- 1 hour ago
- #brightside
- #brightsideglobal
In 1974, a family in Florida found a strange metal sphere on their property, which they claimed had mysterious powers and movements. The sphere attracted the attention of the media, the military, and the public, who speculated that it was an alien artifact, a secret weapon, or a paranormal phenomenon. In this video, we will reveal the truth behind the Betz sphere, and how the family managed to fool everyone with their hoax.
#brightside #brightsideglobal
TIMESTAMPS:
0:01 The Great Hoax
08:45 What if people and animals would stay alive forever?
18:30 How fast can you travel and stay alive?
This video is made for entertainment purposes. We do not make any warranties about the completeness, safety and reliability. Any action you take upon the information in this video is strictly at your own risk, and we will not be liable for any damages or losses. It is the viewer's responsibility to use judgement, care and precaution if you plan to replicate.
#brightside #brightsideglobal
TIMESTAMPS:
0:01 The Great Hoax
08:45 What if people and animals would stay alive forever?
18:30 How fast can you travel and stay alive?
This video is made for entertainment purposes. We do not make any warranties about the completeness, safety and reliability. Any action you take upon the information in this video is strictly at your own risk, and we will not be liable for any damages or losses. It is the viewer's responsibility to use judgement, care and precaution if you plan to replicate.
Category
😹
FunTranscript
00:00It's March 1974. The Betts family, Jerry Antoine, and their son Terry, are walking through the woods at their estate
00:08on Fort George Island.
00:09As they enjoy their spring walk, little do they know that today they'll come across something that'll change their lives
00:17forever.
00:18As Terry walks ahead, he can feel something pulling him towards an unknown object.
00:24Unsure of what to make of this feeling, but curious to pursue whatever's calling to him.
00:29Terry, where are you going? his mother calls out, but he ignores her, and frantically tries to find this unknown
00:36thing.
00:37He wants it. He needs it. And then he can see something.
00:41A shiny silver sphere, the size of a bowling ball, nestling among the grass.
00:47As Terry approaches it, he notices it's eerily untouched, with no damage or dirt on it.
00:53Terry picks it up. It's heavy, but he holds it tight.
00:57Always finding junk where you go, his father laughs.
01:01Terry was always collecting strange metallic objects. He found them fascinating.
01:06It's just a souvenir, that's all.
01:08The three of them look at the ball, all intrigued by the perfect shiny sphere.
01:13As they walk back home, they excitedly discuss its possible origins.
01:18Fantasizing the possibilities, that maybe it's a cannonball used by conquistadors, or that it could have fallen from a NASA
01:26satellite in orbit.
01:29They arrive home, and Terry places the mysterious ball on a windowsill in his room, next to many of his
01:36other exhibits, and it sits there, for now.
01:40Two weeks pass, and Terry has a friend over.
01:44They hang out and take turns playing the guitar.
01:47Terry strikes a chord, and a vibration occurs that comes from the windowsill.
01:52The boys sit silently, spooked by the unknown sound.
01:57They look around to find where it came from.
02:00It's probably just a possum, Terry says calmly.
02:03But as he raises his pick, he looks towards the sphere suspiciously.
02:08As he strikes another chord, he sees the sphere vibrate, and this time, it's also emitting a humming sound.
02:16Terry puts down the guitar and approaches the ball, and as he reaches toward it, the sound slowly fades.
02:24Startled, he stands in silence before calling out to his dad.
02:28Terry explains the strange phenomenon to his father.
02:32Antoine looks at it closely, then holds it up to his ear.
02:36As he shakes it vigorously, he can feel something inside the ball moving.
02:41Shocked, he places it down on a table.
02:45Once placed, it begins to roll, moving towards one edge of the table, then circling around.
02:52Moving corner to corner in a rectangle, endlessly searching for something, possibly an exit.
02:58Until finally, it rolls back to the middle, becoming motionless once more.
03:04They all look at the ball puzzled by the display, and Antoine places the ball on the floor.
03:10As soon as it touches the surface, it quickly rolls toward the door.
03:15This time, it's clear the sphere wants to make an escape.
03:18The thing is too valuable to lose, and Terry quickly chases after it.
03:23He grabs it before it leaves the house.
03:26He places the ball somewhere safe inside a box, incapable of another escape attempt.
03:32Over the following days, Terry took it upon himself to make his own experiments.
03:38He found that when within the sunlight, it appeared to be more active.
03:42His opinion was that it reacted to solar radiation.
03:46When hit with a hammer, it would ring out loudly, as though it felt the strike.
03:51Strange things also occurred in the Betts family home.
03:55Doors would suddenly slam shut at night, and strange organ music played throughout the house,
04:01even though they didn't own an organ.
04:04The family sat down to discuss the sphere.
04:07They felt it was something truly extraterrestrial, and they required professional advice.
04:16The authorities came to review the ball, puzzled by the object, as it moved in an unpredictable way.
04:23But they couldn't recognize what it was or provide an explanation for it.
04:28All they could confirm was that it didn't come from another planet.
04:32The Betts family disagreed and wanted a second opinion.
04:37They sent it to Dr. J. Allen Hynek, an astronomer and expert in the extraterrestrial.
04:43He spent six hours reviewing the sphere.
04:46Through his many examinations, the doctor found that the strange sphere emitted radio waves
04:52and had its own magnetic field.
04:56With this new information, the Betts' were interviewed by a reporter.
05:00The mysterious sphere quickly became famous.
05:03Its story spread in papers throughout the USA, and even made the news internationally.
05:09Everyone wanted to know more about this mysterious sphere.
05:13A television crew soon visited the Betts' house, hoping to experience the extraterrestrial object firsthand.
05:21The sphere was placed on the ground.
05:23It did its usual trick, and the visitors stood there, speechless at what they were witnessing.
05:28The reporters asked to place the family's poodle next to the ball, to provide an indication
05:34of the sphere's size.
05:35As the dog sat next to it, it began to whimper and covered its ears with its paws, something
05:41it had never done before around the ball.
05:44The Betts' family felt they had something truly valuable and ensured it through Lloyd's
05:49of London, and if they left it at home, they had someone stay to watch it, ensuring no
05:55one would steal it, or let it escape.
06:01But what was the mysterious Betts' sphere, really?
06:05When responding to the press, the spokesmen from the authorities revealed the sphere was
06:10made from high-grade stainless steel.
06:12Although the sphere wasn't something they made themselves, it was still likely created
06:17somewhere on Earth.
06:19If it came from outer space, they advised it would be made from different elements.
06:24Their review showed the shell of the sphere is one inch thick and hollow inside.
06:29It weighed 22 pounds, the exact weight for that amount of stainless steel.
06:33It had no seams on it, the shell was scuffed in parts, and had a small triangular mark,
06:39three millimeters long.
06:40They were sure it was just a steel ball.
06:44But they wanted to confirm further by using x-rays.
06:47They found small beads of residue inside.
06:51These beads would have been caught inside the object when it was manufactured.
06:56Clarifying why there was a feeling of movement inside the ball, they also solved the mystery
07:01of the strange movement.
07:02As it's a perfectly balanced sphere, sitting on the slightest uneven surface would cause it
07:08to roll.
07:08The Betzes' house had uneven stone floors, and it had only ever been witnessed to move
07:14around there.
07:15The authority also wanted to cut it open to prove their assessment.
07:20However, the Betzes were adamant that it couldn't be damaged.
07:25It was identified further that the sphere was just a ball check valve produced by the Bell
07:31and Gossett company.
07:32The ball's size, weight, and metallurgic composition matched perfectly to what they
07:36made.
07:38Confirming how it managed to make the journey to the Betzes' estate three years before the
07:43discovery of the sphere.
07:44An artist, James Derling Jones, had collected a few of these ball check valves.
07:49He liked to use them in his sculptures.
07:52With no room inside of his bus, he put them on the top of the roof rack.
07:56His journey took him past the Betzes' estate, and along the way, a few of these balls happened
08:02to roll off and were lost.
08:04At least, until Terry came along one fine spring day.
08:08But what about the radio waves and odd magnetic properties confirmed by Dr. Hynek?
08:14Well, although Antoine claimed that's what was found, it was never confirmed to be true
08:20with the doctor.
08:22The 1970s were a heyday for all things out of our planet, and anything related would gain
08:28popularity immediately.
08:29The authorities only enhanced this by providing monetary rewards for supporting evidence.
08:36Finding something extraterrestrial could have been just a ploy by the Betzes for a cash reward.
08:42It's a mystery.
08:44Nobody knows exactly who created this substance.
08:48Was it nature?
08:49Or some scientist in a fancy lab somewhere?
08:52It's spreading quickly.
08:54The stuff gets into every human, animal, even the tiniest insect.
08:59All of humanity's experiencing euphoria.
09:03But that feeling won't last forever.
09:05This new molecule attaches itself to all living DNA and makes it immortal.
09:12That's how it starts.
09:14For the past few months, you've been sitting at home in an information vacuum.
09:19No internet, no TV, no news.
09:22You turned off your phone and cancelled all your plans with your friends so that nobody can
09:27distract you.
09:28Only with this drastic plan will you be able to finish writing your book.
09:34You sit in your rented house on the edge of town, writing every day.
09:38You have absolutely no idea what's going on in the world.
09:42And now, finally, the book is finished.
09:46You grab your bike and head off to celebrate with a beautiful ride around town.
09:51The streets are full of people.
09:54You ride along a narrow street until you reach the town square.
09:57There's a pretty big crowd, and you accidentally crash into a young guy.
10:02You say you're very sorry, but the guy looks somehow extra happy.
10:08He says he's fine.
10:09You notice that the crowd of people is shouting positive slogans, and everyone's in a really
10:15good mood.
10:16You pick up your bike and look down at yourself.
10:19You seem fine, but the fall was kind of painful.
10:23Better go to the hospital, just in case, you think, and leave the square.
10:28You've never seen such an empty hospital before.
10:32You approach reception and ask for a doctor or a nurse, who's ever free.
10:37The receptionist looks at you with that face that says,
10:40What's this guy's deal?
10:42You say you hurt yourself falling off a bike.
10:45Where have you been in the last few weeks?
10:48The receptionist asks.
10:49You notice that, actually, your body doesn't hurt anymore.
10:54Huh, how's that even possible?
10:56You look around and realize that there's no one else in the building except you and the
11:02weirded-out receptionist.
11:03Where are all the people?
11:05You run out into the street, pull out your phone, and read the latest news.
11:10An unusual molecule is spreading around the world, making people immortal.
11:16The human heart now beats forever.
11:19Any damage heals in a matter of minutes.
11:22There are no more diseases.
11:24Everyone's been cured.
11:25Not only that, everyone's suddenly in excellent shape.
11:29Scientists are still trying to figure out what this molecule is.
11:33But while they're doing that, people all over the world are celebrating.
11:37It's the beginning of eternal life.
11:40A year passes.
11:42Hospitals are closing all over the world.
11:45Doctors have no one left to heal.
11:47Vets are also out of work, because animals also live forever now.
11:51Health insurance companies go bankrupt.
11:54So do life insurance firms.
11:57Never in all of history have people felt so safe.
12:00A year later, the economy goes crazy.
12:04In every field, the story's the same.
12:06From drivers to coal miners to psychologists to musicians to influencers.
12:12Even just working a regular cash register at the supermarket.
12:15The competition is insane.
12:18The population is way bigger.
12:20So there's thousands of people showing up to every interview.
12:24More people, more mouths.
12:26Food and clothes become even more expensive.
12:29Five years later, you can no longer go out into the city and find a quiet street to walk on.
12:35There's always a crowd of people.
12:38A huge number of new houses are built.
12:41Prices for real estate, internet, electricity, every service, it all just keeps rising.
12:47And at the same time, it's more and more difficult to earn good money.
12:52Many people just lose their jobs.
12:54Scientists are sounding the alarm.
12:56In 50 years, there'll be almost no space left on Earth.
13:01But that isn't even the main problem.
13:04Insects now live forever, too.
13:07Locusts, beetles, mosquitoes, spiders, flies.
13:10There are trillions of them.
13:12Pests eat everything.
13:14Fields are empty.
13:15Bees, bats, and spiders usually help out by chomping on their share of insects.
13:20But now the whole system's gone out of whack.
13:23They, and by that I mean every insect in the world,
13:27become more aggressive and start to attack small towns and villages.
13:31Herbivores are everywhere.
13:33Because why bother chasing after food?
13:36A lion can just wait around.
13:38Eventually, something's just gonna land in its lap.
13:41Lions, tigers, leopards, wolves, hyenas.
13:45They get lazy and fat.
13:47Wild animals fill city streets.
13:50The hottest new job?
13:51The control and capture of wild animals.
13:54And it's not exactly an easy job.
13:57You try chasing down a hyena in a three-story parking lot.
14:00By the way, all living things can now sort of live without food.
14:05But everyone still feels hungry.
14:07And if you don't eat, your body will definitely start feeling weak.
14:12Some vloggers tried to find out how long they could last without food.
14:16Turns out that the body can live forever without nutrients.
14:19But after about a month, you'll just fall into a deep dream.
14:24It's like your brain puts you into sleep mode.
14:27Unemployment is finally getting under control.
14:30There are millions of new construction jobs.
14:33What's the big new project?
14:35Well, people are building cities in the oceans and creating aerial towns,
14:39held up by a million helicopter-like thingies.
14:43So now, everyone has a place to live.
14:45The only problem? Humans are running out of natural resources fast.
14:51Fifty years later, the Earth is inhabited by more than 50 billion people.
14:56Almost every forest is long gone, and freshwater sources are running dry.
15:02People stop catching animals.
15:04They simply learn to live with them.
15:06You can have a monkey, a porcupine, and a monitor lizard in your house all at the same time.
15:11It seems that animals have figured out that there's no point being afraid of humans or each other.
15:18Plus, humans and animals are everywhere, so there's not a lot of options.
15:23People finally manage to stop insects from spreading everywhere.
15:27Chemists and biologists teamed up to create a substance that puts all pests in an internal sleep.
15:34It gets sprayed on every crop now.
15:36Scientists also generated artificial food using simple chemical elements.
15:42But still, there's not enough food.
15:44And even with those ocean cities and floating towns, people are running out of room faster than ever.
15:51Humans institute a ban on any new ocean cities.
15:55Photoplankton and seaweed are essential for maintaining oxygen levels.
15:59And since there are almost no trees left, oceans have become even more important.
16:04The floating towns turn out to be a ridiculously bad idea.
16:09They release a huge amount of greenhouse gases, which makes breathing more challenging.
16:14Next plan?
16:16Space.
16:16The International Space Station is no longer the only huge thing in Earth orbit.
16:22The wealthy build orbiting mansions with simulated Earth conditions.
16:26These huge, fancy space homes are crazy expensive and eat up even more natural resources.
16:3375 years later.
16:35Mars and the Moon have been colonized.
16:37But people don't live there.
16:39They sleep, kinda.
16:42To reduce the burden on the Earth, people decided to live off-planet in turns.
16:47One-third of the population remains on Earth.
16:50The other part goes into cryogenic sleep for five years at a time.
16:55Cryogenic capsules are sent to Mars and the Moon.
16:58As soon as a human wakes up, they return to Earth and switch places with someone else.
17:04Every year, the amount of people in cryo chambers gets bigger and bigger.
17:08The next idea is to send out a fleet of unmanned spacecraft to try and find a habitable planet or
17:14moon somewhere.
17:15But to do this, people need to use up even more natural resources.
17:21Gold, copper, silver, water, wood, oil, minerals, and metals.
17:26Humanity starts exploring Mars and the Moon, desperate to find something useful for building better spaceships.
17:33Some Earthlings are now celebrating their 150th birthday and have become incredibly smart and wise.
17:39They understand that it's time to stop the uncontrolled population growth, at least for a while.
17:46In the next 60 years, not a single person is born.
17:51Astrophysicists are still looking for planets in space that are suitable for life, and still figuring out how to get
17:58there.
17:591,000 years later, and humans now inhabit a bunch of new Earth-like planets.
18:05Our home, Earth, is completely devastated.
18:08There are no humans left there.
18:10And for some reason, the further we get from Earth, the more people are born with immunity to the immortal
18:17molecule.
18:18After all this time, people are living normal life cycles again.
18:22Just not on this planet.
18:27Okay, place those goggles over your eyes, strap in, and don't forget to hold on tight.
18:33We're gonna see how fast we can really go.
18:36Long legs on a tall yet muscular frame?
18:39Not exactly the norm when compared to the shorter builds of short-distance runners.
18:44But the fastest man alive makes it look easy to move that fast.
18:48So far, the fastest anyone has run is just over 27 miles per hour.
18:53A speed reached briefly by sprinter Usain Bolt at the halfway point of his world-record 100-meter dash.
19:01And humans can go even faster.
19:04The top speed we could reach may come down to how quickly the muscles in our body can move.
19:09Our muscles should be able to reach speeds as fast as 40 miles per hour.
19:13The reason we can't do it is that we're in the air for too long.
19:17Our limbs can only take a certain amount of force when they strike on the ground.
19:22That's why on skates, you're able to outpace a runner.
19:25Gliding allows for more traction.
19:27What would make us a lot faster is simple-ish.
19:31Longer legs, really wide hips, or extra legs, like an insect.
19:36I give running on all fours a try.
19:39It would be fun at least.
19:40In 2016, speed records weren't just broken on the running track.
19:44They were broken on the ski slopes in France.
19:47The world record for downhill skiing belongs to an Italian ski instructor and a mountain guide.
19:54In 2016, assisted only by gravity, the instructor set a human land speed record of around 158 miles per hour.
20:03Skiing across the zone near the bottom of a course in just over 2 seconds.
20:08Wow, I can barely stand up on skis, let alone move half that fast.
20:12The fastest a tiger beetle can sprint is up to 5 miles per hour.
20:17Doesn't sound that fast, really, but consider this.
20:20It's covering 120 of its body lengths in a single second.
20:25For comparison, Bolt covers about 6 body lengths per second.
20:29To match this beetle, he'd have to run about 480 miles per hour.
20:34That's twice as fast as a peregrine falcon.
20:37Tiger beetles have extremely sharp eyesight for insects.
20:40But while they're running, the world turns into a featureless smudge.
20:44This means the beetle has to stop every now and then and see where it's going.
20:49So, they're pretty fast.
20:50But there's a mite, a special mite, whose speed is equivalent to a human running roughly 1,300 miles per
20:59hour.
20:59At its quickest, this sesame seed-sized mite can move 322 body lengths per second.
21:06Wow!
21:07Most cats run zero times their body length for the majority of the day.
21:11Yeah.
21:12Well, we're not going to be moving that fast anytime soon.
21:15We've got a few tricks up our sleeve, thanks to our big brains.
21:20We can use technology.
21:22Ooh!
21:23The fastest we've ever traveled on land over 1 mile is 763 miles per hour.
21:29It was done back in 1997 in Nevada in a thrust SSC.
21:34That's a big improvement from the first holder of the record.
21:37In 1898, a Frenchman hit the actually pretty amazing speed of 39 miles per hour in his electric-powered car.
21:46Through the air, we've traveled at Mach 3.3.
21:50That's around 2,100 miles per hour.
21:53It's all thanks to the fastest jet aircraft in the world, the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird.
22:00Amazingly, this plane doesn't have a top speed.
22:03The only thing limiting its speed is temperature.
22:06If it was allowed to fly as fast as it wanted, it would literally melt in mid-air.
22:12On water, the speed record is just over 275 knots, or a little over 317 miles per hour.
22:20A jet-powered hydroplane called the Spirit of Australia did it back in 1978.
22:26Not bad if you want to get to your favorite fishing spot quickly.
22:30In 1896, there weren't that many driving laws.
22:34But still, Walter Arnold decided to break one of them and became the first man in history to receive a
22:41speeding ticket.
22:42The speed limit at the time was 2 miles per hour.
22:45You could have walked faster, and most people did.
22:48But that was too slow for Arnold, who decided to race through the town at 8 miles per hour.
22:54Eventually, he was caught and received a one-shilling fine, quite hefty for the time.
23:01A man named Felix was taken over 127,000 feet into the edge of space in a balloon that, when
23:09fully inflated, was about the size of the Statue of Liberty.
23:13Having no choice but to jump out, he eventually reached the fastest free-fall speed ever, 843 miles per hour,
23:21in a specially designed suit, of course.
23:23Landing back on solid ground in just over 9 minutes, he became the first person to break the sound barrier
23:31in free-fall.
23:32The fastest speed a human has ever traveled is around 25,000 miles per hour.
23:38The crew of Apollo 10 reached this on May 26, 1969.
23:43This was also the highest speed ever reached by a manned vehicle.
23:47Are you feeling the hankering for speed yet?
23:51Good news!
23:52The Earth rotates once roughly every 24 hours.
23:56Math, math, math.
23:58Hmm.
23:58This means that the Earth and you are spinning at around 1,000 miles per hour.
24:04That's not including how fast we're all moving through space on this giant rock.
24:08We're zipping along at 18 miles per second.
24:12That's 67,000 miles per hour through the dark vacuum of space.
24:16Our Sun and the Milky Way appear to be moving at an average speed of 448,000 miles per hour
24:24through space.
24:25While that sounds extremely fast, and it is, it'd still take about 230 million years to travel all the way
24:33around the Milky Way.
24:35So, you're probably moving a lot faster than you thought you were, but there's a good reason you're not a
24:41human puddle right now.
24:43Speed obviously isn't the issue.
24:45The real issue is acceleration.
24:48Changes in speed are expressed in G-forces, which just means the acceleration of an object relative to Earth's gravity.
24:56If you're sitting on the sofa, you're experiencing 1 G.
24:59Now, most of us can withstand up to 4 to 6 Gs, like on a roller coaster.
25:05Some pilots manage up to about 9 Gs for a second or two.
25:09But sustained G-forces are a big problem.
25:13Some pilots wear special high-G suits and are trained to flex their torso muscles to keep blood from whooshing
25:20out of their heads and into their legs.
25:22They can still operate their aircraft properly at about 9 Gs.
25:26The record for temporary Gs is an amazing 82.6 Gs.
25:32Riding a rocket-powered sled backward in 1958, Eli Beating Jr. hit the brakes and stopped in a tenth of
25:40a second as part of testing for space travel.
25:43Blacking out but only suffering back bruises, it was a remarkable demonstration of the body's resilience to short bursts of
25:51deceleration.
25:51More than 100 years ago, a super-famous scientist named Einstein came up with an idea called relativity.
26:00There was an experiment that tested this out with two clocks set to the exact same time.
26:06One clock stayed on Earth, while the other flew on a commercial plane.
26:10After the airplane returned from its trip around the world, the two clocks were compared.
26:15The clock on the fast-moving plane was slightly behind the other one.
26:20So, yes, time travel is a real thing if you're going faster than another object.
26:26Now, another place time slows down is when you're in line at the checkout stand at the supermarket.
26:31But, hey, it's all relative.
26:34The safest place to test high-speed travel is space.
26:37It's an empty vacuum, after all.
26:39But imagine speeding through space.
26:42Anything the size of a grain of sand would become a high-speed projectile.
26:47The real danger, though, would be small hydrogen atoms just floating around.
26:51The hydrogen would shatter into particles that would pass into the ship.
26:55It wouldn't be pretty.
26:57Your spacecraft would also heat up really quickly, too.
27:00Sounds dangerous.
27:02You go first.
Comments