Neil reminds me of those teachers in school you’d just keep asking about the subject so he’d fill up the entire period and forget the assignment

@jaimealvarado4421

3 жыл бұрын

That was fun

@Thegoat-4L

3 жыл бұрын

Mr catlin, all you had to do was bring up the Washington trip 😂

@kavalogue

3 жыл бұрын

Had one named Mr O Riordan. French teacher. If you bounced off the right subject he might even keep you for the next class completely against the wishes of the teacher just to continue telling you about his experience with “insert here”

@mr.wilson9341

3 жыл бұрын

Neil interrupts himself

@webstar118

3 жыл бұрын

The real M.V.Ps

There should be an entire series called "Don't Get Neil Tyson Started on..."

@arsazmaj71

6 жыл бұрын

I started to search in the same moment when i sow this video! :D

@sellingacoerwa8318

5 жыл бұрын

I like how Neils eating a apple during this with a IDGAF swagger

@MrLoisix

5 жыл бұрын

cha si ah ese man si habla

@Sinnbad21

5 жыл бұрын

Or.... Neil Tyson, “Things I lose sleep over...”

@joshuab4229

5 жыл бұрын

yes because no one wants to hear his fake ass elite occoult bs!

“Have you noticed those” “Yeah” “Have you thought about it” “Ahhhhh not really”

@krishnachoubey8648

11 ай бұрын

ah-oh-wai-WHAT? CEO OF BEIJING CORN? Learning about Irrigation, I see

@boysteven4421

11 ай бұрын

Steven

@ravinraven6913

11 ай бұрын

the dude sounds fake, oh yea I love water towers, yet he never asked questions or looked into things. That type of love isn't real and is fake he don't like water towers at all

@lordship1543

10 ай бұрын

​@@ravinraven6913Sometimes you just have too much on your plate to explore all your interests.

@inturnetlover

9 ай бұрын

@@ravinraven6913 have YOU ever thought about those rings?

Listening to two grown men discuss the finer points of water storage/management is unironically entertaining. Not a sentence I anticipated writing when I got up today.

@mikemondano3624

Жыл бұрын

Because children normally deal with water towers?

@mattgrostick1499

Жыл бұрын

@@mikemondano3624 Yeah, my 8-year-old neighbor Timmy has his sewage engineering degree. You should hear him go on about irrigation.

@inconnu4961

Жыл бұрын

@@mattgrostick1499 Would you have his number by chance? I may have some questions! Incidentally, i'm a middle aged man that often acts like an 8 year old, so we would get along well! LOL

@john.premose

Жыл бұрын

So do you normally anticipate every sentence you're going to write/ say, the moment you wake up?

@Johnboy33545

11 ай бұрын

@@mikemondano3624: Not so much. I've never seen children building them.

2:58 “plus the 500 at the bottom!” +500 appears for bottom level Neil: “I DIDN’T GET THERE YET!” _+500 disappears in fear_

@weldingbrotha10

5 жыл бұрын

Spethman Jones.... LMAO

@peterconnaghan2872

5 жыл бұрын

You dont disrespect Neil deGrasse Tyson ... like the video did by omitting the deGrasse

@spethmanjones2997

5 жыл бұрын

Peter Connaghan I had to make sure it all fit concisely my friend, I’m sure Neil deGrasse Tyson would understand ; )

@peterconnaghan2872

5 жыл бұрын

Spethman Jones not u, the op

@johancakep

5 жыл бұрын

LIKE IT SHOULD BE.

Chuck “AND the other fivehu- Neil: “I DIDN’T GET THERE YET!” Infographic designer removed pre-emptive +500LBS graphic

@milanimorales2645

3 жыл бұрын

😄

@gustavoleon8158

3 жыл бұрын

Huuu?

@Jsnipes98

3 жыл бұрын

@@gustavoleon8158 2:58

@lockerbuddy2039

2 жыл бұрын

I just imagine Chuck getting ready to pull out a graph, Neil yelling at him and then Chuck silently sliding it under his chair.

@LXW-Arts

2 жыл бұрын

I thought Neil was going to erase him from existence

The water towers used to have a windmill that turned all day and night in the wind, which in turn pumped the water into the tower. No electricity needed!

This was a great episode. Fun fact though: in most large cities (New Orleans in my example) the volume of water in the full storage tanks is only enough to provide water for 15-20 minutes in a power outage. The purpose of the water towers it to dampen peak demand and water hammer form pumps, valves and fixtures being operated throughout the day…this helps stabilize water pressure throughout the day.

@altosack

Жыл бұрын

That’s a pretty good reason not to live in (most) large cities.

@don2deliver

Жыл бұрын

If the power goes out to the levy pumps in New Orleans, a shortage of water will be the least of the problems.

@smartasasackofhammer

11 ай бұрын

Yeah it's a buffer, otherwise the system would have to be built to satisfy peak demand rather than average demand.

@ravinraven6913

11 ай бұрын

the south is gross, the areas in texas I was in didn't have them. They had well water, which was...pumped using electricity lol so the power goes off, and so does the water, everywhere. Worst state of the USA that I been to hands down. Its like they don't know how to treat their people other than BAD

@selfdo

11 ай бұрын

Correct. A water district or city COULD build enough water towers to provide effective storage, but imagine not only the huge costs, but the unsightliness of that many towers. It's a cost-benefit thing.

Real estate agent: "Yeah so this is a really nice property, if you would follow me to..." Buyer: "Your water tower hoops are far too spaced out; let's go honey, get the kids." 😂😂😂

@thottydagod457

2 жыл бұрын

Knowledge is power

@cryojak807

2 жыл бұрын

@L7 what

@jimcanterak7349

2 жыл бұрын

You just, but you really don't want the water tower on your building to collapse. Trust me on that.

@cryojak807

2 жыл бұрын

@Warrior Of Mankind two months later i can know understand what you're saying

@lopanreturns7085

2 жыл бұрын

@@cryojak807 It’s a quote from or quoted in the game Deus Ex (2000) during an interrogation sequence.

Anyone: "Water towe-" Neil Tyson: *"Are you threatening me, master Jedi?"*

@platypusmusic8843

4 жыл бұрын

The senate will decide your fate

@conscioussubconsciousness1976

4 жыл бұрын

Platypus Music You forgot the simple fact that: *I Am The Senate*

@soop8665

4 жыл бұрын

Platypus Music uh

@platypusmusic8843

4 жыл бұрын

Conscious Subconsciousness Not yet

@TheBossMan1453

4 жыл бұрын

Nice

I could listen to Neil talk about random subjects all day. He's so knowledgeable yet funny at the same time so it isn't painful or dull to listen to.

@at7915

Жыл бұрын

Then he would enjoy a conversation with you because he could speak the entire time

@yeetteet3739

Жыл бұрын

Good thing you don't mind listening to him talk, because you'd never get a word out without him interrupting you

@mikemondano3624

Жыл бұрын

On the rare occasion, he is even right, mostly by mistake.

@6Angel67

Жыл бұрын

@Mike Mondano Do you have brain damage? You've commented at least 4 separate times on this video, bashing Tyson for no apparent reason.

@seth7745

Жыл бұрын

Unless you are an engineer listening to an astrologist talk about and get things wrong on topics outside of his field. He has above average intelligence, but his ego is disproportionately larger.

I've never given much thought to water tower, but watching these two geek out on them was awesome. I love watching people geek out on their favorite obscure subjects!

@CircumcisionIsChildAbuse

6 ай бұрын

seeing two smart men contemplate the concept of emergency resevoirs of water made me want to pull my hair out- it was absolutely mind numbing to see people get to confused over such a simple object- it goes to show you how often people are without modern luxuries like running water and electricity- the resevoirs that are for emergencies seem to perplex them.

“If your structure outlasts your civilization 2000 years you probably overbuilt” great line, but you know what? It’d be nice for a change if some of our infrastructure was overbuilt.

@AnasQtiesh

2 жыл бұрын

Joke's on them, our infrastructure is built to end our civilization + life on earth. Check mate ♟️.

@letoplaz8139

Жыл бұрын

@@aolanaknilram7745 no

@tlf4354

Жыл бұрын

That sounds like a nice thing to have until you consider that you would have to pay way more taxes in order for stuff to be overbuild....

@nills2gills811

Жыл бұрын

“Yeah just make it good enough to hold together for 5 minutes, then we them sell glue” I like the Roman guy better than that dude who forgets his name

@bradhaines3142

Жыл бұрын

@@tlf4354 if the politicians didnt steal so much off the top im sure the billions we already put into it would be plenty

As an engineers major, now having the course fluid dynamics, this makes me so happy. Just finished the chapter of head pressure (water at a height, gives a pressure.)

@davidevans3223

3 жыл бұрын

Water's very sticky tho that must make a difference

@LBdave

2 жыл бұрын

2.31, .433

@Trevin_Taylor

2 жыл бұрын

I also had a chapter in head pressure… from your wife! Oh!

@Observ45er

2 жыл бұрын

So, therefore, you know that Neil is wrong in his explanation, right?

@browngundam2170

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidevans3223 water is not sticky its slimy and thin

I had a science teacher in jr. high like this. After the first 6 weeks or so, students quit trying to get him off subject because it wasn't much of a challenge.

@EdKolis

10 ай бұрын

I remember Mr Barney, my high school physics teacher. Me and this German exchange student whose name I don't remember would always sidetrack him! He promised to do his "famous molecule dance" at some school event but he was sick that day so we never got to see it...

@brianarbenz1329

10 ай бұрын

In my high school senior year of 1975-76, our very own Indiana Hoosiers were working their way through the last undefeated NCAA men's basketball title. This gave us a great way to distract our Civics teacher, Mr. Goffinet (RIP), who, like everyone in Indiana, was a basketball lover. Finally, IU won the title and we got down to civics.

I drove overnight out of Phoenix on I-60, pulling over to sleep on the side of the road near Socorro New Mexico. When I woke up I was surrounded by the VLA (Very Large Array) which are four-story tall satellite dishes spread out over a moonscape valley. It was as if THEY had landed on the planet while I was asleep! It was surreal.

@auntbeth6794

Жыл бұрын

Cool awakening....

5:20 anyone notice he pulled an apple out of the crevice of the chair? LOLLLL

@bottomtop5

5 жыл бұрын

lol lol lol!!! I said to myself, did he just pull an apple from the chair?!

@Kaniba

5 жыл бұрын

yeahhhh

@prod.lilsip5904

5 жыл бұрын

Holy shit im rolling on the floor 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@tekneiq

5 жыл бұрын

It was in his left hand at the beginning of the video.

@alexkenny7554

5 жыл бұрын

Did you notice the fake bites, fake chews, and he never swallow...what a bad actor

"I never wash my hands" This quote has not aged well, and right now it's likely you won't either.

@zachpenny8116

4 жыл бұрын

Toxic Schiz I was scrolling the comments to see if anyone has made that joke yet 😂😂

@zachpenny8116

4 жыл бұрын

drsnoggle um yes it is. Gotta have a sense of humor about things

@zachpenny8116

4 жыл бұрын

drsnoggle hey dude I have covid. I understand it

@zachpenny8116

4 жыл бұрын

I meant tested. Miss spoke. But trust me I understand this

@zachpenny8116

4 жыл бұрын

drsnoggle understand what this virus is. Look dude if you can’t have a little sense of humor about this than you’re living in fear. Life is crazy and crazy scary. You gotta try to laugh your way through it. Don’t try to tell me something isn’t funny if I think it is. There’s no point in all that. It honestly makes you look weak and you want to control the narrative. Man that ain’t how this works. I get this virus is very dangerous. Trust me I understand how dangerous this is. You don’t know my life and my history so you can’t judge me on that but homie I’m just tryin to laugh through. Just take it at face value

Rome was using a Roman era aqueduct system in it’s water supply up until 1945 I believe. There were a lot of over-head tanks used for gravity water in rural Australia ; often filled by windmills. I heard one story about a farmer who was filling his over-head tanks without a pump ; he had a tank that could be sealed airtight, (over-head) , he then hooked up a vacuum cleaner and created a modest vacuum , that’s all it took to suck the water up into the tank. Cheers from Oz , I watch a lot of your clips , you sound like a very good teacher. 😮

@geraldhenrickson7472

11 ай бұрын

You can accomplish anything given enough time and money however...I believe as described, without any changes, you have heard a simple urban myth.

@sjg3890

11 ай бұрын

Must have been a very low tank or a very strong vacuum cleaner.

@wizrom3046

11 ай бұрын

I have m3asured a vacuum cleaner, they produce about -2 PSI, and that will only lift water about 1.5 metres (5 feet) high.

i'm always amazed when the sink works when the power's out

Tyson is a born educator. He could make paint drying interesting

@matthewdominguez4350

4 жыл бұрын

LobsterProductions paint drying is interesting you just have to inhale

@MarkAtherton

4 жыл бұрын

He actually could! 🤣

@INameIsGood

4 жыл бұрын

I can already imagine him talking what happens to the paint, and how universe is involved in the process :D

@linkunliu2118

4 жыл бұрын

And don’t get him started on why looking dry doesn’t mean it’s actually dry

@John-X

4 жыл бұрын

@@linkunliu2118 don't get him started on things that seem dry but are not actually dry. Like concrete. Did you know that concrete is never fully dry? There is still water inside the concrete on all buildings, which is why when our sun turns into a red giant, and everything starts heating up to unimaginable levels here on earth, every concrete building will literally turn into powder and collapse!

not gonna lie... I thought he was going to say there was some kind of weird conspiracy with water towers when I clicked on it... but this video was super interesting and I loved it!!

@akizeta

6 жыл бұрын

Didn't you hear? They were part of the Martian Invasion in 1938 that got covered up by Orson Welles. _And they're still there._

@TinmanHikingShaun

6 жыл бұрын

where is danny black ,lol, I thought the same thing 😂

@BradTrapp

6 жыл бұрын

This is the only reason I clicked it.

@nicholasleclerc1583

6 жыл бұрын

NelC Perfectly disguised as water towers: at night, their foundations disappear and they hover in place.

@Grimeaper

6 жыл бұрын

Me too. I was like what is wrong with them now... lol.

My favourite bit was when he fished an apple core out of the couch and started eating it like that was a completely normal thing to do.

@virtigo2370

Жыл бұрын

This is the one 😂

@sharonmiller7213

Жыл бұрын

he's hot and I'm shameless🧃

I like how Neil just reaches down, pulls an apple out of his seat cushion, and proceeds to go to work on it. Dude definitely is not a germaphobe.

@altosack

Жыл бұрын

Maybe he keeps his chair _really_ clean.

@bigmona2741

Жыл бұрын

Most scientists and doctors are not germaphobes

@kosmique

11 ай бұрын

and then we got hit by covid.

@CorePathway

11 ай бұрын

I rode the subway in Manhattan for 7 years. My immune system is a mini-boss.

5:34 "I NEVER WASH MY HANDS!" That did not age well at all.

@ohaboha

3 жыл бұрын

Same thought! Time made that offensive 😂

@gmale2624

2 жыл бұрын

That did not age well from the moment he spoke those words. Ewwwwww.

@Sykell

2 жыл бұрын

At all! 😅🤣

@quattroqafe5642

2 жыл бұрын

Bahahaha

@wellhellothere5144

2 жыл бұрын

darnit you beat m to it by 2 whole months

Every toilet has a little water tower

@df5687

6 жыл бұрын

dude.... my balls.

@mspenrice

6 жыл бұрын

And they exist for exactly the same reason - to give a greater water pressure, and therefore mass flow, to wash the bowl clean each time.

@Macatho

6 жыл бұрын

holy SHIT you're right. And there's even a floatation device to regulate the valve.

@TheKrouton

6 жыл бұрын

Your bladder is a water tower.

@katcankan7129

6 жыл бұрын

MEGATON- 😂😂😂.....😂😂

Neil is a fun person, I would have not thought that he can relax so much. He, to my experience has always been more stiff. Thank you for showing this side.

I never thought I'd actually learn something about water towers

This man could talk about his lettuce & tomato sandwich & it would be interesting.

@reacting_to_stuff_

5 жыл бұрын

247tubefan for you bc you’re a dumbass

@BigTexasRed

5 жыл бұрын

No need for that man. ^

@kenlogsdon7095

5 жыл бұрын

It would be more interesting with bacon.

@Awecyan32

5 жыл бұрын

I agree wholeheartedly

@gorgosanma

5 жыл бұрын

I know. Every time I see Neil talking about whatever I kind of want to go see something else but I just can´t.

It's amazing how many towns are named after their water tower

@unknown-ex5xr

Жыл бұрын

you win

@briankelly1240

Жыл бұрын

Yes

@chrisdaniel2759

Жыл бұрын

Mitch?

@BrokVoekler

Жыл бұрын

I love you

@robertshiell887

Жыл бұрын

Score!

Nice I enjoy that information thank you here from NYC

I'm only now getting back into neil's awesome work and damn I forgot how PEAK of a teacher he is, explains things amazingly even for people who have 0 knowledge in the subject, funny, down to earth (pun in tended) guy. damn. why can we have more niels in schools?

@brianpeters5555

10 ай бұрын

What PEAK ?

@saitamaonepunchman8176

10 ай бұрын

@@brianpeters5555 I mean he's like the best at being a teacher, peak = extremely high level

@eklipse4956

10 ай бұрын

He’s a hack. Decently smart but very egotistical…

@CircumcisionIsChildAbuse

6 ай бұрын

teaching and what Neil does are very different things. Teaching involves communicating to each individual the manner in which they learn the best- the best teachers know how to communicate to a wide range of people- Neil...doesn't have that quality- he has one mode: speak over everyone and go on random tangents. He's a story telling pokemon.

@mlcred1111

6 ай бұрын

why? because both the pay AND the situations in schools are $h!t that's why.

Tyson talks like I do when I am drunk, except he's smart.

@akizeta

6 жыл бұрын

Tyson's so smart, he talks better than I do when he's drunk and I'm sober.

@stephencoles7162

6 жыл бұрын

he's not

@mirmalchik

6 жыл бұрын

convex earth lol holy shit yall outdone yourselves this time fuck

@AaBb-zj2ld

6 жыл бұрын

you touch people too much too

@AnarchyEnsues

6 жыл бұрын

is he smart?

"If your buildings out live your civilization by 2000 years you might have over built by just a bit" lol

@hotrodray6802

4 жыл бұрын

The British have houses that are 2-300 yrs old still in use.

@ryanodonnell6748

4 жыл бұрын

@@hotrodray6802 YEP.. My grans house was built in 1895..Lanarkshire Scotland

@lawofliberty3517

4 жыл бұрын

@@hotrodray6802 my aunt's house in Wisconsin was built in 1845. Rock foundation with brick overlay. Very sound house that has been maintained.

@greencupofdeath

4 жыл бұрын

@@hotrodray6802 2000 years and a couple hundred years is a rather large difference lol.

@jorgea.coronado4389

4 жыл бұрын

HotRod Ray isn’t that only because of a law?

These guys are so inspiring. I want to bring science into as many avenues as I can handle. Thanks mans

@bryn1890

11 ай бұрын

What do you mean?

This just came up in my feed for some reason so I decided I'd watch the first few seconds to see what it was about and watched the whole thing. It was funny, entertaining and I learned things that I didn't know. Thank you .

*I DIDN’T GET THERE YET* 2:58 😂😂

@arym1108

5 жыл бұрын

E Wild the single blackest moment in NDT history.

@xBloodXGusherx

5 жыл бұрын

SORRY!

Listening to Neil get so hype about water towers makes my year.

@MD-bf2ce

2 жыл бұрын

It's like finally getting to share that kind of excitement with someone who actually gets it. Like I get super stoked over this stuff, and hardly find others irl that are the same.

@user-ys9ke5cj1n

Жыл бұрын

@@MD-bf2ce ll lol p pop

@HazeAero

Жыл бұрын

Thats a low bar

@davidwhite1956

Жыл бұрын

@@HazeAero wasn’t the best year, ngl

@___Zack___

Жыл бұрын

*Hyped

OMG, I am 61 years and just found you. Science has always held me but is very different for me to visualize. Your explain so very clearly. Your never getting away.

Neil , Rochester , NY has an ancient Water System going back almost 150 years . Feeds water by Gravity From Hemlock and Canadice Lakes . When you grow up with that in your backyard it is easy to forget how hard People work to move Water in other Places . Thank you for the Video .

5:25 did he just pick out an APPLE from behind the cushion and ate it??

@AdriePerez18

4 жыл бұрын

indieair thank you I was looking if anyone was going to mentioned that 🍎

@wachititos

4 жыл бұрын

I was in shock after he did it hahahaha

@JoshuaSavio7

4 жыл бұрын

Hahaha that's cool

@joltster109

4 жыл бұрын

...yes. He's just that cool. 😎

@sultanzod6720

4 жыл бұрын

"Ooh, an apple!"

Rome may have over engineered, but the glory that is Rome will be remembered as they intended.

@aussiebloke609

6 жыл бұрын

Of course, Rome didn't expect to end...from their perspective, they fully intended to rule forever, so from that viewpoint (however misguided it may be) it was engineered just about perfectly.

@fondren001

6 жыл бұрын

Andrew doesn't know the definition of glory \o/

@darknightx33x81

6 жыл бұрын

aussiebloke609 no govt thinks they will end until they approach the end

@K1lostream

6 жыл бұрын

What did the Romans ever do for us?

@xenialafleur

6 жыл бұрын

Rome didn't over engineer. They made their concrete with volcanic ash, which caused it to be much stronger than our concrete.

Great video that I plan on using for my Water Supply class in Fire Tech I. I'm so thankful for people like Dr. Tyson who are so good at explaining science. In some cases roof top water towers may be used to assist water pressure and supply in fire sprinkler systems.

@zl14l41

11 ай бұрын

It's not very scaleable because it depends on industrial usage but my city has just shy of 29k people and roughly 6k water service connections (including businesses, factories and multi family apartments that count as one connection). I work at the water treatment facility, we make, on average 5.5 million gallons of water in a 24hr period. If our main storage reservoir is at the same level/height as the night before that means the city used that whole 5.5mil. When your students open 5 or 8 hydrants, depending on their areas storage capacity and time of day you can run into pressure issues real quick, we use MGD (million gallons per day) because it takes us the whole day, where as you guys think in gpm or total gallons used. We monitor momentary usage as well and for several fires that I've seen they've used as much if not more than the city was at the time!

You are two of my favorite geeky guys. Love you!!! ❤️🥰❤️

1:29 "As long you have gravity" I think if you lose gravity, you have bigger problems than not getting water...

@alexanderx33

6 жыл бұрын

Arkaid D Well, he's an astrophysicist so alot of the time you don't have gravity.

@niydfass1060

6 жыл бұрын

To be fair, there is always gravity, even in space.

@alexanderx33

6 жыл бұрын

The Brutal Bros *as long as the tower is resisting gravity*

@RealAsItGetz92

6 жыл бұрын

There is no gravity, only density and buoyancy.

@alexanderx33

6 жыл бұрын

Dreams x92 What do you mean?

When u have a person with a love for knowledge it makes u wanna learn. I can listen to this guy drop knowledge on me for days.

@VG-rj8pn

3 жыл бұрын

Too bad your fooled by his blathering your iq must be low

@SR009s

3 жыл бұрын

@@VG-rj8pn ironic that you should mention iq, yet you dont even know the difference between your and you're. Also, *your* sentence is lacking even the most basic of punctuation. *Your* iq must be low.

Neil is one of my favorite people. I've never seen anyone that could break down a complicated concept so easily, into something that can be understood by common folks.

@MartsEntertainment

Жыл бұрын

He’s like the Bob Dylan of Science.

@andrewwooddell3874

11 ай бұрын

Carl Sagan. I appreciate Neil, but his Cosmos was a far cry from Sagans

So cool. I love learning this stuff.

Neil loves him some water towers 👌🏼

@catsgonom

6 жыл бұрын

Michael Ortega 💦💦💦

@garrettandrewlang12

6 жыл бұрын

*warter*

@BIOSHOCKFOXX

6 жыл бұрын

him? or them?

@Rattus-Norvegicus

6 жыл бұрын

Michael Ortega He's sorta wrong though, just because the bands are evenly spaced doesn't mean it's engineered poorly, the top portion could be over engineered. Still an engineering mistake though.

@reubendinny9520

6 жыл бұрын

Garrett Lang how?

Tyson is like one of those friends that can't quit touching you when they're saying something

@Qwerty19367

4 жыл бұрын

Human Resources oh you’re one of those dudes

@Evolution_Woodworks

4 жыл бұрын

@Human Resources bi curious?

@carterwilliams4058

4 жыл бұрын

Human Resources you seem like a bad friend

@birddaddydetta

4 жыл бұрын

@@carterwilliams4058 Not wanting others to touch you is being a bad friend?

@cyfangz9238

4 жыл бұрын

@@birddaddydetta no ill intent interaction being responded with a rude and insulting response is not just bad friend, it's bad person

Very interesting. I like Neil. I always learn something new. I’m going to look at our water tower, now, with new interest.

Brilliant! I had no idea..this was very interesting. Thank you!👍

"YOU OVERBUILT"

@mspenrice

6 жыл бұрын

Better than the alternative, Neil. Guess you're not an engineer :D

@dormantrabbits

6 жыл бұрын

mspenrice overbuilding is under-engineering. It takes skill to engineer down to a reasonable cost.

@mspenrice

6 жыл бұрын

No, it's just the answer chosen by skilled engineers, whose masters obviously much have thought the cost was worth it otherwise they wouldn't have put up the money to build those works in the first place (in an age where credit and shareholding was much less of a thing), in order to compensate for the limitations of the primitive technologies they had available. And as those works still stand, some of them in operable condition, I think they did a perfectly fine job. We can look at those things now and think "wow, they really just brute forced this and threw huge amounts of material at the job instead of finessing it", but when you're building in an age without pre-stressed steel-reinforced concrete available to you, or any kind of computer design, steel wire suspension, power-assisted pile driving machinery, etc, you quickly reach a limit where the stuff you're using just isn't strong enough without overbuilding. And they must frequently have worked near the bleeding edge of what was and wasn't sufficient amounts of stonework to last "for all time", given how many things have actually fallen down and become ruins in-between. We just see the most heavily overspec survivors.

@fredman1085

6 жыл бұрын

Tim White1 month ago"YOU OVERBUILT" Silly Romans probably weren't calculating that their civilization would only last a couple of hundred more years. I bet they were planning on remaining around a lot longer. They all do, same with us now but who really knows?

@klaxoncow

6 жыл бұрын

+dormantrabbits Well, I mean, it kind of depends on how cheap the construction costs were to begin with. If, in your current economic climate, the material and labour costs are so silly cheap, then it really doesn't matter, so you might as well overbuild. ...and then we remember - oh, wait - that the Romans had slavery. (Mostly of the nearby Slavic peoples of Eastern Europe, which is actually where we get the word "slave" from. The Slavs were the Roman's slaves.) So, another way to look at it, in the historical context, is that all that overbuilding is actually a sign of just how little regard they had for their slaves, quarrying up the stone and building the aqueducts. All that slavery made it so cheap and its construction difficulties "not your problem", no-one gave any shits about "reducing costs" or efficiency - and they happily overbuilt, as it was the slaves who were really paying all the costs here. (Plus, yes, everything mspenrice said about how their construction technology was also vastly more crude, so they couldn't be that precise to begin with anyway and "overbuilding" is the simple way to make sure things definitely stay up, no matter what. That must definitely factor into it all too.)

Neil just pulled a random Apple core from the couch. SCIENCE!

@davidcampbell4908

6 жыл бұрын

He was eating the apple at the beginning of the video

@Avaruusrangeri

6 жыл бұрын

That's the same apple he put in there at 2:27

@itsdonaldo

6 жыл бұрын

I hope it's really clean between those cushions.

@omaralsabbagh3606

6 жыл бұрын

eww it's now a sofa apple

@tqdinh2

6 жыл бұрын

Jeremy Mack 😂

Just remember that things like the old Roman structures have had a lot of work put into them to preserve them for historical purposes. In addition you need to consider the scale of usage/ stress put on the structures in question. Not to mention the fact that Italy has very good conditions for not degrading structures as quick.

@user-bt8xr5si9y

Жыл бұрын

This is important. Another important thing is that back then most structures were a lot simpler then they are today. I think just the adition of stuff like Electricity in almost every building already adds a lot of complexity because you somehow have to wire it through the entire building, while still hiding it in the walls and making sure nothing like water can accidentally get in. So it's much more complicated to build something nowadays then it used to be but it is easier.

@louther1213

Жыл бұрын

@@user-bt8xr5si9y To a degree maybe, but the biggest factors is how Italy tends to stay warm enough to prevent freezing. Water gets in the cracks and as it freezes it expands damaging the structure. In the case of something like roads you would have to consider the amount of wear and tear a modern day road gets from vehicles driving on it. Not to mention the not even comparable difference in just how many people use the infrastructure today

@allosaurusfragilis7782

11 ай бұрын

Like to point out that Italy gets regular earthquakes, though. Roman engineering was spectacular.

@Rowgue51

11 ай бұрын

Yes people like to cite old structures and marvel at how they're still there after thousands of years etc. But in reality what's still there are just ruins, and even those wouldn't be there without the constant preservation efforts throughout those thousands of years.

@UwishUknew

11 ай бұрын

​@@allosaurusfragilis7782and their concrete, which we can't replicate is stronger than anything we can manufacture, even with all the technology of today. Crazy

I have always wondered about water towers. Thanks.

@2:59 "...I didn't get there yet, I didn't get there yet!" "Sorry." The animation at this moment 😂😂😂

@Mikeedawson

6 жыл бұрын

lnetz77 exactly 😁😁

@joecope9935

6 жыл бұрын

lnetz77 My wife just asked why I laughed. 😄

@lnetz77

6 жыл бұрын

Joe Cope aww 😊 swear most people leave the animation alone if there's bloopers 😁 the attention to detail they have.

@Pantii

6 жыл бұрын

Lol this had me giggling!

We got stuff here falling down built 10 years ago.

@CoolcatsSk8

6 жыл бұрын

the Allies won ww2 what else did you expect

@cosmotect

6 жыл бұрын

I thought that was only us in Russia. But I guess weather is a big part of it

@DaybreakPT

6 жыл бұрын

Gucci Damn if only Germans won we’d have their brilliant German engineering standard lmao

@jamesstrickland4501

6 жыл бұрын

Its called job security

@putheflamesou

6 жыл бұрын

monetary evil and greed..

"As long as you have gravity". Love it!

I love his teaching style.

5:25 Chair apple... nice

@heavyrain5949

6 жыл бұрын

Lol

@sbiegs3885

6 жыл бұрын

David P Ha! Ya! Good eye. It was half eaten with all that lint or whatever else was on that couch!

@LCPFrederick

5 жыл бұрын

It's iChair

@HenryPerez_royal_hp

5 жыл бұрын

The chair that he is sitting on appears to be made of alcantara, otherwise known as synthetic suede. This material not only repels water, but due to it's somewhat elastic nature, it does not give off lint. Thus you could technically put a food item on it and you wouldn't have to worry about getting gunk or anything else on it. i could see the couch collect a little bit of dirt if it isn't -or hasn't been- cleaned, but you could rid the couch of this simply with a stroke of the back of your fingers a few times. Still, i digress.

@RetroDawn

5 жыл бұрын

The moment where NdT performs a magic trick and makes the apple disappear: 2:27 (hint: he hid it under his leg).

Is it just me or was the Tyson explaining common sense with the other guy getting his mind blown

@robinbleu5464

4 жыл бұрын

bogen broom are you hurt or something I keep seeing you in comments

@heticaband

4 жыл бұрын

Lol yea I thought he was going to start criticizing water tower design but they instead described something my dad took 35 seconds to tell me about when I was 6

@oreos3174

4 жыл бұрын

@Christoph Peters I mean, its great if hes fun to listen to, but its also nice to learn.

@graphi1477

4 жыл бұрын

Common sense is really just when everyone can understand simple things ease. I dont think the science between water towers is common sense lol but it is simple to learn

@carnage2332

4 жыл бұрын

Hype man gotta hype

Fully depreciated, still in use

I've learnt many things today and that's make happy. Thank you👏👏👏

Universe: Whatchu doing? Me: Nothing, just sitting here learning about water towers for absolutely no reason at all.

@kaezon

4 жыл бұрын

Relatable.

@geoculus5606

4 жыл бұрын

But if it exists, it has a reason. ;)

That "I never wash my hands" hits different in 2021.

"…if you're weirdly into water towers." I feel attacked.

Good stuff to teach, I did know all this but fun to watch

Never stop learning something new everyday! Woof, I'm a Plumber and just learned something new. The band structure on water towers and the reservoir to the 6 floor differential just bugged me out a little! Love it!

@Branko353

2 жыл бұрын

Well, just know that his explanation is wrong.

@smurfkilla420

2 жыл бұрын

If you're a plumber you should know about head pressure.

@brighamruud5090

2 жыл бұрын

Heck ya I’m a plumber too

@robinschulz458

2 жыл бұрын

Isnt head presurre common knowledge ?

@Racc_Oon

2 жыл бұрын

woof?

Did Neil just eat a couch apple?

@7grims

6 жыл бұрын

yes, somebody else noticed it :D so weird right?

@KellyTaylor23

6 жыл бұрын

That was the couch apple of Science!

@spicybrown75

6 жыл бұрын

He did😂😂

@RianTuanakotta

6 жыл бұрын

why eat couch apple weird?

@spicybrown75

6 жыл бұрын

Rian Tuanakotta it's less weird and more gross.

This was a great video. Showing my kids!!

0:50 The way Niel interrupts himself! Has me dying lmaoo

Water towers are flat.

@dizzychineseman7445

5 жыл бұрын

Ikr

@susierios7213

5 жыл бұрын

round tower shill !

@gst013

5 жыл бұрын

Then you should get a plane and fly to the edge.

@frankierock1130

5 жыл бұрын

Dont get 2 close u may get spun off🤣

@Randomgal0000

5 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

If Neil was your dad and you lived with him, every question would get a fantastical 45 minute answer. "Dad, did I leave my backpack in the car?" "Actually, the backpack is everywhere and nowhere... (3 minutes) ... schrodingers law says noone can know.. (5 minutes later).. the stars that formed billions of years ago to make the stuff that made zippers.... (2 minutes later)... the way our minds compartmentalize whats worth remembering.... (9 minutes later)... satellite signals that can travel as far as Saturn..... (19 minutes later).. yeah the keys are on the counter.

@mikester1290

6 жыл бұрын

When I clicked Read more, I was expecting a wall of text.

@Tim-is-short

6 жыл бұрын

LOL!

@natepeace1737

6 жыл бұрын

Hilarious man! Still I bet he’s a great dad! Don’t know how I know that he just seems like!

@bobzombie2710

6 жыл бұрын

Shane Carrigan I'm missing 7 Minutes of reply.. and why the hell did it go from a backpack to keys? I MUST KNOWWWW

@MAHONEYDRO

6 жыл бұрын

Shane Carrigan 😂😂😂😂😂

Two of my absolute favorite minds. Love you guys

@greatcoldemptiness

Жыл бұрын

Are you joking

Nerding out listening to Tyson talk about water.

"If your buildings outlive your civilizations...you overbuilt" 5:18 😂😂

@TK-zf7sx

3 жыл бұрын

Better to overbuild than have your buildings and infrastructure fail and end your civilization.

I like how Neil is both smart but also knows how to talk like he's having a normal freaking conversation. Most people on this side of intelligent tend to lack social skills or talk like a freaking robot; case and point; Richard Dawkins.

@harryscarry6064

3 жыл бұрын

You should watch some videos of a much younger Richard Dawkins teaching kids about biology etc. he is really lovely. I think he’s a bit cranky now he’s older. Neil will be too. Ha!

@ericm5315

3 жыл бұрын

@@harryscarry6064 I don't think I can take Dawkins seriously after The Selfish Gene, lol.

@neonblood4658

3 жыл бұрын

@@ericm5315 Why?

@elliotttilton9858

3 жыл бұрын

He cuts off the other guy multiple times. People love to hear him talk so they don't realize how ego centric he is. If the other guy starts talking he talks louder and continuous his sentences.

@wassimboukhelkhal308

3 жыл бұрын

It's simply because you aren't educated enough, in order to understand something well you need to understand the whole complexity of it, I'm not attacking you ofc, i just say hen you want to learn some go deep into it like use books, and not just go on Google or KZread because they give a superficial explanations all the time

I love water towers AND Neil Tyson, so there's no better combo for me than this video

If I could hangout with Neil for a day I'd learn more in that 24 hours than I've learned in the past 24 years lol absolutely brilliant ✌️

*"If your structures outlive your civilization. Then you over built them."*

Neil should do more engineering videos like this

@LS-Moto

6 жыл бұрын

dillmon1 But he is an astronomer, not an engineer.

@StarTalk

6 жыл бұрын

K. -Ben, StarTalk Video Producer

@LS-Moto

6 жыл бұрын

@StarTalk I don't get it. What about him?

@DivideByZeroGetCake

6 жыл бұрын

Agreed! Engineering is all based in physics, and everyone encounters engineering on a daily basis, so it’s the perfect opportunity for some serious learning!

@user71285

6 жыл бұрын

He's a physicist. Engineering is physics applied.

Neils face at 4:11 looks like SpongeBob when he’s really excited about what you have to say

Just enjoy learning something new everyday.

"If your infrastructure outlives the fall of your civilization by 2,000 years, you overbuilt." The first reasonable perspective on "We don't build things like the Romans anymore" that I've heard in a long time.

@olliefoxx7165

4 жыл бұрын

I disagree on the overbuilt part. They had the, "If you're gonna do something do it right." attitude.

@davidm5707

4 жыл бұрын

It's hard not to overbuild if all you have is stone and cement. They did have good cement, better than anything we have now.

@andyjacobs7010

4 жыл бұрын

@Bruno Pereira Imagine Roman architecture and engineering trying to deal with the vehicles and loads of people of present day... Yeah, Roman engineers would be like any other. If anything, blame the politicians that set their budget with what to work with.

@andyjacobs7010

4 жыл бұрын

@Bruno Pereira and what exactly is an "Ancient Solution" do you think. What would make them any different from modern engineers?

@perhapsso1909

4 жыл бұрын

@Bruno Pereira engineering is not about feeling. Its very logical and math based. The basics of engineering dont magically change or worsen over time. In fact the engineering knowledge and tools we have today are far far more advanced than then. What i mean to say is no, ancient engineers weren't magically talented and had super secret techniques that we dont know. They were and are just as smart as our modern engineers.

You have +3 new iq points to spec. PRESS R TO VIEW SKILL TREE

@Josh-mc6cb

5 жыл бұрын

R

@blackblackstatic

5 жыл бұрын

Increased Knowledge ≠ Increased Intelligence

@bravebooce2731

5 жыл бұрын

@@blackblackstatic what are you talking about? Are you lost? The directory is over there buddy.

@piggyblitz4404

5 жыл бұрын

R

@williamjackson460

5 жыл бұрын

R

awesome show!

Thanks!

Him: "I never wash my hands!" Me: "I pity your junk."

4:15 Neil's face lol

@jasonsmith-lv5my

6 жыл бұрын

heretic124 reminds me of one of them Garry's mod TF 2 faces.

@jannikmichel7646

6 жыл бұрын

it looks like neil farted and the other guy just smells it

@FernandoSV

6 жыл бұрын

meme worthy

@teddybruscie

6 жыл бұрын

When he realized he was trying to touch him the whole video and he admits he doesn't wash his hands. Lol

@JRockySchmidt

6 жыл бұрын

That face screams: " I farted in your coffee and you didn't notice."

Nice to hear intelligent conversation coming from my peeps.

Wow this is so clear. 💜

He was talking about re-enforcing hoops. A cool thing about the forces they control is that the stresses are called Hoope stress. Named not because of the hoop, but after the scientist that defines the stresses and came up with the equation to calculate them.

@tylersamuels4438

2 жыл бұрын

Lol that's a funny coincidence. It's like it was his calling.

@GrapplingwithPhysics

2 жыл бұрын

I don’t think this is actually true. I’ve always seen it written “hoop stress”, and I’ve never heard of Mr Hoope. Google apparently hasn’t either.

@mud4309

2 жыл бұрын

Land Speeder headass

@soulchorea

11 ай бұрын

this is fascinating and sounds completely MADE UP 🤣 this is the kind of comment I always try to troll people with, well done sir

@mikenewman8181

11 ай бұрын

Hoop stress is exactly the correct term. There ws no Mr Hoope. I used to design reservoirs and water towers, among other things Hoop stress is the pheripheral tensile stress which exists within a circular watertank or reservoir wall.

Another point is pumps run much better at the same speed, and on for long times (not switching on and off), so you can run the pump filling the water tower at a continuous low speed, leading to better efficiency and less maintenance

Never thought Id be so excited about water towers. Pretty neat

"I never wash my hands" had me dead

In certain applications, water towers are used to alleviate rapid changes in pressure, like a capacitor in an electrical circuit or a damper in a spring-mass-damper system. For example, when a valve is closed, it creates a back pressure, and rather than travel through that incompressible fluid until it breaks something, water towers send the pressure wave to dissipate against gravity.

5:27 "director says, lets have this character eat an apple, that will make him look even more like a scientist"

@josephrobichaud2852

6 жыл бұрын

EWW Neil Degrase Tyson.....

@thegardenofeatin5965

5 жыл бұрын

DING.

@pedrotalons1422

5 жыл бұрын

@@josephrobichaud2852 yep hahaha

@pedrotalons1422

5 жыл бұрын

@Cosmic Fool r/wooosh *ding*

@RetroDawn

5 жыл бұрын

But, let's have him pick it up from the chair (5:25), so that he seems down-to-Earth and eccentric, as well. And lets make everyone think he's a magician and make the apple disappear: 2:27. (Hint: he hid it under his leg)

Teaching with lots of humor, amazing.

Charlotte NC, Elizabeth…gorgeous engineering and construction water tower …central to the neighborhood development.