Thanks to everyone at Explorandia: I hope, despite my lack of preparation, that I've managed to share at least some of the magic of what you've done!

@shashiplaysroblox8622

11 ай бұрын

He back doing main tasks guys

@5ucur

11 ай бұрын

Hey, Tom, I caught this bit at about 0:50 where you say the tank sim was in Germany - I thought I remembered it being in Switzerland so I checked the video, and it _is_ in Switzerland.

@aliasaka4416

11 ай бұрын

This is so funny. It really reminds me on the old tank simulator you presented to us earlier. Just done with two men doing all this in a backyard. Fantastic 😊

@dimitri0404

11 ай бұрын

I'm not affiliated with it, haven't even played it. But I would say dwarf Fortress is one of those amazing projects that People have created

@baptisteg4728

11 ай бұрын

Don't give him ideas

Marco: ”I didn’t understand that bit” Danilo: ”He said ‘If someone wants to give us money’…” Marco: *stares at camera* ”Siiiiiiiiiiii” 😅

@stargate525

11 ай бұрын

When they showed the feed turning on my thought was immediately that there HAS to be a market for this in theme parks as an 'open world' dark ride.

@rrai1999

11 ай бұрын

@@stargate525 I know right, this is so marketable. I feel like they could sell the rights to something like this to a large company and live comfy. They deserve it especially at their age after all this work

@SylviaRustyFae

11 ай бұрын

The best part is, its literally the word "money" bein said that gets him to give that emphatic Siiii!, bcuz the Italian word for money is soldi, which is the last word the other one gets out xD

@walker1054

11 ай бұрын

@@stargate525 I assume the problem with this in theme parks is just that the throughput is way too low. It seems like it needs a minimum of 20 mins and even if theres 4 people in each group thats 12 people per hour who will get a go. It would definitely be a paid extra and probably not a cheap one.

@rrai1999

11 ай бұрын

@@walker1054 There were rides like this present at places like Disney Quest. Boats where entire families had to board and were inside for 10-15 minutes shooting at enemies or sailing down a path.

This aged… interestingly

@keksitzee1094

11 ай бұрын

For people from the future wondering: A few days after Tom released this video came news of a terribly built submersible lost out at sea, carrying a few rich ass mfs in it on a supposedly sightseeing trip to the wreckage of the Titanic

@DangerAngelous

11 ай бұрын

In simple terms: Submarine went moobak

@Gsudi

11 ай бұрын

Hi people from the future!

@ItsGravix

11 ай бұрын

Damn

@hvrbros8730

11 ай бұрын

3 days later it went missing 💀

timing is everything Imagine if Tom had released this video about a submarine after the Titanic situation

@bonelesswatermelon420

11 ай бұрын

Came back here to say exactly this

@aceman0000099

11 ай бұрын

I saw this title and immediately thought he was gonna talk about it. But just 7 days off

@arnilsso

11 ай бұрын

imagine if this simulator was steered using an logitech game controller

@aceman0000099

11 ай бұрын

@@arnilsso luckily this simulator probably more expensive than the actual titan sub

@bonelesswatermelon420

11 ай бұрын

@@aceman0000099 the simulator also seems to have a lot more thought and engineering put into it than the Titan

Tom Scott: "My videos will probably come back to haunt me in a few years' time." Well he was half right...

@explorandiaaps2839

11 ай бұрын

If someone had told us we could not believe it.

@user-do7kb5hg2o

11 ай бұрын

In a few days 💀

@nuke211

11 ай бұрын

This is the second time his timing are impeccable. Remember his Tower Bridge video, and a day later the bridge got stuck and made the news ?

@murphygg

11 ай бұрын

​@@nuke211We should dub this the Tom Scott Phenomena, he somehow gets there before the headlines

@DoubleJumpPunch

11 ай бұрын

​@@murphyggHow do you know he's not the cause? 🤔

At this point it’s just a countdown for when Tom will go to space.

@Soken50

11 ай бұрын

He could at least visit the training center with the submerged ISS modules, though I don't know how much prior training they require before you even get in the pool, I'd imagine a lot, given how much can go wrong.

@sankang9425

11 ай бұрын

Tom is weak.. I mean he passed out in 3.5g.

@SimonBauer7

11 ай бұрын

​@@sankang9425 nothing training cant fix.

@DerekHartley

11 ай бұрын

@@sankang9425 Which is more than most space launches generate so he should be fine.

@arrow_awsome

11 ай бұрын

i mean he did do a video in low earth orbit once. like i get what your saying but he did do that

People that have passion can go beyond what you expect

@mattmarzula

11 ай бұрын

Yep.

@jwalster9412

11 ай бұрын

Let's just say I lack skills in anything that's not related to cars..

@eragonbaffel9518

11 ай бұрын

@@jwalster9412 if you casn generate skilles for cars you can get skilles for other satuff

@internet_userr

11 ай бұрын

Copy paster

@Severalangrybees

11 ай бұрын

Never underestimate a rural Italian with a shed older than his great grandad and a dream

is this horrible timing or incredible timing

@TheSittinDuk

11 ай бұрын

Yes

@nighthawk1758

11 ай бұрын

Great for the algorithm

@005AGIMA

11 ай бұрын

The latter as I note he dropped this 10 days ago.

@HaplessOne

11 ай бұрын

Literally who cares. People get killed all the time with different items like cars, pens, knives, etc, and there are still channels that talk about these things. You just think this because it made mainstream news. It's not that big of a deal.

@beanprotein

11 ай бұрын

incrororrible

Why would you use a sub simulator instead of just simply pay $250k to take a Home Depot sub down to the bottom of the ocean

@0xf7c8

11 ай бұрын

Because there is a chance the home depot sub may fail and you die. I don't think that has ever happened...nowait

@kingo55

11 ай бұрын

​@@0xf7c8the controls looked easier on the home depot sub though.

@craighalpin1917

11 ай бұрын

I hear that a few positions have recently been made available for someone with your way of thinking... Good luck 🤿

@Lametampafan

11 ай бұрын

The lightning was from camping world, spared no expense

@boneneedle3360

11 ай бұрын

@@craighalpin1917 Only if you're not a 50 year old white guy tho

Omg that enthusiastic "SIIIIIII!" with a hearty thumbs up killed me. These dudes definitely need to be funded.

@blueberry1c2

11 ай бұрын

and at the moment the word "soldi" (money) left his mouth Siiiiiii!

@dudo626

11 ай бұрын

Then... fund them? Put your money where your mouth is.

@fortecyveria769

11 ай бұрын

9:35

@Hirosjimma

11 ай бұрын

​@BlueB1C2 I love how in Italian soldi is the word for money in general, while in Dutch the word for military pay is soldij, and in English of course you have soldiers who earn that soldij.

@francescoaiazzone

11 ай бұрын

@@Hirosjimma That's not by accident, it's because of the origin of the word from Latin.

This would fit in so naturally at one of those interactive science museums for kids.

@vesk4000

11 ай бұрын

Yes! Especially if it was an actual mini submarine that you can see go around the pond, I think that would be extremely cool!

@KeshaunCarpenter

11 ай бұрын

this would make aquariums significantly more fun

@Arisilde

11 ай бұрын

The local zoo used to have something like this when I was a kid that simulated you being a bat and flying around. It was my favorite thing back in the day.

@blizzardwuffy

11 ай бұрын

Take it a step further and go full Magic School Bus and shrink down and explore inside of a human body

@SrSpetock

11 ай бұрын

for kids? I'd love to have a go on this!

Now simulate a billionaire who hates safety regulations

@chryst4l926

11 ай бұрын

Just cut half the wires in the back and youre set

@pearlchains

11 ай бұрын

😭😭😭

@GerinoMorn

11 ай бұрын

That's all of them

@ChrisPoindexter98

11 ай бұрын

​@@GerinoMorn☝🏻

@Frommerman

11 ай бұрын

Simulate is the wrong verb. I prefer implode.

I don’t think the titanic incident should overwhelm how incredible this simulator is and Tom’s reaction speaks volumes of how well made this simulator is.

@shoeofobama6091

9 ай бұрын

it doesnt, the bug people just enjoy spamming about it

@ZaiketsuKumori

7 ай бұрын

​@@shoeofobama6091"the bug people"???? Is there an alien invasion going on in your brain?

Next episode: " They put me in a welded-shut submarine in a blood ocean on a forgotten planet after all the stars have gone out".

@drageex

11 ай бұрын

Ah, yes, Iron Lung, a great game

@blakksheep736

11 ай бұрын

​@@drageex and not terrifying at all.

@underarmbowlingincidentof1981

11 ай бұрын

"I'm inside an ocean of blood and I'm not exactly alone."

@justinsemple7454

11 ай бұрын

Can't wait for Dorney park to add an Iron Lung Halloween experience.

@thingamajig17

11 ай бұрын

@@blakksheep736 ok? really have to be mad about everything do you

Between this and the guy who makes hovercraft in Japan, I am amazed how much folks will build out of passion.

@edcrichton9457

11 ай бұрын

Someone built Car henge. Passionate folks will do a lot.

@Varksterable

11 ай бұрын

Are you hinting that a hovering submarine might be in the pipeline? Or an underwater hovercraft. Either would be epic. (And no; I have no idea what they even mean either!)

@alun7006

11 ай бұрын

"Because I want to" is a HUGELY powerful motivator.

@ares395

11 ай бұрын

I feel like those are the people that... you know that thing that you always wanted to try but chucked it up for later or as too much work? These people just go for that instead of making excuses and it's amazing.

@Varksterable

11 ай бұрын

@AlunB So true. However... I do feel that for projects like this, a certain degree of "Because I CAN" fits into the equation somewhere, too. We don't all have the space, manual and technical skills, or budget for this kind of this thing. Regardless of the amount of 'want to.' Kudos to them still, though; even with all those 'advantages', the best most folks would probably manage is a wine cellar, a home cinema, and at a push a train set in the loft!

All Titanic jokes aside - this is an incredible project with a hell of a lot of passion behind it.

@mioox40

10 ай бұрын

truly, how inspiring

@YIO777

7 ай бұрын

As far as potential, this is just the tip of the iceberg.

I don't know why people are saying this aged poorly. If the timing reveals anything, it's how true innovation is often overlooked, while shoddy tech with slick salesmanship behind it takes in millions. If Stockton Rush was as thorough as these gentlemen maybe he would still be alive.

Can’t wait for a miniature spaceship simulator, that’s simulated with a tiny camera that is hooked to the ISS in real life

@tjeulink

11 ай бұрын

that might honestly be doable. cubesats have used electrolysis to generate rocket fuel after launch.

@AlexanderRM1000

11 ай бұрын

​@@tjeulink You have to make the rocket fuel out of something, which you have to lift to orbit. Still a tiny enough spaceship could be cheap

@autohmae

11 ай бұрын

smallsats are definitely a thing, it's possible to get stuff into space.

@MazeFrame

11 ай бұрын

In the mean time, before the real space-cam: Artemis Spaceship Bridge simulator

@sorenlloyd

11 ай бұрын

I'ld like to see a moon-web-cam we could all control

It's lovely that after all these years, sheer fanboy joy can still make a dent in Tom's professionalism.

@BradCowgill

11 ай бұрын

Agreed, and wouldn't want it any other way!

@jackmorris303

11 ай бұрын

Here's the thing though: that enthusiasm IS a part of Tom's professionalism. And we wouldn't have it any other way.

These guys put more thought and custom engineering into their backyard passion project than a company charging $250k per person to go on a submarine built using dodgy off-the-shelf products. This submarine simulator probably has more safety checks than OceanGate too

@explorandiaaps2839

11 ай бұрын

We make a lot of efforts in experimenting with different kinds of redundancy and safety checks. But of course, our is a proof of concept. Everything on our beloved surface is far easier to implement than in the far deep of oceans...

@Pygmyz06

11 ай бұрын

a backyard submarine simulator is a recreational device designed for entertainment purposes. While it may have safety checks in place, it operates within controlled conditions and does not carry the same level of risk or complexity as a real submarine expedition. Comparing the two is like comparing apples to oranges. Each activity serves a different purpose and carries its own unique set of risks and considerations.

@OLBastholm

11 ай бұрын

​@@Pygmyz06 That's the point. More thought went into something that had immensely less risk than the actual deepsea submarine with literally cheap lights from a camping store (and a construction that was never rated for its purpose).

@lukefreeman828

11 ай бұрын

@@Pygmyz06you completely missed the point there

@LetathousandFl0wersBloom

11 ай бұрын

@@OLBastholmut you understand that you are just wrong though right? Like i understand that there were major oversights in the project but you do understand that SEGNIFICANLY MORE WORK went into the actual submarine buisness than the simulator.

So glad Tom was able to put out this video before recent events...

@explorandiaaps2839

11 ай бұрын

Absolutely!

@sanachanto

11 ай бұрын

I agree with you completely. Actually, I’m late to viewing the video, so I initially thought the recent news was the reason he had to throw his script out. Glad it turned out that was not the case.

@Swaxol

10 ай бұрын

@@sanachanto same

You can really tell this blew him away. I think he's even more excited here than the time he was literally strapped to the top of an airplane.

@iiiiitsmagreta1240

11 ай бұрын

...waitwhat

@Hirosjimma

11 ай бұрын

Or that time when he flew by flapping his arms

@ImaErick

11 ай бұрын

@@Hirosjimma lmaoo

@korstmahler

11 ай бұрын

Or the jetpack experiments

@soup9242

11 ай бұрын

I think this is a joke.

This has SO much potential for science museums. Super cool.

@explorandiaaps2839

11 ай бұрын

Yes! We are super sure (we only need a museum super sure too)

@ytsucks

11 ай бұрын

Yep

Not surprise to see another submarine where Logitech hardware is being used

@aaronbailey1406

11 ай бұрын

💀💀💀

@ErikPelyukhno

11 ай бұрын

@@aaronbailey1406more like 💀💀💀💀💀

@yudhat1700

11 ай бұрын

👁️👄👁️

@UrsaMajorPrime

11 ай бұрын

This thread is as dark as the bottom of the ocean

@calussy8040

11 ай бұрын

At least this one is just a camera, not a controller for the movement of the whole sub.

KZread recommendations has a sense of humour

The guys hoping to get kids engaged makes this thing feel like a real life Magic Schoolbus. And I'm here for it.

@j.wa.1061

11 ай бұрын

that was my immediate thought too!

@Anoski_Domain

11 ай бұрын

holy crap youre right XD

@spungbopscarepans

11 ай бұрын

please let this be a normal- oh actually this feels quite amazing i thoroughly enjoy this mrs. frizzle.

@sadakotetsuwan9229

11 ай бұрын

That's it exactly! Fantastic.

@ChrisPoindexter98

11 ай бұрын

🥴🥴🥴🥴

I can barely even tell he's off-script, he's just that good at presenting

@CooroSnowFox

11 ай бұрын

The park bench style of videos works well

@Skorpychan

11 ай бұрын

Or his screen persona is so close to his regular self that he's just like that all the time. The childlike glee really sells it, though. Never grow up, Tom.

@arcadia7341

11 ай бұрын

honestly, editing does a lot here too

@wolffighter3333

11 ай бұрын

Well the tank Sim was in Switzerland not Germany. Which is the only mistake I’ve noticed.

@Patowtow

11 ай бұрын

Well, he's not saying that this video is off-script. He just couldn't stick to the original script while he was filming the submarine stuff. But his explanation of what happened is separate, and he could very well had prepared for this part in advance.

Tom has a time machine. Now we know it.

@MrAnniTagada

10 ай бұрын

Tom's time machine😊

Charge some billionaires a quarter million bucks, blindfold them, take them here and show footage of the titanic

@ITSecurityNerd

11 ай бұрын

Save some lives for sure

@aresorum

11 ай бұрын

Hilarious!

@oafhauohguoihgakds5151

11 ай бұрын

@@ITSecurityNerd or you could put the control room in a trash compactor, to complete the experience

@OLBastholm

11 ай бұрын

That wouldn't be as fun or helpful to society, though.

@heinzbeans2117

11 ай бұрын

@@OLBastholm 5 people being smushed into goop isn’t exactly fun or helpful to society

Seeing Tom go off script and be completely giddy is the best way to start a day. 👍

@Ramseytex

11 ай бұрын

The fact that someone like Tom, who’s seen and done a lot around the world, can still be surprised and delighted makes me so happy.

Turns out this simulator has a more complex control than an actual sub

@NeoTechni

10 ай бұрын

I noticed the HOTAS too.

9:10 I didn’t realise that Logitech were so prevalent in the world of Submersibles…

@shame2189

11 ай бұрын

Next thing they'll tell you even the pilot was from Logitech 💀

My dad's job is teaching pilots in simulators. They cost upwards of a thousand dollars an hour to run. And these people run one in the back of an old mill... I'm definitely sending this to him.

@dgill441

11 ай бұрын

Let us know his reaction!!

@ivanvarela3215

11 ай бұрын

Let us know yes!

11 ай бұрын

I too really wonder his reaction to this!

@I_Crit_My_Pants

11 ай бұрын

Based off your wording, you're referring to FLIGHT simulators, which are FAAARRRRRR more complex than this... Someone who "drives" a submarine is called a "Submariner"

@100beep5

11 ай бұрын

@@I_Crit_My_Pants Yes, they're flight sims. I'm not sure that a flight sim is more complex than a sub sim - they are both 3D.

The fact they built it in some old mill gives it even more of a good vibe. Like, on top of doing it all themselves they are also repurposing old buildings?!! Awesome project.

@myladycasagrande863

11 ай бұрын

Probably cheaper than building from scratch.

@hallquiche

11 ай бұрын

@@myladycasagrande863 Yep, Italy is absolutely jam-packed with old buildings that aren't really used for anything. Most of them have survived for hundreds of years of weather, corrosion and earthquakes, so they're very stable. It's a good idea to repurpose them.

@zbarba

11 ай бұрын

I wouldn't say repurposing. That's just a regular building in Italy.

This may have aged interestingly

@drabberfrog

11 ай бұрын

Ironic

@lukmly013

11 ай бұрын

@@drabberfrog *Titanic ^(sorry)

That was really classy of those guys to let you take the captain's seat, and just jump right into the service roles without a fuss.

Incredible that this is a homebrew project! I'd half expect Marco and Danilo to have a spacecraft simulator built in a shed next door (which, now that I think about it, I would really want to have a go in, and, from Tom's enthusiasm, he might do, too!)

@Alacritous

11 ай бұрын

I've been drawing up the plans for a space ship simulator of like this for a while. It'll be computer generated imagery of course, not a webcam in space, but the immersion concept will be the same.

@SnoopyDoofie

11 ай бұрын

Just make sure you can "crash" it and get a photo of it in the gift shop with the caption "Weather balloon crashes on ranch".

@StephenCameron

11 ай бұрын

@@Alacritous If you haven't already, take a look at Space Nerds in Space

@kpanic23

11 ай бұрын

@@Alacritous You might want to look into Empty Epsilon bridge simulator. A couple of friends and I just were having a "space ship" (just 15 laptops, three projectors and a bunch of LED strips) set up last weekend and flew a couple of missions. It's tons of fun! If only we would have a space where we could have a permanent setup, I would so totally build real set pieces and decoration and stuff... But alas, it's only ever temporary, so everything fits into three crates.

@MonkeyJedi99

11 ай бұрын

Their cabling is so delightfully chaotic! So many colors, so few zip-ties.

This should be in a museum. Picture this all properly fancy up, and it's in a children's exhibit at an aquarium. Have to use it to feed the animals occasionally so they want to interact with the strange thing, but it could absolutely work. Those two, I hope they end up with funding they could only have dreamed of, and a chance for us to say, "oh Yha, we saw that, Tom Scott showed us the original".

@c.a.7058

11 ай бұрын

In Italy? Hahahaha you don't know my country mate. Should they ever be offered funding, I suggest they don't take it because they'd drown in a bureaucratic nightmare and waste 10 years to do nothing and pay lawyers and accountants to get them out of a mess they did not create. Now, if some museum elsewhere, in a functioning country, offers a grant? Then yes, sure. And I suggest they move their residence there or Italy might chase that money still :)

@thespankmyfrank

11 ай бұрын

​@@c.a.7058 Wow. An Italian openly criticising Italy? This is new. 😂 I agree though, Italy is an amazing country in many ways, but it's got its problems. It would be hard to get somewhere like this started there.

I know how they talked about how this is a proof of concept and how they'd like funding from schools and so on but the fact that the two of them spent years making this in essentially their own backyard is the epitome of "dudes rocks"

Logitech somehow keep becoming involved with submarines it would seem

@explorandiaaps2839

11 ай бұрын

Probably if logitech had been able to choose, it would have preferred to be associated with our dreamy project than with their tragedy.

so glad Tom Scott is short enough to fit in the tiny submarine in a tiny world

@victoriaseawatch5407

11 ай бұрын

Like Alice in Wonderland.

- How much immersive you want your simulation ? - Yes.

@the.villan

11 ай бұрын

Agreed

@VarenRoth

11 ай бұрын

🌊

@the.villan

11 ай бұрын

@@VarenRoth 🐙

@TryinaD

11 ай бұрын

Literally immersive in this case

@korganrocks3995

11 ай бұрын

Siiiiiii! 👍

It’s amazing that how a submarine simulator built by a few guys inside a house is more sophisticated than a real submarine which is used to explore the titanic wreck

@aaronburns9365

11 ай бұрын

Ouch. Sad but true. For those who are interested. You should look at the physics behind carbon fiber when used in compression vs tension.

@panda4247

11 ай бұрын

Because it's all about expectation. This has to sell you the experience on being on a sub and not just a computer game... so it has to have the weird real-looking controls... That other thing had to sell the illusion of being modern, so it used some computer controls...

@similar_username

11 ай бұрын

​@@panda4247I mean, to be fair this sub didnt come near the pressures of the other sub, which did work a few times.

@panda4247

11 ай бұрын

@@similar_username but to be fair, this was never intended to do so (and sold to the customer as such)

@Mainyehc

11 ай бұрын

@@panda4247except if you look at properly designed, survivable submersibles that are already on the high tens of cycles without imploding, you’ll notice this sim looks more similar to those than to that glorified Pringles can/Model 3 hybrid.

Imagine if Stockton Rush invested in this instead. Actually a good business opportunity to create a deep sea-related theme park with various simulated scenarios. Safe and fun.

@Mainyehc

11 ай бұрын

And educational. But… nah, it’s really a sociopathic billionaire thing, they need that… rush every now and then.

I like how easy it was to gaslight Tom by showing him a tiny yellow submarine model. this implies that we can absolutely gaslight him into exploring the horrors of the real sea in a scuffed submarine, Iron Lung style, just by showing him that "it's a simulator running in my backyard"... when in reality he's 700 meters below sea level in a OSHA violating metal can.

@clray123

11 ай бұрын

In the course of filming this video they actually hypnotized him, teleported him into a real submarine and later made him handle a nuclear core with his bare hands and he did not get any wiser from that.

@ruzziasht349

11 ай бұрын

@jerrylim6722 OSHA isn't in Italy, nor the UK, in fact OSHA isn't in 176 countries across the globe. Why do Americans always believe that they're at the centre of the Universe?

@JavInDaUSA

11 ай бұрын

@@ruzziasht349But there is equivalent jurisdictions of OSHA in other countries, he probably didn't know what they are called. Bold for you to assume that

@ruzziasht349

11 ай бұрын

@@JavInDaUSA Of course he didn't know, they never do - and there lies my point, you won't see Brits mentioning the HSE (Health and Safety Executive) or the Italians the INAIL ( Istituto Nazionale per l'assicurazione contro gli infortuni sul lavoro) all over the internet.

@catwilliams9938

11 ай бұрын

Maybe let’s not do that now…………..

This looks nice as a science outreach for sure, but imagine this as an escape room! You are locking in a submarine, somewhere in some complicated water. Gather hints, learn how to move the submarine, move the submarine to some dry alien base, enter the alien base room and get more hints there, move back into the submarine and finally leave for dry land! You would need to put the simulation room on some rails so that it can move back a dozen meters to connect to the alien room (instead of the outside room) and of course emergency exits and all that, but this could be very fun.

@glenday8163

11 ай бұрын

Or put a door on the opposite side of the room?

@TheTrueBuster

11 ай бұрын

Theme parks often move the scenery or rooms around the carriage and riders so this is also a feasible option so long as the room is not too big or complicated.

@kindlin

11 ай бұрын

They already had a whole other room built into this one for the "reactor problem", so you just make that the other destination, whatever destination you want, and buh bam.

@maoman4855

11 ай бұрын

Reminds me of the game called Nauticrawl.

@Mr.Prongles

11 ай бұрын

I quite literally did an escape room that is almost that exact plot, only with a “underwater research base” room next door you “dive” towards.

Tom is naturally that eloquent. Id be sitting there going “errr… well… um…” and nodding my head whenever anyone said anything. I always find it amazing how tv show presenters and youtubers like tom always seem to know what to say when put on the spot.

This would be amazing for an aquarium museum! the fact that its presented so amazingly gives you the image that you ARE shrunken down, in a tiny sub, instead of in a booth, connected to a camera.

This is great that Tom is publicizing these very unknown passion projects. I really do hope some science foundation sees this video and gives them some funding to develop this into what it should become. For a proof of concept, this is absolutely incredible.

These people are true engineers, they wanted to do something that couldn't be bought from the mass market or a public attraction, so they built it themselves. Just amazing what people can do.

Thank God you didn't join the Titanic Submarine

@DP-pg5md

11 ай бұрын

THIS IS UNDERRATED

@shinigamae212

11 ай бұрын

With Tom being the skeptical type, I don't think he would jump on that submarine knowing how it was built or he might join and immediately leave the moment he saw that controller

@FritzAdler

10 ай бұрын

*Titan submersible

Im astonished nobody has put a submarine drone in the water with a vr camera, and just projected it into an entire room. Imagine going to an aquarium and getting to "step into the eyes of our local animal survey drone, just walk in and you're there!" I would absolutely pay by the hour to be there. Bonus points if we get to pick a song to explore the water with

Imagine being a local kid there and growing up with the "submarine in the mill". You wouldn't believe it until you got to see it. It's imagination and science and adventure brought to life. So cool.

@chazcampos1258

11 ай бұрын

Local kids wouldn't believe it. Local teens would dismiss it as childish. Local young adults who move away to other places, would ask, "where's your town's submarine in the mill?" and be shocked that no one else in the world has one.

@sleambean

11 ай бұрын

Super magical :)

@tsm688

11 ай бұрын

If I recall my childhood properly... I think the 'reactor' bit would be super cheesy. But the instant I realized it was an actual thing floating around in an actual lake with actual salamanders, it'd be upgraded to super cool.

I love how much of Tom's inner child came out during the submarine shots. Such a giddy little child with a smile from cheek to cheek.

"I didn't understand that..." ".....money" "YES!""

At least this submarine won’t get lost

Honestly, the fact that you were so blown away that the script had to go out the window speaks volumes. This is SO COOL!!! This is what gets little kids absolutely nerding out about tech and wanting to go into the sciences! These should be in children's museums across the globe! I could see this fitting right in at the Franklin Institute here in Philadelphia. I am SO THRILLED you covered this. I hope they get the visibility they deserve. Also, I think you need to do a round two... talk about all the bodging required to make something that cool work.

@BobStein

11 ай бұрын

Reveling in the multiple meanings of my newest verb: to bodge. Seriously, electromechanicals are so rarely seen with pond scum.

I loved “You’re not allowed to introduce the newts”, like they need an entourage to help them make an entrance 😂😂😂

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721

11 ай бұрын

The newts do as the newts please.

I know a CEO who would love to retroactively do this.

@aratof18

11 ай бұрын

would have*

@sarahjrandomnumbers

11 ай бұрын

@@aratof18 If I said "would have", it wouldn't be retroactive, would it.

@chainzsawmaster

11 ай бұрын

*knew

@sarahjrandomnumbers

11 ай бұрын

@@chainzsawmaster If I said "knew", it wouldn't be retroactive, would it.

@chainzsawmaster

11 ай бұрын

Woah don't @ me, boss.

Tom should go off-script more often. It gives us a sense of the excitement that he's feeling when he's feeling it. I love it!

Their idea to have this in natural history museums is incredible. It would fit extremely well somewhere like Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry or the Shedd Aquarium. Using it to show kids (and adults) the weird world of invertebrates, the bountiful life in water that is so much more than fish, it would be incredible! I would love to see this in a museum. It would need to hold more passengers at a time; maybe give 5 pairs of riders one of the degrees of freedom each?

I've wanted a Robot Wars clone for years that is just RC submarines fighting in a pool. The audience can see what's going on, but the actual contestants have to use sonar and other instruments. This thing honestly makes me more hopeful something might happen one day.

@adamfoxton6341

11 ай бұрын

My last job included designing underwater robot submarines onto which would be strapped shotguns, shaped charges, etc. They could also have nets, ropes, mechanical arms for tearing stuff apart... Robot wars would not be a problem at all!

@the_ratmeister

11 ай бұрын

Apparently this actually happened, it was called Depth Charge: Underwater Robot Challenge. Haven't been able to find any footage though.

9:11 he said the word , he said logitech . Talk about timing .

i think the picture quality on the "main screen" actually adds to the immersion! makes you feel like you're in the *really deep* depths where it's really hard to see and cameras have to make sacrifices to be able to survive the environment

@ali32bit42

11 ай бұрын

they would not use high latency cameras with so much noise on a real sub. subs might have inferred and almost analogue level low latency cameras for safety reasons

This is like the pinnacle of a "Shut Up and Take My Money" concept. I've always loved the idea of microscale adventures. I remember seeing in walmart years and years ago this fish tank they sold that had a movable scope built into the tank where you could look inside and get a close up view of the fish. Always regret not getting one.

There are 2 stand out moments from over the years I've watched Tom lose his professional composure on screen. This is one of them. The other was, arguably his greatest moment and one that I shared with him on a deep emotional level, his discovery that he in fact, LOVES roller coasters... I Cried in that video when he did.

The "Oxygen levels low" at the end 💀

When I worked as a Technical Designer at the Boston Museum of Science, on the Charles River Gallery project, I wanted to do a version of this. The Museum sits over, across, the river so the building is in a perfect position to have a controlled camera in the river. Easier said than done, but none the less...

@Fulbor

11 ай бұрын

if you still know someone there send them this, let them know it is being done and it might be cheaper to implement then they fear

Haha 15sec from an upload. Tom Scott. Thank you all the fantastic work and make sure to stay both hydrated and happy. Make sure to take breaks and again. Thank you!

Weirdly relevant topic considering the news.

Practical effects never translate well onto a video, but that level of kinetic interaction and undeniable reality about everything you saw is incredible

I think you just captured the true essence of what made us as Italians. We are mostly allergic to rules (I know) and we fell down many times for this (that’s why we invented the biggest shame of history, the fascism, just to deal with it) but we live in a blessed land, we’re surrounded by natural and human beauty, we love life and we feel like we need to pour this passion in something that’s our, out of our craft, made by hand, not contaminated by society that is noisy, ruthless and exploiter. You have no idea of how many little gem projects don’t get out of the garage but I think it’s part of our legacy

@DragonKhan2000

11 ай бұрын

I have noticed how often charming and insane garage/backyard projects happen to be in Italy. I've known of several, and this is just another one. It seems really to be true what you say. Makes me want to go on a "Italian Backyard Roadtrip" just to see what could be found!

@thesesrabbit87b47

11 ай бұрын

Same with why there are so many incredible Italian car companies!

honestly this would be a FANTASTIC display at a natural history museum. like, set it up so that folks can come see their natural waterways (or a recreation of what the natural waterways SHOULD look like, depending on how polluted the area might unfortunately be), and just let them explore. very cool

I served in The Royal Navy for 13 years in Submarines. This video was a fascinating watch and the two makers are incredible. Would love to see this develop further. Great Job Tom and Thanks for showing us.

This is such a great idea. Love the dedication they put into it. Having one in a local science museum which can network to different location around the world would be awesome.

@explorandiaaps2839

11 ай бұрын

Yes, the technology is now ready for that.

@LegalEye--

11 ай бұрын

That is a fascinating idea too!

This has just made me want a tiny submarine to explore ponds with.

They clearly didn't skimp on the "fun" aspect and that in my mind explains how they were able to do this. It might be easy to discard the value of that since so many teams get distracted by it, but just as such it can be a powerful motivator if one cares for more than just it.

A lot of submarine news this month

Honestly, I think this is really cool as even just a camera you can drive. Adding in the immersive effects makes it just amazing.

@PunnamarajVinayakTejas

7 ай бұрын

"immersive" i see what you did there

analogue simulators are my new favourite genre of Tom Scott video

oh my god this is actually so freaking cool!! and entirely built from scratch as a passion project?? I've seen actual museum exhibits without as much depth and detail as this! how incredible! edit: additionally, do they have any way for us to donate to their project? I'm sure there are lots of folks here who would love to contribute, even just a little!

People could go visit the Titanic without dying from group suffocation!

@TylerMarkRichardson

11 ай бұрын

*Implosion

The script wrote itself... a week later

imagine youre a rural italian guy and the apocalypse happens so youre out here looking for food in any small abandoned buildings you can find, then you stumble upon this in the middle of nowhere

@ali32bit42

11 ай бұрын

thats exactly what i thought.. this would be insane to stumble upon.. even more insane if it works. (it likely wouldnt from the Rpi being exposed to water but still )

This took a tremendous amount of effort and this project deserves whatever funding it should ever need, imagine what blending stuff like this does for realism and education.

@korganrocks3995

11 ай бұрын

There was a science museum for kids in my hometown, and we'd go there once a year to play with all the cool stuff. If they had something like this we'd have gone once a month instead!

@dudo626

11 ай бұрын

If you think it deserves funding, then fund them.

@korganrocks3995

11 ай бұрын

@@dudo626 What do you think the odds are of a random commenter on a youtube video having "fund submarine simulator" money just lying around? If you see someone commenting on a video about starving kids in Africa saying that they deserve food, do you respond "if you think they deserve food, then feed them"?

@helenfhnin

11 ай бұрын

​@@dudo626Hey, do you think my family don't deserve to die of starvation? Then send me money for food right now.

@dudo626

11 ай бұрын

​@@helenfhnin No, not really. I never said your family does or doesn't deserve it. It's also not the same thing to donate money as a charity as it is to support a project. You do one out of goodness of your heart, the other one because you like what's being done. I tend to put my money where my mouth is. I like wikipedia, so I donated money. An Adblock, various movements like TeamSeas etc. Things I believe in or are worth for me or the society in a way. Saying that something deserves money/funding/support or whatever but not contributing in any way is just hypocricy.

This submarine simulator is built more solid than some other recent submarines I've been hearing about.

Great idea, I know someone who would pay 250,000$ for this

@arcticwendigo2062

11 ай бұрын

Damn the only one I knew didn't show up for our potluck the other day. Wonder what he's up to...

@novonem4071

10 ай бұрын

*knew

It is so cool to see Tom Scott still so enthralled with wonder after this many experiences. It is never overplayed or ignored. It really helps facilitate my own sense of exploration.

I just love seeing Tom in absolute awe and having so much fun

With this timing, imagine him releasing a "How would a nuclear war look"

I mean the timing of this video is ironically perfect for views

The look of childlike joy on Tom's face is something I'm sure many of us seek. This was a fantastic video, one of my favorites! The details and experience they built into this was really amazing and honestly the way this was filmed was perfect I think, there were times I felt like I was there enjoying it as well

I'd love this to become a regular feature on the channel - Tom going to see something with little to no research and preparation, just genuinenly reacting to some of the cool stuff he covers much like we, the audience, do.

I love these kind of smart fools who have an idea and spend thousands of hours making it real ! And gosh I'd love to explore real ponds this way, anywhere in the World. It looks like something the Futuroscope, a technology Dynamic movies theme Park in France could build for public.

This aged well

Now all we need is a room that simulates climbing Mt Everest. It'll be freezing, most of the oxygen sucked out of it and occasionally you find a corpse or two along the way. Would be a hit.

@MiseFreisin

11 ай бұрын

something something, Italian restaurant freezer is close enough?

@Rhaifha

11 ай бұрын

No no, there are corpses along the way that are literally markers along the trail. I'm all for it if it means less people attempt the real thing.

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721

11 ай бұрын

If you die in the simulator, you die in real life.

I really hope museums (musea?) and theme parks see this and get on it

@pattheplanter

11 ай бұрын

The OED has musea as "archaic and rare". Gets you a thumbs up from me, though.

@gidovke

11 ай бұрын

In Dutch it's the only correct plural form

@korganrocks3995

11 ай бұрын

Enough people use the incorrect form for words you suspect might have a weird greek/latin ending that it becomes just as acceptable as the regular one, so don't worry about octopi or octopuses. 🙂

This couldnt have been timed worse and i love it

the timing of this video with all the stuff with the titan rn 😭lmao

I love that in this vlog-like storytelling Tom could explain and reflect on the whole experience. The passion and amazement comes across even more this way. There's a little tiny bit of authenticity that I'm sometimes missing when every single detail looks 100% planned out like it could be a TV show. But I don't just watch it for the story, I also watch it because of the person presenting it.