If by "England" the submitter meant England, Arkansas, and if by "Australia" the submitter meant the ghost town of Australia, Mississippi, than it is indeed possible to drive from England to Australia in about 2 hours 26 minutes.
"What state is the Statue of Liberty in?" Generally a good one. It has a layer of copper rust on it from years of being exposed to the elements, but this has now become part of its iconic look and has not substantially affected its structural integrity. It did undergo extensive restoration from 1984-1986 and was closed to the public during that time, but has generally been accessible since then.
Regarding the Statue of Liberty thing, this is actually not as terrible a question as it first seems. Long story short, Ellis Island and Liberty Island were initially defined as New York land in New Jersey waters. For some not fully understood reason, these islands then became larger. The Supreme Court ruled that the expanded portion of Ellis Island belonged to New Jersey, but there has been no such ruling regarding Liberty Island. Interestingly, if the Ellis Island decision were expanded to Liberty Island, then the statue would be in New York, but the gift shop would be in New Jersey.
This mysterious "Robert" must be so excited to finally be in the spotlight. All of their hard work copy-and-pasting the code for that bot and then letting it run idly for a couple of hours... it's all been worth it.
@@reagandevore273 It was a while back when I did that, I think must have been around 2020 or 2021 or so. The funny thing is, I didn't even see this video until like a year after he posted it, and mostly it was just something I did with a little bash script that I ran on my laptop because I was a college freshmen stuck during the lockdown with nothing better to do. To be honest, I'm not even sure how my name got into it.
"What state is the statue of liberty in?" HAI, you dropped the ball on the absolute best possible answer, which is that the statue of liberty is in a solid state.
And if you map the route from it to lovely Australia by car and save it on your pc you'll have a solid state to solid state drive in a solid state drive!
But if H.A.I. gave us nuance how could he get through so many questions. Also the Real question he failed at is, "Has anyone ever Driven from Australia to the U.K.?" The Correct answer of which would be, "Yes. Dozens. Parking lot Ships Have surely carried Hundreds of crappy brittish cars to Australia when Britian still made cars. And you get the boats on and off the ship by driving." The Better Question I'd Ask is, "Who's driven to the most countries?", because sifting through wrong answers, ferry routes, and captain's logs of boat car transports would surely give opertunities for either funny jokes or talking about Top Gear/Grand Tour.
If you allow putting the car on a boat, you _can_ drive to Australia. One Dutch guy did it a couple of years back, staying overnight with whoever volunteered to host him and getting power to charge his car from them. At the time I found out about it, he was looking for places in Australia to host him for the last couple of thousand kilometres of his journey.
"Let's face it, if you like this channel you like knowing stuff..." i mean personally, I like this channel for the brick jokes, the wiki summaries are just extra mustard
It technically is possible to drive from England to Australia, some of the ways of doing so are (sorted by most likely): •Drive an amphibious car. •Drive underwater. •Drive a flying car. •Expand England or Australia so that part of 1 of them is on the same continent as the other. •Freeze the ocean.
Technically it's possible to drive using a ship that carries cars like a vehicle ferry and keep the engine on by having extra fuel onboard if you wanted to break the world record. You can keep the vehicle on idle so it technically, "drove" across the ocean
@@SydSquid-uw5ng but again, he did a reupload of himself rating Canadian provinces' flags and got over 2M views so… not the best measure of good ideas you know?
Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty in both of their entirely belong to Jersey City,NJ, Ellis island has a bridge connected to Liberty State park in Jersey City,New Jersey, and my great great grandparents documents said Jersey City NJ, not New York,New York
I feel I should mention that a guy I knew back in high school was working on plans to turn a Winnebago into an amphibious RV so he could take a road trip to Hawaii. England to Australia could’ve been possible, but he died before he finished the project.
Also, the blue whale technically could carry that much on its back if something else loaded the whale and stabilized the cargo, but the whale couldn't "lift" jack squat because it has no limbs designed to pick stuff up or move it around, and has not developed that particular set of motor skills.
You could argue that putting something in the whales mouth and then having it raise its head counts as 'lifting', but good luck explaining that to a blue whale
I can't believe I just stumbled onto your channel a few days ago, this stuff is amazing! Love how you combine two of the best things ever: history and humor!
2:50 I was expecting an illuminating insight into how New Jersey owns the waters surrounding Liberty Island, as well as the statutes gift shop. Left devastated. Shout out to CGP Grey ✌️
1:33 technically you can *almost* made it to Australia from England. If we are talking about direct land drive alone, the closest you ever got to Australia is Singapore. but if we include Roll On/Roll Off transfer, I could wrongly assume that there's a RoRo journey from east coast of Peninsular Malaysia to Sarawak, but the closest place you ever got to Australia if you include RoRo journey is Merauke, Indonesia, which may also wrong since i did not know if there is a RoRo service to Merauke or not.
@@Farimira With enough money you can build a car that will drive on the bottom of the ocean. Then again; with enough money you can have all of Australia transported to the UK. Or the other way around.
There is actually a bit of controversy between New York and New Jersey regarding Lady Liberty's location, so the question is not as bad as HAI made out. It actually would make a pretty good HAI video exploring the controversy.
Technically speaking, if you drove from England to a car carrier and slowly drove around the deck (in circles most likely) the entire time you were in the boat and drove off the boat in Australia that would still count, no?
yep, but honestly you wouldnt even need to keep driving, since for pretty much all long car rides you stop at some point, especially for really long rides, where you need to sleep at some point for example and have to stop because of that.
Ferries don't exist from Indonesia to Australia. You can drive from England as far as Singapore via road and tunnel, and can ferry to Java, but most islands east of Java in Indonesia are comparatively sparsely populated and none of the lands that get relatively close such as East Timor or Papua New Guinea (or any of Indonesia's islands for that matter) have ferries to Australia. The infrastructure isn't there, nor is the demand.
I love how all of us worked together as a community to do what we do best and corrected poor Sam, Adam, and rest of the HAI team about the statue of liberty thing at least a few dozen times already XD
The statue of Liberty One is actually based on an interesting thing most people don't know... it's actually in New jersey, but kind of New york owned... or not. It's complicated
For the Statue of Liberty one, if you're confused as to why it's open to debate, there's a good CPG grey video regarding it, and It has to do with who owns the water vs the island Also 300 HAI videos that's pretty cool
You can't drive from England to Australia, but you can take the ferry or channel tunnel to France, then drive to Singapore, then take a bunch of ferries to Indonesia, then to Papua new Guinea, then to Australia.
My wife loves penguins and wants a video on 10,474 because it has a penguin doing something "incredibly awesome looking". So I guess whatever that idea was, it gets another suggestion? I'm just here for brick facts.
@@nefwaenre After extensive research I've determined it's probably because those places have the most amount of resources and least amount of predators.
I think the "Can you drive from England to Australia?" has some merit: it's possible to drive from England to Eurasia via the Chunnel, and there are plenty of bridges, tunnels and other infrastructure that could get you across some islands; there is also the question of ferries, does taking a ferry mean you didn't drive to your destination? What constitutes a ferry? etc. Even if the answer is still no, knowing how close you could get, or odd cases where two parts of the world that one would expect should be connected by road technically aren't (like how the Darién Gap exists in the Americas) are still interesting.
Even the channel tunnel probably doesn't count as driving - there are trains which go through it which carry cars, rather than the cars driving directly, so it's more analogous to a ferry than to a road bridge. If we count ferries, then google maps will show then if you zoom in - and nothing is shown which would get you closer than Singapore. This could be from incomplete data, but I've still put more effort into research than Sam's writers, so we'll call it a win. (If Indonesia does in fact have international car ferries both North to Asia and South to Australia, then sure, I guess, if you count ferries as driving then go for it) Though at that point, you could just frieght your car over and call it a win, and it's about as valid.
@@BadIdeasBureau in the channel you are told to remain in your car, so perhaps the question should be 'how far would you get without having to leave your car'.
With the right visas and ferries, you can theoretically get to Vanimo, Papua New Guinea. Google maps won’t let you drive across the India-Pakistan border, but there is a legal crossing between them.
The Statue of Liberty is now considered to be in NJ. It used to be owned by NY. However NJ petitioned that and now owner it. NJ was happy to get the revenue and New York was happy to stop paying to maintain it and taxes, etc. This is why NYS license plates changed a while back and were no longer able to have the Statue of Liberty on it.
I would recommend revisiting “Is it possible to drive from England to Australia” - Francis Birtles was the first person to complete that journey by car in 1928 (given some of it was by boat). From Wikipedia: “In an era when there were few roads and gasoline supplies sparse, the epic eight-month journey carried him across mountains, deserts and through tropical jungles and included a number of sea voyages - the last being from Singapore to Darwin. He travelled via Europe, Egypt, Persia (now Iran), India, Burma and Malaya.”
1:23 Driving from England to Australia is sort of possible, someone made a timelaspse of it on RUclips, you do need to ship the car from the last bit of Asia to Australia though. Could actually have been an interesting video
@@LilJollyJoker Technically no but you can drive 95%+ of the way there, and if you accompany the car on the ship, it's a little bit of a grey area. E.G You can drive to anywhere in Europe from the UK but you would accompany your car on a ferry or train to cross The Channel, I don't think anyone would argue that doesn't count as driving to your destination.
@@LilJollyJoker you can drive while being on multiple ships. Put atleast two ships, or platforms of same height back-to-back, and when the car drives from one ship to another, let the back ship move at a greater velocity around the ship the car is on, and come back at the front. By doing this you can technically drive to Australia to England.
Funnily enough, Ninja bread man was the first Wii game I ever owned and played (aside from Wii sports, but that's a given seeing as it came with the console)
@@shapular I remember the controls being quite bad and not always responsive. The actual game was just a bland platformer where you'd encounter the same easy enemies over and over. I also think it just sort of ends, without any final boss or anything of the sort. I might just not have finished the game and misremember though. I definitely wouldn't classify it as a good game, but I really can't imagine that it's the *worst* game on the console. If it really is, then that says lot about Nintendo's seal of quality.
The reason it is considered one of the worst is because they reskinned it 3 times to release it as 4 separate games. Ninjabreadman Anubus II Myth Makers: Trixie in Toyland Rock 'n' Roll Adventures This angered many people that bought what was essentially the same game multiple times, which is why it is remembered with such hatred.
Though I swear that you can drive from england to france by tunnel, and you can ferry from asia to the southern tip of indonesia, but there are no ferries to australia, you need to box a car up for freight shipment and get it checked for any insects that might have hidden in it before you can use it in australia. Also the question of which state the Statue of liberty is in is interesting, there's an ongoing dispute over where new jersey and new york's borders actually are that the supreme court has ruled on several times. According to the most recent rulings the statue itself is definitely in new york(though part of that ruling was based on kind of dubious claims by new york that jersey didn't dispute at the time), but the part of the statue island containing the gift shop could be reasonably said to be in New Jersy, I foresee no further arguments on that subject.
@@cjeam9199 but why would anyone choose to give birth there? (And if you repeat your comment, I will repeat mine, and we’ll go forever, which would honestly be peak internet)
@@leahsmilezzzzzzz because they live there, enjoying fucking, birth control isn’t 100% effective, and despite most of the people in Greenland who get pregnant deciding to have an abortion, some don’t want one for whatever reason. Happy little accident, boom more Greenlanders.
"What state is the statue of liberty in?" Hello and welcome to Half as Interesting. The RUclips channel that says things much more succinctly than CGP Grey. The statue of liberty is in New York.
I can't remember the last time I laughed this much at a video. I was literally weeping. Thanks so much! I especially loved that you found an academic paper to answer that one question. (I won't say which so as not to spoil the surprise.)
0:33 This whole sequence is hilarious. Robert's bot spamming about bricks is about as funny as me spamming MatPat about doing a video about the (real world) Unknown 2 Highway. Arizona showed me a picture, and I want to know what it is of.
On the question about driving from England to Australia, this actually is worth a video from you guys. Actual answer is yes, but more as a kinda. Short version is that people have pulled off the trip, many times in fact. Either they did it as a competition (such as the London-Sydney Marathon, or the older races going back to the 1920's), because they wanted to keep their car when they moved over to Australia, or for fun/sake of doing it (see the hippie trail). Even doing the same in the other direction as well. I think it is worth a video since there is some crazy stories from those who did the trip back in the day. Either due to lack of supplies in some remote part of the world, issues in crossing places where the "road" was something not even the maps could agree on if it existed or not, or the stories that came out of the races from different times (mostly the cheating). That, and the fact the route has had to change many times over the years. Early years having nothing to do with the USSR, so having to cross Iran/Afghanistan. To, well...you get the issues there.
The weight on the moon question is a trick question. You can't lift more weight on the moon, you can just lift more stuff because it weighs less. The amount of weight you can lift is identical. That question is like asking which weighs more, a one pound bag of rocks or a one pound bag of feathers?
He did a video for the topics that weren't long enough to be full videos, and that one was 1/4 as Interesting. So this video is more like 0.1% as Interesting.
You were trying to say "Welcome back to Half as interesting" as many times as the commenter commented brick. I didnt agree with 0:07 but for this specific video of yours its ironic you used that clip. Im so glad this isnt consistent through your wonderful content. Thank you for your other content!
I would love to see a video on how to pulverize the subscribe button to a fine snortable powder, you could also throw in how to properly curb stomp the subscribe button.
In the first question, you can technically drive (and by drive, I mean stay inside your car), all the way to Indonesia as you can go to the Chunnel, go all the way across either Russia or the Middle East then to South Asia (I would advise going to Russia instead to avoid the immigration hassle and less dangerous), go through China, then Thailand, then Malaysia then cross the Woodlands Cross Bridge to Singapore, then hop on a ferry straight to Jakarta. Youll be stuck in Java though as the only transportation you can get from Indonesia to Australia would be via plane. However, if you are somehow a bigshot within the US Military-Industrial Complex, Im pretty sure you can fit your car inside a C-130 and take off from Changi Air Base in Singapore - then land in Australia while being inside the car thus technically allowing you to "drive" all the way from England to Australia.
The Statue of Liberty question is actually one that I think warrants a video. For years the state of New York in the state of New Jersey have both claimed ownership of Liberty Island.
hold up. It is possible to drive from england to Australia. Load car onto the train from England to france. Proceed to drive from france all the way down to singapore. Hire a car ferry to ship vehicle to Darwin Australia, then drive to Sydney.
At what point are you not driving though? Like you probably wouldn't say you could drive to beyond Mars's orbit just because Elon Musk got a car there. A Singapore to Australia ferry sounds more like shipping a car to me then driving
Driving from the UK to Australia is doable. In 1950-52 an Australian Army veteran named Frederick Ben Carlin (and his first wife) accomplished a Transatlantic crossing using a Ford GPA (amphibious jeep). The longest leg was crossing from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Flores, the westernmost of the Azores, which took roughly 32 days. This was a distance of 2,715 km (1687 miles). The shortest distance by sea between the UK and Australia would be between Falmouth, Cornwall and Port Walcott, Western Australia, a distance of 19,434 km (12,076 miles). Now assuming the same pace as Halifax-Flores, it would take around 229 days to "drive".
A direct, non stop flight between London Heathrow and Perth International takes 16 hours and 35 minutes. If the jet lag didn't physically kill you, and you're a sociopath that doesn't care about their carbon footprint, you could fly the round trip leg 165.7085 times, not counting transfer time or take off and landing duration, in 229 days.
Now, nobody could accomplish a UK-Australia journey completely by sea. Even the Carlins barely made it across the Atlantic. A more plausible journey is to break this up into land and sea legs: crossing the English Channel by water, driving from Calais, France to Singapore, then by water to Port Walcott, Western Australia. Edit: I broke Google Maps trying to find a Calais to Singapore route🤣 Edit 2: Using another online calculator the distance would be 14,781 km (9184.5 miles) for a duration of 295.6 hours. Assuming an approximate average speed of 50 km/h (31 mph). Edit 3: The sea legs would total 3898.47 km (2484.53 miles). Or 47.128 days by the Carlin's 1951 pace. Edit 4: Adding 2 and 3 gives a result of 59.45 days as the quickest drive time between the UK and Australia by an amphibious jeep. To whatever masochistic idiot suggested this topic, you're welcome.
If by "England" the submitter meant England, Arkansas, and if by "Australia" the submitter meant the ghost town of Australia, Mississippi, than it is indeed possible to drive from England to Australia in about 2 hours 26 minutes.
HAI needs to hire you
Ok Sam, we know it's you! 🤣
Or London Minnesota maybe
@bruh Peru, Massachusetts
@@randomperson4349 peru, vermont. we even got a jamaica, vermont, which was ironically a center of kkk activity in the state.
"What state is the Statue of Liberty in?"
Generally a good one. It has a layer of copper rust on it from years of being exposed to the elements, but this has now become part of its iconic look and has not substantially affected its structural integrity. It did undergo extensive restoration from 1984-1986 and was closed to the public during that time, but has generally been accessible since then.
But how's it doing emotionally?
@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 dead inside
@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Hollow
Comedy geniuses, all of you.
i think the state is russia
Regarding the Statue of Liberty thing, this is actually not as terrible a question as it first seems. Long story short, Ellis Island and Liberty Island were initially defined as New York land in New Jersey waters. For some not fully understood reason, these islands then became larger. The Supreme Court ruled that the expanded portion of Ellis Island belonged to New Jersey, but there has been no such ruling regarding Liberty Island. Interestingly, if the Ellis Island decision were expanded to Liberty Island, then the statue would be in New York, but the gift shop would be in New Jersey.
Perfect. We don't have to pay for upkeep but get all the tax revenue from the gift shop.
CGP Grey made a video on that
I was thinking this too!
CGP Grey did an excellent video on the subject: ruclips.net/video/SgZ1f4ACZBQ/видео.html
I think the terribleness stems from there already being a popular video on the topic
This mysterious "Robert" must be so excited to finally be in the spotlight. All of their hard work copy-and-pasting the code for that bot and then letting it run idly for a couple of hours... it's all been worth it.
I am validated.
I’m not this Robert but I’m still honored
We see you, Robert, you're not fooling anyone.
Why do you think this unknown "Robert" was so interested in bricks?
@@reagandevore273 It was a while back when I did that, I think must have been around 2020 or 2021 or so. The funny thing is, I didn't even see this video until like a year after he posted it, and mostly it was just something I did with a little bash script that I ran on my laptop because I was a college freshmen stuck during the lockdown with nothing better to do. To be honest, I'm not even sure how my name got into it.
"Half as Interesting, the show that asks the question 'what if Vox was worse?'"
Made me burst into screeching laughter
I had water blowing out my nose with that gem too 😂😂😂
Actually, even before this video i was used to think about Vox as "Bad HAI"
My favorite line 😂
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"What state is the statue of liberty in?"
HAI, you dropped the ball on the absolute best possible answer, which is that the statue of liberty is in a solid state.
And if you map the route from it to lovely Australia by car and save it on your pc you'll have a solid state to solid state drive in a solid state drive!
Except the inside, which is gaseous.
@@Someone-cd7yi and the surroundings in liquid state
@@Someone-cd7yi Really?!
@@hoichingwong4267Well, it's hollow
Glad Robert got the respect he deserves. He should get his own HAI video
@we will do it no
@ТоммуIппit Shоrts 🅥 no
@@giselle8924 bo
I can only apologise on behalf of all people called Robert...
@@rjfaber1991 why would you apologise this is great
CGP Grey proved that the Statue of Liberty question has nuance.
Fact.
But the statue itself is in New York, no nuance there
Exactly what I was going to comment
@@hajfksdl but it's on federal land which is in new york which is in Jersey
But if H.A.I. gave us nuance how could he get through so many questions. Also the Real question he failed at is, "Has anyone ever Driven from Australia to the U.K.?" The Correct answer of which would be, "Yes. Dozens. Parking lot Ships Have surely carried Hundreds of crappy brittish cars to Australia when Britian still made cars. And you get the boats on and off the ship by driving." The Better Question I'd Ask is, "Who's driven to the most countries?", because sifting through wrong answers, ferry routes, and captain's logs of boat car transports would surely give opertunities for either funny jokes or talking about Top Gear/Grand Tour.
If you allow putting the car on a boat, you _can_ drive to Australia. One Dutch guy did it a couple of years back, staying overnight with whoever volunteered to host him and getting power to charge his car from them. At the time I found out about it, he was looking for places in Australia to host him for the last couple of thousand kilometres of his journey.
you use to be able to catch a bus from london to sydney
the journey took 92 days
In 1968 there was a rally marathon from London to Sydney, crossing through Europe, the middle East, South Asia and eventually through Australia
3:00 bruh thats wrong.
The statue of liberty is obviously solid, thats its state
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Bricks are incredible, you should make a third video. Perhaps it should be about what happens if you snort crushed up brick powder?
Bricks contain iron oxide so it might even help with iron deficiency!
Crushed brick powder and cocaine is called busco and is very common in my country
Everyone who works construction breathes brick dust.
@@yourownnfidel6207 where?
I tried it. You shit brick dust for days
"Let's face it, if you like this channel you like knowing stuff..." i mean personally, I like this channel for the brick jokes, the wiki summaries are just extra mustard
@purple X No it's here ruclips.net/video/yrO5PKhDQI8/видео.html
@purple X ok
Don't forget the hating of Newark airport
His jokes have gotten better
My favorite, bricks with mustard
them keeping the grammatical error of 'what's the most a animal can lift' absolutely SENT me
I'm glad someone else noticed it lmao
It's like Jeremy Clarkson asked that particular question...
Wikepida
Sent you where?
I want to like this but it’s at 669 so I’m leaving a comment instead
3:27 I love that they kept the grammar error in
It technically is possible to drive from England to Australia, some of the ways of doing so are (sorted by most likely):
•Drive an amphibious car.
•Drive underwater.
•Drive a flying car.
•Expand England or Australia so that part of 1 of them is on the same continent as the other.
•Freeze the ocean.
doofenshmirtz would do this
Technically it's possible to drive using a ship that carries cars like a vehicle ferry and keep the engine on by having extra fuel onboard if you wanted to break the world record. You can keep the vehicle on idle so it technically, "drove" across the ocean
The statue of liberty one actually fits the content of this channel because it's a disputed topic. CGP Grey did a video on it once.
@purple X what is it that's finally here? That's not the CGP Grey video
@@OmnipresentPotato It's a spam bot, just ignore it, or report it if that makes you feel better.
Wiith 12 million views so jokes on them ig hehe
@@SydSquid-uw5ng but again, he did a reupload of himself rating Canadian provinces' flags and got over 2M views so… not the best measure of good ideas you know?
As a New Jersey native, the Statue of Liberty one cut me deep.
@ТоммуIппit Shоrts 🅥 no
@we will do it no
As a New York native, the Statue of Liberty one didn't cut at all
Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty in both of their entirely belong to Jersey City,NJ, Ellis island has a bridge connected to Liberty State park in Jersey City,New Jersey, and my great great grandparents documents said Jersey City NJ, not New York,New York
As a New York native, I hate New Jersey.
I mean, the statue of liberty one is an interesting topic, cgp grey has a whole video on it. Then again, cgp grey already has a whole video on it
But there's the rub. If there's a whole video and it's interesting, then it's Whole As Interesting and twice as much as this channel can handle.
@Biglyp I dunno, HAI guy says that bendover narrator burns babies. Before he eats them. While kicking puppies.
@Biglyp Well, it may be a _bit_ biased. Any civilized person eats their babies medium rare, never burnt.
I feel I should mention that a guy I knew back in high school was working on plans to turn a Winnebago into an amphibious RV so he could take a road trip to Hawaii. England to Australia could’ve been possible, but he died before he finished the project.
Thank you! My wife literally spit out her coffee when you said “spank that like button…” priceless.
"Why do so many people live in Greenland?" might be the funniest suggestion of them all.
There’s just so many !!!
This is not "Half as Interesting"
This is "Half as General Knowledge"
@ТоммуIппit Shоrts 🅥 no
half-assed general store of knowledge
Half Assed General Knowledge
@@EspeonMistress00 beat me to it by 30 minutes.
What's the problem with him?
Also, the blue whale technically could carry that much on its back if something else loaded the whale and stabilized the cargo, but the whale couldn't "lift" jack squat because it has no limbs designed to pick stuff up or move it around, and has not developed that particular set of motor skills.
im guessing it means "how much can a whale carry on its back before it gets crushed"
You could argue that putting something in the whales mouth and then having it raise its head counts as 'lifting', but good luck explaining that to a blue whale
@@fjordling Good luck getting a blue whale on the moon. I don't think a spacesuit would fit.
Even more important, a blue whale can't survive on the moon and a dead blue whale has even less lifitng power than one that is alive.
Did you have to go and get technical? 🙄
“What state is the Statue of Liberty in”
CGP Grey: *frustration noises*
I can't believe I just stumbled onto your channel a few days ago, this stuff is amazing! Love how you combine two of the best things ever: history and humor!
2:50 I was expecting an illuminating insight into how New Jersey owns the waters surrounding Liberty Island, as well as the statutes gift shop. Left devastated. Shout out to CGP Grey ✌️
CGP "We need to give handouts to the royal family so tourists will see the castles even though the ones in France get more visitors" Grey
@@morbidsearch That's so 2011.
I wish there was a Half as Interesting video where all 124,882 safe topic ideas are answered
@purple X zamn actually good placed bot message
@That clone trooper in the back on the high ground So then it's the videos he's already done.
Bricks, mate
As someone who was given balls of fury for the WII as a Christmas gift from well meaning relatives this video hit close to home
What was the worst part of it?
My condolences.
How could they.
have your grandma pull the car around
"Tell you grandma to pull the car around."
1:33 technically you can *almost* made it to Australia from England.
If we are talking about direct land drive alone, the closest you ever got to Australia is Singapore.
but if we include Roll On/Roll Off transfer, I could wrongly assume that there's a RoRo journey from east coast of Peninsular Malaysia to Sarawak, but the closest place you ever got to Australia if you include RoRo journey is Merauke, Indonesia, which may also wrong since i did not know if there is a RoRo service to Merauke or not.
With enough money I'm sure you can hire a RoRo vessel
@farimira Yup. I did it... The paperwork was the most difficult bit. Not that expensive either. 👍🏻🇬🇧😀
@@Farimira With enough money you can build a car that will drive on the bottom of the ocean.
Then again; with enough money you can have all of Australia transported to the UK. Or the other way around.
There is actually a bit of controversy between New York and New Jersey regarding Lady Liberty's location, so the question is not as bad as HAI made out. It actually would make a pretty good HAI video exploring the controversy.
Technically speaking, if you drove from England to a car carrier and slowly drove around the deck (in circles most likely) the entire time you were in the boat and drove off the boat in Australia that would still count, no?
yep, but honestly you wouldnt even need to keep driving, since for pretty much all long car rides you stop at some point, especially for really long rides, where you need to sleep at some point for example and have to stop because of that.
You wouldn't have driven to Australia then, you would've driven while going to Australia.
It still counts as a driving route, it's just that there'd be a message on Google Maps saying "this route includes a ferry."
Ferries don't exist from Indonesia to Australia. You can drive from England as far as Singapore via road and tunnel, and can ferry to Java, but most islands east of Java in Indonesia are comparatively sparsely populated and none of the lands that get relatively close such as East Timor or Papua New Guinea (or any of Indonesia's islands for that matter) have ferries to Australia. The infrastructure isn't there, nor is the demand.
@@bmac4 Actually, you can ferry to Bali from Java. Still not to Australia, but at least minimally closer...
"Curb stomp that subscribe button, straight to the pavement" was so brutal it made my Nebula-subscribing butt pop over just to comment.
Yeah this video really did get quite violent toward the subscribe button, eh?
Poor subscribe button, man.
The subscribe button is just really kinky and into it all
I love how all of us worked together as a community to do what we do best and corrected poor Sam, Adam, and rest of the HAI team about the statue of liberty thing at least a few dozen times already XD
This is the Internet. Humiliation is a requirement.
And yet it still stands in New York.
Respect to the person named "BRICKS BRICKS"
we need to dethrone these as the worst ones
The statue of Liberty One is actually based on an interesting thing most people don't know... it's actually in New jersey, but kind of New york owned... or not. It's complicated
For the Statue of Liberty one, if you're confused as to why it's open to debate, there's a good CPG grey video regarding it, and It has to do with who owns the water vs the island
Also 300 HAI videos that's pretty cool
@heavy duty no
@ТоммуIппit Shоrts 🅥 no
Ew bots
Bro give the link in the comment
ruclips.net/video/SgZ1f4ACZBQ/видео.html
Episode 300 of Half as Interesting, or simplify the math and watch the 150th episode of Fully Interesting.
Great content. Love it!
I usually laugh out loud at your videos. But this exceeded all 124,882 of my expectations. Here's to another eighth of a million suggestions
You can't drive from England to Australia, but you can take the ferry or channel tunnel to France, then drive to Singapore, then take a bunch of ferries to Indonesia, then to Papua new Guinea, then to Australia.
3:05 cgp grey enters the chat
Fact Check: The Statue of Liberty is in solid state
I heard it is in a broken state and still needs to be fixed.
@@Lovuschka ever since that ammunition ship was sabotaged by Germans in World War I and the arm was hit by shrapnel
@@dangerouslytalented Black Tom is the name
I believe its not solid but hollow though
@@B.Ies_T.Nduhey hollow is not a state of matter
One Minute for the writers that had to read all the Suggestions
They need a raise... and human rights
frog meme
@ТоммуIппit Shоrts 🅥 no
@@zyansheep either Raise or rights you cant get both
BRICKS
Can we do more of these? Honestly, this video was hilarious, which was actually painful because I have the flu, but whatever. I liked it.
you feeling better now?
no he died 😔😢
5:18 WHAT DID HE JUST SAY!?!? WHAT DID HE SAY!?!? *HEAVY BREATHING* Any one else who watched that one video by Wubzzy get the reference?
that Statue of Liberty thing actually isn't quite as straightforward as you'd think
@ТоммуIппit Shоrts 🅥 no
exactly it’s an exclave, technically in ny but surrounded by nj
frog meme
yeah good ol CGP Grey has a video on it.
@we will do it no
My wife loves penguins and wants a video on 10,474 because it has a penguin doing something "incredibly awesome looking".
So I guess whatever that idea was, it gets another suggestion? I'm just here for brick facts.
Wait what is 10474?
Aww but that's a puffin, though! Maybe HAI can do a video on why do so many puffins live in Iceland, Greenland etc or something, that'll be cool. 👍
@@nefwaenre i think it's a penguin lifting weights on the moon
@@nefwaenre After extensive research I've determined it's probably because those places have the most amount of resources and least amount of predators.
That's actually why I watched the whole video just to see why that penguin was lifting
I was here from day 1 wow I can’t believe it’s been that long
I was here from 0,5 day. Good try.
A friend actually gifted me Balls of Fury for my birthday. The last achievement is playing the game for 10 hours. Truly an impossible task
"Curb stomp that subscribe button" is my new favorite way to end RUclips videos
“#1 in number of Mount Rushmores.” The channel is too funny.
I think the "Can you drive from England to Australia?" has some merit: it's possible to drive from England to Eurasia via the Chunnel, and there are plenty of bridges, tunnels and other infrastructure that could get you across some islands; there is also the question of ferries, does taking a ferry mean you didn't drive to your destination? What constitutes a ferry? etc.
Even if the answer is still no, knowing how close you could get, or odd cases where two parts of the world that one would expect should be connected by road technically aren't (like how the Darién Gap exists in the Americas) are still interesting.
Even the channel tunnel probably doesn't count as driving - there are trains which go through it which carry cars, rather than the cars driving directly, so it's more analogous to a ferry than to a road bridge.
If we count ferries, then google maps will show then if you zoom in - and nothing is shown which would get you closer than Singapore. This could be from incomplete data, but I've still put more effort into research than Sam's writers, so we'll call it a win. (If Indonesia does in fact have international car ferries both North to Asia and South to Australia, then sure, I guess, if you count ferries as driving then go for it)
Though at that point, you could just frieght your car over and call it a win, and it's about as valid.
@@BadIdeasBureau in the channel you are told to remain in your car, so perhaps the question should be 'how far would you get without having to leave your car'.
You can not drive from England to Australia.
No circular ferry between Indonesia and oz. So we fail there
With the right visas and ferries, you can theoretically get to Vanimo, Papua New Guinea. Google maps won’t let you drive across the India-Pakistan border, but there is a legal crossing between them.
I cannot believe he pronouced "Anubis" the way he did at 2:09
I just kinda chose to ignore it
Anubis the Cannabis hound.
Can’t wait to see this is next years errors video!
The correct pronounciation would be more like "Yinepu"
5:09 Now i wonder if there was anyone else who had a stroke while writing their topic idea
The Statue of Liberty is now considered to be in NJ. It used to be owned by NY. However NJ petitioned that and now owner it. NJ was happy to get the revenue and New York was happy to stop paying to maintain it and taxes, etc. This is why NYS license plates changed a while back and were no longer able to have the Statue of Liberty on it.
you missed an opportunity to tag the end of the wii episode with “don’t forget to throw that subscribe button straight into the television screen!”
Some of the topics are actually pretty interesting since they do have quite good backstories
I would recommend revisiting “Is it possible to drive from England to Australia” - Francis Birtles was the first person to complete that journey by car in 1928 (given some of it was by boat).
From Wikipedia: “In an era when there were few roads and gasoline supplies sparse, the epic eight-month journey carried him across mountains, deserts and through tropical jungles and included a number of sea voyages - the last being from Singapore to Darwin. He travelled via Europe, Egypt, Persia (now Iran), India, Burma and Malaya.”
That is so cool. I love those gems of knowledge on the comments.
BRICKS
-Robert
I don't think the Statue of Liberty one should be considered one of the worst topic ideas. CGP Grey did a pretty amazing video on just that!
thought this was gonna be a generic video, ended up loving it because of how aggressively passive aggressive the narrator is. love it, im subbing lol
Gotta give a shout-out in the comments for Robert for building an actual bot that just says bricks. Respekt
That hard work has paid off.
I think this is the first "Half As Interesting" video that really is half as interesting.
SO GOOD!! I still remember when you started this channel, love the random fun facts and humor that goes along with it.
1:23 Driving from England to Australia is sort of possible, someone made a timelaspse of it on RUclips, you do need to ship the car from the last bit of Asia to Australia though. Could actually have been an interesting video
"ship the car" that is not DRIVING...
@@LilJollyJoker Technically no but you can drive 95%+ of the way there, and if you accompany the car on the ship, it's a little bit of a grey area.
E.G You can drive to anywhere in Europe from the UK but you would accompany your car on a ferry or train to cross The Channel, I don't think anyone would argue that doesn't count as driving to your destination.
@@LilJollyJoker you can drive while being on multiple ships.
Put atleast two ships, or platforms of same height back-to-back,
and when the car drives from one ship to another,
let the back ship move at a greater velocity around the ship the car is on, and come back at the front.
By doing this you can technically drive to Australia to England.
1:03 I love how even without that bot, a majority of suggestions at that time wudve been for a bricks video xD
Funnily enough, Ninja bread man was the first Wii game I ever owned and played (aside from Wii sports, but that's a given seeing as it came with the console)
So how was it?
@@shapular I remember the controls being quite bad and not always responsive. The actual game was just a bland platformer where you'd encounter the same easy enemies over and over.
I also think it just sort of ends, without any final boss or anything of the sort. I might just not have finished the game and misremember though.
I definitely wouldn't classify it as a good game, but I really can't imagine that it's the *worst* game on the console. If it really is, then that says lot about Nintendo's seal of quality.
The reason it is considered one of the worst is because they reskinned it 3 times to release it as 4 separate games.
Ninjabreadman
Anubus II
Myth Makers: Trixie in Toyland
Rock 'n' Roll Adventures
This angered many people that bought what was essentially the same game multiple times, which is why it is remembered with such hatred.
Glad they decided to finally start featuring all my ideas
Everybody gangsta until Sam answers the age-old question of "Suejsjiwiwisisimxmaiaom".
Though I swear that you can drive from england to france by tunnel, and you can ferry from asia to the southern tip of indonesia, but there are no ferries to australia, you need to box a car up for freight shipment and get it checked for any insects that might have hidden in it before you can use it in australia.
Also the question of which state the Statue of liberty is in is interesting, there's an ongoing dispute over where new jersey and new york's borders actually are that the supreme court has ruled on several times. According to the most recent rulings the statue itself is definitely in new york(though part of that ruling was based on kind of dubious claims by new york that jersey didn't dispute at the time), but the part of the statue island containing the gift shop could be reasonably said to be in New Jersy, I foresee no further arguments on that subject.
5:08 - Suejsjiwiwisisimxmaiaom, explained with very good detail, thank you so much. I had been searching for this topic for a while now.
lmao
I feel like the Greenland one, if rephrase to "why people choose to live in Greenland" could be an interesting topic
Mostly because they were born there.
Smash that subscribe button!
@@cjeam9199 but why would anyone choose to give birth there? (And if you repeat your comment, I will repeat mine, and we’ll go forever, which would honestly be peak internet)
@@leahsmilezzzzzzz because they live there, enjoying fucking, birth control isn’t 100% effective, and despite most of the people in Greenland who get pregnant deciding to have an abortion, some don’t want one for whatever reason. Happy little accident, boom more Greenlanders.
Didn't Sam do a Wendover video like that for Point Barrow, Alaska, or was that a different RUclipsr?
@@jeffbenton6183 This one? ruclips.net/video/MP1OAm7Pzps/видео.html
"What state is the statue of liberty in?" Hello and welcome to Half as Interesting. The RUclips channel that says things much more succinctly than CGP Grey. The statue of liberty is in New York.
But the gift shop might be in New Jersey.
0:06 The best flame was "Named because each video on this channel is half as interesting as the previous one." :)
I can't remember the last time I laughed this much at a video. I was literally weeping. Thanks so much!
I especially loved that you found an academic paper to answer that one question. (I won't say which so as not to spoil the surprise.)
South Dakota did seem nice when I drove through it that one year, to be honest.
0:33 This whole sequence is hilarious. Robert's bot spamming about bricks is about as funny as me spamming MatPat about doing a video about the (real world) Unknown 2 Highway. Arizona showed me a picture, and I want to know what it is of.
The Statue of Liberty question is actually quite interesting and would fit the channel very well. CGP Grey did a video on it
CGP Grey is an idiot who sounds smart but his ideas are only good on paper
On the question about driving from England to Australia, this actually is worth a video from you guys. Actual answer is yes, but more as a kinda.
Short version is that people have pulled off the trip, many times in fact. Either they did it as a competition (such as the London-Sydney Marathon, or the older races going back to the 1920's), because they wanted to keep their car when they moved over to Australia, or for fun/sake of doing it (see the hippie trail). Even doing the same in the other direction as well.
I think it is worth a video since there is some crazy stories from those who did the trip back in the day. Either due to lack of supplies in some remote part of the world, issues in crossing places where the "road" was something not even the maps could agree on if it existed or not, or the stories that came out of the races from different times (mostly the cheating).
That, and the fact the route has had to change many times over the years. Early years having nothing to do with the USSR, so having to cross Iran/Afghanistan. To, well...you get the issues there.
Though this show is always very funny, this episode made me laugh out loud much more than I expected. Thank you and keep up the great work!
The weight on the moon question is a trick question. You can't lift more weight on the moon, you can just lift more stuff because it weighs less. The amount of weight you can lift is identical. That question is like asking which weighs more, a one pound bag of rocks or a one pound bag of feathers?
I know this one! It's the rocks. Right?
@@johnladuke6475 Close, it's actually your mum
@@karl0ssus1 No, she's just ashes now, can't weigh much at all. Dad says he left her on a beach somewhere.
@@johnladuke6475 oh, in that case then it's definitely the rocks
Nobody said the word "weight". The question was "on the moon, what is the most an animal could lift".
I think this should’ve went on the 1/3 as interesting Channel….
@ТоммуIппit Shоrts 🅥 no
Honestly though he should make like a 1/4th as interesting or 1/8th as interesting channel for shorts or something
@@treyspiller3931 that would be a great idea
He did a video for the topics that weren't long enough to be full videos, and that one was 1/4 as Interesting. So this video is more like 0.1% as Interesting.
Excellent quality as usual 😂💖
@ТоммуIппit Shоrts 🅥 no
1:22 “what if Vox was worse” 😭😭 bye I love this channel
You were trying to say "Welcome back to Half as interesting" as many times as the commenter commented brick.
I didnt agree with 0:07 but for this specific video of yours its ironic you used that clip.
Im so glad this isnt consistent through your wonderful content. Thank you for your other content!
1:58 And somewhere, Scott The Woz is screaming and he doesn't know why.
I love the amount of wacky zany ways you guys make destroy the subscribe button jokes
At 5:09, you mispronounced Suejsjiwiwisisimxmaiaom and I think I speak for everyone when I say that it was highly offensive and we demand an apology.
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why did i JUST realise this is the same sam as the one in jet lag
I would love to see a video on how to pulverize the subscribe button to a fine snortable powder, you could also throw in how to properly curb stomp the subscribe button.
Yay it's my favorite stock footage channel
@ТоммуIппit Shоrts 🅥 no
4:18 Fortunately, Oregon is nowhere near the moon [citation needed]
I've never been so excited to watch bad ideas.
Not a fan of Jackass then?
Haven't seen the Michael Reeves video?
In the first question, you can technically drive (and by drive, I mean stay inside your car), all the way to Indonesia as you can go to the Chunnel, go all the way across either Russia or the Middle East then to South Asia (I would advise going to Russia instead to avoid the immigration hassle and less dangerous), go through China, then Thailand, then Malaysia then cross the Woodlands Cross Bridge to Singapore, then hop on a ferry straight to Jakarta. Youll be stuck in Java though as the only transportation you can get from Indonesia to Australia would be via plane.
However, if you are somehow a bigshot within the US Military-Industrial Complex, Im pretty sure you can fit your car inside a C-130 and take off from Changi Air Base in Singapore - then land in Australia while being inside the car thus technically allowing you to "drive" all the way from England to Australia.
The Statue of Liberty question is actually one that I think warrants a video. For years the state of New York in the state of New Jersey have both claimed ownership of Liberty Island.
4:25 - Today I learned Antarctica is more densly populated then Greenland..!
1:28
Wrong, it is possible to drive from the UK to Australia, all you need is a large enough boat to drive around on as it sails to Australia.
hold up. It is possible to drive from england to Australia. Load car onto the train from England to france. Proceed to drive from france all the way down to singapore. Hire a car ferry to ship vehicle to Darwin Australia, then drive to Sydney.
But would this be feasible?
I was thinking the same thing lol
I don't think moving a car via ferry can be considered "driving a car". So, I think Sam was right.
At what point are you not driving though? Like you probably wouldn't say you could drive to beyond Mars's orbit just because Elon Musk got a car there. A Singapore to Australia ferry sounds more like shipping a car to me then driving
@@CTSFanSam Just keep driving the car back and forth on the ferry until you reach your destination. Problem solved.
Driving from the UK to Australia is doable. In 1950-52 an Australian Army veteran named Frederick Ben Carlin (and his first wife) accomplished a Transatlantic crossing using a Ford GPA (amphibious jeep). The longest leg was crossing from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Flores, the westernmost of the Azores, which took roughly 32 days. This was a distance of 2,715 km (1687 miles). The shortest distance by sea between the UK and Australia would be between Falmouth, Cornwall and Port Walcott, Western Australia, a distance of 19,434 km (12,076 miles). Now assuming the same pace as Halifax-Flores, it would take around 229 days to "drive".
A direct, non stop flight between London Heathrow and Perth International takes 16 hours and 35 minutes. If the jet lag didn't physically kill you, and you're a sociopath that doesn't care about their carbon footprint, you could fly the round trip leg 165.7085 times, not counting transfer time or take off and landing duration, in 229 days.
Now, nobody could accomplish a UK-Australia journey completely by sea. Even the Carlins barely made it across the Atlantic. A more plausible journey is to break this up into land and sea legs: crossing the English Channel by water, driving from Calais, France to Singapore, then by water to Port Walcott, Western Australia.
Edit: I broke Google Maps trying to find a Calais to Singapore route🤣
Edit 2: Using another online calculator the distance would be 14,781 km (9184.5 miles) for a duration of 295.6 hours. Assuming an approximate average speed of 50 km/h (31 mph).
Edit 3: The sea legs would total 3898.47 km (2484.53 miles). Or 47.128 days by the Carlin's 1951 pace.
Edit 4: Adding 2 and 3 gives a result of 59.45 days as the quickest drive time between the UK and Australia by an amphibious jeep. To whatever masochistic idiot suggested this topic, you're welcome.
You can drive from england to australia you just need to do it during the winter when all the water is frozen