To be fair, he was wearing a dry suit. Other folks went in just their swimwear. I've been in frozen water accidentally before -- I wasn't going to do it deliberately!
Considering Col. Hadfield was Tom's roommate on the ship, I'm pretty sure he knew his name by then. :) I'm guessing he was expecting a "Hi I'm XXX" "and I'm YYY" kind of intro to the video.
This expedition looked absolutely incredible. Ben Brown's vlogs were probably my favorite. I now have a new bucket list item. Sadly with the state of climate change, I might not have much time. Cheers, Commander.
I'm impressed by your presentation skills. Not only did you talk for almost four and a half minutes without stuttering or fumbling your lines; it was done in one fluid, continuous shot. Not as easy as it looks.
Thank you for talking about our dark history which still haunts our present. We have so many issues with neglect for indigenous peoples, and they have been treated terribly (dozens of uninvestigated murders, families being torn apart, no clean water, etc.). More people should be aware of this.
***** Every group has gone through some sort of struggle, my grandparents suffered under a repressive soviet regime, that sought( and often succeeded) to wipe their people from the face of the earth. And yet my Grandparents overcame their challenges and built successful lives. This is the story of many people from around the world. The issue is the government continues to coddle the natives. If you give a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach him to fish he will eat forever.
***** Well I think genocide beats discrimination. What is worse, getting forced to go to a school to educate the Indian out of you, or getting sent to concentration camp where they purposely worked you to death, then dumped the bodies into a ditch.
***** My point is that every group has gone through difficulties, no reason other then our government keeping out funding their laziness for their troubles.
How is affermative action not racism? Racism is when you treat someone different based on their race. So by giving preference to Natives in education, by lowering the grades needed to get in, to hiring Natives specifically it is racism. Sure it might be hard, but as the proverb goes, "Give a man to fish, he eats for a day. Teach him to fish he eats for life." It is time we end special treatment for Natives, treat them like every other Canadian.
That's it! That's the last video from the Arctic. Over on the Park Bench, there's one more story to tell this weekend, so go subscribe over there if you haven't already. Next week: a brand new location, and - hopefully - the footage from Citation Needed Live!
Dude, your respect for other people's history is incredible. Just the fact you didn't want to explain history that isn't very relevant to you... humbling. I sit and watch your videos with my Son often. My main focus in life is to feed him with as much knowledge as possible, and he loves it! And you make that very easy! Thanks for all you do Tom!
I love that you consider that your main focus in life. I'm an older sibling, not a parent, but one of my favourite things in the entire world is sharing a cool new learning experience with my younger brothers.
i just recently discovered this channel and bro I'm going to rewatch everything in this channel once my son starts to understand these things. He's just 17 days old now haha
I spent a few hours late last night reading about Grise Fjord and Resolute. The history of both places is so intensely grim. I like that you brought up the massive cruise ship as well. It's something that I have been thinking about quite a bit since we got back from this voyage. So many complexities of ethics and international issues in the history, present and future of this (important) area of the world. Great video Tom.
Thanks for mentioning that dark part of Canada's history. We've got a piss poor track record with native relations and have treated them poorly in the past and present. It's an important story to be told.
i am subscrided to all youtubers you mentioned and i disagree. what tom does is incite curiocity with his videos. i believe its upto individual to further dig into the matter covered.
Veritasium produces about one video per month on average; Tom more like one per week. From my own limited experience of creating "researched and produced" videos I know it takes a lot of effort, and four minutes a week is not unrealistic.
4 years later and I spent part of my summer at this exact location researching the oil contamination for the exact reasons Tom mentions in this video for my MSc.
I applaud Tom for being so informative and full of knowledge whilst being genuinely unbiased. I enjoy watching all his content for this reason. Looking forward to some kind of upload in the near future hopefully! Cheers, Tom
Oh man, it's already over? :( I wish there was more. I know I'm greedy like that. :) Thanks for this great voyage, Tom and letting us share some of your fun.
A really thoughtful, fascinating, heartbreaking rollercoaster of a video, and only a few minutes of a single take long. Very impressive. Oh, also, Chris Hadfield is an absolute hero of mine, so seeing Major Tom and Captain* Tom together at the end was really rather special. Y'all are excellent humans. *That is, captain of an icebreaker, not... the other one.
This video was incredibly informative, Tom. Thanks so much for everything you bring to us, and thanks to Chris Hadfield for bringing Tom with him on this incredible journey.
The problem with the Northern Passage is that it is technically within Canada's borders. A country had full rights to anything within the economic zone of their waters (212 nautical miles). But let's say we rule that out. Most islands are within 12 nautical miles of each other, some have military bases, national parks, and military training grounds on them. They are in use, the Northwest passage is even constantly patrolled by the Canadian Coast Guard.
It's good to hear people talking about the forced relocation of the natives, just now or schools are finally teaching us about the natives people and colonisation.
he mentioned in a park bench video that Chris Hadfield was asked to go on the boat for money and he said 'Can I have 12 places on the boat instead?' and he invited other people, Tom included
I was wondering what was wrong with the encoding quality, then I remembered it's the snow. Tom, you answer my questions before I even know I have them :D
Hi Tom! I live in Bielefeld Germany and I love to watch your videos! And I have watched many of them. But every time I ask myself, what your real job is. Because in one video you're a programmer, in the other one you teach about numbers ore you talk about history... That is so much knowledge in one person!
That I know of, Tom's official university training was in linguistics, he made a living for years programming (self-taught) & other computer stuff, did RUclips on the side for fun until his RUclips really caught on, and now he makes his living doing this! :)
This series was so cool. I'm gonna miss the arctic expedition team. Sure, I follow most of them individually, but it's not the same. Thanks for your videos! (looking forward to the last tales video :D )
Probably really random compared to other comments you get but I associate you very strongly with soup. Every time I eat soup I think, "Hmm. Time to watch Tom Scott!". I don't know what it is but it's even there with ramen. It's almost as if I _only_ watch you while eating soup. At this point, my brain just goes into autopilot and as soon as the soup bowl touches my desk I go search for this channel. Thank you for bringing me entertainment while I eat soup.
I enjoy this video; for it not only talks about this town's dark past, but also it's future as well as how it is relevant to everybody else. For one of my classes I need to do a 4000 word essay, so if there's enough information I very well may do it on this.
My dad worked in Alert, which is in Nunavut. His job in the navy was surveillance of Russian airport communications. It was a very secretive job since he was working during the cold war.
Thanks Tom another good video. I'm glad you got to go that far North, I only got to Yellowknife, NWT. I hope you've got more time on your Visa to explore more of the North. (If you end up in Yellowknife try the Black Knight Pub, a few familiar British Beers if you fancy a tipple from home and try the Bison Burger !) Pretty sure you'll find plenty of interesting historical facts to do with Yellowknife and NWT.
Hey Tom. One day, you should do a video based on how you choose topics, research them, and prepare one of your shows. I think it can really help people learn how to do short video essays like you do, a lot better than they currently are. Thanks.
Canada unfortunately has a long history of poor treatment of its native peoples, both by the government and private (mainly religious) organizations. I say this as a Canadian.
You seem to miss remember the fact they didn't voluntarily move themselves. The didn't just pick up and say the fishing will be better up north. They were moved to a place where it's almost impossible to continue life the way they knee it. You complain about them surviving on benefits and subsidizes, but you don't put them where it's possible to maintain their way of life. They lived where they did, even though harsh, it was sustainable. That far north it's just not.
and Gord D, with respect to his next solo album, gave us Courage to face our misdeeds - and in retrospect: There's no simple Explanation For anything important Any of us do And, yeah, the human Tragedy Consists in The necessity Of living with The consequences Under pressure...
I saw the phrase North West Passage and thought back to the old Tech Dif Podcast - which [for those who don't know] they played a bit of at the end of the London show (very pleasingly)
Given that the people who moved their presumably weren't huge fans of the Canadian state, I'm not sure that them being there should give Canada a stronger claim to the islands than if they were uninhabited.
So I did a search, and the cruise ship in question did do the trip but only that one, why? Quote from article: The northern voyage of the Serenity, although a success, was not without backlash. Many experts pointed out that rescuing passengers on such a ship would cost millions, not to mention the impact such a ship, with more than a 1,000 people on it, would have on the delicate environment, and of course the impacts on communities in the region. It would also be remiss not to mention the impacts that an oil spill from such a ship would have in remote northern waters, where clean-up would not only be costly but drawn out.
"Hey, It's not so bad". Well yea, for someone who experienced serveral G's at liftoff, the harshness of space and reentry, the freezing waters of the Arctic must feel like a cozy pool :D
Hi Tom. Just a quick comment on a fact you had on your vid: I think you meant the quickest route from a major American city/military base to a major Russian city is over the north pole. The quickest route between America and Russia is from Russia's North East Coast to Alaska's North West Coast. Sorry!
***** Population is not the only thing that makes city major, especially in such big country as Russia. Vladivostok gets much, MUCH mroe attention and money from government than, for example, Novosibirsk, 3rd city in Russia.
I agree, it's quite often that they were about something I had not known, while some (now-not-so) interesting facts are being repeted over and over again across internet and media in general.
Tom on your Steam glitch video you said that you were going to do a collaboration with someone, did you ever do that or were you not able to find a decent person to collaborate with.
The High Arctic Relocation reminds me of how survivalist Tom McClean lived on the tiny islet of Rockall for 40 days in 1985 to affirm the UK's claim to its Exclusive Economic Zone.
they should tax or receive a toll for anything going through since if anything were to go wrong, like an oil spill, it would fall on Canadians to pay to fix it. Also any profits earn could be used to maintain the passage with ice breakers and stuff.
I just worked out the distance on Google Earth, and Amsterdam to Long Beach, CA is very close to 8,900 miles (statute... web GE isn't cool like that with picking units, otherwise I'd measure everything in leagues) going panama or northwest passage. You don't really save much in travel length, plus the NWP risks icebergs and much rougher seas just to save on canal fees... doesn't seem such a great trade off. On the other hand, Vancouver and Seattle are 2,000 mi closer via NWP so that's probably pretty good.
This is frighteningly similar to what Stalin did in the Soviet Union about a decade earler. People, like the Crimean Tatars, who were originally a nomadic Turkic people from somewhere in Central Asia but had been firmly settled in Crimea for several centuries, were forcibly relocated to Central Asia. One reason was to make room for Russian settlers to move in to Crimea another was because some Tartars collaborated with the Nazis in the war but not really any more than had fought the Nazis with the Red Army. The main reason was Stalin's paranoia. Many died, most to disease that was rampant in the cramped and unclean train carts that transported people most of the very long journey. When they arrived they were foreigners in somebody else's land and the locals distrusted and feared them since they assumed that only criminals would be relocated like that. So not only did they need to adjust to a radically different climate but also to new languages and hostile social conditions starting totally from scratch. I guess the advice I'd give the 1950s Canadian government is that if you're doing basically the same thing Stalin did you might want so slow down, think a bit and do something totally different.
Resolute.. I assume they named it for HMS Resolute, aka the (Northwest Passage exploration) ship that ended up as a desk in the White House. That would make a good citation needed.
I like how it ends with Chris Hadfield going into the water and saying "Hey, its not so bad."
To be fair, he was wearing a dry suit. Other folks went in just their swimwear. I've been in frozen water accidentally before -- I wasn't going to do it deliberately!
You'd hope he'd ask Tom's name before filming ;)
Considering Col. Hadfield was Tom's roommate on the ship, I'm pretty sure he knew his name by then. :) I'm guessing he was expecting a "Hi I'm XXX" "and I'm YYY" kind of intro to the video.
Would have been funny if he'd called him 'Tim' :)
Did you take your protein pills?
Thank you for taking part in our Arctic expedition, Tom. Looking forward to seeing you again in Toronto for the stage show.
oh snap its chris hadfield.
Hey Chris, thanks for being awesome. That's all.
This expedition looked absolutely incredible. Ben Brown's vlogs were probably my favorite. I now have a new bucket list item. Sadly with the state of climate change, I might not have much time. Cheers, Commander.
Thanks for inviting me along! See you then :)
I like your moustache..
I'm impressed by your presentation skills. Not only did you talk for almost four and a half minutes without stuttering or fumbling your lines; it was done in one fluid, continuous shot. Not as easy as it looks.
He's the GOAT at this :D
He has a degree in linguistics.
@@Boo..... always thought he's an IT guy
Thank you for talking about our dark history which still haunts our present. We have so many issues with neglect for indigenous peoples, and they have been treated terribly (dozens of uninvestigated murders, families being torn apart, no clean water, etc.). More people should be aware of this.
***** Every group has gone through some sort of struggle, my grandparents suffered under a repressive soviet regime, that sought( and often succeeded) to wipe their people from the face of the earth. And yet my Grandparents overcame their challenges and built successful lives. This is the story of many people from around the world. The issue is the government continues to coddle the natives. If you give a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach him to fish he will eat forever.
***** Well I think genocide beats discrimination. What is worse, getting forced to go to a school to educate the Indian out of you, or getting sent to concentration camp where they purposely worked you to death, then dumped the bodies into a ditch.
***** My point is that every group has gone through difficulties, no reason other then our government keeping out funding their laziness for their troubles.
***** How so?
How is affermative action not racism? Racism is when you treat someone different based on their race. So by giving preference to Natives in education, by lowering the grades needed to get in, to hiring Natives specifically it is racism.
Sure it might be hard, but as the proverb goes, "Give a man to fish, he eats for a day. Teach him to fish he eats for life." It is time we end special treatment for Natives, treat them like every other Canadian.
And then the video ends.
And suddenly out of nowhere, Major Tom steps in.
That's it! That's the last video from the Arctic. Over on the Park Bench, there's one more story to tell this weekend, so go subscribe over there if you haven't already. Next week: a brand new location, and - hopefully - the footage from Citation Needed Live!
hi
How was this comment posted 1 hour ago, when the video is just minutes old?
It could have been sitting unlisted for hours.
Did you have a lot of editing to do for Citation Needed Live, Tom?
I wonder why that was....
I've really enjoyed these! I look forward to the last Arctic park bench episode. They have been very interesting, thank you!
Dude, your respect for other people's history is incredible. Just the fact you didn't want to explain history that isn't very relevant to you... humbling. I sit and watch your videos with my Son often. My main focus in life is to feed him with as much knowledge as possible, and he loves it! And you make that very easy!
Thanks for all you do Tom!
I love that you consider that your main focus in life. I'm an older sibling, not a parent, but one of my favourite things in the entire world is sharing a cool new learning experience with my younger brothers.
i just recently discovered this channel and bro I'm going to rewatch everything in this channel once my son starts to understand these things. He's just 17 days old now haha
I spent a few hours late last night reading about Grise Fjord and Resolute. The history of both places is so intensely grim. I like that you brought up the massive cruise ship as well. It's something that I have been thinking about quite a bit since we got back from this voyage. So many complexities of ethics and international issues in the history, present and future of this (important) area of the world. Great video Tom.
Thanks for mentioning that dark part of Canada's history. We've got a piss poor track record with native relations and have treated them poorly in the past and present. It's an important story to be told.
glad you got Chris Hadfield on camera in the end.
Terrific series of videos. Thank you.
Your dedication to being interesting and eye-opening is one of the reasons I'm constantly in slight awe of you.
i am subscrided to all youtubers you mentioned and i disagree. what tom does is incite curiocity with his videos. i believe its upto individual to further dig into the matter covered.
Veritasium produces about one video per month on average; Tom more like one per week. From my own limited experience of creating "researched and produced" videos I know it takes a lot of effort, and four minutes a week is not unrealistic.
+Jango Bobafett
Yeah but they take soooooo long to upload; only once a month or longer. At least Tom uploads almost weekly.
*****
Quick question: Have you seen the channel "Kurzgesagt"? If not i highly recommend it.
4 years later and I spent part of my summer at this exact location researching the oil contamination for the exact reasons Tom mentions in this video for my MSc.
I applaud Tom for being so informative and full of knowledge whilst being genuinely unbiased. I enjoy watching all his content for this reason. Looking forward to some kind of upload in the near future hopefully! Cheers, Tom
Oh man, it's already over? :( I wish there was more. I know I'm greedy like that. :)
Thanks for this great voyage, Tom and letting us share some of your fun.
At least there's one more Park Bench still :-)
Oh man, Evan Hadfield, love what you (and your dad) have been doing for Canada!
good video, the prospect of Canada's ownership of territory being ignored and used without jurisdiction is a scary one.
A really thoughtful, fascinating, heartbreaking rollercoaster of a video, and only a few minutes of a single take long. Very impressive.
Oh, also, Chris Hadfield is an absolute hero of mine, so seeing Major Tom and Captain* Tom together at the end was really rather special. Y'all are excellent humans.
*That is, captain of an icebreaker, not... the other one.
This video was incredibly informative, Tom. Thanks so much for everything you bring to us, and thanks to Chris Hadfield for bringing Tom with him on this incredible journey.
I love Chris Hadfield, such a great guy.
Didnt go into the water with only a red t-shirt. Unsubbed
Tom fell through a frozen lake In Estonia wearing a red t-shirt and the old grey hoodie. Does that count?
There are photos, the video's called Tom Fell Through A Frozen Lake In Estonia. And it's on the channel Matt and Tom.
Come on Tom, say missiles, not missuls!
In all seriousness though, your channel is one of the best.
"hey it's not so bad" Chris Hadfield is hilarious
The problem with the Northern Passage is that it is technically within Canada's borders. A country had full rights to anything within the economic zone of their waters (212 nautical miles). But let's say we rule that out. Most islands are within 12 nautical miles of each other, some have military bases, national parks, and military training grounds on them. They are in use, the Northwest passage is even constantly patrolled by the Canadian Coast Guard.
These videos are amazing! So glad to see them!
Amazing video! Thanks for sharing this expedition with us Tom! :) Love from Australia.
Thanks for sharing all the fun and knowledge you've acquired in the Arctic with us Tom! :)
I love the chaos in the outro. "Okay, you don't know what we're saying but we're gonna go run into the arctic sea now!"
It's good to hear people talking about the forced relocation of the natives, just now or schools are finally teaching us about the natives people and colonisation.
I very much like the Canadian you've found there! 😊 you are lucky
🇨🇦 ❤❤
Well he's a bundle of joy today.
Love your channel, so glad I've found it!
How you are able to do these in one shot amazes me. Great content.
Amazing video, Tom. Not just that but all in one take as well!
Congrats on 600k subs, you deserve every one of them
Question; how does Tom get to do all these things? I mean, are half of his 600k subs scientists?
he mentioned in a park bench video that Chris Hadfield was asked to go on the boat for money and he said 'Can I have 12 places on the boat instead?' and he invited other people, Tom included
Tom has such a nice presentation manner. Very professional.
I was wondering what was wrong with the encoding quality, then I remembered it's the snow. Tom, you answer my questions before I even know I have them :D
I like the fact that you recorded this in one take
Tom I love you! You're so smart, I'm addicted to your Chanel!!! (Esp the language stuff!)
Hi Tom!
I live in Bielefeld Germany and I love to watch your videos! And I have watched many of them.
But every time I ask myself, what your real job is. Because in one video you're a programmer, in the other one you teach about numbers ore you talk about history... That is so much knowledge in one person!
"I live in Bielefeld Germany". Yeah, right. ;-)
or maybe Not?
That I know of, Tom's official university training was in linguistics, he made a living for years programming (self-taught) & other computer stuff, did RUclips on the side for fun until his RUclips really caught on, and now he makes his living doing this! :)
Another great vid Tom :) Can't wait to see what youupload in the near future :)
This was my favorite arc on all of youtube
This series was so cool. I'm gonna miss the arctic expedition team. Sure, I follow most of them individually, but it's not the same.
Thanks for your videos! (looking forward to the last tales video :D )
incredible video mate, real unsettling stuff
Probably really random compared to other comments you get but I associate you very strongly with soup. Every time I eat soup I think, "Hmm. Time to watch Tom Scott!". I don't know what it is but it's even there with ramen. It's almost as if I _only_ watch you while eating soup. At this point, my brain just goes into autopilot and as soon as the soup bowl touches my desk I go search for this channel. Thank you for bringing me entertainment while I eat soup.
fascinating comment.
I enjoy this video; for it not only talks about this town's dark past, but also it's future as well as how it is relevant to everybody else. For one of my classes I need to do a 4000 word essay, so if there's enough information I very well may do it on this.
thanks tom for the video. your Arctic videos are great.
So nice to see two of my heroes together!
Thanks to this channel I'm getting smarter everyday
Is it just me or did Chris Hadfield forget Tom's name for a second?
#SoHomo?
They were roommates for about 2 weeks, you don't forget the name of your roommate, ever.
@Evan Hadfield Are you related to him?
hes chris hadfields son
Your trip looked very exciting ! Nice video, as always ! :)
Man I love Chris Hadfield, what an inspiration.
My dad worked in Alert, which is in Nunavut.
His job in the navy was surveillance of Russian airport communications. It was a very secretive job since he was working during the cold war.
Thanks Tom another good video. I'm glad you got to go that far North, I only got to Yellowknife, NWT. I hope you've got more time on your Visa to explore more of the North. (If you end up in Yellowknife try the Black Knight Pub, a few familiar British Beers if you fancy a tipple from home and try the Bison Burger !) Pretty sure you'll find plenty of interesting historical facts to do with Yellowknife and NWT.
Amazing. Absolutely amazing.
@0:12; "Alright! One take, without being interrupted by a Polar Bear!"
Chris Hadfield and Tom Scott.
My day has been made.
Interesting watching this in 2021. This winter, the northern ice never fully formed. The northwest passage is now open year round. :/
Congrats on 600k subs!
Chris Hadfield is an absolute legend!
Canadian apology now goes to a 404 page stating ''we're sorry you ended up here.''
Hey Tom. One day, you should do a video based on how you choose topics, research them, and prepare one of your shows. I think it can really help people learn how to do short video essays like you do, a lot better than they currently are. Thanks.
I agree
Canada unfortunately has a long history of poor treatment of its native peoples, both by the government and private (mainly religious) organizations. I say this as a Canadian.
I think that you will find that any country with aboriginals treats them poorly.
You seem to miss remember the fact they didn't voluntarily move themselves. The didn't just pick up and say the fishing will be better up north. They were moved to a place where it's almost impossible to continue life the way they knee it. You complain about them surviving on benefits and subsidizes, but you don't put them where it's possible to maintain their way of life. They lived where they did, even though harsh, it was sustainable. That far north it's just not.
We (Canada) also have a bad asbestos habit that we really need to quit. Damage has already been done. Sorry India! :/
and Gord D, with respect to his next solo album, gave us Courage to face our misdeeds - and in retrospect:
There's no simple
Explanation
For anything important
Any of us do
And, yeah, the human
Tragedy
Consists in
The necessity
Of living with
The consequences
Under pressure...
I saw the phrase North West Passage and thought back to the old Tech Dif Podcast - which [for those who don't know] they played a bit of at the end of the London show (very pleasingly)
I dont know who Im more envious of... Tom Scott because he got to meet Chris Hadfield or Chris Hadfield because he got to meet Tom Scott
I'm strangely obsessed with tom's videos
Given that the people who moved their presumably weren't huge fans of the Canadian state, I'm not sure that them being there should give Canada a stronger claim to the islands than if they were uninhabited.
Wait, was that Even Hadfield on polarbear watch?
i like these videos so much!
Finding Evan Hadfield here long before Rare Earth is a pleasant surprise.
So I did a search, and the cruise ship in question did do the trip but only that one, why? Quote from article: The northern voyage of the Serenity, although a success, was not without backlash. Many experts pointed out that rescuing passengers on such a ship would cost millions, not to mention the impact such a ship, with more than a 1,000 people on it, would have on the delicate environment, and of course the impacts on communities in the region. It would also be remiss not to mention the impacts that an oil spill from such a ship would have in remote northern waters, where clean-up would not only be costly but drawn out.
Around 0:26, there was a bird flying up to a mast.
Very interesting video. thanks a lot!
If anybody deserves the title of all round legend it Chris Hadfield.
Excellent video!
That's where Top Gear started their polar expedition, right?
still crazy to think that tom was sharing a room with The chris hadfield in an arctic expedition. im afraid im more than a little envious.
there's also the Alert station which is a Canadian Forces base still active to this day.
Glad to know they took a Northwest Passage, if only for just one time, ah.
(song lyrics based pun)
Thank you for that. I wonder how Chris does with Stan's songs. He would know them.
Sean Boyd Yeah i think I saw he said on twitter he would be strumming a few on his guitar, don't know if he did in the end though
Yay, a new video!
"Hey, It's not so bad". Well yea, for someone who experienced serveral G's at liftoff, the harshness of space and reentry, the freezing waters of the Arctic must feel like a cozy pool :D
Hi Tom. Just a quick comment on a fact you had on your vid:
I think you meant the quickest route from a major American city/military base to a major Russian city is over the north pole. The quickest route between America and Russia is from Russia's North East Coast to Alaska's North West Coast.
Sorry!
Vladivostok, Habarovsk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy. But it depends on what you call "major".
***** Population is not the only thing that makes city major, especially in such big country as Russia. Vladivostok gets much, MUCH mroe attention and money from government than, for example, Novosibirsk, 3rd city in Russia.
Nilguiri he is not wrong. Do you realise that Alaska is just 55 miles away from Russia and taht Alaska is part of USA?
Nilguiri bit.ly/2dwKN5v cheers buddy
awesome video!
How do you find these stories? They're always so good.
Even more impressive, I think he did most of the research and scripting before the trip.
I agree, it's quite often that they were about something I had not known, while some (now-not-so) interesting facts are being repeted over and over again across internet and media in general.
Tom on your Steam glitch video you said that you were going to do a collaboration with someone, did you ever do that or were you not able to find a decent person to collaborate with.
This is so cool 😍
Nice video. Thank you
4:07 Huston... we've lost contact with Major Tom. And now he's just floating ...in a very peculiar way
The link to the Canadian government's apology is broken - 404. Did they take down the apology or move it?
The High Arctic Relocation reminds me of how survivalist Tom McClean lived on the tiny islet of Rockall for 40 days in 1985 to affirm the UK's claim to its Exclusive Economic Zone.
they should tax or receive a toll for anything going through since if anything were to go wrong, like an oil spill, it would fall on Canadians to pay to fix it. Also any profits earn could be used to maintain the passage with ice breakers and stuff.
Im studying the cold was in history pretty hype!
When Fallout predicts wars for the Arctic
Tom collabed with an astronaut? Chris Hadfield is awesome. He seems like a really down to earth guy. I loved seeing Chris doing stuff on the ISS.
I just worked out the distance on Google Earth, and Amsterdam to Long Beach, CA is very close to 8,900 miles (statute... web GE isn't cool like that with picking units, otherwise I'd measure everything in leagues) going panama or northwest passage. You don't really save much in travel length, plus the NWP risks icebergs and much rougher seas just to save on canal fees... doesn't seem such a great trade off. On the other hand, Vancouver and Seattle are 2,000 mi closer via NWP so that's probably pretty good.
Quick side note: the ocean floor beneath the arctic shouldn't be contested. there is a treaty that clearly states who gets what
Only just noticed the fact that Tom added motion graphics following Chris Hadfield's hand to the link at the end
Awesome outro !
This is frighteningly similar to what Stalin did in the Soviet Union about a decade earler. People, like the Crimean Tatars, who were originally a nomadic Turkic people from somewhere in Central Asia but had been firmly settled in Crimea for several centuries, were forcibly relocated to Central Asia. One reason was to make room for Russian settlers to move in to Crimea another was because some Tartars collaborated with the Nazis in the war but not really any more than had fought the Nazis with the Red Army. The main reason was Stalin's paranoia. Many died, most to disease that was rampant in the cramped and unclean train carts that transported people most of the very long journey. When they arrived they were foreigners in somebody else's land and the locals distrusted and feared them since they assumed that only criminals would be relocated like that. So not only did they need to adjust to a radically different climate but also to new languages and hostile social conditions starting totally from scratch.
I guess the advice I'd give the 1950s Canadian government is that if you're doing basically the same thing Stalin did you might want so slow down, think a bit and do something totally different.
What camera is this filmed on? It looks great.
Resolute.. I assume they named it for HMS Resolute, aka the (Northwest Passage exploration) ship that ended up as a desk in the White House. That would make a good citation needed.