Maybe rich people should build weird fountains again 

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okay tom i think you forgot to take your meds

Yes Tom, it is happening already

Yea

Bro broke time

the Tom Scott Water Spot

one of us will definitely get rich very soon.

I would 2 now

Was thinking the same thing. Hopefully it happens to at least one Tom Scott viewer.

nice pfp ;)

Or "Schauspiel" (show/play) in the definition of "Spektakel" (spectacle).

these fountains are similarly called water games in french “jeux d’eau” so it might still have the same meaning in german, not sure though

'Spiel mit mir' is 'play with me', so I think it's 'playing with water'. Or, for a more cultural translation, 'cocking about with water'.

@@Skorpychan that would rather be "Wasserspielerei".

@@TheBoringEdward And thus, we see the problem with me trying to figure out German grammar from listening to Rammstein.

We need to bring this tradition back.

Yes, the German nobles who built those were very aware of that. After all, they were princes of the Holy Roman Empire.

@@lilporky8565 I agree, it is time to bully rich people into doing level 1000 community service

What do you mean "almost" always? Didn't the "Caesar family" control like 1/4 of the land in the Empire directly and gain massive revenues from that?

@@jokig because the collape of rome is what we want for modern society. you leftist freaks are half getting your way, and half supporting the very worst of conglomerates because they pretend to hoist rainbow flags. congrats you played yourself

You're right. But let's not be too kind to the uber-rich of the the 1700s. They didn't create this for everyone, they created it to impress the other uber rich, just like the Super-Yacht people do today. The only reason we still have this stuff today is eventually those families moved on, lost power, and maybe even the grounds fell into disrepair. Then eventually it was sold/donated to the government, who likely had to restore it. That's when us plebes finally got to enjoy what richie-rich created for himself 300 years ago. But you're right.... that ain't gonna happen with a Yacht build by a Russian oligarch, or Jeff Bezos. Those Yachts migt not be around in even 30 years, and zero chance of making it to 300.

Yes! And back in the late 1700's through to the mid to late 1800speople could tour the castles for for free when the family weren't there. So they really were open to the public. Od course the poorest didn't have the means to travel to see them, but everyone else could.

I think back in time rich people would make something that last a long time to mark history and make sure no one forget about them once they die (the real death) whereas nowadays people just wanna show off and live in the moment, just a theory of course

@@Alienwareofficial That's more a difference between old money and new money. New money does exactly what you're saying with showing off, and blowing huge amounts of money on dumb stuff like hundred million dollar yachts. Old money tends to keep old things and maintain them.

Yet Bezos makes a penis shaped rocket.......

It's a very loud rubber chicken noises!

i knew it was familiar!

To be fair they probably sounded more in tune 300 years ago

@@vectorgeist You are underestimating how meticulous Germany maintenance is.

@@altersami9660 they said in the video they replaced the pipes. Meaning the original pipes that may have been in tune are gone.

I won't rest until every single rich person has built a fountain!

YOU BUILD A FOUNTAIN! YOU TOO! BUILD THEM! MORE! *_MORE!_* MORE FOUNTAINS!

and a shrubbery!

mean more green spaces are always a benefit to the planet, but it also needs to be done ecological and as a boon to the area instead of causing more issues with the local biosphere

yes

It is also out of necessity. The water takes so much air with it that it might damage the pipes and valves so you have to get rid of it. So why not use it to make some music!

Can you explain how this is pure genius, how does the water keep flowing without electricité?

Water flows downhill, that's all the power it needs

Iam literally from kassel u know how happy iam ?

me too :D

Sience and architecture wise Germany is such an interesting country. i wasnt aware of that as a German. It also makes me very proud as a fellow German to see him being so interested in our country :)

@@Caysari Did you never hear the siren?

@@Happymali10 nah i always missed it

Vanity projects also create jobs

And they do help people- vanity projects might not be the best use of money, but large scale public works benefit everyone, not just the person who built them, and they can easily be made to confer that benefit over centuries, if not longer (honestly at by this point, few people would consider the Great Pyramid an overly extravagant headstone and waste of effort)

I strongly recommend the Sofia gardens in Uman, Ukraine. But not until this insane war has ended, of course.

Well it doesn't really protect nature, since all the "nature" you see is artificial. But in general it is good to bring people outside and if done correctly it can be new space for nature to settle, just don't use existing ecosystems, that would be destroyed in the process of building such gardens.

Check out "Schloss Ludwigsburg"

The Schloss Schwetzingen in germany had enough water pressure to power all their fountains and water features. They still brag about that to every Tourist.

Learn your lessons, France, hire German engineers.

Ah, Versailles. Teaching engineers what mistakes to not make for centuries.

Isn't this the same thing that this park is doing as well?

Optimizing the graphics 😄

Same! I knew water and gravity could coexist... I just couldn't find proof.

That's Great! Nothing more frustrating than disjointed memories

Happy for you. I have a disjointed memory mystery as well that I cannot remember or find out. Hope I get lucky like you.

That's an incredibly satisfying experience when you make a connection that you've been missing for years! 🤯

I am from Germany and have not even heard of this place before

@@Lucas-nw8bw Thanks for the advice :)

@@DamnZodiak Also: the Documenta 15 (a really big art exhibition across Kassel) just started so ti is definitely worth a visit!

@@mihklirir.5188 Thanks. I'm going in couple days, so this was just on time :)

@@DamnZodiak perfect! have a safe and fun trip! :)

"1-2 hours by train" Just be happy you have a train. I don't live within 1-2 hours of a train itself, let alone a cool ancient gravity fountain.

@@randomsoul294 step 1: donate to charity step 2: wait for the effects step 3: find out that the money is being embezzled or just not used at all

@@randomsoul294 I don't know how much truth there is to this, but I have heard that certain charities are actually maintaining a state of poverty.

Recipe for ultimate stonks: 1) Do not donate what you have to charity. 2) Use the money to build massive fountains and water games. 3) Have people pay a small (I do mean small) fee to see the water games. 4) Earn more money than you spent. 5) You may now donate to charity. STONKS!

@@sorrowandsufferin924 Biznis

@@jamescollins6085 Non profits use 95% for administrative salaries. Charities are just a way for the rich to get richer. The pelosi family runs the homeless charities in san francisco. They spend 42k per homeless person in the city. 95% of that is paid to her family and friends, 5% makes it to the homeless.

The more surprising thing is that modern technology fails to last longer than something made 300 years ago.

@@Zaire82 well modern tech isnt 300 yrs old as it is modern

@@ioh4425 That is true, but totally irrelevant. I hope you see how that doesn't matter without me having to explain it.

@@Zaire82 well it does matter cuz modern tech physically cant last longer than tech from 300 yrs ago as that tech was created 300 yrs ago and modern tech is in the last 10-20 yrs modern tech might be able to last 300 yrs but we dunno as its 20 yrs old

@@ioh4425 We do know. Architects design buildings with short lifespans intentionally. They also publish these lifespans for anyone to see and the buildings get demolished once they run out, otherwise they will become structurally unsound and put lives at risk. This is due to modern techniques using mostly concrete. It's cheap and water resistant, but it doesn't last long. Even reinforced concrete needs to be replaced eventually. Pipework in particular gets replaced quite frequently. That's why you can't go a month without coming across roadworks replacing them. Modern techniques are _made_ to be replaced unlike old technology that's made to last indefinitely.

The people who work on the yachts are paid professionals, you don't hire an idiot off the street to build something like that.

There are actually a lot of small trade businesses involved in the building and maintenance of luxury yachts/parts for said yachts

Yup!

@Anel Zukić It ain't just the rich who feel disconnected from their communities, and especially their place of birth.. there's very valid reasons to I'd say.

it was an entire city/country way of showing off, not just the rich

And now imagine encountering this in the post apocalypse, accidentally setting off that lever trying to find drinkable water, and shitting yourself as you summon every zombie and cannibal cult for five miles.

This has quite literally happened to me I was taken there by family not knowing what was in store.

@@JudgeEomer fresh water, but at what cost?xD

@@ellicerslavic Everything.

@@JudgeEomer I was also thinking the noise is very menacing. I think a horror movie could have that sound.

fr and severe common case of bland white "futuristic" look

@@hellothere9167 that's a problem I have with a lot of places - particularly modern architecture, where I live your house is brick red, white or grey. Future is looking real bright guys

@@mewblue3997 yes, bright but not colourful

The fountains close by here have been dry for years. They are considered a waste of water.

they've been a source of legionella outbreaks because the water that was stagnant in the pipes is distributed in a fine breathable mist over onlookers...

you can get an english speaking guided tour there nowadays! The most interesting fact for me was, that they hid the openings to the pipes during WW2. Because the nazis would have taken all the steel piping for manufacturing weapons.

dieses

@@Eyecosaeder und dann aus meiner Stadt. Ich dachte ich träume

dieses

Bin ich voll dafür

@@chaotus wenn ich voll bin, bin ich auch dafür 😉

Now, *that's* dedication.

It can only be reached via hovercraft.

That'll have to compete with my project once I build a zero-gravity indoor waterpark containing a diving gondola that runs sideways and a poison garden covered in tires that you can hit with a hammer, located inside a tiny skyscraper surrounded by a chainmail box, that can be accessed by riding a couch down a musical road that's beneath an active gun range, on a national border.

@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Aha, but does yours include a carousel that tests public toll roads without speed limits that you can fire a gun over?

@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 but the more important question is: does it have to legally wobble?

Towns and villages die when there is no longer a draw to be there. Random and cool things like this can be exactly what they need.

also tourism costs and the fact that the work making it was all paid labour. All money spent in any capacity is money recirculated, irrelevant of how it is spent. The only time money unfairly flows one way is for high profit margin products like Apple devices. I mean, they sold a pair of wheels for 600 freedom eagles, meanwhile Xiaomi takes a sub 20 dollar profit margin per phone. Economics is mostly a game of information asymmetry when it comes to people making lots of money, consumers don't weigh all the options equally, so they buy more expensive things that have a higher profit margin, that profit margin reaches the CEO's pocket. Even things like investments are going to other companies and paying for salaries, upgrading the tech for the people who work there, etc.

It also has the effect of infusing all the nearby properties with value, because who doesn't want to live within walking/biking distance of the cool gravity fountain?

Hey i am from the city this video is in and you can actually see the statue from almost every part in our city and it is a symbol of it as well. it definitly makes our city interresting but we have a lot of other interresting art and are a city of 200k pople

Also, people got paid for building all this! People were paid for the pipes and mechanisms and others are still paid to mainting everything. It won't help people in poorer regions of the world, but at least it's going back into the economy instead of being hoarded up by a dragon

immediately supporting it with all my life savings

Replace Herkules with Tom Scott you say?

Make the Tom Scott statue itself spray out water.

@@hchskxnbcj is there a difference?

@@ZNotFound from where?

Tourism causes people to move around, we're trying to reduce transportation not increase it.

We even had Brad Pitt here 10 years ago for the documenta :)

Seems like I should use my 9€ ticket and visit Kassel this month.

@@ninamarie177 good plan, I might do the same.

On the other hand, if you go there during documenta, the crowds around the features might be so large that you won't be able to see much.

@@Nooticus What happens if your bucket arrives sooner than 5 years? 😶

Das stimmt

Yep. "spiel ein Spiel' - 'Play a game'

"Water toy"? It is a big boys' toy.

I agree on that but personally I never thought about "play". I always thought the -spiele in "Wasserspiele" comes from "Spielerei" which translates to gimmick/ shenanigans/ gadget.

The English website for the Bergpark uses the translation "water features".

Don't forget the rose gardens where in spring time you can smell the roses, and often times marihuana too.

Do not take previous generations as incompetent. People made Egyptian pyramids thousands of years ago. Just because technology and knowledge is lost doesn't mean they didn't exist. So the more surprising thing really is that it *lasted* so long and functioning, not that it was made

Or the fact that its still working after 300 years?

its in kasel btw

IQ has been dropping the last 120 years so id be impressed how smarter engineers were back then

Research the Old World internet friend You’ll be surprised Start with the The World Fair 1800-1900 Structures that couldn’t be made today made by people in carriages (?)

That is explained in the video. It is filled during winter and spring, by snow and rain. Once the water has reached the bottom it is not pumped back up.

Google is your friend! ;)

Actually there isn't so much to see. I live about 100 meters away from the Bergpark where this is located. The Reservoir in the Videos is one of the few parts of the "inner working" Parts that anyone can see. Most of pipes are just buried and the valves are in simple holes in the ground. And because of the the planers wanted to make it seem like the Park is even bigger than it is, there are only a few sightlines an getting a feel for the scale of everything is even in person hard. In a museum are some Diagrams and maps, but even with those and growing up here it is really hard to wrap your head around what is where in relation to each other. As far as pressure build up ist concerned well the Reservoir for the fountain is about 60m higher than the "Fontänenteich"( The Fountain lake) hidden in the forest about 1 Km up the hill.

And it uses valves as "pressure capacitors".

I bet it would be illegal, probably not even possible to get a zoning license for something like this

It's not wealth barring it, but politics. You need city permits for it.

Send it to Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk, so that that instead of throwing away their money by travelling into space, they build something nice like this. ;)

@@Anderkent why would that be illegal and where? Doesn't make any sense

@@n1ppe because you can't just steal *all* the water from some river

Heck I'm even down to buy your currently non existent merch right now!

There are dozens of (looks at bank account) _them_

dont worry bro imma do it

Naw. They're taking their backup super-yachts to Cannes.

Maybe Jeff bezos will build a massive dildo shaped fountain. Continue the theme.

I am too and I didn't know about the horns...

​@@Rianolca Me neither :)

Yep! Been there.

Russian here - can confirm

I've visited the Peterhof water features, they're fantastic and are indeed gravity powered.

Gonna make a road trip this weekend to visit Peterhoff. The fountains there are powered all season long since the water is gravity fed from a lake high above the park. So they don't need reservoirs.

I was in St. Petersburg 2 years ago but didn't go to the fountains, dammit

The Luxor exists, what's your point?

Uhh we're forgetting about the Bass Pro Shops Pyramid in Memphis Tennessee

Honestly though, if I was Jeff Bezos, I would totally go and have a Pyramid built somewhere out in the desert as my tomb. You could even hire a bunch of archeologists: wanna try and find out how the Egyptians did it? Try it yourself! And then you have a monument to hopefully last the ages as well

@@shacuras8201 they actually were not burials chambers but energy devices similar to how the real tesla built wardencliff tower to transmit energy before jp Morgan destroyed it.

@@Jim26D nice troll, tinfoil hats off to you sir

Also, sometimes barock bands play music there in den pavillon. It's quite magical indeed.

It hurts my soul that there isn't more sites like this everywhere. A perfect blend of man's genius and nature's beauty. Aesthetically, western countries have regressed badly since the 1800/1900s.

I think sokin really likes you

Ha, dam, I see what you did there

Not only that it was different project from each generation becoming 1 and complete the water game that finally finish in the last part

If you like old fountains, Villa d’Este in Tivoli, just outside Rome, has some that are even older (400+ years). Highly recommend!

some old time rich volk had to get something to stay happy

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Somewhat agreed. You have to be very careful with water because water has to come from somewhere and go somewhere. A water feature not well designed becomes a stagnant sewer or a horrific waste. Both can cause serious damage to the environment.

@@latrodectusmactans7592 Very true; fair points.

ehh, generally speaking it's ecologically best to leave water alone. Every gallon of water that passes through here is a gallon being drained from a lake upriver. Every metre of pipework in this structure used to be a metre of riverbed.

Climate change isn't real

@@lucasrobin2788 Maybe in the desert. Even there, reclamation projects are refilling aquifers. There's no water shortage in Germany right now.

I love how they are actually just named "Beleuchtete Wasserspiele", not some fancy made-up title... just what it is

I am here. Just visited the park today. 😂

I just read that from 29.09 - 01.10 the Bergpark will have a new kind of event this year! They will turn the park into a illuminated dreamland, they say.

im shocked too

Göttinger hier 😂 Hallo Nachbar

Kassel gang :P

This is absolutely surreal so see pop up in my recommendations and realize "this is my hometown"

There is a giant harry potter castle in the park which has been renovated for the last 5-10 years

Now imagine they illuminate them colorful at night. Which is what they do at this place. You should check out pictures of it

@@user-kx7ls8ds9j Honestly, I don't care for light effects in fountains. I know it takes time, effort and skill to add them properly. And I can appreciate the work that goes into integrating light shows into fountains. But for me personally it is all about what you can do with the water. I don't have issue with things like computer controlled fountains, but that tends to be hidden. Oh and I bet you are correct I bet it can look great. But for me I would look at it once and go "nifty" and never care about it again. I am of the same opinion on things like the Eiffel Tower. The light shows they have there are the definition of kitsch to me. That tower is glorious in its own right. (not to mention some outright uptight assholery when it comes to copyrights of those)

@@whyjnot420 oh well Interpreted the “magical” not as you meant then. Plus, the lighting is more around the bridges and not necessarily the fountains. Still, water flowing of course. But I liked it because of the mix of nature and old architecture in special lighting. Guess it offers more for different people

@@user-kx7ls8ds9j Think in terms of someone from the countryside coming into classical rome and seeing rather elaborate fountains everywhere. That is all the magic I need. Go to far and it turns into wannabe Disney.

What makes you think rich people are not still doing those things?

@@edenassos That’s a fair point, totally an assumption on my part. Confirmation bias possibly. Thanks for helping me reframe my thoughts

@@edenassos because they're not.

@@Unknown_Genius we could always use more museums and especially libraries, and boost funding for the ones we already have. They don't all have to be grand like the Met in NYC.

People back then had a spine and showed gratitude towards important persons. Scientists, philosopher, inventors were the rockstar of that era. ✌️ But now it's all messes up. Just consider yourself lucky that Elite classes are not straight up reducing human population. 😆

Today, a lot of art is publically funded, which seems much more fair and democratic than leaving the commissioning of art to rich people.

when lived in massachusits thaere was a bunch artwork including this golfball machine that was featured in a mathbook and was tore down in the 0s when another rich guy baught the building , tore down all the artwork.

@@Friek555 The majority of the publicly funded art I've seen is rather pathetic or even ugly compared to the private patronage of Renaissance Italy, Germany, and France. "Democratic" is a nice sounding buzzword, but what we really want is good art.

@@Friek555 I'd like to make a counterpoint though (and I'm simply playing devil's advocate here) -- rich people commissioning stuff like this do it to make something they like, and there's often more authenticity behind it, vs publicly funded artworks being designed and approved by committee which can be a bit soulless and results in works everyone can tolerate but that no one _loves._

@@Woodside235 Why would a committee actually design the artwork? And why would only commissioned art be worthwhile, not artworks created by an artist and sold to a public museum instead of a private collector? Are the works displayed in a commercial art gallery all more loved and authentic than those in a modern exhibition of an art museum? Why would the artists receiving a grant from a public foundation pour less of their love into their works than the 'artists' using an open-source algorithm fed with portraits of some old noblemen to print out trash sold at Christie's?

They do invest but that's just it, for them it is an investment for the money, not the art, not for the public, not even for vanity.