so when they called it Nova Scotia they weren't kidding.

@aaaaa359

7 жыл бұрын

New Scotland.

@jacksmith8689

7 жыл бұрын

Well they called it nova scotia because they found it. Quite funny how scotland and canada used to be linked then got disconnected and scotland found it

@spidercollector9636

7 жыл бұрын

More like old Scotland or Scotia antiqua (according to google translate anyway) because it used to be part of Scotland 400,000,000 years ago

@panda4247

6 жыл бұрын

And that's why they call it Newfoundland. Not New-discovered-land. Becaus it was not discovered. It was lost. And then found again.

@tinldw

4 жыл бұрын

panda4247 I hate to bring it to you, but there weren't any Scotts 400 million years ago

Imagine leaving the familiar mountains of your home in Scotland for a new life in America, settling the exact same mountains.

@CreativeGuyOfficial

7 жыл бұрын

Mind blown.

@JohnyComeLately

7 жыл бұрын

Geometry Dash Llamadog many did, which is all the more fascinating

@Adargi

7 жыл бұрын

So if you think about it would it be the longest mountain range in the world.

@ObjectsInMotion

7 жыл бұрын

Retriever Actually no, there are longer ones that span oceans. The largest is actually longer than earth's circumference actually.

@Think4aChange

4 жыл бұрын

you would have thought you'd been scammed! ;-p

How ironic that many people wound up leaving the mountains of their homeland only to settle in what is ultimately the same mountains, a world away

@bjbolton

4 жыл бұрын

I don't believe many went for the scenery.

@user-ec2kd8sz3t

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe it reminded them of home.

@TheTeufelhunden68

4 жыл бұрын

Well, they're really not the same mountains are they. They grew apart, made new friends, the mountains in Canada started doing drugs and as a direct result, they formed the Blue Jays , round bacon and curling was developed for whatever satanic reason. The list goes on. So you can't really the same mountains.

@andrewcampbellski

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheTeufelhunden68 Well curling is a Scottish sport (for example all the stones come from the same Scottish Island), and Canada loves curling.

@wta1518

7 ай бұрын

@@TheTeufelhunden68 The darkest years in American history were the ones where the Blue Jays won the World Series.

The Canadian province of Nova Scotia got it's name from "New Scotland". Apparently it's really just "Old Scotland Revisited"

@2outta3aintbad96

5 жыл бұрын

Yes Nu Nova was the original name translated to Nova Scotia :)

@clockworkkirlia7475

4 жыл бұрын

"Scotland: Remastered" Honestly, judging by the weather Canada seems to get in summer, it could be "Scotland: Colourised".

@ericpraline

4 жыл бұрын

It‘s not their „fault“

@alexlikesallthegamez

4 жыл бұрын

Anyone french? Neuveo is new in french.

@clockworkkirlia7475

4 жыл бұрын

@@alexlikesallthegamez Not French myself, but I know that's where we get the term for "Nuveau Riche".

As a nova scotian with this profile picture, I approve of this message.

@clockworkkirlia7475

4 жыл бұрын

As a Scot, so do I. My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I roam...

@deku1037

Жыл бұрын

bloody nova scotians, taking our mountains and now our flag too

@brox6077

Жыл бұрын

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@rhysphillips2483

Жыл бұрын

@@deku1037 they may take our flags, but they’ll never take our freedom 😂

Which probably explains why my Scots ancestors decided to settle in this part of Canada - the terrain was familiar. Heck they even called the place Nova Scotia - New Scotland.

For the record, the Appalachian mountain range runs through the ENTIRE east coast of the United States and well up into Canada.

I am of Scottish decent and live in Southeast Kentucky. My ancestors braved an ocean to end up where they started!

@DavidAndrewsPEC

9 жыл бұрын

Nice one :) But yeh - kinda true :D

@colinp2238

8 жыл бұрын

+Corey Carnes They should have stood still for half a billion years

@fictionmyth

8 жыл бұрын

colinp2238 I work with a few people who seen to be doing just that! They're probably wanting to go back to the motherland.

@MrKenny777

4 жыл бұрын

Ha ha. Good one Corey.

@neobe195

4 жыл бұрын

I live an hour away from Urquhart Castle!

this guy can find a literal connection between Scotland and Canada, and I can't even find my prostate.

@_Dylanm

7 жыл бұрын

Wow

@PuffyRainbowCloud

7 жыл бұрын

It's towards the front of your body, about a finger-length in. Press around on the wall and you'll find it ;3

@randomguy263

4 жыл бұрын

Found it yet?

@cosmicreliefrecords

4 жыл бұрын

Random Guy I think he’s still looking

@marysiamilach8460

4 жыл бұрын

best of luck!

:Goes to Loch Ness: :Makes a video about something else than the sea monster myth: My hero.

@bearcubdaycare

3 жыл бұрын

And it actually made for a great visual illustrating the concept, together with the maps.

400,000,000 years is a scary amount of time. Our brains can't even comprehend 1000 years. At least I can't.

@maxximumb

9 жыл бұрын

BrutalSwede I have problems with last week.

@Juli414

9 жыл бұрын

BrutalSwede There's a saying, "To a European, 200 miles is a long distance; to an American, 200 years is a long time." I'm a USian, I visited England in 2013, and it boggled my mind to see buildings and even a water tower from the 13th and 14th centuries that were still in fine condition and in use, not just as museum pieces. We don't have any like that here. It also boggled my mind to see a McDonald's in a building from the 16th century, but for a different reason. It sort of explains how people can think that the Biblical story of Genesis is literally the truth. It's easier to believe an explanation that requires less than 10,000 years because most people just can't comprehend the time that the scientific explanation requires.

@Niosus

9 жыл бұрын

Pspaughtamus It's quite common in Europe to see very old things indeed. Most churches go a really long way back. I remember a specific stone gate in my high school. It had these strange carvings on it, nobody seemed to knew what they were. Turned out that those markings were the "branding" from the quarry the stone came from... a quarry that closed in the 1500s... That gate has been standing there since before Shakespeare was even born. That stupid little gate baffled me much more than the huge church from around the same era. You can see a church stick around for a long time... But nobody has bothered replacing that fugly gate in 500 years? I guess recessions aren't unique to our time ;)

@HisCarlnessI

9 жыл бұрын

I can begin to visualize 1000 years... I can begin to. But any more orders of magnitude and you've lost me.

@columbus8myhw

9 жыл бұрын

Why would the earth keep to timescales humans can comprehend? It has no reason to.

0:26 That building looks so happy gazing out over the water.

These three regions are also linked culturally, as well as geologically. A great number of the European settlers who crossed the ever-widening Atlantic, to make new homes in that region of Canada (aka Nova *Scotia*), and in the Appalachian mountains came from the Highlands of Scotland, as well.

@MyFiddlePlayer

8 ай бұрын

You omitted the other part of the link...earlier than that migration, Vikings from Norway settled in Scotland.

This is great! Although, your graphic showing Ireland isn’t quite right. You have the fault going into Lough Foyle, but if you look at the geology, you can see the fault actually continues through Donegal, with the valley of Glenveagh being almost perfectly aligned. Great video though!

"the scottish highlands and the Appalachians are one and the same" *you're telling me i don't actually live in the southern US but in scotland?*

@Handles-Suck-YouTube

4 жыл бұрын

You're also living in Sweden and Norway, including my home province of Värmland!

@innesmackintosh214

4 жыл бұрын

so you’re telling me I don’t live in the Scottish highlands but actually the southern US?

@benmurphy4511

3 жыл бұрын

so your telling me I don't actually live in a bin

@raznaak

3 жыл бұрын

Always have been

@maple22moose44

3 жыл бұрын

@@Handles-Suck-KZread as well as in Nova Scotia

I live about 2 hours away from the Appalachian and this is one of the most fascinating videos I've ever watched.

Great video! It still amazes me that people refuse to believe that the Earth once had a single land mass... You don't even need to look into the geology of it, just look at a world map...! Particularly the way the west of Africa perfectly matches the east of South America and North America...

@TomScottGo

9 жыл бұрын

thecassman It's easy to disbelieve the timescales, though: the title of this was briefly "400,000 years" until Oliver Levy pointed out I'd left three zeros off. Our brains just aren't equipped to imagine it!

@GaviLazan

9 жыл бұрын

***** Good thing you didn't leave off four zeros, otherwise Oliver Levy would have to ask if you meant four billion or four milliard ;)

@GaviLazan

9 жыл бұрын

Nillie I meant an additional 4 zeros.

@Voodoomancer

9 жыл бұрын

Hell, there's still people who refuse to believe the Earth is round.

@Gilgwathir

9 жыл бұрын

Voodoomancer Oh yes. I refused to belevie that there are still poeple who believe the earth is one giant, flat disk. Until I head to go to school for 4 years with a person actually believing this nonsense. His explenation for gravitiy: the governement put giant engins on the rim of the earth disk, to prevent us from growing taler and stronger. And jup Australia is a lie made up by Satan to lure us away from the path to god. A very bright little fellow he was :P

I am from Newfoundland and I approve this message!

I sometimes have a hard time imagining that our planet's land changes form over time, slowly, but surely. The fact that all the land and the way we see it now is completely different from how it was 250 million years ago is astonishing.

@Shorjok

8 жыл бұрын

when he mentioned 'the same rate as your fingernails grow' that's kinda what hammered it home.

See even earth has been divorced

@smorrow

3 жыл бұрын

I think this is more akin to long-lost siblings

This is something I had already heard of before... and yet Tom told it in such a way and with so much detail fact that it almost seems new to me. Great job, Tom.

Keep these videos up! This is, hands down, my favorite KZread content yet.

I live in the northern most part of the Appalachian mountain range in North America. They are beautiful and they are home but I never knew we shared that commonality with that region of Europe-- very neat.

You know, Tom Scott would make a good Doctor. Capital D intended.

@Zyo117

3 жыл бұрын

100% would watch Tom ramble about planets and space-time to some companion who doesnt really get it

Kinda puts Nova Scotia, Canada in a new light, doesn't it?

@DavidAndrewsPEC

9 жыл бұрын

Kinda does, even though it was called La Nouvelle France before it was called Nova Scotia. I wonder if there's any connection at this level between Highland Scotland, Maritime Canada and Finland - the granite seems to be the same sort of stuff in all these places.

@TheOtherGuys2

9 жыл бұрын

David Andrews There could well be. I'm not entirely sure of the path of tectonic movements, but it seems to make sense that Scandinavia could have once been in the same line as the Highlands and the Appalachians.

@DavidAndrewsPEC

9 жыл бұрын

TheOtherGuys2 Indeed .... ***** - any idea?

@DavidAndrewsPEC

9 жыл бұрын

Seán O'Nilbud YAY! Thank you for that! :)

@cherylhopper6076

9 жыл бұрын

Not really. It puts Scotland in a new light, though. Imagine Scotland, once being part of Canada.

That's interesting. Hillbillies, or mountain folk, "Appalachian Americans", in the US are predominantly of Scottish descent. They were given the nickname because they lived in the mountains and supported King William III.

@dontspikemydrink9382

5 жыл бұрын

Wrong video

@jameshoffa7085

2 жыл бұрын

@@dontspikemydrink9382 Are you deaf? 1:28 moron

wish there was an accompanying animated graphic :(

I live in canada and my boyfriend currently lives in scotland and this warmed my heart

You make amazing videos, always look forward to your stuff. Thanks

WOW. My mom has Scottish Canadian roots so this is a neat way of tying us all together

Wow. When I was in Scotland I was thinking that these look like more like the Smooky mountains than the Rockies. Turns out there is a reason.

Great video and I particularly love the voice audio on this one.

Knowing that continents are moving at the same rate that my fingernails grow is a lot faster than I was thinking

Nova Scotia suddenly realizing they’re just the old Scotia but moved somewhere else. Scots spent weeks sailing across the ocean looking for new land to settle, only to end up on the literal same land.

***** love your videos, man! Always educational and informational without losing the sense of wonder and appreciation. Keep it up!

Wow, Tom. This one was super fascinating. Thanks!

Great as always, Mr. Scott

Fascinating! Thank you Tom 😁👍

Dude where's my citation needed. You're gonna make me go crazy

@maxximumb

9 жыл бұрын

***** We need more!!!!

@twoedgedmind

9 жыл бұрын

Would you say... You have a need for citation?

@iDEaXANA

9 жыл бұрын

sure dude...

@tsgillespiejr

9 жыл бұрын

twoedgedmind Citation Needed needed.

@RobMacKendrick

3 жыл бұрын

Fellow nerd: you can't bring Wikipedia into the real world. Out here it's all we can do to prevent three people from buying up all the toilet paper on the planet. (Note complete lack of discussion page about that.)

thank you for all your awesome videos! (i also really love the ones on computerphile)

Wow. Your videos are always interesting, but this one is just...wow. So cool.

How have I never stumbled across this video before? I thought I had every single Tom Scott video, but this one is new to me, what the hell youtube

My family is from Appalachia-maybe this explains why I’m so fascinated with Scotland

i’m from nova scotia and it absolutely stunned me how the landscape behind the castle in scotland looks identical to the cabot trail. scotland is one of my dream destinations not for my ancestral roots but for its stunning resemblance to my lifetime home ❤🇨🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

That is really, really cool! Almost cool enough to break my long-standing habit of poking fun at the Appalachians for being smaller than my native mountain range. (I really ought to be more respectful of their seniority...)

@coweatsman

9 жыл бұрын

They used to be far higher of the order of the height of the Rockies are but have eroded over time.

A bit more of Scotland in Newfoundland, eh? Not just the people?

@empath69

7 жыл бұрын

Ironically, there's not that much Scots blood over here - mostly Irish with a smattering of the rest of the British Isles. And the western side of the island, where that part of the fault lies? That was settled by the Basque Spain/Portugal. This DOES explain why Gros Morne and the like are so gorgeous. :D

@thephoenix3155

5 жыл бұрын

Jaded Empath Newfoundland has similar scenery to Scotland.

Best part of this vid is that after hearing it misused in hundreds of other youtube videos, this is the fist time I've heard the word "literally" used correctly. Bravo!

@marysiamilach8460

4 жыл бұрын

I didn't caught that because my mind decided to focus on "ocean apart" and now I'm blasting Richard Marx

I live in New England, and the Appalachin mountains run through it under different local names. It runs up into Canada and Newfoundland as stated. Scottish long haired Cattle I've seen in Maine are actually their home mountains, j an ocean away from Scotland.

This is one of my favorite SYMNHK episodes. I live in central Pennsylvania in the USA, and the Appalachians are part of my commute.

Thanks!!! Very nice video!

I usually don't write this, but thank you for the great content!

wow, that's impressive. surely going to see it in a different light when i'm visiting scotland this summer!

Wow, that is cool. Good job Scott!

As a Canadian this makes me so happy :)

@brox6077

Жыл бұрын

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🤝 🇨🇦 greetings from Scotland!

I love how the wind in the background sounds like Boulders and rocks moving.

That's really interesting! Where were you when my teachers were failing to convince me that geography was cool.

I love these videos I always end them think I never knew that! So wonderful

Nice to see Tom at my favourite place in Britain.

Fascinating yet again!

That's astounding! I never knew about that connection between Scotland and Canada and the Appalachian Mountains in the US.

@dumkopf

9 жыл бұрын

Mind blowing.

Learned about this when I was in Nova Scotia (New Scotland)

Mind = Blown I don't have the passion or temperament for geology, but sometimes its really cool!

I was there a couple of weeks back! Aw, if I'd known, I'd have recommended some pubs and some cheap but awesome places to stay

You have such beauty in your voice!

Scotland and Appalachia share more than geology, there's an ethnographic link as well. America has eleven rough national identities, cultural blocks that show sharp divisions between them that don't necessarily line up with state boundaries, and the one that covers the Appalachians is culturally and genetically linked with Highlanders who historically were a bit clannish, independent, small farm focused and strongly opposed to outside control and influence, distinct from Dixie which like its big plantations and hierarchies and is just a lot more English. The Scottish settlers that eventually became the Appalachian people must've felt right at home in those mountains.

Hey Scott! When where you in Tromsoe? Great vid.

When I was white water rafting in West Virginia I made the comment to my dad that it looked like we were in Scotland... this is amazing.

Norway: cool. Scotland: cool. Canada: cool. Coool. Usa also has fault lines.

I love being a Canadian Scott

Life on Earth is 3 billion years old. The Cambrian explosion of terrestrial, multi-cellular life was 500 million years ago. These two places were one mountain range when life on land was still relatively new, before FIVE of the six biggest extinction events!

Today's TYMNK is mind-blowing, thanks Tom

I know im late to the party, but id love to see someone animate Tom's videos. Like, show me what he's talking about on a big animated map. It'd just be cool to see.

these facts hold some sort of poetic beauty..

Im from Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia or ’New Scotland' - My next tab in Safari is google maps and I just spent some time imaging where/how the puzzle pieces of earth could fit together when playing with the time.

I always wondered why music and dance in the appellations, are similar to Scottish forms

Great video Tom, but now it's my turn to be "that guy": Newfoundland rhymes with "understand".

This really blew my mind.

This is so weird I literally just heard about this yesterday and it was from a know bser so I was skeptical but ig my phone listened to the convo and here one of my favorite youtubers already did a video on it

This is officially the best Tom hairstyle

Tom Scottland everyone!

truly wonderful

It's so interesting that the places we're connected to geologically in North America are also the places with the most Scottish culture and genetics. Norway also once owned many of the islands in northwest Scotland. Is this just a coincidence, or is there something about this line which makes it easy to travel over? Were people over thousands of years just drawn to the landscapes which seemed familiar to them?

@a.i.l1074

9 ай бұрын

@@Scot699 Do more reading on the Lord of the Isles: it was often a Norwegian title. In Gaelic, the Western Isles are known as "Innse Gall", land of the foreigner. The "foreigner" here is Scandanavians. 's e gach latha latha na sgoile!

That is pretty cool and interesting.

that's very interesting. I have looked at that part of scotland on the map and thought that looks like a fault line, and now I know it is!

I'm from 2021, I'm here because this video is mentioned in Tom's "I asked an AI for video ideas, and they were actually good" video.

Wow. I never knew I lived like 2 hours away from the foothills of the Scottish highlands

Maybe I just missed something here, but did the very tectonic (wrong term?) plates underneath the landmasses break apart, or is there like one continuous fall (wrong term?) all the way from Canada to Scotland?

Great phrase to end a video with :)

Impressive expression, love it!

I live in the foothills of the Appalachian mountains, and I've noticed that these mountains and foothills look so damn similar to areas in Scotland and Ireland. I always wondered why.... Now I know.

i live in cape breton,nova scotia. which is basically an island made from the same fault. i can actually look out my window, well nearly all my windows and see the mountain range which the base of is maybe 30 kms away also, nova scotia means new scotland, named by king james xi

That was beautiful man

Wow, I have actually been there!

That's so freaking cool!

One consequence of this fault line is that Loch Ness is one of the deepest lakes in Great Britain and contains more fresh water than all the lakes in England and Wales combined. Loch Lomand has a larger surface area but is less deep.

And the Appalachian Mountains and the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas were at one time a single mountian range.

I wonder if you can if the same sides of two Mountains?

Well, hopefully you brought Tree Fitty with ya, otherwise you gon have some trouble wit dat loch ness monster.

I came from Scotland and now live in Canada.

Locally, here in Cape Breton, we have in our Highlands (Cape Breton Highlands) the Aspy fault. Our Highlands look identical to the Scottish Highlands, too!

@James_Knott

8 ай бұрын

Did you know Cape Breton separated from Nova Scotia in 1784 and has been an island ever since? 🙂

@johnnytarponds9292

8 ай бұрын

@@James_Knott 1784? Do tell!