Exploring the Pacific - Wayfinding - Extra History - Part 2

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🏝️ Exploring the Pacific: We Know the Way - So if the Pacific Ocean is so huge and dangerous, how in the world did the Austronesians find their way to land? As it turns out, they had an impressive array of tools at their disposal. Songs & chants to remember particular techniques, feeling currents through the water, memorizing star positions for each time of the year... And the unique design of their boats!
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@crazytim8256 4 года назад

It's incredible to me that so many human civilizations each found their own unique and ingenious way to conquer the technology of sailing.

@fomoran 4 года назад

I really hope that what I learned about Vikings as a child still holds up. That being... One of their great strengths when voyaging on open seas was not giving a fook. Knowing that the gods had decided their overall fate, they boldly struck out risking it all either blessed to success or damned to failure. True, they had moments where they had to throw loot and slaves in the sea to lighten the load... but hey you win some, you drown some!

@christopherg2347 4 года назад

the planet is 70% water. And the land was mountain-y or realyl small. So it was kinda a nessesity to get around.

@AngryKittens 4 года назад

@Klaidi Rubiku No other culture created multihull and outrigger boats. Also Austronesians really did invent the maritime boat first. Before any other human culture. During the same time period that the crab claw sail and catamarans were invented by Austronesians, all other humans were still only using rafts, dugout canoes, and coracles. And only in near-shore, lake, and river environments.

@3sco955 4 года назад

@Klaidi Rubiku Took em 10,000 years to invent that stick.

@adamblakeslee5301 4 года назад

Fundamentally, if you're human you'll build near water and if you live by water you'll want to take advantage of that water to move things. The Austronesians are unique in that their civilization was basically built on their sailing technique.

@safe-keeper1042 4 года назад

Contemporary European: how do you find all these tiny islands in the vast Pacific? Islander: electromagnetic field navigation by proxy ^^, CE: wait, wut

@maddiewettach4954 4 года назад

European: We mostly just use Polaris in the open ocean. Islander: What do you do when you’re in the Southern Hemisphere? European: . . . Pray?

@marcopohl4875 4 года назад

I wanted to make a similar joke using dinosaurs, but I couldn't think of one

@enzoehrhart5563 4 года назад

How was this post 20 hours ago? For me it says that this video was made 20 minutes ago.

@pvtpain66k 4 года назад

Alternatively, Islander: The clouds, birds, and fish tell me where the islands are, duh.

@fomoran 4 года назад

@@pvtpain66k alternatively, question posed to ghost of viking... but then you'd have to find a way of excluding them from being classed as 'european'...

@angeloschibetta9873 4 года назад

Can't wait to hear Rob sigh about the Japan-Taiwan thing when Lies comes around.

@deanholderde5959 4 года назад

Yuppies.

@tacticallemon7518 4 года назад

I only know the last ~200 years of history, could you elaborate?

@angeloschibetta9873 4 года назад

@@tacticallemon7518 The video highlighted Japan, while the audio said Taiwan. It's going to come up in the epilogue to these series (called Lies), once that gets released.

@bernardmitchell7328 4 года назад

I just about choked on my pearl milk tea when I saw the marker on the Japanese home islands

@vihaandoesthings6290 4 года назад

@@tacticallemon7518 he displayed Taiwan to be in the island of Honshu in Japan, instead of the actual island of Taiwan.

@Crazael 4 года назад

Fun fact: The local native language of Madagascar, Malagasy, is an Austonesian language.

@filipusandikawicaksana6822 4 года назад

@Klaidi Rubiku In the highlands, though, Austronesian heritage was more prevalent. I once met a Merina guy wearing batik, and I thought he was a local until he said he was from Madagascar. Lots of Coastal Western Indonesians have a darker shade of brown and wide noses due to some Negrito heritage, so Malagasies won't look out of place in Java/Sumatra/coastal Borneo, unlike in the Philippines or the Bornean/Sumatran interior.

@xXxSkyViperxXx 4 года назад

their colonial language that influenced them later on is also french so they kinda sound little bit french too as opposed to those in southeast asia with spanish, british, dutch, and portuguese influence

@joshuaevans6295 4 года назад

Madagascar is a weird, WEIRD place. It's geologically closer to India than Africa, it used to be home to giant birds, and it's basically the last habitable part of Earth to be settled by humans.

@UnDeaDCyBorg 4 года назад

@@joshuaevans6295 Also the final boss in pandemic (the game, not the actual one). Fascinating though that it was colonised from the east first.

@nathanpaez6487 4 года назад

Dude I'm austronesian were not dumb cause we know its from the austronesian language family

@BenthiccBiomancer 4 года назад

Something that I find really neat (and that wasn't mentioned in the video) is that deliberately sailing into the wind was likely a major advantage for Polynesian explorers, because if they got halfway through their supplies without finding land, they could turn around and ride the winds safely back home.

@dchristensen777 4 года назад

"I WILL TURN THIS MIGRATION AROUND!" This was the funniest joke that I've seen on this channel. Well done!

@FelisTerras 4 года назад

Had me cracking up, too. Particularly because they were fighting over a GameBoy. Ahh, yes, childhood memories.^^

@chedelirio6984 3 года назад

Brilliant gag!

@GeneralLuigiTBC 4 года назад

1:26 I didn't know Taiwan was in Japan...

@delta5-126 4 года назад

General Luigi whoops

@rabbitfedoraman1665 4 года назад

Ye that is exactly what i thought

@delta5-126 4 года назад

Yeah i know right?

@Genesis23OPB 4 года назад

jah someone fluffed up a bit

@Jasonmanmosa 4 года назад

The WHO says Taiwan is part of China

@jmt5887 4 года назад

Wow. These people are so incredible. The things they had to remember and learn to not only survive but thrive and make it to each new island really makes me ashamed that because of my lifestyle I would never be able to pull anything like this off myself.

@CatOnACell 4 года назад

@Klaidi Rubiku they had no need to advance. They had trees as strong as iron to craft their weapons. meaning that developing metal weapons would be a detriment to their power. They had tropical fruits and spices so there was no need to search out better food across the world, and they never had enough land that serious terraforming efforts would reap a serious benefit to their culture meaning no large buildings or agricultural infrastructure needed to be invented.

@dominikbradvica9406 4 года назад

Jmt5887 - Wait, how is that your comment is one day old before the Extra Credits realesed this episode, are you therie club member or what?

@kayeka4123 4 года назад

@Klaidi Rubiku I'd say these techniques were plenty advanced as they were. This isn't a game of civilization, there is no such thing as "technology levels".

@JoaoPedro-qp9cw 4 года назад

@Klaidi Rubiku it's easy to say what people should have done when you have the benefit of hindsight. Their world, until changed by colonization, had no incentives do develop in the same way Europe did. The development of a civilization is much like biological evolution: random mutations (ideas) are selected by the environmental pressure. If there is no pressure, the ideas won't be developed

@jacintovski 4 года назад

@@JoaoPedro-qp9cw exato

@Wolfeson28 4 года назад

Bridgekeeper: "What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?" Wayfinder: "Micronesian or Melanesian? Oh, and at what time of year, in what conditions of prevailing winds, at what distance from land and do you mean in the morning or the evening?" Bridgekeeper: "Ok...I'll just be throwing myself into the pit now."

@baron-von-masky 4 года назад

Monty python reference... NICE!

@ribbitgoesthedoglastnamehe4681 4 года назад

Classic. 😁

@alucard347 4 года назад

This is simply gold.

@stevenbuckallew1953 4 года назад

epic

@mcknightmom4 4 года назад

"can be found from *Taiwan* " *places gold star on Japan*

@safe-keeper1042 4 года назад

Taiwan officially ends desire to reconquer mainland, instead conquers Japan.

@Hanzzaki 3 года назад

Naw he was trying to show u were they got nuked

@TheJuanTrueKaiser 4 года назад

There were Austronesians in southern Japan millennial ago, but that map at 1:30 shows a star on japan when u said Taiwan.

@angusyang5917 4 года назад

I think the ancestors of these pre-Austronesians even came from southeast China.

@quadeevans6484 4 года назад

@@angusyang5917 to add on to that the austronesian homeland is Taiwan which all Austronesian people sailed out from in waves. The theory is that they got to Taiwan from SE china

@AtabekZingi 4 года назад

James Cook: I have an empty map, can you help me discover New Zealand and claim it for the queen? Tupaia: here you go 130 islands in that quadrant, just avoid java as they might claim your skin :-)

@KasumiRINA 3 года назад

Well, aboriginals eating Cook as they mistook him for ship's cook (who was rumoured to be tasty) is probably the most famous Soviet era bard song. Seriously.

@pbien16 4 года назад

micronesians also had 'Stick Charts' which were kinda like maps but assembled with sticks and shells. each shell represents islands and the size of the sticks represents different swells and currents between each islands.

@TheKalihiMan 4 года назад

It was a Micronesian, Mau Piailug from Satawal who helped teach the navigators of the Polynesian Voyaging Society how to wayfind again. Mau was Nainoa Thompson’s personal teacher.

@Saipan2297 4 года назад

Although they were Micronesians, they sure had big brains

@misterkeithb 4 года назад

It looks like the video artwork had a facsimile of one of those stick charts when they talked about studying to become a wayfinder

@stanislawwitkowicz918 4 года назад

Yeah, it was told here. Paid attention, got it. It looks pretty, I must admit. Are you also hoping to hear about Nan Madol in the next episode?

@KendrixTermina 4 года назад

Cool af. Was it one string for a particular route or direction? Like one stick for a particular sea current? Seems like a set of maps in 1D, or a bit like musical notes in how the information is encoded in distances

@AverytheCubanAmerican 4 года назад

Aue, aue! We set a course to find a brand new island everywhere we roam!

@tobybartels8426 4 года назад

Aue, aue Nuku i mua Te manulele e tataki e Aue, aue Te fenua te mālie Nae ko hakilia mo kaiga e

@Wolfboy2012 4 года назад

Damn you, you beat me to it

@ocean6828 4 года назад

You stole my comment before I wrote it!

@jeremy1860 4 года назад

I'm always fascinated to hear of people who made perilous voyages from back then. Those trailblazers deserve all the credit we can give them 😊

@ribbitgoesthedoglastnamehe4681 4 года назад

Have you read about Thor Heyerdahl? He had some crazy but logically compelling theories on how ancient mariners sailed way greater distances much earlier than thought, explaining Noah, ancient astronaut theories, Garden of Eden, rises of civilisations, mesoamerican religions, the Easter Island mystery, ancient copper trade, and so much more by refining our understanding of sailing and distances. For example, ships of Columbus were really bad compared to earlier raft designs for long routes. They offered cargo space and weaponry, good for war but comparing to simple reed construction, were barely seaworthy. He said he could with a reed raft, sail from India to Mexico, and basicly proved it. Amazing.

@cheegum6296 4 года назад

They deserve a sub atleast

@harry77998 2 года назад

Enrique de malacca

@aroma13 4 года назад

One flaw : Narrator: *mentions taiwan* Animator:*puts star on japan*

@angusyang5917 4 года назад

I know right?

@cowtaplayz8277 4 года назад

Probably a mistake

@artycuen3572 4 года назад

Extra Lies. Coming soon.

@sarysa 4 года назад

Ah, at 1:28. They got it right just a little later too, whoops.

@BlakMuffin 4 года назад

These absolute lads managed to memorize the exact position of stars throughout the year whereas 6:23 is me straining myself just to remember where the big dipper is

@Fafnd 4 года назад

If you can even see the stars with all the light pollution...

@genghiskhan.2265 2 года назад

@@Fafnd i feel the pain, living in a urban city with a telescope

@budsbunny8038 4 года назад

I think the best way to think about how big the Pacific ocean is. Is that some parts of the ocean are on the opposite side of the globe to others. You could literally tunnel through the earth and still come out in the same ocean

@saintkun2708 4 года назад

This video reminded me of an Indonesian folk song called "nenek moyangku seorang pelaut" (my ancestors was a sailor)

@tzisorey 4 года назад

I still remember finding South from the stars from when I was in the Scouts. There's a pair of stars called "The Pointers" that point to the Southern Cross. You take a line through The Pointers, and figure a line perpendicular to that. You then take a line along the long-axis of the Southern Cross. Where those two lines intersect, is South.

@abthedragon4921 4 года назад

Pacific Island history is truly fascinating. Everytime you get used to something cool you learn, you learn something even cooler.

@martins.4240 4 года назад

50% of the comments: "You put a star on Japan instead of Taiwan." Cue Hades "I know, I got it, I got the concept!" meme.

@lhistorienchipoteur9968 4 года назад

2:00 You misted a great opportunity to say "Aotearoa" instead of "New Zealand".

@flaviusclaudius7510 4 года назад

I was a little disappointed at that

@jillchristensen5093 4 года назад

And “Aotearoa” sounds really cool, too.

@theghostofspookwagen4715 4 года назад

Isn't Aotearoa the Maori name? That's like him saying "Deutschland" every time he talks about Germany.

@bfure1 4 года назад

@@theghostofspookwagen4715 he was saying "Havaii" a lot though so it wouldn't be that weird.

@lucidnonsense942 4 года назад

@@theghostofspookwagen4715 It's one of the official names of the country (the "officially" preferred one, in fact) and it's used by other Pacific people too. But, most of all, it ties into one of the points they were making - it means "(Land of the) Long White Cloud."

@xlstaticpandalx 4 года назад

This also left out the interesting fact that Austronesians went as far west as Madagascar.

@deathtoluke 4 года назад

madagascar in the west to south america in the east

@stewartgames6697 4 года назад

@@deathtoluke And as far south as Antarctica.

@louisparry-mills9132 3 года назад

@@deathtoluke I thought whether they got to South America was still under heavy contestation

@tananario 2 года назад

This is about exploration in the PACIFIC Ocean. It’s right there in the video title.

@javidproductions9353 4 года назад

Only on RU-vid can you learn a bit about a boat on a game design channel.

@delarkaBCN 4 года назад

i've never seen the "green vids". i've binged all extra history, sci-fi and mythology.

@rokuah6029 4 года назад

The one thing that bugs me about their explanations is that they keep calling catamarans canoes.

@tobybartels8426 4 года назад

It's a game design channel? Well, that explains the occasional posts on game design.

@adamblakeslee5301 4 года назад

I can totally see having a minigame of navigating by starlight just to unlock the map.

@lucidnonsense942 4 года назад

Well.. that explains the green vids - I just thought one of the writers had a bee in their bonnet about game design.

@BothHands1 4 года назад

i love the austronesian videos! they're one of my favorite cultures ever. humans moved out of africa and all the way to asia, before finally sailing to madigascar. they found madigascar hundreds of years before anyone in africa did, even though the people of africa had 20,000 years head start. they were absolutely brilliant. i love these videos so much!!

@quadeevans6484 4 года назад

Austronesian 1: Ever feel like we've been here before? Austronesian 2: no this is entirely new land Austronesian 1: Aight bro

@PrograError 4 года назад

there was also another explorer from imperial china called zheng he (zheng ho) which is rumoured to have reached those shores in his later voyages, tho that was during the Ming dynasty which is more recent history than the rest. FYI: he established relations with the kingdoms in south east Asia, and the Nonya people in those areas are said to be the descendants of the crews that stayed behind and inter-marriage with the locals, which often are worshippers of the Islam.

@BothHands1 4 года назад

thank you for your comments

@BlizzardofKnives 4 года назад

The Pacific Navigators sound like ancient London Taxi Drivers.

@AlbertaGeek 4 года назад

...They use ocean currents, stars, and animal behavior to navigate the city?

@Madhattersinjeans 4 года назад

@@AlbertaGeek London taxi drivers have a very stringent set of standards required in order to obtain the licence to be taxi drivers there. It's a lot of information to recall and in many ways it is similar to some methods of memorisation mentioned about sailing. And they will certainly be familiar with animal behaviour.

@BlizzardofKnives 4 года назад

@@AlbertaGeek : That would be cool, but no. They have to learn their way around Londons' messy road system, thereby gaining "The Knowledge".

@mr.numbers5968 4 года назад

Could you do a series on the Spanish civil war? It’s not that talked about and is very interesting.

@BarrakiOfToa 4 года назад

If you go to their patreon page, you can suggest and vote for future series by becoming a patron

@013aanikhfds 4 года назад

omg i think the catholic monarchs would be a great series

@013aanikhfds 4 года назад

different spanish topic

@Joan1Marti 4 года назад

Douglas Ribeiro But you have to pay, for this, right?

@artycuen3572 4 года назад

Animated history of Spain is a good one.

@mysteriousdude280 4 года назад

The wonder of human ingenuity. We never fail to rise up to the occasion when we truly want to

@AwesomeSauce696969 4 года назад

Polynesians are just so incredible. One of my favorite ethnic groups for sure. Such cool culture and history. Will you be covering the Tonga Tu'I empire?

@ZantharEos 4 года назад

Well make videos like these really make me proud to be a supporter!

@therealcollin1201 4 года назад

Kyle Murg ur first

@Allman203 4 года назад

Kyle Murgatroyd awesome

@lucidnonsense942 4 года назад

Aotearoa is the "officially" preferred name for NZ and it's used by other Pacific people too. But, most of all, it ties into one of the points you were making - it translates to "(Land of the) Long White Cloud."

@maddie9602 4 года назад

Wayfinding sounds like truly an incredible art. It's amazing what humans can come up with, with enough motivation.

@KendrixTermina 4 года назад

One of the coolest series so far I love how you focus on both framing old favorites in a new way but also shining a light on underappreciated parts of history

@aaronkindi552 4 года назад

The illustration with the dad bird screaming "i will turn this migration around!!" Had me dying 😂😂💀

@jonathanfaber3291 4 года назад

6:22 I've never seen such an accurate visualisation of thinking real hard. Good job

@baconninja4481 4 года назад

7:54 So that’s what happens when birds meet their relatives for Christmas

@dylanthechillinvillain2488 4 года назад

Wow, these people are so cool, I think honestly they have to be one of my favorite groups of people to study. Also you brought up the Philippines!!!! AHHHHH!!! *Fanboying in the Corner*

@safe-keeper1042 4 года назад

I know, I thought the Vikings were brave, venturing into the Atlantic in open-hulled craft, but these people used freaking canoes. In the Pacific. The bravery. And the navigation skills of finding those tiny islands in such a vast ocean. I'm so glad EH did a series on these people.

@Madhattersinjeans 4 года назад

@@safe-keeper1042 They weren't exactly pressed by their neighbours to defend themelves every decade from foreign invaders like pretty much the entirety of Europe was Romans, Huns, Goths, Golden horde. Then there's all the years of war between the immediate neighbours. It was a crucible of fire Europe was forged in. Not for them the luxury of slowly breezing along the pacific to hunt fish and eat fruits.

@kindateia 4 года назад

I can't love these series enough. I was always interested in the topic, and now I finally can get to know more!

@death6777 4 года назад

Extra Credits: *Says Taiwan but points to Japan* Japanese People: *laughs in japanese imperialism*

@ethanhoule6996 4 года назад

Wait. That would meanTaiwan conquered japan.

@itsasecret2298 4 года назад

1:25 Ah yes, my favorite part of Taiwan, Japan.

@brayster0151 4 года назад

Overall, this is very interesting, way finding is a pretty cool technique, and I’m glad you guys do these series, Keep up the Great Work!

@eclipseasomejfk3596 4 года назад

I love these videos, thanks for continually making them even during quarantine!

@coachbubba5107 4 года назад

I have watched through the entirety of the Extra History, and so far this is one of my favorite series. Thank you.

@baracktillard8998 4 года назад

Thank you for making something about my mom's family history. love you all of you keep doing the good work

@brycevo 4 года назад

I'm really enjoying hearing this history being told widely through this platform. Maruru and Mahalo

@docsfan 4 года назад

Thank you for all you do! Helping your subscribers stay sane during the corona virus.

@varshithkrishna8706 4 года назад

You guys are incredible, not only do you do a good research but you put it in such language that anyone can understand it. I request you guys to make a series on the Mauryan Empire, it's gonna be a great series....

@portsnotalt 4 года назад

I love these guys, I think I’ve watched every video at least twice just because they’re good at telling history

@G3CK0GUY 4 года назад

I love this content and would be really excited to learn more about distinct regional cultures in the past.

@NoodleHouseGaming 4 года назад

I think these types of things are the most fascinating for me. All these methods for doing things we have tech for now. Shows just how intelligent we are as species.

@ericcp8757 4 года назад

This is an AWESOME series can't wait for more!

@Rhomega 4 года назад

Glad to see this series, as I've been fascinated with Oceania for years.

@napolien1310 4 года назад

1:27 I'm pretty sure that's japan, Taiwan the small one in the south right above the Philippines

@pedrogrande0889 4 года назад

This is a great channel and I love every video they do. I also hope you guys can do a video on either TF2 or value. Either way, I love what you guys do and you guys are great with educating people with great animation. This is the best education channel that does amazing animation. Keep on going!

@jamespwyll4587 4 года назад

Those old travellers were definitely more courageous than I'd ever be in their shoes 😅

@thetophatgentleman4634 4 года назад

It’s astounding that with little « modern » technology that the Austronesians discorvered more than the Europeans ever did.

@ShinigamiInuyasha777 4 года назад

Well, a lot of the exploring techology was first developed by arabs and chinese so...

@gufosufo337 4 года назад

Well the europeans did explore the entire world.

@oliverschoneck7750 4 года назад

@@gufosufo337 but we didnt discover much uninhabited habitable land.

@xXxSkyViperxXx 4 года назад

@Klaidi Rubiku playing tall vs playing wide early on...

@oliverschoneck7750 4 года назад

@Klaidi Rubiku Thats an opinion and not a fact so I wont answer that. Besides we were talking about discovery, not culture and technology.

@abcdef27669 4 года назад

“So, How Big is the Pacific Ocean?” “So Big that if you lost your keys, you will never find it again”.

@sayantanm2 4 года назад

Correction: "So big that if you lost your keys, even your mom will never find it for you"

@PalmelaHanderson 4 года назад

Fun fact: I dropped my keys into the Pacific coast of Thailand once, and they were actually returned. More fun fact: The Pacific is literally its own hemisphere. If you could dig a hole through the center of the Earth off the coast of Thailand or Vietnam, you would still come out in the Pacific off the western coast of South America.

@sogghartha 4 года назад

So, about as big as my room :P

@clar1nettist204 4 года назад

What about that boat full of rubber ducks that caused rubber ducks to float as far as eastern canada and western europe from the PACIFIC

@RavenTreasures 4 года назад

It is a wonderful day when I see a new vid from you thank you

@drewanderson2768 4 года назад

I get unreasonable happy when extra history uploads

@ondrab100 4 года назад

Love your videos! Keep them coming!

@alessandroturci6750 4 года назад

Wonderful! I can't wait for the next episode

@waynemackie3113 4 года назад

Due to the procession of the constellations there would have been changes to which star was actually Polaris at the time and Crux would also not have pointed to South

@BadWebDiver 6 месяцев назад

Incorrect. Polaris is always stationary at the north celestial.pole, and the southern cross rotates around the south celestial pole. You can always find north or south with them.

@Eramiserasmus 4 года назад

Wayfinding seems amazing. The specialization and memory skills needed were powerful.

@pointly 4 года назад

We read the wind and the sky, when the sun is high. We sail the lengths of the seas, on the ocean breeze. At night we name every star, we know where we are. We know who we are, who we are! Aue Aue!

@92Pyromaniac 4 года назад

Loving this series!

@AndreGarzia 4 года назад

My favourite topic! Thanks a lot!

@michaelbuzza2095 4 года назад

Love this series... keep it up

@AndrewGeierMelons 4 года назад

I love that you used the exact chicken from Moana as a low-key shoutout to Hawaii and the Disney movie about it

@mikshinee87 3 года назад

Such videos are perfect when you're on lock down.

@nelsondelgado6638 4 года назад

Absolutely fascinating!

@monthycristo 4 года назад

*My ancestors who found their way across the Pacific without maps and compasses* Me: " *doesn't know how to swim* " Ancestors: " *Shame* "

@paulguastavino3222 4 года назад

This series is amazing

@georgeluna5845 4 года назад

Great stuff. Having done several trans-pacific crossings, you appreciate all that liquid real estate.

@mortuideum 4 года назад

Thank you for taking the effort with the pronunciations

@nomadicmonkey3186 4 года назад

Crabclaw sail sounds incredibly badass by its name alone.

@LordBloodySoul 4 года назад

Wheee! I can't wait! These folks were the real deal when it came to Navigation :D

@lovelylove8207 2 года назад

I love the animations of extra history videos😂♥️

@unhumanized 4 года назад

This is amazing it's crazy how great they were at using star maps to travel all in their heads

@SidheKnight 4 года назад

I find the Austronesians and their navigational skills nothing short of _amazing_ .

@IanHsieh 4 года назад

1:28 "Taiwan" and then marked Japan.

@imjessietr29 4 года назад

No wonder they found a red gyrados

@Madhattersinjeans 4 года назад

Makes you wonder if maybe all the other things they talk about is just as accurately researched. Same issue with news articles. They can be utterly innaccurate on a thing you're a specialist in, but then people will continue to read the rest of the articles as if they're somehow more reliable.

@lio123mombach 4 года назад

Wow. Just wow!

@bl88-88 4 месяца назад

What's amazing is how we in modern society have continued to use the same astro-navigational techniques. For example, the SR-71 had a viewing window on the top of the plane to allow computerized navigation by the stars, even at speeds over mach 3. It is a deep indicator of the ingenuity of humanity that people were able to astro-navigate so long ago.

@Lord_Of_Beans 4 года назад

8:17 NEXT TIME? I can't wait until next time!

@seanowens6888 4 года назад

2:32 good gosh 🤣😂 it’s just “ welp too many people here... welp on the ship you go!! Bye bye of you find some land! 👋👋🤣😂😂

@nehalmahmudkhan1549 4 года назад

Oceanian culture is way more interesting than we realize. I hope it is clarified more frequently in the mainstream media

@Pratchettgaiman 4 года назад

So, uh, any particular reason you're using traditional Polynesian pronunciations/word for Hawaii and Rapa Nui, but not Aotearoa?

@theghostofspookwagen4715 4 года назад

Hawaii and Rapa Nui are their English names, or at least names that are as recognizable to English speakers as English names. Aotearoa is a Maori name, that's like him using "Nippon" instead of Japan whenever talking about the Japanese.

@bfure1 4 года назад

Trying to sound smart. Look up what Knowing Better says about calling it "Havaii"

@lucidnonsense942 4 года назад

@reaganwang1473 4 года назад

Yeah, it feels weird that a series focusing on the Polynesian side of things would choose the European way of saying it. Especially since New Zealand is a lame name and "The Land of the Long White Cloud" is a lot cooler.

@jonahtau6027 4 года назад

I think you meant Easter island and not Rapa Nui is it's English name. Hawaii n Rapa Nui is it's Polynesian names

@piratefangirl6802 3 года назад

I watch these videos so much I fell asleep to my Extra Credits playlist. (woke up on this one)

@argolake8623 4 года назад

Kind of reminds me of navigating when I used to do canoe camping in the Boundary Waters. I mean, I did keep my map at my feet the whole time and kept turning it to face the direction I was going - no memorization here. But things like landmarks, weather. I have an almost one-dimensional view of the shore, and I have to interpret the the slight curves and depth perception tricks to match it to the two-dimensional birds eye view map. And we did have many songs and mnemonic devices for how to canoe and how to be safe while camping.

@exploriasamsung 4 года назад

This topic is so interesting

@azazzelx 4 года назад

Necessity and being resourceful do make an impressive feats...over time...

@benjaminlefkowitz9463 4 года назад

Loving the episodes on south east Asia and Oceania- no one in America knows anything about these fascinating cultures

@user-hs5bo1mp3z 4 года назад

These pictures are so amazing! How do you animate these videos?

@novemberdawn8145 4 года назад

When you all said "Taiwan" at 1:27, the star went overtop of Japan. Oops. Still a great video, I love your guy's content!

@YourLocalDingo 4 года назад

Last time I was this early, Carthage was still winning.

@kerentan9446 4 года назад

nice! wish i had a memory like that... although i don't exactly live next to the pacific

@gre3nishsinx0Rgold4 4 года назад

This is astounding and really put together. But with small mistakes. Like how he said Taiwan but the star landed on Japan.

@Packless1 2 года назад

6:00 ...in the last episode was a Dune-reference...! 🤩 ...and this reminds me a bit to the spacetime-bending Guilde-Navigators with their Highliners...! 😁