Wheels, Bombs, and Perpetual Motion Machines 

I found the 'Life' and 'Bubble' videos pretty unsettling.

nice

halloween moods from tom scott

“Things you might not want to know: Maraschino cherries get their bright red color from a crushed beetle”

XaleManix where was dat

And the glove snap after that😂

I don't fah'kin know if this is a joke or something

Hurdurhurdurhurdr

Makes sense.

Nah, it was a power cut because the machine couldn't power the city ;)

@Opecuted ah yes the classic K.S.W.A.V.C.H.S.O.E. fools them everytime

@@System-ru5yt What's the classic K.S.W.A.V.S.C.H.S.O.E that fools them everytime?

@@debarshidas8072 you know... the K.S.W.A.V.C.H.S.O.E. Everybody knows about it

@@debarshidas8072 Check it out, this dude doesn't know what a K.S.W.A.V.S.C.H.S.O.E. is.

Ok, I'm an idiot. I only see it now.

Michael Jenkins So incredibly smooth of him too

He is British but just spent so much time in america his accent changed.

Good catch!

Came here to check if someone else also noticed it.

The fact he pronounced them both differently shows it was intentional. His accent hasn't changed.

By the gods... all that free power they are sitting on :D

You mean in the sense of "if we put them into the furnace, we can heat the building for a couple of weeks without buying coal"?

@Xevix 291 So there's this thing called sarcasm...

@@jayp.7197 okay well tbf i speak fluent sarcasm and i couldn't tell it was sarcasm, than again i am a dumbass so

@@aromanticfranziskavonkarmais that sarcasm

Both perpetual motion machines and future travelling time machines are quite possible. If fact very quickly moving perpetual motion machine would be a time machine. Now the whole getting back to this point in time, that is just silly.

@@colorado841 r/WoOooSh

Found your perpetual motion machine while testing my space ship... It was rotating a few hundred thousend kilometers from earth.. good thing that its magnetic brake is still working. Nice design... my theory is that the earth moved a little bit since you lost it. Let's meet in 30 years at the front gates of Atlantis at noon.. i want to test this black hole event horizont time travel thing anyway. I be there in 2 hours.

It should turn up someday.

@@colorado841 time machine is not possible

...wait, so is the word "bomb" ITSELF actually banned from airports? That's... stupid, pointless, and bizarre. Not a surprise, in retrospect.

it's not banned but don't be surprised if you're 'randomly selected' for a check after you say it

Last person I imagined seeing here...

Cody'sLab Why have nukes when you have a perpetual motion machine?

than*

Simpsons is amazing

Hallam Crafer I was looking for this comment in the comments. The comments did not dissapoint.

You can't force me to obey!

@@sophiacristina *proceeds to make a bomb*

@@lnefty "Did you say a bomb, Obama, or Osama?..." _"BILL CLINTON"_

Howdy, folks!

Tom Scott ok

Hello!

The Royal Institution how you doin' m8

I love they way you said "You've got a bomb!"

Ooooooooh. Smooth segue. No unnecessary bias towards a particular party. I like this burn.

HEYO

damn

The vacuum is cleverly hidden, either inside their skull or where their heart should be.

@@valinhorn42 oooh! Burn!

It's an older reference sir, but it checks out.

what reference is that?

Correction, he dissembled an alarm clock so it would look like a bomb and took it to school

MP Inc I feel like its important to note that while his family came from Sudan, the kid in question was born and raised in suburban Dallas

MP Inc 1. Sudan isnt a part of the Middle East unless you're going with some very generous (and very recent) definitions. 2. Just stating his family's heritage (or misstating it) isn't a neutral act. (seriously though I feel like you may be using "Middle Eastern" as a synonym for "Muslim" which is incorrect on many levels)

You've hit upon one of the key things that most perpetual motion inventors and supporters ignore: Newtonian physics, particularly the equal and opposite reactions. In order to draw any energy out of the device, you inescapably end up placing a braking force upon it. And with real-world bearings, and in a planetary atmosphere, both the environment and the machine's own internal friction will also supply a small reaction force against its continued movement (...essentially, extracting energy from it in the form of heat and air turbulence).

@Fester Blats Calm down, smartass. Why the hell do you think a second-grade kid like OP was a physic expert all a sudden? At least they aware later on. The real ignorant is you, assuming all young, dumb, inexperienced children having a mind of a physic professor.

@Anifco67 Scientific proofs are always up for being challenged though, that's kind of the core tenet of science. Blind belief is more within the realm of religion. Let kids play around with the idea to figure out why it doesn't work instead of calling them ignorant morons for not just thinking "well this book says it is that way, guess that settles it". They learn more that way.

@Gabriel Howell i mean yes and no. Thats why we call them proofs. If you can proove (and do so correctly) that something is impossible then you can be right. Saying out of your own emotion it is impossible isnt really the same thing. For example perpetual motion machines that also lets you GAIN energy is and always will be impossible. If ever we do get a perpetual motion machine it would be able to simply power itself....that being said on earth, we can never get 100% efficiency because of friction. So they will always stop

My perpetual motion machine was a dam that used a siphon to bring the water back up.

4 years later: TYMNK is a left bar, Amazing Places is a triangle in the top left, and Built for Science is bottom left triangle. Everything else is either no shape or a mistake

Totally agree!

amogus

Fyuocuk

its full of midwits lmao

call them "instant pots" and they'll sell like hotcakes. And really, they work.

@@tsm688 super convenient

One of the reasons I love watching Tom's videos. He's bilingual ;-)

gejyspa He, so far as I know, only speaks English. He's not bilingual. He's bidialectic.

PintoRagazzo He only speaks English, but he has a degree in Linguistics.

2:18 for those looking for the timestamp

@@PintoRagazzo Traditional English and Simplified English should be considered different languages.

SpektralJo 30% of US population believes in the creation story of adam and eve rather than in evolution…

where did you get that statistic?

I guess it's impossible to really say accurately. A lot of the sources that I have looked at are not credible on their own (huffingtonpost, washingtonpost, wiki (that old chestnut)). However, the main reported numbers I found were over 30%.

then cite the source

+Brandon Hall I dont know if 1028 is a large enough sample size

You're tearing me apart.... Lisa.

Was looking for this!

We do what we must because we can

For the good of all of us

Except the ones who are dead.

The Forge Master Now there’s no sense crying over every mistake.

You just keep on trying 'till you run out of cake!

ASeriesOfSymbols Well i was ironic but thanks for the info :D

Fair enough. I hope you have a good day!

ASeriesOfSymbols Thanks! You too! :)

***** bombs are cool too

Yes. The results will blow your socks (and hands) off! To smithereens!

I'm not remotely qualified for that! Those folks don't just report the discoveries of others: they're great researchers themselves, as well as being lecturers. I mostly just report on what other people do!

Didn't know you had a shy part Tom

Tom Scott "I'm not remotely qualified for that!” Well certainly not with that attitude...

***** Yes, i did think that, Tom but didn't want to say it haha. It would just be a lot of fun i think.

THORIUM Solar Roadways!

Imagine the number of Jobs they would create... Having people scrub them clean all day long... 80% of america could work in road-cleaning. 100% employment FTW!!!!

...until those jobs are all taken over by road-cleaning robots.

lmpeters dey tookr jerbs!

lmpeters Solar frikkin' roombas?

Is not EM drive a bit like a perpetual motion machine? What I can see shall it shall be able to output more energy in one direction than it does in the opposite direction, I have to admit that I am uneducated and not very logical, but I can not understand how that would work without changing physics as we know it.

No, the EM drive takes energy and converts it into motion, without moving any matter around. There's no free energy, but it still shouldn't be possible with current physics.

Jim Engström as I understood it, it is not so much a perpetual machine but a machine that could propulse itself. The problem is that there somehow difficulties to prove if it does really work, due to the fact that the propulsion created is really tiny.

+Jim Engström You are right in not understanding the EM drive without changing physics. The thing about EM drive is that unlike perpetual motion machines, one of these has been built by a team of NASA engineers in a controlled, scientific environment and measurements do suggest that it exerts a tiny but significant force. That's what all the fuzz is about, if the experiment were to pass through a thorough process of peer review and be reproduced, it would mean a massive breakthrough in our understanding of physics and the rewriting of some statements that are still believed to be laws of physics. Therefore the scientific community is VERY skeptical of the whole thing, but it has not been debunked. Yet. As with the recent claim that neutrinos were measured to be traveling faster that light (which could be traced to a tiny error in cabling) an outrageous claim like this will have to go through stupendous amounts of investigation before even getting close to being accepted. (on a completely different note: I just realized how many synonyms for "really big" I've learned recently by following U.S. politics)

There is a really good video by Thunderf00t on this, worth a watch.

I wonder if this will start a turf war between them.. ;)

Firstname Lastname Brady should do a spin-off podcast with Tom like Grey has done with Myke.

T mobile add moment

Being used for demonstrations like this is its purpose. Might as well not have it if you can't. But they want the minimum damage given what it needs to do. Makes sense to me.

@PolySaken Explain

@@pietrotettamanti7239 It is a rubber, not a plastic.

Moisture is what kills wood. I doubt that the latex actually does more harm than the water. But, I think it probably comes down to stuff like fingernail scratches and mustard stains. Latex might be more harmful than skin, but it's way more consistent than hands.

It still won't work regardless

If memory serves didn't the Soviets plunder some of the stone from those tombs to make cobblestones?

Rhetorically, neither would they have evolved Brains to Imagine Perpetual Motion.

The trick is you do it really fast so all the electricity stays in the wire ;p

palpatine moment

Would love to read that, any chance you remember the title or author?

@@steronoknex3827 I do actually, it was "Into the looking glass" by John Ringo. Although this was a very small part of that book. It was in the epilogue of this book that they discovered it, it was in the next one in the series that they made a bigger deal about it

I agree. This is one of the highest quality content channels on RU-vid as far as I know.

Did one of them involve shining a torch on a solar panel which then powered the torch?

it does kind of. If these things exist, they should be blowing up like bombs.

@@tsm688 If such a machine could exist, but didn't, no bomb. If such a machine did exist, it could be set up in such a way to be a bomb, but if no such machine has been set up that way - again, no bomb.

And yet that still does not stop people...

You just caused the How-I-Met-Your-Mother shattering noise of realizing a thing about someone which is obvious when you know it but never realized. Only in this instance it is awesome! Really looks great, thanks for pointing that out to me^^

They just came in the past few years, but it really emphasises his intellect somehow. I think that is hardwired in my brain. Also: You are welcome :)

It just seems that way :D

If you guys haven't already seen it, the channel, Kurzgesagt - In a Nut Shell, had a beautifully animated video on CRISPR. Do check it out if you haven't! Tadaa -> /watch?v=jAhjPd4uNFY

What flavour? I always liked prawn cocktail as a kid but now I'm more into ready salted.

As i'm sure you found out in reality it just loses power. However, if it could theoretically generate more power than it used by feeding back into itself it could reach a point where it was no longer safe to shut it off without causing an explosion from the excess energy.

@@hamsterfromabove8905 or ideally it would have plugs and other ports to plug devices into. But as we are told gaining more energy from the same energy doesn't work.

@@kairon156 But using other devices just pushes the problem down one level. The other devices would now have to worry about too much energy. No matter what you do with it, making more energy than is being used will result in unsafe conditions.

@@hamsterfromabove8905 hum... I guess that's why the word discharge is used a lot when people talk about safety features. Mainly it's talking about gas or liquids under pressure needing a discharge valve. for our self powered extension cord we would need a device made simply to waste energy before there's an overlade.

@@kairon156 But where would that waste energy go? Discharged waste energy doesn't "disappear". It gets converted into a harmless form. However, too much of anything is harmful. That's the biggest problem with an infinite energy source. You will eventually (with enough time) fill anything you try to put that energy in. Even if you just release the energy into the sky, you will one day damage the atmosphere. Even if you put the energy into space, one day in millions or billions of years you'll make your solar system uninhabitable. Creating theoretically infinite amounts of literally anything is inherently unsafe.

But then it's not a perpetual motion machine.

@@XtremiTeez that's what the phrase means, you can't build a machine of that kind

@@aratof18 yes, you can. You just can't use batteries,

@@XtremiTeez no, you can't, a perpetual motion machine is physicially impossible in our universe

attach a quite powerful magnet on it and get infinite energy

"Cats are inherently clean creatures. Given enough time they'll lick up all the butter from the toast." - Alan Moore

Unlisted videos don't show on feeds.

Yep, I won't be launching this until my usual time of 4pm, but anyone who came over from the RI's channel can see it early!

milkerfish ....4 hours later

That isn't a question?

Huh, I was about to be all like "nuh-uh!", but I looked it up and you're right. Turns out I've been living a lie.

came here to comment on just that haha

***** Not unless the bearing balls contain more balls.

Google says otherwise

I'm sure the result would have been the same.

Depends on how or why you want it to perpetually move. He explained how it would move on its own because of there being more balls on the right, therefore he rolled it clockwise. I, agreeing with you, would have explained it by the balls on the left being farther for the center, so due to leverage it should move counterclockwise. But since the thing obeys physics and is balanced, it does not matter which way you explain it.

THAT'S IT! WE'VE FIGURED IT OUT! FREE ENERGY FOR ALL!

+EscapeMCP , the result isn't the same. The machine have negligible friction counter-clockwise than it is clockwise. That's why it deserve to be in a museum.

Misguided inventor vs business gaming the system.