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• Do The Numbers On Toas...
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• The Sundial That Works...
• Britain's End-of-the-W...
• The Collapsed Dam That...
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• Why You Should Write D...
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Corrections to THIS video are under this AD: 👨💻 NordVPN's best deal is here: nordvpn.com/tomscott - with a 30-day money-back guarantee. - Yes, I messed up a video title caption - No, thermal turbines DO spin thousands of times per minute. Wind turbines don't, but I wasn't talking about wind turbines in that sentence! - I might have butchered the toaster explanation again but honestly at this point just go look at Alec's video, it's better
Its hit youtuber tom scott
awesomesauce
It's always a good idea to look at Alec's videos, tbh. *smooth jazz intensifies*
No one seems more harsh on you than you. Please give yourself a break. Your videos are great and I'm going to miss them when you stop.
you really need to stop being so harsh on yourself. you're doing your best and your best has entertained millions
Don't know if you'll see this Tom, but it's Max from the British Library here. Your video about us resulted an absolute tidal wave of new submissions to our web archive, SMASHING previous records. The good you did for the UK's web archiving vastly outweighs a tiny mistake, which was my fault too for not picking up on it when we filmed! Best of luck with whatever you're up to 🙌
that is great news!!
This is such a lovely message! I hope that the rate of new submissions continues to increase
awesome!
such a sweet message, that's good, I hope it's still going well. Actually, I am from only a stones throw away from the British Library.
That's amazing!
The fact this video is only 12 minutes long means you've made a hell of a lot less mistakes than me.
What are some of your major mistakes then be it financial career wise relationships anything you mind sharing on here
*fewer
*fewer mistakes ;-)
*fewer :)
*fewer
When Tom can fit every mistake he made over 10 years in a short 12-minute video, you know he's an extremely powerful entity.
Most youtube videos would requre a video 3 times longer to just list all the mistakes in them
Especially considering he spends time explaining the mistakes and correcting them as well.
More powerful than Shaggy?
the mistake that are "significant enough" and that are recognized enough for Tom to know it by now
Except the mistakes he missed
Tom's humility is an example for us all. What a brilliant human being
He honestly is a paragon of excellence and I wish him nothing but success in his future.
I’ve spent nearly 9 years since the toaster video was made thinking about the bimetallic strips in my toaster doing their thing each time it pops. Gutted.
🤣
Im so sorry 😔
At least you now get the joy of watching the technology connections video on toasters!
And now I will be thinking about what you will be thinking about instead of bimetallic strips when I use my toaster 😮
@@rosethompson5511 And now I will be thinking about you thinking about what they will be thinking about instead of bimetallic strips when I use my toaster 😮
This man has only made 12 minutes worth of mistakes across almost 10 years. Incredible
Right? I could do a 12 minute video of this week... 😂
(He did skip a bunch of mistakes though)
hi nuclearpikachu
This is just a flex and im here for it
@@hightalenttraining7546 this week? You meant 'today' right? :P
"You should never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity" - this is probably one of the best lines I've ever heard!
That's why it's a famous quote
unoriginal
@@awp-erator4525most stuff in the universe is unoriginal
@@amsyarzero special ed take
@@awp-erator4525 unoriginal
I love that you still put a KZhead ad right when he says “time for a break” like you did in the original video. That got a good laugh out of me.
I dont think he chooses where the ads go, I think it's just pure coincidence.
@@missdonutaltaccount1380 No they do can have the choice where to insert an ad. In the original video he did exactly the same
same lmao
I never, EVER get ads on Tom Scott videos. What’s up with that? I’m not using an ad blocker and I get ads for any other video. I assumed he had ads disabled
Depends on your location, demographics etc@@salamander405
Putting the ads in right as Jeremy says "Time for a break" is the most Tom Scott thing ever
He did the same thing in the original video as well.
I personally exclaimed "you bastard, not again"
Nice try, tom, I'm still not disabling adblock.
Adblock on chrome or KZhead Vanced, ever heard of it? Unless you are on a CrApple.
I was watching while eating lunch, and part of my tuna sandwich ended up flying from mouth to screen at that moment. Perfect timing.
I love the attention to detail in these videos - placing the ad break immediately after the "time for a break" quote is just brilliant.
That was absolutely perfect 🤣
He did it in the original as well, if I recall correctly. Yet I still didn't see it coming. Hilarious.
I laughed out loud when that happened. Good stuff.
There's an ad?
Oh, so that wasn't just me. I was a bit taken aback by the coincidence. Then I cursed, naturally.
This video was filmed in Warsaw near the Poniatowski bridge, meaning either this was filmed when tom was filming the clams video, or this is where the next video will take place
You called it
Are you from there? Or are you just adept at Geoguessr?
Or maybe Tom simply moved to Warsaw?
Poniatowski Bridge is very recognizable if you've been in Warsaw for at least several days, it's a major transport artery of the polish capital. But also - came here to say just that, as a pole who studied in Warsaw :)
POLSKA GUROM !!1!
Tom, you're nothing short of an international treasure. Your integrity, professionalism, and honesty vastly outweighs the comically small list of errors included in your series. The Internet will be a dumber place without your regular scheduled videos, but you have more than earned the right to rest.
Wow, I wish I could fit every mistake I've made into a 12 minute video!
Same
I mean...these are only his public mistakes, that made it into a video ;)
Ive learned a lot from my mistakes so i decided to make more to learn more.
To be fair, Tom's leaving out editing errors, mistakes in his other series, and mistakes that were only recorded for blackmail purposes.
_gestures to all of me_
There actually is a mistake in this video: at 8:31 the on-screen graphics attribute the error to the previous video rather than to "Britain once forgot how long an inch is". Especially ironically, this is immediately after you say that errors in on-screen graphics don't count, during the clip which has an error in its onscreen graphics.
I would like to imagine that this was an artistic choice, but I can see this being a genuine error
@@Not_Tails definitely feels like a genuine error since he doesn't actually mention the video in specific in the script specifically so it would've been harder to catch
Also at 1:59 he says "variable resistors charged by capacitors". You can't charge a resistor! He meant capacitors charged through variable resistors.
And so he was correct 😂 And also apologised for it in advance.. Gotta love this man
and a lot of toasters sold today still use bimetallic strips
Tom, I’m a teenager in India, and your videos have played an immense role in my childhood. They helped cultivate an interest in science and learning in me at a young age, and even recently series like Tom’s Language Files have been extremely beneficial. I watched your videos almost religiously until this year, and when I heard you were taking a break, it left me shook for a couple of days. But nevertheless, you’re an incredible person and I will forever be grateful for the role you played in my childhood.
Open bob and vagene
the fact that this video is only 12 minutes long is just a testament to how much care Tom has in his research
Your humbleness and integrity is going to be sorely missed when this series ends.
I mean it's not like it's his only series.
Tom is one of the most honest, down-to-earth KZheadrs out there man. Not everyone puts in the effort to correct their mistakes in research and set the record straight. Thanks, Tom!
Exactly! Off the top of my head, I can think of Technology Connections' dishwasher video and Overly Sarcastic Productions' bad history playlist, but not many more
Only because he knows what gets the most views. Don't be fooled.......Well, you already have .
I met him in Phantasialand in september of this year. My friend and I had seen him walking by and we weren't sure it was him, but when we exited a rollercoaster we saw him eating something. We mustered up the courage and said hi and thank you for all his videos. He gave me an elbow since his hands were dirty from eating a taco or something. We clearly startled him a bit (kinda felt bad for it afterwards) but he remained really nice and friendly, such a great human being
@@Coolcarting You know that until then, he had a /errors page and painstakingly annotated corrections to his past videos?
While he recommends a Vpn that handles all your data and claims privacy! Like how does he know that they are safe. Just so you know they give away that data when the government knocks . Responsible 0%
9:29 I know you aren't counting mispronunciations but I just had to be that guy. Geelong is pronounced juh-long, as Australians love to reduce the amount of effort used to articulate their sentences as much as physically possible for some reason. (possibly the most miniscule error ever but I was searching for one for irony's sake and Tom is really good at this)
I think we reduce the amount of effort in articulation to keep the flies out of our mouths.... just a theory. ;)
I love Tom. That’s all I think whenever he posts. No one else is so committed to this combination of truth, details, humor and topic diversity. He’s just so cool.
Like a bloopers video, except actually reflecting on what went wrong and why? Love it!
It'll be Alright on the Night
@@J4hk3 One of my favorite Tom Scott videos!
I love the way Tom serves the internet by doing what it was created for, exchanging information. Tom has always collected as much information (and fact checked it)as he could just for us to devour in a weekly video. And to come clean after ten years to correct yourself with a final factcheck just shows how seriously he takes this. Tom , thankyou for 10 years of entertainment!!!
I don't like your implication that the original purpose of a thing is the only thing that thing should be used for even into the future.
@Blue-Maned_Hawk that isnt necessarily the implication. And it seems like an unnecessary guard to take up.
@@Blue-Maned_Hawk They said "They love", expressing their appreciation for it. They never made a comparison to other potential uses. Your interpretation was a strawman. My interpretation is that they're saying it's "poetic" or otherwise satisfying to see Tom embodying the same spirit as the Internet's pioneers.
The way he said Geelong made me physically shudder. (For anyone wondering, it's usually pronounced, at least by people who live there, as "juh-long".)
Guess we found this video's mistake
@@poletooke4691 well that's a pronounciation-mistake tho, it's technically still true
@@wawacat6568 I'm sure there's a city somewhere that is pronounced the way he said it and so he messed up the truth by referring to a different city instead :P
I felt exactly the same way 🤢 Geeeeeelong
Haha I was like ‘oh no, poor Geelong’ :-P that being said across the universe of KZheadrs talking about Australia, I feel like Melbourne and Brisbane seem to have the most unique pronunciations. That being said, someone from Sydney once asked me where Mordialloc was, and they pronounced it More-die-allock, and I was like… sorry where?
It is incredible Tom's ongoing maintenance of integrity. He even has his fact checkers looking for mistakes during this very video at @9:02.
I just wanna say thank you for being so honest and having so much transparency
I think it is because he is a scienc-esque guy. But yes, its rare to watch a journalist who is just facts an no conscious bias, and im also very happy about that
Most journalists are great! Just not many of them that are on American cable-“news” programs, which are mostly editorial.
Fox News did this and the end video was 60000000 years long.
Every newspaper and journal has a corrections section. Maybe you should check on that before you spout nonsense. Nobody is free of mistakes. And getting into monopolisation of media & news is an entire different and lengthy topic. If you said Tiktok it'd been closer to something that makes sense.
@@kleinerprinz99 Yes, hidden in some back section you have to go looking for, while the original completely false story remains on the front page.
The fact that the civ ghandi bug never happened and yet it's such a big part of the civilization franchise's history blows my mind.
Technically it did exist, as an intentional feature in Civilization V.
@@sugar_700 well they made that feature as a reference to the bug. Which apparently didn't exist.
@@OmiGundam777 That makes a lot of sense. Don't let anyone gaslight you into thinking that you're just misremembering. There are countless timeline changes that have left not only memories but tangible artifacts of having originally been what they are remembered as being. Ed McMahon delivering big checks for Publishers Clearing House is one of the most blatant changes. But now it no longer ever happened.
@@johnnydiez2549No need for conspiracy theories like timeline changes when human memory is so incredibly unreliable.
@@johnnydiez2549 Provide evidence for how timeline changes could possibly happen, or show why on earth it would be more sensible to believe that over the known fallibility of human memory.
Massive props to you Tom, not a lot of people are willing to correct their mistakes, and fewer are willing to make a video reflecting on all the ones they've made. Great work as always!
Thanks for teaching everyone that mistakes are ok so long as we acknowledge them and try to improve. It's scary walking up to the board when you think you have to be perfect...less so when being human is allowed. And thanks for sharing your time with us all these years.
1:59 Correction: That would be capacitors charged via variable resistors. A resistor does not hold a charge.
well he was not wrong when he said there will probably be an error in this video lmao
next video: “every mistake i’ve made since november 13 2023”
Another one at 5:40 too, wind turbines don't spin and thousands of times per minute :)
@@RacingSlowAnd I'm not sure they're made of steel. Isn't it glass fiber?
@@RacingSlow You need to listen more carefully. He said that he was talking about *thermal* turbines - (as a comparison to wind turbines). And yes, thermal turbines rotate thousands of times per minute.
Worth noting that the Gandhi thing does exist, just not as a bug but an intended feature in Civ 5 in 2010. The claim of a bug in the original game started around 2 years later in 2012 when it appeared on fact sites and TV Tropes. It wasn't till 2020 that the game's creator, Sid Meir, said it wasn't even possible for the bug to occur due to how aggression was programmed.
That’s wild. Why was it an intended feature then?
@@DeathnoteBB It was put in as a reference to the story about the "bug", because it was so popular
@@Will-fl3hj, except the story about the bug being in the earlier games didn't seem to exist (let alone be popular) until after the fifth game.
I now need to wonder if this might still be true.. consider the original CIV 1 was on so many system and I bet at least one had that cook up. we just copy paste translate the code and fix what the complile yells at (I knew games whoes porting quality was that bad).
@@Zack_Wester , according to the ones that wrote the programming for the game, the code wasn't even set up in such a way that the bug could have existed. The explanation for how the bug worked came from a random person on the internet and didn't even accurately represent how the game was coded. So it only could have existed in a complete knock off and not in any version of the actual game.
Once a week Tom brings me a little happiness. Often I learn something, sometimes I laugh, but I always smile. I'm not ready for these videos to end ☹
Tom you are the epitome of KZhead. Thank you for these years. Thank you for this. Thank you for feeding my curiosity for years. Truly, thank you
You're one of the great presenters on YT and will be missed. I enjoy that you don't splice 20 cuts for 40 seconds of talking.
don't worry. he's not going away entirely. he's just making any uploads whenever he feels like an upload is truly necessary, not on a schedule.
@@SageArdortrue but a schedule provides consistency that I think we’ll all miss
@@RvB_Fan_since_8atleast if he ever didn't have a good idea then he wouldn't have to upload it
Totally love that the ad break for youtube ads kicks at 08:42 just after Clarkson says, "time for a break". Perfect timing 😂
Same for me 😅
recommend revanced and uBlock Origin
Creators can insert ad breaks so they land somewhere convenient btw
@@NazuikoThey still can? I thought KZhead ads rules has many changes
@@Nazuiko Which is why I was complimenting Tom on his timing...
Lots of love Tom. Your videos have been a real staple to me and to many others I’m sure. It’s been an honor to partake in this portion of your human experience. I wish you only joy in whichever endeavor you take on next.
Awesome video, but just as awesome were the people digging up muck behind Tom. I loved their dialogue (in my head) about "great muck over here" and "a watery tart lobbing swords about is no basis for a system of government!"
If every notable mistake you made in 10 years fits in 12 minutes of video including the original footage, that’s a hell of a track record. It might be closure for you, but it’s a very entertaining recap of Tom Scott for the rest of us.
Mad props to you for creating a video that showcases your mistakes! It shows your dedication to giving correct information, which not enough people are focused on.
This is why I've followed your videos for years. The humility to admit your mistakes and improve constantly is testament to what you are trying to do.
Just a reminder: never ever feel bad for making a mistake. I know we all learn this in school, but it's a human thing, just be honest about it. Without any mistakes, you won't learn as much.
Jein. Be honest about it for sure. But for some mistakes one should feel bad.
We used to learn that in school but these days they seem to reward failure with praise in schools, so I'm not so sure.
Yes but to express the mistakes you made and the associated feelings is a healthy way to self reflect
@@Thurgosh_OG hang around schools a lot still, do you?
Wether it's school or work: you learn by making mistakes./ Just recently I made a somewhat huge mistake with very little impact (thankfully). I owned up to it and I learned from it big time. By all means, make (non-lethal, supervised) mistakes.
Let’s just hope Tom didn’t mistakenly forget to include every single mistake he’s made since 2014.
I was about to say, this video surely introduced a new mistake if it assumes that all mistakes have been caught. There's always something!
Mad respect, Tom. All these years and videos is a lot of work for entertaining us. Not only that, you're a man that embraces admitting mistakes rather than gloss over or hide them. You are the man.
Thank you for this honest video! So many more people should try video formats like this. (even at work, in project management, etc.)
Congrats Tom. It isn't easy to carry on a show for 10 years, let alone critiquing every piece of work you make. Awesome commitment for going over your mistakes and correcting them!
Tom Scott has a bio that says "These are some of the things I've made and done. They'll probably come back to haunt me in a few years' time." I guess now is the time they're back to haunt him. What a nice closing arc for the series.
Your honesty is so refreshing. Thanks for being honest.
It will be a sad day when Tom posts his last regular Monday video. But he's earned a hell of a break plus it's not like he doesn't have several other (thankfully metaphorical) plates spinning. Do as he says and watch/listen to Lateral. It's one of my favorite podcasts and it's always a welcome sight to see a new episode in my list. Thanks for all the videos Tom and I look forward to any little bits that you release in whatever forms they may take!
Lateral is what I listen to on Saturdays as I cook lunch :) Very enjoyable!
I’m hoping for more technical difficulties videos
@@philash824 Totally! I hope there's more Tech Diff. I really like the "two of us are lying" format.
Agreed! Lateral is my favourite podcast. I'm so glad Tom said it's not stopping at the moment.
Honestly, I have immense respect for the creators who go back and are willing to admit their mistakes and do good by correcting them. There are those who willingly spread false statements by refusing to admit when they're wrong or knowingly make false statements and they simply can't be trusted. When someone is willing to say "I was wrong and here's the correction," I know that they can be trusted... At least as far as one can trust a personality on KZhead. Thank you for this, Tom.
Always appreciate when someone acknowledges and attempts to correct their mistakes, takes a big person to do that
I appreciated the YT adbreak you planned at 8.40 and had a good laugh while watching it instead of skipping! Thank you for your 10 years of putting puns in your videos. I loved every one of them!
Don’t worry Tom. Lots of things in the world went horribly wrong in 2016
I know right?? People forget 2016, it was a hell of a year
You're talking about Leicester City winning the Premier League right?
Oh so it really wasn't just my life that went downhill back then
Chicago Cubs won the World Series. Ireland beat the All Blacks in Rugby (in Chicago, no less).
Wait ... what went so horribly wrong in 2016?
As an Aussie, hearing Tom say GEE-long rather than Gee-LONG just makes me laugh and i have no idea why
Thanks I wanted to tag that too
Oh same😂 I even live near there! It's more like g-long 😅 (with a soft g like in Geordie)
@@darqebri2887 I'd write pronunciation as "Je-long"
This unforgivable error requires a separate video! 😂
It's not far from "Mel-born."
One of my favorite things about Tom Scott videos is the whole “one take” lecture mantra. Much appreciate the higher attention span aspect of the videos.
I've literally never watched one of these videos before so I'm not sure why this was the video youtube recommended to me but I found it very entertaining and am impressed by your attention to detail and effort to correct yourself so I guess youtube got it right. Happy holidays everyone
Hey! No idea why you are standing by the Vistula river in Warsaw for this video, but it's great to see you in my city. Thanks a lot for the last 10 years and all the best for the next decade from your Polish audience.
I noticed as well, lovely warszawa
Huh, I wouldn't have guessed. Wonder what he's doing there.
So glad to see that intellectual honesty isn't dead on youtube! Thank you for striving to be factually correct, if only more youtubers were like this!
Honestly the only thing I can find to say is the massive respect I've got for your work ethic and seeing how you obviously value accuracy and truth in your videos, I never had any doubt that if any of your videos had any mistakes, they were never by any means intentional. I'd also agree with others that a 12 minutes video to cover the mistakes made in almost 10 years is just so little, it's proof in itself of how good your research and videos are!
Congratulations for the courage and hard work that it takes to find, check and admit your own mistakes. The simple fact of admitting mistakes makes me trust you more. Much respect.
Tom Scott not only owns up to his mistakes but makes an entire video to highlight that they even happened. And to top it off it's entertaining to watch! This man is an absolute legend 👌
Funny thing: watching this, I thought I recognized the trams and the bridge in the background- turns out this was filmed in Warsaw!!
Came to see if anyone else has noticed that as well!
I recognized it too
*Always loved your work Tom. Credit to you for owing your mistakes. If everyone could do this, we would live in nirvana*
Immediately I noticed Poniatowski bridge in the background due to living here in Warsaw. I hope that I'm correct and the last shot of Warsaw Spire is a teaser to a video that you're working on! If so I love that you sneakly included that, it's an awesome touch!
As a German I thought "Schutzwaffen" would mean weapons Swiss people use for self-defense or defending their country, seeing that many Swiss people have guns at home.
It would, that's what the translator thought as well. But he said 'Schusswaffen'.
@@Pfooh Oh, I see. Sorry.
@@Pfooh I am wondering if this has something to do with where Tom's Germans are actually from and what type of accent they are used to hearing. I am from Austria and I definitley heard the man say 'Schusswaffen' and not 'Schutzwaffen'. I would also like to note that 'Schutzwaffen' usually refers to passive weapons like armour rather than active weaponry like firearms used for defensive purposes.
Swiss German has to be the weirdest European language/dialect. It sound like a Dutchie speaking German.
@@rogink Didn't know Dutchie has another meaning also. I always thought it only refers to... umm... something recreational.
"you should never attribute to malice, what can be adequately explained by stupidity" 10:52 🙂 Nice one!
I agree. Great quote.
Tom, I love your interesting videos. Thank you for being so organized and professional! You make the internet a great place!
Never thought I would hear Geelong in a Tom Scott video! Even if he got the intonation wrong 😅
that’s why toms the best, he does his research and when he’s wrong he admits it
5:45 Mistake in the correction, too. *Turbines do not spin thousands of times per minute.* That, too, would be incredibly fast. The correct time frame to reach thousands is a full hour.
I also puzzled over this statement. 😅
The turbines in a thermal power plant (like coal) for spin thousands of times per minute. A wind turbine does not, but he was talking about thermal ones.
Also the blades aren't made of steel heh
I think Tom intentially left it here as a home exercise!
In a steam or gas turbine driven alternator in a modern power station the rotor runs at precisely 3000 rpm in a grid providing 50 Hz power, or 3600 rpm in 60 Hz systems. The rotational speed is derived from the number of poles in the alternator and the power frequency. So yes, it does rotate a thousands of revolutions per minute.
Don't be so hard on yourself, your videos have inspired me for years and I appreciate all your efforts. Keep up the good work, mistakes are invertible, in fact some of the greatest discoveries were made by "mistake". So keep pushing and keep up the great work
Great video. I for one appreciate that you've been willing to keep up older videos. While it might be embarassing, it is helpful for people to be able to see how far you have come. I hope the next ten years bring you many more creative endeavors :)
I have played Civilization 1 when it originally came out. When playing the version which came on floppy disks and had "copy protection" that required you to answer questions from the manual to keep playing; Gandhi would threaten you with nuclear weapons. When playing later versions of the same game, such as from the Sid Meier's collection on CD, he didn't. Rather than a collective, international false memory; I think we are talking about a simple post-release bug fix.
I seem to recall it being a thing too and I used to play on Macs (at least I think it was Macs) from some pirated copy probably.
People Make Games have a video about Nuclear Gandhi. Worth checking out.
Putting the KZhead ads at 8:43 actually made me laugh.
Really appreciate you doing this kind of thing given the vast amount of misinformation (and even disinformation) online. This is one of the many reasons you have built up such a large following who respect what you do. Plus, if you can summarise all of your mistakes across 10 years in just 12 minutes, you're not doing badly at all!
Kudos for addressing mistakes you made. Not everyone owns up to their mistakes- let alone learns from them. Hence why I tend to applaud those who do. Keep it up.
I love the irony of pronouncing Geelong wrong in a video about mistakes (Juh-LONG vs JEE-long) G-Town also works 😆
I'd disagree slightly. Correctly pronounced it's Jee-LONG. Still a "long e", but the stress placed on the second syllable. Of course, in common speech the 'e' is eventually abbreviated to non-existence, hence 'j-LONG', or 'juh-LONG' if you then slow it back down.
This is definitely going to be one of those things where the end version has multiple iterations still, correcting over itself again and again. - Final - Final V2 - Final Last - Final Final - Last Final v2 - Last Final v3 - Maybe not the last final version.
I applaud your tenacity, to call out yourself on the information that you reported on was incorrect, admirable sir. I wish every social media communicator could find it their hearts to do the same.
I respect a man of accountability, willing to admit his mistakes. It's why you're one of the best, Tom!
You may have hated to write this script, but I admired your honesty and humbleness! This video is truly inspiring!
The irony in that you've made a mistake in the video title at 8:30! It's still the video title from Fetch-Execute Cycle! In seriousness: Great work, Tom, I don't think *anyone* else on the platform would put quite this much effort into correcting themselves.
This is a fantastic video. Kudos to you for accepting mistakes and pointing them out. Not enough people would ever consider this.
Anybody else got an advert at the exact moment Clarkson finished saying "Time for a break"? Perfect timing... And Tom, don't beat yourself up too much over a couple of silly errors. Your videos are awesome. Thanks for them =)
I am going to miss the guarantee of a Tom video every Monday but I am still grateful for everything you have made and everything to come; enjoy being able to take a proper break Tom!
Your dedication to accuracy and humility and public learning is a model for us all. Thank you!
I absolutely adore that you take the time to make videos like this. We will truly be at a loss once you finally stop making videos.
One mistake that I still remember is from your video on high and low explosives. In that video you talked about how high explosives are safer, due to them needing some additional explosive charge to set them off - you were actually describing primary secondary and tertiary explosives.
Tom, did you intentionally mark the break for ads at the exact time he said "And now, it's time for a break"? That was very funny! If in 9 years of dozens and dozens of videos you only made this much mistakes, then you've done an excellent job!
There's also the *same* ad break in the referenced video, iirc
I also received an ad at this point too haha
Thats amazing ahah
i got an ad too
It could be that KZhead scans every video for people saying things like that…? Or Tom designated the ad space when he uploaded it. Not sure.
A man like this, who spreads colossal amounts of knowledge but still has the ability to admit when he is wrong and keep learning deserves absolute respect and should serve as an example to all future generations.
I think the point is other than most people on KZhead you make things interesting because of your passion and personality. Everyone fucks up, watching you learn from the mistakes restores my faith in humanity
You make great videos, Tom. I've enjoyed watching them over the years.
Not long until the end. Well deserved break, but will be missed in our feeds 😢
Tom, you have been more integral and honest than even some of the role models I have had growing up. Integrity like yours is increasingly valuable in this world. Your fan base appreciates you!
Love your work Tom. With a video like this, I really feel that we should forgive you for these mistakes. I look forward to your next one in another 10 years time 😄
Way to go Tom 👏👏 not everyone is that courages in acknowledging their mistakes
As you said at the end that there would probably be a new error in this video, there does seem to be. You said that giant metal turbines spin at 1000s of times per minute rather than 1000s if times per second. 1000s of times per minute would still mean that the giant metal turbine is spinning at like 16 times a second which would still be at least a bit dangerous I think. Large scale turbines typically spin at about 20 rpm, although from some quick research (I didn't go crazy in depth on the research so I could be wrong) it seems like some smaller ones can reach about 400 rpm.
I did a quick google search and found a list of large scale industrial turbines from siemens energy. All of their turbines are designed to run at several thousand rpm and they have a 200MW model that runs at up to 18.000rpm. Thus i think the number in this video is likely correct.
@@Lumaraf1 I just did the same search and I couldn't find the same numbers for their wind turbines. I did see they had industrial steam turbines designed for those rpms, so that might have been what you were looking at.
@@NulTech Well Tom was talking about industrial steam turbines.
@@LPPokefan no indutrial steam turbines are used in heat generating plants such as coal, natural gas and nuclear. wind turbines are completely different than steam turbines
@@LPPokefan I take it back, you are right he actually was talking about thermal power plants, just standing on top of a wind turbine for some reason
Your videos gathered my attention for many years , thank you for the effort you and the people you work with put in to make these entertaining videos for us!
See, this is why you're awesome and trustworthy! Everyone makes mistakes and gets things wrong, but you never intentionally mislead and when you do make mistakes you own up to them with openness and humility which is the best anyone can do.
Love the fact that Tom kept his mistakes to a minimum all this time, and the NordVPN ad shorter than other KZheadrs.
An impressively small amount of mistakes considering the huge number of videos that cover such a vast breadth of subjects. So much respect that you would highlight the mistakes in this way.