Why There are 1.5 Million Small Metal Markers Across the US 

Listen here you little shhhii... just kidding I love all my fans, appreciate their input, and I'm definitely not Sam's publicist who just slipped him a sedative

Hmmmmmmmmmmm? I wonder

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@@halfasinteresting hai, HAI.

@@halfasinteresting all good, we all make mistakes my dude

It definitly wasn't Sam from Wendover who said this because the Sam from HAI is definitly a different one.

@@someone7826 they are the same Sam Don want to say it

greytilldie operator admin Yea, I’m pretty sure s/he was being sarcastic

North America: Helo.

HAI is not that wendover guy

He just played you too

@@ardentm07 I knew what I was doing when I commented. I got half played

@@Nixplaystrombone But you did it anyways

@@Morningstar_37 true

We can compensate that by pressing the thumbs down.

Yep

Yeah

You’re too early Edit: Ok you’re alright now

Here to say i saw it

Finally i can be a part of something

Going for the record!

I know right?!

One broken one

I think you forgot the million part. I have 1.5 of alot of things and I promise it's not impressive at all.

@@manchovie3480 no... When he uploaded the video, he didn't add the million. The OP of the comment is just poking fun at that..

Someone pin this for the mistake video

I noticed that too.

I didn’t notice because I set the playback speed to 1.5x.

or how "Meades Ranch" isn't an anagram of "handcreams'

@@welshgit oh right there's one extra E

A marker is a marker, you can't say it only a half

*BUT FIRST, WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT PARALLEL PLANETS*

@@gargravarr2 well, *"""gargravarr2"""*

Normie

Ah ok so you can explain me why we still need markers now we have GPS and Google maps. Maybe it was mentioned in the vid but the voice was too annoying so i stopped it quickly, and searched for answer in the comments.

@@effedrien Quite hard to explain this simply but I’ll try, I’m speaking for Australia but I’m assuming it’s similar in the US: Vertical height - RTK GPS is not ideal with that. These markers are precisely leveled and mathematically adjusted in a national network. Legal reasons - there’s a whole can of worms in Land law and cadastral system that works off these little markers. When it comes down to a screaming match between the lawyers, a bearing and distance from a marker is infinitely more trusted than a GNSS receiver epoch

@@victorthepotatoeater i see, it is like those financial departments that still cannot say goodbye to paper, after we implemented the paperless office 20 years ago. I should have known it ;) Thanks.

@@effedrien You install your specialized equipment on top of one then do you work so it can be drawn on AutoCAD with millimeter precision. GPS isnt that accurate. You need more precision when implanting complex concrete structure.

I have actually seen one of these markers and was curious what it was

I guess they’ve run out of mistakes so they had to start making some intentional ones!

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Sam just stumbled on to the new version of the community poll! Quick, tell the AI to change the algorithm!

"minor" yeah just by a factor of about 1 million

I stole the second half and sold half of that to Elon Musk, who put it in his car which he then sent to space, i now own 12,5% of all the small etal markers of the US

there were two, but half of one got eaten by a beaver, making it half as interesting.

Yes, i havent refreshed my screen yet

Haha thanks

that is the title again

Thanks for the info!

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He should edit it to There are at least 1.5 small metal markers in US

I mean, there are technically 1.5 metal markers across the us

I bet his 9th grade algebra teacher is more disappointed than ever.

How can there be a unit when he’s just counting things? It’s not like is 1.5 grams compared to 1.500.000 grams of pieces of metal, it’s just 1.5 (M) pieces

Million is not a unit

It's all you need one known point and a bearing :D

Oh no, we can't have useful facts around here. Only semi-interesting ones.

Actually, it can tell you much more. For example, it can tell you the elevation above the ground of the 100 year flood that’s inundating your home. All that is found on a FIRM panel (FIRM is the acronym for Flood Insurance Rate Map) and is referenced to NAVD 29 (at least it was back when I was doing this sort of thing…). Being based on NAVD29 isn’t that big of a deal, since all surveyors have the conversion to NAD88 for any given location. All of this works famously, except when the FIRM panel doesn’t delineate the flood plain where your future home will be located… then the engineer and/or hydrologist has to do all the grunt work and submit a new hydrology analysis to FEMA for inclusion in future printings of the FIRM panel. Happens all the time, which is how that data on the FIRM panel was delineated in the first place. Then, there is the problem that the original surveyor didn’t bother tying in his survey of the site to the little metal tag just down the street, instead tying his (or her) survey into a crack in the curb about a half mile further away from the site and proclaiming it as a survey marker for, say, the City of Tehachapi list of elevation, in California. However, the fly in the ointment was that there was no City of Tehachapi list of elevations. So, as it was attempted to explain to the head of the survey department that “I know where the top of the flow is, but I do NOT know the elevation of the ground is.” (He was ignorant of the predicament). The 100 year flow could be measured in inches, feet, or whatever… and the company head was too cheap to send a surveyor out 100 miles away to tie the survey into a known elevation. I never did find out what happened, but a check of the Google Earth photo of the site a couple of years ago showed no further work was done on this site… I’m guessing that it ended up being a total loss of the job.

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In fact (putting on nerdy tone) even people in the UK can find such markers you just need to look for OSGB36 markers 😁

@@ivan01041991 Wow I didn't know that the UK has these too, I feel like going on an internet spiral of research now lol.

@@evank06 allmost every country have thouse, and even if they are no longer the main use in some countries they are still used as reference points for GNSS measurements as even thou you have a geoid model GNSS is still not perfect so you need correction data that is taken from a point like this by mounting a GNSS receiver there that then can send the error to every other GNSS receiver and for hight GNSS don't even get close compared to ground based methods :) so go look for them however DO NOT DESTROY

@@evank06 Yup, we have trig points littering our countryside. If you climb up a descent sized hills or such, half the time you'll find a square (typically) concrete pyramidal pillars with a brass fixing at the top to mount a theodolite. In theory you should be able to see at least two other trig points from each one. Of course they're historical things now, replaced with lasers and GPSes.

its for oil reserve

As George W Bush said, “America has grown from 13 small colonies into a great and growing nation of more than 300 people”

😂

You need to run back _exactly_ the way you came. Good luck, soldier!

And THAT is how Darwin Award winners are made!

That's because it's only half a title!

THEY are there. I have used them to locate myself in the desert southwest back in the 1950s

It's always interesting hearing people talk about surveying that don't do it for work. I am going for my LSIT soon!

@@rewmeister I wish you the very best! I took the LSIT in 2003 but one thing I certainly recall, is that studying as though I were taking the PLS exam (in addition to knowing my math well!) helped me a lot, especially on the afternoon session as there were at least six questions on a very obscure Federal standard. Since I knew that one cold, it definitely helped my score.

Sam killed him.

“There are between 5,000 and 10,000 blacksmiths in the U.S., and of those, only about 10 percent do it professionally” NPR, 2012

i don't get it

Why not Kicked in the NADS 22?

Comedy doesn't get better than this.

That's Spanish not Portuguese, but I'm also wondering the same thing

@@alyoooh There are several orthographic differences between Spanish and Portuguese that can help us differentiate the two written languages, those visible on the map include: "Cidade do México" not "Ciudad de México" / "Nova Iorque" not "Nueva York" / "Porto Rico" not "Puerto Rico" / "Pensilvânia" / "Dakota, Carolina do Norte, Sul" / "Golfo do México" / "Terra Nova e Labrador."

They're probably ones that the local, county, or state government use in their GIS department. The coordinates would be more specific to your state. I work in highway construction surveying and we use markers like that called BL or BY points. surveyors will set up laser instruments on the points and then mark where different parts of the roads and bridges and such are to be built. this way all of the contractors can work of the same cad model and all match XYZ position. The DOTwill put them in the weirdest places so that hopefully they'll stay for the life of the project

Shouldn't it be how big off sea though?

If got hit by a lawn mower and now is destroyed.