Why Is This Lake PINK?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ต.ค. 2021
- While taking a closer look at the features of East Africa for my last video, I happened upon an interesting site. Not too far to the northwest of Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's tallest mountains, there lies a lake with an unbelievably but also undeniably pink lake. Today, we're getting to the bottom of why and how this peculiarity exists, and what it's implications are beyond Earth.
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Altas: do you want to know why this lake is pink?
Me: *Na*
I just wanna see his pretty face
@@jtgd so😳di😳um
This deserves more likes
Oh no, the salt jokes from high school!!!
"I would tell you a joke about Sodium, but Na"
"What's Batman's theme tune?", "SodiumSodiumSodiumSodiumSodiumSodiumSodiumSodium BATMAN!"
Imagine Atlas Pro and Linus of Linus TEch Tips standings side by side
I remember when the channel was still rather small, but showed a lot of promise. Now it's close to having a million subscribers. Great work dude!
Yeah, i remember when I didn't know what Atlas Pro looked like.
@@ALu-nq8rf I miss when I didn't
I love how even when he was small he still had amazing quality videos too.
I can't believe I'm following someone huge before 1m
@@ALu-nq8rf he's cute 😍
"Halobacterium Salinarum"
Bruh... a scientist literally named this thing "Salty Salt-microbe" xD
Ancient Greek ἅλς (háls, “sea, salt”)
Latin sāl
Redundant department of redundancy
@@slevinchannel7589 I *despise* copy-pasting spammers. Doesn't even matter if you're a bot automatically posting or a human manually posting. The end result is essentially the same thing. An annoying comment completely unrelated to the video hijacking multiple comment threads for attention.
@@WanderTheNomad The End-Result is you ranting off against someone who tried to be nice, helpful and education-spreading.
That, my friend, is the end-result here.
@@WanderTheNomad If your so soul-weak that you cant differenciate btween Attention-Seekers and warm Help-Offerings, that makes me sad.
Even sadder if you cant even think of a reasonable Difference between Non-feeling Bots and real People.
I knew about the lake but this video is SO interesting because you show the process behind it, cross-researching linguistics and ethnology starting from Google Earth. Your approach is one of the things that make the info on your channel really stand out. 10/10 mate as always
Even explaining the term sodium. I knew exactly where he was going with it, but never knew that is how Sodium got it's name!
This comment said it better than I ever could
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@@shannonmikko9865 In other words, Shannon-chan:
May i recommend you some nice science-channel you may not know?
Or even something else?
Interested in learning how to write a book, which the myth says
is soooo terrrrible hard, but actually, in reality, its FUN?
?
@@slevinchannel7589 sure
So as a person who speaks a language where Sodium is just called Natrium, the meaning of "Lake Natron" was a bit obvious
Totally. When he said that there’s no such element in the periodic table, I was like “whaaat?” Somehow completely missed that it’s sodium in English.
Yassss. To me it's so obvious
What language still uses Natrium?
@@sohopedeco Most languages
@@sohopedeco Belarusian, Bulgarian, bosnian, german, vietnamese, japanese to name but a few
Being German, where sodium is called "Natrium", I gotta say I was pretty confused when you were talking about it like it's something nobody knows xD
I who memorised some of the original names of elements I was equally confused
@@rizwanasir6587 Me being Dutch AND knowing some of the elements I was even more confused
Latin: Natrium
German: Natrium
Russian: Natriy
Greek: Nátrio
Swedish: Natrium
Norwegian: Natrium
Danish: Natrium
Icelandic: Natrium
Finnish: Natrium
Bulgarian: Natrii
North-Macedonian: Natrium
Belarusian: Natryju
Ukrainian: Natryju
Dutch: Natrium
Scottish Gaelic: Natrium
Luxembourgish: Natrium
Lithuanian: Natrio
Latvian: Natrijs
Estonian: Naatrium
Hungarian: Nátrium
Georgian: Nat'riumi
Armenian: Natrium
Azerbaijani: Natrium
Serbo-Croatian: Natrij/Natrijum
Slovene: Natrij
Albanian: Natriumi
English: Sodium
Polish: Sód
Spanish: Sodio
Portuguese: Sódio
Czech: Sodik
French: Sodium
Italian: Sodio
Romanian: Sodiu
Slovak: Sodíka
Irish: Sóidium
Welsh: Sodiwm
Turkish: Sodyum
Maltese: Sodju
Basque: Sodioa
Catalan: Sodi
In European there seems to be a divide on what to call this element.
@@modmaker7617 That's interesting because there doesn't really seem to be a clear divide between to language groups such as Western-Eastern Europe, Germanic-Romanic, etc.
@@modmaker7617 I'd like to know why is there such a divide in the European scientific nomenclature.
AtlasPro: You may have never heard of Natrium
Me, a German: *visible confusion*
@Shaurya wants to Explore it's part of portion if I remember
"So... in other words, it's a lake of sodium chloride?"
"No... it's salt"
Is this from that Jimmy Neutron video?
@@paemonyes8299 yes
Before he started using facecam, I thought it was the compass talking
I thought it was computer.... His face doesn't match his voice
The Flamingo's there just before migration is a wonder to behold. Awesome vid big fan from East Africa.
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BBC covers it in Earthflight, and yes they can be up to 2 million in one flock. Its amazing watch them take off.
@@fukkitful Yeah... BBC... the same guys who bought us a lot of horrorifyingly stupid tv-shows...
...
@@slevinchannel7589 what's your point ? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@geoffdb8118 Wow. Are you like 8 yo?
I mean, not understanding a very simple comment and what it means, that’s just 1 thing,
but finding not understanding it so funny that you drop like a hundred laughing emojis?
Really? Ouch, i think some hashtags apply here.
The north end of the Great Salt Lake in Utah is pink and distinctively discolored compared to the south end of the lake. It is bisected and salt and other minerals are harvested from the north end of the lake.
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I was going to mention the Great Salt Lake too. The reason why only half of the lake is pink is also fascinating. During the construction of railroads across the western US a causeway was constructed across the Great Salt Lake upon which to build a rail line. This casueway bisected the lake into northern half and a southern half. Now the Great Salt Lake has three primary inlet rivers, Jordan River, Weber River, and Bear River. All three of these rivers enter the lake on the southern half though. Without an inet of fresh water in the northern half the evaporation caused it to become even more hypersaline than the rest of the lake. From there thr processes of pinkifying discussed in the video happened to the north half of the Great Salt Lake. Eventually this bisection if the lake was remedied by constructing a bridge on the causeway to allow water to mix between the two halves. To this day though the north end of the lake maintains a distinct pink color compared to the southern half.
@@hunterjackson1949 yessir, all true. Thank you for expanding on this.
You’ve just answered a question that my A level biology teacher couldn’t about osmosis and has bugged me for 15 years. Thanks so much
What was the question?
@@burgersnchips the salinity permiating cells walls and stripping it of its moisture
So our host tells us how microbes on Earth turn flamingoes pink, then he goes on to talk about life on Mars, but doesn't tell us why Martian people are green. Perhaps he's leaving us in suspense for the next episode?
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@@slevinchannel7589 is a bot
I can explain why Martians from the red planet are green. They're colour blind
LOL.
If you want tips on cool places to look at geography wise check out the Arizona sky islands. The desert turns the tips of mountains into little islands leading the area to have the highest biodiversity in the United States.
What
@@gustavosauro1882 basically the tops of the mountains are tropical because of rain but lower down it’s a desert so animals don’t go from one mountain top to another which leads to them being called islands.
@@Gingerbreadley wow
This is so cool
On a related note did you know the American Southwest basin and range province is actually a rift valley? It is why both places have an odd mix of high mountains held up by the upwelling hot asthenosphere and deep basins with no outflow channels, the cause of the rifting is a bit different and the latitude differences play a role in differentiating the two continents but of the 4 active continental rift valleys they are probably the ones with the most in common as relatively warm evaporation dominated rift valleys, as the other two lake Baikal (where Amur is rifting away from Eurasia) and the Antarctic rift valley (where west Antarctica is rifting away from East Antarctica) are far colder and thus have a lot less evaporation.
The rate of rifting in North America has slowed down and the overlaying crust is not yet considered completely separate under typical definitions by the USGS (the Northern parts are still attached with the rift probably needing help from the Yellowstone Hotspot )but it is still spreading apart and producing volcanoes.
13:20 “Which is the same pigment stored in the bodies of carrots, that give them their (carrot)eristic colour”
I laughed way too hard at that stupid pun haha 😂
I was psyched when I saw the title. I've been to lake Natron when I was young, thank you for making it the case study of this video, it's brilliant, it clarified so many things! We were there during dry season, and we saw what you show at 6:56. However, if the horizon over the lake from a distance feels pink-ish (and so does the shoreline), the water itself is rather clear. On the other hand, another lake along the Great Rift valley, lake Langano in Ethiopia, is thickly red (diving into it feels like facing Sauron). I am not sure if there is a correlation here or not, but Lake Langano is also the only lake in the country where swimming is permitted, while Ethiopia has 20 lakes. I've been told that it's linked to a certain type of algae, but my understanding of the phenomenon is only superficial. Would you be able to explain how and why is it so red?
Also, if you stick to the thread of colourful lakes, why is the water of the Loch Ness so thickly black?
I had this thought... Mummies are essentially cured meat. Like prosciutto.
I feel queasy now.
Hey Atlas Pro, I have a question for you. Where do you find those ‘old school’ documentaries which you use in between segments of the videos? I am very much fascinated by them and would love to watch some of them in my spare time. Kudos in this video as well, very enjoyable and interesting as usual.
I was scrolling comments to see if anyone else asked yet
Some pink lakes exist in Australia near Kalbarri (WA).
And just by the border of vic/south Australia and Westgate lake in Melbourne turns pink as well
There is hundreds of pink lakes in Australia they’re mostly salt pans, I’ve seen many in my travels
Yeah, you tell him. 😆😅
they arent common, but arent rare
Imagine commenting before watching the end of the video
What a coincidence! I was just searching up baking soda today because of Cody'sLab new video. I was curious where it could be found and looked at the wiki page for it. It mentioned mineral springs and basins. It also mentioned natron and nahcolite.
A person of culture that follows great channels, i see
@@davidec.4021 Of course theyre a person of culture--they've got a FMA profile pic, after all ;)
Owens Lake in CA, Las Coloradas in the Yucatán in Mexico and the Great Salt Lake are 3 pinky pals just in N America
This channel continues to slap man I’ve been awake for 21 hours but I can’t put this video down because I have no choice but to continue to slake my thirst for that sweet, sweet knowledge, baby 😎
That's actually unhealthy
I don't think you should stay awake for 22 hours
@@a_Playerwastaken Just wait until you learn how long the guy driving the semi truck next to you on the interstate has been awake.
The GSL isn't usually pink, though
@@mack.attack Lake Natron ain’t always pink either
Fun fact: Only the northern half of the Great Salt Lake turns pink. This happens because the lake was split into two by a railroad causeway.
I generally knew flamingos got their pink colour from the pink shrimp they ate, but I never knew salt was the ultimate reason for it. I always wondered too why salt in the stores sometimes had this pink hue too. Well, now I know …
Himalayan pink salt contains trace amounts of iron oxide (rust), which gives it a pink color. It's not from bacterial pigments like beta-carotene.
The CGP Grey of geography, going into these rabbitholes that nobody asked for yet everyone loves.
CGP Grey sucks
@@supingo3339 what?
As russian speaker and son of a chemistry engineer, after yous said Natron, i thought about sodium, as russian didnt butcher the latin name of an element
i'm pretty sure all germanic languages also call it natrium.
@@latlatko isn't english a germanic language?
@@WanderTheNomad yes, but also the one most influenced by romance.
@@WanderTheNomad all germanic languages that are not English. fixed
I just love videos like these, professional yet also with the person that narrates the whole story on camera
Yes, I love another week of geography with Atlas Pro
This explains why reddit has that reddish orange colour, too much salt
But bacteria means its cultured
And reddit is uncultured
@@pas-giaw6055 bacteria may be cultured, but they are still one of the most primitive life forms.
it all checks out.
@@Tokru86 there some slightly cultured subreddits, like r/neography
We've got three or four pink lakes in Western Australia, one WNW of Geraldton (Hutt Lagoon you mentioned) another NW of Esperance and a load more in Mcload
Also 6 on Rottnest island. There’s a bunch of pink lakes throughout Australia. But they don’t look that pink in person
Here where i live its only 6 am on monday, i just woke up and im having my coffee and before preparing for work, so yeah pretty cool to see this on my feed 😁 great week for everyone!
I got to see Laguna Colorada as well as Salar de Uyuni on a road trip a number of years ago, and it does totally feel like Mars! The trip was inspired by poking around on Google earth too :) Great work on this
This kind of videos make me proud to say that I discovered your channel just as you reached over 11,000 subs. The topic is really interesting and the explanation is a 10/10 in my book, easy to follow, straight to the point and just the right ammount of simplification. I hope one day you recieve the recognition you deserve for these amazing videos.
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Can't believe you're already almost at a million. Seem to remember watching your early videos when there were only some 20k subscribers.
One day I shall drop this story on a first date and it will blow her mind and we live happily ever after.
I shall name my first kid Atlas.
That reminds me of how Elon Musk started a date once in college: “so, do you ever think of electric cars?” ;)
Followed by: "Want to see my rocket?"
loved this video! I remember watching your previous Nile vid and thinking ''oh look! That must be one of those funky colored lakes like Australia has.'' while looking at the google earth footage. I already knew the color in such lakes comes from extremophiles but didn't know all the details or why such organisms only made some lakes colored so this video taught me a lot, thank you! :D
Although, you not knowing the names of every single lake on earth makes me wanna unsubscribe now :/ (JK!)
Also, loved you using the music from your Earth 2.0 video at the end there while talking about Mars, I'm taking a wild guess and say that was an intentional music choice and I just want to say that such little details and callbacks don't go unnoticed and are really appreciated ^^
lastly, 10/10 on your fashion as always
I figured most of my dedicated viewers would know the basics but still would find the full story interesting! Glad to see I was right about that :)
I remember subscribing to you when you had about 7k subs. Already back then, your channel was a massive, undiscovered, treasure cove of top quality videos, the El Dorado of youtube :) Your videos are amazing!
I just want you to know how catchy your Intro video/music is... I was watching a "It's ok to be Smart" video and the cold open had me jazzing for the intro music... when I realized that it wasn't the cool music that I loved. I paused for a second, thought about it and pulled up one of your videos to double check the music and was thrilled when it started to play.
So in short your intro videos are so catchy that I leave another educational channel to come to your video for the intro before going back to their video... Well done.
What a great way to wake up, with another amazing video. Youre the best bro
Collabs help the channel grow. This channel should
do some with other S-Channels!
Anyway: And theres many Science-Channel who's Fan's dont know each other's channels.
So here comes my plan into account: I drop random comments about 'Hey, want
some recommendations about something? Anything?',
get called a bot sometimes, but who cares,
and sometimes people say 'Thanks, i take a look',
which makes my Day!
I just watched a video from fact fiend that talked about pink flamingos and this goes even more in depth than I ever expected to learn.
I have honestly learned more from this channel than I have ever learned in school.
Man I love your videos. I like how you approach these subjects from multiple angles and highlight how tightly intertwined every system on this earth is. Plus I wasn't just hear before 1 million subscribers, pretty certain I was here before 100k! Or at least before 200k. Still congrats on your growth and success, dude!
okay…i LOVED your source of the nile video last week…but IMHO, *this* is your best work yet!! fantastic presentation, research, and solid empirical (and correlative!) science. WOW!
6:00 In german, it is still called Natrium, just like "K" is called "Kalium" Instead of "Potassium". So I was kinda surprised when you mentioned how "we" might never seen Natrium on the periodic table xD
NaHCO3 is what we in germany all "natron" which is why I directly assumed you only mean this compound
Man, the amount of suspense before he said "sodium" :D
Great work, Atlas!
I love your curiosity and deep research.
Fantastic video! 👍👍
Isn’t it funny when you think you know a thing, only to be amazed by what you don’t know? Keep up the good work!
Wait Google has a time-lapse thing?
Wow! You covered this topic so well! Also, congratulations on nearly 1 million subscribers! 😉👍
love the pacing on this video, excellent work!
Him: You have never heared of the Element Natrium
Me a German: What what ? Yes I did. What is he talking about ? 😆
Him: Oh they changed that in English
Me: Oh, yeah that makes sense
isn't natrun is just Sodium? don't scream at me I'm at the start of the vid, it's Natran in Hebrew so that can't be a coincidence
big brain moment
Man this is good content. You've come such a long way! Everyone here might have seen a documentary or 2 about this lake, even I went like 'Aah, here's another one', but damn, the perspective was so unique. Thanks so much !
we appreciate you asking questions.. AND answering them in videos
First
Think you meant saddest
Amazing
Looks like I am first
Can you teach me how your so quick
I'm sad that this video doesn't have more views, it's fascinating as hell. Keep up the good work man!
Great work on this video! Looking really professional!
Another great video! Amazing how you get to the bottom of these things, and thanks for explaining to me why flamingos are pink. You have a new subscriber, and you definitely earned it!
i LOVE how many topics this video touches ! linguistics biology geography , i really enjoy the mix in your videos its fascinating :D
if you wanted to look at another lake, i dont know if youve already talked about lakr Baikal or not but its also fascinating and also a bit cursed lol awesome but gives me the heebies
Great video! I always take my time watching one of your videos :)
This is perhaps my favorite video of Atlas Pro because honest curiosity is front and center
This video was super interesting! I love how you go from clue to clue to solve the case, so to speak.
Really enjoyed this video. Well done! :)
Beautiful job, Dude!
Amazing video. Very informative.
Since you asked, I have seen one red lake in my life. It was near the town of Chichiriviche in Venezuela, on a tiny island called Cayo Sal. The explanation I was given at the time was that there were bushes along the edges of the lake that dropped their red berries into the water to dye it pink, but I didn't see any detritus that would indicate that. And the lake was incredibly warm and salty. Salt lines the shores, and when I tried to walk in, I didn't stay long because it was so hot.
This certainly was one of the most interesting videos I’ve seen in a long time. Thank you!
I remember learning about all this from an old Time Life book set. Your presentation is very much on the level of productions like that and Nat Geo. Amazing video. Thank you, sir.
Great work as usual.
Your videos are awesome man!
great work! very informative. ty!
Thanks for adding subtitles.
This content is so interesting, entertaining, informative and creative.
Continue to the success.
I love this channel. Its so fun to see how much this channel has grown and keeps growing.Hope you see this!
Awesome video! Thank you! Keep up the good work of educating youtube dwellers.
22:30 Captions: “Pink licks” 🧐
Haha. I thought it was a funny misinterpretation of pink lakes. You might add captions to your videos for hard of hearing and deaf people.
I love your videos and channel. Thanks for the continuing fantastic content. Congrats on almost 1,000,000 subscribers! 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
Amazing work! I would like to see you talk about the Baltic sea and the problems its facing!
Keep up the great work!
Thanks for making my morning great! :D
Wow, that old shot of Kilimanjaro. So much snow and glaciers.
Beautiful channel! I can't wait to see the gold subscriber button in the background 😊
Great video and explanation. We have many pink lakes in Australia, including the two well known lakes in Western Australia, Pink Lake (which is losing it’s colour), it’s neighbour, Lake Warden (which is still pink), and the lakes you mentioned, Lake Hillier, Hutt Lagoon and Quairading Pink Lake. Again, they were also found to contain the bacteria Dunaliella salina alongside Halobacterium cutirubrum amongst others. Thanks again :)
Fantastic video!
Thank you so much for the excellent video. Here before 1 million!
you really are a pro at giving information. Instead of saying natrum was just another term for salt you went through its origins and gave a very good explanation for it. Seriously that part blew my mind. Not the information but moreso how you gave us that information
Another wonderful video.
It’s crazy how I thought I was learning why a lake is pink, I did; but I learned so much more! Thank you!
Geological, ecological, and linguistic history in one! Great job! Thanks for the quality and more quality work over the years!
Cheers for the video mate 😎 👌
that was yet another awesome video
Awesome video!
Brilliant episode. Regards from EGYPT
You explained this better than anyone else ty
Another great segment.
I loved the old clips that you included. I don't know why, but they always appeal to me.
I never knew about this but as soon as you mentioned Natron and flamingos at the start I knew exactly why it was pink. Never had such a big grin on my face!
Very fun video! Love it
INCREDIBLE video! Congratulations!
And... HOW do you get those old documentaries about everything?? And all of them have the same narrator?!
As always, excelent contents... here in Colombia 🇨🇴 we also have "Salinas de Galerazamba"!!
Nature is truly amazing amazing video 👍👍👍👍
Excellent video as always! The quality of information and video quality is top notch.
your channel is great