If by "England" the submitter meant England, Arkansas, and if by "Australia" the submitter meant the ghost town of Australia, Mississippi, than it is indeed possible to drive from England to Australia in about 2 hours 26 minutes.
Regarding the Statue of Liberty thing, this is actually not as terrible a question as it first seems. Long story short, Ellis Island and Liberty Island were initially defined as New York land in New Jersey waters. For some not fully understood reason, these islands then became larger. The Supreme Court ruled that the expanded portion of Ellis Island belonged to New Jersey, but there has been no such ruling regarding Liberty Island. Interestingly, if the Ellis Island decision were expanded to Liberty Island, then the statue would be in New York, but the gift shop would be in New Jersey.
"What state is the statue of liberty in?" HAI, you dropped the ball on the absolute best possible answer, which is that the statue of liberty is in a solid state.
And if you map the route from it to lovely Australia by car and save it on your pc you'll have a solid state to solid state drive in a solid state drive!
"What state is the Statue of Liberty in?" Generally a good one. It has a layer of copper rust on it from years of being exposed to the elements, but this has now become part of its iconic look and has not substantially affected its structural integrity. It did undergo extensive restoration from 1984-1986 and was closed to the public during that time, but has generally been accessible since then.
This mysterious "Robert" must be so excited to finally be in the spotlight. All of their hard work copy-and-pasting the code for that bot and then letting it run idly for a couple of hours... it's all been worth it.
@@reagandevore273 It was a while back when I did that, I think must have been around 2020 or 2021 or so. The funny thing is, I didn't even see this video until like a year after he posted it, and mostly it was just something I did with a little bash script that I ran on my laptop because I was a college freshmen stuck during the lockdown with nothing better to do. To be honest, I'm not even sure how my name got into it.
But if H.A.I. gave us nuance how could he get through so many questions. Also the Real question he failed at is, "Has anyone ever Driven from Australia to the U.K.?" The Correct answer of which would be, "Yes. Dozens. Parking lot Ships Have surely carried Hundreds of crappy brittish cars to Australia when Britian still made cars. And you get the boats on and off the ship by driving." The Better Question I'd Ask is, "Who's driven to the most countries?", because sifting through wrong answers, ferry routes, and captain's logs of boat car transports would surely give opertunities for either funny jokes or talking about Top Gear/Grand Tour.
"Let's face it, if you like this channel you like knowing stuff..." i mean personally, I like this channel for the brick jokes, the wiki summaries are just extra mustard
If you allow putting the car on a boat, you _can_ drive to Australia. One Dutch guy did it a couple of years back, staying overnight with whoever volunteered to host him and getting power to charge his car from them. At the time I found out about it, he was looking for places in Australia to host him for the last couple of thousand kilometres of his journey.
@@SydSquid-uw5ng but again, he did a reupload of himself rating Canadian provinces' flags and got over 2M views so… not the best measure of good ideas you know?
Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty in both of their entirely belong to Jersey City,NJ, Ellis island has a bridge connected to Liberty State park in Jersey City,New Jersey, and my great great grandparents documents said Jersey City NJ, not New York,New York
It technically is possible to drive from England to Australia, some of the ways of doing so are (sorted by most likely): •Drive an amphibious car. •Drive underwater. •Drive a flying car. •Expand England or Australia so that part of 1 of them is on the same continent as the other. •Freeze the ocean.
Also, the blue whale technically could carry that much on its back if something else loaded the whale and stabilized the cargo, but the whale couldn't "lift" jack squat because it has no limbs designed to pick stuff up or move it around, and has not developed that particular set of motor skills.
You could argue that putting something in the whales mouth and then having it raise its head counts as 'lifting', but good luck explaining that to a blue whale
2:50 I was expecting an illuminating insight into how New Jersey owns the waters surrounding Liberty Island, as well as the statutes gift shop. Left devastated. Shout out to CGP Grey ✌️
I feel I should mention that a guy I knew back in high school was working on plans to turn a Winnebago into an amphibious RV so he could take a road trip to Hawaii. England to Australia could’ve been possible, but he died before he finished the project.
Technically speaking, if you drove from England to a car carrier and slowly drove around the deck (in circles most likely) the entire time you were in the boat and drove off the boat in Australia that would still count, no?
yep, but honestly you wouldnt even need to keep driving, since for pretty much all long car rides you stop at some point, especially for really long rides, where you need to sleep at some point for example and have to stop because of that.
Ferries don't exist from Indonesia to Australia. You can drive from England as far as Singapore via road and tunnel, and can ferry to Java, but most islands east of Java in Indonesia are comparatively sparsely populated and none of the lands that get relatively close such as East Timor or Papua New Guinea (or any of Indonesia's islands for that matter) have ferries to Australia. The infrastructure isn't there, nor is the demand.
I can't believe I just stumbled onto your channel a few days ago, this stuff is amazing! Love how you combine two of the best things ever: history and humor!
1:33 technically you can *almost* made it to Australia from England. If we are talking about direct land drive alone, the closest you ever got to Australia is Singapore. but if we include Roll On/Roll Off transfer, I could wrongly assume that there's a RoRo journey from east coast of Peninsular Malaysia to Sarawak, but the closest place you ever got to Australia if you include RoRo journey is Merauke, Indonesia, which may also wrong since i did not know if there is a RoRo service to Merauke or not.
@@Farimira With enough money you can build a car that will drive on the bottom of the ocean. Then again; with enough money you can have all of Australia transported to the UK. Or the other way around.
I love how all of us worked together as a community to do what we do best and corrected poor Sam, Adam, and rest of the HAI team about the statue of liberty thing at least a few dozen times already XD
The statue of Liberty One is actually based on an interesting thing most people don't know... it's actually in New jersey, but kind of New york owned... or not. It's complicated
For the Statue of Liberty one, if you're confused as to why it's open to debate, there's a good CPG grey video regarding it, and It has to do with who owns the water vs the island Also 300 HAI videos that's pretty cool
My wife loves penguins and wants a video on 10,474 because it has a penguin doing something "incredibly awesome looking". So I guess whatever that idea was, it gets another suggestion? I'm just here for brick facts.
@@nefwaenre After extensive research I've determined it's probably because those places have the most amount of resources and least amount of predators.
I would recommend revisiting “Is it possible to drive from England to Australia” - Francis Birtles was the first person to complete that journey by car in 1928 (given some of it was by boat). From Wikipedia: “In an era when there were few roads and gasoline supplies sparse, the epic eight-month journey carried him across mountains, deserts and through tropical jungles and included a number of sea voyages - the last being from Singapore to Darwin. He travelled via Europe, Egypt, Persia (now Iran), India, Burma and Malaya.”
There is actually a bit of controversy between New York and New Jersey regarding Lady Liberty's location, so the question is not as bad as HAI made out. It actually would make a pretty good HAI video exploring the controversy.
I think the "Can you drive from England to Australia?" has some merit: it's possible to drive from England to Eurasia via the Chunnel, and there are plenty of bridges, tunnels and other infrastructure that could get you across some islands; there is also the question of ferries, does taking a ferry mean you didn't drive to your destination? What constitutes a ferry? etc. Even if the answer is still no, knowing how close you could get, or odd cases where two parts of the world that one would expect should be connected by road technically aren't (like how the Darién Gap exists in the Americas) are still interesting.
Even the channel tunnel probably doesn't count as driving - there are trains which go through it which carry cars, rather than the cars driving directly, so it's more analogous to a ferry than to a road bridge. If we count ferries, then google maps will show then if you zoom in - and nothing is shown which would get you closer than Singapore. This could be from incomplete data, but I've still put more effort into research than Sam's writers, so we'll call it a win. (If Indonesia does in fact have international car ferries both North to Asia and South to Australia, then sure, I guess, if you count ferries as driving then go for it) Though at that point, you could just frieght your car over and call it a win, and it's about as valid.
@@BadIdeasBureau in the channel you are told to remain in your car, so perhaps the question should be 'how far would you get without having to leave your car'.
With the right visas and ferries, you can theoretically get to Vanimo, Papua New Guinea. Google maps won’t let you drive across the India-Pakistan border, but there is a legal crossing between them.
The Statue of Liberty is now considered to be in NJ. It used to be owned by NY. However NJ petitioned that and now owner it. NJ was happy to get the revenue and New York was happy to stop paying to maintain it and taxes, etc. This is why NYS license plates changed a while back and were no longer able to have the Statue of Liberty on it.
The Statue of Liberty question is actually one that I think warrants a video. For years the state of New York in the state of New Jersey have both claimed ownership of Liberty Island.
Driving from the UK to Australia is doable. In 1950-52 an Australian Army veteran named Frederick Ben Carlin (and his first wife) accomplished a Transatlantic crossing using a Ford GPA (amphibious jeep). The longest leg was crossing from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Flores, the westernmost of the Azores, which took roughly 32 days. This was a distance of 2,715 km (1687 miles). The shortest distance by sea between the UK and Australia would be between Falmouth, Cornwall and Port Walcott, Western Australia, a distance of 19,434 km (12,076 miles). Now assuming the same pace as Halifax-Flores, it would take around 229 days to "drive".
A direct, non stop flight between London Heathrow and Perth International takes 16 hours and 35 minutes. If the jet lag didn't physically kill you, and you're a sociopath that doesn't care about their carbon footprint, you could fly the round trip leg 165.7085 times, not counting transfer time or take off and landing duration, in 229 days.
Now, nobody could accomplish a UK-Australia journey completely by sea. Even the Carlins barely made it across the Atlantic. A more plausible journey is to break this up into land and sea legs: crossing the English Channel by water, driving from Calais, France to Singapore, then by water to Port Walcott, Western Australia. Edit: I broke Google Maps trying to find a Calais to Singapore route🤣 Edit 2: Using another online calculator the distance would be 14,781 km (9184.5 miles) for a duration of 295.6 hours. Assuming an approximate average speed of 50 km/h (31 mph). Edit 3: The sea legs would total 3898.47 km (2484.53 miles). Or 47.128 days by the Carlin's 1951 pace. Edit 4: Adding 2 and 3 gives a result of 59.45 days as the quickest drive time between the UK and Australia by an amphibious jeep. To whatever masochistic idiot suggested this topic, you're welcome.
The weight on the moon question is a trick question. You can't lift more weight on the moon, you can just lift more stuff because it weighs less. The amount of weight you can lift is identical. That question is like asking which weighs more, a one pound bag of rocks or a one pound bag of feathers?
Funnily enough, Ninja bread man was the first Wii game I ever owned and played (aside from Wii sports, but that's a given seeing as it came with the console)
@@shapular I remember the controls being quite bad and not always responsive. The actual game was just a bland platformer where you'd encounter the same easy enemies over and over. I also think it just sort of ends, without any final boss or anything of the sort. I might just not have finished the game and misremember though. I definitely wouldn't classify it as a good game, but I really can't imagine that it's the *worst* game on the console. If it really is, then that says lot about Nintendo's seal of quality.
The reason it is considered one of the worst is because they reskinned it 3 times to release it as 4 separate games. Ninjabreadman Anubus II Myth Makers: Trixie in Toyland Rock 'n' Roll Adventures This angered many people that bought what was essentially the same game multiple times, which is why it is remembered with such hatred.
I can't remember the last time I laughed this much at a video. I was literally weeping. Thanks so much! I especially loved that you found an academic paper to answer that one question. (I won't say which so as not to spoil the surprise.)
"What state is the statue of liberty in?" Hello and welcome to Half as Interesting. The UA-cam channel that says things much more succinctly than CGP Grey. The statue of liberty is in New York.
@@cjeam9199 but why would anyone choose to give birth there? (And if you repeat your comment, I will repeat mine, and we’ll go forever, which would honestly be peak internet)
@@leahsmilezzzzzzz because they live there, enjoying fucking, birth control isn’t 100% effective, and despite most of the people in Greenland who get pregnant deciding to have an abortion, some don’t want one for whatever reason. Happy little accident, boom more Greenlanders.
0:33 This whole sequence is hilarious. Robert's bot spamming about bricks is about as funny as me spamming MatPat about doing a video about the (real world) Unknown 2 Highway. Arizona showed me a picture, and I want to know what it is of.
1:23 Driving from England to Australia is sort of possible, someone made a timelaspse of it on UA-cam, you do need to ship the car from the last bit of Asia to Australia though. Could actually have been an interesting video
@@LilJollyJoker Technically no but you can drive 95%+ of the way there, and if you accompany the car on the ship, it's a little bit of a grey area. E.G You can drive to anywhere in Europe from the UK but you would accompany your car on a ferry or train to cross The Channel, I don't think anyone would argue that doesn't count as driving to your destination.
@@LilJollyJoker you can drive while being on multiple ships. Put atleast two ships, or platforms of same height back-to-back, and when the car drives from one ship to another, let the back ship move at a greater velocity around the ship the car is on, and come back at the front. By doing this you can technically drive to Australia to England.
On the question about driving from England to Australia, this actually is worth a video from you guys. Actual answer is yes, but more as a kinda. Short version is that people have pulled off the trip, many times in fact. Either they did it as a competition (such as the London-Sydney Marathon, or the older races going back to the 1920's), because they wanted to keep their car when they moved over to Australia, or for fun/sake of doing it (see the hippie trail). Even doing the same in the other direction as well. I think it is worth a video since there is some crazy stories from those who did the trip back in the day. Either due to lack of supplies in some remote part of the world, issues in crossing places where the "road" was something not even the maps could agree on if it existed or not, or the stories that came out of the races from different times (mostly the cheating). That, and the fact the route has had to change many times over the years. Early years having nothing to do with the USSR, so having to cross Iran/Afghanistan. To, well...you get the issues there.
I lived in South Dakota, not a fan. The people are friendly, but there's a ton of government corruption: 1. Ravnsborg, the SD attorney general killed a man, lied about it, only recieved 2 misdemeanors, and used his position to regularly get out of tickets. 2. Kristi Noem, the SD governor wasn't in favor of marijuana legalization and had a state judge (that she appointed) reject the 54% yes vote to legalize it in 2020 as being unconstitutional. 3. My uncle was a cop and was passed up for a promotion that was easily his after he gave the mayor a ticket. 4. My neighbor on the city council who had a dirt road to her house that was right next to a public road and allocated city funds to build a road to her house and increase her own home value. 5. Policing for profit is heavily present in most of the state.
He did a video for the topics that weren't long enough to be full videos, and that one was 1/4 as Interesting. So this video is more like 0.1% as Interesting.
Real life South Dakotan here, thanks for the shoutout. It is a nice place to live! :) We are also #1 in Crazy Horse Memorial statues. And mispronouncing French names as our capital city.
2:58 I love how he wanted to make it so short he just gives the obvious answer without even talking about the reason the question exists ahah (long story short: the island with the statue is in the waters between New Jersey and New York, but happens to be closer to NJ so it should be NJ territory, but since it is a famous symbol of NYC they decided to make the island an exclave of NY, althoug surrounded by NJ waters)
“What would happen if all animals went extinct?” “The stock market would crash.” Reminds me of a Kurzgesagt video where he said and apocalypse would be bad for the stock market.
If by "England" the submitter meant England, Arkansas, and if by "Australia" the submitter meant the ghost town of Australia, Mississippi, than it is indeed possible to drive from England to Australia in about 2 hours 26 minutes.
HAI needs to hire you
Ok Sam, we know it's you! 🤣
Or London Minnesota maybe
@bruh Peru, Massachusetts
@@randomperson4349 peru, vermont. we even got a jamaica, vermont, which was ironically a center of kkk activity in the state.
Regarding the Statue of Liberty thing, this is actually not as terrible a question as it first seems. Long story short, Ellis Island and Liberty Island were initially defined as New York land in New Jersey waters. For some not fully understood reason, these islands then became larger. The Supreme Court ruled that the expanded portion of Ellis Island belonged to New Jersey, but there has been no such ruling regarding Liberty Island. Interestingly, if the Ellis Island decision were expanded to Liberty Island, then the statue would be in New York, but the gift shop would be in New Jersey.
Perfect. We don't have to pay for upkeep but get all the tax revenue from the gift shop.
CGP Grey made a video on that
I was thinking this too!
CGP Grey did an excellent video on the subject: ua-cam.com/video/SgZ1f4ACZBQ/v-deo.html
I think the terribleness stems from there already being a popular video on the topic
"What state is the statue of liberty in?"
HAI, you dropped the ball on the absolute best possible answer, which is that the statue of liberty is in a solid state.
And if you map the route from it to lovely Australia by car and save it on your pc you'll have a solid state to solid state drive in a solid state drive!
Except the inside, which is gaseous.
@@Someone-cd7yi and the surroundings in liquid state
@@Someone-cd7yi Really?!
@@hoichingwong4267Well, it's hollow
"What state is the Statue of Liberty in?"
Generally a good one. It has a layer of copper rust on it from years of being exposed to the elements, but this has now become part of its iconic look and has not substantially affected its structural integrity. It did undergo extensive restoration from 1984-1986 and was closed to the public during that time, but has generally been accessible since then.
But how's it doing emotionally?
@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 dead inside
@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Hollow
Comedy geniuses, all of you.
i think the state is russia
This mysterious "Robert" must be so excited to finally be in the spotlight. All of their hard work copy-and-pasting the code for that bot and then letting it run idly for a couple of hours... it's all been worth it.
I am validated.
I’m not this Robert but I’m still honored
We see you, Robert, you're not fooling anyone.
Why do you think this unknown "Robert" was so interested in bricks?
@@reagandevore273 It was a while back when I did that, I think must have been around 2020 or 2021 or so. The funny thing is, I didn't even see this video until like a year after he posted it, and mostly it was just something I did with a little bash script that I ran on my laptop because I was a college freshmen stuck during the lockdown with nothing better to do. To be honest, I'm not even sure how my name got into it.
Glad Robert got the respect he deserves. He should get his own HAI video
@we will do it no
@ТоммуIппit Shоrts 🅥 no
@@giselle8924 bo
I can only apologise on behalf of all people called Robert...
@@rjfaber1991 why would you apologise this is great
CGP Grey proved that the Statue of Liberty question has nuance.
Fact.
But the statue itself is in New York, no nuance there
Exactly what I was going to comment
@@hajfksdl but it's on federal land which is in new york which is in Jersey
But if H.A.I. gave us nuance how could he get through so many questions. Also the Real question he failed at is, "Has anyone ever Driven from Australia to the U.K.?" The Correct answer of which would be, "Yes. Dozens. Parking lot Ships Have surely carried Hundreds of crappy brittish cars to Australia when Britian still made cars. And you get the boats on and off the ship by driving." The Better Question I'd Ask is, "Who's driven to the most countries?", because sifting through wrong answers, ferry routes, and captain's logs of boat car transports would surely give opertunities for either funny jokes or talking about Top Gear/Grand Tour.
"Let's face it, if you like this channel you like knowing stuff..." i mean personally, I like this channel for the brick jokes, the wiki summaries are just extra mustard
@purple X No it's here ua-cam.com/video/yrO5PKhDQI8/v-deo.html
@purple X ok
Don't forget the hating of Newark airport
His jokes have gotten better
My favorite, bricks with mustard
"Half as Interesting, the show that asks the question 'what if Vox was worse?'"
Made me burst into screeching laughter
I had water blowing out my nose with that gem too 😂😂😂
Actually, even before this video i was used to think about Vox as "Bad HAI"
My favorite line 😂
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If you allow putting the car on a boat, you _can_ drive to Australia. One Dutch guy did it a couple of years back, staying overnight with whoever volunteered to host him and getting power to charge his car from them. At the time I found out about it, he was looking for places in Australia to host him for the last couple of thousand kilometres of his journey.
you use to be able to catch a bus from london to sydney
the journey took 92 days
In 1968 there was a rally marathon from London to Sydney, crossing through Europe, the middle East, South Asia and eventually through Australia
Bricks are incredible, you should make a third video. Perhaps it should be about what happens if you snort crushed up brick powder?
Bricks contain iron oxide so it might even help with iron deficiency!
Crushed brick powder and cocaine is called busco and is very common in my country
Everyone who works construction breathes brick dust.
@@yourownnfidel6207 where?
I tried it. You shit brick dust for days
them keeping the grammatical error of 'what's the most a animal can lift' absolutely SENT me
I'm glad someone else noticed it lmao
It's like Jeremy Clarkson asked that particular question...
Wikepida
Sent you where?
I want to like this but it’s at 669 so I’m leaving a comment instead
The statue of liberty one actually fits the content of this channel because it's a disputed topic. CGP Grey did a video on it once.
@purple X what is it that's finally here? That's not the CGP Grey video
@@OmnipresentPotato It's a spam bot, just ignore it, or report it if that makes you feel better.
Wiith 12 million views so jokes on them ig hehe
@@SydSquid-uw5ng but again, he did a reupload of himself rating Canadian provinces' flags and got over 2M views so… not the best measure of good ideas you know?
3:00 bruh thats wrong.
The statue of liberty is obviously solid, thats its state
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3:27 I love that they kept the grammar error in
As a New Jersey native, the Statue of Liberty one cut me deep.
@ТоммуIппit Shоrts 🅥 no
@we will do it no
As a New York native, the Statue of Liberty one didn't cut at all
Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty in both of their entirely belong to Jersey City,NJ, Ellis island has a bridge connected to Liberty State park in Jersey City,New Jersey, and my great great grandparents documents said Jersey City NJ, not New York,New York
As a New York native, I hate New Jersey.
"Why do so many people live in Greenland?" might be the funniest suggestion of them all.
There’s just so many !!!
I mean, the statue of liberty one is an interesting topic, cgp grey has a whole video on it. Then again, cgp grey already has a whole video on it
But there's the rub. If there's a whole video and it's interesting, then it's Whole As Interesting and twice as much as this channel can handle.
@Biglyp I dunno, HAI guy says that bendover narrator burns babies. Before he eats them. While kicking puppies.
@Biglyp Well, it may be a _bit_ biased. Any civilized person eats their babies medium rare, never burnt.
It technically is possible to drive from England to Australia, some of the ways of doing so are (sorted by most likely):
•Drive an amphibious car.
•Drive underwater.
•Drive a flying car.
•Expand England or Australia so that part of 1 of them is on the same continent as the other.
•Freeze the ocean.
doofenshmirtz would do this
“What state is the Statue of Liberty in”
CGP Grey: *frustration noises*
This is not "Half as Interesting"
This is "Half as General Knowledge"
@ТоммуIппit Shоrts 🅥 no
half-assed general store of knowledge
Half Assed General Knowledge
@@EspeonMistress00 beat me to it by 30 minutes.
What's the problem with him?
Also, the blue whale technically could carry that much on its back if something else loaded the whale and stabilized the cargo, but the whale couldn't "lift" jack squat because it has no limbs designed to pick stuff up or move it around, and has not developed that particular set of motor skills.
im guessing it means "how much can a whale carry on its back before it gets crushed"
You could argue that putting something in the whales mouth and then having it raise its head counts as 'lifting', but good luck explaining that to a blue whale
@@fjordling Good luck getting a blue whale on the moon. I don't think a spacesuit would fit.
Even more important, a blue whale can't survive on the moon and a dead blue whale has even less lifitng power than one that is alive.
Did you have to go and get technical? 🙄
2:50 I was expecting an illuminating insight into how New Jersey owns the waters surrounding Liberty Island, as well as the statutes gift shop. Left devastated. Shout out to CGP Grey ✌️
CGP "We need to give handouts to the royal family so tourists will see the castles even though the ones in France get more visitors" Grey
@@morbidsearch That's so 2011.
Thank you! My wife literally spit out her coffee when you said “spank that like button…” priceless.
I feel I should mention that a guy I knew back in high school was working on plans to turn a Winnebago into an amphibious RV so he could take a road trip to Hawaii. England to Australia could’ve been possible, but he died before he finished the project.
"Curb stomp that subscribe button, straight to the pavement" was so brutal it made my Nebula-subscribing butt pop over just to comment.
Yeah this video really did get quite violent toward the subscribe button, eh?
Poor subscribe button, man.
The subscribe button is just really kinky and into it all
Technically speaking, if you drove from England to a car carrier and slowly drove around the deck (in circles most likely) the entire time you were in the boat and drove off the boat in Australia that would still count, no?
yep, but honestly you wouldnt even need to keep driving, since for pretty much all long car rides you stop at some point, especially for really long rides, where you need to sleep at some point for example and have to stop because of that.
You wouldn't have driven to Australia then, you would've driven while going to Australia.
It still counts as a driving route, it's just that there'd be a message on Google Maps saying "this route includes a ferry."
Ferries don't exist from Indonesia to Australia. You can drive from England as far as Singapore via road and tunnel, and can ferry to Java, but most islands east of Java in Indonesia are comparatively sparsely populated and none of the lands that get relatively close such as East Timor or Papua New Guinea (or any of Indonesia's islands for that matter) have ferries to Australia. The infrastructure isn't there, nor is the demand.
@@bmac4 Actually, you can ferry to Bali from Java. Still not to Australia, but at least minimally closer...
I wish there was a Half as Interesting video where all 124,882 safe topic ideas are answered
@purple X zamn actually good placed bot message
@That clone trooper in the back on the high ground So then it's the videos he's already done.
Bricks, mate
I can't believe I just stumbled onto your channel a few days ago, this stuff is amazing! Love how you combine two of the best things ever: history and humor!
1:33 technically you can *almost* made it to Australia from England.
If we are talking about direct land drive alone, the closest you ever got to Australia is Singapore.
but if we include Roll On/Roll Off transfer, I could wrongly assume that there's a RoRo journey from east coast of Peninsular Malaysia to Sarawak, but the closest place you ever got to Australia if you include RoRo journey is Merauke, Indonesia, which may also wrong since i did not know if there is a RoRo service to Merauke or not.
With enough money I'm sure you can hire a RoRo vessel
@farimira Yup. I did it... The paperwork was the most difficult bit. Not that expensive either. 👍🏻🇬🇧😀
@@Farimira With enough money you can build a car that will drive on the bottom of the ocean.
Then again; with enough money you can have all of Australia transported to the UK. Or the other way around.
As someone who was given balls of fury for the WII as a Christmas gift from well meaning relatives this video hit close to home
What was the worst part of it?
My condolences.
How could they.
have your grandma pull the car around
"Tell you grandma to pull the car around."
I love how all of us worked together as a community to do what we do best and corrected poor Sam, Adam, and rest of the HAI team about the statue of liberty thing at least a few dozen times already XD
This is the Internet. Humiliation is a requirement.
And yet it still stands in New York.
Fact Check: The Statue of Liberty is in solid state
I heard it is in a broken state and still needs to be fixed.
@@Lovuschka ever since that ammunition ship was sabotaged by Germans in World War I and the arm was hit by shrapnel
@@dangerouslytalented Black Tom is the name
I believe its not solid but hollow though
@@B.Ies_T.Nduhey hollow is not a state of matter
I usually laugh out loud at your videos. But this exceeded all 124,882 of my expectations. Here's to another eighth of a million suggestions
A friend actually gifted me Balls of Fury for my birthday. The last achievement is playing the game for 10 hours. Truly an impossible task
The statue of Liberty One is actually based on an interesting thing most people don't know... it's actually in New jersey, but kind of New york owned... or not. It's complicated
Episode 300 of Half as Interesting, or simplify the math and watch the 150th episode of Fully Interesting.
Great content. Love it!
For the Statue of Liberty one, if you're confused as to why it's open to debate, there's a good CPG grey video regarding it, and It has to do with who owns the water vs the island
Also 300 HAI videos that's pretty cool
@heavy duty no
@ТоммуIппit Shоrts 🅥 no
Ew bots
Bro give the link in the comment
ua-cam.com/video/SgZ1f4ACZBQ/v-deo.html
5:18 WHAT DID HE JUST SAY!?!? WHAT DID HE SAY!?!? *HEAVY BREATHING* Any one else who watched that one video by Wubzzy get the reference?
Can we do more of these? Honestly, this video was hilarious, which was actually painful because I have the flu, but whatever. I liked it.
you feeling better now?
no he died 😔😢
3:05 cgp grey enters the chat
My wife loves penguins and wants a video on 10,474 because it has a penguin doing something "incredibly awesome looking".
So I guess whatever that idea was, it gets another suggestion? I'm just here for brick facts.
Wait what is 10474?
Aww but that's a puffin, though! Maybe HAI can do a video on why do so many puffins live in Iceland, Greenland etc or something, that'll be cool. 👍
@@nefwaenre i think it's a penguin lifting weights on the moon
@@nefwaenre After extensive research I've determined it's probably because those places have the most amount of resources and least amount of predators.
That's actually why I watched the whole video just to see why that penguin was lifting
One Minute for the writers that had to read all the Suggestions
They need a raise... and human rights
frog meme
@ТоммуIппit Shоrts 🅥 no
@@zyansheep either Raise or rights you cant get both
BRICKS
"Curb stomp that subscribe button" is my new favorite way to end UA-cam videos
Respect to the person named "BRICKS BRICKS"
that Statue of Liberty thing actually isn't quite as straightforward as you'd think
@ТоммуIппit Shоrts 🅥 no
exactly it’s an exclave, technically in ny but surrounded by nj
frog meme
yeah good ol CGP Grey has a video on it.
@we will do it no
“#1 in number of Mount Rushmores.” The channel is too funny.
you missed an opportunity to tag the end of the wii episode with “don’t forget to throw that subscribe button straight into the television screen!”
0:06 The best flame was "Named because each video on this channel is half as interesting as the previous one." :)
SO GOOD!! I still remember when you started this channel, love the random fun facts and humor that goes along with it.
Some of the topics are actually pretty interesting since they do have quite good backstories
I was here from day 1 wow I can’t believe it’s been that long
I was here from 0,5 day. Good try.
I would recommend revisiting “Is it possible to drive from England to Australia” - Francis Birtles was the first person to complete that journey by car in 1928 (given some of it was by boat).
From Wikipedia: “In an era when there were few roads and gasoline supplies sparse, the epic eight-month journey carried him across mountains, deserts and through tropical jungles and included a number of sea voyages - the last being from Singapore to Darwin. He travelled via Europe, Egypt, Persia (now Iran), India, Burma and Malaya.”
That is so cool. I love those gems of knowledge on the comments.
There is actually a bit of controversy between New York and New Jersey regarding Lady Liberty's location, so the question is not as bad as HAI made out. It actually would make a pretty good HAI video exploring the controversy.
You can’t drive from England to Australia.
Travis Patrana: “dude, hold my Red Bull!”
I think the "Can you drive from England to Australia?" has some merit: it's possible to drive from England to Eurasia via the Chunnel, and there are plenty of bridges, tunnels and other infrastructure that could get you across some islands; there is also the question of ferries, does taking a ferry mean you didn't drive to your destination? What constitutes a ferry? etc.
Even if the answer is still no, knowing how close you could get, or odd cases where two parts of the world that one would expect should be connected by road technically aren't (like how the Darién Gap exists in the Americas) are still interesting.
Even the channel tunnel probably doesn't count as driving - there are trains which go through it which carry cars, rather than the cars driving directly, so it's more analogous to a ferry than to a road bridge.
If we count ferries, then google maps will show then if you zoom in - and nothing is shown which would get you closer than Singapore. This could be from incomplete data, but I've still put more effort into research than Sam's writers, so we'll call it a win. (If Indonesia does in fact have international car ferries both North to Asia and South to Australia, then sure, I guess, if you count ferries as driving then go for it)
Though at that point, you could just frieght your car over and call it a win, and it's about as valid.
@@BadIdeasBureau in the channel you are told to remain in your car, so perhaps the question should be 'how far would you get without having to leave your car'.
You can not drive from England to Australia.
No circular ferry between Indonesia and oz. So we fail there
With the right visas and ferries, you can theoretically get to Vanimo, Papua New Guinea. Google maps won’t let you drive across the India-Pakistan border, but there is a legal crossing between them.
I think this is the first "Half As Interesting" video that really is half as interesting.
Gotta give a shout-out in the comments for Robert for building an actual bot that just says bricks. Respekt
That hard work has paid off.
The Statue of Liberty is now considered to be in NJ. It used to be owned by NY. However NJ petitioned that and now owner it. NJ was happy to get the revenue and New York was happy to stop paying to maintain it and taxes, etc. This is why NYS license plates changed a while back and were no longer able to have the Statue of Liberty on it.
I don't think the Statue of Liberty one should be considered one of the worst topic ideas. CGP Grey did a pretty amazing video on just that!
Glad they decided to finally start featuring all my ideas
thought this was gonna be a generic video, ended up loving it because of how aggressively passive aggressive the narrator is. love it, im subbing lol
I cannot believe he pronouced "Anubis" the way he did at 2:09
I just kinda chose to ignore it
Anubis the Cannabis hound.
Can’t wait to see this is next years errors video!
The correct pronounciation would be more like "Yinepu"
The Statue of Liberty question is actually one that I think warrants a video. For years the state of New York in the state of New Jersey have both claimed ownership of Liberty Island.
Driving from the UK to Australia is doable. In 1950-52 an Australian Army veteran named Frederick Ben Carlin (and his first wife) accomplished a Transatlantic crossing using a Ford GPA (amphibious jeep). The longest leg was crossing from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Flores, the westernmost of the Azores, which took roughly 32 days. This was a distance of 2,715 km (1687 miles). The shortest distance by sea between the UK and Australia would be between Falmouth, Cornwall and Port Walcott, Western Australia, a distance of 19,434 km (12,076 miles). Now assuming the same pace as Halifax-Flores, it would take around 229 days to "drive".
A direct, non stop flight between London Heathrow and Perth International takes 16 hours and 35 minutes. If the jet lag didn't physically kill you, and you're a sociopath that doesn't care about their carbon footprint, you could fly the round trip leg 165.7085 times, not counting transfer time or take off and landing duration, in 229 days.
Now, nobody could accomplish a UK-Australia journey completely by sea. Even the Carlins barely made it across the Atlantic. A more plausible journey is to break this up into land and sea legs: crossing the English Channel by water, driving from Calais, France to Singapore, then by water to Port Walcott, Western Australia.
Edit: I broke Google Maps trying to find a Calais to Singapore route🤣
Edit 2: Using another online calculator the distance would be 14,781 km (9184.5 miles) for a duration of 295.6 hours. Assuming an approximate average speed of 50 km/h (31 mph).
Edit 3: The sea legs would total 3898.47 km (2484.53 miles). Or 47.128 days by the Carlin's 1951 pace.
Edit 4: Adding 2 and 3 gives a result of 59.45 days as the quickest drive time between the UK and Australia by an amphibious jeep. To whatever masochistic idiot suggested this topic, you're welcome.
The weight on the moon question is a trick question. You can't lift more weight on the moon, you can just lift more stuff because it weighs less. The amount of weight you can lift is identical. That question is like asking which weighs more, a one pound bag of rocks or a one pound bag of feathers?
I know this one! It's the rocks. Right?
@@johnladuke6475 Close, it's actually your mum
@@karl0ssus1 No, she's just ashes now, can't weigh much at all. Dad says he left her on a beach somewhere.
@@johnladuke6475 oh, in that case then it's definitely the rocks
Nobody said the word "weight". The question was "on the moon, what is the most an animal could lift".
Funnily enough, Ninja bread man was the first Wii game I ever owned and played (aside from Wii sports, but that's a given seeing as it came with the console)
So how was it?
@@shapular I remember the controls being quite bad and not always responsive. The actual game was just a bland platformer where you'd encounter the same easy enemies over and over.
I also think it just sort of ends, without any final boss or anything of the sort. I might just not have finished the game and misremember though.
I definitely wouldn't classify it as a good game, but I really can't imagine that it's the *worst* game on the console. If it really is, then that says lot about Nintendo's seal of quality.
The reason it is considered one of the worst is because they reskinned it 3 times to release it as 4 separate games.
Ninjabreadman
Anubus II
Myth Makers: Trixie in Toyland
Rock 'n' Roll Adventures
This angered many people that bought what was essentially the same game multiple times, which is why it is remembered with such hatred.
1:03 I love how even without that bot, a majority of suggestions at that time wudve been for a bricks video xD
I can't remember the last time I laughed this much at a video. I was literally weeping. Thanks so much!
I especially loved that you found an academic paper to answer that one question. (I won't say which so as not to spoil the surprise.)
Though this show is always very funny, this episode made me laugh out loud much more than I expected. Thank you and keep up the great work!
"What state is the statue of liberty in?" Hello and welcome to Half as Interesting. The UA-cam channel that says things much more succinctly than CGP Grey. The statue of liberty is in New York.
But the gift shop might be in New Jersey.
South Dakota did seem nice when I drove through it that one year, to be honest.
I feel like the Greenland one, if rephrase to "why people choose to live in Greenland" could be an interesting topic
Mostly because they were born there.
Smash that subscribe button!
@@cjeam9199 but why would anyone choose to give birth there? (And if you repeat your comment, I will repeat mine, and we’ll go forever, which would honestly be peak internet)
@@leahsmilezzzzzzz because they live there, enjoying fucking, birth control isn’t 100% effective, and despite most of the people in Greenland who get pregnant deciding to have an abortion, some don’t want one for whatever reason. Happy little accident, boom more Greenlanders.
Didn't Sam do a Wendover video like that for Point Barrow, Alaska, or was that a different UA-camr?
@@jeffbenton6183 This one? ua-cam.com/video/MP1OAm7Pzps/v-deo.html
3:17
"The show that's run out of clever introductions"
*L O L*
2:51 "Welcome back to Half as Interesting. Today, we're answering questions you could have easily googled"
0:33 This whole sequence is hilarious. Robert's bot spamming about bricks is about as funny as me spamming MatPat about doing a video about the (real world) Unknown 2 Highway. Arizona showed me a picture, and I want to know what it is of.
I love the amount of wacky zany ways you guys make destroy the subscribe button jokes
1:23 Driving from England to Australia is sort of possible, someone made a timelaspse of it on UA-cam, you do need to ship the car from the last bit of Asia to Australia though. Could actually have been an interesting video
"ship the car" that is not DRIVING...
@@LilJollyJoker Technically no but you can drive 95%+ of the way there, and if you accompany the car on the ship, it's a little bit of a grey area.
E.G You can drive to anywhere in Europe from the UK but you would accompany your car on a ferry or train to cross The Channel, I don't think anyone would argue that doesn't count as driving to your destination.
@@LilJollyJoker you can drive while being on multiple ships.
Put atleast two ships, or platforms of same height back-to-back,
and when the car drives from one ship to another,
let the back ship move at a greater velocity around the ship the car is on, and come back at the front.
By doing this you can technically drive to Australia to England.
On the question about driving from England to Australia, this actually is worth a video from you guys. Actual answer is yes, but more as a kinda.
Short version is that people have pulled off the trip, many times in fact. Either they did it as a competition (such as the London-Sydney Marathon, or the older races going back to the 1920's), because they wanted to keep their car when they moved over to Australia, or for fun/sake of doing it (see the hippie trail). Even doing the same in the other direction as well.
I think it is worth a video since there is some crazy stories from those who did the trip back in the day. Either due to lack of supplies in some remote part of the world, issues in crossing places where the "road" was something not even the maps could agree on if it existed or not, or the stories that came out of the races from different times (mostly the cheating).
That, and the fact the route has had to change many times over the years. Early years having nothing to do with the USSR, so having to cross Iran/Afghanistan. To, well...you get the issues there.
Hahahaha that Vox joke was actually gold I burst out laughing
1:58 And somewhere, Scott The Woz is screaming and he doesn't know why.
5:08 - Suejsjiwiwisisimxmaiaom, explained with very good detail, thank you so much. I had been searching for this topic for a while now.
lmao
The Statue of Liberty question is actually quite interesting and would fit the channel very well. CGP Grey did a video on it
CGP Grey is an idiot who sounds smart but his ideas are only good on paper
I lived in South Dakota, not a fan. The people are friendly, but there's a ton of government corruption:
1. Ravnsborg, the SD attorney general killed a man, lied about it, only recieved 2 misdemeanors, and used his position to regularly get out of tickets.
2. Kristi Noem, the SD governor wasn't in favor of marijuana legalization and had a state judge (that she appointed) reject the 54% yes vote to legalize it in 2020 as being unconstitutional.
3. My uncle was a cop and was passed up for a promotion that was easily his after he gave the mayor a ticket.
4. My neighbor on the city council who had a dirt road to her house that was right next to a public road and allocated city funds to build a road to her house and increase her own home value.
5. Policing for profit is heavily present in most of the state.
we need to dethrone these as the worst ones
Excellent quality as usual 😂💖
@ТоммуIппit Shоrts 🅥 no
I think this should’ve went on the 1/3 as interesting Channel….
@ТоммуIппit Shоrts 🅥 no
Honestly though he should make like a 1/4th as interesting or 1/8th as interesting channel for shorts or something
@@treyspiller3931 that would be a great idea
He did a video for the topics that weren't long enough to be full videos, and that one was 1/4 as Interesting. So this video is more like 0.1% as Interesting.
4:18 Fortunately, Oregon is nowhere near the moon [citation needed]
5:09 Now i wonder if there was anyone else who had a stroke while writing their topic idea
Real life South Dakotan here, thanks for the shoutout. It is a nice place to live! :) We are also #1 in Crazy Horse Memorial statues. And mispronouncing French names as our capital city.
2:58 I love how he wanted to make it so short he just gives the obvious answer without even talking about the reason the question exists ahah
(long story short: the island with the statue is in the waters between New Jersey and New York, but happens to be closer to NJ so it should be NJ territory, but since it is a famous symbol of NYC they decided to make the island an exclave of NY, althoug surrounded by NJ waters)
Yay it's my favorite stock footage channel
@ТоммуIппit Shоrts 🅥 no
4:25 - Today I learned Antarctica is more densly populated then Greenland..!
“What would happen if all animals went extinct?”
“The stock market would crash.”
Reminds me of a Kurzgesagt video where he said and apocalypse would be bad for the stock market.
That whale on the moon one was actually pretty interesting, not enough for its own vid, but def something I'm glad I now know
I've never been so excited to watch bad ideas.
Not a fan of Jackass then?
Haven't seen the Michael Reeves video?
1:28
Wrong, it is possible to drive from the UK to Australia, all you need is a large enough boat to drive around on as it sails to Australia.
he woke up and chose violence 0:10
1:22 “what if Vox was worse” 😭😭 bye I love this channel
BRICKS
-Robert