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  • @admiralcat3809
    @admiralcat3809 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2326

    what's sad is that we might not get anything like coal anymore since it was formed when wood cellulose is relatively new and no organism, not even microbes were able to digest the compound. Since organisms have already developed wood-eating capabilities, coal will no longer form in such abundance anymore.

    • @azralia4265
      @azralia4265 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +79

      Thats why Humans will find alternative energy sources. Right now everybody is exploring the possibility of making artificial suns in labs.

    • @ClyDIley
      @ClyDIley 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      I dont think thats accurate. Pretty sure there are a lot of organic plant matters that can make coal under extreme pressures down there

    • @admiralcat3809
      @admiralcat3809 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ClyDIley true, trees can still fossilize but we won't get another entire layer of millions of years worth of dead, undecomposed trees.

    • @robotbjorn4952
      @robotbjorn4952 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +133

      trillions of compressed shopping bags will form the fuel of future civilizations

    • @nickromo8195
      @nickromo8195 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      ​​​@@azralia4265you can just say fusion energy lol but not to mention obviously solar power wave power in the ocean they're even some devices that can generate power from earthquakes and obviously geothermal energy and wind power plus plenty of other cool bioengineered power producing technologies etc . The biggest problem we have right now is just storage and even that has breakthroughs every other day with different materials and modes of storing. one of the simplest and coolest ones I've seen recently are the molten sand silos that have tons of sand that is heated up to thousands of degrees and holds on to the heat for a long time and can be used to generate electricity or be funneled directly into homes to heat them during winter !

  • @100Lesemaus100
    @100Lesemaus100 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +7884

    I think it’s kind of important to add that the trees only got compressed and turned into coal because at the time those trees lived and died, the bacteria that decompose wood hadn’t evolved then - so no more coal since these evolved;)

    • @GreaterSlimey
      @GreaterSlimey 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +785

      Yup, depressing really, because we use all our fossil fuels on stuff that can be powered alternately

    • @tristintaylor7999
      @tristintaylor7999 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +644

      If we were half as smart or altruistic as we should be we'd have stopped using fossil fuel as soon as we discovered it was finite and found an alternative more quickly

    • @Trogleth
      @Trogleth 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +545

      Nuclear but no one wants to do thst because they are potatoes😊

    • @TenebresLikesToObserve
      @TenebresLikesToObserve 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +60

      ​@@TroglethByproducts that it'll last for millennials.

    • @aatiftazwar6902
      @aatiftazwar6902 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +253

      ​@@TenebresLikesToObserve the longer it lasts the less harmful it is

  • @ChillGuy511
    @ChillGuy511 ปีที่แล้ว +147

    Absolutely love the art style!!

    • @user-10021
      @user-10021 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It really looks like zeeeko‘s style but idk if that was actually him

    • @RANDOM_HUMANITY
      @RANDOM_HUMANITY 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Same :D

  • @Cheesepuff8
    @Cheesepuff8 ปีที่แล้ว +2444

    So fossil fuel is basically solar powered

    • @chie5747
      @chie5747 ปีที่แล้ว

      If you trace everything back, most energy we use comes from nuclear reactions

    • @52flyingbicycles
      @52flyingbicycles ปีที่แล้ว +452

      Almost all energy on earth comes from the sun. Exceptions are
      1) radioactive substances, mostly nuclear decay via the weak force but we can also harness the strong nuclear force.
      2) geothermal energy, which is part latent heat from the earth’s formation part radioactivity
      3) the portion of tidal forces from the moon’s gravity
      Everything else: nuclear fusion occurs at the core of the sun to create lots of high-energy photons which hit the earth, which then either do work as heat or facilitate photosynthesis in plants (among a handful of other uses).

    • @Cheesepuff8
      @Cheesepuff8 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      @@52flyingbicycles Cool, so does any living thing use geothermal to “get energy”, I think there’s a mushroom that uses nuclear decay radioactivity

    • @52flyingbicycles
      @52flyingbicycles ปีที่แล้ว +146

      @@Cheesepuff8 some organisms at the bottom of the ocean use energy from hydrothermal vents, which are geothermal powered. It’s called “chemosynthesis”

    • @TheSyntheticAbomination
      @TheSyntheticAbomination ปีที่แล้ว +29

      ​@@Cheesepuff8 yeah, some fungus that evolve and eats radioactive material on Chernobyl, weird and interesting fella

  • @Kirrrrrrrrbyyyyyyyyy
    @Kirrrrrrrrbyyyyyyyyy 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1839

    You forgot that the reason they piled up was because bacteria didn't know how to eat the woody fibers of the trees

    • @lautaromorales2903
      @lautaromorales2903 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +163

      Yeah, after 60 million years some fungi developed the enzimes capables to decompose the lignin of the wood and therefore no more fossic carbon was produced.
      The most important thing of this topic was missed in the video

    • @Iamadalek
      @Iamadalek 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@lautaromorales2903enzymes

    • @TheThingoftheSky
      @TheThingoftheSky 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Wait that means we literally are running out of that source of energy ​@@lautaromorales2903

    • @dougrious_diswiggle
      @dougrious_diswiggle 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      @@TheThingoftheSky thats why its a "nonrenewable" resource.

    • @retnoartanti1976
      @retnoartanti1976 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      If we want new coal the trees must evolve

  • @bertnorticus1662
    @bertnorticus1662 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +457

    You missed the bit about how the microorganisms that break down the dead trees were absent during that period hence why the trees didn't rot away.

    • @bon_garcon9651
      @bon_garcon9651 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

      ​yes ​@nanajp coal is non renewable.

    • @lubricustheslippery5028
      @lubricustheslippery5028 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      More specific there where no fungi that could break down lignin in wood

    • @Patrick-wn6uj
      @Patrick-wn6uj 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @nanajpof course

    • @loose_goose764
      @loose_goose764 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @nanajpthis is not new information, even if more coal could form the process typically takes longer than the entirety of human history

    • @ethank.6602
      @ethank.6602 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Coal is still being formed today from peat that was formed after these bacteria existed. Coal isnt just compressed wood. Its any organic matter. It just doesnt form as well as it used to

  • @jacobb7608
    @jacobb7608 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +57

    Robery Krulwich I've been waiting to hear your voice again since you left Radiolab. Its good to hear you again.

    • @feliciagaffney1998
      @feliciagaffney1998 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Thank you. I knew I knew that voice.... but it would have bugged me for a long time to determine who it was!

    • @doctaflo
      @doctaflo 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      YES! immediately took me back!
      “alright? m’kay-alright? m’kay”

    • @serenitygarcia8669
      @serenitygarcia8669 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      same. love this guy.

  • @normaleverydayman7004
    @normaleverydayman7004 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +300

    Also i heard that there is no microorganisms that able to digest wood at that time period so when tree died its just sit right there

    • @Wachuma-icp99
      @Wachuma-icp99 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      Petrified wood

    • @jcthefluteman
      @jcthefluteman 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@Wachuma-icp99no, coalified

    • @Epck
      @Epck 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      pre fungi is just rocks

    • @you-know-who5657
      @you-know-who5657 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I wonder if same thing could happen with plastic

    • @MrWeezy312
      @MrWeezy312 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      yes but there is more to it, while they evolved that is true coal is still being made to this day look up the kpg boundary exposure in Colorado you'll see coal above and below. that was hundreds of millions of years after the evolution of cellulase.

  • @MrBotdotnet
    @MrBotdotnet ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Beautiful voice premise and art style!

  • @DOYLR3
    @DOYLR3 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +209

    Funny how there's a literal creepypasta about seeing a lepidodendron means you have fallen into a time ripped

    • @TheThingoftheSky
      @TheThingoftheSky 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      Wat

    • @Zed9659
      @Zed9659 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      ​@@TheThingoftheSky the extinction memes

    • @garciatempensoniv3700
      @garciatempensoniv3700 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      funny analog horror

    • @Clevermelon
      @Clevermelon 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Idksterling

    • @MartinMizner
      @MartinMizner 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Ohohoho Money 💸

  • @agytjax
    @agytjax 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Correction : The trees themselves are called Lepidodendrales. Lepidodendrons were actually club mosses and not trees.

    • @alistairblaire6001
      @alistairblaire6001 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The shapes remind me of penicillium which I find kind of interesting

  • @primus3217
    @primus3217 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +58

    Organisms back then: "wood? How do i eat this shit?"
    Some fungi 60 million years later: "ok, hear me out..."

  • @SeniorCrude15
    @SeniorCrude15 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +49

    So how did paper become rock, it's arch nemesis? (Rock paper scissors)

    • @johnoneill2986
      @johnoneill2986 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      *crickets*

    • @LalitaLunaYogini
      @LalitaLunaYogini 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Because rock became scissors (iron)

    • @deus_ex_machina_
      @deus_ex_machina_ 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Top 10 Questions Science STILL Can't Answer!

    • @zoeydeu2261
      @zoeydeu2261 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      With time and pressure, it mineralized

  • @yrknutzreek
    @yrknutzreek 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +82

    The reason they piled up is because nothing had evolved to consume lignin, which too millions of years, and no more coal has been made since. It's also why the oxygen levels were so hight, hence monstrous insects such as meganura.

    • @TheInfintyithGoofball
      @TheInfintyithGoofball 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      typo

    • @siddsunil3731
      @siddsunil3731 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      That’s not true. Decomposers for wood existed during this time period

    • @yrknutzreek
      @yrknutzreek 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@siddsunil3731 no, they couldn't do anything with lignin, which is why we have coal.

    • @kingconstantinusthesadisti133
      @kingconstantinusthesadisti133 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@yrknutzreek great flood burried the forest.
      Why? Because all fossil we got are the result of water & erosion, just like noah flood.

    • @siddsunil3731
      @siddsunil3731 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@yrknutzreek my comment got deleted because i had an article link, but long story short there are more probable factors than lignin eating bacteria had not evolved. In fact that’s not even proven; evidence points to their being lignin decomposers. A more likely explanation is the current environment at the time

  • @Misky447
    @Misky447 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    I'm also pretty sure that the reason they didn't just decompose is because trees were a pretty new thing, so micro organisms and what not didn't know how to break them down.
    Reply if I'm wrong or missing something

    • @Sprt1337
      @Sprt1337 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      No, youre right, its the main reason why coal/fosisl fuels are non-renewable.

    • @lubricustheslippery5028
      @lubricustheslippery5028 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@Sprt1337 The Carboniferous was also about 60 million year long. So burning it in a few decades may have some side effects

    • @andrewromero657
      @andrewromero657 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Duh

  • @MisterUnfunnyApple
    @MisterUnfunnyApple 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +108

    "If you saw this tree - your day is ruined..."

    • @alexanderthemidI
      @alexanderthemidI 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      🎅🐡

    • @Kerguelen.Mapping
      @Kerguelen.Mapping 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I WAS ABT TO SAY THAT

    • @alexanderthemidI
      @alexanderthemidI 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@Kerguelen.Mapping This man is too late to comment 🎅🐻

    • @Kerguelen.Mapping
      @Kerguelen.Mapping 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@alexanderthemidI this man is dead, he just dosen't know it yet🎅🎅🐈

    • @Scourge321
      @Scourge321 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      not if you're 358 million years old, you'd feel more nostalgic than anything.

  • @johnnymcgeez5647
    @johnnymcgeez5647 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    We can't get coal ever again. Decomposition worked differently back then. Now we have microbes and fungi that cam break down tough wood structure..

  • @ecernosoft3096
    @ecernosoft3096 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +102

    *It’s the tree.*

    • @vennstudios9885
      @vennstudios9885 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      *wake up*

    • @tabstorm_
      @tabstorm_ 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      wake up

    • @therealwisemysticaltree
      @therealwisemysticaltree 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      do not panic.

    • @Redtyzj
      @Redtyzj 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      Remain calm

    • @orangejuliaa
      @orangejuliaa 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      remain calm

  • @NoahAndCaden
    @NoahAndCaden 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +87

    HAVE YOU SEEN THIS TREE?: hopefully not, because this is a lepidodendron tree, and if you see this tree, you have fallen into a time rip. REMAIN CALM

    • @fidelaabellano6200
      @fidelaabellano6200 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      🎅🎅🎅🐡🐡🐱🐱

    • @NoahAndCaden
      @NoahAndCaden 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@fidelaabellano6200 real

    • @throplagm
      @throplagm 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      👹👍🌴🦖

    • @sitfish1113
      @sitfish1113 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Really??? No way??!? stfu if you see a T-rex clapping yo cheeks you should panic 😲 🫨 🫢 😮 😲

    • @dedmed8139
      @dedmed8139 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Unfunny ._.

  • @TimoKek
    @TimoKek 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    Fun fact that is often left out:
    Trees and the like that die today will not form fossil fuels, so no it is not renewable. They could form fossil fuels back then because the organisms that decompose organic matter today did not yet exist 300 million years ago, which caused the dead trees and other organisms to barely decompose and just stack on top of eachother and form fossil fuels as seen in the video.
    Other fun fact: The closest living relatives of lepidendron trees are (currently thought to be) cute little mosses (lycopods) like hornmosses or clubmosses!

    • @Tacomuch
      @Tacomuch 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Just scientists guessing and explaining it away with insane timeframes. They have no clue what was happening on earth 300 million years ago.

    • @Procedurallydegeneratedjohn
      @Procedurallydegeneratedjohn 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@Tacomuch it is a guess but an educated one but there are multiple people who interpret the data differently so thats how they get away with changing narratives.

    • @wouterthemanify
      @wouterthemanify 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You can make trees into charcoal

    • @TimoKek
      @TimoKek 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@wouterthemanify you can even turn them into gas to be used for electricity, but the point is that the natrual fossil fuel reserves will not replenish

    • @petebrulla2382
      @petebrulla2382 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@Tacomuchwell, you certainly seem to be an expert! How can i refute your wizdumb?

  • @Xenon_Proto
    @Xenon_Proto 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I hate how people call fossil fuels dead dinosaurs. The closest to it is essentially fossilized compost

    • @Dexuz
      @Dexuz 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Alright, what's funnier, to say dinosaur toys are made out of liquified compost, or that they're made out of melted dinosaur?

  • @EerybodyIsAnnoying
    @EerybodyIsAnnoying 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Man I LOOOOVE the animation in this video!!! So smooth, so ..... flowy, so beautiful!!!!

  • @julienrockingham-ip4co
    @julienrockingham-ip4co 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Love this animation

  • @SCOTTISHTURNIP
    @SCOTTISHTURNIP 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    "and died, another that grew and died, and another that grew and died."
    *Me and the birds start playing*

  • @MrAirsoftNstuff
    @MrAirsoftNstuff 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    One key point is that nothing had evolved to breakdown lignin a major component of trees so the trunks would just pile uo over hundreds of thousands of years instead of being decomposed like they would be now. Im not sure if this was bc fungi hadn't evolved or if fungi hadn't evolved to breakdown lignin

    • @prometheus5770
      @prometheus5770 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      how did the trees access the soil and grow roots over log stacks

    • @alexwhitney6372
      @alexwhitney6372 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Fungi had definitely already evolved by this point, so I imagine they just weren't yet able to break down lignin.

    • @MrAirsoftNstuff
      @MrAirsoftNstuff 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@prometheus5770 good question, they're will always be areas with bare soil that seed can take hold in but I'm not sure. I'm getting this from an episode of Cosmos lol

    • @swetdep
      @swetdep 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      it's like the 4th comment about it
      not to disregard yours, though there may be a longer discussion in the one posted about 4 months ago

  • @BingusShmungus-wv1go
    @BingusShmungus-wv1go 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This is such an amazing animation

  • @Theguy-l2b
    @Theguy-l2b 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +40

    It’s scary that what took millions of years to make, us humans have been able to dig up in just a couple years

    • @WannzKaswan
      @WannzKaswan 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      and burn so easily

    • @MartinMizner
      @MartinMizner 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      bro we will slip into stone age if "green way of life" will turn out to be a scam

    • @Undomaranel
      @Undomaranel 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      What are you talking about? We've been mining coal for centuries. The middle east has been known for it's "black gold" since forever. It's not just "a couple years", humans have been resourceful since we've ever been human.

    • @Theguy-l2b
      @Theguy-l2b 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Undomaranel true but when we compare how long humans have been alive for with how long life has been around for that is still very little time when compared to how long the coal has been formed for

    • @WannzKaswan
      @WannzKaswan 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Undomaranel he means that it's able to be mined for such a short time

  • @miahmakhon
    @miahmakhon 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Should've added that there was no bacteria to break down the dead trees which allowed them to be piled on top of each other.

  • @Silly_Whitepikmin
    @Silly_Whitepikmin 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    its all fun and games until you see one in today's time

    • @TheThingoftheSky
      @TheThingoftheSky 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I see many comments like this, and I don't get the reference... Explain pls?

    • @peeperleviathan2839
      @peeperleviathan2839 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@TheThingoftheSkythere’s some strange joke/meme about seeing this type of tree which means you fell into a rip in space time

  • @dennisgarcia6702
    @dennisgarcia6702 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Please keep on i love your style.

  • @4AMO4
    @4AMO4 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    "Aye man, let me get a charcoal but hold the char."
    "No char?"

  • @Razzles6996
    @Razzles6996 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Jurassic park narrator “goooooinnggg alll the wayyy back to the juraaasic perooooiidddddd”

  • @markmark.marcial
    @markmark.marcial 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I could watch this ALL DAY

  • @Garfield_Minecraft
    @Garfield_Minecraft 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The animation is hand drawn?
    OMG! I LOVE THIS OLD STYLE

  • @princeninurta5767
    @princeninurta5767 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    and there were no microbes or other decomposers around yet to fully break them down, so they collected :)

  • @frankierzucekjr
    @frankierzucekjr 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Very cool. Great video and explanation

  • @FrappuccinoAlfredo
    @FrappuccinoAlfredo 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Ah, so this is where pilotredsun's been up to

  • @ratoim
    @ratoim 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Coal miner: 🎵 I'm walking on sunshine 🎶

  • @xxcb-qj4xs
    @xxcb-qj4xs 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    This may seem cool but this also means that we are limited on coal, this is because the lepidodedron tree along with its relatives are no extinct

  • @charlessantos2797
    @charlessantos2797 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    "Who died to light up this house"
    Damn, with the music too. Sounds like a sacrifice made...

    • @Tina_jpg
      @Tina_jpg 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Our future cause of fossil fuels

  • @kulkuljator
    @kulkuljator 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    If I remember correctly, nothing was able to digest tsellulose yet, so after dying the tree was just lying around

  • @Coffee_n_Opera
    @Coffee_n_Opera 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Omg full length kids and preteen educational documentaries of these please 🙏 Also a college kid version would be GREAT ❤I’d binge these and sleep to them

  • @derrickpollard186
    @derrickpollard186 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I love how we artificially can make diamonds for fashion but we can't press organic matter to coal for power

    • @jessicaheger1880
      @jessicaheger1880 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      We "can" but it would take more energy than it would give, so it's a waste of energy resources. Making a diamond is also a waste of energy, but no one is saying it's energy efficient so the motivation is money, not fuel.

  • @frackert
    @frackert 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I love the way this was drawn

  • @Fogoboy5
    @Fogoboy5 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

    If you see this tree you are already dead 🎅🎅🐱

  • @moroteseoinage
    @moroteseoinage 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Robert Krulwich is the most likable radio announcer

  • @ayaansiddiqui4244
    @ayaansiddiqui4244 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Big lez animation vibes

  • @cal0505
    @cal0505 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love the animation and music!

  • @CookieJar-Official
    @CookieJar-Official 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    *IF YOU SEE THIS TREE STAY CALM*

    • @aether5372
      @aether5372 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      🎅🎅🎅🐡

  • @kongsovanmony5064
    @kongsovanmony5064 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Simple yet amazing animations

  • @Master_Sword_From_BOTW
    @Master_Sword_From_BOTW 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    The title made me mistake this for a TF2 short

  • @RANDOM_HUMANITY
    @RANDOM_HUMANITY 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    His voice is so calming :)

  • @Yvhv78
    @Yvhv78 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    You forgot to mention the fact that the only reason that much decaying plant matter was able to build up in the first place was because there were no animals or insects on the planet at that time that ate decaying plant matter.

    • @-Eternal-Damnation-
      @-Eternal-Damnation- 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And we're burning through our limited supply. Some estimates say we only have 47yrs left 😅

  • @Mr-endo-is-back
    @Mr-endo-is-back หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Fun fact:you can plant a coal to make lepododentron

    • @MartinPit8
      @MartinPit8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Seriously?

    • @HazelFlopped
      @HazelFlopped หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@MartinPit8nah its wood not a roor or seed, it wouldve been cool tho

  • @Emoechaiti
    @Emoechaiti ปีที่แล้ว +19

    fungi, worms, termite: bruh

    • @romanski5811
      @romanski5811 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      There wasn't yet the ability to decompose wood material yet. Had to evolve first, and that took some time.

    • @royk7712
      @royk7712 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      ​@@romanski5811 so they were preserve on the ground like that then buried somehow? Cool, I never thought of it

    • @Encucumbered
      @Encucumbered 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      those weren't around yet, and the species nowadays that are closest to those didn't have the ability to consume fibers

  • @CarbonatedCondensation
    @CarbonatedCondensation 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The animation in this really adds to it imo, it’s nice to look at

  • @Xanitrit_Zeo
    @Xanitrit_Zeo 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I wonder if aliens visited our planet, would they be horrified at our burning of coal for power? Think about it, coal is the result of a special circumstance where dead tree material could accumulate without decomposition by microorganisms. Sure, coal is considered abundant, compared to other elements that we use daily, such as iron, aluminium and so on, and so we take it for granted. But the ores these metals come from can happen pretty easily and naturally. What if the way coal is made happened by sheer coincidence, such that Earth is one of the few life-sustaining planets to even have coal, among the possible thousands or even millions of alien homeworlds?

    • @AzurePages
      @AzurePages 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You're very interesting

    • @PRH123
      @PRH123 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      If easily accessible coal is essential to the first stage of an Industrial Revolution, then intelligent aliens might not have one, and so might not ever develop beyond burning wood (or whatever would be similar there). So they would never develop to the point where they could be observing other planets.

  • @BaguetteThe1st
    @BaguetteThe1st 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    These animations are great.

  • @itspenelopesquare
    @itspenelopesquare ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Wished we had this when I was in school. This is much more intriguing and easy to understand.

    • @Bretaxy
      @Bretaxy 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Weird school then.

    • @rairon3131
      @rairon3131 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I had this in school

  • @technolus5742
    @technolus5742 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm liking your channel. Well done.

  • @williamapalla6831
    @williamapalla6831 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    Here in the Philippines we don't use fossil coal anymore we use hydropower plant and windmills for electricity it's more environmentally friendly and we starting to use solar power plant also we don't use nuclear power plant

    • @jomybaby22-foodtravel
      @jomybaby22-foodtravel 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      no we dont.
      base load is still coal, powered by plants managed by SMC Global Power (Sual, Limay, Mariveles, to name a few) and Aboitiz Power
      you cant replace fossil fuels with renewable, as the renewables are too inconsistent and fluctuating to serve as base load, not to mention the low power generating capacity (MW).
      base load is either coal or nuclear, no in between.

    • @vincecloudchaser2486
      @vincecloudchaser2486 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Who told you that😂

    • @aether5372
      @aether5372 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Yes but actually no.
      There's still alot of coal usage in the Philippines
      Do some research dude..
      We're only starting to replace coal with other sustainable energy sources we still have a long time before we can fully phase out coal from our power plants...

    • @eleanorcatherino3839
      @eleanorcatherino3839 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Also windmills are pretty bad for the environment, solar panels and nuclear is better

    • @42ZaphodB42
      @42ZaphodB42 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Suuuure

  • @jogoegel1279
    @jogoegel1279 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Beautiful. The way life is made and form is like a poem.

  • @michaelmorford3932
    @michaelmorford3932 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Light switch was flipped off and lights turned on...

    • @indergill5794
      @indergill5794 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      In some eastern countries thats how you turn switch on

    • @SanGoku69
      @SanGoku69 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I think you're from the west.

  • @קעז-מענטש
    @קעז-מענטש หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    They were also interestingly ferns or club mosses.

  • @helminurulwahid2758
    @helminurulwahid2758 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Does this has full version?

    • @colbyr7811
      @colbyr7811 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You can has the full version of deez nutz

  • @autumnstoptwo
    @autumnstoptwo 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ancient sunshine is such a beautiful way to think of it 🌞🖤

  • @unicorn25m.hunicornyan36
    @unicorn25m.hunicornyan36 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    This vid was stuck in a fabric of time😭🙏

  • @julianreimer350
    @julianreimer350 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Most important point is always missed: This was only possible because back then, dead wood didn't rot. the dead wood wasn't consumed by fungus and bacteria because the fungus that eats dead wood didnt exist yet. Today thats not possible. Dead wood gets consumed by fungus. Btw: The fungud that eats dead wood developed just a couple hundred years ago. Thats also why churches and other antique buildings made out of wood still stand to this day. They get coated in a layer ov paint or wax to protect them from fungus. Today thats not possible. Coating your wood still lengthens the lifetime of the wood but eventually it will be consumed by fungus. Thats why hundred year old churches with wooden beams still stand and thats also why your little wood cabin in the backyard needs to be rebuild after about 20-50 years.

  • @mohdhishamyahya2762
    @mohdhishamyahya2762 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    It also has a meme called you have rip into the fabric of time the meme say that the trees are dangerous

  • @travelingartistnilofarmehrin
    @travelingartistnilofarmehrin 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ❤thank you for making it simple to understand......

  • @ayaanamin3339
    @ayaanamin3339 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    wow

  • @kurtgamer204
    @kurtgamer204 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is one of the most peaceful video in yt shorts

  • @relaxedmuffin3666
    @relaxedmuffin3666 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    So the carbon in coal was originally from the atmosphere. And burning coal just puts back what was originally in the air.

    • @TheInfintyithGoofball
      @TheInfintyithGoofball 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      technically yes but that would still change up the climate that nearly all life is adapted to currently,
      the global warming would still kill alot of creatures and ecosystems;
      just because it was once in the atmosphere doesn't mean everything would be fine if it was in the atmosphere.

  • @futursbrite
    @futursbrite 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    really nice animation

  • @kurtcobainii1075
    @kurtcobainii1075 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    So coal is actually just old dead tree, which just explained to me how charcoal works.
    Holy shit. I actually just had a revelation

    • @grafito4438
      @grafito4438 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And between the layers of coal, is natural gas.

    • @ionpopescu3167
      @ionpopescu3167 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Well you would've found out before middle school.

  • @emoji_kat2849
    @emoji_kat2849 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "Timmy,where are you? It's been 50 minutes already."

  • @sstolarik
    @sstolarik 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    You flicked the switch the wrong way. You turned the light off. 😊

    • @L3MON_SHORT
      @L3MON_SHORT 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Bruh, it doesn't have to be correct

    • @sstolarik
      @sstolarik 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@L3MON_SHORT 😎🤙 😂

  • @Tacomuch
    @Tacomuch 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    “Fossil fuel” is a deceptive misnomer.

    • @abhinava5149
      @abhinava5149 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Why? Im pretty sure they are made from fossilised remains of plants and animals which for plant became pre carbon aka coal.

    • @Tacomuch
      @Tacomuch 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@abhinava5149 For example, NO fossils are found greater than about 16k ft below the surface of the earth. We mine petroleum 30k ft and below. It’s a mineral and the second most abundant liquid on the planet behind water. Look for a video called _Fletcher Prouty Explains Invention and Use of Term "Fossil Fuels_
      Good luck on your search for the truth. And remember, Google manipulates their search results.

    • @Tacomuch
      @Tacomuch 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@abhinava5149 I tried to explain but my comment got deleted. If you want to know the truth, find a video called: Fletcher Prouty Explains Invention and Use of Term "Fossil Fuels"

    • @ack7956
      @ack7956 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Fossils aren't just from dinosaurs, you know that, right..?

    • @Tacomuch
      @Tacomuch 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I made three comments to clarify but youtub won’t let me.

  • @LliminalSpacee
    @LliminalSpacee 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    To think when they dug coal in the 1800s or further back that had to be the oldest coal you could find.
    Whats remaining of that type of coal is rare

  • @johngavin1175
    @johngavin1175 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    The religions folk thinking Noah's flood actually happened is hilarious at best and saddening at worst. Can yall explain how we descended from just 8 people without having genetic problems? What about the cultures that lived through when the flood supposedly happened? We also would not have fresh water fish if the flood happened. These are but a few of the flaws.
    Edit: I know this has nothing to do with the video,
    but witness the Creationists in the comments. I made this comment for them. I felt that I had something to say. That's it.

    • @hamsterking2187
      @hamsterking2187 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      I don't necessarily disagree with you, but how does this relate to the video? And why are you starting an argument.

    • @1antag0nist53
      @1antag0nist53 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Didn’t a more localized flood happen in the Mesopotamia that pretty much wiped out the middle east?

    • @ShaggyMaddie
      @ShaggyMaddie 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Irrelevant but I agree

    • @cheyno237
      @cheyno237 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Funny, since archeologists have literally discovered the footprint of a vessel, the exact measurements of the ark, in the exact place mentioned in the bible

    • @guymann9936
      @guymann9936 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      ​@@cheyno237no. Get back to reality quit just believing whatever you want

  • @notsowisegirl
    @notsowisegirl 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This made me so emotional

  • @RBLXUSER_alzen14525
    @RBLXUSER_alzen14525 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    🎅🎅🐡

  • @MuhammadHasbullah07
    @MuhammadHasbullah07 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This is insane animation 😲😮

  • @sujitkumarsingh3200
    @sujitkumarsingh3200 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    This is explanation is only correct if we ignore insects and microorganisms.
    Microorganisms and insects should have decomposed those woods before those woods ever get conditions to become coal.
    Another explanation would be a huge landslide or land flip covering large portion of forest under rocks and mud.
    We also need to consider that few fossil fuels are in liquid form as well.

    • @alexwhitney6372
      @alexwhitney6372 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      Actually, the carboniferous period was so early in Earth's history that the insects and microorganisms that could digest wood hadn't evolved yet. Wood didn't exist in large quantities until the carboniferous period, so life had no reason to evolve a way to digest it.

    • @RaitoYagami88
      @RaitoYagami88 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@alexwhitney6372 Bro really thought scientists hadn't considered that 💀

  • @SentryFather
    @SentryFather 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Thanks alot camera man for entering a wormhole to 300 million year in the past!

    • @TheThingoftheSky
      @TheThingoftheSky 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      And then redrawing the whole thing as an animation!

  • @geegoflex6762
    @geegoflex6762 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Yawn 😮‍💨 boring tree 😊

    • @geegoflex6762
      @geegoflex6762 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Can it play paladins though

    • @Notrussian.
      @Notrussian. 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@geegoflex6762what💀

    • @This_birb_is_annoying...
      @This_birb_is_annoying... 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      If you don't like it then why are you here

  • @brunoibarra1912
    @brunoibarra1912 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Awesome art style

  • @minotar653
    @minotar653 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    In theory

    • @Smartness_itself
      @Smartness_itself 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

      It's proven. 😑

    • @Gerasimos_slava
      @Gerasimos_slava 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      In theory

    • @superbananas7792
      @superbananas7792 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      ​@Gerasimos_slava Nah....its pretty well established scientific fact.
      From Geology, to archeology, to Chemistry.

    • @TheScott-man
      @TheScott-man 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@superbananas7792I’d agree with you but half of what was confirmed science a decade ago has been changed. So just because a group of ppl agree to be the first to figure X out doesn’t mean it’s right.

    • @cheyno237
      @cheyno237 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@Smartness_itself No it's absolutely not

  • @tonetzkiii
    @tonetzkiii 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wow... fascinating info!!! 🙏👏💖

  • @LayanAraimiOman
    @LayanAraimiOman หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The Lepidodendron tree is the part of the carboniferous period.

  • @spliz86
    @spliz86 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank you Cecil

  • @andrzejkopalnia
    @andrzejkopalnia 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nice to hear Professor Wolff in here

  • @peterpop-off
    @peterpop-off 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This animation was sweet 🤙

  • @wellfudgethis
    @wellfudgethis 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Coal: even in death Im still being served, for the Emperor!!!!

  • @joynalmiah8864
    @joynalmiah8864 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Radiolab nostalgia

  • @Avingent
    @Avingent 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    the arnold voice guy

  • @JoRoBoYo
    @JoRoBoYo 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    i miss this guy

  • @Scaletree123
    @Scaletree123 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Rip my brothers

  • @TheThingoftheSky
    @TheThingoftheSky 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    What's even more mind boggling to think about, is that those buildings themselves are actually made of dead marine life 🐚
    (One of the materials used in cement is limestone, which is formed from marine fossils and mud, which turned into rock)

  • @Jakeis_the_goat
    @Jakeis_the_goat หลายเดือนก่อน

    OH YEAH IM HAVING NOSTALGIA - I REMEMBER TOUCHING THE LEPIDODENDRON 350 MILLION YEARS AGO