYED

Had to come back to this video after seeing Oppenheimer. Everything about late WWII and the Cold War is so fascinating but… horrifying. Stories like this are a very unsettling reminder at how close we truly are to the world literally ending.

Despite the close calls, J Robert Oppenheimer was right about possibly setting the world on fire.

“I think we did.”

This stuff really makes me realize just how close we were to a nuclear apocalypse.

“When you’ve done things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all.”

I actually know a guy, Roy Henderson, who was in the US Air Force during the Cuban Missile Crisis.  He was stationed at a nuclear missile silo and went through a similar scenario to Petrov's.  At the time, they were installing a secondary communication system to  add redundancy in case of a failure due to a nuclear strike.  During this installation, the old comm line to the silo was accidentally cut... before the new one was properly connected.  Now, in US military protocol, every silo is designed to be able to operate independently, in case of a nuclear strike on Washington D.C. and a subsequent complete and utter destruction of the central command.  When the old comm line was cut, it triggered the alarm that is tied to this protocol, and completely locked down the silo; no one could get in or out.  Also, the missile was automatically armed and primed for launch.  Roy was the only guy in the control room at the time, and for a few minutes, he had complete control of that nuclear missile.  Luckily, he was very much like Petrov.  But unlike Petrov, he knew for certain that the alert was a false one.  He figured that the construction crew accidentally cut the old line and he didn't fire the missile.  Meanwhile outside, literally everyone, and I mean EVERYONE on the base got word of what happened and were screaming toward the silo in whatever they had -- jeeps, trucks, helicopters, you name it -- all in an effort to tell Roy that it was a false alarm.  It was hands-down, one of the top 5 "Oh shit!  Oh Fuck!" moments of all time for them.  When he told my dad the story, dad told me that he turned pale.  To have that kind of power, no matter what you know or don't know, is absolutely terrifying.

EDIT: Typo correction.

Just rewatching this today, I noticed something subtly striking about this video... it's currently the only Never Ever episode that says "there may Never Ever"... not, "there will Never Ever"... of all the historically amazing people and events the series has tackled, this is the one that "may" never ever happen again... just shows how horrifying the nature of it all is.

Still, I remain cautiously optimistic that Stanislav Petrov will forever remain an example to follow, and not a lucky fluke.