Atronomers will not have good viewing until we go back into space and build some big ass 'scopes OUT THERE using the moon or earth as light shields to block the sun (but, any decent size shield of even a few hundred meters would do as there is no air to diffuse ambient light streaming by). The JWT is infrared only and the Hubble is puny, but look how much better than ANY earth based 'scope the Hubble is without that annoying atmosphere all up in the 'scopes field of view.
@priestbiggles Care to give a definition of what the ways of an atheist are, and how they follow from a lack of belief in... What do you suppose the theos to be exactly?
There's a lot more than three cities where you can stand above them on mountains and look over them. Maybe that's the third LARGEST city where you can do that, but there's many. Both major cities in Colorado, for example, are overlooked by 14ers standing a full 9,000 feet above Denver and Colorado Springs.
@bezeker12 Imagine that alien not being impressed one bit as what it sees differs wildly from what you see due to its eyes processing a different spectrum.
The little bump centre right is the hills of Glendale. The view is also spectacular from there. My mates house is there and they have a balcony view where you are looking down on the skyscrapers of downtown and helicopters fly beneath you. in a straight line to the coast is MArina Del Rey where I am living temporarily.
Thunderf00t, please give me a more detailed location of where you are I really would like to visit there for the view. I would deeply appreciate this.
@westwood500 Google Earth "Mount Wilson Los Angeles" and you will get all the info you need. Get a hotel anywhere in Los Angeles and the view is within a days drive.
Am I the only one who seems to think that this is extremely beautiful?
It's almost like watching an Amoeba or some kind of microscopic organisms moving through in a random yet determined fashion to complete some task that to them may seem mundane but to the studier must be extremely engaing and interesting. Or maybe I'm just weird.
I feel so lucky. 20some years ago I had the chance to see teh unlightpolluted sky as it is. I have never forgotten that majesty of beauty. Then a few year ago I got share that with young minds as a high school planetarium director. Though too brief I am still proud to have opened minds
@cyberdemon107 My beard grows fairly quickly, though it is probably only 30-40% mature, so most of the hair still lacks color. I am disappoint in my beard.
@Thunderf00t Theres a big mountain called Mont Royal in the city of Montreal which looks over the whole city of 3 million population. So I don't know where you get your facts from.
I thought you were going to do something creative, like introduce large amounts of sodium or potassium to LA .. and then watch it blow up from Mount Wilson.
@priestbiggles and we don't wanna go there, Einstein. A world in which everyone is perfect is also one in which no one is a person, so we're not interested. In fact, most people probably wouldn't be interested if they realized the implications. Or the fact that it's, you know, all made up.
My names Thunderfoot, I can't debate for shit..even a religious nutbag..so i'll continue making somewhat science-related videos..*bam* TF's credibility leaves the building..
@michael616joaquin and incidentally, debating a nutbag isn't as easy as you seem to think. Dawkins didn't fare much better against Bill O'Reilly. The truth is that debates are about the debate, not about the facts. I wanna see you do much better.
@Brandt761 Check out the First Family of Satanism with Bob Hope..you'll see how easily they can be handled with logic..don't let the title throw you off. Should you want the link i can P/M you..
@michael616joaquin oh, I don't mean you can't use logic, but you need more than just the facts. Matt Dilahunte has debated Ray as well, and though he did much better, it would be a stretch to say he beat him. Not really. It takes some serious rhethorical skill to do that, or you just need the same lack of regard for nuance, which is why comedians are so good at at. But anyone who takes themselves seriously will have a really hard time.
Strictly speaking, low pressure sodium vapor lamps are dichromatic, not monochromatic. They emit light at two (very similar) wavelengths. It makes little practical difference when the wavelengths are as close as they are, but technical accuracy matters too.
I always enjoyed being on the foothills of the Rockies in Salt Lake City, Utah. You get the same effect and the city is gorgeous! I have some videos on my channel.
Table mountain? I'm from south africa... but really I would of thought there would be loads of places like that in japan which is a mountanous country and has a high level of developement
I live in Boston, so can't really see too many stars. But last September I was lucky enough to get out to Bryce Canyon. Man, just breathtaking. 9000 ft above sea level, and not a light for miles in any direction. The view of the starts was just incredible. Something I'll treasure the rest of my life.
Fuck sodium and all that nefarious technocobblers. We need to find new ways to bio
engineer our ocular organs so that we can see bettter in the dark. Millions of currency units are wasted lighting cities at night. Either that or cheaper carrots. ( Nurse!)
@PrometheusWithLight Oh I see , trying to make light of the situation. Smash a streetlight today I say. I am in a dark area. Gonna pull the plug...then you'll see...see frig all. By the time your eyes adjust, you've been blinded by headlamps and run over by a car. Ha..and also ha.
@PrometheusWithLight Fine, but momentary exposure to vehicular contact will ruin our ability to post this crap on pootube don't you think. Point is, we need to find cheaper ways to illuminate our urban sprawls and shityscapes. Howabout solar powered streetlighting for example. capturing and saving energy by day and then blah blah etc. Or we could all evolve into bats, my what big ears you have.
Well, plenty of places already use solar panels on lights. They do that in my area. This isn't as effective in the big cities, though, because buildings tend to cast long shadows.
@PrometheusWithLight Hmmm, ''plenty of places..'' Very, very few, more like. Especially around the world. Solar farms in open areas or wherever available to local government made mandatory by law. Pipe it in from afar.
''buildings tend to cast long shadows''....get away , do they? I see bats with luminous socks and glow in the dark membranes as the future of our species. Maybe that's because my medication has been changed though.
While it is true that solar panels would be an excellent power source, a solar farm would be a ridiculous waste of space. I do have a more efficient means of implementing solar panels as a primary power source, but I won't say, since I one day expect to make a lot of money with this plan.
I sincerely doubt we're going to develop sonar; we simply don't need it, as a species. We already have lighting, so why bother?
@PrometheusWithLight Greetings Earthling, There are undoubtably many placements for collection. Areas such as the sides, tops of buildings. Industrial ''wastelands'', areas under reclaimation and ecological transformation. Agreed regions in the countryside-depending on the co-operation of ecological pressure groups and NIMBY's. Deserts? Hell, let's go whole hog with orbital platforms. Technical breakhoughs in processing and storage of energy could provide more efficient means of doing this.
Wishful thinking and the application of effort into these rational matters aside ( instead of governments and corporations being only interested in greed and control of power ) I'm wondering if your poo-pahing on these matters provides an insight into your mindset and motivation. ''I do have a more efficient etc '' and '' I one day expect to make a lot of money etc'' Good luck with that, I'm sure the Tesla Psychiatric Police are keeping a close eye on you..they're the guy's with Tefal haircuts.
Who dislikes a science video? Some people hate to learn, it seems.Or they just don't like the person, so they dislike without even watching it. Ah, such is life I suppose.
Wow, Thanks for the vid. If you're stuck in the long beach area. I have lot's of room. But I'm warning you, besides the running water and such, my house is only half finished and it's, according to many "just like camping". Just putting it out there, rod
This is why I watch Thunderf00t's videos. I'm a pantheist, and while I hope (not believe, not know, but hope) there's an afterlife works like this one here are a reminder not to miss the beauty of the life I have now.
@BigBangNeverHappend Umm...He's not my 'prophet', I have no need of that. I simply pointed out that meant one thing and not another. I also pointed out that he may be wrong about there only being three possible venues for such a view. So you're comment just fell flat.
And this channel is (so far) meant to be religion free and all about the science (and the explosions). I'd gladly have a disscussion with you on the main Tf00t channel, but not here.
@BigBangNeverHappend He didn't say you couldn't you fucking retard, he said those are the only cities that you can see big cities from that high up. Watch the fucking video, there are probably over 50 cities you can see from a mountain, or even a big hill, but its not the same as being that high up. I have a hill thats probably at least
@AstrophelTDeath You didn't do any research on this. Pikes peak stands 3000 feet higher above Colorado Springs than Mount Wilson does above LA. It's also just as close. There are many cities like this. LA is just the third largest.
@Libertarianist Yeah but Colorado Springs is not a big city like L.A. he is talking about being able to see a big city like L.A. from that high up, not seeing a regular city from higher up or lower.
@AstrophelTDeath Denver (pop 2.5M, elev. 5280', overlooked by Mt. Evans @ 14,270'), MEXICO CITY (pop 21.5M elev. 7500' overlooked by Popocatépetl @ 17749'), TOKYO (35.6M Sea level Fujiyama 12768'), Phoenix (4.2M 1150', Four Peaks 7657'), Salt Lake City (pop. 1.1M 4226' Twin Peaks 11330' & <1 mile away). I'm sure there are others these are just cities that come to mind or that I've lived in, CAPS cities are ones that beat LA in both size and observation elevation. Thunderf00t is misinformed.
I've never seen such a large city at night and i know thats only a portion of it! It just goes on and on. Thinking of that many people all buzzing around in one place makes me feel kinda claustrophobic lol :D It is kinda pretty though and the planes whizzing by looked cool :) Thanks for sharing ~PG~
If you are talking huge cities, then perhaps you are correct. I however, can look down from about that distance from mountains overlooking both Utah and Salt Lake counties. Peace.
I think that would be Polaris. The northstar. (And a couple of stars close to it.) It's directly above the axis on wich the earth rotate, so it appears to stand still.
It was used for navigation before the invention of such technological marvels as the compass. : )
@Flapjackbatter These dots are stationary in a very different way to how polaris would look under a timelapse. stars would seem to revolve around polaris under the same circumstances. In this case all the stars around the dots i mention are moving past it. they are also i think the exact same size.
could they be a laser array pointing at the sky? or satellites holding a coordinate over the city?
also he's in LA...during the summer, no way he can see Polaris
amazing time lapse at the end there, i could feel the earth's revolution around the sun and it's position in the milky way as it went. and of course the earth's own rotation.
That's not true you can come up more than a mile in Albuquerque on the mountains and see the city, same with Denver, and Same with Tuscon. Those are just 3 off the top of my head, so LA, Rio and Hong Kong aren't the only 3
One of the criteria I held to when I was searching for a ranch was to have dark sky free from light pollution. I found it 130 miles West North West of DFW and I can see the Milkyway from my "back yard" as long as the Moon and clouds aren't dominating the night sky.
Come on Thunderf00t. Why do you keep going to Mount WIlson? It's nice and all and has a lot of history but it it not used in active scientific research. We at the Lick observatory outside of San Jose are older, open to the public during the weekdays and we are engaged in active scientific research. I can even personally give you a guided tour of the facilities. You can even make a video about it and I can arrange interviews via our public outreach department.
@JaxxDaemon no way.. carl sagan didnt get the following he did by being antitheistic . he of coursemade references and noted instances where religiosity got in the way of discoveries like democritus's thoughts on the concept of the atom..
but it feels tainted somehow doing that anti religious stuff even though they are guilty of the assertions put against them.
well to quote the old line by some bygone era .. it is better to light a candle then to curse the darkness. this is the lit candle
I work at the Lick observatory above San Jose in Northern California (the oldest manned observatory in the world still under active use). Back in the 70's the Santa Clara valley switched over to low pressure sodium vapor lights which are highly monochromatic. Using a filter our or using calibration flats our astronomers remove the skylines of which sodium is the highest. I really don't know why thunderf00t wont come visit :( It's a active observatory open to the public!
@XxHamRxX lol.. :) take a look at some of the tags: enjoyable, pretty, nice, black, velvet, removed.... thnx for helping me notice :D i owe you a beer..
You are making me want to upgrade to a DSLR.
ctraver 4 months ago in playlist More videos from Thunderf00t
we should all go on a camping trip with thunder foot.
.....Arr
GAKtion64 5 months ago
Just curious, what were those red dots on the second time lapse?
reaperfosouls 6 months ago
Thunderf00t, you give me hope in humanity.
Butzopower 6 months ago
I can see my house from here
WAZZA1235 6 months ago
how cool is this? :O
tabernumse 6 months ago
looks like the intro from blade runner
mylkTV 6 months ago
Dude! You were in Pasadena?! Why the hell didn't you tell me? I would have gone and hang out with you! I hike to Mt Wilon all the time!
Ramiel77 6 months ago
i personally prefer the shot without the filter. more aesthetically pleasing.
PatrickTheScienceGuy 6 months ago
Nice, science helping scientific observation, love it.
toulouse666 6 months ago
Oh and las vegas too
zpgJiggleBilly 6 months ago
You can climb up the mountain in phoenix like that.
zpgJiggleBilly 6 months ago
Your videos are amazing, thank you for making them!
xxx
thenoeggplantzone 6 months ago
Atronomers will not have good viewing until we go back into space and build some big ass 'scopes OUT THERE using the moon or earth as light shields to block the sun (but, any decent size shield of even a few hundred meters would do as there is no air to diffuse ambient light streaming by). The JWT is infrared only and the Hubble is puny, but look how much better than ANY earth based 'scope the Hubble is without that annoying atmosphere all up in the 'scopes field of view.
RyuDarragh 6 months ago
@priestbiggles Care to give a definition of what the ways of an atheist are, and how they follow from a lack of belief in... What do you suppose the theos to be exactly?
garouHH 6 months ago
Great Video TF.
taiming71 6 months ago
What an awesome video... i didn't know that their was such an incredible light corona over the top of la...
premiertremere 6 months ago
If Thunderfoot was my teacher I would have probably stayed in school.
TheEbonchi 6 months ago 10
@TheEbonchi I wish that Thunderfoot was my teacher then i would probably still go to school
demoniclord91367 6 months ago 2
@2;45
NOJESSICA 6 months ago
Correction, LA isn't even the third largest city overlooked by mountains. You didn't count Tokyo.
Libertarianist 6 months ago
There's a lot more than three cities where you can stand above them on mountains and look over them. Maybe that's the third LARGEST city where you can do that, but there's many. Both major cities in Colorado, for example, are overlooked by 14ers standing a full 9,000 feet above Denver and Colorado Springs.
Libertarianist 6 months ago
love love love
GoldenVulpes 6 months ago
Cosmology is the most beautiful of all sciences.
Crosisborg 6 months ago
never seen such a big ass city
r0galik 6 months ago
imagine if an alien like landed in the forest and started exploring them came over a ridge to see the view of
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imagine what that alien would be thinking?
bezeker12 6 months ago
@bezeker12 Imagine that alien not being impressed one bit as what it sees differs wildly from what you see due to its eyes processing a different spectrum.
garouHH 6 months ago
@bezeker12 Probably; "Yup, right where I saw it when I was coming down."
seeqer66 6 months ago
I've never been to Mount Wilson, don't fancy it or Keppel for that matter.
I'd give Betty ago though....
git1958 6 months ago
Those aren't the only 3 cities where you can do that. You can also do it with Salt Lake City.
SanRafaelSwell 6 months ago
cool
y2knoproblem 6 months ago
You should be a photographer. This video was beautiful. I got a new wallpaper atleast.
TheJorjj 6 months ago
song name/artist?
Teutonic1250 6 months ago
Good to see you doing science Thunderf00t.
sighrd 6 months ago
I love the astronomy videos. Don't stop!
pballabe1 6 months ago
The little bump centre right is the hills of Glendale. The view is also spectacular from there. My mates house is there and they have a balcony view where you are looking down on the skyscrapers of downtown and helicopters fly beneath you. in a straight line to the coast is MArina Del Rey where I am living temporarily.
NoFaithNoPain 6 months ago
Thunderf00t, please give me a more detailed location of where you are I really would like to visit there for the view. I would deeply appreciate this.
westwood500 6 months ago
@westwood500 Google Earth "Mount Wilson Los Angeles" and you will get all the info you need. Get a hotel anywhere in Los Angeles and the view is within a days drive.
NoFaithNoPain 6 months ago
While the cities are beautiful LP royally sucks. Bortle 8+ blows!
daeamarth 6 months ago
your adventures have inspired me to look for an astronomy club. So that I too may have adventures like this.
Dracanic 6 months ago
"Los Angeles" is Spanish for "City of the Fruits of Free Speech."
SSJ3Ulcer 6 months ago
Am I the only one who seems to think that this is extremely beautiful?
It's almost like watching an Amoeba or some kind of microscopic organisms moving through in a random yet determined fashion to complete some task that to them may seem mundane but to the studier must be extremely engaing and interesting. Or maybe I'm just weird.
whynotzoidburg 6 months ago
man i wish we had mountains in florida... just one.
Felhaven 6 months ago
I feel so lucky. 20some years ago I had the chance to see teh unlightpolluted sky as it is. I have never forgotten that majesty of beauty. Then a few year ago I got share that with young minds as a high school planetarium director. Though too brief I am still proud to have opened minds
eahazell 6 months ago
What about Naples?
ajuk1 6 months ago
Hey Thunderf00t.
Are you lost on that mountain or something?
You've been there for the last three videos.....
TheSpartan2910 6 months ago 76
Was that LAX in the background? (LA has many airports)
ApolloWasReal 6 months ago
God damn, I just realized, Thunderf00t would be like.. my best friend.
Equalswin 6 months ago 50
@Equalswin you don't have a beard to compare on his daily staring contest with lesser beards
cyberdemon107 6 months ago
@cyberdemon107 My beard grows fairly quickly, though it is probably only 30-40% mature, so most of the hair still lacks color. I am disappoint in my beard.
Equalswin 6 months ago
@Equalswin à
... DUH!!! ;)
toulouse666 6 months ago
@Equalswin yaaah! i totally wana hang with tunderf00t!
abarbar06 6 months ago
@abarbar06 Then we can talk about science all day.
Gumardee 5 months ago
Melbourne, Australia too
simcult 6 months ago
You should go to Yosemite, you'd love it
fenix9885 6 months ago
Try vancouver ;)
BrookMorrison 6 months ago
pretty kl
bellyzbad 6 months ago
@Thunderf00t Theres a big mountain called Mont Royal in the city of Montreal which looks over the whole city of 3 million population. So I don't know where you get your facts from.
kswizzy99 6 months ago
Maybe one day you will come to our city Montreal. You can go on our mountain t and see Montreal ..
ETericET 6 months ago
I thought you were going to do something creative, like introduce large amounts of sodium or potassium to LA .. and then watch it blow up from Mount Wilson.
Should be spectacular to watch.
xdrew70 6 months ago
bunsk
RobertoWatchin 6 months ago
@priestbiggles and we don't wanna go there, Einstein. A world in which everyone is perfect is also one in which no one is a person, so we're not interested. In fact, most people probably wouldn't be interested if they realized the implications. Or the fact that it's, you know, all made up.
Brandt761 6 months ago
@priestbiggles lolololololololol
miggyback 6 months ago
My names Thunderfoot, I can't debate for shit..even a religious nutbag..so i'll continue making somewhat science-related videos..*bam* TF's credibility leaves the building..
michael616joaquin 6 months ago
@michael616joaquin Hey person. I cant call you thunderfoot because thats trademarked. Hope you like being sued.
Also odd that you would steal his name then insult yourself by saying your bad at doing things hes good at doing.
Such an odd person.
waltermh111 6 months ago
@waltermh111 it's called sarcasm or are you that stupid? Plus Thunderf00t is his name, with 2 00's i used 2 o's..so actually pay attention to detail.
michael616joaquin 6 months ago
well, no one is making you watch.
Brandt761 6 months ago
@michael616joaquin and incidentally, debating a nutbag isn't as easy as you seem to think. Dawkins didn't fare much better against Bill O'Reilly. The truth is that debates are about the debate, not about the facts. I wanna see you do much better.
Brandt761 6 months ago
@Brandt761 Check out the First Family of Satanism with Bob Hope..you'll see how easily they can be handled with logic..don't let the title throw you off. Should you want the link i can P/M you..
michael616joaquin 6 months ago
@michael616joaquin oh, I don't mean you can't use logic, but you need more than just the facts. Matt Dilahunte has debated Ray as well, and though he did much better, it would be a stretch to say he beat him. Not really. It takes some serious rhethorical skill to do that, or you just need the same lack of regard for nuance, which is why comedians are so good at at. But anyone who takes themselves seriously will have a really hard time.
Brandt761 6 months ago
What's 150 miles north of LA?
Brandt761 6 months ago
Strictly speaking, low pressure sodium vapor lamps are dichromatic, not monochromatic. They emit light at two (very similar) wavelengths. It makes little practical difference when the wavelengths are as close as they are, but technical accuracy matters too.
evensgrey 6 months ago
I always enjoyed being on the foothills of the Rockies in Salt Lake City, Utah. You get the same effect and the city is gorgeous! I have some videos on my channel.
raybaby1977 6 months ago
Those really are some breathtaking views of Los Angeles.
DarkAngel182 6 months ago
@priestbiggles LOL, how very CHRISTIAN of you!
DarkAngel182 6 months ago
Beautiful
V0r4xiz 6 months ago
@priestbiggles cool story bro
Snowhorse420 6 months ago
What of the Lick Observatory webcams overviewing the southern part of the SF metro?
AtheistCitizen 6 months ago
@Thunderf00t Yay! Hope you had a good time. I love LA. I try to make it out there at least once a year.
Keiichi81 6 months ago
You should film your stuff in HDR! Explosions and otherwise.
JLMoriart 6 months ago
I love this video
Takara895 6 months ago
Just so you know i live Cape Town, and we have a big mountain that overlooks our city. So its 4 cities then.
marconu3D 6 months ago
@marconu3D
Table mountain? I'm from south africa... but really I would of thought there would be loads of places like that in japan which is a mountanous country and has a high level of developement
Ziggletooth 6 months ago
Great video Tf00t! Great job, excellent choice of music.
FHomeBrew 6 months ago
I'm loving these astronomy vids, man.
jasonbertles 6 months ago
I wasn't aware you were in LA. What university do you work at?
DontMockMySmock 6 months ago
I live in Boston, so can't really see too many stars. But last September I was lucky enough to get out to Bryce Canyon. Man, just breathtaking. 9000 ft above sea level, and not a light for miles in any direction. The view of the starts was just incredible. Something I'll treasure the rest of my life.
neils123 6 months ago
Fuck sodium and all that nefarious technocobblers. We need to find new ways to bio
engineer our ocular organs so that we can see bettter in the dark. Millions of currency units are wasted lighting cities at night. Either that or cheaper carrots. ( Nurse!)
git1958 6 months ago
@git1958
Our eyes are VERY good at seeing in the dark. They can see by starlight, even better by moonlight.
Go into a dark area, and give your eyes time to adjust.
PrometheusWithLight 6 months ago
@PrometheusWithLight Oh I see , trying to make light of the situation. Smash a streetlight today I say. I am in a dark area. Gonna pull the plug...then you'll see...see frig all. By the time your eyes adjust, you've been blinded by headlamps and run over by a car. Ha..and also ha.
git1958 6 months ago
@git1958 Well, that's what the street lamps are for, so momentary exposure to headlights won't ruin our ability to see at night for the next hour.
PrometheusWithLight 6 months ago
@PrometheusWithLight Fine, but momentary exposure to vehicular contact will ruin our ability to post this crap on pootube don't you think. Point is, we need to find cheaper ways to illuminate our urban sprawls and shityscapes. Howabout solar powered streetlighting for example. capturing and saving energy by day and then blah blah etc. Or we could all evolve into bats, my what big ears you have.
git1958 6 months ago
@git1958
Well, plenty of places already use solar panels on lights. They do that in my area. This isn't as effective in the big cities, though, because buildings tend to cast long shadows.
As for evolving into bats, well, I wish you luck.
PrometheusWithLight 6 months ago
@PrometheusWithLight Hmmm, ''plenty of places..'' Very, very few, more like. Especially around the world. Solar farms in open areas or wherever available to local government made mandatory by law. Pipe it in from afar.
''buildings tend to cast long shadows''....get away , do they? I see bats with luminous socks and glow in the dark membranes as the future of our species. Maybe that's because my medication has been changed though.
git1958 6 months ago
@git1958
While it is true that solar panels would be an excellent power source, a solar farm would be a ridiculous waste of space. I do have a more efficient means of implementing solar panels as a primary power source, but I won't say, since I one day expect to make a lot of money with this plan.
I sincerely doubt we're going to develop sonar; we simply don't need it, as a species. We already have lighting, so why bother?
PrometheusWithLight 6 months ago
@PrometheusWithLight Greetings Earthling, There are undoubtably many placements for collection. Areas such as the sides, tops of buildings. Industrial ''wastelands'', areas under reclaimation and ecological transformation. Agreed regions in the countryside-depending on the co-operation of ecological pressure groups and NIMBY's. Deserts? Hell, let's go whole hog with orbital platforms. Technical breakhoughs in processing and storage of energy could provide more efficient means of doing this.
git1958 6 months ago
Wishful thinking and the application of effort into these rational matters aside ( instead of governments and corporations being only interested in greed and control of power ) I'm wondering if your poo-pahing on these matters provides an insight into your mindset and motivation. ''I do have a more efficient etc '' and '' I one day expect to make a lot of money etc'' Good luck with that, I'm sure the Tesla Psychiatric Police are keeping a close eye on you..they're the guy's with Tefal haircuts.
git1958 6 months ago
@PrometheusWithLight Hydroelectric power produces a lot of output, but relies on tides, so is not effeciant. If only...
smileyking96 6 months ago
@git1958 lol, nice.
adriank1223 6 months ago
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git1958 6 months ago
I love this video, but, don't you think it is time to get back to WDPLAC
dragonfire141 6 months ago
How can 20 people not like this video?
breakaleg10 6 months ago
Who dislikes a science video? Some people hate to learn, it seems.Or they just don't like the person, so they dislike without even watching it. Ah, such is life I suppose.
TempleOfInanna2 6 months ago
Seoul also has big mountains above the city...
possum0121 6 months ago
Wow, Thanks for the vid. If you're stuck in the long beach area. I have lot's of room. But I'm warning you, besides the running water and such, my house is only half finished and it's, according to many "just like camping". Just putting it out there, rod
Roddog61 6 months ago
All it takes it standing on a mountain, above a city to realise how beautiful life is sometimes...:) (only sometimes though)
lisa89 6 months ago
This is why I watch Thunderf00t's videos. I'm a pantheist, and while I hope (not believe, not know, but hope) there's an afterlife works like this one here are a reminder not to miss the beauty of the life I have now.
cugamer 6 months ago
they are celebrating dow jones falling 512 points. Their evil ways are working. A gift to Obama
edwardtang1977 6 months ago
What kind of lens are you using!?
gonyea12 6 months ago
Add Cape Town, South Africa to those cities beneath a mountain!
OnlineVideoExpert 6 months ago
@OnlineVideoExpert Thanks for the info. Thunderfoot is an dumbass.
BigBangNeverHappend 6 months ago
Thunderfoot is an idiot. You can watch athens from a mountain too.
Atheism sucks.
BigBangNeverHappend 6 months ago
@BigBangNeverHappend He meant watching it from a mile above it, not simply that he was on the nearest hill.
Although I'm sure you can do the same In some other cities (Cape Town for example)
Cowinspace 6 months ago
@Cowinspace So he was wrong :)
Is it hard to admit your religious prophet is wrong?
BigBangNeverHappend 6 months ago
@BigBangNeverHappend Umm...He's not my 'prophet', I have no need of that. I simply pointed out that meant one thing and not another. I also pointed out that he may be wrong about there only being three possible venues for such a view. So you're comment just fell flat.
And this channel is (so far) meant to be religion free and all about the science (and the explosions). I'd gladly have a disscussion with you on the main Tf00t channel, but not here.
Cowinspace 6 months ago
@BigBangNeverHappend He didn't say you couldn't you fucking retard, he said those are the only cities that you can see big cities from that high up. Watch the fucking video, there are probably over 50 cities you can see from a mountain, or even a big hill, but its not the same as being that high up. I have a hill thats probably at least
AstrophelTDeath 6 months ago
@AstrophelTDeath You didn't do any research on this. Pikes peak stands 3000 feet higher above Colorado Springs than Mount Wilson does above LA. It's also just as close. There are many cities like this. LA is just the third largest.
Libertarianist 6 months ago
@Libertarianist Yeah but Colorado Springs is not a big city like L.A. he is talking about being able to see a big city like L.A. from that high up, not seeing a regular city from higher up or lower.
AstrophelTDeath 6 months ago
@AstrophelTDeath Denver (pop 2.5M, elev. 5280', overlooked by Mt. Evans @ 14,270'), MEXICO CITY (pop 21.5M elev. 7500' overlooked by Popocatépetl @ 17749'), TOKYO (35.6M Sea level Fujiyama 12768'), Phoenix (4.2M 1150', Four Peaks 7657'), Salt Lake City (pop. 1.1M 4226' Twin Peaks 11330' & <1 mile away). I'm sure there are others these are just cities that come to mind or that I've lived in, CAPS cities are ones that beat LA in both size and observation elevation. Thunderf00t is misinformed.
Libertarianist 6 months ago
@BigBangNeverHappend +3 Troll points to you, sir.
TheGibballo 6 months ago
This has been flagged as spam show
@BigBangNeverHappend Fat and Stupid is no way to go through life son.
donnybgood 6 months ago
Oh my god. You can see the parallax in the time lapse of the sky. Amazing.
zygrottwanger 6 months ago
Mount Wilson, Place where you're never 3 feet apart from a Gentleman.
muranziel 6 months ago
Atheists are uninformed. You can watch athens from a mountain too.
BigBangNeverHappend 6 months ago
@BigBangNeverHappend he said three cities so i'm gonna have to give you a 0/10 troll harder next time.
lethalninja492 6 months ago
@lethalninja492 LOL you retard.
BigBangNeverHappend 6 months ago
@BigBangNeverHappend no u
lethalninja492 6 months ago
@lethalninja492 Watch the video again retard
BigBangNeverHappend 6 months ago
There isn't anything not to like about this video.
Anonymous247n 6 months ago
@Anonymous247n Not even the misinformation.
BigBangNeverHappend 6 months ago
@BigBangNeverHappend Oh yeah, right... troll posts, thanks for the reminder XD
Anonymous247n 6 months ago
Awesome video :)
JaviFairground 6 months ago
crazy question... how much potassium and/or sodium would person have to eat before it blew them up?
rellik31486 6 months ago
I've never seen such a large city at night and i know thats only a portion of it! It just goes on and on. Thinking of that many people all buzzing around in one place makes me feel kinda claustrophobic lol :D It is kinda pretty though and the planes whizzing by looked cool :) Thanks for sharing ~PG~
PaganGlade 6 months ago
If you are talking huge cities, then perhaps you are correct. I however, can look down from about that distance from mountains overlooking both Utah and Salt Lake counties. Peace.
rtottenc 6 months ago
what are the few red dots during the last time lapse which remain completely stationary?
BringerOfD 6 months ago
@BringerOfD
I think that would be Polaris. The northstar. (And a couple of stars close to it.) It's directly above the axis on wich the earth rotate, so it appears to stand still.
It was used for navigation before the invention of such technological marvels as the compass. : )
Flapjackbatter 6 months ago
@Flapjackbatter These dots are stationary in a very different way to how polaris would look under a timelapse. stars would seem to revolve around polaris under the same circumstances. In this case all the stars around the dots i mention are moving past it. they are also i think the exact same size.
could they be a laser array pointing at the sky? or satellites holding a coordinate over the city?
also he's in LA...during the summer, no way he can see Polaris
BringerOfD 6 months ago
amazing time lapse at the end there, i could feel the earth's revolution around the sun and it's position in the milky way as it went. and of course the earth's own rotation.
BringerOfD 6 months ago
holy cow batman thats awesome, doesnt quite look like that in my 4789 soules village
managarm1349 6 months ago
Look at those all UFO's D: Aliens are busy out there
Nowakk 6 months ago
@Nowakk there might be ufo's for you but i know that there planes :)
5T34LTHcamoT4NK 6 months ago
@5T34LTHcamoT4NK That was just a joke, man :P
Nowakk 6 months ago
@Nowakk UFO"s are Unidentified Flying Objects, witch means that you say that when you don't know what they hare. :)
5T34LTHcamoT4NK 6 months ago
Amazing.
Scanini 6 months ago
awesome
FixedByDoc 6 months ago
makes turning off my tv at the socket seem worth it
futureechoes1 6 months ago
hello
1234doawee 6 months ago
i love shit like this
tjv323 6 months ago
beautiful video!
CMAZZONI 6 months ago
love watching time lapses like this. it really puts the earth's rotation into perspective.
marklethanarkle 6 months ago
You can climb on the mountains and look over Cape Town too, which is absolutely incredible
AlexIsACarrot 6 months ago
That's not true you can come up more than a mile in Albuquerque on the mountains and see the city, same with Denver, and Same with Tuscon. Those are just 3 off the top of my head, so LA, Rio and Hong Kong aren't the only 3
skinnywhop87 6 months ago
i miss L. A.
concord327 6 months ago
There is a shooting star (or aeroplane XD) at 2:47 (go to 2:45 and watch the upper right quarter of the screen)
Zuriki09 6 months ago
Add Tehran to the list of those cities.
kavehthegreat 6 months ago
amazing
verzitile 6 months ago
Hey, T-Dog! Were those fireworks from the Hollywood Bowl?
MisterDataJack 6 months ago
One of the criteria I held to when I was searching for a ranch was to have dark sky free from light pollution. I found it 130 miles West North West of DFW and I can see the Milkyway from my "back yard" as long as the Moon and clouds aren't dominating the night sky.
Steaphany 6 months ago
Come on Thunderf00t. Why do you keep going to Mount WIlson? It's nice and all and has a lot of history but it it not used in active scientific research. We at the Lick observatory outside of San Jose are older, open to the public during the weekdays and we are engaged in active scientific research. I can even personally give you a guided tour of the facilities. You can even make a video about it and I can arrange interviews via our public outreach department.
madzyzome 6 months ago
more religious videos please
JaxxDaemon 6 months ago
@JaxxDaemon no way.. carl sagan didnt get the following he did by being antitheistic . he of coursemade references and noted instances where religiosity got in the way of discoveries like democritus's thoughts on the concept of the atom..
but it feels tainted somehow doing that anti religious stuff even though they are guilty of the assertions put against them.
well to quote the old line by some bygone era .. it is better to light a candle then to curse the darkness. this is the lit candle
elgostine 6 months ago
@elgostine
"it is better to light a candle then to curse the darkness. this is the lit candle"
But why not do both?
KemaTheAtheist 6 months ago
I work at the Lick observatory above San Jose in Northern California (the oldest manned observatory in the world still under active use). Back in the 70's the Santa Clara valley switched over to low pressure sodium vapor lights which are highly monochromatic. Using a filter our or using calibration flats our astronomers remove the skylines of which sodium is the highest. I really don't know why thunderf00t wont come visit :( It's a active observatory open to the public!
madzyzome 6 months ago
what is with all the stripping related videos?
XxHamRxX 6 months ago 39
@XxHamRxX lol.. :) take a look at some of the tags: enjoyable, pretty, nice, black, velvet, removed.... thnx for helping me notice :D i owe you a beer..
frackcha 6 months ago
@XxHamRxX Probably because the tags include the words "fun", "pretty", "velvet", "fun", and "black".
hypernerd9000 6 months ago
@XxHamRxX its his video history
ronoj2 6 months ago
@XxHamRxX The stripper videos come from the keywords like fun,velvet,enjoyable,milkyway.
madjimms 6 months ago
@XxHamRxX Maybe because of the word "Blowing" in the title XD
BitaminaTek 6 months ago
@XxHamRxX Thunderf00t has that effect on the ladies o.O
adsensus 6 months ago 32
I'll bet the UFo nutters will go crazy with all the lights from the planes landing..
SquirrelFromGradLife 6 months ago