One other rare source of deep groaning sounds in deserts is the occasional passing discovery channel executive, after their shows are put to shame like this.
It's due to it's dark history with the whaling industry and other bouts of violence and slaughter. Typically, when pretty locations have these types of names, there's a reason for it, and that reason is dark.
If you know who Hans Zimmer is who produced and composed the soundtrack, then you would understand that you are exactly correct. He uses everything from natural sounds, to tribal musicians, all the way to orchestra instruments.
I work in food service, and regularly need to move 25 kg bags of cornstarch, and they make the same squeaking noise when you move the bag, glad to see my intuition was right that it would be a similar mechanism creating the sound
i saw a video of someone chewing a whole mouthful of cornstarch and ........... my god......... the sounds...........the squeaky crunches................ it was AWFUL
@@DenisRyan If you mean the droid escape pod on Tatooine at 7:35, that's actually the Dune Sandworm popcorn bucket 😉 That one had me fooled for quite a while before I looked at it closer.
In my opinion, a lot of TH-cam videos needs to be like this, fun and informative, teaching you something niche that isn't boring and is actually fascinating to know about
This is a seriously sick video man. The topic was fascinating and mystifying, and the presentation was incredible. I'm rarely impressed with creators this quickly, I can't wait to see what you do next ^^
This video coming out of nowhere on my feed and entertainingly and clearly explaining a phenomenon that's puzzled me my whole life. This left me with a feeling of having learned something cool, really enjoying the way you explain things, loling at the little references, and having a good time. This is how science videos should be done. And i appreciated the rick roll. You killed it.
@@KlaypersonJames: "I'm in orbit around Maleveolon Creek where thousands of brave men and women are currently diving feet first... into hell" *queue intro*
I dont know why, but this video almost felt like a breath of fresh air. I guess its just nice to find a science video that doesnt overdramatize everything for once lol The intro was great, and i really liked the explanations and general tone of the video. Great work, man!
@@loomon2610 the entire video has such STRIKING resemblance of his videos lol. The beginning, with him walking down the beach speaking to the camera. HOW he's speaking. The stuff he's saying, just everything. The entire way the video progresses is just so.... Tom. I love it.
Ah, yes, the squeaky sand. I remember it well from Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake on MSX2 where you have to go through a desert undetected by the guards. To quote a character from the game: "That's singing sand, imported all the way from Okinawa, Japan. It squeaks when you walk on it. The sound will give your position away, so be careful...See ya."
Just walk on a white sand beach, and you will hear it yourself, if you scuff. I remember hearing it as little kid at New Smyrna beach, FL, and thinking "that's cool" and immediately moving on to something else, probably digging up those little sand crabs or getting knocked to kingdom come by the waves, back before the beaches were all reshaped and ruined by a few hurricanes a decade plus ago.
Once again, you blow me away. (Like the sand!) With production quality and easy to understand graphs and a great story wrapped up in 9 minutes. Fantastic. You worked hard and it shows! Is it all you?
Your editing did a FANTASTIC job at making a VERY tight video. Tightly packed information but no overload. While just that touch of humor.@@AtomicFrontier
This is the first video of yours that I've seen, but it's already convinced me to subscribe. Amazing quality across the board: sound, animation, visuals that you set up outside the animations like the pendulum, or just all the shots of the beach and dunes, just great science communication. Very impressed with this.
yeah that's about right we have so many incredible natural vistas and fuck all tourism. which isn't necessarily a bad thing, unless the mining corps take the lack of tourist interest as permission to obliterate the natural wonders of Western Australia
@@OutbackCatgirlbe careful what you wish for. Tourism ruins a lot of the places I love local to me. They're special beautiful places that deserve respect but many don't give it any.
Wow, this really reminds me of those old school educational programs on TV. Amazing you did this with just two people, and the flow of information provided was so natural yet concise. Very engaging on a topic that could easily be dry if not presented well.
You are GOOD! I have a Master Degree in Geology (hard rock, not so much sediments), and I have heard of the phenomenon, but never read about it in text books. You explained and presented the topic beautifully. Short, concise, easy to understand and well illustrated. Nice work 👍🌞.
Great sand dunes national monument, go past the tourist area and climb up the back side. Slide down, and the sound is legendary. The local tribes have a whole mythology about it.
You mentioned the sound of drums being heard in the singing dunes. Very close frequencies of sound will interfere constructively/destructively to create a rhythmic "beat" like drums.
actually, tom scott used to do this thing where hed take january off and the videos instead would showcase other tubers. tom introduces AF as "someone who will replace me in 10 years" or something like that. thats how i found this channel.
i absolutely love how you explained the equation piece by piece in the second to last section of the video. way too many technical/science focused channels avoid explaining the equations they bring up for whatever reason. it really helped explain what is going on here rather than it just being a unique phenomenon that only a handful of people know the 'technicalities' about.
I was visiting Fl in 2016 and my friend took us some around Ponce de Leon point, and as soon as we stepped on the sand it started squeaking. It was the whitest sand beach I've ever been to and the sand was incredibly fine. So happy to have run into this 8 years later and gotten an explanation!
I love how some TH-cam creators can create content that is SO MUCH better than the big companies and networks. LIKE YOU good sir! Giving us factual and educational videos that aren’t at a snails pace, that aren’t twisting interviews, aren’t just there to fund the multi millionaire/billionaire CEOs private jets, and well not to mention are commercial free… well with Premium. Anyways, Thank You! Thank you for spreading knowledge. You may be one fish in the sea but one fish still makes a difference.
i like the depth you go into for every aspect. the choice of words and models that a novice can realate to from living a standard modern life is tieing it all together to form a solid condensed pack of information. very strong teacher and also a motivator to learn.
That might be the best explanation of resonance I've ever heard. I know the results of the phenomenon, especially in the music field, but I never had it explained as clearly as this. This is awesome, I love the effort put into these videos
Of note, you may find brown squeaking sand on a river or lake, these are often still quarts, just stained with dirt and other minerals/deposits. I often find small segments of this on the mississippi river
If it's along the Mississippi; there's a rather well known river is Wisconsin that flows into the Mississippi called the Black River which is full of wood tannins that stain the beach sand of the beaches south of where it meets in La Crosse for a few hundreds of miles before they get too deluded.
@@JacopoSkydweller I appreciate the understanding, and the good word, young Jedi. But in my defense, I would like to point out that you never see a wrinkle on Iron Man's clothing..... or a soup stain on Superman's outfit, for that matter _(but I digress)._
Holy, the sound design in this video is astonishing! The parts in the beginning where you played music around 0:30 and then when u played the "drum-like roaring sound" from the desert at 1:03 were so cool to listen to with headphones. Aswell as being a cool informational video? Man this videos amazing.
I love how your videos stop to give in-depth explanation of physical processes, computation, etc.. needed to really understand the curiosities you're showing. This reminds me a lot of the original Cosmos, with Carl Sagan, and is something I miss from many current documentaries.
Went to 1 beach in northern Australia that would 'spark' if you walked across the dry sand at night. Super high silica content with sharp edged grains. Have also seen beaches where the wet sand would glow when you walked on but that was bioluminescence from small plankton mixed on the sand.
@@geradkavanagh8240 in general sand doing things it's not supposed to do is cool as heck, I guess you found the electric/ground and fairy/ground Diglett beaches.
I got lucky to see these things. Very few people,( even the Aboriginals) rarely visit the 'electric' sands. Bioluminescent ones were everywhere in the Gulf of Carpenteria and all the way to Darwin. @@neoqwerty
thank you for having funny sand noises right at the beginning of the video. this video has been in my recommended for days and i remember thinking to myself "i bet its gonna be 5 minutes in before he even plays the sand noise. its all gonna be filler and 'guys you wont BELIEVE the sound this sand makes". But i was wrong. I got to hear beautiful squeaky sand right at the start
Ohhh wow! the pinkish red sand particle at 2:09 looks like a very tiny ruby, could actually be possible since they are so incredibly hard and resilient
@@PeterPaolielloI know, it's still pretty awesome to see all these scientific locations around WA in his videos, especially these hidden gems! Perhaps WA is not as boring as others might suggest.
our guy made a machine to demonstrate resonance instead of paying someone to make a cheap animation from fiverrrrrrrrr. this video is a masterpiece, great work
As an Aussie I was so surprised when you said squeaking sand is rare since I had encountered it so often. When you said it's much more common in AU It made way more sense.
Brazilian here, so inhabitant of the another major down under land and I literally never even heard of this phenomenon I didn't even know it existed up until now
I remember there being low-pitch (like carefully rubbing a glass pane with a moist rag) squeaking sand on one of sandy peninsulas of river Vilyui in Yakutia. The sand was clean, not dusty, and yellow
First time seeing this channel but this was such a great presentation. You have the answer to the main topic from almost the start but kept weaving interesting points one after another with a great way of showcasing them that kept me interested into keep watching. Amazing video.
I have squeaky sand on the beaches in NC. I’ve found that if the sand has had a couple days to settle and the top layer is slightly hard while the bottom layer is soft and then I sort of kick my foot forward as I step the sand will squeak. My kids love it.
Exactly what I have found. After it rains, somehow the rain helps to compact a tight layer crust. After some time a day or two later, that crust dries out, and if you walk through that undisturbed layer and scuff your feet mainly through the crust layer, you get that squeaky sound
With the way you present these topics and the enthusiasm with which you break down the information, you could produce a video every day for the next hundred years and still not run out of interesting topics to talk about. "Watching Paint Dry" could be a week long series with a seventh day finale aired in theaters across the world, attended by millions. Needless to say, I'm now curious what the tune of my local beaches might be, and if I will be able to notice the difference between different areas even if none of them are the more melodious varieties of sand.
I am totally putting this in the videogame being worked on. Instead of regular sand. Thank you for posting this. Its given rise to some really creative ideas.
You being in that massive dessert without a hat on is almost as insane as the singing sand itself. Protect your face and neck brother. Massive props. First video ive seen on this channel, it must have been blessed by the algorithm. This show rly brings back nostalgia from watching those science shows as a kid.
beautifully edited video and great way of explaining things. I knew the concepts but I was still educated and entertained by your team's work! nicely done.
Fantastic vid mate, I had no idea that our Aussie beach sand was so unique. Even in Australia I`ve received a few strange looks when I have mentioned the squeaky noise sand makes.
When I was a youngster, there were several small rivers and creeks in my area that had clear water and large, dry, blindingly white sand bars in the turns. We could easily identify the sand bars that would squeak (we called it "barking" because it sounded like a seal vocalizing). We instinctively knew why it squeaked, the grains were clean, dry, and mostly round quartz. We could also see a slight electric glow on dark nights, and we thought the piezo action also had something to do with the sound.
Wait *what*?? Electric glow? I am so intrigued, would you mind elaborating for someone who grew up in the city and has never seen a desert in real life?
@@throughcolouredglasses9300 Well, this was in Louisiana, not even close to being a desert. The sand must be clean, of pretty uniform size, and very white, indicating its mostly quartz. When shuffling our feet vigorously in the sand, we got the noise and a very faint glow (on a dark night) obviously caused by the piezo effect. I assumed it was at least partly responsible for the squeaking sound. I hope that helps!
Having discovered this sliding down of the back of the Great Sand Dunes, it was more exhilarating than terrifying. The sound comes from everywhere and penetrates your whole body and sounds like angelic trumpets heralding the end of days.
Does it really resemble Tom Scott videos much other than being educational about random topics? Tom Scott is known for one-shot single scene videos. This is more old school sci-doc vibe.
@@e_j_ I was assuming he was from southern England, probably somewhere near London or Essex since he pronounces world as werwd. But I noted that he kept saying "we have" and "our beaches" when talking about Australia. But then again the description says "I went to Australia to find out". But the channel says it's Australian! Very confusing.
Very well done video, very cool! I live in Oregon (USA) and the beaches here have very fine sand. It's pretty easy to get it to make a sound, but I've always thought of it as "barking" rather than "squeaking". It's not quite as high pitched as the sand at the beginning of the video.
One other rare source of deep groaning sounds in deserts is the occasional passing discovery channel executive, after their shows are put to shame like this.
This doc reminded me a lot of those old school discovery channel docs, back when it was good and educational.
😂😂😂😂😂
Camels humping in the next dune over.
Hahhaha good one!
For real. RIP discovery channel….history and nat geo too while we’re at it.
The universe takes away Tom Scott, but gives me Atomic Frontier. Bless the TH-cam algorithm.
The Algorithm giveth, and the Algorithm taketh away. Praise the Algorithm!
Legit I think Tom would be happy to see a young lad continue the legacy for some while until he returns
Excactly my toughts
i EXACTLY thought the same!
@@pnxdait's not about "until he returns"
It's the sandworms, their movement makes the desert hum
Shai Hulud may be the best at making the sand squeak indeed!
Real??! 🤯
That's why you have to walk a certain way to not make that squeaky sound.
Makes sand sing
Stilgar - “LISAN AL GAIB!”
It's like the desert's song is a harbinger of the sandworms.
"this, is misery beach"
pans to pristine waters and bright white sandy shore
It's due to it's dark history with the whaling industry and other bouts of violence and slaughter. Typically, when pretty locations have these types of names, there's a reason for it, and that reason is dark.
Ok then…
It's Australia's worst beach. It makes us sad.
its the reviews and customer service. Your pina colada order takes 8 mins to fulfill.
Quiet zoomer, a content creator is speaking.
love the way this is filmed like an old educational nature documentary you would watch in school
I didnt know "dune" movie had scientifically accurate dune sounds in the soundtrack. Amazing.
If you know who Hans Zimmer is who produced and composed the soundtrack, then you would understand that you are exactly correct. He uses everything from natural sounds, to tribal musicians, all the way to orchestra instruments.
@@AgapexArafel I mean I know who hans zimmer is and I know he is an amazing composer but what I didnt know was sand made this sound.
@@exosproudmamabear558 it’s just that it’s a very Han Zimmer thing to do.
Squeeky fremen fighting in the squeeky sand against honky harkonnen.
which organ has the sidetract?
I work in food service, and regularly need to move 25 kg bags of cornstarch, and they make the same squeaking noise when you move the bag, glad to see my intuition was right that it would be a similar mechanism creating the sound
As long as the worms don’t hear it
I move around bags of silica sand and they sometimes make the squeaking sound.
I can hear this comment now and it's like nails on chalkboard
@ianweckhorst3200 one of the only movies in years that was actually good.
i saw a video of someone chewing a whole mouthful of cornstarch and ........... my god......... the sounds...........the squeaky crunches................ it was AWFUL
Heh, loved the Dune references snuck in this video. Great video!
Did you catch the Star Wars one too?
im bad at catching them... can anyone list the references?
@@DenisRyan If you mean the droid escape pod on Tatooine at 7:35, that's actually the Dune Sandworm popcorn bucket 😉 That one had me fooled for quite a while before I looked at it closer.
@@james_halpert I think he was referring to the Jawa just below.
@@dedwardskbd you must have never seen a jawa... lol... they have eyes that is a sandworm from dune
In my opinion, a lot of TH-cam videos needs to be like this, fun and informative, teaching you something niche that isn't boring and is actually fascinating to know about
You’re going to love Tom scott
@@FilmsBarlowdid you not see his newest video😂
yes i love a 9 minute video to explain why sand squeaks
This is a seriously sick video man. The topic was fascinating and mystifying, and the presentation was incredible. I'm rarely impressed with creators this quickly, I can't wait to see what you do next ^^
Something: * makes an unexpected sound *
Explorer: I diagnose you with singing
Though not really academic, it's fascinating and evocative. I'll allow it.
This video coming out of nowhere on my feed and entertainingly and clearly explaining a phenomenon that's puzzled me my whole life. This left me with a feeling of having learned something cool, really enjoying the way you explain things, loling at the little references, and having a good time. This is how science videos should be done. And i appreciated the rick roll. You killed it.
The humor in this entire series looks subtle, yet intelligent.
You have to be high IQ to understand the humor in Atomic Frontier
Whoops, I missed the rick roll. Would you point me to it, please?
@@ThindiGee me too. Is it some kind of troll just to get people to rewatch? Well, I'll let someone else determine that.
@@snoski 1:43
College age Tom Scott strikes again. Since TS retired from Things you Might Not Have Known; this is now the best Tom-Scott like channel on youtube.
tom scott: bye
internet: ↑↓→←↑
@@KlaypersonJames: "I'm in orbit around Maleveolon Creek where thousands of brave men and women are currently diving feet first... into hell" *queue intro*
have you seen what his thumbnail says?
th-cam.com/video/99_Abbuf3cQ/w-d-xo.html
@@Someone-sc2hk don't be ridiculous... since when do thumbs talk?
I dont know why, but this video almost felt like a breath of fresh air.
I guess its just nice to find a science video that doesnt overdramatize everything for once lol
The intro was great, and i really liked the explanations and general tone of the video.
Great work, man!
This has Tom Scott vibes, idk
i actually looked for this video on Tom Scott's channel and got surprised when it wasn't him who made it... xD
@@loomon2610 the entire video has such STRIKING resemblance of his videos lol. The beginning, with him walking down the beach speaking to the camera. HOW he's speaking. The stuff he's saying, just everything. The entire way the video progresses is just so.... Tom. I love it.
Ah, yes, the squeaky sand. I remember it well from Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake on MSX2 where you have to go through a desert undetected by the guards.
To quote a character from the game: "That's singing sand, imported all the way from Okinawa, Japan. It squeaks when you walk on it. The sound will give your position away, so be careful...See ya."
Wait …. Really?
Just walk on a white sand beach, and you will hear it yourself, if you scuff. I remember hearing it as little kid at New Smyrna beach, FL, and thinking "that's cool" and immediately moving on to something else, probably digging up those little sand crabs or getting knocked to kingdom come by the waves, back before the beaches were all reshaped and ruined by a few hurricanes a decade plus ago.
@@MrJdseniorthats crazy. I dont even live in Florida but thats the exact same beach i remember hearing the sand squeak at
@@b2ank yes. I just finished playing the game myself. It's a whole game mechanic.
Once again, you blow me away. (Like the sand!) With production quality and easy to understand graphs and a great story wrapped up in 9 minutes. Fantastic. You worked hard and it shows!
Is it all you?
Thanks! This one was just me and Julian; he did the camera and music and I did the editing and getting sunburned.
Your editing did a FANTASTIC job at making a VERY tight video. Tightly packed information but no overload. While just that touch of humor.@@AtomicFrontier
I couldn't agree more! This has an amazingly high production value! And the intro/outro-music was movie epic!
Wow, that was only 9 minutes? It felt like 20, I was sucked in lmao
@@AtomicFrontierSo Julian is responsible for the Rickroll...
That Rick Roll was SO well done!
The video was one big rock roll
Yo SPOILERS
dammit now i can't get rick rolled
@@JacopoSkydwellerdon’t look at comments first then
You fool, now I know to expect it and so it won’t work
This is the first video of yours that I've seen, but it's already convinced me to subscribe. Amazing quality across the board: sound, animation, visuals that you set up outside the animations like the pendulum, or just all the shots of the beach and dunes, just great science communication. Very impressed with this.
4:50 I just looked at that map and I got so amazed because the dot in southern Sweden is exactly where I've experienced squeaky sand!
Var är det? Har aldrig hört det själv.
@@Narnendil i Skanör har jag hört det! Visste inte att det var så ovanligt.
@ Kul! Tack för infon!
"Shudders per second is a function of how large our marbles are." There's a sentence you don't hear every day 😂
2:58 - for those who wonder.
My marbles don't hum they're well sacked
My marbles don’t shudder shudder, it hums
new fav sentence
I wonder how many labradors per freedom it can be
This is a better ad for West Oz than anything I’ve ever seen come out Tourism WA.
yeah that's about right
we have so many incredible natural vistas and fuck all tourism. which isn't necessarily a bad thing, unless the mining corps take the lack of tourist interest as permission to obliterate the natural wonders of Western Australia
@@OutbackCatgirlbe careful what you wish for. Tourism ruins a lot of the places I love local to me. They're special beautiful places that deserve respect but many don't give it any.
@@CrispyCars you may have misunderstood my comment. That's exactly my sentiment when it comes to tourism.
Wow, this really reminds me of those old school educational programs on TV. Amazing you did this with just two people, and the flow of information provided was so natural yet concise. Very engaging on a topic that could easily be dry if not presented well.
What a production. Bravo, as always. In a world of quick content i really appreciate channels like this that feel like old educational tv shows.
3:12 Real footage of a man loosing his marbles.
You are GOOD! I have a Master Degree in Geology (hard rock, not so much sediments), and I have heard of the phenomenon, but never read about it in text books. You explained and presented the topic beautifully. Short, concise, easy to understand and well illustrated.
Nice work 👍🌞.
My sediments exactly.
Great sand dunes national monument, go past the tourist area and climb up the back side. Slide down, and the sound is legendary. The local tribes have a whole mythology about it.
I grew up regularly going to a nearby beach that had squeaking sand. I had no idea that it didn't happen everywhere
Can't believe I got rickrolled in 2024 by a jar of sand.
same
Same here
W H A T D O Y O U G U Y S M E A N
It was so subtle and so perfect 😂
This is the first time I came across any of your videos. Super interesting, amazing shots and concisely, nicely explained. 10/10.
Literally subscribed because of the production value. Love all the floating text and the graphics.
You mentioned the sound of drums being heard in the singing dunes. Very close frequencies of sound will interfere constructively/destructively to create a rhythmic "beat" like drums.
trying to maintain the monologue while snowboarding/sandboarding was as impressive as it was unnecessary lol
great video yet again
feels like something Tom Scott would do lmao
actually, tom scott used to do this thing where hed take january off and the videos instead would showcase other tubers. tom introduces AF as "someone who will replace me in 10 years" or something like that. thats how i found this channel.
i absolutely love how you explained the equation piece by piece in the second to last section of the video. way too many technical/science focused channels avoid explaining the equations they bring up for whatever reason. it really helped explain what is going on here rather than it just being a unique phenomenon that only a handful of people know the 'technicalities' about.
I was visiting Fl in 2016 and my friend took us some around Ponce de Leon point, and as soon as we stepped on the sand it started squeaking. It was the whitest sand beach I've ever been to and the sand was incredibly fine. So happy to have run into this 8 years later and gotten an explanation!
I love how some TH-cam creators can create content that is SO MUCH better than the big companies and networks. LIKE YOU good sir! Giving us factual and educational videos that aren’t at a snails pace, that aren’t twisting interviews, aren’t just there to fund the multi millionaire/billionaire CEOs private jets, and well not to mention are commercial free… well with Premium.
Anyways, Thank You! Thank you for spreading knowledge. You may be one fish in the sea but one fish still makes a difference.
The audio post-production work in this is both on point and incredibly cheeky!
1:45 DESTROYED ME
ill never forget
you're a jar of sand?
We're no strangers to love
Bro stabbed the hell out of the meme and killed it
Never gonna give you up.
Brilliant as always, James! The production quality is out of this world, and your sci-comm skill is just growing and growing!!
Close enough, welcome back Tom Scott
i like the depth you go into for every aspect. the choice of words and models that a novice can realate to from living a standard modern life is tieing it all together to form a solid condensed pack of information.
very strong teacher and also a motivator to learn.
I love the Dune-esque custom soundtrack 😍. Also, you really keep finding fascinating topics for videos!
I was hoping to find a source of the music because Shazam was not helping. I’m really impressed that this was custom-made!
That might be the best explanation of resonance I've ever heard. I know the results of the phenomenon, especially in the music field, but I never had it explained as clearly as this. This is awesome, I love the effort put into these videos
Of note, you may find brown squeaking sand on a river or lake, these are often still quarts, just stained with dirt and other minerals/deposits. I often find small segments of this on the mississippi river
If it's along the Mississippi; there's a rather well known river is Wisconsin that flows into the Mississippi called the Black River which is full of wood tannins that stain the beach sand of the beaches south of where it meets in La Crosse for a few hundreds of miles before they get too deluded.
sand: "makes noise"
sientist: it's my time to shine.
You are learning the ways of the desert. Maybe one day you can be a Fremen.
How many marbles did you lose during that demonstration?
And how many more during the editing?
All of them, he lost all his marbles.
@@AB-wf8ek This is where I attempt, but fail to make a _"Captain Marble"_ joke. _(Apologies all around.....)_
Definitely did fail, but Marbleous attempt regardless. ;D @@paradisepipeco
@@JacopoSkydweller I appreciate the understanding, and the good word, young Jedi. But in my defense, I would like to point out that you never see a wrinkle on Iron Man's clothing..... or a soup stain on Superman's outfit, for that matter _(but I digress)._
R.I.P Wilson Gavin
Still married?
@@daleolson3506No! She died.
Aww wholesome
Surely they must have known/choosen it for that reason right?
He married on misery beach? Damn, that's a grim prognosis...
Holy, the sound design in this video is astonishing! The parts in the beginning where you played music around 0:30 and then when u played the "drum-like roaring sound" from the desert at 1:03 were so cool to listen to with headphones. Aswell as being a cool informational video? Man this videos amazing.
My favourite part was when he said "If we have really large marbles, then we have a small amount of shudders per second and a low frequency crunch".
I love how your videos stop to give in-depth explanation of physical processes, computation, etc.. needed to really understand the curiosities you're showing. This reminds me a lot of the original Cosmos, with Carl Sagan, and is something I miss from many current documentaries.
The mention of quartz got me thinking. I would love to see explanations and demonstrations of piezoelectricity from this channel!
Went to 1 beach in northern Australia that would 'spark' if you walked across the dry sand at night. Super high silica content with sharp edged grains. Have also seen beaches where the wet sand would glow when you walked on but that was bioluminescence from small plankton mixed on the sand.
@@geradkavanagh8240 in general sand doing things it's not supposed to do is cool as heck, I guess you found the electric/ground and fairy/ground Diglett beaches.
I got lucky to see these things. Very few people,( even the Aboriginals) rarely visit the 'electric' sands. Bioluminescent ones were everywhere in the Gulf of Carpenteria and all the way to Darwin.
@@neoqwerty
Love the wet and dry marble analogies, as well as different sizes. Incredibly easy to understand the whole concept. Worth a like!
Your production quality has started great and just keeps getting better!
thank you for having funny sand noises right at the beginning of the video. this video has been in my recommended for days and i remember thinking to myself "i bet its gonna be 5 minutes in before he even plays the sand noise. its all gonna be filler and 'guys you wont BELIEVE the sound this sand makes". But i was wrong. I got to hear beautiful squeaky sand right at the start
Never heard of this channel, but the high production quality alone earned you a subscriber!
I really appreciate that you brought paddles to the desert, and did something useful with them.
Ohhh wow! the pinkish red sand particle at 2:09 looks like a very tiny ruby, could actually be possible since they are so incredibly hard and resilient
That or maybe a piece of garnet
Pretty awesome to basically see my backyard a.k.a. Western Australia represented in your videos!
He's from WA
@@PeterPaolielloI know, it's still pretty awesome to see all these scientific locations around WA in his videos, especially these hidden gems! Perhaps WA is not as boring as others might suggest.
This reminds me so much of Tom Scott. I'm glad there's more channels like his, loved his style of content.
our guy made a machine to demonstrate resonance instead of paying someone to make a cheap animation from fiverrrrrrrrr. this video is a masterpiece, great work
As an Aussie I was so surprised when you said squeaking sand is rare since I had encountered it so often.
When you said it's much more common in AU It made way more sense.
Brazilian here, so inhabitant of the another major down under land
and I literally never even heard of this phenomenon
I didn't even know it existed up until now
I've lived in FL and CA and thought it was more normal than the map implied. Just happened to live near the areas it happens in the US.
Yep, use to go to Bribie island on the east coast all the time as a kid and would hear this every time
I experienced it on a sandbar in the Pearl River in Mississippi. Didn't think it was this rare!
@@matheussanthiago9685 Weird! In Uruguay it happens very often, and we're so close!
I remember there being low-pitch (like carefully rubbing a glass pane with a moist rag) squeaking sand on one of sandy peninsulas of river Vilyui in Yakutia. The sand was clean, not dusty, and yellow
Very impressed with the on site demonstration and effort put into your videos. Much more interesting than a studio video. Well done.
Tom Scott Inspired intro, great video!
First time seeing this channel but this was such a great presentation. You have the answer to the main topic from almost the start but kept weaving interesting points one after another with a great way of showcasing them that kept me interested into keep watching. Amazing video.
I'm not usually one to be stunned by production quality, but this video is something else. Talk about a great first impression.
I have squeaky sand on the beaches in NC. I’ve found that if the sand has had a couple days to settle and the top layer is slightly hard while the bottom layer is soft and then I sort of kick my foot forward as I step the sand will squeak. My kids love it.
Exactly what I have found. After it rains, somehow the rain helps to compact a tight layer crust. After some time a day or two later, that crust dries out, and if you walk through that undisturbed layer and scuff your feet mainly through the crust layer, you get that squeaky sound
With the way you present these topics and the enthusiasm with which you break down the information, you could produce a video every day for the next hundred years and still not run out of interesting topics to talk about. "Watching Paint Dry" could be a week long series with a seventh day finale aired in theaters across the world, attended by millions.
Needless to say, I'm now curious what the tune of my local beaches might be, and if I will be able to notice the difference between different areas even if none of them are the more melodious varieties of sand.
In 2001 i went to "Porto Seguro" Brazil , and most of the beaches did that sound! I though it was a common thing in white sands beaches-
This is extremely well produced! I could easily see this being on tv! Great job guys!
Nothin but bangers, every video slaps. You definitely have a nice career ahead of you!
i lived near a singing sand mountain (nevada, us)
it sang continuously when the wind blew
Another nice sound from nature is the crunch under foot of snow. Nothing as odd as squeaking sand. 👍👍
Clearly you've never spent any time on an ice sheet. The cracking ice sounds like Star wars lasers. 😅
Snow squeaks sometimes. Usually it's the weird dry sort of snow, like we got this winter.
Sometimes pressed on snow squeaks, just like this sand. You need snow that came down in rounded crystals for it to make that noise when stepped on.
Never have i seen a man with such a confident strut this early into a youtube video
I am totally putting this in the videogame being worked on. Instead of regular sand. Thank you for posting this. Its given rise to some really creative ideas.
First time seeing an video from the channel and I must say. Excellent quality, please keep up the good work.
I don’t like sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating… and it squeaks loudly. Not like here at home. Here everything is soft and quiet.
You being in that massive dessert without a hat on is almost as insane as the singing sand itself. Protect your face and neck brother.
Massive props. First video ive seen on this channel, it must have been blessed by the algorithm. This show rly brings back nostalgia from watching those science shows as a kid.
SPF 100, we call that the hat-in-a-bottle.
beautifully edited video and great way of explaining things.
I knew the concepts but I was still educated and entertained by your team's work! nicely done.
Fantastic vid mate, I had no idea that our Aussie beach sand was so unique. Even in Australia I`ve received a few strange looks when I have mentioned the squeaky noise sand makes.
Thanks for the video! It was very nicely done 💜 the visuals were helping in terms of making it understandable
When I was a youngster, there were several small rivers and creeks in my area that had clear water and large, dry, blindingly white sand bars in the turns. We could easily identify the sand bars that would squeak (we called it "barking" because it sounded like a seal vocalizing). We instinctively knew why it squeaked, the grains were clean, dry, and mostly round quartz. We could also see a slight electric glow on dark nights, and we thought the piezo action also had something to do with the sound.
Wait *what*?? Electric glow? I am so intrigued, would you mind elaborating for someone who grew up in the city and has never seen a desert in real life?
@@throughcolouredglasses9300 Well, this was in Louisiana, not even close to being a desert. The sand must be clean, of pretty uniform size, and very white, indicating its mostly quartz. When shuffling our feet vigorously in the sand, we got the noise and a very faint glow (on a dark night) obviously caused by the piezo effect. I assumed it was at least partly responsible for the squeaking sound. I hope that helps!
Wow, that would be pretty terrifying to hear in the middle of a desert by yourself
Having discovered this sliding down of the back of the Great Sand Dunes, it was more exhilarating than terrifying.
The sound comes from everywhere and penetrates your whole body and sounds like angelic trumpets heralding the end of days.
Ive heard the sand squeak in florida, specifically Panama city beach. Awesome!!
The editing and the special effects in this are really clean.
1:33 - I got a jar of dirt.
Thanks guys! Always wondered about this myself in QLD. Also how the hell were you wearing jeans the whole time!
Australian Tom Scott :D
dude's def not australian, so tom scott 2.0 in australia lol
Does it really resemble Tom Scott videos much other than being educational about random topics? Tom Scott is known for one-shot single scene videos. This is more old school sci-doc vibe.
@@e_j_ I was assuming he was from southern England, probably somewhere near London or Essex since he pronounces world as werwd. But I noted that he kept saying "we have" and "our beaches" when talking about Australia. But then again the description says "I went to Australia to find out". But the channel says it's Australian! Very confusing.
This is insane quality. I love your videos!!
Brilliant! Well done. You are walking in the footsteps of Sagan and others.
1:05 sounds like a lightsaber
3:19 the graph says "gain size"
0:32 I sure do wonder which sci-fi series' music this is supposed to be similar to
would u happen 2 know
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Yes!
This man lost his marbles.
This is extremely detailed and informative; TH-cam has enabled a lot of talented people produce informative videos for little to no cost
Bro is barefoot at Australia 💀
3:16 You re just keep talking while trying to show this sound but we can NOT hear it because you re talking
2:57
No wonder my marbles are always shuddering. 🤔
Very well done video, very cool! I live in Oregon (USA) and the beaches here have very fine sand. It's pretty easy to get it to make a sound, but I've always thought of it as "barking" rather than "squeaking". It's not quite as high pitched as the sand at the beginning of the video.
this channel scratches my Tom Scott itch