Tom Scott@tomscott

I make things. They'll probably come back to haunt me in a few years' time.

 London
tomscott.com
Joined July 2007
This Twitter account posts updates about my new videos and other projects when they go live, but that's all! If you want to contact me, you should go here: tomscott.com/contact/
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New video! Six months from now, this channel stops: piped.video/watch?v=ca0Rpxkn…
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New video! I tried using AI. It scared me. piped.video/watch?v=jPhJbKBu…

I tried using AI. It scared me.

I just wanted to fix my email. ■ AD: 👨‍💻 NordVPN's best deal is her...

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New video! This house rotates. How can the plumbing work‽ piped.video/watch?v=gisdyTBM…

I thought this rotating house was impossible.

Near San Diego, California, there's a rotating house: and somehow, ...

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New video! I rode the world's fastest train: piped.video/watch?v=4ZX9T0kW…
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New video! This is "impossible", but New Zealand is trying anyway. piped.video/watch?v=wcp1BfPU…

This is “impossible”, but New Zealand is trying anyway.

The common wisdom is that, once an invasive species is truly establ...

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New Technical Difficulties! Chris does drag: piped.video/watch?v=nUf8-P3d…

Chris does drag

We weren't ready for this. ■ With thanks to Letitia Delish and Drag...

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New video! This café sends food through pneumatic tubes: piped.video/watch?v=YTHZLKFb…
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New video! This rollercoaster doesn't stop automatically: piped.video/watch?v=2nQ-rijl…

This rollercoaster doesn't stop automatically

The Great Scenic Railway, at Luna Park in Melbourne, Australia, is ...

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New Technical Difficulties! Tom becomes the Mayor of Hell: piped.video/watch?v=6CJZ5Bwp…

Tom becomes the Mayor of Hell

A little piece of Americana. ■ With thanks to Hell, Michigan: https...

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New video! The "architecture graveyard" is alive and well: piped.video/watch?v=FhHM9MT4…

The "architecture graveyard" is alive and well

Poly Canyon, at Cal Poly, is an experimental architecture laborator...

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New video! The city with a hundred private cable cars: piped.video/watch?v=cUkoqppo…

The city with a hundred private cable cars

Wellington, in New Zealand, has more than a hundred private cable c...

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New video! These chickens save lives. piped.video/watch?v=PSrO55KS…

These chickens save lives.

"Sentinel chickens" are an early-warning system against some nasty ...

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New video! A bus that transforms into a train: piped.video/watch?v=Kn56bMZ9…
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New video! How can you legally fly a plane designed in 1910? piped.video/watch?v=EN9JzxzD…

How can you legally fly a plane designed in 1910?

Near Dayton, Ohio there's a lookalike of the Wright Brothers' Model...

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New video! The cable car that you pedal by hand: piped.video/watch?v=72RxerDw…

The cable car that you pedal by hand

Through the mountains of Slovenia, there are manual cable cars: som...

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New video! There's an archive of air in Australia. piped.video/watch?v=bu5-VERN…

Why Australia bottles up its air

Every few months, when the wind's blowing in the right direction, a...

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New video! I took a ride on a moving radio telescope: piped.video/watch?v=6o38C-ul…
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New video! No-one knows how explosions work (yet) piped.video/watch?v=ar0klhiJ…

No-one knows how explosions work (yet)

The first few moments of an explosion can't be simulated yet. But t...

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New video! This is just an excuse to show you a really good tunnel: piped.video/watch?v=xWL40q3D…

This is an excuse to show you a really good tunnel

The Catesby Tunnel, in the UK, is an old Victorian railway tunnel t...

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New video! Google gave the Shweeb $1,000,000. piped.video/watch?v=7qNOtgrI…

Google gave the Shweeb $1,000,000.

At Velocity Valley in Rotorua, New Zealand, there's the Shweeb: a p...

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New video! I climbed inside a giant robotic parking garage: piped.video/watch?v=voYdl7IF…
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New video! It's the Matrix, but for locusts: piped.video/watch?v=KRIBVykh…

It's the Matrix, but for locusts.

At the Department of Collective Behaviour, part of the Max Planck I...

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New video! How they saved the holes in Swiss cheese: piped.video/watch?v=evV05QeS…

How they saved the holes in Swiss cheese

Agroscope is a Swiss government-backed agricultural research lab. I...

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New video! The world's cleanest railway: piped.video/watch?v=b5Oy29TE…

The world's cleanest railway

At CEA-Leti, in Grenoble, there's a "funicular" that not many peopl...

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New video! The military base where you drive over the runway: piped.video/watch?v=lPaQInkW…

The military base where you drive over the runway

Meiringen Air Base, in Switzerland, has an unusual feature: two pub...

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New video! This tiny hovercraft went viral. piped.video/watch?v=bPTSSHRn…

This tiny hovercraft went viral.

Hideyasu Ito runs the Micro Hovercraft Laboratory, and I got to mee...

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New video! This submarine simulator floats through a tiny world: piped.video/watch?v=tMlHDnbE…

I had to throw out my script about this submarine simulator

In an old mill in a remote corner of Italy, sits the Bathysphere Pr...

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New video! Things are changing at the world's oldest hotel: piped.video/watch?v=_8W2LIfl…
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New video! The first jungle gym was meant to hack kids' brains: piped.video/watch?v=rn_8GXNN…

The first jungle gym was meant to hack kids' brains

Well before the first climbing frame was patented as "jungle gym", ...

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New video! Deliberately giving people viruses (for science): piped.video/watch?v=1v8u3ua6…

The people who get paid to get sick

I went inside the former hotel where, for science (and money), peop...

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New video! Shake tables are way more complex than I thought: piped.video/watch?v=Sj3iI9jZ…
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New Technical Difficulties! Matt tries not to fall over: piped.video/watch?v=G1yQsPI5…

Matt tries not to fall over

How do you do, fellow kids? ■ With thanks to BAYSIXTY6: https://www...

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New Technical Difficulties! Gary ends the season with a banger: piped.video/watch?v=OwQwz07-…

Gary ends the season with a banger

We're really sorry, vegans. ■ With thanks to Knavesmire Butchers in...

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