Australia's Bushfire-Hunting Satellites
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- čas přidán 10. 01. 2021
- Check out Atomic Frontier! / atomicfrontier - start with the video on a country-sized telescope • How does the Square Ki... or the world's deepest scuba dive • Surviving The World's ... • Turns out that trying to precisely detect fire from space is more difficult than "point a camera at it".
Making this documentary was a blast, although to be honest with you, halfway up the tree I was definitely having second thoughts about being able to make it to the top. Thanks, Tom, for this amazing opportunity!
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Your welcome
*Another Timetraveller*
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When the treehouse is so tall you need to increase your render distance
Then Australia starts to lag
u also need to increase the size of your ground so it merges with the horizon
@@cosmonautriot7295, why do you think we give them a 8 hour head start?
Then why not turn off Fire Tick, so the fire stops burning. Easy fix
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I don’t think anybody could ever truly replace Tom. That said, WOW this Atomic Frontier guy is amazing, and I’m so glad this video let me learn about him!
You took the words right out of my mouth!
There are quite a lot of learners on CZcams at least as good as Tom.
@@dan8ball22 you mean teachers? and i haven‘t seen anyone else so fluent and concise doing the whole video in one take
Hear, hear
Do the comments on Tom’s videos always get this many spam bots?
Well he's already 1-upped Tom in one way, instead of walking and talking to the camera, he can climb a ladder and talk to the camera. Tom's days are clearly numbered!
I'm sorry,,, I just remembered Tom's 'sorry I couldn't hear the low hum of the PC's in the background I'm getting old' video and this just comment just made me s a d
@@SporkleBM can you link it please?
@@SporkleBM can u link it
One could never get to the high ground by only walking horizontally
Nah, his shirt isn't red enough.
Fires? I remember, yes, that’s how 2020 started.
Started off bad did 2020 then got worse and worse, then a bit better, and then worse and then ended the year worse then it ever was!
Hopefully 2021 will be the opposite, start off bad and get better. Can any future person let us know how the year went?
when we'ren't in 2020 :)
@@johnnyboy3949 i am future person from a minute in the future. so far nothing has gotten better. can any future person let us know how its going?
Didn't it start with imminent nuclear war?
Haaaaaaaaaaaaa.....
Fun memories...
Wow. This was just an incredibly high quality video. I don't even have a joke for you. I'm in stupefied impressedness.
How to cure radiation poisoning from failed nuclear test?
Haha, thanks Rohin! Had been wondering what you might come up with.
Ironically, **high** quality could pass for a joke
Oye, who let you out of the ward!
Ok but am I going to die right now?
Holy crap, this was well-made. Tom wasn't kidding about it being like a BBC documentary.
The introduction is so like a BBC Doc, like Coast, Robson Green,
"Not only does it help us hide from the killer kangaroos from below."
Yeah but what about the drop bears from above?
Bring an umbrella.
When you're at the top of the tallest tree in the forest there can't be any drop bears above you.
That's what the net is for
@@MrPaw45 That's what they want you to think.
In a lot of regions they unfortunately went extinct in 2020 to the wildfires...
We love Tom’s self awareness.
I’ve seen you somewhere before
@@onionbot2 Likewise...
I comment on almost all the videos I watch though so,, the chances are high.
Self awareness for what
@@papasscooperiaworker3649 *of what
@@papasscooperiaworker3649 his presenting style being like the BBC and so on I guess
" We spotted the fire but your house burnt down 6 hours ago" is a good witty comment. I like this guy
It wouldn't be as witty if your house burnt down, like many Australian's experienced.
@@imperialspy3457 have some chill, my god
@@imperialspy3457 it's completely an Australian style humour.
@@Mrsquiggley You're saying that to an Aussie haha. I appreciate the humour in the comment, but also want to show the less funny side.
@@countrye3013
He's got a point though. I experienced the bushfires in Australia, though my house didn't burn down, but if I were in that situation, that would have been a poor joke to make only a year after the fires during summer in Australia, no less. It was very funny from a humour perspective, but I have to admit, bad timing. I understand where you're coming from though.
That feeling when your home is showed on one of the satellite images in the video
When people need directions you should just send them a link to that timestamp in the video instead of a maps link! That way only the truly dedicated will make it.
My home was showen somewhere on the satellite image at 1:10. I don’t think it’ll be useful for directions though...
@@VideobyKB Nah, I can see all the roads down there
@@rj5054_YT dude accept my friend request on discord
kinda hilarious i saw someone i knew on tom scotts channel
Oh hey, look, it's a satellite view of the Causeway and CBD!
=D
That's definitely Tom's love child from his mad Captain Tom days
Holy crap; this looked insanely professional. How could anyone not subscribe? Thanks for featuring this guy, Tom!
Tom hosts Tom from the past transplanted in our time
It's YT ffs, and on the educational section too. Go find your simps under a Logan Paul video or something, if they aren't underage
By recognising that there is far more that I want to watch than I want to watch. It was hard not too, though!
Im a remote sensing engineer, so I look at satellite images all day, this is a very nice explanation of some of the complexity of Earth Observation for a particular use case! Very nice video :)
"Gives us a killer vantage point to avoid the killer kangaroos on the ground" he said casually traversing closer into the drop-bears trap.
Imagine climbing trees to escape kangaroos when the drop bears are still more dangerous smh
Out of the fire and into the frying pan
Head above the drop bears. They don't look up.
If fast enough one might be able to climb above the drop bears who is know to be weaker when attacking from below
@Marlo Kartel Србина свог :Д
I’ve climbed this tree, the kangaroos around there are definitely more dangerous.
Every time Tom Scott goes on vacation, my subscriptions list grows.
One thing that actually terrifies me is that even though Australia gets some of the biggest bushfires in the world, 97% of our firefighters are volunteers
we also had the highest proportion of population volunteer in WW2 and that could’ve gone worse
What do you mean by "volunteer"? Here in Manitoba forest firefighters are "volunteers", but get paid very well for the time.
Forest fires are seasonal events, thus it makes no sense to hire professionals as they would have nothing to do for over half the year.
@@TheOwenMajor we have full time paid firefighters in Australia also, however the vast majority volunteer to fight fires in addition to their day job and don't get paid at all.
@@150cameron How does one volunteer to fight forest fires in addition to their day jobs?
Now in Manitoba, most fires occur in remote northern regions, so the men need to be stationed beforehand, I would assume it's relatively the same in Australia?
And regardless, forest firefighters need to be deployed quickly, they can't be working. Our crews spend their days swimming in lakes and playing cards waiting to be deployed, and when they do deploy they can easily work 100 hour weeks.
@@TheOwenMajor it’s only in cities that people get paid to work as firefighters. As far as I remember, they work on a two day shift, two night shift, four days off rotation (it’s been a while since I’ve been in the city) however, all other services are volunteers. You either operate on an on-call basis or you have shifts you go for, depending on locations. All your equipment is paid for though.
Australia is such a big country, we don’t have to funds to maintain services for all areas so we rely on people volunteering their time. Especially during the fires.
Source: my cousin works for SACFS and worked during the bushfires
I think Tom's addicted to that particular stretch of beach
"things that are red, but also not on fire"
Never thought I would hear those words, in that order
I mean it DOES describe a large portion of the Australian outback.
"Killer kangaroos" He just said that so as to not piss off the emus and start a second war.
I swear, "deadly animals" and "the emu war" are the only two things people know about Australia :/
Can’t forget the fire ants 💀
The ‘obligatory red t-shirt’, well done, well done indeed.
It's what sets apart the best guest videos.
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Tom wasn't lying about his job being taken by this guest. After such a high quality video, there's no way I wouldn't subscribe instantly. Really stoked to see more.
Next week, me, but not me.
Schrödinger's Tom.
We'll know when we observe it
looks like someone's gonna deepfake Tom
im now imagining tom with cat ears
@@warrust furry tom
This actually happened...
Damn that was good. I didn't know about how the electrons cause the different coloured flames or how flames flicker in 12hz. That's amazing!
The electron thing is also how LEDs make light at one specific color.
That is all light is, the transfer of information between electrons. No electrons, no light. Most of the actual mass in the universe is invisible to you.
Quantum mechanics (at least the most simple part of it anyway). That's all light is.
"Breathtaking. I shall call him... mini me!"
- Tom Scott, probably
If Tom Scott is Dr. Evil then who's Austin Powers?
@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Gary.
Had the pleasure to study with James in my second year engineering units two years ago. We were working in the same group trying to do something I don't remember what anymore. Very happy to see him in this space.
Glad to hear he's also a decent guy in person.
4:06 Oh no, you're not getting me with that school yard prank!
Oh hey, a youtube creator in Western Australia.
Ha I thought I reconised him as well
I'm from WA too :)
ColdFusion is also from Perth btw
It's weird recognizing a location, that tree featured in a few of my childhood holidays.
2020 felt like a decade and Tom truly looks older now.
Dude harsh
it's been 2020 - the whole world looks older now
"Don't try this at home"
*proceed to enter fully decked out science lab*
I love the structure of this video. Starts off talking about the tallest treehouse in the world and what it was used for, then explains how current and future tech takes its place, and finally returns to the treehouse and wraps the video paying a small homage to it. Great stuff!
Australian Tom Scott? Now I've seen everything
"That fire, that damn fire that's were it began"
I really liked this video. The one but if constructive feedback would be that his cadence feels a little like a newscaster. I suspect that comfort in speaking to camera will come with time.
I would be curious if Tom has some tips on getting more comfortable speaking to camera casual.
The weird cadence gives it some charm though, makes it seem more like an old BBC nature documentary.
I agree, it's probably fine for short videos, but I found it really grated by the end of a 6/7 minutes of hearing speech in the exact same repeated cadence
“Black Summer Fires” or as it’s known locally; “Scott Morrison’s Fires”
Ah yes, ScoMo's perfectly timed holiday to Hawaii.
As a South African, seeing large amounts of gum trees like those makes me very unsettled, as they're an alien species here by us, and a huge threat to our country's water supply and eco system. Strange how things change with perspective.
Now, as an Australian, it's almost kinda cathartic to hear another country got our wildlife and is experiencing the horrors of invasive species.
But that's also because Australians are much more aware of the dangers of invasive species and can be more sympathetic.
Australian possums are protected in their native country. But in NZ they're killed on sight.
@@tfae Funny thing is new zealand is probably the only place possums would be successful as an invasive species because everywhere else they wold be out-competed by placental mammals, as they were millions of years ago.
@@ospritely8144 ummm... no.
many species of opossums live in S America and one species lives in N America
@@rickkwitkoski1976 The possums in Australia and NZ are not related to opossums, they are Australian marsupials (like koalas, etc).
This has come at a perfect time! I'm about to start an essay in which I have to choose an environmental topic from the last five years and I've chosen the wildfires that engulfed Australia. This will make an excellent piece on how Australia is using technology in the fight to combat their wildfires. Thank you Tom and James!
Well firstly don’t call them wildfires
@@mylesiswhite4122Bushfires, got it!
The part that really got to me was "low cost satelites". The single fact that those words can be put together is a testament on how far we've come since the 50's.
Thank you for hosting this video I would never have come across otherwise, Tom Scott :) !
James did an amazing job 👏 congrats to him, I really liked it.
Thanks! So glad!
@@AtomicFrontier I hope to see you on here more!
Thank you for teaching me to more cost effectively detect Australian bushfires. This will certainly come in handy. Superb video m’lad.
The animation at 4:21 shows why lower frequencies are often able to carry through matter (fog, clouds, smoke, etc) better than higher frequencies. I knew that it was true, but the visualization explains why so clearly!
I have realised I don’t just watch Tom for his content, I watch for his something British accent as well. Take that away and it is not the same.
weird, to me (australian) I thought he was an english transplant. maybe that's just how he talks for videos
Why Tom Scott and Jay Foreman just uploaded at the same time?
Because they both queued their videos to go out today at 4pm GMT.
How both videos make style similar?
Jay did?
why we talk like this?
@@pharrzide becwuse we want
So next week
Tom's finally able to copy his mind into the matrix
Chapeau, great video with a great presentation / presenter. Keep up the fabolous work you provide and once again thx to Tom for giving other channels his platform and wider range ....also I never would have found this .. so "thank you" s all around !! :-)
Yeah! Perth Australia finally on a big science channel
*Legend has it that guy is still in that lookout tree*
Sad Ranger Gord noises
Ah yes, talking about Australia, whilst releasing the video at 12am-2am Australian time.
I love what this channel ist doing right now. I will definitely go visit Atomic Frontier.
Hope your having a good break tom!
Hi tom, your videos are really entertaining and I can tell you actually enjoy doing youtube. Please continue making the quality content you do currently, it's great.
Literally just discovered Atomic Frontier from r/dataisbeautiful and was thinking about how perfect he'd be for the January guest videos 😅
Amazing channel, can't wait to see more!
Bravo James! I can't imagine how long that many animations, graphs and slides took! They did an great job explaining this rather dense topic. Excellent, excellent work!
Ugh... Every year you do this, every year my subscription list grows. Utterly fascinating video, and I instantly subbed to Atomic Frontier.
These graphics are very different from how Tom does after effects, it looks good just not used to it
Until literally last week's video, everything was done on PowerPoint... Glad its passable!
@@AtomicFrontier Excuse me! What? You’re telling me i could’ve made my presentations bbc level of good and i’m just now learning about it right as i’m about to graduate? :0
@@AtomicFrontier Ah, so you really stepped up the game for the big show today. I'm impressed; that's quite the setup.
3:16 ahh the classic Tom Scott red t-shirt😃😃😃
The last minute shot with the tree house roof slightly above the horizon is just great
Really nice of you tom, helping smaller channels
I feel like I learned a lot about how fire actually works from this vid
As a Scandi, I was really surprised and a tiny bit scared to see him climb that ladder without a helmet or any kind of safety equipment. In Norway, the firefighters would probably be required to wear a climbing harness and clip onto a rope for safety, via ferrata-style.
Also, you'd be legally required to carry a rifle at all times outside city limits :p .
The rifle is an actual requirement? Wow I never knew that.
@@ufkilmr3995 it is in Longyearbyen on Svalbard :) . Due to polar bears.
Anyone can climb up them, I’ve been up a few times.
@@LaceV didn't they say about a year ago that people weren't allowed to climb that particular tree anymore? I thought it was starting to get old or something
@@safe-keeper1042 Hmmmm, I don't think you really need a fire lookout in Svalbard...
Is the stone and ice going to catch fire?
I love when Tom does this, so many of my favorite youtubers I discovered from these guest videos
This is really cool that you have given your platform to help such a small (at least presently) creator.
Looking forward to watching Atomic Frontier blow up in the near future.
As a Brazilian, I watched the video, remembered how our president actively tries to burn down our forests and became sad :(
His name was James Dingley and he's still dangling from that tree.
Another phenomenal guest thanks Tom!
Thank you for introducing James. You both successfully nailed the recipe for high quality content.
Nobody can replace you bro, but have a good holiday! Looking forward to the return of the king
I love Australians for using the metric system
Don’t you mean you love the entire world bar three countries
This is excellent! And as an Australian, I always love learning more about how we fight bushfires (I think there could be an entire channel dedicated to bushfires and all the strategies and technologies that go into fighting them - old and new - and it would take a long time to run out of content!)
This may be my favourite yet of the january video's! Good work and interesting concept!
Flames are red... like Toms Tshirt... do we have satellites that can keep an eye on Tom? dont wnat him catching fire..
"Killer Kangaroos"
haha good joke
*remembers the type of things that live in australia*
..ok maybe not a joke
Thank you so much for recommending this documentary
Those drone shots are like straight from Neistat's recipe. You nailed it perfectly.
How does Atomic Frontier only have 10k subs? This is some great work, thank you Tom Scott for introducing yet another quality CZcamsr to us.
i think this is the 1st time i've heard an explanation for why a certain color is emitted from fire
Super valuable these shout-outs! I never would've found them, my playlist has replaced television. :)
Interesting topic? Tick. Amazing cinematography? Tic. Well-written script? Double tic. Now it just needs a competent presenter. Oh, wait, it _does_ . This is definitely one of the best short documentaries I've seen in a _long_ while. Atomic Frontier, you've just bought yourself another subscriber.
0:23 who wants to tell him about tree kangaroos?
the smoke was so annoying, at least I wasn’t engulfed in flames though
Wow, that was an amazingly concise explanation of spectroscopy at around 6:00. Really great stuff!
This was such a well-produced video, I'm so genuinely impressed! Good job, James!
Tom is slowly going crazy
Please do a video explaining why you think all major entertainment outlets must have options for deaf people, such as subtitles or sign language.
Atomic Frontier did a really great job with this video. Just went over and subbed. Cheers!
I wasn’t expecting to be amazed from beginning to end. This was perfect
Why do Jay Foreman and Tom Scott always post at the same time?
I think it's a conspiracy
@@ap1765 maybe they're the same person
It's like women, their cycles synchronise
"Next week, me, but also not me..."
Deepfakes part 2?
EDIT: Guessed it!
whoever this is gonna be, i'm calling him tom-not-tom
It’s probably gonna be the guy who parodied Tom Scott
Really loving these guests!
Great recommendation! Thanks a lot, Tom!!
Congratulations for your work, James! Very well made!
Thanks Carlos!
This is awesome!
I don’t have an original joke and I’m under time pressure help
Dont worry bro your getting likes still
hii
James: Congratulations on such a well-made and *clearly enunciated* video. Good to see and hear a fellow Aussie who doesn't mumble! Keep it up!
Wow looks like I checked for a video to watch just in time.
me, watching a video about satellites:
james: [makes a game of thrones ref]
me: lmao nerd
My family and I visited the Bicentennial tree when I was 9, and they let me climb it. The cage around the climbing spikes that you see at the beginning doesn’t continue all the way up the tree and there’s no harnesses or safety rope or anything. Looking back I am glad that I was able to climb the tree but also, what were my parents thinking when they let their 9 year old climb up to the tallest treehouse in the world where a little slip would have meant falling to my death??
Awesome video! As a West Australian resident with many friends who are Curtin Uni alumni I'm very thankful for the exposure of the great work that is going on here to reduce our risk from bushfires :D
This guy is a few years of honing his production skills and delivery short of being just as good as Tom, really looking forward to seeing future videos!