I asked an AI for video ideas, and they were actually good

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  • Опубліковано 21 лют 2021
  • I didn't expect this to work so well. • Includes text generated by OpenAI's GPT-3 at my request: openai.com • Art by Chris Quay: www.chrisquay.com/ • Got an idea for a video? www.tomscott.com/contact/
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    artificialintelligence-news.c...
    thenextweb.com/neural/2021/01...
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 10 тис.

  • @TomScottGo
    @TomScottGo  3 роки тому +26465

    I should clarify that by "out of ideas", I mean that I've only got enough to last me until the end of March, or maybe the middle of April if lockdown eases. The way I work, that's close enough that I start to get worried.

    • @hamfrog9893
      @hamfrog9893 3 роки тому +872

      Pinned comment made hours before uploading, as usual

    • @Sohamsta
      @Sohamsta 3 роки тому +515

      😂just upload your videos with longer intervals between each than usual to give yourself more time to gather ideas /film more maybeee

    • @ByronHawk
      @ByronHawk 3 роки тому +21

      Hi

    • @alexandraryverah6397
      @alexandraryverah6397 3 роки тому +24

      Great ideas!

    • @imabot4815
      @imabot4815 3 роки тому +7

      Ok

  • @pogglefishii6807
    @pogglefishii6807 3 роки тому +9528

    “The British road that is also a boat” actually exists in at least one place in Britain since the Woolwich Ferry is considered to be part of the North Circular Road.

    • @tforlee2955
      @tforlee2955 3 роки тому +540

      That sounds perfect

    • @gottjager760
      @gottjager760 3 роки тому +578

      And there was a British moon program (spoilers, it didn't happen).

    • @StraveTube
      @StraveTube 3 роки тому +190

      This is getting scary.

    • @HunterHunter150
      @HunterHunter150 3 роки тому +128

      Wow this is actually a great video idea

    • @yogesha4727
      @yogesha4727 3 роки тому +45

      This comment has to be in the top

  • @AlRoderick
    @AlRoderick 3 роки тому +2549

    "Please drive carefully: Village is periodically invisible."

    • @omri9325
      @omri9325 3 роки тому +138

      It becomes invisible every time you blink, prove me wrong.

    • @aightbet164
      @aightbet164 3 роки тому +2

      Ooh

    • @travcollier
      @travcollier 3 роки тому +2

      Reminds me of the invisible cows of Maunakea

    • @TimeTravelingFetus
      @TimeTravelingFetus 3 роки тому +22

      SCP

    • @devilspride8694
      @devilspride8694 3 роки тому +27

      Anyone who visits the village will [REDACTED]

  • @one_smol_duck
    @one_smol_duck 3 роки тому +5920

    Hahahahahaha I love "The beach where you can hear the sea." If nothing else, this AI could produce top tier shitposting.

    • @g6a0912
      @g6a0912 2 роки тому +322

      The road that was made for transport
      The water bottle that holds water
      The home that holds people
      The train that moves
      The fan that spins

    • @GameGod77
      @GameGod77 2 роки тому +117

      The city with a million lights

    • @daooffibonnacicats8247
      @daooffibonnacicats8247 2 роки тому +2

      @@g6a0912 l

    • @emocrab7545
      @emocrab7545 2 роки тому +9

      @@user-dn9gm4oi1p that's called ~being deaf~

    • @mattschumacher4581
      @mattschumacher4581 2 роки тому +17

      @@user-dn9gm4oi1p a beach on a lake

  • @lamialua26
    @lamialua26 2 роки тому +1874

    The "white cube at the end of the world" would actually be proof that this entire planet was modelled in Blender, and that its author forgot to delete the default cube before releasing it

    • @goatyqt4553
      @goatyqt4553 Рік тому +114

      The UV Mesh is insane back here in Canada. I don’t know if it is for the rest of the world though, but I’m happy they rendered every detail even in the middle of nowhere.

    • @iamnevrchange.9570
      @iamnevrchange.9570 Рік тому +131

      the skybox is bugged out in the UK. it's always completely gray.

    • @goatyqt4553
      @goatyqt4553 Рік тому +48

      @@iamnevrchange.9570 Damn back here where I live they forgot to turn off their geometry nodes animation so the forests have been getting eaten by caterpillars for like 20 years.

    • @confusedaxolotl7833
      @confusedaxolotl7833 Рік тому +2

      I would like to direct your attention to, "Orbis et Globus," on the tiny island of Grimsey. This island is north of Iceland and functionally the end of the world in that direction.

    • @kennethwardingley9209
      @kennethwardingley9209 Рік тому +15

      God must have one hell of pc set up in order to render this much detail

  • @ResonantRTS
    @ResonantRTS 3 роки тому +37640

    Please, i beg you. Find a cliff that refuses to be a cliff.... im sure he's out there somewhere

    • @MarkLindsayCNC
      @MarkLindsayCNC 3 роки тому +3767

      If it helps any, my middle name is Cliff, and I refuse to answer to it. It wouldn't be much of a video, but there ya go...

    • @jabezcrisp7899
      @jabezcrisp7899 3 роки тому +860

      It is, it's in Norfolk, and it's now the receding coastline...

    • @nerdhomestead
      @nerdhomestead 3 роки тому +278

      Landslide

    • @fruffy3220
      @fruffy3220 3 роки тому +199

      I'm calling your bluff. There's no cliffless cliff out there

    • @EuanBCFC
      @EuanBCFC 3 роки тому +42

      *Holderness says hi*

  • @schmid1.079
    @schmid1.079 3 роки тому +868

    "Two Drums and a Cymbal Fall off a Cliff, but the Cliff refuses to be a cliff."

  • @FromJustJ
    @FromJustJ 3 роки тому +7495

    Regarding "The British Road That Is Also A Boat", I direct your attention to the SS Badger, a ferry in the US between Ludington, MI and Manitowoc, WI that is officially a part of highway US 10.

    • @zeroyuki92
      @zeroyuki92 2 роки тому +231

      Soo what's the history of it, I genuinely want to know

    • @Brave_Sir_Robin
      @Brave_Sir_Robin 2 роки тому +511

      Ah but it isn’t British 😩

    • @jimslim4227
      @jimslim4227 2 роки тому +101

      A pontoon bridge is boats that are also a bridge if that counts.

    • @moochoopr9551
      @moochoopr9551 2 роки тому +51

      Why did I imagined "a highway road built on a ferry which acts as a bridge of a highway"...

    • @Eliasstatis2341
      @Eliasstatis2341 2 роки тому +8

      This is amazing

  • @That2J
    @That2J 2 роки тому +4571

    I would love Tom to make one of these “alternate reality” videos for April Fools every year

    • @vincentweaver6038
      @vincentweaver6038 2 роки тому +293

      "April fools is a curse and we should abandon it." - Tom Scott

    • @viditsinha9707
      @viditsinha9707 2 роки тому +11

      Like geography now does

    • @22oreos
      @22oreos Рік тому +31

      Jeremy Clarkson's Lottery of Death

    • @tornadotaylor8956
      @tornadotaylor8956 Рік тому +6

      You mean similar to how the future prediction ones are?

    • @Kuino
      @Kuino Рік тому

      honeslty same

  • @Niccolonic
    @Niccolonic 3 роки тому +8023

    "The British Road that is also a Boat" sounds exactly like a Tom Scott video about some sort of ferry that has a street name

    • @haroerhaktak2613
      @haroerhaktak2613 3 роки тому +251

      Or a road that lets people drive over water.

    • @cactusguy4363
      @cactusguy4363 3 роки тому +143

      Or a street called the S.S. something or other.

    • @PatheticTV
      @PatheticTV 3 роки тому +157

      @@haroerhaktak2613 Where do you draw the line between a bridge and a very long boat? Hmm

    • @Niccolonic
      @Niccolonic 3 роки тому +75

      @@PatheticTV one is attached and the other can pick up and move around. I do like the idea of an ambulatory bridge though

    • @haroerhaktak2613
      @haroerhaktak2613 3 роки тому +24

      @@PatheticTV A bridge has things in place to prevent you from just doing a 90 degree turn and deciding the ocean is your new home.
      Majority of roads don't care. So as long as it doesn't have any railings or protections in place, it's a road not a bridge.
      If you were to define a bridge as simply taking you over something else, then technically every road is a bridge.

  • @SwitchAndLever
    @SwitchAndLever 3 роки тому +8149

    "There was no Russian utopia!" That sounds EXACTLY what a Russian utopia would like you to believe!

    • @maxsmith8196
      @maxsmith8196 3 роки тому +300

      Russian utopias usually refer to themselves as that, but it’s actually just millions of dead Ukrainians

    • @falconJB
      @falconJB 3 роки тому +101

      "There was no Russian utopia!" is the counter to every Russian philosopher.

    • @jimbob3332
      @jimbob3332 3 роки тому +47

      It's in the Polyhedron outside of the village, but only kids are allowed inside.

    • @sageinit
      @sageinit 3 роки тому +9

      Soviet Unterzögersdorf is real, don't believe the lies

    • @pvtpain66k
      @pvtpain66k 3 роки тому +13

      INVISIBLE VILLAGE!

  • @RoseAbrams
    @RoseAbrams Рік тому +474

    Today, I asked ChatGPT to make a script for the "Jeremy Clarkson's Lottery of Death" episode of Top Gear. It went perfect, and consisted of him surviving races in six cars with various life-threatening faults.

    • @caav56
      @caav56 Рік тому +2

      Can you release it anywhere, please?

    • @RoseAbrams
      @RoseAbrams Рік тому +28

      @@caav56 I didn't save it. But you can just make one yourself, ChatGPT is free and a prompt could be like "write a script for an episode of Top Gear titled..."

    • @CinemaDemocratica
      @CinemaDemocratica Рік тому +19

      I did "The Cliff That Refuses to be a Cliff" and it's friggin perfect. I also stretched out a little and did, "The Day That Richard Nixon Crashed a Cow."

    • @manfail7469
      @manfail7469 7 місяців тому +3

      this would actually be a sick idea for an episode, the guys draw straws to drive different cars in a race, one with the steering broken, one with failing brakes, and one with a sticking throttle before racing them

    • @Klick404
      @Klick404 21 день тому

      One of the cars is just driven by Hammond

  • @vs5210
    @vs5210 Рік тому +168

    5:24 I asked ChatGPT for an English word for "nostalgia for a thing that could never have existed" and it gave me "anemoia", a word coined by John Koenig in 2012 for his "Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows". It's been two years since this video came out.

    • @irlmeow
      @irlmeow 6 місяців тому +2

      isn’t that a disease or something

    • @beyondobscure
      @beyondobscure 5 місяців тому

      Nope it's true@@irlmeow

    • @ThatOnionispog
      @ThatOnionispog 4 місяці тому +5

      thats anaemia@@irlmeow

  • @LordOceanus
    @LordOceanus 3 роки тому +1867

    "The green Death and the Industrial Revolution" Actually that sounds like it may work referring to Scheele's Green which killed many thousands of people though arsenic exposure when it became the most popular pigment in Britain.

  • @tobylittlejohn8827
    @tobylittlejohn8827 3 роки тому +8101

    For reference, the "strange light in the sky over Oxfordshire" is called the moon.

    • @tusharmaharana3373
      @tusharmaharana3373 3 роки тому +223

      sun

    • @clockworkpotato9892
      @clockworkpotato9892 3 роки тому +75

      Waluigi Dominus.

    • @jahredharrison4069
      @jahredharrison4069 3 роки тому +398

      If you think you've seen the "moon" or something similar to it, I'm afraid I've got bad news: You're in Oxfordshire and have been all along.

    • @gubx42
      @gubx42 3 роки тому +212

      Considering the English weather, the unlikely appearance of the moon may indeed seem strange.

    • @rachelknapp7271
      @rachelknapp7271 3 роки тому +2

      😂

  • @thehoodedteddy1335
    @thehoodedteddy1335 3 роки тому +1111

    I wish you had hit the “write script” button on Jeremy Clarkson’s Lottery of Death

    • @andrewbrown464
      @andrewbrown464 2 роки тому +32

      I can hear the theme song now...

    • @calblack4156
      @calblack4156 2 роки тому +90

      Sometimes my genius its almost frightening

    • @ringoferrer2343
      @ringoferrer2343 2 роки тому +52

      This is the deadliest lottery *_in the world_*

    • @Elmojomo
      @Elmojomo Рік тому +10

      MOAR POWER... pardon me, I meant to say.... MOAR DEATH! - Jeremy

    • @grantflippin7808
      @grantflippin7808 Рік тому +2

      Spoilers

  • @peterfalconer
    @peterfalconer 3 роки тому +1863

    As an artist who creates parafictional histories, I'm delighted to see that AI might be coming for my job, too. It's nice to feel included.

    • @disnagburnazog9552
      @disnagburnazog9552 2 роки тому +8

      rofl

    • @elhopper3735
      @elhopper3735 2 роки тому +4

      Lmao

    • @alejjtheninja5803
      @alejjtheninja5803 2 роки тому +30

      Ah yes, the thought of being redundant also fills me with glee.

    • @mattchamp1541
      @mattchamp1541 Рік тому +9

      Don't worry, for my honors I built a robot that draws actual art, so we're also coming for that

    • @brucecipher
      @brucecipher Рік тому +1

      Parafictional histories? I’d love to see some of your work! :Dc

  • @anch95
    @anch95 3 роки тому +1899

    "Jeremy Clarkson's lottery of death"
    The loser rides with Richard Hammond.

    • @alxwlsh
      @alxwlsh 3 роки тому +77

      No, the loser has their knees smashed in with Clarkson's arsenal of Hammers.

    • @UltraMaXAtAXX
      @UltraMaXAtAXX 3 роки тому +60

      Oh no! Anyway.

    • @iwantsexseemyvideo8642
      @iwantsexseemyvideo8642 3 роки тому +1

      ‼️🅱️🙃

    • @DrWhoFanJ
      @DrWhoFanJ 3 роки тому +28

      @@iwantsexseemyvideo8642 Begone, bot! 😡😡😡😡

    • @snoozieboi
      @snoozieboi 3 роки тому +24

      But is it the most deadly lottery .... in the world?

  • @Erstus
    @Erstus 3 роки тому +1057

    "The Green Death And The Industrial Revolution." Actually makes a lot of sense. There was a specific green pigment used in the wallpapers during The Industrial Revolution that contained arsenic. Search "arsenic in wallpaper". Also I think it's also not too weird to have a road that is also a boat, just look for bridging boats.

    • @thegreatoutagesign9204
      @thegreatoutagesign9204 3 роки тому +21

      so, a ferry?

    • @lincolntrains2639
      @lincolntrains2639 3 роки тому +79

      @@thegreatoutagesign9204 Not necessarily, the British army has a vehicle called the 'M3 Amphibious rig' Which is essentially a big truck that also floats which can be joined to another truck just like it to form a bridge across a river during a wartime scenario. Note that the British army is not the only country to use these vehicles.

    • @nitehawk86
      @nitehawk86 3 роки тому +30

      How about a pontoon bridge? There are a pair of floating bridges in Seattle that carry I-90.

    • @ChannelRandomMy
      @ChannelRandomMy 3 роки тому +8

      And Aircraft carriers, wow good points!

    • @dorabrooks76
      @dorabrooks76 3 роки тому +17

      Iirc, arsenic green was also used to dye clothing, poisoning a bunch of people around the same time as the wallpaper...

  • @thescaredshadow
    @thescaredshadow 2 роки тому +340

    Couldn't "The green death and the Industrial Revolution" be about how the Thames River was so horribly polluted before indoor plumbing or how Paris Green was used in common stuff like clothing and paint was extremely deadly.

    • @zappababe8577
      @zappababe8577 2 роки тому +31

      Ooo, that's a really accurate observation!

    • @MrToradragon
      @MrToradragon 2 роки тому +33

      Or maybe about green wallpapers that used arsenic fot that vibrant green ant it really had killed several people?

    • @theKobus
      @theKobus Рік тому +8

      "green death and the industrial revolution" is a very Caitlyn Doughty topic

  • @tobyparker6239
    @tobyparker6239 3 роки тому +161

    "GPT-3 is the worlds most powerful Bigotry generator." Oh great, now I'm going to have AI calling me newly invented racial slurs like i've just entered the worlds most creative COD lobby.

  • @floydhebert3684
    @floydhebert3684 3 роки тому +1696

    I need to see “The Cliff That Refuses To Be A Cliff” and “Jeremy Clarkson’s Lottery of Death” immediately

    • @travdump209
      @travdump209 3 роки тому +77

      Jeremy Clarkson's Lottery of Death is the Venn diagram of Top Gear and Top Gun.

    • @billul1
      @billul1 3 роки тому +21

      Bottom Gear live action

    • @Hans-gb4mv
      @Hans-gb4mv 3 роки тому +7

      That second one might be coming to Amazon Prime Video soon 😆

    • @ridingtothegrave
      @ridingtothegrave 3 роки тому +2

      I need the white cube

    • @8draco8
      @8draco8 3 роки тому +14

      I think Jeremy Clarkson Lottery of Death is a thing but only Hammond is playing

  • @smoche
    @smoche 3 роки тому +3815

    “The cliff that refuses to be a cliff.”
    Looks like _someones_ having an identity crisis

    • @yriafehtivan
      @yriafehtivan 3 роки тому +31

      Cliff Richards?

    • @alexhando8541
      @alexhando8541 3 роки тому +20

      If you think about it, all cliffs do that

    • @Hans-gb4mv
      @Hans-gb4mv 3 роки тому +7

      The AI that refuses to be an AI

    • @8draco8
      @8draco8 3 роки тому +51

      What if it's about cliff made out of sand that is quite fast turning into beach. That would be definitely cliff that refuses to be a cliff especially if people would try to somehow prevent it turning into beach but failed. Like "Fastest collapsing cliffs in Skipsea, Yorkshire" - google it, it's actually a thing.

    • @OrangeC7
      @OrangeC7 3 роки тому +3

      @@Jack_The_Ladd If there were a language where pronouns changed based on last name then this sentence could actually make sense
      Edit: The comment I was responding to has been mysteriously deleted

  • @meiguess6765
    @meiguess6765 2 роки тому +93

    I like how the sound of the car going by at 7:09 corresponded with the sigmoid curve in volume and emphasized the dramatic change that can occur in technology

    • @AlexPushkinChannel
      @AlexPushkinChannel Рік тому +3

      parabola not sigmoid

    • @PremiumCheeses
      @PremiumCheeses Рік тому

      I was hoping somebody else noticed this, it felt dramatic in a way nobody could've ever expected or predicted

    • @Baconator1368
      @Baconator1368 Рік тому +1

      the sound of the car roughly follows the derivative of the sigmoid curve, not the sigmoid curve

    • @jaytheman5386
      @jaytheman5386 9 місяців тому +6

      @@AlexPushkinChannelthanks for spreading misinformation

    • @proloycodes
      @proloycodes 5 місяців тому

      ​@@Baconator1368since when did cars have their own cars?!

  • @CaseCat
    @CaseCat Рік тому +16

    Two years ago when this was surprising....

  • @chancesmith116
    @chancesmith116 3 роки тому +1724

    “The Strange Light over Oxfordshire” that’s just the moon, Tom.

    • @Shanoyu19271
      @Shanoyu19271 3 роки тому +5

      lmao

    • @zane_sadauskis
      @zane_sadauskis 3 роки тому +5

      are you sure about that?

    • @wendimunson844
      @wendimunson844 3 роки тому +58

      Heck, it could possibly even be the sun. Yes, I know, not very likely

    • @PolarBear-rc4ks
      @PolarBear-rc4ks 3 роки тому +3

      Ooh not heard of that one? Whats that about

    • @benford1726
      @benford1726 3 роки тому +7

      Based on the posts on my towns Facebook group, it's probably a helicopter

  • @mulgerbill
    @mulgerbill 3 роки тому +1183

    Time to revisit an old idea with a modern twist
    ""Two drums and a cymbal fall off a cliff that refuses to be a cliff""

    • @kenet7877
      @kenet7877 3 роки тому +34

      Banger comment, sir/madam/human

    • @TheLoopyTiger
      @TheLoopyTiger 3 роки тому +20

      @@kenet7877 Maybe they're an AI?

    • @yt.lilsantee
      @yt.lilsantee 3 роки тому +13

      @@TheLoopyTiger Maybe YOU are an AI :0

    • @Big-Chungus21
      @Big-Chungus21 3 роки тому +11

      Bad dum ts- the fabric of reality falls apart as reality refuses to be real.

    • @mulgerbill
      @mulgerbill 3 роки тому +5

      @@TheLoopyTiger it seems odd to bestow intellect on a bundle of vague sensory perceptions

  • @HeidiBird
    @HeidiBird 3 роки тому +220

    Omg, it's adorable that you asked the AI using "please" at the start of your request. You are definitely one of the few people who are going to survive the techno-apocalypse because you showed the machines respect from the start.
    EDIT: and then this took a scary and sinister turn when you mentioned the possibility of AI generating customer reviews etc...

  • @wyvernlad13
    @wyvernlad13 2 роки тому +54

    5:21 There is a word, it’s Anemoia. It’s defined as a feeling of nostalgia for a time you didn’t experience, whether it be vicarious through someone else, for a time in the past, or a time that didn’t happen at all. Another similar word to describe the feeling is Ringlorn, defined as the wish that the modern world felt as epic as the ones depicted in old stories and folktales.

    • @LeifNelandDk
      @LeifNelandDk 8 місяців тому

      Some ABBA songs give me that feeling. E.g "Our last summer" I never walked hand in hand along the river Seine, but it feels like I have when I hear it.

  • @mikan1546
    @mikan1546 3 роки тому +1597

    Okay but "The Cliff that Refuses to be a Cliff" does sound exactly like a Tom Scott video title...

    • @burntchickennugget191
      @burntchickennugget191 3 роки тому +14

      Wouldnt that be an aroading mountain side.

    • @PianoKwanMan
      @PianoKwanMan 3 роки тому +2

      When is a cliff not a cliff?

    • @macmann57
      @macmann57 3 роки тому

      very true

    • @sageinit
      @sageinit 3 роки тому +2

      It's about quadratic-hyperbolic functions (hyphen, not en dash!), clearly.

    • @TheMegaxPlus
      @TheMegaxPlus 3 роки тому +33

      I imagine that the video would be of a infamous cliff that isn't considered a cliff due to legal shenanigans
      Ngl I would watch that

  • @saumitrachakravarty
    @saumitrachakravarty 3 роки тому +618

    "The Beach Where You Can Hear the Sea" sounds like the title of an indie movie.

    • @ashen_dawn
      @ashen_dawn 3 роки тому +42

      Just tweak it ever so slightly to "The Beach Where You Cannot Hear the Sea" and it's even more so.

    • @harryganz1
      @harryganz1 3 роки тому +17

      @@ashen_dawn so that could be a Tom Scott video. There are lots of those in areas which were covered by glaciers in the last ice age. As the glaciers melted it caused the continental crust to rebound, lowering sea levels and pushing things that used to be by the ocean up hill. There is a cool cobblestone beach with sea cliffs on Day Mountain in Acadia National Park in Maine (U.S.).

    • @revimfadli4666
      @revimfadli4666 3 роки тому +7

      Or a botched translation of an anime title or more likely, Chinese film

    • @rexfury485
      @rexfury485 3 роки тому +1

      Or indie game!

    • @xtodoubt9919
      @xtodoubt9919 3 роки тому +9

      Some sort of dystopian book about the last real beach

  • @mineral66
    @mineral66 Рік тому +32

    2 years later Chat Gpt 4 has come out and is talk about everywhere. When I saw the video 2 years ago I didn't expect it to become so big. Even I use it at least 2 times per week.

    • @Lucas_van_Hout
      @Lucas_van_Hout 7 місяців тому +1

      GPT-3,5 being free is a godsend

  • @Twentydragon
    @Twentydragon 3 роки тому +95

    Only Tom Scott could turn "I'm out of ideas" into an intriguing video.

  • @JamesandKiimmy
    @JamesandKiimmy 3 роки тому +1766

    The cliff that refuses to be a cliff hahaha

    • @AHA-od8yo
      @AHA-od8yo 3 роки тому +8

      You are a cliff.

    • @AHA-od8yo
      @AHA-od8yo 3 роки тому +4

      27 seconds ago....

    • @Litl_Skitl
      @Litl_Skitl 3 роки тому +25

      I'm not a cliff! I'm just a very steep hill, and you can't convince me otherwise!

    • @hominidan
      @hominidan 3 роки тому +12

      It actually sounds more reasonable than "Why the world's smallest skyscraper is actually a scam"

    • @abailumlerrad1037
      @abailumlerrad1037 3 роки тому

      @@hominidan u right

  • @isaacmcmanus3666
    @isaacmcmanus3666 3 роки тому +3501

    The word you are looking for is Hiraeth, it is a Welsh loan word and is nostalgia for something you have never experienced.

    • @bfcraft87
      @bfcraft87 3 роки тому +118

      the meaning of hiraeth isn’t: homesickness from a place you can’t return, or that never was?

    • @Col_Mustard
      @Col_Mustard 3 роки тому +158

      @@bfcraft87 well, etymologically, nostalgia does mean homesickness. So both concepts are quite similar.

    • @manskken
      @manskken 3 роки тому +10

      i was about to comment this!

    • @ycylchgames
      @ycylchgames 3 роки тому +41

      @@bfcraft87 It doesnt translate properly but it means longing for something, usually it's been used to mean a longer to return to Wales but technically it could mean a longing for anything.

    • @DatBisa
      @DatBisa 3 роки тому +70

      The welsh have their own word for Vaporwave? Wild.

  • @popkittycat
    @popkittycat 2 роки тому +16

    5:16
    Anemoia, is a nostalgic sense of longing for a past you yourself have never lived.

  • @hackman6486
    @hackman6486 11 місяців тому +15

    Watching this in 2023 and it is crazy how far this has come.

  • @kevinhodge7450
    @kevinhodge7450 3 роки тому +1675

    "It's all farmland"
    Sounds like a Russian utopia to me, comrade.

    • @JJAB91
      @JJAB91 3 роки тому +52

      Not accurate to reality. Needs move government workers taking the food by force and leaving the farmers to go hungry.

    • @noytelinu3409
      @noytelinu3409 3 роки тому +5

      You may be right Ranma. Perhaps Ryoga can visit it there one day by accident.

    • @oliverrawnsley2655
      @oliverrawnsley2655 3 роки тому +3

      sounds like the whole of East Yorkshire...

    • @Telamon8
      @Telamon8 3 роки тому +4

      (Rostov Oblast liked this comment)

    • @fireaza
      @fireaza 3 роки тому +1

      Da! We will be growing many of the potato!

  • @TehJimlad
    @TehJimlad 3 роки тому +842

    You should have saved 'the beach where you can hear the sea' for april fool's day

  • @robertmartin2867
    @robertmartin2867 2 роки тому +28

    “Jeremy Clarkson’s Lottery of Death” is the title for the upcoming British remake of Squid Game.

  • @Dracinard
    @Dracinard 3 роки тому +96

    "Jeremy Clarkson's Lottery of Death"
    The new series of Millionaire sounds like a bit of a change from established formula, but I'm here for it.

  • @davisdesigns1153
    @davisdesigns1153 3 роки тому +1242

    The Onion: *Write that down!*

    • @oktemsk7174
      @oktemsk7174 2 роки тому +2

      Whos that

    • @cringe511
      @cringe511 2 роки тому +12

      @@oktemsk7174 It’s a satirical news channel, if you watch some of their videos you’ll get the idea

    • @dubiousmoonpie6155
      @dubiousmoonpie6155 2 роки тому +8

      @@oktemsk7174 you gotta watch their stuff from 6+ years ago tho. That’s where the gold is at

    • @panhandlesomen
      @panhandlesomen 2 роки тому +17

      @@dubiousmoonpie6155 *anonymous hero donates 300 kidneys to a hospital*

    • @matthewhrenchir2977
      @matthewhrenchir2977 2 роки тому +1

      Remember to check out the next season of *Sex House*!

  • @theblackumbrella4257
    @theblackumbrella4257 3 роки тому +728

    Tom: Im running out of ideas
    Tom: Oh, that gives me an idea

    • @richardpike8748
      @richardpike8748 3 роки тому +17

      Boom, writer's block has now been solved

    • @Joshlama
      @Joshlama 3 роки тому

      Tom: I've done the idea! I'm out of ideas 😪

    • @Norsilca
      @Norsilca 3 роки тому +4

      Of course, Tom Scott's gonna be the exception to the rule that writers writing about writer's block isn't interesting.

  • @jasonthesnow
    @jasonthesnow 9 місяців тому +6

    Watching this video 2 years later is amazing

  • @nosville22
    @nosville22 2 роки тому +44

    There is a word for nostalgia for a thing that never existed. "Anemoia". The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows is a great resource for broadening ones vocabulary.

    • @jameswalker199
      @jameswalker199 2 роки тому +2

      The DofOS makes up words (or takes new meanings for new loan words), so you can only really call it broadening your vocabulary if the words they invent enter broader use. I'm not saying its a bad resource, I'm just saying its also not an entirely credible one.

    • @nosville22
      @nosville22 Рік тому +3

      @@jameswalker199 I know this
      however this particular word entered my vocabulary and I have indeed been spreading it. I do hope it enters the broader consciousness

    • @jackreid2664
      @jackreid2664 Рік тому

      More nostalgia for something that you never witnessed but I see what you're getting at. Hireath is another similar thing that can imply the non existence of the something you are longing for.

  • @Caparo479
    @Caparo479 3 роки тому +886

    Tom standing on a beach and astonishingly saying "I can... hear the sea."
    That truly broke me

  • @MrMessiah2013
    @MrMessiah2013 3 роки тому +1682

    Humble suggestion for nostalgia about things that never existed: '"not"stalgia'

  • @aname4931
    @aname4931 8 місяців тому +10

    It's mind-boggling that this is now a normal thing

  • @donofdeaths
    @donofdeaths Рік тому +23

    Anemoia: a nostalgic sense of longing for a past you yourself have never lived.

  • @colinmanning9080
    @colinmanning9080 3 роки тому +4960

    Hire an artist to animate these “parallel universe” stories that are narrated by you with the script created bythe AI. Call it “Tales of the Multiverse”

    • @vesperin5172
      @vesperin5172 3 роки тому +171

      Good idea, but it wouldn't actually teach you anything, so I don't think he'd do it.

    • @jayturner5242
      @jayturner5242 3 роки тому +410

      Would make a good second channel. Tom should wear Green in them

    • @juliusnepos6013
      @juliusnepos6013 3 роки тому +35

      This sounds rad

    • @radekchrabota
      @radekchrabota 3 роки тому +60

      @@jayturner5242 woah, that's a bit extreme, I mean can you even imagine Tom wearing green?

    • @kaelanirevyruun1676
      @kaelanirevyruun1676 3 роки тому +36

      Sounds too generic. A better name would be “Chronicles from the Alterverse” xD

  • @catsayswut7097
    @catsayswut7097 3 роки тому +1412

    "The cliff that refuses to be a cliff" is a title that I would totally expect Tom to make, so well the bot really is on something

    • @h-Films
      @h-Films 3 роки тому +5

      I agree

    • @petterjy5047
      @petterjy5047 3 роки тому +4

      Tru

    • @abbofun9022
      @abbofun9022 3 роки тому +6

      A sanddune on the Dutch coast possibly?

    • @zetahurley294
      @zetahurley294 3 роки тому +22

      I can imagine a cliff that TECHNICALLY wasn't a cliff legally, like how there was that period where NASAs definition for a moon technically didn't include the moon. And then the definition of a cliff changed but there was a Rockslide of something that shifted the cliff and made it still technically not a cliff

    • @HomeTownAdventurers
      @HomeTownAdventurers 3 роки тому +3

      I volunteer to play myself!

  • @MoeAndTekila
    @MoeAndTekila Рік тому +29

    tom really is the kind of person to read the full terms of service

  • @BakeBakePi
    @BakeBakePi Рік тому +16

    You should remake this video now, and compare the results!

  • @josipcuric8767
    @josipcuric8767 3 роки тому +896

    "The british road that is also a boat" isn't that a ferry??

    • @luzcro7345
      @luzcro7345 3 роки тому +51

      Or a bridge that floats freely on some river

    • @B-M.B
      @B-M.B 3 роки тому +41

      @@luzcro7345 and there is actually a bridge wide enough for cars build on floating Pontons..

    • @NotADoctor558
      @NotADoctor558 3 роки тому +25

      Yep, the SR 520 floating bridge in Seattle. I'm sure that's not the only one though.

    • @blunderingfool
      @blunderingfool 3 роки тому +15

      There’s a modern rope-ferry in use in (I think) the south of England. The water flows too fast for a regular ferry to operate.

    • @kkmac7247
      @kkmac7247 3 роки тому +8

      @@NotADoctor558 Seattle, my favourite place in Britain

  • @snipars
    @snipars 3 роки тому +17943

    Will you tell us when we're watching the video that the AI predicted?

    • @maxwellpriore3579
      @maxwellpriore3579 3 роки тому +1260

      maybe the AI predicted this....

    • @majorfallacy5926
      @majorfallacy5926 3 роки тому +450

      Which, for many people, will be an AI-written video, suggested to them by an AI

    • @rorynator7567
      @rorynator7567 3 роки тому +42

      snipers

    • @elevown
      @elevown 3 роки тому +11

      yup please do.

    • @stepford139
      @stepford139 3 роки тому +26

      You are the reason I learnt how to edit videos.

  • @countertony
    @countertony Рік тому +18

    At 7:12 and onward, well done (whether by accident or design) for having the 'whoosh' of the passing car sync up with the steepest point on the sigmoid curve.

  • @daniellemorley2628
    @daniellemorley2628 9 місяців тому +15

    This aged well.

  • @stevenbridges
    @stevenbridges 3 роки тому +2582

    I like how you put the text over the video to say it’s fictional, just incase someone clipped it and used it to start a weird conspiracy theory 😂

    • @benholroyd5221
      @benholroyd5221 3 роки тому +89

      Well there's already a Wikipedia page.

    • @hygo64
      @hygo64 3 роки тому +19

      @@benholroyd5221 I need a link!

    • @csweezey18
      @csweezey18 3 роки тому +11

      @@benholroyd5221 Link needed!

    • @benholroyd5221
      @benholroyd5221 3 роки тому +20

      @@csweezey18
      You have trust issues
      As Helena Von Hahn said
      "There is no religion higher than truth"
      But then you are the Antichrist.
      and i'm an atheist.

    • @dragonrykr
      @dragonrykr 3 роки тому +4

      Linkkk

  • @AllanLimosin
    @AllanLimosin 3 роки тому +1371

    Tom Scott: “Do you have ideas for videos?”
    AI: “Talk about you asking me ideas of videos”
    📈

    • @digheanurag
      @digheanurag 3 роки тому +30

      STONKS

    • @kennarajora6532
      @kennarajora6532 3 роки тому +21

      I know were all joking around, but could you imagine if that actually was the case? I'd have a much different opinion of where neural networks are at the current moment.

    • @devinweston8983
      @devinweston8983 3 роки тому +4

      Takashi brothers: feel the power of the rotary

    • @StormTheSquid
      @StormTheSquid 3 роки тому +3

      @@Spibidydkdushusbwns Please tell me where I can access this. I need reference images for things that can't possibly exist for my art projects.
      Also is there a way to convert thoughts into words? I need that as well so I can stop being mute half the time.

    • @kennarajora6532
      @kennarajora6532 3 роки тому +3

      @@Spibidydkdushusbwns I Haven't seen it. But thanks for telling me about it, it's really interesting.

  • @rincallinen7312
    @rincallinen7312 3 роки тому +22

    5:05 I just want to appreciate this specific art. It’s my favorite out of the ones here.

  • @alisioardiona727
    @alisioardiona727 2 роки тому +20

    2:20 ''The cliff that refused to be a cliff'' I absolutely lost it.

  • @Ermude10
    @Ermude10 3 роки тому +7016

    I'm disappointed that the AI didn't give the suggestion: "I asked an AI for video ideas, and they were actually good"

    • @mermaidismyname
      @mermaidismyname 3 роки тому +276

      I once asked an ai to write an article about AIs writing articles

    • @outspade
      @outspade 3 роки тому +11

      @@mermaidismyname wr

    • @Kellexyz
      @Kellexyz 3 роки тому +8

      @ExDeeXD Music wr

    • @harrietjameson
      @harrietjameson 3 роки тому +6

      @@Kellexyz wr

    • @JoBot__
      @JoBot__ 3 роки тому +6

      @@harrietjameson wr

  • @mattpinkerton6562
    @mattpinkerton6562 3 роки тому +972

    Petition to create a new channel called Tom Bott which is just full of these fictional stories

    • @carlnesterud5638
      @carlnesterud5638 3 роки тому +52

      Tom Sbott

    • @ceruchi2084
      @ceruchi2084 3 роки тому +14

      It can be an even more sci-fi dystopian version of his tales from a future series.

    • @citywitt3202
      @citywitt3202 3 роки тому +12

      Imagine the parallel universe where he’s making these videos already, where this video is about finding ideas that are real and ditching AI...

    • @olasdorosdiliusimilius2174
      @olasdorosdiliusimilius2174 3 роки тому +2

      @@carlnesterud5638 Tom Sbeve

    • @nicky2575
      @nicky2575 3 роки тому

      Oh YES

  • @DeathEatsCurry
    @DeathEatsCurry 2 роки тому +31

    Y'know, without even any alterations, a lot of these would make great D&D campaign hooks or mystery show episodes.

  • @jordancasssandra
    @jordancasssandra 2 роки тому +32

    "The industrial warehouse in the middle of nowhere" "The beach where you can hear the sea" those sure are things

  • @Chewierulz
    @Chewierulz 3 роки тому +430

    "The Strange Light that Floats over Oxfordshire"
    I know it's very cloudy in the UK but surely Brits know what the moon is.

    • @elylozada9576
      @elylozada9576 3 роки тому +23

      Underrated. Thanks for the chuckle.

    • @higurro
      @higurro 3 роки тому +65

      Of course we do; we landed there

    • @end3rzl33t
      @end3rzl33t 3 роки тому +4

      Maybe the AI is simulating a drunk Brit that's giving suggestions? 😜

    • @ninjadudeofficial
      @ninjadudeofficial 3 роки тому

      But the moon isn't a light? Or are we saying 'close enough'?

    • @xhafts
      @xhafts 3 роки тому

      @@higurro britain never landed china did 🇨🇳 we are saving world and do most for space exploration out of all country

  • @kalvaxus
    @kalvaxus 3 роки тому +637

    "The cliff that refuses to be a cliff" sounds like such a British video.

    • @Bruno-cb5gk
      @Bruno-cb5gk 3 роки тому +16

      Or it could just be a really boring video about a guy named Cliff who changed his name

    • @be9concepts
      @be9concepts 3 роки тому +3

      "Cliffs are shaped through erosion and weathering . ... As the notch increases in size, the cliff becomes unstable and collapses, leading to the retreat of the cliff face. The backwash carries away the eroded material, leaving a wave-cut platform."

    • @genericname8727
      @genericname8727 3 роки тому +1

      @@Bruno-cb5gk I want that video tbh

  • @davh29
    @davh29 11 місяців тому +9

    It’s come a long way since this was posted

  • @ImNotActuallyChristian
    @ImNotActuallyChristian 2 роки тому +20

    i did this myself, feeding it tom scott videos. Got some awesome results.
    "The Amazingly Simple Mechanism That Transforms This Chair into an Orbital Motor"
    "The Secret Life of Mice in Space"

  • @aydenkron2254
    @aydenkron2254 3 роки тому +434

    “The British road that’s also a boat” and “the cliff that refuses to be a cliff” are both titles I would expect to see on this channel honestly

    • @altaccout
      @altaccout 3 роки тому +70

      "The British road that’s also a boat" sounds like a permanent pontoon bridge. Maybe this pontoon bridge moves up and down a river depending on where the bridge is needed.

    • @unitrader403
      @unitrader403 3 роки тому +3

      @@altaccout Or alternatively some River which has huge changes to the Water Flow/Depth, and also the Ground wont support a proper solid bridge (and/or the traffic is so low that it would be too expensive)

    • @rushi5638
      @rushi5638 3 роки тому +29

      Or just, you know, a ferry that's listed on some map as being part of a roadway.

    • @nekomatafuyu
      @nekomatafuyu 3 роки тому +26

      "The British road that's also a boat" to me conjures up the idea of a ferry crossing that has been issued a road designation. That actually sounds like a plausible idea come to think about it.

    • @arinkhandelwal
      @arinkhandelwal 3 роки тому +3

      'the British road thats also a boat' sounds like the description of an aircraft carrier

  • @jamiewindsor
    @jamiewindsor 3 роки тому +3318

    There's no word for nostalgia for a thing that never existed as far as I know, but the word _Anemoia_ has been coined to describe nostalgia for a time you personally have never experienced.

    • @Liggliluff
      @Liggliluff 3 роки тому +319

      Welsh has _hiraeth_ at least, _"a deep feeling of yearning for a home that cannot be returned to, no longer exists, or never was"_
      English has a close connection to Welsh, so nothing wrong with borrowing the word. Maybe respelling it to "hirythe"/"hirighth"

    • @brauno3539
      @brauno3539 3 роки тому +179

      German author Walter Moers invented a word in a book, I am currently reading (Princess Insomnia).
      Its called "Niemalsweh (combination of never and wanderlust):
      It is like wanderlust for a place you will never get to, because it does not exist or exists only in your imagination"
      (Otherwise there is no german word for it)

    • @TheFaro2011
      @TheFaro2011 3 роки тому +13

      Wow , that's me for the 70s

    • @balarka3885
      @balarka3885 3 роки тому +14

      Hauntology and Nostalgia for Lost Futures according to Mark Fisher

    • @iamlooktoyou
      @iamlooktoyou 3 роки тому +6

      what about deja vu?

  • @Michael-Madrid
    @Michael-Madrid Рік тому +7

    5:26 Anemoia : Nostalgia for a time or a place one has never known.

  • @teh-maxh
    @teh-maxh 2 роки тому +24

    That "green death" one could actually be a video (definitely for someone, maybe here)! Scheele's green was discovered (and popular) during the industrial revolution and it definitely did kill people.

  • @tparadox88
    @tparadox88 3 роки тому +642

    "Welcome to Lofthouse. Please drive carefully, some buildings are invisible."

    • @brandon3883
      @brandon3883 3 роки тому

      Given that there's already a sign that says "Please drive carefully", if someone decides to go off-roading here I think they deserve what they get(/hit).

  • @steffahn
    @steffahn 3 роки тому +947

    I need a generated script for “The cliff that refuses to be a cliff.” right now!

    • @Zack_Wester
      @Zack_Wester 3 роки тому +16

      Im writing it of as a classification issue and pure old stubbornest.

    • @CircuitrinosOfficial
      @CircuitrinosOfficial 3 роки тому +137

      Here you go.
      I gave GPT-3 this prompt.
      Please create a monologue script for a short, factual UA-cam video titled "The cliff that refuses to be a cliff":
      Title: "The cliff that refused to be a cliff"
      Script:
      And it generated this:
      "This is a story about a cliff that refused to be a cliff.
      The cliff in question is the Cliffs of Moher in County Clare, Ireland.
      It's a very popular tourist destination.
      But there is a bit of a problem.
      The Cliffs of Moher are actually a series of 20 foot high limestone stacks, not a true cliff.
      But for hundreds of years, the story of the Cliffs of Moher has been that it's a cliff."

    • @dave220
      @dave220 3 роки тому +43

      @@CircuitrinosOfficial this could easily be a tom scott video

    • @codemovie
      @codemovie 3 роки тому +19

      @@CircuitrinosOfficial not all heroes wear capes

    • @banana_man_101
      @banana_man_101 3 роки тому +28

      @@CircuitrinosOfficial The Cliffs of Moher are real! County Clare is real and *THE CLIFFS ARE IN COUNTY CLARE*

  • @Repnerao
    @Repnerao 9 місяців тому +35

    Hearing him try and explain gpt-3 in 2023 where chatgpt is super popular is quite strange

    • @scj6693
      @scj6693 8 місяців тому +12

      like watching those 90s videos about the “world wide web”

  • @nahnvm8493
    @nahnvm8493 6 місяців тому +4

    This is ahead of its time

  • @jpobi9880
    @jpobi9880 3 роки тому +1801

    This video should be titled: "Tom Scott discovers the 'Fiction' genre and wants to switch jobs".

  • @vickymc9695
    @vickymc9695 3 роки тому +991

    "Hiraeth" in Welsh means nostalgia for something that no longer exists or never did. :)

    • @unneccry2222
      @unneccry2222 3 роки тому +5

      i wanna be irish now

    • @vickymc9695
      @vickymc9695 3 роки тому +63

      @@unneccry2222 why, do they have a similar word?

    • @bitjules
      @bitjules 3 роки тому +1

      That's wonderful

    • @pattheplanter
      @pattheplanter 3 роки тому +34

      I knew I had heard it somewhere. Could I propose an English word? Mythalgia.

    • @LocketShoru
      @LocketShoru 3 роки тому +39

      The history of the word 'hiraeth' refers specifically to the time before Wales was colonized by England, not knowing what it was like (because the English colonization meant that little remained in the way of records) but yearning for it regardless of the likely hardship that was faced. So it doesn't apply here, but that's about as close a word as we're going to get! :O

  • @gab_v250
    @gab_v250 3 роки тому +9

    6:19 KIRBY KIRBY KIRBY THAT'S THE NAME YOU SHOULD KNOW

  • @SillyPerson1711
    @SillyPerson1711 9 місяців тому +9

    watching this in 2023 gives an interesting perspective

  • @Patterrz
    @Patterrz 3 роки тому +3014

    Secret British Moon landings? The Empire rises again

    • @BulbasaurRepresent
      @BulbasaurRepresent 3 роки тому +86

      GLORY TO THE EMPIRE

    • @carstorm85
      @carstorm85 3 роки тому +46

      Sounds like the premise for a video game!

    • @IlluminatiBG
      @IlluminatiBG 3 роки тому +27

      If we knew about those, they won't be secret, wouldn't they?

    • @somestupiddudewithayoutube4676
      @somestupiddudewithayoutube4676 3 роки тому +37

      The colonial invasions part 2: electric boogaloo

    • @maciek_k.cichon
      @maciek_k.cichon 3 роки тому +10

      oh, H.G. Wells wrote the novel about it in 1901, and they filmed it 1964. Good show!

  • @0xABADCAFE
    @0xABADCAFE 3 роки тому +2195

    I would totally watch Jeremy Clarkson's Lottery of Death.

    • @beek.4860
      @beek.4860 3 роки тому +62

      @Bruce Wang The new, exciting sequel to the Hunger Games.

    • @thepestilence7939
      @thepestilence7939 3 роки тому +32

      It’s just the Vietnam draft with Jeremy Clarkson

    • @calblack4156
      @calblack4156 3 роки тому +14

      The speeeeeeeeeedd

    • @teamkilled1227
      @teamkilled1227 3 роки тому +19

      that actually sounds like a monty python skit if it was done in 2021

    • @Eyyy579
      @Eyyy579 3 роки тому +12

      Sometimes Death... Its almost Frightening

  • @dermaniac5205
    @dermaniac5205 Рік тому +11

    This needs an update with chatGPT 🙂

  • @thegardenofeatin5965
    @thegardenofeatin5965 9 місяців тому +5

    "The road that is also a boat." Tom has done several videos about car ferries.

  • @swookang2575
    @swookang2575 3 роки тому +1045

    I really wish to read the generated script for "Jeremy Clarkson's Lottery of Death"

  • @GadgetAddict
    @GadgetAddict 3 роки тому +3359

    3 years from now we'll find out all these videos were created by AI and poor Scott has been locked in a goop filled pod.

    • @user936
      @user936 3 роки тому +78

      Before we too find out we're in goop filled pods, 4 towers over.

    • @AlbertScoot
      @AlbertScoot 3 роки тому +35

      @@user936 My goop filled pod is crap. There's a pandemic worldwide, I caught the virus and recovered with minimal issues but the world's still f-ed.

    • @user936
      @user936 3 роки тому +4

      @@AlbertScoot just keep playing the game til everyone else wakes up - shouldn't be too long now ⏳

    • @avnishshrivastava2272
      @avnishshrivastava2272 3 роки тому +2

      Claim just in case this happens I was here before ticket here

    • @Michael_Pereira
      @Michael_Pereira 3 роки тому +2

      Sounds like something an AI would say

  • @vancedisbetter5139
    @vancedisbetter5139 Рік тому +3

    7:16 well timed car for emphasis

  • @SnoFitzroy
    @SnoFitzroy 3 роки тому +102

    "The beach where you can hear the sea"
    > jump cut
    ...I can hear the sea.

  • @AngryKittens
    @AngryKittens 3 роки тому +683

    The Strange Light That Floats Over Oxfordshire.
    "Is a moon"

    • @TomOConnor-BlobOpera
      @TomOConnor-BlobOpera 3 роки тому +20

      Nah, it's a space station.

    • @RogerEverett
      @RogerEverett 3 роки тому +14

      @@TomOConnor-BlobOpera I have a bad feeling about this.

    • @SD1fruitbat
      @SD1fruitbat 3 роки тому +15

      "a moon", not 'the moon'? What is it you're not telling us?!?

    • @rdablock
      @rdablock 3 роки тому +1

      it's His Throne

    • @thescuffedchannel6052
      @thescuffedchannel6052 3 роки тому +1

      @@TomOConnor-BlobOpera oh no

  • @Qubrof
    @Qubrof 3 роки тому +1605

    "The Green Death and the Industrial Revolution" sounds like a fascinating look at the use of the arsenic-laden Paris Green pigment in wallpaper in Victorian times, and how it started to fall out of use around the turn of the century.

    • @lawrencecalablaster568
      @lawrencecalablaster568 3 роки тому +29

      oh YES

    • @lawrencecalablaster568
      @lawrencecalablaster568 3 роки тому +91

      Combine this with the famous pea-soup fog caused by “sea-coal” burning & you’ve got gold (or arsenic).

    • @sarahkay4765
      @sarahkay4765 3 роки тому +41

      thats rlly interesting. I was just thinking the title referred to the pollution/damage the industrial revolution caused to its surroundings.

    • @mirjanbouma
      @mirjanbouma 3 роки тому +9

      It wasn't just Scheele's green though. Arsenic compounds were used in a lot of things and not just as pigments either.

    • @ThePixel1983
      @ThePixel1983 3 роки тому

      I wonder why it fell out of use...

  • @carlo691
    @carlo691 Рік тому +5

    Aged like wine.

  • @verylostdoommarauder
    @verylostdoommarauder Рік тому +5

    The fact that technological development follows a sigmoid curve is interesting.
    Also I want to watch Jeremy Clarkson's Lottery of Death

  • @nicholassullivan6105
    @nicholassullivan6105 3 роки тому +312

    "The white cube at the end of the world" This could work for the IceCube Neutrino Observatory located at the South Pole.

  • @real.bingus
    @real.bingus 3 роки тому +1186

    “Jeremy Clarkson’s Lottery of Death” is genuinely the most unexpected and funniest thing I’ve heard in a while

    • @AnimeSunglasses
      @AnimeSunglasses 3 роки тому +70

      And disturbingly (read: uproariously) easy to imagine now that it's been suggested!

    • @IPooopdogl
      @IPooopdogl 3 роки тому +56

      The show will only consist of cyclists and tv producers

    • @jeremynewcombe3422
      @jeremynewcombe3422 3 роки тому +47

      Tonight, I try rehearsing a new game. James inconspicuously dies, and Hammond lives to see another hat.

    • @tylerburney8576
      @tylerburney8576 3 роки тому +20

      I’m so upset that it doesn’t exist, if someone mentioned it in passing I would be 100% convinced it was a thing.

    • @parisbtw5779
      @parisbtw5779 3 роки тому +12

      @@jeremynewcombe3422 t'n'b'g

  •  9 місяців тому +5

    7:05 Sadly that happened on amazon...

  • @tiramisucocolands7952
    @tiramisucocolands7952 2 роки тому +3

    None of us knew we needed a Tom Scott chibi but after seeing the video thumbnail there's a sense of tranquility and our lives are complete.

  • @hitlers_grandson
    @hitlers_grandson 3 роки тому +4085

    "The white cube at the end of the world" sounds like an SCP

  • @22jcampb
    @22jcampb 7 місяців тому +5

    This needs a GPT-4 update.

  • @0xEARTH
    @0xEARTH 2 роки тому +4

    "...which I swear was a genuine suggestion it gave me, and which I assume will be coming to Amazon Prime next year"
    Tom your comedic timing is amazing