Additional Facts & Corrections! 👇 🌲The reason why trees are so helpful is because the inner "heartwood" of a tree is basically... already dead! Only the outer layers of a tree are growing and changing, which means as they're made, each ring of a tree locks in the carbon 14 from the year it grew!! The rings of a tree are records of not only years, but the Carbon 14 from that year!!! TREES ARE AMAZING (thanks to chemical engineer/paper scientist @allenstockburger8664) ☀While Solar Cosmic Rays and Solar Wind are correlated, it's actually Solar WINDS that cause the aurora! (thanks to solar physicist @thenefariousnerd7910) 🫵 And YOU are an all star for checking these additional notes, here's your gold star! ⭐
Hi Tom, solar physicist here. Great video! One minor correction: solar cosmic rays (which we usually call solar energetic particles or SEPs) are not the cause of our aurorae. It’s true that the two can be correlated, but we have the solar wind, coronal mass ejections, and Earth’s magnetosphere to thank, not SEPs, for aurora borealis. It’s all just particles coming from the sun, of course, but SEPs are “non-thermal”, much higher-energy than ambient solar wind particles, and don’t play a significant role in deforming the magnetosphere. The basic idea is that when its speed kicks up, the solar wind can sort of “burrow” into the magnetosphere, triggering a process known as magnetic reconnection which “breaks” magnetic field lines and accelerates particles already found within the atmosphere, which then are channeled along the magnetic field toward the poles where they crash down into the atmosphere and excite atomic emissions. All that to say… you steam a good ham.
@@__nog642 Solar wind is energetic particles, but so are you. Regular solar particles are high energy compared to us, but the ones that can actually make it through the atmosphere are another step up in high energy or very lucky lower energy particles.
When dating UA-cam videos by levels of Tom you can see a clear dark period when Tom Scott stopped followed by a return to light when Tom Lum started. The background noise is erratic levels of TomSka.
I only expected it because they mentioned it on Let's Learn Everything! and I only heard that because I JUST caught up to the most recent episodes like last week?
The amount of absolutely *on-point* bits this otherwise very well made and interesting video has is phenomenal. The only thing that's missing is philosophytube's "dictionary defines as..."
I can very proudly say that I work in the only museum I have ever seen that doesn’t have a single artefact whose age was determined through carbon dating. Sure, it’s a private museum dedicated to three specific people who lived in the recent past, and all of our stuff is from the Victorian era barring a few pieces from the Enlightenment and the War of the Roses, but it all has providence to three families, who have owned all of the artefacts since their creation. Nothing was dug up because it was all in someone’s attic for a century or three. I have never seen another museum with a collection like this.
@@bobthegamingtaco6073 I'd be curious to know, too :) The War of the Roses¹ makes me think it's somewhere in England, but there are approximately ∞ Victorian-era museums so a Web search doesn't get me very far 🤷♀️ ----- ¹ A topic with weird prominence and questionable utility in England's secondary school history curriculum (c.2000), given it happened more than 500 years ago and has little relevance to modern life, as far as I'm aware. I'm not opposed to teaching stuff like that, and I don't know how much the curriculum has changed in the 20 years since I left school, but I'd personally like to see better coverage of some of England's/Britain's/the UK's more problematic and more recent history - colonialism, Empire, etc. - stuff that still affects millions/billions of people today…
This is the _exact_ brand of funny science I am here for! Those edits were genuinely fantastic, and not to mention how well this vid's script is rounded out!
I LOVE the energy of this video. I love long video essays, I love science videos, and I LOVE the "telling my other STEM friends excitedly about this cool thing we found out about and then got hyperfixiated on" vibes. I came from the Let's Learn Everything podcast and am more than thrilled to find out this energy translates from making an audio show with several people to a solo video. Thank you Tom, I will go yell at my STEM bestie to watch this now :)
Tom is the perfect combination of comedy, timing, science, & social to come together as the perfect nerd. All of the jokes & editing & info is perfectly put together. Great job Tom!
Man, I needed this video. Tom's genuine energy and enthusiasm is like soup on a cold day. Funny, well-researched, well-written, just fantastic all around!
Thanks for making this incredible video, it's like an audiovisual version of an LLE main topic, well researched and presented in a way that keeps you entertained while not losing focus on the facts :)
I LOVED THIS VIDEO!!! I’m majoring in biology and I thought it was weird that I also needed to take physics, inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, Calculus 1-3, statistics, and linear algebra as requirements for my degree. But things like Carbon Dating are exactly why we need to take all those classes. All the fields in STEM overlap in the craziest and most interesting ways!
(lol - i hit 'play' again to watch from the beginning while i left my comment :D Lucid explanations + amazing comic timing + science-geek infectious enthusiasm? utterly irresistible! WE'RE MADE OF TINY HOURGLASSES)
This is maybe the best video I've ever watched on UA-cam. Thoroughly researched, carefully paced, perfectly timed humor, and so much joy and reverence for the staggering accomplishments of curious people throughout history. I am heartened and inspired - what a masterpiece.
I absolutely love this format. Good length to get into each segment, each building to a fully comprehensive message. And funny as hell to boot. You're absolutely one of my favorite science communicators, and one of the few people I have alerts for since I never want to miss video. Thanks so much for putting so much thought love and care into this work. It shows. Please take as much time as you need, cause I'd rather get one bang ass episode, then a rushed video put out every Tuesday. I will note however, that since you're so good at segmenting your arguments and explanations, they could become individual episodes in a series, which may work on a semi-regular basis, at least for the algorithm's sake.
1. your music for the video is great! 2. loove all the references in the background of your shots. Katamari, bunch of Pokémon, and sooo much Adventure Time. you are after my own heart 3. the ADR joke was amazing. counting on the fact that I'm attuned to discrepancies between quality of audio and the fact that something is recorded outside only to pull the rug out on me... genius level joke, genuinely. 4. in general, the flow of the jokes was impeccable and did not feel like interrupting the science, which was great. compared to the Let's Learn Everything podcast, you get the added benefit of perfect timing and editing which makes the humor even better ("Comedy.") thanks for the video! I'm excited to see more whenever!
Usually I would be an artist watching this in a half screen but this is actually the first 40 minute long video in ages that’s got my full attention. So glad Hank and John sent me over here
Carl Sagan said, "If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." Guess the same applies to seeing how old something is.
So radiocarbon dating is like all my favorite Magic the Gathering decks. An assemblage of wonky cards with one-off effects which really shouldn't be related, but when put together become an engine doing things which shouldn't be possible.
Tom Lum(person) has got to be one of my favorite modern science communicators and honestly this video as a debut video essay has me STARVING for even more content. I can't wait to show this to any friends that gives me permission to cast during a party.
It's not often I comment on videos, but I want to say that your passion for science is really infectious, and I very much enjoyed the video and the effort put into it (congrats on making that super awesome graph). The video really gave me a sense of how interconnected all of us are to the earth, universe, and moments in time, even if they’re decades, centuries, or millennia apart. If you see this, I hope this comment motivates you to keep doing whatever it is you want :)
Fascinating video! Thanks for putting all of this together. Three comments I’d like to make. 1. That is a lovely graph, well done. 2. I’m quilting as I listen, and often had to rewind a few seconds to catch something I missed the first time (it was always worthwhile) and 3. I’m going to have better conversations with my high school students the next time I teach radioactive dating.
This was fantastic!! I haven’t been in school for a quarter century, so a lot has leaked out. You made this easy to understand & so funny! I hope so much that you’re able to do more of these.
Came here from a shout-out in the vlogbrothers video uploaded one hour ago, where John Green mentioned your video. It's nice! I liked it! I've subscribed. : >
Couldn't agree more with the excitement over when scientific fields come together to solve problems like this. It's inspiring and reminds me of the good parts of being a social, intelligent species.
Thank you, Tom. After all the regents exams and life just being life, this was the exactly the energy I needed at nearly four in the morning. Thanks for the care, dedication, and passion you put into your videos. Thanks. -An artist who totally was just glancing down every now and then and listening to the video I just watched while drawing
me: "I'm not going to watch all of this video, it's too long, but I'll watch a little while." said at 38 minutes in. You are funny, a good researcher, a terrible dresser, a smiling nerd, and many others human things. What you are not, is boring. Please keep up the good work.
You're so entertaining. Thanks for posting this, I've been having a rough go at life lately and this is one of the few things that managed to keep and hold my attention and allow me a brief escape. Loved every bit of it, especially hanging up on Hank multiple times 😂
i know this took SO LONG to edit but you can see clearly how much fun you had doing so! this video was everything a video should be to me: informative, interesting, funny and very very well produced and edited. even though i viewed the video in a half screen while editing a video of my own😅 i still couldnt keep myself from smiling throughout the whole video, from the super detailed assets that appear for 2 seconds (and the graph that for the amount of time that went to creating i assume was equivalent to lasting 2 seconds), to the funny recurring gags and also picking a very interesting subject. i cant support your pateron as i am still not a legal adult but trust me that you are going to the top of my patreon future list!😁 I literally cant wait to see your channel become the next veritasium and your full time job (if u want to of course) and until then just know, ill be watching every single video you make ❤❤❤❤❤
Confession, I'd kinda been putting off watching this video, since while I love LLE, I wasn't entirely sure what Tom could do solo. But MAN, has he put together a stellar debut!!!! Managing to make complex topics so easy to understand, and the comedy was the icing on the cake!! Such a perfectly balanced edutainment video! Definitely going to become one of my comfort videos to watch when nothing else on UA-cam piques my interest lol
You are fun and contagious in it. Keep up, this is great work and in the divulgative community we need people that put their good hearts in the field. Nothings transmits more passion than that, good people making the effort and having good times while at it. Thank you so much. P.D.: I knew this would be good becouse I recognized you from the bat swing favourite (half)sine graf.
I can’t believe this video hasn’t blown up yet, a terrific collaboration (get it?) of scienfic knowledge, history, and sheer enthusiasm that Tom has that makes this perfect
I finally got around to watching this and it's soo good, the editing is very much what I expected coming from the pod, but that makes it all the better 😄
You had me passionate and laughing to tears. Absolutely loved that type of content. Wish you best of luck with this format, I will be looking forward for more :)
I come back every other week ever since I discovered this video to check if it picked up in the algorithm because I'm pumped at the idea of you seeing it succeed as much as I believe it should. I'm a bit disappointed it hasn't yet, but in an odd way, I'm still happy it was crossed my path anyway. I rarely rewatch "educational" videos because they usually don't bring any new value, yours is the exception in this sense because your excitement about science and the delivery on it is just peak and I look forward to the day you bless us with more. cheers Tom, good luck!
After watching this a few times now, one thing I really appreciate & can finally articulate is you break the rule of 3 when it comes to jokes! Almost every joke is done twice & it feels so fresh, like music that ends unresolved but is all the better for it. On top of all the fun facts of this little slice of history, looking forward to whatever rabbit hole you'll bring us into next.
Wow! You put on a lot of different hats for this video. This entire video I admired how hilarious your script and delivery are, only to be absolutely blown away by the amount of roles you took on to produce this incredible video. I am excited to see more of your work. To anyone who can financially back this content: Please do! This is amazing.
4 mins in and it salready some of the funiest vids related to science i have ever had the pleasure of watching, please keep doing what you love cuz it realy makes me smile :] ❤
I've always wondered this, I understood the general idea behind it but couldn't explain it or derive the steps myself (despite being a physics major). Great video that's both informative and funny (and 10 bonus points for Maryland)
Been watching you on Lateral with Tom Scott. Got recommended your stuff and I'm really glad I clicked! Super interesting and love the jokes! Well done, sir!
Additional Facts & Corrections! 👇
🌲The reason why trees are so helpful is because the inner "heartwood" of a tree is basically... already dead! Only the outer layers of a tree are growing and changing, which means as they're made, each ring of a tree locks in the carbon 14 from the year it grew!! The rings of a tree are records of not only years, but the Carbon 14 from that year!!! TREES ARE AMAZING
(thanks to chemical engineer/paper scientist @allenstockburger8664)
☀While Solar Cosmic Rays and Solar Wind are correlated, it's actually Solar WINDS that cause the aurora!
(thanks to solar physicist @thenefariousnerd7910)
🫵 And YOU are an all star for checking these additional notes, here's your gold star! ⭐
You are awesome! Thank you for making things!
Please stop closing the Laptop on Hank, it is too funny xDDDDD
Tom Lum: "Alright, thank you."
Okay, you already got me with hank green - aspiring comedian 😂
That was amazing and I actually lol'd in a literal sense.
That deadpan "Ya tom" was too great.
And Blogger for EcoGeek
so mean
Well, that's outdated because Hank's standup routine just went live on Dropout a few days ago. He is now a proper comedian
Hi Tom, solar physicist here. Great video! One minor correction: solar cosmic rays (which we usually call solar energetic particles or SEPs) are not the cause of our aurorae. It’s true that the two can be correlated, but we have the solar wind, coronal mass ejections, and Earth’s magnetosphere to thank, not SEPs, for aurora borealis.
It’s all just particles coming from the sun, of course, but SEPs are “non-thermal”, much higher-energy than ambient solar wind particles, and don’t play a significant role in deforming the magnetosphere. The basic idea is that when its speed kicks up, the solar wind can sort of “burrow” into the magnetosphere, triggering a process known as magnetic reconnection which “breaks” magnetic field lines and accelerates particles already found within the atmosphere, which then are channeled along the magnetic field toward the poles where they crash down into the atmosphere and excite atomic emissions.
All that to say… you steam a good ham.
Is the solar wind not made of energetic particles?
@@__nog642 Solar wind is energetic particles, but so are you. Regular solar particles are high energy compared to us, but the ones that can actually make it through the atmosphere are another step up in high energy or very lucky lower energy particles.
"This is Maryland. Any resemblance to blender is just coincidental" hahahahha
"We are all made of hourglasses that fall from the sky" is something I'd expect to read in a Poem. Science is *cool*
Science is! He's so good at showing that spirit
it's giving John Green vibes haha (absolutely loving your profile pic btw, birds are awesome)
"This has been Tom Lum from the video you just watched" is an absolutely peak outro
this HAS HAS HAS to become his actual outro lol
Omg Tom I can't believe you already got a Pluton sponsorship!! I've always loved their classic slogan, "Always know when you died."
23:57 As someone who had this on a half screen while cross stitching I feel very called out rn
Ha, same! (but sewing)
@@meisjeViv Ha, same! (but video editing)
Ha same (but ignoring responsibilities)
@@jeffgoldblunt literally me
Ha, same! (but sanding)
"AUGH! MY HUBRIS" is peak comedy to me lol
also I NEED more videos like this; it was incredibly entertaining and educational (my favorite combo)
This is Lets Learn Everything except there's nobody to stop Tom going ham on the jokes
YES exactly my thoughts, it has the type of energy I love on LLE
Unfiltered and unleashed onto the world.
Oh god
I kept waiting for Caroline or Ella to groan or yell at him for some of the jokes. . .
Lol hank green getting hung up on via closing the laptop screen
When dating UA-cam videos by levels of Tom you can see a clear dark period when Tom Scott stopped followed by a return to light when Tom Lum started. The background noise is erratic levels of TomSka.
Oh _hell_ yes I didn't expect you to make longform content and I am _loving_ it
I only expected it because they mentioned it on Let's Learn Everything! and I only heard that because I JUST caught up to the most recent episodes like last week?
3:11 "like, a ten-minute-long youtube video essay" yeah, more or less [40 minute runtime staring at you from the corner of the screen]
TOM LUM, IT'S ONLY BEEN 15 MINUTES AND I'VE DONE 4 SEPERATE SPIT TAKES HELP
40 whole minutes of Tom's radiantly joyful face talking about science?? Truly a gift to us all
The amount of absolutely *on-point* bits this otherwise very well made and interesting video has is phenomenal. The only thing that's missing is philosophytube's "dictionary defines as..."
I took the Mariam-Webster definition as a variation on that joke (1:48)
I can very proudly say that I work in the only museum I have ever seen that doesn’t have a single artefact whose age was determined through carbon dating. Sure, it’s a private museum dedicated to three specific people who lived in the recent past, and all of our stuff is from the Victorian era barring a few pieces from the Enlightenment and the War of the Roses, but it all has providence to three families, who have owned all of the artefacts since their creation. Nothing was dug up because it was all in someone’s attic for a century or three. I have never seen another museum with a collection like this.
Ooh, what museum?
@@bobthegamingtaco6073 I'd be curious to know, too :)
The War of the Roses¹ makes me think it's somewhere in England, but there are approximately ∞ Victorian-era museums so a Web search doesn't get me very far 🤷♀️
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¹ A topic with weird prominence and questionable utility in England's secondary school history curriculum (c.2000), given it happened more than 500 years ago and has little relevance to modern life, as far as I'm aware.
I'm not opposed to teaching stuff like that, and I don't know how much the curriculum has changed in the 20 years since I left school, but I'd personally like to see better coverage of some of England's/Britain's/the UK's more problematic and more recent history - colonialism, Empire, etc. - stuff that still affects millions/billions of people today…
I am FROTHING at the mouth for more longform content form you, and I hope these are enjoyable for you to make
This is the _exact_ brand of funny science I am here for! Those edits were genuinely fantastic, and not to mention how well this vid's script is rounded out!
I’m not sure what I’m watching here, but this slaps.
You gotta watch the one about the bats.
Carbon dating? Uh, yeah, I sure hope I am
THIS IS FIRE BRO, JUST FINISHED WATCHING IT
DENDROCHRONOLOGY is just SUCH A COOL WORD!! (and an equaly cool field)
I can't wait to see more of this!!!
I did not know I could sit still for 40 minutes without fidgeting or checking my phone and learn about carbon dating 🤣 You are hilarious!!
Wait the editing is so good, this is seriously your first video essay? I don't believe you
9:11 I apprechiate the displacement/little imperfections on the 3D model
I LOVE the energy of this video. I love long video essays, I love science videos, and I LOVE the "telling my other STEM friends excitedly about this cool thing we found out about and then got hyperfixiated on" vibes. I came from the Let's Learn Everything podcast and am more than thrilled to find out this energy translates from making an audio show with several people to a solo video. Thank you Tom, I will go yell at my STEM bestie to watch this now :)
9:00 Gotta love those multiple second long gag transition
Dentocronology: The science of determining the age of things by counting the rings in a cross-section of teeth.
This has been my favourite UA-cam experience in a very long time. Thank you so much for making me laugh and learn right when I needed it!
Tom is the perfect combination of comedy, timing, science, & social to come together as the perfect nerd. All of the jokes & editing & info is perfectly put together. Great job Tom!
I love your editing style so much. Excellent essay, kept me hooked through the whole thing.
I love the concept of a Plutonium Coffin, given who the Roman god of death is.
thank you for making this amazingly wonderful video tom lum (from the video i just watched)
"What in nature has been keeping time?" is such a cool question. I love it
Man, I needed this video. Tom's genuine energy and enthusiasm is like soup on a cold day. Funny, well-researched, well-written, just fantastic all around!
Thanks for making this incredible video, it's like an audiovisual version of an LLE main topic, well researched and presented in a way that keeps you entertained while not losing focus on the facts :)
I LOVED THIS VIDEO!!!
I’m majoring in biology and I thought it was weird that I also needed to take physics, inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, Calculus 1-3, statistics, and linear algebra as requirements for my degree. But things like Carbon Dating are exactly why we need to take all those classes. All the fields in STEM overlap in the craziest and most interesting ways!
I could leave 10 comments how great, funny and interesting this video was.
But I have no time because I LITERALLY start to watch this video again!😂
Ok not true.
I lied
I’m sorry
I mean
I had to become a patrion first so I don’t have to rewatch this video.
Watch it anyway again now!
(lol - i hit 'play' again to watch from the beginning while i left my comment :D Lucid explanations + amazing comic timing + science-geek infectious enthusiasm? utterly irresistible! WE'RE MADE OF TINY HOURGLASSES)
I’m so charmed by his “being handed or presented with a sheet of information” choreography like at 14:29!
This is maybe the best video I've ever watched on UA-cam. Thoroughly researched, carefully paced, perfectly timed humor, and so much joy and reverence for the staggering accomplishments of curious people throughout history. I am heartened and inspired - what a masterpiece.
I absolutely love this format. Good length to get into each segment, each building to a fully comprehensive message. And funny as hell to boot. You're absolutely one of my favorite science communicators, and one of the few people I have alerts for since I never want to miss video. Thanks so much for putting so much thought love and care into this work. It shows.
Please take as much time as you need, cause I'd rather get one bang ass episode, then a rushed video put out every Tuesday. I will note however, that since you're so good at segmenting your arguments and explanations, they could become individual episodes in a series, which may work on a semi-regular basis, at least for the algorithm's sake.
1. your music for the video is great!
2. loove all the references in the background of your shots. Katamari, bunch of Pokémon, and sooo much Adventure Time. you are after my own heart
3. the ADR joke was amazing. counting on the fact that I'm attuned to discrepancies between quality of audio and the fact that something is recorded outside only to pull the rug out on me... genius level joke, genuinely.
4. in general, the flow of the jokes was impeccable and did not feel like interrupting the science, which was great. compared to the Let's Learn Everything podcast, you get the added benefit of perfect timing and editing which makes the humor even better ("Comedy.")
thanks for the video! I'm excited to see more whenever!
Usually I would be an artist watching this in a half screen but this is actually the first 40 minute long video in ages that’s got my full attention. So glad Hank and John sent me over here
i think this is the best video on youtube- it’s funny, educational, and it’s clear that you’re really passionate about the topic!
Definitely worth the wait!
Carl Sagan said, "If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." Guess the same applies to seeing how old something is.
You are doing science with my peak of comedy type humor. Please, keep doing long videos Tom, this is amazing
So radiocarbon dating is like all my favorite Magic the Gathering decks. An assemblage of wonky cards with one-off effects which really shouldn't be related, but when put together become an engine doing things which shouldn't be possible.
This video is so well made, the pacing, the jokes, the information within it.. well done! I'll be sure to come back for the next one
Tom Lum(person) has got to be one of my favorite modern science communicators and honestly this video as a debut video essay has me STARVING for even more content. I can't wait to show this to any friends that gives me permission to cast during a party.
This better do well, this was such a great video. i loved watching it on the premier =)
I love tom lum from the video i just watched. Big fan keep at it.
It's not often I comment on videos, but I want to say that your passion for science is really infectious, and I very much enjoyed the video and the effort put into it (congrats on making that super awesome graph). The video really gave me a sense of how interconnected all of us are to the earth, universe, and moments in time, even if they’re decades, centuries, or millennia apart.
If you see this, I hope this comment motivates you to keep doing whatever it is you want :)
everything about this is so on brand for Tom and I am loving every single second of it (40 minutes have never felt shorter)
1) Hank's Chiron being "Aspiring Comedian"
2) Hank's delivery of "...yeah, Tom"
Fascinating video! Thanks for putting all of this together. Three comments I’d like to make. 1. That is a lovely graph, well done. 2. I’m quilting as I listen, and often had to rewind a few seconds to catch something I missed the first time (it was always worthwhile) and 3. I’m going to have better conversations with my high school students the next time I teach radioactive dating.
This was fantastic!! I haven’t been in school for a quarter century, so a lot has leaked out. You made this easy to understand & so funny! I hope so much that you’re able to do more of these.
YES!!!! This is fantastic.Whatever you end up doing I’m going to love watching it. You make everything entertaining. Well done.
"Hank Green: Aspiring Comedian" made me burst out laughing!
Came here from a shout-out in the vlogbrothers video uploaded one hour ago, where John Green mentioned your video.
It's nice! I liked it! I've subscribed. : >
Same
13:51 That cyclotron is in the Lawrence Hall of Science parking lot, you can touch it w/out even paying for admission
I already knew you were a genius in short form comedy, but I'm impressed that you managed to do it just as well in long form! So happy I subscribed ^^
John and Hank Green sent me and I'm glad they did, this was fun and super fascinating! Liked and subscribed!
This is the best science video I have seen in a long time. Informative, well paced, entertaining, heartfelt, grounded. Can't wait for the next one!
When you said you were making a UA-cam Long on the podcast, I didn't expect the production value to go *this hard*. Good job!
This was one of the best science videos and THE best carbon dating videos I’ve ever watched :). I CANT WAIT FOR MORE OMG
tom scott type intro
Couldn't agree more with the excitement over when scientific fields come together to solve problems like this. It's inspiring and reminds me of the good parts of being a social, intelligent species.
Thank you, Tom. After all the regents exams and life just being life, this was the exactly the energy I needed at nearly four in the morning. Thanks for the care, dedication, and passion you put into your videos. Thanks.
-An artist who totally was just glancing down every now and then and listening to the video I just watched while drawing
6:19 Is that a limited edition @Tibees pencil? That's a very obscure flex! 😂
Tom’s brand of comedy over long form video format is so brilliant. This video is just so wonderful and informative.
Excellent - great energy! Congratulations and hurry up and make the next one!
me: "I'm not going to watch all of this video, it's too long, but I'll watch a little while." said at 38 minutes in. You are funny, a good researcher, a terrible dresser, a smiling nerd, and many others human things. What you are not, is boring. Please keep up the good work.
You're so entertaining. Thanks for posting this, I've been having a rough go at life lately and this is one of the few things that managed to keep and hold my attention and allow me a brief escape. Loved every bit of it, especially hanging up on Hank multiple times 😂
Great stuff man, nice to see ya in Baltimore, I went to college there way back in the day. Now I miss Old Bay, lol. Cheers.
I made the mistake of trying to watch this during lunch, kept learning and laughing, perfect combo
I'm always so excited when you have new content. You're educational and funny, so thanks.
Yay 🙌🏼 Carbon Dating rocks
It literally cannot
But you don't carbon date rocks?
Thank you, Sir! My family and I enjoyed this greatly. Please continue your amazing work, and we will continue to watch, laugh, cry, and radiate.
i know this took SO LONG to edit but you can see clearly how much fun you had doing so! this video was everything a video should be to me: informative, interesting, funny and very very well produced and edited. even though i viewed the video in a half screen while editing a video of my own😅 i still couldnt keep myself from smiling throughout the whole video, from the super detailed assets that appear for 2 seconds (and the graph that for the amount of time that went to creating i assume was equivalent to lasting 2 seconds), to the funny recurring gags and also picking a very interesting subject. i cant support your pateron as i am still not a legal adult but trust me that you are going to the top of my patreon future list!😁 I literally cant wait to see your channel become the next veritasium and your full time job (if u want to of course) and until then just know, ill be watching every single video you make ❤❤❤❤❤
Confession, I'd kinda been putting off watching this video, since while I love LLE, I wasn't entirely sure what Tom could do solo. But MAN, has he put together a stellar debut!!!! Managing to make complex topics so easy to understand, and the comedy was the icing on the cake!! Such a perfectly balanced edutainment video! Definitely going to become one of my comfort videos to watch when nothing else on UA-cam piques my interest lol
This should be part of every archaeology curriculum. So good
You are fun and contagious in it. Keep up, this is great work and in the divulgative community we need people that put their good hearts in the field. Nothings transmits more passion than that, good people making the effort and having good times while at it. Thank you so much.
P.D.: I knew this would be good becouse I recognized you from the bat swing favourite (half)sine graf.
I wish I could show you a picture of the look of shock and disgust on my face when I noticed that the "Subscribe" button wasn't already pressed
I can’t believe this video hasn’t blown up yet, a terrific collaboration (get it?) of scienfic knowledge, history, and sheer enthusiasm that Tom has that makes this perfect
All bits and jokes and sounds effects are amazing lol
I finally got around to watching this and it's soo good, the editing is very much what I expected coming from the pod, but that makes it all the better 😄
And the attention to timing 😂 A+ reminds me of a top notch AMV
This has to be one of the most enjoyable videos I have ever seen on youtube. You are making pancakes out of butter and it is dope.
Dude this was a killer first video! Can't wait to see more 🤙🤙
You had me passionate and laughing to tears. Absolutely loved that type of content. Wish you best of luck with this format, I will be looking forward for more :)
I come back every other week ever since I discovered this video to check if it picked up in the algorithm because I'm pumped at the idea of you seeing it succeed as much as I believe it should. I'm a bit disappointed it hasn't yet, but in an odd way, I'm still happy it was crossed my path anyway. I rarely rewatch "educational" videos because they usually don't bring any new value, yours is the exception in this sense because your excitement about science and the delivery on it is just peak and I look forward to the day you bless us with more.
cheers Tom, good luck!
After watching this a few times now, one thing I really appreciate & can finally articulate is you break the rule of 3 when it comes to jokes! Almost every joke is done twice & it feels so fresh, like music that ends unresolved but is all the better for it. On top of all the fun facts of this little slice of history, looking forward to whatever rabbit hole you'll bring us into next.
Tom Lumperson I have so thoroughly enjoyed this video, thank you so much for your effort, and for being such a big part of my favorite podcast
Wow! You put on a lot of different hats for this video. This entire video I admired how hilarious your script and delivery are, only to be absolutely blown away by the amount of roles you took on to produce this incredible video. I am excited to see more of your work.
To anyone who can financially back this content: Please do! This is amazing.
4 mins in and it salready some of the funiest vids related to science i have ever had the pleasure of watching, please keep doing what you love cuz it realy makes me smile :] ❤
I've always wondered this, I understood the general idea behind it but couldn't explain it or derive the steps myself (despite being a physics major). Great video that's both informative and funny (and 10 bonus points for Maryland)
Your acting makes this a delight. Love to see excitement over little things :D glad this wasn't only 10 min long
OMG YOU ALSO USED THE NASA HDRI!!! I LOVE THAT!!!! Also, interesing choice to only use ctrl+2 on the Earth.
Been watching you on Lateral with Tom Scott. Got recommended your stuff and I'm really glad I clicked! Super interesting and love the jokes! Well done, sir!