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
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.
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
We need more youtubers like him , people like him can change the world ❤
As the holder of a USA Patent! Can I suggest that the conscious decision to avoid the Patented Davis lamp under license to avoid expensive fees, was a major factor in the loss of all those miners lives? This report into the disaster should be looked at again to expose the true reasons for such terrible inexcusable “reasons” offered in the report.
Greed is pernicious then and now!
Congratulations of this outstanding source of knowledge!❤
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
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!
francium exposion next (most expensive video)
Thank you so so much! You just made me a subscriber.
Better no background music.
What’s the horse Derek, make the damn video
Very cool video!
SINCE WHEN DID POTASSIUM IN WATER MAKE THE CONTAINER FLY?
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.
what did you think was going to hapin like francim is the same thing but stronger its also a non-metal also potasim
fun fact: CANADA has 50% of all potash reserve in 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!
"Hello 911"
"What’s your emergency,sir ?"
"I don’t know there was a explosion in my neighborhood with a loud ‘yeahhh’ sound"
"Don’t panic sir that’s just veritasium video"
I flipped love this cinematography More more more!
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.
Oh ok so its just big pools of Gatorade, got it 👌
What a cheap way of making an explosive.
How did that NOT shatter the bucket?! Lol
4:27 boom.
amazing video also love the tv theme
Really reminds me of that time grant Thompson made soap from bacon.. rip king of random
Saltpeter is just batshit insane
14:17 That’s kind of like Fracking for natural gas.
Our well had same colour but water’s clean and tasty. More tasty than treated water
This is oddly similar to the Guano Video…
And they put that stuff in bananas?!
4:26 the entire bucket just jumped up like 5ft lol
This is so interesting
4:24 My high school chemistry teacher was banned from purchasing group I metals.
This was very interesting, informative, and fun. Thank you!❤
Can someone tell me how to separate copper sulphate from the potash solution????
Pot ash
How did it become pot ass 🤔
Sports people lol
So, plants do actually crave electrolytes?
I’m glad your channel exists
Somebody watched Dr. Stone and got excited
This style isn’t it…
Small crackers don’t pain if you burst them in hand
I really don’t like this style. Doesn’t feel like educational videos anymore, just TV
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.
Amazing work!
this is so cool
I love practical science experiments! I will use this information, for sure!
AVP
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So….. Are you ever going to continue this series?