I ran home from school every Friday to watch this show in the mid to late 80’s. Did engineering and computer science at Melbourne University, and I must give some credit to Rob and Deane! Many TH-camrs are repeating or expanding on their episodes today. 👍
I was born in Adelaide and i live and I'm watching this from Alice Springs, not only that but my job relies on 2 bores not from the artesian basin unfortunately, but from the Todd River basin.
Paul Hayden are you serious about the 2nd part? Have u never watched discovery channel? PBS? Smithsonian channel? The Learning Channel? National Geographic channel? Science Channel?
I don't watch TV anymore but even NatGeo here is going down that hole of bad content even in YT. I follow many PBS channels like Physics Girl, The brain scoop... They all still have brains on it.
I could totally see the workers sampling uranium deposits or some other precious and valuable metals, then throwing it over their shoulder in disappointment hoping for water instead.
Ah, yes, Australia, BC. (Before Capitalism, that is.) My country has that problem, too. After Democracy, though, things will be better. You and I may not live to see it, but capitalism is collapsing, and genuine democracy seems to be the inevitable next step.
Capitalism is the individual right to own things and trade them. It has lifted billions from the abject poverty that every other system kept them in.. go live out your authoritarian fantasy in North Korea
There will never be anything more ironic than a comfortable first-world person sitting in a comfortable first-world chair in a comfortable first-world home in front of a comfortable first-world internet-connected computer and they are using it to complain about how capitalism is the worst.
Im on mobile so grammar and format. What they do is they take video of the shot before hes in view and then he will walk into view, take his place and they start up the camera again and he starts his bit. Then in editing they fade in the new take of him in shot over the old video of him not in shot, not sure the specifics of how they do it analog like done here but basically that. You can see the workers fade out of and then into existance in different places as well.
@@mosab643 Because the camera wasnt moved between the shots. They set up the camera, shot the before, he got into posistion, and thenthey did the second shot. If you talking about between him being in the studio and then the jump to the water pump, thats just skill as far as i know. Just them know how and where to have him stand so that the shots would line up. Wouldnt be suprised if they had how far he was away from the camera measured at the studio and then made him stand at the same distance from it at the pump site.
@@mikemondano3624 that is literally just a matter of semantics. Something moves into a lower pressure space in an attempt to equalise the pressure. The liquid is being sucked in as much as it's being pushed in.
@@ori-yorudan "Something" doesn't "attempt" anything. These are not sentient beings with desires and plans. And it has nothing to do with the science of semantics. The sucking has no efecrt at all on the water. The only force acting on the water is atmospheric pressure.
Science is actually wonderful, in the truest sense of the word. Find me another part of the human experience more full of wonder and I'll give you a dollar.
Not only that but if you're really nice and ask a question they will answer it . all these years later they are still keen to pass on the knowledge that they have
@@Rob-fc9wg The Earth spins at half the speed of the hour hand of a clock? Errmm that's a fast clock you have - the surface of the Earth travels at roughly 1,000mph.
So I guess the drill head just stays underground? Seems wasteful but I cant think of a way they could get it up apart from it being collapsible and coming through the pipe
The drill head comes back up after the bore has been drilled. The lengths of pipe with the threads are the steel shaft sections the cutter head is attached to. The shafts are tack welded together after they’ve been joined so that the sections wont unthread and fall down the borehole if the cutter head is reversed. After the cutter head has reached the water bearing level, the cutter head shaft sections are brought up the borehole and disassembled along with the cutter head, then a bore casing is inserted down the borehole ready for the submersible pump to be installed.
Yes, but depending on how the aquifer gets refreshed it can take thousands of years for water to make it from the surface to where people are pumping it out.
@@DiscoFang that's like saying oil and coal are renewable because we can grow trees. You can't manage aquifers the same way as surface water (lakes, rivers, reservoirs).
Who tf is this guy all the sudden. I just got used to the dude with the Amish goatee. I hope there isn't anything very slightly unusual about this one. Oh no, he's a freakin jacked oldish man.
They definitely can, it's just incredibly inefficient and wouldn't work as a well. It's much easier to break up thousands of kilos of rock and move the spoil than to vaporize it. Also, when you cut rock or metal with a laser, you melt the edges of your cut. This would make the rock impermeable to water defeating the point.
@@persnappy read a science textbook in schools half of it is pseudo science and opinions. It's silly honestly. I mean prime example the "follow the science" campaign and silencing of medical professionals from covid. Your literally lose medical licenses and your job if you didn't follow the now denounced narrative. It didn't matter what "science" showed. People use that word so incorrectly today Imagine being a doctor in 2020 and 2021 and losing your job at a hospital for stating, not even advocating or prescribing, but just having the opinion that you don't need to wear a mask because it doesn't prevent the spread of covid, yet scientifically you know it doesn't prevent it. You cannot tell me that "science" means the same thing it does today and back then. That word is used in such different ways now
You mean before the internet told everybody not to trust anybody or scientists so they could control society ? Science is still science that doesn't change only the level of stupidity from people that's what changes
After understanding finally what an artesian spring is and learning that science is wonderful i have only one question.... what the heck is "worder"? Oh btw yea yea science is great 😮💨let´s pat ourselves on the back and give no credit to this giant blue wonder of nature where all parking our asses on🌏
These people are coming closer up there with Sagan, Nye, and others. The USA now has to have this kind of programs not for kids, but for adults, to cover for their lack of generalist knowledge lol while the kids are fed with nothing but mindless cartoons, and so the cycle of ignorance is perpetuated...
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I'm an American and I just found this channel recently. This would have been something I would have enjoyed as a kid.
I’m a 40 year old from America and I’m enjoying it now. It doesn’t speak down at all. It’s all I’ve watched all day.
lol 45 yo here - watched it as a kid and enjoying it just as much now. Those guys really gave me a passion for science and the natural world :)
I ran home from school every Friday to watch this show in the mid to late 80’s. Did engineering and computer science at Melbourne University, and I must give some credit to Rob and Deane! Many TH-camrs are repeating or expanding on their episodes today. 👍
Shoot I am enjoying it as a young man!
Man where was this in nz in the 90s! I'd have gone nuts for this as a kid!
6:29 look at those ripped traps and shoulders. Deane is shredded.
What a super little vid full of sensible and unpatronising content. I loved the 'teleportation' bit! Thanks for this.
Don't you just love these guys ? Glad they've found a wider audience now and more acclaim.
Such a calming enjoyable informative video.
I just found this show and I love watching it. Wish I’d had this as a kid. Gonna show it to my daughter see what she thinks
I know I've heard about this show some time in the past, but I basically just discovered it. I love it!
Greetings from Germany!
They have a few episodes in German apparently the show was shown in your country back in the day
I was born in Adelaide and i live and I'm watching this from Alice Springs, not only that but my job relies on 2 bores not from the artesian basin unfortunately, but from the Todd River basin.
Wow, that is a voice I haven't heard for decades. This was a good show - pity we don't still have this type of content on TV.
The big boys worked out dumb people spend lots of money unfortunately so this sort of thing is no longer put on tv
The only problem with this channel is that you cant just watch 1 video , im hooked !
Derek from Veritassium grew up in Australia watching The Curiosity Show. These guys are the grandparents of modern educational youtubers
Without being rude I think comparing the curiosity show to TH-cam is a little bit insulting
1980: And the water comes through the telephone, I think you can see why it's called a telephone...
2022 Kids: Bruh, that does not look like a phone
It's a Mac
1. I guess drilling for oil is much the same
2. I wish the USA had a TV program that educated us about our continent.
Paul Hayden
are you serious about the 2nd part? Have u never watched discovery channel? PBS? Smithsonian channel? The Learning Channel? National Geographic channel? Science Channel?
@@alitlweird Eh...those channels all play silly Alien and hillbilly crap.
@@SpottedBullet From the History Channel I learned all about the disagreements among the employees of a pawn shop in Las Vegas.
I don't watch TV anymore but even NatGeo here is going down that hole of bad content even in YT. I follow many PBS channels like Physics Girl, The brain scoop... They all still have brains on it.
COPS?
Eureka Eureka .......🏃⚡
I have found a 💎 in my feed today.
Old is gold "Curiosity show"
Fascinating!
That's what Tv and media shows must be . This show is very interesting and full of informations in such a simple and easy way . I like it so much .
This channel DESERVES millions of more clicks and likes 👍!!!
I love how the riggers are just wearing shorts and short sleeves!
That's aussies for you lol
I could totally see the workers sampling uranium deposits or some other precious and valuable metals, then throwing it over their shoulder in disappointment hoping for water instead.
Learned more from these small videos than today’s science TH-cam channels.
Now our kids watch baby shark.
Appreciate your teaching
back when australia was free
Ah, yes, Australia, BC. (Before Capitalism, that is.) My country has that problem, too. After Democracy, though, things will be better. You and I may not live to see it, but capitalism is collapsing, and genuine democracy seems to be the inevitable next step.
Matthew Grimshaw What is your country?
@Horizon585 I never used the word "socialism." If you think I got something wrong, try to be specific.
Capitalism is the individual right to own things and trade them. It has lifted billions from the abject poverty that every other system kept them in.. go live out your authoritarian fantasy in North Korea
There will never be anything more ironic than a comfortable first-world person sitting in a comfortable first-world chair in a comfortable first-world home in front of a comfortable first-world internet-connected computer and they are using it to complain about how capitalism is the worst.
What are the effects of removing water from the soil?
The stone in the soil gets drier
People get less thirsty as well.
It triggers sinkholes
Sinkholes, droughts, landslides. Isn't science wonderfull ?
@@Knyfi while I agree that we shouldn't be taking too much water out I think you're being a bit dramatic
1:36 That is green screen right, when he reappears in the outdoors? if not, how did they cut him out?
Im on mobile so grammar and format.
What they do is they take video of the shot before hes in view and then he will walk into view, take his place and they start up the camera again and he starts his bit. Then in editing they fade in the new take of him in shot over the old video of him not in shot, not sure the specifics of how they do it analog like done here but basically that. You can see the workers fade out of and then into existance in different places as well.
@@BarkingCrowe How come the old shot and the new one overlapped so well here?
@@mosab643 Because the camera wasnt moved between the shots. They set up the camera, shot the before, he got into posistion, and thenthey did the second shot. If you talking about between him being in the studio and then the jump to the water pump, thats just skill as far as i know. Just them know how and where to have him stand so that the shots would line up. Wouldnt be suprised if they had how far he was away from the camera measured at the studio and then made him stand at the same distance from it at the pump site.
They filmed him in the studio they turned the camera off drove to Alice Springs and then turn it back on very simple
shaped like a telephone receiver , I can just see the modern kids shaking their head saying what is he talking about
Curiosity Show on location
What happens to the drills when the break? Can they pull them out our do they just start all over?
The original bath Water 6:28
Who else had no idea this guy was shredded??
Water is not "sucked in" to the pump. It is forced in by atmospheric pressure once the pump has evacuated air.
You just described what happens when something is sucked in.
@@ori-yorudan Not "sucked in". "Blown in".
@@mikemondano3624 that is literally just a matter of semantics. Something moves into a lower pressure space in an attempt to equalise the pressure. The liquid is being sucked in as much as it's being pushed in.
@@ori-yorudan "Something" doesn't "attempt" anything. These are not sentient beings with desires and plans. And it has nothing to do with the science of semantics. The sucking has no efecrt at all on the water. The only force acting on the water is atmospheric pressure.
I'm love this show and I'm not even a kid
I think it's cool that what we would consider adult level content was what kids were capable of absorbing back then
Science is actually wonderful, in the truest sense of the word. Find me another part of the human experience more full of wonder and I'll give you a dollar.
"Worth over a THOUSAND dollars..." In today's money $15k or 3 tanks of gas.
Yes it is my friend...
Just googled. Both of em are still alive
Not only that but if you're really nice and ask a question they will answer it . all these years later they are still keen to pass on the knowledge that they have
There are worms that far below the surface?
No, it's rock. But when that was on the surface, millions of years ago... There were worms.
The host the show everything just wonderful n informative
If the earth was a spinning ball the water would fling to the surface.
The Earth rotates at half the speed of the hour hand on a clock.
There is no inertia created.
@@Rob-fc9wg no it doesn't, that is asinine.
@@JeffreyAllanBackowski the Earth rotates once every 24 hours.
How is that asinine?
Indeed, if you also thought gravity was fake too. It's called equilibrium.
@@Rob-fc9wg The Earth spins at half the speed of the hour hand of a clock? Errmm that's a fast clock you have - the surface of the Earth travels at roughly 1,000mph.
Thats so cool.
So I guess the drill head just stays underground?
Seems wasteful but I cant think of a way they could get it up apart from it being collapsible and coming through the pipe
The drill head comes back up after the bore has been drilled. The lengths of pipe with the threads are the steel shaft sections the cutter head is attached to. The shafts are tack welded together after they’ve been joined so that the sections wont unthread and fall down the borehole if the cutter head is reversed. After the cutter head has reached the water bearing level, the cutter head shaft sections are brought up the borehole and disassembled along with the cutter head, then a bore casing is inserted down the borehole ready for the submersible pump to be installed.
Fake, didn't use the magical stick to find a suitable place to drill
You dont need a stick when you know the water bearing formation is so many feet down. The sticks are only used for shallow wells.
woosh
As a well driller, I dread drilling holes that have been witched.
I worked for city works once and this guy actually handed me dousing rods to make sure there wasn't a water line before he dug a hole for a stop sign.
Awesome shit!
If you drill enough you can get oil too!
PPE? No mate, this is Australia, we don't work like that here.
Wonder what that $1,000 screen cost now?
I was wondering that as well. My completely ignorent off the top of my head estimate would be $10-12k.
$1k 1986 is about $2.5k now.
Probably much cheaper to manufacture or fabricate now.
Everyone see the tun dish ?
Why did he swam to the wall?
So is water beneath all arid mountain ranges?
It may be a long way, but, yes:
en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Aquifer
Is this a renewable resource?
Yes, but depending on how the aquifer gets refreshed it can take thousands of years for water to make it from the surface to where people are pumping it out.
@@RobertSzasz Wait what? It's not like water falls from the sky! errmm ahh.. no, wait...
@@DiscoFang that's like saying oil and coal are renewable because we can grow trees. You can't manage aquifers the same way as surface water (lakes, rivers, reservoirs).
Who tf is this guy all the sudden. I just got used to the dude with the Amish goatee. I hope there isn't anything very slightly unusual about this one.
Oh no, he's a freakin jacked oldish man.
hey, that jug was tied down.
on acid :)
Found a use of the Chroma Key!
Yes they did use a lot of that but they also went on location
And then we pee in it
try it on you Yakky friends
Lol no restriccions? That water isnt renewable
They should give this technology to the people in Africa living in drought places. Those people are suffering there. Shame
better idea, get them out of drought places
There has to be the Aquifer under the ground but of course the biggest problem in the Africa is they won't use condoms
Now I know how Alice springs gets its water from.
Dean " who ever is hammering, shut the f up? "
where is mustache
I guess lasers can't cut through rock like that?
They definitely can, it's just incredibly inefficient and wouldn't work as a well. It's much easier to break up thousands of kilos of rock and move the spoil than to vaporize it. Also, when you cut rock or metal with a laser, you melt the edges of your cut. This would make the rock impermeable to water defeating the point.
Yeah it takes more energy to crush rocks than to completely vapourise them
When this was done lasers weren't invented
back when science was actually science
And it isn’t now?
@@persnappy Didn’t you hear? Science and yodeling swapped places.
@@persnappy read a science textbook in schools half of it is pseudo science and opinions. It's silly honestly.
I mean prime example the "follow the science" campaign and silencing of medical professionals from covid. Your literally lose medical licenses and your job if you didn't follow the now denounced narrative. It didn't matter what "science" showed. People use that word so incorrectly today
Imagine being a doctor in 2020 and 2021 and losing your job at a hospital for stating, not even advocating or prescribing, but just having the opinion that you don't need to wear a mask because it doesn't prevent the spread of covid, yet scientifically you know it doesn't prevent it. You cannot tell me that "science" means the same thing it does today and back then. That word is used in such different ways now
@@christianvanmatre7620 hilarious but true
You mean before the internet told everybody not to trust anybody or scientists so they could control society ? Science is still science that doesn't change only the level of stupidity from people that's what changes
Am I the only one who started singing Waterfalls about 5 seconds in?
After understanding finally what an artesian spring is and learning that science is wonderful i have only one question.... what the heck is "worder"?
Oh btw yea yea science is great 😮💨let´s pat ourselves on the back and give no credit to this giant blue wonder of nature where all parking our asses on🌏
These people are coming closer up there with Sagan, Nye, and others. The USA now has to have this kind of programs not for kids, but for adults, to cover for their lack of generalist knowledge lol while the kids are fed with nothing but mindless cartoons, and so the cycle of ignorance is perpetuated...
What makes it for kids or for adults? What factor or variable decides, mr.national demographic