Youtubers, man

Youtubers are getting creating and advanced with what they're doing for their videos. I'm talking about the science-and-engineering youtubers here, all the work they've done for those clicks is comparable to the output of a solid University physics/engineering department, or ten. Cool stuff.

I'm talking about the youtubers who do super-duper high-speed videos with everything imaginable, who test all the things they can get their grubby hands on with hydraulic presses, folks who are making autonomous boats and planes and all that, powered by solar energy, those that are throwing cars and bowling balls and watermelons into unbelievably strong  trampolines, and so much more. There have been a few that have been visited by the FBI because they got uncomfortably close to teaching folks to process uranium ore into metal too. And then those that work with extremely dangerous chemicals. And then there's the british dude with ties (safety ties he calls them) who comes up with the most ridiculous, strange and amazing contraption. As someone who works in risk-management, it's unclear to me how his insurance works but he must have something figured out surely.

And then there's youtubers who're homesteading, growing their own food rearing their chicken and goats and cute lil pigs (that are going to be dinner, yes, but I'm a farmer at heart I don't have problems with that) and vlog on daily or weekly basis walking us through their chores and farming seasons and planting cycles and what not and that's to show that there's audience for any kind of well-produced content on youtube. They're the ones who've inspired me to go to the end of the world and lead a chill low-stress life with veggies fruits and farm animals.

Oh and there's the random agriculture youtube channels from Nepal that will interview any farmer who's doing anything that makes money and ask them all the important potentially embarrassing questions. And the cool thing is, they take advantage of the human tendency to generally be helpful even if it could potentially hurt in the long-term, so they'll get answers on how profitable the various projects are, what their problems are, where they're getting their innovation juice from and what they consider to be potential problems for the foreseable future. You couldn't get this sort of information even ten years ago even if you were willing to pay money for it! Lots and lots of money!

And that's where I want to go next -- there's a lot of potential innovation in the agriculture sector, particularly in places like Nepal where things aren't soo..modern yet. And Youtube's making the process so much easier, exciting cool whatever. It's connecting the scientists straight to the farmers.