Big thanks to Atomic Shrimp's mysterious anonymous friend for helping out with this incredible science project. And as they would say on Mythbusters... Myth confirmed!
Cheers, I can imagine making this was tedious at times, but You somehow made nearly 2 hours worth of content about pebbles really fascinating. As always, it was a fascinating watch.
No idea how you do it, but an utterly captivating two-parter on....double checks..gravel..Was absolutely glued to the initial and the findings. Cue UA-cam's algorithm bombarding me with gravel videos now!
How were your legs after the Portland to Abbotsbury stretch? I did that 10 mile walk during lockdown with my dog, my legs hurt so bad I could've cut them off to stop the pain, and my dog couldn't stand up for 2 days... It was a walk of a lifetime, amazing day but one I will NEVER repeat again 🤣
I wonder if there may be ships logs somewhere that may mention this technique? In a historical repository? I think it's probably safe to guess that it was an actual technique. EDIT: In the US in the region we vacation in, the public rocky type parks and beaches along the great lakes allow 20 lbs of rocks to he collected per visit. This means whether it is one rock at 20 lbs, a bucket of pebbles at 20 lbs, or any combination of that. Over the hundreds of years people have probably been collecting, there is no dent perceivable in the amount of stones on the beaches, mostly because the waves bring more with every wave that reaches the beach.
And in breaking news, an elderly fisherman became lost on Chesil beach today. "Aye", related Jock McJockerson upon being rescued, "I dinno' what went wrong, but I scooped up a handful of pebbles as I normally do to assess my location and the sizes just didn't make sense . I cannae account for it! How on Earth did these odd size pebbles get here?". More on this story at 7:00pm...
Of course he was lost - not to stereotype people, but judging from his name and accent, he’s from Scotland, the other end of the country from Dorset! If you can find clips of the singer/songwriter and Dorset native, PJ Harvey reading from her book Orlam, that is written in the local dialect.
So much maths, my head almost exploded. My initial thought with old sayings is, why would someone spontaneously make up such a saying? People do just make up stuff, fiction is wonderful, but it really bothers me that so much of science ignores the oral lore. Thank you for this lovely science project; maybe there are other old sayings you can delve into. Have a wonderful weekend
Anyone who has worked on older bikes a lot can probably discern by eye whether a ball bearing is 1/8" or 5/32". It's totally plausible that a sailor would be able to get a fair gauge of the gravel size.
Can't decide what's more exciting - getting measurements in whales, buses and olympic sized swimming pools, or, Randall Munroe's What If getting a shout out (also, everyone should read the xkcd webcomic).
Brilliant use of ElReg Standards Bureau units (The Register, a (formerly) UK IT red top paper). Also a nice use of (at least in part) a Fermi problem (which is of course Randall Munroe's stick).
Projects such as this would've made it much more interesting and motivating for me to learn maths, chemistry, geology, biology (natural sciences I guess) in school. Harness the inherent curiosity in children and give them the framework and tools with which to find answers. Instead, it was just a bunch of memorising things that didn't feel connected to anything in my everyday life. I went to school in the 90s, and I hope the methods have changed from back then. As for me, I keep learning new things every day, because I'm curious and want to know why and how. I learn a lot watching this channel!
Fascinating! Brilliant to see the science pay off. Does anyone remember that 90s TV show "You Bet"? I can imagine this being one of the challenges on that.
BTW, that's a BEAUTIFUL hat, and it also looks very functional(!!!). This is from a genetic Brit, a native Californian, and a lifelong hat wearer. Take it from me.
absolutely love this video and it's predecessor!! i would love any more mythbuster-esque/sciencey ideas you've got like this, keep it up! thank you for your amazing stuff 🙏
Nicely done. If you didn't already know you could tell this is british in the first 10 seconds just from the mix of units 10 miles 500 metre intervals. Glad you used SI units for the science.
"What if everyone who visits takes a stone?" -- as you saw with the stones in your boots, that might already be close to what happens on average, even without anyone pocketing any on purpose.
Probably the only guy on the northern hemisphere that can make pebbles interesting. Geology, statistics and math in one go. Best youtube channel ever ❤
I'm not suprised... I quite like trying to find Baltic amber and have had moderate success/failure! Lol... as a coastal person I observe and am aware of the vagaries of sea waves/tides and effects. When abroad I try to use my knowledge, but always try to garner local knowledge of rip tides and hazards, but rocks/pebbles give clues - like trees and moss do on land. I once brought back a chunk of dead coral from the caribbean... illegal, but I had to weigh my suitcase as I'd given away most of its outwards contents 😮
I did wonder if the rule existed because of the potential harm that could be caused, or if (excuse the cynicism) there is some local company that has an exclusive license to collect and sell the gravel, it can be damn expensive if it's a fairly unique variety. I wonder if, in identifying the location, you could also take a photo of a sample, bring it into photoshop and average the colour, then compare it to a set of reference swatches.
This may-well be THE most insane video I have ever seen on You-Tube. (Of course, I am sure there are more insane ones but I haven't seen those). Luckily, it is also one of the most wonderful, too. The level of academic rigour is very impressive. However, to discover the inner-yumminess of the Chesil-Spit is even more impressive. You should be promoted to a Radio-Active Lobster! Thank you.
If you'd told me ten years ago that I would have been looking forward to sitting down and watching a part 2 on a gravel survey on a Friday evening, I'd .... well .... anyway, here we are! Lovely stuff!
It's so nice to watch a channel that does not try to sell me things or tell me that I cannot live 'without this new product'. To follow an enquiring mind go with the flow and explore just for the sake of exploration, clarity and knowledge is a super way to relax and forget the worries of the world. I am just sorry that I can only 'like your video' once - so please have a few more: 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
This is the epitome of your unique style Mike. Fantastic! Loved every minute of it. Please ignore anyone who starts suggesting counting and measuring grains of sand on Praia do Cassino, Brazil because I'm not sure your legs could take it! Thanks also to your friend for the invaluble role of chief note taker and moral support
Fascinating, and I'm glad you did it. Hopefully being very clear you returned your pebbles soothes any feathers ruffled; it was temporary and for science.
My dad grew up on a farm inland from Abbotsbury during the war, then went on to be an Oxford Don and then Member of the Royal Society. Often on visits to my grandmother in Weymouth he'd tell us about the stone size grading - didn't hear the fisherman part, but possibly he elided that. It was just a fact!
I think that you are confusing how many stones are *on* the beach with how many stones are *in* the beach. That's the only way I can explain the vastly different estimates.
Well, that's been a bloomin' long week waiting for part two. I really was engrossed by part one, and now I'm going to get my cuppa and have an extremely enjoyable time watching part two. Thanks so much...I wish school had been this absorbing. 😊
You could be totally responsible for any shipwrecks going forward 😲 Was fascinating to watch the videos and see the results. I hope you feel a sense of achievement. Well done
This is purely conjecture (obviously) but I imagine it wouldn't have been too hard for ancient sailors to come up with a kind of gravel gauge- I'm picturing a wooden grating with differently sized spaces between the bars, something you could set a handful or two of gravel on, give it a shake and see where they fall through. It probably wouldn't be super precise, but given your results with modern tools were accurate to the degree they were, the grating wouldn't HAVE to be super precise, as long as it's better than looking at a handful and guessing.
I so want to think of some poor unfortunate being storm swept on to the beach, picking up a handful of gravel, and being confused because the returned gravel was in the wrong part of the beach. And cursing their modern day GPS for landing them in the wrong place. I know I have a very twisted sense of humour. Love the video.
I am finding the makeup of the variations you've noted on that beach SO interesting. I'd also love to know the reason for the rocks ending up resembling bean shapes. I have no doubt that the sailor's story is real.
What an interesting experiment, and very cool video, especially the calculation of the potential impact on the beach by pebble-collectors at the end and the well-made argument that, despite the impact seeming negligable, there's still good reason for not allowing any collection because it would surely get out of hands. Peak Shrimp, love it ❤
One thing to consider is what the goal of the fisherman was. Most likely, they had a destination in mind and just needed to know whether it would be better to walk there or shove off and row there, and a guess that's just within a couple km of reality is good enough to support that. Perhaps an alternative scenario is needing to know which end is closer, in order to find shelter as fast as possible, in which case big or small gravel is enough and anything in the middle means either shelter under your boat or launch back out and row a couple miles. You don't need 1m accuracy for this, you just need good-enough, and clearly eyeballing the gravel is good enough.
SO inconsiderate of you to dump the stones at a random place! What if a sailor washes up there, picks up your handful and completely misjudges where they are?! Jokes aside, if you take the logarithm of the measurements you plotted (such as the bounding cuboid or the count) except the last two sampling locations, you get a linear relationship with a correlation of 0.99, which is amazing. I don't think there is any characteristic of the stones that correlates with the logarithm, so it means that when using the size or count, it's much harder to distinguish your position along the start of the beach compared to at the end. But I'm sure the sailors could be aware that the sizes change more slowly at the start compared to at the end and factor it in their estimates.
I was never an avid maths person but this was fascinating. Some people may ask why you went to the trouble to find out but I know you would say why not. Again Mr shrimp what ever you are making a video on its enjoyable, informative and has the odd bit of humour that has me chuckling. Rest your blisters and thank you.
You learned a great deal in one afternoon to judge by just looking. Very comprehensive. You covered it all, pretty much. If the stones had an actual construction purpose they would have been carted off long ago.
This reminds me of Mark twains biography of his years as a mississippi pilot and the various aids to navigation they would use including taking samples of the silt on the bottom of the river.
Brilliant stuff and a genuinely interesting result - a testament to the planning, patience, attention to detail and application of the scientific method (and not forgetting the important role played by your unseen friend). A 1% error was a jawdropping result. Made a video about pebbles and gravel utterly enthralling. Great work 👏
I anticipated that and considered taking a spirit level, however on testing the scales on the tray, I found that it is necessary to tilt it quite significantly before the reading is different, so I didn't bother.
make each stone worth a pound and we could clear our national debt and still have half a beach left,however if they were worth a dollar it would take 7 beaches to clear the us national debt
this might not be connected to the contents of the video, but i got a question for you Because you seem like someone, who could be into geocaching. i don't quite know why but i just wanted to ask if yor are interested in that kind of hobby? [and maybe would consider it as a video topic?]
I must have missed the part where you said why fishermen would care what part of the beach they landed on. At one point you say, placing yourself in the position of a fisherman: "sorry boys, we're in the wrong place". What is the right place and why?
The beach is separated from the mainland for 10 miles. Landing on the beach in some unspecified location is no use if you want to get off the beach onto land.
I guess it is mostly useful if it is occasionally raining or gets foggy in the UK 😉 I am from Denmark, but you video made me want to visit chesil beach.
i had a dream last night that you announced that the only videos you liked making on this channel was "slow TV" and so you would be quitting youtube and just living your life and then every so often uploading a "Slow TV" video when you found a nice spot to do so and everyone was very sad about it this was a very interesting video though glad your not leaving the platform yet XD
So now you have me thinking... if the statistic you question of stones being in the value stated online could they have ignored the changing sizes along the length, and hence can you from your own calculations pinpoint from where on the beach a sample was likely taken to extrapolate that incorrect calculation?
@AtomicShrimp sorry, badly put. The google statistic of 180 billion. Could you achieve a similar calculated figure based on any specific point from your own samples?
@@anonuser9367 Ohhh, I get it. No - I think even if we took the large cobbles at the Portland end, and assumed the whole beach is made of those (and assuming my volume calculations are not wildly wrong), there would still be way more than 180 billion.
I think it would be interesting to sample at much higher resolution, to see if those anomalies are local blips or if the lines joining the dots really are gradients
@@AtomicShrimp if I weren’t an ocean away, I’d be inclined to help find out! On a different note, I wonder if anyone from whatever council or government entity manages the beach has watched this mini-series
He talked about it in some scambaiting video as FAQ, I think it was "no, and there is probably little chance of that, especially specifically in this type of scam"
Big thanks to Atomic Shrimp's mysterious anonymous friend for helping out with this incredible science project. And as they would say on Mythbusters... Myth confirmed!
Came to the comments to say the same thing! Unsung hero
Mr. Fantastik
Without him, none of this would have been possible. Unless AS has another friend.
@@festivitycat what's the chances of that? ;-)
I absolutely love your passion and the care that you put into every video!
This is jaw-dropping stuff throughout - thank you so much Mr Shrimp for your adventures!
Cheers, I can imagine making this was tedious at times, but You somehow made nearly 2 hours worth of content about pebbles really fascinating.
As always, it was a fascinating watch.
No idea how you do it, but an utterly captivating two-parter on....double checks..gravel..Was absolutely glued to the initial and the findings. Cue UA-cam's algorithm bombarding me with gravel videos now!
How were your legs after the Portland to Abbotsbury stretch? I did that 10 mile walk during lockdown with my dog, my legs hurt so bad I could've cut them off to stop the pain, and my dog couldn't stand up for 2 days... It was a walk of a lifetime, amazing day but one I will NEVER repeat again 🤣
I wonder if there may be ships logs somewhere that may mention this technique? In a historical repository? I think it's probably safe to guess that it was an actual technique.
EDIT: In the US in the region we vacation in, the public rocky type parks and beaches along the great lakes allow 20 lbs of rocks to he collected per visit. This means whether it is one rock at 20 lbs, a bucket of pebbles at 20 lbs, or any combination of that. Over the hundreds of years people have probably been collecting, there is no dent perceivable in the amount of stones on the beaches, mostly because the waves bring more with every wave that reaches the beach.
Good grief! This is complicated. I might have to watch it again at half speed! Love you dude! XXX
I literally clapped when I saw the thumbnail. Punderful!
And in breaking news, an elderly fisherman became lost on Chesil beach today. "Aye", related Jock McJockerson upon being rescued, "I dinno' what went wrong, but I scooped up a handful of pebbles as I normally do to assess my location and the sizes just didn't make sense . I cannae account for it! How on Earth did these odd size pebbles get here?". More on this story at 7:00pm...
Gravel Positioning System?
Get Pranked Son!
Of course he was lost - not to stereotype people, but judging from his name and accent, he’s from Scotland, the other end of the country from Dorset!
If you can find clips of the singer/songwriter and Dorset native, PJ Harvey reading from her book Orlam, that is written in the local dialect.
This is absolutely amazing. I really think you should write it up into a proper scientific paper and submit it to one of those fancy journals.
love the mythbusters vibe
Dear Mr. Shrimp. Please go and put the stones you set free back in their original places or you will be fined. Love from Dorset Council.
Good Job Mr. Shrimp, I love a good statistical analysis.
So much maths, my head almost exploded. My initial thought with old sayings is, why would someone spontaneously make up such a saying? People do just make up stuff, fiction is wonderful, but it really bothers me that so much of science ignores the oral lore. Thank you for this lovely science project; maybe there are other old sayings you can delve into. Have a wonderful weekend
Anyone who has worked on older bikes a lot can probably discern by eye whether a ball bearing is 1/8" or 5/32". It's totally plausible that a sailor would be able to get a fair gauge of the gravel size.
Wow super interesting results! Well done!
You Sir, are a Legend of the Geekiest Order!
Can't decide what's more exciting - getting measurements in whales, buses and olympic sized swimming pools, or, Randall Munroe's What If getting a shout out (also, everyone should read the xkcd webcomic).
Brilliant use of ElReg Standards Bureau units (The Register, a (formerly) UK IT red top paper).
Also a nice use of (at least in part) a Fermi problem (which is of course Randall Munroe's stick).
Projects such as this would've made it much more interesting and motivating for me to learn maths, chemistry, geology, biology (natural sciences I guess) in school. Harness the inherent curiosity in children and give them the framework and tools with which to find answers. Instead, it was just a bunch of memorising things that didn't feel connected to anything in my everyday life. I went to school in the 90s, and I hope the methods have changed from back then. As for me, I keep learning new things every day, because I'm curious and want to know why and how. I learn a lot watching this channel!
Unofficial spoiler blocker
Fascinating! Brilliant to see the science pay off.
Does anyone remember that 90s TV show "You Bet"? I can imagine this being one of the challenges on that.
I hear a reboot is in the works for later this year.
BTW, that's a BEAUTIFUL hat, and it also looks very functional(!!!). This is from a genetic Brit, a native Californian, and a lifelong hat wearer. Take it from me.
You kept one stone didn't you?
Nope. Not even one.
absolutely love this video and it's predecessor!! i would love any more mythbuster-esque/sciencey ideas you've got like this, keep it up! thank you for your amazing stuff 🙏
And that, Ladies and Gentlemen, is how the shrimp mind works. Welcome aboard.
Nicely done.
If you didn't already know you could tell this is british in the first 10 seconds just from the mix of units 10 miles 500 metre intervals.
Glad you used SI units for the science.
"What if everyone who visits takes a stone?" -- as you saw with the stones in your boots, that might already be close to what happens on average, even without anyone pocketing any on purpose.
So cool!
As a scientist i loved the two videos!
And its not only a result, but a cool result 😍... And that you not always get as a scientist
Probably the only guy on the northern hemisphere that can make pebbles interesting. Geology, statistics and math in one go.
Best youtube channel ever ❤
Next weeks episode is 3 meals on a prison budget 🤣
Must include the infamous lasagna pie.
For fun, try plotting the data on a semi-log plot (that is plot the y axis logarithmically)
Ha! My thoughts exactly!
there might be a power law (ok, I'm kidding)
@@johanneswerner1140I’m not!
MMMMM...... Pebble nougat....
Nicely done!
I'm not suprised... I quite like trying to find Baltic amber and have had moderate success/failure! Lol... as a coastal person I observe and am aware of the vagaries of sea waves/tides and effects. When abroad I try to use my knowledge, but always try to garner local knowledge of rip tides and hazards, but rocks/pebbles give clues - like trees and moss do on land. I once brought back a chunk of dead coral from the caribbean... illegal, but I had to weigh my suitcase as I'd given away most of its outwards contents 😮
Wow Mr Shrimp leaves me again in awe with his incredible ability to produce a wide variety of interesting subjects.
I did wonder if the rule existed because of the potential harm that could be caused, or if (excuse the cynicism) there is some local company that has an exclusive license to collect and sell the gravel, it can be damn expensive if it's a fairly unique variety.
I wonder if, in identifying the location, you could also take a photo of a sample, bring it into photoshop and average the colour, then compare it to a set of reference swatches.
This may-well be THE most insane video I have ever seen on You-Tube. (Of course, I am sure there are more insane ones but I haven't seen those). Luckily, it is also one of the most wonderful, too. The level of academic rigour is very impressive. However, to discover the inner-yumminess of the Chesil-Spit is even more impressive. You should be promoted to a Radio-Active Lobster! Thank you.
If you'd told me ten years ago that I would have been looking forward to sitting down and watching a part 2 on a gravel survey on a Friday evening, I'd .... well .... anyway, here we are! Lovely stuff!
It's so nice to watch a channel that does not try to sell me things or tell me that I cannot live 'without this new product'. To follow an enquiring mind go with the flow and explore just for the sake of exploration, clarity and knowledge is a super way to relax and forget the worries of the world.
I am just sorry that I can only 'like your video' once - so please have a few more:
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Mike just messed up the next guy that decides to do a 33 stop, 10 hour survey of the rock sizes on this beach. Sheesh
This is the epitome of your unique style Mike. Fantastic! Loved every minute of it. Please ignore anyone who starts suggesting counting and measuring grains of sand on Praia do Cassino, Brazil because I'm not sure your legs could take it! Thanks also to your friend for the invaluble role of chief note taker and moral support
Fascinating, and I'm glad you did it. Hopefully being very clear you returned your pebbles soothes any feathers ruffled; it was temporary and for science.
I've been waiting for this all week, and it was as satisfying as I expected, thanks Shrimp and your anonymous friend for doing the leg work!
My dad grew up on a farm inland from Abbotsbury during the war, then went on to be an Oxford Don and then Member of the Royal Society.
Often on visits to my grandmother in Weymouth he'd tell us about the stone size grading - didn't hear the fisherman part, but possibly he elided that.
It was just a fact!
Wow Mike, just wow. You are unbelievable and I absolutely LOVE your channel. Thank you 👍👌👏
I think that you are confusing how many stones are *on* the beach with how many stones are *in* the beach. That's the only way I can explain the vastly different estimates.
I'm only about 10 minutes in but this cooking challenge involving 1000 pebbles isn't exciting my tastebuds yet!
Well, that's been a bloomin' long week waiting for part two. I really was engrossed by part one, and now I'm going to get my cuppa and have an extremely enjoyable time watching part two. Thanks so much...I wish school had been this absorbing. 😊
This is what UA-cam was all about and still is, thanks Mike.
Each day that passes we will lose this more, I'm just glad I'm here now 👊
Imagine the anomalies in the data were caused by people taking samples in the past then returning the pebbles 😂
You could be totally responsible for any shipwrecks going forward 😲
Was fascinating to watch the videos and see the results. I hope you feel a sense of achievement. Well done
This is purely conjecture (obviously) but I imagine it wouldn't have been too hard for ancient sailors to come up with a kind of gravel gauge- I'm picturing a wooden grating with differently sized spaces between the bars, something you could set a handful or two of gravel on, give it a shake and see where they fall through. It probably wouldn't be super precise, but given your results with modern tools were accurate to the degree they were, the grating wouldn't HAVE to be super precise, as long as it's better than looking at a handful and guessing.
Have i been eagerly awaiting a pebble spreadsheet? Yes, yes i have. Only Atomic Shrimp can provide such gold.
I so want to think of some poor unfortunate being storm swept on to the beach, picking up a handful of gravel, and being confused because the returned gravel was in the wrong part of the beach. And cursing their modern day GPS for landing them in the wrong place.
I know I have a very twisted sense of humour.
Love the video.
It is a shame we can not hit the lie button more than once. What an absolute gem. Shame normal TV is not like this. Job well done Atomic Shrimp!! 👏
Wow a very interesting results & thanks for sharing Atomic shrimp 🦐😊👍
I am finding the makeup of the variations you've noted on that beach SO interesting. I'd also love to know the reason for the rocks ending up resembling bean shapes. I have no doubt that the sailor's story is real.
What an interesting experiment, and very cool video, especially the calculation of the potential impact on the beach by pebble-collectors at the end and the well-made argument that, despite the impact seeming negligable, there's still good reason for not allowing any collection because it would surely get out of hands. Peak Shrimp, love it ❤
I’ve been waiting for this. I can’t think why, but I found it fascinating. Thanks xx
One thing to consider is what the goal of the fisherman was. Most likely, they had a destination in mind and just needed to know whether it would be better to walk there or shove off and row there, and a guess that's just within a couple km of reality is good enough to support that. Perhaps an alternative scenario is needing to know which end is closer, in order to find shelter as fast as possible, in which case big or small gravel is enough and anything in the middle means either shelter under your boat or launch back out and row a couple miles.
You don't need 1m accuracy for this, you just need good-enough, and clearly eyeballing the gravel is good enough.
SO inconsiderate of you to dump the stones at a random place! What if a sailor washes up there, picks up your handful and completely misjudges where they are?!
Jokes aside, if you take the logarithm of the measurements you plotted (such as the bounding cuboid or the count) except the last two sampling locations, you get a linear relationship with a correlation of 0.99, which is amazing. I don't think there is any characteristic of the stones that correlates with the logarithm, so it means that when using the size or count, it's much harder to distinguish your position along the start of the beach compared to at the end. But I'm sure the sailors could be aware that the sizes change more slowly at the start compared to at the end and factor it in their estimates.
I was never an avid maths person but this was fascinating. Some people may ask why you went to the trouble to find out but I know you would say why not. Again Mr shrimp what ever you are making a video on its enjoyable, informative and has the odd bit of humour that has me chuckling. Rest your blisters and thank you.
You learned a great deal in one afternoon to judge by just looking. Very comprehensive. You covered it all, pretty much. If the stones had an actual construction purpose they would have been carted off long ago.
GPS .. well played! probably a bit more resistant to recent large scale jamming as well!)
This reminds me of Mark twains biography of his years as a mississippi pilot and the various aids to navigation they would use including taking samples of the silt on the bottom of the river.
You know at least one fisherman claimed Portland Island as one of his pebbles.
It were this big...
🤚 🧐 ✋
...between the eyes.
I can’t believe you returned all the samples to one spot potentially confusing a future lost fisherman!
what a fantastic video. i love rocks and science. thank you mr shrimp
Brilliant stuff and a genuinely interesting result - a testament to the planning, patience, attention to detail and application of the scientific method (and not forgetting the important role played by your unseen friend). A 1% error was a jawdropping result. Made a video about pebbles and gravel utterly enthralling. Great work 👏
You mixed up the stones. Fishermen will be lost forever now! 🤣
Unless you leveled that plastic tray every time,
Then ur data is inaccurate.
By a smidgen
I anticipated that and considered taking a spirit level, however on testing the scales on the tray, I found that it is necessary to tilt it quite significantly before the reading is different, so I didn't bother.
@AtomicShrimp
No,
Two speed levels.
Glue them on,
And buy them cheap....
@@meinkamph5327 Like I said, not necessary.
@@AtomicShrimp
I know...
But I have issues.
Ur videos are awesome.
Thank you
the pebble pattern and yourube did numbers to the video colors
Very satisfying. Great effort shrimp and co
I sometimes don’t think I’m intelligent enough for this channel but then you simplify it in the end 😂
make each stone worth a pound and we could clear our national debt and still have half a beach left,however if they were worth a dollar it would take 7 beaches to clear the us national debt
this might not be connected to the contents of the video, but i got a question for you
Because you seem like someone, who could be into geocaching. i don't quite know why but i just wanted to ask if yor are interested in that kind of hobby? [and maybe would consider it as a video topic?]
Very nice , well done. Keep up the good work . Thank you.
I can see this giving ideas for future Masters dissertations
Mr Shrimp, a man of integrity, I can respect that.
Soo packed with information.❤
Hardcore hardcore Hargreavesing. Approved
the math at the end is awesome. and the results are great.
Thank you, Shrimp.
I must have missed the part where you said why fishermen would care what part of the beach they landed on. At one point you say, placing yourself in the position of a fisherman: "sorry boys, we're in the wrong place". What is the right place and why?
The beach is separated from the mainland for 10 miles. Landing on the beach in some unspecified location is no use if you want to get off the beach onto land.
That's a lot of geology.
And I'm here for it. 😁
back for more gravel
I guess it is mostly useful if it is occasionally raining or gets foggy in the UK 😉
I am from Denmark, but you video made me want to visit chesil beach.
Fog is exceptionally common on this coastline, even in the summer
Thankyou
I LOVE GRAVEL
i had a dream last night that you announced that the only videos you liked making on this channel was "slow TV" and so you would be quitting youtube and just living your life and then every so often uploading a "Slow TV" video when you found a nice spot to do so
and everyone was very sad about it
this was a very interesting video though glad your not leaving the platform yet XD
#CitizenScience
27:44 Ok?
OK
So now you have me thinking... if the statistic you question of stones being in the value stated online could they have ignored the changing sizes along the length, and hence can you from your own calculations pinpoint from where on the beach a sample was likely taken to extrapolate that incorrect calculation?
I don't understand the question.
@AtomicShrimp sorry, badly put. The google statistic of 180 billion. Could you achieve a similar calculated figure based on any specific point from your own samples?
@@anonuser9367 Ohhh, I get it.
No - I think even if we took the large cobbles at the Portland end, and assumed the whole beach is made of those (and assuming my volume calculations are not wildly wrong), there would still be way more than 180 billion.
I love this citizen science. One thing I’d be interested to see: the number of anomalous samples, I suppose that would be the variability?
I think it would be interesting to sample at much higher resolution, to see if those anomalies are local blips or if the lines joining the dots really are gradients
@@AtomicShrimp if I weren’t an ocean away, I’d be inclined to help find out!
On a different note, I wonder if anyone from whatever council or government entity manages the beach has watched this mini-series
Am thinking the anomalies are to do with wave action, possibly influenced by underwater reef/rock formations
Have you come across any Ai scams
On the beach?
He talked about it in some scambaiting video as FAQ, I think it was "no, and there is probably little chance of that, especially specifically in this type of scam"
He did a recent vid on amazon AI written foraging books which fall into the scam category imo