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[@halfasinteresting]

Ok guys sorry for the confusion with the metric conversions. To clear things up, 4,000,000 centimeters is about 40,000,000 millimeters​. I hope that helps!

[@choof.]

Ok Sam!

[@TireFill]

Yeah, I was confused, thanks!

[@Stevethe11th]

Thanks!

[@nicholaslau3194]

ffs nanometers is the god damned standard

[@jelleverelst6446]

about? :D

[@jakec5472]

"they have a post office" 3 seconds later "the only way to communicate with the outside world is satellite phone"

[@itchypit6413]

no one uses that little box in their yard no more

[@t6amygdala]

ItchyPit in 135 population towns I’m pretty sure they do

[@kenziebalhatchet3918]

@@t6amygdala pretty sure the can just run to the person they want to give the stuff to over the post office for a 20 meter run

[@meh2385]

To *quickly communicate with the outside world.

[@kurtsnyder4752]

@@itchypit6413 ?

[@shanghai276]

My grandad lived on little Diomede as an elementary school teacher with my grandmother. He lived there during the cold war era so he had a lot of great stories. He said that he could see soviet spies looking at him if he used binoculars from across the ice, and that the natives sometime traveled across the ice and talked to the Russians, and they would sometime bring messages to each other. There was also once a polar bear that lived underneath the elementary school that needed to be driven out.

[@erhansayal5104]

This sounds fake

[@shanghai276]

@@erhansayal5104 I thought it did too, but my grandpa doesn't usually lie about this stuff. And I know he was a school teacher on Alaska at other small villages like Kiana and Kotzebue, and my dad was born in Alaska, so I'm fairly sure it's true. He also has photographs.

[@michaeljin5460]

Two islands.. Chillin in the ocean...two miles apart cuz they're not gay.

[@dinodude7290]

comment award of the year!!!

[@nichovin]

Michael Jin I looked in the comments hoping to find this joke. Not disappointed

[@anjurustagi5265]

While drinking 🍺.

[@SwrveYT]

hshdudhs hduduxubes boi stfu and get a vine reference smh

[@rajuniyalp200]

Thats hell of a comment... 🤣🤣

[@brycemo]

the funniest part is that metric is so easy to convert that i instantly could tell 4,000,000cm = 40km

[@FoxGoalie]

I like this comment, but it has 40 likes and I somehow think it would be wrong to put it to 41.

[@wigglebot2368]

@@FoxGoalie You can like it now

[@sebastiangudino9377]

@@FoxGoalie you can like it now

[@pancholopez8829]

I do you one better! 4,000,000m = 400hm

[@kenziebalhatchet3918]

I mistook centimetres and millimetres so I thought it was 4 kilometres then I realised oh it’s 40

[@WinnieThePooh333]

0:22 he thought he pranked us with the 4 million centimeters but luckily the metric system is easily converted so i knew in an instant that it was 40 km

[@Empyrean55]

Ikr?

[@Kirboyo_418]

What if that was the joke?

[@DanielGonzalezL]

It was also on the screen so... :P

[@WinnieThePooh333]

oh lol didnt even notice :D

[@MarloSoBalJr]

For every 1 million centimeter, it's 10 kilometers?... I have fulfill my half lifelong achievement of converting metrics

[@gdog5514]

“But this is A M E R I C A so we don’t walk” I was dying along with all of those other jokes

[@white_boy_billy6201]

I see you every where

[@cheesynacho8464]

Kioerrr you mean murica

[@cheesynacho8464]

JapanForSale that’s not funny and not everyone is obese in america

[@cheesynacho8464]

Aidric Yates Also Not Funny, Also i Will Start To Use Proper Grammar Now,

[@cheesynacho8464]

Aidric Yates I Don’t Get It

[@mammamia6509]

Doctor: You have 21 hours to live. Me (Moving to big diamede) : HOW BOUT NOW PUNK

[@Acorn212]

42

[@mayanchopra2612]

@@Acorn212 r/whooosh

[@RRansomSmith]

@@mayanchopra2612 not how that works

[@Catcat0]

Doctor:You are dead now

[@s_r-d2n]

Move back and forth you get 84

[@alexanderlee38]

"for non americans thats 4 million centimeters" I laughed harder than I should have at this!

[@Nufuckingway]

Gonefishing102 same 😂

[@kandy8588]

THAT JOKE WAS SO UNDERRATER

[@ApfelmannYT]

harris nisar i spent two seconds :DD

[@bitshot8043]

Gonefishing102 I spent 4 million millimeters converting

[@nidilap5638]

Me too lol

[@GtmNayan]

I wish I lived in little Diomede so that I could ask the people on big Diomede what did I have for breakfast next day.

[@michelium106]

Gtm Nayan best comment rofl

[@maliciousdream7801]

GunsOfThePhoenix whooooooosh

[@masonposts]

whooooooosh

[@kostam.1113]

People? You mean Russian government officials?

[@user-mi7rv5yj1t]

xDD

[@republicoflytrovia2159]

"Google maps, where is Thursday?" "In 2 miles"

[@Righteous1ist]

Wait.........the government actually uses funds to promote eating pumpkin donuts as a healthy choice??????????

[@eselkim1726]

So this is where the taxpayer money is going!

[@enlighteneddoggo7498]

Congress is 100% retarded.

[@romankazinets1759]

Thats not true, some of them are great.

[@howie9751]

What is the rest of their diet like?

[@Sparkz1607]

Everything costs money, my dude. Especially if you're trying to get a message to hundreds of millions of people that may not all use the internet like civilized folks.

[@MonstraG55]

The funniest thing that 4,000,000 cm to km is easy enough to convert so I didn't need to pause the video. It may be the best commentary on ease of metric system. lel

[@ajx9747]

Арсений Гарелышев fuck u liberal, this is MURICA

[@syrialak101]

Best Korea Since when were we in Spain?

[@cloudkitt]

1,548,000 Inches in 25 miles, that is, not barleycorns in a rod.

[@DQUACK]

594 BCorns in a rod

[@clayton8or]

Of course you have to take a joke and turn it into a political statement... I can't stand the world anymore.

[@FutureNow]

I need to get me a pen pal in Little Diomede.

[@thecodingethan]

Just spam all the residents, it wouldn't cost that much.

[@annad4943]

FutureNow same

[@joshxkerrigan]

I'm expecting uploads soon, in the Future... Now

[@FutureNow]

joshxkerrigan it seems I can’t make comments on other videos without getting people asking about this. I am currently in the edit for a video that is longer than anything I’ve done before and very tough to get footage for, but something is coming... just not now.

[@rfldss89]

oh come on, give em a break. Its not easy to break through on youtube, and I totally agree that making irrelevant comments with bot generated likes is stupid, but FutureNow made an actual joke that is relevant to the video.

[@potassium5398]

On little Diamede, there is a town called Diamede Very creative...

[@devoted_eater567]

Diomede*

[@User31129]

Not as un-creative as naming an airline Jet Airways.

[@centauria9122]

There's a city in the United States called New York (Or New York City) and it's in New York...

[@meandmetoo8436]

Say that to Luxemburg.

[@AntarcticIceCap]

Diamede smh lol.

[@thangfahsavung9120]

"For non-Americans,that's 4 million centimetres." lmaooo

[@laworder5861]

ken the gaming kid ?? if my parents are asian and im born in america, im still asian, just asian american lol

[@felipemejia3501]

I know, that doesn’t even make sense

[@declaniii6324]

F M why not? It’s equal to 40 kilometres

[@jornflammenkamp6992]

And because our system works with logic every non American knows exactly its 40 km

[@tkon99]

Actually immediately did the conversion, try doing that in freedom units lol

[@dhruvaaramesh4528]

That transition was as smooth as butter

[@beaujangus3619]

smooth AS FUCKING PUMICE

[@oliviersavard8676]

Erwin Schrödinger Smooth as sandpaper

[@LordTrayus]

Fun thing to think about - back when the Bering Strait formed a land bridge, these two islands would've been the highest mountains that humans saw as they migrated across to the Americas.

[@aljoshagrey]

1:56 Did anyone notice the annotation in the bottom right corner given by "The Animator"? 😂

[@rixrobin]

“Russia already has a god” hits different now

[@henryml9999]

Also that we might build a tunnel from Alaska to Russia lol

[@devalopr]

LOL, jokes make this video twice as interesting :D

[@joaopinho2361]

So... does that mean it makes it interesting, then?

[@Mike-px6pg]

That they do!

[@masterimbecile]

0.5 × 2 = 1. This video is now interesting.

[@TheTomasina]

They make it more interesting than the state of Kansas!

[@hijack69]

2×1/2=1

[@cameronroutledge2841]

Great, so the people who are 21 hours ahead can go 2 miles to the other island and tell people what the next day's news will be!

[@syxepop]

Language barrier, maybe... (unless both knew some kind of Alaskan native dialect)

[@yuantan9292]

Also they can shoot missiles across, nobody can react since it happened on the next day! D:

[@syxepop]

It doesn't count in that scenario (it would be in linear time, no matter what was the actual time on both islands). But you could say you did time travel if you went by helicopter (fastest way available if allowed by both governments) from one island to the other. ;)

[@yuantan9292]

Of course I was joking ("it happened on the next day"). Also, if you are just trying to "time travel" by time-zones, you can just go to Michigan City, where it is separated into central and eastern U.S. time regions, and jump back and forth. Much cheaper & faster than helicopter rides! You can also do tricks like "a basketball is tossed into the air, and not come down until an hour later"! \(^o^)/

[@MarloSoBalJr]

Of course Soviet Russia is 21 hours in the future... Bunch of cunts!

[@RRansomSmith]

"smaller than the entire state of Kansas" Shows section of Alaska Bruh lol

[@Debre.]

That's Kansas though. :c It's just not where it usually is.

[@markus-theswiftie4605]

j

[@pbjman5809]

It was Kansas lmao

[@webbjs]

Yeah what is he talking about? It’s like he mixed script and footage from some other video into this one accidentally

[@pbjman5809]

@@webbjs wow

[@superduck6456]

"It's smaller than the entire state of Kansas." Wat.....

[@choof.]

Here's Big Diomede, and here's Little Diomede!

[@tacticaltux4231]

NO. IT IS THE BANEEEEBLADEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[@cometx13]

Suprised to see you in these comments. Love your videos dude. I've watched for ~3 months, and found you through Jack's community video series.

[@supernachomachoman4031]

Lil Diomede

[@kaygabs3043]

HibernateMC I see you everywhere

[@dylanwight5764]

*kicks down door* HERE'S BIG DIOMEDE!!! *unzips pants*

[@Sequencer37]

"Because Russia already has a god" being a russian, i legit laughed at that because it's *so damn relatable*

[@TheCaptainSplatter]

Why do you guys even bother having elections, just have Putin president for life and be done with it.

[@tr3warky963]

Russia’s god is lord tachanka

[@yegorgribenuke6853]

what happens if i say Putin is actoally *is a good president*?

[@Wockes]

@@yegorgribenuke6853 Trump gets mad

[@yuricherkasov]

Actually it may have been funny, but more likely it's just sad

[@clementyu3285]

Where is Medium Diomede

[@LEVEL997analog]

Dunno

[@MrSamulai]

0:21 Trying to poke fun at the metric system? Jokes on you, I can instantly translate that into kilometers by just moving the comma. Want to have a go at translating 25 miles into inches in your head?

[@a4dtesseract408]

yes. yes i do Also, don't be such a boomer, HAI is a jokes dept. Edit:25 mi in inches is 63360. Edit 2: It's not that hard, also i legitly did it

[@johnladuke6475]

@@a4dtesseract408 The point, though, is that it is significantly simpler to do the conversions in metric, which was the whole point of establishing the system. The operative amount is still 4, whether you're talking about tens of kilometres or millions of centimetres. I checked your math in my head, and yeah it's not hard, took maybe 30 seconds. But to convert cm to km, it went like this: HAI: ...that's four million centi... Me: Ha ha ha! 40 klicks! HAI: ...metres.

[@houwlingwoolf]

Elliot Tian r/whooosh

[@a4dtesseract408]

@@houwlingwoolf Oh look! a reddit sheep who uses it's joke to cover himself up! I was responding to his challenge, it's not a joke.

[@houwlingwoolf]

Elliot Tian I have opinions.?? Also I don’t directly care at all. Sorry

[@akosiACP]

“Russia already has a God” *shows Putin* Lol

[@alexnuttall7724]

what's funny?

[@divyaakashdutta4038]

It's not okay to make fun of other people's religions

[@Hand-in-Shot_Productions]

@@divyaakashdutta4038 Nor is it okay to imply that an entire people hates democracy! So many jokes about Russia and the Russians in American pop culture (and the Russians' depiction in American pop culture) rely on the assumption that all Russians love autocracy (whether the Soviet kind, or the Putinist kind, or, as weird as it sounds, both), and yet, in a country of 143 million people and a larger area than any other country in the world, some kind of criticism of the government of a given time is inevitable. Not only is the desire of certain Russians to depose an autocratic government inevitable, but Russians actually _have_ deposed their autocratic government before, with Russians spearheading both the fall of the Russian Empire in 1917 and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, and it may happen again soon, for since you made your comment in around December 2020, Russians have started protesting against Putin! If Russia becomes a democracy (a possibility that keeps growing as protests continue and the elections on September 19 are nearing), then every joke in the Western world that seeks to equate Russians with autocracy will, alongside every spy film, video game, political speech, and even news article that does the same, will be, much like any media that seeks to equate Germans with Nazism, completely ruined! For more information: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Russian_protests

[@farhanahoquekhan4316]

@@Hand-in-Shot_Productions lmao he wrote an essay

[@Hand-in-Shot_Productions]

@@farhanahoquekhan4316 That's what I do! I might not be very punctual, but I have a lot to say!

[@cup_check_official]

"But Putin knows how to use FB advertising" :D

[@Kyle-yo4yy]

But there still isn’t any collusion

[@bcubed72]

Kyle Ardelean You lefites still bitching about a couple of websites? Yup, sure looks like it...c'mon, you'd think lefties, of all people, could have sympathy for a "rouge e-mail" or two!

[@SynRequiem]

bcubed72 LOL someone was triggered

[@exelexor]

epoh333 tasty

[@jur4x]

Americans elected a clown instead of a president, and now are trying to find someone else to blame :)

[@ashaydwivedi420]

"Smaller than the entire state of Kansas" **Highlights Alaska** Me: Genius.

[@NerveEnd]

I like this approach where the humor is emphasized on the animations and more subtle on the voice-over. It keeps the whole package tight, informative and entertaining. Keep up the good work!

[@exoticbutters2952]

That sponsorship transition tho...

[@PuddintameXYZ]

I feel like he spent a lot of time working on it.

[@jandehengelaar1567]

Got that from RealLifeLore :D

[@juniorfio1196]

Note to self: Become a postal driver for a tiny island town.

[@LividImp]

You drive to islands, eh?

[@MrMediator24]

Deus ex machina

[@brucesmith9144]

Become a helicopter pilot 😊

[@stephennagy4017]

"Its smaller than the entire state of Kansas" Killed me XD

[@WonderfulPears]

Liking this for the Argos joke, shoutout UK!

[@hannahchouinard8059]

Is your name Jack?

[@hvonwolfenstein2638]

Ha! Due to the metric system, your 4 million cm measurement didn't even phase me!

[@VunderGuy]

Cool! Now convert from a light hour. XD

[@johnladuke6475]

@@VunderGuy Brutal honesty, I searched up a conversion to cheat and find that a light hour is 1.079x10^9 km... so yeah, cm is pretty easy, that's 1.079x10^14, because in between I counted the centametres, the decametres, the metres, the decimetres, and the centimetres and squirreled with the exponent instead of with a decimal point.

[@tonylove4800]

Good for you. In English we say faze but you Americans speak some hybrid nonsense.

[@dr3wrocks]

While it's nice to see some representation for Diomede I feel like a lot was left out. What do these people do for money? Is Diomede part of Alaska or what? The way they deal with drinking water is kind of interesting too.

[@bennylofgren3208]

dr3wrocks Why do you think this channel is called HALF as interesting? 😃

[@syxepop]

As for way of living, it's most likely FISHING (like I've read many native Alaskans do) and as for drinking water a mix of RAIN RUNOFF COLLECTION (when it's in liquid form) and a DESALINATION PLANT (as in taking the salt and other impurities out of ocean water and making it "kinda potable"). As for belonging the narrator said Little Diomede was part of the State of Alaska (by having USPS airmail service to the town on the island for example).

[@varana]

There are a few public-sector jobs e.g. in the postal station or school. For the most part, hunting (seals, whales, etc.), ivory carving from walrus tusks, and other traditional crafts.

[@syxepop]

Thanks for elaborating, fishing / hunting (+ public works) seems to be the only ways of living available for all of those isolated places up there... (just COMMON SENSE)

[@PixelOverload]

I would assume it's part of Alaska as i've never seen it mentioned in any US non-state territories lists and all the other US claimed islands near Alaska are considered Alaska.

[@ryannyan2]

1:02 😂😂😂 Its smaller than the entire state of Kansas. Got me dead.💀💀💀

[@frednerk3477]

"Planes often have trouble landing on steep cliffs". Loved it.

[@Bananaguy7]

Big Diomede: “Don’t talk to me or my son ever again!”

[@andrewbabbo123]

Jesus Christ that transition from the video to the sponsor was absolutely flawless

[@LoveLearnShareGrow]

"It's smaller than the entire state of Kansas." What? That one got me laughing.

[@plolsteg7705]

“For non americans that’s 4 million centimeters” Jokes on you, the metric system actually makes sense

[@RRansomSmith]

So does imperial. Just because you don't get it, doesn't mean that we don't.

[@cecy2]

Rick Traveler Smith nah

[@wigglebot2368]

@@RRansomSmith The imperial system is very close to being a base 12 system (if you add quadroyards). Miles would go from 1760 to 1728 yards to make it a multiple of 12 and put a unit in between quadroyards and miles.

[@meowdudefr]

actually, 70 000 Big Macs

[@brookeking8559]

@@meowdudefr nearly 400,000 beignets. 70,000 seems low for 25 miles/40km of Big Macs, but I’m not very familiar with the menu from McDonalds.

[@Boaxiho]

4 million centimeters is the first actually funny joke you've told

[@halfasinteresting]

thanks!

[@shima125]

All his jokes are harlious!!!! And encourage a 25% increase in jokes next video

[@MarloSoBalJr]

Half to 25% is 50%

[@shima125]

Muddykip 13 metric system ftw

[@AverageLaur]

This is america we dont walk 1:53

[@LividImp]

Confirmed...nobody walks in LA. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bmG6qnWupJV7qtE

[@clyde4624]

This is America

[@thelonelywolf88]

THIS IS SPARTA!!!!!!!!!

[@hey7328]

don't catch you trippin up

[@blondeelfgirl]

How did you miss a “ I can see Russia from my house” joke?

[@user-ki9ez8wx7f]

I literally looked this up and preferred your video over others. You're that good. Keep it up, past you.

[@isaacwood4071]

Well most commutes to work in DC are 2 miles long but take 21 hours

[@visethreachsothy6952]

Northern Kid as a person from Northern Virginia this is true.

[@aewctev]

What is $4,000 in metric?

[@vishnubhargav5348]

69 vbucks

[@Admiral_Jezza]

973 Robux

[@ThatGameGuyy]

aewcte987126v 10 rupees

[@Sequencer37]

249,151.00 Russian Rubles

[@devalopr]

0.5bitcoin

[@gameonsamgaming3963]

Diomede: No internet Everyone: nOPE

[@matrick1356]

Elon musk: Allow me to introduce myself

[@annf1801]

“Smaller than the entire state of Kansas” thanks for that helpful information 👍

[@Werdna12345]

Well done video. Feedback: it might have been better to show a different map for the Moscow and DC distance comparison.

[@PixelOverload]

Half as Interesting, Half the Effort

[@thestudentofficial5483]

He doesnt bother to use the globe map like in Wendover Production because its half as interesting

[@lanesmith2853]

Yay it’s Half as Interesting!

[@venomissocute3448]

Lane_X This episode was only Half as Interesting.

[@satanggukie3456]

It was half as interesting cause we don’t care of that island, but sounds cool in terms of timezone..

[@masonzimmerman8883]

Could you send mail from Diomede to Guam then?

[@wigglebot2368]

Yes

[@itchypit6413]

probably wont come in one piece

[@benmaharaj6854]

I lived in Nome so a few additional facts. There are no roads in LD but the locals do use the four wheeler to circumnavigate the island to check their traps and pick berries (it’s what I heard). And I do mean there’s just one four wheeler for the village. It was donated for use in medical emergencies so a person could be transported to the helipad but the locals don’t care. At least they didn’t vandalize it or have the mayor lock it up in his garage and refuse to let anyone use it. Those were other villages on the Seward peninsula. LD population is all native. They don’t miss any of that stuff that isn’t there. Oh that thing about the mail is baloney. Maybe envelopes are the same but boxes are way more expensive to get up to that area than in the lower 48.

[@TijmensAviation]

1:11 No internet??? I would likely suicide there.

[@jasonbailey9139]

Sadly, this is a problem in native villages across Alaska....seriously...

[@Admiral_Jezza]

Jason Link?

[@putenkhakov2979]

Actually why not buy a Satellite internet subscription? Unfortunately you can’t Online gaming on that because ping can get to thousands!

[@felixhurteau2630]

They cannot even use Dashlane or Squarespace :(

[@willtree8142]

It's so smooth! You just slide into the next topic so easily.

[@lidallyhim]

“And smaller than Kansas” “No no, he’s got a point.”

[@subzero.cuber47]

On Diomede, there's a city called Diomede, with a man named Diomede, with a phone from the company Diomede, owned by Diomede who's kid is Diomede Jr, and has an uncle in Diomede from Diomede named Diomede. Diomedeception

[@LockheedC-130HerculesOfficial]

Diomede moment

[@nishantgupta8783]

It just took 0.00001 mini sec to click the link

[@nishantgupta8783]

Joonatan Pöntinen 😕😟 I guess smaller brother of mili sec

[@rodigoduterte9192]

Nishant Gupta unless if you have a shitty internet

[@narata1541]

Joonatan Pöntinen A mini sec is another word for a cute second. Awww!!

[@ApfelmannYT]

"mini sec" omg

[@mrchanango9366]

I love how you went from miles to centimeters at 0:23

[@Hand-in-Shot_Productions]

It doesn't get too confusing, with the easy conversion between centimeters and kilometers! Maybe the next time I make a video mentioning the metric system, I might convert it to inches!

[@zashtozaboga]

"Russia already has a god" *Picture of Putin*

[@fadjan9998]

Rossiya svenchennaya nasha derzhava Rossiya lyubimaya nasha strana!

[@user-ul8yy6mv7e]

That's fucked up

[@odihlesmana9207]

@@fadjan9998 *soyuzh nerushimyi respublik svbonokyh* *we forgot the lyrics* *ya rus!*

[@salimkabbani7134]

The video is 21 hours ago on KZbin! Interesting

[@FutureNow]

I'm pretty sure a bridge to Russia is a bad idea regardless of cost.

[@felixhurteau2630]

FutureNow The bridge between communism and capitalism

[@Linx_82]

Félix Hurteau Russia is capitalist

[@felixhurteau2630]

Link_ 82 Oh since when? Thats a bad new :(

[@kosmo6980]

Since 1991, its been over 20 years dude

[@chris52000]

Link_ 82 “capitalist”

[@Shifftee]

Imagine if the Russian tsar didn't sell Alaska, the outcome of the Cold War would've been so different

[@romulusnr]

For the record, these islands are literally what former Alaska governor and US vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin was referring to in 2008 when she argued she was qualified on international matters because "you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska." kzbin.info/www/bejne/gqjLgGuXZrV_g7M However, Sarah Palin has never visited those islands. Though, fun fact, *Michael* Palin has! kzbin.info/www/bejne/hYDcZGBufbBqj6M

[@tommyvercettygt]

"YOU CAN'T TRAVEL IN TIME" ME:" Hold my beer"

[@inund8]

Omg that little bash.org reference in the ad gave me a good chuckle. Thanks for that 👍

[@kairon156]

ooh "a small box" I first time around I thought you said "a smallpox"

[@lucianonarno1408]

kairon156 don’t be sending plague diseases thru usps, that’s an asshole move bro

[@donaloflynn]

He did say "a smallpox", I've listened six or seven times and there's no b sound there at all!

[@j4kez]

I’ve been obsessed with Diomede for so long and I’m so happy you made a video about it. I really want to visit there

[@crystalgayle3993]

Me too!!!

[@yellowdicesam]

that sponsor message was so *chefs kiss* swift.

[@kalebbruwer]

But because the metric system is logical, it's easy to convert 4 000 000cm to 40km. Do something similar to an American and they would be completely lost.

[@kalebbruwer]

chumbuckery777 Why didn't you mention that you landed on the moon 6 times? Is it because you used the metric system to do so? Or is space just a sensitive topic ever since you lost that mars orbiter due to a conversion error?

[@Pterodactyly]

Kaleb Bruwer tbh usa can destroy whatever country you live in

[@kalebbruwer]

Trap Daddy Even north korea can do that now. It really isn't much of an achievement anymore and I don't know how this is supposed to make one unit better than the other.

[@Pterodactyly]

Kaleb Bruwer Where are you from anyway?

[@theplasmapro8343]

chumbuckery777 Yeah, thats a great METRIC military you have there

[@nousername1916]

"This is the extent of the town. It's smaller than the entire state of Kansas."

[@eadecamp]

The US was supposed to go metric in 1980. There were all kinds of commercials about how to convert imperial to metric; we had a special course on the metric system when I was in high school, but 1980 came and went, and it just didn't seem to catch on. I had a 1980 Pontiac Sunbird that had all metric bolts on it. I had to use an adjustable wrench to fix anything because there were no metric wrenches. A lot of English speaking countries use both. We don't know how much a "stone" is, but I've heard it used in the UK and Australia.

[@arjyamanbasu4037]

I love how you used 4m centimeters but it just failed to be inconvenient because of how I could kilometres in my head

[@jeansibelius5721]

Two lslands? Two countries? This is _twice_ as interesting!

[@df1ned]

"A secure password looks like this " (shows brute-force-able password)

[@jakereynolds4259]

"it's smaller than the entire state of Kansas" fully chuckled irl well done lad

[@Invertatude]

I love the sarcastic tone to this informative video lol, subscribed

[@Uberkatze-]

Man, Kansas looks skinny all the way up here -The Animator

[@speed7exc]

What's with this music? It's like I'm watching a dated commercial from the 70's.

[@Norrieification]

The ad transition here is pure art.

[@ichiroumakoto8095]

The way this channel promotes their sponsors is just too ingenious.

[@GeorgeSemel]

Well the contract is not flown in an R-22, Evergreen Helicopters use to have it and they used a twin-engined BO-105 for it, Erickson bought out Evergreen, and as far as I know, they support the Contract with either a BO-105 or a Bell 212. Pilots wear a cold water emersion suit, If the Post Office is only paying 300000 k a year for it, they are getting off cheap. I think your numbers are off some. Also, you need a hanger for the machine in Nome, besides at least one Pilot, you are going to need at least one A+P mechanic, fuel, living quarters. Housing is in short supply in Nome, I know I use to work in the Area. It's a pretty good seat for a Helicopter Pilot if you like the outdoors and a remote place. It's a dedicated thing so the helicopter has to be in Nome 24. I keep hearing about this bridge and tunnel, besides the expense. Sort work season, if you look at Nome there are no roads going to say Fairbanks or Anchorage where there is the Road System, Environmental Impact would hold up and drive up construction costs for decades. It could be done, it would be a railroad thing, along with an oil and gas pipelines. The Idea of being able to drive from NYC to Moscow would be interesting, but the Russians do have much in the way of roads in Siberia either. It would be a 50-year project and both countries would have to commit to it for the long haul, that would mean getting along like we have not gotten alone in a very long time.

[@princesscarl1656]

So did you move to Montana after the oilfield migrated out of Alaska?

[@princesscarl1656]

Or were you a pilot/crewman for the government? There's barely any other reasons to be in Nome. You could probably name a couple of others but..

[@jeansibelius5721]

4 MILLION CENTIMETERS

[@SebiSuper9mil]

“But… If there are no roads… how do people get anywhere. -Animator 1:56

[@TheJohnmurphy516]

if they build that tunnel, those two islands would go from the most remote islands in the world to one of the busiest.

[@triangulum8869]

but can’t I just write my passwords down on a paper and keep it safe?

[@LividImp]

This is actually not as bad an idea as people make it out to be. If someone robs your house they're not going to go through all your papers and books.

[@imrekalman9044]

I prefer to use a tiny section of my brain for that. I mean to write passwords on. It works, but you have to be careful with the pencil.

[@Nexxarian]

A hyperloop train going from Seattle up through the Diomedes and down through the Kurils to Tokyo would beat a plane leaving Seattle for Tokyo by about 3 hours. Too bad it's so hard to mega-engineer all those bridges needed. But that's with today's planes, I'm sure there will be more supersonic planes in the future or rocket travel.

[@klopferator]

Compared to the engineering necessary to even make the hyperloop possible (and safe) the bridges are the smallest problem.

[@2con_]

0:49 its a better joke if you said "Zeus may know how to throw lightning but Putin knows how to throw nukes"

[@dmok42195]

NIce Segway to advertising at the end.

[@radicalsponge]

I want a bridge there!

[@radicalsponge]

What a shame

[@NathanaelNewton]

Ahahaha 4 million CM, I love it!! I tell people that it's easy to remember how to convert miles to km if you remember that it's 2.54 cm per inch 😈

[@andersyu4464]

1.6 km per mile

[@heavypupper1219]

As an American that learned metric like a week ago I always just though of it as removing 5 zeros.

[@DanielLara-fh5sw]

my parents: what do u wanna be when u grow up? me: a helicopter operator

[@jahidislam5702]

Loving these transitions into sponsorships. They're actually one of the best parts of the video

[@BathedInMilk]

*sigh* I literally just hit save on a novel I’ve written set on little diomede delighted by the fact few people are aware they exist. So this kind of breaks that USP. Great video. I’m off to throw my laptop in the bin.

[@verde7595]

to be completely fair I don't think the 175,000 people who saw this video would be the same people to buy a fiction book

[@dezdang]

I only watch HAI for the sponsor transitions

[@sloppyjoe6866]

This is probably one of the funnier videos Wendover has ever put out. He was memeing the whole time.

[@caseyisvoodoo619]

I like the new format, adding a bit of comedy into the mix. Goodjob!