The circle visible from space 

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At this point a video talking about it with a demonstration is in order :p

Tom Scott must have a lot of scheduled videos since his recent videos have comments way before it was posted.

*** evaporated off ***, unless the water is at 100 degrees behind you

Tom, I’d love to see you do a video on the eye of Africa!

I have to question why - that sounds like such an odd restriction

@@robburgess4556 Probably to protect biodiversity and avoid doing the same mistake Europeans did with cats, ferrets, rabbits and mices.

@@robburgess4556 Dogs (and cats) have brought a lot of New Zealand native species on the brink of extinction.

DOG IS NO NO

new zealand has no native large mammals or even predatory small ones, birds fill that ecological niche there so cats and dogs have a really easy time killing wildlife as the native species have no native predators at all similar and so have not evolved to be wary of them or defend against them.

Personally, I think if the statistics shows that a volcano normally erupt between 80-100 years, centuries back. And has done that repeatedly. It is very real to label it overdue when it goes over that. Because, that is how statistics work. It is like saying, "pregnancy can't be overdue, since the body and fetus does what it wants". But we tend to say it is overdue past 9 months or something similar, because statistics show, the normal rate tends to be around 8-9 months.

I mean you both are true, we'll just have to wait and watch

As a professional RU-vid commenter, Ok.

@@Helveteshit I'm not sure the analogy to pregnancy is quite appropriate. You wouldn't expect a pregnancy to last multiple years whereas a volcano suddenly deciding that it's not going to erupt again, despite previous activity, is not unheard of and doesn't indicate something is "wrong" like it would for a pregnancy that lasts far longer than normal. It's just doing what volcanoes do and we have insufficient data to understand what's going on. Volcanoes can enter into different phases of eruptive activity with seemingly no warning, whereas I've never heard of instances where mothers consistently give birth to fully developed, healthy, children after two months rather than nine. Without additional data, we don't actually know what the volcano is going to do. The reason it hasn't followed previous patterns may be because it is no longer being supplied with magma, or the rate of magma ascent has slowed, or there is a blockage somewhere in the conduit or some other reason specific to that volcano. Saying it is "overdue" is not generally good science communication as it implies things that aren't always true and can lead to unnecessary panic and in the worst cases, a distrust of experts. I've never won the lottery, but there's no reason to assume I will never win it because past patterns overwhelmingly show that I never win two times a week, every week. For the record I only play the lottery something like once every couple of years, definitely not twice a week, I'm just using it as an example of an event which happens often and has very consistent past results that are not an indication of future results.

"overdue" sounds a lot like the gambler's fallacy. That one certainly applies to volcanoes as well.

What is the problem with dogs in the car or with you walking around?

Any “strange” experiences? 🙏🏻

@@ironeddie9917 dogs arent allowed because they can harm the wildlife which is protected. just a law

Have you found any Korok Seeds at the top there? That is the same mountain as in Botw right?

@@tommytheshimigami I did notice a suspicious looking rock up there. Next time will lift it up and check...

Wouldn't surprise me, NZ is right on the fault line. Just need the right earthquake to set off a domino effect.

New Zealand already had an eruption in December 2019, so maybe

What could go wrong. -Volcano erupts -Releases a ton of cash damaging crops and killing humans -Aliens will come to colonize us

Krakatoa beat us to it back in April.

When Auckland is built on a chain of underground volcanos What could go wrong?

One can imagine.

There were 2 of them. And on each end of the string they attached a can to communicate because premodern humans didn't have cellphones.

How heavy would a string that long be, even if its just normal twine?

@@ChaseDimmitt 6 miles is about 9.66 km and using standard 1 mm twisted twine you can get about 1.02 km/kg. Using this we can find out that twine that long would be about 9.66/1.02 = 9.47 kg

You're A twiddler, A dreamer, A silly-heart, A jabber-box, who'll never amount to anything.

same, but i didn't look out the window the entire flight😂💀

I used to do it all the time AKL to WLG and never got sick of the view, it was just stunning. One of the things I miss about not living in NZ

West of the island is the south lane. North flight travel on the east

It when you want to signal that you are politically correct.

@@randomrud It when you want to signal that you hate women and minorities (epic style 😎)

*QUARKS N STUFF*

@@benjaminshepherd2988 I hate women (epic style 😎)

@@dielfonelletab8711 It when you're woke (epic style 😎)

Yes :)

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Yes :)

I'd watch that

Peter: "okay Andy, you can jump now."

Mount Dooms Revenge.

Its also Mt Fuji in the Last Samurai

Funny you say that, I live in this area. That town at 2:20 is Stratford, which is halfway between Hawera and New Plymouth. Not lonely and certainly not little.

how is a small village sad?

New Zealand and the world is over populated, there is a climate crisis, everybody stop exhaling and do not decompose when you are not alive.

My dude, you can't say how sad it is to have cleared out so much nature and then in the next breathe say it's sad to see small towns 🤣 But also it takes an hour to travel from one side of the region to the other on that side of the mountain. There are plenty of towns along that journey but if you want to reach a bigger place it's only 30mins in either direction. It's hardly the middle of nowhere.

@@Planefan1000 You need some perspective. I'm from Taranaki, but in 90% of the developed world considers a town that's barely 10,000 people as a little town. You're showing the taranaki small minded reputation the rest of NZ has for us.

because if it is currently erupting it would be called a news broadcast rather than a documentary ?

@@dennischen6127 Good point!

Better content.

If they're talking about it, then that's a good sign. It's the ones you *don't* see that get you...

narratives like tickiing bombs

how was the view?

I hope you enjoyed the view :)

are you on the plane yet

You made it back yet?

I guess your flight must have been delayed.

Bruh, Taupo is about 10000 times the magnitude, bigger than Yellowstone. Now that is a 2020 level threat!

Remind me again why do I live in NZ

New Zealand might die

RussianCoffeeClub you were born there

@@harpermacreedy4167 😂

gives a convenient scapegoat for the convenient destruction of the entire region nice and succinctly though!

Sam Deen It’s not permanent. Look at Mount St. Helens. A couple of decades later, the area had recovered.

Also people: Let's build a city closer to this volcano

Plant life recovers from volcanos and such remarkably well, especially since volcanic soil is extremely fertile. As long as the park boundries are kept in place after it goes off, the forest would be well on is way back up within the decade.

@TheAfrikaKorps The Earth will be fine. But we won't.

Ahhhh....chaos theory

I mean the universe won't end within your lifetime, this probably will :P

*except my bedroom, it will always be messy and will never change

@@maybeyourbaby6486 sssshhhhhhh, just enjoy the universe before the heat death of the universe happens

Literally describing the women I date.

I found your use of the term "open climb" odd and did a quick search to find out what it actually means. So, "open climb/descent" is apparently an Airbus specific terminology, meaning climbing in full thrust or descending in idle thrust to attain the next desired altitude. I assume you did not fly in an Airbus and simply hiked up the mountain. Peace

@@lovehand9531 huh tf

@@kunaldahiya310 spek engrish?

Ha i live there too 😂

@@lovehand9531 get help bro tf did I just read how is open climb odd and why did u make it sound so professional

It's Bk sPaCe IsN't ReAl!1!1

I'm sure there are flat earthers who think the earth is flat, but square-shaped.

to be fair a two-dimensional projection of a sphere will always be a circle so even a spherical earth will look like a circle from space (assuming you're far enough away to see all of it)

@@JaytleBee to be fair everything is 2-dimensional projection

stop with the flatearth people, they meme trolls trying to get attention.

To be fair, most volcanos in this country (New Zealand) are extinct

@@AstralPhnx What about Taupo?

Tornado alley .... “this sounds like a nice place to live, I hope the insurance rates are reasonable ....”

One reason is that volcanic soil is so good for agriculture.

@@dixiescents Taupo big boi

I hope Tom covers this. The Atlantis theory's about the place are really interesting.

Mauritania is a very scary place though.

eye of the sahara?

svahn They’d be more interesting if Atlantis existed

@@svahn1 More like flat earth grade nonsense, unless oceans were like 2 km deeper than today...

I did too haha.

Its the ufo from independence day 2 :-D

@@Lorem_the_Ipsum that movie sucked.

@@TheCaptainSplatter you are not only right, you are smart

Also the view out the kitchen window of my great-grandmother's house...

Ko Taranaki te Maunga

How recent did it become sacred?

@@grancitodos7318 Hundereds of years ago

@@fallenangel_899 I think that you have been brain washed and scammed.

Guess you never had a window seat... .

@@tip397 I’ve had dozens but I never look out . I fly maybe 30-50 times a year around nz for work. Looking out the window faded and I spent more time catching up on emails or advancing the next show

can i get a job? thanks in advance :)

One of the best National Parks in NZ. The drive up to the Southern entrance was so relaxing as you go through a narrow corridor surrounded by trees.

I've lived here all my life and I'm 16 and I knew about it like 3 years ago

it's not that complicated, you simply tie a rope around the volcano then walk around it, then you have a perfect circle

@@kevfromnorwichUKGGKev w h a t

@@TheGuyThatsNotFunny Rope & Directions to a local bridge do you ?

@RayRexDex bruh what

Marie Maye MENDOZA think of it like the difference between cutting out a circle on paper compared to something a lot thicker like card board for example they look the same from the top but it’s different on the side, people instead of calling it a disc say circle

Oakura beach is my favourite in NZ! Absolute gem

Ha, i live at Fort St George, just down the road. 🤣

It was amazing until it became a virtual rich white ghetto for European (especially British) expats. Not a friendly and welcoming place if you look like a typical rural Taranakian. Only place in the region other than rich New Plymouth neigbourhoods where i've seen countless people get the stink eye (looked down at)

@@dxfifa Thats why they built that "green school" there, so wealthy neo hippies could send their kids there😏 In the 90s and 2000s it was rich Americans that it was full of, because of the oil industry. Its not remotely the same place i lived in during the 80s. I moved down the coast, but already the land developers have caught up, multi million dollar houses going up everywhere, as its being promoted as "The" place to live. A real estate agent told us that during the AK lockdowns there were 20,000 Aucklanders looking to move down to Taranaki.......Kewl😏

If by 'park' you mean 'steaming pile of ash', then......meh

Legally it would, realistically they'd probably change the area of the park to maintain it as it is now. Not that it would matter in the aftermath of an eruption, who knows maybe they'd expand it since you'd have to make some sort of exclusion zone anyways.

No, it'll stay the way it is now. The circle has been drawn. Would be ridiculous to change it

@@hedgehog3180 last eruption wasn't much..

*6 miles in radius

oh so you really are a Kiwi?

@@outrighteight8205 Maybe not. Where I come from most refer to it as Mt Egmont.

@@zogzog1063 oh, learn something new everyday so you do

@@zogzog1063 yep, Mount Egmont, then Taranaki now they want another name, as a local I can't even pronounce. I live in the danger zone, Lepperton

me too

The ocean isn't that far away. On a good day you can see Taranaki from Wellington, on a fairly normal day you can see it from Ruapehu

@@ahsdfkdasdahdkas2887 I work on an American definition of a "good day" where you can't see more than a few miles from the top of a mountain even without clouds.

On a good day you can see all the way to Taranaki and the ocean beyond from Tongariro. Not being able to see it from Taranaki would be concerning (or you're on the wrong side of the mountain I guess).

oh hai mark, nice to see you here

Ready your camera for the next 50 years ples

Same

Oh hi. Me too.

same here

Same!

L F I just found it!

@John Citizen Didn’t trust its Tinder pro.

it's my home! so proud!

the eruption that made the crater was the 7th largest known eruption of all time, if it erupted at that scale again, most of the southern hemisphere would be inhospitable for at least a century

Fingers crossed 🤞

That volcano is capable of a global extinction event

It is insanely unlikely and "supervolcano" isn't very scientific

@@Dreuft "It is insanely unlikely and "supervolcano" isn't very scientific" It's happened before, several times. If the supervolcano Taupo blows again, as it has in the past (it is still active), it'll be all over for New Zealand, curtains for up to 80% of its population should they not evacuate (i.e leave the whole island.).

+1

Basically this is a nude pic

r/cursedcomments

niple

r/blursed

*earth's areola

every shot of him is enthralling, even when hes not talking

@@blueshirt1619 that made me laugh.

It's just an unexplored tile, gotta get a scout over there

Congratulations! The discovery of Mount Taranaki has increased 🙂 Happiness in the empire. Output if worked: 2 🍏 3 🙂

@@HampshireBrony Ha nice. Now I want to go play some Civ.

@@HampshireBrony*China forward settles right beside you and the mountain*

Gotta hurry up. We’re about to be taken out by Ghandi and his nukes

Cats are indeed more of a problem, but I don’t think their have been any recorded cases of day trippers or hikers taking their cats with them…

The vast majority - almost everything we see - has already changed, much of it millions of years ago. In fact, much of it probably isn't there any more.

@@paulhaynes8045 the sky is just like a big picture

The moon?

Shania definitely, loved the language files

All natural languages have been oral for most of their history

@@DrRiq Depends on how you define its history. If you look far enough back, then most languages become things like proto Germanic or proto Indo-European, but to what degree are you really looking at the same language? I would guess that Shania is more referring to the difference between languages that have maybe a century of written records versus languages that have not changed significantly in their many centuries of written tradition. I think it would be difficult to isolate the difference that makes, however, given that languages with such different written histories will also have so many unrelated differences.

I feel like that would be kinda impossible because like where do we mark the "birth" of a language? Like for example the Scandinavian languages could be said to have had writing for their entire history as they only diverged in the middle ages but I don't think it would make much sense to separate them from old Norse as they're not all that different. We also run into another problem here and that is that while writing was present in Scandinavia at this point it was Latin not any native language so like does that qualify as Danish, Norwegian and Swedish having writing or does that only start once we reach the reformation and books started being made in those languages? And continuing along here Old Norse actually did have it's own writing system which was written in Old Norse in the form of Runes but that system died out and was replaced by the Latin alphabet and this also complicates things. And what about the other languages that switched writing system? It probably would make more sense to ask what are the differences between languages that recently adopted writing systems and languages that have had them for like a few hundred years.

i want an overview of non-indoeuropean language history, in particular asian languages, in particular chinese korean and japanese, cause they have so much shared culture and all have used chinese's writing system, but i dont know the lay of the land linguistically speaking. anyhow know a good lil source for this?

its to conserve the native trees and animals, dogs paws can carry diseases which affects the wildlife

Damn as a Kiwi I wish it could be (mostly) back as native forest AND ALSO NEW ZEALAND ISN'T ONE ISLAND its 3 big ones and lots of small ones

We can if we all just stopped eating meat because majority of those farms are for animals and well, people like me aren't ready to give up our life of meat

@@fallenangel_899 Actually, they are dairy farms, providing the world with a source of quality protein.

@@KiwiHobbitful What I said is the same thing

Most of it is

Krakatoa says *Hi*

Mt. Toba : "Yo!"

Don't worry when Mt St Helens blows up it will be a fine swell day.

Never mind the possibility of a Taranaki cone collapse the real elephant in the room is the Taupo Caldera 170 km away. If that pops , the whole planet will know about it.

It's in New Zealand, bruh. Of course the ones who disagree are sheep. The ones who agree are sheep too. Everyone's sheep, and the circle was put there by a Balrog.

baahaahaahaa

A literal mountain of explosions.

You can certainly feel the layers when climbing it. There are nice, hard rock sections of lava and extremely slippery sections of ash.

"Blown away"; that's an unfortunate phrase to use when talking about a volcano!

Hi again

@Sonic The Egghog I love him 😂😂 I see him so much that I subscribed to him. I mean fair play for being everywhere, it's not easy. Also, he's not begging for likes or subscribers, so it's ok

I used to live on Von Tempsky Street. There's a name you'll no doubt get to know well then :)

To overly simplify the Land Wars; the colonial government and settlers wanted the land and sovereignty at the expense of the Maori, who wanted to stay where they were and live how they wanted, because this is *their* country after all. Again, this is overly simplified, since the Maori iwi were never united in a common goal. Some wanted to fight against the settlers, others allied to the government for a plethora of reasons including revenge on rival iwi, preferential trade and business, access to firearms... It's both a simple to understand series of conflicts, and a fiendishly complicated range of individual and group motivations.

I don't worry about it. At the end of the day, death is the same state as pre birth. Do you remember before you were born?

Google Earth has been around for a very long time now.

The loosest possible translation of the term "art imitating life"

Kaif Qais dub h

I've seen it exactly one (since I was in Hawera for one night). Yup - totally agree with ya, bro.