Uploads from Tom Scott
743 videos · Tom Scott
- Why trains don't usually crash into each other
- I took a long walk on a dangerous beach.
- The mist that keeps the Tyne Tunnels safe
- I should not have liked the world’s first smart home.
- If you found candy with my name in it, here's why.
- Hello from inside a tiny boat.
- I was not prepared for a mannequin that can bleed.
- These people walk towards mining disasters.
- "I feel like I've just destroyed evidence!"
- They can fly 200 miles with no fuel. Here's how.
- I helped break a 142-year-old bell, and that's okay.
- I left YouTube two years ago. Time to come back.
- After ten years, it's time to stop weekly videos.
- People are going to be angry about pylons.
- Why the government drops flies on California
- A robot just swapped my electric car's battery
- Why don't subtitles match dubbing?
- Why use many streetlights when one will do?
- These tiny ships have a serious purpose
- Every mistake I've made since 2014.
- Does the language you speak change how you think?
- Boarding planes could have been very different
- 0-100 in less than a second. And I'm driving.
- there’dn’t’ve
- I finally rode the weird, curved German elevator.
- The largest telescope that will ever be built*
- Spherical houses weren't a great idea.
- How languages steal words from each other
- This library has every book ever published.
- Why are adverts so loud?
- This man built his office inside an elevator
- No-one built these for 5,000 years… until now.
- This town throws pennies at people. They hurt.
- This town banned cars (except tiny electric ones)
- Storing dead people at -196°C
- A bear found my GoPro and took a selfie
- Grizzly bear GoPro selfie: raw unedited footage
- If this survives for an hour, it passes the Bear Test.
- I thought this rotating house was impossible.
- How can you legally fly a plane designed in 1910?
- The first jungle gym was meant to hack kids' brains
- The cable car that you pedal by hand
- I had to throw out my script about this submarine simulator
- No-one knows how explosions work (yet)
- This is an excuse to show you a really good tunnel
- Shake tables are way more complex than I thought
- The people who get paid to get sick
- The world's cleanest railway
- How they saved the holes in Swiss cheese
- The military base where you drive over the runway
- It's the Matrix, but for locusts.
- This tiny hovercraft went viral.
- I rode the world's fastest train.
- I climbed inside a giant robotic parking garage
- This bus transforms into a train
- Things are changing at the world's oldest hotel
- The city with a hundred private cable cars
- This is “impossible”, but New Zealand is trying anyway.
- This café sends food through pneumatic tubes
- I tried using AI. It scared me.
- Google gave the Shweeb $1,000,000.
- Why Australia bottles up its air
- I took a ride on a moving radio telescope
- These chickens save lives.
- This rollercoaster doesn't stop automatically
- The "architecture graveyard" is alive and well
- Doing robotic surgery on a copy of myself
- I was wrong (and so was everyone)
- The US government is giving out free wasps
- Firing radioactive stuff at high speed under city streets
- Cheap, renewable, clean energy. There's just one problem.
- Why build a diving board twice the Olympic height?
- This river can be switched on and off
- This electric ferry uses a very long extension cord
- Is Poland's tap water really protected by clams?
- The government approves of this shark now.
- This 1970s tank simulator drives through a tiny world
- Keeping the world's longest railroad tunnel safe
- I finally found a useful monorail.
- I thought the treadmill crane was fictional.
- Why do YouTubers clap at the start of videos?
- How much helium does it take to lift a person?
- This is the most interesting roof in London.
- This massive truck makes artificial earthquakes
- Why the US Army electrifies this water
- Delivering mail by jumping from a moving boat
- How the US Postal Service reads terrible handwriting
- A geyser that shoots sparkling mineral water
- The world's largest walking robot
- I visited the Yellowstone Zone of Death
- Flying here is (surprisingly) legal
- A working flight simulator, no computers necessary
- This clock was famous, but the internet ruined it.
- Can you really drive while facing backwards?
- It's a pile of mining waste. Want to go skiing on it?
- Maybe rich people should build weird fountains again
- I rode a giant mechanical elephant. You can too.
- The massive Fatigue Carousel helps keep roads safe
- I flew with birds. You can too.
- You're not allowed in this cave. But there's a copy.