How an Earthquake in Japan Made Days 1.8 Microseconds Shorter 

*China:* makes a dam that makes earth rotate 0.00000006 seconds slower *Japan:* hold my time

One minute into the video and we have a philosopher, a clothing store, a shitty EDM act, and earthquakes tied together. This is peak quality right here.

Fun fact: In 2000 years, clocks will be misaligned by 1 second due to this.

Japanese Train Conductors during that day : We are terribly sorry for being late.

This guy is vey knowledgeable. He should start a channel called Wendower Production

People trying to get the ps5 understand the struggle at Kohl’s.

Fun fact : it also caused the meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear power plant that cost over $500 billion .

The earthquake also made people’s life shorter

I can’t lie, that Coldplay joke genuinely made me laugh, you finally did it, a joke connected woo!

Fun fact: The Tohoku Earthquake was the first earthquake to be recorded on a seismograph from a satellite orbiting Earth. Yes, this earthquake was so big it was literally seen from space.

You sound alot like that Wendover-guy, but i'd say hes about twice as interesting as you...

Covid-19 : Let me decrease the life expectancy even further

HAI 2020 - "I paid for all the stock footage, so I am going to use all of the stock footage. Including this bear."

LMFAO: SHAKE THAT Earth: *everyday I´m shufflin*

Inaccuracy: The great jokes box didn’t have great jokes in it

Vsauce talked about this in his video "What If Everyone JUMPED At Once?"

Missed opportunity to go from Christopher Columbus to Magellan TV

"The torque needed for a desired angular acceleration about a rotational axis" Me : wtf is that nasa stuff mean? "how hard is it to make a round thingy go spin" Me : "yes, i do luv siense"

I remember that day when Japan hot hit with that massive earthquake. I was in the Philippines working on a Japanese company. One boring afternoon, we suddenly found out that we completely lost any contact on our Japanese counterparts. The servers were offline and no emails were being sent. Then I heard news from those who were insode video conference rooms that before the vid feed got cut, they saw their Japanese bosses were running out of their video conference rooms. For one afternoon, Japan seemed to just disappear.

Bruh when Sam told us to put all the jokes in a box I legit felt like when that cool teacher finally has to tell the class to settle down, and they say it with less of a smile than they did last time.

Why is this channel so weird but so interesting at the same time

The Japanese even had to be early for time itself.

This narrator needs to write a sitcom, his one liners are better than anything on tv right now

Correctly pronounced “Daylight Saving Time” but on screen as “Daylight Savings Time”. Looking out for that in the next error correction video…

15000 people died: Lol, party rock anthem

China: I am going to increase the an earth day by nanoseconds Japan: Not on my watch

Damn, he really put a shameless plug to his Columbus video

Sam is a like a low-key Internet Historian on the HAI channel, except it's real events instead of memes.

the chaotic segues not even a minute in is why this channel is a delight

A Turtle approved.

HAI scripts are actually quite clever and interesting.

3:24 bottom left “Don’t open that box” said Sam.

The Death Star reference was peak

Hey Sam, next time do "Why does Disney World technically have a local government" and search up Reedy Creek Improvement district for that

Guess it's time for a new calendar that skips leap year every 172800000 years

I get the feeling this video was supposed to come out a month and a half ago

Your jokes were on point with this video. Came for the topic, stayed for the jokes.

How did you explain moment of rotational inertia better than my physics professor ever has?

you say to enjoy a terrible holiday right now, yet tomorrow is Thanksgiving.

I think you should use the joke box for the entirety of the video ngl

Ah, so this is how life expectancies increase

I first learned this fact from Vsauce actually

On the bright side it made 2020 657 micro seconds shorter

I’m too high for this. Much love, your friends at Rev Media!!

Great job! One of the best videos you've made in a while. Made me laugh

That time khols cash joke was far funnier than I could of expected

Wasn't this the same earthquake that destroyed the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan?

First Half as Interesting video in a few years and man you make a lot of jokes now.

Did not know Christopher Street day was called like that because of Columbus

My panicking ass just got another reason to be worried

i was very disappointed when i found out that "Moment of Inertia" isn't a real Coldplay album.

Next video: How can a tsunami can move a land

“I’ll never forgive the Japanese!”

I wanna state to all people that are interested if that is a good or bad thing. Its actually pretty need, because the earths rotation slows down over time, so a little boost could make us live on this planet for approximately 100Years longer

Great video, maybe my favorite you've made all year

honestly man I come here for the educational content but I stay for the banter

The reason bears rub up against trees is to try to reverse the wobble

Japan earthquake: I made the day 1.8 microseconds shorter. Coronavirus: I made the whole year shorter.

@2:54 yeah it tilted the axis.. thats why the seasons are off in the midwest and the ice cap It was like a raccon ball inside of a bigger less massive ball moving it around

1.8 milliseconds is a really fancy way of saying “nothing”

But the GPS system is unaffected, thereby causing navigation errors. Just the other week, I asked my phone to direct me to the Four Seasons Hotel, but I ended up at a landscaping company.

the fact that the actual info content in decreasing day by day is kinda infuriating me xD

How sad there is another earth quake hiting japan just now

that's 1.8 micro seconds I will not get back.

Wait, I just realized he’s advertising a new streaming service On RU-vid

Subtracting 1.8 microseconds from the length of a day is a 0.00000002% change. Put another way, two percent of a percent of a percent of a percent of a percent.

This video is funnier than most stand-up comedy videos.

Thx for helping me understand the meaning of the earth rotating "on it's axis". You explained it better than I've heard. I've always been confused about that.

1.8 micro seconds is the amount of time i spend in a test before i give up

I thought humanity had moved on from Party Rock Anthem, but there you go bringing it back up.

Good thing that that bear cares about the earth quake

"It can fluctuate by three point zero eight milliseconds" but you put 0.34 milliseconds, which is as long as it took for me to try to think of a joke about milliseconds and gave up.

"I'll never forgive the Japanese! "

0:21 I made that Awesome Face image! :D

1 day is now 23 hours 59 minutes 59 seconds 999 milliseconds and 982 microseconds long

That figure skater was a weapon

1.8 microseconds, or the time it took for both NVIDIA and AMD's GPUs to go out of stock.

Fun fact: Ontario is considering getting rid of Daylight Savings Time.

These videos have the same length: This one, the last one, the one 9 videos ago, almost the one 22 ago, the one 26 ago, 27 ago, almost the one 30 ago and 38 ago and then I got bored and stopped counting

I didn't care about nebula to be honest until I heard Tom scott

Dude puts all his jokes in a box and then does this 3:18 😂

So an Earthquake in Japan made days shorter, and China built a dam that makes days longer. Classic East Asian competition.

Seriously HAI had answered so many geophysics questions I start to question the IQ of anyone who can't answer this question before watching this.

Ah yes thanks Japan, for making my hell time slightly shorter...

aw man now I have to redesign my daily planer now. (yes its down to the millisecond)

Either the graphic about the fugue axis was misleading or you got the measure wrong. The graphic showed the figure axis as an inclined red line in respect to the rotational axis (white), but you stated that it shifted of few inches away: the only way make sense to speak about the distance between two lines if is they are parallels, otherwise the distance is ever changing and they met in point. The graphic seems to suggest they met at the centre. Well i suppose in tridimensional space the lines could not intersect at all and still not be parallel to each other, but the distance between them will still be no costant.

So I can use this earthquake as an excuse as to why I was late to my online class

HAI: The Earth isn't a perfect circle. Flat-earthers: Finally; someone who gets it!

I mean it should be a compliment for the wendover guy, but saying that the content is on if not beyond the quality I see from public television that costs billions (Germany: approx 9 billion/a) is more a slap in the face for those guys. 20 wendover guys and my whole informational need would be set.

Even in 2020 Japan still an an effect on all of us.

that was the wildest intro yet

so THATS why my sleep schedule is so fucked up nowadays. makes sense

Moment of Inertia - How hard is it to make a round thingy go spin.

everyone: Japan why did you make the earth wobble? Japan: IT WAS THE EARTHQUAKE NOT MEEEEEE

Everybody ever having to come up with an example to show how rotation works: How about a figure skater? That's original, nobody has ever used that before me , right?

Oh, so this is why people in 2100 can live much older than people in 2020, by shortening the days

I'm happy about the stock footage joke.

Not sure if the Columbus thing was supposed to be a joke or a very serious stab

Me and the bois time travelling by jumping and making an earthquake.

Dangit Sam! It's Daylight Saving Time and not Savings. You said it right but displayed it wrong.