I was thinking that too! Reminds me of the expert from 'sour toe cocktail'. I do love the characters Tom finds on his Western North America road trips!
Coca Cola "Am I a joke to you" Joking aside Coca Cola's brand Dasani here in the UK was a commercial failure and Tom Scott has a whole video dedicated to the Dasani scandal if you're interested.
When I was a kid and hiking one summer in the High Sierras in California, I came across what looked like a newly-created natural spring burbling out of the ground. I filled up my little metal hiking cup and it nearly frosted up, the water was so cold. It wasn't carbonated, but it was the best water I ever tasted in my life.
@@lsswappedcessna Spring water is potable because it has passed through underground sandstone and limestone deposits, which act as a natural water filter. Also, because it is coming from underground where most bacteria can't grow, the water is remarkably sterile.
Here in Slovakia we have our own cold water geyser. It's not on electronic timer so you need to wait approximately from 32 to 36 hours between eruptions. Such a pity that there's no Wikipedia article on it in English.
My family has hailed from soda springs for multiple generations. Moving back and forth from Utah since they emigrated in the 1860s. It's cool to see Tom's take on something so ingrained in my childhood.
My dad grew up in Soda Springs, and we drove through many times between Utah and Wyoming to visit. It's a great place to see, and you smell it a long ways away!
There's a kind of rotten egg smell that comes from the sulfer deposits nearby. It's more noticeable in the summer, but the springs are an awesome thing to see!
@@thetimebeing4288 it smells like rotten eggs as they said but there is a small creek that the geyser water goes into and if you get to close to that the smells are so overwhelming that you temporarily can’t smell anything
@The Soviet Muffin I can definitely confirm that. As a kid I really wanted to get sprayed by the geyser. My parents tried to keep me from doing so, but I managed to sneak past them and right up near the geyser as it went off. I got soaked, and while it was summer and I dried off quickly, the smell remained. Unfortunately for my parents (and myself as I soon realized) was we still had two hours of driving before we got to our destination. Let's just say the windows were down the whole time! Fun childhood memories now 😅
As a sparkling water connoisseur, I think it's important to point out that "soda water" specifically has a neutralizing agent to counter the carbonic acid, such as sodium bicarbonate. That's the major distinction between seltzer and soda water. So depending on the pH, it might just be seltzer water.
Just for your information: in Poland there's a mountain town called Szczawnica, which comes from the word "szczawa" (old Polish word for carbonated water). And, unsurprisingly, there are rich sources of naturally carbonated water in the vicinity, although not geysers.
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Badoit, a French brand, also used to (or still does ? Not sure) come from a natural source like this. If you want to, you can go there with a bottle and they'll fill it for you, but only once a week to not tap it too much.
@@TheLK641 There are many towns in Central and Eastern France with very mineral and carbonated waters from volcanic systems like Perrier and La Salvetat
Same for Perrier, and a few other big waters. Smaller producers still use natural carbonation, but it just doesn't scale well with the sort of demand Perrier and San Pellegrino have.
@@Drew-Dastardly There are still plenty of naturally carbonated mineral water sources throughout the world, especially around (former) volcanic areas. the Central and Eastern France regions are full of towns with each its own namebrand sometimes carbonated mineral water with different concentrations, giving them each their own unique taste and health benefits.
In Germany there are several natural carbonated water springs, I tried it once directly from a spring, it has a slightly metallic taste, but hey it is carbonated :)
@@jasonhaven7170 the dose makes the poison. If the mineral load is so high that you can clearly taste it, you shouldn't use that as your only source of drinking water. Even commercial mineral water can cause kidney stones if consumed in excess. It's fine to drink in moderation but you need to primarily drink some other water with fewer dissolved minerals.
I've travelled every which way across the US and honestly, never heard of this geyser or Soda Springs Idaho ! It took Tom Scott to travel 4,834 mi (7,780 km) from London, UK to educate me ! Love this young man's videos. Thanks, I'm now smarter than yesterday.
in romania there is a town called buzias that has the exact same thing, there are also small fountains from where you can drink, they all orange just like in the vid, lately it lost its carbonation (still carbonated but just light) but a few years ago it was wery carbonated, there was also a pool with mineral water built since 1929 but for a few years now it sits in ruins.
Naturally carbonated mineral water has a long history before the invention of artificial carbonation both for bathing and drinking. 18th century chemist Joseph Priestley developed carbonated water and saw it as a way to artificially recreate natural mineral water which was believed to be good for the health.
WOW!!! Two Idaho videos in a row. As an Idaho native this is so cool to see from your point of view. I really hope you did one on craters of the moon. Fingers crossed.
Never in a million years would my father think his hometown interesting enough to deserve a Tom Scott video. It is crazy to think that nearly 200k people now know about Soda Springs
Right?! All my aunts and uncles took all us grandkids out there on a big loop around their old stomping grounds one time and made sure to bring a pitcher and some lemon-lime koolaid to mix with the spring water like they did as kids.
I thought since it was naturally carbonated it would really fizzy because the only water that I have tasted that is naturally carbonated is called Güitig its in Ecuador and that water is really fizzy. That is also why I like it more than regular carbonated waters because it is way more fizzy then them and even sodas. They do bottle and sell the water incase anyone was wondering. There is also a pool full of the carbonated spring water that I have never been in but have heard that it tickles to swim in, also the spring water is not warm.
This is in that category for me of "extremely pleasant Tom Scott videos" there's something just very fundamentally 'nice' about this video and it feels almost comfy to watch
Love the incredible places you find in the EU, and enjoying all the places you are sharing in the US (Cheers from 'right next door' in Kalispell, Montana)
If I remember it well, about once per hour. And fun factor, you can visit it for free. But you have to pay for the boat. And I guess most people go by boat.
Reminds me of the geyser in Geneva that was to be a water pump but was extremely tall a spray and then left there or something like that, not carbonated but very tall.
Went there recently, was originally overpressure from a dam up the river, but they decided to bring it to the lake as a tourist attraction
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In Karlovy Vary, there's a museum/shop of stuff that gets sprayed with mineral water for looong time. It's a spa city and the tour there including the water sources is nice.
Not to beat a dead horse, but my OCD flares up when I see this, so I apologize in advance... You're = "you are", while your signifies possession, as in "it's yours". I'm sure you know this, but if I don't say something, I'll have to open and close my door for a couple of hours until it closes just right, haha...
We have a bunch of mineral springs in Slovakia, most of which I believe are carbonated. There's even some water parks which use such water in separate pools
I dont know how you do it tom but the timing of you saying "on an electronic timer" and the geyser turning off were almost millisecond accurate. Another fine piece of journalism
Been there several times. It's an amazing little town. Nearby the town is another park and spring that's less visited. Near nightfall you can see glowing slag being dumped at the nearby phosphate mine.
It’s great to see more people talk about, my grandma lives a short walk from it and so all my childhood I’ve visited it, I was actually there the day before this video was released.
Thank you for showing a just down home small town tourist attraction here in the US. I am old enough to remember going out on weekend trips to places like this with my family back in the 70's. Now you can't get kids out of the house or off their game consoles. Used to go to zoo's, museum's, and all sorts of other places just to go. It is a dying enjoyment. Again, thanks.
Huh... in Poland, affordable bottled sparkling water by default is expected to come from naturally carbonated mineral springs. There are many such springs here with massive bottling plants nearby. You can even expect slightly different flavor, depending on water brand. Of course cheap stuff made from carbonated tap water also exist but it isn't really popular. I grew up within 100km radius of 5-6 spa/healing towns with mineral springs, so I find it kinda amusing for it to be such a novelty 🙂
In a lot of places in Europe they don't just bottle the water but the springs are also pumping stations for the local drinking water supply. So yes, in Belgium they use Spa to flush their toilet.
I live in Transylvania and here there are a lot of soda springs so it never occurred to me that this was so rare. What is interesting is that here the water has a really complex taste (it doesn't taste anything like the soda water you would buy from a store) because there are so many minerals within it.
With the Yellowstone "death zone" and this I wonder what else you might be checking out in the area? The old Spud Drive In theater (est. 1953) in Driggs/Victor Idaho might have been nice, if it hadn't recently collapsed during a wind storm!
".... a few places in the world where there's underground water and carbon dioxide held at pressure." Hmm, hopefully there's no risk of an incident like what happened at Lake Nyos in Cameroon. Granted, that's not exactly the same thing, but the idea that a massive bubble of CO2 can emerge from the earth and suffocate nearly two thousand people with no warning is kind of terrifying.
I wonder if the gyser helps to offgas the deposit, which is the kind of system they set up in that area after the disaster, apparently. At least in Idaho there are likely many homes with CO2 detectors, so people would wake up.
I think the problem with Lake Nyos is that the water is unstable and has the ability to release all its gas at once, creating a bubble that pushes out the O2. The ground acts kind of like a taught balloon nozzle, slowly releasing the gas and allowing it to dilute.
Just a reminder that at Lake Nyos the people didn't suffocate (ie lack of oxygen), they died of CO2 poisoning. Something that causes humans to lose consciousness almost instantly and suffer respiratory arrest in less than a minute. If you work in an environment where there is potential for CO2 build up, you're told not to bend down to check on someone who's unconscious on the floor, else you might join them
@@alittlebitofkatie cool, thanks for the clarification. High levels of CO2 are no joke. There was an awful incident in a mine in BC years ago that exemplifies the scenario you describe- one guy went missing, the guy they sent to check on him died just after dialing 911, and then the two paramedics died as well.
The Cameroon incident became deadly because of the topography. The land was shaped like a bowl and the CO2 had no way to disperse it just settled in the land bowl, accumualted and suffocated everyone.
Funnest part about visiting soda as a kid was picking out what kind of flavoring to bring to then add to your cup of “soda water”. Would highly recommend
What a shame, that we've lost so many of these soda springs because they were deemed an "inconvenience." Nothing is sacred. Glad some are still around today.
It's a lot easier to try and get the timing right for something like this, when it's all automated. I still got it wrong the first time.
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all good, tom! :)
😂😂😂 we still appreciate the effort!
@@R.MaxumOff weird
I'm from Soda Springs! This is so crazy! Bill was one of my cross country coaches. He hands out mints to everyone. He's a great guy
Must have been crazy having a wizard as your coach.
@Sir Eebral mints
mintz
I spent a few years working in soda springs for a few times a month. It made me nostalgic seeing this video.
so i gues not much carbonated water is sold in shops to locals there? 😀
That historian looks exactly what you'd expect for a local historian to look like. Love it!
Like a guy who tells other people about alien conspiracy theories while wearing a “Aliens are watching” shirt?
I was thinking that too! Reminds me of the expert from 'sour toe cocktail'. I do love the characters Tom finds on his Western North America road trips!
He looks like the human version of Fillmore from Cars.
@@enternlv0id he just looks like a normal old guy
_Especially_ a local historian of a place called Soda Springs
Wake me up when they find the Mt Dew geyser.
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fun fact: if you add Hydrogen peroxide, dish soap, and a little bit of baking soda to Mountain dew you can make a glow stick
@@wren_. fun fact: if you add certain chemicals to a plastic tube you can make a glow stick
@@wren_. fun fact: if you add certain chemicals to water you can make a glow stick
@@vincenth.8709 For Mountain Dew specifically it’s baking soda, hydrogen peroxide, and dish soap.
never ever thought about swimming in soda but it does sound amazingly fun. nice and cool.
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This is where the term spa comes from. It's a reference to the Belgian town of Spa that also has natural fizzy water.
I wonder if it's easier since there would be extra buoyancy from the CO2. Like swimming in the Dead Sea
I'd be worried for CO2 build up above the water.
The soda company perrir or however you spell it actually started as a spa
This is one of my favorite types of Tom Scott videos: Tom goes to see a thing that is shockingly simple and delightfully wholesome.
It's an amazing place, but it's not, like, a mindboggling place, it's just a neat place.
Tom Scott: “that’s really nice…. not too fizzy…. I would happily buy that in a bottle.“
Nestlé has entered the chat.
Many a true word spoken in jest.
Also they would give you 10 dollars a year to suck it dry, Nestle lovely company.
Coca Cola "Am I a joke to you"
Joking aside Coca Cola's brand Dasani here in the UK was a commercial failure and Tom Scott has a whole video dedicated to the Dasani scandal if you're interested.
nestle: so what are the child labour laws in that state?
@@Vulpix298 bold of you to asume they care about laws
4:51 “That’s really nice.”
The moment that makes it all worthwhile.
Never knew that soda water could be a thing that could occur naturally though it still does make sense
Perrier water is naturally carbonated but they have to remove the gas, clean the radon and replace it
People hundreds of years ago also knew about it and thought it had healing properties
@@andrina118 I didn't think they were required to do that.
@@죽은_시민의_사회 I guess it will cure some mineral deficiencies
It happens alot in Armenia
When I was a kid and hiking one summer in the High Sierras in California, I came across what looked like a newly-created natural spring burbling out of the ground. I filled up my little metal hiking cup and it nearly frosted up, the water was so cold. It wasn't carbonated, but it was the best water I ever tasted in my life.
What I find fascinating is that spring water like that is potable.
"Then, about 2 hours later, I had my own geyser ... if you know what I mean..."
@@DugrozReports love it. 🤣👍
@@lsswappedcessna Spring water is potable because it has passed through underground sandstone and limestone deposits, which act as a natural water filter. Also, because it is coming from underground where most bacteria can't grow, the water is remarkably sterile.
Here in Slovakia we have our own cold water geyser. It's not on electronic timer so you need to wait approximately from 32 to 36 hours between eruptions. Such a pity that there's no Wikipedia article on it in English.
You can be the hero to translate pages to english
Looks like you may be doing something for your country. 😉 Also, that's a looong wait for an eruption.
You know what? Maybe I will. Thanks!
@@backslash777 Thank you dude. You're contributing to preservation of human knowledge
Also: Luhačovice, not so much geysers but natural carbonated water galore.
My family has hailed from soda springs for multiple generations. Moving back and forth from Utah since they emigrated in the 1860s. It's cool to see Tom's take on something so ingrained in my childhood.
My dad grew up in Soda Springs, and we drove through many times between Utah and Wyoming to visit. It's a great place to see, and you smell it a long ways away!
What does it smell like?
There's a kind of rotten egg smell that comes from the sulfer deposits nearby. It's more noticeable in the summer, but the springs are an awesome thing to see!
@@The_Plane_Nerd Ah that smells delightful :laughing
@@thetimebeing4288 it smells like rotten eggs as they said but there is a small creek that the geyser water goes into and if you get to close to that the smells are so overwhelming that you temporarily can’t smell anything
@The Soviet Muffin I can definitely confirm that. As a kid I really wanted to get sprayed by the geyser. My parents tried to keep me from doing so, but I managed to sneak past them and right up near the geyser as it went off. I got soaked, and while it was summer and I dried off quickly, the smell remained. Unfortunately for my parents (and myself as I soon realized) was we still had two hours of driving before we got to our destination. Let's just say the windows were down the whole time!
Fun childhood memories now 😅
As a sparkling water connoisseur, I think it's important to point out that "soda water" specifically has a neutralizing agent to counter the carbonic acid, such as sodium bicarbonate. That's the major distinction between seltzer and soda water. So depending on the pH, it might just be seltzer water.
informative, thanks!
I never imagined that a "sparkling water connoisseur" would be a thing
what do you think about Borsec?
So perhaps they should rename the town to Seltzer Springs 😂
I think that is why the title says "Sparkling mineral water" which is 100% true
Just for your information: in Poland there's a mountain town called Szczawnica, which comes from the word "szczawa" (old Polish word for carbonated water). And, unsurprisingly, there are rich sources of naturally carbonated water in the vicinity, although not geysers.
Please may i ask for a guide on how to pronouce those words? Thank you from a curious internet stranger :)
@@Ravenesque There are two pronunciations on Forvo.
@@Ravenesque Szczawa like sh-cha-va , Szczawnica is spelled like shchavnitza
that word reminds me of Czkawka, a very nice app for deleting duplicated photos
Muszynianka s my favourite 😀😎👍🍹
Tom Scott is a great example that anything that needs to be said can be said in five minutes. It's greatly appreciated! Thank you!👍
There's plenty of videos on YT that can't get the point across in 30 minutes. 🤔
San Pellegrino used to come out sparkling too.
They tap the gas off seperately and re-add it to the water now, for consistency reasons.
Badoit, a French brand, also used to (or still does ? Not sure) come from a natural source like this. If you want to, you can go there with a bottle and they'll fill it for you, but only once a week to not tap it too much.
@@TheLK641 There are many towns in Central and Eastern France with very mineral and carbonated waters from volcanic systems like Perrier and La Salvetat
Same for Perrier, and a few other big waters. Smaller producers still use natural carbonation, but it just doesn't scale well with the sort of demand Perrier and San Pellegrino have.
Peckham Springs is the only honest mineral water left.
@@Drew-Dastardly There are still plenty of naturally carbonated mineral water sources throughout the world, especially around (former) volcanic areas. the Central and Eastern France regions are full of towns with each its own namebrand sometimes carbonated mineral water with different concentrations, giving them each their own unique taste and health benefits.
I love that you go to these out-of-the-way places that many of us would never think to consider. Thanks, Tom.
In Germany there are several natural carbonated water springs, I tried it once directly from a spring, it has a slightly metallic taste, but hey it is carbonated :)
That metal taste is probably the minerals your body needs so it's good for you
@@jasonhaven7170 the dose makes the poison. If the mineral load is so high that you can clearly taste it, you shouldn't use that as your only source of drinking water. Even commercial mineral water can cause kidney stones if consumed in excess. It's fine to drink in moderation but you need to primarily drink some other water with fewer dissolved minerals.
@@tissuepaper9962 It's healthy in small does. 250ml a week should provide you with a lot of good minerals
Though dose makes the poison, might want to test it before you suggest how much to drink regularly.
@@jasonhaven7170 one Spring had high amounts of iron, the water tasted like blood, I could not swallow a sip.
I've travelled every which way across the US and honestly, never heard of this geyser or Soda Springs Idaho ! It took Tom Scott to travel 4,834 mi (7,780 km) from London, UK to educate me ! Love this young man's videos. Thanks, I'm now smarter than yesterday.
in romania there is a town called buzias that has the exact same thing, there are also small fountains from where you can drink, they all orange just like in the vid, lately it lost its carbonation (still carbonated but just light) but a few years ago it was wery carbonated, there was also a pool with mineral water built since 1929 but for a few years now it sits in ruins.
Naturally carbonated mineral water has a long history before the invention of artificial carbonation both for bathing and drinking. 18th century chemist Joseph Priestley developed carbonated water and saw it as a way to artificially recreate natural mineral water which was believed to be good for the health.
I mean, anything natural will have a longer history than something manmade.
which now know its "not" (the "" is because of the whose semantics about healthy )
Things I don't care about BUT happily watch when Tom talks about them.
One thing that is amazing with all Tom's videos is how fast they go: so easy to watch, so well done they end before You know it!
WOW!!! Two Idaho videos in a row. As an Idaho native this is so cool to see from your point of view. I really hope you did one on craters of the moon. Fingers crossed.
Same! I’ve lived in Idaho my whole life and I always freak out when people talk about our state. Idaho is a hidden gem.
It makes me happy knowing this exists.
This is it. THE Soda Fountain
Where the lemonade springs and the bluebird sings?
Only one option, though. Way less than most of them.
This is why I love Tom's videos. he finds or hears about cool stuff, then shares them with us.
Something amazing that it’s free to see the geyser and free to taste the water. Such a good thing!
After a week of worrying about politics and business, i enjoy Tom's light-hearted and positive videos on random quirks of our world.
Nice to see Tom exploring Idaho! So much cool history around here.
So true. It's one of America's gems that not many people know about
@@itsyaboi1214 it is the gem state
Had no idea you had gone to visit Idaho. It's 11 months late, but I hope you liked our state.
In the Belgian town of Spa there is one of the water sources that is natural sparkling.
(yes that is where the word "spa" comes from)
Nah it comes from francorchamps matey you got it all wrong;)
And yes, the same Spa where the eponymous racing circuit is located.
@@dannyboy_vtc8980 The word spa does derive from the Belgian town of Spa indeed, and that is also where the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps is located.
@@TigruArdavi i know dude i was just joking with him, couldn't you tell that much?
Never in a million years would my father think his hometown interesting enough to deserve a Tom Scott video. It is crazy to think that nearly 200k people now know about Soda Springs
Right?! All my aunts and uncles took all us grandkids out there on a big loop around their old stomping grounds one time and made sure to bring a pitcher and some lemon-lime koolaid to mix with the spring water like they did as kids.
4:15 - I fully expect a Tom Scott video on German Geysers within the next few years now.
5:00 A Nestle executive somewhere just felt a disturbance in the force.
I thought since it was naturally carbonated it would really fizzy because the only water that I have tasted that is naturally carbonated is called Güitig its in Ecuador and that water is really fizzy. That is also why I like it more than regular carbonated waters because it is way more fizzy then them and even sodas. They do bottle and sell the water incase anyone was wondering. There is also a pool full of the carbonated spring water that I have never been in but have heard that it tickles to swim in, also the spring water is not warm.
5:00 Tom: "I would happily buy that in a bottle"
Nestlé: * heavily breathes *
Once again Tom finds a little know gem hidden away in the world and explores it for all of us.
I've actually been there and seen it, didn't know the geyser itself was carbonated too though
@@beowolf9480 That's the beauty of what Tom does he ferrets out tidbits of fascinating information and shares it with us all.
@@Michael_Lederman it really is
Thanks for hanging out here in Idaho! I've lived here all my life (Boise area) but knew none of this!
Bill's "local historian" outfit is impeccable
I stopped there once travelling from ID to MO. Was good fun.
"I'd happily buy that in a bottle!" As long as it wasn't from Peckham, eh Tom?
This is in that category for me of "extremely pleasant Tom Scott videos" there's something just very fundamentally 'nice' about this video and it feels almost comfy to watch
I was so much expecting the water to be disgusting, tom's reaction to drinking it was so precious
It's just regular mineral water
@Retroxyl it also has minerals dissolved in it, as was mentioned in the video
@@drdca8263 so does most mineral/spring water
@@drdca8263 Most bottled water also has minerals added to it.
@@drdca8263 What do you think mineral water is?
Love the incredible places you find in the EU, and enjoying all the places you are sharing in the US (Cheers from 'right next door' in Kalispell, Montana)
Loving the Idaho videos! It’s great to see my home state getting love!
2:53 "Shut the geyser off immediately and notify them they had done that, so they did..."
3:05 Note reads: "No action was ever taken"
Yay! Soda Springs! Part of my old stomping ground growing up. It's cool to see it featured by the internationally famous Tom Scott. :)
i love this guy, he's just pleased with anything.
Yup this one of the best channels out there. love your work tom.
As someone who loves swimming and also loves fizzy pop, I think you've just found my ideal holiday destination!
I love when you come to my side of the pond to show me things about my country that I never knew. I hope you come to Michigan some day.
There are similar ones in the Eifel volcano region in germany, for example in Andernach the world highest cold water Geysire
Thank you for pointing this out! I just wanted to start typing about Andernach.
And isn't Andernach also on some kind of schedule - but a natural one? 🤔
If I remember it well, about once per hour.
And fun factor, you can visit it for free. But you have to pay for the boat. And I guess most people go by boat.
Tom Scott is a person i can listen to for hours explaining stuff i really do not take an interest in and i would still be well entertained.
Reminds me of the geyser in Geneva that was to be a water pump but was extremely tall a spray and then left there or something like that, not carbonated but very tall.
Went there recently, was originally overpressure from a dam up the river, but they decided to bring it to the lake as a tourist attraction
In Karlovy Vary, there's a museum/shop of stuff that gets sprayed with mineral water for looong time. It's a spa city and the tour there including the water sources is nice.
You're quality and dedication to research never ceases to amaze me great video!!
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You're
ah ah, yro'ue
Ah yes, “you are quality and dedication”
Not to beat a dead horse, but my OCD flares up when I see this, so I apologize in advance... You're = "you are", while your signifies possession, as in "it's yours". I'm sure you know this, but if I don't say something, I'll have to open and close my door for a couple of hours until it closes just right, haha...
something about that ramp and the little bubbling well is adorable
The German within me is sparkling with excitement
Tom? .... Mr.Scott? Realize i've been here for about 10 years now and your videos always impress... thank you.
We have a bunch of mineral springs in Slovakia, most of which I believe are carbonated. There's even some water parks which use such water in separate pools
Idaho native here. Soda springs is one of the many awesome things about idaho, and it'd be so cool to see you check out craters of the moon!!
"I'd happily buy that in a bottle"
Don't say that too loud or Nestle will hear you.
One of my favorite places to visit! I live about 2 hours away from Soda Springs. Glad you got to come to the gem state!
Watching your videos always cheers me up.
I love seeing you visiting these interesting sites my home state!
Oh my god an actual reason to visit Idaho
XD
what, you don't like potatoes?!
i love it when tom visits idaho, where i live. thats so cool!
I dont know how you do it tom but the timing of you saying "on an electronic timer" and the geyser turning off were almost millisecond accurate. Another fine piece of journalism
Exactly why is nobody talking about it
My knowledge on framerates forces me to point out that, with 30fps (, which this video runs on), it is only possible to get up to 33.33...ms accuracy.
@@fisch37 well 33.33 milliseconds is still measured in milliseconds
Been there several times. It's an amazing little town. Nearby the town is another park and spring that's less visited. Near nightfall you can see glowing slag being dumped at the nearby phosphate mine.
I visited this 3 days ago. I'm shocked, I can now claim that I have stood in the same place as Tom Scott
It’s great to see more people talk about, my grandma lives a short walk from it and so all my childhood I’ve visited it, I was actually there the day before this video was released.
The top g, would approve.
I think I'll be in this area in a few weeks-thanks for bringing it to my attention.
I’m usually not so interested in these things, to be honest, but when Tom’s the one talking about it, I stop everything I’m doing just to watch it.
Thank you for showing a just down home small town tourist attraction here in the US. I am old enough to remember going out on weekend trips to places like this with my family back in the 70's. Now you can't get kids out of the house or off their game consoles. Used to go to zoo's, museum's, and all sorts of other places just to go. It is a dying enjoyment. Again, thanks.
Huh... in Poland, affordable bottled sparkling water by default is expected to come from naturally carbonated mineral springs. There are many such springs here with massive bottling plants nearby. You can even expect slightly different flavor, depending on water brand. Of course cheap stuff made from carbonated tap water also exist but it isn't really popular.
I grew up within 100km radius of 5-6 spa/healing towns with mineral springs, so I find it kinda amusing for it to be such a novelty 🙂
In a lot of places in Europe they don't just bottle the water but the springs are also pumping stations for the local drinking water supply. So yes, in Belgium they use Spa to flush their toilet.
Muszynianka is the best one imo :)
I almost can’t watch this video because Tom being in Idaho makes me too happy
Whenever Tom Scott visits an unusal place - everything is as usual! :-D
I LIVED IN SODA SPRINGS THE TIME THIS VIDEO WAS RELEASED, AND I COULDVE MET TOM SCOTT??!?!?!?!?! IM OUTRAGED
When Tom drank the water it looked like he was about to throw up, then he just smiled and went 'thats really nice'
I live in Transylvania and here there are a lot of soda springs so it never occurred to me that this was so rare. What is interesting is that here the water has a really complex taste (it doesn't taste anything like the soda water you would buy from a store) because there are so many minerals within it.
With the Yellowstone "death zone" and this I wonder what else you might be checking out in the area?
The old Spud Drive In theater (est. 1953) in Driggs/Victor Idaho might have been nice, if it hadn't recently collapsed during a wind storm!
It is the same in Italy, just south of Rome. in the Castelli Romani area, little towns like Nemi, they have carbonated water straight from the tap
".... a few places in the world where there's underground water and carbon dioxide held at pressure." Hmm, hopefully there's no risk of an incident like what happened at Lake Nyos in Cameroon. Granted, that's not exactly the same thing, but the idea that a massive bubble of CO2 can emerge from the earth and suffocate nearly two thousand people with no warning is kind of terrifying.
I wonder if the gyser helps to offgas the deposit, which is the kind of system they set up in that area after the disaster, apparently. At least in Idaho there are likely many homes with CO2 detectors, so people would wake up.
I think the problem with Lake Nyos is that the water is unstable and has the ability to release all its gas at once, creating a bubble that pushes out the O2. The ground acts kind of like a taught balloon nozzle, slowly releasing the gas and allowing it to dilute.
Just a reminder that at Lake Nyos the people didn't suffocate (ie lack of oxygen), they died of CO2 poisoning. Something that causes humans to lose consciousness almost instantly and suffer respiratory arrest in less than a minute.
If you work in an environment where there is potential for CO2 build up, you're told not to bend down to check on someone who's unconscious on the floor, else you might join them
@@alittlebitofkatie cool, thanks for the clarification. High levels of CO2 are no joke. There was an awful incident in a mine in BC years ago that exemplifies the scenario you describe- one guy went missing, the guy they sent to check on him died just after dialing 911, and then the two paramedics died as well.
The Cameroon incident became deadly because of the topography. The land was shaped like a bowl and the CO2 had no way to disperse it just settled in the land bowl, accumualted and suffocated everyone.
Funnest part about visiting soda as a kid was picking out what kind of flavoring to bring to then add to your cup of “soda water”. Would highly recommend
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wow, Tom Scott drove through my hometown and I didn't even know it. Holy hell
this might be one of my favorite tom scott videos
You forgot the most important question Tom... What's it like with gin, ice & a slice of lemon?
Ah, for that, you need to go to the nearby site of the naturally occurring reservoir of gin.
@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 And the the road to the lemon grove! 😆
I love this, it's just a free nice attraction, you can just get a glass from a little well, just turn up and see it.
What a shame, that we've lost so many of these soda springs because they were deemed an "inconvenience." Nothing is sacred. Glad some are still around today.
1:43 thank you for pronouncing oregon correctly, you would not believe how many people pronounce it "oar-egg-on" instead of "oar-egg-in"
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I love your videos so much. Thank you Tom Scott!
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The ultimate natural SodaStream. And of course, Okuyasu's gonna want to try it.
I'm surprised someone hasn't opened a bar selling drinks mixed with the water.
Preferably mixed with barley, yeast and a dash of fresh hops?