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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
Every city on earth has a double in the us
@@ZaHandle Peru, Massachusetts
"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.
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: czcams.com/video/SgZ1f4ACZBQ/video.html
I think the terribleness stems from there already being a popular video on the topic
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.
"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
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
3:00 bruh thats wrong.
The statue of liberty is obviously solid, thats its state
3:27 I love that they kept the grammar error in
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
"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 czcams.com/video/yrO5PKhDQI8/video.html
@purple X ok
Don't forget the hating of Newark airport
His jokes have gotten better
My favorite, bricks with mustard
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!
SO GOOD!! I still remember when you started this channel, love the random fun facts and humor that goes along with it.
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
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.
Thank you! My wife literally spit out her coffee when you said “spank that like button…” priceless.
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
I’ve felt incomplete for over a decade, always wondering “Suejsjiwiwisismxmaiaom”. Every morning I woke up, it’d be the first thing on my mind. I thought it could never be solved. I was unsure if I would lose my mind since I was sure I’d never know the answer… But when you answered it, my eyes became filled with tears. I now feel an indescribable joy. Life is beautiful. My husband and kids have returned. Thank you, HAI. Thank you for everything.
This is not a difficult question to answer though man
@@SparkySywer Yeah if you already have an understanding of "Huejissfifinxtchtln" 🙄 not everyone is that talented though
@@SparkySywer yes it is, Ive been racking ny brain for years trying to figure it out. I’ve spent hundreds of sleepless nights thinking about it. It’s why my husband left me.
Too bad your insurance sucks though
@KittyPouncer …Okay?
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
@@OmnipotentPotato It's a spam bot, just ignore it, or report it if that makes you feel better.
"Why do so many people live in Greenland?" might be the funniest suggestion of them all.
There’s just so many !!!
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.)
It’s been what 4 years and your channel is still entertaining to watch for a while :)
Keep up the work
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?
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.
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!
"Curb stomp that subscribe button" is my new favorite way to end CZcams videos
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? 🙄
"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
0:01 I never expected you to look like that
Hey half as interesting, it would be super cool if you did a video on, the history of dog training, from pavlov being a monster to the raise and fall of pack theory and how science has taught us training positive is the way to go
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
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.
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. 👍🏻🇬🇧😀
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.
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."
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...
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
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 😔😢
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
3:05 cgp grey enters the chat
4:25 - Today I learned Antarctica is more densly populated then Greenland..!
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
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
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.
This was the first video I've watched from you guys. It was great and I'm wondering how I haven't heard of you all before
I like this guys humour, it's self aware without trying to be "meta"
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
@heavy duty no
@ТоммуIппit Shоrts 🅥 no
Ew bots
Bro give the link in the comment
czcams.com/video/SgZ1f4ACZBQ/video.html
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.
Not sure if this was considered a bottle episode or a clip show episode, but I loved it!
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
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
I love all these videos, but like. I needed this one. Love the channel. might just get nebula because I need more in-depth content from this dude. LMFAO
Imagine being so determined to get a HAI brick video you actually set up a bot to flood the entries
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 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"
You can’t drive from England to Australia.
Travis Patrana: “dude, hold my Red Bull!”
4:18 Fortunately, Oregon is nowhere near the moon [citation needed]
“#1 in number of Mount Rushmores.” The channel is too funny.
he woke up and chose violence 0:10
To drive from England to Australia all you need is a boat large enough to do donuts on, and a lot of patience.
the cow running at 5:11 is my new spirit animal
Episode 300 of Half as Interesting, or simplify the math and watch the 150th episode of Fully Interesting.
Great content. Love it!
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!”
Respect to the person named "BRICKS BRICKS"
Congratulations on 300 videos!
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.
Some of the topics are actually pretty interesting since they do have quite good backstories
This was fun, congrats on your success!
I would absolutely watch a part 2 of this video. Consider this a suggestion.
I think this is the first "Half As Interesting" video that really is half as interesting.
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.
@@DumbMuscle 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.
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.
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
5:08 - Suejsjiwiwisisimxmaiaom, explained with very good detail, thank you so much. I had been searching for this topic for a while now.
lmao
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.
Commenting simply for the algorithm because this is one of the best videos ive watched in a very long time
"The Statue of Liberty is in New York"
Oh god, I can hear the sound of New Jersey rising up to debate this.
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 CZcamsr?
@@jeffbenton6183 This one? czcams.com/video/MP1OAm7Pzps/video.html
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.
“What state is the Statue of Liberty in”
CGP Grey: *frustration noises*
I need a sequel to this video
Glad they decided to finally start featuring all my ideas
South Dakota did seem nice when I drove through it that one year, to be honest.
You should make a video about the reasons why some thing can decompose faster than others it’s actually pretty interesting especially with all the different species
“that is before it ran out of oxygen or froze to death or exploded” 😂😂
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.
I love the amount of wacky zany ways you guys make destroy the subscribe button jokes
Happy 300th video, the HAI crew!!! (Better than the 200th video, in my opinion)
4:44 burger king foot lettuce
1:03 I love how even without that bot, a majority of suggestions at that time wudve been for a bricks video xD
"What state is the statue of liberty in?" Hello and welcome to Half as Interesting. The CZcams 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.
This video was better than we deserved.
Hahahaha that Vox joke was actually gold I burst out laughing
Petition to have a brick video suggestion counter in the corner of each video.
Cheers to your 300th episode! Can't wait to watch the next 300
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
5:09 Now i wonder if there was anyone else who had a stroke while writing their topic idea
Given your channel is so focused on aviation I am stunned ya'll never talked about the Mexico City airports. I think I suggested it a couple of times. I think it interplays nicely with the rest of wendover/HAI videos.
The president literally cancelled the airport we were building before and turned a military base into a new airport. But also the old airport was sort of at max capacity and had huge landing fees. but also most flights were on small planes.