I truly am a jack of all trades!

@Aditya Chavarkar well you could apply that for any long running joke about a country, italy and britland come to mind. Also those countries have been historical dickheads, some still are. France still holds the banking of a fuck ton of African nations that they refuse to let go. Also like another form of criticism.But mostly its just a long running joke, many exist, this just one of them.

​@@playimages5705 "Also those countries have been historical dickheads" That's pretty rich coming from Americans

@Aditya Chavarkar It probably has to do with war propaganda and good ol' xenophobia. Notice how those jokes only exist in nations that had martial relations to france? It is also quite easy to dunk on the folks that eat the funny food, like frogs and snails. In the USA I'd guess, that it has something to with their shared (modern) origins and diverging paths.

@@Drek492 Pretty rich talking about thousands of years of warfare and genocide compared to a 244 year history. Yeah your pretty special ain’t ye. Study some history. Just because you are a communist who hates everything doesn’t mean you have to be stupid.

For young Earth creationists it is, because they have no observational skills.

It's like calling a floppy disc ancient

This is far from the worst thing I've heard from pseudo-archeologists. It's dumb, but it's only the tip of the stupid iceberg.

@@stardragon7893 Oh I'm well aware of that. All too well.

It has "africa never invented the wheel" energy, for sure

even very helpfully labelled as such xD

​@@HoppouChanyeah, they called it Terra Australis where the name Australia comes from and conspiracy theorists went "🙈🙉 lalala it's Antarctica "

​@@CrisSeleneto be fair, Terra Australis is just Latin for "southern land", which Antarctica... definitely is. they just picked the wrong continent to associate it with lol. Also I find the fact that it's Australia equally interesting because the first documented European sighting of Australia didn't happen until 1606, which means that Orontius Finaeus technically mapped something that other Europeans wouldn't even know about for another 70 years. but nope it just has to be a conspiracy theory about climate change

@@joshc5613 In the 1810s, the argument was put forth that there was no continent to be found further south than what was then named "New Holland", and that it should be renamed Australia. This proposal was adopted in 1824. Not long before the actual Terra Australis (Antarctica) was discovered to exist after all.

@@joshc5613 I'm thinking the Portuguese may have seen or heard a description from some people in Timor or Java.

Well said, sir.

Yeah it isn't because of any lacking of intelligence. It's because sailing fucking SUCKED and technology wasn't great and you just kinda had to work with what you saw most of the time. Although also sometimes maps were made from people who never left their city and just kinda made shit up.

@@wadespencer3623 Well, traveling long distances took years of your life, and could easily cut it short. Hic sunt dracones = from here onwards, you are on your own. Fra Mauro made his map taking the best sources available at his time, sorted the information as carefully as he could, and his map was the best for a long time - despite the friar never traveling anywhere.

finally, someone with some common sense.

Exactly. Imagine you're Abel Tasman, thousands of miles from home in a small and vulnerable ship. You spot what appears to be an inlet in the new land you've discovered. You could sail into it and get trapped on a lee shore, have to spend a week beating to windward to get free and risk being attacked by the locals, or you could say, 'It looks like a bight, so we'll draw it as that and keep heading North along the coast.' If he'd sailed into it, he'd have discovered the Cook Strait and realised that New Zealand was two separate islands, but discretion is definitely the better part of valour in those seas and they lived to tell the tale, albeit with a slightly inaccurate map.

Yes

taking this idea is thats cool

That is pretty true. I can't even recognize our continents on this map, so it would work...plus Warhammer fantasy is literally set on a slightly different Earth map, so it would surely work.

I was thinking of running an TTRPG crossing of the northwest passage and I am absolutely going to be using an old map now! I was wondering how to prevent my players from cheating and this is perfect

I was thinking the same thing, but with Miniminuteman’s map made at 10 years old 😂

And woah the grave creek stone is near and dear to my heart! Nice!!

Like Gobi Desert and Sahara Desert, which both mean “desert”, or all the rivers in the UK named Avon (which means “river”).

@@HushSkunk or Torpenhow Hill, which means "Hillhillhill Hill."

i live next to a river named Big River. maps use it's spanish name Rio Grande

Also in the UK Manchester, which originated from Mamucium or Tit City. The old Brittonic word mamm which meant breast, was used to to describe a breast like hill or possibly from a local river or river god Mamma. Latinize the locals name for the place and add on the 'city of' suffix and we're left with Tit City.

And both chicks...

@@BadgerMonkey? No?

@@BadgerMonkey what does him insulting french people have anything to do with women?😭

@@JubioHDX tbf: even the french men are women, and women cant read maps.... Anyway, more importantly: I am Groot.

He said this right after an attempt at a pickup line joke, if that helps

Yep, when Europeans found what's now Australia, that was when the "balance of landmass" theory had fallen out of favor because they'd simply found too much ocean to the south. There wasn't enough room left unexplored for any new land to be found that would "balance out" Eurasia. In the early 1800s, British colonists in what was then "New Holland" decided it was the closest we were ever going to find to "Terra Australis" and renamed it Australia. Ironically, this was just a few years before Antarctica was discovered.

No, he is not weird, he would like to be weird but he is just a narcissistic jackass.

I was like how the hell did you get my entire life into a sentence

I felt that sentence right in my Weird Glands..... That's where the weird comes from right?

They should call themselves Republicans.

Whatever supports whatever they want to believe in that second.

To be fair, most of them only say they were super smart if they were European. If they were from just about any non-European nation, they were primitives and helped by aliens. These conspiracists tend to be very Eurocentric in their ideologies. Well, the people who put forward these conspiracies. Your run of the mill conspiracy person really has no idea that their favorite conspiracists are like that, usually.

People in ancient times were super geniuses in some areas and complete dunderheads in others, coincidentally always fitting whatever narrative someone is trying to push. /s

The trick is if they are the same race (in their own minds) as the people they are talking about.

I looked trough comments just for this three words in the beginning

😂😂😂

@@uliyanagolub2645 by law, no French person can start a comment thread without those 3 words first.

That’s more sad than f***ed up.

@@dancingnature No. That's as fucked up as it gets! And why are you censoring your own words on a channel where he usually says fuck in every 2nd sentence?

​@@dancingnature No, it's just fucked up.

A fetus that’s been gestating for 6.5 months will just look like a very small baby. I don’t see what’s so f-ed up. I was born 3 months early, so obviously I came out baby shaped…

@@dancingnatureit’s both

I’ve never been the most tactful presenter…

@@miniminuteman773 we want you to do exactly what you been doing "if it's not broken don't fix it" who ever wants to feel offended for random reasons that means they gonna stay getting offended no matter what you do or say.. Go on with your own way.. Thank you very much for what you do you're a legend on the make

I personally approve of that approach

@@miniminuteman773 tact is overrated but I think you’re doing a great job!

Well, to call a spade anything but a spade is to be a liar.

I have read things like your statement many times. Yet for some reason nobody ever tries to explain beyond "if you believe this you are an idiot". Even in this video, he says the map is shifted, turned and wrong size. Yeah, that's what can happen when you build a world map out of maps of continents you have at your disposal. Or more likely maps of parts of a continent. On youtube I debated someone claiming to be an expert and he started using profanities and insulting me when I said that the Roman Dodecahedron served as a tool for knitting gloves (the knitting community uses 3D printed models of it as it is really a great tool for this very purpose and it was found only in regions where gloves would be needed, in the coldest parts of the Empire), but the archeologists don't recognise this theory, they say it is a coin sorter, a candle holder or a measuring device. From that I understood that "experts" treat their opinions like religious beliefs. I still remember the time I got insulted by people claiming to be experts online for saying that neanderthals and modern people interbred, that those tiny people from Flores were not just a family of modern humans suffering from dwarfism and most recently on reddit for saying that farmers do work the soil and plant the crops according to weather patterns based on observation of plant and animal activity in nature, not by a calendar based on movements of celestial objects so they didn't need a sophisticated astronomical calendar and a megalithic observatory, so buildings like Stonehenge were not build for the needs of farmers. Maybe try to understand why people believe some theory and not just think "I'm the only one smart, if you don't share my beliefs, you must be stupid". Then and only then try to debunk it.

@@petrmaly9087 the difference here is that you were giving a valid theory for the dodecahedron and the person insulting you probably didn't want to think they *didn't* know something, but when it comes to people using old maps as evidence every single point against the map, and their theories, can be summer up as "they were not accurate especially compared to maps made using modern techniques and technology" and "a lot of stuff was assumed to be there without ever being seen". If all the evidence you have for major claims is a map that has no way of being as accurate as it would need to be to be used as evidence, you have issues. Your dodecahedron debate had plenty more evidence, including modern usage and noting where they were found by archeologist aligning with the proposed use. Imy not sure how accurate either statement is, but I'm taking you at your word here. If what the people OP is calling idiotic were talking about cartography techniques and not global warming when they used century old maps as evidence maybe then they wouldn't be called idiots.

As long as you understand, people of the future will be laughing at your maps too

@@dudebucket60 I tried reading your post sober and drunk... I still have no idea what you tired to say. Please explain for the stupid.I only speak 4 languages.

Please, I have no idea how to your message. Send a key to do so.

the ancient aliens method

@@thepubknight6144 I really hope "ancient aliens" is on the wheel of pain. That nonsense is beyond stupid.

@@frankm.2850 Unfortunately it's probably way too much to cover in a concise video. Maybe if it was a series but even then it would be a huge time investment

@@samlewis6487 I'd be so down for an ancient aliens video series, holy shit that sounds great

@@ReinerMitAi. there is a podcast series I watch made by a dude named nerdsync and another guy whose UKposts name escapes me. It's called 'it's probably not aliens'.

It's actually pretty accurate based on the information he had at the time; he just filled in what was unknown with a complete guess.

Or the map you have is inaccurate and you suffer from cognitive dissonance.

Yeah it’s more “French guy made the best guesses he could with the information available at the time creating a vaguely relative map, 500 years later conspiracy theorists who have the technology to know better used it to make dramatic unrelated environmental claims”

sir this is Wendy’s

I mean he did a shit job if he drew it now but for what they knew I was kinda impressed. I'm not a cartographer or an archeologist hell I'm majoring in trauma nursing which requires 0 courses of anything like this. But if I was 1500 (God forbid) French "person" I would make cool looking land. Like I'd just draw a dick like Scandinavia.

At best, they don't understand how we know what we know. Some of them probably haven't read a book since school, and definitely nothing older than they are except to misunderstand it. At worst, they are proudly ignorant and would rather believe every major structure from Westminster Abbey to the Statue of Liberty was constructed by an ancient supercivilization and dug up after 1859.

Because they don’t need it to make actual sense or for it to have any backing. Conspiracy theories aren’t something people are swayed into believing, they *love* this shit. They decide it’s correct, then work backwards from there. That’s why their arguments are so inconsistent and tend to feature some kind of circular reasoning or confirmation bias.

😸🎌

good lord youve just made me realize how insane theyd think we really were if 90% of us disappeared and japan was rediscovered in 500-1000 years💀i cant even begin to assume how theyd explain the insane difference in culture that occurred after WW2

After the AI singularity occurs in the next decade, we may well have the technology to create big-breasted cat girls, so they'll be absolutely right.

Also cartographers used to add fake features to maps to catch people who copied them Usually it was something much smaller though

@@emberhermin52 They still do, for copyright reasons.

@@emberhermin52 exactly! Like paper towns.

We all saw the Jay Foreman video

@@emberhermin52 Is That where the Hollywood trope of “Here be dragons” & weird squid drawings & stuff being on old maps comes from?? Anti-copyright sauce like the stories before modern-day online recipes?? Our “Here be dragons” is “My mom used to make the most savory pot pie”…

There's some that actually do lol. I've seen people claim that the pacific ocean isn't nearly as large as maps portray it as because of flat earth.

no, it’s bigger because of the Mandela effect. That’s what I heard anyway. We’re just somehow in another dimension in which the earth is a different size and continents are slightly askew. Or maybe it’s a map projection thing. Idk I’m not a cartographer!

All I want now is to become a Pacific Ocean hoax conspiracy theorist

I mean it's an old ass map, it's not supposed to be more accurate than modern maps. It's just interesting that something that looks relatively accurate is on a map when it shouldn't be

Here is my guess: part of the information the cartographer uses is the estimated circumference and area of the whole planet. If you know (or think you know) the size of the Atlantic Ocean and the size of Europe, you can take a rough guess at the size of America even if you haven't explored it because there's only so much of it that can fit in the already known planet. tl;dr: his measurements of the globe and of the continents were off in a way that America and East Asia needed to meet in order for it all to fit.

Maybe there's a huge Dry Sea somewhere... perhaps... Idaho?

@@ShizukuSeiji Thats “Dry Lake” which implies the existence of “Wet Lake”.

In Australia you've got the Sandy Desert. And it's for real!

I'm beginning to be so tired of these knuckleheads that I'm considering if it wouldn't be better to _not_ advise them of choking hazards.

@@mnxs Lots of people, including the obnoxious moron who owns this channel, need the knuckleheads to make money off of them. He exploits them because they are at the same level of knowledge and intelligence. Example? He doesn't know that in the 1500s the lingua franca of science, philosophy and intellectual discourse all over Europe was Latin. To him, the cartographer changed his name to the Latin version just to sound cool (like Kanye West?)

I guess the planet never changes so what we see today is set in stone to be what it was. Yeah sure.

@@LuminateTheWorld It doesn't change that quick you slippery doorknob

Just what big cartography would say 🧐

The real facts the Xeno-liberal galactic regime don’t want you to know!

"How did they know that the sea was wet 500 years ago?" 🧐

​@@randomlyfactual1943its now just your mom

@@TylerTMG I take it your mom is dry then? Can I ask how you came by this information?

"The ancients knew some of the states were stupid!"

I'm laughing at you right now. LMAO!

"guys, it says 'Australia' and it's in the wrong place. That ain't how accuracy works" - said everyone with a brain

You just described confirmation bias. Never heard the term 'chef's kiss' before. Not sure what it means.

@@Heathcoatman It’s the gesture when a person puts the tips of their fingers and thumb together on their lips and “kisses” them to show that something is good. I don’t know the real origin and how common it actually was for real chefs to do it, but I remember always seeing chefs in cartoons doing it about good food, and now the phrase is sort of slang for saying something is good or outstanding in some way. I’m not very good at explaining things, but I hope that makes sense!

@@Cheezbuckets Ah, ok thanks. The old Italian 'thatsa spicy meatball!' gesture. I just didnt know it was called that.

if you want a more serious tone might i suggest a textbook

@@HungerGamesFan88 His more recent work like when he takes down Hancock's Ancient Aliens is more serious. You're asking someone to go to different material when the change was already made. Most kids grow out of being edgelords.

@Pangora2 what the fuck are you talking about old man

I think you'd enjoy the UKposts channel, "History Time". Pete is an outstanding historian with a gift of storytelling that makes you hungry to learn more. It's the kind of History education I wish was available when I was in school. I wind down to his videos every night before bed. He has a great voice.

Yeah, as soon as I read "Terra Australis", I thought it must be Australia because that is what it name implies. The claim, that it was Antarctica actually confused me a lot.

@@philippschmidt9499 Terra Australis wasn’t intended to refer to Australia, but now we can see that it kind of does, but only by coincidence. It comes from the ancient idea that the world probably had an equal amount of land on both sides of the planet to keep it balanced. Since they knew about Asia, Africa, and Europe, but hadn’t yet explored much of the oceans, they assumed there must be a continent of equally large size down somewhere in the southern ocean. They called this hypothetical continent “Terra Australis” meaning “southern land” and put it on maps where they assumed it would be. Eventually much later we discovered that there was no such thing, but we did find the much smaller landmasses of Antarctica and Australia, the latter of which was given a similar name inspired by the old myth, and the former is in a location where the supposed southern land was depicted on most old maps. So it wasn’t meant to be Australia or Antarctica, but kinda ended up being both lol. I’m really surprised he didn’t bring the origin of the idea of Terra Australis in the video cuz it’s pretty well known and goes a long way towards supporting his points.

@@MerkhVision was actually going to say this. even the name "Antarcticus", which is also on the map, is just referring to the position, since "Antarcticus" means "land opposite the bears", because it's on the opposite hemisphere as the constellations of Ursa Major and Ursa Minor

The French didn’t discover Australia until the late 1700s. So Oronce Fine couldn’t have know of the existence of Australia.

Tbh, as an Aussie, hearing that explorers from the 16th century thought that Australia was actually Antarctica is better than hearing Conspiracy Theorists believing that Australia doesn't exist.

Modern maps still do that. Adding little roads and stuff here and there as copyright trap.

@@HappyBeezerStudios - They are even called "trap streets".

​@@MossyMozart just be careful about putting trap houses on the trap streets

​@@djursic9695there might also be trapdoors in the trap houses sp be very careful

How would they be used to tell the difference between a copy and the original? Both would have the fake landmark

SPACE and sattelites dobt exist they are fakes by huge antennas. :-D

*500 years ago?

@@eloweez8798 Medieval and ancient map makers also liked to add speculative landmasses and did a lot of mistakes because... well, they had no satellites. I'm pretty sure this map is not the only one used as "evidence" for conspiracy theories.

Imagine giving these historic cartographers modern Maps they be like damn I'm an idiot I was so wrong well better fix it or maybe I'm just assuming they'd be better Sports than they are

They don't trust NASA which they think is anything from or about space.

I read that as The most painful fart… Well….

Thank you! My brain did a record scratch when that happened. People were literally speaking modern English in the 16th century!

@@dielotosblum 'Literally'-speaking eh! Not orally-speaking then. I assume you were there then, or are you really saying ... 'the privileged few people whose works were published, were writing modern english' ... Not saying you are necessarily wrong about the 1600s, but, when applied before those times, you may be making a logical fallacy, an epistemological flaw, by believing the writers of books ,,, the few books that there were before the printing press, owned by the few ,,,

@@there-sis-stanceiscoming8230 I think maybe you're confusing "literately" and "literally"? "Literally" in modern English means basically, "in actual fact". It's antonyms being "figuratively" and "metaphorically". As in, the difference between "he fell off the wagon" and "he literally fell off the wagon", is that the former is a common figurative euphemism for succumbing to addictive temptation when trying to stay sober, while the latter means the "he" in question actually... you know, physically fell off of a wheeled mode of transport. So the person saying "they were literally speaking English" in the 1600s was quite correct! Because they were, at least in England! Granted, it was a very different dialect from the modern ones (for one, "thou/thee/thy" was not an adorably fancy, formal, way of saying "you/you/your" but rather the INFORMAL, i.e. more intimate and Familiar version of that pronoun, similar to how Spanish today has "tu" for familiar/intimate/informal You, and "usted" for the polite/formal You), but Elizabethan English was and still is DEFINITELY recognizable as a dialect of English. While some terms and nuances have shifted since the 1600s, sometimes to amusing degrees that require say, the proper study of Shakespeare's plays to include the linguistic shifts and cultural references... for the most part, it's still comprehensible even to modern speakers of English. To the extent that a modern class of high schoolers reading "The Taming of The Shrew" will ABSOLUTELY get a lot of the dirty puns/wordplay from the dialogue, which I know because I can't possibly forget the amazement of my peers when the line "my tongue in your tail?" came up and they actually started having the Realization that, in contrast to the stodgy picture Adults portrayed Shakespeare with,, Shakespeare's comedies were actually quite bawdy. 😂 (actually, a lot of his more dramatic plays were too, but they're often subtler about it, certainly in comparison to "Shrew"!) Tldr: they meant that English as a recognizable language existed by then. They're correct, and they used a grammatically correct way to state it too. EDIT: now that I read your comment again I'm even more confused why you felt like questioning them. Plays like Shakespeare's were PERFORMED out loud - their being written in iambic pentameter is meant to make it easier for the actors to memorize - so while it was indeed written down, I assure you SOMEONE was speaking it out loud at some point, we even have occasional commentary on Shakespeare's career from his contemporaries (not all of it flattering, but yes), and we have the folios containing his work only because people with the money for print runs, while alive during his lifetime, loved his plays and wanted to preserve them. A version of English WAS in use then, albeit with wildly subjective spelling when written due to no standardization being yet in place, but we know this because Shakespeare's plays were entertainment for people who WERENT just the elites (the main audience in the Globe, stood on bare ground and chomped on snacks during the show) and many of the plays did well enough that clearly the average person was able to understand them. Like do I think every aspect of colloquial English was recorded I writing? Of course not. But English in GENERAL existed by then and was common enough for popular plays to be performed in it.

​@@studioyokai Bear in mind, that the format I am reading does not show me what I originally said (so, what I am saying now may be a variation on the above in some way, I admit it in advance lol) So ... All that bling-blong you wrote is about what posh people wrote. Admit it? You cant deny it. Posh people wrote that 'literally' means what it does today, in the 1600s. That doesn' tell us what was going-on with the words before then, and it also doesn't tell us what the common people spoke before then, or even during the 1600s (guessing it may have been the same, but we have no audio to prove it either way). The posh writing occurs after the spoken word has been given a written form, by, guess, who ... yeah, the posh twits ... and they might invent a few words too ... and distort the common-speak words when giving them a written form, into posh versions of the words, which could deviate hugely from the original spoken words ... and then the posh have eventually schooled everyone ... into being text-of-mind rather than sound-of-mind, written 'culture' as opposed to old oral culture ... potentially ... with varying degrees of trickery, depending on the words and their fuckwitterie mind-satan, sorry, mind-set The pen-wand wielding black ink magicians would say something like what you said. They would ignore that 'literally' is undeniably similar to 'literature'. Which came first is the question ... they either pretended 'literally' means (or happies) 'actual factual' (and we might also question the word 'act' as well, whichever came first, reality and acting have been mixed together, not surprising for pretentious turds) ... or they, having money to print, 'coined' the word 'literature' to associate it with 'literal', to falsely justify their written-word-religion (surely I dont need to explain). The posh twits pretend words aint related, their whole methodology is to ignore connections ... even their dogmatic dictionary bibles pretend that there is no connection between two 'instances' of the same word (like 'mean' and 'mean', or, 'presence' and 'presence' (in the latter egg sample, they have 'spelled' one 'instance' of the word, 'spelled' with black ink magic)). Uni-verse-city (enlightenmentalist version of the 'universal' religion, where disciplines replace disciples - both are nonsense anyway, as the word tell us ... the song of life surely has more than one verse) continues to retain a lot of mental posh dogma ... its a freemason religion for teachers to indoctrinate the masses with (they do a ritual with a mortar board and gown, to get a degree, also known as a lie-sense licence to then preach the high-priests waffle to indoctrinate innocent children into being complaint citizens on the citizenship (not saying its all lies, or even that the allies are all lies, but the warnings are there, in short form (made shorter to obscure them, another 'spell'-ing), rather than long phrases that'd be harder to recall, in oral tradition) ... the dogma lingers longer (two related words that have not been messed with) outside the technical, technological sciences (where more funding, for specific new lines of thinking, comes along from parasites who see opportunities) ... things like medieval chronology ... associated etymology ... outside-the-box thinking is dis-miss-ed, or ignored, even faster than the astronomers dismissed Velikovsky ... and geology theory (which has no test-retest reliability, but they call it a science) ... THEY are doing the confusing ;-) Con-fuse-ing, neuro-linguistically ... in this case twisting a word so that its sense deviates from the phonetic relationship with similar words ... causing a neural mess ... What is 'literally' true is that the black ink magicians pen people into pens with pens (using written laws, the belief in laws, and, sometimes, a bunch of enforcers). Your reference to the 1600s merely shows that the trickery with this particular word occurred before then. Thanks for doing part of my (re)search for me ... ;-) P.S. Writing labelled as Shakespeare could equally 'just' be what posh people wrote, not what common people said. Regardless, 'early modern english' is easily comprehendable, the same language ... word trickery, at a guess, occurred before then, or during the strange change (an eerie era where the foundations of the modern world, and the minds of modern man, were dreampt up in ivory towers) ...

I used to have so much fun making my own made up maps as a kid!

See I was the kid who made post-apocalyptic maps in middle school. I'd create new cultures and countries and South America always had been hit by a meteor so there there a giant piece missing for some reason?

@@priestessoftheroses8898 Not South America! It's the only continent with capybaras!

We used to get dragged along on house cleaning jobs, and if we were bored my mom used that as leverage to get us to help with the cleaning... Child labor what's that? Lmao it was awful

@@priestessoftheroses8898 the duality of Man. I ONLY drew South America on mine lmao I used to give pyramids to the Incas for some reason - pyramids at the top of a giant ass mountain range. My kid self knew the good shit

We love to mock yall but you know how to fight for your rights.

As the second one of the three French viewers from the future, I am not alienated either. smh not trying hard enough

I seem to be the third French viewer, and concur with my concitoyens, this channel is awesome!

As one of the two remaining French viewers, I laughed as well

1, 2, 3, 4... 5th French viewer here, as well Hon-Hon'ing at the jokes about The French. Keep it up!

Isn't the whole story of Flying Dutchman and other ghost ships made in memory of sailors who perished trying to go around either Cape Horn or Cape of Good Hope?

Mom did that

That's just one of those restaraunt menu holder thingies

In computer science and statistics we boil it down to the dangerous half-specialist. A person who knows enough to throw conjectures and not enough to criticize its own findings or understand true specialists would take hours or days to explain all that we miss

I'd recommend you check out 'Gutsick Gibbon' then. She's a primatologist/bioanthropologist who dissects creationist talking points in a similar manner. It's not one of those 'faith is stupid, atheism rulz' channels though, no worries. Like most scientists, she has no beef with science affirming theism. She just roasts those who insist the earth is 6000 years old and dinos were pets, but members of Australopithecus clearly were quadrupeds ... I couldn't make up most of the stuff myself, it's quite funny.

most of all scientific evidence for pretty much everything

The more you know, the more realize you know very little....only the ignorant believe they know everything.

I think the easy part is understanding *how* someone can believe something wrong. We all do, for lack of knowledge, biases, being mislead by something... The fascinating part is *why*. Why would someone *actively* choose to believe so many obviously wrong stuff. And I think there are different aspects to it. First of all, they likely get a good feeling from it. It could be one or several of: feeling special for having access to special knowledge; feeling like they belong to a group; feeling they found a cause; peer pressure (especially now that it's become a part of their political identities for some)... Any of those alone could be enough for someone who already has a tendency to self-delusion. But there's also something else at play. It looks like a lot of them, once they start with one fringe pseudoscience conspiracy theory, go into the rabbit hole and start collecting them all. And a lot of them don't just "believe" it, they actively make it part of their identity. I believe it could be some form of addiction for many of them.

That would also be true

@@minecraftnerd2175 lmaooo, no hate against the French-

There's even a theory that the Irish knew about the Americas before even Leif Erickson, because their ancient myths insist that they were originally from the "far West" and were _chased_ from their home across the ocean.

There was also a weird theory that the landmasses of the world had to be in the shape of a cross because Jesus. This was somehow as step back from the Greek view because it made even less sense than "world has to be balanced by land." The Open Polar Sea was also a popular idea because it was thought moving ocean water couldn't freeze.

Yeah I can accept that maybe the Portuguese made it to Australia at some point, and it's well known the Dutch landed somewhere in Western Australia (my home state!) And saw the absolute desert wasteland full of weird (and wonderful animals) and went "screw this!"

@@Lazyfire actually, those particular maps were just a stylistic choice, they weren't trying to portray land masses realistically, it was just to show roughly where they lay in relation to each other. The theology was more important than the geography for those. So there's that excuse for those, at least.

@@maxxor-overworldhero6730 nahh unlikely. They just see the coast that didn't have neareat land

This sounds like a great lesson, I love hearing from people who actually teach their kids at home, so often we only hear about people who “homeschool” but don’t teach their kids anything.

+1, I got to make a few as a kid and they were always a blast. Bonus points if you can find him a copy of the original Sim City to play with.

I know this an old post, but dropping rice on a paper and tracing it makes really fun shapes for the edges of land

@@notoriousresearcher Sim City 2000 and 3000 are where it's at for kid friendly city building That might just be nostalgia though, and a game like Cities Skylines would entertain a kid too

Around 15 years ago my little "me wants to become an explorer-scientist™ later" smartass used to draw several maps of a big island in the shape of a... pelican. And the name of this island? Welican. Applaud my supreme genious.

I also am one and yet this is entirely how it works.

Yup.

Didnt Ptolemy coin the term Terra Australis incogneta, (great unknown land) because he thought a large piece of land had to exist south to balance out the weight of the Northern continents? And i thought that Australia was named Australia when Flinders mapped it out in early 1800s and needed a name to take away the New Holland name and chose Australia because of the original name for the unknown land and he also thought it sounded sweet.

@@norbitcleaverhook5040 At the very least Terra Australis is something that was posited for a very long time before the actual discovery of any land there, for more or less those reasons.

@@norbitcleaverhook5040 This makes me think of the 'Counterweight Continent' from Terry Prattchet's Discworld - very likely inspired by these theories

Turning stone into ice is ALSO proof that global warming isn't real, because politics! I mean, because reasons.

To be fair... postglacial rebound my beloved

@@flinko99 postglacial rebound sounds like what you'd call the first foray into dating after a loveless marriage.

@@flinko99 postglacial rebound would last for many, many millennia. Where I live the postglacial rebound from the glaciation 10000 years ago, still happens, albeit slowly now. 700 years ago there was a river stream going into the gulf of my home town, and then due to land rebound, it gradually turned into chain of lakes. Due to elevation change. Another stream of the same river still flows into the other direction, into a huge lake

That’s the one I wanted to say. You beat me to it. And including Post Glacial Rebound still leave you with a bunch of islands.

map “kye” merch for the win, especially t-shirts

I want one where the stupid states are isolated and the words taken from the kye "stupid state" plastered above it.

We all know and so does he. Good job, I guess but, you know, humor.

i wish we used these native-language names for historical figures more often!

@@lulucool45 Their point is that the "native language names" we already use for them are inaccurate since they did not use names in their native languages in their works, but the Latin version.

Does being common in classical academics make it any less pretentious?

@@John.Not-Jack.Daniels You committed an anachronism, sir. It is pretenious to our modern ears. It was a perfectly normal thing to do back then, and was not pretentious at all. You wrote your work in Latin, and you Latinized your name too. Just like today, you use your academic title (Dr/PhD, Dr habil., professor etc.) in the academic context and it's not pretentious.

Yes. I convinced my mom that climate change exists she just doesn’t believe it’s been mostly caused by humans 😭

Sorry but anything the humans do couldn't kill this planet just make it inhospitable for us to live on

It's called moving the goalposts. People revert to this kind of behavior when they can't use logic.

@@Jacob-od5yo nukes? Pretty sure enough of those could kill it

@@arthurbrown8604 my man if an astriod couldn't nukes can't

My man took the Australian upside down/reversed meme to a a new level 😂

With respect, Miniminuteman is fundamentally wrong in saying that the map represents Australia and trying to point to specific geographical features like the Cape York Peninsula or the gulf of Carpentaria, it simply does not, European cartographers and explorers had absolutely no idea about Australia and its features in the early 16th century when this map was made. This is entirely just the hypothetical notion of Terra Australis which was not something that was based on solid discoveries and knowledge of the world, it was an artifact of the influence of the Aristotelian tradition in European assumptions about the world, in this case the idea that the northern hemisphere's continents needed to be balanced by similar landmasses in the south. There is zero evidence that Europeans like Orontius Finaeus had any knowledge of Australia, at best they were filling in empty spaces on their maps with what they assumed should be there. Miniminuteman is essentially making the same mistakes as the people he's debunking, he's making assumptions and readings that cannot be supported by the evidence we actually have available, mostly out of a faint sense that it kind of looks recognizable sorta. He really needs to reexamine what he said in this video and inform himself on the actual history of European cartography and exploration, Australia, the real landmass that is, would not enter the European consciousness and thus maps until the 17th century, long after Orontius Finaeus was dead, and the areas they mapped were far more centered initially on the western half of the continent than the north, like one of the earliest maps accurately depicts Australia up to the Cape York peninsula and they seem to think it reached north and formed a land bridge with New Guinea.

Hmmm, wouldn't they technically become seamounts once they're underwater instead of islands?

@@Yawyna124 yes

Not that this negates your point but removing that much ice from Antartica would cause isostatic rebound, and the land would rise. This would make a continent whose shape is... difficult, shall we say, to predict.

@@tesnacloud That would happen over a geologic time scale though, like on a scale of centimeters per century.

@@sealeo5772 we know that Isostatic rebound can happen in meters per year. It has happened in recorded history in a few places, though not from melted ice sheets (yet).

Did you unsubscribe as he feared?

​@@theamhway Nah, we don't unsubscribe, we start revolutions if we don't agree. But I support 100% the statements made about the French, so no problems here. Yet.

@@phrogs3217 op do you know how intimidating that is

I've heard rumors a significant number of French people do in fact exist, and a not insignificant percentage of them live in France to this very day. Sounds plausible anyway.

@@troodon1096 I thought the French was just an ol' boogieman tale? They ain't real, right?

I read “rare book dealer” and I think about a guy in a trench coat, roughly 3-4 raccoons tall, in a dark alleyway saying “yoo wanna buy a fuukin b o o k?”

I WANT TO SEE THIS

I have uploaded a high res version on my discord!! I would be happy to send you a copy if youd like!

@@miniminuteman773brb gotta find that Discord server

don't forget the kye!

Can someone link the discord???

It's a bit of a reversal, actually. Australia was named after "Terra Australis" (essentially, "Southern Land"), which was part of the Greek theory that there were two massive continents on the North and South Poles. This map uses the coastal spottings of the Tierra del Fuego and northern Australia (most of the coastline wouldn't be filled out until the Dutch floated along the area in the 17th? century) to infer that they were two ends of the same supercontinent

Or the fact that we have taken ice samples from pretty far down, but nah that's fake.

Can ... and did ... different times ... may have been different geography ... Probably not, but its a guess ,,, and historical 'sciences' have no test-retest reliability ...its theory theory theory ... Leaves us with arty-facts, small jigsaw pieces, pattern recognition, and guesswork .... which the stablishment dont want to admit ... ... they like to pretend its all perfectly calculated .... ... guessing, but the modern story, when spin is removed, probably stands up, mainly, by virtue of multiple sources, etc ... ... but the really old story ...

The Dardanelles are what, a kilometre and a half at the narrowest point? You could row across pretty quickly, as long as you’re careful not to get run over by a freighter or something over the channel.

Time to get over it.

@@lucasoheyze4597 I'm pretty sure they're over it lol, they were just telling a funny story

​@@WhiteWolf-lm7gj r/woosh

@@overlord2495 r/thatsnothowwooshworks

The reasoning was that California is much higher geographically than the surrounding area. When the Spanish sailed up the inner part of Baja California, because they knew just how high this region was elevated, they presumed the entire thing to be almost a small continent of its own. The water between California and America wasn't presumed to be that wide or deep either, but something more closer to like the Great Lakes.

@@merp9610 Not to um Actually you, but it was pretty quickly discovered to be a peninsula. Francisco Ulloa explored the whole California coast in 1539 and found the mouth of the Colorado river. But because they had named the area “California” after a fantasy island in a popular book, non-Spanish maps depicted it as an island for more than a century after. In a weird twist, this was because Dutch pirates stole and published the only Spanish map that showed it as an island: it was created by a conspiratorial priest who was convinced it was an island despite evidence to the contrary.

Right? He's quite the ignorant, hateful piece of work. Big yikes.

Sounds pretty based to me. No wonder you leftist brainlets hate him

*applauds wildly*

@@maxschw.5239 "ENCORE! ENCORE!"

As a former Minnesotan I concur

that's so sweet of you

My favorite bad map is the flat earth map with TWO ice rings bc it includes THOTH THE FLOATING ISLAND

An old, inaccurate map molded out of jello with landmasses made up of ingredients that have no business being in jello

A mere nitpick! ;-)

@@macsnafu I'm just sayin'. Antarctica being ice free isn't too wild a concept, but it hasn't been like that at all since we've been around 😅

@@crypticcrustacean4499Lies are best sold with a hint of truth. Antarctica wasn't always frozen, but it has been since long before we came around. That's the point, it's a bit of reality mixed in to cover up the fantasy, like using a lot of salt and pepper to cover up slightly burned food.

sounds like classical mythology carried over

@MattMcIrvin - I went back and froze the image. You are correct. I guess the conspiracists just ignore the left side of the map altogether. Easier than explaining!

Queen Victoria ascended the throne in June of 1837, so the first printing is probably 1838 or later.

​@@bluelagoon1980 😳Obviously I did not learn my history lessons well!

@@bluelagoon1980 Oh, wait. Antarctica was officially “discovered”, verified (by several different people) in 1820/21. So the map at least likely does predate Victoria. I must dig it out and have a look, see if Victoria is actually mentioned before the end summary / chronology. I suspect this this would have been a second or third edition with the chronology added to at the very end. Not actually a revised book. They would feel no need to change any of the history or the lessons that were already “set”. Extra history just added at the end. When people witter on about how great education was in the past, they should take a look at what kids were actually fobbed off with. It’s dire. Each chapter is followed by questions that the kids were expected to memorise the answers to, like George iii acceded in what year? Robert Walpole was the first great leader of which party? Napoleon defeated Prussia at the battles of Jena and Auerstedt in what year? Talleyrand was bishop of which diocese?

​@@eh1702good thing our education systems have discovered that learning by rote is next to useless.... Oh. Wait....

What my last post actually demonstrated was the superiority of learning research skills over rote learning.