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
Key here was the flexible plastic container, otherwise he’d be chock-full o’ glass shrapnel.
so, its a potassium mine
Key word. MONEY.
This video is a true masterpiece. Also veritasium is WRONG about electricity. (just kidding.)
I’m just sitting here thinking thats a nice bucket
Excellent
And now US Americans are lecturing Africans about cutting trees. Let every society develop at its own pace.
HOW THESE CAN SUPPORT
HALF OF THE PEOPLE
OF THE WOLRD
I DON’T GET IT??????
Skills will work with JCLEC the I
He managed to train the bucket to come down correctlly.
All my uncle’s and several of my cousins, on mom’s side, were miners. They made great money but their health dwindled fast. I don’t think any of them lived past 63.
That bucket looked like glass at first, I was expecting it to explode with deadly shrapnel.
Upon reflection, had to be plastic, which is much safer.
I remember the old science demonstration in school where they drop a smidge of potassium and magnesium in water to show it explode and vroom around.
Dont sell yourself. Please go back doing videos that involve critical thinking.
couldt have explained it in 2 minutes
i wonder what this does to the ambient, seems not realy sustainable. what about green houses (cover) wich increases heat and condensation and leads the water back to the river. and copersulfat is quit poison for any other beeing too. dose it stay in the potash?. maid be better than burning forest but still robery. thanx for your work
"sports people." spoken like a true science communicator
My parents use his videos a lot
They retired from the military as Corpsmen (my Mother worked in a medical research lab and my father put such work to use – people to that he did 3 tours on the ground with USMC and 1 on ship USN in Vietnam where he developed some new field treatments. They both retired from the military and taught Jr.High science. They recently retired from that as well but they used this guy’s videos many many times.
Thank you for helping teachers get children interested, it’s so important and hard to do!
That mountain that looks like a person looks remarkably like lord pacal from the Mayan tomb you should use that as a subterfuge
Excellent
If he used a piece of cesium that size, that whole building would’ve been blown up. lol
Great video. But one comment just at the end caught my attention. It’s an unproven assumption that hunter gatherers spend "ALL day everyday" foraging for food leaving no time for other activities, and that it was only the introduction of permanent agriculture that freed up humans to do other things. In fact foragers may only spend 2-3 hours a day on food collection. Archeological evidence from around the world shows forager cultures engaged in massive and complex construction projects.
What happens to the void left behind from where the pot-ash was after they pump water into it, do they leave it full of water? Is it just an open subterranean cavity? And is there any long term concerns for that space?
This is my favorite video you’ve ever made 👍
And believe you me, I literally just watched all of this channels greatest hits in one sitting and I’m back to watch this video for a third time . Lol
No till
Listen HOW DID THE POTASSIUM REACTION WITH THE WATER FORCE THE BUCKET UPWARDS???? WHERE DOES THAT ENEGERY COME FROM? IT SHOULD ONLY HAVE FORCE AGAINST THE TABLE NOT INTO THE AIR?????!! Pls smart people OF YOUTUBE HALP.
Thanks for showing this
Where do you buy your beakers? Cant believe that thing survived the hydroshock
why did it take me 9 months to find this?
Unfortunately fertilizer also causes dangerous runoff that pollutes our waterways.
30 years ago this kind of crucial critical thinking activating documentary was common on the Discovery channel, and several others like NBC, CBC, ETC, now that’s all gone and dumb programing is what the new gen wants it seems. Sad. Great stuff Veritasium !
Yup, absolutely no downsides to the wholesale industrial application of artificial fertilizing protocols to agriculture. None. Continue with angelic non-diagetic theme.
这太棒了，我好想看下一期
i love your these kinds of videos
My 10th grade chemistry teacher did the same demo with a glass beaker! Imagine that result!!!!!!!
Man, my stupidass cant even think of anything except eat sleep pray repeat
Very well researched and told, the documentary was very interesting, Thank You!
So in reality the pool barely does anything, and i just wasted a bunch of time
Just Great, thank you for the awesome works.
So, it’s called Packing? Thx for the vid and everything you do.
P.s
Why has there only been one of these “pin drop” videos?
Has this been explained? Maybe it was just too much work for not enough profit ?
Why don’t u do one on why Antarctica is still uncharted.
dude, Mike Coronella created Hayduke trail! Legend!
Wow thank GOD FOR THE GERMANS
You taught me how to make bomb
You forgot to say that it helps to grow GMO and make more people sick so that the MONEY will move around
Great video. Does the water pumped underground have any effect on the stability of the earth’s crust?
One thing that *MUST* be mentioned is that using only chemical fertilizer isn’t enough; it is only three elements of a symphony of nutrition that we require to be healthy. It matters little if a harvest is bountiful if it is nutritionally empty.
So why are there no feminists complain about gender inequality in mining profession?
I love this content, so fun to learn new things in depth!
No one is probably going to see this, but this was one of the most amazing videos I have seen on YouTube. I invest in precious metals miners and clicked on the pretty water. I have been looking to branch into other miners like copper, uranium, and battery metals. I never knew what the hell potash was and this just now made me was to look into this and all of its uses, market, and best miners. Thank you for this video. Amazing!