Props to Joey who apparently managed to keep you perfectly in frame even though you seemed to stumble around a bit (presumably from hitting a few ice sheets here and there)!
I'm honestly amazed at how you manage to go to so many different places around the world, and manage to make so much great content to put up here on youtube. And within such a short timespan! You're great.
Will Steger actually lives in Minnesota, my homestate, where he has an ongoing wilderness center project including a five-story 100% sustainable "house" that is still being volunteer-built after decades. It's absolutely amazing, and I actually got to meet him and do some work on the site back in high school. Highly recommend checking it out if you ever find yourself in the vicinity of Ely MN.
Tom, how do you end up doing all these incredible things? Where do you get the opportunity to host robot battle shows and travel to the arctic and visit Bielefeld and so on?
He's been making quality content for years and gradually became known for that. This makes the owners/organisers of interesting places/events aware of his existence and gives him a sort of credibility that makes them more willing to invite him to film.
Tom, you have an unique way of talking to the camera, only few people have. It's amazing how you can do that, congrats! And also thanks for another amazing video. Cheers
I would assume he was on a moving boat going through ice which naturally should shake the boat around a little bit. If you're not focussed on the horizon and instead looking around and at a camera it is really easy to lose your balance.
Great video. I was wondering who was the camera person while you were catching yourself from falling as the ship heaved up and down over the ice. Good to know it was in good hands, and of course, the drone photography Ben Brown let you use from his shots with his drone made this video just fantastic. I've been watching you and Ben Brown for years and following you both on Twitter, now on Instagram, too. Thanks for the info about early explorers to the North Pole. I'm still not sure how far magnetic North Pole is from geographic North Pole, perhaps you have explained it somewhere, or will do so soon. Great vidoes ! Thanks
Hello Tom Scott! I am so glad I found you by searching random stuff, I found your computerphile videos and your one about the emoji keyboard. Its so amazing, and I look up to you and what you do because you want to work and have fun and teach people. Thank you!
I wouldn't think so, the ice probably cracks by itself from time to time and would probably freeze back together. I'm not sure though, it would be interesting if there was some measurable effect
Basically, the ice cap is very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very big and an icebreaker minuscule in comparison, so, no.
A few years ago I would have called Tyson the new Carl Sagan. But today it is clear that the person poised to carry that spirit forward is Chris Hadfield. He''s got his finger on the pulse of the next generation in their mediums.
What about the USS Skate in 1959, when it surfaced through the ice at the North Pole, and scattered the ashes of Sir George Hubert Wilkins, the Australian polar explorer and aviator?
Evidence that holds up to scrutiny. For example, you can claim that you made it to the north pole, but if your records say it took you 8 days to get there when all other expeditions took 14 to not get even as far, that would be suspect. Or if your recorded measurements seem off, numbers that wouldn't correspond with an expected path or that take too big of a jump. These are just some examples that i came up with off the top of my head, so they are likely much better reasons why they would look at the data as suspect.
The star tables record the positions of a number of stars and celestial objects including the Sun. So if you know the time of day and day and you know the position of the sun (the elevation basically) you should still be able to calculate from the tables and some trigonometry how much north you are.
If you'd go through every little test researches do to live there for 6 months (or whatever the time) and if you had enough money to pay for your stuff (and maybe a bit extra), you could still go there with reaaserches. I think.
although you can go there, i do think it is restricted mostly to scientists, and military. The main reasoning is to try to reduce human pollution and damage to the continent.
Prince Albert of Monaco made a North Pole visit a few years back and is shown in a photo standing there holding the GPS for proof, not that there was anything to mark the spot.
Hey Tom! I've been watching your videos for quite a long time. Just wanted to tell you how great they are. I'm pretty sure in a few years time you'll be doing something for the BBC. cheers!
Sadly, that stops working after a while. If I had done that when I was in Greenland during the summer, I'd have just walked around in big circles without any chance to sleep.
Interesting fact: The geographic poles are not red and white stripey barbers poles or lasers, they are geological size features. When your compass starts to spin, it isn't because you've reached the pole, you've only reached the edge of it.
That's pronounced Will StEEger (2:35), and don't leave out Paul Schurke or Ann Bancroft or the rest of the team. Their 1986 trip by dogsled was an amazing one!
I'm guessing that no one had reliably done it earlier because a lot of potential explorers had thought that someone had beaten them to it years or decades earlier.
You forgot to mention that north pole was also reached using submarines in 1959 (under ice) and 1962 (surfaced). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Skate_(SSN-578)
You said that with the sextant you could, by using the stars and some mathematics calculate the latitude, but how would you determine what your longitude is? Don't you need both the two of them?
You do some different maths (at noon, generally) involving the difference between local time and time at a reference location (these days the prime meridian at Greenwich). So you need a nice chronometer to go with your sextant to get both.
Tom, I have to know. How do you keep that information in your head and then manage to turn it around into a two or three minute story, accurately? I can't fathom doing that without a solid script and / or several takes!
If you "use the same technique as explorers centuries ago" are you expecting the same level of lost, lamed, and dead as was common among explorers centuries ago?
He was referring to using the same *navigational* technique. Obviously, if their GPS rolled over and died, they'd still have the rest of their modern survival gear.
I was wondering that too, either the auto-stabilization is doing a really good job or the cameraman is doing a great job not getting thrown around on a slick boat in heavy waves/wind while carrying a camera. Impressive! Maybe one of the crew . . .
I believe it was the Clarkson and May expedition.
RIP hammond
Clarkson and May went to the magnetic north pole, not the geographic north pole
It was UGG, the caveman.
Agreed
Clarkson I know it's you! I'm on the bloody throne!
The fun thing about the top of the Noth Pole is that everywhere you look, you're looking to the south.!
unless you look up.
You guys got me!!
up
That's the name of a movie...
Tobias TvdE
"where would someone be looking if they look up?"
not south.
“Alright that’s 3 minutes thanks lads, take me back now”
Props to Joey who apparently managed to keep you perfectly in frame even though you seemed to stumble around a bit (presumably from hitting a few ice sheets here and there)!
You can tell how damn cold it is because he's not wearing the red t-shirt.
daverapp it’s probably beneath the hoodie
The only place where your phone won't overheat with pokemon go
The Osmo was still making a whirring-fan noise, even in that temperature...
+Tom Scott do the South Pole next please!
H
Ah.. back when Pokémon go was a thing lmao
ah yes , but what about a Macbook??
Highly disappointed at the lack of a red shirt...
How do you know? I'm pretty sure he has one on underneath his jacket
Yeah, if it was too cold you could wear a larger one over the top of the coat.
Tofu burger
At least he is wearing the grey hoodie!
Look like he has a gray sweater underneath.
So this video is "you might not know that no one knows that..."
known unknowns are something nice to know about
You might not have known that a sextant was even a thing...
Djorgal kinda trhe but most people have seen treasure planet or at least pocahontas.
"Things humanity might not know"
I'm honestly amazed at how you manage to go to so many different places around the world, and manage to make so much great content to put up here on youtube. And within such a short timespan! You're great.
That's odd, I typed Icebreaker into google and got an advert for a red t-shirt...
I got a sniper
*’murica*
Will Steger actually lives in Minnesota, my homestate, where he has an ongoing wilderness center project including a five-story 100% sustainable "house" that is still being volunteer-built after decades. It's absolutely amazing, and I actually got to meet him and do some work on the site back in high school. Highly recommend checking it out if you ever find yourself in the vicinity of Ely MN.
I could watch that Icebreaker move for hours... its an amazing piece of machinery. beautiful to watch. great video
Tom, how do you end up doing all these incredible things? Where do you get the opportunity to host robot battle shows and travel to the arctic and visit Bielefeld and so on?
Money
Fame, money and relationships I would say. Oh and of course his incredible sense for adventure and his search for new ones.
@@seancpp Money doesnt get you into Bielefeld.
@@slyseal2091 getting into bielefeld needs a lot of imagination.
He's been making quality content for years and gradually became known for that. This makes the owners/organisers of interesting places/events aware of his existence and gives him a sort of credibility that makes them more willing to invite him to film.
Tom, you have an unique way of talking to the camera, only few people have. It's amazing how you can do that, congrats! And also thanks for another amazing video. Cheers
Very interesting stuff! By the way, why did you keep losing your balance? Was it the wind, was the deck slippery?
I would assume he was on a moving boat going through ice which naturally should shake the boat around a little bit. If you're not focussed on the horizon and instead looking around and at a camera it is really easy to lose your balance.
If you look closely you can see the deck is wet. Which means it could even be icy. But it's definitely wet.
We kept hitting, and breaking, ice -- and even though the boat wins, that's still a lot of mass colliding. The boat kept shaking!
+Tom Scott will you go to the South Pole next?
But there are in the south pole which is what he was likely referring to..
This is so incredibly cool! Your arctic adventure is amazing! Thanks for the video!! :D
Thor Heyerdahl just arrived in his fantastic little boat.
Kon Tiki!
Amazing sound quality and camera tracking given that wind
Give this man a TV show already!!! wait, no, I hate TV. Tom, please keep on giving us these great pieces we can watch anytime we want.
I liked before I watched, i like to live on the edge, Ladies
ok?
Sure but have you ever been to the north pole?
My dislike negates your like. :)
+M3NO451 Peasant.
Or you can get there by Hilux
Top gear!
with toy jesus giving inspirational speeches
Or toilet strap on the rear bumper of your hilux pickup truck 😂
Except Hammond, Clarkson and May only drove and sledded to the magnetic pole, which is vastly easier to get to than the proper geographic pole.
With a considerable amount of alcohol. Remember, because they're in international waters there's no drink driving laws...
I've never seen a building on a boat before. I find that combination very intriguing.
Great video. I was wondering who was the camera person while you were catching yourself from falling as the ship heaved up and down over the ice. Good to know it was in good hands, and of course, the drone photography Ben Brown let you use from his shots with his drone made this video just fantastic. I've been watching you and Ben Brown for years and following you both on Twitter, now on Instagram, too. Thanks for the info about early explorers to the North Pole. I'm still not sure how far magnetic North Pole is from geographic North Pole, perhaps you have explained it somewhere, or will do so soon.
Great vidoes ! Thanks
"On this episode of 'Things No One Knows...'"
I want to see how Horlicks is made, because its something I don't know.
Who knows how long on an ship for a 3 minute video on the North Pole! Now that's dedication!
Please more did you know videos! Love them! Great filming and cutting by the way!
Fascinating! Thanks Tom, very informative.
1. Was the shot at 0:07 a drone or a helicopter?
2. I swear for a second I thought it said Tesco on the side of the icebreaker.
I think it was a drone shot from ben brown
The drone shot was probably by Mr. Ben Brown. Check his vlogs out!
It does look like tesco they appear to have branched of so much that they now deliver to the north pole
Very nice drone filming. Good job staying on target!
Your ability to go everywhere is impressive.
I love your videos. Easily my favourite youtuber.
i seen randomly one of his videos and now i'm addicted :(
The fact they they were able to comfortably drive to the North Pole in top gear amazes me.
At 0:17 - I may be showing my ignorance of modern ships but WOW, _that bridge_
Hello Tom Scott! I am so glad I found you by searching random stuff, I found your computerphile videos and your one about the emoji keyboard. Its so amazing, and I look up to you and what you do because you want to work and have fun and teach people. Thank you!
Can't believe you don't have more views, great videos.
Ben brown showed me your channel tom, so much great content!
Wait is he uploading this videos from the Arctic? If so what a time to be alive
No, they got back last week.
No internet from an icebreaker in Arctic is low bandwidth email only. Norm from Tested.com said he got out one low res image per day via email.
Hm ok. so we have to wait a couple more years for 100k bandwidth on the north pole.
Still better internet than Australia
it looks like they should supply a sunstone or some other polarizing filter so you can use the sextant when its cloudy.
I always wondered if Ice Breakers cause any kind of lasting damage to those areas in terms of the ice caps
I wouldn't think so, the ice probably cracks by itself from time to time and would probably freeze back together. I'm not sure though, it would be interesting if there was some measurable effect
no
Basically, the ice cap is very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very big and an icebreaker minuscule in comparison, so, no.
A few years ago I would have called Tyson the new Carl Sagan. But today it is clear that the person poised to carry that spirit forward is Chris Hadfield. He''s got his finger on the pulse of the next generation in their mediums.
Santa Obviously!!
Lapland is quite a bit further south.....
In Lapland that would be Father Christmas of which Santa is just a pretender.
Holy crap you worked with the guys from Tested Tom!? I didn't see that one coming but damn that's cool!
He was also roommates with Chris Hadfield for the trip.
I think it's waaaay cooler that he roomed with Chris Hadfield for the trip!!! Sorry for the spoiler if you've not yet watched this weeks park bench!
I personally would geek out more about Norm than Chris but that's just not my field of interest so I can see why others would find Chris cooler.
Niels Schellekens Both are geek out worthy.
Matt's getting pretty good at using the camera gimbal thing, it used to be horrible a while back but now it's pretty good
Great video Tom.
USS Nautilus, 3 August 1958
What about the USS Skate in 1959, when it surfaced through the ice at the North Pole, and scattered the ashes of Sir George Hubert Wilkins, the Australian polar explorer and aviator?
what is considered convincing evidence?
I am 12, and that test is fake and gay.
Evidence that is convincing.
Evidence that holds up to scrutiny. For example, you can claim that you made it to the north pole, but if your records say it took you 8 days to get there when all other expeditions took 14 to not get even as far, that would be suspect. Or if your recorded measurements seem off, numbers that wouldn't correspond with an expected path or that take too big of a jump. These are just some examples that i came up with off the top of my head, so they are likely much better reasons why they would look at the data as suspect.
He said it very, very convincingly.
If he has at least 6 charisma.
Did you catch articuno while you were up there?
HOLD ON. how does a sextant help during a polar day?
The star tables record the positions of a number of stars and celestial objects including the Sun. So if you know the time of day and day and you know the position of the sun (the elevation basically) you should still be able to calculate from the tables and some trigonometry how much north you are.
The sun and the moon can still be sighted during daytime.
TIL you can see the sun during daytime.
this made my laugh heartily.
Are you sure? Have you ever been to Britain?
Those windows on the boat creep me out. It looks like there's people standing behind most of them, just staring...
Why would they be doing that? People don't have time for that.
Why don't you do a video on why travellers are not allowed to travel to the Antarctic?
what? no way!
If you'd go through every little test researches do to live there for 6 months (or whatever the time) and if you had enough money to pay for your stuff (and maybe a bit extra), you could still go there with reaaserches. I think.
Flatearth in 2k16 LUL
although you can go there, i do think it is restricted mostly to scientists, and military. The main reasoning is to try to reduce human pollution and damage to the continent.
Norwegian Børge Ousland crossed it on skis and with kite-power in 96/97.
Prince Albert of Monaco made a North Pole visit a few years back and is shown in a photo standing there holding the GPS for proof, not that there was anything to mark the spot.
Hey Tom!
I've been watching your videos for quite a long time. Just wanted to tell you how great they are. I'm pretty sure in a few years time you'll be doing something for the BBC.
cheers!
Did anyone else spot the guy barfing over the side in the background at about 2:25?
You need a polarizing sunstone to look through to make the sun more visible while overcast! :)
It was me.
So did anyone do anything before recording equipment if they didn't return with evidence?
On the E-3 AWACS, there is a port for a sextant, just in case both GPS systems fail...
How to reach the north pole:
1- wake at sunrise
2- put the sun to your right
3- start walking
Must be at the equator
Sadly, that stops working after a while. If I had done that when I was in Greenland during the summer, I'd have just walked around in big circles without any chance to sleep.
During the day, if you know the time, you can also use the sun to track your position. As long as you have some calcite.
Awesome video. And you worked in the sextant!!!! :)
That looks cozy
Interesting fact: The geographic poles are not red and white stripey barbers poles or lasers, they are geological size features. When your compass starts to spin, it isn't because you've reached the pole, you've only reached the edge of it.
I believe it's pronounced Hlebnikoff. The "K" in the beginning is there to emphasize that "h" is not silent.
That's sick tom! Did you meet chris?
On navigation; I'd love if you did a TYMNK about Loran! :D
that water is so wonderfull
Great video as usual.
Hi Tom! Idea for future vid! Talk about the technique of dead reckoning and noon sight and how it basically allowed Europeans to sail west!
i spent a little under a week with will steger and he's an amazing person, if you can do a school project or something on an explorer do it on him
Surprised he didn't mention the top gear attempt to reach the north pole
Top gear only went to the Magnetic North pole, that's in the Canadian arctic, about 800 kilometers from the geographic North Pole.
Yeah, the geographic north pole is kind of surrounded by an ocean.
Still.. I think it's a noteworthy expedition
I have to say, I can't help but be a little jealous. I wish I could visit the Arctic.
That's pronounced Will StEEger (2:35), and don't leave out Paul Schurke or Ann Bancroft or the rest of the team. Their 1986 trip by dogsled was an amazing one!
Great audio in this.
great video
love these vids
That's some amazing noise-cancellation.
I'm guessing that no one had reliably done it earlier because a lot of potential explorers had thought that someone had beaten them to it years or decades earlier.
0:13 who just saw a weirdass heavy and scout there?
LMAO IT IS
Please make a video touring the ship.
bit late for that request now, he's back in the UK
I hope there's one on the stack though
*****
wouldn't surprise me. Tho we may very well have to live with park bench pictures only
Check out Ben Browns' latest videos, he shows the ship
Where has Chris Hadfield NOT been?
Is that the borealis?
How often does the equipment actually fail and you need to use a sextant?
Sir Tom of Scott's how shall I thank you for these presents (video) ;)
Are we gonna ignore the Top Gear Polar Special here?
They went to where the magnetic north pole had been in 1996; they were nearly 1500 km south of the geographic north pole.
You forgot to mention that north pole was also reached using submarines in 1959 (under ice) and 1962 (surfaced).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Skate_(SSN-578)
How about a video on Louise Arner Boyd and her exploits as an Arctic explorer.
Did you bribe the Russian Captain to get on board or did you work your passage as Tom the Cabin Boy.
in 2007 two British guys drove a toyota truck up there
@@Smellygoat235 And a shotgun and some SPAM.
this was really interesting!
You said that with the sextant you could, by using the stars and some mathematics calculate the latitude, but how would you determine what your longitude is? Don't you need both the two of them?
You do some different maths (at noon, generally) involving the difference between local time and time at a reference location (these days the prime meridian at Greenwich). So you need a nice chronometer to go with your sextant to get both.
god i am jealous of you Tom, I'd love to go there and do photography of the place. alas, i shall probably not get to... for a long time at least.
Fly to svalbard with norwegian, it's as far north as tom went on the boat. I flew there 3 years ago on a very low fare.
Tom, I have to know. How do you keep that information in your head and then manage to turn it around into a two or three minute story, accurately? I can't fathom doing that without a solid script and / or several takes!
If you "use the same technique as explorers centuries ago" are you expecting the same level of lost, lamed, and dead as was common among explorers centuries ago?
He was referring to using the same *navigational* technique. Obviously, if their GPS rolled over and died, they'd still have the rest of their modern survival gear.
Did you say you took this trip with "Chris Hadfield"?? As in the astronaut? That sounds pretty awesome.
Did he take a spare drone with him just in case?
who was your cameraman for this
I was wondering that too, either the auto-stabilization is doing a really good job or the cameraman is doing a great job not getting thrown around on a slick boat in heavy waves/wind while carrying a camera. Impressive! Maybe one of the crew . . .
Pretty sure they film with a drone now.
"Norm and Joey from Tested are putting together videos from inside the ship, and Joey was camera op for today's video"
It's in the description
MidtownSkyport Aha! Failed to notice that in my scan through. Joey does great work on Tested, I'm impressed as usual and not surprised :-)
Wow, flying a drone in that wind? That's a tough machine.
Would you visit the Antarctic in the mean time, Mr. Scott?