Tfw one does not exist, and Canada has 51 manned lighthouses (in 2017)

dont even think about mentioning ghost lighthouse keeprs

Priceless

Not to mention UFO's and aliens.

@@paulceglinski3087 the latest video added reincarnation to the list lol

I'm not going to take advice on the existence of ghosts from a man who doesn't understand how sheep work.

Grazing lands. Not much growing on those islands and when the sheep have munched all the grass on one island you shuttle them over to the next one while the first one grows back. Or, if you prefer, the sheep got bored.

​@@lynn2551 yhea but they don't travel over every day as Simon thought they did do they. They might be moved once a year say, summer etc on island bought back to land in Winter.

I knew it was coming Still was not disappointed

Because an Aberdonian arrived on the main island.

The proclamation of "The Science is settled" also irks, but usually comes from moronic politicians, making it easier to ignore.

@@owenshebbeare2999 "The science is settled" is a thing only stated by people who clearly don't understand science. Science is, "everything can be questioned and updated". People who don't want to be questioned clearly aren't confident in their 'science'.

Good luck and get well soon!

Get well soon! Kick cancer’s ass!!

Hoping everything works out for you and yours!!! Take care and have fun!!! 😷😎😷

If your coming here to have fact boi spit anything other then mad facts at you, you came to the wrong place

@@thejason755 That's very true! I've learned a lot from him, including getting better in English. :)

I was going to say the same thing. I would love this.

Will Sam be supplying the memes?

I already subscribed 😉

Brain Blaze? 😂

Every time I think there’s no way he can possibly have another channel.. I’m in a new mysterious land and subscribed.

Same as people like Captain Cook. No matter how small or remote an island, people or (stepping away from explorers) subject of interest, it doesn't mean people won't document it. If just to say they did it first or to see if it develops into something (has something profitable there; opens up an area of knowledge that helps somewhere else).

Agreed. Just because they had Ftl travel or whatever doesn’t necessarily mean they’d be that much more advanced or evolved. We were on the moon like 50 years after we realized we could fly. If it’s just a technological advantage (as in they hadn’t evolved into energy beings that floated through the galaxy kind of thing) then yeah, I think they would be just as excited to find intelligent life as we would. At least, until they discovered Twitter.

@@31webseries it's more probable that "aliens" exist than it is for them not to exist. Space is such a huge place that the probability they would find earth is low. I mean we don't even know how big space is and if it even has an "end" to it. And I can see them being really excited to discover life other than themselves, but I can also see them being a bit apprehensive to make their presence known or make contact with us. I'd hope that we would be too if/when we observe planets with life also. It could be dangerous, they could find out a lot from us if taken hostage while visiting their planet. Just like it most definitely would be if they visited our planet. The government would definitely capture, imprison, experiment, and dissect them to learn how their body works and document their anatomy. And that could cause them to retaliate bc we killed their kind, and I speculate that if they can fly around in space like that then they could blow our whole planet up with one hit. They don't know how we would respond to them visiting our planet or what kinds of weapons we have, so I would imagine they'd just observe us to learn as much about us that they could. The alleged alien aircraft sigtings could be them doing just that. And abduction stories could be true, and they could be researching our anatomy and whatnot. We will never know if they are actually true bc it sounds so outlandish. Thinking about how big space is and how we don't even know how big space is almost filled me with existential dread. 💀 I mean just really think about how small we are compared to the vast open space. The possibilities of what is out there is just insane. Space just existing is insane. Like what is beyond space, how big is it, and what other life is out there? We will never know in our life time, if we ever find out at all.

Legend.

... well I haven't heard Simon's take on this... *Click*

@@chrisrailey2294 Exactly!!!!!

And Simon and the writers will cut all the BS away, which I love.

@@SeanGilbertson Meh I perfer Wendigoon, but Simon is definitely a close second for me.

Megaprojects could be a breakdown of the particle beam transporter and Sideprojects could be about the show spinoffs (TNG, DSN, etc).

I need it

I would love this so much.

I was so surprised when he mentioned Dukat. That would be fabulous, to hear Simon discuss the Rules of Acquisition.... I may be secretly laughing for days.

he could just go over "In the pale moonlight" and have lots of material.

You had me until you said "Wikipedia" they are notoriously wrong about everything. Steven Crowder even did a show on fat checks against them tried to edit his own page and yeah it was Wikipedia 10 little white lies truth 0.

I agree with everything you said. Additionally, consider that, at these sort of latitudes, in December (the month of this disappearance) it's night for 19+ hours a day - and, for the remaining hours, it's little more than twilight because the sun crests so low in the southern sky. So these beacons had to run nearly 24 hours a day during the winter months. And these lighthouses have pulleys and cables and gears and bearings and an engine of some type to drive the giant lens/mirror apparatus (the part that makes the light "spin" and be strong enough to be seen miles away). All of those components needed constant maintenance and lubrication. Plus, the kerosene from the lamp itself was super-sooty so both the mirror and the glass on the outside of the torch-room needed constant cleaning to prevent the soot from making the light so dim ships couldn't see it.

I feel this could have been solved pretty easy with lasers

Same.

Who is fact boi? I only see God King Whistler 👑😇

@@stephjovi Sorry, my mistake. Correct you are. The Whistle King keeps me watching UKposts. (Reply sarcastically if you're also in his basement.)

@@christopherengel7436 nah. I'm just someone who decided to get UKposts Premium because the god King keeps me on UKposts all the time 😂. Wonder if the Blazement Crew has been calling him God King all this time already

Agreed. This channel is Fact boi polished like a fine emerald of the UKposts sea

LOL. Same. Such is the intense desire to get away from society sometimes.

My dad used to talk about retiring to go be a lock keeper on the canal…

Those of us who enjoyed lockdown would be fine with the isolation just maybe not the work. I want to live in the woods far enough from busy roads to get away from the unrelenting noise. I do not want to live alone on a mountain just somewhere peaceful without a neighbor within whispering distance.

I would love it. Especially if I could have some internet like star link or something. Sounds relaxing to me.

I think there's one in Rhode Island that you can stay at like a hotel (you actually will be tucked in to the lihthouse keeper's residence) and they train you in how to care for the light and that's one of your major tasks for those 7 days!

What kind of education they had, and do you know how they got the job? I've dreamt for a job like this for a while, the more remote the better 👌🏻

@@ilarious5729 i believe they are mostly drawn from the coast guard. At least they are in the US. They have mechanics that periodically visit and do the regular maintenance and fuel the tanks.

@@ilarious5729 what about a wildfire spotter?

@@jendubay3782 that sounds good as well, I'm not sure if we had those in Finland but that's the only reason I'm ready to move to US to 😁

@@ilarious5729 canada has them, too!

Same thing in Mexico, where I live on the coast of the nation’s second largest port city on the Pacific Ocean. A large light house exists on a flat, low “island” (possibly better considered to flat top of a large seabed rock rising maybe a dozen meters above the sea). I personally know the nephew of one of the two lighthouse keepers. He explained to me the federal port authority pays his uncle to live on the island 24/7, ALONE, for six months straight each year. He then receives the next 6 months on vacation - which he usually spends at a second home in California, USA, about 80 miles to the north of the Mexican lighthouse. He is paid VERY well by local, Mexican standards. He has virtually no contact with people in the of port city’s metro area population of about 400,000, only several miles back on the shore. While there he is responsible for not just the light, but virtually EVERYTHING at the facility. ALONE. Another individual handles the other 6 months alone. My friend’s uncle has held the job for some 30 years. It is highly coveted here.

I can't remember which lighthouse this happened in, it was in South West England somewhere, but Simon should 100% do this story on one of his channels. It was chilling. I would absolutely go mad.

@@counterfeitsaint7479 There was an episode of the "Lore" podcast about it. The events happened in 1801 on the Smalls Lighthouse off the coast of Wales. Gruesome and horrifying.

I think there was a movie too

The lighthouse you're thinking of is the Smalls Lighthouse!

I was too young for it at the time. We had to leave in the middle of the movie. Only movie (in a theater) I've ever left because I was too scared.

Just the music from The Exorcist makes me scared. One of the few movies that legit terrified me by the music alone.

@@gagrza I thought the Exorcist was great. Of course, I was a generation or so late so I had to watch the uncut director’s edition lol. For its day, the cinematography was impeccable and I can see how it would’ve scared the pants off of those who’d seen it first hand!!

@@stacyrussell460 I can see where you’re coming from! I’d be willing to bet that the Exorcist’s soundtrack is the most iconic in film history.

@@Dank-gb6jn it's up there for sure

oh yes

Man, at that point just don't let him know what you're reading! Cover it up with a dust jacket if you have to be around him or read it alone.

@@emeryltekutsu4357 Maybe he did, and maybe the other scientist really went out of his way to find out what the scientist was reading, going so far to turn over pillows and opening closets.... they must be really bored out there.

Great info! Thanks for sharing!

Combined to being a sailor it must have been absolute luxury.

Originally lighthouses were manned by a 2 man team, but after the smalls lighthouse tragedy (1 died and the other literally went mad waiting for the rescue team to arrive, which took weeks because of the weather) lighthouse regs were changed to a 3 man team so if it happened again the remaining 2 would (hopefully) keep each other sane

@@marcwilliams8047 ahh, the good old minimum of 3 factor redundancy.

There’s a documentary on here about the worst jobs in history and they interview a light house keeper from back in the day and he’s clearly a bit off his rocker.

@@marcwilliams8047 That's so sad.

Seriously, the difference is night and day.

Yes, the plot is so much deeper due to the Christianity vs Pagan aspect. It also made the finale more impactful. And all this is to say nothing of the quality in acting.

My question is: How isolated can somebody be to know the later movie but not know that there was an original one?

Coming here to support everyone watching the original - it's a work or art!

SKEPTICAL

When you assume everything is fake that can be faked you have to assume your test results are fake no?

or even go down to tell them. I rough wetter there can be much noise, so screaming down from the tower will not be enough. leaving to warn his buddies, with everyone later on conveniently forgetting that he ignored protocol to save their lives.

@@HappyBeezerStudios( A little late) and a 30 + meter wave could be seen from really far so maybe Hythe third was allready down by the other two wanting to warn them as it hit.... wich would mean that there being one freak wave would have been enough for the outcome.

Thank you :)

oh so close .. "Some people could benefit because apparently some obvious things aren’t all that obvious to some 'oblivious' people" :)

Hey sometimes sheep just want to travel too

Sheep have a tendency to strip grassy fields clean, ripping the grass up by the roots. As such, they need to be moved around from field to field. Plenty of grass on a small island and not much there to eat it.

Not wanting to get too serious, but they do still carry out a pastoral practice known as 'transhumance' in the Hebrides. They release sheep on remote islands for the summer, then bring them in to over-winter barns where they feed them on silage. This makes lambing earlier in the season easier, safer for the sheep and more lucrative - early lambs get a higher price. They transport them in open boats. It's a hard life.

I didn't even know they still used lighthouses, with GPS and other automated autopilot being a thing now. They seem to be a relic of the past.

@@avostorm8111 mainly but 'small boats' personal water craft. some are just lit for the nostalgia. they really are a relic of the past. but a very popular and romantic relic.

I suspect Simon starts his day with a bunch of coffee and cocaine (allegedly) and makes Business Blaze videos, and as his energy level goes down he makes videos in which he's increasingly less rambunctious.

dueing winter that sounds not to dissimilar to Germany.when the sun comes up at 10 and goes at 4. but in summer it's the other way around, coming up at 4 and staying till 10

Pfft. "Who" would get that idea?

Simon's skepticism gives me life.

That's very good!

@@DeeDeeBaldwin It's refreshing nowadays isn't it?

You’ve been hit by, youve been struck by…. As great as Michael is, their version of smooth criminal is the superior one. Don’t @ me

Yes, its amazing - I've toured a few lighthouses in the UK (which are now run with LEDs and backup battery banks, and remotely operating) and some have the old tracks for the Hg floating bearing - a simple clockwork mechanism was all that was needed to rotate the multi-ton lens assemblies due to the lack of friction in a floating system. Modern systems spin a lighter smaller reflector inside the old system it seems - makes sense.

That's really very clever, but for the madness thing.

Thank you. I'm glad someone else realized this. You don't need a 30 meter wave. If they were trying to repair something, and a big wave hit and pushed up, then they might not be able to get good grip or footing when all that water was on its way back down. If the third man was somewhere that he could see it (Like, for example, a lighthouse which is supposed to see in all directions) He could easily see a fried hanging on to something for dear life and come running. One more decent-size but not huge wave later, and you have people talking about aliens and ghosts 100 years later.

#simonsavesthehistorychannel

Aye 'tis was a Kraken, with arms as long as a sperm whale- but each arm had hundreds of suckers on it that were surrounded by razor-sharp teeth like that of a shark - and between them was a massive beak as deadly as a longsword, with a point like an ancient Spartan spear! In all seriousness, I caught (by accident) a giant squid - it was huge, crazy strong; it pulled our 42' Bertram backwards through the water - quickly! It was also very angry (the captain told me they don't like being near the surface of the water when it's daylight - they come up from the depths at night to feed on 1,000lb swordfish)! I cut the line as soon as I touched the leader, which is then an official catch, and I used a line that would degrade in 1-3 days or so, and a barbless hook that was bare steel so it would rust and fall out pretty quickly... I was glad to be able to release it unharmed, and watched it head straight down into the jet-black abyss... It was a really beautiful creature, and obviously really intelligent as well.

It was aliens.

@@hannahpumpkins4359 Hail Leviathan!

@@hannahpumpkins4359 That is incredible. I’m actually terrified of squids and have been since I saw 2000 Leagues Under the Sea at age 5, so I probably would have freaked out. But I would hope that part of me would have been fascinated by what sounds like such a rare occurrence to overcome some of my fear. Thanks for sharing your story 😊

Great Cthulhu!!!

I considered something along those lines (actually being that the owner of the coat was already dead as he was the one with the notorious temper and the possibility of falling from a great height), but the lack of an entry about any injuries or deaths in the log book suggests otherwise. The only reason they wouldn't add an entry would be if they intended to hide the event, but even then they would add a false report about an accident.

Last most southern - St Catherine's Niton Isle of Wight.

Ok, you kind of flew right past the reason: There is a chance for you to have had fcukkin TOADS in your house routinely?? Where do you live and what kind of a house do you live in? Not trying to be mean, but gahddamn! I'm just curious. Thanks!

@@meridien52681 I'm not sure my English vocabulary is good enough for a detailed explanation. But we were staying at my sisters house in the countryside. There's a lot of woods and a large lake in throwing distance. My sister said they used to bring buckets of lake water to their boiler room in the basement. (I don't know why) The guestroom was also in the basement. So the toad could have hopped through the separate door, into the boiler room and then next door to us. OR it was a tadpole/pollywog (

@@SweGrlMom I only know toads from hiking and being near water and in wild places, but I could only imagine a toad getting into a skyscraper apartment LOL! I pictured the toad getting into the elevator and getting off at the penthouse of a sleek modern apartment with sky views. I truly laughed until my sides were sore, I laughed so hard!! Your explanation makes perfect sense---thanks again, absolutely NO offense meant. I truly got my laugh in yesterday!

@@SweGrlMom P.S. Your English is excellent, don't worry.

@@meridien52681 That would definitely be more funny if it happened that way. 👍😀😂