A bear found my GoPro and took a selfie
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Published 2023-07-24
Previously: If this survives for an hour, it passes the Bear Test. • If this survives for an hour, it pass...
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All Comments (21)
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Thanks to the team at the Grizzly & Wolf Discovery Center for somehow recovering the camera! And, of course, to the bears.
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If it survived over an hour then I think it should get the "Bear Resistant" certification.
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"Our cameras can survive 5 hours with bears while covered in honey" is one hell of a statement
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Does this mean we can officially add "bear-proof" to our packaging? 👀
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Lmfao. "Thats public Domain, The bear shot it on its own, I dont own it" My man, you have showed more compassion for the bear than most people show each other.
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I'm sure the GoPro company is absolutely stoked about how well their product held up here. This video is a killer ad for them.
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Tom realizing that he maybe doesn’t have copyright over some of the footage is the most Tom Scott thing ever.
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I love Tom Scott. He’s a realistic optimist. Case in point: he excitedly talked abt the fact that he didn’t have copyright over the videos, while acknowledging that it was “frustrating bc he could’ve made a lot of money licensing it.” Brilliant.
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On another positive spin on this, is that the GoPro team have validated their camera casing to be Bear proof and water resistant at the same time. On behalf of the team, thank you Tom for using the product
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I'm surprised the GoPro could bear that much distress
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That ending realization that those last files are public domain… Absolutely amazing
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So glad I'm alive in just the right time period to see a bear vlogging
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It's great to see that the public domain video is already on Wikipedia's "Animal-made art" page
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Two years later this bear is gonna be the director of an insanely successful film and refer to this as its humble origins
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Uploading the files to the public domain and asking for donation to the Grizzly Discovery Center is the most honest and wholesome thing I've heard this month (at least). Kudos to you Tom for being based
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Those clips are actually terrifying. I choose to interpret them as a "bear made" reminder to stay the f*** away from bears. Thanks for uploading this, Tom!!
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You were 100% correct Tom, this ABSOLUTELY deserved a separate video
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That public domain part is exactly the example of how to handle that sort of thing that the internet needed. Well done, Tom!
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It’s not every day that I get a camera eaten by a bear delivered in the mail. Seeing those claws, I’m never going into nature again. What Tom cut out of this video was my shouts of surprise when the computer read the memory card just fine and then again when I saw the actual bears in the footage and then again when the camera actually turned on after recharging. Thanks Tom for trusting me to help with this project!
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I like to think the bears knew you were about to take a well deserved break and decided to give you a parting gift. Magical footage.
