he didn't know the consequences of that decision, but you and I can find out. This is a video about 5 people who made 5 decisions causing immense changes in the world, and I will prove to you that these 5 decisions are connected, a series of butterfly effects that led you to this video and if in the end this is not one of the best video you've ever seen, you can unsubscribe, dislike and curse me! Let's start with decision number 1, the driver who missed a curve and ended up causing the first world war, at 10:15 am on June 28, 1914, Leopold Lojka is driving a car with a very important person in the back seat , Archduke Francis Ferdinand, who is the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
The driver Leopold looks on in shock when a nationalist terrorist from the Black Hand throws a grenade at the car, Leopold turns the car sharply and avoids the grenade, which hits the car behind, some people are injured but no one dies. Archduke Francis Ferdinando thanks Leopold for saving his life, and decides to visit the injured, so he asks Leopold to drive to the hospital, but at 11 in the morning, Leopold makes a wrong turn and reverses to go back and take the right street, he You don't know but 2 meters away from them is another nationalist terrorist from the Black Hand, Gravilo Princip. Gravilo was drinking to overcome the failure of the grenade 45 minutes earlier but when he looks up, he sees Francisco Ferdinando .
He thinks, “fate came to me”. And he fires the two most important shots in history. The first hits the Archduke in the neck, the second hits his wife Sofia in the stomach.
They escaped death the first time but they didn't escape the second time. And just 45 minutes after dodging the grenade, Franz Ferdinand is dead and the world goes to war. The assassination creates a domino effect on European alliances and a young Austrian painter writes: “ We fight for our existence as a nation, we are not the aggressors, we only defend our right to live.
” This painter had been rejected twice by the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. He doesn't think he has much to lose, he's just unemployed and depressed due to the death of his mother, the painter enlists in the German army, but he's bad with a gun in his hand, so he acts as a messenger in the trenches, that's his most important role. dangerous part of war because it involves running through crossfire and mustard gas, so the painter needs to trim his mustache to fit into the gas mask but one day the gas penetrates his mask and he goes blind for 1 month.
The Austrian painter exhibits symptoms of insanity and develops post-traumatic stress. His mental situation worsens so much that he is lost on the battlefield. On September 28, 1918, a month before Germany lost the war, the Austrian painter is traumatized and injured when he sees a silhouette on the horizon, the fog is thick, so he closes his eyes to see if the man's uniform is gray.
or brown, if it was gray it would be German and he would be safe, if it was brown it would be English and he would be dead. The man approaches wearing a BROWN uniform. The painter is unarmed and in shock, so he looks the English soldier in the eyes.
The Englishman points the gun and thinks for a few seconds, He doesn't say anything, but signals with his head to the enemy to flee. . .
Germany was already defeated, why kill a 25 year old? The Englishman doesn't know but he has just let Adolf Hitler live, he makes the second decision that changes the world. This changes Hitler's life so much that he identifies the Englishman and buys this painting from him, saying: “That man came so close to taking my life that I thought I would never see Germany again.
” Hitler says that the man who saved his life is Henry Tandey, one of the greatest heroes of the war, but when Henry sees Hitler bomb England, he is interviewed and says: “when I saw all the lives Hitler took, I asked God for forgiveness for leaving him to run away. ” We're not sure if Henry was the soldier who spared Hitler, so maybe someone went their entire life NOT knowing they did it. While Hitler dominates Europe, a Jewish scientist decides to stop Germany by creating the most powerful weapon in history, the atomic bomb.
He makes the third decision that changes the world, Oppenheimer is afraid of the Nazis getting the atomic bomb before the allies, if that happened, Hitler would just threaten to drop the bombs and win the war. The fear was so great that even Einstein supported the atomic bomb in the beginning, what Oppenheimer didn't know is that the Germans weren't even close to making the bomb, he regretted seeing another 70 thousand atomic bombs being created, enough to cause the apocalypse 100 times. “I have become death, the destroyer of worlds.
” Oppenheimer sees the victims in Japan and the shadows left by the explosion, he sees the drawings that the children made and dies of depression for fear of this happening all over the world. The world was one button away from the apocalypse and that button was only not pressed because this man VOTED no. On the day humanity was closest to the end, 2 men voted yes and 1 man voted no, meet Vasily Arkhipov, the man who stopped the string of mistakes that started with Leopold's wrong turn.
He made the fourth decision that changed the world: Vasily is in a nuclear submarine near the USA when he feels an impact, he knows it is an American attack, the submarine has nuclear weapons but it is so deep that it has no contact with the rest of the world, so the Soviets think that the third world war has STARTED, the 2 officers of the submarine need to vote YES to launch their nuclear weapons in the USA and the 2 vote YES, but they changed the scale of this submarine and there is an extra officer who is not part of the crew, the gatecrasher is Vasily Arkhipov. He is younger and of lesser rank but he takes issue with the two superiors, Vasily reminds the two that he also has the right to vote and that in order to attack, the vote has to be unanimous but Vasily Arkhipov votes no. I'll repeat to you, the third world war didn't happen because they changed a man's work schedule.
Vasily thinks that the American attack is just a warning for them to get out of there, and he is RIGHT. The submarine goes up and surrenders to the Americans, when they return to the Soviet Union, Vasily is forbidden from telling the story even to his family, because the Soviet Union didn't want the world to know that THIS almost happened, to make matters worse, Vasily is humiliated because sailors considered it more honorable to sink than to surrender, he dies in an empty funeral without anyone knowing that he saved the world. You and I only know this because his story was leaked after he died.
and now comes the really GOOD part of this video, maybe you've already heard this phrase attributed to Einstein: “I don't know what the third world war will be like, but I can tell you what the fourth one will be like: with sticks and stones. ” No one has proven that Einstein really said this, but he had this fear, a third atomic war would annihilate humanity and this fear made scientists create a network so that humans would stay united even in the apocalypse, so, even if the bombs turned the world to dust, knowledge and communication would be preserved. In this scenario, you might not be able to leave your house and explore the world, but the world would come to you through a network.
The fear of losing everything that humanity created for a war made Larry Roberts create ARPANET, which evolved and perhaps you know as INTERNET, Larry Roberts made the fifth decision that changed the world Yes, you are here watching this video on the internet because a driver missed a turn, so the next time you miss a “turn” in life, think, maybe you didn't make a mistake. I had said that the good part of the video had arrived, I lied, the good part starts now. Right now, millions of atoms that were in the body of Jesus Christ are in you and no, I'm not making this up, a human has 7 octillion atoms, a 7 followed by 27 zeros, so a small fraction of those 27 zeros are atoms that were within any ancient person, The iron of the blood of Jesus.
The oxygen of Aristotle's lungs. The calcium in the bones of Dom Pedro II. The nitrogen of Cleopatra's DNA.
All these atoms traveled a long way until they became part of you and some were made inside stars. This is the cat's eye nebula, the remains of a dead star, and now comes the cat's leap. The atoms that are in your eyes now were in dead stars like this, so it looking like an eye isn't that much of a coincidence.
Everything is connected, Leopold's wrong corner, the man who spared Hitler and even the creation of the internet, you just need to look very closely, the number of Atoms in the Universe is estimated at around 10 to the power of 80 and the number of possible positions in a game of chess it is 10 to the power of 120. In other words, the number of things that can happen is much greater than the number of things that exist, so anything is possible. Leopold could have hit the corner, Hitler could have been a painter, Oppenheimer could have been a poet, Vasily could have voted yes, Larry Roberts could have thought the internet would trap us and you might not have clicked on that video.
Small decisions generate giant effects. You probably know the butterfly effect: “something as small as the flapping of a butterfly's wings can cause a typhoon on the other side of the world. " I'm going to suggest a small change to this sentence: “Something as small as ONE human decision can change the world.
” So when you feel incapable and lost in the world, remember that you are human, so even one corner can change your life. thanks for being here!
