Making this documentary was a blast, although to be honest with you, halfway up the tree I was definitely having second thoughts about being able to make it to the top. Thanks, Tom, for this amazing opportunity!

So stoked for you James, always been such a legend and an extremely talented and diligent individual \m/ Rock on dude, killing it TJ

@Papa's Scooperia Worker example of how can variate his voice so its not as monotone

I've climbed one of those trees, the view is definitely worth it from the top!

@l1tn1ng b0t 85 Hey, If you ask me what time it was when you said that. I would say "Now silly head!" You know if you asked me that same question at this moment. I would still say... And when you read this "It's Aways Now! Silly Head. Lov'n ya.

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So you're telling me that the 45 m HR drop tower was really built as a fire lookout tower?

Tom Scott: who are you? Atomic frontier: I’m you... but younger.

Are you planning to present Country File next ?

At least someone is doing something to prevent bush fires. It must have been snuck under the government's nose.

Tom would be really cool to have as a boss.

Imagine Tom and I did a thing made a video collector

The script was really interesting, but not the delivery I'm afraid

Damn, I somehow thought that the title was talking about bushfires being used to hunt down satellites.

Put these in brazil

Yep, the kids gonna have yer job.

Ayyyyyy I go to Curtin University in WA, this is fuckin weeeeird

I’m not from Australia but I have lookout points in my area that are still in use.

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This is an interesting doco but I don’t remember fire tracking be that much of a problem problem with 2020 bushfires, problem was limited staff and budget needed for fire control, less back-burning done before Fire season, water miss management and the ever worsening climate

Kangaroos are killers beware them

Remember that number people. Over 1Billion. 1,000,000,000 animals died. We will never get those numbers back... never

This intro was almost the exact same as the previous video

He's definitely gonna overtake Tom's job

Am I the only one who thinks that ladder looks really dangerous

@Tom Scott, I love this initiative! Kudos to you for increasing the viewer base for these youtubers.

the police should check tom scott's hard drive. definite nonce vibes

James: "Fire flickers at 12 Hz" Animators who didnt get fire looking exactly right: "WRITE THAT DOWN!"

What a brilliant video 😁

At the end and beginning of every year there is a inferno at your doorstep in Australia but this year there is no fire God is up to something

hey guess what Tom Scott “We flew a kite in a public place.”

Had the pleasure to study with James in my second year engineering units two years ago. We were working in the same group trying to do something I don't remember what anymore. Very happy to see him in this space.

i just realized that i've been there, and i live in Norway!

brilliant!!!

Tom Scott 2 !!!

yo go to Greenland

I really like this video, I really do, but something hit me when I realized that his voice was consistently going up and down sentence by sentence and I'm not sure where that's called but it made it really hard for me to pay attention ._. I'm not trying to be rude

stop uploading at 20fps you pleb

10 illegal things to do in london we flew a kite in a public place bam bam bam bam bam we flew a kite in a puuuub-

I approve of people who make videos with Tom Scott about fires. 😉🔥

Imagine if there was a fire under a look out tree

Are these cubesats in use currently? If yes, why didn't they detect the bush fires this year?

Okay, sure, you're away from the roos, but you realise you're entering the very lair of the drop bear, right?

Funny when us in australia are on fire again.

Positively fascinating

Best video I have possibly ever seen

I remember when you dropped 2 drums and a cymbal off a cliff

1:34 Hey what's up guys, Scarce here

What are you gonna do if the tree burns down?

West Aussie Respresent! :)

James: Congratulations on such a well-made and *clearly enunciated* video. Good to see and hear a fellow Aussie who doesn't mumble! Keep it up!

Great work from whoever this dude is.

make sure to install optifine.

I still think you know all the fnaf history and doesnt want to tell us

The part that really got to me was "low cost satelites". The single fact that those words can be put together is a testament on how far we've come since the 50's.

What if the fire starts coming up the tree

Well if the fire is close enough for it to be burning your tree, then you’re an idiot for still being up there

Tom we’re waiting for appalling puns #6.

Why do you look like Forrest Gump at the beginning of this video bruh

My jaw is on the floor from the quality of this video.

these could be covered by the use of drone and helicopters why would any one fork out billions of dollars when I could use the money buying more aircraft and fire appliances doesn't really make a whole load of sense e.g I can a 747 aircraft for 26.3 million that's puts fires out, people need to start thinking about putting out fires as fast as possible.

@Oi Meu Chapa ok so people ring 000 and you report a fire. That's how the system works we have planes already fly every day we have 9 plane that fly different areas already in Perth everything is tracked, through people on the ground and helicopter in the sky, all the water bombers do is suppress the fire for ground crews to put the fire out, so why do we need satellites when we could buy more fire fightering equipment to put the fire out

But how would you know where the fire is located at, you need to put the fire out before it spreads

If I ever move to Australia, remind me to mount a huge array of red LEDs on the roof and flash them at 12Hz.

or get a shaman and make it rain

So Australian btw...

100's of million dollar documentaries aren't as good as this one

The moment you realize your a high school nerd when you understand everything he's saying

I could never climb that tree, imagine if you slipped through the bars 😬

The way that I remember fighting those fires in my own backyard, and then being able to see such high quality imagery of what everyone else would have seen at the time. It was just smoke, and there was no power, so we had absolutely no idea how much had burnt or how close the fires were unless they were at you back door. I mean Wow, that’s some great quality footage, like better than the photos I could take because I couldn’t even see 2 meters infront of me Lmao

7:00 why isn't that *fire lookout tower* rigged with PTZ cameras? I mean that was on "The new inventors" over ten years ago now.

Aussie Aussie Aussie!

This was a fantastic, informative video. Really enjoyed learning and listening

job replace? i sub for ur personality and for you. not for anyone else. when you leave so do i

0:59 The bars over his head, are those handholds for going back down?

We're likely to get a lot of false positives from things that are red, but not on fire. Best line of the century.

Ooh, I've climbed that tree too! Very cool.

Everyone holds hand next to face.

*I did a thing* made Aurora borealis in his kitchen and it was similar to what you did

British youtubers: The NHS needs a lot of help these days. Me an american: isn't that the thing the smart high school kids got in.

Me, an American who has been to a town starting with N: The whole high school is NHS, and that NHS has its own NHS.

Neil Degrasse Tyson fistfighting this guy over who gets to say keep looking up

Wow this was actually quite amazing.

Impressive quality A+++

A very good video not from Tom this time but just as interesting

Never knew bushfire can hunt satellites too

who else just held their hand to their face?

In regard to your last sentence: Could it be a guest presenter talking about deepfakes with your face on top?

Wait I thought you died

His speech is a little too sing-songy, which I realise is the convention for reports but seems a little overdone. I much prefer Tom's more conversational tone. That said, this was excellently produced video and I'm definitely subscribing to his channel.

Instead of just checking for a red channel as well as flickering artifacts, could you use infrared imaging? Although I assume the issues related with that would include increase in costs and the cold of space masking off any radiated heat that small.

That Japanese satellite imagery was just mesmerizing!

started a uni module on remote sensing this Monday, great timing 😁

The host has the very typical WA accent. It sounds like a curious mix of SE England and general Australian. I have the same accent. It's because Perth and WA has the highest rate of British migrants, and so many of us here have dual nationality because our mum or dad (or both) are from the UK.

Woah this is some serious production quality on this one

me, But also not me , Is this related to new Vsause video Illusions of Time.

I wasn’t expecting to be amazed from beginning to end. This was perfect

So its like curing symptoms instead of the problem causing them... How many people will have to go and stop fires? Stop warming the earth instead? ...Nah?

That intro had serious Firewatch vibes and I'm all for it.

I wish more Aussies knew more about fire and its necessity in the landscape rather than being paranoid and frightened of the very thought of it. Such a stupid time we live in...

"Red, but also, not on fire." Is such a great line.

Awesome video

Instant subscribe. This dude is fantastic.

Fascinating video thanks for the upload

Watch out Tom you have some competition

Ok but what happens when the fire gets a gun??

Cube satellites are by far the worst idea ever. Instead of putting more junk that later generations either have to dodge or cleanup into orbit if they don't burn up as planned, why don't they simply put decent IR cameras on the towers and get the same sort of coverage for less?

Your comment makes absolutely no sense, its way cheaper to have like 4 cubesats with good ir sensors, then a couple hundred IR cameras on trees with limited coverage, the indians and the chad ISRO have gotten launch costs so low that its way cheaper, and no they wont be junk in orbit, cube sats deorbit quite quickly because of their low orbits, and even then NASA developed a steam propulsion system for cubesats, federal university of santa catarina in brazil is developing a ethanol micro thruster for cubesats, they will very soon replace most satelites.

So next week is a Deepfake video?