Slope Stability In Australia’s Golden Mile

I simulated 8,214 landslides to stop one happening for real! When slopes at the Kalgoorlie Super Pit, Australia's largest open-cut gold mine, collapse, there is a lot more than people's jobs on the line.

Perth Science, Episode Fifteen | Slope Stability

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Subtitles by:
CZECH: Ondřej Špika
FRENCH: Sreesti Sheikh
GERMAN: Aaron Kerker
INDONESIAN: Anugrah No'inötö Göri
POLISH: Piotr Matuszak
RUSSIAN: Алексея Тарасенко
SPANISH: Alex DeRodri
SWEDISH: Noel Jönsson

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[Orosh]

"On a lonely friday evening I spend 14 hours setting up different simulations"

Yeah, thats an engineering student right here

[gonzalopineiro]

You have a Tom Scott level of quality in your videos, but with much more sciency topics, love it.

[AtomicFrontier]

About time I took a look at what 'real' Aussie engineers get up to!

[Clockworkbio]

While I enjoy the engineering discussed here--I particularly love this video because my WA wife has done nothing but make fun of me for trying to pronounce "Kalgoorlie" in my incomprehensibly American accent. So it's real nice to finally have a low-key proper pronunciation guide.

[danielhale]

Video: "some simple matrix math"
Me: *F#&@!*

[abigailcolderley]

I'm gonna recommend these videos to my science teacher, they're so good

[RolandoGarza]

4:28 "Every triangle is a love triangle ... when you love triangles". 😂

[JackAllpikeMusic]

It's so cool to see an entire series based around Perth! I've lived here my entire life and didn't know like any of this.

[Dioxol]

As normal, this seems incredibly interesting!

[marcosl]

Thanks, Tom Scott. This channel is a Great addition to my subcriptions!

[TimiPigeon]

All your videos are so great and engaging James, I love learning all the interesting things you have to share with the world - you’re killing it! It’s so great to see how far you’ve come in your sub count and your video quality, it’s superb! Hope you’re keeping well mang and best of luck to you in future

[plainlimbs]

have to say this is as always, some of the best accessible science content on youtube. Love it! keep it up.

[MrLucascanuto]

I find it fascinating how your videos educate us not only about the science in these massive endeavours, but also on the history behind them. Cheers from Brazil, mate.

[RoelfvanderMerwe]

This is an incredible channel. You're so young! Youtube has a good future ahead (as long as long as you keep making videos)

[Jamos]

The complexities that come into play on these massive scales astound even if they are just digging a hole.

[boterham]

You’re the Tom Scott prodigy we dindt knew we need until now

[FTWB]

I’m in geotechnical engineering and we run similar models but we use a probability density function to vary the slope/soil parameters to find a safety probability. Super cool simulation!

[nathanielpayne]

Your "keep looking up!" send off always reminds me of a short astronomy television show I used to watch growing up on public television. Jack Horkheimer: Star Hustler hosted by Jack Horkheimer, executive director, of the Miami Space Transit Planetarium. His send off was "and remember, keep looking up!." Coincidence or not, I love it!

[deralex]

The youtube translation is on top once again.
The title "translated" into german says: "Kalgoorlies 150.582.809€ landslide (and how we can avoid the next one)"

[IllIlllI]

Amazing video quality, breathtaking shots, incredible topics, insightful and easy to understand explanation!
10/10 one of the best channels on YouTube!
Makes me happy watching these fun videos!
Keep it up