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As someone who uses this road regularly it's a pain in the arse when people try this trick right in the middle of the road.
+a1z4 hahahahhaa
LOL
a1z4 The amount of accidents that occur on this road is crazy because of idiots (including locals unfortunately) stopping to try this. Cars coming around the corner at the top have no way of seeing stationary vehicles and either plough right into them or swerve to avoid them... Sometimes people get lucky.
a1z4 aye!!!!
Surly you have tried it once before right ? anyway since you know the road and the fact you can find someone in the middle of the street you would be cautious while driving on that particular spot, my point is to leave people alone and who ever want to see it is not your business and just be kind to others and be happy that you are healthy and living .
Surveyor: *literally figures it out*
Also surveyor: *No idea*
😂😂😂
I think the surveyor had no idea why it looks like the landscape is going from a lower point of elevation to a higher, when it's not.
he didnt figure it out
@@d12parson he probably did figure it out but they just edited a cut out of him saying "Absolutely not" with no context whatsoever. It sounded like him saying "absolutely not" was within a full sentence and that sentence could have been anything or them asking him any question. Don't let manipulative editing/scripting fool you. Any decent surveyor would/should know what's going on.
KneeCaps ye the video editor made the surveyor look dumb and incompetent - I’d be pissed lol
narrator: we rely too much on our eyes
ah yes, I smell that this hill is indeed going downwards.
your comment deserves 14k thumbs up. you are only short 13,986 after the one i gave you.
i did what i could, man...
Respect a future U.S Soldier *Violently salutes*
Lmao
It's an optical illusion.
😂😂😂😂😂 made me morning mate
So much for Behzinga's little hill being spooky.
LOL
LMAOOOOOOOOOO
I imagined it was just perspective and I was right. Pretty cool still
Keep you’re expectations low and you will never be disappointed
LOL I WAS GOING HERE BECAUSE OF SIDEMEN REACTS
2:09 alright mate, calm down.
sophie❷2 right o
It gave me early 2000's hip hop music video vibes
English man seeing a camera for the first time (1935 Colourised)
@@saadwaheed465 😂
@@torilazzalini-machecler5268 same lol
Does Chris know what’s going on. “Absolutely no idea”
Vwolf:
The landscape is opposite hence the road goes up while the land goes down and vice versa.
You could create this in your yard with sand or earth or...and charge people money giving this illusion.
Elon Musk:
Didnt need too, chief.
The O.K. Corral he took the quote from the video dumb ass 🤦🏽♂️
Does
Does
When someone is trying to see when the light shuts of when you close the fridge
2:09
I'm dying
Underrated comment xD
Reminds me off the Neil warnock vid
lmaoooo
Legend 😂😂
Literally no one:
The psychologist at 2:08
This meme is dumb like you
@@yaboifry2071 and like ur mom
“Thankfully psychologist Rob Macintosh” *ROB STARES INTO YOUR SOUL*
Yuhhhhhhh
Oh god😂
bruh youre profile picture
"Thankfully this *PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE SPECIALIST* Rob Macintosh"
Locks2450 r/whoosh
their work would have been a lot easier if they brought a level.
+Pyaar Suravira Hahahha first thing i thought also
+Pyaar Suravira A level wouldn't tell you anything other than which way is up relative to the direction of the gravitational forces affecting it. It would be mostly worthless when trying to determine if you are experiencing an optical illusion or a legitimate gravitational anomaly. If non-magnetic things are rolling "uphill", a level is *_always_* going to tell you that direction is "downhill", regardless of the actual altitudes of the "top" and "bottom".
The only time a level would be useful is if you could find a spot where it suddenly begins reading differently than previous measurements would suggest it should. For example: If while at the top of the hill, the level reacts as you would expect, but as you travel towards the bottom, it begins to reverse which way is "up", then you've just found yourself a genuine anomaly. If, on the other hand, measurements consistently show the same direction as "up" for the entire length of road, you've just wasted a bunch of time and have gotten practically no useful information.
Determining the altitude of the "top" and "bottom" of the hill is the only surefire way to determine whether it's an optical illusion or a gravitational anomaly.
+Wells actually, a level would tell you which way is up and which way is down. A level with a small air bubble works using gravity. Supposedly the cars are being pulled "up" br gravity (doesnt really matter whats pulling the cars up). So a simple level will tell you which way up actually is, and you'll be able to see that "up" is actually down. Problem solved!
Shehan Conrad
The fact that the air bubble works using gravity is the precise reason it's useless in this particular situation. It is incapable of telling the difference between an optical illusion such as the one in this video and a genuine gravitational anomaly, should such a thing exist on Earth.
If the "top" of the hill really were at a higher altitude than the "bottom", and objects are rolling uphill, the level is going to tell you that the top is the bottom. Without knowing the altitudes of the two points, you have no way of knowing whether the level is reporting "up" relative to the center of the Earth, or some other gravitational force. Remember: "Up" is simply the opposite direction of the sum of the gravitational force vectors acting on an object.
+Pyaar Suravira
Or, let lose a car in neutral, or see which was a bicycle or skate board rolls.
Plot twist: the hill and roads are paid actors
peter3387 You joking or...
Alex Jones would agree with you.
I wanna start a career as a road surveyor, seems like a thrilling job
pr4nk5tr well, you'd be on the road a lot
@@TheChadPad puh-dum tssss
@@ddebenedictis well someone has to do it
Sameee
My dad is a surveyor, he loves it but he does a lot of points
2:09 What my microwave sees as I watch my food being heated up
😂😂
Try not to put your face near the microwave. You are exposed to the radiation through the door at close proximity
Lion Cross shut up man
Lion Cross idiot no your not, the metal mesh in the glass blocks the waves.
Lion Cross perish, mortal.
'The results are surprising'
How are they? Did you genuinely think the cars were rolling uphill?
Adam Lake relatively speaking. Yes, that’s what’s happening.
Yeah just not with respect to *true gravity*
*_True gravity deserves respect too_* #equality
#equality
Thank u
Took them 3 minutes to say “perspective makes it look uphill”
2:09 what the inside of my crisp bag sees when i try to pick the best one
the psychologist was totally unnecessary lol. if the surveying results show the real elevations, then the so called 'illusion' can be solved by the engineers themselves.
ruddin nasir o
Agreed. Also, technically the surveyor was using a total station, not a theodolite, as a theodolite would only measure angles.
ruddin nasir I've a strong belief that you're an engineer lol
Awaiting Deactivation fucc u
Anderson exactly
Didn’t know there were so many scientists in the comments.
You don’t need to be a scientist to know which way is uphill or downhill.
MarcLloydz Obviously the car would still roll downhill but the point of the video was to explain why downhill looked like uphill and I am sure you couldn’t explain that.
@@MarcLloydZ No but apparently you do need to be a psychologist.
Maksym Perozhak now you know
MarcLloydz actually you would need a master degree to know the difference between uphill and downhill.
"These optical illusions fool us cuz we rely to much on our eyes and not our other senses"
Ah yes, my nose is telling something is off now
The "five senses" that grade school teaches us is woefully innacurate. We have more senses than that, one being our sense of balance with the main sensing organ being the vestibular system of the inner ear.
Yep. I never leave my house without my theodolite in my arse pocket, just in case.
Imagine being a cyclist unintentionally stumbling across this road.
Especially if it's before he goes to the pub....
I drove this hill 40 years ago, and was convinced that gravity was reversed, until I stopped the car and took a pee at the side of the road, water always runs downhill.
William Nomates how old r u 90
quite possibly
How can u still use a phone old man
@@raptorhacker599 because old people can use phones.
@@yellowvegtables454 not if they ant read screens
never believed for one second that cars were actually rolling up hill.
Guy 01 they actually do
Guy 01 they are though you dumbfuck
Its true... There's another hill where the same thing happens but I don't remember where .. Brasil I think
Satan how did you manage to get to that conclusion?
Guy 01 I’ve been there they do
2:10 what my goldfish see when I’m looking in the fish tank
2:08 what the last Pringle sees
2:10 this guy ?!
Don't come near my children
How did I not even notice that?!
Chirag Khurana lol.
Some Englishman, they’re all like that.
@@pepehimovic3135 Nice work dude u *roasted him good*
So basically, the Earth is not flat.
Edit: God, what have I done?
The earth is square
How is this proof of that? 🤷♂️
@b zly I would love it if you explain how a sunset equinox would work on a flat earth.
b zly How... HOW?!
ACTUALLY,its proven by mark shucbin a forensic motion picture analyst.he says that essentially creating a fake landing on the moon would be IMPOSIBLE!! In the 60s
"We rely too much on our eyes"
Yes, let me just *bite this piece of dirt, stone and pavement* just to see whether this hill is going up or down.
They had an opportunity to end the video with something profound and instead gave us that terrible sentence.
To be fair the more jarring part of that sentence was the "we don't listen to our other senses". Our vision and brains actually do a lot of things to fill in a puzzle, so its not always accurate. However I don't get how other senses would help here. Taste the dirt? Feel the road? Hear the wind hitting the pavement at an angle?
@@Alan-wj5zc vestibular system uses touch to sense your head angle and motion :^)
2:56 what other senses am I supposed to smell the slope of the road lmao
No your taste
2:08 what your bag sees when the teacher asks for your homework and I haven’t done it
bro dying rn!
LOL
ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA
Why was he even there 😂
A A ikr 😂😂🤣
**Theolodite**
I remember a television programme years ago about a road in Scotland (probably the same one), that did this and I always wanted to see for myself. The fascination is not that gravity has been defied, it's the shape of the whole landscape that creates a false illusion. I still haven't seen it, but I fear that with all the head scratchers crawling in neutral along there, the Scottish highways authority will be placing armco barriers with built in bubble levels, very carefully set out with lasers beamed off satellites to avoid any confusion; and the illusion will be lost
I remember an old student teacher I had back in grade school that told the class about her trip to Scotland and how they stopped their car on an uphill road and it moved forward on its own. I had no idea wtf she was talking about, NOW I know what she was talking about almost 20 years later. This is so cool!
I thought this was the jumpscare with the 'follow the white car'😂
2:09 when the teacher asks if you have your homework 😂
George_E 😂
😂😂😂😂😂
Shit I can't stop laughing
🤣🤣
Legitdying 😂😂😂
The psychologist has it figured out. How cool. The same landscape phenomenon occurs here in Gold Hill, Oregon on Sardine Creek road. They have a mystery house set up here and they demonstrate water flowing uphill. Much like some of the rooms at the Winchester Mystery House in San Francisco there are rooms that will make taller people look shorter than others.
anybody here from the sidemen vid
It’s just a damn hill on a hill
this guy is like next level...
It's just a damn dude playing a dude disguised as another dude
I hate how the person said that we "have to listen to our other senses". What other senses would help you, exactly?
+Alex Parr You just have to be really quiet so you can hear the hill tell you which way is up. But don't be too quiet, because then you might hear it telling you to swerve into the bicyclists.
+aluisious exactly
+Alex Parr Sense of balance, for example...
I don't know, maybe you can't tell if you're upside down or not.
We humans got some form of Accelerometer to sense forces and acceleration. Stand in a steep hill see your body's angle relative to the ground.
If you argue that under water people can lose their way (as in which way is up or down), sure they do because underwater you get boyency force from the water that opposes gravity so you get less sense of gravity direction.
In an airplane, without looking outside i know when the airplane tilts clockwise or counter clockwise. That's totally normal.
common sense...
There’s also a road like this in Barbados! I went on vacation there and we took an Uber and he showed us a road he backed up and put the car in neutral and it pulled the car upwards! It was a sick experience!
Sidemen reacts gang letsgo
1:58 Really this guy cant figure it out? It was obvious
I guess we have different definitions of "obvious".
I bet you are a basement dweller.
Nope, you're rolling downhill. Big surprise.
burt591 exactly, I knew what was going on even before I clicked play! Some ppl just want so called unexplained fantasy in their boring life's.
burt591 really then what is it genuis
I cant believe a video this long is required to explain why it looks like things are rolling uphill... is it not obvious? Did people truly believe that gravity was wrong on that particular road?
It's an american science program, it's bound to be fucking stupid.
derbigpr500 as an American, i just laughed my ass off to that
No, you are very smart.
“Unexpected result” its actually rolling downhill and gravity isn’t broken. So unexpected.
derbigpr500 yes
1:37 even the foreground gives you a clue which way the slope goes. Also using the horizon in the left middle of the frame helps.
“This looks like the top of the hill right? And THIS looks like the bottom”
Not at all 😂
NathanDrake RIGHT! It looked flat!
I probably would've liked this mediocre comment until you edited it.. some ego
LAMOOOW maybe the way it was before made less sense before... we don’t know. It could’ve had a punctuation mark in the wrong place that confuses the reader. At least they had the “Ego” to care about what their comment appears to look like.
...Or they had a spelling mistake. We don’t know.
LAMOOOW Also /rwoooosh me if you have to. If you were kidding, use ScRaMbLeD WrItInG to convey sarcasm next time.
LAMOOOW 🤡 wdym its kinda funny its litterally opposite of what they said
Who sits around and thinks, “I’m going to make a theodolite”????????????
Me. I did it with my students
But the outcome: absolutely no idea
Science exists
I believe it is very useful in construction and surveying the land being used.
Someone very smart because small ones go for $1,000 and more professional ones go up to $20,000
Roads look so nice in other countries...while in mine they look like the moons surface...
Mine look like cliffs.
Ryan Kreder ours look like they've been bombed to shits during WWI shoddily repaired and bombed again during WWII.
Lost Guardian So you live in Russland?
That's just a nice road in that video. I live in Scotland and a lot of roads are shite.
@@olzhas1one755 muhosransk to be precise
My heart goes out to the surveyor. Imagine being a Scotsman called "English".
The effect of Andy Murray syndrome
Big up sidemen
And we are off to the comment section!!
*Lets see what the experts think...*
You do not have enough likes, my guy
@@NutAQ3D you dont have subs my guy
@@BrunoJaureguiMusic I don't make any videos, my guy
@@NutAQ3D then good my guy cause no one would watch them my guy
@@BrunoJaureguiMusic I listened to a few seconds of your umm.. productions.. it sucked, my guy
theres a place like this in philippines even water can go uphill
There's a place like that in saudi arabia too
13abycake Where would that be?
Where in the Philippines?
It is most likely a similar optical illusion. NASA and DLR launched a joint mission known as GRACE which mapped the earth's entire gravitational field with astonishing accuracy. I highly recommend reading the Wikipedia page on the mission, it is quite fascinating how they pulled this off. Anyway, it was found that the min/max magnitude of earth's gravity anywhere on its surface is 9.7639m/s^2 and 9.8337m/s^2, which you likely would not even notice. As for it's direction, this can of course also fluctuate ever so slightly depending on location, but only if you had very very precisely calibrated equipment. As far as human senses are concerned gravity is effectively a constant magnitude and points directly towards the core, regardless of where you are on the planet. Hope I could provide some interesting information.
Saan?
Literally the same thing happens on “Góra Żar” in southern Poland, near my hometown.
2:57 i can smell the illusion
In certain situations it's hard to tell if you're going up or down hill. When in doubt get out and have a pee and see which way it flows. (= It's not that complicated!
actionmethod can girls not pee?
+Courtnye Pinto
Girls peeing is just a myth commonly told in porn. Such thing is not possible.
Envinite It is squirt
I don't recommend that any person should stand in the middle of a road and pee.
@O(∩_∩)O or just throw some water out a bottle
There are some other roads around the world like this one
One in LA
One in saudi arabia
One in Kenya Kitui County
Road called hangmans hill in england
Salalah, oman
1:33 "This looks like the top of the hill ,right?
- No?
- And this looks like the bottom of the hill, right?
- Absolutely nope, no, you drunk?
- WRONG.
- Told you so..."
We have one of these roads near to where I live in south Ireland. Little stream beside looks like it runs uphill and cars go “uphill” too. Always fun with friends to freak them out 😉
I've been to this road a few times
That was easy to tell when they panned out... I didn't need his explanation.
There is a similar place at Jenkinstown on the Cooley peninsula north of Dundalk in Ireland. It is known as Gravity Hill or Magic Hill. It is eerie to stop a car at the bottom of the hill and then see it roll uphill. I have long maintained that it is an optical illusion and, in fact, the car is actually rolling downhill. Thank you for confiming this. I now have a reference to show people in future.
Wtf it's 7yrs ago and the quality is mind blowing 🔥🔥🤯
Don’t you mean *every road in Australia*
Don't show this video to Takumi
XD
Lol
Rip Curl 69 it was pretty good tho
Classic Pinball, it is amazing
EastBoundAndDown once it got to stage 4 lots of it was boring. But the end of stage 5 and final stage were done amazingly.
1:33 "This looks like the top of the hill right? And this looks like the bottom."
Me: No it doesn't. Anyone can literally tell you that it doesn't.
Lmao that's what I thought too I was like wtf do you mean it looks like the top
2:09 what the poop in the toilet sees when I come back for seconds
2:09
When the special Ed kid asks you to play with him.
STOP IM DYING😂😂😂😊😂
Lolololololol xD 🤣🤣
And then you realise you are stupider than the special ed kid
Jeez bruh. WHY??!!!! 😂😂😂
4 people above me are the biggest youtube comment section normies out there.
Hey guys see you in another 3 years when this is back in our recommend
TwoMac alright bet
Can't wait!
Just commenting to get the noti if it happens
MojoLake same
That's absolutely amazing
“He’s brought along a mystery busting piece of equipment”
Chris: brings out a dumpy level with a lcd screen
There is a similar "slope" just east of Rome, in Italy.
It is a very steep climb, which then levels out to almost horizontal and then climbs very steeply again.
To the human eyem, it looks like one is going "up, then down, then up again",
but if you measure the gradient, it is "hard slope, gentle slope, hard slope".
It is really just an optical illusion, albeit on a very large scale.
Very amusing to the turist ;)
2:09 has me dying
Fun fact, we have the same thing in Romania, near Sacele. Thank you for the explination!
Thank you. I bicycle on a trail where a quarter mile segment of that trail seems to have the same effect as this road. I always thought it might be a wind current, but then even on a calm day I'm peddling "downhill." Case solved.
Same as “magnetic hill” in New Brunswick, Canada.
1:50 he sounds like the guy who said "But steel is heavier than feathers"
C L 1 F F you never heard of a Scottish accent before??
C L 1 F F You mean Limmy?? He’s a comedian and if so i sound like that too and i’m not a guy lmao
@@capriceog9996 yeah but there both a kilogram
I’ve actually been there some 30 years ago and it’s something that you have to experience to fully appreciate it. Regards, Bob M. South Wales. UK
I've been here so much and it's cool to see it's here
No one:
CZcams recommendations after 5 years: "Here's something that may not interest you but we know you will click on it anyway."
Right??
You did it, you broke down youtube recommendations to it's bare essentials!
Here from sidemen reacts 😂
When it showed the landscape and the narrator suggested which end of the road was higher it just looked level to me. 🤷🏻♂️
For a second, I thought this was that scary car video where that woman jump scares you.... 😅😅😅
Finally that psychology degree came in handy
There is thousands of these roads around the world.
One in my hometown.
One in my bed as well. I sleep on the right side of my queen sized bed but end up waking up on my left.
If you're ever feeling DOWN, just remember to visit this mountain. It will cheer you UP!
I honestly what's going on the moment he told the measurements but to my surprise his analytical skills were "NO IDEA"...
Tesla regenerative braking: am I a joke to you
There’s a road like this in Essex. It’s called hangman’s hill
This is actually really cool!
There is also a famous street in Brazil with the same optical illusion, it is called Peanut St ("Rua do Amendoim") and it is located in the Belo Horizonte City, Minas Gerais state.
Funny about this street is that, unlike the road in this video, the "Peanut St" is quite accessible, since it is in a big city and depending on the day of the week, you might see literally dozens of cars whose drivers have put in neutral just to experience the car "rolling uphill" in a big crazy queue. Quite an interesting tourism spot!!
There is a similar place in New Brunswick, Canada as well called "Magnetic hill."
Anonymous Hurts he says he's in Canada you dumbfuck
"Magnetic" or "Witches"... magnetic deposits sound way more believable than witchcraft at least.
Anonymous Hurts can you not read he said Canada you must be from a third world country
We have the same in Australia and it's called Magnetic Hill also lol
Stronger optical illusion than this one though.
Here in Brazil there are two and they're both called Peanut Hill, just dont know why, lol
2:07 *when you finally square up to your bully*
Great prank lol should do more of these well done. 👌
Magnet Hill is a gravity hill located near Leh in Ladakh, India. The layout of the area and surrounding slopes create the optical illusion of a hill. The hill road is actually a downhill road. Objects and cars on the hill road may appear to roll uphill in defiance of gravity when they are, in fact, rolling downhill
It’s because they didn’t make the road in the way of the terrain
Ethan's bizzare adventures
YO THIS IS ACTUALLY SO COOL
This road is on my bucket list
Hangman’s hill in Essex is the same
Always used to do that when I was younger
I was in a minibus that stopped on that road when I was about 12, the driver was telling us all about this magical phenomenon.
I looked around the place and concluded, optical illusion, drive on.. Next they’ll be telling us the earth is flat.
I'm so sorry but...
@@mego7389 No.
OneMoreHour its not you fucking buffoon
Same thing near Moncton New Brunswick. Canada. It's called Magnetic Hill. We used to go there regularly as kids. I've always wondered. Now I know. Similar situation nearby there as well, The Reversing Falls. The tide in the Bay of Fundy comes in so fast and is so high, about 60 feet, that the St. John River flows backwards.
There’s something like this in new Brunswick Canada. It’s called magnetic hill and it’s pretty cool