I had to check about six times that I'd actually spelled the word "eclipse" right in the title. Thanks again, everyone, and good luck with the challenge! -- Tom
You underestimate the gravity of their influence, they have a lot of pull, and when they get into the star aligns. Personally I am over the moon that they could do this even if I'm only a satelite to this channel. All in all this video was stellar and the guys should treat themselves to a corona.
Is it weird that I was more entertained by two English guys experiencing the American outdoors than the eclipse? Like, the giant moth buzzing Matt's head (not a bee, though I can see how you'd make the mistake), the hissing of wind through a cornfield that I'm too accustomed to to recognize (and I've never lived more than 1/2 hour from NYC or Philadelphia, so it's got nothing to do with urbanization), and the wooly bear caterpillar (which ten-year-old me used to get to crawl on my hands, and which I knew what it'd be as soon as Tom reacted to it). It's easy to forget that the animals we see every day are unusual to foreigners, and it's actually fun to watch that. (Or Jun from Rachel and Jun seeing squirrels and woodchucks; that was pretty fun, too.)
That's what my friends were like when I visited Sweden as someone from the Eastern US. I've never seen a magpie in person before until then, and seeing European trees was extremely strange as well since I'm accustomed to American ones.
You're coverage of this is very interesting, because the one thing I wanted to see at least once during the coverage I watched was the ambient effects, like how dark it got and the sky and such, and you guys showed it. Also, Tom's excitement was so great. With how much ridiculously cool stuff you've gotten to do as a result of your channel, I feel like it must take a lot to get you excited for something.
knightshousegames - I have a new video on my channel where I pointed the camera at the surrounding area where I was for the eclipse and just let it record. Unfortunately it's not that great on camera, because the camera adjusts and auto-white-balances (and also it was cloudy where I was, so I didn't see any fun shadows). But you do see it get very dark suddenly, and the lighting is weird on the clouds.
Seeing you guys so intruiged by various American things (corn, fuzzy caterpillar, and big buzzy thing) was hilarious, because I used to live next to a corn field, with big fuzzy caterpillars, and big buzzy things, and it's all just normal to me now
Here in Ireland we got to do that too, it passed directly over the school and since I had no glasses with me I used my phone screen as a mirror to see it, we got total darkness and it was really amazing, especially at 10 a.m
Seeing Tom so excited by the eclipse that he starts shouting at the sky almost makes up for me being stuck in England and being unable to see it. Keep up the great work, onward to the next milestone!
I may have just misinterpreted Matt's clue "Where we are right now is 33 degrees." as an actual clue. I pinpointed four possible locations of their car across South Carolina, on the path of totality, until I realized... He may have meant 33 degrees Celsius... Edit: For clarity, I thought he meant 33 degrees latitude. *Not Fahrenheit*
I'm rather amazed at how remote and alone you were. I've seen so much eclipse coverage from Madras, Oregon, and Idaho Falls, Idaho, where it was jammed with people, and you guys were totally alone. Hope you have a fun rest-of-your-trip.
That short shadows but too dark thing is probably the most surreal thing about an eclipse for me. Full dark with lit horizons is funky, but you experience dark all the time. I had to keep doing my courier deliveries during the last one I was in. REALLY funky if you're driving with your lights on before and after - then you actually see how dark it really is.
So pleased for you guys. I obsessed to Tom levels in 1999, using the fledgling internet to help identify Austria as the accessible place in the path with the best chance of clear weather, took my Dad (who loves astronomy but refuses to fly) by train to Munich and thence by car. Come the big morning we watched every forecast trying to see where the broken cloud might cover, spent two hours driving back and forth between Austria and Germany chasing gaps, eventually stopping with 15 minutes to spare in a field outside Brunau-am-Inn (yes, that one). But we only bloody saw it. I know your joy!
My favorite part of this whole video is that, at 14:53, if you slow it down to 0.25x speed, you can see that Matt is going to give Tom a high-five, but Tom goes in for a full hug. He's so happy 😊 (and then they high-five right after!)
I wish I could like this comment several more times, as this pretty much takes the words right out of my mouth. I know Fort Worth got really dark during totality (and that the temperature drop felt refreshing more than anything after being in the Texas sun for about two hours).
Vineyarddawg I love their genuine excitement over random things in a corn field. It's fun to watch people be amazed at simple and mundane but outside their normal lives things :-)
14:53 - At normal speed I thought that looked like a hug, confirmed it at 0.25x :) One of the lovely things to come out of this whole eclipse event has been people sharing the experience, both far (as here) and near (as in your hug).
did anyone else mishear Tom say 'I thought I was going to get defeated by clowns again' at 10:36? I thought he was about to open up about his childhood memory of some unfortunate incident with violent clowns haha. Maybe he could work it into a sponsor spot for that movie 'It'...
It's one thing to know, intellectually, the exact reason why the sky is going dark. But it's quite another to actually experience it, and have your brain go /tilt!/ as the world you're standing in no longer matches with a lifetime of expectations, as you notice things you generally take for granted -- like shadows, and the insects going quiet. And also a reminder that we will in a really big cosmos. So I'm going to echo others' comments -- thanks for the ambience montage.
I'm genuinely laughing out of joy for Tom right now. And that's coming from someone who's usually stone cold when movies try to make you all warm and fuzzy or super-sad with certain scenes.
I should say, this is the best video I've ever seen on capturing the experience of watching an eclipse. With the only exception being that there was more people around me when we watched it, it pretty much nailed my thoughts on what was going on.
This almost became "two British men forget to look at the sun due to insect interference. next on Monty Python..." Has anyone ever figured out if you can do a cosmic scale double slit experiment using "bill bailey's balls" as the slits and the Earth as the screen?
It's a possibility, but it is more likely to be atmospheric disturbance - the same thing that makes stars twinkle. It shows up as the apparent size of the light source drops back to a slit, then a dot - the same reason why apparently small stars twinkly, but planets with a larger apparent size don't.
I was in Cornwall for the UK one. There was cloud up until about 3 minutes before the eclipse when a small break opened up just around the sun and we got to see it. Then cloud the rest of the day. It was amazing.
Totally sympathize with Tom's nervousness there. I went to see that eclipse in Charleston, SC (because the airport was right in the path of the totality), saw most of it, and then clouds moved in just a couple of minutes before totality. I couldn't help it, I was SO disappointed.
I'm incredibly envious. Where I live, we had 94% coverage. My kiddos and I have never seen a solar eclipse, and totality was going to happen only 3 hours south of us. We REALLY wanted to see it, so I planned on driving them down there. As it turns out, 2 days before the eclipse, I found out that my new job scheduled meetings for that day and I wasn't going to be able to take them. We were so upset and my 13 year old was in tears. Que the superhero hubby who said he would take off work and drive them down. While I was super bummed I wasn't going to be able to go, I figured at least I'd see 94%, which was better than nothing. No joke, at 11:30 am, right when the eclipse was supposed to start, a MASSIVE storm rolled in; wind, rain downpour, 100% cloud coverage, hail, lightening, non-stop rolling thunder, the works. It lasted almost 2 hours and just before 2 pm, right after the eclipse was going to be fully past, the skies cleared. On the upside, my hubby and kids had a perfect, clear, unobstructed view of the whole thing. I'm still currently equally parts ecstatic that they got to see it, and heartbroken that I didn't get to see even a hint of it.
Your enthusiasm was priceless. Really made my day. I had the same reaction. My brother and I traveled about 50 miles to the GA/SC border to watch it from the parking lot of a Taco Bell.
Thank you to both of you and both of your passions for the eclipse in this 7 year old video. Because I remember this video and had seen it back then, I had the enthusiasm to get to a better location for 3+ minutes of totality yesterday. Many thanks to you guys, without this video, I may not have seen totality at all yesterday. Was a mind-blowing experience (and like another commenter said, I also inherited Tom's cloud anxiety)
My guess is they were probably in Nebraska, which itself is the middle of nowhere. But the thing I liked most about the video was the fact that they decided to just go out to a random spot in the middle of America and watch the eclipse there. I think the seclusion and lack of human activity enhanced the experience and it made me really happy
The absence of other people in this video is very heartening; hopefully this means that you didn't have an 11-hour, 250 mile drive back to civilization like I did.
Oh my god, I actually live in Cairns right now and back then, when Tom was talking about the clouds over the Eclipse i was there as well. I know the exact location too because when we were there we the clouds were covering 95% of the eclipse and if we moved down the beach to the next area we could have seen it. I totally forgot about that, just to think i could've met Tom if i had known of him sooner. Damn.
I remember the eclipse when I was a kid, looking through my dads welding helmet lens. I wish that I had a camera back then because everything went blue on totality across the whole industrial site. I have also seen the eclipse in Canada and upon looking at the ground I witnessed crescent shapes, like little moons. Both were experiences I shall never forget.
I scrolled a long way through the comments to find no reference of it, so I am: Tom, you got a laugh out of me from "Bee-52". Such a wholesome video. :)
Genuinely, my friend in America, I think it was Denver he was living in at the time. He and his Mrs was trying for a baby and they timed the vital moment at totality. There daughter, Solar was born 9 months later
yay this made me so happy!!! its been about 12 hours since the eclipse happened in america and ive been here in singapore sad about missing it. you finally recreated how i wouldve been. thank u!!!
I'm so glad that my flight home from the US got unexpectedly delayed by 3 hours that day and I ended up being on the ground rather than boarding a plane at the time of the eclipse! As someone who had never seen it before, I can totally empathise with Tom's excitement here.
So, I live directly in the path of Totality, and I was defeated by clouds. Not only did I not to see Totality, I didn't get to see anything because it was overcast. It got dark, and there was a little bit of a sunset on every horizon, but I saw nothing. I feel your pain Tom. Now it is my life goal to see the Totality of an Eclipse, because it was robbed from me.
I had to check about six times that I'd actually spelled the word "eclipse" right in the title. Thanks again, everyone, and good luck with the challenge! -- Tom
OCD much?
Oh no! You misspelled it, Tom!
Nah, I'm just playing!
Matt and Tom 👏👏👏 no dislikes... yet. Oh wait, it's 13 minutes ago...
Matt and Tom BTW Tom, Cairns is is pronounced "cans".
In my defence i was drunk when i made the petition
Missed opportunity to start the video with "Hi, I'm Matt./ And I'm Tom./ And this is the Park...ed car!"
this is gold
perfect.
After reading this comment, I am now deeply disappointed by this video. :c
@@eihples nah its dumb
"It's gone oranger"
"I thought bluer"
Oh crap, this is the dress all over again.
Travel 6,000 miles for an eclipse and "Oooh! Caterpillar!"
Trump Caterpillar
I can't believe you managed to put the moon in front of the sun just for us :)
he's lying. what he really did was intentionally time his subscriber count to match up to when the eclipse was going to happen.
I don't like this.... time to put my tin foil hat on :D
tommo hawk
Noooo, both of you are wrong. What he really did was build a massive balloon and float it in front of the sun.
Tom is God. And that's something you might not have known.
You underestimate the gravity of their influence, they have a lot of pull, and when they get into the star aligns. Personally I am over the moon that they could do this even if I'm only a satelite to this channel. All in all this video was stellar and the guys should treat themselves to a corona.
This is the ultimate game of GeoGuessr
They are probably in tenesse
Robert Wright I would guess somewhere more... Midwest-y. Seems too flat for Tennessee. But again, I could be completely wrong.
Robert Wright nowhere in Tennessee that saw totality looks like this.
Camicus - Iowa? Looks like lots of corn and flatness
Robert Wright As someone who lives there. Nothing looks like that.
Welcome to the 100k special, where people from the UK discover corn, caterpillars and strange large bugs.
This is literally an accurate description of me 3 weeks ago.
I like that they took a moment to appreciate a fuzzy caterpillar even though a very rare celestial event was also happening.
For 1 million subscribers, we'll expect ten moons in front of the sun.
Do. Not. Disappoint. Us.
Well that didnt exactly happen...
i expect earth between moon and sun (view from moon)
They don't have a million subs yet
We sent garlic bread to the edge of Jupiter
Tom's 3-year-old mode is on at 9:55
HX Huang Mine was on too at totality. It was amazing. Perfect. There are no words adequate.
HX Huang this reaction was the closest you can get to the feeling of seeing it. Totally overwhelmingly amazing.
Yes. I watched Yangtze-River solar eclipse back in 2009. That's exactly how I reacted.
HX Huang pretty much how I reacted in 1999, Northern France.
@@JasperJanssen I saw the one in 1999 in France. I can't remember it. I was too young. This is very frustrating.
Tom’s excitement was adorable.
Is it weird that I was more entertained by two English guys experiencing the American outdoors than the eclipse? Like, the giant moth buzzing Matt's head (not a bee, though I can see how you'd make the mistake), the hissing of wind through a cornfield that I'm too accustomed to to recognize (and I've never lived more than 1/2 hour from NYC or Philadelphia, so it's got nothing to do with urbanization), and the wooly bear caterpillar (which ten-year-old me used to get to crawl on my hands, and which I knew what it'd be as soon as Tom reacted to it). It's easy to forget that the animals we see every day are unusual to foreigners, and it's actually fun to watch that. (Or Jun from Rachel and Jun seeing squirrels and woodchucks; that was pretty fun, too.)
That's what my friends were like when I visited Sweden as someone from the Eastern US. I've never seen a magpie in person before until then, and seeing European trees was extremely strange as well since I'm accustomed to American ones.
Two British men hugging, that means it surely was a momentus experience.
I LOVE how Tom reacts, he is like a child at christmas, I think I would have reacted the same way if I would have been able to see it
7:49 "I've never seen a proper big fuzzy thing" - Tom Scott, 2017.
You're coverage of this is very interesting, because the one thing I wanted to see at least once during the coverage I watched was the ambient effects, like how dark it got and the sky and such, and you guys showed it. Also, Tom's excitement was so great. With how much ridiculously cool stuff you've gotten to do as a result of your channel, I feel like it must take a lot to get you excited for something.
knightshousegames - I have a new video on my channel where I pointed the camera at the surrounding area where I was for the eclipse and just let it record. Unfortunately it's not that great on camera, because the camera adjusts and auto-white-balances (and also it was cloudy where I was, so I didn't see any fun shadows). But you do see it get very dark suddenly, and the lighting is weird on the clouds.
Tom's utter excitement about the eclipse and the fuzzy caterpillar is so adorable ♡
I would have reacted EXACTLY like Tom, had I had the chance to see the eclipse. I'm equal parts jealous and happy for you guys ;)
Also, Matt vs. Geography is my favourite thing.
Henriette Flensborg My reaction to that was pretty much exactly like Tom's.
@@ragnkja ,
Seeing you guys so intruiged by various American things (corn, fuzzy caterpillar, and big buzzy thing) was hilarious, because I used to live next to a corn field, with big fuzzy caterpillars, and big buzzy things, and it's all just normal to me now
We had a partial eclipse in the UK back in March 2015. I know this, because they let us go outside and watch it during school.
EightThreeEight I didn't know this. The place I was at was cloudy. The sky didn't even change...
I remember this. It was very underwhelming, especially as my physics teacher built it up a lot.
There was a partial Lunar Eclipse where I live only a few weeks ago
Here in Ireland we got to do that too, it passed directly over the school and since I had no glasses with me I used my phone screen as a mirror to see it, we got total darkness and it was really amazing, especially at 10 a.m
It was pretty impressive over in Ireland. About 85% totality which was sufficient for everything to become eerily gloomy at the eclipse's zenith.
Seeing Tom so excited by the eclipse that he starts shouting at the sky almost makes up for me being stuck in England and being unable to see it. Keep up the great work, onward to the next milestone!
That's not a moon, that's your 100000 subscribers blocking the sun
You've gotta love Toms' reaction, pure joy.
Congrats on 100k and here's to 200k!
I hear for 1M they will put the Sun in front of the Moon.
toms enthusiasm is hilariously gorgeous
10/10 needs more ducklings. Would watch again.
I may have just misinterpreted Matt's clue "Where we are right now is 33 degrees." as an actual clue. I pinpointed four possible locations of their car across South Carolina, on the path of totality, until I realized... He may have meant 33 degrees Celsius...
Edit: For clarity, I thought he meant 33 degrees latitude. *Not Fahrenheit*
Andrew Kovnat i doubt he meant fahrenheit.
wouldn't 33 fahrenheit be freezing
Not quite freezing. That's 32 F.
3edgy5me
i wouldn't even bother with a coat 33F its not thar cold
I don't know why but this made me very happy just seeing Tom so excited
I'm rather amazed at how remote and alone you were. I've seen so much eclipse coverage from Madras, Oregon, and Idaho Falls, Idaho, where it was jammed with people, and you guys were totally alone. Hope you have a fun rest-of-your-trip.
That short shadows but too dark thing is probably the most surreal thing about an eclipse for me. Full dark with lit horizons is funky, but you experience dark all the time. I had to keep doing my courier deliveries during the last one I was in. REALLY funky if you're driving with your lights on before and after - then you actually see how dark it really is.
10:37 Subtitles "I thought I was about to get defeated by clowns again."
Those damn eclipse clowns!
So pleased for you guys. I obsessed to Tom levels in 1999, using the fledgling internet to help identify Austria as the accessible place in the path with the best chance of clear weather, took my Dad (who loves astronomy but refuses to fly) by train to Munich and thence by car. Come the big morning we watched every forecast trying to see where the broken cloud might cover, spent two hours driving back and forth between Austria and Germany chasing gaps, eventually stopping with 15 minutes to spare in a field outside Brunau-am-Inn (yes, that one). But we only bloody saw it. I know your joy!
You have certainly set the bar high for your next milestone after creating a eclipse for 100k
My favorite part of this whole video is that, at 14:53, if you slow it down to 0.25x speed, you can see that Matt is going to give Tom a high-five, but Tom goes in for a full hug. He's so happy 😊 (and then they high-five right after!)
Having just seen the 2024 eclipse- I realize that I inherited Tom's cloud anxiety. Also- it got so much darker than it looks like in this video.
I wish I could like this comment several more times, as this pretty much takes the words right out of my mouth. I know Fort Worth got really dark during totality (and that the temperature drop felt refreshing more than anything after being in the Texas sun for about two hours).
when can i book an eclipse for my 8-year-old son's birthday party
RobotUnderscore
Probably not when he's eight.
I mean you cannot choose but you get another chance in 2024.
Maybe it would be easier to plan your son's birtday for eclipse. But probably you missed that chance.
The next total eclipse in the UK is 2090, so I guess then?
2024. Be careful though, people are going to be booking this eclipse years in advance, so you want to get a spot in its calendar while you still can.
"British man yells at cloud."
I once threatened by 8bit micro with a screwdriver, so yeah, we're a bit loopy. :D
Should have titled the video, "British boys visit America and freak out about normal things before an eclipse." :-)
Vineyarddawg I love their genuine excitement over random things in a corn field. It's fun to watch people be amazed at simple and mundane but outside their normal lives things :-)
whats that noise.... oh it's wind... in corn... sigh...
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I loved watching them go nuts over a caterpillar. I kept one like that as a pet once.
OrigamiMarie
yeah becuase corn is 2 feet and has no corn on it
It's so nice of you to make the eclipse for 100,000 subscribers!!
(but really, congrats!)
14:53 - At normal speed I thought that looked like a hug, confirmed it at 0.25x :)
One of the lovely things to come out of this whole eclipse event has been people sharing the experience, both far (as here) and near (as in your hug).
did anyone else mishear Tom say 'I thought I was going to get defeated by clowns again' at 10:36? I thought he was about to open up about his childhood memory of some unfortunate incident with violent clowns haha. Maybe he could work it into a sponsor spot for that movie 'It'...
Coming from 6 years later, the eclipse in 2024 is currently blocked by clouds for me.
Real shame. Honestly, it'd be worth it to travel to see the next one. If you're into this stuff, it's incredible!
@@SSruh It went over where I Iive, but the clouds also arrived at the same time.
i love how stunned you both are by the caterpillar
It's one thing to know, intellectually, the exact reason why the sky is going dark. But it's quite another to actually experience it, and have your brain go /tilt!/ as the world you're standing in no longer matches with a lifetime of expectations, as you notice things you generally take for granted -- like shadows, and the insects going quiet.
And also a reminder that we will in a really big cosmos.
So I'm going to echo others' comments -- thanks for the ambience montage.
Everyone was so excited to see it here in the US. As a kid, I saw a full eclipse in England from the top of an open double decker bus...
The hug at the end. Aww
6:08 At this exact point, Matt was really hoping that Tom is a time traveller from 2045.
I'm genuinely laughing out of joy for Tom right now. And that's coming from someone who's usually stone cold when movies try to make you all warm and fuzzy or super-sad with certain scenes.
I should say, this is the best video I've ever seen on capturing the experience of watching an eclipse. With the only exception being that there was more people around me when we watched it, it pretty much nailed my thoughts on what was going on.
It's nice to see Tom so happy
This was very impressive- congrats on moving the moon so accurately
IMO, the most beautiful way of seeing the eclipse is near the trees, shadows are so pretty.
10:10 for someone who has never seen an eclipse, partial or total, this is absolutely beautiful.
It makes me wanna go to the U.S
Latitude - America
Longitude - Corn field that is very hot
This almost became "two British men forget to look at the sun due to insect interference. next on Monty Python..." Has anyone ever figured out if you can do a cosmic scale double slit experiment using "bill bailey's balls" as the slits and the Earth as the screen?
schadenfreudebuddha Is that what shadow bands (aka. shadow snakes) are? Matt and Tom didn't even look at the ground when they happened.
You'd need a light wave with a wavelength on the order of the size of the moon... which doesn't really exist.
XtremeGoose It can theoretically exist, but you'd need a sensor as big as the moon to detect it.
It's a possibility, but it is more likely to be atmospheric disturbance - the same thing that makes stars twinkle. It shows up as the apparent size of the light source drops back to a slit, then a dot - the same reason why apparently small stars twinkly, but planets with a larger apparent size don't.
I was in Cornwall for the UK one. There was cloud up until about 3 minutes before the eclipse when a small break opened up just around the sun and we got to see it. Then cloud the rest of the day. It was amazing.
Totally sympathize with Tom's nervousness there. I went to see that eclipse in Charleston, SC (because the airport was right in the path of the totality), saw most of it, and then clouds moved in just a couple of minutes before totality. I couldn't help it, I was SO disappointed.
Seeing Tom so happy about the eclipse also made me happy. ^^
you guys are awesome!!! I loved the looks around at everything but the sun!!
I'm incredibly envious. Where I live, we had 94% coverage. My kiddos and I have never seen a solar eclipse, and totality was going to happen only 3 hours south of us. We REALLY wanted to see it, so I planned on driving them down there. As it turns out, 2 days before the eclipse, I found out that my new job scheduled meetings for that day and I wasn't going to be able to take them. We were so upset and my 13 year old was in tears. Que the superhero hubby who said he would take off work and drive them down. While I was super bummed I wasn't going to be able to go, I figured at least I'd see 94%, which was better than nothing. No joke, at 11:30 am, right when the eclipse was supposed to start, a MASSIVE storm rolled in; wind, rain downpour, 100% cloud coverage, hail, lightening, non-stop rolling thunder, the works. It lasted almost 2 hours and just before 2 pm, right after the eclipse was going to be fully past, the skies cleared. On the upside, my hubby and kids had a perfect, clear, unobstructed view of the whole thing. I'm still currently equally parts ecstatic that they got to see it, and heartbroken that I didn't get to see even a hint of it.
Major bummer! I really hope you can get to see one in the future.
Your enthusiasm was priceless. Really made my day. I had the same reaction. My brother and I traveled about 50 miles to the GA/SC border to watch it from the parking lot of a Taco Bell.
The caterpillar was a wooly bear. The adult form is the Isabella Tiger Moth. It's common to the entire continent.
10:06 LOOK AROUND LOOK AROUND HOW LUCKY WE ARE TO BE ALIVE ROGHT NOW
I live very close to where Matt and Tom filmed this and it was absolutely magical.
So cool you guys went to a place with no other people. Gives it a whole new experience.
Thank you to both of you and both of your passions for the eclipse in this 7 year old video. Because I remember this video and had seen it back then, I had the enthusiasm to get to a better location for 3+ minutes of totality yesterday. Many thanks to you guys, without this video, I may not have seen totality at all yesterday. Was a mind-blowing experience (and like another commenter said, I also inherited Tom's cloud anxiety)
Seeing Tom so unreservedly happy is just great
Watching you experience american nature is one of the funniest things I have ever seen. "OH MY GOD, is that a ... CATERPILLAR?!?!?!?!?!?"
Tom's giddy jumping shouts of joy are wonderful
I just started watching the video about Mad Cap'n Tom, and BOOM! New Video
My guess is they were probably in Nebraska, which itself is the middle of nowhere. But the thing I liked most about the video was the fact that they decided to just go out to a random spot in the middle of America and watch the eclipse there. I think the seclusion and lack of human activity enhanced the experience and it made me really happy
I like how excited tom got
The best eclipse video I've seen so far.
Genuinely the best video on this channel. Well done, guys!
The absence of other people in this video is very heartening; hopefully this means that you didn't have an 11-hour, 250 mile drive back to civilization like I did.
Seeing you guys absolutely fascinated by little things I grew up with like wind in the corn and wooly worms is absolutely delightful!
I can't...this video is so wholesome and exciting! I loved the genuine reactions!
I mean can you expect any less it's Tom Scott!!
Oh my god, I actually live in Cairns right now and back then, when Tom was talking about the clouds over the Eclipse i was there as well. I know the exact location too because when we were there we the clouds were covering 95% of the eclipse and if we moved down the beach to the next area we could have seen it. I totally forgot about that, just to think i could've met Tom if i had known of him sooner. Damn.
watching tom be so excited was so adorable.
Very happy for you both for reaching 100K - genuinely one of my favourite channels on this social media platform. I loved the video!
I remember the eclipse when I was a kid, looking through my dads welding helmet lens. I wish that I had a camera back then because everything went blue on totality across the whole industrial site. I have also seen the eclipse in Canada and upon looking at the ground I witnessed crescent shapes, like little moons. Both were experiences I shall never forget.
I scrolled a long way through the comments to find no reference of it, so I am:
Tom, you got a laugh out of me from "Bee-52".
Such a wholesome video. :)
10:01-10:03: Tom's reaction is super adorable!
Genuinely, my friend in America, I think it was Denver he was living in at the time. He and his Mrs was trying for a baby and they timed the vital moment at totality. There daughter, Solar was born 9 months later
Tom's excitement is so adorable. I can confidently say I would be exactly the same.
I spent some time of my life watching 2 guys looking at an eclipse
worth it
Tom is having a religious experience.
Mat and Tom gaff about running away from a bee. Also an eclipse I guess
yay this made me so happy!!! its been about 12 hours since the eclipse happened in america and ive been here in singapore sad about missing it. you finally recreated how i wouldve been. thank u!!!
I'm so happy for you Tom
I'm so glad that my flight home from the US got unexpectedly delayed by 3 hours that day and I ended up being on the ground rather than boarding a plane at the time of the eclipse! As someone who had never seen it before, I can totally empathise with Tom's excitement here.
I love that the video discussing the results of the game has 6x the views of this one
I know I shouldn't laugh, but Tom getting Eclipse anxiety is almost comedic
Congratulations on 100.000 Subs! And Congrats for seeing that total eclipse. I've only seen one so far and I've been to young to appreciate it...
Thumbs up for that level of enthusiasm.
The eclipse was awesome but that line "Bill Bailey's Balls", I almost died
i am so glad that i was able to experience this eclipse vicariously through you two. Tom's reaction was pretty much what I'd have done
I love the Matt talking Tom down is so cute..
What might've also been weird is that the shadows are much sharper than usual, as the sun is so much narrower.
So, I live directly in the path of Totality, and I was defeated by clouds. Not only did I not to see Totality, I didn't get to see anything because it was overcast. It got dark, and there was a little bit of a sunset on every horizon, but I saw nothing. I feel your pain Tom. Now it is my life goal to see the Totality of an Eclipse, because it was robbed from me.