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
amazing video also love the tv theme
So fortunate to have Vetitas! And that’s the truth!
Thank you so so much! You just made me a subscriber.
I’m glad your channel exists
I love practical science experiments! I will use this information, for sure!
This style isn’t it…
Very cool video!
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!
Oh ok so its just big pools of Gatorade, got it 👌
This is oddly similar to the Guano Video…
4:27 boom.
So, plants do actually crave electrolytes?
Better no background music.
At 12:23 😂 Derek became a scientist of old era , that was literally funny 🤣😂
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.
I really don’t like this style. Doesn’t feel like educational videos anymore, just TV
I guessed it correctly.
So blue Gatorade is blue because it’s full of copper sulfate. I never knew that! COOL!
ok, yeah.
the amount of work put in the video is a lot more than I would be able to do before giving up but like…
3:19
if you haven’t realized, both electrodes are connected to the same battery terminal.
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.
Pot ash
How did it become pot ass 🤔
this is so cool
francium exposion next (most expensive video)
SINCE WHEN DID POTASSIUM IN WATER MAKE THE CONTAINER FLY?
How did that NOT shatter the bucket?! Lol
4:24 My high school chemistry teacher was banned from purchasing group I metals.
We need more youtubers like him , people like him can change the world ❤
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!
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
14:17 That’s kind of like Fracking for natural gas.
i learn alot’s from this video .. tq
I love how this douche bag skips parts of history just because a brown dude did it first… 😂
potassium nitrate was first isolated by "scary" Muslim scientist and engineer Hasan Al Ramah, get your facts straight
What a cheap way of making an explosive.
Small crackers don’t pain if you burst them in hand
Wouldn’t the copper sulfate need to be removed from the potash somehow?
Now that marijuana is legal in many States….we should been well stocked up on pot ash.
Plz bring more of this
This is so interesting
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.
This was very interesting, informative, and fun. Thank you!❤
And they put that stuff in bananas?!
Sports people lol
What’s the horse Derek, make the damn video
Can someone tell me how to separate copper sulphate from the potash solution????
4:26 the entire bucket just jumped up like 5ft lol
Saltpeter is just batshit insane
what did you think was going to hapin like francim is the same thing but stronger its also a non-metal also potasim
8:52 "Lumber"? Sawn wood? Perhaps "timber" was used?
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.