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- čas přidán 8. 05. 2024
- Why do some beaches squeak and what's the deal with singing sand dunes? I went to Australia to find out. Along the way I lose my marbles, get sunburned, and fill my camera with sand.
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Thanks to Vlogbrothers for their sponsorship of this video.
(seriously, how cool is that!?!?!)
0:00 Squeaking sand
0:45 Drums in the desert
1:31 James loses his marbles
3:45 Empire of sand
4:56 Avalanche
5:29 The science of singing
8:40 Outroduction
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Hi, I'm James. I explore the world looking for interesting engineering stories which explore complex issues in interesting ways. In between episodes I'm doing a PhD in space robotics at MIT.
My website is www.atomicfrontieronline.com, I occasionally tweet from / atomicfrontiers , and you can join the Atomic Frontier Discord server to talk about cool engineering stuff at / discord . You can help support my work and see some cool behind-the-scenes content at / atomicfrontier . - Věda a technologie
It's the sandworms, their movement makes the desert hum
Shai Hulud may be the best at making the sand squeak indeed!
Real??! 🤯
That's why you have to walk a certain way to not make that squeaky sound.
Makes sand sing
Stilgar - “LISAN AL GAIB!”
It's like the desert's song is a harbinger of the sandworms.
One other rare source of deep groaning sounds in deserts is the occasional passing discovery channel executive, after their shows are put to shame like this.
This doc reminded me a lot of those old school discovery channel docs, back when it was good and educational.
😂😂😂😂😂
Camels humping in the next dune over.
Hahhaha good one!
For real. RIP discovery channel….history and nat geo too while we’re at it.
In my opinion, a lot of CZcams videos needs to be like this, fun and informative, teaching you something niche that isn't boring and is actually fascinating to know about
You’re going to love Tom scott
As an Aussie I was so surprised when you said squeaking sand is rare since I had encountered it so often.
When you said it's much more common in AU It made way more sense.
Brazilian here, so inhabitant of the another major down under land
and I literally never even heard of this phenomenon
I didn't even know it existed up until now
I've lived in FL and CA and thought it was more normal than the map implied. Just happened to live near the areas it happens in the US.
Yep, use to go to Bribie island on the east coast all the time as a kid and would hear this every time
I experienced it on a sandbar in the Pearl River in Mississippi. Didn't think it was this rare!
@@matheussanthiago9685 Weird! In Uruguay it happens very often, and we're so close!
I didnt know "dune" movie had scientifically accurate dune sounds in the soundtrack. Amazing.
If you know who Hans Zimmer is who produced and composed the soundtrack, then you would understand that you are exactly correct. He uses everything from natural sounds, to tribal musicians, all the way to orchestra instruments.
@@AgapexArafel I mean I know who hans zimmer is and I know he is an amazing composer but what I didnt know was sand made this sound.
@@exosproudmamabear558 it’s just that it’s a very Han Zimmer thing to do.
Squeeky fremen fighting in the squeeky sand against honky harkonnen.
which organ has the sidetract?
I work in food service, and regularly need to move 25 kg bags of cornstarch, and they make the same squeaking noise when you move the bag, glad to see my intuition was right that it would be a similar mechanism creating the sound
As long as the worms don’t hear it
I move around bags of silica sand and they sometimes make the squeaking sound.
I can hear this comment now and it's like nails on chalkboard
@ianweckhorst3200 one of the only movies in years that was actually good.
i saw a video of someone chewing a whole mouthful of cornstarch and ........... my god......... the sounds...........the squeaky crunches................ it was AWFUL
Ah, yes, the squeaky sand. I remember it well from Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake on MSX2 where you have to go through a desert undetected by the guards.
To quote a character from the game: "That's singing sand, imported all the way from Okinawa, Japan. It squeaks when you walk on it. The sound will give your position away, so be careful...See ya."
Wait …. Really?
Something: * makes an unexpected sound *
Explorer: I diagnose you with singing
The universe takes away Tom Scott, but gives me Atomic Frontier. Bless the CZcams algorithm.
The Algorithm giveth, and the Algorithm taketh away. Praise the Algorithm!
Legit I think Tom would be happy to see a young lad continue the legacy for some while until he returns
Excactly my toughts
i EXACTLY thought the same!
@@pnxdait's not about "until he returns"
Heh, loved the Dune references snuck in this video. Great video!
Did you catch the Star Wars one too?
im bad at catching them... can anyone list the references?
@@DenisRyan If you mean the droid escape pod on Tatooine at 7:35, that's actually the Dune Sandworm popcorn bucket 😉 That one had me fooled for quite a while before I looked at it closer.
@@jimhalpert9421 I think he was referring to the Jawa just below.
@@dedwardskbd you must have never seen a jawa... lol... they have eyes that is a sandworm from dune
This is a seriously sick video man. The topic was fascinating and mystifying, and the presentation was incredible. I'm rarely impressed with creators this quickly, I can't wait to see what you do next ^^
This is the first video of yours that I've seen, but it's already convinced me to subscribe. Amazing quality across the board: sound, animation, visuals that you set up outside the animations like the pendulum, or just all the shots of the beach and dunes, just great science communication. Very impressed with this.
"Shudders per second is a function of how large our marbles are." There's a sentence you don't hear every day 😂
2:58 - for those who wonder.
My marbles don't hum they're well sacked
My marbles don’t shudder shudder, it hums
new fav sentence
I wonder how many labradors per freedom it can be
Can't believe I got rickrolled in 2024 by a jar of sand.
same
Same here
W H A T D O Y O U G U Y S M E A N
It was so subtle and so perfect 😂
First time seeing an video from the channel and I must say. Excellent quality, please keep up the good work.
beautifully edited video and great way of explaining things.
I knew the concepts but I was still educated and entertained by your team's work! nicely done.
College age Tom Scott strikes again. Since TS retired from Things you Might Not Have Known; this is now the best Tom-Scott like channel on youtube.
tom scott: bye
internet: ↑↓→←↑
@@KlaypersonJames: "I'm in orbit around Maleveolon Creek where thousands of brave men and women are currently diving feet first... into hell" *queue intro*
have you seen what his thumbnail says?
czcams.com/video/99_Abbuf3cQ/video.html
@@Someone-sc2hk don't be ridiculous... since when do thumbs talk?
1:45 DESTROYED ME
ill never forget
you're a jar of sand?
We're no strangers to love
Bro stabbed the hell out of the meme and killed it
Never gonna give you up.
I dont know why, but this video almost felt like a breath of fresh air.
I guess its just nice to find a science video that doesnt overdramatize everything for once lol
The intro was great, and i really liked the explanations and general tone of the video.
Great work, man!
Really like the vibe of your videos. I'm glad you came recommended to me today !
That Rick Roll was SO well done!
The video was one big rock roll
Yo SPOILERS
dammit now i can't get rick rolled
@@JacopoSkydwellerdon’t look at comments first then
You fool, now I know to expect it and so it won’t work
Once again, you blow me away. (Like the sand!) With production quality and easy to understand graphs and a great story wrapped up in 9 minutes. Fantastic. You worked hard and it shows!
Is it all you?
Thanks! This one was just me and Julian; he did the camera and music and I did the editing and getting sunburned.
Your editing did a FANTASTIC job at making a VERY tight video. Tightly packed information but no overload. While just that touch of humor.@@AtomicFrontier
I couldn't agree more! This has an amazingly high production value! And the intro/outro-music was movie epic!
Wow, that was only 9 minutes? It felt like 20, I was sucked in lmao
@@AtomicFrontierSo Julian is responsible for the Rickroll...
i like the depth you go into for every aspect. the choice of words and models that a novice can realate to from living a standard modern life is tieing it all together to form a solid condensed pack of information.
very strong teacher and also a motivator to learn.
This is insane quality. I love your videos!!
This video coming out of nowhere on my feed and entertainingly and clearly explaining a phenomenon that's puzzled me my whole life. This left me with a feeling of having learned something cool, really enjoying the way you explain things, loling at the little references, and having a good time. This is how science videos should be done. And i appreciated the rick roll. You killed it.
The humor in this entire series looks subtle, yet intelligent.
You have to be high IQ to understand the humor in Atomic Frontier
Whoops, I missed the rick roll. Would you point me to it, please?
@@ThindiGee me too. Is it some kind of troll just to get people to rewatch? Well, I'll let someone else determine that.
@@snoski 1:43
I grew up regularly going to a nearby beach that had squeaking sand. I had no idea that it didn't happen everywhere
so did I
This is extremely well produced! I could easily see this being on tv! Great job guys!
Wow, I didn't realise this was something I needed to know, but I'm so glad I do now! That was surprisingly more interesting and informative than I expected, thank you for all the work you put into this!
You are GOOD! I have a Master Degree in Geology (hard rock, not so much sediments), and I have heard of the phenomenon, but never read about it in text books. You explained and presented the topic beautifully. Short, concise, easy to understand and well illustrated.
Nice work 👍🌞.
My sediments exactly.
Great sand dunes national monument, go past the tourist area and climb up the back side. Slide down, and the sound is legendary. The local tribes have a whole mythology about it.
trying to maintain the monologue while snowboarding/sandboarding was as impressive as it was unnecessary lol
great video yet again
feels like something Tom Scott would do lmao
actually, tom scott used to do this thing where hed take january off and the videos instead would showcase other tubers. tom introduces AF as "someone who will replace me in 10 years" or something like that. thats how i found this channel.
love the way this is filmed like an old educational nature documentary you would watch in school
Never heard of this channel, but the high production quality alone earned you a subscriber!
This is a better ad for West Oz than anything I’ve ever seen come out Tourism WA.
yeah that's about right
we have so many incredible natural vistas and fuck all tourism. which isn't necessarily a bad thing, unless the mining corps take the lack of tourist interest as permission to obliterate the natural wonders of Western Australia
@@OutbackCatgirlbe careful what you wish for. Tourism ruins a lot of the places I love local to me. They're special beautiful places that deserve respect but many don't give it any.
@@CrispyCars you may have misunderstood my comment. That's exactly my sentiment when it comes to tourism.
You mentioned the sound of drums being heard in the singing dunes. Very close frequencies of sound will interfere constructively/destructively to create a rhythmic "beat" like drums.
You've made an amazing production here. Huge props to you!
I was so pleasantly surprised by this. I didn't expect this level of depth. I very much enjoyed this.
R.I.P Wilson Gavin
Still married?
@@daleolson3506No! She died.
Aww wholesome
Surely they must have known/choosen it for that reason right?
He married on misery beach? Damn, that's a grim prognosis...
How many marbles did you lose during that demonstration?
And how many more during the editing?
All of them, he lost all his marbles.
@@AB-wf8ek This is where I attempt, but fail to make a _"Captain Marble"_ joke. _(Apologies all around.....)_
Definitely did fail, but Marbleous attempt regardless. ;D @@paradisepipeco
@@JacopoSkydweller I appreciate the understanding, and the good word, young Jedi. But in my defense, I would like to point out that you never see a wrinkle on Iron Man's clothing..... or a soup stain on Superman's outfit, for that matter _(but I digress)._
Love it. Feelt heavy cosmos feelings on the show. absolutely amazing!!!
This is amazing and beautiful! Thanks you for shedding light on this little known subject!
Wow, this really reminds me of those old school educational programs on TV. Amazing you did this with just two people, and the flow of information provided was so natural yet concise. Very engaging on a topic that could easily be dry if not presented well.
The mention of quartz got me thinking. I would love to see explanations and demonstrations of piezoelectricity from this channel!
Went to 1 beach in northern Australia that would 'spark' if you walked across the dry sand at night. Super high silica content with sharp edged grains. Have also seen beaches where the wet sand would glow when you walked on but that was bioluminescence from small plankton mixed on the sand.
@@geradkavanagh8240 in general sand doing things it's not supposed to do is cool as heck, I guess you found the electric/ground and fairy/ground Diglett beaches.
I got lucky to see these things. Very few people,( even the Aboriginals) rarely visit the 'electric' sands. Bioluminescent ones were everywhere in the Gulf of Carpenteria and all the way to Darwin.
@@neoqwerty
Holy hell how awesome was this clip.
Well done, and thank you!
You being in that massive dessert without a hat on is almost as insane as the singing sand itself. Protect your face and neck brother.
Massive props. First video ive seen on this channel, it must have been blessed by the algorithm. This show rly brings back nostalgia from watching those science shows as a kid.
SPF 100, we call that the hat-in-a-bottle.
i absolutely love how you explained the equation piece by piece in the second to last section of the video. way too many technical/science focused channels avoid explaining the equations they bring up for whatever reason. it really helped explain what is going on here rather than it just being a unique phenomenon that only a handful of people know the 'technicalities' about.
I don’t like sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating… and it squeaks loudly. Not like here at home. Here everything is soft and quiet.
genuinely interesting and fresh information, present well. Great work!
Brilliant! Well done. You are walking in the footsteps of Sagan and others.
Of note, you may find brown squeaking sand on a river or lake, these are often still quarts, just stained with dirt and other minerals/deposits. I often find small segments of this on the mississippi river
If it's along the Mississippi; there's a rather well known river is Wisconsin that flows into the Mississippi called the Black River which is full of wood tannins that stain the beach sand of the beaches south of where it meets in La Crosse for a few hundreds of miles before they get too deluded.
I love the Dune-esque custom soundtrack 😍. Also, you really keep finding fascinating topics for videos!
I was hoping to find a source of the music because Shazam was not helping. I’m really impressed that this was custom-made!
This is extremely detailed and informative; CZcams has enabled a lot of talented people produce informative videos for little to no cost
Amazing video!! Im so happy I found this channel
The audio post-production work in this is both on point and incredibly cheeky!
Ohhh wow! the pinkish red sand particle at 2:09 looks like a very tiny ruby, could actually be possible since they are so incredibly hard and resilient
That or maybe a piece of garnet
Wow! Thank you for putting what must have been quite a lot of effort and planning into this video. It was very engaging, educational and well produced. Bravo! Blessid is the god of algorithms.
We do love the Dune references. greatly produced video, even though I have never watched you before.
Pretty awesome to basically see my backyard a.k.a. Western Australia represented in your videos!
He's from WA
@@PeterPaolielloI know, it's still pretty awesome to see all these scientific locations around WA in his videos, especially these hidden gems! Perhaps WA is not as boring as others might suggest.
I remember there being low-pitch (like carefully rubbing a glass pane with a moist rag) squeaking sand on one of sandy peninsulas of river Vilyui in Yakutia. The sand was clean, not dusty, and yellow
straight up earned my sub with this, well done
Okay Dude made me watch the entire video about sand , you deserve my sub. Btw it was awesome great work !
Brilliant as always, James! The production quality is out of this world, and your sci-comm skill is just growing and growing!!
Holy, the sound design in this video is astonishing! The parts in the beginning where you played music around 0:30 and then when u played the "drum-like roaring sound" from the desert at 1:03 were so cool to listen to with headphones. Aswell as being a cool informational video? Man this videos amazing.
Didn't know the channel, amazing quality overall! Great video!
4:50 I just looked at that map and I got so amazed because the dot in southern Sweden is exactly where I've experienced squeaky sand!
I really appreciate that you brought paddles to the desert, and did something useful with them.
That might be the best explanation of resonance I've ever heard. I know the results of the phenomenon, especially in the music field, but I never had it explained as clearly as this. This is awesome, I love the effort put into these videos
Very engaging and information was to the point without extra fluffing for watch time. Felt like quite high production value, Subbed. Feed me more knowledge :D
This reminds me so much of Tom Scott. I'm glad there's more channels like his, loved his style of content.
Love the wet and dry marble analogies, as well as different sizes. Incredibly easy to understand the whole concept. Worth a like!
Your production quality has started great and just keeps getting better!
Well researched and presented! Excellent program. Thank you.
First time watching, the examples and the way you teach is great, keep it up!
Very impressed with the on site demonstration and effort put into your videos. Much more interesting than a studio video. Well done.
Another nice sound from nature is the crunch under foot of snow. Nothing as odd as squeaking sand. 👍👍
Clearly you've never spent any time on an ice sheet. The cracking ice sounds like Star wars lasers. 😅
Snow squeaks sometimes. Usually it's the weird dry sort of snow, like we got this winter.
Sometimes pressed on snow squeaks, just like this sand. You need snow that came down in rounded crystals for it to make that noise when stepped on.
What an incredible channel man, Cheers from Brazil.
First ever video of this channel. Amazing level of presentation.
i lived near a singing sand mountain (nevada, us)
it sang continuously when the wind blew
With the way you present these topics and the enthusiasm with which you break down the information, you could produce a video every day for the next hundred years and still not run out of interesting topics to talk about. "Watching Paint Dry" could be a week long series with a seventh day finale aired in theaters across the world, attended by millions.
Needless to say, I'm now curious what the tune of my local beaches might be, and if I will be able to notice the difference between different areas even if none of them are the more melodious varieties of sand.
this was my first video I've seen of yours. I've now subscribed
Nothin but bangers, every video slaps. You definitely have a nice career ahead of you!
I have squeaky sand on the beaches in NC. I’ve found that if the sand has had a couple days to settle and the top layer is slightly hard while the bottom layer is soft and then I sort of kick my foot forward as I step the sand will squeak. My kids love it.
Exactly what I have found. After it rains, somehow the rain helps to compact a tight layer crust. After some time a day or two later, that crust dries out, and if you walk through that undisturbed layer and scuff your feet mainly through the crust layer, you get that squeaky sound
The editing and the special effects in this are really clean.
I loved the video; I happen to have some singing dunes not far away, and I remember riding down them as a kid in absolute awe, love from Mojave.
I'm not usually one to be stunned by production quality, but this video is something else. Talk about a great first impression.
Thanks for the video! It was very nicely done 💜 the visuals were helping in terms of making it understandable
This was a excellent way to explain singing sand well done you have earned my sub.
The quality of this video is just insane. Brilliant.
This was an awesome deep dive and a great hype for the part 2 of the Dune.
Also, cool vfx!
When I was a youngster, there were several small rivers and creeks in my area that had clear water and large, dry, blindingly white sand bars in the turns. We could easily identify the sand bars that would squeak (we called it "barking" because it sounded like a seal vocalizing). We instinctively knew why it squeaked, the grains were clean, dry, and mostly round quartz. We could also see a slight electric glow on dark nights, and we thought the piezo action also had something to do with the sound.
Wait *what*?? Electric glow? I am so intrigued, would you mind elaborating for someone who grew up in the city and has never seen a desert in real life?
@@throughcolouredglasses9300 Well, this was in Louisiana, not even close to being a desert. The sand must be clean, of pretty uniform size, and very white, indicating its mostly quartz. When shuffling our feet vigorously in the sand, we got the noise and a very faint glow (on a dark night) obviously caused by the piezo effect. I assumed it was at least partly responsible for the squeaking sound. I hope that helps!
Wow the marbles explanation was so on point!
2:57
No wonder my marbles are always shuddering. 🤔
Wow, that would be pretty terrifying to hear in the middle of a desert by yourself
Having discovered this sliding down of the back of the Great Sand Dunes, it was more exhilarating than terrifying.
The sound comes from everywhere and penetrates your whole body and sounds like angelic trumpets heralding the end of days.
Thanks guys! Always wondered about this myself in QLD. Also how the hell were you wearing jeans the whole time!
Keep making vids like this with multiple parts like the old days!
thank you for having funny sand noises right at the beginning of the video. this video has been in my recommended for days and i remember thinking to myself "i bet its gonna be 5 minutes in before he even plays the sand noise. its all gonna be filler and 'guys you wont BELIEVE the sound this sand makes". But i was wrong. I got to hear beautiful squeaky sand right at the start
0:32 I sure do wonder which sci-fi series' music this is supposed to be similar to
would u happen 2 know
@@woapaDune
@@woapaI dune ot
Australian Tom Scott :D
dude's def not australian, so tom scott 2.0 in australia lol
Does it really resemble Tom Scott videos much other than being educational about random topics? Tom Scott is known for one-shot single scene videos. This is more old school sci-doc vibe.
@@e_j_ I was assuming he was from southern England, probably somewhere near London or Essex since he pronounces world as werwd. But I noted that he kept saying "we have" and "our beaches" when talking about Australia. But then again the description says "I went to Australia to find out". But the channel says it's Australian! Very confusing.
I first encountered this phenomena on vacation as a child at Hilton Head island beach in South Carolina. Above the tide line, when conditions were just right (usually slightly windy days), scuffing my feet through the sand produced a high-pitched swishing "squeak/whistle". I always assumed that was due to friction and the grains rubbing together quickly. This was a very interesting more in-depth explanation of why it makes this sound. Thanks!
One of my local Beaches on the coast of lake Huron in Michigan sings. Thank you for making this video, I was always wondering why.
3:30 Be careful, you just lost a marble there. If you lose another, you'll go insane. "He lost his marbles." is just another way to say "he's crazy."