These Pools Help Support Half The People On Earth
These Pools Help Support Half The People On Earth
What are these electric blue ponds in the middle of the Utah desert? And why do they keep changing color?
Join Derek Muller (Veritasium) as he looks into the weird, bizarre, and seemingly inexplicable images found on Google Earth to discover what on Earth they actually are. It’s a travel vlog, documentary, and science show wrapped into one. It’s Pindrop.
0:00 Intro
0:29 Electric Blue Ponds
2:13 Finding The Truth
5:47 Importance Of Potash
8:41 Potash From Rocks
14:04 Safer Ways To Mine
15:02 Droning
17:28 Potash The Savior
Our well had same colour but water’s clean and tasty. More tasty than treated water
Sports people lol
Most dangerous job from a simple physical standpoint is logging. but i guess you couldn’t make a cool science video about how a tree could fall on a person and break their neck. I’m out there every day dodging trees. love your stuff, you’re smart and it seems like we both read James Gleick books. keep it up!
Very cool video!
4:24 My high school chemistry teacher was banned from purchasing group I metals.
8:52 "Lumber"? Sawn wood? Perhaps "timber" was used?
Plz bring more of this
how is there only one episode of this series? what . where . who??
Can someone tell me how to separate copper sulphate from the potash solution????
Great video. It shows the interconnectivity and importance of another, largely unknown, industry to the rest of society.
The map shown to denote Germany for the year 1861 makes little sense. There did not exist an official state of Germany then, just Prussia, Bavaria, Austria, and other smaller entities within the German Confederation of 1815-1866. The area of the German Confederation reached much farther to the east and south than what’s shown at 8:58.
I learned about potash because of our food crisis. Russia is a major supplier of potash and you can bet Putin is using global dependency on potash to his advantage during the war.
This is oddly similar to the Guano Video…
SINCE WHEN DID POTASSIUM IN WATER MAKE THE CONTAINER FLY?
Thank you so so much! You just made me a subscriber.
what did you think was going to hapin like francim is the same thing but stronger its also a non-metal also potasim
What’s the horse Derek, make the damn video
What a cheap way of making an explosive.
Thanks for the explanation. We saw these pools from a viewpoint in canyonlands national park back in 2014 and I always wondered about the meaning. Now i know, thanks to Derek!
So when do we get to find out about the abandoned city off the coast of Japan?
I have a mysterious photo of something I took while on the flight to California from Atlanta. I was literally sleep and woke up facing my window and as I open my eyes, I saw what looks like a extremely large silver plate. I immediately grab my camera and took a photo. I wish I could get it to this guy.
Now that marijuana is legal in many States….we should been well stocked up on pot ash.
I guessed it correctly.
this is so cool
So blue Gatorade is blue because it’s full of copper sulfate. I never knew that! COOL!
I’m glad your channel exists
The Potassium Recipe goes back So Far in history,
I wish I could go back in time and find out just what it was that inspired that First guy to even want to try to discover Potassium.
I always wonder about mundane things like that.
What made that very first guy even want to try to find something No One Else even knew Anything about.
I’m certain the vast majority of them were purely Accidental discoveries.
Wouldn’t the copper sulfate need to be removed from the potash somehow?
so interesting….thanks
This style isn’t it…
I love practical science experiments! I will use this information, for sure!
4:26 the entire bucket just jumped up like 5ft lol
And they put that stuff in bananas?!
The bucket of water landed
awesome
So fortunate to have Vetitas! And that’s the truth!
Small crackers don’t pain if you burst them in hand
amazing video also love the tv theme
This was very interesting, informative, and fun. Thank you!❤
He looks weird dressed like Geo. Washington.
This is so interesting
Pot ash
How did it become pot ass 🤔
How did that NOT shatter the bucket?! Lol
i learn alot’s from this video .. tq
Better no background music.
Fascinating!
There are other colored materials in Utah and Northern Nevada – the tailings from various mining operations, some of which I believe have heavy metals or arsenic, and can be seen from I-80.
14:17 That’s kind of like Fracking for natural gas.
4:27 boom.
Kid* – hey dad look i made the model that looks like real minining site
Veritasium CEO* – If you don’t mind can i blow it for content