I visited the world's only float-through McDonalds, and saw a mast demolished.

11th October 2021

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Hello!

This week's video is simple and short: the Tour of Strange German Infrastructure continues as I vist the world's only float-through McDonalds. (Yes, I'm counting McDonalds as infrastructure. Everything is infrastructure.)

Elsewhere in video this week:

Demolishing a very tall TV mast. Full marks to the demolition crew for giving it such a smooth and straight descent: this is only a minute long, so make sure to stick around to the end for alternate angles and drone shots.
Karen Puzzles investigates the little-known $1m puzzle that's never been solved.
I'm envious of how good a format Dropout's Game Changer is. I wish I'd thought of it. If you've never watched the Sound Impressions Challenge, set aside 25 minutes. It starts simple, but just keeps building.
And Sabine Hossenfelder explains why nuclear fusion is, alas, not quite as close as we might think.

And away from YouTube:

I found this story about exam cheats fascinating. Tiny Bluetooth earpieces! Devices hidden in shoes! At what point is it easier to just... study?
It's the "again" in this headline that surprised me. Someone tries to correct a video game's interpretation of a tank... by releasing classified documents. And it's not the first time it's happened!
And finally, this is not your typical rickroll. This is a simultaneous 6-school 11,000-person rickroll, exhaustively documented. And the disclaimers are worth a read too. (There are, of course, bad things that can happen to students who try things like this!)

It's been a long week for me, on the road filming: but the videos I'm putting together really do seem worth the energy. Thanks, as ever, for being part of it all: I'm extremely lucky to be able to do this!

All the best,

— Tom

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