Woah you had this video ready to release for 11 days? What took so long tho?

I want to join

Wow

hi

Tom scott is yes.

become a Tom Scott enthusiast, owner of the biggest Tom Scott collection and leader of the world's biggest Tom Scott fanclub

Start a red tshirt factory which is supplied entirely by hangglider.

My job is operating a LaserTrain

@Stella Hoenheim then get a psychiatrist

@@demp11 That's still not going to change anything, they work for the government after all

26 year old me still is

It's the closest thing we'll get to the Island of Sodor.

you write well for a 6 year old

If I had one, I would paint a face on it's front.

I also drive my own private little "choo choo", mainly at night with one hand

cool

like, on the islands, do you have your propper lore?

Like, on the islands propper? Do you got a trolly?

Would love to see your private train!

that’s so cool!

I was lucky to be able to learn German and Italian in Germany and Italy and I speak French (badly); so I appreciate Tom allowing people to speak for themselves. But I take my hat off to his translator(s) - the subtitles are excellent.

Definitely a reason I don't watch more documentaries is how annoying the speak over is

Large media have to keep into account different exceptional cases, included blind people who can't read subtitles.

I've never understood why the traditional approach is to present the listener/viewer with a garble of two superimposed voices in different languages. I find it especially distracting when both languages are ones I can understand.

Seeing British and American mainstream documentaries is really alienating because of this, if you aren't used to dubbing. Here in Finland children learn to read faster because of the wide use of subtitles, only some children's programs are dubbed. Learning to read is a bit easier for Finns though, as every letter always corresponds the same phonem.

they... might also... not be particularly well-versed in English... Oftentimes the Islanders are older, living in a very remote place. Barely any internet. Not much need to speak English well enough or even at all.

I am almost certain their English would be undecipherable...

@@seanriokifarrell "sänk you for trävelling wiz Deutsche Bahn"

With a lot of the people, I often think they look like they would be perfectly happy talking in fluent English. I'm sure these guys for example wouldn't have any trouble at all.

Germans arent the biggest fans of speaking english Our german accent is in fact often intentional to not sound english at all and because we dont care enough about english to actually learn the real pronunciations

to be fair, it's a phrase that is particularly easy to pronounce for English speakers since there are no consonant clusters (PFerd, STRuMPF, eichöRNCHen, for example) and there are no umlaute either

@@jankisi Fünfhundertachtundsiebzig

@@jankisi ehm, deuTSCHSCHWeizer (the german word with most consonants in a row. of course, it gets worse: georgian has word like "gvprtskvni" everywhere.)

@@KingJupiter and that's 578 as a non german speaker(kinda i guess)

@@joseph99vw It is.

Tom: So long sucker! * Crazy villain laugh *

To this day, all over the world, there are camerapeople helplessly stuck in remote places, victims of Tom's Wake.

@@Spacemongerr Tom has pictures of them all on the wall like trophies

You can't prevent seasonal flooding. Or storms. It just happens.

@@gatocles99 you didn't watch the video

@@entropymusic6571 I did. There are only seasonal storms and tides. Deal with it.

@@gatocles99 They're not trying to change the weather or the tides. They're using artificial breakwater to get the sea to put soil back on the shore during the calm summer season that it scours away in harsh winter storms. It's ultimately terraforming but getting the sea to do most of the work.

@@PhosphorAlchemist That is what the farmers are doing... the video maker was trying to make it all the fault of "global warming".

I know you qualified with "almost like", but really, people building their own powered train carriages isn't steampunk or cyberpunk. Or dieselpunk or any other punk-suffix. These people aren't cosplaying their own lives, you may as well call farming "agripunk" or something. Yes, I have an irrational problem with the suffix "punk", now let's all enjoy the trains

@@DaveDexterMusic But doesn't Steampunk also just refer to a science fiction story set in a different version of history? So it is kind of apt to say this could be in something of a steampunk story, as in our current history, few private people build their own mode of transportation and get to use it legally on tracks.

Reminds me of Ghibli tbh

@@julesnatural well ... no while Steampunk Storys are normaly set around the Victorian Age, it's not that they are limited to that Time, see the Fallout Games are set ~200 Years in the Future and have the *Spaceage Raygun Gothic Atompunk aesthetics* from the 1950/60s under the Mad Max Dust Blanket oh, and there are more than just Steampunk, like Atompunk or Cyberpunk Genre

Farming would probably be solarpunk

Wikipedia is a thing though.

@@FirstDagger but you would have to search it

@@FirstDagger But its far better to learn from a video than from a website in my opinion

Exactly!

@@FortniteVods228 objectively wrong.

Something out of a Airplane! Movie

I was picturing the cameraman screaming, "WAIT FOR MEEEEE!!!"

It begs for a caption "and we never saw him again".

@ legends say he's still clinging to the tiny train to this day

"muggelig-ness" what?

@Anton Timeboy Does Northern German dialect resemble Yorkshire accent, or North East Englands ?

What does muggelig mean?

Musste als Hamburger mehrfach breit grinsen deswegen :D

Tja, dat is halt unsre Mundart, nä?

*Reminded me of Spirited Away AND One Piece due to the train on water*

Not just that, these railroads run across an intertidal flat that stretches from Denmark down to the Netherlands, and while the Netherlands are famous for just making new land that way, germans have also been doing it for centuries. It's actually fascinating to watch. Every 6 hours, these intertidal zones go from being flooded to being dry land. They're also highly productive ecosystems, and people sometimes go for a walk there. Also, the traditional way to go wattwandern, as we call it, is barefoot. It's actually an interesting feeling. The ground can go from nearly as solid as soil to muddy and easy to sink into (which is why you should never go there alone, if you step onto a particularily wet piece of ground and sink into the mud, you'll have a hard time freeing yourself)

These islands are the leftover hills from when the whole coastline was destroyed by massive floods centuries ago. Even as a local from nearby, it's always been weird that these few houses are still being maintained and inhabited.

@@Yora21 This region was actually where the Anglo-Saxons (the originators of the English language) came from. One wonders if all the flooding in this region was part of the reason why they decided to migrate all the way to Britain.

I love that movie

it's this amazing new invention called 'society'

this is what we needed

I was surprised how german it sounded. most english people struggle even with two words like that xD

@am7ha7 I guess Tom was realy "immersed" in the local culture !!

He's becoming one of us

It just takes one second of Tom speaking German and suddenly he's so much more adorable.

That would suck to not get to socialize with anyone... Do those houses get internet service? Perhaps they at least get internet.

@@izaicslinux6961 Yes, they do have internet They have every modern commodity other houses have as well..

it really depends. oh Hooge there is 15 mbps over LTE in some corners, but the majority has at least 50 mbps. On Nordstrand the majority is below 16 mbps, Oland and Langeneß get gigabit

@@HappyBeezerStudios that's not bad. 15 Mbps is more than enough for some basic internet usage, could even get some KZfaq in.

@@HappyBeezerStudios that's more than I have on the land

that was what i was gonna say! great movie

Ahhhhh, now I can't unsee it, that is precious

Ayo they made polar express into a real thing

literally exactly what i was thinking haha

literallllyy

and you love his "Los geht's!"

Seine Videos sind aber auch immer mega entspannend ;)

Finally you know how it feels to be cechz and watches baldamdbankrupted

Last time when Brits started visiting other countries it didn't end too well 😂

Clemens 😍👍🏼

Are the islands Nordfries?

@@mickavoidant4780 Yes, they are in Nordfriesland.

I immediately felt a bit at home when both of the guys Tom interviewed had this tiny Nothern German dialect (if you can even call it that)

@@allygnedqueer5763 Yeees same here haha

@@allygnedqueer5763 Absolutely!

In the other northern Dutch province, Groningen, these same mounds (also now non-functional, obviously) exist too - but the Groningers call the "wierden" (sg.: wierde) instead.

@@TheSuperLyntendo back in those times groningen was also Fryslân, but back then the hole region from north-Holland to parts of Germany and Denmark was called Magna Frisia. But yes, you are correct 😌

I come from what we germans call "East frisia", or more precisely the city of Emden. Just at the Dutch border over the Ems. And we call them "Warft" which is intersting because that seems to be nearer to the term used in neighbouring Groningen. Also we call the area Tom was in "North Frisia" which is really confusing 😄

Aqua Laguna goes Swoosh

Reminded me of puffing Tom to be fair

ok

Clearly, you've never had to ride a german train. They run late no matter the weather.

@@Chrischi3TutorialLPs 1cm of snow and they all have major problems.

@@Chrischi3TutorialLPs laughs in india

@@Chrischi3TutorialLPs laughs in Trenitalia

And just like elementary my dear Watson, it was never said in the show! It is still funny to say.

@@martyrk He's refering to a show mainly produced for kids where they explain how stuff works. It's actually really well produced and often you can learn something new.

@@MartinvanStormOfficial it is so good at explaining we even watched a video from that show in chemistry class as an introduction to hydrocarbons in schoolyear 11

Das letzte is aber von Peter Lustig!

@@vsmash2 Are you referring to "Klingt komisch, ist aber so?" That was actually said in Die Sendung mit der Maus. I have seen it as a child.

It would smell bad, be completely absolutely dark and depressive and water would probably splash to you from the wind.

@@cube4547 "smell bad" have you ever smelled the sea? "be completely absolutely dark" you wouldnt do it when its cloudy _duuuuh_ "water would probably splash to you from the wind" when there is relatively little wind I somehow doubt that. "depressive" weird way to pronounce "magical"

@@Legendendear it would be more likely smell bad because of the Diesel fumes and Cow Manure around you

@@enisra_bowman No cows there, just sheep.

@@cube4547 how is the time of day is important for the smell?

Tom just keeps getting better, Discover Channel, nope!

So much better since Tom can do these 1-hour episodes in mere minutes and I still feel like i saw and learned much more than what discovery would broadcast.

I'm waiting for Tom Scott to go full History Channel; "I'm not saying it is aliens... but it is aliens!"

@@euansmith3699 remember when History Channel showed documentaries about history? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

@@TheKnobCalledTone. Was that around the same time when MTV was still showing music videos?

Sadly, due to global sea-level rise in as little as 100 to 200 years, these areas will look exactly like they do now. 😋

@@illbeyourmonster1959 Only the Germans can keep the sea at bay for hundreds of years...because the Dutch would have pushed it back to the horizon in the same time.

It's a bit similar to the English thing about running down a hill to catch a cheese.

Uiterwaarden?

@@P0nyl0ve No, that’s on rivers. Kwelders are the sea based variants

To be fair, there's only so much information Tom can cram into 5 minutes.

@@ramdynebix thanks, didnt know that

Nah. Germany didn't build those things. The Wattenmeer is a natural occurance. We just try to keep it like it was, which sadly requires some maintenance. It's like with Helgoland. We need tons and tons of sand every year to maintain the beachline. But we didn't build the island. We didn't even make it bigger. But without it, the island would be mostly gone by now. Also, who said the local residents help out? They might be asked to pay for it, like home owners are asked to pay up when the street at their house gets fixed. But it's not like it's some romantic community effort to preserve your home with your own bare hands or something.

Also the people who live there are natives and have a right to keep living the way they lived in the past

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@@lunakoala5053 If I remember correctly the state pays for it. The residents are paid for keeping everything intact.

@@MartinvanStormOfficial Many of them probably are employed to do so, yes. The residents are the local workforce, after all. Most people who are getting paid to keep my city intact just so happen to live in that very city as well. That's not some special arrangement.

Plus the track gauge is only 600 mm (1 ft 11+5⁄8 i) wide.

@@peterslegers6121 Well, yes, but that didn't stand out to me as strongly as the tiny trains.

I thought so too.

I figured the trains would be tiny, but I didn't expect "everyone has their own tiny trains like that town with the golf carts."

@@adamsbja It's weird that it happened twice.

I had the exact same thought.

Including the requisite right-angle framing of the crossing shot.

That shot really is the most Wes Anderson shot I’ve ever seen outside of a Wes Anderson movie.

Came here to say this, as the others mentioned, 1:48 delivers

I clicked on the thumbnail to say the same thing

Well "Land Unter" is actually quite easy to imagine: Imagine the sea. Now add some houses into it. No land, just houses and the smell of wet stuff. That's all you need.

@@m.struck6535 - I'm not saying I can't imagine it, nor the average viewer. I'm saying it would still have been very impactful to show visually.

What's stopping you?

just gonna reply cuz why not

“Has Tom Scott made any videos about Germany?” “Nine” “That’s a shame”

Yes!!!

@@GreytOutdoorsMedic What comes between fear and sex? ...fünf!

@@Schattenhall Flache Witze für ein flaches Land! ;-)

@@GreytOutdoorsMedic To be pedantic, he's actually made 14 videos about Germany. Or 13 if you don't count Lake Constance as Germany.

I'm delighted that my German is coming to use when watching these videos, but as a non-native speaker I still need the subtitles at times. I think I enjoyed the Schweizerdeutsch the most, somehow it feels like it's closest to my Scandinavian tounge!

@@TheKfauw The people in the video from Switzerland where speaking Hochdeutsch, not Schweizerdeutsch, though. Schweizerdeutsch is incomprehensible even for native German speakers. EDIT: For example here: watch?v=x0cqI0HJQsI The older guy at the end? I can't understand him without subtitles.

You can find more videos about the "Halligen" on KZfaq. Some of them have guest houses/hostels and you can travel there in summer and make vacation. Living on a holm is a special lifestyle.

Yes, I was thinking the same

if you wanted to go all out you could build it in a basin and create a simulated tide using real water

@@BronyumHexofloride The reason you don't see that kind of thing is that, with nearby water, tracks are more likely to rust (not to mention damage to your rolling stock)

At just under 1:2 scale, a model railroad version of this train could run on the scale 12" railroads like the smaller scale "big train" models. While shorted, and with less passenger capacity (many of these models trains are built that passengers and operators can sit on the roofs), it would be friggin' tall! But the even more fascinating option for some model railroad builders might be...to move to a Hallig and build a 1:4 scale model of a, let's say, 4-8-2 steam locomotive with running stock and operate it as a *legitimate real train!*

I recommended our new Ship Engine Room Simulator in the Seefahrtsschule Flensburg (Flensburg Marine Academy) as Video Idea a few Weeks ago. Didn't get approved sadly.

@@Genius_at_Work Erinnert mich daran, wie ich mal mit meiner Klasse nen Ausflug in das Marinetestzentrum gleich neben HDW gemacht habe. Eine der Maschinen da ist n riesiger Hammer von etwa 3-4 Metern länge und immenser Masse, der bis unter die Decke ausgelenkt werden kann. Wird benutzt, um Schäden durch Wasserbomben u.ä. bzw. die dadurch entstehenden Erschütterungen zu simulieren. Die gesamte Halle ist um diese eine Maschine herum ausgelegt. Das Fundament wurde von japanischen Architekten konstruiert, da die resultierende Erschütterung auf das Fundament ähnliche Effekte wie ein Erdbeben hat, darum ist die Halle auf riesigen Sprungfedern gelagert. Als krönenden Abschluss der Show haben die den Hammer auf ca. 60° ausgelenkt und schwingen lassen. Obwohl ich außerhalb der Halle stand und Gehörschutz hatte, war das mit Abstand das lauteste Geräusch, das ich je gehört habe.

Often I think, as the landscape and climate is concerned, we are the continental counterpart to England. And now that I think of it, the German North Sea coast is the ancestral homeland of the English people. No wonder they felt right at home over there.

@@Chrischi3TutorialLPs Unser Maschinenraumsimulator sind etwa 30 Touchscreens mit ähnlich vielen Computern zur Steuerung, verteilt über insgesamt vier Räume. Herzstück ist der Maschinenkontrollraum, in dem die Touchscreens in Konsolen eingebaut sind wie sie auch an Bord zu finden sind. Wir verwenden Touchscreens anstatt echter Komponenten (Schalter etc.), um mehr Flexibilität bei der Darstellung zu haben; die Modelle reichen von Frachtschiffen mit großen Zweitaktmaschinen über Dieselelektrische Kreuzfahrtschiffe bis hin zu Katamaran-Schnellfähren mit Gasturbinen. Der Maschinenraum selbst wird durch vier große (ca 50") Touchscreens dargestellt, auf der sich die gesamte Maschinenanlage als Schaltplan bedienen lässt. Der Notgeneratorenraum ist nochmal separat in einer Abstellkammer untergebracht, und überwacht wird das ganze vom Lehrer/Instruktor aus Raum Nummer vier. Noch in Arbeit ist den Maschinensimulator mit den Simulatoren von den Nautikern eine Etage weiter oben zu verknüpfen, damit gemeinsame Manöver geübt werden können. Neben dem Betrieb der Maschinenanlage und dem Einfluss diverser Parameter (z.B. Seewassertemperatur, Luftfeuchte, Kraftstoffqualität etc.) ist Kommunikation einer der wichtigsten Faktoren, die im Simulator geübt werden.

@@Genius_at_Work If Tom ever shows off my hometown I'll die from happiness, so thanks for trying to get him there!

To be fair, they've just taken the spaces out :-)

It's about the same number of syllables.

Germans just take multiple words and mash them together.

@@Hansengineering and?

@@norgeee Self evident. One German word is not necessarily one actual word. Length comparisons are irrelevant if this is not taken into account.

Don't you get this weird sense of accomplishment when you've already heard of something Tom talks about? I know I do! 😂

interesting way to protect sea level areas.

1 keer gedaan, blijft mooi

Bruh the sea levels rise 0,19 cm each year in the Netherlands... The NOS lied to you

I suppose it's similar to the Broomway...

@@mukrifachri There's no way, only sand. The routes themselves keep changing due to the dynamic wandering of islands & tidal streams. There's water level rise, and bottom dropping from the retreat of the Ice Age ice sheet + winning of natural gas. Normally, the sand gets replenished, but when sea levels rise faster, it could endanger the wadden shalows.

Never thought I'd find my home town mentioned below a Tom Scott video :D

Yes, they exist since 1714 which makes them especially interesting. For me the unesco world heritage bergpark wilhelmshöhe is even more interesting in which these water plays take place.

habs mir gerade angeschaut und muss sagen die Bilder dort sind echt wunderschön

Reminded me of a Wes Anderson movie shot (mainly because of the symmetry, probably), maybe that's why it seems hilarious?

It feels so different from the usual Tom, in a very dynamic way.

Rechte Hand am rechten Griff

@@maikhildebrandt9921It is VERY Wes Anderson. The symmetry of the shot, the "character moves across the shot at perfect pace", the miniature doll house feel of the weirdly colorful train... Just add a quirky flute tune and something a bit more interesting in the background and this is a perfect Wes Anderson shot.

Oh yesss, that would be great!!

great idea !

yes also I live on jutland so ye

Yes, and may be there is also a telephone box on one of these lonely stations. I would like to phone it.

...and hopefully @jagohazzard too!

Soon, we shall all have our own personal tiny trains.

There's a completely over-the-top bilingual warning sign for cyclists at Porthmadog in North Wales where the narrow-gauge Welsh Highland Railway runs across a road bridge as a tramline.

Everything has a sign in Germany. A forest of signs. Most of them are forbidding you stuff...

Time for subscribe Tom ;)