I like to imagine that you were visiting India for unrelated reasons years ago and decide to take the opportunity to say "Here, in India" in the case that you ever needed a clip related to India.
@@AndreiBerezin I don't know whom they are pretending but it leads to the meme stickered at 5:24. This image is from BBC weather forecast on 15 Oct 1987. The guy, Michael Fish, said "(A viewer said) there is a hurricane on the way. Don't worry there isn't!" on the broadcast. Hours later, the worst storm in centuries devastated Britain. This was caused by the underfunded computer system for weather forecast back then but the footage became a symbol of unpredictable weather in the UK. The footage even appeared in the opening ceremony of 2012 London Olympic Games as a joke.
Must be a pun about how the mantle rotates the same way air in the atmosphere circles around which creates the weather. Hot mantle goes up, cold mantle goes down.
The map of the future supercontinent has an uncanny resemblance to Tamriel from the Elder Scrolls universe if you just got rid of all the major islands.
I live in Australia and even I thought Australia was actually moving down to Antarctica. My childhood dreams of seeing peguins in my backyard have been crushed.
0:46 for those who are wondering it said Well, it's a combination of that and the fact the having access to the sea is really important for a country to thrive and not be conquered by its neighbours, so any territory that finds itself double-landlocked probably won't last as an independent country for ling. Anyway, don't worry about that, the point still stands about the way the world's landmass is spread out.
3:00 according to one of my Geology lecturers, continental drift isn't caused by convection currents, and scientists have never thought it was. It just ended up in the textbooks somehow and became common knowledge. The real mechanism by which continents move are a combination of "ridge push" and "slab pull", which is essentially old plate dragging the rest along, while newly formed plate is pushed away from where it formed
Which is caused by……convection currents. All current science agrees with and has reinforced convection currents, which in turn cause slab pull and ridge push.
@@galenwest9449 It seems like the lecturer was trying to explain that the older models weren't so highly regarded any more - such as the idea that the crust was directly dragged apart by the convection currents on the seafloor, which allowed the magma to come up. Or that the magma acted like a big boil and essentially pushed the sea floor apart as it bulges out. Whereas they think now that it's more that the softer raised surface begins to harden and become more dense, and slides down the squishy upper mantle to push on the more crusty stuff. Gravitational force rather than fluid mechanics, as such. Underneath it all is still the mantle convection currents, of course.
I said to the primary school teacher who I had for two years over 60 years ago that it looked like South America fitted into Africa and he told me about the moving continents. At the time it was still contentious but I only found that out later. My guess is that he read the New Scientist. Wonderful teacher (except when it came to PE).
@@_rlb I didn't notice it even after having watched the whole video, so I, my good sir, for one, approve of this comment. Thank you, AlexanderLuthamatrix Banbiwaddlefeet the third
Their eyebrow game getting stronger as they show the drift caught me off guard. I had to rewatch when I started seeing jay turning into jake gyllenhaal..
@@scotandiamapping4549 Probaly not, the comment was made to compliment a well delivered bit. You're probably the only one who abbreviates seriously though.
@@SimonS44 Öha. Wen man hier so alles trifft! 😉😂 Ja, sogar an mehreren. Allerdings bin ich auch mit der Bachelorarbeit beschäftigt! Versuche zwar jeden Tag ein bisschen zu zeichnen und an Videos rumzuschnipseln, allerdings hat die Uni vorrang :P
0:45 “Well, it’s a combination of that and the fact that having access to the sea is really important for a country to thrive and not be conquered by its neighbours, so any territory that finds itself double-landlocked probably won’t last as an independent country for long. Anyway, don’t worry about that, the point still stands about the way the world’s landmass is spread out.”
I should have checked comments before typing all that out and THEN finding out someone already did it ;) I guess yours is more correct, though, as I double-spaced between sentences, and the video did not.
How did it take so long and for a genius to figure the continents fit together like puzzle pieces. I distinctly remember noticing that in Kindergarten when I first saw the world map.
Ironically, I'm old enough that plate tectonics was discussed in primary school as this cool new discovery that the continents were whizzing around and smashing into each other. Of note to us in NZ, because of course the country straddles the boundary where the Australian plate is running over the the Pacific plate. The reason it was taught as a relatively new thing is that it until the late 60s that some scientific body endorsed the "continental drift" theory combined with the observations about convection currents in the mantle to give us "plate tectonics" as the approved theory.
@@choreomaniac I suspect that Scotia will end up attached to Europia, whereas Anglo will end up scuttling across what may be the ever-widening Altlantico ocean... Where Walesia will end up is anybody's guess.
I’ve just watched a Tom Scott video about how RUclipsrs must always declare adverts, and then Jay goes ahead and makes a joke in the advert about not declaring the advert, what the hell.
Flashed comment: "Well, it's a combination of that and the fact that having access to the sea is really important for a country to thrive and not be conquered by its neighbours, so any territory that finds itself double-landlocked probably won't last as an independent country for long. Anyway, don't worry about that, the point stills stands about the way the world's landmass is spread out."
I wish I'd looked at the comments rather than spending minutes trying to pause in exactly the right place ;) (well, I slowed playback speed too, which helped!)
It's unlikely that "massive crack" is the result of rifting in the area, instead these cracks often form after periods of intense rainfall and overnight, leading to the not so strange conclusion these might be sinkhole type gullies. However cool it would be to have the earth open up over 8 meters across in just one night, this is highly unlikely unless there is a VERY MASSIVELY SEVERE earthquake at the same time, instead the process is generally much more gradual. So even though this might seem impressive proof of something we know is happening, in truth we just make connections between (mostly) unrelated phenomenons.
The funny thing is, Jay Foreman claiming to be in Australia while it's snowing at 3:40 is *equally* something they would do. They're just a pair of mad lads
the fact that have to pause so many times to in order to not miss out the visual jokes makes you appreciate how much effort does it take even after writing the scripts . every second is a gem.
Great video - but you guys might want to look into the latest research around what drives plate tectonics! It was the predominant theory since the '60s that mantle convection was the primary force moving the plates, but more recent research suggests that it does not provide enough force to drive to move the plates on its own. It's thought now they are predominantly moved by what by are called the 'slab-pull' and 'ridge-push' effects. Slab-pull being the effect of the already subducted part of a plate being continued to be pulled down by gravity and dragging the rest of the plate along with it. Ridge-push being the effect of the raised edges of plates at divergent plate boundaries causing the plate to slump downwards. Slab-pull is thought to be much stronger than ridge-push, and ridge-push stronger than mantle convection. All augmented by the fact that the further from the divergent ridge it was created at the cooler, and therefore denser, crust gets - and the more heavily laden with sediment. All this has been made possible by the greater understanding of the speed of movement of the plates and the rise and fall of land surfaces provided by satellites and the deeper (literally) looks into the density of the plates and mantle provided by gravimetric studies and seismology. We can 'see' how far into the mantle subducting lithosphere descends before it totally melts away. The same new knowledge has also revealed that Africa will in fact likely -not- split totally apart, as there is insufficient force. The Great Rift Valley will continue to spread for a while, and may even flood into a small sea, but total continental separation, and the creation of a new mid-ocean ridge and the generation of new lithosphere, will probably not occur. That's because the divergence is being driven by the ridge-push effect pushing it away from the rises in the middle of Africa (see the Ethiopian highlands) but as the other end has not started to subduct there is no slab-pull effect to finish the job! Compare that to the Arabian plate, which separated for similar reasons and because of the same upwelling in Ethiopia, but successful split away due to its continued subduction beneath Eurasia under the Zagros mountains. Try: The temporal evolution of plate driving forces: Importance of “slab suction” versus “slab pull” during the Cenozoic - Conrad and Lithgow‐Bertelloni, 2004 Quantifying the net slab pull force as a driving mechanism for plate tectonics - Schellart, 2004 Subduction tectonics vs. Plume tectonics-Discussion on driving forces for plate motion - Cheng et al., 2020 Always love Map Men videos, thank you for the amazing content guys!
@@markcooper-jones7494 Science is a continual learning process! That paper from last year I suggested has some new research that contradicts what the consensus was during my degree, suggesting that maybe mantle convection actually is the more powerful force! I love how geology is such a massive, ancient and fundamental science - why is the world the way it is? - but we're still figuring out something as fundamental to it as "Why _do_ the continents move?"
This is actually the first I've heard of this, and I consider myself an amateur geology junkie. So in southwestern North America, are you saying that the Gulf of California actually won't extend northward and turn Baja California and coastal US California into an island? Also, one possibly related theory I've heard regarding the mysterious New Madrid earthquakes in the central US (miles from any plate boundary) is that the partially digested remnants of the Farallon Plate (named after the Farallon Islands offshore from San Francisco), which was subducted under California at a relatively shallow angle, might have rubbed against the bottom of the crust underneath an ancient fault (which was possibly caused by the near breakup of North America when it pulled away from Africa and Eurasia). That shallow subduction eventually caused part of the Farallon Plate to remain at the surface as the Pacific Plate, and for the plate boundary to transition from a subduction zone into a strike-slip fault (the San Andreas Fault). North of the San Andreas, it continues northward as the Cascadia Subduction Zone, and only relatively recently (the '80s) have residents of Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver realized they're at risk for a much "bigger one" than Los Angeles and San Francisco.
And there was me thinking it was water acting as a lubricant in the form of steam. All I know is that the basalt and granite that comes out of volcanoes looks like it would convect quite easily and the water mixed up in the whole process would only help things along too. So I guess that's 5 things now causing drift all at the same time!
"our first ever non-scripted conversation" I'd like to imagine that outside when the cameras were running, Mark and Jay have communicated only with grunts, gestures, pointing, and emoji.
Strictly business- as soon as the camera is off they walk in opposite directions from one another and don't speak again until the next video topic is ready to be produced.
@@FluffyBuzzard2TheMax I mean America is a world power, of course people overseas will think about it every once in a while. It's like a big and strong yet stupid bully: yes it's incredibly stupid but it's still big and strong so you have to make sure it isn't doing stupid things (like usual)
I think the scientists behind the theories of continental drift severely underistimate how much push back there is of having Australia anywhere near you!
@@gordon1545 well, if you want to be pedantic, that's true, but she is the queen of the uk, which includes England, so technically she is the queen of England.
Jay: "When Mark and I hang out together, one of the things we often discuss-" Mark: "We never hang out, this is a purely business relationship." Jay: "One of the things we WOULD discuss is how disappointingly few double-landlocked countries there are."
It’s funny looking back at these old videos and hearing phrases like “When he was still dead.” I sometimes forget that we still weren’t able to resurrect people back in 2021.
@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 actually I posted that comment before I watched the video. Then I thought the ad at the end turned out to go well with the comment. But then in the future we already know the ending.
Maybe that's the secret Lore of Elderscrolls. A world in which humanity has regressed, and all manner of creatures have risen. A discordant dystopian future, where the world has been plunged back into the dark-ages, and the remnants of the old world are considered magic. Alternatively, it's just a game, this is just a coincidence, and I'm over-thinking this.
don't regret this comment because sadly enough the number of car accident victims decreased by an amount bigger than the amount of lives the virus claimed.
Unfinished London will still not be finished.
It will remain unfinished
True
thats the point
That's the idea
@@canonicallykayfabe sad if tru
I like to imagine that you were visiting India for unrelated reasons years ago and decide to take the opportunity to say "Here, in India" in the case that you ever needed a clip related to India.
He says he did exactly that in another thread here, said he record loads of them
Your guess was evidently spot on. I guess Mark really wanted to get his money's worth out of that trip.
Chroma Key
He's even wearing the same shirt! 😂
@William Ploeg :-)))
Tom Scott and Map Men on the same day right after each other? Nice
I got that lol
Nice
They did on the 11th Jan as well
9 minutes gap lol
I know-
The part where they subtly but abruptly turned into weathermen is absolutely gold
What do the growing eyebrows mean? Is that a kind of parody?
@@AndreiBerezin I don't know whom they are pretending but it leads to the meme stickered at 5:24.
This image is from BBC weather forecast on 15 Oct 1987. The guy, Michael Fish, said "(A viewer said) there is a hurricane on the way. Don't worry there isn't!" on the broadcast. Hours later, the worst storm in centuries devastated Britain.
This was caused by the underfunded computer system for weather forecast back then but the footage became a symbol of unpredictable weather in the UK. The footage even appeared in the opening ceremony of 2012 London Olympic Games as a joke.
I enjoyed the India segment.
Must be a pun about how the mantle rotates the same way air in the atmosphere circles around which creates the weather. Hot mantle goes up, cold mantle goes down.
I like how their eyebrows get increasingly bigger during the bit where they explain where the continents may move to
I thought I was the only one to notice that xD
I thought I was imagining that
@@yellowbubble7 same !! I had to rewatch that bit to make sure lol
that bit was hilarious
@illuminerdi i didnt see that lol
Brilliant. I laughed out loud whilst alone at the 1915 Alfred Wegener bit of writing.
love what u do too
Should have known Destin would have the good taste to be a mapmen fan.
Boi
That's how I get Smarter Every Day, Destin :)
@@jacobcreech4382 e
“180 Million years ago, before the Second and First World War, the world looked like this” I mean, that is correct.
It is indead... correct
r/technicallythetruth
Also "Years later, while he was still dead"
Wow, this geologist wasn't jesus!
Technically correct, the best kind of correct.
incredibly cool a person aside from myself recognizes what's what
The map of the future supercontinent has an uncanny resemblance to Tamriel from the Elder Scrolls universe if you just got rid of all the major islands.
Thank god I wasn't the only one seeing this!
The good ending where the Summerset Isles sink into the ocean.
came here to comment that
when i saw the thumbnail, I didn't read what it was about and thought it would be about Tamriel.
Yeah, I imagine a lot of fantasy maps used this shape until ES3 or 4.
I live in Australia and even I thought Australia was actually moving down to Antarctica. My childhood dreams of seeing peguins in my backyard have been crushed.
We have little penguins though, they’re awesome!
You can have pandas instead.
do you think pangea is going back?!
I want to see a World Star stand-off between penguins and wallabies now.
@@TheAmbush101 wallabies would win easily
“Everyone else at the time rowdily disagreed with him, as at the time people always do” - next level wisdom here
It's excellent a person aside from myself spots what's up
One day people will be saying that about Trump.
@@billysinge8977 WHY DOES EVERYTHING HAVE TO BE ABOUT TRUMP OH MY GOD
That explains anti-vaxxers, MAGAts and conspiracy nuts. Each of the blinded by their own unthinking dogma.
@@noahisamathnerd The lunatic wanted to nuke tornadoes.
i hated geography in highschool, because schools teach you in such a boring way, but after finding this video by chance, geography seems awesome.
It makes me cheerful that there are people that recognize what's what
There is no way of teaching where Geography can be boring.
they should just play these videos all day long
You must have a zombie for a teacher, I personally find geography to my favourite subjects
@@idkanymore12 the teacher makes the class in my opinion
0:46 for those who are wondering it said
Well, it's a combination of that and the fact the having access to the sea is really important for a country to thrive and not be conquered by its neighbours, so any territory that finds itself double-landlocked probably won't last as an independent country for ling. Anyway, don't worry about that, the point still stands about the way the world's landmass is spread out.
“The continents haven’t always been this well socially distanced.” Ah what a time to be alive.
Two minute papers!
that fake news article about alfred wegener. dude. unreal comedy. "he started out as a baby" was fantastic.
Jay and Mark are very silly, so silly they may resill your sills with impunity (heavy on the solidarity of magical creatures).
I came here looking for that comment. Started out as a baby and the whole paragraph had me in stitches.
"But rocks alone weren't solid enough"
That pun hit me like a boulder.
Damn you must be stone cold to the touch right now.
I don't get it.
That joke was solid
Can someone please explain me this joke. I don't get it.
quite magnificent someone besides myself knows what's going on
I love the deadpan humoristic exchanges between the two of you. Learning things in a pleasant package certainly helps!
0:58 “180 million years ago, before the second and first world wars” oh jay. never change
I love that the map at 3:20 has a tectonic plate that's just labelled "Plate"
thats cocos plate its such small plate until they only put plate there you can still eat fishes in that "plate" tho
Arabian took it
@@Gaming.Villager thong... ummmmmm oh no.
finaly a real funny thing
Cocos plate
"Several years later while he was still dead"
Is one of the predictions for 250 Million Years Later involving him coming back to life?
Yes, of course... along with the dinosaurs.
@@blindleader42 The dinosaurs are dead?
@@IdaeChop Yes, however some of them are ancestors to present day avians.
@@IdaeChop No, they are not dead, many of them are very much alive, in fact you may be able to see one from your window right now.
@@blindleader42 Birds are not just the descendants of dinosaur, they are dinosaurs.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur
3:00 according to one of my Geology lecturers, continental drift isn't caused by convection currents, and scientists have never thought it was. It just ended up in the textbooks somehow and became common knowledge. The real mechanism by which continents move are a combination of "ridge push" and "slab pull", which is essentially old plate dragging the rest along, while newly formed plate is pushed away from where it formed
Which is caused by……convection currents. All current science agrees with and has reinforced convection currents, which in turn cause slab pull and ridge push.
@@galenwest9449 It seems like the lecturer was trying to explain that the older models weren't so highly regarded any more - such as the idea that the crust was directly dragged apart by the convection currents on the seafloor, which allowed the magma to come up. Or that the magma acted like a big boil and essentially pushed the sea floor apart as it bulges out. Whereas they think now that it's more that the softer raised surface begins to harden and become more dense, and slides down the squishy upper mantle to push on the more crusty stuff. Gravitational force rather than fluid mechanics, as such. Underneath it all is still the mantle convection currents, of course.
My mom forgot to make me pancakes for breakfast 32 years ago and even though she died in 2005 that still bothers me
@@CH-mv4mk the newly formed crust cooling and becoming denser, and therefore subsiding
@@TheoHiggins thats called a convection current lol
"rocks alone weren't solid enough." Gotta love British humor
Australian
Sweden
Jesse, I was gonna write that, too, and I'm a 'Murican.
( with a British/London/Australian/Swiss sense of humour.)
New zealand
Japan
Imagine explaining to the government why Mark needs to go to India to say 3 words.
bro its literally 3 words
It was filmed pre-pandemic, so I chose not to explain this trip to either government.
@@markcooper-jones7494 always helpful to have a time machine on hand!
@@markcooper-jones7494 thought it was a greenscreen, but thanks for visiting here as well
@@markcooper-jones7494 After the pandemic is over, please go to India House to explain it to them anyway and see how they react
I hate how there's no comments talking about the foot holding the phone at the end of the video...
I think I spotted one just above this comment...
Or the progressively larger eyebrows while masquerading as weather reporters
Nevermind, I just noticed it.
I said to the primary school teacher who I had for two years over 60 years ago that it looked like South America fitted into Africa and he told me about the moving continents. At the time it was still contentious but I only found that out later. My guess is that he read the New Scientist. Wonderful teacher (except when it came to PE).
Didn't everyone think this the first time they looked at a world map? Seems pretty obvious to me.
@@selseyonetwenty4631 Yes but the idea that the continents moved around wasn't settled science at the time and that was the point of my comment.
So, nobody is gonna talk about their eyebrows getting thicker and thicker? 5:05
Follicle drift
I don't understand this type of comment. We've all noticed the eyebrows. And also, it was already mentioned in other comments. So there's that.
@@_rlb I didn't notice it even after having watched the whole video, so I, my good sir, for one, approve of this comment. Thank you, AlexanderLuthamatrix Banbiwaddlefeet the third
I just noticed it😭
It’s a sensitive condition with no known cure known as J-Con’s Syndrome, named after actress Jennifer Connelly.
The eyebrows bit was golden, had to rewind as I thought I was seeing things, haha
Their eyebrow game getting stronger as they show the drift caught me off guard. I had to rewatch when I started seeing jay turning into jake gyllenhaal..
It is certainly awesome when a person aside from myself understands what's happening
Jay Gyllenhaal
Am I srsly the only one who didnt notice this?
@@scotandiamapping4549 Probaly not, the comment was made to compliment a well delivered bit. You're probably the only one who abbreviates seriously though.
I love your videos so much! You put so much effort in to them and it's very much noticed and appreciated. Please keep them coming!
“Here in Australia”
*British houses and blizzard outside*
Sounds like Australia
I paused and looked very closely at "Here in India" too. and I think maybe it was.. perhaps from a different video
And British number plates on the cars...
You mean Australian houses and Australian snow?
I dunno. I mean, he is wearing the hat.
"Rocks alone weren't solid enough."
Okay. Okay. Nice.
ah der europäische parteien typ :D arbeitest du an neuen videos?
@@SimonS44 Öha. Wen man hier so alles trifft! 😉😂
Ja, sogar an mehreren. Allerdings bin ich auch mit der Bachelorarbeit beschäftigt! Versuche zwar jeden Tag ein bisschen zu zeichnen und an Videos rumzuschnipseln, allerdings hat die Uni vorrang :P
@@LucasBenderChannel ah sehr cool *thumbs up* Dann bin ich mal gespannt. Und viel Erfolg mit der BA!
@@SimonS44 dankeee! :)
1:39
"The more logical explanation was that these land masses must once have been connected"
Nah mate. Dinosaur cruise ships.
Cruise ships and rock-dumping ships.
I'm joyful that there are a few people that know what's happening
Noah's Ark was armed with Surface- to-Surface Missiles, they even destroyed the ship that had all the dinos
@@poggersbutthole8444 historically accurate
@@poggersbutthole8444 Noah arc was Noah Class Battllecruiser that commission for United Kingdom of Britainosaurus
3:04
You think that you can get away with a Jamiroquai reference without me noticing?!
"Years later, while he was still dead..."
Wegener, you lazybones, you can't go on being dead for the rest of your life!
Is he still ded tho? :/
0:45
“Well, it’s a combination of that and the fact that having access to the sea is really important for a country to thrive and not be conquered by its neighbours, so any territory that finds itself double-landlocked probably won’t last as an independent country for long. Anyway, don’t worry about that, the point still stands about the way the world’s landmass is spread out.”
Thank you
I should have checked comments before typing all that out and THEN finding out someone already did it ;) I guess yours is more correct, though, as I double-spaced between sentences, and the video did not.
@o m well i dont see no leichstein empire
@o m um. no.
Switzerland has had no issues.
"The Australia plate has moved a massive 3.5 metres over the last 50 years"
I wonder if one can calculate the kinetic energy of Australia
That is massive.
That's actually fast on the geological time scale when you think about it 🤔
@@lexsec shut up u ruin the joke
@@deanvandijk9670 Only about 10kJ by my estimate. Or about 1 m&m.
How did it take so long and for a genius to figure the continents fit together like puzzle pieces. I distinctly remember noticing that in Kindergarten when I first saw the world map.
It took good maps and then some good minds
@@sitfish1113 yeah after I wrote my comment it occured to me maybe the maps weren't that great until that time.
Damn!!! I thought I was the only one
Ironically, I'm old enough that plate tectonics was discussed in primary school as this cool new discovery that the continents were whizzing around and smashing into each other. Of note to us in NZ, because of course the country straddles the boundary where the Australian plate is running over the the Pacific plate.
The reason it was taught as a relatively new thing is that it until the late 60s that some scientific body endorsed the "continental drift" theory combined with the observations about convection currents in the mantle to give us "plate tectonics" as the approved theory.
Their maps sucked.
Yep, eleven single continents: Pangea, Bungea, Bucktoothia, Londinia, Dragonea, Limegea, Anglo-Scotia, Albatrossia, Pineapplegea, Batmangea and Jamiroquai.
Don’t forget Wales!
@@choreomaniac I suspect that Scotia will end up attached to Europia, whereas Anglo will end up scuttling across what may be the ever-widening Altlantico ocean...
Where Walesia will end up is anybody's guess.
you forgot ligmea
Nature is wonderful!
Wait so is that a character for the last one?
I’ve just watched a Tom Scott video about how RUclipsrs must always declare adverts, and then Jay goes ahead and makes a joke in the advert about not declaring the advert, what the hell.
Can't believe Jay Foreman would do this right after Tom Scott specifically said not to!
Continental drift causes out of control eyebrow growth! You heard it here first, folks!
Impressively large eyebrows are a well known subduction technique.
;)
haha I noticed that
I scrolled down too much to find this
The eyebrows drifted.
Wow you noticed something in the video that literally everyone else noticed too, good job, better make a comment about it.
So hyped for the Novopangaea season update! Glad there's already news!
This is my Geography degree in a nutshell
I don’t like you
Omg i love ur vids
I am a geopolitical pro at geography, don't be shy to ask me a border question
@@danilelun ok then, in nanometers, how long is the India Bangladesh border?
@@sirsausagedog4162 4096e+12μm figure the rest out yourself
“Years later, while he was still dead”
😂😂😂😂
Those little comments that are outstandingly hilarious, but they just throw away are my favourite part of map men.
@@benjamincoram7036 absolutely! Pure British humour and I love it!
:-)))
@@AndrewCockerillPhotography British Black Humor
@@AndrewCockerillPhotography Not Funny Comment Main
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Thank you!!!
I wish I'd looked at the comments rather than spending minutes trying to pause in exactly the right place ;) (well, I slowed playback speed too, which helped!)
@@indigoziona On desktop, you can go through a paused video frame by frame with , and . ;)
No mention of Andorra.
Thank
The ancient tree genus Araucaria is found in South America and Australasia. When the two regions were part of a single landmass.
Why is nobody talking about how this looks like Tamriel
Kinda makes sense for australia to be argonia, poison everywhere and most of it is inhabitable/not habited by humans
That was my first thought.
I clicked the video to check if anyone else had noticed
Edit: I mean, have you heard any news from the other provinces?
Have you heard of the brazilians?
Thats true
It's unlikely that "massive crack" is the result of rifting in the area, instead these cracks often form after periods of intense rainfall and overnight, leading to the not so strange conclusion these might be sinkhole type gullies. However cool it would be to have the earth open up over 8 meters across in just one night, this is highly unlikely unless there is a VERY MASSIVELY SEVERE earthquake at the same time, instead the process is generally much more gradual. So even though this might seem impressive proof of something we know is happening, in truth we just make connections between (mostly) unrelated phenomenons.
It's rifting
@@saimeraversestudios9644 how so?
You all got it all wrong. That's a typical case of mosquito footprint.
Rifts also don't have soil bridges still connecting each side of parts of them.
Clearly you've never heard of the San Andreas fault. It literally rifts the ground like that when it moves.
“Here in Australia”
*snows*
Also, hats with corks lol
It's summer in australia lmao
Also, they filmed that during the unique period when London and the southeast gets actual snowfall
@@tvTwo1 Wow that's such a coincidence that it was snowing in both London and Australia at the same time! Bet that doesn't happen often.
Stonwks
A pineapple, Batman, and.... TAVROS?!
It's Jamiroquai
@@icekall35aw man :(
my guy went to india just to film himself saying "here in india"
@@ethanbennett7 For the uninitiated among us (me), what is the "stereo show"?
@@austinhall2137 6:48
@@ethanbennett7 seems like the kind of thing that would have lots of ads and then die.
@@austinhall2137 amonf us???
@@austinhall2137 *_SUS_*
2:00 I'd like to think that he traveled all the way to India just for that bit, would be something they would do
The funny thing is, Jay Foreman claiming to be in Australia while it's snowing at 3:40 is *equally* something they would do. They're just a pair of mad lads
I’m starting to think this series is just to show off their travels.
don't forget he also travelled to Indonesia's Mount Merapi
@@nathanmcgill7249 its summer in australia so I doubt it
Its because they look and sound like a couple of acerbic high-pitched effeminate intellectuals ;)
Not the usual worldwide junk.
the fact that have to pause so many times to in order to not miss out the visual jokes makes you appreciate how much effort does it take even after writing the scripts . every second is a gem.
2:46 was an amazing read. Thanks for the smile
Okay, but why does Novopangaea look like an "off-brand" Greater London?
Greater Greater London
When Elizabeth II dies we should rename London to New Elizabeth unofficially to confuse the shit out of historians
My thoughts exactly
They said the green belt would contain London's growth, but it just kept going....
Because it *is* Greater London. For a given value of 'London', *everything* is Greater London....
Greatest London
This channel is so underrated
True
it has my attention!
@@queenelizabethii4058 your majesty it’s an honor.
Correct
Well based on numbers alone it's not
Great video - but you guys might want to look into the latest research around what drives plate tectonics! It was the predominant theory since the '60s that mantle convection was the primary force moving the plates, but more recent research suggests that it does not provide enough force to drive to move the plates on its own. It's thought now they are predominantly moved by what by are called the 'slab-pull' and 'ridge-push' effects.
Slab-pull being the effect of the already subducted part of a plate being continued to be pulled down by gravity and dragging the rest of the plate along with it. Ridge-push being the effect of the raised edges of plates at divergent plate boundaries causing the plate to slump downwards. Slab-pull is thought to be much stronger than ridge-push, and ridge-push stronger than mantle convection. All augmented by the fact that the further from the divergent ridge it was created at the cooler, and therefore denser, crust gets - and the more heavily laden with sediment.
All this has been made possible by the greater understanding of the speed of movement of the plates and the rise and fall of land surfaces provided by satellites and the deeper (literally) looks into the density of the plates and mantle provided by gravimetric studies and seismology. We can 'see' how far into the mantle subducting lithosphere descends before it totally melts away.
The same new knowledge has also revealed that Africa will in fact likely -not- split totally apart, as there is insufficient force. The Great Rift Valley will continue to spread for a while, and may even flood into a small sea, but total continental separation, and the creation of a new mid-ocean ridge and the generation of new lithosphere, will probably not occur. That's because the divergence is being driven by the ridge-push effect pushing it away from the rises in the middle of Africa (see the Ethiopian highlands) but as the other end has not started to subduct there is no slab-pull effect to finish the job! Compare that to the Arabian plate, which separated for similar reasons and because of the same upwelling in Ethiopia, but successful split away due to its continued subduction beneath Eurasia under the Zagros mountains.
Try:
The temporal evolution of plate driving forces: Importance of “slab suction” versus “slab pull” during the Cenozoic - Conrad and Lithgow‐Bertelloni, 2004
Quantifying the net slab pull force as a driving mechanism for plate tectonics - Schellart, 2004
Subduction tectonics vs. Plume tectonics-Discussion on driving forces for plate motion - Cheng et al., 2020
Always love Map Men videos, thank you for the amazing content guys!
Great informative comment - have definitely learned something thanks
@@markcooper-jones7494 Science is a continual learning process! That paper from last year I suggested has some new research that contradicts what the consensus was during my degree, suggesting that maybe mantle convection actually is the more powerful force! I love how geology is such a massive, ancient and fundamental science - why is the world the way it is? - but we're still figuring out something as fundamental to it as "Why _do_ the continents move?"
This is actually the first I've heard of this, and I consider myself an amateur geology junkie.
So in southwestern North America, are you saying that the Gulf of California actually won't extend northward and turn Baja California and coastal US California into an island?
Also, one possibly related theory I've heard regarding the mysterious New Madrid earthquakes in the central US (miles from any plate boundary) is that the partially digested remnants of the Farallon Plate (named after the Farallon Islands offshore from San Francisco), which was subducted under California at a relatively shallow angle, might have rubbed against the bottom of the crust underneath an ancient fault (which was possibly caused by the near breakup of North America when it pulled away from Africa and Eurasia). That shallow subduction eventually caused part of the Farallon Plate to remain at the surface as the Pacific Plate, and for the plate boundary to transition from a subduction zone into a strike-slip fault (the San Andreas Fault). North of the San Andreas, it continues northward as the Cascadia Subduction Zone, and only relatively recently (the '80s) have residents of Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver realized they're at risk for a much "bigger one" than Los Angeles and San Francisco.
And there was me thinking it was water acting as a lubricant in the form of steam. All I know is that the basalt and granite that comes out of volcanoes looks like it would convect quite easily and the water mixed up in the whole process would only help things along too.
So I guess that's 5 things now causing drift all at the same time!
@@markcooper-jones7494
Oh, finally I found you!
So... Let's wait for the video, 'cause you said there would be one someday!
"we never hang out, this is a purely business relationship"
"what we *would* discuss"
*I love how he just goes with it*
I mean to be fair it is scripted
“India hit Asia with such force it made the himalayas”
That “such force” is probably like only 5 meters per year since time is that slow
kinetic energy is ½mv² ... ?
@@marc_frank Good thing tectonic plates are so massive, then.
5 meters per year? That can literally be a hell to work on, imagine making a whole road and a decade later you need a fucking bridge
You mean 5 cm. There is a big difference!!!!
@@toobig7150 exactly. It's actually 5 cm
2:33 love how New Zealand just materialises out of the sea
That is how islands work lol
Islands tend to rise from the ocean you know
@@dudewithbasicpfp2439new zealand Is kinda different because it’s the tallest point of a now sunken landmass
When will earth release newer zealand
2:00 True commitment is when you travel to India for a 1-second scene.
looks like elder scrolls world map
“Years later, while he was still dead”
"our first ever non-scripted conversation"
I'd like to imagine that outside when the cameras were running, Mark and Jay have communicated only with grunts, gestures, pointing, and emoji.
They have a strictly-business relationship, after all.
Strictly business- as soon as the camera is off they walk in opposite directions from one another and don't speak again until the next video topic is ready to be produced.
I love how disgusted he sounds saying that Britain could get closer to USA
It's a terrible thought. I was very concerned, even though it's quite unlikely I'll even be alive in 250 million years.
Wouldn't be a British video without unnecessary bashing of Americans
@@FluffyBuzzard2TheMax Very necessary!
@@crose7412 Rent free
@@FluffyBuzzard2TheMax I mean America is a world power, of course people overseas will think about it every once in a while. It's like a big and strong yet stupid bully: yes it's incredibly stupid but it's still big and strong so you have to make sure it isn't doing stupid things (like usual)
Congratulations on the gradual-ness of the eyebrows. Didn't notice a thing until 4:55 !
“Rocks alone weren’t solid enough”
Did anyone else notice that pun
Yeah, it hit me like a rock
…
Yes everyone did, jesus christ
What's a pun? Why am i watching these weird British dudes? Boy this hooch is strong, juggalo for life baby whoooooo!
Omg
"Everyone else at the time roundly disagreed with him, as At The Time people always do." So true.
Tom Scott does a 30-minute video explaining why it is important to say that it is an ad, and how it can be confusing:
Jay- "This is not an ad"
I think the scientists behind the theories of continental drift severely underistimate how much push back there is of having Australia anywhere near you!
Finally, back to normalcy. Men was said twice after map.
2:02 please tell me that Mark travelled to India just for this.
Mark traveled to India for this
Probably
2:00
No
after all those years, The Queen of England is still the Queen of England.
Can't kick our queenie off her throne
There hasn't been a Queen of England since 24 March 1603.
@@gordon1545 well, if you want to be pedantic, that's true, but she is the queen of the uk, which includes England, so technically she is the queen of England.
I am truly joyful there are people that realize what's what
How about you living since in 1:02?
The world 180 million years ago looks like Australia’s father.
did no one else notice THE EYEBROWS AAA IM LOSING MY MIND
I noticed.
@@RabbiHerschel same
Losing my mind at "here in Australia" while driving on the righthand side of thr road while it snows
He was driving on the left, right hand side wheel though
I think he might've done that on purpose to show that the GPS system is slightly inaccurate
?? Aus and UK drive on the same side
@@wentoneisendon6502 yep
Well I have been in a couple of Blizzards in Australia. What are you on about?
Jay: "When Mark and I hang out together, one of the things we often discuss-"
Mark: "We never hang out, this is a purely business relationship."
Jay: "One of the things we WOULD discuss is how disappointingly few double-landlocked countries there are."
Liechtenstein and that's it
EDIT: and Uzbekistan
@@alexdavis665 Umm, you're forgetting about about Uzbekistan
@@GalaxyExplorer-bv6ze fixed I'd forgotten it
@@alexdavis665 That's good
0:07 *Malaysia in Antarctica?*
Yeay, finally we Malaysians can feel what snow feels like :P
if you manage to live 250 million years
antarctica would move up around the equator and solidify to a habitable land
@@UnnamedUnkown well, it's a... desert
Idea:
Make an easter egg intro:
"We are the map, and here is the men!"
Yes
"In which Britain gets closer to America"
So we have to wait 250 million years to get a sequel to The Revolutionary War
It already had one, war of 1812.
Hello, we meet again !
We're coming for them
So, america, you say you wanted independence because we were 3000 miles away, what do you think NOW?
good there's somebody who spots what's correct
For anyone concerned, January 24, 2086 will indeed be a Thursday.
Thank goodness.
@Devarsh Dey That's good. Never trust the future.
I’ll turn 81 on a Thursday nice!
Phew! I was worried for a bit there
Thanks,i will tell my grandkids
Edit:in the future of course
how do you know
"180 million years ago before the second AND first World Wars..." Why is that so funny to me hahahaha
There was an eyebrows arms race going on in the midst of all this.
4:36 can't believe nobody has mentioned how much Jay looks like Jake Gyllenhaal in Nightcrawler with those eyebrows and hair
Jay looks so much like Jake Gyllenhaal in Nightcrawler with those eyebrows and hair.
@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 thank you
Fun Fact:- The clip of Mark in India was taken a few houses away from mine.
Fun Fact:- The phone at the end of the video is being held by a foot... Yeah. 3 repeats and I only just noticed. #FunFactCommentChain
Looks suspiciously like Tamriel...
"BUT, years later while he still was dead ..."
subbed btw.
The amount of inside jokes here is scary
Really? It's not that many!
@@TheSmart-CasualGamer are you sure you heard them all if you think there isn't that many?
I've counted at least some jokes, a mild chuckle and one belly lunge.
It’s funny looking back at these old videos and hearing phrases like “When he was still dead.” I sometimes forget that we still weren’t able to resurrect people back in 2021.
You must be the person watching in the ad read at the end!
@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 actually I posted that comment before I watched the video. Then I thought the ad at the end turned out to go well with the comment. But then in the future we already know the ending.
They make a humorous point about the fact that people only ever use the phrase "for short" and almost never the phrase "for long" at 2:13
The world in 250 mln AD looks like the worldmap of the Elderscrolls series.
Maybe that's the secret Lore of Elderscrolls. A world in which humanity has regressed, and all manner of creatures have risen. A discordant dystopian future, where the world has been plunged back into the dark-ages, and the remnants of the old world are considered magic.
Alternatively, it's just a game, this is just a coincidence, and I'm over-thinking this.
It's terrific that there's somebody who sees the facts
Tamriel
3:10 Great Jamiroquai reference!💙
Whoops, I thought it was a Homestuck troll...
I see Batman
@@Pajanimations it's the one after batman
?
@@Thebestbobbyboythe last one WAY at the bottom
How to live like Alfred Wegener:
Be born, start out as a baby and get bigger and bigger till you're a grownup.
With perseverance of course.
I think I would rather stay a baby.
How do you guys know the dinosaurs had no idea of the plate techtonics moving the continents apart? They definitely could have known, we weren't there
2:44 That article was brilliant. I would never have even thought to put that much detail into a video for a joke that most people won't see!
Südamerika und Afrika pass zusammen wie ein puzzle
I've only just realised that the beach standing in for "The east coast of South America" at 01:40 is actually Manorbier, just down the road from me.
Africa: let's split up gang!
Africa a few million years later: *rejoins again*
This will probably be the UKs stance with the EU :)
This was a great and hysterical video. Loved the dry humor 👍🏻👍🏻
6:06 "Is a nice reminder of our own utterly insignificant place within the universe" Lovecraft will be very proud of you buddy.
The good thing coming out of this pandemic is more map men episodes
don't regret this comment
because sadly enough the number of car accident victims decreased by an amount bigger than the amount of lives the virus claimed.
I thought I was going crazy when Mark's eyebrows looked weirdly big but then it cut back to Jay 😂
I know, right? What a great build!
Fun Fact: If East Turkistan became independent, the number of double-landlocked countries would increase from 2 to 5