Behind The Scenes with Adam Savage

Some behind-the-scenes footage from Adam Savage's visit to the Royal Society. More links below ↓↓↓
See Adam's appearances on Objectivity here:
• How to Duel (feat. Ada...
• An Expected Comet (fea...
And the videos from his own Tested channel here:
• Adam Savage Meets an O...
• Adam Savage vs The "Pe...
• The Most Important Sci...
Objectivity on Patreon: / objectivity
Subscribe to Objectivity: bit.ly/Objectivity_Sub
Films by James Hennessy and Brady Haran
Royal Society website: bit.ly/Royal_Society
The Royal Society's own KZbin channel: / royalsociety
Facebook: / objectivityvideos
Twitter: / objectivity_vid
Patron thank you page: www.bradyharanblog.com/objecti...
Objectivity T-Shirts: teespring.com/stores/objectivity

[@Tsanislav]

**"And around here one guy is the main man"** I was expecting him to say "Keith"

[@tylermiddaugh1515]

when it was zooming out i thought he would be standing there

[@NonTwinBrothers]

Omg Keith is a universal theme

[@CharlesAbell]

I was going to comment saying the same thing lol I thought this when I watched the real video too

[@jebus456]

same

[@CrowArchLane]

Funny to think Brady was lurking in the background of the Tested videos!

[@anakimluke]

I appreciate the audio from the cameras and not from the lavs! Makes it feel more like we're backstage 😊

[@piccalillipit9211]

*ITS AMAZING* how over-the-top they look in their actions and expressions when you see them in context, not just "in camera"

[@Tulio_Laanen]

Indeed! its really surprising how unnatural they look.

[@giloizowneu6908]

I guess after a while you learn how to make gestures that can be seen in a head and shoulders shot while looking fairly natural to the camera

[@piccalillipit9211]

@@giloizowneu6908 100% - I used to be in telephone sales so my "telephone" voice is super animated and engaging. But I was shocked how different it looks watching them from afar "perform" for the camera.

[@piccalillipit9211]

@@Tulio_Laanen - YET when we watch the videos; they look so natural LOL

[@kinvert]

That's interesting. I'm on the spectrum, and I've always thought KZbinrs act strangely and artificially on camera. My guess is you got to see the contrast of them being normal humans one second, then when the camera is rolling the next second you notice the change.

[@MoonLander85]

This is lovely to watch. I'm always happy to see extraordinary people to cooperate. Also at 0:50 i literally thought "He is gonna trash compact them" in millisecond before Adam said it.

[@TheyCallMeNewb]

I didn't ever think of Norm as being behind the camera with Adam. It's almost revelatory. Also, surreal seeing Brady become Keith with that voting machine, as he presents and explains it to Adam! Also-also, the microphones really do rid the audio of a potentially heavy echo (the opposite revealed when in the lobby around 5:30).

[@stuck_around]

brady u look rlly fit and healthy lately love to see it

[@Craefter]

I thought so too. He seems to have lost some weight.

[@Kuzon9]

It's the Fit-O-Tron lifestyle

[@stuck_around]

@@Kuzon9 expecting a bi-yearly weigh-in any day now

[@Kuzon9]

@@stuck_around it's been 3 years. I still have hope

[@rws531]

Adam seeing the voting machine reminded me of when you showed it to CGP Grey on Hello Internet. Good times.

[@madspacepig]

So you WERE in the room when Prof Poliakoff's name was said and Adam didn't recognise it, I hope you mentioned the connection after he finished filming!

[@oldwornoutjeans]

So cool to see all the moving parts that go into a shoot like this

[@robertconklin3322]

Very interesting and fun to have some behind the scenes peeks, thank you.

[@fxm5715]

Two of my favorites, Brady and Adam, hanging out, sharin' cool stuff. What could be better?

[@zissou6928]

Exciting

[@Iyht]

I loved this ☺

[@AsbestosMuffins]

I always love when two of the channels I follow run into each other

[@DarkMatter1992]

I enjoyed that.

[@user-ni7ct5vr8u]

I love Objectivity and I love watching most things Adam does, so this was a delight! More of this please!

[@Jeroen_Ech]

you could totally play a younger Adam Savage

[@_D_P_]

So glad Norm and (Joey?) got to go.

[@AsbestosMuffins]

"And around here there's one main man, issac newton." Hooke would have a treaties or two to refute that point

[@michaeldeburgh2173]

Does the Standard Yard come with a temperature/length conversion table?

[@EcceJack]

I'd say that's for certain! Or, at the very least, the standard temperature at which it is, in fact, the standard yard in length

[@blindleader42]

That would be a useless item. Using a conversion table as a *Standard* is an oxymoron.

[@michaeldeburgh2173]

The Standard Yard is only a true yard at a particular temperature which is engraved on the bar. Since it will not always be that exact temp, it makes sense that a table of length corrections would be available for other temps.

[@TheHarrip]

Haha Americans always tryna rig the vote. That was a bit of a cheeky British comment 😄

[@Wolverine3196]

Brady is Australian! He'd know about committing crime :)

[@neddyladdy]

Who is this chap? This Adam Savage fellow.

[@Veptis]

So perhaps there is another day for Adam (and Norm) to comeback and meet Kieth

[@kephalai]

yeah! i was wondering the whole time where was Keith.. was he on holiday? has he retired and enjoying his life on a beach somewhere? so mysterious

[@donjones4719]

Fun to see the *Principia* physically near *On the Origin of Species.* There's a crucial link between these two books, the most important scientific works ever. Darwin made reference to Newton in a couple of places in the *Origin,* invoking his secondary laws worldview. One is especially noteworthy by its placement in the grand summing up of the extent and impact of his theory. The final poetic sentence references gravity. "There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved." Darwin didn't mention Newton by name but his target audience of natural philosophers would get the reference right away. Newton revolutionized science by more than theory and rational mathematics. He established the concept of the physical world operating under secondary laws that were set up by the Creator at the beginning and then left to run. This was a leap beyond the conventional view in the Western world that God’s hand was directly involved at every moment in, say, the motion of the planets. The scientific and then the wider world came to adopt this worldview. Darwin knew people would resist removing the Creator from the direct creation of species and knew casting natural selection as another form of secondary laws would open the path toward acceptance of the theory, or at least show people it shouldn’t be simply dismissed. Darwin almost included a reference to the other revolution of secondary laws, the one in geology that took place about when he was born. James Hutton introduced what came to be called uniformitarianism. The theory came to fruition during the 1830s under Charles Lyell - in fact, reading Lyell’s book was one of Darwin’s inspirations. The establishment of “deep time” in the worldview of science gave Darwin another rock to stand on when selling his natural selection theory. He wrote versions of this paragraph in 1842 and 1844. The 1844 reads “There is a simple grandeur in this view of life, with its powers of assimilation & of reproduction, having been originally breathed into matter under a few forms; & that, whilst this planet has gone cycling onwards according to the fixed laws of gravity & land & water have gone on replacing each other,- that from so simple an origin, through this process of gradual selection of infinitesimal varieties, endless forms most beautiful & most wonderful have been evolved.” He struck out the words after & land & water: “form & these [illegible] actions have gone on ‹have continued in endless changes› replacing each other…” All of this was a reference to the recent new geological worldview, i.e. secondary laws. The concept of secondary laws that Isaac Newton brought to the world was crucial to Darwin conceiving the theory of natural selection and to the scientific world considering it.

[@95triforce]

“Americans” 😂😂😂

[@patrickchase3307]

Brady and Adam look like they are related.

[@arcanics1971]

I'd like to apologise for my comment about Keith on the last video- I don't know why it was removed, but my intent was to be funny and not to offend. I imagine I must have worded it badly and it was misconstrued. So again, my heartfelt apologies.

[@eaterdrinker000]

ooh watcha say

[@bobthedog123456]

First