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
This channel really deserve Billions of subscriber …
"sports people" i think the work you’re looking for is athletes
Very educational video. Fisrt time i think i learn something from a yt video lol…
I’m two minutes in, and you’ve said nothing about these pools. I’m just going to go Google it. Thanks!
1:15 "Top Secret" This isn’t the military, it’s NASA
So what you are saying is potash is why we have latte liberals?
why don’t the potassium inside the mines don’t explode when water is pushed inside the mines?pls explain🙏
18:47 You had one Job
Drop a pin and… I’m off! That didn’t rhyme. I was expecting a rhyme. Lol
Was this like a pilot for a TV show and then it never happened, or are we going to actually get more in this series?
3:56-5:26 Wicked
This is one of the, probably the best informative video I have seen. Subbed.
What has happened to the series it’s been close to a year no episode 2
Humphrey Davy died in 1829. How did he put a battery to potash?
they are the salt flats in canyonlands
If Veritasium was a school there would not be a single person that hated science or maths. The way he explains with so much hard work i never wish to leave his videos unwatched.
Potassium
the fact that the bucket didn’t explode is beyond me
That’s not how you put earbuds in
I’m happy to discover this !
Thanks !
Good old Kalium
Who would vote down on this? I don’t understand
Well done…and paced. Thanks.
So… America has always been obsessed with pot
Thanks!
"pot-ash-ium" mind-blo-wing.
at first i thought the picture was just a palette for coloring
They’re extracting potassium from potash. There, I saved you twenty minutes of time.
Better not piss in these pools
If you can see beautiful pot-ash pool patterns when you close your eyes, how high are you?
Hunter gather’s spent all day finding food… ha ha ha don’t make me laugh. The Saan people are hunter gather’s who spend 19 hours a week hunting and gathering. They live peaceable happy lives and even during a bad drought in the 60’s, they ate over 2000 calories a day. In fact we in the 21st century work about 40 hours a week and get 2 weeks vacation a year. Peasants in medieval times worked on average 25 hours a week and had about 24 weeks vacation time a year (yes that’s 6 months). For all our advancements, we’re working harder, not smarter.
wow, what a video.
4:29 huh 🤔 now I know why my banana exploded
how much water is used and where are they getting it from in a desert…… isn’t that an important question! how much water would it take pump that much water back up…. that insane? and most importantly fertiliser is killing people as well. it just happens over a period of 20/40 years. it’s crazy when we live in a world that comes up with gigantic solutions that generate tons of cash for a selected few based on a false pretext that it’s most essential for continuous collective existence.
of all the things the budget for these videos could have gone to, it went to explosion sound effects.
Hi Veritasium, one of my coworkers lives near the Hanford nuclear reactor and we were using Google earth to "look" around. It would be really awesome if you did a video like this of there! There is so much history at Hanford!
Wait you need to go back. We need a video on how the hell that rock is there at 1:42
I understood the gunpowder part because of Dr Stone.
Why don’t they build a greenhouse like structure over the top so that the evaporated water can be re-condensed on the glass and run down the sides to be used again?
Now I worry about whether potash is a finite resource.
Thanks you 💕
Christ, A documentary for the youtube generation. Can I get this information without the Nonsense visuals. I love the channel and have for years but stuff like this would give you a headache. I know ya kinda have to pander to an ADHD generation, but there’s a limit.
i like your Veritasium production videos better.
You could grind up sea shell for potassium
4:24 epic
I feel like I saw these from Dead Horse Point SP in Utah 2 weeks ago.
People like u bring the change, kudos to your hard work 👏
I immediately hopped into Microsoft Flight Simulator to fly over this
Well my initial thought was they look like salt … mining pools? I dunno what theyre called. And even though it wasnt sodium it was the same concept! So im happy with myself xD
Wsw of Moab Utah bout 20 miles.