I’m a 40 year old from America and I’m enjoying it now. It doesn’t speak down at all. It’s all I’ve watched all day.

lol 45 yo here - watched it as a kid and enjoying it just as much now. Those guys really gave me a passion for science and the natural world :)

I ran home from school every Friday to watch this show in the mid to late 80’s. Did engineering and computer science at Melbourne University, and I must give some credit to Rob and Deane! Many KZfaqrs are repeating or expanding on their episodes today. 👍

Shoot I am enjoying it as a young man!

Man where was this in nz in the 90s! I'd have gone nuts for this as a kid!

Without being rude I think comparing the curiosity show to KZfaq is a little bit insulting

They have a few episodes in German apparently the show was shown in your country back in the day

The big boys worked out dumb people spend lots of money unfortunately so this sort of thing is no longer put on tv

Paul Hayden are you serious about the 2nd part? Have u never watched discovery channel? PBS? Smithsonian channel? The Learning Channel? National Geographic channel? Science Channel?

@@alitlweird Eh...those channels all play silly Alien and hillbilly crap.

@@SpottedBullet From the History Channel I learned all about the disagreements among the employees of a pawn shop in Las Vegas.

I don't watch TV anymore but even NatGeo here is going down that hole of bad content even in YT. I follow many PBS channels like Physics Girl, The brain scoop... They all still have brains on it.

COPS?

That's aussies for you lol

It's a Mac

Ah, yes, Australia, BC. (Before Capitalism, that is.) My country has that problem, too. After Democracy, though, things will be better. You and I may not live to see it, but capitalism is collapsing, and genuine democracy seems to be the inevitable next step.

Matthew Grimshaw What is your country?

@Horizon585 I never used the word "socialism." If you think I got something wrong, try to be specific.

Capitalism is the individual right to own things and trade them. It has lifted billions from the abject poverty that every other system kept them in.. go live out your authoritarian fantasy in North Korea

There will never be anything more ironic than a comfortable first-world person sitting in a comfortable first-world chair in a comfortable first-world home in front of a comfortable first-world internet-connected computer and they are using it to complain about how capitalism is the worst.

I think it's cool that what we would consider adult level content was what kids were capable of absorbing back then

You just described what happens when something is sucked in.

@@ori-yorudan Not "sucked in". "Blown in".

@@mikemondano3624 that is literally just a matter of semantics. Something moves into a lower pressure space in an attempt to equalise the pressure. The liquid is being sucked in as much as it's being pushed in.

@@ori-yorudan "Something" doesn't "attempt" anything. These are not sentient beings with desires and plans. And it has nothing to do with the science of semantics. The sucking has no efecrt at all on the water. The only force acting on the water is atmospheric pressure.

Not only that but if you're really nice and ask a question they will answer it . all these years later they are still keen to pass on the knowledge that they have

The stone in the soil gets drier

People get less thirsty as well.

It triggers sinkholes

Sinkholes, droughts, landslides. Isn't science wonderfull ?

@@Knyfi while I agree that we shouldn't be taking too much water out I think you're being a bit dramatic

Im on mobile so grammar and format. What they do is they take video of the shot before hes in view and then he will walk into view, take his place and they start up the camera again and he starts his bit. Then in editing they fade in the new take of him in shot over the old video of him not in shot, not sure the specifics of how they do it analog like done here but basically that. You can see the workers fade out of and then into existance in different places as well.

@@BarkingCrowe How come the old shot and the new one overlapped so well here?

@@mosab643 Because the camera wasnt moved between the shots. They set up the camera, shot the before, he got into posistion, and thenthey did the second shot. If you talking about between him being in the studio and then the jump to the water pump, thats just skill as far as i know. Just them know how and where to have him stand so that the shots would line up. Wouldnt be suprised if they had how far he was away from the camera measured at the studio and then made him stand at the same distance from it at the pump site.

They filmed him in the studio they turned the camera off drove to Alice Springs and then turn it back on very simple

No, it's rock. But when that was on the surface, millions of years ago... There were worms.

It may be a long way, but, yes: en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Aquifer

Yes, but depending on how the aquifer gets refreshed it can take thousands of years for water to make it from the surface to where people are pumping it out.

@@RobertSzasz Wait what? It's not like water falls from the sky! errmm ahh.. no, wait...

@@DiscoFang that's like saying oil and coal are renewable because we can grow trees. You can't manage aquifers the same way as surface water (lakes, rivers, reservoirs).

The drill head comes back up after the bore has been drilled. The lengths of pipe with the threads are the steel shaft sections the cutter head is attached to. The shafts are tack welded together after they’ve been joined so that the sections wont unthread and fall down the borehole if the cutter head is reversed. After the cutter head has reached the water bearing level, the cutter head shaft sections are brought up the borehole and disassembled along with the cutter head, then a bore casing is inserted down the borehole ready for the submersible pump to be installed.

You dont need a stick when you know the water bearing formation is so many feet down. The sticks are only used for shallow wells.

woosh

As a well driller, I dread drilling holes that have been witched.

I worked for city works once and this guy actually handed me dousing rods to make sure there wasn't a water line before he dug a hole for a stop sign.

The Earth rotates at half the speed of the hour hand on a clock. There is no inertia created.

@@Rob-fc9wg no it doesn't, that is asinine.

@@JeffreyAllanBackowski the Earth rotates once every 24 hours. How is that asinine?

Indeed, if you also thought gravity was fake too. It's called equilibrium.

@@Rob-fc9wg The Earth spins at half the speed of the hour hand of a clock? Errmm that's a fast clock you have - the surface of the Earth travels at roughly 1,000mph.

I was wondering that as well. My completely ignorent off the top of my head estimate would be $10-12k.

$1k 1986 is about $2.5k now.

Probably much cheaper to manufacture or fabricate now.

Yes they did use a lot of that but they also went on location

They definitely can, it's just incredibly inefficient and wouldn't work as a well. It's much easier to break up thousands of kilos of rock and move the spoil than to vaporize it. Also, when you cut rock or metal with a laser, you melt the edges of your cut. This would make the rock impermeable to water defeating the point.

Yeah it takes more energy to crush rocks than to completely vapourise them

When this was done lasers weren't invented

better idea, get them out of drought places

There has to be the Aquifer under the ground but of course the biggest problem in the Africa is they won't use condoms

And it isn’t now?

@@persnappy Didn’t you hear? Science and yodeling swapped places.

@@persnappy read a science textbook in schools half of it is pseudo science and opinions. It's silly honestly. I mean prime example the "follow the science" campaign and silencing of medical professionals from covid. Your literally lose medical licenses and your job if you didn't follow the now denounced narrative. It didn't matter what "science" showed. People use that word so incorrectly today Imagine being a doctor in 2020 and 2021 and losing your job at a hospital for stating, not even advocating or prescribing, but just having the opinion that you don't need to wear a mask because it doesn't prevent the spread of covid, yet scientifically you know it doesn't prevent it. You cannot tell me that "science" means the same thing it does today and back then. That word is used in such different ways now

@@christianvanmatre7620 hilarious but true

You mean before the internet told everybody not to trust anybody or scientists so they could control society ? Science is still science that doesn't change only the level of stupidity from people that's what changes

What makes it for kids or for adults? What factor or variable decides, mr.national demographic